Hackerbit is the programmer's source of inspiration, advice and the much needed motivation to embark on this self fulfilling journey of hacking.
Who is a Hacker
“There is a community a shared
culture of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its
history back through decades to the first timesharing minicomputers
and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this movement
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 contributed to
it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you
are a hacker ” Eric S. Raymonds (Renowned Hacker)
This extract from How To Become a
Hacker (Interesting Read) by Eric S. Raymonds, author of Cathedral and the Bazaar explains it all.
Eric Raymonds goes on to say
“There is another group of people who loudly call themselves
hackers but aren't . There are people (mainly adolescent males) who
get a kick out of breaking into computers and freaking 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 hot wire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many
journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word hacker
to describe crackers. The basic difference is this;
Hackers build things, crackers
break them”
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free
Software Foundation also has an interesting piece on the origins of hacking.
What Hacker-bits aims to do
We will bring to focus the top
hackers in our communities and interview them on their profession.
Get to learn best practices, latest technologies and more.
Hacker-bits promises to be fun, revealing and educational.
If you know a
hacker who you want to be featured on Hacker-bits, please send an
email to crg.mabrey@gmail.com
to recommend that hacker.
NB:
You cannot
recommend yourself to be featured on Hacker-bits.