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The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence
"The Cuckoo's Egg" is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just
plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being "recycled" to a
computer analyst/webmaster.
Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at
Lawrence B ....
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.... and cruise at a T-3 line. The lab had only five Tymnet lines so Cliff
could easily monitor every one with five computers, teletypes, and five printers.
That was the difficult part, where to get all that equipment. At graduate
school they taught Cliff to improvise. It was a Friday, and not many people
come to work on Saturday. Since it was easier to make up an excuse than to beg
for anything, he "borrowed" everything he needed. Then programmed his computer
to beep twice when someone logged on from the Tymnet lines. The thing is, since
he was sleeping ....
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