Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:54:25 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Hawkins <peter@clari.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Peter Hawkins <peter@hilink.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418094801.9904C-100000@dana.clari.net.au> In-Reply-To: <11986.892829599@time.cdrom.com>
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>> <ridiculous> >> The chap I want to meet can whistle modem tones and do mental arithmetic >> well enough to log onto his local ISP and send PGP-encrypted MIME email >> using an ordinary telephone handset. >> </ridiculous> > >For similar degree of silliness, try telneting to localhost at port >6000 if you're running an X server and see if you can dialog with the >server *just* by typing characters at the keyboard (usage of meta or >compose key is allowed). I once fooled around with this back in the >early days of X, using a copy of the X11 protocol spec and a >calculator for specifying the integer constants in the right byte >order, and managed to create a window, allocate a GC and draw a line >before I returned to my senses and wondered why I was wasting my time >with such silly pursuits. :-) I know a guy who, some years ago went out to a school to bootstrap their old mainframe from the console switch panel. It failed and it turned out they needed some hardware driver or other and was about to leave for his car to get the manual when some pimply teen grabbed the seat and started throwing switches. "now try". It worked first time. He wrote the driver in his head and keyed it in from the switch panel without resorting to paper. Remember *that* next time you've got hor chin in your hands and are staring through glazed eyes at a session of vi /usr/src/sys/pci/... Clarinet Internet Peter Hawkins 51 Barnard Grv, Manager Kew, Vic, Australia 3101 Ph: +61-3-9421 2006 Fax: +61-3-9421 2007 http://www.clari.net.au Peter@clari.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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