[4056] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Feb 5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Feb 5 01:27:40 1992
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 01:26:52 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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bert (Green Gnome):
The gnome, all clad in green, leads you through the door of the hut
and sits in front of a clear crystal sphere. His eyes are closing,
fingertips touching the sphere, symbols of pure sunlight forming
in the misty air: and you hear words, coming from nowhere, deep,
resounding sounds spoken in a strange, distant tongue. You feel
your mind losing its balance, strange sounds soaking it like good wine.
The gnome turns, his gaze touching yours, his eyes gleaming like green
gems. You look and see words glowing deep down in his pupils with the
glint of ancient gold:
FINALLY FINISH HACKING MY DOTFILES
START HACKING ELISP
CONVERT TO GWM
PLAT WITH NEAT HOLOGRAMS
For a moment, you feel a trace of understanding, and then everything
is lost again...
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captkirk (|)/\\\\/[ Berger):
Off Campus Address: Fraternity
65 Chester St. Suite A affiliation: *Pi Lambda Phi*
Allston, MA 02134
Home Address:
750 Kappock St. Apt. 1011
Riverdale, NY 10463-4612
Major: 6-1 (Elec. Eng.)
Year: '90 (...Shut up, Alex.)
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Come see my band, `Speak In English', whenever we play live!!!!
...Er, `Speak In English' no longer exists, but I want to form
another band. Contact me if you're interested.
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
He is the MELBA-BEING... the ANGEL CAKE...
XEROX him... XEROX him --
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dmschwar (Daniel M Schwartz):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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glassw (William B. Glass):
Plan: To teach a calculus course to high school students in
the logical order: integration first!
\begin{quotation}
\begin{singlespace}
In system dynamics, causality is implied by the structure of feedback
loops. Causality is unidirectional from element to element around a
loop. Causality is not ambiguous or reversible. From a system
dynamics viewpoint, water flowing from a faucet causes the water level
in a glass to rise. And the level of water in the glass can cause a
person to shut off the faucet. But I have had people argue that no
such causality is justified, that it is just as correct to assert that
the water flows from the faucet because the water level in the glass
is rising. I do not understand the basis for such a perspective, but
confusion does seem to exist regarding causality and its relationship
to modeling \ldots
I believe that many students are confused, or made indifferent to, the
direction of causality by being taught dynamics through the
mathematics of differential equations. Focusing on flows as the
mathematical derivative of a system state implies that the flow exists
because the state is changing, rather than the state changes because
of the flow. Nowhere does nature differentiate; in real systems,
dynamic change arises only from accumulation, that is, integration.
The common practice of considering differentiation and integration the
inverse of one another tends to obscure the direction of
causality.
\footnote{``System Dynamics -- Future Opportunities,'' Jay
W. Forrester, D-3108-1, MIT System Dynamics Group, July 30, 1979.}
\end{singlespace}
\end{quotation}
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hftsai (Harry F Tsai):
Last login at Tue Feb 04 22:11:56 EST 1992
On host m37-332-5.MIT.EDU
Logged out at Tue Feb 04 23:39:56 EST 1992
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jcbourne (Julie Bourne):
I wonder what tomorrow has in mind for me
Or am I even in its mind at all
Perhaps I'll get a chance to look ahead and see
Soon as I find myself a crystal ball / Soon as I find myself a crystal ball
("Crystal Ball", Styx)
---
Babe I'm leaving / I'll say it once again / And somehow try to smile
I know the feeling we're trying to forget / If only for a while
'Cause I'll be lonely without you / And I'll need your love to see me through
But please believe me / My heart is in your hands / 'Cause I'll be missing you
("Babe", Styx)
---
Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
Cause I won't be there with you
("Think for Yourself", Beatles)
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Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with
and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone
to hold your hand -- these things are "marriage," and sex is but the
icing on the cake. (Lazarus Long)
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lavin (Anne R LaVin):
"Wonderfoo!"
-my officemate
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rom (Robert Michaud):
Can I change your plan Bobby?
Ben
Sure Ben, eat your heart out.
Bobby
Can I add on to your plan, too, Robert? PLEASE?
Silly Girl
No you may not, silly girls are not permitted to alter my plan, only Ben.
Robert
Hey! I thought you said you had changed your plan ...
Untruthful male!!!! I am much offended, mon frere.
La Soeur
I still cannot figure out how to mail from your station.
will you mail me and tell me how?please?
Just type comp, the rest is obvious.
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srz (Stan Zanarotti):
Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of February 10, 1986
The meeting was called to order at 7:32 by RF.
In attendance were
Members: RF, WHBH, KR, Peter, Meilin, Aya, BCN, Bill Sommerfeld,
George Xixis, Stan, JTK, Amy, theschun, Henry, BG (by phone), simson, Tim,
David Jedlinsky (opus), Mark Lillibridge, Irene
Associate: Cathy
Prospectives: Brandy Bechtel, Livia
Guest: Eric Liebelar
[Election report removed to protect the guilty...]
Treasurer's Report:
Student Spending: Month-to-date:
Year-to-date:
SIPB/SIPBADMIN Spending: MTD:
YTD:
Chairman's Report:
Neither chairman is asleep. The previous chairman is about to fall asleep.
[JIS drops in.] The previous chairman spent a long time last week
getting the Laserwriter. PLJ, SRZ, and RF got it working. It is not for text
usage. We can't do accounting for it, but that's okay.
Office Report:
More Coke has been ordered. The Laserwriter is here.
Athena Report:
LN03's still don't work. Perhaps they should be replaced with Laserwriters.
The modems should be there by now.
Computer Services:
We got a Laserwriter.
Telecommunications Report:
We got a Laserwriter.
Publications Report:
The Laserwriter is not a publication.
R/O Report:
Hopefully, the Laserwriter will be here for R/O week.
IAP Report:
If things go right, the Laserwriter will be here for next IAP.
Other:
We got a Laserwriter.
Other Other:
T-shirts came in. People's measurements are near the sample resume.
We got a Laserwriter.
Laserwriter Report
Putting "Laserwriter" all over the minutes was ridiculous.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
Minutes taken and submitted by WHBH
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therese (Therese):
So I'm walking through the desert
and I'm not frightened although it's hot
I have all that I requested
and I do not want what I haven't got
- Sinead O'Connor
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tlyu (Thomas L Yu):
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WHAT PLAN?!?
No really. Double major XVI & VI-III.
It's not as suicidal as it looks...
By the way, how do you get on the roof of the Green Building...
Project:
Promotion of chaos. Eventual total dominion over the known universe.
Office:
MIT Experimental Studies Group
ESG Cluster Maintenance
Room 24-618
x3-7787
MIT Student Information Processing Board
Room w20-557
x3-7788
RUNE: the MIT journal of arts and letters
Room 50-309
Snail mail: Swamp mail (Houston---where else?):
Fenway House 2247 Woodland Springs
34 The Fenway Houston, TX 77077
Boston, MA 02215
"Don't panic... there's nothing wrong... it's all a figment of your
imagination... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
"There is no distinction between insanity and genius."
"Once is accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is conspiracy."
"Watch out for hackers in Building 6!"
"Is this the way to Baker House?"
"Brother can you spare $16,900?"
"I hate quotations!"
--*> W E L C O M E T O T H E D R A G O N ' S L A I R <*--
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
[part 1 of 2, edited by me]
THE HACKER TEST - Version 1.0
Scoring - Count 1 for each item that you have done, or each
question that you can answer correctly.
If you score is between: You are
0x000 and 0x010 -> Computer Illiterate
0x011 and 0x040 -> a User
0x041 and 0x080 -> an Operator
0x081 and 0x0C0 -> a Nerd
0x0C1 and 0x100 -> a Hacker
0x101 and 0x180 -> a Guru
0x181 and 0x200 -> a Wizard
Note: If you don't understand the scoring, stop here.
And now for the questions...
0001 Have you ever used a computer?
0002 ... for more than 4 hours continuously?
0003 ... more than 8 hours?
0004 ... more than 16 hours?
0005 ... more than 32 hours?
0006 Have you ever patched paper tape?
0007 Have you ever missed a class while programming?
0008 ... Missed an examination?
0009 ... Missed a wedding?
0010 ... Missed your own wedding?
0011 Have you ever programmed while intoxicated?
0012 ... Did it make sense the next day?
0013 Have you ever written a flight simulator?
0014 Have you ever voided the warranty on your equipment?
0015 Ever change the value of 4?
0016 ... Unintentionally?
0017 ... In a language other than Fortran?
0018 Do you use DWIM to make life interesting?
0019 Have you named a computer?
0020 Do you complain when a "feature" you use gets fixed?
0021 Do you eat slime-molds?
0022 Do you know how many days old you are?
0023 Have you ever wanted to download pizza?
0024 Have you ever invented a computer joke?
0025 ... Did someone not 'get' it?
0026 Can you recite Jabberwocky?
0027 ... Backwards?
0028 Have you seen "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"?
0029 Have you seen "Tron"?
0030 Have you seen "Wargames"?
0031 Do you know what ASCII stands for?
0032 ... EBCDIC?
0033 Can you read and write ASCII in hex or octal?
0034 Do you know the names of all the ASCII control codes?
0035 Can you read and write EBCDIC in hex?
0036 Can you convert from EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa?
0037 Do you know what characters are the same in both ASCII and EBCDIC?
0038 Do you know maxint on your system?
0039 Ever define your own numerical type to get better precision?
0040 Can you name powers of two up to 2**16 in arbitrary order?
0041 ... up to 2**32?
0042 ... up to 2**64?
0043 Can you read a punched card, looking at the holes?
0044 ... feeling the holes?
0045 Have you ever patched binary code?
0046 ... While the program was running?
0047 Have you ever used program overlays?
0048 Have you met any IBM vice-president?
0049 Do you know Dennis, Bill, or Ken?
0050 Have you ever taken a picture of a CRT?
0051 Have you ever played a videotape on your CRT?
0052 Have you ever digitized a picture?
0053 Did you ever forget to mount a scratch monkey?
0054 Have you ever optimized an idle loop?
0055 Did you ever optimize a bubble sort?
0056 Does your terminal/computer talk to you?
0057 Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem?
0058 ... Did it answer?
0059 Can you whistle 300 baud?
0060 ... 1200 baud?
0061 Can you whistle a telephone number?
0062 Have you witnessed a disk crash?
0063 Have you made a disk drive "walk"?
0064 Can you build a puffer train?
0065 ... Do you know what it is?
0066 Can you play music on your line printer?
0067 ... Your disk drive?
0068 ... Your tape drive?
0069 Do you have a Snoopy calendar?
0070 ... Is it out-of-date?
0071 Do you have a line printer picture of...
0072 ... the Mona Lisa?
0073 ... the Enterprise?
0074 ... Einstein?
0075 ... Oliver?
0076 Have you ever made a line printer picture?
0077 Do you know what the following stand for?
0078 ... DASD
0079 ... Emacs
0080 ... ITS
0081 ... RSTS/E
0082 ... SNA
0083 ... Spool
0084 ... TCP/IP
Have you ever used
0085 ... TPU?
0086 ... TECO?
0087 ... Emacs?
0088 ... ed?
0089 ... vi?
0090 ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)?
0091 ... SOS?
0092 ... EDT?
0093 ... Wordstar?
0094 Have you ever written a CLIST?
Have you ever programmed in
0095 ... the X windowing system?
0096 ... CICS?
0097 Have you ever received a Fax or a photocopy of a floppy?
0098 Have you ever shown a novice the "any" key?
0099 ... Was it the power switch?
Have you ever attended
0100 ... Usenix?
0101 ... DECUS?
0102 ... SHARE?
0103 ... SIGGRAPH?
0104 ... NetCon?
0105 Have you ever participated in a standards group?
0106 Have you ever debugged machine code over the telephone?
0107 Have you ever seen voice mail?
0108 ... Can you read it?
0109 Do you solve word puzzles with an on-line dictionary?
0110 Have you ever taken a Turing test?
0111 ... Did you fail?
0112 Ever drop a card deck?
0113 ... Did you successfully put it back together?
0114 ... Without looking?
0115 Have you ever used IPCS?
0116 Have you ever received a case of beer with your computer?
0117 Does your computer come in 'designer' colors?
0118 Ever interrupted a UPS?
0119 Ever mask an NMI?
0120 Have you ever set off a Halon system?
0121 ... Intentionally?
0122 ... Do you still work there?
0123 Have you ever hit the emergency power switch?
0124 ... Intentionally?
0125 Do you have any defunct documentation?
0126 ... Do you still read it?
0127 Ever reverse-engineer or decompile a program?
0128 ... Did you find bugs in it?
0129 Ever help the person behind the counter with their terminal/computer?
0130 Ever tried rack mounting your telephone?
0131 Ever thrown a computer from more than two stories high?
0132 Ever patched a bug the vendor does not acknowledge?
0133 Ever fix a hardware problem in software?
0134 ... Vice versa?
0135 Ever belong to a user/support group?
0136 Ever been mentioned in Computer Recreations?
0137 Ever had your activities mentioned in the newspaper?
0138 ... Did you get away with it?
0139 Ever engage a drum brake while the drum was spinning?
0140 Ever write comments in a non-native language?
0141 Ever physically destroy equipment from software?
0142 Ever tried to improve your score on the Hacker Test?
0143 Do you take listings with you to lunch?
0144 ... To bed?
0145 Ever patch a microcode bug?
0146 ... around a microcode bug?
0147 Can you program a Turing machine?
0148 Can you convert postfix to prefix in your head?
0149 Can you convert hex to octal in your head?
0150 Do you know how to use a Kleene star?
0151 Have you ever starved while dining with philosophers?
0152 Have you solved the halting problem?
0153 ... Correctly?
0154 Ever deadlock trying eating spaghetti?
0155 Ever written a self-reproducing program?
0156 Ever swapped out the swapper?
0157 Can you read a state diagram?
0158 ... Do you need one?
0159 Ever create an unkillable program?
0160 ... Intentionally?
0161 Ever been asked for a cookie?
0162 Ever speed up a system by removing a jumper?
* Do you know...
0163 Do you know who wrote Rogue?
0164 ... Rogomatic?
0165 Do you know Gray code?
0166 Do you know what HCF means?
0167 ... Ever use it?
0168 ... Intentionally?
0169 Do you know what a lace card is?
0170 ... Ever make one?
0171 Do you know the end of the epoch?
0172 ... Have you celebrated the end of an epoch?
0173 ... Did you have to rewrite code?
0174 Do you know the difference between DTE and DCE?
0175 Do you know the RS-232C pinout?
0176 ... Can you wire a connector without looking?
* Do you have...
0177 Do you have a copy of Dec Wars?
0178 Do you have the Canonical Collection of Lightbulb Jokes?
0179 Do you have a copy of the Hacker's dictionary?
0180 ... Did you contribute to it?
0181 Do you have a flowchart template?
0182 ... Is it unused?
0183 Do you have your own fortune-cookie file?
0184 Do you have the Anarchist's Cookbook?
0185 ... Ever make anything from it?
0186 Do you own a modem?
0187 ... a terminal?
0188 ... a toy computer?
0189 ... a personal computer?
0190 ... a minicomputer?
0191 ... a mainframe?
0192 ... a supercomputer?
0193 ... a hypercube?
0194 ... a printer?
0195 ... a laser printer?
0196 ... a tape drive?
0197 ... an outmoded peripheral device?
0198 Do you have a programmable calculator?
0199 ... Is it RPN?
0200 Have you ever owned more than 1 computer?
0201 ... 4 computers?
0202 ... 16 computers?
0203 Do you have a SLIP line?
0204 ... a T1 line?
0205 Do you have a separate phone line for your terminal/computer?
0206 ... Is it legal?
0207 Do you have core memory?
0208 ... drum storage?
0209 ... bubble memory?
0210 Do you use more than 16 megabytes of disk space?
0211 ... 256 megabytes?
0212 ... 1 gigabyte?
0213 ... 16 gigabytes?
0214 ... 256 gigabytes?
0215 ... 1 terabyte?
0216 Do you have an optical disk/disk drive?
0217 Do you have a personal magnetic tape library?
0218 ... Is it unlabelled?
0219 Do you own more than 16 floppy disks?
0220 ... 64 floppy disks?
0221 ... 256 floppy disks?
0222 ... 1024 floppy disks?
0223 Do you have any 8-inch disks?
0224 Do you have an internal stack?
0225 Do you have a clock interrupt?
0226 Do you own volumes 1 to 3 of _The Art of Computer Programming_?
0227 ... Have you done all the exercises?
0228 ... Do you have a MIX simulator?
0229 ... Can you name the unwritten volumes?
0230 Can you quote from _The Mythical Man-month_?
0231 ... Did you participate in the OS/360 project?
0232 Do you have a TTL handbook?
0233 Do you have printouts more than three years old?
* Career
0234 Do you have a job?
0235 ... Have you ever had a job?
0236 ... Was it computer-related?
0237 Do you work irregular hours?
0238 Have you ever been a system administrator?
0239 Do you have more megabytes than megabucks?
0240 Have you ever downgraded your job to upgrade your processing power?
0241 Is your job secure?
0242 ... Do you have code to prove it?
0243 Have you ever had a security clearance?
* Games
0244 Have you ever played Pong?
Have you ever played
0246 ... Spacewar?
0247 ... Star Trek?
0248 ... Wumpus?
0249 ... Lunar Lander?
0250 ... Empire?
[more tomorrow]
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