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- From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
- Subject: Inside Macintosh, was Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:37:00 GMT
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- In article <mrhoten.721632407@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>, mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu (Matthew Rhoten) writes...
-
- >ObHack: (remember these?) So I just bought a lamp, the kind that
- >comes with a sleeve for possible insertion into a hole in a desk, but
- >with a hole in it so it can fit over a bolt from enclosed mounting
- >bracket. I then realized that the place I really wanted to put it was
- >up on top of my closet (really a sort of chifforobe affair), the
- >better to illuminate my lofted bed. There's no hole in the top of my
- >closet, and I can't really put one there without disturbing the folks
- >who own it. Nor is there a place on the top of the closet suitable for
- >the mounting bracket. So, I grabbed some volumes of Inside Mac, a
- >hardback book I didn't really care about,
-
- I don't know about the hardback book, but I could sure use the Inside
- Macintoshs.
- Would you mind exchanging those for an equivalent weight of phone
- directories ? I will most readily pay for the mailing of the Mac
- documentation.
-
- > attached mounting bracket to
- >the hardback, put it up on some other lying-around books, stacked the
- >IMs on it, and, viola! I was in alto clef, with a reasonably stable
- >lamp clamped to a big stack o' books on top of the closet.
- >
- >Hey, no hack too small :)
- >
- > -matt
- >--
- >Matthew Rhoten | mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu | m_rhoten@leland.stanford.edu
- >"When Adam and Eve first saw each other, that's when the blues started."
- > -John Lee Hooker
-
- Regards
-
- alex khalil alex@dt.uh.edu
-