On Mar 13, 2013 12:40 PM, "Shakthi Kannan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > --- On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Karthikeyan A K > <[email protected]> wrote: > | No one has a official authority to define hacking. > \-- > > Truth is always bitter? > > You can continue to reply for the sake of replying, without reading > the documentation, or giving any reference. But, I am afraid, it > doesn't add anything to your credibility. > > Another experience of the actual hacker culture was given by Guy L. > Steele, Jr., in a Foreword he had written [1]: > > "I also enjoyed, in that summer of 1972, reading a brand-new MIT > research memo called HAKMEM, a bizarre and eclectic potpourri of > technical trivia. > > Why “HAKMEM”? Short for “hacks memo”; one 36-bit PDP-10 word could > hold six 6-bit characters, so a lot of the names PDP-10 hackers worked > with were limited to six characters. We were used to glancing at a > six-character abbreviated name and instantly decoding the > contractions. So naming the memo “HAKMEM” made sense at the time—at > least to the hackers." > > You can either read history and learn from it, or you can accept facts > and reality. The choice is yours. We have nothing to lose. > > With due respect to the patience of the list members, I'll stop here. Period. Thanks for the considered response Shakthi. Mr. Karthikeyan: please do consider reading up the references. A historical understanding is very useful for the seriousFOSS student.
> > SK > > [1] Foreword. http://www.hackersdelight.org/foreword.pdf > > -- > Shakthi Kannan > http://www.shakthimaan.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc Asokan Pichai _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
