Author: JT Smith
Eric S. Raymond writes: “I have released a new Web version of the Jargon File, available at
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/>.This version 4.3.0 is intended specifically to recognize and honor the
wonderfully insane hackers of the Bergen Linux User’s Group in Bergen,
Norway. In perpetrating the world’s first implementation of RFC1149
(“A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”)
they have pulled off what may just be the funniest, cleverest hack of
the last fifteen years.
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/>.This version 4.3.0 is intended specifically to recognize and honor the
wonderfully insane hackers of the Bergen Linux User’s Group in Bergen,
Norway. In perpetrating the world’s first implementation of RFC1149
(“A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”)
they have pulled off what may just be the funniest, cleverest hack of
the last fifteen years.
Gentlemen, I salute you. You have been added to Appendix A as the
latest in a string of classic examples of the hack as art form.”
