Hacks and true stories of computing

See also

• “Hacker Folklore” in the Jargon File.
• “Software Folklore”. A collection of stories mostly about bugs.
• LISA ’96 sysadmin horror story contest. “LISA” stands for “Large Installation System Administration Conference”.
• “LPD for fun and MP3 playing” in Unix command queues.
• “The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme”.

Links

• Beating Arkanoid faster than ever by brute force and simulation (h/t Gwern Branwen).
• How Coherent 4.2.05 corrupted filesystems.
• “MP3 for image compression”.
• NetBSD 1.3 dial-up gateway runs from 1998 to 2012.
• “Print this file, your printer will jam”.
• “Russian malware communicates by leaving comments in Britney Spears’s Instagram”.
• “The Ultimate in Garbage Collection”.
• “Unix Recovery Legend”.

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