Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? As you can imagine, I was amazed. A computer hacker in my own house! I began to monitor my son's habits, to make certain that Cindy wasn't just telling stories, as she is prone to doing at times. After a few days of investigation, and some research into computer hacking, I confronted Peter with the evidence. I'm afraid to say, this was the only time I have ever been truly disappointed in one of my children. We raised them to be honest and to have integrity, and Peter betrayed the principles we tried to encourage in him, when he refused point blank to admit to his activities. After going through this ordeal with my own family, I was left pondering how I could best help others in similar situations. To this end, I have decided to publish the top ten signs that your son is a hacker. 1. Most American families use trusted and responsible Internet Service Providers, such as AOL. I would advise all parents to refuse this request. 2. Your son will probably try to install some hacker software.
Hacker's Manifesto Eric S. Raymond's Home Page Welcome to my piece of the Web. I maintain quite a lot of open-source software, FAQs, and HTML documents, so this site is rather complex. It's mostly validated HTML and light on the graphics, though. You won't have to wait an eon for any of the pages to load. If the software and FAQs I maintain are valuable to you (and especially if my software makes you money) please leave me a tip at Patreon or SubscribeStar. I'm on If you want to link to, copy, mirror, or translate portions of this site, please read my copying policy. If the HTML or images on this site seem to be confusing your browser, see the site design notes. If you're with the press, or want me to give a talk, here are answers to the usual questions. If you're looking for the Halloween Documents, they're here. You can fetch my GPG public key here. As a public service and act of civil disobedience, we are proud to offer the DeCSS code that will allow you to circumvent the encryption on the DVDs you own. Finally, the HDCP master key.
Browser speed comparisons Skip to results. A polite request Please stop posting this article on sites like Slashdot, Digg, newspapers, etc. It is old news. I thank you for your attention, and I am very happy that you found this article interesting or useful enough to read. NYTimes, you may wish to note that this is a site where I publish research articles, tutorials, and scripts. What is this about There is a speed war on the web. Many organisations and users try to claim that their browser is the fastest. Opera and Firefox users are quite vocal on the subject, but none of them can actually show any research to back up their statements, ususally just saying "X takes way longer than Y to start" or "my friend uses X and it is much slower on his computer than Y is on mine". Well, I've had enough of these unfounded arguments. And please, those of you whose browsers did not perform as well as you had hoped, just accept it. The tests In order to test each browser's speed response, I put them through a number of tests.
The Revenge of the Thick Client (CoDe Magazine) If you have been involved in a new software development project during the last five years - and if you read this article, chances are you have - then you have probably been faced with the question "Web application or Windows® UI?" And in the vast majority of cases, the answer to this question was probably "Web application." For modern, enterprise-wide systems there were simply many reasons and issues that made it hard to implement the desired feature set in a conventional Windows application and deploy it in a reasonable manner. At this point, the advantages and disadvantages of each application type are well understood, and decisions are easy to make. Or are they? You can sum up the most striking feature of browser-based Web applications in a single word: Reach! If you want to break things down to a more granular level, you'll discover a number of detailed features that make browser-based applications such a great choice. All That Glitters Is Not Gold Smart Clients Close the Gap