NotesAs a systems hacker, you must be prepared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in the Vatican. FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"I remember the grey day, I remember the rain drizzling across the street and against the booth when I realized my box, my little teenage piece of the phone system, was gone forever."Unfurl
Notes"But to Brain's likely great surprise, I did not die, but in fact woke up, enjoying the restful 3 hours of sleep I just got, amazed at what I'd just seen, and distracted, ever so much, from the horrible pain for a while."Unfurl
Notes"NYU student Brian has a secret: He and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit Hollywood movies in their spare time."Unfurl
Notes"In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer."Unfurl
Notes"Turns out there is no magic inside, and that by opening it you make the magic happen; this is sometimes more interesting than the box itself."Unfurl
thenightwatch.pdf
a random Gnome's random Lair: The Commodore 64 demoscene