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Thu Feb-12-04 08:18 PM
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Speaking of sig lines, who remembers .plan files? |
dsewell
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Thu Feb-12-04 08:24 PM
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1. $ echo 'World domination!' > .plan; finger myself |
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Edited on Thu Feb-12-04 08:28 PM by dsewell
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Thu Feb-12-04 08:25 PM
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2. Yeah man.... Kibo all the way... and join the Church of the |
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Subgenius or Bob will get ya. I am not sure, but I think my unix shell still has a .plan file.
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Thu Feb-12-04 08:30 PM
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3. I haven't even thought of .plan in a long time |
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When was the last time I fingered someone? Maybe 1997?
I just now tried fingering some, and they're all coming back "refused" or "timed out".
Sad.
I miss the old days when the people on the internet knew unix and understood computers. Don't get me wrong - I love th ease of use of the Internet now, and web, and the high bandwidth and the shopping and all that, but I just miss back when people actualy understood what the hell they were doing, and what they were using.
And get rid of that &*@*^$#*^$ HTML email! Or make people take a Federally Authorized course on using it before they're allowed. Dammit, that makes me mad.
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Thu Feb-12-04 08:43 PM
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5. Most hosts have turned finger off, there was some kind of |
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security hole in it, in, I think BSD a few years ago. But since most people do not acutally even know they have a unix shell anymore, it is kind of pointless for the most part. Yes, the net has changed a lot, and will again, I believe.
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Thu Feb-12-04 08:51 PM
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6. Oh, what the heck, try this: |
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Edited on Thu Feb-12-04 08:55 PM by dsewell
finger drs2n@mothership.upress.virginia.edu
They have secure finger daemons now, but they're not much used.
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Fri Feb-13-04 07:23 PM
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$ finger drs2n@mothership.upress.virginia.edu Login: drs2n Name:D.S. Project: Restoring honor and dignity to the Unix finger program. Plan: To amuse the Democratic Underground. No public key.
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Thu Feb-12-04 08:36 PM
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Having left the world of academic research I don't use unix anymore - god how I miss it - but as recently as two years ago I was still seeing funny .plan files and, uh, fingering people. (Yes, it still makes me giggle...)
And I may very well be the only 28 year old on earth who can program only in Fortran. I might remember some Apple Basic, though...
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