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Eric Raymond on Hacking

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    How To Become A Hacker
Link from _kill_switch. Article from my old buddy Steve Raymond.
Actually I only met him once at an O’Reilly conference. Doc Searls, Eric and I had breakfast. We discussed XML/RPC and Soap. He hated Soap but was ok with XML/RPC. Politics at its best.

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Hackers Manifesto

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

Hackers Manifesto
Link from _kill_switch.

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More on hacking

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    Elf Qrin interviews The Mentor
I posted a quest on Otavo to better understand the mind of a hacker.
Within seconds links came from “_kill_switch” with several links to
interviews and comments from hackers. Cool.

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Hacking Comments–I don’t get it

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    A Conversation with a Self-Proclaimed Hacker: “

Tonight
I was talking to a friend’s brother online, who considers himself to be
somewhat of a hacker. For your reading pleasure - or not? - here are
some of his thoughts. I thought it might be interesting to show the
other side.
Me: consider yourself a hacker?
Him: Yes, I consider myself [...]

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Internet Radio–Realtime podcasts

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    How to run your own Internet Radio Station: “
If
you’ve ever wondered how Internet radio stations work and/or wanted to
create your own, this tutorial will show you how. It is actually very
easy, and you can set up your own radio station and begin broadcasting
songs in about 10 minutes.

Doc should love this. Mr. Radio. I don’t [...]

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More web-based word processing

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    FREE AJAX based Word Processor: “
This
seems to be what everyone thought Google was going to do, but someone
else has now beaten them to it. AjaxWrite is just as it sounds a Ajax
based Word clone. It seems to have the basic functions that I would
need. But I can already tell it is not as functional [...]

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Help for the Immutable Google masses.

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    Google launches ‘Google Help’: “
“Those
of us in user support had a pet peeve: there was no single place that
held all of Google’s help information at your fingertips. So we decided
to build one — and now you can visit Google Help to find tips, tricks,
and troubleshooting solutions for just about every Google product and
service.”

God knows [...]

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Will all software go open source?

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    Will all software go open source?: “
Spencer
said Digium’s approach is that financial sustainability will be reached
through developing whole, packaged products–like phone systems–that
don’t take a lot of Linux know-how to be created.

I say no. The guys at berkely say yes. A new GPL for the masses?

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More on Marketing from Doc and co

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    [Unnamed]: “
Marketing 0.2   The practice of marketing and its ideals have always been out of alignment. Francois makes this clear in What marketing becomes… Among other good things, he says What marketing becomes is not all that different from what it should have been all along…

Customer is King.

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Hackers in Space

July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

    2 Female Hackers Face One Year Prison @ California State Univ.: “
New Grades were assigned to nearly 300 students.

Hacking taken to a new level. What were they trying to accomplish? Goofy.

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