Monday, 30 May 2016

Don't talk trash behind the nerd's back.

I remember a time back, in the year of 1995. That was the year, were I lived on my own, for the first time. It was the year, on wich I was studying computers. Both hardware and software. The year in wich I had a small room to share with a roommate, sharing a tiny dorm room of 12 square meters. And the year, in wich I had much fun poking around with the local network that was kind of improvised. It was a giant mess of a snakepit, that network. Wich was basically build up with coaxial cables. It was not one giant network and whenever people that attended the same class, was living on that hallway, they basically created a new network. That was then linked to every other networks, in order for people to access each others small network's. And it was all done with MS-Dos-6.22 or MS-Dos-6.22 with Windows 3.11 for workgroups on top of it......

Then Windows95 came..... (And new people have moved in on the dorm)

Now we are in June/July of 1995, and the new people have moved in, the old coaxial networks have been replaced with a 100 megabit twisted pair network. Sadly it was not switches that were used. The fuckers installed hub's instead, just to be able to get that 100 megabit. As if.... Because people were cheap, and they only bought 10 megabit card's.

Amongst those people, there were one giant stupid asshat. He cheated in every lan-game that he joined on the network. He spread virus on the network and he basically talked trash behind peoples backs. Untill one day... One day, we all found out about his sequrity on his Windows95 machine. He had shared the entire C-Drive with both read and write permissions enabled. And when that information had circled a couple of angry nerds, his machine were no more.

It turned out, that "we" had copied all the contend from his drive, burned it on a cd-rom, copied it to a blank harddrive and made a tape-backup. Pretty much 3 identical copies.
Then we blanked his harddrive and shipped the tape and the cdrom to him, at the same dorm as we all lived in, using the postal service. Yup.... He was only living 3 doors away. Basically... He did not loose any data. We just made him unable to use his computer for a number of days... Yeah... Don't talk trash behind the nerds back, when you'r sequrity is that shitty. Kind of revenge of the nerd's or something. :-D

 

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