I'm just sort of glad that Netochka hasn't found her way to _this_ list
yet. But then it would be kinda fun to see all the confusion and
mayhem she'd cause.
Down with korporat male fasc!zm, or sumthin like that.
Andrei
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Josh Davison wrote:
quoted 71 lines !!!!FUCK-ALL HUGE WARNING DISCLAIMER!!!!!
>
> !!!!FUCK-ALL HUGE WARNING DISCLAIMER!!!!!
> the following link will completely fuck your computer, so don't even think
> of clicking on it until you have saved everything, installed a real
> operating system (read: not Windows or MacOS) and maybe even called your
> mommy first...
>
> that said, it's an awesome ride. click it. but i warned you.
>
> http://www.membank.org/0000/0000.html
>
> anyway this f1f0 chap (or antiorp or Netochka Nezvanova or any other alias
> he-she-it-them go by online) has turned rogue software into a Fine Art.
> The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a piece of software is *supposed* to
> create a transparent user experience by providing a set of easily
> understood metaphors that are implemented consistently and universally.
> The user knows that moving the scrollbar will cause a window to scroll,
> and clicking a button will cause some other function to execute. f1f0's
> software takes the opposite approach. Important functions are obsucred
> beyond recognition. Buttons that do nothing are given prime GUI
> real-estate. Control of the mouse is wrestled from the user and used to
> draw fancy geometric patterns on the screen.
>
> I purchased a sound generation/manipulation program called b!257+!2 from
> f1f0/antiorp. There is a region of the UI that pops up an "about box,"
> standard operating procedure for a lot of software. What's different
> about this program is that the entire time you are reading the credits for
> the software, the program is busy creating empty Font Suitcases with
> titles taken from random snippets of C++ code and dumping them in the
> application directory. The user quits the program to find that well over
> 500 new documents have been created and started hogging up the Finder's
> resources... The amount of trust one places in the creator of a piece of
> software immediately becomes apparent when you consider how easily
> f1f0/antiorp could have ruthlessly fucked your system rather than just
> dumping a few files into one directory...
>
> anyway, he/she/they also create a program called "NATO" which is the
> end-all for real-time Quicktime manipulation/editing/ruthless-fuckery ...
> it costs around $800 so i haven't picked it up quite yet but i have seen
> it in action, it's pretty toot sweet.
>
> so troll the newsgroups for this mo-fo and click those links ... but
> beware :)
>
> josh
> --
> String Theory : Digital Music for Humans
> http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Ryan Pulley wrote:
>
> > Tell me more!! Damn...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Josh Davison [mailto:yoshi@enteract.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:57 PM
> > To: andrei@world.std.com
> > Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> > Subject: Re: [idm] m9ndfukc
> >
> >
> > this antiorp/m9ndfukc/f1f0 person/organization/entity is amazing. i bought
> > one of their software products and it is the most obnoxious app i have
> > ever had the pleasure of running. talk about using the User Interface
> > against the user ... sheer genius and quite a statement of just how much
> > one's own computer can be used against one. also visiting any of their
> > web-sites (they seem to change often) is always a rare treat ... i have
> > never seen a java applet used to completely render a machine useless in
> > quite such a beautiful way.
>
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