[SOC] How to keep an idiot busy for hours ( a normal thing for a SOC to do )

Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:51:09 -0000

Hi Guys,

They're not real pages. I *think* that it's an ASP (active server page)
though I'm no expert in the area and could be completely wrong.

Rather than there being *real* html pages at the end of the hyperlink, you
have piece of software that pretends to be a page by emitting HTML but it
modifies its behaviour according to the incoming link.

It's trivial to implement and has completely achieved its purpose in
occupying the attention (in a truly SOC fashion) of a number of us.

It's a gas. (Ok, bad joke...)

Paul :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Lachow" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] How to keep an idiot busy for hours ( a normal thing for
a SOC to do )

> This is one proggie that works! To wit:
>
> --- Bob  N0UF <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I went to
> > http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/individual/pakin/idiot/
> > without the
> > file name.
> > There isn't an index.htm(l) file in this location so
> > a listing of the
> > files there is
> > displayed. After letting it run for several minutes
> > it only displayed
> > 600+- files.
> > The files I viewed all had date/time stamps starting
> > at 09:37
> > 18-Oct-1996 and
> > # 500 has a d/t stamp of 17:43 18-Oct-1996.  So I
> > don't think it's a
> > loop written in
> > Javascript or anything else.  Of course, I've been
> > wrong before.  Looks
> > like a
> > loop was used to create all these files and it
> > wasn't very fast, 500
> > small files in
> > eight hours.
> >
> > So I added the file name, chapter1.html,  then just
> > keep adding 0's to
> > it to
> > see how high the numbers went. I quite at 15 0's.
> >
> > 73
> > Bob N0UF
> > SOC# 521
> >
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