1337 is sort of a self referential term. It pretty much grew out of the AOL, uh, culture of chatting, etc, as far as I know. 1337 translates to "leet" which translates to elite. In some circles (12 year old wanna be hackers), it is a term of praise. In others (real geeks) it is a term of ridicule. Leet-speak is typing using funny characters, 43nc3. I obviously don't know much of it. You often see it used in online first person shooter games, as in "1 0wn2orD y3r @$$ 1u23R!"
I'm sure someone else could speak to this in a more educated fashion.
Ok this isn't fully true... I haven't written in "l337" (or l33t) in ages... and it isn't a term of praise or "OH MY GOD YOU'RE AMAZING", but it's not a term of ridicule either... To me and my friends that use it, it's basically just "cool", or "that's l337", etc. To each their own.
As for CD - MP3.
Cdex, Cdex, Cdex. It's a geeky program, with a geek interface... It was updated recently, but man, it's meant for geeks, and any good geek can update lame drivers now and then
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