Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!hoptoad!noe!marc
From: marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: i don't wanna be a hacker anymore...
Message-ID: <927@noe.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 90 18:57:48 GMT
References: <10035@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <921@noe.UUCP> <1191@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
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Approved: We don't need no steenking approval

In article <1191@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> jearly@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (John Early) writes:
>Do you think someone w/ a redundant and repetitive .signature can REALLY
>be called a hacker?

Hey look, I'll be straight with you:  I work at VPL Research.  I'm working
full-time at work on an unannounced hardware project.  I'm working full-time
at home on a 3-D graphics editor that will allow editing of virtual objects
from inside of VR.  I have a third software project for VPL and nobody can
figure out where the time should come from.  I'm helping to build the
ham radio TCP/IP network; the custom e-mail gateway I wrote to route mail
between Internet and the hams has bugs and I don't have time to fix them.
I'm running on Microport Unix for the PC-AT (16 bit ints, 32 bit pointers,
no "huge" model, and a broken copy of adb) and I'm lucky B news runs at all.

IT IS BENEATH MY FUCKING DIGNITY TO HACK OLD VERSIONS OF NEWS.

If you want to come over and hack my copy of B news, send me e-mail, OK?

P. S.  I once tried to write a replacement for adb, back in my kernel-
hacking days at Microport, but ctrace() is both broken and undocumented.
-- 
Marc de Groot (KG6KF)         |"The all-American boy prefers beauty to brains
Noe Systems, San Francisco    | because he can see better than he can think."
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