[crackmonkey] Howdy neighbor! Can I borrow an egg, some sugar, and a SCSI cable?

[Katy]

Ugh, that is so last week on CNN!

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from glen mccready <glen at qnx.com> -----
> Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev at bostic.com>
> Forwarded-by: "Kevin D. Clark" <kclark at cabletron.com>
> 
> Source: http://online.guardian.co.uk/theweb/911396071-geekville.html
> 
> Leander Kahney inspects a des. res. for hackers 
> 
> House fit for a mouse 
> 
> TO RENT: apartment; sleeps 2.8 computers; unique address (on the Web);
> Linux in all rooms; only geeks need apply.
> 
> This isn't quite how Walden Internet Village advertises itself but it
> is how the complex sees itself: 'run by geeks for geeks'. The
> 12-building complex in Houston, Texas, boasts pleasant decor and
> beautiful landscaped gardens but for the tenants it is trying to
> attract the most important feature will be the way it is wired for the
> future, offering the kind of high-speed Internet access enjoyed only
> by big companies and universities.
> 
> "It's a community for hackers," says Alan LeFort, marketing director
> and network administrator. "It's not easy to find a place where your
> neighbours are Perl programmers or Linux freaks."
> 
> Every apartment has a 10 Megabit per second pipe to the Internet -- a
> connection about 175 times faster than the standard 56k modem. It also
> has assigned its own unique Web address, so residents can run their
> own Web sites from inside their apartments.
> 
> "We don't care what they run as long as its not a porn site," LeFort
> said.
> 
> All apartments also have wiring built into the walls for their own
> little home network. "The average resident has 2.8 machines," LeFort
> says. "They like to connect them together." The complex also offers
> several big computers on an internal network, one dedicated to the
> game Quake and another for storing the GNU/Linux software favoured by
> most tenants. The few running Windows NT will have to be "educated",
> LeFort said.
> 
> At first sight, Texas with its cowboy image, might seem an unlikely
> place for a geek community. But Houston is home to Nasa's Johnson
> Space Center, Compaq, and a major axis for the engineering, medical,
> and, of course, the oil and energy industries. Already geeks have
> snapped up about half the 200 apartments. The company hopes to fill
> the rest with geeks as non-hackers' leases expire. Rents range from
> $675 (L409) per month for a one-bedroom flat to $1,400 a month for a
> three-bedroom, two-bathroom home.  The complex boasts an active social
> life. Every fortnight is party night when up to 50 people turn up with
> their computers and hook them into a fast Local Area Network for
> playing games.
> 
> Walden is a pilot project. The company owns five other complexes in
> Houston and is considering re-wiring three of them for hackers.
> 
> Visit Walden Internet Villages at http://www.waldenweb.com and two of
> the complex's game sites at http://www.gamerscircle.com,
> http://www.quake2.com
> 
> 18 November 1998
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
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