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There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers recognize these kindred spirits elsewhere and may call them ‘hackers’ too — and some claim that the hacker nature is really independent of the particular medium the hacker works in.
...There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word ‘hacker’ to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers no end.
The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.
...If you want to be a cracker, go read the alt.2600 newsgroup and get ready to do five to ten in the slammer after finding out you aren't as smart as you think you are. And that's all I'm going to say about crackers.
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers recognize these kindred spirits elsewhere and may call them ‘hackers’ too — and some claim that the hacker nature is really independent of the particular medium the hacker works in.
...There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word ‘hacker’ to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers no end.
The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.
...If you want to be a cracker, go read the alt.2600 newsgroup and get ready to do five to ten in the slammer after finding out you aren't as smart as you think you are. And that's all I'm going to say about crackers.
Eric Steven Raymond (How to Become a Hacker)
Oy vey
It has been a long time since I have been around here. Life just keeps getting in the way. Hopefully I will be more active again.
So Sorry
I have been very busy lately with getting a new job, followed a few months later by a promotion, that I haven't had much time for art. Again. I feel like an ass. I plan to be making more fractals (and, hopefully, more photos) soon. Thanks to all of you that have been liking my work and watching me. I appreciate it.
Vielen Dank!
Thank you! To everyone that has shown appreciation for my work this year :D Life has kept me so busy that I have had little time to spare on the fun of making art. Thank you for not giving up on me :happybounce:
Xie Xie
Hello! I've been away for quite awhile and just now dropped in as I'm making sure everything has gone okay with a fresh OS install. It is a very pleasant surprise to see all the birthday wishes :D Hopefully, I'll be more active again soon. In the meantime it's nice to know I haven't been forgotten :)
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I didn't know this. Very interesting! I'd love to do the kind of computer work that we see on TV shows like NCIS and CSI. If I have an opportunity to get some training, I'll jump right in and do it.