eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) (03/23/91)
Submitted-by: jargon@thyrsus.com Archive-name: jargon/part19 ---- Cut Here and feed the following to sh ---- #!/bin/sh # this is jargon.19 (part 19 of jargon) # do not concatenate these parts, unpack them in order with /bin/sh # file jargon.ascii continued # if test ! -r _shar_seq_.tmp; then echo 'Please unpack part 1 first!' exit 1 fi (read Scheck if test "$Scheck" != 19; then echo Please unpack part "$Scheck" next! exit 1 else exit 0 fi ) < _shar_seq_.tmp || exit 1 if test -f _shar_wnt_.tmp; then sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' >> 'jargon.ascii' && Xhe'd take the trouble to spell the name of a winning editor right." XNevertheless this remains a useful and stimulating book that captures Xthe feel of several important hackish subcultures. X X The Cuckoo's Egg X Clifford Stoll X Doubleday 1989, New York X ISBN 0-385-24946-2 X XClifford Stoll's absorbing tale of how he tracked Markus Hess and the XChaos Club cracking-ring nicely illustrates the difference between X`hacker' and `cracker'. Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha, Xand his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously Xvivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live Xand what they think. X X The Devil's DP Dictionary X by Stan Kelly-Bootle X McGraw-Hill Inc, 1981 X ISBN 0-07-034022-6 X XThis pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work is similar in format to Xthe Jargon File (and quotes several entries from jargon-1) but Xsomewhat different in tone and intent. It is more satirical and less Xanthropological, and largely a product of the author's literate and Xquirky imagination. For example, it defines `computer science' as X"A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision Xof the former and the success of the latter."; also as "The boring Xart of coping with a large number of trivialities." X X The Devouring Fungus: Tales from the Computer Age X by Karla Jennings X W. W. Norton 1990, New York X ISBN 0-393-30732-8 X XThe author of this pioneering compendium knits together a great deal Xof computer and hacker-related folklore with good writing and a few Xwell-chosen cartoons. She has a keen eye for the human aspects of the Xlore and is very good at illuminating the psychology and evolution of Xhackerdom. Unfortunately, a number of small errors and awkwardnesses Xsuggest that she didn't have the final manuscript vetted by a native Xspeaker; the glossary in the back is particularly embarrassing, and at Xleast one classic tale (the Magic Switch story in this file's Appendix XA) is given in incomplete and badly mangled form. Nevertheless, this Xbook is a win overall and can be enjoyed by hacker and non-hacker Xalike. X X True Names... and Other Dangers X by Vernor Vinge X Baen Books 1987, New York X ISBN 0-671-65363 X XHacker demigod Richard Stallman believes the title story of this book X"expresses the spirit of hacking best". This may well be true; it's Xcertainly difficult to recall anyone doing a better job. The other Xstories in this collection are also fine work by an author who is Xperhaps one of today's very best practitioners of the hard-SF genre. X X SHAR_EOF chmod 0644 jargon.ascii || echo 'restore of jargon.ascii failed' Wc_c="`wc -c < 'jargon.ascii'`" test 888333 -eq "$Wc_c" || echo 'jargon.ascii: original size 888333, current size' "$Wc_c" rm -f _shar_wnt_.tmp fi rm -f _shar_seq_.tmp echo You have unpacked the last part exit 0