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Enjoy Your Journey!
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though
she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I
worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say
'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from
the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
From The Jargon File, version 4.4.7
w00t
An interjection similar to Yay!, as in: w00t!!!
I just got a raise! Often used for small victories the speaker dies
not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. Some claim this is a
bastardization of root, the highest level of access to a
system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak
equivalent of root, and said as an exclamation upon gaining
root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game
as an abbreviation of wonderful loot. Still other claim it
on originated on IRC as the Ewok victory cheer. Adj.
w00table has the sense of
cool or nifty. This is one of the few
leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among
hackers.
- things you find here
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- important things
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- your way around
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- important people
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- Richard Stallman,
founder of the free software foundation. (His political
notes)
- Jamie Zawinski, Software guru
(his Journal and
WebCollage)
- Ian Murdock, founder of Debian
- Bruce Perens,
former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader
- Linus
Torvalds, creator of the Linux Kernel, on kernel
management style.
- Eric Raymond,
writer of The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- Matthias
Ettrich, initiator of the KDE Project
- Larry Wall,
author of the perl language
- Guido van
Rossum, author of python
- Alan Cox, Kernel Hacker
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- things i've done
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- things i do
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- other things
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- the end
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