Authors:
Paperback, 547 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 1996-10-11
Edition: 3

Reviews :

    This new edition of the hacker's own phenomenally successful lexicon includes more than 100 new entries and updates or revises 200 more. Historically and etymologically richer than its predecessor, it supplies additional background on existing entries and clarifies the murky origins of several important jargon terms (overturning a few long-standing folk etymologies) while still retaining its high giggle value.

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SAMPLE DEFINITION:


:hacker: n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating {hack value}. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a UNIX hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term is {cracker}.


The term `hacker' also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see {network, the} and {Internet address}). It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic (see {hacker ethic, the}).


It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled {bogus}). See also {wannabee}....

    This third edition of the tremendously popular Hacker's Dictionary adds 100 new entries and updates 200 entries. In case you aren't familiar with it, this is no snoozer dictionary of technical terms, although you'll certainly find accurate definitions for most techie jargon. It's the slang and secret language among computer jocks that offers the most fun. Don't know what the Infinite-Monkey Theorem is? Or the meaning of "rat dance?" It's all here. Most people don't sit down to read dictionaries for entertainment, but this is surely an exception....

Authors:
Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Any Key Press
Publication Date: 1987


Reviews :

    Jeffrey Armstrong, aka Saint $ilicon, is the founder of C.H.I.P., the Church of Heuristic Information Processing, the world's first Computer Religion, the Hunt and Peck Method of Salvation, the world's first user-friendly religion. Like the prophets of old, he came from humble origins in the Midwest. An apocryphal story relates that his first computer came with a Loser's Manual. He worked for years in the Data-dungeons of Silicon Valley, toiling in sales and marketing positions. Finally, after years of austerity and penance, he bought a Macintosh (for the Macrighteous shall inherit the Earth). And because he paid full price, great things were destined to happen. Late one night as Jeffrey worked on a word-processing file, lightning struck the satellite dish on his roof. When he awoke, the "Keyboard Prayer" was on the screen in 18 point Times Roman along with the command to write the Binary Bible. Thus he was "Bored Again" and was renamed and saved as Saint $ilicon. He immediately quit his job and retired to a cave in the Santa Cruz mountains and began writing The Binary Bible as it was dictated to him by the Giver Of Data, G.O.D. And so a ray of hope came FORTH for all those with a Terminal Illness, for all who suffer from Data Distress, the D-based and D-filed who have lost their beloved Data. Now a great revival is sweeping the world. From that moment on it was GIGO- Garbage in Gospel Out, or to quote P. C. Barnum: "There's a Seeker Born Every Minute." and in the end, everything will be Right Justified!!! --- from book's back cover...

Authors: Rich Tennant.
Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date: 2000-09-15

Authors: Rachel Levine.
Paperback, 111 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication Date: 2001-01-08


Reviews :

    Everyone knows what a Yenta is, right? A busybody. In the old days, if not for her, how would you know what was going on? So why do you need a Yenta in the Cyber Age when everyone and his brother-in-law not only reads the newspaper but 86% of you are publishing your own?Don't be such a big shot! You think I would write a whole book if I didn't know a little something? So, go pay for the book already. From me you get a guarantee that you will laugh so hard you'll plotz....

Authors: Dave Nilsen.
Paperback, 77 pages
Publisher: Cowsamungus Publishing
Publication Date: 1995-01
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    The Backwoods Guide to Computer Lingo brings cyberspace jargon down to earth in a way we can all understand and laugh at!...

Authors: Ken Rolston. Erick Wujcik. Edward S. Bolme.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Mongoose Publishing
Publication Date: 2007-06-27


Reviews :

    Wizards? Lizardmen? A dungeon? In PARANOIA? Sure. Not only can your players get blown up, back-stabbed, betrayed, hosed, incinerated, crushed and repeatedly executed, but in this mission they can also get turned into a collie, devoured by a dragon, munched by a tiger, chopped in half by a gargoyle, soul-sucked by a spectre, drowned, then ripped apart by killer penguins. PARANOIA is a reincarnation of the Good Old Days. PARANOIA has lots of action and mayhem, lots of bizarre and implausible oddities, lots of unconventional problems requiring unconventional solutions, ample opportunities for improvisation and humor, and a freewheeling and irresponsible attitude toward rules. We Famous Game Designers trace the game s humble beginnings back to stupid, cheerful dungeon crawls where we gathered loot and vorpal swords as we tumbled into pit traps, swapped riddles with sphinxes and hewed the heads from many an orc. It is with a deep nostalgia and heart-felt pride that we return to plunder the rich resources of our primitive origins and transform them into a dream PARANOIA mission. Evil wizards. Loathsome servitors. Torchlit subterranean corridors. Fireballs. Wandering Monster Tables. And Our Heroes, caught between The Computer and the Forces of the Unknown....

Authors: Nancy Tamosaitis.
Paperback, 68 pages
Publisher: Ziff-Davis Press
Publication Date: 1994-11
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Compiling hundreds of acronyms and emoticons (smileys), NetSpeak includes everything from the everyday (BTW, FWIW, IMHO) to the humorous, bawdy, and downright bizarre. The author spices up NetSpeak with celebrity comments on the way they use emoticons and acronyms on-line. Tamosaitis also weaves a humorous essay that employs many of the acronyms and emotions referenced throughout the book....

Authors: Dan Crowley.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Hysteria
Publication Date: 2005-04-01


Reviews :

    Following up his hit 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages, Dan Crowley again takes on the Web’s weirdest and wildest in 505 Weirdest Online Stores.

This is the ultimate guide to the Internet’s strangest stores, where you can spend your time and money in pursuit of dehydrated water, duct tape fashion and a corporate hairball. For all those who love eBay but are tired of products that have actual uses, check out these sites:

• The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation (www.goat-trauma.org)
• Political Talking Action Figures (www.prankplace.com/politics.htm)
• Lunar Land Owner (www.lunarlandowner.com)
• Air Sickness Bags (www.airsicknessbags.com)
• Michael Jackson Artwork (www.helenakadlcikova.com/michael_jackson.htm)
...

Authors: Geoffrey James.
Paperback, 151 pages
Publisher: Infobooks
Publication Date: 1986-09

Authors: Karen Dee.
Kindle Edition, pages
Publisher: House of Solomon Ltd
Publication Date: 2008-03-11
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    What happens when three girls working as secretaries discover that the company they are working for is planning on launching a product that will make millions of secretaries redundant? They turn into Luddites!

Essex blonde Sheila Bright, feisty Geordie redhead Caroline ("Caro") North and patrician, black Rodean-educated Roberta ("Bobbie") Stone all work as secretaries for "Computers, Communications and Cybernetics." But their employer is planning on launching a new product called the Virtual Secretary - a combined Virtual Reality headset and smart software that can effectively mimic the function of a real secretary - and without needing wages! Realizing that this is likely to throw them and millions of other women out of their jobs across the world, they decide to sabotage the project!

This is a hilarious account of what three determined young women will do to keep their jobs - and what friends will do for one another!...