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Very interesting blog I see! Don't think it's only hype because of the title, the content is really worth a read, and no doubt much more interesting than many b

by hhm 18y ago

Very interesting blog I see! Don't think it's only hype because of the title, the content is really worth a read, and no doubt much more interesting than many blogs that get to the front page.

bullseye 18y ago
For some reason, this makes me think of Phrack magazine. I second (or third?) the idea that plain text is so easy to read.
jyothi 18y ago
I second. It dawns on me today - the web is made unnecessarily heavy. For most blogs and content all we need is simple text :) so light, so clean. PS: Repeated the note as it was hidden and in the wrong context.
- bootload 18y ago
  "... For most blogs and content all we need is simple text :) so light, so clean. ..." Plan files? Back when linux was new and lots of servers started popping up, .plan (dot plan) files ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol where the blogs of that era. Easy to read, quick to load you get a heads up of what was going on via text - a lot like HackerNews. And the best .plan files to read had to be iD & John Carmack. 3/23/1997 - Damaged F40 Someone ran into my F40 in the parking lot, then took off. Words cannot do justice to how I feel right now. If anyone knows a tall white male in the dallas area that now has red paint and carbon fibre on their tan pickup truck, turn the bastard in! Not only did you get the best technical insight in to programming they where more personal than blogs, funny even. No ads. No cutting edge design to get in the way of the information. Plan files don't really exist now. Carmack closed his down in 2005 ~ http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates and now blogs like the rest us. An archive exists at http://www.scribd.com/doc/14193/John-Carmack-Archive-plan-1999?from_related_doc=1 http://www.scribd.com/doc/14193/John-Carmack-Archive-plan-19... Port 79 and plan files went the way of telnet and the Dodo. Btw it was reported the esteemed Rtm and his pesky worm exploit ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm that had a part in plan files demise. After exploiting a buffer overflow in fingerd (among others) [0] "too risky", ISP admins claimed. [0] Not confirmed ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol#Security_concerns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol#Security_concer... but mentioned ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris#The_worm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris#The_worm
  - michael_dorfman 18y ago
    I have to admit, I miss finger (and would take it over Twitter any day)
    - ken 18y ago
      I don't tweet, but I might update my .plan. I'd even hack something together to generate RSS from it, but Firefox and Safari don't support finger:// so it would be kind of useless.
      - kirubakaran 18y ago
        Also write an aggregator and call it 'hand' :)
  - jyothi 18y ago
    Interesting. That was an exploit in fingerd and .plan residing on users home directories is definitely vulnerable. "... - a lot like HackerNews" exactly :). May be just simple text files or basic html with bold, italic, href tags served out of the secure web server context. No ads would be a big relief. Does wordpress has any such plain theme ?

by hhm 18y ago

Very interesting blog I see! Don't think it's only hype because of the title, the content is really worth a read, and no doubt much more interesting than many blogs that get to the front page.

bullseye 18y ago

For some reason, this makes me think of Phrack magazine. I second (or third?) the idea that plain text is so easy to read.

jyothi 18y ago

I second. It dawns on me today - the web is made unnecessarily heavy. For most blogs and content all we need is simple text :) so light, so clean. PS: Repeated the note as it was hidden and in the wrong context.

bootload 18y ago
"... For most blogs and content all we need is simple text :) so light, so clean. ..." Plan files? Back when linux was new and lots of servers started popping up, .plan (dot plan) files ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol where the blogs of that era. Easy to read, quick to load you get a heads up of what was going on via text - a lot like HackerNews. And the best .plan files to read had to be iD & John Carmack. 3/23/1997 - Damaged F40 Someone ran into my F40 in the parking lot, then took off. Words cannot do justice to how I feel right now. If anyone knows a tall white male in the dallas area that now has red paint and carbon fibre on their tan pickup truck, turn the bastard in! Not only did you get the best technical insight in to programming they where more personal than blogs, funny even. No ads. No cutting edge design to get in the way of the information. Plan files don't really exist now. Carmack closed his down in 2005 ~ http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates and now blogs like the rest us. An archive exists at http://www.scribd.com/doc/14193/John-Carmack-Archive-plan-1999?from_related_doc=1 http://www.scribd.com/doc/14193/John-Carmack-Archive-plan-19... Port 79 and plan files went the way of telnet and the Dodo. Btw it was reported the esteemed Rtm and his pesky worm exploit ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm that had a part in plan files demise. After exploiting a buffer overflow in fingerd (among others) [0] "too risky", ISP admins claimed. [0] Not confirmed ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol#Security_concerns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol#Security_concer... but mentioned ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris#The_worm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris#The_worm
- michael_dorfman 18y ago
  I have to admit, I miss finger (and would take it over Twitter any day)
  - ken 18y ago
    I don't tweet, but I might update my .plan. I'd even hack something together to generate RSS from it, but Firefox and Safari don't support finger:// so it would be kind of useless.
    - kirubakaran 18y ago
      Also write an aggregator and call it 'hand' :)
- jyothi 18y ago
  Interesting. That was an exploit in fingerd and .plan residing on users home directories is definitely vulnerable. "... - a lot like HackerNews" exactly :). May be just simple text files or basic html with bold, italic, href tags served out of the secure web server context. No ads would be a big relief. Does wordpress has any such plain theme ?