Back in the olden days we used to run Melt or Crumble on the displays of the machines in the EE department down the hall. Now THAT was fun. This was on an Apollo Domain network.
Hhe, reminds me of a trick I used to do on Apple ][ computers sometimes in my less well socially adjusted days. It went something like this:
CALL -151 to get into the machine language monitor
Enter a 10-or-so byte program that would, in a loop, load the accumulator with the contents of a particular zero page address that was constantly changing, call the function that prints a character to the screen ($FDED, which used the accumulator for the character), then referenced the location which clicked the speaker ($C030?), then jumped back to the beginning. The screen filled with scrolling garbage and the speaker emitted an annoying buzz.
Ah, good times. I don't recall the exact code anymore, but if I had to guess, it was something like:
Sadly, even movie theaters aren't a refuge anymore. I used to enjoy showing up early for movies, and sitting and thinking in the quiet darkness. Now most theaters show #$%^ing commercials. A silent slideshow is unobtrusive.
> "Pull" information is fine. If I want something, I'll use Google to find it. But I don't want people pushing stuff in my face. Is that too much to ask?
I'm with you. It's to the point now where I avoid sub shops, because they typically have the radio playing the crappy top 40's stations, which at lunch time are 10 minutes of commercials and 5 minutes of announcer per song...
It occurred to me, that this sort of worm could have been released by a self-style "good guy" to pre-emptively destroy botnet resources. After all, every machine is killed by this worm is one less available to be 0wned by spammers, DDoSers, etc. The flaw is of course that the machine may be no more secure when it's rebuilt/repaired.
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I used to enjoy sadonecrobestiality, until I realized I was just beating a dead horse.
Sounds like we need separation of corporation and state.
Ah, I remember one of my prized possessions in high school: my tattered list of Locksmith parameter codes...
If it is not illegal to spam, then it should not be illegal to hunt and kill spammers for sport.
Back in the olden days we used to run Melt or Crumble on the displays of the machines in the EE department down the hall. Now THAT was fun. This was on an Apollo Domain network.
I agree as well, in theory and for informational purposes only, of course.
Thank you, looks like these will be a good starting point for trying out zsh.
Better trademark iYank, iJerk and iWhack also...
Perhaps you could include the DC-area snipers under "domestic", too, despite no bombs being involved.
Authorities are puzzled when software developers in 27 different nations are found stark raving mad, having clawed their eyeballs out.
I second that. At the HOPE conference last weekend, it seemed like well over half the laptops there were Apples, including mine.
bash and emacs. Or more generally, use any shell and any text editor.
Like I said in another thread, use a hex editor to NOP out the offending code as well as any that checks for it being modified.
Then they should be able to NOP it out, along with any code that checks its own checksum, or whatever other anti-tampering code may be in there.
Sounds pretty interesting. If I didn't hate x86 assembly so much I'd take a look at it myself.
Seems to sum it up.
Another $%&^ing SUV choking the road.
That, and I don't think many phreaking boxes run an OS.
Imagine Beowulf battling a cluter of these...
Hhe, reminds me of a trick I used to do on Apple ][ computers sometimes in my less well socially adjusted days. It went something like this:
CALL -151 to get into the machine language monitor
Enter a 10-or-so byte program that would, in a loop, load the accumulator with the contents of a particular zero page address that was constantly changing, call the function that prints a character to the screen ($FDED, which used the accumulator for the character), then referenced the location which clicked the speaker ($C030?), then jumped back to the beginning. The screen filled with scrolling garbage and the speaker emitted an annoying buzz.
Ah, good times. I don't recall the exact code anymore, but if I had to guess, it was something like:
a9 00 20 ed fd a0 30 c0 4c 00 03
> And I wonder what revelations will be made of the altered genome that causes all humans to turn into "Protectors" --Tnuctipun?-
Pak, not Tnuctipun. And my guess is that it will not be mentioned, as they played little or no part in the first Ringworld book.
As for Myth, you're thinking of the Black Company books by Glen Cook.
> go to a movie
Sadly, even movie theaters aren't a refuge anymore. I used to enjoy showing up early for movies, and sitting and thinking in the quiet darkness. Now most theaters show #$%^ing commercials. A silent slideshow is unobtrusive.
> "Pull" information is fine. If I want something, I'll use Google to find it. But I don't want people pushing stuff in my face. Is that too much to ask?
I'm with you. It's to the point now where I avoid sub shops, because they typically have the radio playing the crappy top 40's stations, which at lunch time are 10 minutes of commercials and 5 minutes of announcer per song...
I'd rant on, but this is off-topc enough.
He said it even better when he said "They all seem like game show hosts to me".
Lawyers need to eat, same as tapeworms.
It occurred to me, that this sort of worm could have been released by a self-style "good guy" to pre-emptively destroy botnet resources. After all, every machine is killed by this worm is one less available to be 0wned by spammers, DDoSers, etc. The flaw is of course that the machine may be no more secure when it's rebuilt/repaired.