This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: "Hackers", the movie
Article: 8630 of alt.hackers From: sciri@redbox.newhackcity.net (Digital Grindage) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: "Hackers", the movie Date: 19 Sep 1995 20:05:56 GMT Organization: The Phoenix Project (H.E.L.L. v.2: The Quest for More Fire) Lines: 24 Approved: god@heaven.org Message-ID: 43n7r4$r90@caesar.ultra.net NNTP-Posting-Host: redbox.newhackcity.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
John Nagle (nagle@netcom.com) wrote: : Just saw "Hackers", the movie. It's about as close to reality : as "Ghostbusters". Fun, but very, very light. "Hackers" was one of the most entertaining movies I've seen all summer. Pure junk food for the brains of an MTV/Nintendo generation. Although the only accurate thing in the entire movie was, uhhh, Razor and Blade (I guess those were their names) recording quarter tones off a payphone. But ack, now I gotta come up with an ObHack: We have a crappy SUN SPARC20 iNetra server here, and admintool is kind of flakey. No matter how many times I tried to add a user with the correct home directory of /netra/home/username, it always tossed /home/username into /etc/passwd. Did a lame fix...ln -s /netra/home/username /home/username. Anyone know why admintool would flake out and refuse to allow me to give it a home directory? -- "Your information is mine for free. But everything I can grab is secret unless you have something I want which can't be free-loaded, stolen or found somewhere else." - George C. Smith, The Virus Creation Labs
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