NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/alt/hackers/1662

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From: [e-mail] (David J Dawkins)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: lucky : -)
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Date: 12 Nov 92 10:45:17 GMT
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>    This was a linux hack, and it saved me booting from a root disk (which
>I didn't want to do). Any way, someone was trying to install gcc, and managed
>to chmod 644 /bin/*. Which was pretty cool, as I only knew when 'chmod' became a
>'Command not found', so I had effectivly lost /bin. Jumped into /usr/bin (only
>other place with binaries). /usr/bin was still there, intact :-).
>    Well, /usr/bin was pretty sparce, but fortunately, included 'uuencode',
>'uudecode', and 'elvis' (a vi clone). To get a working chmod, all I needed to do
>was 'uuencode chmod chmod > chmod.uu', vi the header to look like 'begin 755
>chmod.yes', save the changes, and type 'uudecode chmod.uu'. Now that I had a
>chmod the rest was simple.

Now *that* is what I call a neat hack!

ObHack:

This is a bit of a pig of a hack, but I remember when I was about 12-13
hacking my radio so that it came in the morning when the sun came up.
This involved connecting a Light Depedendent Resistor to the base of
a transistor. That was it - no other resistors to set the thing up.
Funny thing was, it worked!  I told you it was a pig.


-dave "Gave up electronics and misprogram computers now"

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