Month: June 2000

A Brief History of Hackerdom

International hacking contest to open July 27

” Contest rules call for competitors to attack servers protected by security systems established by the institute. Once having succeeded in cracking the security system, the winner will have to establish his own security system, which will be assaulted by other competitors. “

Break in and fix it, now that is hacking.

To My Heart’s Content, Web Techniques on Blogger

People Eating Tasty Animals, peta.org, lost their domain name, mirrored, to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, peta.com. My understanding is even though parodies are allowed peta.org was profiting and through the profit diluting the peta.com trademark. If this is really the case then Saturday Night Live, including all their copiers, might have trouble with some of their skits. If they don’t then peta.org should get the domain name back.

possible threat to french open source sites
Sometimes, ok most of the time: remember “French revolt against Prime Meridian-Sort Of“, plant trees across France going through Paris,

GameSpot’s History of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

FreeGIS: Free GIS Software and Free Geo-Data. Time to dust off my Geography books and start play’n. I was a Geography major, and GIS guru in a former life.

WebICQ, maybe now I can ICQ from my training class, during the boring parts.

WhiskyClassified.com for any slumite’s sipp’n needs.

ShouldExist.org: innovation through communication — idea exchange forum