I started browsing through the book "The Cathedral & the Bazaar" again recently, and I was surprised to come across a quote where the author, Eric S. Raymond, refers to Zen. In the section on "How to become a hacker", he writes that many hackers (where "hackers" refers to good programmers, and "crackers" is a derogatory term about people like to break into other people's accounts) like obvious things, like science fiction, music, and puns and wordplay.
While traveling the other day I was looking for some free wireless internet access, and when I looked in the Wireless/AirPort menu on my MacBook Pro I noticed the usual listing of publicly broadcasting wi-fi networks in the top part of the menu, but then under the "Devices" portion of the menu I noticed an entry labeled "Free Public WiFi". For a brief moment that sounded like what I needed, but then the alarms in my head went off, as it sounded more like a trap, something like the typical worm/virus/hacker/phishing setup.
" again recently, and I was surprised to come across a quote where the author, Eric S. Raymond, refers to Zen. In the section on "How to become a hacker", he writes that many hackers (where "hackers" refers to good programmers, and "crackers" is a derogatory term about people like to break into other people's accounts) like obvious things, like science fiction, music, and puns and wordplay.