wwwmwww Wrote:...Anyways most people I tell this to think I'm crazy so in the past I've actually not told many people this whole story and I won't tell the whole story here...

Oh - that's what that means. I've been wondering. I thought it might have been a www (world wide web) thing or something like that, but it was just Wiki Waki Wahoo - that makes perfect sense!

Actually it seems strange and creative - two excellent traits in my book. I love anything with a good "odd" factor to it.

Crazy? Well if so, you're in good company, my friend

I LOVE your sequel name for Lawn Mower Man - that was great! You know - I think that would have made for a MUCH better film than the actual sequel to it

I'm taking TheReelTodd's advice and adding my historical 2 cents to this thread.

Some of you (probably most of you) already know what "ettercap" is, but for those who don't here it is: Ettercap is a UNIX-based app that does basically what my signature states - it's a system watchdog and covert ops specialist. To quote the ettercap homepage: "Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many features for network and host analysis." It has the ability to not only monitor traffic coming in to a network, but it can also identify any spoofed IP addresses, isolate them from the network and kill their connection. Ettercap is also a rather powerful hacking ...er... *ahem* "security" program in that it can not only spoof an IP address itself, but can be used to pull login IDs and Passwords from in-coming streams. ...These are just a few of the things that ettercap can do. It really is an amazingly powerful tool. (If you want to learn more about it try here and here).

So why and how did I choose it? Here’s my little story: My first choice for my on-line name was "Thedus"... which is an obscure ALIEN reference. ...If you are wrinkling your foreheads wondering how that has anything to do with ALIEN I'll give you a hint: Ripley and Dallas are in a corridor discussing Ash. (…I'm a bit of an obsessive ALIEN saga fan. ) However, Thedus (which I have used in other forums) didn't seem to work very well. So I thought about what kind of program would I want my alter ego to be in the world of Tron? As a graphic designer I can't imagine that Illustrator, FreeHand, or Photoshop would be very interesting on the game grid... I rather imagine them as being a lot like Crom. Then I started thinking about the fact that I was referred to as the "resident hacker" at one of my previous jobs. ...Interestingly enough I'm not a hacker, nor have I ever really done what I would consider "real hacking," I got the nick name because I new my way around the network a little bit and could weasel out small problems, and I knew a few tricks. ...All of this is rather amusing since I hate dealing with network issues, and consider myself the last person that someone should ever go to for LAN trouble shooting. However, they had a Network Admin on staff, and he would come to me ...a graphic designer, for help. (shakes head in disbelief). So I began to think about various security programs, and Nessus came to mind, but it seemed a bit too passive for my alter ego. And then it hit me: "ettercap." It was the perfect! The program has defensive and well as offensive capabilities, and it's the kind of program that would be really great to know on the game grid. ...of course you could never really know what side he was playing due to his nature, but would be a great asset in the right situations (kinda like Han Solo).

(Takes a deep breath...) And there you have it. That's why I chose "ettercap" as my Tron-Sector name.

Interesting. ...I wonder what the etemology of the name "ettercap" is? I wouldn't be surprised if a programmer used it as a reference to his D&D days.

...Once a geek always a geek.

Yup.

Anime = good

Tron = <3

Anime + Tron = ... *tries to think how that would compute*

But honestly, everyone's got very interesting reasons for their names

Well, the name The PimpDragon is my monicker in my group of friends - the 108 Dragons (2 points if you know which anime that comes from!). We all have code names, and mine came from my love of Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (Sho'nuff owns you all), my wardrobe (because people tell me I dress like a pimp, maybe it's my pimp hat and Blingdalion (tm), who knows?), and because I study Aikido. Plus, I dearly love the Hughes Brothers' documentary "American Pimp" and am a huge fan of the movie "The Mack" and the late, great Iceberg Slim's excellent book, "Pimp: The Story of My Life."

Take pimping + martial arts + The Last Dragon and you get The PimpDragon.

As far as what I do, well, I do MUCHO acting and my wife and I have our own theater company in Charleston, WV. We just found out we are going to have a baby, so I guess I'm becoming a dad - and don't worry, my child will grow to love Tron, so help me!

I love movies and have my own home theater room known as the Movie Room (tm) and the PimpLair (tm). I have all kinds of cool movie memorabilia around the room, from a replica of Indy's hat, whip and pouch (which is an actual 1939 British Army satchel just like they used in Temple of Doom), to my signed pictures of Darth Vader from the one and only David Prowse to my Return of the Jedi script signed by Lawrence Kasdan.

I watch my Tron DVD and listen to the soundtrack religiously and through my fascination with the film I landed here.

It's very nice to meet all of you and I hope to get to know you more!

Well, I never really knew this thread existed until TheReelTodd pointed it out in a different thread. Thanks ReelTodd! You do a great job of keeping us all informed, especially the newbies who come to Tron-Sector.

Anyways, on to "Traahn."

It all started way back in the early days of http://www.tron20.net, or http://www.tronkillerapp.com (when that URL used to apply to the PC game). The site allowed you to register with it. Since I didn't want to take the name "Tron" (I didn't feel worthy and I didn't want to steal the thunder of the name), I chose a similar-sounding alternative, "Traahn"

I realized how much of a sinner I would be to take, "Tron." After deciding on the name "Traahn," I of course had second thoughts as I feared some people might mispronounce it as "Tran." (doh!)

Hopefully, though, the "aah" part of the name (similar to going to the doctor and s/he making you say, "ahhhhh") makes most people say it as "Tron." How did you all pronounce my name before I wrote my story here?

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-Traahn
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"There's a sixty-eight point seven one percent chance you're right."

My name is my character AKIO's callsign. He pilots a blue Reco for the users (His world is POST-MCP). He scouts the different sectors, searching for corrupted data and/or virae.

I created this character for use in my fanfic, TRON 2.1: Beta Version. Go to the new fanfic forum to find out more!

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i'm a fan of both Yu-Gi-Oh (the first part of my name) and Beyblade (the second part). ^^ I'll explain more later!

I'm not an inventive kind of guy (I used to be a no-forum kind of guy, but I'm getting better); I usually go by the handle Corra, wich is how all of my friends and my family shorten my name. For TronSector, though, I decided to go for something a little different, and I chose TextPad since it's
a. my all-time favorite tool, and
b. a character of a wacky fanfiction I wrote some time ago, wich took part mostly inside my computer, where TextPad was obiouvsly my alterego (a' la Alan-Tron).

I just hope Helios Software won't hold it against me or anything.. DaveTRON, if you feel that I shouldn't use this handle let me know ASAP- I won't hold a grudge


Oh, and as many other cats here (and I'm not surprised in the least) I'm an anime/manga fan, but that's for another issue..