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| | Hacker culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The hacker culture is the voluntary subculture which first developed in the 1960s among hackers working on early minicomputers in academic computer science environments. | | | The concentration of hacker culture has paralleled and partly been driven by the commoditization of computer and networking technology, and has in turn accelerated that process. | | | The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie-Mellon University were particularly well-known hotbeds of early hacker culture. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
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| | Leonardo Digital Reviews |
| | Hackers are a paradoxical kind of developer, since they work almost exclusively at this level, at the points at which the system shows forth its glitches, idiosyncrasies, and aberrations. | | | Between the gory details of computer code, and the abstract, cultural attitude of hacking, we find government legislation, the economic interests of the software industry, and the development of new technologies. | | | Thomas shows how hackers are often positioned between being an antipathy to the corporatism of the software industry, and as security experts and systems administrators for those same companies. |
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http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/jan2004/hacker_thacker.html
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| | Hacker Culture |
| | “Hackers may be feared for all they know about computers, but their real power lies in how well they understand the average user. | | | Demonized by governments and the media as criminals, glorified within their own subculture as outlaws, hackers have played a major role in the short history of computers and digital culture-and have continually defied our assumptions about technology and secrecy through both legal and illicit means. | | | In Hacker Culture, Douglas Thomas provides an in-depth history of this important and fascinating subculture, contrasting mainstream images of hackers with a detailed firsthand account of the computer underground. |
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http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/T/thomas_hacker.html
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| | What is a Hacker? |
| | A ``computer hacker,'' then, is someone who lives and breathes computers, who knows all about computers, who can get a computer to do anything. | | | The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. | | | In practical terms, the problem of providing moral education to hackers is the same as the problem of moral education in general. |
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http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
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| | Homesteading the Noosphere by Eric S. Raymond |
| | I suspect academia and the hacker culture share adaptive patterns not because they're genetically related, but because they've both evolved the most optimal social organization for what they're trying to do, given the laws of nature and the instinctive wiring of humans. | | | The subsequent call to the hacker culture to exploit this unprecedented opportunity and to re-label its product from 'free software' to 'open source' was met with a level of instant approval that surprised everybody involved. | | | He asserts that the space spanned by hacker projects, is not the noosphere but a sort of dual of it, the space of noosphere-exploring program projects. |
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http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_10/raymond
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| | Is The Hacker Culture Undesired? |
| | Without any universal laws, at least not in the hackers mind, it is not seen as a bad thing despite the negative connotation it brings to the word. | | | This is because they are used to different programs and the way the handle markup. | | | (Arguably) Not all hackers program, however; Those that don't program usually have a different style than the programmers. |
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http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-24906.html
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| | Some thoughts on the idea of 'hacker culture'. |
| | ’Hackers’, also often, but inexactly referred to as ’computer pirates’ or other derogatory term, constitute without doubt the first social movement that was intrinsic to the electronic technology that spawned our networked society. | | | Yet, whereas hackers (if we take a broad definition of the term) have been pioneering the opening up of electronic channels of communication in the South, in the North, they initially were held in suspicion by those same circles. | | | One is not born a hacker, and becoming one is surely a long process of learning and determination. |
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http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=1030
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Hacker Culture |
| | It is a surprising look at hackers, but is more about how a society uses computers, and it takes in the entire short history of digital electronics. | | | It may be that computer hackers, those who can break into someone else's computer system and take data, or fiddle with it, or just look around, are scary criminals who may collapse our baroque internet architecture. | | | One of the surprising parts of this history is just how far antipathy between hackers and Microsoft goes, and it starts right at the beginning with the first personal computer. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816633452?v=glance
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| | Jargon 4.2, node: Helping Hacker Culture Grow |
| | If I were what you call a "hacker", at this point I would threaten to crack your computer and crash it. | | | I have enough computers to play with at home and at work; I don't need yours. | | | You say that readers have become used to your insulting usage of "hacker", so that you cannot change it now. |
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/h/helpinghackerculturegrow.html
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| | The New Hacker's Dictionary |
| | Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. | | | The AI Lab culture had been hit hard in the late 1970s by funding cuts and the resulting administrative decision to use vendor-supported hardware and software instead of homebrew whenever possible. | | | There are doubtless rich veins of jargon yet untapped in the scientific computing, graphics, and networking hacker communities; also in numerical analysis, computer architectures and VLSI design, language design, and many other related fields. |
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http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
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| | How To Become A Hacker |
| | The hacker culture originally evolved back when computers were so expensive that individuals could not own them.) The single most important step any newbie can take toward acquiring hacker skills is to get a copy of Linux or one of the BSD-Unixes, install it on a personal machine, and run it. | | | But be aware that you won't reach the skill level of a hacker or even merely a programmer if you only know one or two languages — you need to learn how to think about programming problems in a general way, independent of any one language. | | | Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
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| | Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution |
| | But the consequences of that surprise are still reverberating through the hacker culture and the technology and business worlds today. | | | But it isn't; it's a problem in ergonomic design and interface psychology, and hackers have historically been poor at it. | | | From February 3 to around the time of the actual Netscape release on March 31, our primary concern was convincing the hacker community "open source" label and the arguments that went with it represented our best shot at persuading the mainstream. |
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/raymond2.html
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| | Hacker culture |
| | The MIT AI labs[?] and University of California, Berkeley are well known beds of hacker culture. | | | These sort of cultures are commonly found at academic settings such as college campuses. | | | It uses material from the wikipedia article Hacker culture. |
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http://www.eurofreehost.com/ha/Hacker_culture.html
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| | Hacker Culture - Search, Find, & Buy for $13.69 |
| | WebWab » Books » Computers & Internet »; Hacker Culture | | | Thomas discusses the motives of computer hackers, dismissing the notion that most hacking is carried out with malicious intent. | | | This study ultimately portrays the positive side of hacking, which provides a useful assessment of a network`s security. |
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http://books.webwab.com/item_303608.htm
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| | The glider: an Appropriate Hacker Emblem |
| | This is a proposal that we adopt one — the glider pattern from the Game of Life. | | | But by using this emblem, you express sympathy with hackers' goals, hackers' values, and the hacker way of living. | | | About half the hackers this idea was alpha-tested on instantaneously said "Wow! |
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http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem
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| | TLC :: Hackers: Computer Outlaws |
| | You have to think like a hacker to stop a hacker attack. | | | Do you know the difference between a hacker and a cracker? | | | Go inside the electronic front of the war on terrorism. |
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http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/hackers.html
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| | Hacker: Culture |
| | One source for the hacker culture was the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) some place were to start playing with technology. | | | And a must is about techie stuff, on this and that and how to improve, make it better, repair and so on. | | | Just, right now, some links about The Glider: Proposal for a Hacker Emblem and a FAQ about the Glider Emblem |
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http://www.bit-man.com.ar/en/Hacker
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| | Hacker Culture |
| | DEF CON hacker meeting, latest one 6.0 in August 1998. | | | A book about the Law on the Electronic Frontier by Ian J Lloyd and Moira Simpson. | | | Here we don't discriminate crackers from hackers, because it's almost impossible. |
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http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/hacker_culture.html
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