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| Directory: | Computers / Data_Formats / Graphics / 2D / GIF |
| Title: | The gif2png Home Page |
| Description: | Page prepared in 2003 about a program that converts files from GIF to PNG. The conversion preserves all graphic information, including transparency. |
| Location: | http://catb.org/~esr/gif2png/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hacking / FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials |
| Title: | How to become a Hacker |
| Description: | ESR's paper on how to become a Hacker. |
| Location: | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hacking / FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials |
| Title: | The New Hacker's Dictionary |
| Description: | Hacking jargon including information on writing style, hacker terms, and lamer-speak. |
| Location: | http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/frames.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / History |
| Title: | Jargon File Resources |
| Description: | The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information. |
| Location: | http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / History / Pioneers |
| Title: | Raymond, Eric |
| Description: | Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links. |
| Location: | http://catb.org/~esr/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Cyberspace / Culture / Hacker_Speak |
| Title: | Elite |
| Description: | Entry in The New Hacker's Dictionary explaining the origins of the hacker culture language. |
| Location: | http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/E/elite.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Etiquette / Chat |
| Title: | How To Ask Questions The Smart Way |
| Description: | Guide to teach how to ask technical questions in a way more likely to get a satisfactory answer. |
| Location: | http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Open_Source / Advocacy |
| Title: | The Cathedral and the Bazaar |
| Description: | Eric S. Raymond's seminal paper analysing why open source works so well; followup papers "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "The Revenge of the Hackers"; and comments and criticisms from third parties. |
| Location: | http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Open_Source / Advocacy |
| Title: | The Halloween Document |
| Description: | Microsoft are getting very worried indeed about competition from Open Source Software such as Linux. This leaked internal memo, courtesy of Eric Raymond, reveals all -- including the extreme lengths Microsoft is willing to go to squash its competition. |
| Location: | http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Programming / Languages |
| Title: | The Retrocomputing Museum |
| Description: | Dedicated to programs that induce sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea.The freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history. |
| Location: | http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/ |
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