Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 23:41:15 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can you teach me to hack Message-ID: <199702270641.XAA07800@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199702270106.SAA02951@rocky.mt.sri.com> References: <199702262308.QAA17332@huey.cadvision.com> <199702262341.QAA28992@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199702270106.SAA02951@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams writes:
> Norm can't really be called a 'hack' since he's got plans and expensive
> tools he knows how to use.
>
> Now, the guy who refuses to use tools that aren't human-powered is on
> later on the afternoon, he's a 'hacker'. You know, the guy with all the
> scraped, bruised, calloused hands. :)
A Review of my old baby, Security Toolkit/UNIX, once surmised that if
Norm Abrams was a UNIX security administrator, he'd have STK/U hanging
from his toolbelt. I still have a reprint of that review hanging in
my office at home, 5 years later. ;^)
You're referring to Roy Underhill, the Woodwright. A couple of weeks
ago he went to Wales and did a show on waddle and daub construction. It
reminded me of various English attempts to make computers. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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