🚀 go-pugleaf

>   One day, either myself or another person got the idea for putting
>   together a fake basic interpreter.  It accepted any line that began
>   with a line number, just as if the user were talking to the
>   interpreter.  Any immediate mode commands, such as "run" or "list"
>   were greeted with "?syntax error".

See ``gremlins'' on the apple ][s.

1)  There was this guy who thought he was a super ``hacker.'' He would 
    STEAL your disks when you were not looking and copy them.  He would
    even take disks out of the drive of the machine you were using...

    Anyway, I made this program..... and started a rumor that I had the
    BEST and FASTEST copying program out.  It was the smallest program
    yet because it was written in a super high level language (PASCAL?)
    and it copied EVERY DISK.  Well, sure enough.... he stole one of my
    disks one day and got a copy of it.  The program was short, sure,
    the only commands it had in its executable were similar to:
    ``format; print "Please insert next disk...''

2)  I used to write my name in the ``hub'' section of ALL my 5.25 floppy
    disks.  I used to have so many I would lose track of them.  I would
    always inspect disks that I found... or that other people let me
    borrow.... one time a conversation went something like this:
    me : ``Is this your disk?''
    Him: ``Yes.''
    me : ``I lost a disk yesterday and it looks a lot like this one''
         (As I read my name in the center near the hub...)
    Him: ``I bought it last week.''
    me : ``Did you get a good deal?  I looks like a good quality disk.''
    Him: ``It was on sale.''
    me : ``Oh?  Tell me, do you always buy disks with my name on them?''
    Him: ``Huh? Oh, maybe I did find this one.''
    me : ``Yeah.''  (as I took the disk back)

3)  I did something similar to #1 above... except for the Atari computer.
    This was for a cheap BBS operator who thought having the newest WAREZ
    was cool.  Anyway, he wanted the newest upgrade to his BBS that was
    supposedly hacked out by hackers... :) Anyway, my program said something
    like insert your BBS MASTER disk... for upgrading.  It also said:
    DO NOT REMOVE THE DISK UNTIL UPGRADE IS FINISHED.  Well, all it really
    did was read the disk sectors from 1 to 720 by a step of 19... and that
    made it sound like it was formatting the disk!  Well, also, I did 
    punch hole in his vtoc!  :)

4)  There are a BUNCH of things for unix.. I love them.... especially
    for those who think they are hackers on unix.  like:
    ``alias whoami "echo root"''
    stuff like that.

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 Scott D. Yelich                                 sc...@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]
 After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?''
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