You all rock, then. The picture was of the
"Dome of the Rock" in Jerusalem. No reason.
Just a visual pun. No steganography. Still,
Jerusalem used to be an international plac peace
and cultural interexchange as are interesting web sites
of today. Cryptic is the way to be. When our language
evolves, so do we. I don't always make sense, but I
try. You 'd be surprised at all the weird things one
can say and still be understood. Sometimes it's just
experimental, other times i have a specific communicative
agenda. It depends upon who i know or suspect is tuning in.

Well, I do enjoy puns though. Eventually, I might start
embedding more shashlik into my posts, but I figure
there's enough detrius upon the wwwboard.

Probably the most cryptic are the posts about Registry
hacks though. Still, all the stuff I say about hackers
and the like is my honest opinion based upon facts and
experiences and observations. I have the hope that I can
persuade some kind musicians and other peaceful folks
to accept the peaceful side of the "dark net".

Electronic music may someday become a vehicle for
peaceful yet cryptic and essential communication, at least
while online. So, yes, I do have somewhat of a minor
agenda. But mostly, I just like musical progress.
I realize that there are some boring things that I know
that might be helpful to others in the long run if I
share them.

The first time I ever learned of the internet was when
my computer science major college friends shared their
downloaded .MOD songs and players for me to see and
hear. It was definately a pleasant new experience.

The internet really hasn't come along that far when
it comes down to it. My friends were sneaking into a
computer room late at night to download porn and music and to chat.
They'd also send each other jokes and notes and chain letters
via email. So little has really changed. Pictures and
sounds will always be popular.

Later on, a different friend of mine showed me some
cool animation and sound programs on his Amiga. He
told me a bit about the history of "Toasters" and how
a bunch of hackers would get together every couple of
months to get drunk and program some really cool animation,
sound, system utility and game programs.

Well, during my first year of college, the ones who
pushed the pre-web envelope were all hackers. I remember
lots of animations done with escape codes on VT-whatever
VAX terminals. Lots of FTP was going on too. I was naive
at the time thinking that it would never get so popular or
mainstream. The funny thing is, just before I left that
school, I was planning on creating my own secret automated graphical
file server (aka website) on the school's computer. I
later decided that it would be a waste of time and started
focusing more on recording and composing music.

At some point later on back then, I stumbled onto your site, i think.
Or perhaps it was harmonycentral. Well, I knew about Info-Mac
and other (MIT) FTP sites, so I started getting into downloads.

My first heavy sound synthesis was done on a Mac SE with
two floppy disk drives (and no hard drive) I think it had
1 MB of RAM. I was using SoundEdit 1.0 from the original
MacRecorder (AD converter). Last time I checked, SoundEdit 1.0
still ran on system 7.6.1. Maybe it runs on MacOS 8 or 9, or even
X, but I lost all my copies of it.

Well, surely I'm boring you to death with all of this,
but I figured that since I post on here so much, you
ought to know more about me. I'll probably be signing
up as a registered member in about a week. I know it's
not easy running all of this web site and business and stuff.
For people like me, it's a great toy, but I do acknowledge
all your hard work and craftsmanship and networking. I typically
only go to a few web sites regularly, and this is one of
them.

--> dbpms, Macintorch, iLogic, the Logical Guy, etc.

I finally traced some of my strange system changes
back to the day that I downloaded MacPuke and MacPort.

Whoever is reading this, DON'T RUN tHOSE PROGRAMS.

I know those are potentially hack tools, but don't be fooled,
the only one who will get hacked is you. I have been aware
of the existence of trojan hacks in trojan hackware, but this
was the first time I experienced it firsthand.

I am typically not interested in hacking other people's systems,
but I downloaded these programs because I thought it might be nice
to have some weapons of defense. There have been times when I've been
taunted by interlopers.

I guess the best tool against hacking is creative
reconfiguration and offline removable media storage, etc.

It seems that fresh installing system software, and
deactivating adware, and defragging work well together.

I also like to delete most hidden (invisible files).
Most invisible files are custom icons that can be rebuilt
by the system. Sometimes I discover an odd icon that looks
more like a TEXT file than an icon. Maybe this is evidence
of creeping bullshit.

well, i share my experiences with the internet so that
future readers will benefit.

Bewarez.