, X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 10080I Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 13.10.90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu  Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!princeton!att!linac!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!snark!eric" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: New hacker testD Message-ID: <1bL2tf#1W7gJ164cWzV5vmD2K67Sxrt=eric@snark.thyrsus.com>. From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Date: 4 May 91 17:39:46 GMT M References: <1991May1.225014.12442@kcbbs.gen.nz> <96545@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>  O  <1991May2.015521.29837@news.iastate.edu> <phil.673230313@adam.adelaide.edu.au> g Back-References: <1991May3.043506.20561@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991May3.052945.5313@hellgate.utah.edu> ' Nntp-Posting-Host: adam.adelaide.edu.au 
 Lines: 908  U >In article <96545@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> howell@grover.llnl.gov (Louis Howell) writes:   K >However, I agree that the test needs updating.  About a year or so ago, my H >roommate and I considered expanding the test beyond the present 512 (?)H >questions.  To keep up the scoring conventions, we needed to double theO >test with another 512 (although we considered coming up with an MS-DOS version  >that had 640 questions...).  I >I have been working on an update to the test for some time now, and when  >it is finished I will post it.    K >So...there, I've said it.  I'll edit the next edition of the test, if it's 0 >desided to be 'ok' by the members of the group.  2 To open the ball, here's a rewrite I came up with:    THE HACKER TEST - Version 1.1    Preface:  06.16.89   H  This test was conceived and written by Felix Lee, John Hayes and AngelaE  Thomas at the end of the spring semester, 1989.  It has gone through F  many revisions prior to this initial release, and will undoubtedly go  through many more.   "  1.1 revisions by Eric S. Raymond.  F  (Herewith a compendium of fact and folklore about computer hackerdom,!   cunningly disguised as a test.)     F  Scoring - For most questions, score 1 for a positive answer (that is,I            you know the answer or have performed the act described). Some C            questions are followed by a score in parentheses; if you E            answer yes to one of these, add in that score (or subtract I            it, if it's negative) rather than adding the normal one point.   4  If you score is between:                    You are  @             0x000 and 0x010       ->         Computer Illiterate3             0x011 and 0x040       ->         a User 8             0x041 and 0x080       ->         an Operator3             0x081 and 0x0C0       ->         a Nerd 5             0x0C1 and 0x100       ->         a Hacker 3             0x101 and 0x180       ->         a Guru 5             0x181 and 0x200       ->         a Wizard :             0x200+                ->         a Demigod      6  Note: If you don't understand the scoring, stop here.      And now for the questions...   
 ARCHEOLOGY  =  0000 Have you programmed on any of the following machines...   0000 ...the ENIAC? (+10)   0000 ...the IBM 1401   0000 ...the PDP-1? (+5)  0000 ...the PDP-8?   0000 ...the PDP-10?  0000 ...the Univac 402?>  0000 ...anything alse that had transistor cans or tubes in it1          and used no-fooling ferrite core memory?          Have you ever used  0268 ... a teletype?   0269 ... a paper tape?   0270 ... a decwriter?  0271 ... a card reader/punch?  0272 ... a SOL?  '  0006 Have you ever patched paper tape?   8  0043 Can you read a punched card, looking at the holes?  0044 ... feeling the holes?    0112 Ever drop a card deck?4  0113 ... Did you successfully put it back together?  0114 ... Without looking?  ;  0139 Ever engage a drum brake while the drum was spinning?   &  0169 Do you know what a lace card is?  0170 ... Ever make one?  <  0285 Have you ever toggled in boot code on the front panel?  0286 ... from memory?  !  0288 Ever seen a 90 column card?   
 COPING SKILLS   9  0132 Ever patched a bug the vendor does not acknowledge?   .  0133 Ever fix a hardware problem in software?  0134 ... Vice versa?   ;  0151 Have you ever starved while dining with philosophers?    LANGUAGE  ;  0000 Do you routinely use the term `core' for RAM storage?   9  0427 Do you use "foo" or "foobar" in daily conversation?   0428 ... "bletch"?   $  0429 Do you use the "P convention"?  D  0430 Do you automatically respond to any stupid question with RTFM?$  0431 ... Do you know what it means?  >  0432 Do you think garbage collection means memory management?   NETWORKING AND NETNEWS    0000 Do you have a...  0000 ...UUCP address?  0000 ...Internet address?  0000 ...BITNET address?  0000 ...CompuServe address?  0000 ...GEnie address?   0000 ...BIX address?     0490 Do you read news? "  0491 ... More than 32 newsgroups?#  0492 ... More than 256 newsgroups?   0493 ... All the newsgroups?   &  0494 Have you ever posted an article?   0495 ... Do you post regularly?  #  0496 Have you ever posted a flame? %  0497 ... Ever flame a cross-posting?   0498 ... Ever flame a flame? !  0499 ... Do you flame regularly?   8  0500 Have you ever posted a program to a sources group?(  0000 ...to a *moderated* sources group?    0501 Ever forge a posting?    0502 Ever form a new newsgroup?  0503 ... Does it still exist?   0000 Ever moderate a newsgroup?%  0000 Ever made the monthly 'Top 25'?     0504 Do you remember   0505 ... mod.ber?$  0506 ... the Stupid People's Court?  0507 ... Bandy-grams?  0000 ... the Brahms Gang?  2  0000 Is your .sig block longer than 4 lines? (-1)  F  0356 Have you ever been logged in to two different timezones at once?  7  0357 Have you memorized the UUCP map for your country?   0358 ... For any country?  )  0359 Have you ever found a sendmail bug? !  0360 ... Was it a security hole?   -  0361 Have you memorized the HOSTS.TXT table?   0362 ... Are you up to date?   0  0363 Can you name all the top-level nameservers  0000 ...and their addresses?   #  0364 Do you know RFC-822 by heart? .  0365 ... Can you recite all the errors in it?  5  0366 Have you written a Sendmail configuration file?   0367 ... Does it work? 0  0368 ... Do you mumble "defocus" in your sleep?  *  0369 Do you know the max packet lifetime?  3  0000 Have you ever sysoped on a microcomputer BBS?    LEARNING BY DOING   :  0014 Have you ever voided the warranty on your equipment?  !  0015 Ever change the value of 4?   0016 ... Unintentionally?+  0017 ... In a language other than Fortran?   +  0120 Have you ever set off a Halon system?   0121 ... Intentionally?"  0122 ... Do you still work there?  3  0123 Have you ever hit the emergency power switch?   0124 ... Intentionally?  (  0159 Ever create an unkillable program?  0160 ... Intentionally?    0118 Ever interrupted a UPS?   =  0131 Ever thrown a computer from more than two stories high?   6  0141 Ever physically destroy equipment from software?  &  0062 Have you witnessed a disk crash?(  0063 Have you made a disk drive "walk"?  &  0403 Have you ever crashed a machine?  0404 ... Intentionally?  4  0053 Did you ever forget to mount a scratch monkey?  
 CONCENTRATION   $  0001 Have you ever used a computer?-  0002 ... for more than 4 hours continuously?   0003 ... more than 8 hours?  0004 ... more than 16 hours?   0005 ... more than 32 hours?   0  0425 Have you ever seen the dawn while hacking?  0426 ... Twice in a row?   5  0000 Have you ever turned down sex in order to hack? <  0000 ...Was the hack more fun than the sex would have been?  5  0007 Have you ever missed a class while programming?    0008 ... Missed an examination?  0009 ... Missed a wedding? "  0010 ... Missed your own wedding?  -  0143 Do you take listings with you to lunch?   0144 ... To bed?   6  0011 Have you ever programmed while intoxicated? (-1).  0012 ... Did it make sense the next day? (+2)  
 WHAT YOU KNOW   (  0031 Do you know what ASCII stands for?  0032 ... EBCDIC?   3  0033 Can you read and write ASCII in hex or octal? ;  0034 Do you know the names of all the ASCII control codes?   +  0035 Can you read and write EBCDIC in hex?   :  0036 Can you convert from EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa?  H  0037 Do you know what characters are the same in both ASCII and EBCDIC?  @  0040 Can you name powers of two up to 2**16 in arbitrary order?  0041 ... up to 2**32?  0042 ... up to 2**64?  /  0077 Do you know what the following stand for?!  0078 ... DASD  0079 ... Emacse
  0080 ... ITSo  0081 ... RSTS/E
  0082 ... SNAc  0083 ... Spool-  0084 ... TCP/IP         Have you ever used  0085 ... TPU?  0086 ... TECO?t  0087 ... Emacs?
  0088 ... ed?e
  0089 ... vi?9  0090 ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)?  0091 ... SOS?  0092 ... EDT?  0093 ... Wordstar?O    0165 Do you know Gray code?  !  0166 Do you know what HCF means?a  0167 ... Ever use it?  0168 ... Intentionally?  '  0171 Do you know the end of the epoch?22  0172 ... Have you celebrated the end of an epoch?'  0173 ... Did you have to rewrite code?i  5  0174 Do you know the difference between DTE and DCE?o  %  0175 Do you know the RS-232C pinout? 3  0176 ... Can you wire a connector without looking?,  5  0148 Can you convert postfix to prefix in your head?d  0  0149 Can you convert hex to octal in your head?  +  0150 Do you know how to use a Kleene star?s  #  0157 Can you read a state diagram?r  0158 ... Do you need one? (-1)o  ,  0022 Do you know how many days old you are?  !  0026 Can you recite Jabberwocky?   0027 ... Backwards?   WHO YOU KNOW  "  0163 Do you know who wrote Rogue?  0164 ... Rogomatic?         Have you ever attended  0100 ... Usenix?d  0101 ... DECUS?  0102 ... SHARE?  0103 ... SIGGRAPH?a  0104 ... NetCon?e)  0000 ... any science-fiction convention?i  6  0105 Have you ever participated in a standards group?  *  0135 Ever belong to a user/support group?  '  0049 Do you know Dennis, Bill, or Ken?e    0000 Do you know RMS?  *  0048 Have you met any IBM vice-president?+  0000 ... did you think he had a clue? (-1)   -  0000 Have you ever attended an @-sign party?(  8  0000 Do you know any of the authors of the Hacker Test?   GENERAL WEIRDNESS   7  0018 Have you ever used DWIM to make life interesting?s     0019 Have you named a computer?  :  0020 Do you complain when a "feature" you use gets fixed?  -  0023 Have you ever wanted to download pizza?e  -  0024 Have you ever invented a computer joke?a#  0025 ... Did someone not 'get' it?t  5  0028 Have you seen "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"?t    0029 Have you seen "Tron"?p    0030 Have you seen "Wargames"?   -  0050 Have you ever taken a picture of a CRT?n3  0051 Have you ever played a videotape on your CRT?   (  0052 Have you ever digitized a picture?  .  0056 Does your terminal/computer talk to you?  2  0057 Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem?  0058 ... Did it answer?    0059 Can you whistle 300 baud?e  0060 ... 1200 baud?  )  0061 Can you whistle a telephone number?   #  0064 Can you build a puffer train?z!  0065 ... Do you know what it is?   .  0066 Can you play music on your line printer?  0067 ... Your disk drive?  0068 ... Your tape drive?  $  0069 Do you have a Snoopy calendar?  0070 ... Is it out-of-date?  .  0071 Do you have a line printer picture of...  0072 ... the Mona Lisa?  0073 ... the Enterprise?)  0074 ... Einstein?   0075 ... Oliver?10  0076 Have you ever made a line printer picture?  >  0097 Have you ever received a Fax or a photocopy of a floppy?  1  0098 Have you ever shown a novice the "any" key?s"  0099 ... Was it the power switch?  $  0107 Have you ever seen voice mail?  0108 ... Can you read it?  ;  0109 Do you solve word puzzles with an on-line dictionary?e  (  0110 Have you ever taken a Turing test?  0111 ... Did you fail?   ?  0116 Have you ever received a case of beer with your computer?i  3  0117 Does your computer come in 'designer' colors?h    0119 Ever mask an NMI?e  K  0129 Ever help the person behind the counter with their terminal/computer?c  .  0130 Ever tried rack mounting your telephone?  2  0136 Ever been mentioned in Computer Recreations?  :  0137 Ever had your activities mentioned in the newspaper?#  0138 ... Did you get away with it?a  3  0140 Ever write comments in a non-native language?x  *  0152 Have you solved the halting problem?  0153 ... Correctly?  2  0154 Ever deadlock while trying to eat spaghetti?  #  0156 Ever swapped out the swapper?e  #  0161 Ever been asked for a cookie?0  2  0162 Ever speed up a system by removing a jumper?     0408 Are your shoelaces untied?  +  0409 Do you interface well with strangers?t  L  0410 Are you able to recite phone numbers for half-a-dozen computer systems'          but unable to recite your own?c  %  0411 Do you log in before breakfast?W  4  0412 Do you consume more than LD-50 caffeine a day?  3  0413 Do you answer either-or questions with "yes"?E  C  0414 Do you own an up-to-date copy of any operating system manual?0*  0415 ... *every* operating system manual?  H  0416 Do other people have difficulty using your customized environment?  0  0417 Do you dream in any programming languages?  C  0418 Do you have difficulty focusing on three-dimensional objects?y    0419 Do you ignore mice?9  '  0420 Do you despise the CAPS LOCK key?.  1  0421 Do you believe menus belong in restaurants?r  4  0422 Do you have a Mandelbrot hanging on your wall?  B  0423 Have you ever decorated with magnetic tape or punched cards?H  0424 Do you have a disk platter or a naked floppy hanging in your home?  K  0433 Do you have problems allocating horizontal space in your room/office?   -  0435 Is your license plate computer-related?0  *  0436 Have you ever taken the Purity test?  )  0437 Ever have an out-of-CPU experience?0  :  0438 Have you ever set up a blind date over the computer?  9  0439 Do you talk to the person next to you via computer?    DO YOU HAVE...  %  0177 Do you have a copy of Dec Wars?0>  0178 Do you have the Canonical Collection of Lightbulb Jokes?4  0179 Do you have a copy of the Hacker's Dictionary??  0000 Do you have a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Net?a#  0180 ... Did you contribute to it?p  '  0181 Do you have a flowchart template?e  0182 ... Is it unused?o  /  0183 Do you have your own fortune-cookie file?t  +  0184 Do you have the Anarchist's Cookbook?n%  0185 ... Ever make anything from it?o    0186 Do you own a modem?u  0187 ... a terminal?u  0188 ... a toy computer?o  0189 ... a personal computer?5  0000 ... a workstation-class machine (UNIX and all)?E  0190 ... a minicomputer?a  0191 ... a mainframe?  0192 ... a supercomputer?  0193 ... a hypercube?  0194 ... a printer?  0195 ... a laser printer?  0196 ... a tape drive?n(  0197 ... an outmoded peripheral device?  ,  0198 Do you have a programmable calculator?  0199 ... Is it RPN?  /  0200 Have you ever owned more than 1 computer?o  0201 ... 4 computers?  0202 ... 16 computers?v    0203 Do you have a SLIP line?  0204 ... a T1 line?  C  0205 Do you have a separate phone line for your terminal/computer?o  0206 ... Is it legal?    0207 Do you have core memory?  0208 ... drum storage?w  0209 ... bubble memory?  6  0210 Do you use more than 16 megabytes of disk space?  0211 ... 256 megabytes?  0212 ... 1 gigabyte?0  0213 ... 16 gigabytes?   0214 ... 256 gigabytes?  0215 ... 1 terabyte?e  -  0216 Do you have an optical disk/disk drive?a  3  0217 Do you have a personal magnetic tape library?y  0218 ... Is it unlabelled?r  +  0219 Do you own more than 16 floppy disks?o  0220 ... 64 floppy disks?  0221 ... 256 floppy disks?h  0222 ... 1024 floppy disks?  #  0223 Do you have any 8-inch disks?d  $  0224 Do you have an internal stack?  $  0225 Do you have a clock interrupt?  E  0226 Do you own volumes 1 to 3 of _The Art of Computer Programming_?0*  0227 ... Have you done all the exercises?&  0228 ... Do you have a MIX simulator?-  0229 ... Can you name the unwritten volumes?o    0000 Do you own a copy of  0000 ... the Dragon Book?  0000 ... K&R?  0232 ... a TTL handbook? 7  0000 ... Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid? $  0000 ... The _Illuminatus_ trilogy?!  0000 ... The Tao of Programming?    0000 ... The Version 7 manuals?  6  0233 Do you have printouts more than three years old?   CAREER  *  0000 Have you ever had a programming job?$  0000 ... before graduating college?(  0000 ... before graduating high school?  "  0237 Do you work irregular hours?  0  0238 Have you ever been a system administrator?  0  0239 Do you have more megabytes than megabucks?  I  0240 Have you ever downgraded your job to upgrade your processing power?s    0241 Is your job secure?0'  0242 ... Do you have code to prove it?   -  0243 Have you ever had a security clearance?.   GAMES     0021 Do you eat slime-molds?          Have you ever played  0244 ... Pong  0246 ... Spacewar?   0247 ... Star Trek?  0248 ... Wumpus?0  0249 ... Lunar Lander?D  0250 ... Empire?t         Have you ever beaten  0251 ... Moria 4.8?  0252 ... Rogue 3.6?  0253 ... Rogue 5.3?  0254 ... Larn?e  0255 ... Hack 1.0.3?y  0256 ... Nethack 2.4?  9  0257 Can you get a better score on Rogue than Rogomatic?0  %  0258 Have you ever solved Adventure?   0259 ... Zork?   (  0260 Have you ever written any redcode?  1  0261 Have you ever written an adventure program?   0262 ... a real-time game?i  0263 ... a multi-player game?  0264 ... a networked game?d    0265 Can you out-doctor Eliza?t   HARDWARE HACKING  %  0266 Have you ever used a light pen?r  0267 ... did you build it?a         Have you ever builtu  0273 ... an Altair?"  0274 ... a Heath/Zenith computer?         Do you know how to use  0275 ... an oscilliscope?  0276 ... a voltmeter?  0277 ... a frequency counter?  0278 ... a logic probe?  0279 ... a wirewrap tool?  0280 ... a soldering iron?0  0281 ... a logic analyzer??  )  0282 Have you ever designed an LSI chip?0!  0283 ... has it been fabricated?i  3  0284 Have you ever etched a printed circuit board?    IBM   3  0289 Do you recite IBM part numbers in your sleep?o2  0290 Do you know what IBM part number 7320154 is?  *  0291 Do you understand 3270 data streams?  4  0292 Do you know what the VM privilege classes are?  /  0293 Have you IPLed an IBM off the tape drive?0  0294 ... off a card reader?  3  0295 Can you sing something from the IBM Songbook?    COMPUTER LANGUAGES  4  0296 Do you know more than 4 programming languages?  0297 ... 8 languages?  0298 ... 16 languages?"  0299 ... 32 languages?0  4  0300 Have you ever designed a programming language?  (  0301 Do you know what Basic stands for?  0302 ... Pascal?o    0303 Can you program in Basic?   0304 ... Do you admit it? (-1)t    0305 Can you program in Cobol?   0306 ... Do you deny it?e    0307 Do you know Pascal?a  0308 ... Modula-2?T  0309 ... Oberon?e(  0310 ... More that two Wirth languages?/  0311 ... Can you recite a Nicklaus Wirth joke?o    0312 Do you know Algol-60?t  0313 ... Algol-W?  0314 ... Algol-68? 0  0315 ... Do you understand the Algol-68 report?)  0316 ... Do you like two-level grammars?2  ;  0317 Can you program in assembler on 2 different machines? "  0318 ... on 4 different machines?"  0319 ... on 8 different machines?         Do you knowc  0320 ... APL?  0321 ... Ada?  0322 ... BCPL??  0323 ... C++?  0324 ... C?  0325 ... Comal?  0326 ... Eiffel??  0327 ... Forth?  0328 ... Fortran?  0329 ... Hypertalk?  0330 ... Icon?.  0331 ... Lisp?   0332 ... Logo?   0333 ... MIIS?e  0334 ... MUMPS?  0335 ... PL/I?   0336 ... Pilot?  0337 ... Plato?  0338 ... Prolog?r  0339 ... RPG?  0340 ... Rexx (or ARexx)?  0341 ... SETL?f  0342 ... Smalltalk?  0343 ... Snobol?i  0344 ... VHDL?s  0000 ... INTERCAL?e   0345 ... any assembly language?)  0000 ... more than 2 assembly languages?d)  0000 ... more than 4 assembly languages?h)  0000 ... more than 8 assembly languages?e    0346 Can you talk VT-100?  0347 ... Postscript?   0348 ... SMTP?e  0349 ... UUCP?    MICROCOMPUTERS  &  0351 Ever copy a copy-protected disk?+  0352 Ever create a copy-protection scheme?n  )  0353 Have you ever made a "flippy" disk?h  7  0354 Have you ever recovered data from a damaged disk?d    0355 Ever boot a naked floppy?0   OPERATING SYSTEMSe         Can you usei  0370 ... BSD Unix?d  0371 ... non-BSD Unix?d
  0372 ... AIXe  0373 ... VM/CMS?o  0374 ... VMS?  0375 ... MVS?  0376 ... VSE?  0377 ... RSTS/E?a  0378 ... CP/M?   0379 ... COS?  0380 ... NOS?  0381 ... CP-67?  0382 ... RT-11?  0383 ... MS-DOS?   0384 ... Finder?e  0385 ... PRODOS?s*  0386 ... more than one OS for the TRS-80?  0387 ... Tops-10?  0388 ... Tops-20?  0389 ... OS-9?e  0390 ... OS/2?   0391 ... AOS/VS?o  0392 ... Multics?  0393 ... ITS?  0394 ... Vulcan?n  6  0395 Have you ever paged or swapped off a tape drive?"  0396 ... Off a card reader/punch?  0397 ... Off a teletype?r+  0398 ... Off a networked (non-local) disk?t  2  0399 Have you ever found an operating system bug?  0400 ... Did you exploit it?h  0401 ... Did you report it?"  0402 ... Was your report ignored?   PROGRAMMINGi  /  0013 Have you ever written a flight simulator?t  (  0038 Do you know MAXINT on your system?  B  0039 Ever define your own numerical type to get better precision?  '  0440 Can you write a Fortran compiler?v  0441 ... In TECO?  "  0442 Can you read a machine dump?,  0443 Can you disassemble code in your head?         Have you ever written   0444 ... a compiler?l  0445 ... an operating system?  0446 ... a device driver?  0447 ... a text processor?e  0448 ... a display hack?g  0449 ... a database system?  0450 ... an expert system?t  0451 ... an edge detector?i%  0452 ... a real-time control system?e%  0453 ... an accounting package? (-1)r  0000 ... a TSR?  0454 ... a virus?  0455 ... a prophylactic?   0  0456 Have you ever written a biorhythm program?"  0457 ... Did you sell the output?.  0458 ... Was the output arbitrarily invented?  G  0459 Have you ever computed pi to more than a thousand decimal places?   0460 ... the number e?7  =  0461 Ever find a prime number of more than a hundred digits?a  0  0462 Have you ever written self-modifying code?  0463 ... Are you proud of it?  E  0464 Did you ever write a program that ran correctly the first time?8&  0465 ... Was it longer than 20 lines?  0466 ... 100 lines?&  0467 ... Was it in assembly language?&  0468 ... Did it work the second time?  4  0469 Can you solve the Towers of Hanoi recursively?  0470 ... Non-recursively?)  0471 ... Using the Troff text formatter?m  <  0472 Ever submit an entry to the Obfuscated C code contest?  0473 ... Did it win? ,  0474 ... Did your entry inspire a new rule?     0475 Do you know Duff's device?  "  0476 Do you know Jensen's device?  E  0477 Ever spend ten minutes trying to find a single-character error?   0478 ... More than an hour?  0479 ... More than a day?  0480 ... More than a week?0B  0481 ... Did the first person you show it to find it immediately?  ,  0125 Do you have any defunct documentation?  0126 ... Do you still read it?.  +  0054 Have you ever optimized an idle loop?n  *  0055 Did you ever optimize a bubble sort?  $  0094 Have you ever written a CLIST?  !       Have you ever programmed in !  0095 ... the X windowing system?0  0096 ... CICS? (-1)  =  0106 Have you ever debugged machine code over the telephone?e  3  0127 Ever reverse-engineer or decompile a program? "  0128 ... Did you find bugs in it?  *  0047 Have you ever used program overlays?  (  0045 Have you ever patched binary code?(  0046 ... While the program was running?  !  0145 Ever patch a microcode bug?s!  0146 ... around a microcode bug?n  '  0147 Can you program a Turing machine?f  .  0155 Ever written a self-reproducing program?   UNIX     0482 Can you use Berkeley Unix?  0483 .. Non-Berkeley Unix?o  F  0484 Can you distinguish between sections 4 and 5 of the Unix manual?  B  0485 Can you find TERMIO in the System V release 2 documentation?  9  0486 Have you ever mounted a tape as a Unix file system?h     0487 Have you ever built Minix?  :  0488 Can you answer "quiz function ed-command" correctly?/  0489 ... How about "quiz ed-command function"?3    0115 Have you ever used IPCS?  :  0000 Have you ever set up and debugged a UUCP connection?   CRACKING AND PHREAKING  >  0000 Have you every broken security on someone else's system?9  0000 ... Did you report it to them so they could fix it? ;  0000 ... Are you still a welcome guest on any such system? H  0000 ... Have you ever been given wheel privileges by a grateful sysop?  &  0508 Have you ever built a black box?  0  0509 Can you name all of the 'colors' of boxes?)  0510 ... and their associated functions?k  <  0511 Does your touch tone phone have 16 DTMF buttons on it?  B  0512 Did the breakup of MaBell create more opportunities for you?   SELF-REFERENCE  :  0142 Ever tried to improve your score on the Hacker Test?  C  If you have any comments of suggestions regarding the HACKER TEST,.*  Please send then to: hayes@psunuce.bitnetA                    or jwh100@psuvm.bitnet / jwh100@psuvmxa.bitnetiC                    or jwh100@psuvm.psu.edu / jwh100@psuvmxa.psu.eduo5                    or ...!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!jwh100    -- kO       Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)n