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Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix)


Article: 7614 of alt.hackers
From: jachim@earth.execpc.com (Matthew Jachimstal)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix)
Date: 7 Apr 1995 08:58:22 GMT
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Kevin Buhr (buhr@stat.wisc.edu) wrote:
: In article <3m1g2g$bbj@news.Ieunet.ie> nh@Ieunet.ie (Nick Hilliard)
: writes:
: |
: | Are you mixing tenses?  If you use 'showed', you should use 'found'.
: |
: | : I also must install the SCSI controller and drivers, and me without my
: | : screwdriver.
: |
: | 'me without my screwdriver' is not a valid sentence.  And if it were, it
: | would be 'and I without my screwdriver'.
: |
: | Rule one of nitpicking:  make sure that *you're* correct, too :-)

: You and your two English-major friends were trolled.  And you
: misspelled "your".  Hope this helps!

: Kevin <buhr@stat.wisc.edu>

Again, when nitpicking, make sure **you're** correct:
  you're -> contraction of you are
  your -> possesive pronoun, as in "your two English-major
  friends"

ObLameMusicHack:
  One night a few weeks back at work, the radio station went off the air
at about 10 PM.  Not wanting to listen to silence for 5 hours, we came
up with a way to hack music into the PA system.  We called the shop
and put that phone (a speaker phone) on hold to get the hold music.
Then, we put a phone next to it that had the all-page code typed into
it.  The speaker phone blared into the other one, which then sent it
over the PA.  Needless to say, the quality was horible, and the noise
>from  the 6 or so phones in the office could be heard through 2 doors.

ObReallyLameHack:
  Remembering to hack my post so it actually shows up instead of
disapearing into the bit-bucket.

Matt

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