Re: Programming Humor

another fun fact: the character 'Whistler' in 'Sneakers' starring Robert
Redford was based on real life Joe Engressia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlKDkTbUFhU

-jmz

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jamie Shackles <jamielaas@yahoo.com>wrote:

> You can also hear the 2600 hetrz tone at the end of a Pink Floyd song. I
> think "Young Lust" is the one.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Wed, 8/27/08, stu <wien33@cox.net>* wrote:
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> From: stu <wien33@cox.net>
> Subject: Re: Programming Humor
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 11:14 PM
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> Years ago, there was (supposedly) a Biker dude known as "Captain
> Crunch"
> for his ability to dial out free long distance with a toy whistle that
> came packed in boxes of cereal by the same name...
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> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:37 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> > In fact, the whistle-a-phone-number question is based on the
> real-life
> case of Joe Engressia - a.k.a "The Whistler". Born blind, he had
> perfect pitch, and developed the ability to dial by whistling the number tones
> as a kid. A quick Google <http://www.google.com/> will get you a lot of other information about the
> old-school Phreak's and their techniques and exploits (before the criminals
> mugged it all up).
> >
> > Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > > I was scoring ~ 70% up to around question 200. Then my dinner brake
> > > ended. Logically, if I kept going I would have hit something just
> shy
> > > of wizard :)
> > >
> > > But seriously, I would love to meet the person who could whistle a
> phone
> > > number :) I could make my commodore 64 whistle a quarter sound that
> was
> > > accepted by
> most payphones even after an analog transfer to a 4 track
> > > tape. But I really doubt a person could do a whole phone number,
> from
> > > tone
> memory.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> > > jdawg
> > > Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:43 PM
> > > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > > Subject: Re: Programming Humor
> > >
> > > Dazed_75 wrote:
> > >> There has been a lot of this over the years but this collection
> is
> > >> mostly good and even the old stuff is still funny. So take a
> look at
> > >> http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/ and specifically at his
> > >> Saturday August 23 post if you are
> looking at this at a later
> date.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > this brings back a LOT of memories, of when I worked at DEC.
> > > has anyone ever read all volumes of the BOFH series? I have.
> > >
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