Dateline: Intersection of Misanthropy Way & Hope Ave, where stand many a SysOp. When I open my primary laptop, my first task is to close a box of messages that were left with me while I was away. I am not proud of or happy about this. However neither am I ashamed. As a person …
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Dateline: Within the budding so-called “grapevine” social multiplex thingie… First, allow me to posit a, well, let’s call it a hypothesis: 2 + 2 = 4 Momentarily forget that the above equation is beyond-easily provable mathematically. As whatever-is-thegrapeine community members, I have utmost confidence that every single one of you can provide the ironclad proof …
Continue reading Your Level Of InvolvementDATELINE: Anyplace in the IP Suite where are laypeople. while true remains that most of our motd’s here at the grapevine are vague and exploratory in nature, this particular entry differs in that we begin with a clear, concise & declarative thesis: whosoever has ever used the word “newbie” – or any variant thereof …
Continue reading the n word (newbie)DATELINE: W3 Applications Galore, Internet Protocol Suite many of us who enjoy Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece film entitled The Room do not watch it as the romantic drama it was probably intended to be; instead we view it as something of a black comedy. if you’re unfamiliar with the film, watch it immediately – but …
Continue reading appropriation hackingDATELINE: Rust Alpha video-game test, via Steam, TCP/IP & UDP/IP i’ve been involved as a player in the public alpha of rust an emerging video game involving elements inspired by games like minecraft, dayz, stalker, and countless others. its basic story involves a post-radioactive disaster horrorscape in which few have survived, and survival has …
Continue reading christening i.e. naming a communityDATELINE: Reddit, WWW/Internet2. in a post requesting gnu/linux security advice at reddit/ubuntu, a user expresses paranoia about his new operating system installation being infected with a rootkit. as a person who has and will never use a trojan-style technological exploit written by someone other than himself, i had and continue to have no idea …
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