HIR Issue 3: Hijinks with H/PC's
Hijinks with H/PC's by /|smodian ><
This is my first article, so I'll begin with a bit about my self before we get to the goodies. I've been screwing around with computers for about 5 years now. So I can still remember when windows really sucked. Yes Windows 3.0... I Have a class or two with Axon, and have kept moderate tabs on the underground for a while. Am I a Hacker? Not really, sure I'm literate with unix and could probably ruin your day if I set my mind to it. But I don't really go out of my way to Phuck with anybody or anything.
But you're probably wondering What the hell can you do with a HPC <Handheld Personal Computer>. For starters, it isnt very powerful, you have to wait several seconds for it to refresh the screen <especially windows CE>. It has next to no Storage space and yer just phucked if it breaks. Worse yet, trying to get software to do shit with it. I hope you have a deep expense account buddy. But it is at least an order of magnitude cheaper than a really good laptop. And when yer goin fer portable, you take whatever you can get.
What makes me an expert on this? Nothing, I would just like to point out a few neeto things I found you can do with em...
If you are fortunate, every millennia they have a sale where they sell a palmtop for under 100$. I bought mine for about 80$ <plus about 10$ in AA batteries and memory backup batteries>
I have a Compaq PC Companion 2mb +
which has :
- 2mb of mem
- an included Pcmcia 14.4 phaxmodem
- Win CE on a ROM + stuph fer yer pc so you can dump stuph to and from yer main pc & link up cables
- Power adapter
- IRDA IR port
- 1: Pcmcia slot
- touch screen and a stylus
- built in sound kard
Boxing Phun
At one point I had a program called Win Phreak, which all it consisted was a Visual basic shell, with a phuck load of Box tones like Red, blue...etc So I dumped the Waves on My Palmtop. They Play ok, but I have not seen the field results yet.
Net Werking
With the assistance of an acoustic coupler and a trusty pcmcia Modem <the speed isn't really important, usually all you kan squeeze out of the phuckin thing is 1200 baud>. A Hacker would have a concealable jumping point. The only web schit thats out there is Internet Explorer phrum our favorite company MicroSloth. My suggestion though is to get either a port of lynx, or a telnet client and a ftp client, and do it that way cuz no matter what speed you connect, the grafucks will slow everything down to a fuckin crawl. Not to mention you will run out of storage space lickity splat.
Windows CE, of course, provides the dialup networking shit. But as for the rest of the shit, with exception to MSIE CE, your on your own to find em. All the stuph I've seen is commercial
Antidepressents
There is a freeware Chat chat program out there that allows you and yer bud to communicate with the IR port. Pretty kewl eh?
Of course you can dump any BMP in the background on yer desktop.. and phuck around with WIN CE... but really phucking with the code is kinda hard cuz of windows being totally rommed. Good news is that u kan get a 99$ upgrade to windows CE 2.0 and get 2 more megs of ram with the upgrade chip.
Whee.
WISH LIST FER LEETO SOFTWARES FER HPC's
- port of internet utilities to hpc
- FTP
- Telnet
- Lynx
- Finger
- Whois
- Remote Control program to emulate universal remote Control, and remote Control jamming with IR port.
- memory compression fer disq space
<GREETZ>
Axon, Kminor
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