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> I was dumb and naive and just tried to replace the kernel on win95 with the WinNT kernel. Hahah, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't do equally naive stuff
by anyfoo 4y ago
> I was dumb and naive and just tried to replace the kernel on win95 with the WinNT kernel.
Hahah, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't do equally naive stuff back in the day, I know exactly what your kind of thinking was.
It's almost sad, because understanding takes the magic away. I sort of miss looking at computers with the eyes of a child and wondering what lies behind the abstractions...
- jedberg 4y agoI have an even better dumb story. Right after high school I visited my friend at Berkeley, and while there I wrote down his IP address. When I got home I changed my IP to be a different one on the same subnet and matched the gateway address. I knew what a subnet was, I knew what a router was, but I didn’t realize you can’t just reach any router you want. I figured if I did that I could get all the stuff that was restricted to the Berkeley network. Needless to say it didn’t work.
- ianmcgowan 4y agoI got a fancy HPUX refrigerator-sized server to replace a mainframe in the early 90's. Was on Netware 3.11 at the time and did not understand the concept of IP, so just made up a bunch of random IP addresses. The confusing thing was telnet did not work at all, but ftp kinda/sorta did. That was an embarrassing call with HP support, but the guy I talked to kindly gave me a 30-minute tutorial and usenet filled in the rest later (and crynwr packet drivers).
- progman32 4y agoOne time, I really wanted to get an EXE of my QuickBasic programs. I just renamed the file to be myprog.exe. Needless to say, that didn't work. But little me learned that day, so I'm not gonna be embarrassed by it.