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Hackers Hall of Fame

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the did-they-pick-the-right-ones dept.

An anonymous reader writes "tlc.discovery.com has a nice feature called Hackers Hall of Fame. They have included 15 bios of modern and not so modern hackers and crackers. " Definitely a few names that probably don't deserve to be on the list, but for the most part this is a good list.

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  1. What a Horrendous Website by sirReal.83. · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Disclaimer: This is roughly 90% OT.

    This site is the top of the pile in the (not all that new) game of "let's see how tiny i can make the article space on the page!!!!" with its gargantuan, 120x600px ad on the right, the even larger navigator on the left, and the Java (WHY?!?) navigator on top for the article. Let's ignore for the moment that using Java for that is completely unecessary and wasteful, and focus on how the foolish thing rotates while you're reading. If you can't read each hacker's bio in 5 seconds, you're gonna have to click the arrows a few times just to find where you left off!

    Are they trying to piss off these legends with their own abysmal "hacking" skills?

  2. Offtopic by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But it seems that the page with the article crashes the new firefox .8

    With 3 seconds of investigation it apears to have something to do with a Realplayer add.

    I must test this elsewhere...

    --

    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
  3. Re:Bill Gates, Hall of Fame Hacker? (P.S. First Po by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Probably less than you might think. While our parents were doing boring crap such as wordprocessing on their drab IBM PC, we were hacking away on our Sinclairs, Commodores, Ataris, Amigas, Dragons, Tandys, Amstrads, Acorns, etc.

    Quick generation check: what will happen with the screen if I'll type POKE 53280, 0 on a commodore-64? ;-)