From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 27 05:36:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA26424 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 05:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA26418 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 05:36:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.5/8.8.3) with UUCP id OAA03763; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:35:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.8.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id OAA14729; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:36:36 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970227143636.00aede00@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:36:37 +0100 To: Snob Art Genre From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: can you teach me to hack Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:56 AM 2/27/97 -0800, Snob Art Genre wrote: >On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Yves Lepage wrote: > >> Hmmm, >> >> Try the official hacking practice machine: >> >> langnese.nvg.unit.no >> >> Just telnet to it and login using your own username and password. > >Where does this odd alias come from? I've never seen it before. langnese = long nose - a norwegian metaphor for "you've been had" is "you've been left with a long nose". The origin is an old folk myth, probably the originally the same as Pinoccio. nvg.unit.no is the networking group (a students association) at the university of Trondheim, Norway. Please direct any followups to freebsd-chat. Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org