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Its funny because in 2000, he was still worth several million still from I believe the VA Linux IPO, so he was telling all these propreitary guys how stupid they were for not jumping on the sunny open source revolution. Of course we all know how that turned out....

Anyway, I decided to lampoon his dog comments for my hack that year, Doggie-Style Windows. By patching over some of OS 9's window calls, it would take all the windows behind the front window and make them run away into their own "territory""-- a feature now being introduced by Apple in OS X's Panther.

I released the source to Doggie-Style, but I'm still poor.

The correct link is MacHack

While watching the Tinammen Square Massacare and then discussing it at MacHack in 1989, we discussed the fesability of not just taking Chinese television of the air, but actually taking control of it and getting the real message of what was happening out to the world.

After a few hours of discussion with some extremely bright folks, we came to the conclusion that 1) it could be done, 2) that it could be done easily, and 3) that we really didn't want the Chinese security services and the US Department of State and the FCC all coming after us.

What is surprising, is that this hasn't yet been done in any large scale way. The reality is that small forces of 2 and 3 people can wreck havoc in our increasingly connected world. I believe that what keeps this in check is the level of concerns that kept us in check. But what happens we you don't have those concerns? When you have nothing to lose? Then you have the cyber-equivalent of the Palestenian sucide bombers.

Maybe they'll still use MacHack.com - that's where everyone's going to be looking anyway.

Gnomedex is fun and all, but if any developer thinks it's the "conference of the year" they need to get out more.

Check out MacHack. MacHack is the conference Gnomedex desperately wishes it could be. Just ask Eric Raymond.

Its called MacHack, 72 hours of coding fun!
http://www.machack.com/

For all my fellow Apple fans in area, also be sure to check MacHack from June 19-21, 2003 (in Dearborne). It's a bit expensive, but there is a $50 price for students... Hard to believe there are two great conferences this Spring/Summer in the Detroit area, combine this with the Borders in Ann Arbor's computer reference section and you've got a few geek vacations planned in the crumbling heart of the automotive world!

By the way, has anyone ever seen a better reference selection in a brick and mortar store? I could spend all day there if my girlfriend didn't need jeans at Urban Trendsetters or whatever that place is that charges $30 for the Atari shirt that I can just go up to my attic and find...

Her: "PHP again, what does that even mean? You're just reading the same book over and over again..."
Me: "No, no, no, this is PHP and XML, the other one was just PHP!"

• Joining your local student ACM chapter. Better yet, run for office - I know they need the person power. If it doesn't exist, charter it!
• Want to attend a technical conference? Both USENIX and the IETF have programs designed to get students involved by providing stipends. Often, these programs are applied to by few students.
• If you prefer getting involved with a .com than a .org, consider that Apple gives away about 300 scholarships to their annual develpers conference in San Jose, WWDC.
• If you are an uber programmer, perhaps you should try registering as a student or evan as a competitor or presenter at MacHack.
• The Government is always hiring, and don't let anyone tell you that you have to get a security clearance to work on something cool.
• An earlier posted mentioned that the University IT department is a good place to work, and for the most part I agree - there are few other places with the budget and deployed network size of Univsersities that will teach you as you go.

The Macintosh has had a "real hacker culture" since its release in 1984. Similarly, NeXT has had a "real hacker culture" since the release of the original NeXT Computer in 1989.

If you don't believe me, check out MacHack. Check out the thousands of products being created by small developers on VersionTracker. Check out the number of Mac OS X-related projects on SourceForge. Check out the community on the Mac OS and Mac OS X developer mailing lists, among developers with both Mac OS and NeXT backgrounds.

Don't assume that just because it's not in your face and it's not identical to the Unix hacker culture you're used to that it doesn't exist.

Slashdot's Malda to visit MacHack

In a "rare" public appearance, Slashdot founder Rob Malda is expected to attend the MacHack 2002 annual developers conference in Michigan, this June. Malda is an accomplished programmer, and founded one of the most popular computer news Web sites "for nerds."

Tim O'Reilly is keynoting this year's MacHack. It will be interesting to see what all this *nix influence will do to MacHack attendance, easily the most intense Mac-specific wireless LAN party on the planet. ;) See you here!

Tim O'Reilly is keynoting this year's MacHack. It will be interesting to see what all this *nix influence will do to MacHack attendance, easily the most intense Mac-specific wireless LAN party on the planet. ;) See you here!

MacHack is a lot older than 10 years !

MacHack is a lot older than 10 years !

Since my first Mac Plus in which I inserted a 5.25" 20MB SCSI Seagate hard disk inside the Mac's case, with no fan at all, wiring all the cables directly to the motherboard (no connector: had to save!).

Since my first INIT code which allowed remote shutdown of a Mac (great joke to play in public labs back in the ol'undergrad days), raytracing on a Mac SE (dithering because of 1bit/pixel...)

I think there's no better hacker machine!

I thought they were talking about Pong on the G4 (computers), as in Open Firmware Pong from the 98 MacHack Contest

I thought they were talking about Pong on the G4 (computers), as in Open Firmware Pong from the 98 MacHack Contest

My favorite Forth hack is OFPong, an Open Firmware implementation of Pong. It can be found on the MacHack 1998 Hacks page.

Previous hacks include using Open Firmware to play Breakout (or was it MacsBug? somebody else remember?), a hack to program the LED display on the Apple Network Server 500 (one of the most obscure pieces of equipment ever shipped by Apple), a hack to render a Mac screen in ASCII text in realtime, and other jems.

The best part: usually, after a month or two, they bundle up all the hacks for that year and stick them on a CD-ROM, along with (in almost all cases) source code. You can usually download them as well. Last year's CD is available here courtesy of MindVision.

It's always funny to see READMEs that specifically advise you NOT to run the accompanying software, not to mention how many end with something along the lines of "I'd tell you more about how this works, but I only have 10 minutes until I have to demo it and it still isn't compiling, so you're on your own..."

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almost right: it's pong that you can play in OF. You can play breakout in macsbug, if you like.

btw, if that sort of computerised residual brainstem activity appeals, then you'll probably also want the interface hack that renders the MacOS interface into ascii art.

almost right: it's pong that you can play in OF. You can play breakout in macsbug, if you like.

btw, if that sort of computerised residual brainstem activity appeals, then you'll probably also want the interface hack that renders the MacOS interface into ascii art.

almost right: it's pong that you can play in OF. You can play breakout in macsbug, if you like.

btw, if that sort of computerised residual brainstem activity appeals, then you'll probably also want the interface hack that renders the MacOS interface into ascii art.

The macintosh boot mechanism-- called "open firmware"-- has a built-in Forth interpreter.

I am of course talking out of my ass here, but i wonder if you could adapt this pbForth thing to run under Open Firmware.. and use the macintosh as a kind of replacement brain for the lego mindstorms.

This would bring the number of things a macintosh can do without any kind of operating system to two-- the first being play Pong.

Meaning we're two uses ahead of all you PC users. Ha! You think you're so great, with your "linux operating system".. but without Lilo, you're NOTHING!! MWAHAHAA!!

-mcc-baka
i got my head but my head is unravelling
can't keep control, can't keep track of where it's travelling

Just because we don't like using command lines, makefiles, emacs, etc. doesn't mean we're any less geeks. We just have different tool and environment preferences.