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Re: Need help with Internet
Article: 8873 of alt.hackers From: ldaffner@news.eng.convex.com (Larry Daffner) Newsgroups: alt.hackers,alt.religion.kibology,alt.fan.the-bob Subject: Re: Need help with Internet Date: 17 Oct 1995 14:30:33 -0500 Organization: CONVEX News Network, Engineering (news.eng), Richardson, Tx USA Lines: 31 Approved: The Seal (Auoo! Auoo!) Message-ID: 46108p$kqc@muirwood.convex.com NNTP-Posting-Host: muirwood.convex.com Status: RO
In <45uh81$m9b@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> asdamick@unity.ncsu.edu (Andrew S. Damick) writes: >I am a beginning Internet user, and wish to know how to hack. I've been >told a great deal about it, and have read plenty of news stories on the >subject, and, although I know it is usually illegal, I would like some >assistance, especially in the area of covering one's tracks, like in the >recent movie "The Net," a movie which, IMO, did a lot for good press on >the Internet, thought not nearly as comprehensive as that of TIME >magazine. you misspelled "be a k00l wannabe lamer" as "hack" A clue: Read the f*cking manual! There is a FAQ posted here weekly which explains what hacking is all about. It is NOT the lame cracker type stuff you describe above. Come back when you grow up. ObHack: I was installing a fan in my new DX4-100 yesterday, and the way the power connector was made, it wouldn't fit on the system power connector properly. So, I removed the offending pin (fortunately not one of the ones the fan taps power off of) from the fan-side plug, and it fit together and my fan worked. -Larry -- Larry Daffner - Software Engineer | email: ldaffner@convex.com | Convex Computer Corporation | tel: (214)497-4274 / home: (214)380-4382 | Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
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