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ISBN 0-393-30732-8 <BR> <BR>The author of this pioneering compendium knits together a great deal of <BR>computer- and hacker-related folklore with good writing and a few <BR>well-chosen cartoons. She has a keen eye for the human aspects of the <BR>lore and is very good at illuminating the psychology and evolution of <BR>hackerdom. Unfortunately, a number of small errors and awkwardnesses <BR>suggest that she didn't have the final manuscript checked over by a <BR>native speaker; the glossary in the back is particularly embarrassing, <BR>and at least one classic tale (the Magic Switch story, retold here under <BR>{A Story About `Magic'} in {appendix A}) is given in incomplete and <BR>badly mangled form. Nevertheless, this book is a win overall and can be <BR>enjoyed by hacker and non-hacker alike. <BR> <BR> <BR>∶<I>The Soul of a New Machine: </I><BR>Tracy Kidder <BR>Little, Brown, 1981 <BR>(paperback: Avon, 1982 <BR>ISBN 0-380-59931-7) <BR> <BR>This book (a 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner) documents the adventure of the <BR>design of a new Data General computer, the Eclipse. It is an amazingly <BR>well-done portrait of the hacker mindset --- although largely the <BR>hardware hacker --- done by a complete outsider. It is a bit thin in <BR>spots, but with enough technical information to be entertaining to the <BR>serious hacker while providing non-technical people a view of what <BR>day-to-day life can be like --- the fun, the excitement, the disasters. <BR>During one period, when the microcode and logic were glitching at the <BR>nanosecond level, one of the overworked engineers departed the company, <BR>leaving behind a note on his terminal as his letter of resignation: "I <BR>am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time <BR>shorter than a season." <BR> <BR> <BR>∶<I>Life with UNIX: a Guide for Everyone: </I><BR>Don Libes and Sandy Ressler <BR>Prentice-Hall, 1989 <BR>ISBN 0-13-536657-7 <BR> <BR>The authors of this book set out to tell you all the things about UNIX <BR>that tutorials and technical books won't. The result is gossipy, funny, <BR>opinionated, downright weird in spots, and invaluable. Along the way <BR>they expose you to enough of UNIX's history, folklore and humor to <BR>qualify as a first-class source for these things. Because so much of <BR>today's hackerdom is involved with UNIX, this in turn illuminates many <BR>of its in-jokes and preoccupations. <BR> <BR> <BR>∶<I>True Names ... and Other Dangers: </I><BR>Vernor Vinge <BR>Baen Books, 1987 <BR>ISBN 0-671-65363-6 <BR> <BR>Hacker demigod Richard Stallman believes the title story of this book <BR>"expresses the spirit of hacking best". This may well be true; it's <BR>certainly difficult to recall a better job. The other stories in this <BR>collection are also fine work by an author who is perhaps one of today's <BR>very best practitioners of hard SF. <BR> <BR> <BR>∶<I>Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier: </I><BR>Katie Hafner & John Markoff <BR>Simon & Schuster 1991 <BR>ISBN 0-671-68322-5 <BR> <BR>This book gathers narratives about the careers of three notorious <BR>crackers into a clear-eyed but sympathetic portrait of hackerdom's dark <BR>side. The principals are Kevin Mitnick, "Pengo" and "Hagbard" of the <BR>Chaos Computer Club, and Robert T. Morris (see {RTM}, sense 2) . <BR>Markoff and Hafner focus as much on their psychologies and motivations <BR>as on the details of their exploits, but don't slight the latter. The <BR>result is a balanced and fascinating account, particularly useful when <BR>read immediately before or after Cliff Stoll's {The Cuckoo's Egg}. It <BR>is especially instructive to compare RTM, a true hacker who blundered, <BR>with the sociopathic phone-freak Mitnick and the alienated, drug-addled <BR>crackers who made the Chaos Club notorious. The gulf between {wizard} <BR>and {wannabee} has seldom been made more obvious. <BR> <BR> <BR>∶<I>Technobabble: </I><BR>John Barry <BR>MIT Press 1991 <BR>ISBN 0-262-02333-4 <BR> <BR>Barry's book takes a critical and humorous look at the `technobabble' of <BR>acronyms, neologisms, hyperbole, and metaphor spawned by the computer <BR>industry. Though he discusses some of the same mechanisms of jargon <BR>formation that occur in hackish, most of what he chronicles is actually <BR>suit-speak --- the obfuscatory language of press releases, marketroids, <BR>and Silicon Valley CEOs rather than the playful jargon of hackers (most <BR>of whom wouldn't be caught dead uttering the kind of pompous, <BR>passive-voiced word salad he deplores). <BR> <BR> <BR>∶<I>The Cuckoo's Egg: </I><BR>Clifford Stoll <BR>Doubleday 1989 <BR>ISBN 0-385-24946-2 <BR> <BR>Clifford Stoll's absorbing tale of how he tracked Markus Hess and the <BR>Chaos Club cracking ring nicely illustrates the difference between <BR>`hacker' and `cracker'. Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha, <BR>and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously <BR>vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live and <BR>what they think. <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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