Jesse Hicks

DvorakianVomit 1 hour ago
"Although that company is long gone, along with my stock options, there I learned skills that I still use every day."
Your skills in finding pornography?
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Jesse Hicks MOD 53 minutes ago in reply to DvorakianVomit
Do you suppose that was the implication?
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DvorakianVomit 37 minutes ago in reply to Jesse Hicks
Haha yea I thought it might have been but it seemed so much like resume fodder that I figured you were serious.
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Jesse Hicks MOD 27 minutes ago in reply to DvorakianVomit
Anything that sounds like resume fodder from me is probably ironic. That's just part of my life philosophy.
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livebriand 1 hour ago
Ahh yes, I remember my first computer. i7 2600K overclocked to 5GHz, 32GB DDR3 2200MHz, 4 512GB SSDs in RAID 5, 4 WD Caviar Black 2TBs in RAID 5, 3 Geforce 590 GTX cards in SLI, W7 Ultimate 64... JK! Actually, it had a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 HT, 256MB DDR, 36GB WD Raptor, Nvidia Riva TNT2, and Windows 2000 Pro.
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OneLove 1 hour ago
What big eyes you have. (O_O)
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3cflow 1 hour ago in reply to OneLove
The better to edit you with!
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Charlie Hart 2 hours ago
+1 if your favorite way to beat the final boss on Wolfenstein 3d was to open the secret room on the left, then go open the door so dual chain gun guy (pruden time???) would follow you and get stuck at the 90degree angle in the secret room (everytime!)
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tastygroove 2 hours ago
Holy carp look at the size of that thing!

Nice catch even if it ain't great eatin'

Better than a monolith burger and less buckazoids however..
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Ordeith 3 hours ago
Trip down memmory lane.  I had forgotten about phrack, but this made me want to find my back issues.

Oh and engineering electronics without Arduino: making parallel port sound cards, wireless phone line tappers, and trying to figure out how to get your bedroom door to behave more like those on Star Trek - those were the days. :)
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heyitskyle 3 hours ago
That was beautifully written, I must say.
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psycros 3 hours ago
Interesting perspective.  I only wish my 28.8 still worked here...our phone lines are so neglected modems won't even connect now.
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AgustinRodriguez 3 hours ago
What an interesting job you had at that tech startup.
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MacGruber! 3 hours ago
Somehow reading the Anarchist Cookbook on a computer doesn't make you particularly geeky to me. A geek would learn how to use debug in DOS to hand enter assembly code to make bitblt based games. Because that is what I did, and I was a geek. And I still am!
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Ordeith 3 hours ago in reply to MacGruber!
Yes, but do the same on your TI-85.

Then get mad at your sister for removing the batteries to use in her TI-83 without telling you and finding the whole thing wiped out.  I should have taken more backups to protect from sibling sabotage.
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Jesse Hicks MOD 3 hours ago in reply to MacGruber!
No competition, MacGruber. Your posting frequency marks you as a far better geek than I. Kudos, sir.
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MuscleBoundNerd 4 hours ago
Great article, takes me back to my heydays of messing around with MS-DOS on my 386-SX computer by a manufacturer known simply as "Wang".  Furthermore, the era of America Online and the notorious things you could do with progs such as AOHell and AOPussy, what a fun, fun time where the typical internet user was completely unaware of all the potential hazards such as identity theft.  Nothing at the time was more fun than playing warcraft 2 pre-battlenet over dialup, imo.
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Colin S. 4 hours ago
This is the best growing up geek in a while. Mirrors my childhood and feelings as of late perfectly.
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bricktop88 2 hours ago in reply to Colin S.
I agree, an excellent piece with much truth to it.
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Guest 4 hours ago
Comment exploded into a million tiny pieces of glittery magic.
 
idroid_S 3 hours ago in reply to Guest
Bold  tells the truth.
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Paul T 4 hours ago in reply to Guest
Ah, and doesn't this just show how far we have come. ;>