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New Hacker's Dictionary, The (2002)

Author: Various
Subject: Authors: V: Various; Titles: N; Subject: Electrical engineering; electronics
Book contributor: Project Gutenberg
Collection: gutenberg

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Reviewer: yildizkasim - - May 16, 2007
Subject: nice..
thanks

Reviewer: Emanuele Cipolla - - December 26, 2005
Subject: If you want to dip into computing, you should read this.
You should learn how to talk, before trying to tell me something - no?

Reviewer: chahidadil - - October 30, 2005
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Reviewer: rjimlad - - December 1, 2003
Subject: Not for crackers
Cracker wannabes should look elsewhere: this isn't about breakers of computer security, but rather programmers, administrators and similar tech-heads.
The primary editor of this work is Eric S Raymond, who's quite well-known in Open Source circles. The text itself is just what it claims to be: a dictionary of terms, specifically hacker jargon.
ESRs writing is often quite entertaining, and the introduction is well worth reading for the writing and speaking conventions it describes.
A significant number of the terms are now considered fairly archaic, and any given hacker is unlikely to use more than about a quarter of the terms defined, but non-hackers would do well to keep it at hand for when they do need to communicate with a hacker... and everyone else can just read through and be entertained.
You can still find the HTML version of this document on-line; you probably want that instead if you're casually browsing.

This document is also known as either "The jargon file" or "jargon.txt"

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