| From: | Dark Elf <VESPOSIT@****.SUNYSB.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Dark Tidings... |
| Date: | Wed, 12 May 1993 15:56:35 EDT |
someone
posting "Perfection never dies" I thought it might be Kurgen returned from the
dead to extract vengance on Fuchi for firing him. However, upon reviewing the
logs, it is pretty clear that he is dead DEAD *DEAD*. The postings stating
"Perfection Never Dies" were disconcerting. I thought it may be Quention or
one of his associates, but there is no supporting evidence for that, nor is
there any evidence confirming that Quention is even alive. My mind began to
reel with possibilities, most of them unlikely. That's when I decided to check
out a certain node where most of us met at a certain time...the node where
MONICA "died". I had been there before, and noted nothing that would indicate
that MONICA could have escaped the self-destructive conflict of directives that
were activated upon her merger with RUFUS and Splut(aka CEROK). I wanted to
check again...
I slid in with no difficulty. I made a phone call to Mr. Yoshida for
permission this time, and had to promise to jack out rather than attack any IC
if I were made. I considered it a contract, and went in. The GNU-sleaze
worked like a charm, so I sent another 1Y liscencing fee to Mr. Yoshida's
account. I enetered the CPU where the battle occurred that fateful day, and
proceeded to run a series of diagnostic checks. I insisted that I do it myself
rather than ask Yoshida's people to do it, I had to know for myself. The
process scan was clean, no rogue self-altering processes were hiding in the
system. I began to propagate the search to adjoining nodes, and managed to
slip a trace through the direct link to Precision arts, and still came up
negative. I was about to leave satisfied when I noticed something strange,
a single data port on the CPU was left open. That was not the strange part.
What caught my attention was the time stamp on the open ports table. Now
data/message ports usually open for short periods of time, close, and are
soon opened again for a new job. Sometimes a remote terminal session will
keep one open for a few hours on the same job, but the majority are simply
quick data transfers and message dispatches. This port had been opened
considerably longer for a single job. The time/date stamp exactly matched
the time that MONICA crashed...
I did the only thing I could at that point, I downloaded copies of the system
accounting files containing this data, sent a smartframe armed with a trace
routine through the port to locate a destination, then closed the port.
At this very moment, copies of the data are being sent to Mr. Yoshida's office,
Wolf 359, Rameriez, and Norm Yoshida. If the trace frame is succesful, it
will send it's report to the same destinations as well. While I seriously
doubt that MONICA lives, it may be that someone pirated some fragment of her
code for analysis, similar to what we did to develop the GNU utilities.
I suspect that the trace will lead to some dark corner of the Vulcan system,
if anywhere at all. This may be how the gentleman that assaulted Mr. Yoshida
managed to get anywhere in the AI business... ]<<<<<
-- Dark Elf <16:23:36/05-12-54>
