Once when I set up a small office network I made each person's password the model number of their monitor, because I figured it would show up there on a post-it as soon as I left anyway. This way there was maybe a small element of hiding in plain sight.
Hi Paul,
As a long-time Insane fan, the first thing I thought of upon seeing this item was your site, especially ~Spring'03 when you had the cammed RC car. Through a fortunate series of events I had my own T1 line during that period and spent more than my share of time draining your batteries. A lot of time involved getting the car unstuck from behind the couch where lesser-skilled drivers had abandoned it, but my favorite thing to do was to try to find the other cams with it and get them looking at each other.
Good luck with your new place.
Good point, jimi. What are the odds of finding Mt. Diablo buckwheat ON Mt. Diablo? It's like what were the odds of Lou Gehrig getting Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Yes, your name, as I discovered in the late '80s when I happened to encounter a gas station in rural Arizona with a much fuller implementation of the technology than I had seen at home in California. The pump welcomed me by name. I got all excited. I was banging on the window to wake up my daughter: "Look, Miriam, the pump knows my name!"
With all these ranchers, filling up their pickups, probably thinking "What? They don't have pay-at-the-pump in California?"
And in the rotary phone days, there was some prestige in having a "short" number. It really did take noticeably longer to dial a number with a lot of 8's and 9's than a good number with 1's and 2's.
...just planning to do something is against the law.
Right. And in most jurisdictions conspiracy is a felony even if the "crime" being plotted is not.
So don't discuss whether with your friends whether they think it would be safe to jay-walk here.
Exactly, blaine. I became interested in the problem in the early 90's, explored a lot of cooperatively hyperlinked.mil and.edu sites discussing the situation. Solutions were being kicked around, discussed, discarded and fixes phased in. By the end of the decade the popular press had gotten wind of the situation and made it the anchor story for the end of the millennium. Then lawyers and quick profit businesses jumped on board and the panic bandwagon was rolling.
All the while the fixes were slowly, calmly being instituted.
Exactly my thought, allism. My Thinkpad G40 gets to be a chore even over the shoulder. Carrying it horizontal to complete the illusion would be a back-breaker.
where do I find the stencil for that particular carving?
Pretty much any queue on Slashdot, Worm.
Just turn down your threshold and drill, so to speak, until you find the link.
Print it out, tape to your, uh, pumpkin
Dremel away.
An edge which an amateur has is that he/she is not ingrained with the "standard"
Exactly. Sometimes amateurs will be successful because they have not been educated that something can't be done.
Badass, by any chance have you been keyboarding for a while? Although I had learned to type in high school, the first applications I used were F-key intensive. Keyboards at the time (early 80's) had the F-keys in a pad on the left ("...where God intended them."-Jerry Pournelle). I unconsciously relearned to type all but the left-most letters (Q,A,Z sometimes S) with my right hand. Even when the F-keys migrated to the top this habit stuck.
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Once when I set up a small office network I made each person's password the model number of their monitor, because I figured it would show up there on a post-it as soon as I left anyway. This way there was maybe a small element of hiding in plain sight.
Hi Paul,
As a long-time Insane fan, the first thing I thought of upon seeing this item was your site, especially ~Spring'03 when you had the cammed RC car. Through a fortunate series of events I had my own T1 line during that period and spent more than my share of time draining your batteries. A lot of time involved getting the car unstuck from behind the couch where lesser-skilled drivers had abandoned it, but my favorite thing to do was to try to find the other cams with it and get them looking at each other.
Good luck with your new place.
Oh, I get it. polly-nomials!
What flavor?
Good point, jimi. What are the odds of finding Mt. Diablo buckwheat ON Mt. Diablo? It's like what were the odds of Lou Gehrig getting Lou Gehrig's Disease.
ZONK: And would you be willing to repeat this interview tomorrow?
Yes, your name, as I discovered in the late '80s when I happened to encounter a gas station in rural Arizona with a much fuller implementation of the technology than I had seen at home in California. The pump welcomed me by name. I got all excited. I was banging on the window to wake up my daughter: "Look, Miriam, the pump knows my name!"
With all these ranchers, filling up their pickups, probably thinking "What? They don't have pay-at-the-pump in California?"
Saw a book at the office supply store yesterday: "Windows XP - Weekend Crash Course".
It didn't sound like a very fun weekend, so I didn't buy it.
And in the rotary phone days, there was some prestige in having a "short" number. It really did take noticeably longer to dial a number with a lot of 8's and 9's than a good number with 1's and 2's.
...just planning to do something is against the law.
Right. And in most jurisdictions conspiracy is a felony even if the "crime" being plotted is not.
So don't discuss whether with your friends whether they think it would be safe to jay-walk here.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec (IIRC): "Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes."
I've given up fighting the word "blog" -- I just don't care anymore. The word "Mook", however, I'm ready to come out of retirement against.
...so there is no one listening
Well, no one we know of.
It could be, except for the perfect oxymoron: Microsoft Works
Exactly, blaine. I became interested in the problem in the early 90's, explored a lot of cooperatively hyperlinked .mil and .edu sites discussing the situation. Solutions were being kicked around, discussed, discarded and fixes phased in. By the end of the decade the popular press had gotten wind of the situation and made it the anchor story for the end of the millennium. Then lawyers and quick profit businesses jumped on board and the panic bandwagon was rolling.
All the while the fixes were slowly, calmly being instituted.
Exactly my thought, allism. My Thinkpad G40 gets to be a chore even over the shoulder. Carrying it horizontal to complete the illusion would be a back-breaker.
Yes, but they're all in India.
You make your own. Out of tin cans.
where do I find the stencil for that particular carving?
Pretty much any queue on Slashdot, Worm.
Just turn down your threshold and drill, so to speak, until you find the link.
Print it out, tape to your, uh, pumpkin
Dremel away.
Oh yeah...Profit!
Thanks for the reminder of the most perfect recursive in-joke in sitcom history.
An edge which an amateur has is that he/she is not ingrained with the "standard"
Exactly. Sometimes amateurs will be successful because they have not been educated that something can't be done.
will be "nice".
Just like the plural of mouse is mice.
Dammit.
Nothing to add really. Just had to get my name into this queue.
Badass, by any chance have you been keyboarding for a while? Although I had learned to type in high school, the first applications I used were F-key intensive. Keyboards at the time (early 80's) had the F-keys in a pad on the left ("...where God intended them."-Jerry Pournelle). I unconsciously relearned to type all but the left-most letters (Q,A,Z sometimes S) with my right hand. Even when the F-keys migrated to the top this habit stuck.
"You have ZERO proof that his ghost hasn't been trying to break into the record business."
You may be onto something here. It certainly explains Wilco.