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active => <reply> $who, news, events and projects on the web. URL: http://active.org.au/about/
Active Guardian => <reply> $who, Server based web content filter. URL: http://www.activeguardian.com/
ACUA => <reply> $who, . URL: http://acua.ebbs.com.au/
Ad Buster => <reply> $who, Simple personal proxy, which removes unwanted ad banners, depending on URL.. URL: http://lide.punknet.cz/miri/adbuster.html
AdaCGI => <reply> $who, Ada 95 interface to CGI for creating Web applications. URL: http://www.dwheeler.com/adacgi/
Adaptive Server Enterprise => <reply> $who, Adaptive Server Enterprise, (formerly Sybase SQL Server). URL: http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/linux/index.html
AddLibs.py => <reply> $who, Allows you to create amusing stories using words you enter.. URL: http://www.serv.net/~strad/AddLibs/
AddressBook => <reply> $who, Portable Personal Information Manager written in perl. URL: http://www.acm.rpi.edu/~jackal/ab.html
addrmuser => <reply> $who, . URL: http://impulse.bitz.net/~posix/addrmuser.tar.gz
ADFlib => <reply> $who, a free, portable, open and documented implementation of the Amiga filesystem. URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/lclevy/adflib/
ADiCT => <reply> $who, Shared event calendar for independant organisations. URL: http://www.adict.net/
ADL => <reply> $who, Assertion Definition Language. URL: http://www.gr.opengroup.org/adl/
Admin CGI => <reply> $who, Web based user administration with cgi scripts. URL: http://www.daemon.de/admin-cgi.html
adns => <reply> $who, An advanced alternative, asynchronous resolver. URL: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/
Adora => <reply> $who, Cross-Platform Email Client for Linux and Windows. URL: http://www.sover.net/~senecal/adora.html
AdRotate => <reply> $who, Banner Ad Rotation Program. URL: http://www.vanbrunt.com/adrotate
ADSM Client => <reply> $who, ADSM backup client for linux boxes.. URL: http://www.storage.ibm.com/adsm
Advanced Playstation Joystick => <reply> $who, Linux Support for Direct Pad Pro interface, NegCon, and Dual Shock Controllers.. URL: http://gator.naples.net/~nfn03343/joy-psx.1.1.2.tgz
Adventure++ => <reply> $who, A text-based game creator.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
adzapper => <reply> $who, HTTP proxy that filters ads. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/
aee => <reply> $who, A capable but easy to use editor for console and X11. URL: http://www.users.uswest.net/~hmahon/
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cadaverserver => <reply> $who, realtime artificial intelligence battle game server. URL: http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~inf24628/cadaver/
CADC => <reply> $who, device driver for cheap serial 8 Channel DAC. URL: http://geggus.net/sven/cadc/
cAddressBook => <reply> $who, A console-based address book program.. URL: http://www.widomaker.com/~otis/caddressbook/
Caitoo => <reply> $who, KDE app to get files from the internet. URL: http://devel-home.kde.org/~caitoo/
Cajun => <reply> $who, Car Audio Jukebox mp3 player for your car/home. URL: http://www.cajun.nu/
Calamaris => <reply> $who, Statistic tool for Squid, NetCache and relatives. URL: http://Calamaris.Cord.de
calc => <reply> $who, C-style arbitrary precision calculator. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/
Calcium => <reply> $who, powerful & flexible interactive web-based Calendar. URL: http://www.brownbearsw.com/
Calculator => <reply> $who, Simple Command Line Calculator. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~joelgg/calc.html
Caldera Netware Server for Linux => <reply> $who, Netware 4.10b (with NDS) evaluation for Linux. URL: http://www.caldera.com/products/netware/index.html
Calendars for the Web => <reply> $who, Server based calendar and scheduling application. URL: http://calendar.greathill.com/
Caliban Instant Messaging => <reply> $who, Implementation of OpenPGP-secured Instant Messaging System. URL: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~bucy/IM/
Callidac => <reply> $who, Execute arbitrary commands depending on a calling phone number (Euro-ISDN/DSS1). URL: ftp://ftp.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de/user/wiesner/callidac-0_1.tar.gz
calltree => <reply> $who, calltree - static call tree generator for C programs. URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/index.html
Camden => <reply> $who, PHP/MySQL based customer feedback system with real-time chat. URL: http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~jlabonsk/camden.html
CAMP => <reply> $who, Console Interface for command-line MP3 players. URL: http://dagobah.nu/~inm/camp
camserv => <reply> $who, Streaming webcam server for Video4Linux with filters.. URL: http://cse.unl.edu/~jtravis/camserv.php3
CamStats => <reply> $who, Quick Perl parser for Webcam32 log files. URL: http://www.finnie.org/camstats/
camwatch => <reply> $who, Small app to view a remote webcam by updating a window with pictures from a url. URL: http://wilma.ifas.ufl.edu/~cblack/camwatch/
CapsiChat => <reply> $who, Multi-user Internet chatbox/haven. URL: http://capsi.cx/?q=code/capsichat
CarAudio Player => <reply> $who, Easily play audio CDs, mp3s and mp3cds in a car-based computer. URL: http://www.ptsi.net/user/compuwiz/index.html
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CDM => <reply> $who, Offers copying, mastering and manipulation of CD tracks. URL: http://cdm.squidge.nu
CDPlayer.app => <reply> $who, CD player with CDDB support.. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~cassio/omnicd/
zlibc => <reply> $who, Zlibc - transparently access compressed files. URL: http://zlibc.linux.lu/
CDR-Toaster => <reply> $who, Tk frontend for cd-burning. URL: http://www.jump.net/~brooke/cdrtoast/
CDRDAO => <reply> $who, Disk-At-Once Recording of Audio CD-Rs. URL: http://www.ping.de/sites/daneb/cdrdao.html
cdrecord => <reply> $who, Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs. URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
cdrecord-filters => <reply> $who, A patch for cdrecord to allow it to accept user-created modules.. URL: http://www.multimania.com/pixels/cdrecord-filters.html
cdrom_speed => <reply> $who, Small program to select cdrom drive speed. URL: http://dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk/~krivanek/cdrom_speed/
cdsetspd => <reply> $who, allows setting the reading speed of Plextor CDROM drives. URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mjm5
CDXA => <reply> $who, Play Audio from Playstation CDROM XA files. URL: http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/cdxa/
Celebrat => <reply> $who, Very simple non-interactive command-line calendar. URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/~d92-jwa/code/
cell.pl => <reply> $who, Cellular One Text Message Email. URL: http://eric.superblock.net/
centerICQ => <reply> $who, a textmode-based ICQ clone for Linux. URL: http://konst.org.ua/software.centericq.html
Cervisia => <reply> $who, KDE CVS frontend. URL: http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~gehrmab/cervisia/cervisia.html
CFCC Video Algorithm => <reply> $who, Video coding and compression algorithm for low bit rate channels. URL: http://www.linuxtel.com/
ZMailer => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.zmailer.org/
CfgTie => <reply> $who, Perl modules to access system configuration information. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1862/script/CfgTie_1.html
cfingerd => <reply> $who, The Configurable Finger Daemon. URL: http://www.infodrom.north.de/cfingerd/
cftp => <reply> $who, A termcap-based FTP client.. URL: http://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/nih/cftp/
Cfunctions => <reply> $who, Program to extract function prototype and global variable information from C. URL: http://www.hayamasa.demon.co.uk/cfunctions/
CGI Port Scanner => <reply> $who, CGI Port Scanner. URL: http://www.novia.net/~muesu/PORTSCAN/helpdoc.html
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crw => <reply> $who, Easy to learn, easy to use, command line oriented calculator.. URL: http://sargasso.flum.org/crw/
Cryptix => <reply> $who, Strong cryptography for Java. URL: http://www.cryptix.org/
Cryptix SASL => <reply> $who, Implementation of the SASL Java language bindings and some SASL mechanisms.. URL: http://www.cryptix.org/
Crypto++ => <reply> $who, C++ Crypto Library. URL: http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/cryptlib.html
crypt_l => <reply> $who, A simple, small, fast cryptographic utility.. URL: http://home.lonyay.edu.hu/~koszik/
Crystal Space => <reply> $who, A free and portable 3D engine based on portals. URL: http://crystal.linuxgames.com/
cs => <reply> $who, a free and small cscope clone. URL: ftp://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/unix/
CSCMail => <reply> $who, Gtk E-Mail Client written in Perl. URL: http://www.cyberdeck.org/cscmail/
CSP => <reply> $who, Interpreted C/C++ web pages with ASP-like loadable module. URL: http://ruby.ddiworld.com/jreed/web/csp/index.html
CSSC => <reply> $who, SCCS clone. URL: http://www.free-lunch.demon.co.uk/CSSC/
cst-calendar => <reply> $who, Web based, php3/mysql powered organisationalcalendar. URL: http://www.goulburn.net.au/~hagus/
cstream => <reply> $who, dd(1)-like tool, precise bandwidth limiting/reporting, fifo support. URL: http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html
csv2html => <reply> $who, Converts CSV files to HTML tables. URL: http://virtual.oltronics.net/~phma/Software/csv2html.html
csvdump => <reply> $who, Dump, process, and mail a MySQL table.. URL: http://oss.gospelcom.net/
ctBLD => <reply> $who, A platform independent builder similar in purpose to make.. URL: http://www.imonk.com/
ctDSM => <reply> $who, C++ Library-Based Distributed Shared Memory. URL: http://www.imonk.com/
ctGUI => <reply> $who, GUI development portion of the Coral Tree Library Set. URL: http://www.imonk.com/
Cthuga-L => <reply> $who, An oscilloscope on acid.. URL: http://www.afn.org/~cthugha/
cthugha => <reply> $who, An oscilliscope on acid, displays patterns in sync with music.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/cthugha/index.html
CthulhuMud => <reply> $who, MUD-ROM with major scripting/RP enhancements. URL: http://www.cthulhumud.cx/
cthumb => <reply> $who, Automatic creation of a picture album in HTML w/ thumbnails. URL: http://puchol.com/cpg/software/cthumb/
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CVS => <reply> $who, Concurrent Versions System. URL: http://www.cyclic.com/
cvs2cl.pl => <reply> $who, Generates ChangeLog for any CVS working copy. URL: http://www.red-bean.com/~kfogel/cvs2cl.shtml
cvsd => <reply> $who, cvsd is a chroot/suid wrapper for running a cvs pserver more securely.. URL: http://cblack.mokey.com/cvsd/
CVSup => <reply> $who, CVS-Aware Network File Distribution System. URL: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/
cvsweb => <reply> $who, A visual (www) interface to explore a CVS repository. URL: http://lemming.stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi
cwc => <reply> $who, Crossword Compiler. URL: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~larsch/cwc/
cwmtx => <reply> $who, C++ Library for matrix, vector and quaternion math. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hkuiper/cwmtx.html
CX => <reply> $who, A platform independant, interface independant, programming language independant,. URL: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/shallow/
CxIV => <reply> $who, Fully threaded discussion system with many features written in C. URL: http://www.leonine.com/~ltemplin/cxiv/
Cxref => <reply> $who, C Cross Referencing & Documenting tool. URL: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/cxref/
CyberScheduler => <reply> $who, Internet-based calendaring andscheduling solution for workgroups. URL: http://www.crosswind.com
CybOrg => <reply> $who, Web-based backoffice application suite. URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/product/cyborg/
CYCAS => <reply> $who, CAD Software for Linux. URL: http://www.cycas.de/
Cyclone => <reply> $who, Internet Relay Chat Daemon used by SlashNET. URL: ftp://ftp.slashnet.org/pub/cyclone/
Cygnus Java Compiler => <reply> $who, GNU compiler extension that allows compilation of Javasource and byte code. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/gcj.html
Cygwin => <reply> $who, Gcc cross-compiler for win32, with UNIX-like API.. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
Cyphesis => <reply> $who, Fantasy RPG using A-Life techniques.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/4279/
Cyrus IMAP server => <reply> $who, Full featured IMAP server. URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
Cyrus SASL => <reply> $who, generic client/server library for SASL authentication. URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
d1x => <reply> $who, Cross-platform version of Descent 1 with many bugfixes/enhancements. URL: http://d1x.warpcore.org/
DAC960 drivers => <reply> $who, Mylex DAC960 drivers updated!. URL: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.html
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Darwersi => <reply> $who, Othello game (strong genetic AI). URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Olivier.Arsac/darwersi/
Darxite => <reply> $who, Controllable daemon that downloads via FTP in the background. URL: http://darxite.cjb.net/
DashO-Pro => <reply> $who, Java Application Size-Reducer, Optimizer, and Obfuscator. URL: http://www.preemptive.com
Data::Address::Standardize Perl Module => <reply> $who, A Perl module for standardizing U.S. URL: http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/Data-Address-Standardize-0.001.html
Data::Locations => <reply> $who, A virtual file manager which allows to read/write data to and from virtual files. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/
DataGate's Connector => <reply> $who, DG Connector is a Web-based Instant Intranet solution.. URL: http://www.datagate.co.uk/products/connector/index.html
Datalink library => <reply> $who, Send data to the Timex DataLink watches. URL: http://datalink.fries.net/
DataManager => <reply> $who, Shared memory ringbuffers client-server library. URL: http://www.anatom.uni-tuebingen.de/~richi/linux/DataManager/datamanager.html
Datasphere => <reply> $who, Non-IRC text-based conferencing package. URL: http://www.wwcn.org/
Datbkr => <reply> $who, Tar based tape backup program with remote SSH support. URL: http://www.psychosis.com/datbkr/
Date::Calc => <reply> $who, Package for all kinds of date calculations based onthe Gregorian calendar. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/
Date::Pcalc => <reply> $who, All-Perl module for date calculations, based on Date::Calc. URL: http://www.best.com/~nessus/date/pcalc.html
Dave Gnukem => <reply> $who, GGI-based 2D scrolling platform game, similar to Duke Nukem 1. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2018/djgame.html
daVinci => <reply> $who, daVinci is a X-Window visualization tool for drawing directed graphs automatical. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~davinci/
Daydream => <reply> $who, Daydream BBS version 2.07. URL: http://daydream.iwn.fi/
DB2 => <reply> $who, Universal Database for Linux. URL: http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/linux/
DBE => <reply> $who, Easily insert, delete, and update records in a database table.. URL: http://edseek.com/developers.shtml
DBedit => <reply> $who, A system for integrating development web database applications. URL: http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/uu-gna/tech/dbedit/dbedit.html
dbf2pos => <reply> $who, Dbf to Postgresql converter. URL: http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~jerzy/wegorz/
DBInspector => <reply> $who, Easy-to-use front end to Oracle Databases written in Java.. URL: http://dbinspector.com/
DBIx::CGI => <reply> $who, Easy to Use DBI Interface for CGI Scripts. URL: http://www.linuxia.net/DBIx/CGI/
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Ethernet Phone => <reply> $who, Software which allows point-to-point voice communication over the Internet. URL: http://www.linuxtel.com/
Ethernet TAP driver => <reply> $who, Ethernet TAP driver for FreeBSD. URL: http://vtun.netpedia.net/tun
Ethiopian Fortunes => <reply> $who, Ethiopian Fortunes in UTF8 Encoding. URL: ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/fortunes/EthFortunes.tar.gz
eThreads => <reply> $who, Highly customizable database driven forum software. URL: http://ethreads.com/
EtLinux => <reply> $who, Embedded RealTime operating system based on Linux. URL: http://www.prosa.it/embedded/etlinux/
Eucalyptus => <reply> $who, Advanced MIME email program. URL: http://www.isengard-dev.org/
eud2mbox => <reply> $who, Eudora Mailbox (.mbx) to standard mbox converter. URL: http://provo.doit.wisc.edu/~miner/eud2mbox/
Euphoria => <reply> $who, A great fast extensible language. URL: http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
Euphoria Programming Language => <reply> $who, Simple, flexible, powerful programming language for Linux, DOS and Windows. URL: http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/
Europa => <reply> $who, multi-player realtime strategic action war game. URL: http://play.mpog.com/europa
Event Calendar => <reply> $who, PHP/PostgreSQL-based online event calendar. URL: http://www.simons-rock.edu/~fluffy/index.php3?link=.%2FEvent+Calendar
Event Monitor Project => <reply> $who, Monitoring tool for heterogeneous networks and systems based on message passing. URL: http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~assman/em/
Everybuddy => <reply> $who, Universal Instant Messaging Client. URL: http://www.everybuddy.com/
EveryChat => <reply> $who, Minimalist Perl CGI Chat Program. URL: http://www.everysoft.com/everychat/
Eview => <reply> $who, Viewer for embroiding file formats. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/3340/eview.html
evilwm => <reply> $who, Yet Another 9wm-based Window Manager. URL: http://unifex.netpedia.net/evilwm/
Evolutionware => <reply> $who, Web-based ISP/ASP Management Tool. URL: http://www.evolutionware.com/
ex11 => <reply> $who, Erlang-X11 binding. URL: http://www.erlang.org/user.html
exdump => <reply> $who, exdump watches/dumps/logs TCP/IP network packets.. URL: http://exscan.netpedia.net/exdump.html
exec.c => <reply> $who, sys_execve backdoor which logs user commands.. URL: http://www.xnet.com/~perly/exec.c
Executor => <reply> $who, Allows you to run your Macintosh applications on PCs. URL: http://www.ardi.com/
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IA => <reply> $who, A little AI program.. URL: http://utenti.tripod.it/Claudio1977/ia.html
Iaijutsu => <reply> $who, Perl-based content management and object-oriented web application framework. URL: http://www.ninjacode.com/iaijutsu/
IAS => <reply> $who, A transfer tool for N64 development units with many other features.. URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0713iasl136.htm
IBCM3D => <reply> $who, . URL: http://cs.sonoma.edu/~kendrick/nbs/unix/x/icbm3d/
Ibis => <reply> $who, Another file browser for WindowMaker.. URL: http://www.altern.org/grugru
IBM International Classes for Unicode for C/C++ => <reply> $who, IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU) enable you to write fully cross-platform programs. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/icu/
IBM techexplorer => <reply> $who, IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser. URL: http://www.software.ibm.com/network/techexplorer/
IBM Visualization Data Explorer => <reply> $who, An application for data visualization.. URL: http://www.ibm.com/dx/
ibs => <reply> $who, The intelligent backup system for Debian GNU/Linux.. URL: http://ibs.brunox.qc.ca/
IBTK => <reply> $who, Basic self-contained no-frills toolkit for Xlib.. URL: http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/src/
Ical => <reply> $who, A tcl/tk based calendar program. URL: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Sanjay_Ghemawat/ical/home.html
ICBM => <reply> $who, Distributed MUD/Chat servers and sample client.. URL: http://members.home.com/carlsonj/
ICBM3D/2 => <reply> $who, A 3D. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/icbm3d2/
ICE Linux-Appletalk => <reply> $who, Complete Graphical Appletalk/Macintosh integration for Linux. URL: http://www.icenetworking.com/products/appletalk/
icecast => <reply> $who, MP3 Audio Broadcasting System. URL: http://www.icecast.org/
IceConf => <reply> $who, A graphical configuration program for IceWM. URL: http://www.ionet.net/~hestgray/files/
IceDJ => <reply> $who, MP3 streaming and radio station managment suite written in Perl. URL: http://www.remixradio.com/icedj/
ICEMail => <reply> $who, Java email client based on JavaMail API with SMIME support.. URL: http://www.ice.com/java/icemail/
IcePref => <reply> $who, A graphical configuration tool for Ice WM written with PyGTK. URL: http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref.html
icewm => <reply> $who, Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency. URL: http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fr0235/icewm/
ICI => <reply> $who, A dynamic, interpretive language with C-like syntax. URL: http://www.zeta.org.au/~atrn/ici/
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JX Development Suite => <reply> $who, Integrated Development Environment. URL: http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/
jzIntv => <reply> $who, Portable Intellivision Emulator. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~im14u2c/intv/
Jzip => <reply> $who, Infocom z-code adventure game interpreter. URL: http://www.frii.com/~jholder/jzip/
k-ftes => <reply> $who, KDE port of the FTE editor. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/utils
k12admin-client => <reply> $who, A web-based server administration tool for K-12 school systems (client package).. URL: http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca/
k12admin-server => <reply> $who, A web-based server administration tool for K-12 school systems (server package).. URL: http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca/
k3de => <reply> $who, 3Deditor for the KDE which generates sources for POVray. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/graphics/
K4DE => <reply> $who, 3d-Editor for KDE with poor animation and sound posibilities.. URL: http://www.k4de.de/
kaffe => <reply> $who, Complete, PersonalJava 1.1 compliant Java environment. URL: http://www.kaffe.org/
KAGENT => <reply> $who, A simple and extensible mail filter. URL: http://patriot.net/~kurt/kagent/
Kalendar => <reply> $who, Simple, easy to use calendar and to-do list manager. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~kalendar/index.html
Kalinux => <reply> $who, Online gaming system to find other gamers online.. URL: http://www.kali.net/
Kam => <reply> $who, . URL: http://wetap8.physik.uni-mainz.de/kam/
KanjiPad => <reply> $who, Look up Japanese characters through handwriting. URL: http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/kanjipad/
Kapm => <reply> $who, An APM-BIOS monitor for the KDE desktop.. URL: http://bodnar42.dhs.org/kapm
Karchiveur => <reply> $who, A little archiver for KDE, like ark but more powerful. URL: http://www-mips.unice.fr/~biederd/eric/karchiveur_en.shtml
karma => <reply> $who, Oracle Database Monitor. URL: http://www.panix.com/~shull/karma/index.html
karpski => <reply> $who, Network sniffer/scanner with a GTK interface. URL: http://mojo.calyx.net/~btx/karpski.html
katchit => <reply> $who, KDE Game (strategy). URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/p_george/katchit.html
Katy => <reply> $who, Text editor inspired by UltraEdit. URL: http://members.xoom.com/doxxx/katy.html
kautorun => <reply> $who, a KDE panel-docking CDROM automounter. URL: http://parzelle.de/Linux/Applications/kautorun
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Mod_Corba => <reply> $who, Exposes the Apache API via CORBA. URL: http://www.netrinsics.com/Mod_Corba.html
mod_dav => <reply> $who, DAV protocol extensions for Apache. URL: http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/
mod_dtcl => <reply> $who, Apache server-parsed Tcl module, inspired by PHP. URL: http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/dave/
mod_fastcgi => <reply> $who, FastCGI support for the Apache web server.. URL: http://www.FastCGI.com
mod_frontpage => <reply> $who, FrontPage server extensions patch. URL: http://www.darkorb.net/pub/frontpage/
mod_hosts_access => <reply> $who, causes Apache to respect the rules in hosts.allow and hosts.deny. URL: http://www.klomp.org/mod_hosts_access/
mod_jive => <reply> $who, Automatic jiving of static HTML as an apache module. URL: http://www.networkone.net/~triddle/mod_jive/
mod_layout => <reply> $who, Layout module for Apache.. URL: http://www.tangent.org/mod_layout/
mod_litbook => <reply> $who, Experimental design in referencing www documents.. URL: http://www.conman.org/software/mod_litbook/
mod_perl => <reply> $who, Brings together the fullpower of Perl and the Apache HTTP server. URL: http://perl.apache.org/
mod_perl Calendar System => <reply> $who, Web-based calendaring system in mod_perl. URL: http://www.gallanttech.com/resources/documentation/calendar/
mod_roaming => <reply> $who, With mod_roaming you can use Apache as a Netscape Roaming Access server. URL: http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/
mod_ssl => <reply> $who, Apache Interface to OpenSSL. URL: http://www.modssl.org/
mod_throttle => <reply> $who, Virtual server throttling for Apache 1.3.x. URL: http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/
mod_virgule => <reply> $who, Community site-building tool. URL: http://www.levien.com/free/mod_virgule/
MOIS => <reply> $who, My Own IRC Script for ircII. URL: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uno4/linux/
moiss => <reply> $who, Quantum Monte Carlo simulation program. URL: http://moiss.pquim.unam.mx/moiss/
mol: Mac-on-Linux => <reply> $who, Mac-on-Linux: Run the MacOS from inside Linux!. URL: http://www.ibrium.se/linux/mac_on_linux.html
Molasses => <reply> $who, Sticky notes app. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/corel/632/molasses/
Molden => <reply> $who, Molden is a package for displaying Molecular Density from the Ab Initio packages. URL: http://www.caos.kun.nl/~schaft/molden/molden.html
Momoko => <reply> $who, Multi-user development environment. URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~blanu/mud/
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mpp => <reply> $who, Software for Eiger Labs F10 & F20 MP3 players. URL: http://mpman.sourceforge.net/
mpserv => <reply> $who, A LAN distributed MP3 architecture. URL: http://theory.org/software/mpserv/
mpstat => <reply> $who, Helps monitoring SMP machines. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html
mr => <reply> $who, Console based mail reader. URL: http://rhea.ids.pl/~pborys/software/linux/
mrDBC => <reply> $who, python database classes for easy creation of database applications. URL: http://heimat.de/mrtopf/mrdbc/
mrouted => <reply> $who, DVMRP multicast routing daemon. URL: ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/fenner/mrouted/
MRPC => <reply> $who, A very open and modular remote procedure call system.. URL: http://www.tildeslash.org/mrpc.html
Mrsh => <reply> $who, Tool to issue the same command on many machines (quickly). URL: http://www.net-link.net/~jettero/mrsh/
MRTd => <reply> $who, Routing protocol daemon (BGP, RIP, OSPF) and tools. URL: http://www.mrtd.net/
mrtg => <reply> $who, Multi Router Traffic Grapher. URL: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html
mscal2html => <reply> $who, Generates an html calendar from a calendar saved as text from an ms/windows app.. URL: http://cblack.mokey.com/mscal2html/
msend => <reply> $who, An implementation of the message send protocol (RFC1312).. URL: http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mrudat/software/msend/home.frames.html
msgboard => <reply> $who, CGI message board that uses MySQL database to store messages.. URL: http://24.28.41.85:800/msgboard-1.0.tar.gz
MSL => <reply> $who, Real time distributed simulation environment interpreter. URL: http://www.hinttech.com/pub/msl/msl-1.2.tar.gz
MSNewsGrabber => <reply> $who, Grabs news headlines and stories from various sites. URL: http://news.saggaf.com/
MSNTP => <reply> $who, Simple Network Time Protocol Utility. URL: ftp://oozelum.csi.cam.ac.uk/dist/msntp-1.5.tar.gz
mSQL => <reply> $who, Mini SQL implementation. URL: http://www.Hughes.com.au/
msr => <reply> $who, Access the machine specific registers of a x86 cpu. URL: http://pobox.com/~smeyer/msr.html
MSToNS => <reply> $who, Convert Outlook Express/Internet E-Mail folders to Netscape folders. URL: http://www.halcyon.com/mango/mstons/
mtf => <reply> $who, A Microsoft Tape Format reader. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/backup/mtf-0.1.src.tgz
mtools => <reply> $who, . URL: http://mtools.linux.lu/
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ObjectArtist => <reply> $who, A development tool to create OO-Software with UML. URL: http://www.objectartist.org/
ObjectTeam for Linux PE => <reply> $who, Object-oriented modeling and design for Linux. URL: http://www.cayennesoft.com/linux/
Objirc Chat => <reply> $who, Fully-featured Java IRC Client. URL: http://objexcel.com/
ObjStore => <reply> $who, Object-oriented database. URL: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JPRIT/
OBM => <reply> $who, Intranet application to help manage a company or a contact database.. URL: http://www.aliacom.fr/obm/
Obsequiuem => <reply> $who, Network based MP3 RTP/multicast streaming jukebox. URL: http://obs.freeamp.org/
Obsidian => <reply> $who, OpenSource 3D network game for Linux and SGI. URL: http://www.zog.net.au/computers/obsidian/
OCaml => <reply> $who, Objective Caml is the latest implementation of the Caml dialect of ML. URL: http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/
ocs-base => <reply> $who, Base system for Linux intranet applications. URL: http://demo.obsidian.co.za
ocsadmin => <reply> $who, ocsadmin is a web admin tool to maintain user accounts. URL: http://demo.obsidian.co.za/
ocscal => <reply> $who, An intranet calendar system featuring shared appointments. URL: http://demo.obsidian.co.za/
ocschat => <reply> $who, Intranet Chat server and embedded java client, assimilated for ocsweb project. URL: http://demo.obsidian.co.za/
ocsemail => <reply> $who, Electronic web email system for you intranet. URL: http://demo.obsidian.co.za/
ocsexplorer => <reply> $who, ocsexplorer is an intranet file explorer for linux. URL: http://demo.obsidian.co.za
ocsfiles => <reply> $who, Front-end to your ftp site, allowing easy uploads and indexing. URL: http://demo.obsidian.co.za/
Octave => <reply> $who, . URL: http://bevo.che.wisc.edu/octave/
OCTREE => <reply> $who, 3D-CAD for architects / Powerful User Interface by Menu Motion Control. URL: http://www.octree.de
ODARS ISP Server => <reply> $who, Lets you easily host and manage Win clients' Web databases.. URL: http://www.odars.com/
ODBC-ODBC Bridge => <reply> $who, Provides ODBC access from Unix to remote ODBC data sources. URL: http://beta.easysoft.com/
oFBis => <reply> $who, Framebuffer graphical library for Linux.. URL: http://osis.nocrew.org/ofbis/
OfflineMailer => <reply> $who, Offline mail handler. URL: http://huizen.dds.nl/~wottie/mailer/
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PingScan => <reply> $who, Scans Networks via Ping for reachable Hosts. URL: http://www.freestone.net/soft/
Pingus => <reply> $who, Lemmings clone with penguins.. URL: http://pingus.seul.org/
pioct => <reply> $who, Controls Pioneer HiFi equipment from the commandline. URL: http://www.schnism.net/system/
pircd => <reply> $who, An IRC daemon, written in Perl.. URL: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/pircd/
Pixcon & Anitroll => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.radix.net/~dunbar/index.html
Pizza => <reply> $who, A small, fast and free compiler for Java. URL: http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~pizza/
pk => <reply> $who, An Open-Source POSIX Threads embedded real-time kernel. URL: http://www.cornfed.com/pk/
pkgbuild => <reply> $who, The RPM package development environment. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~davin
pkgview => <reply> $who, X based RPM package viewer. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~davin/
PKZIP for Linux => <reply> $who, Extracts from TAR, GZIP, UUencode XXencode, MIME and BinHex files.. URL: http://www.pkware.com/
plan => <reply> $who, Networked calendar and day planner. URL: http://www.bitrot.de/plan.html
Planet-Intra => <reply> $who, Instant intranet portal. URL: http://www.planet-intra.com/
play688 => <reply> $who, Play tunes for Ericsson GH688 cellular phones on Linux boxen. URL: http://www.cendio.se/~petli/misc/play688.c
playcd => <reply> $who, A nice cd-playing tool. URL: http://www.stack.nl/~ralf/playcd.html
playdough => <reply> $who, BitchX/EPIC IRC script. URL: http://www.got.net/~brian/
playlist => <reply> $who, Generates lists in plaintext and HTML for a directory tree of music files. URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~patrickh/playlist.html
playmp3list => <reply> $who, color mp3 playlist player. URL: http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~urban/projects.html#playmp3list
Plexel => <reply> $who, Javascript and Java HTML editor, applications platform, and website manager.. URL: http://www.plexos.com/Download_Plexel.htm
plextor-tool => <reply> $who, tool for querying and setting options of Plextor CD-ROM drives. URL: http://www.technik.sth.ac.at/plextor-tool/
Pliant => <reply> $who, Efficient and extendable programming language. URL: http://pliant.cams.ehess.fr/
pload => <reply> $who, Display ppp statistics in an X window. URL: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/
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ProcMeter3 => <reply> $who, System monitor with multiple graphical outputs. URL: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/procmeter3/
procps => <reply> $who, A package of utilities which report on the state of the system. URL: ftp://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/procps/procps-2.0.6.tar.gz
profit => <reply> $who, Low-level Open Flight support library. URL: http://www.sim.no/profit.html
ProFTPD => <reply> $who, Advanced, incredibly configurable and secure FTP daemon. URL: http://www.proftpd.org/
proftpd-ldap => <reply> $who, LDAP auth patch for ProFTPD. URL: http://horde.net/~jwm/software/proftpd-ldap/
Project Ballantain => <reply> $who, Yet another single floppy router, dialup<->ethernet+IP masq+dhcpd+diald. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~router/
PROL => <reply> $who, Fast Web Journal/Web Log Hybrid. URL: http://jade.cs.uct.ac.za/prol/
Prometheus Truecolour (PTC) => <reply> $who, A portable, lowlevel framebuffer access library with very fast on the fly conver. URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/students/c.nentwich/ptc
Prometheus-Library => <reply> $who, Object-oriented PHP API. URL: http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/index.php3?api=1
Proof General => <reply> $who, Emacs interface for Proof Assistants. URL: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/proofgen/
Prospector => <reply> $who, Web-based calendaring program similar to one found at yahoo.. URL: http://www.icebox.org/~tenney/prospector.html
Prostat => <reply> $who, Squid statistic toolkit. URL: http://cache.cnrs.fr/prostat/
ProtectImage => <reply> $who, PERL CGI that protects images from being hotlinked from remote sites. URL: http://www.zebra.net/~irni/
proxy => <reply> $who, Simple Proxy Server. URL: http://www.mindstorm.com/~sparlin/projects.shtml
proxyarp => <reply> $who, A proxyarp daemon for linux.. URL: ftp://guido.dhs.org:50021/proxyarp-0.7.3.tar.gz
prwhod => <reply> $who, An extended rwhod daemon. URL: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/prwhod
pscal => <reply> $who, shell script to create PostScript calendars. URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mb/mbh/pscal-1.7.tar.gz
psgplay => <reply> $who, Music player for all the old Atari tunes.. URL: http://www.nocrew.org/software/psgplay/
psh => <reply> $who, Tooltips for the UNIX shell. URL: http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/psh.html
psiconv => <reply> $who, Psion 5 file conversion utilities and file format documentation. URL: http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/psiconv/
psiko => <reply> $who, Boot Manager. URL: http://iaeste.cie.uma.es/lima/
PsiLin => <reply> $who, Graphical interface to connect and convert files between a Psion and Linux. URL: http://www.medsyn.fr/perso/g.delafond/psiolinu.htm
psntools => <reply> $who, Administrative tools for large numbers of accounts. URL: http://www.psn.ie/users/ad/psntools/
PSPG => <reply> $who, Pretty simple password generator. URL: http://members.xoom.com/miscreants/
PSSlides => <reply> $who, Package for generating PostScript presentation slides. URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw/proj/psslides/
pstack => <reply> $who, Dump call stacks of active processes. URL: http://www.whatsis.com/pstack/
pstill => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html
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Rocks'n'Diamonds => <reply> $who, Arcade style Boulderdash/EmeraldMine clone for X11 with stereo sounds. URL: http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/
Rodian => <reply> $who, Layer for handling, representing and storing information objects in a tree. URL: http://www.edlund.org/hacks/rodian/index.html
RODUN => <reply> $who, An extended Rogue clone (Dungeon Game). URL: http://members.xoom.com/jrocho/
Roids => <reply> $who, Scrolling asteroids game using (mostly) simple X11 polygons. URL: http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~bschroed/roids.html
Roll => <reply> $who, A program for rolling complex dice combinations. URL: http://electricrain.com/epos_6/downloads.html
ROOT => <reply> $who, Comprehensive object oriented framework. URL: http://root.cern.ch/
Root Park => <reply> $who, Build a network that will stand the test of time. URL: http://root.park.free.fr/
Root-Portal => <reply> $who, Background Desktop System Logger. URL: http://driftwood.draconic.com/root-portal/
root-tail => <reply> $who, Allows printing of text directly to the X11 rootwindow. URL: http://208.240.253.47/root-tail/
Rosegarden => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
Rosenet Community Calendar => <reply> $who, Interactive Community Calendar for PHP3 and MySQL. URL: http://modems.rosenet.net/calendar/download/
rotfl => <reply> $who, simple text formatting language. URL: http://www.bangmoney.org/projects/rotfl/
routemon => <reply> $who, Default route monitor for ISDN and PPP links. URL: http://members.xoom.com/Gavrilov_Con/isdn/routemon.html
ROX-Filer => <reply> $who, Drag-and-drop based filemanager.. URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/rox.php3
Roxen Challenger => <reply> $who, Platform independent webserver featuring strong encryption and SSL3. URL: http://www.roxen.com/
rpcobol => <reply> $who, compiler for cobol74. URL: http://members.xoom.com/rpragana/cobol.html
Rpc_Gotcha => <reply> $who, Intrusion detection tool to detect and log rpc based attacks. URL: http://renfro.homepage.com/
RPGBoard => <reply> $who, A WWWBoard-style message board script.. URL: http://www.resonatorsoft.com/software/rpgboard/
RPGD => <reply> $who, A multi-user, medieval-fantasy role-playing game. URL: http://cx83895-a.wwck1.ri.home.com/rpgd/
rpl => <reply> $who, Multi-file recursive string replacement. URL: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/software.html
rplay => <reply> $who, a network audio system. URL: http://rplay.doit.org/
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sws => <reply> $who, A Star Wars style scroller using GLUT. URL: http://helllabs.org/~claudio/sws/
swsus => <reply> $who, Software Suspend using pretty near only high level routines. URL: http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html
sXid => <reply> $who, All in one suid/sgid monitoring script written in C. URL: ftp://marcus.seva.net/pub/sxid/
Sybase ASE => <reply> $who, Full featured SQL Backend. URL: http://www.sybase.com
SybSQL => <reply> $who, X11-based SQL Query tool for Sybase and MS SQL.. URL: http://www.megsinet.net/~agatka/
sybtable.pl => <reply> $who, Web-based table browser/SQL interface for Sybase databases. URL: http://www.pdamusic.com/computer/sybtable.html
Sybtcl => <reply> $who, Sybase interface for Tcl. URL: http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html#Sybtcl
Sympa => <reply> $who, A powerful multilingual List Manager- LDAP and SQL features.. URL: http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/
Synaesthesia => <reply> $who, Program to reperesent music from CD or MP3 graphically.. URL: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/synaesthesia.html
Synapse => <reply> $who, 3d Graphical User Interface. URL: http://www.oreality.com
Syncal => <reply> $who, Syncs an ical calendar with a Palm Pilot DateBookDB. URL: http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/syncal/
SyncBuilder => <reply> $who, Build synchronization applications with a Palm device in Java. URL: http://come.to/SyncBuilder/
SyncDet => <reply> $who, Clone detection program for IRC admins. URL: http://mars.superlink.net/jason/small/syncdet.html
syncopt => <reply> $who, A Flexible and Simple Approach to Package Install. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/syncopt/index.html
Synthesis Toolkit => <reply> $who, C++ classes for software-based sound synthesis/processing. URL: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/STK/
sysdaemon => <reply> $who, Unix system monitor daemon and server. URL: http://www.marketrends.net/sysdaemon/
sysinfo => <reply> $who, Prints system information, all-in-one pack.. URL: http://www.aux-tech.org/aghi/prog/sysinfo-1.1.tar.gz
sysinfo.app => <reply> $who, A process manager designed for use with Window Maker.. URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~crn/sysinfo/
sysinfo.sh => <reply> $who, A bash script to gather system specs. URL: http://www.talug.org/HOWTO/sysinfo.html
sysklogd => <reply> $who, System log daemons. URL: ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/sysklogd/
syslog-ng => <reply> $who, A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.. URL: http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/
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Tick-A-Stat => <reply> $who, Displays various warnings and events in a ticker type style. URL: http://gqview.netpedia.net/rest-tick.html
ticker => <reply> $who, Configurable text scroller, with slashdot and freshmeat modules. URL: http://kitenet.net/programs/ticker/
TickMail => <reply> $who, Fast, efficient, attractive, and friendly X11 e-mail program.. URL: http://boxybutgood.com/TickMail/
tictactoe => <reply> $who, A simple console perl script that plays a coordinate-based tictactoe game. URL: http://blue.dhs.org/tictactoe/
tidy => <reply> $who, tidy cleans up system log files created by syslogd. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/log/
Tiff2png => <reply> $who, converts TIFF image files to PNG format. URL: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngcode.html#converters
TiK => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger. URL: http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/
time catcher => <reply> $who, Counts online time and costs. URL: http://www.s.netic.de/michak/time_catcher.html
Time Navigator => <reply> $who, Backup Server. URL: http://www.quadratec-software.com/
Time Sheets for Networks => <reply> $who, A web based system to record and keep track of jobs in a project. URL: http://members.xoom.com/xeer/ts/tsn.html
TimeMan => <reply> $who, Time manager, calendar, alarm. URL: http://www.bgif.no/neureka/TimeMan/TimeMan.html
Timesheet.php => <reply> $who, PHP application to keep track of hours worked on a project.. URL: http://www.egr.uri.edu/~kovacsp/timesheet/
TimeTable => <reply> $who, Creates a LaTeX source file for a time table.. URL: http://www.straubing.baynet.de/~t.bayer/
TimeTracker => <reply> $who, TimeTracker is an Athena Widget-based program to keep track of time.. URL: http://www.alvestrand.no/harald/titrax/TimeTracker.html
TiMidity++ => <reply> $who, Experimental MIDI to WAVE converter. URL: http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/timidity/
YAX YUGO System => <reply> $who, A basic implementation of the YAX Graphic System. URL: http://yax.netpedia.net/
tinc => <reply> $who, Virtual private network daemon. URL: http://www.nl.linux.org/pub/linux/tinc/
tinlink => <reply> $who, Creates elf binaries with a 74 bytes header - useful for intros (4kb and 64kb). URL: http://sed.free.fr/tinlink/index.html
tintin++ => <reply> $who, (T)he k(I)cki(N) (T)ickin d(I)kumud clie(N)t. URL: http://www.kcdata.com/~grimmy/
Tiny Beat Watch => <reply> $who, Clock displaying the Swatch NetBeat. URL: http://www.tomix.de/niels/soft/tbwatch/
TinyFugue => <reply> $who, MUD client. URL: http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf/
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waspchat => <reply> $who, Human to computer chat prog. URL: http://www.pansydivision.free-online.co.uk/
watchdog => <reply> $who, A software watchdog. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/
Watcher => <reply> $who, A unique Biff. URL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jared/watcher/
wavamplify => <reply> $who, Filter to alter the volume of WAVE (.wav) files.. URL: http://www.drmach.demon.co.uk/vashti/software/
WaveForge => <reply> $who, A Sound Forge Wave Editor Clone for Linux.. URL: http://tfm.profm.ro/
WaveLAN/IEEE driver => <reply> $who, Kernel network device driver for WaveLAN/IEEE wireless network card. URL: http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/
WaveTools => <reply> $who, Commandline tools for manipulating mono wavefiles. URL: http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/index.html#wt
wavnorm => <reply> $who, Maximize the volume of 16 bit stereo wav files. URL: http://www.zog.net.au/computers/wavnorm/
wb0 => <reply> $who, A quick SVGAlib-based Web browser. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/wb0/
WBI (Web Intermediaries) Developer Kit for Java => <reply> $who, A programmable proxy for developing and running intermediary web apps.. URL: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/wbi/
Wcal => <reply> $who, Web based calendar/planner especially suitable for multi-user setups. URL: http://www.woods.iki.fi/pub/wcal/
wcd => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
wchat => <reply> $who, Fully extensible TCP/IP-based Chat Server.. URL: http://www.cryon.com/wchat/
wcII-grab => <reply> $who, Image Grabber for Creative WebCam II. URL: ftp://ftp.ghostfield.cx/pub/people/madcat/
WcIIcam => <reply> $who, Experimental software to drive a CPiA parallel Webcam ( ie Creative WebCam II ). URL: ftp://brijn.nu/vision/wcIIcam0.2.tgz
wcol => <reply> $who, Prefetching proxy server.. URL: http://hayate.aist-nara.ac.jp/products/wcol/
WDDX SDK => <reply> $who, SDK for building distributed web applications. URL: http://www.wddx.org
wdm => <reply> $who, xdm replacement. URL: http://www.tuffguy.net/~wdm/
weather.PHP => <reply> $who, Get, store and subsequently display current US Cities Weather Information.. URL: http://www.programmersreference.com/php/weather/
Web Contacts => <reply> $who, A little php script that allows search of a outlook contacts exported to MySQL. URL: http://www.linuxscripts.com/
Web diary => <reply> $who, Web-based multi-user CGI diary applet. URL: http://chernabog.imagegroup.com/diary/
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Web-4M => <reply> $who, Comprehensive collaboration/groupware environment. URL: http://www.jdhtech.com/
Web-bench => <reply> $who, Simple web server benchark.. URL: http://ncic.netmag.cz/download/#wb
web-FTP => <reply> $who, A lightweight Perl/CGI FTP client. URL: http://www.mathforum.com/~tom/web-FTP/
web500gw => <reply> $who, Connects WWW browsers to LDAP based Directories.. URL: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/web500gw/index.html
WebAccountant => <reply> $who, New open source project to develop a quality web-based accounting system.. URL: http://www.webaccountant.org/
WebAlbum => <reply> $who, A perl script which produces html photo albums.. URL: http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik/Downloads/
Webalizer => <reply> $who, Web server log analysis program. URL: http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
webbase => <reply> $who, Internet crawler C library and program. URL: http://www.senga.org/webbase/html/
WebCache::Digest => <reply> $who, A Perl implementation of the Cache Digest protocol. URL: http://wwwcache.ja.net/dev/perlmod/
WebCache::ICP => <reply> $who, A Perl implementation of the Internet Cache Protocol. URL: http://wwwcache.ja.net/dev/perlmod/
WebCal => <reply> $who, A simple browser based calendar program.. URL: http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html
WebCharts => <reply> $who, Stock charting Java applet for brokers or banks.. URL: http://www.roberthoffman.com/
WebCit => <reply> $who, Web front-end to the Citadel/UX BBS package. URL: http://uncnsrd.mt-kisco.ny.us/citadel/
WebCONTACT => <reply> $who, Web-based contacts, scheduling, projects, and timesheets app.. URL: http://www.webcontact.org/
webcrawl => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/mirroring/
WebDiary/ViewMaker => <reply> $who, http://dante.urbanet.ch/~patrick/programm/viewMaker/. URL: http://dante.urbanet.ch/~patrick/programm/#webdiary
WebDNS => <reply> $who, CGI interface for configuring DNS servers. URL: http://www.darkfires.net/webdns/
WebER => <reply> $who, WebER is a simple Java Web Server that implements HTTP/1.0.. URL: http://roncarolo.eu.org/weber/
WebEvent => <reply> $who, WebEvent is web calendar software for your web site.. URL: http://www.MatadorDesign.com/
WebFetch => <reply> $who, Perl5 module infrastructure to export and retrieve news for web display. URL: http://www.webfetch.org/
webfs => <reply> $who, Lightweight HTTP server for static content. URL: http://www.IN-Berlin.DE/User/kraxel/webfs.html
webget => <reply> $who, A CGI frontend and backend to wget written in Perl.. URL: http://www.sgapc.vuurwerk.nl/webget/webget-0.3.tar.gz
WebGlimpse => <reply> $who, Adds search capabilities to WWW site automatically and easily. URL: http://webglimpse.net/
WebGrams => <reply> $who, Web-based greeting card application. URL: http://www.vanbrunt.com/webgrams
webgrep => <reply> $who, HTML check and search utilities. URL: http://www.linuxfocus.org/~guido.socher/
WebGuys Instant Message Service => <reply> $who, Instant Messaging solution for small team environments. URL: http://www.webguys.com/wimd.html
WebInsight => <reply> $who, Gather and analyze information about activity on your website. URL: http://www.applix.com/webinsight/
Webinterface for Unix Listproc => <reply> $who, A Webinterface for Unix Listproc; user functions only; no admin stuff (yet?). URL: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/wiful/
WebKit => <reply> $who, Python scripts for website management. URL: http://members.xoom.com/s_l_u_g/techie/projects/webkit.html
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CodeGuide => <reply> $who, CodeGuide is an IDE that detects errors in your code as you type, offers powerful code completion features, maintains a structured view of your program, has an integrated visual debugger, supports the latest Java technologi...
Koala Complete MUD Server => <reply> $who, Koala is a complete, IPv6-compliant MUD server.. URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?form_grp=312
JIPSY => <reply> $who, Jipsy is a drop-in replacement for parts of the java.net classes that enables Java applications to seamlessly communicate using IPv4 and IPv6. URL: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~mpf/jipsy/jipsy-0.1.0.tar.gz
Style-print => <reply> $who, Style-print is a small program that prints files with a lot of styles like underline, bold, double width, superindex, etc. URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal/style-print-0.1.tar.gz
Updee => <reply> $who, Updee is an uptime daemon designed to run on as many UNIX systems as possible. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~iretd/updee-current.tar.gz
gShield => <reply> $who, gShield (formerly Godot's Modified Modular Firewall), is an aggressive, modular, ipchains-based firewall script. URL: http://muse.linuxgeek.org/files/gShield-1.0.tgz
tdof => <reply> $who, tdof is an APE-derived C++ framework for use in developing telephony applications with native drivers which lack a pre-existing SDK. URL: ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/tdof/
gg => <reply> $who, gg is a graphical guestbook for the Web. URL: http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/files/gg-0.0.2.tar.gz
ODBC Socket Server => <reply> $who, ODBC Socket Server is an open source database access toolkit that exposes Windows NT ODBC data sources via an XML-based TCP/IP interface. URL: http://odbc.linuxbox.com/download.html
Conglomerate => <reply> $who, Conglomerate will be a system for authoring, storing, transforming, and generally working with structured information like XML/SGML (yes, it will do DocBook, or any other DTD you care to throw at it). URL: http://www.con...
WebCalendar => <reply> $who, WebCalendar is a PHP/MySQL application used to maintain a calendar for one or more persons.. URL: http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/webcalendar/files/WebCalendar-0.9.tar.gz
SDCC-z80 => <reply> $who, SDCC-z80 is a version of the optimising C compiler SDCC targeted to the 8 bit Zilog Z80. URL: http://earthling.net.nz/~michaelh/snapshots/
SPS4Linux => <reply> $who, SPS4Linux is an implementation of the SPS Language. URL: http://www.eilers.net/sps/
XMagick => <reply> $who, XMagick is a library written in C which allows integration of the ImageMagick library with any X application by providing functions which convert between the native X image format (XImage) and the native ImageMagick format (I...
libiconv => <reply> $who, libiconv provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems which don't have one or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. URL: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-0.1.tar.gz
libutf8 => <reply> $who, libutf8 provides UTF-8 locale support for use on systems which don't have UTF-8 locales or whose UTF-8 locales are unreasonably slow. URL: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/libutf8-0.6.1.tar.gz
as-gps => <reply> $who, as-gps contains a basic support library for accessing the inexpensive ($20) Aisin-Seiki GPS Module previously available at mavin.com. URL: http://www.amphibious.org/gps/as-gps-0.2.tgz
E8Ball => <reply> $who, E8Ball is an epplet that responds to questions you ask it. URL: http://free.house.cx/~adrian/epplets/
gmap => <reply> $who, gmap is a map viewer with emphasis on temporal data. URL: http://academy.cas.cz/~gis/dload.html
keeper => <reply> $who, The keeper library provides a simple-to-use C interface for reading and writing configuration data. URL: http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/keeper/keeper.html#dist
BHRPFF => <reply> $who, Ben Hates Reading Poorly Formatted Filenames, or BHRPFF, is a Perl script that will help you to rename your mp3 files so that they are more readable. URL: http://my.yi.org/~brain/bhrpff/bhrpff.tar.gz
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fblogo => <reply> $who, fblogo will let you replace the penguin boot-logo you see when booting kernels with framebuffer support.. URL: http://home.sol.no/~dvedoy/fblogo-0.1.tar.gz
FutureForum Web Discussion Software => <reply> $who, FutureForum Web Discussion Software is a Web discussion forum written in Perl and MySQL, using DBI:DBD. URL:
Python Builder => <reply> $who, Python Builder is a direct replacement for MS Visual Basic on both the Windows and Linux platforms. URL: http://www.pcpros.net/~vbman/pbuilder.zip
TINY => <reply> $who, TINY is a small Linux distribution designed especially for reusing old computers. URL: ftp://ftp2.seul.org/tiny/
Tea => <reply> $who, Tea offers a new philosophy in PGP/GPG encrypted e-mails. URL: ftp://ftp.lemuria.org/pub/Code/
hello-world => <reply> $who, hello-world is a simple Roxen Web server module demonstrating Roxen's abilities.. URL: http://linux.kub.trollhattan.se/~ian/hello-world-0.6.tar.gz
pakajla.sh => <reply> $who, pakajla.sh is a script which can pack all subdirs in a dir with one command via tar and bzip2; this is very useful if you check out many files from CVS-trees.. URL: http://kabalak.linuxbox.com/scripts.html
avtv => <reply> $who, avtv is an SVGAlib/X11 program to capture and display TV or video input from all Accuview based TV/Video cards. URL: http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/avtv-0.04.tar.gz
ptkRun => <reply> $who, ptkRun is a program similiar to the Microsoft Windows Run dialog. URL: http://nut.dhs.org/code/ptkrun/src/ptkrun-0.14.tar.gz
GalaxyNG => <reply> $who, Galaxy is a game of interstellar war for several players. URL: http://galaxy.pbem.net/Download/galaxyng.tgz
KLuach => <reply> $who, KLuach is a Jewish calendar program for KDE. URL: ftp://moses.wi.mit.edu/pub/kluach/kluach-0.1.tar.gz
Sirobot => <reply> $who, Sirobot is a Perl script that downloads Web pages recursively. URL: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uno4/linux/download_sirobot.html
Tube => <reply> $who, Tube is a Hotline client written in Java. URL: http://awacs.dhs.org/software/tube/
kNetmon => <reply> $who, kNetmon provides a user interface similar to the "network neighbourhood" of the Windows Explorer. URL: http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~lekus/software/knetmon-0.99.1.tgz
psrip => <reply> $who, psrip is a small perl-script that extracts images from postscript files.. URL: http://www.clackas.de/assets/data/psrip-1_2.tgz
svncviewer => <reply> $who, svncviewer is a Linux svgalib VNC viewer with German keyboard mapping; the program can also compile with other national keymaps.. URL: http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/download/
KSEG => <reply> $who, KSeg is a program for exploring Euclidean geometry, similar to Geometer's Sketchpad, Cabri, Cinderella, and Dr. URL: http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/kseg-0.1.tar.gz
LxA => <reply> $who, LxA is a collection of documentation, tools, and sample components put together to assist in assembling useful Linux-based 'appliances' which boot from and are entirely contained on one floppy disk. URL: http://equusasinus.com/lx...
Melys => <reply> $who, Melys is a MIDI sequencer application for ALSA. URL: http://sourceforge.net/download.php?fileid=826
EpsClean => <reply> $who, Epsclean is a very simple utility used to clean the print heads of an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer.. URL: http://tip.penguinpowered.com/epsclean-0.2.tar.gz
SPIRO-Bastille => <reply> $who, SPIRO-Bastille is an adaption of the original Bastille-Linux product. URL: http://www.openshare.net/files/security/
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Adobe Framemaker => <reply> $who, Framemaker is widely used in the technical publishing field to create and manage complex documents. URL: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/framemaker/unix/5.x/beta/fmlinux.tar.gz
Webtasker => <reply> $who, WebTasker is a simple Web application to manage tasks in a work group. URL: http://www.centrored.com/centroredWWW/webtasker/webtasker1.0.tgz
cacheprof => <reply> $who, Cacheprof is a tool for quantifying and understanding the data cache behaviour of programs. URL: http://www.cacheprof.org/
nethack-cow => <reply> $who, nethack-cow is a small and simple patch to NetHack 3.3.0 to include a new monster (cows, which occasionally show up in 'cowhives').. URL: http://www.goldinc.com/~shammack/nethack-cow.diff.gz
DHTML Dynamic Headline Fader => <reply> $who, The dynamic headline fader/flipper display is a highly configurable DHTML gizmo, compatible with all DHTML-capable browsers (such as Netscape 4.x or IE 4.x). URL: http://webreference.com/dhtml/column27/fa...
ZZplayer => <reply> $who, Zplayer is a MPEG-I video player for the KDE environement, based on the SMPEG library. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/multimedia/video/zzplayer-0.2.tar.gz
NotLame MP3 encoder => <reply> $who, NotLame is the resultant executable after applying the LAME patch to ISO source code, compiled without GTK frame analyzer support.. URL: http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/notlame350_rh6.tgz
xraw => <reply> $who, xraw is a development kit for creating games, demos, and intros under Linux and derivatives. URL: http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~i656/xraw-12081999.tgz
SocratEase => <reply> $who, SocratEase is a web-based training package with everything needed to build, deliver and track online courses. URL: http://www.SocratEase.com/downloads/trial/
SquirrelMail => <reply> $who, SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. URL: http://squirrelmail.sourceforge.net/index.php3?page=5
WebEvent Calendar => <reply> $who, WebEvent is a Web-based calendar and scheduling program. URL: http://www.WebEvent.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi
gps3d => <reply> $who, gps is a set of utilities that lets you manipulate your GPS from your Linux box. URL: http://www.mgix.com/gps3d/gps3d-1.1.tar.bz2
jString => <reply> $who, jString is a class for C++ that extends basic string functionality. URL: http://simple.dhs.org/src/jString/jString-0.1.tar.gz
NatesWinEmu => <reply> $who, In the spirit of GTKTrue, NatesWinEmu is a Windows Emulator for Linux. URL: http://www.udlug.org/~nate/NatesWinEmu.c
GtkExtra => <reply> $who, GTKExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUIs for the X Window System using GTK+. URL: http://magnet.fsu.edu/~feiguin/gtk/download.html
Demolization => <reply> $who, Demolization is a strategy game which is a cross between Sid Meier's Civilization and Risk. URL: http://demolization.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
GMCAL => <reply> $who, GMCAL is a GTK+ frontend for the libmcal package.. URL: http://mcal.chek.com/download.php3
LCD::MatrixOrbital => <reply> $who, A Perl module that allows a developer to write to a Matrix Orbital LCD Serial Display. URL: http://www.evilsoft.org/Software/dist/MatrixOrbital-0_91_tar.gz
tixinfo => <reply> $who, tixinfo allows you to get some information about your system. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/diaboli/tixinfo/tixinfo0.6.4.tar.gz
BASHISH => <reply> $who, Bashish is a theme-engine for bash and other Bourne-style shells (eg. URL: http://hem3.passagen.se/arnognulf/files/
Moonlight Atelier => <reply> $who, Moonlight Atelier is a 3D modeling and rendering application that delivers a complete set of tools to create images and visual effects on Linux platform: NURBS Curve Creation and Edition, NURBS Surface Creation and ...
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AI-complete2 is problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. Examples of AI-complete problems are `The Vision Problem' (building a system that can see as well as a human) and `The Natural Language Problem' (building a syste...
AI-complete3 is language as well as a human). These may appear to be modular, but all attempts so far (1991) to solve them have foundered on the amount of context information and `intelligence' they seem to require. See also {gedanken}.
AI koans is /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included in appendix A). See also {ha ha only serious}, {mu...
AIDS is /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a {glob} pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe {SEX}. See {virus}, {worm}, {Trojan horse}, {virgin}.
airplane rule is n. "Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robu...
airplane rule2 is correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really *good* basket.
aliasing bug is n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp. via `malloc(3)' or equivalent. If more than one pointer addresses (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that th...
aliasing bug2 is then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc {arena}. Avoidable by use of allocation strategies that never ali...
aliasing bug3 is higher-level languages, such as {LISP}, which employ a garbage collector (see {GC}). Also called a {stale pointer bug}. See also {precedence lossage}, {smash the stack}, {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {overrun screw}, ...
aliasing bug4 is nowadays associated with C programming, it was already in use in a very similar sense in the Algol-60 and FORTRAN communities in the 1960s.
all-elbows is adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) IBM PC program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on {BBS} systems unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it n...
all-elbows2 is also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt. See also {mess-dos}.
alpha particles is n. See {bit rot}.
ALT is /awlt/ 1. n. The ALT shift key on an IBM PC or {clone}. 2. [possibly lowercased] n. The `clover' or `Command' key on a Macintosh; use of this term usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs before coming to the Mac (see also {command k...
ALT2 is reserve `ALT' for the Option key. 3. n.obs. [PDP-10] Alternate name for the ASCII ESC character (ASCII 0011011), after the keycap labeling on some older terminals. Also `ALTMODE' (/awlt'mohd/). This character was almost never pron...
ALT3 is under TOPS-10 --- always ALT, as in "Type ALT ALT to end a TECO command" or "ALT U onto the system" (for "log onto the [ITS] system"). This was probably because ALT is more convenient to say than `escape', especially when followed b...
ALT4 is *and* a character, for that matter).
alt bit is /awlt bit/ [from alternate] adj. See {meta bit}.
Aluminum Book is [MIT] n. `Common LISP The Language', by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990). Note that due to a technical screwup some printings of the second edition are actually of a color the author...
Aluminum Book2 is also {{book titles}}.
amoeba is n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
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chad3 is clear that if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be `chad'.
chad box is n. {Iron Age} card punches contained boxes inside them, about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), that held the {chad} (sense 2). You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the ...
chad box2 is the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great gray-and-blue box.
chain is [orig. from BASIC's `CHAIN' statement] vi. To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the {OS} command interpreter that invoked it. The state of the parent program is lost and there is no returning to it. Th...
chain2 is memory-limited micros and is still widely supported for backward compatibility, the jargon usage is semi-obsolescent; in particular, most UNIX programmers will think of this as an {exec}. Oppose the more modern {subshell}.
char is /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'. Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data.
charityware is /char'it-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. {careware}.
chase pointers is 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure. Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common data type. This is techspeak, but it remains ja...
chase pointers2 is chasing pointers. Bob said you could tell me who to talk to about...." See {dangling pointer} and {snap}. 2. [Cambridge] `pointer chase' or `pointer hunt' The process of going through a dump (interactively or on a large ...
chase pointers3 is following dynamic data-structures. Used only in a debugging context.
chemist is [Cambridge] n. Someone who wastes computer time on {number-crunching} when you'd far rather the machine were doing something more productive, such as working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running {life} p...
chemist2 is actually studies chemistry.
Chernobyl chicken is n. See {laser chicken}.
Chernobyl packet is /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ n. A network packet that induces {network meltdown} (the result of a {broadcast storm}), in memory of the 1987 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The typical case of this is an IP Ethernet d...
Chernobyl packet2 is both source and destination Ether and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare {Christmas tree packet}.
chicken head is [Commodore] n. The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see {amoeba}), Commodore's machines are notoriously crocky lit...
chicken head2 is Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel `Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (the basis for the movie `Blade Runner'), in which a `chickenhead' is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
chiclet keyboard is n. A keyboard with small rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of chewing gum. (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet key...
chiclet keyboard2 is IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop products got launched using them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets a...
chine nual is /sheen'yu-*l/ [MIT] n.,obs. The Lisp Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
Chinese Army technique is n. Syn. {Mongolian Hordes technique}.
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ADVENT => /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the PDP-10 by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods. Now better known as Adventure,...
AI-complete => /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford by analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] adj. Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a ...
AI koans => /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included in appendix A). See also {ha ha only serious}, mu, and {{H...
AIDS => /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe SEX. See virus, worm, {Trojan horse}, virgin.
airplane rule => n. "Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness (...
airplane rule2 => correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really *good* basket.
aliasing bug => n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp. via `malloc(3)' or equivalent. If more than one pointer addresses (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that the storag...
aliasing bug2 => then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc arena. Avoidable by use of allocation strategies that never alias allocated...
aliasing bug3 => higher-level languages, such as LISP, which employ a garbage collector (see GC). Also called a {stale pointer bug}. See also {precedence lossage}, {smash the stack}, {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {overrun screw}, spam. Historica...
aliasing bug4 => nowadays associated with C programming, it was already in use in a very similar sense in the Algol-60 and FORTRAN communities in the 1960s.
all-elbows => adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) IBM PC program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs witho...
alpha particles => n. See {bit rot}.
ALT => /awlt/ 1. n. The ALT shift key on an IBM PC or clone. 2. [possibly lowercased] n. The `clover' or `Command' key on a Macintosh; use of this term usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs before coming to the Mac (see also {command key}). Som...
alt bit => /awlt bit/ [from alternate] adj. See {meta bit}.
Aluminum Book => [MIT] n. `Common LISP The Language', by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990). Note that due to a technical screwup some printings of the second edition are actually of a color the author describe...
Aluminum Book2 => also {{book titles}}.
amoeba => n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
amp off => [Purdue] vt. To run in background. From the UNIX shell `&' operator.
amper => n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&', ASCII 0100110) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
angle brackets => n. Either of the characters `<' (ASCII 0111100) and `>' (ASCII 0111110) (ASCII less-than or greater-than signs). The {Real World} angle brackets used by typographers are actually taller than a less-than or greater-than sign. See bro...
angry fruit salad => n. A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colors. This derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colors found in canned fruit salad. Too often one sees similar affects from interface designers using color window syst...
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cdr => /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ [from LISP] vt. To skip past the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP operation on binary tree structures, which returns a list consisting of all but the first element of its argument). In the form `c...
chad => /chad/ n. 1. The perforated edge strips on printer paper, after they have been separated from the printed portion. Also called selvage and perf. 2. obs. The confetti-like paper bits punched out of cards or paper tape; this was also called `ch...
chad box => n. {Iron Age} card punches contained boxes inside them, about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), that held the chad (sense 2). You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. ...
chad box2 => the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great gray-and-blue box.
chain => [orig. from BASIC's `CHAIN' statement] vi. To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS command interpreter that invoked it. The state of the parent program is lost and there is no returning to it. Though this f...
char => /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'. Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data.
charityware => /char'it-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. careware.
chase pointers => 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure. Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common data type. This is techspeak, but it remains jargon whe...
chase pointers2 => chasing pointers. Bob said you could tell me who to talk to about...." See {dangling pointer} and snap. 2. [Cambridge] `pointer chase' or `pointer hunt' The process of going through a dump (interactively or on a large piece of pape...
chase pointers3 => following dynamic data-structures. Used only in a debugging context.
chemist => [Cambridge] n. Someone who wastes computer time on number-crunching when you'd far rather the machine were doing something more productive, such as working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running life patterns. Ma...
Chernobyl chicken => n. See {laser chicken}.
Chernobyl packet => /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ n. A network packet that induces {network meltdown} (the result of a {broadcast storm}), in memory of the 1987 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The typical case of this is an IP Ethernet datagram...
Chernobyl packet2 => both source and destination Ether and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare {Christmas tree packet}.
chicken head => [Commodore] n. The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see amoeba), Commodore's machines are notoriously crocky little {bitty ...
chicken head2 => Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel `Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (the basis for the movie `Blade Runner'), in which a `chickenhead' is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
chiclet keyboard => n. A keyboard with small rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of chewing gum. (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards.)...
chiclet keyboard2 => IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop products got launched using them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not of...
chine nual => /sheen'yu-*l/ [MIT] n.,obs. The Lisp Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
Chinese Army technique => n. Syn. {Mongolian Hordes technique}.
choke => v. To reject input, often ungracefully. "Nuls make System V's `lpr(1)' choke." "I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but `cpp(1)' choked on all those `#define's." See barf, gag, vi.
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