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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Login masking? ..DC Toaster??
Article: 7371 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: Hans <hab3@cornell.edu> Subject: Re: Login masking? ..DC Toaster?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-ID: D3yA8z.AzI@nova.sarnoff.com X-Xxmessage-Id: <AB650848080209D8@hbaumgartner.sarnoff.com> X-Xxdate: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:59:52 GMT Sender: usenet@nova.sarnoff.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: alphabetical X-Newsreader: Nuntius 1.3b28_PPC Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 18:05:22 GMT Approved: for all audiences Lines: 19 Status: RO
In article <3hlept$dp3@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Jeff Garzik, jgarzik@nyx10.cs.du.edu writes: >ObHack: Ever used a toaster to jumpstart a car? It was the closest >thing at hand. The heating elements went to the positive, and I had to >hunt around for the negative inside the toaster. A couple alligator >clips, a couple wires, and a toaster, and a cold morning with a dead car >battery -- it took me under five minutes to get going... :) > You have a DC toaster???? ---If yes: You have "positive" heating elements??? ---If yes (?): You have a 12 volt toaster??? ---If no: you used the element as a voltage divider??? ObHack: I have no external http server, so.....I stuck my home page in my finger! http://rsrch1.cit.cornell.edu:79/ hab3 ....note there must be a space between "79/" and "hab3" (this is OS dependent)
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