Average Users Monthly

Average Users Monthly Sat Mar 20, 1993 Volume 1 : Issue 01 Editor: Todd Clayton c.1993 Todd Clayton, Except where noted otherwise. CONTENTS Read me-- This File File 1-- Book Review: The Hacker Crackdown File 2-- Introduction To Telephone Lines File 3-- Gurps Labour Lost, Bruce Sterling File 4-- Software Review: Spaudit v2.8 File 5-- Glossary Of Terms Contact-- How to contact us! AVERAGE USERS MONTHLY An electronic media magazine dedicated to the support of the average user. No extensive technical jargon, nothing to insult the intelligence of someone who obviously has the knowledge to download these files. DISCLAIMER: The views represented...

Computer Book Review The Hacker Crackdown: Law and disorder on the electronic frontier. By: Bruce Sterling Bruce Sterling, widely accomplished author of many books and short stories, has outdone himself on this, his latest book. THE HACKER CRACKDOWN is a book generally based around the American police and FBI arrests of several individuals in 1990. Many issues were raised in the book regarding such things as the ethics during the raids of homes and businesses involved in computer crimes. It asks the questions: "Are what these 'Hackers' doing illegal?" "How does one protect him/herself from 'Hackers'?" "How does one pro...

[Disclaimer: As much as I'd like to take credit for this informative piece of work on phone lines and frequency, I found this text file on the Internet, and cannot take credit for it. Would the original author please step forward?] MEMO TO MARTY HEETDERKS & MIKE TUCKER.....MOFFET INMATES! INTRODUCTION TO PHONE LINES Before we can discuss the modem, we need to learn a little about telephone lines. Telephone lines are wires. All wires have resistance. Wires are used to allow electrons to flow from one point to another. BUT the resistance in these wires helps to impede our electron flow. Impedance can be caused by the physical prope...

GURPS LABOR LOST: The Cyberpunk Bust by Bruce Sterling Copyright (c) by Bruce Sterling, 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author. Some months ago, I wrote an article about the raid on Steve Jackson Games, which appeared in my "Comment" column in the British science fiction monthly, Interzone(#44, February 1991). This updated version, specially re-written for dissemination by EFF, reflects the somewhat greater knowledge I've gained to date, in the course of research on an upcoming nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: The True Story of the Digital Dragnet of 1990 and the Start of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The bizarre even...

Product Review: SPAUDIT v2.8 Software Publishers Association 1730 M Street - NW - Suite 700 Washington, DC - 20036 (202) 452-1600 Reviewed by: Todd Clayton Ever wondered if there is any commercial software on your computer that really shouldn't be there? Well, call up the Software Publishers Association (SPA) and order your free self-audit kit! SPAUDIT will search your hard drive for files that are part of hundreds of commercial software packages. Whats included: The self-audit kit comes with many pamphlets answering frequently asked questions (FAQs) as well as informing you of the ethics and legalities of pirating versus buying softw...

A brief glossary of commonly used computer terms. Compiled by: Todd Clayton ACCESS TIME Time required to perform an ACCESS. Usages, e.g.: 1) seek to location on a disc, 2) amount of time to read or write to a memory location, 3) the time to position to the correct location in a disc drive and carry out a read or write operation. ACCESS TIME is often defined as the time from the leading edge of the first step pulse received to SEEK COMPLETE (including settling). ADDRESS (physical) A specific location in memory where a unit record, or sector, of data is stored. To return to the same area on the disc, each area is given a unique address cons...

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