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

• Apple’s MPW C compiler errors
• 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”