Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im
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Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im
What's more challenging? Running a BBS in a G3, or running a BBS off of a 555
timer?
The less you have, the more you can do. Look at all the actual shining stars in
most hacker communities. It's not the kid who had mommy and daddy buy him/her
the biggest, fastest, newest machine in existence, it was the poor SOB who
managed to get an XT when 386s were cool. I speak from experience. A friend of
mine always had the best machine available, and I used an XT from '86 to '95.
So, he can d/l all the pr0n he wants, but I can bring his system to its knees
within 5 minutes, by either getting to his command prompt, opening his box, or
just waiting for him online.
So there. THAT'S the REAL reason I, and maybe others, won't always believe you.
I've never seen a rich hacker, and neither have most of my friends. We scrape
together cash to slowly upgrade our systems. And we're the network specialists
in our school (all linux), and I have a tech support gig right now. I started
when I was 15 doing this, and ppl trusted me then, and I was competent. There's
a direct relation between 1337n3ss, if you will, and old hardware.
CK
Grant Stockly wrote:
> >Grant Stockly wrote:
> >> Personally, I think nothing is impossible, and because of that, nothing
> >> should be regarded as 'not worth it'. I fail to see a reason not to flash
> >> a LED 10,000 times a second... Geee... ;)
> >
> >Sorry, but a cheapo LM555 can do well over that for under a buck. You
> >shouldn't use more hardware than you need, that gets a lot of new
> >hardware guys into a lot of trouble.
>
> But, whats the point? With a LM555 you learn how to use a $.70 chip. With
> a microprocessor, you get to spend lots of money, make a light flash, or
> you could even program it to play one of the online games that are script
> based. Like the ones the BBSs use...
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