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Real hacking is back

There was once a time when "hacking" was a good thing.

To "hack" something had no negative connotations, it was simply a way of getting more out of less or turning a mundane device into a much better one through some clever engineering.

More often than not, these were hardware-based hacks revolving around making changes to the physical components of a device, rather than simply changing the software or firmware.

If someone was a "hacker" then they were looked up to as generally being a person with above-average intelligence and problem-solving skills.

Sadly, today the title "hacker" more often refers to some snotty-nosed script-kiddy downloading malware from the internet and inflicting it on unsuspecting innocents.

However, recently I've been impressed to see that the spirit of the old-school original hacker has been revived, somewhat.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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