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│Article: Hacker test; │
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WHICH ONE OF US IS A HACKER - Version 1.0
This test was conceived and written by Felik-
Som Lee, John Hayes and Angela Thomas
at the end of the spring semester of 1989.
This test had many different pre-
shepherds, and, undoubtedly, he too is not
last one.
Here are the facts and all possible
folklore about the world of hackers, cleverly designed
new for testing.
How to count - add 1 each
time when you can do the described
action or know the answer to a question
lazy question.
If your amount lies between:
0x000 and 0x010 - computer illiterate
0x011 and 0x040 - user
0x041 and 0x080 - operator
0x081 and 0x0C0 - nerd
0x0C1 and 0x100 - hacker
0x101 and 0x180 - teacher (guru)
0x181 and 0x200 - sorcerer
By the way: if you don’t understand the counting system
Sorry, the test is over for you.
Well, now answer...
0001 Have you ever used a computer
pewter?
0002 ... more than 4 hourscontinuously?
0003 ...more than 8 hours?
0004 ...more than 16 hours?
0005 ...more than 32 hours?
0006 Have you ever patched paper tape?
that one?
0007 Have you ever forgotten the program?
going for an activity
Tia?
0008 ...for the exam?
0009 ...for a wedding?
0010 ...for your own wedding?
0011 Have you ever programmed?
drunk?
0012 ...And they continued to do this for a long time
Melia?
0013 Have you ever written a flight manual?
nazher?
0014 Have you ever been absent
warranty for your equipment?
0015 Has the value of 4 been changed?
0016 ...Unintentionally?
0017 ... In a language other than Fortran?
0018 You use DWIM to make
is life more interesting?
0019 Does your computer have a name?
0020 You are unhappy when a certain
ness is attributed to you permanence
really?
0021 Have you tried slime-molds as food?
0022 Do you know your age in days?
0023 Have you ever wanted yesterday
pizza?
0024 Have you ever come up with a computer
yuter jokes?
0025 ... Did anyone not understand them ?
0026 You can recite by heart whether-
merik?
0027 ...Backward?
0028 Have you seen "Donald Duck in Country"
Mathematicians"?
0029 Have you seen "Tron"?
0030 Have you seen "Militarygames"?
0031 Do you know what ASCII means?
0032...EBCDIC?
0033 You can read and write
ASCII table in hexadecimal
or octal?
0034 Do you know what all the controls are called?
ASCII table codes?
0035 You can read and write
EBCDIC table in hexadecimal
oh form?
0036 You can convert EBCDIC to
ASCII and vice versa?
0037 Do you know which symbols are the same
are you into ASCII and EBCDIC tables?
0038 Do you know the value of maxint in your
system?
0039 Ever defined your own
numeric data type
di increase accuracy?
0040 Can you name powers of two?
up to 2**16 in any order
row?
0041 ... up to 2**32?
0042 ... up to 2**64?
0043 You can read a punched card by looking
on the holes?
0044 ...to the touch?
0045 Have you ever corrected straight
in binary code?
0046 ... While the program is running?
0047 Have you ever used prog -
frame overlays?
0048 Have you ever dated someone
from IBM vice presidents?
0049 Do you know Dennis, Bill or Ken?
0050 Have you ever taken out a photo -
fii on the display?
0051 Have you ever scrolled through the vi -
de-cassette on yourdisplay?
0052 Have you ever translated fo-
photos into digital code?
0053 Have you ever forgotten to answer
to the joker who cruelly annoyed you?
0054 Have you ever optimized not -
running cycle?
0055 Have you ever optimized two -
personal sort?
0056 You came up with a dialogue with the computer -
rum for yourself?
0057 Have you ever talked to
acoustic modem?
0058 ...And they answered you?
0059 Can you whistle at 300 baud?
0060 ... 1200 baud?
0061 You can whistle as when dialing
phone number?
0062 Have you observed a disk crash?
0063 Have you ever crawled on a disk?
0064 Can you build a puffer train?
0065 ...Do you know what this is?
0066 You can play music on your
printer?
0067 ...On your disk drive?
0068 ...On your tape drive?
0069 Do you have a Snoopy calendar?
0070 ...Is it outdated?
0071 Do you have pictures printed
on the printer?
0072 ...Mona Lisa?
0073...Enterprise?
0074 ... Einstein?
0075 ... Oliver?
0076 You can print pictures on a printer
tere?
0077 Do you know what the following means?
what?
0078...DASD
0079...Emacs
0080...ITS
0081...RSTS/E
0082...SNA
0083...Spool
0084 ... TCP/IP
Have you ever used0085...TPU?
0086...TECO?
0087 ... Emacs?
0088...ed?
0089...vi?
0090 ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)?
0091...SOS?
0092...EDT?
0093...Wordstar?
0094 Have you ever written CLIST?
Have you ever programmed in
0095 ... window system X?
0096...CICS?
0097 Have you ever received a fax?
photocopy of floppy?
0098 Have you ever shown a newbie
"any" key?
0099 ... Was that the power switch?
Have you ever practiced
0100...Usenix?
0101...DECUS?
0102...SHARE?
0103...SIGGRAPH?
0104...NetCon?
0105 Have you ever taken part in
standard groups?
0106 Have you ever debugged a machine?
codes over the phone?
0107 Have you ever seen a sound
mail?
0108 ...Could you hear her?
0109 You solve crossword puzzles with
dialogue dictionary?
0110 Did you do the Turing test?
0111...Are you mistaken?
0112 You dropped the punch card device
in?
0113 ...Did you successfully put it back?
0114 ... Without looking?
0115 Have you ever used IPCS?
0116 You had to remove the box with the pi-
vom from your computer?
(other translation: Have you ever chosen
beer using your computer?)
0117 You were redoing flowers
on your computer?
0118Ever been interrupted by UPS?
0119 Ever masked NMI?
0120 Have you ever disabled Halon sys-
tem?
0121 ...Intentionally?
0122 ...Are you still working there?
0123 Have you ever touched the main
power switch?
0124 ...Intentionally?
0125 You have all sorts of unnecessary documents
tation?
0126 ...Are you still reading it?
0127 Ever disassembled a program
rammu?
0128 ... Did you find any errors in it?
0129 Ever helped someone working
at the computer to a person located
living behind him?
0130 Have you ever tried to install
Should I get a stand for my phone?
0131 Have you ever abandoned your computer?
higher than from the second floor?
0132 Ever changed the delivery route
chick without admitting it?
0133 Ever solved jelly problems -
for" programmatically?
0134 ...And vice versa?
0135 Ever dealt with groups
user support?
0136 Ever mentioned in "Compu -
thorny entertainment"?
0137 Your activities were mentioned in
newspapers?
0138 ...And you had to after that
get away?
0139 You had to attract attention
making noise in the bushes?
0140 You had to write comments
in a foreign language?
0141 Physically break"hardware" from prog-
ramm?
0142 Have you ever tried to improve your
hacker test scores?
0143 Do you have breakfast with the listing?
0144 ...Sleep with him?
0145 Ever corrected a bug in
microcode?
0146 ...And next door to her?
0147 You can program on ma-
Turing bus?
0148 You can convert post -
fix to prefix in your mind?
0149 You can convert hexadecimal
decimal number to octal number
mind?
0150 You know how to use Kleene
star?
0151 Have you ever been left hungry-
after dinner with a philosopher?
0152 You solved very difficult ones (literally:
stopping) problems?
0153 ...And right?
0154 Ever found yourself in a dead end,
eating spaghetti?
0155 Have you ever written self-reproducing
current programs?
0156 Have you ever unloaded in your
program?
0157 You can read government
diagrams?
0158 ... Do you need them?
0159 Ever created an undeletable
program?
0160...Intentionally?
0161 Ever asked for cookies?
0162 Ever increased the speed in
system by deleting JMPs?
*You know...
0163 Do you know who wrote to Rog?
0164...Rogomatic?
0165 Do you know what code gray is?
0166 You knowWhat does HCF stand for?
0167 ...Ever used this?
0168 ...Intentionally?
0169 Do you know what lace pe-
rfocard?
0170 ... How to make it?
0171 Do you know the end of the world?
0172 ...Have you ever met him?
0173 ... And at the same time you rewrote
code?
0174 Do you know the difference between DTE and
DCE?
0175 You know the location of the pins
RS-232C?
0176 ... You can connect contacts
without looking?
*Do you have...
0177 Do you have a copy of Dec Wars?
0178 You have a canonical collection
light bulb jokes?
0179 You have a copy of the hacker word-
rya?
0180 ...Are you distributing it?
0181 Do you have a color template?
0182 ...And you don't use it?
0183 You have your own file
any successful pastry recipes?
0184 You have your own spontaneous
cookbook?
0185 ...Sometimes something comes out of her-
eat?
0186 Are you the owner of the modem?
0187 ... terminal?
0188 ...toy computer?
0189 ... personal computer?
0190 ... minicomputer?
0191 ... large computer?
0192 ... supercomputer?
0193 ... hypercube?
0194 ... printer?
0195 ... laser printer?
0196 ...tape drive?
0197 ... other peripheral device
stva?0198 You have a programmable calculator
lator?
0199...Is this RPN?
0200 Have you ever owned more than
1 computer?
0201 ... 4 computers?
0202 ... 16 computers?
0203 Do you have a SLIP line?
0204 ... T1 line?
0205 Do you have a separate telephone for
your computer?
0206 ...Is he legit?
0207 Do you have RAM?
0208 ... drum memory?
0209 ... bubble memory?
0210 You are using more than 256 ki-
Lobyte of disk space?
0211 ... 256 megabytes?
0212 ... 1 gigabyte?
0213 ... 16 gigabytes?
0214 ... 256 gigabytes?
0215 ... 1 terabyte?
0216 Do you have an optical drive?
0217 You have a personal library
on magnetic tape?
0218 ...Is she not marked?
0219 Do you have more than 16 floppy disks?
0220...64 floppy disks?
0221...256 floppies?
0222 ... 1024 floppies?
0223 Do you have any 8-inch
your disks?
0224 Do you have an internal stack?
0225 Do you have timer interrupts?
0226 You have three volumes of "Art
programming"?
0227 ...Have you done all the exercises?
0228 ... Do you have a MIX emulator?
0229 ...You know what they call non-
written volumes?
0230 You can quote "Mythics -
what man-month?
0231 ...And you participated in the projectOS/360?
0232 Do you have a manual for TTL?
0233 You have printouts of more than
three years ago?
*Profession
0234 Do you have a job?
0235 ...Have you ever had a job?
0236...It was connected to the computer-
mi?
0237 You have an irregular worker
day?
0238 Have you ever been a systemic
administrator?
0239 You have more megabytes than me-
Gabakov?
0240 Have you ever lowered the level
your work to improve your
productive power?
0241 Is your work classified?
0242 ... Do you have a code to confirm
die it?
0243 Have you ever had a safe
cleaning?
*Games
0244 Have you ever played Pong?
Have you ever played
0246...Spacewar?
0247...Star Trek?
0248...Wumpus?
0249...Lunar Lander?
0250...Empire?
Have you ever managed to beat
0251 ... Moriah 4.8?
0252 ...Rogu 3.6?
0253 ...Rogu 5.3?
0254...Larn?
0255 ... Hack 1.0.3?
0256 ...Nethak 2.4?
0257 You can score more points in
Rogu than Rogomatic?
0258 Have you ever played Adventure
nia?
0259...Zork?
0260 Have you ever written any
be the code "red"?
0261 Have you ever written a game
program?0262 ... working in real scale
time?
0263 ... for multiple players?
0264 ... for playing online?
0265 You can do without a doctor
Eliza?
* "Iron"
0266 Have you ever used fresh
your pen?
0267 ...Did you make it?
Have you ever used
0268 ... teletype?
0269 ... paper tape?
0270...decrayer?
0271 ...punch card device?
0272...SOL?
Have you ever done
0273...Altair?
0274 ... Het/Zenith computer?
Do you know how to use
0275 ... oscilloscope?
0276 ...voltmeter?
0277 ...frequency meter?
0278 ... logic probe?
0279 ...electrician's tools?
0280 ... solder iron?
0281 ... logic analyzer?
0282 Have you ever designed
LSI chip?
0283 ... and was it made?
0284 Have you ever etched pe-
chat fee?
* History
0285 Have you ever corrected the download
full code from the front panel?
0286...from memory?
0287 You can program for ma-
ENIAC tires?
0288 Have you ever seen a punched card in
90 positions?
* IBM
0289 You had to list in a dream
IBM device numbers?
0290 Do you know what it means in the car
IBM number 7320154?
0291 Do you understand flowsdevice data
stva 3270?
0292 Do you know what access rights are?
VM?
0293 You booted IBM from magnetic tape
are you?
0294 ... from card input?
0295 You can sing something from the song
IBM haymaker?
*Languages
0296 You know more than 4 programming languages
framing?
0297...8 languages?
0298 ... 16 languages?
0299 ... 32 languages?
0300 Have you ever created a language?
programming?
0301 Do you know what Basic means?
0302...Pascal?
0303 You can program on Bay-
sike?
0304 ...And you recognize him?
0305 You can program in Kobo-
le?
0306 ...Do you deny it?
0307 Do you know Pascal?
0308 ...Modulu-2?
0309 ... Oberon?
0310 ... More than two Nikolaus languages
Virta?
0311 ...You can recite it by heart
Nikolaus Wirth jokes?
0312 Do you know Algol-60?
0313...Algol-W?
0314...Algol-68?
0315 ...You understand ALGOL messages
68?
0316 ... Do you like two-level
grammar?
0317 You can program on ac-
sampler on two different machines?
0318...on 4 different machines?
0319...on 8 different machines?
you know
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?
0334...MUMPS?
0335 ...PL/I?
0336...Pilot?
0337...Plato?
0338...Prolog?
0339...RPG?
0340 ... Rexx (or ARexx)?
0341...SETL?
0342...Smalltalk?
0343...Snobol?
0344...VHDL?
0345 ... some assembler?
0346 Are you talking about VT-100?
0347...Postscript?
0348...SMTP?
0349...UUCP?
0350...English?
* Micro
0351 Ever copied protected
from copying the disk?
0352 Ever created a system for
copy shields?
0353 Have you ever done a flippy
disk?
0354 Have you ever restored
data from a damaged disk?
0355 Ever loaded with "undressed"
ho" floppy?
* Networking
0356 Have you ever registered
in two different time zones
at the same time?
0357 Do you remember the UUCP card for your
countries?
0358 ...For any country?
0359 Have you ever found errors in
email?
0360 ... Was this a security hole?
0361 Do you remember the table from HOSTS.TXT?
0362 ...Did you change it?
0363 You can name all the ser-
top-level beliefs and their addresses
sa?
0364 YouDo you know RFC-822 by heart?
0365...You can list everything
are there any errors in it?
0366 You wrote a configuration file for
email?
0367 ...Did it work?
0368 ...You had to mumble in
dream "defocus"?
0369 Do you know the existence time of poppy
simal package?
* Operating systems
You can use
0370...BSD Unix?
0371 ... non-BSD Unix?
0372...AIX
0373 ... VM/CMS?
0374...VMS?
0375...MVS?
0376...VSE?
0377 ...RSTS/E?
0378...CP/M?
0379...COS?
0380...NOS?
0381...CP-67?
0382...RT-11?
0383 ... MS-DOS?
0384 ... Finder?
0385...PRODOS?
0386 ...more than one OS for TRS-80?
0387 ... Top-10?
0388 ... Tops-20?
0389...OS-9?
0390 ...OS/2?
0391 ...AOS/VS?
0392...Multics?
0393...ITS?
0394...Vulcan?
0395 Have you ever had to de-
upload to magnetic tape?
0396 ... for a rotary hammer?
0397 ... on a teletype?
0398 ... to network (distributed)
disk?
0399 Have you ever found errors in
operating system?
0400...Have you used them?
0401 ...Have you reported them?
0402 ...And your messages were ignored?
0403 Have you ever driven a car?
to collapse?
0404 ...Intentionally?
* People
0405 Do you know anyoneperson?
0406 ... more than one?
0407 ... more than two?
*You personally
0408 Are your shoelaces coming undone?
0409 Are you familiar with foreigners?
0410 You can list half a dozen
computer phone numbers
systems, but you can’t name yours
own?
0411 Do you start working before breakfast?
0412 You eat more than diners -
like LD-50 per day?
0413 You answer two opposite
new question "yes"?
0414 Do you have copies of the latest manuals?
management for any operation
on system?
0415 ... *every* operating manual
rational system?
0416 Other people are experiencing difficulties
in your usual environment?
0417 You dream in one of the languages
programming?
0418 You find it difficult to concentrate on three
dimensional objects?
0419 Do you ignore mice?
0420 Do you despise the CAPS LOCK key?
0421 Do you believe that the concept of "menu"
does it apply to restaurants?
0422 Do you have a Mandelbrot hanging on your wall?
0423 You decorate bobbins with magnetic
tape or punch cards?
0424 There are plates hanging in your house
from disks or "stripped" floppy?
0425 Have you ever seen the sunrise
at work?
0426 ...Two days in a row?
0427 You are using "foobar"everyone
day in conversations?
0428 ... "bletch"?
0429 Are you using the "P-convention"?
0430 You automatically answer anyone -
fight user question with
RTFM?
0431 ... Do you know what this method is?
0432 You come up with a way to collect mu-
trash in memory?
0433 You have problems with distribution
dividing the horizontal simple
damage in your room or office
re?
0434 You bump into women while reading
Scientific American?
0435 Your license card is linked
with a computer?
0436 Have you ever taken a test for
purity?
0437 Have you ever experimented with
with the processor turned off?
0438 Have you ever installed on
computer switches in the factory
is my position wrong?
0439 You were talking to another person
via computer?
* Programming
0440 You can write a For-
country?
0441 ... And what about TECO?
0442 Can you read a machine dump?
0443 Can you disassemble in your head?
Have you ever written
0444 ... compiler?
0445 ... operating system?
0446...driver?
0447 ...text editor?
0448 ...image output?
0449 ...DBMS?
0450 ... expert system?
0451 ... edge detector?
0452 ... systemreal control
time?
0453 ...accounting package?
0454 ... virus?
0455 ...antivirus?
0456 Have you ever written a program?
to calculate biorhythms?
0457 ...Did you sell it?
0458 ... Was the idea of this program yours?
0459 Have you ever calculated a number
"pi" with more accuracy than you -
a thousand characters?
0460... number e?
0461 Ever found a prime number
more than a hundred characters?
0462 Have you ever written a self-modifying
quoting code?
0463 ...And were you proud of it?
0464 Have you ever managed to write
write a program that works correctly
from the first launch?
0465 ... Was it longer than 20 lines?
0466 ... 100 lines?
0467 ...Was written in assembly language?
0468 ... Worked correctly even with the second
launch?
0469 You can solve the problem "Hanoi
tower" using recursion?
0470 ... Without recursion?
0471 ... Using a text formatter
Troff?
0472 Have you ever submitted to -
pre-context input in Obfuscated
C?
0473 ... And did they benefit from this?
0474 ... Your input was inspired by new ones
rules?
0475 Do you know Duff's device?
0476 Do you know Jensen's device?
0477 Ever spent ten minutes
to find an error from one sim-
ox?
0478 ...More than an hour?0479 ... More than a day?
0480...More than a week?
0481 ... And the very first person immediately
did you discover?
* Unix
0482 You can use Berkeley
Unix?
0483 .. Not Berkeley Unix?
0484 You can indicate the differences between
sections 4 and 5 of the manual
Unix?
0485 You can find documentation on
TERMIO System V release 2?
0486 Have you ever installed on
Unix file system tape?
0487 Have you ever created Minix?
0488 You can answer correctly
questions "quiz function ed-comm-
mand"?
0489 ... About the "quiz ed-command fun" itself
ction"?
* User networks
0490 Do you read the news?
0491 ...More than 32 news sections?
0492 ... More than 256 sections of new
tey?
0493 ... All news sections?
0494 Have you ever sent articles?
0495 ...Do you send them regularly?
0496 Have you ever sent anything
be, caught fire with something?
0497 ... Sent to a variety of addresses -
yourself?
0498 ...Burning with blue fire?
0499 ...Do you catch fire regularly?
0500 Have you ever sent your
program in the news section?
0501 Ever forgotten something
send?
0502 Ever formed a new
affairsnews?
0503 ...And it still exists?
0504 Do you remember
0505... mod.ber?
0506 ...the Stupid People's Court?
0507... Bandy-grams?
* Quirks
0508 Have you ever done black
box?
0509 You can call everyone "colored"
boxes?
0510 ... and describe their functions?
0511 Your contact phone number is 16
DTMF buttons?
0512 Dissolution MaBell would provide you with
a very convenient opportunity?
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