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Stine (Christian Roulleau '01) is a hack writer who churns out detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women...
Then he did something really unusual in the make-a-quick-billion computer industry. He made Linux available for free on the Internet. More important, he released his source code, the instruction set used to create the software, so that fellow programmers could hack, hone and redistribute Linux at will. In doing so he was following a freeware tradition that goes back to the earliest days of computing...
Trifero then used his new account to hack into the computer in Dunster...
Yesterday's hack into the Lampoon's Web site elicited more than a few chuckles from us at Dartboard. Though the prank itself was rather simple and benign, it was clever and good-natured, encouraging the hapless 'Poonsters to aim for some clever retaliation...
Allegra A. Blackburn-Dwyer, the spokespersonfor the Columbia Marching Band, said she wasunaware of the hack...