[ale] Monday morning conspiracy theorist...

[Robert E. Karaffa, II]

...and where does Apple's OS X fit into all of this?  In my normal daily
computing life I have managed to squeeze down my use of a Windows platform
to an old 100MHz no-name box at home.  all it does (Win98SE) is run a Caller
ID server app that shares the Caller info with my home LAN (mostly Macs, one
now with Jaguar).  my Linux DSL gateway hasn't seen much of any viral
attacks (yet) of which I'm aware.
    since OS X is a flavor of Unix (did I type that right?), is it to be
expected that virii will eventually show up for it as well?  I think it was
safe to assume that we would see hackers going after Linux at some point.
however, there are sooooo many Windows boxes to peek into...

-Bob K., uber-nothing...that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.


on 10/14/02 1:08 PM, Pete Hardie at pete.hardie at sciatl.com wrote:

> Swantje Willms wrote:
>> What is an "uber-hacker" anyway in contrast to a hacker?
>> It doesn't help that uber comes from the German u"ber meaning over...
>> 
>> Could someone who contributed to this thread using the word give me a
>> definition?
> 
> The use of the German 'uber' (dots over the e) to mean 'super' comes from
> Neitzsche's "Man and Super-Man" work, where the words (IIRC) 'ubermensch' was
> translated as 'superman', meaning the next level of human awareness/freedom.
> This was of course misappropriated by the Nazi movement in the 1930's;
> however, 
> the hackerish adoption of 'uber' meaning 'excellent, superlative' appears to
> be 
> following the original meaning.
> 
> 
> 

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