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____________________________________________________________________ [ 5:. - [ interview with cr0bar ] [wh0rde] :. ] [wh0rde@b0g.org] :. ] ____________________________________________________________________ b0g: Ive been reading your parodies ever since hackers was barely finished, and I have to ask, where do you get your elite 0-d4y movie warez? Would you like more 0-d4y movie warez from a cable ftp? Are you open to suggestions for parodies? Cr0bar: I don't know. . . .I work in the MAE-WEST NOC, and this guy on IRC told me to set up something called "warftpd", it made all the lights on our routers start flashing really fast, since then, all these really cool programs and movies have been showing up on my hard drive. Seriously though, I buy the DVD of every movie that I bastardize, The Matrix was done using a VCD because I couldn't figure out how to do frame grabs off the DVD. I may re-do The Matrix off the DVD now that I know how. Sort of like the Star Wars Special Edition(s). b0g: You obviously have elite PrintScreen skills, how would you rate yourself on the following scale: AOL, Prodigy, Canuck, Ping.exe, /bin/bash/ping -f, Script kiddy, User, Root, Sysadmin, wh0rde, or Burrows. Cr0bar: Definetly whore. Er, it depends. Sysadmin is the highest level which I recognize, so I guess that's me. I don't see ubergeek on your list. b0g: What is your favorite: IRC Server? (Efnet, Unet..) OS? (Linux, Fbsd, Nbsd, Solaris, Windoze..) Text editor? (vi, pico, jove, notepad, winword (sigh)..) Sandwich? (Subway, Sloppy Joe, Club..) Cr0bar: I'm partial to efnet myself, although I started on newnet (Shout-outs to Snowcrash, dstf, and the Optics...they knew me as "bytstream") and I only go to dalnet for hardcore porn. I use windows because you just can't get photoshop and half-life for linux (The gimp can suck it). I prefer linux or fbsd on my servers, because they make me look cool. b0g: Have you ever seen a half naked mormon from Utah write "b0g 0wnz me" on his chest? If not, would you like to? cr0bar: Only if he was about to be shot. b0g: What are your favorite sites to visit besides b0g.org? Cr0bar: You mean besides my customized Yahoo! start pages???? I think I've visited b0g.org once, when someone from there was trying to get me to link them....but to answer your question, I am a regular reader of hardocp.com, penny-arcade.com, userfriendly.org, arstechnica.com, theregister.co.uk, slashdot.org, and a few others that I don't visit enough to count as "regulars". b0g: Do you have any boy/girl Mtv style mp3s on any of your computers? (Titney Spears, Backdoor Boys, Off`Sync..) Cr0bar: Does the "Make My Boobies One More Size" parody count? I have music that has appeared on MTV, none of the teenybopper stuff I assume you're referring to. b0g: What are your feelings about Napster? Cr0bar: It exists for only one purpose, and that is piracy, which I can't condone in good conscience. However, good conscience doesn't seem to have much of a hold on most of the world, including myself, and napster certainly has a right to exist. I have begun purchasing all the CDs for albums which I originally had on mp3. The ones that I didn't think were good enough to purchase, I erased. This is because I support the artist, and I don't have room on my RAID array for shitty music. b0g: What are your feelings on Metallica and Dr Dre? Cr0bar: I really think "no" means "no", regardless of how many drinks you've had. The least Metallica could've done was wear condoms. I hope Dre tests negative and is able to sit and walk normally soon. Wait, what was the question? b0g: If you could pick one moment in your life, besides reading issue 5 of b0g, that you could relive (and it cant involve crisco), what would it be? Cr0bar: I want to say [edited], but people I know will read this. So, I'll just say the moment when I woke up and saw that my site had been slashdotted, and then the next hour or so right up until the sysadmin of my server called and yelled at me to shut it off because it was killing his operation. b0g: Are you into hax0ring the planet? Do you feel the government is trashing our rights? Cr0bar: Breaking into systems is no cooler than breaking into someone's car or home, even if you don't do any damage. Sorry, but it's true. However, "The Man" is getting us down, and needs to wise up before meddling with our supermation infohighway. b0g: What is the significance behind your h4x0r handle? If you had the opportunity to give Linus Torvalds, Big Willy Gates, and Rob Malda from slashdot h4x0r handles, and they have to use a dash "-" somewhere, what would they be? If you picked Pig-Fucker for Big Willy, can you explain why? Cr0bar: I picked "cr0" semi-randomly a few years ago when registering for a BBS. Then I found out that it has a few "leet" connotations, if you will. Apparently, there is a register in some CPUs called "cr0", which I found was sufficiently obscure to add "leetness" to my handle. About a year after I started going by "cr0", I decided that I didn't like the associationw with "crow", so I changed my name to "cr0bar" (Everyone's favorite implement, for any task). To this day, people still call me "cr0", except for Scott "Damage" Wasson of the Tech Report, who says, "sup, 'bar?". Linus Torvalds would have to be Trans-Meta, because I don't know what it means or is good for, but it seems to have gotten a lot of attention. It's hard to come up with a unique jab at Bill Gates, and I'm too tired to think about Rob Malda intelligently, do I lose points for skipping questions? b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@! b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@! b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@! b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@! b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!b0g!#@!