This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Hacker FAQ?
Article: 7853 of alt.hackers From: mwestfal@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Michael Westfall) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Hacker FAQ? Date: 21 May 1995 23:21:34 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Lines: 28 Approved: Gosh, golly, I hope so! Message-ID: 3pohtu$iui@nic-nac.CSU.net NNTP-Posting-Host: blaze.csci.csusb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
WIll somebody please post the hacker FAQ? I have to do a presentation at
school (in a computer science ETHICS class...) and wanted to differentiate
what hackers REALLY are versus what all the hype leads everyone to THINK
they are....
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Oh, yeah... I need a hack:
ObEasyHack:-
Here at school, we have a laser printer, but the script to use it only
allows postscript files to be sent to it. Text files are supposed to go to
the dot-matrix printer. Well, the dot matrix printer is too slow and usually
there are a bunch of print jobs spooled up for it, so who wants to wait
around for their job to get printed? Fortunately, I was able to find and
copy the script into my own directory and modify it so I could send
my text files to the fast laser printer, bypassing all the other schmucks
with text print jobs and getting much better printed quality, too.
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"I am Clinton of Borg; your paycheck will be assimilated." -Someone
on The Net.
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