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dark-side hacker

A criminal or malicious hacker; a cracker. From George Lucas's Darth Vader, "seduced by the dark side of the Force". The implication that hackers form a sort of elite of technological Jedi Knights is intended. Oppose {samurai}.

Marcadores: Cracker, Games, Hacker, Jedi, Samurai

# 5/18/2009 09:31:00 PM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

fuck me harder

Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by the imp of the perverse). Often theatrically elaborated: "Aiighhh! Fuck me with a piledriver and 16 feet of curare-tipped wrought-iron fence and no lubricants!" The phrase is sometimes heard abbreviated FMH in polite company.

[This entry is an extreme example of the hackish habit of coining elaborate and evocative terms for lossage. Here we see a quite self-conscious parody of mainstream expletives that has become a running gag in part of the hacker culture; it illustrates the hackish tendency to turn any situation, even one of extreme frustration, into an intellectual game (the point being, in this case, to creatively produce a long-winded description of the most anatomically absurd mental image possible -- the short forms implicitly allude to all the ridiculous long forms ever spoken). Scatological language is actually relatively uncommon among hackers, and there was some controversy over whether this entry ought to be included at all. As it reflects a live usage recognizably peculiar to the hacker culture, we feel it is in the hackish spirit of truthfulness and opposition to all forms of censorship to record it here. --ESR & GLS]

Marcadores: Abbreviation, Games, Languages, Software

# 5/18/2009 10:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

fencepost error

[common] A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10.) For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. A program that used the `obvious' formula would have a fencepost error in it. See also {zeroth} and {off-by-one error}, and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row.
[rare] An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient binary tree or hash table implementation. (The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviors of an algorithm.)

Marcadores: Common, Games

# 5/14/2009 10:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

frag

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frag:

[from Vietnam-era U.S. military, slang via the games Doom and Quake]

To kill another player's avatar in a multiuser game. "I hold the office Quake record with 40 frags."
To completely ruin something. "Forget that power supply, the lightning strike fragged it." See also gib.

Marcadores: Doom, Games, Quake, Shooter, Slang, Vietnam, War

# 5/14/2009 07:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

gib

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gib:

vi. To destroy utterly. Like frag, but much more violent and final. "There's no trace left. You definitely gibbed that bug".
n. Remnants after total obliteration.
Popilarized by id software in the game Quake, but actually goes back to an earlier game called Rise of the Triad. It's short for giblets (thus pronounced "jib"), and referred to the bloody remains of slain opponents. Eventually the word was verbed, and leaked into general usage afterward.

Marcadores: Doom, Frag, Games, Quake, Shooter, Software, War

# 5/14/2009 05:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

warez

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warez

Widely used in {cracker} subcultures to denote cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which copy-protection has been stripped. Hackers recognize this term but don't use it themselves. See {warez d00dz}, {courier}, {leech}, {elite}.

Marcadores: Baron, Business, Cracker, Games, Hacker, Leet, Security, Slang, Software, Warez

# 5/12/2009 07:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

life

A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner (Scientific American, October 1970); the game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand. Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it, and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the mathematical analysis of this game (most notably Bill Gosper at MIT, who even implemented life in {TECO}!). When a hacker mentions `life', he is much more likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, or the human state of existence. Many web resources are available starting from the Open Directory page of Life. The Life Lexicon is a good indicator of what makes the game so fascinating.
[glider.png]

A glider, possibly the best known of the quasi-organic phenomena in the Game of Life.
The opposite of {Usenet}. As in "{Get a life!}"

Marcadores: Computer, Games, Newsgroups, Usenet

# 4/30/2009 03:31:00 PM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

initgame

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initgame

[IRC]

An IRC version of the trivia game "Botticelli", in which one user changes his {nick} to the initials of a famous person or other named entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions, with the one to guess the person getting to be "it" next. As a courtesy, the one picking the initials starts by providing a 4-letter hint of the form sex, nationality, life-status, reality-status. For example, MAAR means "Male, American, Alive, Real" (as opposed to "fictional"). Initgame can be surprisingly addictive. See also {hing}.

[1996 update: a recognizable version of the initgame has become a staple of some radio, talk shows in the U.S. We had it first! -- ESR]

IV. Multiplayer Games


Gridhunt+ by Steamdroid Hunt the hidden grid & destroy the enemy
Tribes-X by Enforcer, Phaeton & Jedi Knight Quake3 in 2D, LAN multiplayer fight game from Russia
Vessel Attack Online! by Rodrigo Braz Monteiro A network game: Battleships
BooM by 3D Games for Becherovka Small, but very nice 3D bomberman game
Need For Kill by 3d[Power] A Quake3 in 2D, a fight game from Russia
Route 13 by Tenya Race against the clock or against a friend over network
Overload by Triad entertainment An addicted color matching game. Shoot all colored balls
Alien Decimation by Simon Moore aka Spam&Cheese A nice Space Invaders for 1 to 4 players
Nix by DigiPen A 3D combat racing game
Dark Oberon by Peter Knut, Marian Cerny and others A nice WarCraft 2 like RTS, but network multiplayer only
Baktinet by Scienide team Puzzle / Multiplayer
Exotic Armada 2 by Derbian An arena space shooter + ship shop for 1 to 4 players
Ship Multiplayer by DavyB FPS netgame - multiplayer only
Balls by Marcin Jedrzejewski Based on Jawbreaker (Colours)

multiplayer games (3/4)


Njam by Milan Babuskov Pacman / Multiplayer
Thang Global by Thang Team A really nice Massive RPG game (MMORPG)
Globulation 2 by Globulation 2 team A different style RTS game
Aces High Over Verlor Island by Reflect Games Become Master of the Skies
Alien Arena 2008 by COR entertainment A nice fast paced deathmatch / A 3D multiplayer, FPS
BEU Net by SeaSoft A great multiplayer 2D shooter
Hokuto no Ken by Hokuto Project A nice MUGEN fighting game, single and multiplayer
Rocks'n'Diamonds by Holger Schemel - Artsoft A great Boulderdash game
Counter-Strike 2D by Unreal Software A multi-player shooting game
Blow Everything Up Net 2007 by Sebastian A top-down multiplayer shooter
Gridhunt by Steamdroid A suspenseful Galatic Battleship Combat
FleaFall by Team FleaFall Great game with a very different style of gameplay
Kong! by Martin Sherburn, Nicolas Beuserie A multiplayer 3D top-down shooter with a thirst for blood
RecWar by Willem Janssen A top-down vehicle deathmatch game (multiplayer)
VDrift by Joe Venzon A 3D racing game with excellent graphics

multiplayer games (2/4)


Warsow by Warsow team (SoLomoNK and others) A great celshaded 3D FPS Multiplayer game (168 MB)
Sauerbraten by Aard Apple An amazing 3D FPS, single/multiplayer + level editor
Cube by Wouter van Oortmerssen aka Aardappel A very nice first person shooter
Marble Arena by Brightside Entertainment A great and beautiful 3D marble game
Star Wraith 3 by Shawn - StarWraith 3D Games An outstanding 3D Space Combat Simulator
Tremulous by Tim `Timbo` Angus A great team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Netgame only
Widelands by Widelands Development Team A great RTS, even much better and nicer than Settlers 2 was
Bos Wars by Bos Wars team A very good and RTS game in the style of Command & Conquer
Dark Konflict by Team XTC A 3D RTS game in the style of Command & Conquer
Hover Tank 3D by Martin Crownover A great 3D Tankgame
Scorched 3D by Gavin Camp, David Beleznay, Ben Phipps,... A great 3D Sorched Earth with amazing graphics, single and multiplayer
One Must Fall: 2097 by Epic Megagames/Diversions Entertainment Excellent fight game for 1 or 2 players.
Wild Metal Country by Rockstar Big Mean 3d shootem up with lots of action
Final Fighter by Zok-software - Sebastian Volland A great 2D-multiplayer tank game
Gravity Strike by Jens This is much more than just a Lander game! (1 or multiplayer)