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Re: Hacker FAQ?


Article: 7861 of alt.hackers
From: dtrg@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Thomas Richard Given)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Hacker FAQ?
Date: 23 May 1995 20:49:39 GMT
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In article <3pohtu$iui@nic-nac.csu.net>,
Michael Westfall <mwestfal@silicon.csci.csusb.edu> wrote:
>WIll somebody please post the hacker FAQ? I have to do a presentation at
>school (in a computer science ETHICS class...) and wanted to differentiate
>what hackers REALLY are versus what all the hype leads everyone to THINK
>they are....

Check out the Jargon File:

http://web.cnam.fr/Jargon/?The+Jargon+Lexicon

under `hacker':

http://web.cnam.fr/Jargon/?848

Obhack:

They say no hack too small...

#!/bin/sh
for a in $*;
do
  dd if=$a of=/dev/audio ibs=32 obs=32 skip=1 2> /dev/null
done

This plays a list of .au files *without the headers*.


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