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The Lost Art of Windows 95 Pranks

Shaun Pedicini — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 03:21:30 +0000

This article was originally printed in 2600 The Hacker Quarterly Volume 38, Number 3 The release of Windows 95 (and later Windows 98) was such a great time for pranksters. The addition of features such as Active Desktop, multi-user accounts, Internet explorer – all of these areas were just rife for exploitation… I mean exploration. […]

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Collapse Sort

Shaun Pedicini — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:43:39 +0000

Collapse sort is a brand new sorting algorithm that takes full advantage of the AMAZING qualities of Javascript arrays and their dynamic nature.

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Strangest Things

Shaun Pedicini — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 03:56:35 +0000

At this point, a lot of people have probably seen the Cthulhu-style dread horror series Stranger Things. Even if you haven’t, you will still be able to follow the gist of this blog post. As I was catching up on the second season of Stranger Things, there was a brief scene involving Sean Astin’s character, […]

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