Hacker

Hacker may refer to:

Technology

  • Hacker (term), a term used in computing that can describe several types of persons
  • Hacker (computer security), someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network
  • Hacker culture, a subculture focusing on intellectual and creative aspects of hacking
  • Entertainment

  • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, 1984 book by Stephen Levy
  • Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age, 1985 video documentary inspired by the book
  • Hacker (video game), 1985 puzzle/strategy computer game by Activision
  • Hacker (card game), 1992 Steve Jackson Games release
  • Hackers (anthology), a 1996 anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
  • Hackers (film), 1995 MGM film starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie
  • Hacker culture

    The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming and circumventing limitations of systems to achieve novel and clever outcomes. The act of engaging in activities (such as programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration is termed "hacking". However, the defining characteristic of a hacker is not the activities performed themselves (e.g. programming), but the manner in which it is done: hacking entails some form of excellence, for example exploring the limits of what is possible, thereby doing something exciting and meaningful. Activities of playful cleverness can be said to have "hack value" and are termed "hacks" (examples include pranks at MIT intended to demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness). The hacker culture originally emerged in academia in the 1960s around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

    Hacker (game)

    Hacker (game) may refer to:

  • Hacker (video game), 1985 computer game by Activision
  • Hacker (card game), 1992 Steve Jackson Games release

  • Adamant

    Adamant and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμαστος (adamastos), meaning "untameable". Adamantite and adamantium (a metallic name derived from the Neo-Latin ending -ium) are also common variants.

    Adamantine has, throughout ancient history, referred to anything that was made of a very hard material. Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine (Aeneid book VI). Later, by the Middle Ages, the term came to refer to diamond, as it was the hardest material then known, and remains the hardest non-synthetic material known.

    It was in the Middle Ages, too, that adamantine hardness and the lodestone's magnetic properties became confused and combined, leading to an alternate definition in which "adamant" means magnet, falsely derived from the Latin adamare, which means to love or be attached to. Another connection was the belief that adamant (the diamond definition) could block the effects of a magnet. This was addressed in chapter III of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, for instance.

    Stahlmann

    Stahlmann is a German band that formed in 2008 in Göttingen, Germany. It is in the genre of Neue Deutsche Härte.

    History

    Martin Soer, the vocalist of the band, met Alexander Scharfe, the guitarist, and both soon realized that they like the same kind of music, Neue Deutsche Härte. Later that year, they started the band, Stahlmann, and started writing their own songs.

    They soon met Tobias Berkefeld, who also owned a guitar. After having the members in the band, they decide to do a live performance. For concerts, they invite a third guitarist and drummer.

    At this time, the group had no name. The idea arose while eating at a barbecue. "Actually, we were sitting in front of Alex and barbecuing and I was just thinking, 'OK, the name should somehow represent us,' and then it came by itself." says lead singer, Martin.

    Thus the concept for their band was formed. Before concerts, all three members would paint themselves silver paint, wear black suits, and use heavy lighting.

    In 2009, their debut EP, Herzschlag, got to the top twenty in German alternative charts and settled there for four weeks. Thanks to this, another group noticed them and invited them to tour with bands such as Doro, In Extremo, and Saltatio Mortis. They also worked in Göttingen in concerts, opening for Eisbrecher, and that is where they found their audience.

    Adamant (disambiguation)

    Adamant is a poetic term used to refer to any especially hard substance. It may also refer to:

  • Adam Adamant Lives!, a BBC television series in the 1960s
  • Adam Ant (born 1954), New Romantic singer of the 1980s
  • HMS Adamant, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • Adamant (film), a 2011 short film by Giacomo Mantovani
  • Adamant, Vermont
  • USS Adamant (AMc-62), an Accentor-class minesweeper in the United States Navy during World War II
  • Adamant Co., Ltd., a Japanese company
  • Adamant, an iron barque (sailing ship) that brought immigrants to New Zealand in the late 19th century
  • Adamant, an album by the German band Stahlmann
  • Adamant, a cement plaster named after the producing company in the early 20th century
  • See also

  • Adamantane, a bulky hydrocarbon
  • Adamantine (veneer), a veneer developed by The Celluloid Manufacturing Company of New York City
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