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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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12 February 2001 - 3:55 am
I've spent the better part of the evening writing some Java™ code. This is, of course, not all that unusual, since I occasionally pretend to be a CS major, but the strange thing is, I did all of my coding tonight at a UNIX command line. I feel like I now qualify as a "hacker." I mean, I didn't even use pico, I used emacs. I even tried vi for a little while.
As a consequence of my new status as a "hacker," I now have a great deal of responsibilities. Within the next seventy-two hours, I must initiate a Denial-of-Service attack on a major website, as well as spread a virus across the US via email. Fortunately, we "hackers" do not sleep, so I will have no trouble fitting all of this into my already busy schedule. Anyway, off I go to update my ".plan" file and to write some "shell scripts."
[For all of you who are going to email me for computer/UNIX help now that I am a "hacker," let me save you the trouble. Any and all solutions can be found by reading the source code to the software that is giving you trouble. What, your software isn't open source? Well no wonder you're having trouble with it.]
Posted by on 12 February 2001 at 3:55 AM
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