Phreaking

Founder of Apple computer Steve Wozniak or Steve Jobs but it seems more like something Wozniak would do.

Any whistle with 2600 Htz got to hurt.

Zippity Doo Dah…. Zippity Ay. My oh my…. What a wonderful day :cool:

Hey Guys

your in the club dude :grin:

5th?

Hey Cufan71 congratz on teachers Pet. A little gift to you.

http://i33.tinypic.com/8zpn5x.jpg

Homework :cool:
I agree with Che it must be Steve Wozniak. But John T. Draper – a.k.a., Cap’n Crunch was the one who discovered the illegal use of the whistle! :evil:

Thank U Che!!! So :cool: :!:

I never heard that word before… it sounds like it could be spelled like P.h.reaking:

Pretty hot and reaking :mrgreen:

Thanks Cap! :grin: I’m going to frame it! :cool:

:cool: Thank U Marina!!!!! :cool:

Speaking of “ph” words… what exactly is phishing? :???:

cool

Marina thank you for bringing back teacher’s Pet. :smile: Even if it isn’t for a little while it make the members so happy. ;-X

Carrie Underwood :smile:

I think she has a beautiful nose.

I never thought about it but, you’re right she does have a pretty nose! :cool:

Sience its allmost here , whats the origin of the word winter ?

Congratulations, cufan, on becoming Marina’s Deere.
What did you do to attractor?

Good choice, animal, I second that word request. :smile:

Good one Uncle Bob :lol:

hey, Capman Che’s memento does not have his name under it. :sad:

I’ll third that request.

Homework.

Congratulations, Cufan 71!

Homework:

It was in a film about the two guys who started Apple Computers. I believe Steve Wozniak was the one because
he was the more technical one and Steve Jobs was more
of a visionary.

I can fix that for you Che give me about 10 minutes and I’ll have you a picture with your name on it.

I wonder what the story is behind the guy blowing the whistle into the phone. I mean, did he already suspect something might come of it because he had some extraordinary technological knowlege, or was it simply accidental? Kind of like who was the first person to lick that hallucenogenic toad – now what in the hell was that person thinking?

Here you are Che.

http://i38.tinypic.com/2ppyckn.jpg

In the movie Forest Gump I thought Lt. Dan had something to do with it too. :lol: :lol:

Yes, thanks Capman :grin:

Hmmm,I thought it might be from Phineas + Freak = phreak. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat,very cool back in the day,heh heh,old world cool.

Marina, check this out http://www.gardenofgods.com/home/index.cfm

you really sit around all day and think funny thoughts :grin:

Do you sound like a Scotsman, like with heavy accent :???:

“Ah laddies the cold wind is a blown’ up me kilt and me family jewels be two ice marbles.”

You do like to get back to the origin don’t Ya originalistrick?

Many great discoveries have been made by accident.The 1st toad licker probably did it on a dare.Just a guess.

Was that a Boobie bite from Gorby?

Che always wonder how did anyone figured out the correct way to eat an artichoke. Who was the first to taste the strychnine in that fluffy tuff stuff. Know what he means jellybean. :???:

in regard to the toad licking; some princess was looking for a kinky prince :roll:

Hi Marina ^^

Can you tell me the origin of the word “willo the wisp”?

Thank you. Great job and also, you’re so beautiful ^^

Hi Marina can you look up the origin of the word Lectern please:) really like the great videos and keep it up :grin:

Che Volay already indicated that Wozniak & Jobs phreaked…

but hanging up on your mother???!!!…

treasure every minute you have with your family – you never know when you might find yourself alone… :cool:

hi Marina,

could you please find out the meaning to this word please, i know its welsh but im not sure what the word means.

The word Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

thanks
Gareth aka darkhorse30

i’ll phourth that… :mrgreen:

congrats, cufan71…

but, ‘er…why are you a fan of copper?

Hey animalntaz I am glad you went back to your regular handle. :wink: By the way want is your gravatar :?:

this is a bit similar to where msuic comes from, but I would like to know where “rock ‘n’ roll” comes from?

thank you for your time

I’ll Fifth that

Dear совершенная Marina, You look beautiful in that new, white dress with grey trim! :grin:
Also, it’s nice that you phone your mother. I hope your mother is doing very well, so that she arranges a beautiful wedding for you! In a white wedding dress, of course! Will your marriage be in Beverly Hills or in Moscow? I think Beverly Hills is less expensive than Moscow. :?:
To answer your question, both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were Phone Phreaks. They founded Apple Computer, and Steve Jobs is still the CEO of that Silicon Valley company.
In the US Army Signal Corps, many soldiers knew how to “whistle up” phone numbers. It was faster than dialing. In the 1970′s AT&T put in line filters to prevent that. Of course, we now put frequently used phone numbers on “speed dial.” Due to free e-mail, we don’t use the telephone as much, now.
Your dear student, seesixcm6

Hi Marina

I would like to know where the word K9 comes from. It refers to dogs but what’s behind it?
Cheers
Nemotracks

I was wondering… No word request I was just wondering.

Hey Phriend, did you mean Phiphth… a phine perphormance… Never happens at your place though eh cap :razz:

I phorgot to change it to phiphth. I thank you phore phrasing that phore me. :lol:

‘This you??

So that cereal must be selling like hot cakes at that time

Hello, Marina…
AceTheBathound here…
I would like you to explain the etymology of Safari Jacket, and wear one from either Stafford or Kevin’s to illustrate…
Please and thanks,
AceTheBathound
atbh

It’s a K-9 69 world!

K9 = canine ?

Isn’t it “wil o’ the wisp”?

Si, Amigo.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were phreaks …. so does that mean your iphone has secret functions ?

What about the technique of eavesdropping on computer traffic by listening to the radio-frequency signals generated by the MONITOR in the process of generating the image on the screen…I think that’s called PHREAKING as well…..Van Eck Phreaking……or am I phreaking crazy?

Marina, you are a dish of peaches and cream, thank you for my daily lessons!

Geedunk

it’s ok. I see it in both of two forms even like “willowisp”

Here in Spain it’s called “Fuego Fatuo” something like “Dead’s Fire”. Weird O_o

i was wondering the origin of the word lacrosse mainly because i play it thanks you are beautiful

Also… Will with the wisp (1608)

Hello Marina, why you have not updated your podcasts on iTunes?

I would like to know how we started using the term okie dokie.

It’s better than Ph reeking, which would mean that you’re chemically out of balance and that you stink.

Back in the old days of Ground-Loop telephone circuits we used to phreak by using soda can pop-tabs or tin foil to complete the circuit. It was a great way to save your change for something more useful… like another soda. If you remember those days, you’ll remember when upgrading from 300 baud modems to 1200 was considered to be moving with blinding electronic speed.

For those who don’t remember “baud”, it’s probably time to change your diapers. :mrgreen:

Congrats cufan71

Hello my sweet friend Marina,
I love you and I’m saying that come to TURKEY and stay at on there with me of on my home.You are wonderful a women for me.Let’s come now!
I LOVE YOU MY SWEET FRIEND!

Where did the expression ‘butter me up’ come from?

Aha… moving my green-eyed envious stare to someone who’s already green

Congrats cufan71!

the guys who created APPLE computers (Steve and Steve can’t remember last names at this time)
Or was it Bill Gates?

Ah yes, the pre-digital, analog-relay
days of Ma Bell :mrgreen:
It was like stone knives and bearskins…
Vacuum tube oscillators and such.
Homework: Steve Jobs used to sell “blue boxes” out of his car. He and “Powerful Woz” (Steve Wozniak) would make ‘em from parts Woz “liberated” while working at HP :grin:
<a href=http://www.woz.org/<Check this out! :cool:

Doh! Check this out!
(This stuff is really exciting, to me)
These guys changed the world! :mrgreen:

I had a 3′x3′x3′ box I FINALLY threw away
with every bit of software I had collected
from 1977 to 1985. Old skool stuff…
It started with DOS (no version number).
Back when IBM did developement in Boca,
we’d get lots of free stuff to beta test and
hack. We’d write reports on how to patch
and fix program crashes for their product
support people, and they’d give us more
latest and greatest stuff to play with :mrgreen:
Sure lost a lot of sleep in those days – LOL!

Seriously? When you work with the
electronics, you learn that oscillators
“sing” (physically). You become accustomed
to the sound of a particular frequency, after
awhile. The way we used to analyze problems
with the old math coprocessor chips in the
early PC’s was to listen for certain “songs”.
Your brain also operates using frequencies
(f=1/t) for timing process cycles. You may
hear that frequency form time to time
(usually when you get tired). :mrgreen:
Captain Crunch simply recognised what
he was hearing.

Hello Marina!

I just discovered you on YouTube. I love etymologies and looking at beautiful women!

My request is this: Where does “bellweather” come from? It has been used often in reference to states during the election.

An aside: I could ask my Russian aunt this, but I’ll throw this your way also. Is there another Russian word for ‘friend’ besides ‘tovarisch?’ That one always seems to be translated ‘comrade,’ which to Americans hearkens back to Bolshevism.

I hope to see you answer these soon.

Marina is looking phat :mrgreen:
(eating all those chocolate covered
macadamia nuts on vacation didn’t
hurt :cool: )

Hello hotforwords, I would like to know the origins of the word booty. Thank you very much.

you look great….brknwrst9 for teachers pet!!!!!

Hey there! With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I wanted to know more about the word “cornucopia” and its origin. Thanks for making great videos! :cool:

What is the origin of the Scythians and who are the decendants in our world today? Russia? Iraq?

Thanks!

Are you referring to the trick where you removed a pay phone mouthpiece element, and used a pop tab to “click” the terminals to code a phone number in, and make calls for free? We used to do that, until Ma Bell Caught on to that trick and started sealing the covers. (Hungry freaks, Daddy – FZ) :mrgreen:

2nd try. Would you help me out with the origin of the word STREAKER? thnks.

Hey im from australia and found your show through sxephil, i was wondering about the orgigins of a word, which is a common australian sang “grouse” as in “thats grouse” meaning “thats good, ok, great etc”

***WORD REQUEST:***
Three words from Southwest American English:
vamoos! (let’s go)
hoosgow (jail)
buckaroo (cowboy)
Origins?

***WORD REQUEST:***
swagman
bilabong
kulibar
billyboil
tuckerbag
jambok

hello, = ], um i was wondering what the origin of st. patricks day is. thanks n keep up the good work, ;]

Hot for words, where does the word “eclectic” come from?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ3e7-utaY

http://www.msn.com/

Mantra :idea:

In writing about your calendar you say it is “chock full of word origins”. Where did the phrase “chock full of…” come from”?

Love your videos. love your classes, love YOU!!!!!

Doctor Hypnotic….KISS KISS KISS KISS

Soma : I was wondering about this word, it is talked about in the book, a brave new world by aldous huxley. In this great read it is depicted as an somewhat intoxicating drink that people take in low dosages to excellerate and enhance their meaningless lives. it’s like happy serum.
i did some research, and apparently is discussed a lot in the Rig Veda’s the Hindu religious text. There are a bunch of hymns that reference it, and are titled soma. apparently it was like revered as one of the most holy Gods. It is intoxicating as described by a lot of the hymns.

but i found out it might be related to Christmas as well…
something about a fly algaric (anamita muscaria). the pine tree, santa’s red coat and white trim, and flying reindeer.
so what did you find? can you let us know about it’s real origins, please.

p.s. i love you, your beautiful, and inspiring.
I am art, you are canvas, we are paint.
*by “i” i mean the state of i that you are, Jah…

peace love unity respect
gratefully
chris

arduous

Excellent lesson Marina.

Homework? Well, you literally gave us the answer with what you held in your hands (the i-phone).

Steve jobs, who started out phreaking and subsequently, hacking computers for real, eventually got serious and ended up as the CEO of Apple as we know today.

Love you and your work Marina. Kisses to you.

not really a word request, but who coined the term “coining the term”?

I used to have a 300 baud & 1200 baud modem. I think I can type faster than 300bd! :mrgreen:

Homework : before reading the responses here, I had a feeling that the CEO in question would be Steve Jobs (Bill Gates seemed too obvious of choice). Reading the responses since then seems to confirm my suspicion :)

Thinking back to Steve Jobs and Apple, has reminded me of something I did when I was about 7 years old … Back in those days my family had a MacIntosh II computer. One day, for no particular reason I decided to try and see if my NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) console would work with the MacIntosh II monitor. After some tinkering around, I had in fact, managed to play Super Mario Bros. on the MacIntosh II monitor :mrgreen: .

The only downside was that I only had three colours showing on the screen. Green, Black and White :lol:

what is the history behind hyperbole?

i’ll just die if i don’t find out!!!

:wink:

I still have a 2400 baud modem in my garage… old school modems… they’re slow, but damn near indestructible.

where does the word “tan” come from?

It was one of many reasons for changing over to loop start circuits… grounding is sometimes hard to diagnose as legitimate (water in cables, etc.) or fraud. Also, in the long run, the change over to loop start was cheaper than spending the materials and man hours to seal those receivers.

I’m just glad there are still people around who remember the pop-tops… just like in Buffet’s song “Margarina-ville” :mrgreen:

Two requests: “decimate” and “literally.”

The next time I hear someone say something stupid I’m going to say “That’s literally fantastic!”

I was one of the first phone phreaks back in 1971 when I was a Senior in high school.

The old dial phone we used to dial into the timeshare computer had a lock on the first hole in the dial to prevent dialing without the key. However, you could also “dial” my tapping on the hook or “hang-up” button sending pulses to the telephone network and simulate “dialing” the number.

So my teacher did not approve but secretly admired my ingenuity. He told me just do your phone phreaking so I can save a trip to the room and don’t need to unlock the phone.

Later, other fellows found out how to make free calls using a little box that produced the touch-tone sounds.

So there you have it! The story of one of the original phone phreakers from way back in 1971. Me!

Like Marina said, good job cufan71.
Congrats on being Teacher’s Pet. :grin:

Hi Che,
Sorry to disappoint you but, no heavy accent; I have on occasion been asked which part of Scotland I come from, but I’ve also been accused of being Australian. I guess I’ve a bit of parrot DNA in my genes and take on the prevailing accent of wherever I happen to be, but it’s not perfect. When I speak Danish, people think I’m Norwegian; when I speak Norwegian, they think I’m Danish, and I’ve even fooled Frenchmen into not realising I’m English.
No kilts for me either – I have no brass monkey ambitions. :grin:
I am pleased that I manage to amuse some of you guys, even though I aggravate others. When I was sixteen I was often like a bear with a sore head, and I decided that the best way to change myself was to try to make at least one person laugh every day, but I don’t have to think about how to achieve that any longer – the best humour, I think , is spontaneous and if you try too hard you usually fall flat on your face.

Gareth, Hi, that word is Welsh and it is a place in Anglesey which is an Island just off the Coast of Wales , it is spelt Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwillantysiliogogogoch . St Marys Church, White Hazels Girt By Whirlpool-Red Caved Llandysilio . Thats the Translation . :smile:

It sounded like her mother was giving her an earful. :lol:

Bob, you speak volumes of wisdom :cool:

Or this? :lol:

The other statue is Marina with her Teacher’s Pet.

Thanks Dezdkado! :cool:

Thank U annuddermale! :cool: Actually the cu stands for Carrie Underwood. But, I like cooper too! Wish I had a whole truck load, I could make a fortune! :mrgreen:

Translation as follows:
Marina mom- “you’re 27 years old and no husband, when you going to settle down and find a husband, you don’t want to be alone your whole life, you’ll need someone to take care of you, you won’t be pretty forever, when are you going to give me some grandchildren………you never call me, you think you’re a big shot with your TV show.nag, nag, nag,…….” Marina hangs up

Thanks Bob! :cool: :lol:

Thank you chickenh0use! :cool:

Do you mean Booty or Booty?
My guess is that the second is just a mispronunciation of “Beauty”.

Thank U Karl! :grin: :cool:

Marina hello. Do you have a family recipe for vereniki? (I hope i spelled that correctly).

And how about choc-a-block?

hi, love. sorry ma english, i’m spanish. I saw you on youtube yesterday while i was searching some funny videos. my name is fabio, im from valencia, spain. i saw you and appart from being lovely of appearance you seem to have a huge heart. i like the way in which you talk towards cam. like we say in spain: marvellous=maravillosa. i willing to chat with you, ma msn fabio110290@hotmail.com . plis contact me.

Thank U originalistrick! :cool:

…’s mother said … :lol:

phreaking A, cool, we heard your ma!, or is it mama :lol: :roll:

Quote
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965

Hey Marina,
Perhaps, you have already looked at TubeMogul. :smile:
You made a new high yesterday Nov 19 at 1,043,201. :cool:
The last high was on Aug 23’08 at 1,040,936.

Che will enjoy this cartoon website while having his ginger cookies and tea. :grin:

Hey Hotforwords a word request

what is the origin of “chinese whispers”

thanks alot hope to learn more :grin:

The word phreak and me born in the same year!
phreaky. er freaky! :mrgreen:

WORD REQUEST: Buck/doe as in deer.

you should do my request cause deer hunting is this weekend!

Congrats Cufan71! Kind of cool that teacher’s pets get video treats of her in hot dresses.

I’m accustomed to a 60 Hz hummmmmm

Heavy Question time: If I marry two dwarfs, is that bigamy?

What do atheists say during sex? “Oh Darwin! Oh Darwin!” :?:

I saw that too. Lucky dog!!!!!

When transsexuals go missing, do we put their pictures on cartons of half-and-half?

Dear Marina, Dear Class,

First post here, so let me write something out-of-lesson. Believe me or not, I discovered HFW just today (I hear you saying “where were you hiding?”). Great idea. Intelligence is sexy, no doubt :). I always loved ethymology, especially toponyms. That’s great to know all the story hidden behind names. I’m not specialist (or partly – I deal with places described by toponyms ;), but you can call it my hobby. THanks that I know how useful ethymology can be – you can know 3 languages knowing only one for example. OK, enought of me and my thoughts. I just sit in the class and wait for another lesson. I can’t wait for it (but have I got my pencil and notebook with me…?).

I was waiting for someone to mention Blue Boxes! Thanks for mentioning about woz’s site. I had started my eduction in computer programming back when the Apple II was in production. I remember the day when the vice principle purchased an Apple IIe and I was one of the first to us it.

Hello Marina,

I have another word request for you: where does epiphany come from?

Maybe I’ll get one when I know. ^_-

I used to do the same thing on the phone. But it was set up so we could not dial a 9 to get an outside line. I remember practicing with the hook to get the 9 pulses.
Back in 1989 I had a phone number that would trace the number on the phone I was using so I could get the number of the line connected to the modem. It worked for many years until one day the phone company turned it off or changed it.
Hey nice to see there are still some of us phreaks out there. :mrgreen:

Welcome to the class! I not an expert either but I had an interest in the etymology of nautical words for many years now. I would have never guessed there would ever be a teacher like Marina to do lessons like this.

Im surprised no one mentioned the 2600 club which still puts out a quarterly magazine. :shock: I used to subscribe to this magazine years ago. Now I just buy it at a local book store from time to time to see whats new. I have a question for the student body: Why is this magazine called 2600? Clue: It’s connected to captain crunch cereal.

I 2nd epiphany

Is not this site great!!!

Hows the pirates?

Word Request: People who explore cave systems are called spelunkers and the act of exploring cave systems is called spelunking. Could you explore the origins of these two odd sounding words? Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Eric M

Could you elaborate a bit more? The show Pirates of silicon valley? Software Pirates? Pirates of the Caribbean? A.C. Davis H.S. Pirates? etc.

It is the frequency generated by the free toy whistle from Captain Crunch cereal that allowed you to make long distance calls for free years ago.

(“What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” :grin: :lol: )

Eric M

I had an epiphany years ago, but my doctor gave me some pills and it cleared right up. :smile:

Eric M

Graffiti (Suprised it hasn’t been done before)

I think my clue was to revealing. :oops: Congratulations on the right answer. :mrgreen:

Excellent request, Professor … err… What’s yer name.
I second it. :smile:

More like a, Gorby wants to play on the Rope swing. You’ve seen how he loves tuggin’ on her hair.

I like the second Booty better Bob. :wink:

What end of the toad was she licking ?

Keep Right On To The End Of The Toad.
(If you can’t be bothered to read it all, read the last paragraph.)

Hey guys, was I just commenting about Jobs and Woz just a few lessons ago? Was I commenting about Bruce Lee in the music lesson and soon after there is a lesson in Nunchucks. I could list more but I’m out of time. So is it me or Im beginning to see a pattern here. It’s like Déjà Vu. :shock:

Che never finished his laundry duties I see… get busy :razz:
I now understand the “cu” part of your name (clean underthings), am I right?
Judging by your reaction to seeing (hearing) your name in a HFW vid. you are obviously another serious, dedicated student of philology & will eventually go on to tell your grand children of this, the day, the pivotal point that changed the direction of your life, forever… congrats’

OK, Don’t slip on the deck and break your hip, hang on to the railing, take your Geritol….. :mrgreen:

Word Request I’d know to know where the phrase “point blank” came from, like “he told me point blank that I lost my job”

Che didn’t do the laundry, he’s wearing the purrdy dress right now. :mrgreen:

Wow, your mama must be excited to here her voice recorded to the world. I am curious to know what your parents think about your success and sexy persona. I’ll bet your mama is saying, “Marina, make your bed!” :lol:

Answer: Steve Wozniak

But, I have not made mine completely, too. Sorry for the misspelling. here should be hear, curses!

Woodruff (I also don’t know, where the referring german word “Waldmeister” comes from.)

Thank Captain! :grin: It’s very :cool: :!:

Thanks Billy B! :cool:

:oops: Thanks! :oops:

70′s Word Requests :cool:
Jive
Disco
Funky
Groovy

lol, “hi mom, ‘sup? ”

I have a word request, again. I know you get so many of these that it’s hard to read them all, but here I go again.

“Fluke”. As in, “that was a fluke”. Something that happens by chance.

I don’t know how it could be considered illegal, because the phone is designed to transport sound from one point to another and 2600 Hz is a sound. If the system is sensitive to that frequency, then it’s the system’s fault, no? Evidently others differ in opionion.

BTW, I met him once at a talk he gave recounting his career. That was at least ten years ago and I can’t remember if it was at the Sacto PC group or at the Vintage Computer Faire. He sounds just like his picture looks, happy-go-lucky and slightly whacky.

Maybe it was the result of two dares at once: it was 10 below and some friends dared him to touch his tongue to a frozen toad instead of a flagpole. At least with the toad, one could run off with it for warm water, unless of course, some strange sensations set in and you’d get um, distracted.

Don’t nod off on us there, Dez. :neutral:

The next time you fly on an airliner or watch a helicopter video, listen for the high-pitched whine in the PA or radio background. That’s 400 Hz, the aviation equivalent of 60 Hz.

Hannibal Lectern was a public speaker and serial audio killer who was so boring that he could litterally kill his audience in less than fifteen minutes by droning on and on about some guy named Hannibal Lectern, who was a public speaker and serial audio killer who was so boring that he could litterally kill his audience in less than fifteen minutes by droning on and on abou… WAKE UP!

Just in time., wasn’t I? :smile:

Welcome mrromaszka! Hope you enjoy it here! :cool:

Hiya HOTSTUFF its slayr(yaya i know its not spelled correctly),Iwould like to know the origine of the word “cleavage”. And please start a new segment on Hot for words…SHOW AND TELL hehe :shock:

There’s another long word in Welsh, qwertyuiop. It was the first musical instrument played on the computer keyboard. Unfortunately it never caught on due to a missing comma in the software, which gave it a strange, lisping sound.

The qwertyuiop was followed by the asdfghjkl, a German version, which also did not have much success as it produced deep, gutteral, sounds inducing the listener to line up with other listeners.

Finally the zxcvbnm, the Australian version failed because Australia was simply too far away for anyone to go there to buy one. When someone did buy one, they were surprised to find that upon getting home, the zxcvbnm had returned to Australia.

It’s true, I tell you.

When I was in the Air Force, if you had access to a military phone at night, you could dial the AUTOVON operator and request a call be put through over the military’s phone network, which was restricted to government business. As the traffic was nil at night and the operators knew that you were phoning home, they always kindly put you through if you kept your calls short. This was “social engineering” with the cooperation of the “engineered” obviating the need for phreaking.

Boy, oh, boy, oh boy! I’ve been here only since summer and this is the second time I’ve seen the same word got the same explanation. After a year, will all the words be that way?

The answer to The Thinker’s question is “a girl.” :lol:

Phreakers were buying “syrup-ticiously.” :smile:

I believe Woz was a phreaker, first, but the question included CEO, so I believe kaibanator is correct.

It probably has a few Easter eggs in it somewhere. If you dial 486-367-9673, for example, it answers, “WOOF!”

(Actually, don’t dial it, figure it out.)

Marina I loved the way you said ” I can call russia for free” then hung up. That really did make me laugh

I ‘ve heard of the idea, but not the name for it. When I worked at the NSA, I saw a homemade box with a single vacuum tube on top sitting in the bottom of every Teletype model 28 machine in the Teletype room. I later learned it was a converter from bipolar (pos & neg) signals distributed in the building to the Teletype’s normal off/on signals. Because the bipolal signal had current always there as opposed to off/on, it limited the radiation to the outside world to prevent intercept.

Working in the Teletype room was a detail given to newbies for a week. Two guys ran the room, which took about 1.5 guys to do the job, which was tearing off copy and stuffing the pages in the cubby holes of the addressee office. So if they hustled, one guy could do the work while the other slept on the floor behind the machines where it was warm, padded with wadded-up Teletype paper and had the right sounds to put you to sleep in a minute. After a couple of hours, they would trade off. Best job in the building!

Not only do I still have a TI thermal paper terminal with a 300-baud Novation acoustic-coupled modem, I still have a brand-new (unbuilt) D.C. Hayes 300-baud modem kit for the S-100 computer. D.C. Hayes started out in Sacto before they moved to Atlanta, where they grew huge and famous and eventually bit the dust along with most U.S. modem companies who couldn’t sell their $600 modems in competition with China/Taiwan’s $25 ones. Hayes gave the local PC user’s group a discount before he left, but faster speeds came so quickly, I never built it. Do you suppose the Smithsonian is looking for one?

The acoustic jobs were so crappy, that when you went on a trouble call, you took a dozen with you and swapped them out until you found the one that would work at that location. More art than science.

Did you ever do Teletype CJ? The page printer slightly lagged the keyboard, which was mentally disturbing until you slowed down a bit so that the sound of the last character was synched to the current one you were typing. It was like a pacer in harness racing, hav-ing-to-keep-the-key-strokes-in-time-to-the-page-printer.

As in, “BUTTER ME UP, BOYS, I’M GOING IN!”

What, you missed the Edit button again? Now that you are a TA, whisper in her shell-like ear that WE NEED THAT SUCKER!

Due to the bounties of American midwestern farming, it has almost been entirely replaced by the wheatucopia.

It’s true, I tell you.

A buckaroo is too much to pay for remorse.

No, it was the other guy. You know, whathisname.

They probably changed it. We still have one in AT&T land (formerly SBC, formerly Pac Bell, formerly Ugh Tel & Tel). I got it from a PB guy who wrote it on our telephone room wall for me, believe it or not. It’s still there. Usually they go nuts hiding it. At a new real estate office PB was checking the phones and the lady installer went through this big show of covering the keypad when she dialed it. Once my company ordered 16 lines for modems and the installer was testing them in the tel room by dialling with the number stored in his test handset with the speakerphone on. As soon as he saw me in the doorway, the speakerphone was clicked off!

I Googled the number and not a single Webpage has it (except for a one list of all tel numbers). I don’t want to leak it to the Web or they’ll change it on me and I will have to revert to the well-known 800 numbers used by the great unwashed masses, which is just not “kewl.”

No, it’s smallamy!

I saw a tiny book on words and phrases of supposedly nautical origin at the book store and quickly read it, absorbing “between the devil and the deep blue sea” and others. Lter I read on the Web that some think there is far too many things so attributed and one came up with a clever acronym something like National Association for Attributing Almost Every Word Origin To Something Nautical. Of course I can’t remember it correctly now, but you get the point.

Just who were those guys that bonked Dan Rather over the head? And was that why Rather seemed to go nuts at the end of his career?

Don’t forget the fluke that is a whale’s appendage.

I always thought E-piphony.com would be a neat site name. It’s still up for grabs.

Dez: They had to seal the handsets anyway, because it was a quick source of parts for the unscrupulous. Even as long as “a long time ago” they started really cranking hard on the covers — they would come off, but not without a major effeort.

It was not so much a booby bite as a nip/pull.

In Polish “spelunka” is dark, gloomy, not too nice pub, when you meet strange guys… So, spelunker is someone who visits such place. Cave is also dark and gloomy :)
OK, just kidding of course. I simply wanted to give international context to your question ;).

Hi Hot For Words,
I’m a new student. I just wanted to say how much I like your lessons. Very informative and sexy. Both the lessons and you.
I would like to ask about the definitions of the word cleave: to divide or split; to adhere. Do they have the same origin?
Thanks.

It’s the insignia from the popular animated TV series, Robotech, that I use to watch as a kid. :cool:

What ever happened to the Podcast?

I never saw Hackers, maybe I should rent it sometime.

I might have gone hiking at the Garden of the Gods. I don’t remember the name of the place, but I remember hiking a mountianous trail in the middle of Colorado Springs, CO. I was temporarily living with a friend there for a few months, while dealing with family problems years ago. But anyways, I enjoyed hiking that place enough, that I hiked around it 4 times in one day. :smile:

We’re going STREEAAAKIIIIIN! :mrgreen:

new vid is up.

I’ve seen a lot of deer here in Iowa. Last year, I’ve seen them by the herds of 4 to 8 near the hiking trails, almost on a weekly basis. They were like 15 to 20 ft. away from me. They get pretty comfortable coming into the suburbs, but it’s best not to get close to them.

Hi Marina,
I´m the new foreign student far from germany. :oops:
I would like to know, is it a challenge for you to explain the ethomological background of the word “english” for some good reasons I explain an other time? :wink:

hotforwords , I’m 28 in 20 days.

Happy Birtthday if i don’t remember to say it later.

Steve Jobs?

privet Marina,
Have you ever thought of putting together a field trip to Russia for your students.

http://www.RolandBuckles.com

Birthday (sp)

Yep that’s me man. Every damn day. :sad:

Ohhh, so that’s what it was… I always thought I was hearing engine noise by induction

The inductors aboard (transformers, generators, motors, etc.) need far less iron for the higher freq. and they will kill to save weight, as you can imagine. The price is, the higher the freq., the more it bleeds into just about everything. If on the ground, power would be uselessly wasted by radiation. So you can see the rest of the world’s 50 Hz is actually a bit more efficient if you don’t consider the manufacturing and shipping cost of the tons and tons of extra iron they have to put into their appliances. Tradeoffs, always tradeoffs…

thats no problem for were i live. very small towns around my area here in wisconsin there all around 100 to 900 or so population. i live in the country so i like them in my back yard they don’t hurt anything but tomorrow morning hopfully i put a scratch in the population :lol:

I have found a few of those nautical origin books to have many false origins, so be aware. It is true there are many words that are attributed to the maritime world. I don’t know why this is so. Even Marina has mentioned that many words are attributed to nautical origins.

Dear Captain Jack, it was my way to say hello. I thought pirates could lead to something. Was not pirates cause for a Navy?? Interesting of current events, with that of Somalia, so close to the Barbarry Coast. Bless all you navy men and women. Captain Crunch for president. :razz:

http://twitpic.com/n68o

:mrgreen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ3e7-utaY :smile: :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1uLyuWra8 :smile: :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwPkLooA54 :smile: :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ3e7-utaY :!: :?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1uLyuWra8 :!: :?:

I’m A Freak For You.

:neutral: :neutral:

:???: :???:

Maybe it’s that we have absorbed so many whacky nautical terms over the years (scuttlebutt, scupper, poop, bilge and so forth) that we have little resistance to more of them. “Blaming” a word on sailors is just convenient and believable, especially when we know the sailors of tall ships are mostly long dead.

Last time I checked I wasn’t dead yet. Check this page out. Look at the bottom of the page for Richards, Jack and you might find my name on the crew roster. http://www.historicalseaport.org/store/crew.php?page=9

epiphany is a sudden realisation of the truth of an idea that enters your mind all of a sudden

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/epiphany

and a religious holiday

You did notice the word mostly in there, didn’t you? :grin:

Yeah I did. Im just giving you a hard time. Thats my job isn’t? :mrgreen:

Of course, the reason it’s still available is that it’s spelled wrong!

While you’re here giving me said hard time, can you answer my question about a site-down contact?

Meteor lights up skies over Canada http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27848645/?gt1=43001

Im not sure what you mean by a “site-down” contact.

go baby ı fac you

go baby ı fac you :cry:

Site-down contact = the party responsible for taking action when the site goes “off the air”

That would be Marina. She is in charge of the whole classroom.

Well, of course, but that’s not the practical answer I am seeking. The idea is to be able to report when the site is down to those who are able to correct the problem. Now I don’t believe that Marina keeps the server under her kitchen sink, do you? No, it is hosted in some fancy air-conditioned server parlor with backup generators and doilies on the furniture. OK, then. Should the site be non-responsive to pings to the IP address, how does one notify the duty operator? (I can use bigger words and I can use smaller words, but I don’t think I can use any plainer words.)

I know exactly where the servers are located and I’m not authorized to give out that information. It’s not necessary for you to contact them for Marina has full control of her website servers from her iPhone. Most of the site failures where software related and not hardware which is up to Marina to fix. Hence why I mentioned that Marina should be contacted. Besides servers that are in some fancy air-conditioned server parlor with backup generators and techs waiting for the servers to call them if something goes wrong.

Well, I think I know exactly where they’re located, too. But I don’t want to call them if that’s not the proper. Now you say most of the failures are software related, meaning I assume, the applications. I am concerned about the situation wherein the site server won’t respond, even when pinged and even if the IP address (vs. URL) is used. In other words, “down down” (which is the worst kind of down)*. The Contact forms are obviously not available then. So I ask you, how do you contact Marina in that situation? (We’ll get to the answer one of these days, I’m sure, but don’t take too long, because I’m on the slippery slope to eternity in Teflon shoes. :-))

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*That’s probably not something that Marina deals with, because if the server is down, she can’t communicate with it. The host techs would have to reboot, wipe up the Coke they spilled in it, put another lump of coal in the boiler or whatever it takes.

Lets continue the conversation via email. I have a contact page on Marina site just above hers.

Марина, меня интересует: Джобз тебе платит за то, что ты пользуешся Ай-Фоном? :lol:

lexiphile says а те что завидно?

Hey love was wondering if you could explain the word [Redonculous] ,
thanks!

Hi cuvey!…Did you see this phreaking word…ridonulous :grin: :lol: …Beas are good

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