This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: How do I begin a hacking career
Article: 8947 of alt.hackers From: bruce@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Bruce Kingsbury) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: How do I begin a hacking career Date: 28 Oct 1995 01:23:34 GMT Lines: 18 Approved: no Message-ID: 46s0mm$nb6@alpha.ocbbs.gen.nz NNTP-Posting-Host: omega.co.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
: I connected the pin in the upper left corner to the 'frame'-pin : and while I had them connected together the computer was shutdown : when I to away the screwdriver the computer booted up. Funny how shorting out the power can do that.. !ObHack: I don't think I did this right, but then I don't know that an approval is still required. Also I can't use vi very well and the terminal server dropps characters so I can barely see what I'm typing, but "this post" hacks are dispicable, so: ObHack: creating a "none" compression type for my fidonet mailer, which insists that all mail must be compressed. I defined a "compression" program that just moved the .pkt's to another directory for Watergate to process. Lame, I know.. ObNextHack: adding headers at will to my UUCP-gated messages
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