Programming Humor

[keith smith]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper

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Keith Smith


--- On Wed, 8/27/08, stu <wien33 at cox.net> wrote:
From: stu <wien33 at cox.net>
Subject: Re: Programming Humor
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 11:14 PM

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...

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 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 at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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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