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• Society: Subcultures: Geeks and Nerds  (64)

• The Jargon File   - Online version of The New Hacker's Dictionary, by ESR et al. Defines various arcane computing terms, with entomologies.
• Radically Rethinking Computer Science 101   - Many of today's introductory computer science or software engineering courses are still teaching as if computer programs operated in straight line steps, and only do one thing at once. They need to get in touch with reality, says Dr. Stein, and wise up to the way modern software, for example word processors which correct spelling mistakes as you type, is inherently concurrent.

• Get It Right: Hacker, Cracker, Phreaker - Difference between the 3 terms.
• The Hacker Anti-Defamation League - Most hackers are not into trashing people's hard discs or stealing their data. Many people have big misconceptions, fuelled by the media, of what the word hacker means.
• Markup Abuse - XML is not a panacea. Here's why.
• Seti@Home - Download a screensaver to help look for extraterrestrial life.

• Windows to lose crown 'within five years' (BBC News) - Microsoft's technical guru Nathan Myhrvold says Windows is virtually certain to lose its dominant position in the next five years. (!!!) (January 16, 1999)

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