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5 unusual facts about hack


.hack//Cell

Midori witnesses a fight between him and Ovan, and soon finds Tri-Edge to be pursuing her as well.

.hack//Legend of the Twilight

Yuji Yoshino composed the songs, and Masanori Shimada and Round Table arranged them.

.hack//Liminality

It is also revealed during the course of the episode that Tomonari took the name Sieg as a contraction of Siegfried, from the German operatic cycle Der Ring Des Nibelungen, which was written by Wagner.

.hack//Roots

The characters of both Roots and the "G.U." receive an email from Ovan requesting them to visit the festival held at a new Lost Ground, Hidden Forbidden Festival.

Hack-a-Shaq

In May 2008, ESPN.com columnist John Hollinger named the Spurs Hack-a-Shaq use as the "Best Tactic" of the first two rounds of the 2008 NBA Playoffs.


.la

Mozilla Foundation's URL shortener uses it with the "mzl.la" domain hack.

1929 World Series

After Wilson's miscue on Haas' hit, an unknown fan wrote lyrics to "My Old Kentucky Home" beginning with "The sun shone bright into poor Hack Wilson's eyes..." and ended "So we'll sing one song for the game and fighting Cubs, for the record whiffing Cubs far away."

1996–97 Premier Soccer League

The league was an 18-team competition established in 1996 by Irvin Khoza, Kaizer Motaung, Raymond Hack and Jomo Sono in conjunction with the South African Football Association and it would run parallel to the European football calendar.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Williams expanded and revised it, and the play, directed by Keith Hack, who had directed a critically acclaimed production of the Williams play Vieux Carré in London two years earlier, premiered at the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina in June 1978, with Shirley Knight as Dorothea.

Andries Brouwer

In December 1984, while at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), he made the first public release of Hack on Usenet.

Baddington

In addition to the Hack Green installations, the museum houses Ballistic Missile Early Warning System equipment from RAF High Wycombe, as well as decommissioned nuclear weapons from various sites.

BattleHack

BattleHack (or Battle Hack in the 2013 series) is a series of global hackathon contests organised by PayPal.

Bill L. Norton

He also has directed many television series, among them Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, John Doe, Hack, Las Vegas, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Lincoln Heights and Roswell.

Bruno Mattei

Although Hollywood film critics undoubtedly regard him as a hack, it should be remembered that Mattei worked with many well-known cult filmmakers like Jesus Franco, Joe D'Amato, Lucio Fulci and Claudio Fragasso, and got to direct such well-known stars as Lou Ferrigno, Reb Brown, Bo Svenson, Donald Pleasence and Richard Harris.

Cassie Hack

When Evil Ernie awakens in the Hack/Slash universe he begins a killing spree, murdering six women near a strip club in New Jersey.

Dynamic debugging technique

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was "HACTRN" ("hack-tran"); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," The HACTRN.

Edmund Chilmead

Edmund Chilmead (1610 – 19 February 1654) was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack-writing.

Em Stone

Through HACK/Slash storylines, Ms. Stone has drawn numerous pop-culture characters including Reanimator's Herbert West, the Suicide Girls, Milk & Cheese among others.

Gerard McManus

McManus was awarded the 2004 “Hack of the year” mock award by Hack Watch, an independent blogging site, for the article.

Herbert Hugh Thompson

Both the Visual Basic script hack by Thompson and the memory card hack by Hursti Hack can be seen in HBO's "Hacking Democracy" where Hursti and Thompson hacked into Diebold Election Systems's voting machines and central tabulator system in Leon County, Florida proving its vulnerability.

HoneyComing

Two light novel series were adapted based on the game, the first written by Jōji Kamio and published by GoodsTrain while the second is written by Hack and Masamune Yotsuya and is published by Harvest.

Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics

Project Snowblind, features an ICE pick, to hack enemy cameras, turrets, and robots and use them against enemy forces.

IP camera

Criminals can hack into a CCTV system to observe security measures and personnel, thereby facilitating criminal acts and rendering the surveillance counterproductive.

It Ain't Hay

Wilbur Hoolihan (Lou Costello) accidentally kills a hack horse owned by King O'Hara (Cecil Kellaway) and his daughter, Princess (Patsy O'Connor) by feeding it candy.

John Connor

This version of John is shown to be a highly skilled computer hacker (a nod from Terminator 2), even being able to hack into a Terminator's CPU in order to read the information it contains, as well as easily hacking into the LAPD database.

Kansas, Oklahoma

Legend has it that a man of small stature who came to nearby Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by train from Kansas City, Kansas, rented a hack and stocked it with light household goods, pots and pans, bolts of cloth, sewing machine parts and needles, etc.

Lucky duckies

One of the things that has fascinated me about The Wall Street Journal editorial page is its occasional capacity to rise above the routine moral callousness of hack conservative punditry and attain a level of exquisite depravity normally reserved for villains in James Bond movies.

Mac Hack

Mac Hack was written in MIDAS macro assembly language on the PDP-6 computer DEC donated to MIT (the first working PDP-6, serial number 2).

Mac Hack played by teletype, was ported to the PDP-10 and was the first computer chess program to be widely distributed.

Magik Markers

Jefferson Hack invited the Magik Markers to perform live from Studio A at Abbey Road in London, as part of Nick Kent's ShowStudio project.

Maker culture

Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow has written a novel, Makers, which he describes as being "a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet".

Mount Barker, South Australia

The first Europeans to ascend the mountain, on 27 November 1837, were a six-man party comprising John Barton Hack, John Morphett, Samuel Stephens, Charles Stuart (South Australian Company's stock overseer), Thomas Davis (Hack's stockman), and John Wade (a "gentleman from Hobart Town").

Nintendo DS

Another modification device called Action Replay, manufactured by the company Datel, is a device which allows the user to input cheat codes that allows it to hack games, granting the player infinite "health", power-ups, access to any part of the game, etc.

Over-the-air

Over the Air, a mobile-focused hack day and developer conference series in London

Pawn Ticket Trio

The group is self-categorized as playing "hack jazz", a style fused with rock structures and jazz stylings set to humorous lyrics and attention to solos.

Richard Hack

While at Dove, Hack adapted Sidney Sheldon’s The Sands of Time, Memories of Midnight, and The Stars Shine Down as mini-series, which he also produced, and wrote his first book, Next to Hughes with Robert Maheu.

Sean Hoare

against News of the World and Andy Coulson, following a New York Times Magazine piece published that month in which Hoare told reporters Don Van Natta, Jo Becker and Graham Bowley that Coulson had "actively encouraged" him to hack phones.

Software remastering

The term remastering is taken from the audio production process, and was popularized by Klaus Knopper, creator of the Knoppix live distro, which has traditionally encouraged its users to hack the distribution in this manner to suit their needs; appropriately, Knoppix itself is a remaster of Debian.

Spurs–Suns rivalry

In May 2008, ESPN.com columnist John Hollinger named the Spurs Hack-a-Shaq use as the "Best Tactic" of the first two rounds of the 2008 NBA Playoffs.

Syria al-shaab

The channel has reported attempts by the Syrian regime to jam its satellite broadcasts and to hack into its Skype account.

Triggertrap

"Part of the excitement about the Triggertrap", says its inventor, Haje Jan Kamps, "is that I have no idea what people are going to use it for. It's an incredibly versatile piece of photography kit, and because it is so easy to hack, I'm expecting creativity to go off the charts."

Tuttle, Oklahoma

In March 2006, Tuttle gained brief notoriety in some technical circles after former City Manager Jerry A. Taylor exchanged emails with CentOS developer Johnny Hughes, confused that a misconfiguration issue at the webhost provider was an attempt by CentOS to "hack" the City's website.

UE Red Warriors

University of the East cashed in on a slew of late-game errors by San Sebastian-A to hack out a 77-72 win in overtime to capture the men’s basketball crown in the 10th Father Martin Division 2 Cup at the Trinity University of Asia in Quezon City.

Willy Hack

In November, 1944 Hack left Dora and was made commandant of the Berga labor camp near Greiz.

Windows Mobility Center

Windows Mobility Center is located in the Control Panel, and can also be launched by pressing the Windows key + X. It is inaccessible on non-mobile computers, however using a registry hack it is possible to enable Mobility Center on desktop systems.

Yoko Ueno

She is also a notable musical composer, having written music for several anime series, most prominent being .hack//Legend of the Twilight, Azumanga Daioh (where one of her bands, Oranges & Lemons, also performs both theme songs), and Brigadoon.


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