Amethyst
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next;
}
last if $brain->[0]->think($message, @args);
}
}
1;
__END__
# Below is stub documentation for your module. You better edit it!
=head1 NAME
Amethyst - Perl extension for blah blah blah
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use POE;
use Amethyst;
new Amethyst;
Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Excuse.pm view on Meta::CPAN
clock speed
solar flares
electromagnetic radiation from satellite debris
static from nylon underwear
static from plastic slide rules
global warming
poor power conditioning
static buildup
doppler effect
hardware stress fractures
magnetic interferance from money/credit cards
dry joints on cable plug
we're waiting for [the phone company] to fix that line
sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Microsoft support
temporary routing anomoly
somebody was calculating pi on the server
fat electrons in the lines
excess surge protection
floating point processor overflow
divide-by-zero error
POSIX complience problem
Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Excuse.pm view on Meta::CPAN
(l)user error
working as designed
dynamic software linking table corrupted
heavy gravity fluctuation, move computer to floor rapidly
secretary plugged hairdryer into UPS
terrorist activities
not enough memory, go get system upgrade
interrupt configuration error
spaghetti cable cause packet failure
boss forgot system password
bank holiday - system operating credits not recharged
virus attack, luser responsible
waste water tank overflowed onto computer
Complete Transient Lockout
bad ether in the cables
Bogon emissions
Change in Earth's rotational speed
Cosmic ray particles crashed through the hard disk platter
Smell from unhygenic janitorial staff wrecked the tape heads
Little hamster in running wheel had coronary; waiting for replacement to be Fedexed from Wyoming
Evil dogs hypnotized the night shift
Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Purldoc.pm view on Meta::CPAN
open PURLDOC, "<$target_filename"
or return "Sorry, guys. I can't open perlfaq right now: $!";
# ACHTUNG! THE FOLLOWING CODE IS WILDLY INEFFICIENT! HAVE A CAPS LOCKY DAY.
my $chapter;
my $versecount;
while (<PURLDOC>) {
if (/^=head1 Credits/) {
last;
}
if (/^=item L<(\w+\d)/) {
$chapter = $1 and $versecount = 0
}
elsif (s/=item \* //) {
chomp;
$versecount++;
push(@$results, "$chapter, question $versecount: $_")
if /$regex/i;
Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Zippy.pm view on Meta::CPAN
Are we on STRIKE yet?
Are we THERE yet?
Are we THERE yet? My MIND is a SUBMARINE!!
Are you mentally here at Pizza Hut??
Are you selling NYLON OIL WELLS?? If so, we can use TWO DOZEN!!
Are you still an ALCOHOLIC?
As President I have to go vacuum my coin collection!
Awright, which one of you hid my PENIS ENVY?
BARBARA STANWYCK makes me nervous!!
Barbie says, Take quaaludes in gin and go to a disco right away!
But Ken says, WOO-WOO!! No credit at "Mr. Liquor"!!
BARRY ... That was the most HEART-WARMING rendition of "I DID IT MY WAY" I've ever heard!!
Being a BALD HERO is almost as FESTIVE as a TATTOOED KNOCKWURST.
BELA LUGOSI is my co-pilot ...
BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI- ... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ...
Bo Derek ruined my life!
Boy, am I glad it's only 1971...
Boys, you have ALL been selected to LEAVE th' PLANET in 15 minutes!!
But they went to MARS around 1953!!
But was he mature enough last night at the lesbian masquerade?
Can I have an IMPULSE ITEM instead?
Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Zippy.pm view on Meta::CPAN
I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!
... I want to perform cranial activities with Tuesday Weld!!
I want to read my new poem about pork brains and outer space ...
I want to so HAPPY, the VEINS in my neck STAND OUT!!
I want you to MEMORIZE the collected poems of EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY ... BACKWARDS!!
I want you to organize my PASTRY trays ... my TEA-TINS are gleaming in formation like a ROW of DRUM MAJORETTES -- please don't be FURIOUS with me --
I was born in a Hostess Cupcake factory before the sexual revolution!
I was making donuts and now I'm on a bus!
I wish I was a sex-starved manicurist found dead in the Bronx!!
I wish I was on a Cincinnati street corner holding a clean dog!
I wonder if I could ever get started in the credit world?
I wonder if I ought to tell them about my PREVIOUS LIFE as a COMPLETE STRANGER?
I wonder if I should put myself in ESCROW!!
I wonder if there's anything GOOD on tonight?
I would like to urinate in an OVULAR, porcelain pool --
I'd like MY data-base JULIENNED and stir-fried!
I'd like some JUNK FOOD ... and then I want to be ALONE --
I'll eat ANYTHING that's BRIGHT BLUE!!
I'll show you MY telex number if you show me YOURS ...
I'm a fuschia bowling ball somewhere in Brittany
I'm a GENIUS! I want to dispute sentence structure with SUSAN SONTAG!!
Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Zippy.pm view on Meta::CPAN
I'm having a MID-WEEK CRISIS!
I'm having a RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE ... and I don't take any DRUGS
I'm having a tax-deductible experience! I need an energy crunch!!
I'm having an emotional outburst!!
I'm having an EMOTIONAL OUTBURST!! But, uh, WHY is there a WAFFLE in my PAJAMA POCKET??
I'm having BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS about the INSIPID WIVES of smug and wealthy CORPORATE LAWYERS ...
I'm having fun HITCHHIKING to CINCINNATI or FAR ROCKAWAY!! ...
I'm IMAGINING a sensuous GIRAFFE, CAVORTING in the BACK ROOM of a KOSHER DELI
I'm in direct contact with many advanced fun CONCEPTS.
I'm into SOFTWARE!
I'm meditating on the FORMALDEHYDE and the ASBESTOS leaking into my PERSONAL SPACE!!
I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD STERLING when you really need him?
I'm not an Iranian!! I voted for Dianne Feinstein!!
I'm not available for comment..
I'm pretending I'm pulling in a TROUT! Am I doing it correctly??
I'm pretending that we're all watching PHIL SILVERS instead of RICARDO MONTALBAN!
I'm QUIETLY reading the latest issue of "BOWLING WORLD" while my wife and two children stand QUIETLY BY ...
I'm rated PG-34!!
I'm receiving a coded message from EUBIE BLAKE!!
I'm RELIGIOUS!! I love a man with a HAIRPIECE!! Equip me with MISSILES!!
I'm reporting for duty as a modern person. I want to do the Latin Hustle now!
# This Makefile is for the Amethyst extension to perl.
#
# It was generated automatically by MakeMaker version
# 5.45 (Revision: 1.222) from the contents of
# Makefile.PL. Don't edit this file, edit Makefile.PL instead.
#
# ANY CHANGES MADE HERE WILL BE LOST!
#
# MakeMaker ARGV: ()
#
# MakeMaker Parameters:
# ABSTRACT_FROM => q[Amethyst.pm]
# AUTHOR => q[A. U. Thor <a.u.thor@a.galaxy.far.far.away>]
# NAME => q[Amethyst]
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
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/
Aegis => <reply> $who, Transaction-based software configuration management system. URL: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/
aewm => <reply> $who, A minimalistic window manager for X. URL: http://members.home.com/decklin/aewm/
afbackup => <reply> $who, Client-server backup system. URL: ftp://www.zn.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/linux/
AfterStep => <reply> $who, Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel. URL: http://www.afterstep.org/
AfterStep Clock => <reply> $who, themes-enabled version of the classic clock. URL: http://www.asclock.org/
AfterStep Mounter => <reply> $who, A module for the AfterStep Wharf that allows you to mount/unmount your devices.. URL: http://hem.telitel.se/tit00164/
afwd => <reply> $who, Transparent audio character device forwarder (kernel mod). URL: http://dancer.ca.sandia.gov/~pw/afwd.html
AGI Utilities => <reply> $who, Utilities to extract data from Sierra On-Line AGI games. URL: http://agi.helllabs.org/#utils
Aglaophone => <reply> $who, System for real-time audio processing and analysis. URL: http://www.tam.cornell.edu/~sdh4/aglaophone/
agm => <reply> $who, single- and multi-word anagram generator. URL: http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/anagrams.html
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
asp2php => <reply> $who, Converts Active Server Pages (ASP) to PHP3 scripts. URL: http://home.i1.net/~naken/asp2php/
aspbm => <reply> $who, AfterStep Phone bill monitor. URL: http://ip.pt/~ip241956/aspbm/aspbm.html
Aspell => <reply> $who, Intelligent Spell Checker. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/
asRum => <reply> $who, segfault.org headlines in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/asr.html
asScotch => <reply> $who, The days UserFriendly comic strip in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/
asTequila => <reply> $who, The AfterStep Resource Page (TARP) headlines in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/
astime => <reply> $who, Analogue clock for X windows. URL: http://bewoner.dma.be/Albert/afterstep/
Astuner-Aztech => <reply> $who, Afterstep Wharf tuner for Aztech radio cards. URL: http://aztech.exploits.org/
ASV Bible Viewer => <reply> $who, Text of ASV Bible and viewer program.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/1376/
asVodka => <reply> $who, Puts the latest Slashdot headlines in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/asv.html
asWedit => <reply> $who, HTML editor with colors for html tags. URL: http://www.advasoft.com/
asWhiskey => <reply> $who, Freshmeat headlines in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/asw.html
At Mail => <reply> $who, Powerful Web-Based email application written in Perl. URL: http://webbasedemail.com/
AtariBridge => <reply> $who, Record a 8-bit Atari program file to a cassette tape using the soundcard. URL: http://cerebronia.gateland.cl/ataribridge-e.htm
AtDot => <reply> $who, Web based e-mail system. URL: http://www.atdot.org/
aterm => <reply> $who, xterm replacement with fast transparency, tinting and NeXT scrollbar. URL: http://members.xoom.com/sashav/aterm/
ATPPCF => <reply> $who, Automatic Theorem Prover in calculus of Positively Constructed Formulae. URL: http://linux.irk.ru/projects/ATPPCF/
atsar => <reply> $who, system activity report. URL: ftp://ftp.atcomputing.nl/pub/tools/linux/
Audio File Library => <reply> $who, Implementation of SGI's Audio File Library. URL: http://www.68k.org./~michael/audiofile/
audio-entropyd => <reply> $who, Feed /dev/random entropy from stereo soundcard. URL: http://www.mindrot.org/code/audio-entropyd.php3
Audio::DSP => <reply> $who, Perl interface to *NIX digital audio device. URL: http://www.pdamusic.com/computer/audio-dsp.html
AudioMixer => <reply> $who, Xforms based audiomixer. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/
Audiopy => <reply> $who, Solaris audio device controller. URL: http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/pyware.html
audit => <reply> $who, Check files in home directory for strange permission, ownership, etc.. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~tranter/audit.html
Audit Daemon => <reply> $who, Captures auditing trails, filters them, and saves them in specific log files. URL: http://www.hert.org/projects/linux/auditd/
August => <reply> $who, A free html editor for Linux/Unix.. URL: http://august.seul.org/
aumix => <reply> $who, Color text mode sound mixer with GPM support. URL: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix.html
Aurora => <reply> $who, Graphical init controller for Linux. URL: http://aurora.mini.dhs.org/
Authen::Smb => <reply> $who, Perl module to authenticate against NT domain servers from UNIX. URL: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Authen/
Authenticated User Community for Education => <reply> $who, CGI-based intranet system intended for K-12 settings. URL: http://library.advanced.org/27155/
authlocal => <reply> $who, Automatic authentication of connections from localhost. URL: http://shadowlands.org/authlocal/
auth_ipc_module => <reply> $who, Shadow password authentication module for Apache. URL: http://sb.123.org/mod_auth_ipc.html
auth_ldap => <reply> $who, LDAP authentication for Apache. URL: http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/
Auto DynDns => <reply> $who, Perl Frontend to DDUP, a dyndns updater. URL: http://www.iol7.com/funtaff/autodyndns/
Auto Redialer => <reply> $who, Auto Redialer for ppp-go and ppp-on scripts. URL: http://members.xoom.com/jengelbr/
auto-upload => <reply> $who, program that uploads files to an FTP account non-interactively. URL: http://cryogen.com/ror4/work/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Bahwi's MailCheck => <reply> $who, Reads Procmail logfiles and creates a WindowMaker menu. URL: http://www.cityscope.net/~bahwi/BahwiProgs/
Bake => <reply> $who, A tool that supposes to replace many other build tools. URL: http://bake.werken.com/
Balsa => <reply> $who, A GNOME mail client with support for local mailboxes, POP3, and IMAP. URL: http://www.balsa.net/
BANAL => <reply> $who, Book-keeping (and other stuff) for small businesses. URL: http://www.starnix.com/banal/
Bandmin => <reply> $who, Bandmin is a package that monitors and logs ip accounting data. URL: http://www.bandmin.org
Bang => <reply> $who, Open Source multi-user 3D browser. URL: http://bang.is/
Banner Ad Rotation Program => <reply> $who, Sell out and manage banner ads with Perl and SSI. URL: http://dave.imarc.net/perl.php
barboot => <reply> $who, Fancy boot loader. URL: http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~timbert/soft/barboot/barboot-1.2.tar.bz2
barracuda => <reply> $who, Barracuda is a graphical BibTeX database manager. URL: http://barracuda.linuxbox.com
barrendero => <reply> $who, Program for keeping free space in the mail spool dir. URL: http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/~ediaz/barrendero/
Bartels AutoEngineer => <reply> $who, Schematic and layout editor for printed circuit or integrated circuit design. URL: http://www.bartels.de/bae.htm
Bash => <reply> $who, sh-compatible command language interpreter. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
BashPrompt => <reply> $who, Configures the prompt in a bash shell. URL: http://chem20.chem.und.nodak.edu/themes/bash.html
Basilisk II => <reply> $who, An attempt at creating a free, portable 68k Mac emulator.. URL: http://www.Uni-Mainz.DE/~bauec002/B2Main.html
BASS => <reply> $who, Bulk Auditing Security Scanner. URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/data/tools/network/bass-1.0.7.tar.gz
Bastille Linux => <reply> $who, A comprehensive hardening program for Redhat Linux 6.0.. URL: http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/
Batalla Naval => <reply> $who, Networked BattleShip game. URL: http://www.pjn.gov.ar/~rquesada/batnav.html
BattleChat => <reply> $who, Chat interface for Blizzard's Battle.Net. URL: http://corvette.me.vt.edu/~ronelson/battlechat/
bawt => <reply> $who, A module-based multi-net/chan C bot expandable via perl.. URL: http://www.flame.org/~david/bawt.php3
Bazaar => <reply> $who, Threaded WWW Conferencing system with a MySQL backend. URL: http://www.icaap.org/Bazaar/
bb => <reply> $who, Audio visual demonstration for your text terminal. URL: http://www.ta.jcu.cz/aa/bb/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
bbrb => <reply> $who, GUI root image front-end for the blackbox root menu.. URL: http://www.acay.com.au/~zimmer/bbrb-0.1.0.src.tar.gz
BBS Club => <reply> $who, Feature-packed BBS resembling Citadel and Citadel-DOC. URL: ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/usuarios/cacho/club/
BBSConsole => <reply> $who, A replacement console program for Falken Sysops. URL: http://bbs.ipass.net/rds/
bbtuneup => <reply> $who, Perl script to put the latest linux.com tuneup tips on your blackbox menu. URL: http://linux.com/tuneup/
bc => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
bcalc => <reply> $who, Desk calculator. URL: http://www.snafu.de/~mathe.kcbo/bcalc/index.html
bchunk => <reply> $who, CD image format conversion from BIN/CUE to ISO/CDR tracks. URL: http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/
bcnu => <reply> $who, Powerful Web-based client-server system monitoring. URL: http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/~jap/bcnu/
bdist => <reply> $who, Build distribution file containing all relevant files in a programming project. URL: http://wgen.home.dhs.org/projects/bdist/
bdk => <reply> $who, Bigloo(k) Developer Kit. URL: http://kaolin.unice.fr/~serrano/bdk/bdk.html
BEanACTION => <reply> $who, Recursive javabeans editor. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/3289/
Beat Monkey => <reply> $who, Simple calculator for pitch shifting audio samples. URL: http://www.68k.org/~michael/beatmonkey/
Beavis => <reply> $who, Mail poller for Enlightenment. URL: http://saturn5.locnet.net/epplets/
becrweb => <reply> $who, (very primitive) backend for association of files with comments.. URL: http://finbar.dyndns.org/programs/crweb/
beeper => <reply> $who, Play simple music on your PC's built-in speaker.. URL: http://www.infa.abo.fi/~raine/pub/software/beeper/
Behemot Graphics Editor => <reply> $who, 3d graphics editor and renderer. URL: http://www.behemot.com/
BeOpen.com Hyperbole => <reply> $who, hypertextual information manager. URL: http://www.BeOpen.com/
BeOpen.com InfoDock => <reply> $who, An Integrated Development Environment & Info Manager. URL: http://www.BeOpen.com/
Berkeley DB => <reply> $who, Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application. URL: http://www.sleepycat.com/
Berkeley MPEG Tools => <reply> $who, A set of tools for playing, encoding MPEG layer 1 video files. URL: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/research/mpeg/mpeg_encode.html
Berlin => <reply> $who, distributed windowing system. URL: http://www.berlin-consortium.org
Bero Offline Mail => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/bero/offline/BeroOfflineMail-1.0.0.tar.gz
BeroFTPD => <reply> $who, FTP server program based on WU-FTPD. URL: ftp://bero.x5.net/pub/BeroFTPD-1.3.4.tar.bz2
BeroList => <reply> $who, easy-to-use mailing list server with NNTP and WWW gateway. URL: http://www.in-trier.de/~bero/BeroList/
BestCrypt => <reply> $who, Creates and supports encrypted virtual volumes for Linux/Windows/MSDOS.. URL: http://www.jetico.com/linux.html
BET => <reply> $who, Encrypted network talk program. URL: http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hamblin/BET.html
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
BFRIS Zero Gravity Fighter Combat => <reply> $who, 3-D Accelerated zero-gravity space fighter combat w/ net support. URL: http://www.aegistech.com/
bfs => <reply> $who, UnixWare Boot Filesystem for Linux. URL: http://penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/bfs/
BFS Filesystem for Linux => <reply> $who, read-only BFS modules for Linux. URL: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/
bgcheck => <reply> $who, A process monitor used to limit the amount of background processes. URL: http://blue.dhs.org/bgcheck/
BGM => <reply> $who, Background music player / music on-hold source daemon for PBX. URL: http://www.tycho.com/bgm/
BibleReader => <reply> $who, Bible browsing program using Gtk. URL: http://alfenpeg.thewhites.com/Bible/
BibleTime => <reply> $who, A bible study program for KDE. URL: http://www.bibletime.de/
bibtool => <reply> $who, Simple tool to help BibTeX users maintain bibliography files. URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dbt93/Downloads/bibtool/
Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator => <reply> $who, Calculates thenumber of calories expended on a bicycle ride. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6434/calcalc.html
bidwatcher => <reply> $who, tool for eBay users - track and snipe auctions. URL: http://www.low-fi.com/bw/bwmain.html
biew => <reply> $who, Binary/Hex/Disasm viewer/editor. URL: http://www.voshod.com/~nick/biew/en/biew.html
biffview => <reply> $who, MS BIFF file viewer. URL: http://www.az.com/~drysdam/projects.html
Big Ben => <reply> $who, Spiffy themed clock. URL: http://ethereal.net/~wampa/
Big Brother => <reply> $who, Highly efficient network monitor. URL: http://bb4.com/
BigBrother WebStats => <reply> $who, Counter for websites that produces some statistics based on the info gathered. URL: http://capsi.com/linux-bigbrotherwebstats.shtml
bigFORTH/MINOS => <reply> $who, Forth with GUI library and RAD tool. URL: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/bigforth.html
bigloo => <reply> $who, Scheme compiler. URL: http://kaolin.unice.fr/~serrano/bigloo/bigloo.html
Biglook => <reply> $who, A graphical Toolkit for Bigloo. URL: http://kaolin.unice.fr/Biglook/
bigtwo => <reply> $who, Dai-di (Big two) internet card game. URL: http://twilight.s-one.net.sg/~daidee/
bigwig => <reply> $who, High-level programming language for developing interactive Web services.. URL: http://www.brics.dk/bigwig/
binarifier => <reply> $who, Useless command line utilities to convert strings to binary and back. URL: http://meatloop.istream.net/~count/src/binarifier-0.2.tar.gz
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Blackmail => <reply> $who, Highly configurable SMTP mail filter. URL: http://www.jsm-net.demon.co.uk/blackmail/
BLADE => <reply> $who, Broad Language Aided Document Environment. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/projects/blade/
BladeEnc => <reply> $who, Freeware MP3 Encoder. URL: http://hem.bredband.net/tord/
BladeWrapper => <reply> $who, A wrapper to run BladeEnc in background. URL: http://helllabs.org/~claudio/bladewrapper/bladewrapper.tar.gz
Blender => <reply> $who, Extremely fast and versatile 3D Rendering Package. URL: http://www.blender.nl/
blink => <reply> $who, a perl script that downloads random jpegs and draws them on your X11 display. URL: http://www.techweenie.net/dave/blink.html
Blockade => <reply> $who, An arcade puzzle game. URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Zone/5267/
Blow => <reply> $who, Commandline multiple binary file newsgroup poster. URL: http://www.mvrop.org/~akirarat/
blperf => <reply> $who, BusLogic SCSI performance monitor. URL: http://www.enteract.com/~zieg/software/blperf.html
Blue Moon Rendering Tools => <reply> $who, The Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) are a collection of rendering programs whic. URL: http://www.bmrt.org/
Bluefish => <reply> $who, Gtk based HTML editor. URL: http://bluefish.linuxbox.com/
BlueJ => <reply> $who, Java Development Environment aimed at teaching. URL: http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/bluej/
BlueLava => <reply> $who, A CGI-based x10 interface for home automation, etc. URL: http://shivan.org/bluelava/
Bluetail Mail Robustifier => <reply> $who, Unix clusters specifically for email. URL: http://www.bluetail.com/
bmdraw => <reply> $who, ANSI creation tool. URL: http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/
BMRT => <reply> $who, RenderMan compliant renderer. URL: http://www.bmrt.org/
bmsync => <reply> $who, Read and write bookmarks of various web browsers. URL: http://www.ludat.lth.se/~dat99oli/
BMUD => <reply> $who, GNOME mud client. URL: http://math.smsu.edu/~br0ke/bmud.html
BNC => <reply> $who, IRC proxy server. URL: http://bnc.dragondata.com/
bnc4all => <reply> $who, full featured FTP protocol bouncer/bouncenetwork. URL: http://bnc4all.ftp4all.de/
Bnetd => <reply> $who, Emulates a StarCraft Battle.net server. URL: http://www.bnetd.org/
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Brahms => <reply> $who, Music sequencer and notation program. URL: http://lienhard.desy.de/mackag/homepages/jan/Brahms/
Brain => <reply> $who, Prototype based, object-oriented scripting language. URL: http://leonardo.spidernet.net/Copernicus/9697/brain_main.html
bras => <reply> $who, rule based command execution with Tcl. URL: http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome/
Brass Monkey => <reply> $who, PHP scripts that let you maintain an online journal. URL: http://personal.bellsouth.net/lig/z/z/zztzed/brassmonkey/
Bricklayer World Tour => <reply> $who, A Gnome game inspired by Breakout. URL: http://www.plexus.demon.co.uk/brickworld/
BRICO Knowledge Base => <reply> $who, Large semantic network of concepts and words referring to them. URL: http://www.framerd.org/brico/
Bridge Filter patch => <reply> $who, Filtering capability for linux bridge.. URL: http://ac2i.tzo.com/bridge_filter/
BrijnSMS => <reply> $who, A web-based authentication front-end to SMS Client written in PHP. URL: http://www.sms.brijn.nu/
BRLTTY => <reply> $who, Access software for Unix for a blind person using a soft Braille terminal. URL: http://www.cam.org/~nico/brltty/
Broadcast => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3709/bc.html
Broadcast2000 => <reply> $who, Non linear audio and video editor. URL: http://www.freeyellow.com/members4/heroine/
Brothel => <reply> $who, An addicting door game for Falken BBS systems. URL: http://bbs.ipass.net/rds/
BSB-Monitor => <reply> $who, Simple, but powerfull network monitor. URL: http://www.bsb-software.com/download/bsb-monitor/
bscxlpr => <reply> $who, X11 interface to lpr/lpc, using Motif 2.1 on glibc system. URL: http://www.surfshop.net/~mfburgo/pub/bscxlpr.html
BsdScan => <reply> $who, Simple port-scanning utility. URL: ftp://annuvin.cosmicfire.net/pub/bsdscan/
BSMTP => <reply> $who, . URL: http://wwwrzstud.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uk1o/bsmtp/
BTERM => <reply> $who, BTERM is a small VT320 terminal emulator.. URL: http://www.bbbs.net
bttvgrab => <reply> $who, Provides high-quality grabbing suitable for video recording. URL: http://moes.pmnet.uni-oldenburg.de/bttvgrab/
Buddyedit => <reply> $who, Perl script to edit the buddy list of naim's .faimrc file.. URL: ftp://holly.mirkwood.com/pub/buddyedit.tgz
bug-buddy => <reply> $who, graphical bug-reporting utility for GNOME. URL: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~jberkman/bug-buddy/
BUGS => <reply> $who, Private key algorithm and applications. URL: http://www.asi.fr/~martinez/crypto/crypto_uk.html
Bugzilla => <reply> $who, mozilla.org's bugtracking system. URL: http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/
Build Your Linux Disk => <reply> $who, A package that helps you to build a Linux distribution on a single floppy.. URL: http://get.to/byld/
build-package => <reply> $who, Packaging Helper Applet. URL: ftp://ftp.obsidian.co.za/pub/linux/build-package/
Builder Xcessory PRO for Linux => <reply> $who, The industry's most advanced graphical user interface builder for Motif. URL: http://linux.ics.com/
BuildIT! => <reply> $who, GUI creator for the Java 1.1 components set. URL: http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~scisly/buildit/
Buildkernel => <reply> $who, Automates the task of building a Linux kernel. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/buildkernel/
Bulli => <reply> $who, Parquet Deformation Toolkit. URL: http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/bulli/index.html
BullSoft Enterprise Java Beans => <reply> $who, Open Source implementation of the EJB specification. URL: http://www.bullsoft.com/ejb/
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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
CardInfo => <reply> $who, Replacement for the cardinfo application from the pcmcia package.. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/
cardwords => <reply> $who, Form crosswords on the cardtable with cards showing characters.. URL: http://www.crosswinds.net/~cardwords/
Carillon => <reply> $who, system for finding Y2K errors in C programs. URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/Research/Aiken/carillon/
Carlow => <reply> $who, An update-checkout gui for CVS.. URL: http://erin.netpedia.net/download/carlow-0.25.tgz
carnegie => <reply> $who, a class scheduler. URL: http://www.tunison.net/code/carnegie/
Carrito => <reply> $who, It's a console game, it can be played via internet.. URL: http://members.xoom.com/pablojuan/carrito.html
CARUI => <reply> $who, CARUI is a Java to serial port interface for controlling devices over the net.. URL: http://www.phlat.com/
Cashcow => <reply> $who, Library for clearing credit card payments with the Danish PBS system. URL: http://www.cashcow.dk/
casting => <reply> $who, Shoutcast launcher plugin for netscape. URL: http://www.lug.usf.edu/~g0ne/
Catalog => <reply> $who, Build, maintain and display Yahoo! like resources catalogs.. URL: http://www.senga.org/Catalog/html/
catdoc => <reply> $who, Reads MS-Word file and prints out its content in plain text or TeX format.. URL: http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/
catdvi => <reply> $who, DVI to plaintext (Unicode) translator.. URL: http://www.iki.fi/gaia/programs/catdvi/
CBB => <reply> $who, Personal check book balancing utility for Unix/X. URL: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/cbb/
CBQ.init => <reply> $who, Ethernet shaper init script based on CBQ. URL: ftp://ftp.equinox.gu.net/pub/linux/cbq/
Cbrowser => <reply> $who, Graphical c/c++ source code searching and browsing tool. URL: http://www.ziplink.net/~felaco/cbrowser/
cccd => <reply> $who, A CDDB capable CD player using GTK+. URL: http://home.pages.de/~jst/cccd/
ccd => <reply> $who, cd player designed for use on linux systems.. URL: http://themes.org/~suprax/ccd-0.01.tar.gz
CCF => <reply> $who, Virtual environment for distributed computation. URL: http://ccf.mathcs.emory.edu/ccf/
CCFaudio => <reply> $who, A multi-user Internet conferencing phone. URL: http://ccf.mathcs.emory.edu
CCFlauncher => <reply> $who, Enables remote uses to initiate and join ongoing collaborative sessions. URL: http://ccf.mathcs.emory.edu/ccf/
ccirc => <reply> $who, An irc client written in shell scripts and telnet.. URL: http://cadellin.gwydion.net/ccirc/
CClinux => <reply> $who, Single floppy linux based on 2.2.x kernels with GNU tools. URL: http://www.CosmicChaos.com/CClinux/
ccmalloc => <reply> $who, memory profiling and malloc debugginglibrary for C and C++ programs. URL: http://iseran.ira.uka.de/~armin/ccmalloc/
zlib => <reply> $who, A compression/decompression Library. URL: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
ccsh => <reply> $who, C language based scripting language. URL: http://fire.csua.ucla.edu/~dannys/projects/ccsh/
CCVS (Credit Card Verification System) => <reply> $who, Clear credit cards with Linux/Unix. URL: http://www.hks.net
CD Backup Linux => <reply> $who, Backup application,which burns bootable CD-Rs during the time when I'm at work.. URL: http://cdbl.linuxbox.com/
CD builder => <reply> $who, CD cue sheet and subcode generating tool for Linux/UNIX. URL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bchafy/cdb/cdb.html
CD Jukebox => <reply> $who, Multi-drive console CD player. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/cdrom/cdjukebox-0.5.tgz
cd-console => <reply> $who, curses-based cd-player program. URL: http://www.iki.fi/osku/cd-console/
cd-copy shell => <reply> $who, CDROM copying/creation tool.. URL: http://donald-duck.ele.tue.nl/meadow/cdcopy/
CD-Keeper => <reply> $who, Organizes your CD collection. URL: http://www.slaathaug.com/html/cdkeeper.html
CD-ROM Control for Linux => <reply> $who, CD-Rom control panel. URL: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~taperdell/cdrom/
cd2mp3 => <reply> $who, Records CD audio tracks directly to mp3 format.. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ks/linuxprg/
cdar => <reply> $who, CD ARchiving utility for backing up to multisession CDRs and CDRWs. URL: http://ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~pdw/cdar/
CDBase => <reply> $who, Database for CDs. URL: http://mrsmith.computer.webjump.com/
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clock => <reply> $who, Sets system time from CMOS clock and vice versa.. URL: http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/prog.html
CLPQ => <reply> $who, Console Printer Queue Program. URL: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~dpalomo/distr/CLPQ.html
CluClo => <reply> $who, Cluster Cloner, system to create clone one system. URL: http://members.linuxstart.com/~flux/cluclo/
Clustor => <reply> $who, Clustor - software for high performance computing. URL: http://www.activetools.com/
cman => <reply> $who, Rolodex, contact manager, non-gui (ncurses version). URL: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/arc/cman.html
CMatrix => <reply> $who, Ncurses eye-candy demo like. URL: http://www.plattsburgh.edu/faculty/allegrcr/cmatrix/index.html
CMC => <reply> $who, Chaos Mail Checker. URL: http://www.swi.com.br/~chaos/cmc/
CMeister => <reply> $who, A new Java based C Development Tool. URL: http://www.cmeister.com/
Cmp3 => <reply> $who, Console frontend to mpg123. URL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nkk104/cmp3/
cmu-snmp-linux => <reply> $who, Port of CMU SNMP package to Linux. URL: http://www.gaertner.de/snmp/
CMUCL for Linux => <reply> $who, A highly optimizing Lisp compiler, with optional editor, X interfaces etc.. URL: http://cmucl.cons.org
COAS => <reply> $who, Linux administration system. URL: http://www.coas.org/
CoCo Linux Utilities => <reply> $who, Utility collection to handle Tandy Color Computer files. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~brihall/
Coconut Webmail Pro => <reply> $who, Fully featured web based email system. URL: http://www.coconutsoftware.com/
Cocoon => <reply> $who, XML to HTML converter. URL: http://java.apache.org/
coda => <reply> $who, Full featured network filesystem. URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
codd => <reply> $who, Code contribution analysis tool.. URL: http://www.vipul.net/perl/
Code Breaker => <reply> $who, MasterMind clone.. URL: http://www.cs.nmt.edu/~mberg/programming/codebreaker/
Code Crusader => <reply> $who, complete code development environment, inspired by MetroWerks CodeWarrior. URL: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/
Code Medic => <reply> $who, UNIX Debugging Environment. URL: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~glenn/medic/
code2html => <reply> $who, Converts a program's source code to syntax highlighted HTML. URL: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/code2html/
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CommuniGate Pro => <reply> $who, An industry-standard internet mail server supporting SMTP, POP, IMAP, and Lists. URL: http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/
Comp-jugador => <reply> $who, Conjugates Spanish verbs. URL: http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg/comp-jugador/
Compact Networking Utilities => <reply> $who, CNU is a Java graphical application that allows you to have direct access to a b. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/CNU/
CompactNET => <reply> $who, Multiple CompactPCI CPU boards operate in a single backplane. URL: http://www.compactnet.com/
Compaq Smart-2 Driver => <reply> $who, Linux Driver for Compaq Smart-2 PCI Disk Array Controllers. URL: http://www.insync.net/~frantzc/cpqarray.html
CompuPic => <reply> $who, CompuPic Graphical Digital Content and File Manager for Linux. URL: http://linux.compupic.com/
Condor => <reply> $who, A distributed batch system that takes advantage of idle cycles of computer. URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
conf => <reply> $who, Reads from and writes to configuration files, for use in shell scripts. URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~bernsti/conf/index.html
confcollect => <reply> $who, A small utility that posts the systems configuration to an adminostrator through. URL: http://www.chaoz.com/~avajadi/confcollect/archive/confcollect-0.1d.tar.gz
ConferenceRoom => <reply> $who, IRC server with web integration tools. URL: http://www.webmaster.com/
Config tools for HTML PLAIN => <reply> $who, GUI editor for templates for HTML PLAIN. URL: http://artho.com/webtools/config/
CONFIG:: => <reply> $who, Cached and Pre-parsed file reading.. URL: http://www.clifford.at/~mws/perl/config/
Configure-it => <reply> $who, Perl script to configure bash aliases. URL: http://www.freeweb.org/free/edo_v/index.htm
Connect => <reply> $who, Client-server to easily share (open/close) one ppp link among a small network. URL: http://www.caesium.fr/freeware/connect/
Connector => <reply> $who, PPP configuration. URL: http://www.twistedsine.com/connector/SOURCE/
console othello => <reply> $who, The Classic Othello Board Game. URL: http://david.weekly.org/othello/
ConsoleCam => <reply> $who, CGI that creates a HTML screenshot from any Linux VC. URL: http://www.ds4a.com/filez/x-ware/consolecam.tar.gz
ConsoleSaver => <reply> $who, An application to use screensavers in console.. URL: http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/narkos/soft/cs.htm
convergence => <reply> $who, sorting program that works from both ends of a list. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~tarozax/
Cook => <reply> $who, A tool for constructing files, and maintainingreferential integrity between fil. URL: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/cook/
Cookiecutter => <reply> $who, Utility for removing unwanted cookies from Netscape cookie files. URL: http://www.qis.net/~pdarnows/cookiecutter/
Cool Beats => <reply> $who, Small clock supporting the beat-time. URL: http://www.kLoGraFX.de/
Cool Notes => <reply> $who, Gtk/Gdk based 'notes-program' like xmemos. URL: http://www.idnet.de/~AdamK/
Cooledit => <reply> $who, Full featured text editor for the X Window System. URL: http://www.netins.net/showcase/Comput-IT/cooledit/index.html
cops.gcl => <reply> $who, A web counter for police sites. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/
Copy Quota => <reply> $who, Utility to copy a user quota to several users. URL: http://www.cosmos.dhs.org/~brandon/
Coral Tree Library Set => <reply> $who, Set of abstraction libraries covering both UNIX and Win32. URL: http://www.imonk.com
CorbaScript => <reply> $who, CORBA Scripting Language. URL: http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/CorbaScript/index.html
CoreDump Scripts => <reply> $who, Perl CGI scripts for displaying information about a Shout playlist.. URL: http://pitfall.org/coredump/
Corel Linux => <reply> $who, Corel Linux Distribution. URL: http://linux.corel.com/
Corel WordPerfect => <reply> $who, Commerical word processor for Linux (and many other platforms). URL: http://linux.corel.com/linux8/
COSA => <reply> $who, Linux driver and tools for the COSA and SRP synchronous serial boards. URL: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/cosa/
costd => <reply> $who, log phone costs. URL: http://linux.laban.net/costd/
count.pl => <reply> $who, Text based hit counter for SSI with unique features. URL: http://www.geeksanon.ab.ca/cgi/count.shtml
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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
dagrab => <reply> $who, Extracts digital audio from CD and stores it in WAV files (incl CDDB). URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/cdrom/dagrab-0.3.3.tar.gz
DailyUpdate => <reply> $who, Grabs dynamic information from the internet and integrates itinto your webpage. URL: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/DailyUpdate/index.html
Dallas DS-1820 Sensor Monitor => <reply> $who, Basic interface to Dallas Semi 1-wire temperature sensors. URL: http://home.att.net/~rongage/
Dallas DS-1820 Temperature Sensor Monitor => <reply> $who, Application and library for talking to Dallas Semi 1-wire devices. URL: http://home.att.net/~rongage/
Dancer => <reply> $who, IRC defense bot, protects your channel and your users. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/dancer/
Dante => <reply> $who, Free socks v4/5 implementation. URL: http://www.inet.no/dante/
DAP (Digital Audio Processor) => <reply> $who, Impressive looking sound editor using xforms. URL: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~richardk/
Darkbot => <reply> $who, IRC Help Robot. URL: http://www.superchat.org/darkbot/
DarkFire IRCD [Twilight] => <reply> $who, Advanced IRCD. URL: http://www.darkfire.net/
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/
DBMAIL => <reply> $who, A mailsystem that uses a SQL database to store it's messages (POP3). URL: http://www.dbmail.org/
DBMaker => <reply> $who, DBMaker Internet Information Source. URL: http://www.dbmaker.com
dbMan => <reply> $who, DB manager based on Perl, Tk, DBI (about 20 DBMS incl. URL: http://dbman.linux.cz/
DBMEdit => <reply> $who, A user-friendly Web-based DBM database editor (in Perl 5). URL: http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/dbmedit/
dbMetrix => <reply> $who, GUI Database Tool. URL: http://www.tamos.net/sw/dbMetrix/
dBot => <reply> $who, Java clone of FrontPage WebBots.. URL: http://www.ice-works.com/martinja/projects.dbot.html
DBS Server => <reply> $who, Telephony Server for integrating a Panasonic DBS telephone system. URL: http://www.tycho.com/dbs/
DBWidgets/Java => <reply> $who, Java-Library for GUI-Frontends to JDBC/SQL-Databases. URL: http://members.xoom.com/nilspro/
dbXML => <reply> $who, Structure Document DBMS. URL: http://www.dbxml.org/
DB_Browser => <reply> $who, Web-based utility to browse and modify a postgres database. URL: http://www.summersault.com/software/db_browser/
dc20 => <reply> $who, User friendly package for the Kodak DC20 camera. URL:
DCC6502 => <reply> $who, Portable disassembler for the 6502 microprocessor, with cycle-counting. URL: http://www.ameth.org/~veilleux/dcc6502.html
dcd => <reply> $who, Simple command-line CD player. URL: http://www.technopagan.org/dcd/
ddclient => <reply> $who, Client for www.dyndns.org's free dynamic DNS service. URL: http://burry.dyndns.org/ddclient/
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durep => <reply> $who, Disk Usage Reporter. URL: http://www.hibernaculum.demon.co.uk/
dusk => <reply> $who, irc script that ports BitchX commands and documentation to portuguese. URL: http://www.linux.trix.net/irc-intro.htm
dvipdfm => <reply> $who, Dvipdfm is a DVI to PDF translator.. URL: http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/
dvorak7min => <reply> $who, ncurses-based typing tutor for the Dvorak layout. URL: http://personal.redestb.es/ragnar/
DWUN => <reply> $who, Controls PPP link by client requests for connection. URL: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~umbrella/
dxpc => <reply> $who, X protocol compressor. URL: http://www.vigor.nu/dxpc/
DXSpider DX Cluster => <reply> $who, A Ham Radio DX Cluster written in perl for Linux. URL: http://www.dxcluster.org
DyDNS => <reply> $who, Dynamic DNS environment for intranets. URL: http://freetings.com/linux/index.html
dyn-html => <reply> $who, Scripts which generate redirection Web pages for dynamic IP users. URL: http://www.linuxnetmag.de/series/projects/dyn_html.html
dyn-ip-page.sh => <reply> $who, This script makes files containing your IP and uploads them. URL: http://www.apci.net/~shorti/dyn-ip-page.html
dynahtml.pl => <reply> $who, HTML-editing Perl script. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/spoon/index.html
Dynamic DNS Perl Scripts => <reply> $who, A Set of Perl scripts to update a domain using bind8 Dynamic Update Feature. URL: http://www.dynam.ac/dns/
Dynamic DNS Server Client => <reply> $who, The server opens port 7007 and listens for incoming connections. URL: http://www.crashed.net/~chet/
DynamicJava => <reply> $who, Java source interpreter. URL: http://www.inria.fr/koala/djava/
Dynamics - HUT Mobile IP => <reply> $who, Dynamic, scalable, hierarchical Mobile IP system with localized location updates. URL: http://www.cs.hut.fi/Research/Dynamics/
DynAPI => <reply> $who, development library for DHTML web applications, games, and animations. URL: http://www.dansteinman.com/dynapi/
DynDNS => <reply> $who, Dynamic DNS server. URL: http://dyn.stech.net/
Dynip.expet => <reply> $who, Expect script to update a web page with your IP address.. URL: http://www.loop.com/~vipvop/dyn.html
dynipserv => <reply> $who, Dynamic IP Server. URL: http://www.my-linux.org/~doubt/
E*Reminders => <reply> $who, Web-based reminder software. URL: http://allie.alliedtours.com/~eremind/EReminder.html
E-Data => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.adventia.com/e-data.htm
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ecasound => <reply> $who, Sound processing, multitrack recording and mixing. URL: http://www.wakkanet.fi/ecasound
ecg2png => <reply> $who, Utility to convert high-res ECGs to Web-friendly PNG format. URL: http://www.cardiothink.com/downloads/ecg2png/
ECLiPt Mirroring Tool => <reply> $who, Full-featured mirroring script. URL: http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/
ECLiPt Roaster => <reply> $who, GTK Interface to MkIsoFs and CDRecord for writing CDs on the fly. URL: http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at
ECLiPt Secure Tunnel => <reply> $who, TCP Secure Tunneling System. URL: http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at
ECLiPt Virtual Gallery Creator => <reply> $who, Create nice WWW Image Galleries and index pages. URL: http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/projects/evg/
Ecology-HOWTO => <reply> $who, Linux as a mean to protect our environment.. URL: http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/eco_linux.html
eCos => <reply> $who, Real Time Operating System. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/
Edcom => <reply> $who, An easy to administer, multiuser, story posting system, written in perl5.. URL: http://edseek.com/developers.shtml
Eddie => <reply> $who, Robust, clustering, load balancing, high availability, web server tool.. URL: http://www.eddieware.org/
editek => <reply> $who, Colorizer for /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net and /etc/motd. URL: http://www.xnot.com/editek/
edna => <reply> $who, tiny HTTP server for selecting and streaming MP3 files. URL:
eEMU => <reply> $who, Enterprise Event Management and Monitoring Utility. URL: http://www.jarrix.com.au/
efingerd => <reply> $who, Another finger daemon for linux. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/efingerd.html
EFMC => <reply> $who, EFMC (Element's Formula Mass Calculator) calculates Formula Mass. URL: http://emu.simplenet.com/misc/efmc-0.1.tar.gz
efs => <reply> $who, Extent File System support (read-only). URL: http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/
Efsane => <reply> $who, Turkish Window Manager for X. URL: http://efsane.sitebest.com/
efsmod => <reply> $who, Read EFS (Silicon Graphic's own Filesystem) Media on a Linux Platform. URL: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/cnvogelg/proj.html
egcs => <reply> $who, Experimental set of enhancements for the GNU tools. URL: http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/
Egg => <reply> $who, Interpreter for the language in Dijkstra's Discipline of Computer Programming. URL: http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/egg/index.html
ZNibbles => <reply> $who, Networked multiplayer nibbles/snake game for X11/Motif. URL: http://www.stud.enst.fr/~vmallet/ZNibbles.html
eggdrop2 => <reply> $who, IRC bot, written in C. URL: http://www.eggdrop.net/
Egoistic Wordlist Generator => <reply> $who, A wordlist generator with a variety of options.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/divideb0/
egrep-finger => <reply> $who, Extended finger program using extended regular expressions. URL: http://torch.rowan.edu/egrep-finger/
eGTK => <reply> $who, Bindings to GTK+ widget toolkit for Eiffel.. URL: http://www.netlabs.net/hp/richieb/gtk_eiffel.html
EHD => <reply> $who, patch for login to allow encrypted home directories under linux. URL: http://members.home.net/id-est/
EHeadlines => <reply> $who, Root Menu news system.. URL: http://dragon.acadiau.ca/~015940b/escripts/
EiC => <reply> $who, A bytecode C interpreter/compiler. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~eic/
eIRC => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.castrop-rauxel.netsurf.de/homepages/eko.bono.surprijadi/eirc.html
ejboss => <reply> $who, Enterprise Java Beans application server for Linux. URL: http://www.ejboss.org
eject => <reply> $who, eject removable media. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~tranter/eject.html
Electric => <reply> $who, CAD/EDA tool for multiple levels of design. URL: http://www.electriceditor.com
Electric Ears => <reply> $who, A simple wave player.. URL: http://www.gdev.net/~torello/eears.html
Electric Fence => <reply> $who, malloc() buffer-overrun debugger that uses the VM hardware.. URL: http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/
ElectricEyes => <reply> $who, Lightweight GTK+/GNOME-based image viewer. URL: http://www.labs.redhat.com/ee.shtml
electricsheep => <reply> $who, Collaborative screensaver. URL: http://electricsheep.org/
ELF kickers => <reply> $who, Programs that manipulate ELF files. URL: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/elfkickers.html
elfnote => <reply> $who, A program to manipulate the NOTE sections in ELF binaries.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/elfnote-0.0.2.tar.gz
EliteIRCD => <reply> $who, Easy-to-use commercial IRC server. URL: http://www.eliteircd.on.ca/
elknews => <reply> $who, Usenet Newsreader. URL: http://elknews.netpedia.net/index.html
ELKS => <reply> $who, A subset of the Linux kernel that runs in 8086 real mode and 286 protected mode. URL: http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
elm => <reply> $who, One of the most common mail readers for unix.. URL: http://www.instinct.org/elm/
elm2mutt => <reply> $who, Converts email aliases from Elm to Mutt. URL: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/elm2mutt/
ELSA => <reply> $who, RTSP/RTP Streaming Media Server. URL: http://streaming.entera.com/
Elvis => <reply> $who, A clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor.. URL: ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/
Emacs => <reply> $who, The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time displayeditor. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Emacs JDE => <reply> $who, Complete Java Development Environment for Emacs. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/
Emacs mutt-mode => <reply> $who, Makes Emacs play nicely as an external Mutt editor. URL: http://www.randomhacks.com/~emk/mutt.html
Emacs/W3 => <reply> $who, Full-featured web browser for written entirely in Emacs-lisp. URL: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html
Emacspeak => <reply> $who, A full-fledged speech output interface to Emacs. URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak/
Email Security through Procmail => <reply> $who, Email filter to remove remote security exploits of email clients. URL: ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html
email2sms => <reply> $who, e-mail to SMS Perl filter with text compression and MIME support. URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/email2sms/
emailnotify => <reply> $who, Flexible new mail notify perl script. URL: http://av.tservicetlc.net/
Embedded Perl 5 Language (ePerl) => <reply> $who, Embedded Perl 5 Language. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/eperl/
emelFM => <reply> $who, Two-Window File Manager. URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~macst92/emelfm/
Emix => <reply> $who, A simple audio mixer Epplet. URL: http://dlib.cicese.mx/~rmach/Emix/
eMixer => <reply> $who, MP3 Mixing Software. URL: http://emixer.linuxbox.com/
Empath => <reply> $who, A new mail transfer agent for KDE. URL: http://without.netpedia.net/
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Endeavour => <reply> $who, Linux/X File and Image Browser. URL: http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/edv.htm
Energymech => <reply> $who, Bot for irc with eggdrop like features to manage a channel. URL: http://www.suba.com/~proton/index.html
Enhydra => <reply> $who, An open Source Application Server. URL: http://www.enhydra.org
ENIP => <reply> $who, Pure java email client. URL: http://ungerware.dhs.org/enip/
eNITL => <reply> $who, Embeddable, extensible, template scripting language engine for C++ apps. URL: http://networkimprov.com/enitl/enitl.html
Enlightenment => <reply> $who, Fast, flexible and very extensible Window Manager. URL: http://www.enlightenment.org/
Enoch => <reply> $who, An Advanced, Highly-Optimized GNU/Linux. URL: http://enoch.masslinux.com/
enprt.csh => <reply> $who, Entitled Printing from Netscape Navigator under UNIX-like OSes. URL: http://mickey.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at/enprt/
EnRus dictionary tools => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk scripts for manipulating textual (plain or gzipped) dictionary base.. URL: http://enrus.antex.ru/indexe.html
enscript => <reply> $who, Converts ASCII files to PostScript. URL: http://www.iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/
Enscriptconfig => <reply> $who, Standalone GUI to edit the GNU enscript configuration files. URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~etgold/software/
Ensemble => <reply> $who, A toolkit for constructing reliable distributed applications.. URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Ensemble/index.html
Enter3D Project => <reply> $who, Large-scale multiuser persistent real-time 3D world. URL: http://www.enter3d.net
Entity => <reply> $who, Allows you to use XML and Perl/Tcl/C to build graphical user interfaces.. URL: http://entity.netidea.com/
Env::Array => <reply> $who, Perl module for treating environment variables as arrays. URL: http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/Env-Array/index.html
Envelope printing tool => <reply> $who, A simple Perl script to print a business size envelope using Enscript.. URL: ftp://ftp.lecart.com/pub/enscript-envelope.tar.gz
envprint.pl => <reply> $who, Mail-merge and envelope printer. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/spoon/
Envy => <reply> $who, Shell-independent environment variable management. URL: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JPRIT/
EO => <reply> $who, Templates-based, ANSI-C++ compliant evolutionary computation library. URL: http://geneura.ugr.es/~jmerelo/EO.html
EOS => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.ist.org/eos/text.html
epage => <reply> $who, A small workspace changer - CDE like - pager for Enlightenment.. URL: http://sixsteps.stuph.org/stuff/
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Epplet Library => <reply> $who, Library and example epplets for Enlightenment 0.16. URL: http://www.enlightenment.org/
epsmerge => <reply> $who, A Perl program for handling encapsulated postscript images. URL: http://134.219.44.207/~jens/software/epsmerge/
epsprint => <reply> $who, Epson-compatible dot matrix printer filter. URL: http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/epsprint/
epssplit => <reply> $who, A program to split encapsulated postscript files. URL: http://134.219.44.207/~jens/software/epssplit/
eqlplus => <reply> $who, Modem Aggregator for Linux. URL: http://www.cwareco.com/eqlplus.html
Eraserhead RPG => <reply> $who, RPG/II, RPG/III Compiler. URL: http://rpg.netpedia.net
ERC => <reply> $who, Emacs IRC client. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/chat/irc/
erikyyyphone => <reply> $who, Internet audio conferencing application. URL: http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~inf24628/erikyyyphone/
Erlang => <reply> $who, Full-featured programming language developed at the Ericsson CS Laboratory. URL: http://www.erlang.org/
erpcd-talker => <reply> $who, A simple set of utilities to talk to an erpcd (Annex manager software). URL: http://www.luyer.net/software/erpcd-talker/
erwin => <reply> $who, GTK html editor. URL: http://www-stud.fht-esslingen.de/erwin/
esh => <reply> $who, New Unix shell. URL: http://esh.netpedia.net
esky => <reply> $who, Userspace job freezing (checkpoint/resume) system. URL: http://cap.anu.edu.au/~dgibson/esky.html
ESM => <reply> $who, A system monitoring tool.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~retep/esm.html
esound => <reply> $who, Enlightened Sound Daemon. URL: http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
eSquire => <reply> $who, Web based Majordomo replacement and autoresponder manager. URL: http://www.gamerz.net/esquire/
ET-Linux => <reply> $who, RTOS for embedded systems. URL: ftp://ftp.prosa.it/pub/etlinux
Eterm => <reply> $who, An X11 VT102 emulator with Enlightenment features. URL: http://www.eterm.org/
ETest => <reply> $who, Regression Test Framework for Eiffel Programs. URL: http://w3.one.net/~jweirich/etest/
Etherboot => <reply> $who, Source code for making TCP/IP boot ROMs to boot Linux and other OSes. URL: http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/
Ethereal => <reply> $who, GUI network protocol analyzer. URL: http://ethereal.zing.org/
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farsh => <reply> $who, Find and Run shell. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/file/farsh/farsh-1.2.0-1.tar.gz
FAST => <reply> $who, Adaptation of the console classic Asteroids using text instead of rocks.. URL: http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/essay/schiffler/default/
Fast Webpage Exchanger => <reply> $who, A non-interactive FTP client for updating Web pages. URL: http://www.enjoy.ne.jp/~gm/program/weex/
FastGL => <reply> $who, A very wonderfull C/C++ graphics library. URL: http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/
fastjar => <reply> $who, Fast jar file creator written in C. URL: http://fastjar.sourceforge.net/
FastLink => <reply> $who, FastLink is a free Java Applet that displays mirror sites sorted by their respon. URL: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/projects/fastlink/
Fastresolve => <reply> $who, Fast log file IP address resolver and utilities. URL: http://www.web.us.uu.net/fastresolve/
FastTemplate.php3 => <reply> $who, A PHP class for managing ASCII (HTML) templates.. URL: http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/
fav2html => <reply> $who, Perl script to convert your windows favorites directory into a bookmarks file. URL: http://www.halcyon.com/mango/FavToHtml/index.html
FavToHtml => <reply> $who, Utility to Convert MS Internet Explorer 4.x Favorites to HTML Format. URL: http://web3.foxinternet.net/johnmcc/FavToHtml
fb => <reply> $who, Binary file viewer, editor, and manipulator.. URL: http://home.mho.net/jswaby/fb.html
FBBSEcho => <reply> $who, A Fidonet Echomail tosser for Falken BBS systems. URL: http://www.FalkenBBS.com
fbgetty => <reply> $who, An extended mingetty for Linux. URL: http://www.multimania.com/lch/fbgetty/
Zsh => <reply> $who, Powerful UNIX shell. URL: http://www.zsh.org/
fbsound => <reply> $who, Framebuffer waveform viewer and frequency analyzer like X11Amp. URL: http://phoenix.penguinpowered.com/programs/
fbtv direct channel hack => <reply> $who, Simple to to add functionality to fbtv. URL: http://members.iglou.com/nemesis2/fbtv/
fbview => <reply> $who, An image viewer for Linux consoles, using the oFBis library. URL: http://www.nocrew.org/software/fbview/
FCheck => <reply> $who, Baseline filesystem and administration policy monitor.. URL: http://sites.netscape.net/fcheck/fcheck.html
FCT => <reply> $who, HTML based tool for the configuration of a firewall. URL: http://www.fen.baynet.de/~ft114/FCT/index.htm
FDScript => <reply> $who, Lightweight multi-lingual Scheme interpreter. URL: http://www.framerd.org/
fdutils => <reply> $who, Floppy disk utilities. URL: http://fdutils.linux.lu/
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fetchnews => <reply> $who, 'fetchmail' for NNTP protocols. URL: http://files.moo.ca/~laotzu/fetchnews.html
ffcall => <reply> $who, Foreign function call interface library. URL: http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-ffcall.html
ffingerd => <reply> $who, Secure finger daemon for Unix. URL: http://www.fefe.de/ffingerd/
FFTW => <reply> $who, The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. URL: http://www.fftw.org/
fhttpd => <reply> $who, FTP/HTTP server with modules support. URL: http://www.fhttpd.org/
Fiasco => <reply> $who, L4-compatible real-time microkernel capable of running Linux in usermode. URL: http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/
ficl => <reply> $who, Forth interpreter for embedded applications. URL: http://www.taygeta.com/ficl.html
FidoGate => <reply> $who, A Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser.. URL: http://www.fido.de/fidogate/
Filaments => <reply> $who, A parallel processing library package. URL: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~dkl/filaments/dist.html
file => <reply> $who, File type identification utility. URL: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
Filelooker => <reply> $who, A small X11 program for viewing Oracle datafile information. URL: http://www.mattshouse.com/procedit/
FileRunner => <reply> $who, simple and efficient filemanager. URL: http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
Filesystems HOWTO => <reply> $who, HOWTO about filesystems and accessing filesystems from several OSes.. URL: http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/
fileutils => <reply> $who, The GNU file management utilities. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/
fillrio.sh => <reply> $who, Script to load random MP3s to Rio.. URL: http://www.tanj.com/fillrio.html
Final Battle => <reply> $who, A multiplayer space game for the X Window System. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/finalbattle/
finddups => <reply> $who, Find duplicate files by way of MD5 signatures irregardless of file renames.. URL: http://sites.netscape.net/fcheck/
find_duplicates => <reply> $who, Find identical files. URL: http://www.pike-community.org/code/show_single.html?id=3
finger daemon user configurable => <reply> $who, User configurable finger daemon. URL: http://www.elf.stuba.sk/~trebular/projects.html
FIPS => <reply> $who, DOS program for non-destructive splitting of harddisk partitions.. URL: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/tools/fips20.zip
Fire Gnome => <reply> $who, A GNOME tool for an ipchains firewall configuration.. URL: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/gfirewall/
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Flash => <reply> $who, Secure menuing shell for restricting local unix users. URL: http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/flash/
Flash 4 Plugin for Netscape => <reply> $who, Flash 4 plugin for Netscape. URL: http://www.macromedia.com/
Flash Mount Menu => <reply> $who, Automounter/umounter. URL: http://lonestar.bizland.com/
Flash Web Server => <reply> $who, A fast, portable web server that performs aggressive caching. URL: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vivek/flash/
Flashback => <reply> $who, Flashback is an mp3 visualization program.. URL: http://deadzone.student.umd.edu/flashback/news.pl
fletch => <reply> $who, Non interactive, multiplexing FTP/HTTP client.. URL: http://vipul.net/perl/
flexbackup => <reply> $who, Flexible backup script. URL: http://members.home.com/flexbackup/
FlexButtonZ => <reply> $who, Make desktop buttons in X from shellscripts.. URL: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~buttonz/
Flight Gear => <reply> $who, Flight simulator. URL: http://www.flightgear.org/
flip => <reply> $who, Page-flipper for previewing TIFF sequence animations.. URL: http://www.reptilelabour.com/
flmake => <reply> $who, Graphical user interface for make , compiler output and nedit. URL: http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/fltk/
Flog => <reply> $who, ftpd log analyzer. URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ajoshi/
flow => <reply> $who, Particle animation software with GL preview and Renderman output.. URL: http://www.reptilelabour.com/
Flowersol => <reply> $who, Oonsoo and other flower card games for PySol. URL: http://www.inetarena.com/~grania/
FLS => <reply> $who, Library catalog/circulation system. URL: http://www.dorm4.org/~fuzz/fls/
flshutdown => <reply> $who, graphical shutdown application. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~aiel/flshutdown/
fltags => <reply> $who, GUI frontend for Exhuberant Ctags. URL: http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/fltk/fltags.html
FLTK => <reply> $who, C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL. URL: http://www.fltk.org/
FLTK-brain => <reply> $who, A library for writing parallel portable GUI-applications.. URL: http://volovich.da.ru/
Fluid Streaming Server => <reply> $who, An mp3 streaming audio server for Internet written in Java. URL: http://www.subside.com/fluid/
flwm => <reply> $who, The Fast Light Window Manager. URL: http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/flwm/
Flying Windows => <reply> $who, A spoof of Microsoft(tm)'s Flying Windows screensaver. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/flyingwindows/
flyspell.el => <reply> $who, Emacs/Xemacs on-the-fly spell checker. URL: http://kaolin.unice.fr/~serrano/emacs/emacs.html
Fl_Editor => <reply> $who, Multiline text editor widget for FLTK, with extras.. URL: http://source.robertk.com/
Fm => <reply> $who, Gtk+ lightweight file manager. URL: http://thunderstorms.org/fm/
FMan => <reply> $who, FLTK Man page browser. URL: http://fman.sacredsoulrecords.com
fmnews.sh => <reply> $who, A cool shell script w/ ANSI that gets freshmeat headlines. URL: http://vtech.ml.org/~twiztah/fmnews.sh
fmPager => <reply> $who, Freshmeat Pager. URL: http://www.phobia.ms/fmpager
fmscore => <reply> $who, freshmeat daily newsletter parser (Mail::Freshmeat) and scorer. URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/fmscore/
Fnorb => <reply> $who, Python CORBA 2.0 ORB. URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Fnorb/
FocalMail => <reply> $who, Web based email interface which allows you to manage your mail. URL: http://www.focalmail.com/home/index.html
Font Print => <reply> $who, Allows you to use vga consolefonts when printing a file. URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~weave/vmwprod
fonted => <reply> $who, Linux WYSIWYG Console font editor and utilities.. URL: http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/fonted/
fonteditor => <reply> $who, Program for editing console fonts.. URL: http://www.logic.ru/peter/
Fonter => <reply> $who, A Linux Console Font Editor. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~roler/
fookb => <reply> $who, Xkb state indicator. URL: http://linux.piter-press.ru/fookb/fookb.html
FOP => <reply> $who, An XSL formatter written in Java that outputs PDF. URL: http://www.jtauber.com/fop/
FORGE JCE Provider => <reply> $who, A free JCE 1.2 crypto provider that gives RSA key services. URL: http://www.forge.com.au/
Form Maker => <reply> $who, Automated form generation and completion.. URL: ftp://coco.comstar.net/pub/
Formication => <reply> $who, Easy template driven form to email/file processor. URL: http://www.villainy.com/developers.html
Fortify => <reply> $who, Provides full strength, 128-bit encryption facilities to Netscape browsers. URL: http://www.fortify.net/
fortune-mod-extras => <reply> $who, Offensive aphorisms for the popular fortune program.. URL: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/noarch/SRPMS/fortune-mod-extras-1.0-2.src.rpm
Fortune2html => <reply> $who, Simple hack to put BSDI style fortunes on a web page.. URL: http://www.webokay.com/help/scripts/
FORUM => <reply> $who, Another PHP3/Mysql forum with some nifty features. URL: http://www.itcenter.ru/eng/forum/
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frequency => <reply> $who, stylostatistical analysis tool. URL: http://ruby.ddiworld.com/jreed/web/software/frequency.html
fresh-split => <reply> $who, Perl scripts for splitting freshmeat news. URL: http://techteam.static.golden.net/~emil/bins/fresh-split-1.0.tar.gz
Freshmeat Headline Grabber => <reply> $who, Perl-based headline grabber. URL: http://www.srijith.net/perl/
freshmeat newsletter to HTML converter => <reply> $who, procmail filter to convert freshmeat email newsletter to HTML. URL: http://www.kalka.org/linux/dox/freshmeat.html
freshmeat Ports Collection => <reply> $who, A quick way to download and compile FM-listed sources. URL: http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h089/
freshmeat.php3 => <reply> $who, Retrieves the latest freshmeat news for a webpage. URL: http://swamp.chl.chalmers.se/backends/
freshmeat.pl => <reply> $who, CGI / Perl script to fetch 10 newest Freshmeat news.. URL: http://cgi.djz.net
freshmeatGrinder => <reply> $who, freshmeat digests, digested. URL: ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/fmg/
Frink => <reply> $who, A tcl/tk formatter/minimiser/obfuscator. URL: ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/
Frodo => <reply> $who, Free portable C64 emulator forBeOS/Unix/MacOS/AmigaOS/RiscOS/Win32. URL: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FRMain.html
Frontdesk => <reply> $who, Groupware application designed for customer support and bug tracking. URL: http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/uu-gna/tech/dbedit/frontdesk.html
Frotz => <reply> $who, A Portable Z-Machine Interpreter. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3222/frotz.html
fryit => <reply> $who, Graphical frontend for cdrecord.. URL: http://eikon.tum.de/~komor/index.html
FSDEXT2 => <reply> $who, Mounts your Linux ext2fs partitions on Windows 95. URL: http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/
fsh => <reply> $who, Fast and secure remote command execution.. URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/
fstool => <reply> $who, a Tcl/Tk-based file system mounter. URL: http://www.bit.net.au/~bhepple/fstool
FSViewer => <reply> $who, File Viewer lookalike for Window Maker.. URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~clernong/projects/fsviewer.html
fsync => <reply> $who, file synchronization program written in Perl. URL: http://www.hec.utah.edu/~schwitrs/fsync.html
Ftape => <reply> $who, A driver for tape drives that connect to the floppy controller. URL: http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
ftape-tools => <reply> $who, Utilities for floppy tapes under Linux. URL: http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
FTE => <reply> $who, Text editor for X-Windows and console with I18N support.. URL: http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fr0235/fte/
FTP Logger => <reply> $who, Perl(CGI) WU-FTPD log analyzer for WEB. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8236/unix.html
FTP LogView => <reply> $who, Web based xferlog viewer. URL: http://www.curtisonline.net/software/
FTP Mirror Tracker => <reply> $who, FTP mirror-handling software.. URL: http://squid.itep.ru/
FTP with Source => <reply> $who, The FTP JavaBean Suite implements the FTP protocol.. URL: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/
FTP4ALL => <reply> $who, FTP server program for UNIX systems. URL: http://www.ftp4all.de/v3/noframes/
ftpcheck => <reply> $who, Searches for anonymous ftp sites on given nodes/networks. URL: http://david.weekly.org/code/
ftpd-BSD => <reply> $who, Linux port of OpenBSD's ftp server. URL: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD
ftpgrab => <reply> $who, FTP mirror utility. URL: ftp://ftp.lmh.ox.ac.uk/pub/linux/ftpgrab-0.1.0.tar.gz
FtpLocate => <reply> $who, FTP sites search engine. URL: http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/ftplocate.html
FTPWebLog => <reply> $who, A freeware integrated WWW and FTP log reporting tool.. URL: http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/ftpweblog/
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GDB => <reply> $who, GDB, The GNU Debugger. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/
gdbm => <reply> $who, GNU database library for C. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html
gdcd => <reply> $who, GTK CD player with Cover Art Index and CDDB support. URL: http://gdcd.undergrid.net/
Gdchart module => <reply> $who, A perl port of an excellent graphing package.. URL: http://www.aestus.net/gdchart/
gdict => <reply> $who, GTK Online Dictionary Program. URL: http://www.psilord.com/code
GdkMagick => <reply> $who, Image conversion and communication library for the ImageMagick and GDK toolkits. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~lightmanaj/GdkMagick/
GdkRgb => <reply> $who, Fast 24bpp image renderer for Gtk+. URL: http://www.levien.com/gdkrgb/
gdstar => <reply> $who, GNOME puzzle game. URL: http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~ademko/gnu/
GECCO => <reply> $who, A graphical application base for system configuration. URL: http://members.tripod.com/veeev/index.html
gEDA => <reply> $who, gEDA is an collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design,. URL: http://www.geda.seul.org
gEdit => <reply> $who, GTK+ based text editor. URL: http://gedit.pn.org/
Geek Code Generator => <reply> $who, Generates a Geek Code using a series of qeustions. URL: http://seymour.napalm.net/geekcode.html
Geeknews.Org Headline Grabber => <reply> $who, A Perl script to grab headlines from Geeknews.Org.. URL: http://www.srijith.net/perl/
geektalkd => <reply> $who, Simple, yet extendable chat server. URL: http://www.geektalk.org/
gefax => <reply> $who, Frontend for efax. URL: http://www.konqui.de/
geg => <reply> $who, Simple GTK+ 2D-function plotting program. URL: http://www.infolaunch.com/~daveb/
Geheimnis => <reply> $who, A KDE shell for GPG/PGP2/PGP5. URL: http://members.home.com/cdwiegand/geheimnis/
Gem Drop X => <reply> $who, A fast-paced puzzle game. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/gemdropx/
GEM/3 => <reply> $who, GUI desktop environment produced by Digital Research. URL: http://www.devili.iki.fi/cpm/gemworld.html
GEMTA => <reply> $who, Convenience library for mutithreaded apps using glib. URL: http://surazal.nerp.net/fractals/eoti/
GemVT => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.SoftHome.net/pub/users/timj/gemvt/index.htm
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Gforth => <reply> $who, GNU project implementation of the Forth programming language. URL: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/gforth.html
gfortune => <reply> $who, Enhanced fortune cookie program. URL: http://tirin.openworld.co.uk/fortune.html
gfract => <reply> $who, GTK-based fractal program. URL: http://www.iki.fi/osku/gfract/
gFTP => <reply> $who, A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows. URL: http://gftp.seul.org/
GFXIndex => <reply> $who, A program for creating indices of your pictures by making thumbnails and HTMLs.. URL: http://boost.linux.kz/gfxindex/
ggitv => <reply> $who, TV-application on ggi. URL: http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/ggi/
GGlyph => <reply> $who, Font previewer and installer for X11. URL: http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672/linux/gglyph/
GGUI => <reply> $who, An easy multi-purpose, multi-program GUI.. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/java/714/ggui/
gharmonic => <reply> $who, Interactive Tone Generation Toy. URL: http://members.xoom.com/etians/gharmonic.html
gHostLookup => <reply> $who, Finds the IP address of the hostname the user specifies. URL: http://iconmedia.com/aaron/ghostlookup.html
ghost_edit => <reply> $who, A fast and simple GTK-based host table editor. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~jonathanbrisbin/ghost_edit/
ghttpd => <reply> $who, A HTTP daemon, secure, fast, efficient with CGI support. URL: http://www.gaztek.co.uk/
GHUp! => <reply> $who, Java applications that replaces EZ File Upload into the GeoCities FileManager. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/java/GHUp/
GHX => <reply> $who, GTK clone of the Hotline software. URL: http://ac2i.tzo.com/ghx_e.html
GICQ => <reply> $who, GTK based ICQ client. URL: http://www.korsoft.com/gicq/
gicqd => <reply> $who, GNU ICQ-compatible Server. URL: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cbbettin/gicqd/
gIDE => <reply> $who, GTK-based Integrated Development Environment for C. URL: http://gide.pn.org/
gif2png => <reply> $who, converts GIF image files to PNG format.. URL: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/
GIFgraph::Map => <reply> $who, Generate HTNL map text. URL: http://amk.al.lg.ua/~ra/
giflib => <reply> $who, A library for reading and writing gif images. URL: http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/giflib.shtml
Gifsicle => <reply> $who, Command-line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing GIFs and animations. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
GILT => <reply> $who, Vector drawing program based on openGL and gtk. URL: http://www.vicksburg.com/~phoenix/main.html
GiMd2Viewer => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mygale.org/~bbrox/GiMd2Viewer/
Gimmick => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.support.unisource.nl/~markj/gimmick
GIMP IFF plugin => <reply> $who, An autoconf'd plug-in which adds support for IFF/ILBM pictures to the Gimp. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~jtevessen/
GIMP Imagemap plug-in => <reply> $who, GIMP plug-in for creation of clickable imagemaps.. URL: http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736/imagemap.html
gimp-python => <reply> $who, A package that allows you to write gimp plugins in python. URL: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygimp/
GIMPressionist => <reply> $who, Impressionistic plug-in for the GIMP. URL: http://algol.prosalg.no/~vidar/gimpressionist/
GiNaC => <reply> $who, A C++ library for symbolic calculations.. URL: http://www.ginac.de/
GIncoming => <reply> $who, A GTK app to monitor a directory for new files, like an incoming FTP directory.. URL: http://www.angrydwarf.org/GIncoming/
GIntMon => <reply> $who, GNOME Panel Interrupt Monitor. URL: http://www.sharpe12.freeserve.co.uk/proj.htm
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gMetronome => <reply> $who, A metronome written with the GTK+ toolkit.. URL: http://www.wpi.edu/~davidl/gMetronome/
gmind => <reply> $who, gmind is a code-guessing game for GNOME, much like MasterMind.. URL: http://voidptr.rh.rit.edu/~voidptr/gmind.html
gmixer => <reply> $who, X11/gtk+ OSS mixer control for linux. URL: http://junior.technion.ac.il/~sergey/linux.html
GMMF => <reply> $who, Godot's Modular Firewall. URL: http://muse.linuxgeek.org/
gMOO => <reply> $who, GTK+ based MOO (and MUD) client. URL: http://www.nowmoo.demon.nl
Gmosaic => <reply> $who, Creates a gray scale mosaic of an input image. URL: http://www.nyx.net/~jbuzbee/Gmosaic.html
GMP => <reply> $who, A free arbitrary-precision math library.. URL: http://www.swox.com/gmp/
Gmp3 => <reply> $who, GTK based front-end to mpg123. URL: http://www.ksirc.org/gmp3
Gmp32cinta => <reply> $who, Adjusts the times of MP3's to make them fit perfectly onto an audio tape. URL: http://linux.apostols.org/guru/graffic/
GMT => <reply> $who, Generic Mapping Tools. URL: http://imina.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/
Gmurf => <reply> $who, A wave audio processor for Linux to mix and edit waves.. URL: http://www.epita.fr/~sam-lo_p/Gmurf/
GMyNews => <reply> $who, MyNews Admin utility for GNOME.. URL: http://tigris.sonicom.net/projects/gmynews.html
gmysql => <reply> $who, A GTK+ front-end to MySQL databases. URL: http://www.loth.demon.co.uk/gmysql/
GNAT => <reply> $who, Ada95 Compiler. URL: http://www.gnat.com/
Gnatlab => <reply> $who, Matrix Math Scripting Language. URL: http://www.lsc.nd.edu/students/arodrig6/gnatlab/
GNATS => <reply> $who, A problem-tracking system written to report bugs.. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gnats/
GNetConfig => <reply> $who, Gtk-based Linux utility for configuring network settings.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/veeev/gnetconfig/index.html
gNiall => <reply> $who, Attempts to learn whatever language you try to teach it.. URL: http://rat.spunge.org/niall/
gnlogin => <reply> $who, A GTK interface to ncpmount.. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~zen/
gno3dtet => <reply> $who, 3-dimensional Tetris game for GNOME. URL: http://webdat.com/seb/3dtetris.html
Gnocatan => <reply> $who, Multiplayer game inspired by Settlers of Catan. URL: http://www.gnome.org/gnocatan/
GnoChecks => <reply> $who, Checkbook balancer program for X. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/3104/gnochecks/
Gnofin => <reply> $who, A simple GNOME checkbook application. URL: http://jagger.me.berkeley.edu/~dfisher/gnofin/
Gnoghurt => <reply> $who, video filter pipeline editor. URL: http://www.labs.redhat.com/gnoghurt/gnoghurt-0.1.tar.gz
gnokii => <reply> $who, Preliminary release of tool set for Nokia mobile phones.. URL: http://gnokii.org/
gnolms => <reply> $who, Displays lm_sensors info on the GNOME panel. URL: http://www.tuts.net/~klausman/english/linux.html
GnoMail => <reply> $who, GnoMail is a yet another GNOME email client.. URL: http://www.mbnet.fi/~devil/gnomail/gnomail.html
gnomba => <reply> $who, Gnome Samba Browser. URL: http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/
Gnome Apt Frontend => <reply> $who, Gnome frontend to the amazing Debian package tool. URL: http://www.debian.org/~hp/gnome-apt.html
Gnome Chess => <reply> $who, GNOME Chess Client. URL: http://www.arcavia.com/rd/gnome-chess/
GNOME Disk Catalog => <reply> $who, Keeps your ZIP disks, floppy disksand CD-ROMs in order. URL: http://jas.pspt.fi/~tkoskine/gnome/
Gnome Display Manager => <reply> $who, Gnome version of the X Display Manager (xdm). URL: http://SunSITE.auc.dk/~mkp/gdm/
Gnome FDisk => <reply> $who, disk partition program (like fdisk) with a niceGUI. URL: http://nui.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/gfdisk/
Gnome Hamradio Utilities => <reply> $who, Hamradio utilities using Gnome libraries. URL: http://www.eye-net.com.au/hamradio/ghu/index.html
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GnomePGP => <reply> $who, Gnome frontend for PGP. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Chip/3708/gpgp/gpgp.html
GnomePM => <reply> $who, GNOME equivilent of the Yahoo! (C) Java Portfolio Manager. URL: http://tigris.sonicom.net/projects/gnome-pm.html
GnomeSensors => <reply> $who, GNOME Panel hardware sensors display applet. URL: http://www.brendy.addr.com/linux/gnomesensors
gnometool => <reply> $who, Tiny perl program to manage Gnome CVS modules. URL: http://gnometool.cgabriel.communitech.net/
GnomeTREK => <reply> $who, Search tool for the 1998 Star Trek Encyclopedia.. URL: http://atlas.cs.york.ac.uk/~lrpm100/projects/
gnommind => <reply> $who, A GNOME version of the Master Mind game.. URL: http://webdat.com/seb/gtkmmind.html
Gnomoku => <reply> $who, Gomoku game for X and GTK. URL: http://cactus.rulez.org/debs/gnomoku_0.19990128.orig.tar.gz
GnOpenGL3ds => <reply> $who, GNOME 3DS file viewer. URL: http://www.ifrance.coom/yburgevin/
GnoRPM => <reply> $who, A graphical front end to the Redhat package managementsystem. URL: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/
GnoSamba => <reply> $who, Gtk front end to configuring Samba. URL: http://www.open-systems.com/gnosamba.html
gnotepad+ => <reply> $who, An easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple text editor. URL: http://ack.netpedia.net/gnp/
GNotes => <reply> $who, Allows you to place cool little yellow sticky notes all over your desktop. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/sk/gnomestuff/
GNotes! => <reply> $who, A nifty GNOME Panel applet that allows you to create notes on your desktop.. URL: http://www.netcom.com/~spoon/gnotes.html
Gnotline => <reply> $who, GTK+ hotline client. URL: http://www.rpi.edu/~thompe2/gnotline/gnotline.html
gntedit => <reply> $who, GTK+ NES Tile Editor. URL: http://emu.simplenet.com/misc/gntedit/
GNU Ada => <reply> $who, Ada95 Compiler frontend based on gcc and Tools.. URL: http://www.gnuada.org/
GNU Animation Multimedia Entertainment System (GAMES) => <reply> $who, collection of libraries for game and graphics development under Unix. URL: http://members.xoom.com/bitwize
GNU awk => <reply> $who, a pattern scanning and processing language. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/gawk.html
GNU C library => <reply> $who, The GNU C library is used as the C library in the GNU system. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
GNU cfengine => <reply> $who, A tool for administering Networks of Diverse Machines. URL: http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/
GNU Chess => <reply> $who, A computer program which plays the Game of Chess.. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html
GNU Classpath => <reply> $who, Free implementation of the Java core class libraries. URL: http://www.classpath.org/
GNU Ghostscript => <reply> $who, Provides an interpreter for the PostScript language, and a set of C procedures. URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gnu/
GNU Go => <reply> $who, An attempt to distribute a free program to play Go. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html
GNU GRUB => <reply> $who, GRand Unified Bootloader. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
GNU indent => <reply> $who, GNU indenting program. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/indent/
GNU Keyring => <reply> $who, Securely store digital secret keys on your Palm handheld computer.. URL: http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/
GNU m4 => <reply> $who, Standard Unix macro processor with extensions. URL: http://www.seindal.dk/rene/gnu/
GNU make => <reply> $who, Controls the generation of executables and other non-source files. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html
GNU Maverik => <reply> $who, Free Virtual Reality system for GNU/Linux PCs and Silicon Graphics workstations. URL: http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik/
GNU Nana => <reply> $who, Improved support for assertion checking and logging in C and C++.. URL: http://www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/
GNU Oleo => <reply> $who, Free spreadsheet application. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/oleo.html
GNU parted => <reply> $who, A partition editor, for creating, destroying, resizing and copying partitions.. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
GNU Phantom.Home => <reply> $who, Home Automation. URL: http://www.joethielen.com/phantom/home/
GNU Phantom.Security => <reply> $who, Computer Controlled Security System. URL: http://www.joethielen.com/phantom/security/
GNU Pilot Logbook Pro => <reply> $who, A logbook program for pilots.. URL: ftp://ftp.stampede.org/skibum/
GNU Pipo-BBS => <reply> $who, Multilanguage BBS server and clients. URL: http://bbs.resus.univ-mrs.fr/
GNU Plotutils => <reply> $who, Utilities for plotting scientific data. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html
GNU pop3d => <reply> $who, A small, fast, and efficient POP3 server.. URL: http://www.nodomainname.net/software/gnu-pop3d.shtml
GNU pop3d with NIS => <reply> $who, GNU pop3d with NIS alias authentication.. URL: http://www.stsi.net/~bakins/files/gnu-pop3d-NIS-0.9.8.tar.gz
GNU Prolog => <reply> $who, Free Prolog compiler with constraint solving over finite domains. URL: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~diaz/gnu-prolog/
GNU PSPP => <reply> $who, SPSS compatible statistical analysis software. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
GNU Pth => <reply> $who, GNU Portable Threads. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
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GNUware => <reply> $who, A low cost CD containing over 1000 free Linux and UNIX programs.. URL: http://www.gnuware.com/
Goal => <reply> $who, General purpose libraries for C++ programmes. URL: http://casquet.inet.net.nz/Goal/
GOB => <reply> $who, Preprocessor for building GTK+ Object. URL: http://www.5z.com/jirka/linux.html#gob
goban => <reply> $who, Replays historic games of go (wei-chi, baduk). URL: http://www.draves.org/goban/
GObb => <reply> $who, Lisp code for playing Go. URL: http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/gobb/index.html
GOFAI-WMT => <reply> $who, Organize your free format information into a semantic network structure.. URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/boloni/GofaiWeb/index.html
gogmagog => <reply> $who, Lightweight, robust, UNIX systems integrity monitor. URL: http://www.multimania.com/cparisel/gog/
GOGO => <reply> $who, Fast, open source MP3 encoder based on LAME. URL: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.html
GoldED => <reply> $who, Mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet. URL: http://www.goldware.dk
Golgotha Forever => <reply> $who, 3D FPS/strategy game that will be available on nearly platform/OS.. URL: http://golgotha.opengames.org/
gomenu => <reply> $who, Menu script (bash/ksh) allows dynamic menu and help editing.. URL: http://www.digizen.net/members/geoffm/
Gomoku Apprentice => <reply> $who, A gomoku player learning from its own mistakes. URL: http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d92-jwa/code/
Gone => <reply> $who, Newsreader for the Gnome Desktop Environment. URL: http://www.mvdstreek.cistron.nl/gone/
good-dog => <reply> $who, better than cat. URL: http://jl.photodex.com/dog/
Goose => <reply> $who, Statistical library.. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/goose/
got_it => <reply> $who, Simple URL grabber. URL: http://www.roger.samond.ru/
gpak => <reply> $who, GPak is a utility to extract files contained in Quake II PAK-files.. URL: http://www.engren.org/quake2/gpak/
gPalmDoc => <reply> $who, GUI web page to AportisDoc converter.. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~jiva/index.html
gpart => <reply> $who, A utility which guesses PC-type hard disk partitions. URL: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
Gpasman => <reply> $who, Keeps track of all your passwords in a secure way. URL: http://gpasman.nl.linux.org/
GPC => <reply> $who, . URL: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/
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gpsim => <reply> $who, A software simulator of Microchip's PIC microcontrollers. URL: http://www.interstice.com/~sdattalo/gnupic/gpsim.html
gpstrans => <reply> $who, up/download track,routes,waypoints-data to/from Garmin GPS. URL: ftp://ftp.mayko.com/pub/gpstrans/
Gpulse => <reply> $who, CPU monitor like Pulse from BeOS. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/mime/636/index.html
GQ => <reply> $who, GTK LDAP client. URL: http://biot.com/gq/
Gqcam => <reply> $who, GTK based QuickPict clone. URL: http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/gqcam/
GQmpeg => <reply> $who, A front end to the mpg123 mpeg audio player. URL: http://gqview.netpedia.net/
GQuiz => <reply> $who, GTK+ based tool for helping with memorization. URL: http://nis.acs.uci.edu/~strombrg/software/gquiz.html
GQview => <reply> $who, X11 image viewer for the Linux operating system. URL: http://gqview.netpedia.net/
GrabMyIP => <reply> $who, Small Perl script that updates a webpage to show your most recent IP as a link.. URL: http://jlm.virtualave.net/GrabMyIP-1.0.tar.gz
Grace => <reply> $who, a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool. URL: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
Grace Generator => <reply> $who, Generator for graph editors. URL: http://www.doclsf.de/grace/
GradeBook => <reply> $who, A gradebook system for an entire school system. URL:
Grading => <reply> $who, Grading software for teachers. URL: http://users.interact.net.au/~papk/program.html
GRadio => <reply> $who, GTK-based interface to RadioTrack/RadioReveal cards. URL: http://fallout.cs.unr.edu/projects/gradio/
Grail => <reply> $who, . URL: http://monty.cnri.reston.va.us/grail/
gramdiag => <reply> $who, Diagnose conflicts in Bison grammar files. URL: http://www.rrbcurnow.freeserve.co.uk/gramdiag/index.html
Grany-3 => <reply> $who, The cellular automaton simulator.. URL: http://altern.org/gcottenc/html/grany.html
Graph => <reply> $who, A small mathematical compiler that produces Xfig output. URL: http://graph.virgoplus.com
Graph Lm_Sensors => <reply> $who, Makes graphs and html file from lm_sensors output.. URL: http://www.sjc.nl/Programs/GLS/
Graphic Counter Language => <reply> $who, Programming language for the development of web counters. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/
Graphics Muse Tools => <reply> $who, Set of tools, brushes, and patterns for use with the Gimp. URL: http://www.graphics-muse.org/sw/sw.html
Graphtool => <reply> $who, Create graphs from Gnumeric files. URL: http://perso.libertysurf.fr/ortega/index.html
graphviz => <reply> $who, Graph drawing utilities with web and graphical interfaces.. URL: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/
GRASP => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/grasp/
GRASS => <reply> $who, GPL'ed Geographic Information System. URL: http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/welcome.html
Gravity => <reply> $who, svgalib clone of the old Spacewars game. URL: http://ns2.crw.se/~juze/mach/gravity/
GRE => <reply> $who, Bi-Di languages text editor. URL: http://publish.uwo.ca/~ualadl/grehtml/gre.html
Great Nations => <reply> $who, Civilization(tm)-style game with superior network-play and customizability. URL: http://gn.gameshock.com/
Grec => <reply> $who, A file manager to X similar to Midnight Commander. URL: http://najs.flan.fyris.net/~crp/grec/
GReceipt => <reply> $who, Receipt management program. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~davesmith/
gred => <reply> $who, A small, easy to use terminal-based text editor for Unix.. URL: http://www.jnj.org/gred/
GREED => <reply> $who, A utility that can get and resume files from a web site.. URL: http://www.public.asu.edu/~arturner/index.html
Green Box => <reply> $who, Next-generation drum machine. URL: http://www.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~dvenkita/greenbox.htm
Green Frog Linux => <reply> $who, A small fully featured 2.2.x+devfs/glibc 2.1 based Linux distro.. URL: http://members.linuxstart.com/~austin/index.html
greg => <reply> $who, Framework for testing other programs and libraries. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/greg/
grep => <reply> $who, GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/grep.html
grep-dctrl => <reply> $who, grep Debian control files. URL: ftp://ftp.jyu.fi/private/antkaij/grep-dctrl/
grepmail => <reply> $who, Searches a normal or gzipped mailbox for a given regularexpression. URL: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/index.html
greyboard => <reply> $who, shared blackboare written in tcl. URL: http://www.inp.nsk.su/~grozin/greyboard/
Grio => <reply> $who, GNOME Diamond Rio portable MP3 player tool. URL: http://kipper.crk.umn.edu/~gerla/grio/
Grip => <reply> $who, A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers. URL: http://www.nostatic.org/grip/
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Groundhog => <reply> $who, Logic game written with GTK. URL: http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736/
growth => <reply> $who, Display file growth info. URL: http://pinneberg.netsurf.de/~s.hallberg/
grpm => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.labs.redhat.com/pub/grpm
grpn => <reply> $who, An RPN calculator for the X Window system. URL: http://wilkins.ne.mediaone.net/grpn.html
Grumble => <reply> $who, An authenticating chat server somewhat different from IRC. URL: http://opop.nols.com/index.shtml
gRun => <reply> $who, GTK based Run dialog. URL: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/1468/sg/grun.html
grunch => <reply> $who, Merge partial scans into a larger image. URL: http://www.radagast.org/~dplatt/
gRunlevels => <reply> $who, A SYSV Runlevel Editor. URL: http://godzilla.eecs.berkeley.edu/rolozo/gRunlevels
Gr_Monitor => <reply> $who, A 3D process/data monitor.. URL: http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/michael.hamilton/grpage.html
GS(SBNI) tty driver => <reply> $who, Serial tty driver for SBNI-12x. URL: http://gs.inettech.com.my/
Gschedit => <reply> $who, Graphical GTK 1.2 application for changing Linux scheduling algorithms. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~aebrun/
gSentinel => <reply> $who, GTK based graphical frontend tool for Sentinel. URL: http://zurk.netpedia.net/zfile.html
Gseq => <reply> $who, Gnome based, plugin extensible music sequencer. URL: http://members.xoom.com/gseq/
gServices => <reply> $who, Gtk::Perl-based system administration tool to easily manage daemons in init.d. URL: http://asmodean.caltech.edu/linux.html
gseti => <reply> $who, A GTK frontend to setiathome. URL: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~l43855/
GSFV => <reply> $who, Simple File Verification (.sfv). URL: http://www.localhost.nu/apps/gsfv/
Gsh => <reply> $who, Shell with an integrated terminal window.. URL: http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/v/c/vcato/gsh/
gShMap => <reply> $who, GTK/Linux 2.2 Shared Library Monitor. URL: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/1468/sg/
gshow => <reply> $who, Creation of online archiv of digital pictures. URL: http://members.tripod.de/lberse/gshow.html
GSLgen code generator => <reply> $who, Universal XML template-based code generator. URL: http://www.imatix.com/html/gslgen/index.htm
gsmbstatus => <reply> $who, GTK based smb status display. URL: http://www.plum.de/~mg/
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gtk-engines-extra => <reply> $who, Extra themes and engines for GTK toolkit. URL: http://members.xoom.com/Gavrilov_Con/gnome/gtk-engines.html
GTK-J => <reply> $who, Gtk Bindings for Java. URL: http://fred.lavigne.com/
gtk-shell => <reply> $who, GTK interface for the shell. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/files.html
Gtk::Dialogs => <reply> $who, Simple Perl interface to create dialog boxes with Gtk. URL: http://www.su-root.freeserve.co.uk/gtkdialogs/
GtkAda => <reply> $who, Ada95 binding of Gtk+. URL: http://ada.eu.org/gtkada/
GtkAlarm => <reply> $who, Gtk app that executes a command at a specified time.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/4230/
GtKali => <reply> $who, Gtk+ interface to Kali.. URL: http://gtkali.linuxgames.com/
gtkapm => <reply> $who, Advanced X11 batterymonitor using prediction algorithm. URL: http://www.rehab.inr.liu.se/~ch/gtkapm/
GtkBalls => <reply> $who, GtkBalls is a simple logic game.. URL: http://gtkballs.antex.ru/
GtkComboButton => <reply> $who, A Combobutton for GTK+. URL: http://www.webtribe.net/a/ambiance/
gtkcookie => <reply> $who, edit your Netscape cookie file. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~manniwood/gtkcookie/
gtkctrlaltdel => <reply> $who, GTK+ frontend to CTRL ALT DEL key kombination. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/gtkctrlaltdel/
GtkDatabox => <reply> $who, Gtk+ Widget to display large amounts of numerical data (curves) fast and easy. URL: http://www.eudoxos.net/gtk/gtkdatabox/
GTKdiff => <reply> $who, GTK+ diff frontend. URL: http://www.ainet.or.jp/~inoue/software/gtkdiff/index-e.html
GtkEditor => <reply> $who, Source code editor widget for GTK.. URL: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/gtk.html
GtkExText => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.bahnhof.se/~mikeh/linux_software.html
GTKeyboard => <reply> $who, Graphical Keyboard for the physically disabled. URL: http://opop.nols.com/
GTKFIG => <reply> $who, Figure drawing tool for GTK, similar to xfig, TeXCAD and SmartDraw. URL: http://k332.feld.cvut.cz/~lemming/projects/gtkfig.html
gtkfind => <reply> $who, GTK+ version of find(1). URL: http://www.oz.net/~mattg/download.html
GtkFontsel => <reply> $who, GTK+ Font Selector. URL: http://glade.pn.org/fontsel/
gtkgo => <reply> $who, Go game for Linux and Windows. URL: http://gtkgo.netpedia.net
GtkGraph => <reply> $who, Graphing calculator for X. URL: http://gtkgraph.linuxbox.com/
GtkIconList => <reply> $who, Icon List Widget for GTK+. URL: http://www.ifir.edu.ar/grupos/gtk/
GtkICQ => <reply> $who, GtkICQ is a clone of Mirabilis' ICQ program based on Gtk/GNOME. URL: http://gtkicq.pn.org/
GtkJoy => <reply> $who, Sample Gtk+ App for Linux Joystick Driver. URL: http://trylinux.com/projects/joystick/
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GVM => <reply> $who, Generic Virtual Machine for Perl. URL: http://www.sabren.com/code/gvm/
gvnd => <reply> $who, Graphical Unix information/network environment. URL: http://www.purerave.com/~visualnet/gvn.html
GVoice => <reply> $who, Voice control for Gtk/GNOME applications. URL: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/gnome/gvoice/
Gwget => <reply> $who, gwget is a Gtk+ front-end for the wget program.. URL: http://usuarios.meridian.es/frimost1/gwget/gwget.htm
gwsearch => <reply> $who, Gnome web search engine front-end. URL: http://gwsearch.netpedia.net/
Gwydion Dylan => <reply> $who, Compiler for Dylan, an dynamic, efficient, object-oriented language. URL: http://www.gwydiondylan.org/
Gwydion Dylan MySQL interface => <reply> $who, An interface to the mySQL RDMBS for Gwydion Dylan. URL: ftp://berlin.ccc.de/pub/gd/contributions/gd-mysql-0.1.tar.gz
gx10 => <reply> $who, X10 controller. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/projects/gx10/
GXAnim => <reply> $who, GTK+ front end for Xanim movie player. URL: http://www.iag.net/~aleris/gxanim.html
GXdesktop => <reply> $who, . URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/gxdesktop.html
GXedit => <reply> $who, Simple GPL'ed graphical editor using GTK. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~drow/GXedit/
GXF86vidmode => <reply> $who, Change your video mode when using a XFree86 X server. URL: http://itactics.com/~rgwood/GXF86vidmode/doc/
gxsnmp => <reply> $who, snmp managment frontend. URL: http://www.gxsnmp.org
gxTar => <reply> $who, Gnome/GTK+ front-end to tar/gzip/zip. URL: http://gxtar.netpedia.net/
Gyahtzee => <reply> $who, gnomified version of yahtzee. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7731/gyahtzee.html
GyrosCoPe => <reply> $who, GTK colour picker for HTML documents. URL: http://www.millar.u-net.com/gyroscope.html
GYVE => <reply> $who, A vector-based drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw. URL: http://www.maru.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp/~sanchan/gyve/
Gzilla => <reply> $who, Free web browser written in the GTK+ framework. URL: http://www.gzilla.com/
gzip => <reply> $who, GNU compression utility (replacement for compress). URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
H3O.net for Web Developers => <reply> $who, Perl frontend to the H3O.net backend.. URL: http://www.h3o.net/h3o4/bin/h3grab.tgz
Hacked GTK engines => <reply> $who, Hacked gtk-engines is a replacement for the gtk pixmap engine. URL: http://brets.oxyd.net/gtk/
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Heart => <reply> $who, Redundant, distributed cluster technology - part of HA systems. URL: http://www.lemuria.org/Heart/
Hellenic Fortune Cookies => <reply> $who, Fortune cookies in Greek.. URL: http://kronos.eng.auth.gr/~arvan/fortunes/
help2man => <reply> $who, A program to generate simple manual pages. URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~bod/
Helpdesk => <reply> $who, An SQL based job tracking system with a web fronted.. URL: http://www.jrobst.freeserve.co.uk/helpdesk.html
HelpStudio => <reply> $who, IDE for authoring online help for Java applications. URL: http://www.mediamixtech.com.sg/helpstudio.html
Heretic for Linux => <reply> $who, Port of Heretic to Linux. URL: http://www.raven-games.com/linuxheretic/
Hermes => <reply> $who, An optimized pixel format conversion library with other tricks. URL: http://hermes.terminal.at/
Hevea => <reply> $who, HEVEA is a quite complete and fast LATEX to HTML translator.. URL: http://para.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/
Hex => <reply> $who, Puzzle Bobble clone in GTK.. URL: http://www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj/hex.html
Hexcat => <reply> $who, Views files in hexadecimal (similar to the way cat does it). URL: http://www.greabo.demon.co.uk/linux/hexcat.html
hexedit => <reply> $who, View and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII. URL: http://www.chez.com/prigaux/hexedit.html
Heyu => <reply> $who, Controls powerline remote control interface (CM11) made by X10 corp.. URL: http://heyu.tanj.com/heyu/
HFS Filesystem for linux => <reply> $who, Enables your system to read and write HFS filesystems. URL: http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/~hargrove/HFS/
hftpd => <reply> $who, All singing, all dancing, ftpd from the great white north.. URL: http://www.zabbo.net/hftpd/
HHexen => <reply> $who, A hacked version of linux Hexen. URL: http://www.raven-games.com/hhexen/
HickUP => <reply> $who, System User Profiler. URL: http://www.hickup.org/
hifs => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://skynet.stack.nl/pub/linux/hifs/
hindent => <reply> $who, HTML indentation (pretty printing) utility. URL: http://www.domtools.com/unix/hindent.shtml
hinv => <reply> $who, Display Hardware INVentory of a running Linux system, a la the IRIX hinv command. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/raju/software.html
hip => <reply> $who, hip hosts.allow daemon. URL: http://www.shocking.com/~doemill/
Hips => <reply> $who, HIPPI Switch Programming Software. URL: http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/LAN/Software/hips/
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Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries => <reply> $who, Multimedia software for people who are themselves attracted by Astronomy. URL: http://linux.ncc.org.ve
HuggieTag => <reply> $who, Tagline and signature adder for email and news. URL: http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/huggietag.html
Hugs => <reply> $who, Haskell 98 intepreter. URL: http://www.haskell.org/hugs/
Humanoid => <reply> $who, A pure Java arcade video game clone of the classic. URL: http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/humanoid/humanoid.html
Zombie => <reply> $who, Library and server for developing networked apps/games.. URL: http://www.infa.abo.fi/~chakie/zombie/
Hurricane => <reply> $who, A highly extensible IRC daemon.. URL: http://www.aracnet.com/~chrisv/ircd-0.3.tar.gz
hutrans => <reply> $who, Converts text to UTF-8. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/i18n/
hwclock => <reply> $who, Read and set the Hardware Clock. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/
hwinfo2html => <reply> $who, Benchmark Outputs To Html File. URL: http://rob.current.nu/hwinfo2html/
hybridcon => <reply> $who, Console utility for Hybrid cable modems. URL: http://www.auk.cx/hybridcon/
Hybris => <reply> $who, Tree editor / Structured document editor (in development phase). URL: http://hybris.netpedia.net/
HybServ => <reply> $who, Services for the Hybrid IRCD server. URL: ftp://ftp.magenet.com/pub/hybserv/
HylaFax => <reply> $who, A telecommunication system for UNIX systems. URL: http://www.hylafax.org
HyperHelp => <reply> $who, Context-sensitive, on-line help system for UNIX. URL: http://www.bristol.com/Company/Announce/hyperhelp52an.html
Hypermail => <reply> $who, Mail(box) to HTML converter with threads and MIME support.. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/hypermail/
hypermail.pl => <reply> $who, Converts e-mail archives into web pages. URL: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~northrup/hypermail.html
Hyperplay => <reply> $who, Multimedia authoring engine. URL: http://www.hypercore.co.jp/hyperplay/en.html
hypersrc => <reply> $who, freeware GUI (GTK+) program for browsing source code. URL: http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/hypersrc/hypersrc.html
HZIP => <reply> $who, Parser/file stripper that compresses HTMLs by as much as 70%. URL: http://www.jitit.com/Products/HZIP/hzip.html
I-Gear => <reply> $who, Internet Content Management Software. URL: http://www.urlabs.com/
I4LRH6 => <reply> $who, Scripts and a FAQ on how to use I4L with Red Hat 6.0 Systems. URL: http://www.kalka.org/linux/dox/i4l2rwth.html
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icontact => <reply> $who, Image contact sheet maker. URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mb/mbh/icontact-1.5.tar.gz
icoutils => <reply> $who, A set of programs that deal with MS Windows icons and cursors. URL: http://www.ludat.lth.se/~dat99oli/
icqlib => <reply> $who, ICQ interface library. URL: http://www.cn.ua/~denis/kde/icqlib.html
icqmail => <reply> $who, ICQ->Email gateway. URL: http://www.crocodile.org/software.html
ICQnix => <reply> $who, ICQ clone for X. URL: http://icqnix.linuxbox.com
icqtech => <reply> $who, A Unix console daemon that assists technical support via ICQ. URL: http://hnm.zzweb.com/utils/icqtech/
ICRADIUS => <reply> $who, Powerful cross platform radius server. URL: ftp://ftp.cheapnet.net/pub/icradius/
ics.el => <reply> $who, Emacs mode for internet chess server interactions. URL: http://www.camembert.freeserve.co.uk/mark/icsel/
id-utils => <reply> $who, Very fast, very high capacity indexer for C/C++ source code.. URL: ftp://tug.org/gnu/id-utils-3.2d.tar.gz
ID3.py => <reply> $who, ID3 MP3 info tag manipulation in Python. URL: http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/python/id3.html
id3ed => <reply> $who, ID3 tag editor for mp3 files. URL: http://www.azstarnet.com/~donut/
id3ren => <reply> $who, Batch rename (from tags) and tag MP3s. URL: http://tscnet.com/pages/badcrc/apps/id3ren/
id3tool => <reply> $who, Command Line tool for editing ID3 tags on MP3s.. URL: http://www.tip.net.au/~ccollins/xware/id3tool/
id3x => <reply> $who, Extension to MP3's ID3 tags to make reasonable-length fields. URL: http://www.lag.net/~robey/id3x/
ide-smart => <reply> $who, IDE SMART test and query tool. URL: http://personal.redestb.es/ragnar/
ident2 => <reply> $who, Multi-faceted identity/authentication server w/ ip masquerade support. URL: http://nyct.net/~defile/programs/ident2/
identdtestd => <reply> $who, Nice, small, fast, identd testing facility. URL: http://feldman.dyn.ml.org
IDEntify => <reply> $who, Extensible Integrated Development Environment. URL: http://www.pietrobo.com/projects/IDEntify/
IDproxy => <reply> $who, Daemon for integrating an IDenticard access card system into Unix environment. URL: http://www.mtl.umn.edu/project/idproxy/
ifbridge => <reply> $who, User-space ethernet bridge for Linux 2.2.x.. URL: ftp://portal.paranor.cx/ifbridge.c
ifhp => <reply> $who, A Great Printfilter for HP printers. URL: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html
ifmail => <reply> $who, Fidonet package for UN*X platform. URL: http://www.average.org/ifmail/
iGecko => <reply> $who, Financial Media Player. URL: http://www.igecko.com/
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Ishmail => <reply> $who, Very powerful GUI e-mail tool. URL: http://ishmail.linuxbox.com
ISIC => <reply> $who, Sends controlled, semi-random packets to test IP Stacks and Firewalls. URL: http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~frantzen/
IsinGlass => <reply> $who, Firewall setup script designed to protect dial-up users.. URL: http://www.tummy.com/isinglass
isinglass-hzd => <reply> $who, Firewall script designed to protect dial-up users. URL: http://www.hazard.maks.net/~hazard
Islamic Timer => <reply> $who, Calculates Islamic Prayer times, Hijri calender, calender converter. URL: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~wmuhanna/IslamicTimer.html
ISO8211Lib => <reply> $who, ISO/IEC 8211 library. URL: http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/iso8211/
isp-watcher => <reply> $who, A perl script which monitors lines at an ISP for disconnects.. URL: http://cyberpunks.org/holograph/darkewolf.phtml
ISPd => <reply> $who, Billing/user management software for ISPs. URL: http://ispd.eburg.com
isreal => <reply> $who, Tells if an image is real, computer generated, or not real.. URL: http://www.striker.ottawa.on.ca/~aland/isreal/
ITISSL => <reply> $who, A Java 2 implementation of Sun' SSL Reference API based on SSLeay/OpenSSL. URL: http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/itissl/
ivtools => <reply> $who, Application frameworks for drawing editors and spatial data servers. URL: http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/
J'Express Professional => <reply> $who, Lets you create multilingual installers and auto-updaters. URL: http://www.denova.com
J'Express Standard => <reply> $who, Lets you create multilingual, cross platform installers and auto-updaters. URL: http://www.denova.com
Jabber => <reply> $who, Instant Messaging Platform. URL: http://jabber.org/
jac => <reply> $who, Command line CD Player. URL: http://kyd.net/vaga/jac.html
jack => <reply> $who, A console cd-ripper written in python. URL: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/arne/jack/
Jacl => <reply> $who, Tcl shell implemented in Java, a perfect way to add scripting to a Java app.. URL: http://www.scriptics.com/java/
JacORB => <reply> $who, Object request broker written in Java. URL: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~brose/jacorb/
jahtml => <reply> $who, Module to handle HTML and CGI output. URL: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/jahtml/
jail => <reply> $who, Just Another ICMP Logger. URL: http://www.wiw.org/~ams/jail/
Jakarta => <reply> $who, Open-source, community-developed commercial-quality Java server solutions.. URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/
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Java FTP Proxy Server => <reply> $who, FTP proxy for use through firewalls. URL: http://www.student.dtu.dk/~c960657/ftpproxy/
Java HTMLGenerator => <reply> $who, Generate HTML using the Java(tm) programming language. URL: http://www.website2u.com/htmlgen/
Java Search System => <reply> $who, Javascript based interface for 9 search engines. URL: http://linux.ncc.org.ve
Java Test Driver => <reply> $who, Test driver for Java class libraries. URL: http://www.altisimo.com/java-test-driver/
Java weather => <reply> $who, Access realtime, local weather information from Java code.. URL: http://www.lokitech.com/~sergek/javaweather
Java-Log => <reply> $who, Java logging and tracing class library. URL: http://www.homestead.com/JavaLog/
java2html => <reply> $who, a simple program that converts Java source to syntax-highlighted HTML. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/java2html/
Javachat => <reply> $who, Small chatserver written in Java 1.1.x. URL: http://www.inlink.com/~naken/compute/java.html
JavaJoystick => <reply> $who, Java class wrapper for the Linux Joystick Driver, version 1.2.x and above.. URL: http://www.kevinsworld.com
JavaLog => <reply> $who, A Prolog interpreter written in Java(tm). URL: http://www.exa.unicen.edu.ar/~azunino/
JavaMapper => <reply> $who, a java-based imagemap editor. URL: http://www.dansteinman.com/javamapper/
JavaORB => <reply> $who, A free Java implementation of CORBA 2.2. URL: http://www.multimania.com/dogweb/
Javascript Debugger => <reply> $who, Fully featured Visual Javascript Debugger. URL: http://developer.netscape.com/software/jsdebug.html
javaShark => <reply> $who, A tcl/tk interface for editing and compiling java source code.. URL: http://geocities.yahoo.com/soho/lofts/1715/
javashout => <reply> $who, A shoutcast shouter written in java. URL: http://rydia.net/javashout/
javawrapper => <reply> $who, Java wrapper for binfmt_misc under Linux. URL: ftp://ftp.larsshack.org/pub/sw/linux/javawrapper.tar.gz
javelin => <reply> $who, Server side javascript-HTML web scripting system. URL: http://javelin.web.ee/
JayGo => <reply> $who, Game engine for any tile/stone based game, specifically written for Go.. URL: http://obsidian.teter.indiana.edu/JayGo-1.32.jar
Jazilla => <reply> $who, A port of Mozilla into Java. URL: http://www.jazilla.org/
jaZip => <reply> $who, A program for maintaining your Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drive(s) anddisks. URL: http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith/jazip/
jBase => <reply> $who, Application Development and Database Independent Management System. URL: http://www.jbase.com/
jbc => <reply> $who, Displays the time in BCD (Binary Coded Decimal). URL: http://snoopy.net/~jon/jbc
jbofihe => <reply> $who, Parses Lojban text and provides rough English translation. URL: http://www.rrbcurnow.freeserve.co.uk/lojban/
jbpe => <reply> $who, Java back-propagation neural network editor. URL: http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~koutnij/studium/jbpe.html
JCam => <reply> $who, Java application for downloading images from many popular digital cameras. URL: http://www.jcam.com
JCCSP => <reply> $who, JavaServer Pages 1.0 Engine w/ some JSP 1.1 support.. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~shemnon/
JCheckLinks => <reply> $who, HTML hyperlink validator, java, multithreaded. URL: http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/jchecklinks/
JChemPaint => <reply> $who, A 2D molecular structure editor written in Java. URL: http://www.ice.mpg.de/~stein/projects/JChemPaint/
jCIFS => <reply> $who, Implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java. URL: http://jcifs.samba.org/
jCVS => <reply> $who, Java implementation of client-server CVS (version control for team projects). URL: http://www.ice.com/java/jcvs/
jDBA => <reply> $who, Java Database Administration tool. URL: http://www.techgnosis.org/
jdbtool => <reply> $who, GPL Java Graphical Debugger. URL: http://www.oops.demon.co.uk/jdbtool/
JDDB => <reply> $who, GUI debugger for JDK1.3. URL: http://sdn.sybase.com/sdn/mec/mec_down_jddb.stm
jdfetch => <reply> $who, A set of tools to fetch and format news boxes. URL: http://jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdfetch/
JDHCP => <reply> $who, API for writing Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) applications in Java. URL: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~jgoldsch/dhcp/
JDK => <reply> $who, Java Development Kit. URL: http://java.sun.com
jdresolve => <reply> $who, Resolves IP addresses into hostnames. URL: http://www.jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdresolve/
jdrinfo => <reply> $who, Implements a hypothetical machine-information retreival protocol. URL: http://jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdrinfo/
JDring => <reply> $who, A cron-like and at-like alarm scheduler. URL: http://webtools.dyade.fr/jdring/
jdtracker => <reply> $who, CGI/Javascript combo to gather remote sites statistics. URL: http://jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdtracker/
jdwhatsnew => <reply> $who, CGI/cron combo to check for updates on sites. URL: http://jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdwhatsnew/
jed => <reply> $who, Powerful editor, terminal and X11 interface. URL: http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html
jEdit => <reply> $who, Powerful text editor. URL: http://www.gjt.org/~sp/jedit.html
jedstate => <reply> $who, Add-on for the jed text editor. URL: http://www.magnetic-ink.dk/
JEL => <reply> $who, A compiler for one-line expressions into java bytecode.. URL: http://galaxy.fzu.cz/JEL/
JERED => <reply> $who, Very easy-to-use but greatly configurable console text editor.. URL: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/
JergoBlatz! => <reply> $who, Play-by-email game mailing list server. URL: http://www.cc.utah.edu/~nb3367/
JEsd => <reply> $who, A re-implementation of EsounD in pure Java.. URL: http://www.jcraft.com/jesd/
Jetmon => <reply> $who, Client/Server NOC Monitoring tool in Java. URL: http://jetmon.uoregon.edu/
Jetris => <reply> $who, Jetris is a networked battle tetris game (like netris, but has a GUI).. URL: http://www.catseye.com/linux/jetris.html
Jetty => <reply> $who, HTTP/1.1 Servlet server written in Java. URL: http://www.mortbay.com/software/Jetty.html
JFlex => <reply> $who, flex-like scanner generator for Java. URL: http://www.jflex.de/
JFortune => <reply> $who, /usr/games/fortune as an applet. URL: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~jmason/software/index.html
JFreshmeat-NNTP => <reply> $who, Java NNTP-based Freshmeat announcement retriever. URL: http://www.vixen.com/JFreshmeat/JFreshmeat-NNTP.jar
jftpgw => <reply> $who, small ftp proxy. URL: http://www.mcknight.de/jftpgw/
jiffy => <reply> $who, Fast Java RMI-compiler written in C++. URL: http://www.jiffy.de/
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Jmangle => <reply> $who, Java Classfile Symbol Mangler. URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~rrl/
JMap => <reply> $who, Creates HTML image map source. URL: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~poggy/
jmatrix => <reply> $who, Matrix the movie eye candy thingy. URL: http://www.net-link.net/~jettero/matrix/
jmk-x11-fonts => <reply> $who, Jim's character-cell fonts for the X Window System. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/fonts/
Jmol => <reply> $who, Java/Swing-based molecular dynamics viewer. URL: http://www.openscience.org/jmol/
jMon => <reply> $who, Distributed Resource Monitor. URL: http://www.dsp.sun.ac.za/~jjb/jmon/
JMR 0.7.25 => <reply> $who, Offline Mail Reader for BBS QWK packets. URL: http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/~jvuokko/jmr/
JMud => <reply> $who, An experimental MUD server written in Java(TM).. URL: http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~evertonm/jmud/
Job Control System => <reply> $who, A Web-based Helpdesk application. URL: http://members.xoom.com/prozach/
job manager => <reply> $who, Beowulf job manager. URL: http://bond.imm.dtu.dk/jobd/
joe => <reply> $who, A Free ASCII-Text Screen Editor for UNIX. URL: ftp://ftp.std.com/src/editors/
John the Ripper => <reply> $who, Password cracker to detect weak UNIX passwords. URL: http://www.openwall.com/john/
Johnson Keyboard => <reply> $who, Hacker's keyboard layout for X-Windows. URL: http://www.boswa.com/johnson.html
jonama => <reply> $who, SSL proxy. URL: http://www.multimania.com/jonama/
Jons Simple Server => <reply> $who, A TCL interpreter for creating simple server applications. URL: http://uv.net/~jon/
Jooky => <reply> $who, MP3 controller with a foreground curses client, or background client/server.. URL: http://soomka.com/
Journal => <reply> $who, A text-based journal/diary.. URL: http://soapbox.fissure.org/journal/journal.html
journyx Timesheet => <reply> $who, Timesheet software via the web. URL: http://www.journyx.com/
Joy2Key => <reply> $who, Translate joystick movements into keyboard events (X and console). URL: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/joy2key/
Joydesk => <reply> $who, Web-based Groupware. URL: http://joydesk.com/
jpilot => <reply> $who, Palm pilot desktop software for Linux. URL: http://jpilot.linuxbox.com/
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JUnit => <reply> $who, Java testing framework (XP). URL: ftp://www.armaties.com/TestingFramework/JUnit/article/index.html
Just Another GTK Tetris => <reply> $who, Small and simple GTK Tetris clone.. URL: http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/
Just Another Tetris => <reply> $who, Small and simple Tetris clone. URL: http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/
jV => <reply> $who, Java image viewer. URL: http://www.flat222.org/mac/jV/
jvSQL => <reply> $who, A java application that makes database modulation easy!. URL: http://wiw.org/~olas/jvSQL/
jwhois => <reply> $who, A collection of Perl programs for the whois service. URL: http://www.coyote.org/jwhois/
JX => <reply> $who, C++ application framework and GUI widget library for X. URL: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jx/
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
Kazlib => <reply> $who, Robust ANSI C data structure library.. URL: http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/kazlib.html
KBackup => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/KBackup/
kBag => <reply> $who, Synchronizes your documents between one computer and another.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/Kir_Smirnov/kBag/index.html
kbd => <reply> $who, Keytable files and keyboard utilities. URL: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/utils/kbd/
kBeroFTPD => <reply> $who, KDE Front-End for BeroFTPD configuration. URL: ftp://beroftpd.unix.eu.org/pub/BeroFTPD/kBeroFTPD/
KBiff => <reply> $who, New mail notification utility for KDE. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth/kbiff/index.html
KBind => <reply> $who, KDE front-end to configure the Bind nameserver.. URL: http://asimov.unitec.edu/~cgcorea/kbind.html
KBlade => <reply> $who, KBlade is a frontend to BladeEnc (mp3 encoder) for KDE. URL: http://www.multimania.com/linzeus/kblade/
KBlinsel => <reply> $who, Simple stereogram generator for KDE.. URL: http://www.eisscholle.de/
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KCdCd => <reply> $who, KDE frontend for the cdcd cd player.. URL: http://ultra7.unl.edu.ar
kcdwrite => <reply> $who, KDE frontend for cd-writing tools. URL: http://harmony.ruhr.de/~core/kcdwrite
kchess => <reply> $who, KDE frontend for chess programs. URL: http://sharmas.dhs.org/~adsharma/projects/kchess.html
Kclock => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2964/kclock.html
kcmbind => <reply> $who, A KDE front-end to configure bind. URL: http://www.100webstreet.com/kcmbind/
kcmdhcpd => <reply> $who, A configure program for the ISC DHCP-Server for the KDE-project.. URL: http://www.100webstreet.com/kcmbind/dhcp.html
Kcmjoy => <reply> $who, Configure your joystick via kcontrol. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2964/applications.html
kcmlaptop => <reply> $who, Puts battery control in the KDE panel, starts command when low battery.. URL: http://www.taniwha.com/laptop
KCommander => <reply> $who, Windows Commander Clone for KDE. URL: http://www.linuxcoding.de/projektKcom_en.htm
KCron => <reply> $who, KDE Task Scheduler. URL: http://gary.meyer.net/
kcrontab => <reply> $who, Crontab editor for KDE. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/admin/
kcyradm => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/utils/kcyradm-0.1.tar.gz
KDat => <reply> $who, Tar based tape archiver. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/qweb/kdat/
kdb => <reply> $who, Built-in Kernel Debugger. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/slurn_engr/
kdbg => <reply> $who, A graphical KDE front end to the GDB debugger. URL: http://members.telecom.at/~johsixt/kdbg.html
kdc2tiff => <reply> $who, Convert from Kodak .kdc file to .tiff or .jpg. URL: http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/cstudhol/unix/software/kdc2tiff/kdc2tiff.tar.gz
kdcpi => <reply> $who, Program to download pictures from a Kodak DC200/DC210 Digital Camera. URL: http://www.berkhirt.com/HomerProductions/products/kdcpi/
KDE => <reply> $who, Powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations.. URL: http://www.kde.org/
kde2wm => <reply> $who, Translate the KDE-style links into links in wmconfig-style. URL: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/kde2wm/index-en.html
kdem => <reply> $who, OpenGL Digital Elevation Model (DEM) viewer for the KDE.. URL: http://home.i1.net/~jamoyers/kdem/
kdepopup => <reply> $who, Send and receive messages via Samba. URL: http://www.franken.de/users/duffy1/rjakob/
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KDevelop => <reply> $who, KDevelop is a new C++ development environment for Unix/X11.. URL: http://www.kdevelop.org/
kdf => <reply> $who, KDE frontend to df (status of disks), gives you quick access to all drives.. URL: http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mkropfbe/
kdiald => <reply> $who, KDE interface to diald and pppd. URL: http://www.dinkytoy.nis.za/
Kdict => <reply> $who, KDE client program for the DICT server (dict.org).. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~gebauerc/kdict/
kdiff => <reply> $who, A KDE frontend to diff, a utility to make patches.. URL: http://home.braunschweig.netsurf.de/~matthias.hipp/html/kdiff.htm
KDiskCat => <reply> $who, The KDE Disk Catalog software.. URL: http://devel-home.kde.org/~kdiskcat/
kdoc => <reply> $who, C++ and IDL Class Documentation Tool. URL: http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~ssk/kde/kdoc/
KDynUpdate => <reply> $who, Program to update your dyndns.org dns.. URL: http://kbyteplace.cjb.net/
Keasycd => <reply> $who, CD recording frontend for cdrecord, cdda2wav, cdparanoia and mkisofs.. URL: ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/multimedia/cdrom/keasycd-0.1.8.tar.gz
KEasyISDN => <reply> $who, Frontend to isdnctrl and onlinecounter.. URL: http://www.kpage.de/keasyisdn/
Keg Tracker => <reply> $who, GTK+-based MOD editor for linux.. URL: http://pdr.ml.org/kt/
KEGS => <reply> $who, An Apple //gs emulator for HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and OS/2. URL: http://www.psn.net/~kentd/kegs/
keirc => <reply> $who, A powerful Internet Relay Chat client program written for KDE.. URL: http://www.indonesia-undernet.org/keirc/
kernel configurator => <reply> $who, Tool to help building Linux kernel. URL: http://www.freeweb.org/free/edo_v/
Kernel Core Dump => <reply> $who, A Linux kernel core dump facility for the redhat 6.0 release/ix86 platform. URL: http://www.missioncriticallinux.com/
kernel-alert => <reply> $who, Perl script to send e-mail as new kernels become available.. URL: http://www.faceprint.com/software.html
kexplorer => <reply> $who, A highly configurable file system Win95-like explorer with many features. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/multimedia/cdrom/
kexpress => <reply> $who, kexpress is a newsreader for KDE. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/peter.wichert/
Keyes => <reply> $who, Xeyes in the kpanel. URL: ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/Incoming/keyes-1.1.tar.gz
KeyKit => <reply> $who, A MIDI language with GUI and customizable tools written in the language itself. URL: http://www.nosuch.com/keykit/
KeyNote => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~angelos/keynote.html
Keystone => <reply> $who, Web-based problem tracking system, rewrite of an older system called PTS. URL: http://www.stonekeep.com/keystone.php3
KFAphone => <reply> $who, A simple working internet phone for one-on-one chats. URL: http://kfa.cx
KFibs => <reply> $who, KFibs is a KDE client for FIBS.. URL: http://www.hoefkens.com/lnx/kfibs.html
KFinance => <reply> $who, Financial Manager.. URL: http://www.enkelmann-online.de/projects/index.html
kfirewall => <reply> $who, GUI for ipchains or ipfwadm. URL:
kfortune => <reply> $who, Shows a furtune every time KDE is started. URL: http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~eendebak/kde/kfortune.html
KFourier => <reply> $who, An image filtering application which uses the Fourier transform. URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kfourier.html
kfstab => <reply> $who, Easy editing of /etc/fstab via KDE. URL: http://homepages.munich.netsurf.de/Andreas.Reuter/kfstab/
KFTE => <reply> $who, KDE port of the FTE text editor. URL: http://ultra7.unl.edu.ar/
kgconfig => <reply> $who, Gtk configuration utility for the Linux kernel.. URL: http://eris.gemma.com/cgi-bin/gen?kg.phtml
KGoodStuff => <reply> $who, KDE button-bar like FvwmButtons or tkGoodStuff. URL: http://www.sad.it/~jug/kgoodstuff/
kgrep => <reply> $who, Find lines on either side of a matching pattern.. URL: http://www.skyjammer.com/software/general/
KGryzzles => <reply> $who, Little puzzle game for KDE. URL: http://freecenter.digiweb.com/games/kgryzzles/
kgui => <reply> $who, Yet another KDE GUI Builder. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/ide/kgui-0.1.tar.gz
Kgutenbook => <reply> $who, KDE port of the perl app gutenbook, to download, and read etexts from Gutenburg. URL: http://www.llornkcor.com/software.htm
KHealthCare => <reply> $who, A hardware monitoring program for LM compatible hardware monitoring chips.. URL: http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg7229/khealthcare/index.html
KHeisePro => <reply> $who, Lets you search the Heise Register. URL: http://programmierer.freepage.de/pritscha/kde/kheisepro/
KHexEdit => <reply> $who, Versatile binary file editor for KDE. URL: http://home.sol.no/~espensa/khexedit/
KHotKeys => <reply> $who, This application lets you assign commands to different hotkey combinations.. URL: http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/khotkeys/
khylafax => <reply> $who, KDE utility to set up a Fax server with hylafax.. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/comm/khylafax-0.3.1.tar.gz
Kibble => <reply> $who, A knowledge base program. URL: http://wish.student.harvard.edu/kibble/
kicq => <reply> $who, ICQ clone for KDE that looks like Mirabilis' ICQ client. URL: http://www.cn.ua/~denis/kde/kicq.html
kidentify => <reply> $who, KDE utility to show more file details, magic, used shared libraries, .... URL: http://www.franken.de/users/duffy1/rjakob/
kidSister => <reply> $who, a task management application geared towards programmers. URL: http://kidsister.tjw.org
Kife => <reply> $who, Frontend for Kinstall data base. URL: http://home.retribution.net/products/kife/index.php3
killer => <reply> $who, Background/idle Job Killer. URL: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~gerdts/killer/
killpppd => <reply> $who, Brings down pppd from non-root login. URL: http://users.smileys.net/~leonb/killpppd/
KIllustrator => <reply> $who, Vector drawing program for KDE. URL: http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sattler/killustrator.html
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kmc_utils => <reply> $who, Control and grab images from a Kodak Motion Corder high speed camera.. URL: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu/~muet/linux/kmc/kmc_utils.html
kmemmon => <reply> $who, A KDE panel memory monitor. URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smf/
KMid => <reply> $who, Midi/Karaoke player with many features. URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html
kmikmod => <reply> $who, Multithreaded module player for KDE. URL: http://myy.helia.fi/~anttiner/kmikmod.html
KMLOFax => <reply> $who, Facsimile utility for the ELSA MicroLink(tm) Office. URL: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0000441/kmlofax_e.html
kmodbox => <reply> $who, Module player for KDE based on MikMod. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/3864/
KModem => <reply> $who, Displays the status of a modem over aninternet connection using ppp. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network/
KMol => <reply> $who, Chemical calculator for the KDE. URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tomi/kmol.html
KMonop => <reply> $who, The Monopoly(tm) boardgame for KDE.. URL: http://capsi.com/kmonop/
Kmp3 => <reply> $who, A KDE MP3 Player. URL: http://area51.mfh-iserlohn.de/kmp3/
Kmp3te => <reply> $who, MP3 tag editor. URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smf/
kmpg => <reply> $who, A mp3 player for the K Desktop Environment.. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~mvogt/linux/kmpg/index.html
kmplot => <reply> $who, Mathematical function plotter for the kde-desktop. URL: http://members.tripod.de/~kdm/
kmp_msql => <reply> $who, KMySql plugin to connect to mSQL databases. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
kmp_mysql => <reply> $who, MySql plugin for KMySql. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
kmp_psql => <reply> $who, KMySQL plugin providing access to PostGres databases. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
kmp_sybase => <reply> $who, KMySql plugin for Sybase.. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql
KMsgModem => <reply> $who, A tool to read the memory of an USR Message Modem. URL: http://www.tuhlmann.purespace.de/projects/kmsgmodem/
Kmud => <reply> $who, KDE mud client. URL: http://fara.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~uhlmann/kmud/
kmuser => <reply> $who, User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop. URL: http://kdm.linuxbox.com/
KMySQL => <reply> $who, A MySql client for KDE.. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
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KUrlRec => <reply> $who, Keeps URLs and converts the links to an HTML file to use with lynx.. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kshell/
KVEC => <reply> $who, A tool that can vectorize images using several graphic formats. URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kkuhl/
kvideogen => <reply> $who, Modeline generator for XFree86. URL: http://without.netpedia.net/kvideogen/
KVideolist => <reply> $who, A videotape management utility. URL: http://bnvbbg.bamberg.baynet.de/home/ba1005/kde/kvlist.html
KVIrc => <reply> $who, Enhanced visual IRC client for X11/KDE. URL: http://www.kvirc.org/
Kvirus => <reply> $who, A board/puzzle game for the KDE Environment.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/sungsoo/
kvncviewer => <reply> $who, VNCviewer for the KDE Project. URL: http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0197/kde/kvnc/
kvoice => <reply> $who, A graphical frontend for easy handling of voice mails and faxes. URL: ftp://xpc56.mpi-hd.mpg.de/pub/kde/kvoice/
KVoiceControl => <reply> $who, Speech recognition system for the KDE Desktop. URL: http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/kde/index.html
kWall => <reply> $who, A GUI to ipfwadm to help new users to make a firewall.. URL: http://kbyteplace.cjb.net/
kwave => <reply> $who, A simple digital sound signal editor for KDE. URL: http://fs.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~kwave/
KWeather => <reply> $who, A KDE dock applet that can display the current weather outside.. URL: http://www.msoe.edu/~geiseri/projects.phtml?project=kweather
KWebDev => <reply> $who, Web Development Environment. URL: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ebanker/kwebdev/index.html
KWebHeadlines => <reply> $who, Displays Web Headlines in the KDE root menu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/cpiccione/
KWebSearch => <reply> $who, KDE Web Search Engine Frontend. URL: http://www.bawue.de/~rgoetz/kwebsearch.html
KWebWatch => <reply> $who, Utility to monitor web pages, looking for updated content. URL: http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/s/h/shutton/kwebwatch.html
Kwicken => <reply> $who, Loads and converts Quicken99 transaction statements into html.. URL: http://psyndicate.netpedia.net/Kwicken.html
kwintv => <reply> $who, Watch TV in a window on your PC screen. URL: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wenk/kwintv/
kwrl => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~stevensm/kde/kwrl.html
KWvDial => <reply> $who, Graphical Re-Implementation of WvDial PPP Dialer Command Line Interface. URL: http://www.cnss.ca/~ppatters/KWvDial.html
KXicq => <reply> $who, The KDE ICQ clone. URL: http://www.caiw.nl/~herwinjs/
KXMLViewer => <reply> $who, KDE based XML viewer written in Python. URL: http://sharmas.dhs.org/~adsharma/projects/kxmlviewer/kxmlviewer.html
Ky => <reply> $who, yes for KDE. URL: http://www.area.com/ntucker/ky/
kzacman => <reply> $who, Zacman maze game. URL: ftp://ftp.vix.com/guests/ssigala/pub/kde/
K_TAG => <reply> $who, An easy to use KDE based TAG editor for MP3 files.. URL: http://www.et.fh-osnabrueck.de/~std7169/
L-fire CTF mod for Quake2 => <reply> $who, Server-side mod that adds many significant features to Id's official Quake2 CTF.. URL: http://www.planetquake.com/LFire/
L-fire DM mod for Quake 2 => <reply> $who, Server-side Deathmatch mod for id software's Quake2. URL: http://www.planetquake.com/LFire/
l0g monitor => <reply> $who, Log monitor for X Window. URL: http://secso.virtualave.net/logmonitor/
l2tpd => <reply> $who, Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP) user space implementation. URL: http://www.marko.net/l2tp/
la51 => <reply> $who, A51 assembler for unix/linux. URL: http://www.downunder.net.au/~jsno/
Lab3Timer => <reply> $who, A Laboratory Triple Timer Application. URL: http://i112pc09.vu-wien.ac.at/~bunka/software/Lab3Timer.html
LabVIEW => <reply> $who, Full Development System which offers full-featured graphical programming. URL: http://www.natinst.com/linux/
laddr => <reply> $who, Lesstif Address Book. URL: http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/laddr/
LAGII => <reply> $who, Linux AGI Interpreter. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~gsymonds/LAGII/
LAIM => <reply> $who, An ncurses based AOL Instant Messenger(tm) client. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/majutsu/laim.html
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LBU => <reply> $who, Linux Backup Utility with minor enhancements.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/backup/Lnx-Bkp-Util-v1.21gc.tgz
lcc => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/
lcccd14 => <reply> $who, Kernel module for astronomical CCD camera LcCCD14. URL: http://www.schwebel.de/camera.html
LCD Developer's Toolkit (LcDTK) => <reply> $who, LCD Programmer's Toolkit for Matrix Orbital LCD Displays. URL: http://www.ptsi.net/user/compuwiz/index.html
LCDproc => <reply> $who, Displays system statistics on an external LCD display. URL: http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net
LCDproc client => <reply> $who, Displays METAR weather information via the lcdproc server on an LCD.. URL: http://noxs.org/tuxaid/lcdclients/lcdclients.html
LCL => <reply> $who, The LinuxClassLibrary. URL: http://dentrassi.de/lcl/
LCLint => <reply> $who, LCLint is an improved tool for checking C program syntax. URL: http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/lclint/
ld.so => <reply> $who, ELF dynamic linkers, dynamic linker library and utilities. URL: ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux/
LDAP Explorer => <reply> $who, PHP3 Application. URL: http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/LDAPExplorer/
LDAP Web Xplorer => <reply> $who, PHP based LDAP Browser, editor. URL: http://www.hklc.com/infocenter/articles/My_Software_x_LDAP_web_xplorer.html
ldapconf => <reply> $who, Linuxconf LDAP server configurator and client. URL: http://www.terminator.net/ldapconf/
ldescent => <reply> $who, Linux Descent. URL: http://www.muppetlabs.com/linux/descent/
le editor => <reply> $who, Text editor with powerful block operations, similar to NE.. URL: ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/unix/util/texteditors/
Leafnode => <reply> $who, NNTP server for small leaf sites. URL: http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html
leaguetable => <reply> $who, Little program/library generating league tables. URL: http://capsi.cx/new/?q=linux-leaguetable
leak => <reply> $who, Simple sysadm shell script for finding which process is leaking memory.. URL: http://www.galstar.com/~jmccorm/leak
LeakTracer => <reply> $who, Trace memory leaks in C++ programs. URL: http://www.andreasen.org/LeakTracer/
Leaky => <reply> $who, a memory leak tracer. URL: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/leaky/leaky.html
LeanWeb => <reply> $who, HTTP proxy for removing user-defined parts from Web pages.. URL: http://www.clasohm.com/leanweb/
LEAP RDBMS => <reply> $who, A free Relational Database Management System. URL: http://www.xnot.com/leap/
LED Counter => <reply> $who, All purpose counter. URL: http://gehtnix.fernuni-hagen.de/LED-Counter/index.html
Ledsm => <reply> $who, System monitor that displays CPU load and free memory using the keyboard leds. URL: http://personal5.iddeo.es/jajs/ledsm.html
Leech => <reply> $who, Recursive download automation tool. URL: http://nostamp.dynip.com/kars/phplib/projects/leech.phtml
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LOMAC => <reply> $who, Low Water-Mark Mandatory Access Control for Linux. URL: ftp://ftp.tislabs.com/pub/lomac/
lookit => <reply> $who, Utility to view covert information hidden inside sound modules.. URL: http://members.xoom.com/tropcana/lookit.html
Lookout => <reply> $who, Populate and manage LDAP directory. URL: http://www.linux-support.net/software/lookout/
Lookup => <reply> $who, A new searchable/upgradable unix assistance system.. URL: http://lookup.linuxbox.com/
loop => <reply> $who, Console utility. URL: http://home.midsouth.rr.com/biermans/
loopy => <reply> $who, Utility for creation and mounting of encrypted loopback device filesystems.. URL: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte019i/loopy/
LoST => <reply> $who, The LOst Space Tracker. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8036/lost_page.html
Lothar project => <reply> $who, Tools for hardware configuration. URL: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar/
Lotus Domino R5 Sneak Preview => <reply> $who, Messaging, Groupware, Workflow, Intranet Server. URL: http://notes.net
Lout => <reply> $who, Document formatting system. URL: http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/
lpe => <reply> $who, Small, fast console mode programming editor. URL: http://cdsmith.twu.net/lpe/
lperfex => <reply> $who, Hardware performance counter interface. URL: http://www.osc.edu/~troy/lperfex/
LPRng => <reply> $who, The Next Generation of LPR. URL: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html
lpswitch => <reply> $who, Control devices connected to a pport-relais-card. URL: http://www.schnism.net/system
lq-text => <reply> $who, A command-line oriented text retrieval package for Unix. URL: http://www.groveware.com/~lee/lqtext/
lrzsz => <reply> $who, X/Y/Zmodem suite. URL: http://www.nrw.net/uwe/lrzsz.html
lsb-fhs => <reply> $who, test suite for filesystem hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base. URL: http://www.opengroup.org/testing/lsb-fhs/
lsfcc => <reply> $who, Linux Socket Filter Command Compiler. URL: http://www.rcpt.to/lsfcc/
LSGE => <reply> $who, An attempt to re-build Westwood's strategy games engine on Linux.. URL: http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/estonia/798/
lsh => <reply> $who, GPL'd implementation of SSH.. URL: http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/
lsof => <reply> $who, List open files. URL: ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/
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lxandria => <reply> $who, Small database for managing books. URL: http://homepages.emsnet.de/~gerpen/
LxDoom => <reply> $who, Enhanced Linux port of the classic fps Doom. URL: http://lxdoom.linuxgames.com/
lxrun => <reply> $who, Lxrun is a user-space program that allows users of SCO(r) OpenServer(tm), UnixWa. URL: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~steven/lxrun/
LxScope => <reply> $who, An oscilloscope device for Linux.. URL: http://www.etcsk.com/linux/
lxTimeClock => <reply> $who, A great Timecard program for businesses. URL: http://www.texascomputers.com/tclock.html
Lycadican FRPG => <reply> $who, Lycadican Pen and Paper Open Content FRPG Game. URL: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican/
LynkStation => <reply> $who, Drive Thousands Of Visitors To Your Website, Automatically. URL: http://www.tri-polar.com/ls/index.html
lyntin => <reply> $who, Python-based MUD client and development framework. URL: http://cs.uchicago.edu/~laheadle/lyntin.html
Lynx => <reply> $who, fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser. URL: http://lynx.browser.org/
lyskom => <reply> $who, An online discussion system, sort of like a mix between Mail, News and IRC. URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/lyskom/
LyX => <reply> $who, Advanced LaTeX-based typesetting and text-editing program for X11. URL: http://www.lyx.org/
LZO => <reply> $who, Data compression library with very fast (de-)compression. URL: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/lzo.html
lzop => <reply> $who, A very fast file compressor similar to gzip. URL: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/lzop.html
m(UH!)Client => <reply> $who, m(UH!)Client is a client for Charles P. URL: http://members.tripod.de/muhgatus/java/
m3gtk => <reply> $who, Modula-3 binding to the GTK. URL: http://m3.linuks.org/
Mace => <reply> $who, A free Macintosh compatibility layer, implemented similar to Wine.. URL: http://MaceHQ.cjb.net/
macfork => <reply> $who, Macintosh resource fork reader and extracter. URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ajw/public/dist/macfork.tar.gz
MachineInfo => <reply> $who, author. URL: http://www.e-nef.com/CGI/MachineInfo.html
Mad Bomber => <reply> $who, An SDL-based clone of Activision's 2600 game,. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/madbomber/
Madlib / Babble => <reply> $who, Generates random text based on a formal grammar or a text file.. URL: http://www.vis.colostate.edu/~scriven/madlib.php3
Maelstrom => <reply> $who, Excellent 'Asteroids' type game with sound, 3D objects, and more. URL: http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/
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Moneydance => <reply> $who, Personal finance application written in java. URL: http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/
monitor.c => <reply> $who, power off after prolonged inactivity. URL: http://www.poboxes.com/andrew.wood/linux/monitor/
moodss => <reply> $who, Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet. URL: http://jfontain.free.fr/
moonbase => <reply> $who, Simple Fortran-callable framebuffer. URL: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/comp/moonbase.shtml
Moonlight Creator => <reply> $who, . URL: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/moonlight/intro.html
Moonshine => <reply> $who, An application development environment for Linux.. URL: http://www.rednecksoft.com/
Mops => <reply> $who, 3D modeling environment written in C with Tcl/Tk.. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~rschultz/mops/
Mordor MUD => <reply> $who, Multi-user text based Internet Game Server. URL: http://mordor.nazgul.com/
Moreton Bay DHCP Server => <reply> $who, lightweight DHCP server. URL: http://www.moretonbay.com/dhcpd/
Mork => <reply> $who, Mork is like Lex/Yacc for Java.. URL: http://www.mlhartme.de/mork/
Morphon XMLEditor => <reply> $who, Editor for XML files. URL: http://www.lunatech.com/products/morphon-xml-editor/
morse => <reply> $who, A morse code translator.. URL: http://www.stampede.org/~mwh/
moRT => <reply> $who, tail for XWindow. URL: http://i.void.on.8m.com/
Mosaic => <reply> $who, Web browser for X11. URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/
MOSIX => <reply> $who, Single-system-image Clustering Software for Linux. URL: http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/
most => <reply> $who, Browse or page through a text file. URL: ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/most/
MotifCamedia => <reply> $who, Camera iamges download program. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/jodda/camedia.htm
Zsid => <reply> $who, Zsid, a C64 music player. URL: http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~penne/Zsid
mount.app => <reply> $who, Window Maker dock app for managing storage devices. URL: http://mountapp.netpedia.net
move_imap_users => <reply> $who, move users on cyrus imap server and load balancing. URL: http://www.squeegy.org/programs/
Moxy => <reply> $who, Linear video edtior, much like Adobe Premiere. URL: http://millennium.diads.com/moxy/
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Mp3Make => <reply> $who, Automates ripping and encoding of mp3's, using cddb to name them.. URL: http://linuxlounge.dyn.ml.org
Mp3Maker.app => <reply> $who, Window Maker enhanced CDDA grabber and MP3 encoder frontend. URL: http://www.users.comcity.de/~schueler/Apps/mp3maker.html
mp3producer => <reply> $who, completely automatic mp3 ripping and encoding. URL: http://members.xoom.com/xmago/
mp3pvm => <reply> $who, Convert CD-ROMS to MP3 format in < real-time using clusters. URL: http://gamma.cbos.org/mp3pvm/
mp3serv => <reply> $who, An MP3 Shout client for icecast written in Perl.. URL: http://lek.net/~paul/mp3serv/
MP3SQL => <reply> $who, Indexes your MP3 with MP3tags into an SQL database. URL: http://www.canit.se/~danand/mp3sql/
mp3tools => <reply> $who, Utilities for managing MPEG audio files. URL: http://www.zevils.com/linux/mp3tools/
mp3tree => <reply> $who, prints a formated dir tree showing playtime and size of all MP3s in each dir. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~jhecking/perl/
MPage => <reply> $who, Send a mobilecomm text pager a page from the command line.. URL: http://opop.nols.com/paging.html
MpCb => <reply> $who, Multiplatform networked clipboard for UNIX and Win32. URL: http://www.idata.sk/~robo/mpcb/
mpEDIT => <reply> $who, A moderately featured text editor written in Java. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~mpTOOLS/
MPEG Movie Tools => <reply> $who, Complete set of tools for encoding MPEG-I movies with picture and sound. URL: http://www.freeyellow.com/members4/heroine/toys.html
mpegCam => <reply> $who, Captures MPEG video with a B&W Quickcam. URL: http://www.honeylocust.com/mpegcam/
MpegTV Player (mtv) => <reply> $who, A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player. URL: http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html
MpegTV SDK => <reply> $who, Powerful Software Development Kit for real-time MPEG-1 Video. URL: http://www.mpegtv.com/sdk.html
mpersistd => <reply> $who, Client for Masqdialer that will keep link up when other clients are connected.. URL: http://w3.cpwright.com/mserver/download/extras/
mpg123 => <reply> $who, Real time MPEG Audio Player for Layer 1,2 and Layer3. URL: http://www.mpg123.de/
mpg123+eq patch => <reply> $who, X11 Graphical Equalizer for mpg123-0.59r. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/
mpg_applet => <reply> $who, This great applet plays mp3's, but not without mpg123.. URL: http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~hebl9901/mpg_applet/
MPICH => <reply> $who, Implementation of the MPI parallel computing standard. URL: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/
mpp => <reply> $who, Software for Eiger Labs F10 & F20 MP3 players. URL: http://mpman.sourceforge.net/
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MultiSeti => <reply> $who, Seti@Home Utility to manage multiple seti@home packets. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~kost/multiseti/
multisort => <reply> $who, small, fast C program that merges httpd logs and orders by date. URL: http://www.xach.com/multisort/
Multitrack => <reply> $who, . URL: http://rulhmpc38.leidenuniv.nl/private/multitrack/multitrack.html
Multiverse => <reply> $who, A system for building an online world/RPG. URL: http://www.innerworld.org/project/
MUMail => <reply> $who, A Java applet designed to let you read your mail from a website. URL: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marktop/MUMail/
muni => <reply> $who, Muni maps Chinese characters to Unicode. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/
Mup => <reply> $who, Music Publisher. URL: http://www.arkkra.com
musplay => <reply> $who, Allows you to play music on any Xterminal.. URL: http://www.math.upenn.edu/~vdergach/
MuTATE! => <reply> $who, Networked board game with chatrooms. URL: http://travisloyd.bizland.com/mutate/index.html
Mutt => <reply> $who, Small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operatingsystems. URL: http://www.mutt.org/
mvComicsMaker => <reply> $who, editor for combining bitmap and vector graphics. URL: http://members.xoom.com/miishland/9mvCM.html
MVPoly => <reply> $who, A multi-variable polynomial algebra library and command interpreter. URL: http://gamma.cbos.org/MVPoly
MVQFPlayer => <reply> $who, VQF Player for Linux. URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/linux/mvqfplayer/
mwhcounter => <reply> $who, Simple web-counter written in perl. URL: http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik/Downloads/index.shtml
mxCrypto => <reply> $who, Cryptographic module for Python. URL: http://www.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/~lemburg/mxCrypto.html
mxDateTime => <reply> $who, Date and Time types for Python. URL: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxDateTime.html
mxODBC => <reply> $who, Python DatabaseAPI compliant interface to ODBC 2.0. URL: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC.html
MyAddressPHP => <reply> $who, Web-accessable MySQL AddressBook in PHP. URL: http://rob.current.nu/MyAddressPHP/
MyAdmin => <reply> $who, Fully administer a mysql database from the web. URL: http://myadmin.cheapnet.net
myGDE => <reply> $who, Yet another graphical GTK interface to a mySQL server. URL: http://ringil.stampede.org/mygde/
MyGuestbook => <reply> $who, A simple Guestbook using PHP3 and MySQL, several languages supported. URL: http://mygb.php-homepage.de/
myip-upate.pl => <reply> $who, MYIP.org automatic update script. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~hawk/myip/
myMP3 => <reply> $who, A mysql backed, web based, mp3 playlist-search engine-ID3 editor kind of thing.. URL: http://www.tasam.com/~warewolf/mymp3/
MyNews => <reply> $who, A news displayer. URL: http://ftp.winther.net/pub/mynews/
MyNews-1.0 => <reply> $who, php script which updates/maintains news on a web site. URL: http://www.alienated.org/scripts/
MyNMS => <reply> $who, Simple network monitoring system, useful to detect when links go down (and up!). URL: ftp://ftp.global-one.pt/pub/Packages/MyNMS/
MyObject.pm => <reply> $who, Store Perl objects in a MySql database.. URL: http://www.frontierworld.com/MyObject.html
MyODBC => <reply> $who, ODBC for MySQL. URL: http://www.mysql.com/
myODE => <reply> $who, Online Database Editor for mySQL databases using PHP 3. URL: http://www.gdiweb.com/myode/
MySQL => <reply> $who, SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. URL: http://www.mysql.com/
MySQL driver for AOLserver => <reply> $who, Enables you to use MySQL database server with the AOLserver web server. URL: http://www.perfectionlearning.com/mysql/
MySQLmodule => <reply> $who, Python interface to MySQL. URL: http://snail.earthlight.co.nz/projects.html
MySQLShopper => <reply> $who, PERL / MySQL Shopping Cart ( E-Commerce ) Script. URL: http://www.penguinservices.com/scripts/
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NCatalog => <reply> $who, The GTKtalog databse ncurses browser and searcher.. URL: http://gtktalog.iskewl.com/
NcFTP => <reply> $who, UNIX application program implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). URL: http://www.ncftp.com/
NcFTPd => <reply> $who, High-performance File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for UNIXsystems. URL: http://www.ncftp.com
ncftpd_admin => <reply> $who, Tcl/tk Front end to ncftpd_passwd.. URL: http://www.curtisonline.net/software/
ncp => <reply> $who, Copy files quickly inside your LAN. URL: http://www.fefe.de/ncp/
Ncpfs => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/ncpfs/
ncps => <reply> $who, ncurses based process killer. URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~pc171/ncps.html
NCSfck => <reply> $who, Program to detected file changes.. URL: http://www.ncsn.za.net
nct => <reply> $who, Color-extended tetris game. URL: ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/unix/games/tetris/
ncurses => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.html
Ncurses Hexedit => <reply> $who, Ncurses file hex editor - edit/insert/delete/search. URL: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~apoc/programs/c/hexedit/
NDir => <reply> $who, Console tool to display directory's contents. URL: http://www.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE/~mw/software/
ne => <reply> $who, A free editor easy to use for the beginner, but powerful for the wizard. URL: http://gongolo.usr.dsi.unimi.it/~vigna/ftp/ne-1.17.tgz
NED => <reply> $who, Dyndns server and client package. URL: http://www.bluecherry.net/~rain/ned-0.3.tar.gz
NEdit => <reply> $who, . URL: http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html
Nemesis => <reply> $who, Linux Video Security System. URL: http://nemesis.inodes.org/
NeoBoard => <reply> $who, A whole new multi-threaded message board with great look and feel. URL: http://www.neoqst.com/public/neoboard/neoboard.html
NeoMagic X Server => <reply> $who, Binary-only X server for Neomagic graphic chips. URL: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/
NeoStats => <reply> $who, IRC Statistical Services. URL: http://codeworks.kamserve.com/
nep => <reply> $who, An interactive plot program base on BLT. URL: http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/nephome/
neped => <reply> $who, Promiscuous Ethernet Detector, to check for sniffers on local subnet. URL: http://apostols.org/projectz/neped/
neshdr => <reply> $who, Writes NES headers in iNES format. URL: http://emu.simplenet.com/misc/neshdr.1.tar.gz
Neslie => <reply> $who, FTN Type2+ packet/message viewer. URL: http://kafedra.ipmce.ru:8013/neslie/
Nessus => <reply> $who, A free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool. URL: http://www.nessus.org/
NEStra => <reply> $who, Dynamic-Recompiling NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator. URL: http://nestra.linuxgames.com/
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NNTP for Gamora => <reply> $who, NNTP services for Gamora applications. URL: ftp://gamora.org/pub/gamora/plugins/nntp4g-0.0.jar
NNTP Newsreader Servlet => <reply> $who, NNTP access servlet with viewing, sort and posting functions.. URL: http://www.isnetworks.com/
NNTPcache => <reply> $who, Caching proxy for NNTP servers. URL: http://www.nntpcache.org/
Zune => <reply> $who, A free MUI (an Amiga GUI toolkit) clone for Un*x. URL: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~zune/
NOCOL => <reply> $who, System and network monitoring software. URL: http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol/
nodelist.pl => <reply> $who, FidoNet nodelist generator written in perl. URL: http://acidlinux.webjump.com/perl.htm
NodeWatch => <reply> $who, Monitor and react to TCP/IP network nodes using fping.. URL: http://junebug.fhcrc.org/nodewatch/
nodoze => <reply> $who, Prepares Web sites built using Microsoft Windows for UNIX servers.. URL: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~babulicm/perl/nodoze/
noffle => <reply> $who, News server optimized for low speed dial-up connections to the Internet. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html
noflushd => <reply> $who, Daemon that sends idle disks to sleep (for kernels 2.2.11+). URL: http://www.tuebingen.linux.de/kobras/noflushd/
NoNEdit => <reply> $who, Makes noweb literate programming easier with NEdit.. URL: http://nonedit.resourcez.com/
noniget => <reply> $who, A tcl script for anonymous ftp.. URL: http://www.earthlink.net/~tarozax/noniget.html
NoSQL => <reply> $who, A Relational Database Management System. URL: http://www.mi.linux.it/nosql/
note => <reply> $who, commandline note tool. URL: http://www.daemon.de/software.html
notify => <reply> $who, Notify (website) visitors of changes to your site.. URL: http://www.ping.de/~sven/notify/
NotifyMe => <reply> $who, Program which displays message if a specific user just logged in. URL: http://wizard.ae.krakow.pl/~mike/
NowPlaying! => <reply> $who, MP3 Server program that works with 'mpg123'. URL: http://www.melrose.k12.mn.us/rabrant/
npadmin => <reply> $who, Command line SNMP based network adminstration tool for printers. URL: http://npadmin.sourceforge.net/
npasswd => <reply> $who, Replacement for the passwd command. URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/
npo => <reply> $who, Nmaps parole officer. URL: http://lo-tek.org/~bellum/npo.html
npp NEC2 Post Processor => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www1.highway.com.py/~pinoz/Antenne/necpp/
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Open Cubic Player => <reply> $who, A music player for modules, midi, cd, mp3 and sid. URL: http://www.cubic.org/player/
Open GRiD => <reply> $who, A project to create Open Global Ranking Search Engine and Directory (Open GRiD). URL: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~maxim/OpenGRiD/
Open Group Linux JDK => <reply> $who, A port of the Java Development Kit to Linux using native linux threads. URL: http://www.opengroup.org/RI/java/linux/
Open Source Audio Library Project => <reply> $who, C++ Audio class library. URL: http://osalp.sourceforge.net/
Open sources fortune file => <reply> $who, Fortune file with quotes from the O'Reilly book. URL: http://www.dibona.com/opensources/index.shtml
Open Track => <reply> $who, Flexible Unix based client/server issue tracking tool, customizeable via tcl. URL: http://www.ede.com/ot/index.html
OpenBasic => <reply> $who, Commercial Quality BASIC compiler and run time environment. URL: http://www.openbasic.org
OpenBSD => <reply> $who, OpenBSD - Proactively Secure Multiplatform OS. URL: http://www.openbsd.org/
OpenCA => <reply> $who, Open Certification Authority Package. URL: http://www.openca.org/
OpenCart => <reply> $who, Perl-based online shopping cart system. URL: http://www.opencart.com/
OpenCCVS => <reply> $who, Open Credit Card Verification System. URL: ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/openccvs/
OpenCD => <reply> $who, Fast fuzzy-search directory changer.. URL: http://baldo.home.ml.org/
OpenClasses => <reply> $who, Powerful C++ class library, featuring threading and dynamic loading of classes. URL: http://ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~bavo/devel/OpenClasses-0.99b.tar.gz
OpenClasses & OpenNet => <reply> $who, Fundamental C++ classes to do multithreading, networking, dynamic loading, .... URL: http://ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~bavo/devel
OpenClassroom => <reply> $who, Linux distribution for the Educational market.. URL: http://www.openclassroom.org/
OpenDesk.com source code base => <reply> $who, Web. URL: http://www.opendesk.com/
OpenDiS => <reply> $who, Linux support for digital cameras running the Digita operating system.. URL: http://digitalux.netpedia.net
OpenH323 => <reply> $who, H.323 protocol stack. URL: http://www.openh323.org/
OpenLDAP => <reply> $who, LDAP suite of applications and development tools. URL: http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
OpenLink Universal Data Access Driver Suite For Linux => <reply> $who, High-Performance ODBC, JDBC, and UDBC Drivers for Linux. URL: http://www.openlinksw.com/
OpenLink Virtuoso => <reply> $who, Virtual Database Engine enabing Heterogeneous Data Access. URL: http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/
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OpenScrabble => <reply> $who, Free, open source implementation of Scrabble(tm). URL: http://w3.one.net/~benders/openscrabble/index.shtml
OpenShare Linux => <reply> $who, OpenShare Linux - Full distribution of Linux Server or Workstation Editions. URL: http://www.openshare.net
OpenSSH Unix Port => <reply> $who, Port of OpenBSD's free SSH release to Linux. URL: http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/
OpenSSL => <reply> $who, The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security. URL: http://www.openssl.org/
OpenTrader => <reply> $who, Multiprocess trading platform. URL: http://www.noris.net/~smurf/opentrader/
OpenVerse Visual Chat => <reply> $who, Free Multiplatform Visual Chat software written in Tcl/TK. URL: http://openverse.org/
openWAP => <reply> $who, WAP GNU Open Source Project. URL: http://www.openwap.org/
OpenXML => <reply> $who, Pure Java, commercial-grade, fully featured framework for XML-based applications. URL: http://www.openxml.org
Orac => <reply> $who, Database Administration Tool. URL: http://www.kkitts.com/orac-dba/
Oracle Database HOWTO => <reply> $who, Installation Guide for the Oracle Database Server on Linux. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Oracle-HOWTO.html
Oracle Procedit => <reply> $who, X11 Oracle Procedure and Function Editor. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracle Session Monitor => <reply> $who, X11 program that can be used to manage user sessions on your Oracle Database. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracle SQLWork => <reply> $who, An SQL Worksheet-like querying tool for Oracle. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracle TableBrowser => <reply> $who, An Oracle Table and Index Browser/Modifier for Linux/GTK. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracletool => <reply> $who, A web based tool for Oracle DBA's written in Perl.. URL: http://www.oracletool.com/
ORBacus => <reply> $who, CORBA 2.0 compliant ORB for C++ and Java. URL: http://www.ooc.com/ob/
ORBit => <reply> $who, Thin/fast CORBA ORB. URL: http://www.labs.redhat.com/orbit/
ORBit C++ => <reply> $who, C++ support for ORBit ORB. URL: http://www.orbitcpp.freeserve.co.uk/
orbit7 => <reply> $who, A galactic gravity simulator for GTK.. URL: http://www.red-bean.com/software.html
Oregano => <reply> $who, Schematic capture and circuit simulation application. URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4hult/oregano/
Orgasm => <reply> $who, Machine code assembler for 6502 microprocessors. URL: http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~box/c64.html
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PCP => <reply> $who, Stubborn upload/download program. URL: http://www.pike-community.org/code/show_single.html?id=2
PCRE => <reply> $who, A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions.. URL: ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/
pcwd => <reply> $who, Berkshire Products PC Watchdog Card Linux Kernel Driver. URL: http://www.eiboeck.de/goodies/linux/
PD AI => <reply> $who, Primitive AI for study, porting and further development.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/pdai.html
PDAddUser => <reply> $who, Tool for administering large amounts of users easily from simple text lists. URL: http://ghs.ssd.k12.wa.us/~pdavis/
PDAI => <reply> $who, Public Domain Artificial Intelligence for Linux, etc.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/pdai.html
PDFindex => <reply> $who, Tool to create a PDF index from your PDF archive.. URL: http://www.sanface.com/
pdksh => <reply> $who, Public domain version of the Korn Shell , POSIX sh. URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
pdmenu => <reply> $who, . URL: http://kitenet.net/programs/pdmenu/
pdq => <reply> $who, Printing system. URL: http://feynman.tam.uiuc.edu/pdq/
ped => <reply> $who, A text editor with an emacs/vi-like user interface written in perl.. URL: ftp://ftp.sypher.com/pub/ped/
PeekABooh => <reply> $who, Mp3 tamagotchi DJ. URL: http://www.meaweb.com/peekabooh/
Penguin Saviour => <reply> $who, 2D rpg engine (Playable). URL: http://home.worldnet.att.net/~huff_ma/
Penguineyes => <reply> $who, Linux-ified version of Xeyes written with GTK+ and Imlib. URL: http://members.xoom.com/nhowie/penguineyes.html
PennMUSH => <reply> $who, MUSH (Multi User Shared Hallucination) Daemon. URL: http://www.pennmush.org/
Pentacle => <reply> $who, A Java/Linux Starteam client.. URL: http://home.netcom.com/~rdnaxela/pentacle
PentiumGCC => <reply> $who, Pentium/PPro/P-II/K6/Cyrix/MMX optimising egcs clone. URL: http://www.goof.com/pcg/
people => <reply> $who, Frontend/wrapper to rwho. URL: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/people/
PeopleSpace => <reply> $who, Contact Manager for the KDE/QT Platform. URL: http://www.slac.com/mpilone/peoplespace_home/
PEQ Quote Library => <reply> $who, The quotation library for Portable Easy Quote (PEQ).. URL: http://rope.cjb.net/
Perceps => <reply> $who, Themable documentation generator for C++. URL: http://starship.python.net/~tbryan/PERCEPS
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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/
ploticus => <reply> $who, data display engine. URL: http://www.sgpr.net/
PlRun => <reply> $who, Perl-Run - Emulator compatable run dialog box for X11. URL: http://perl.linuxbox.com/
plsc => <reply> $who, Oracle PL/SQL compliation front-end. URL: http://www.slip.net/~amalec/plsc/
plucker => <reply> $who, Web browser for Palm Pilot with Linux conduit. URL: http://fingerlickin.rubberchicken.org/products/plucker/
PLUG => <reply> $who, A HTML-based frontend to /var/log/messages. URL: http://linux.kub.trollhattan.se/plug/index.html
plugger => <reply> $who, Streaming multimedia plugin for UNIX netscape. URL: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
PM3 => <reply> $who, Modula-3 compiler, debugger, libraries, and applications. URL: http://m3.polymtl.ca/m3/
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pvmsync => <reply> $who, Extends POSIX-like synchronization mechanisms to a Linux Beowulf cluster. URL: http://torch.rowan.edu/pvmsync/
pwcheck => <reply> $who, MySQL password authentication for the Cyrus IMAP server.. URL: http://earth.alsland.com/anewsome/pwcheck_mysql-0.7.tar.gz
pwcheck_pgsql => <reply> $who, pwcheck_pgsql is a an authentication module for the Cyrus IMAP server.. URL: ftp://ftp.kstu.edu.ru/pub/unix/cyrus/pwcheck_pgsql-0.1.tgz
pxtools => <reply> $who, Collection of tools to convert a Paradox-database. URL: http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/pxtools/
Pybliographer => <reply> $who, tool for bibliographic databases manipulation. URL: http://www.gnome.org/pybliographer/
PyBot => <reply> $who, An IRC bot written in Python.. URL: ftp://205.238.164.201/pub/pybot/pybot-latest.tar.gz
pyCA => <reply> $who, A project to create Certification Authority in Python. URL: http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/
pyCDAudio => <reply> $who, Python wrapperes for libcdaudio. URL: http://www.michigannet.com/~rbb/pycdaudio/
pyChing => <reply> $who, Cast and interpret I Ching hexagrams. URL: http://www.essemgee.xnot.com/pyching/
pydb => <reply> $who, A modified version of the standard Python debugger. URL: http://daikon.tuc.noao.edu/python/
pyDE => <reply> $who, Programmers editor for Python. URL: http://www.spirito.de/pyde/
pydf => <reply> $who, colourised df(1)-clone. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/pydf/
pyDict => <reply> $who, English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary. URL: http://www.linux.org.tw/~plateau/linux_notes/softwares/
PyGCS => <reply> $who, A very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in Python.. URL: http://www2.shore.net/~jblaine/book-of-jeff-3.html
Pygmy Linux => <reply> $who, UMSDOS based, internet ready minilinux.. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~pygmy/
PyGNOME => <reply> $who, A set of bindings for the GNOME libraries for use with python. URL: ftp://ftp.daa.com.au/pub/james/python/
PyGTK => <reply> $who, A set of bindings for the GTK widget set. URL: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/
PyKDE => <reply> $who, Python bindings for QT 1.42 and KDE1.1 Code your KDE applications in python.. URL: http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/
PyKstat => <reply> $who, Python interface to Solaris kernel statistics. URL: http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~annis/creations/pykstat.html
Pynche => <reply> $who, Color Editor. URL: http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/pyware.html
pyobex => <reply> $who, Transfer files via IrDA.. URL: http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/
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rCalc => <reply> $who, Fast and light symbolic calculator for GNOME.. URL: http://rat.spunge.org/rcalc/
rce => <reply> $who, Remote command execution utlity. URL: http://utenti.tripod.it/epoque/rce.html
RCode => <reply> $who, Tool for encoding/decoding files. URL: http://neptune.spaceports.com/~rvb/rcode/
RCS => <reply> $who, GNU Revision Control System. URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/
rdbm => <reply> $who, Reliable database library. URL: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/rdb/
rdc2e => <reply> $who, Download imaged from a Ricoh RDC-2E digital camera over the serial line. URL: http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/linux/rdc2e/
RDFFetch => <reply> $who, RDFFetch is a program for handling the RDF news item format. URL: http://www.tria.fi/rdf/rdffetch.shtml
RDJ => <reply> $who, Remote interface for playing MP3-Files. URL: http://www.homepages.de/dirk.b@dialup.nacamar.de/rdj/
re2c => <reply> $who, Fast and flexible lexer generator. URL: http://www.tildeslash.org/re2c/index.html
readiso => <reply> $who, Read and compare images of ISO9660 file systems.. URL: http://www.ludat.lth.se/~dat99oli/
readline => <reply> $who, A set of functions for use by applicationsthat allow users to edit command line. URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/
Real Basic Server => <reply> $who, Streaming media server. URL: http://www.real.com/solutions/basic/index.html
Real FC Manager => <reply> $who, Highly realistic football manager game currently under development. URL: http://capsi.com/realfcmanager/
Real Time Scheduler Tools => <reply> $who, Posix.1b Real Time Scheduler Tools for Linux. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/misc/rtstools-1.0.tgz
REalizer => <reply> $who, Python regular expression tester. URL: http://www.globalserve.net/~catlee/projects/REalizer
Realmlifes => <reply> $who, A fantasy world simulation game with AI. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~edtx/realmlifes/index.html
RealPlayer => <reply> $who, Plays streaming audio and video over the Internet. URL: http://www.real.com/
RealTimeBattle => <reply> $who, RealTimeBattle, a robot programming game for Unix. URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/realtimebattle/
reap => <reply> $who, Disassembler for x86 architecture, and assembly code editor. URL: http://reap.cjb.net/
RearSite => <reply> $who, Tool for updating personal www pages. URL: http://listes.cru.fr/rs/fd/
REBOL/Core Messaging Language => <reply> $who, Network-based messaging language. URL: http://www.rebol.com/
Recall => <reply> $who, Framework for replicated fault-tolerant storage servers.. URL: http://www.smart.net/~ecn/recall/
ReCaP => <reply> $who, Remote copy and paste for Linux and Windows. URL: http://mix.hive.no/~tommy/ReCaP/
recent.el => <reply> $who, An XEMACS enhancement to keep recently edited files under the File button. URL: http://www.bit.net.au/~bhepple/
Recital Unix Developer => <reply> $who, RDBMS with complete development tools and 4GL. URL: http://www.recital.com
Record Management => <reply> $who, Program to manage large sound carrier archives (LPs, CDs, MP3s, singles, ...).. URL: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu
record_cd2mp3 => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.cnc.com/pub/record_cd2mp3/
recover => <reply> $who, A utility which automates some steps to undelete a file.. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover/
Red => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/terminal
Red Hat Linux => <reply> $who, The Red Hat Official Linux distribution. URL: http://www.redhat.com/
RED-Linux => <reply> $who, A real-time extension of the Linux kernel. URL: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/RED-Linux/
RedHat CD Kit => <reply> $who, Tools for creating bootable RedHat installation CDs.. URL: http://www.mmedia.is/~bre/programs/redhat-cd-kit-1.1.tar.gz
redir => <reply> $who, Redirects TCP ports to another IP address and port.. URL: http://users.qual.net/~sammy/hacks/
redirect 4 all => <reply> $who, Redirector for FTP and IRC sessions. URL: http://www.ftp4all.de/v3/noframes/
Reflex60 smart card terminal OCF driver => <reply> $who, A pure Java OCF driver for the Schlumberger Reflex60 smart card terminal. URL: http://www.forge.com.au
RegExplorer => <reply> $who, Regular Expression Explorer. URL: http://qtvu.netpedia.net/regexplorer/
Registry.pl => <reply> $who, Perl Library to utilize a text based Windows 95 style registry. URL: http://www.dsnet.net/oss/registry.html
regutils => <reply> $who, Windows 9x ini and registry tools for unix. URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/regutils/
reiserfs => <reply> $who, A filesystem which stores the files themselves in a B*-tree, gaining speed.. URL: http://www.devlinux.com/namesys
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rtheme => <reply> $who, A simple perl script to randomly set a WindowMaker theme. URL: http://24.0.146.95/windowmaker/
RTLinux => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.rtlinux.org/
rtnppd => <reply> $who, TNPP-packets router with TNPP-in-IP encapsulation. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~Vasim/
RTR 0.8 (RealTimeRetriever) => <reply> $who, A realtime rate retriever.. URL: http://www.netz-total.de/
RTSP/RTP Proxy => <reply> $who, The RTSP proxy is an application-specific proxy for RTP streams. URL: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/developers/rtspproxy.html
Ruby => <reply> $who, An object-oriented language for quick and easy programming. URL: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
rugPdf => <reply> $who, Java classes to generate documents in PDF-format. URL: http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~blowagie/java-pdf/
runas => <reply> $who, Execute a process as any user and/or group in a non-interactive manner. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~carpinello/runas/index.html
runcart => <reply> $who, A developer utility to format N64 cartridge images and add information. URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0709runcart.htm http://www.blackbag.org
rungetty => <reply> $who, Minimal virtual console getty capable of running arbitrary programs. URL: http://www.nodomainname.net/software/rungetty/
Runlevel.app => <reply> $who, Allows system administrators to add, delete, edit and execute services. URL: http://windowmaker.mezaway.org/runlevelapp.html
runmaint => <reply> $who, wrapper for cron jobs. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/runmaint.html
Rush ircd => <reply> $who, An amazing ircd. URL: http://www.extremerush.dhs.org/
rview => <reply> $who, Game resource data exlorer and ripper tool. URL: http://pluto.spaceports.com/~rview/
RXP => <reply> $who, Validating XML parser in C. URL: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html
rxtx => <reply> $who, rxtx is a native serial library for linux supporting CommAPI. URL: http://www.frii.com/~jarvi/rxtx/
rxvt => <reply> $who, A VT102 emulator for the X window system. URL: http://www.rxvt.org/
rz/sz => <reply> $who, ZMODEM, YMODEM or XMODEM error correcting protocol send and receive. URL: http://www.rdrop.com/users/caf/rzsz3.html
rzMail => <reply> $who, A wxPython-based e-mail client.. URL: http://rozzin.homepage.com/
s-news => <reply> $who, Small news server using suck for news transport.. URL: http://www.sylph.u-net.com/snews.html
S/key => <reply> $who, One time password system. URL: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nmh/
S1000 => <reply> $who, Device driver for Ocean Optics's spectrometer S1000 with A/D card ADC500.. URL: http://dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk/~rybar/programming/programming.html
S3 Trio64 frame buffer driver for Linux/x86 => <reply> $who, Linux framebuffer driver for S3 Trio64-based cards on Intel. URL: http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/linux/s3.html
Sabre Flight Plane Simulator => <reply> $who, Fligh simulator. URL: http://sabre.cobite.com/
SAC => <reply> $who, System Accounting Tool. URL: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/sac/
safecat => <reply> $who, Copies stdin to a qmail-style maildir. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat.html
SafeGossip => <reply> $who, SSL support for FTP, IMAP, POP, SMTP and telnet. URL: http://www.skygate.co.uk/safegossip/
Sailor Mars => <reply> $who, Anime desktopmate. URL: http://home.rmci.net/fiachra/
Saint => <reply> $who, Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool. URL: http://www.wwdsi.com/saint/
sam => <reply> $who, Rob Pike's sam editor for Unix, using 9libs for Plan 9 support.. URL: ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/research/9libs/sam-9libs.tar.gz
Samba => <reply> $who, Allows clients to access to a server's filespace and printers via SMB. URL: http://www.samba.org/
Sambaconfig => <reply> $who, Edit your smb.conf file with you web browser. URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Zone/5267/sambaconfig/
SambaLink/Q => <reply> $who, Qt version of smb.conf file editor. URL: http://www.spanware.com/linkq/sambalinkq.html
samhain => <reply> $who, File integrity verifier.. URL: http://samhain.netpedia.net/
SampLin => <reply> $who, Scientific Data Acquisition, Visualization and Process Controlsoftware. URL: http://www.iaee.tuwien.ac.at/sensor/samplin/
Sandmail => <reply> $who, GTK+ based mime-compliant user mail agent. URL: http://user.tninet.se/~wlj948f/sandmail/
SANE => <reply> $who, Provides standardized access to anyraster image scanner hardware. URL: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
sansa:AIFF => <reply> $who, sansa:AIFF is a Java package for reading and writing AIF files. URL: http://www.identics.de/sansa/
SAP::Rfc => <reply> $who, OO Perl Interface to SAP/R3 RFC. URL: http://www.kogut.demon.co.uk
Sapphire => <reply> $who, A new window manager for the X Windows System.. URL: http://jade.netpedia.net/sapphire/
SARA => <reply> $who, SATAN/SAINT like security auditing tool - takes advantage of nmap if present. URL: http://home.arc.com/sara/index.html
Sarah Tracker => <reply> $who, Program to create music with samples. URL: http://www.pyro.net/~crayc/sarah/
sarep => <reply> $who, Command-line search and replace tool written in Perl.. URL: http://tarp.worldserve.net/software/
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sC++ => <reply> $who, A concurrent C++ environment providing Motif and Sockets libraries. URL: http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/sCxx/
ScanDoc => <reply> $who, Themable documentation generator similar to Javadoc or KDoc. URL: http://www.sylvantech.com/~talin/projects/scandoc/scandoc.html
SCAPUTMEP => <reply> $who, Server-Client-Application to distribute tasks in a heterogenious network. URL: http://rupert.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~vogelgr/
SCAR => <reply> $who, Simple console audio recorder.. URL: http://www.pdamusic.com/computer/scar.html
Sced => <reply> $who, modelling program that makes use of geometric constraints. URL: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~schenney/sced/sced.html
Scene => <reply> $who, Inventor and VRML toolkit.. URL: http://scene.netpedia.net
SCEZ => <reply> $who, Smart card library. URL: http://www.franken.de/crypt/scez.html
Sched-Gen => <reply> $who, HTML weekly schedule generator. URL: http://www.nmt.edu/~rubber/projects/
sci => <reply> $who, A data entry screen builder which works from ASCII templates. URL: http://linuxparts.com/index.html
SciLab => <reply> $who, A matrix-based scientific software package resembling Matlab and Xmath.. URL: ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/Meta2/Scilab
Scintilla => <reply> $who, Source code editing component and tiny IDE for Win32 and GTK+.. URL: http://www.scintilla.org/
Scirc => <reply> $who, An IRC client written in Guile Scheme. URL: http://webserver.de/forcer/scirc.html
Scitech Display Doctor => <reply> $who, Universal VESA driver and utilities. URL: http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd_linux.html
SciTech MGL => <reply> $who, Multiplatform Graphics Library, a toolkit for creating games. URL: http://www.scitechsoft.com/dp_mgl.html
SClient => <reply> $who, Mud Client for X windows. URL: http://home.swipnet.se/heathen/linux/sclient.htm
Sclinet => <reply> $who, ShoutCast Internet Radio Server Monitor. URL: http://ghs.ssd.k12.wa.us/~pdavis/
Scotty => <reply> $who, Sitespecific network management software using high-level, string-basedAPIs. URL: http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty
Scour Media Agent => <reply> $who, Allows easy downloading of SMB files off Scour.Net. URL: http://scour.net/General/Scour_Media_Agent/SMA_UNIX.phtml
scp-wrapper => <reply> $who, A wrapper for scp and cp, with non controlling tty supprot.. URL: ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/
scrEamer => <reply> $who, esd->SHOUTcast streamer. URL: http://home.cwru.edu/~ijr/screamer/
Screamer for HTTP => <reply> $who, Webserver load generator and logger. URL: http://www.byggsoft.se/~eddieo/screamer/
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semu => <reply> $who, Sega Saturn Emulator. URL: http://emu.simplenet.com/semu/
Send Packet => <reply> $who, Network administration tool. URL: http://redirect.to/mg/
SendDay => <reply> $who, A daemon to email a new URL every day.. URL: http://www3.cybercities.com/s/suneatshours/sendday/
Sendmail => <reply> $who, Powerful and flexible Mail Transport Agent. URL: http://www.sendmail.org/
sendmail-tls => <reply> $who, SSL/TLS Wrapper for sendmail (and other MTAs). URL: http://opensource.3gi.com/sendmail-tls/
SendPage => <reply> $who, Utility for sending alphanumeric pages using the IXO protocol.. URL: http://www.cpoint.net/projects/sendpage/
SENSE => <reply> $who, Distributed Shared Memory system. URL: http://hjem.get2net.dk/dduck/sense.html
Sentinel => <reply> $who, Fast system file scanner. URL: http://zurk.netpedia.net/zfile.html
sersniff => <reply> $who, Program for tunnelling/sniffing for between 2 serial ports.. URL: http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/sersniff.html
Services => <reply> $who, Provides nick/channel/memo services for IRC networks. URL: http://ender.shadowfire.org/ircservices/
Setedit => <reply> $who, An editor for C/C++ programmers with a nice text interface.. URL: http://members.xoom.com/stropea/setedit.html
SETI@Home Client => <reply> $who, Distributed SETI data-analysis client. URL: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
setiherder => <reply> $who, GTK interface to monitor and control multiple SETI@home clients.. URL: http://www.sackheads.org/setiherder/
setilog => <reply> $who, Setiathome resultfile logging. URL: http://www.wildcard.demon.nl/
SetIP => <reply> $who, A shell script to make it easy to connect to a Dynamic IP computer.. URL: http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~meuserj/stuff/setip/
SetiStats => <reply> $who, Connects to Seti@Homes stats page and displays current user count, etc.. URL: http://come.to/setistats/
setistats.pl => <reply> $who, Shows collected data from a running SETI-client in a nice HTML-page.. URL: http://www.webwriters.de/mbirth/subsites/perlprogs/zipped/setistats-latest.tar.gz
setiview => <reply> $who, ncurses frontend for setiathome. URL: http://www.guildsoftware.com/setiview.html
setMyip => <reply> $who, perl client for the myip.org service. URL: http://www.monmouth.com/~outcast/setmyip/
setserial => <reply> $who, Controls configuration of serial ports. URL: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/sbin/
Settlers => <reply> $who, 2-4 player TCP/IP strategy game of expansion and trading. URL: http://settlers.seul.org
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SMM++ => <reply> $who, Mud client with mapping functionality and lots of other features. URL: http://www.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE/~issevers/SMM++/welcome.html
SMPEG => <reply> $who, SDL MPEG player with sound. URL: http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3
SMS Client => <reply> $who, Command line based utility which allows you to send SMS messages. URL: http://www.styx.demon.co.uk/
sms.forward / sms.send => <reply> $who, sends eMails to free SMS-Gateways (Austria only). URL: http://idefix.htl-tex.ac.at/atrox/smsforward/
SMSLink => <reply> $who, Client/server gateway to the SMS protocol. URL: http://www.styx.demon.co.uk/smslink/
smtm => <reply> $who, A Perl/Tk stock ticker.. URL: http://rosebud.sps.queensu.ca/~edd/code/smtm.html
SMTP with Source => <reply> $who, SMTP enables exchange of mail between hosts within or across networks.. URL: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/
SMTP::Server => <reply> $who, A complete, extensible, RFC compliant SMTP server written in Perl. URL: http://www.macgyver.org/software/perl/
smtpclient => <reply> $who, Minimal SMTP client. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/
sMud => <reply> $who, a simple MUD server written from scratch. URL: http://www.unstable.org/~nelish/
Smurf Sound Font Editor => <reply> $who, Sound Font editor. URL: http://www.resonance.org/smurf/
sn => <reply> $who, Hassle-free usenet news system for small sites. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/news/transport/
SNA for Linux => <reply> $who, Provides the SNA protocol stack for the Linux OS.. URL: http://www.blind-fire.net/linux-sna/
Snack => <reply> $who, Cross-platform sound extension for Tcl. URL: http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
SnapViewer => <reply> $who, Picture/photograph viewer. URL: http://ox.compsoc.net/~neil/NeilsSoftware/snapviewer.html
snarf => <reply> $who, Command-line URL retrieval tool with some unique features.. URL: http://www.xach.com/snarf/
Snd => <reply> $who, Freeware sound editor for X/Motif. URL: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/snd/snd.html
SNEmul => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mygale.org/09/cassiop/
snes9express => <reply> $who, Gtk GUI front-end for snes9x. URL: http://www.linuxgames.com/snes9express/
SNES9x => <reply> $who, Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System(SNES) emulator. URL: http://www.snes9x.com
SNiFF+ => <reply> $who, An open, extensible and scalable cross-platform programming environment. URL: http://www.takefive.com/
SNiFF+ LinuxLand => <reply> $who, Integrated development environment on Linux. URL: http://www.linuxland.de
SNiFF+ Penguin IDE => <reply> $who, Free professional IDE for Linux C/C++ developers. URL: http://www.takefive.com/
Sniffit => <reply> $who, Full-featured packet sniffer. URL: http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html
SNMP Monitor (Ex) => <reply> $who, SNMP critical values monitoring. URL: http://geekcorp.com/snmpmonitor/
SNMP Sniff => <reply> $who, A promiscuous SNMP Sniffer/Decoder that allows you to look inside SNMP PDU's. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~nunol/snmpsniff/
SNMP Sniffer => <reply> $who, SNMP promiscuous packet sniffer/decoder.. URL: http://elektra.porto.ucp.pt/snmpsniff
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solariscentral.php3 => <reply> $who, Retrieves the latest news from SolarisCentral. URL: http://swamp.chl.chalmers.se/backends/
solarisguide.php3 => <reply> $who, solarisguide.php3 retrieves the latest SolarisGuide news for a webpage.. URL: http://swamp.chl.chalmers.se/backends/
Solfege => <reply> $who, GPL'ed eartraining for Gnome. URL: http://solfege.n3.net/
SOLID Embedded Engine => <reply> $who, True plug-and-play database server for mission critical applications. URL: http://www.solidtech.com
Solid POP3 => <reply> $who, an implementation of a POP3 server.. URL: ftp://dione.ids.pl/pub/solidpop3d/solid-pop3d.tar.gz
SOMLib => <reply> $who, The Simple Object Model for C++. URL: http://www.martianrock.com/programming/c/SOM.html
SoolooScroopt => <reply> $who, A flexible, intelligent MP3 playlist manager. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~tqbf/sss.html
Sope => <reply> $who, Playstation emulator for Unix. URL: http://www.emuhq.com/sope/
SOS => <reply> $who, Verilog Design Data Management Product. URL: http://www.cliosoft.com
Sound Monitor => <reply> $who, Displays infos of the Esound daemon. URL: http://gqview.netpedia.net/rest-smon.html
Sound Studio => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk application that allows editing of sound files of diverse formats. URL: http://www.elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk/staff/een6njb/Software/Studio/screens.html
soundLib => <reply> $who, Small interface to initialize OSS and load/play .WAV samples. URL: http://sql.hitech.dk/ldmp/
SoundTracker => <reply> $who, A music tracker for X / GTK+. URL: http://www.soundtracker.org/
Soupermail => <reply> $who, Generic form to email handler. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/va/lattiv/index.html
sourceit => <reply> $who, A perl script for publishing source code examples on the Web. URL: http://queequeg.gsu.edu/pwb/programming.html
Sourcesurfer => <reply> $who, Surf C/C++/Java sourcecode via HTML. URL: http://www.sourcesurfer.com/
Sox => <reply> $who, Sound Processing Tool. URL: http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/sox.html
Space Racer => <reply> $who, An OpenGL Car Game. URL: http://www.multimania.com/sracer/
SpaceThing => <reply> $who, Internet space life simulator. URL: http://www.ug.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~spd296/spacething/
spam.pl => <reply> $who, Perl script for sending automatic complaints on spam. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/spam.html
Spamfilter => <reply> $who, Spamblocker for qmail mailing system. URL: http://www.algonet.se/~staham/linux/index.html
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svgalib => <reply> $who, Low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA modes in a console. URL: http://www.svgalib.org/
svgamandel => <reply> $who, Mandelbrot program which uses svgalib, zooms and lets you save images.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/
SVMlib => <reply> $who, Shared Virtual Memory Library. URL: http://www.lfbs.rwth-aachen.de/~sven/SVMlib/
swap => <reply> $who, Allows one to easily change CD-ROM media with one command or click.. URL: http://www.flyn.org/
swapd => <reply> $who, Swapspace management daemon. URL: ftp://ftp.replicant.nu/pub/swapd/
swatch => <reply> $who, The Simple WATCHdog: syslog monitoring utility/daemon.. URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~atkins/swatch/
swc => <reply> $who, Simple Webpage Counter. URL: http://whatsis.com/swc/
swebget => <reply> $who, Prints a webpage to stdout. URL: http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/
SWI-Prolog => <reply> $who, Cross-Platform Prolog Compiler and Library. URL: http://swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/
Swift Generator => <reply> $who, Dynamic Flash content generator.. URL: http://www.swift-tools.com/
Swift Inspector => <reply> $who, Flash file editor. URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/odebon/swift.html
SwiftView => <reply> $who, HPGL, PCL Online Document Viewing System. URL: http://www.swiftview.com/
swim => <reply> $who, Package administration and research tool for Debian. URL: http://the.netpedia.net/the-software.html
Swish => <reply> $who, CGI news engine. URL: http://munchkin.comlab.ox.ac.uk/~simon/about.html
SWISH++ => <reply> $who, File indexing and searching engine (typically used for web servers).. URL: http://www.best.com/~pjl/software/swish/
SWORD Project => <reply> $who, Free Bible Study Software Development Libraries and Tools. URL: http://www.crosswire.org
SWplayer => <reply> $who, Plays Simon Jansen's Star Wars ASCIImation on a Unix text terminal. URL: http://people.tamu.edu/~cwb2900/
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
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System Pantheon => <reply> $who, IRC RPG Game System. URL: http://www.superchat.org/pantheon/
System Recovery => <reply> $who, . URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/files.html
SystemG => <reply> $who, Graphical file manager. URL: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~glenn/systemg/
SysWatch => <reply> $who, Web based system watch utility. URL: http://www.weirdo.net/scripts/
T.I.A.H => <reply> $who, Hex-Editor with insert-mode.. URL: http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/messeturm/358
T.U.T. => <reply> $who, A simple UDP and TCP tunneler. URL: http://home.ctc.shadowlan.net/~vinny/projects/proxy/
T/TCP for Linux => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~heathclf/fyp
t1lib => <reply> $who, A Type 1 Rasterizer Library for UNIX/X11. URL: http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ini/PEOPLE/rmz/t1lib/t1lib.html
t1utils => <reply> $who, Tools for manipulating PostScript Type 1 fonts. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/
TABLA => <reply> $who, HTML table generator. URL: http://www.cwareco.com/tabla.html
tableau => <reply> $who, Perl CGI program to generate and edit HTML tables based on CSV files.. URL: http://www.quality.gconnect.net/tableau/
TableGen => <reply> $who, Creates java classes to represent and access an SQL database. URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/joe.carter/
Tac => <reply> $who, An AOL Instant Messenger client in pure TCL. URL: http://users.tmok.com/~smike/
Tacacs+ => <reply> $who, Cisco tacacs+ daemon. URL: http://www.gazi.edu.tr/~devrim/tacacs/
tailbeep => <reply> $who, Watches an open file for a string and beeps the console if it sees it.. URL: http://soomka.com/
takepatch.pl => <reply> $who, Imports/applies patch files to CVS working directories. URL: http://www.loth.demon.co.uk/takepatch.pl
tal => <reply> $who, Aligns common trailing characters. URL: http://home.pages.de/~jensen/tal/
Tangleword Trainer => <reply> $who, Training program for Playsite's Tangleword. URL: http://w3.one.net/~benders/tangle.shtml
TAON => <reply> $who, Fancy sound editor for x86 linux, supports plugins. URL: http://jump.to/taon/
Taper => <reply> $who, Tape backup and restore program with a friendly user interface. URL: http://www.omen.net.au/~yusuf/
TAPIIR => <reply> $who, Multi-tap-delay audio effect processor. URL: http://www.things.nl/~maarten/fltk/tapiir/
taptunnel => <reply> $who, Ethernet-tunnel over TCP/IP using the new Linux-2.2-ethertap-device. URL: http://207.236.110.176/~poettering/lennart/projects/taptunnel/index.html
YAX Standard Services => <reply> $who, The Standard Services for the YAX API and YAX Window System.. URL: http://yax.netpedia.net/
TARA (Tiger Analytical Research Assistant) => <reply> $who, Local Security checking scripts. URL: http://home.arc.com/tara/index.html
TarCust => <reply> $who, A tar post-processor to ease rolling tarballs. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/tarcust/
Tarpd => <reply> $who, Proxy arp daemon for Linux.. URL: http://www.cs.hut.fi/~tricky/utils/net/tarpd-1.6.tar.gz
tavrasm => <reply> $who, Assembler for the Atmel AVR series of micro-controllers. URL: http://www.image.dk/~tomo/
TB MultiSound Drivers => <reply> $who, Driver for the Turtle Beach Pinnacleor Fiji,. URL: http://atv.ne.mediaone.net/linux-multisound
TBTM => <reply> $who, Pre-processor system designed to simplify web site development and maintenance. URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~jfpatry/tbtm/
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TCDial => <reply> $who, DTMF dialer for Linux. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/
TCE/Java => <reply> $who, Java class library - minsize, maxperf - BigDecimal, string conversions, more. URL: http://www.voicenet.com/~hsk0/tce/
TCFS => <reply> $who, Transparent Cryptographic File System. URL: http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it
Tcl Blend => <reply> $who, Tcl Blend is a Tcl extension that provides access to Java inside Tcl.. URL: http://www.scriptics.com/java/
TCL Developer Studio => <reply> $who, small. URL: http://www.star.spb.ru/~small/tcldev/
Tcl MIME => <reply> $who, A program to generate and parse MIME body parts.. URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/mail/
Tcl TextEdit => <reply> $who, . URL: http://user.tninet.se/~hkc141i/index.html
Tcl-GDBI => <reply> $who, Tcl extention for accessing mysql database.. URL: http://www.binaryevolution.com/~tdarugar/tcl-sql/
Tcl/Tk => <reply> $who, A portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, andMacintosh. URL: http://www.scriptics.com/
TclBot => <reply> $who, A 100% Tcl IRC Bot. URL: http://tclbot.linuxbox.com/
tclHTML => <reply> $who, An HTML editor coded in Tcl/TK.. URL: http://www.millennium-fs.com/tclhtml/
tclreadline => <reply> $who, GNU readline for the tcl scripting language. URL: http://www.zellner.org/tclreadline/
Tcl_Gtk => <reply> $who, Gtk extension for Tcl. URL: http://idt.net/~tmtr01/tcl_gtk/
TCMixer => <reply> $who, Yet Another Mixer App. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/
TCNE => <reply> $who, News site administration perl script. URL: http://www.minc.de/scripts/
Tcp Listen => <reply> $who, TCP/UDP/ICMP/IP packet reporter. URL: http://members.xoom.com/mgornstein/
tcp4u => <reply> $who, Cross platform TCP/IP library. URL: http://perso.magic.fr/jounin-ph/P_tcp4u.htm
tcpdstats => <reply> $who, tcpd log analyzer. URL: http://www.kaostech.com/products/html/tcpdstats.html
Tcpdump => <reply> $who, A tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. URL: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/
tcpdump2ascii => <reply> $who, Perl program which decodes tcpdump hex output to ASCII. URL: http://www.bogus.net/~codex/
tcpflow => <reply> $who, TCP flow recorder. URL: http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/
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Tempest-AM => <reply> $who, AM Radio Signal Transmitter. URL: http://poseidon.pspt.fi/~priikone/english/programs.shtml
Template => <reply> $who, PHP3 Template system. URL: http://lide.pruvodce.cz/wayne/template-01.tgz
Template.html => <reply> $who, Easy html,cgi page creation using templates.. URL: http://boozers.fortunecity.com/blacklion/50/
TenchiLock => <reply> $who, Modified version of xlockmore 3.7 which displays two different anime images. URL: http://darkstar.tabu.uni-bonn.de/~neo/xtenchi.html
TenDRA => <reply> $who, . URL: http://alph.dra.hmg.gb/TenDRA/
TermBaum => <reply> $who, Java Library for function parsing, calculation, and derivation.. URL: http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0007726/projekte/projects.html
terminatorX => <reply> $who, Realtime Audio Synthesizer (DJ Scratching). URL: http://termX.cjb.net/
termlock => <reply> $who, terminal session lock.. URL: http://outcast.yakima.net/arc/termlock10.tar.gz
termpkg => <reply> $who, Poor Man's Terminal Server. URL: http://www.croftj.net/~termpkg/
terra => <reply> $who, A feature-packed IRC daemon based on dreamforge. URL: http://www.terrax.net/
Terraform => <reply> $who, Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer. URL: http://212.187.12.197/RNG/terraform/
Test Environment Toolkit => <reply> $who, A toolkit for test development and management. URL: http://tetworks.opengroup.org
teTeX => <reply> $who, Best TeXdistribution for UNIX. URL: http://tug.cs.umb.edu/tetex/
Tetradraw => <reply> $who, Full featured linux ansi editor. URL: http://trenchcoatmafia.dhs.org/
Tetrinet for Linux => <reply> $who, A version of the popular multiplayer game, Tetrinet, for console Linux. URL: http://achurch.dragonfire.net/tetrinet/
tetserv => <reply> $who, Tetrix server web-based monitoring program. URL: http://tetrinet.starshadow.com
TeXmacs => <reply> $who, W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. URL: http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~anh/TeXmacs/TeXmacs.html
texprL3 => <reply> $who, use TeX to print texts in ISO-Latin-3 character set. URL: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/7900/texprL3.html
Text Image => <reply> $who, Gimp Script-fu script to make images out of text.. URL: http://ernie.chem.indiana.edu/~crcarter/text-image/
Textmarker => <reply> $who, Text viewing and text highlighting. URL: http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s070674/textmarker/
textoolspro => <reply> $who, Nice boxes for structuring data, good for school and software projects. URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/texpython.htm
TextTools => <reply> $who, ncurses development package for Ada. URL: http://www.vaxxine.com/pegasoft/tt.html
TexturePaint => <reply> $who, Plugin for the Gimp. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/uwe_maurer/texpaint.htm
textutils => <reply> $who, GNU text file processing utilities. URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/textutils/
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The Linux/IR Project => <reply> $who, Linux IrDA implementation. URL: http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/
The Loci Project => <reply> $who, A network-distributed system of clients and servers for computational biology. URL: http://theopenlab.uml.edu/loci/
The Locomotive => <reply> $who, java based servlet compatible web application server (runs on linux). URL: http://www.locomotive.org
The Log Applet => <reply> $who, GNOME panel applet to monitor a (log) file as it is updated. URL: http://orion.olg.com/~mcraig/log_applet.html
The looser corps => <reply> $who, Great multiplayer game, with pretty good graphics. URL: http://www.ime.usp.br/~massaro/loser/
The Monitor => <reply> $who, Small file monitoring program. URL: http://hem.passagen.se/osk/
The N.U.E. Order => <reply> $who, Highly integrated Order Processing system for Online commerce.. URL: http://nueorder.netpedia.net
The Newsroom => <reply> $who, The Newsroom for the Falken BBS Software.. URL: http://cmweb.bizhosting.com/
the PHP Snurk => <reply> $who, Search-engine friendly URLs for dynamic content in PHP.. URL: http://www.sabren.com/code/php/snurk/
The Phreak Firewall => <reply> $who, Tool to set up your own firewall with IP masquerading. URL: http://bewoner.dma.be/Phreak/
The Poor Man's Renderer => <reply> $who, A simple 3D rendering/editing tool.. URL: http://borneo.gmd.de/AS/janus/new/pmr/pmr.html
the real thud => <reply> $who, A simple WAV mixer most useful as a drum machine.. URL: http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~cscsc/thud/index.html
The Sajber Jukebox => <reply> $who, . URL: http://kewl.campus.luth.se/~wizball/jukebox/index.html
The SCOOBS Context Based Search Engine => <reply> $who, A Java Based XML Search Engine that allows searching with context.. URL: http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/scoobs/
The Sun Packet Shell => <reply> $who, The Packet Shell Protocol Testing Tool. URL: http://playground.sun.com/
The Text Critter => <reply> $who, PerlTk text-search app.. URL: http://www.mainmatter.com/critter/
The Veganizer => <reply> $who, A spam counter-attack. URL: http://www-personal.wccnet.org/~frisco/code/veganizer/
The Virtual Society => <reply> $who, A non interactive simulation of a society.. URL: http://hybrid.millersv.edu/sim.html
The WASP => <reply> $who, A platform for developing complex web applications, written in Java.. URL: http://www.wasp.org/
The WESP => <reply> $who, The Wesp is a sniffer which displays the packet data as an HTML page.. URL: http://www.jdimedia.nl/dmitri/thewesp/
The Witty CD Player => <reply> $who, CD Player with oversampling. URL: http://www.flinthills.com/~djw/
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TIS Firewall Toolkit => <reply> $who, Software kit for building and maintaininginternetwork Firewalls. URL: http://www.tis.com
tixlpq => <reply> $who, Nice GUI for printmanagement. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/ingo.voss
Tk3play => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~bef2/
tkAbout => <reply> $who, Summarizes CPU, memory, and disk data in a nice GUI window. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~tarozax/
TkApache => <reply> $who, GUI Front-End+ for the Apache Web Server. URL: http://eunuchs.org/linux/TkApache/
tkArchive => <reply> $who, modular GUI to unix archive utilities. URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~etgold/software/tkArchive/tkArchive.html
tkauth => <reply> $who, Graphical authorization manager (Tk interface to xauth). URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~timhowe/linux/programs/tkauth.html
tkbabel/tclbabel => <reply> $who, Babelfish frontend - command-line and GUI. URL: http://members.home.net/sdanis/tkbabel/
tkBallistic => <reply> $who, Small arms ballistics calculator. URL: http://members.xoom.com/joshua_weage/ballistic/
TkBible => <reply> $who, GUI front-end for BRS bible study software.. URL: http://www.sover.net/~senecal/tkbible.html
tkbind => <reply> $who, tksqlbind is a perl script that will edit sqlbind zones. URL: http://milosch.net/tkbind/
TkBox => <reply> $who, MPEG remote access control client/server architecture. URL: http://caristudenti.cs.unibo.it/~carniani/altafuente/tkbox.html
TKburn => <reply> $who, TCL/TK-Frontend for creating Audio- and Data-CDs. URL: http://computer.freepage.de/linux-azubi/tools.htm
tkcd => <reply> $who, A tcl/tk interface for command line cd player, cdcd.. URL: http://lago.monkey.sbay.org/tkcd/
tkchooser => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~etgold/software/tkchooser2/
TkDesk => <reply> $who, Tk/tcl based X11 Desktop/File manager. URL: http://people.mainz.netsurf.de/~bolik/tkdesk/
tkDict => <reply> $who, Search for dictionary lookups and viewing. URL: http://www.mindspring.net/~john_mcl/tkdict/index.html
TkDiff => <reply> $who, Graphical 2-way diff/merge. URL: http://www.ede.com/free/tkdiff/
tkdpkg => <reply> $who, A front-end for dpkg and alien. URL: http://glug.mrbit.es/
TkDVI => <reply> $who, A TeX DVI previewer based on Tcl/Tk. URL: http://www.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~lingnau/tkdvi/
TkFileman => <reply> $who, A Simple file manager written in Tcl/Tk. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html
TkFM => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk File Manager. URL: http://rts.ncst.ernet.in/~mayur/tkfm/
tkFTP => <reply> $who, tkFTP is an FTP client completely written with the Tcl/Tk scripting language.. URL: http://a.trevano.ch/~jermini/tkftp/
tkGinPro => <reply> $who, Tk Grab Images from NNTP (tkGin) Pro. URL: http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/~bcwhite/tkGinPro.html
TkGnats => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk-based front end for the GNATS bug management system. URL: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkgnats.html
tkHTML => <reply> $who, Simple HTML editor based on the Tcl script language and the Tk toolkit.. URL: http://www.cobaltgroup.com/~roland/tkHTML/tkHTML.html
TkInfo => <reply> $who, Tk script to read GNU. URL: http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/
tkirc => <reply> $who, A frontend for unix's ircII. URL: http://www.north.de/~atte/tkirc/
tkIRC-hack => <reply> $who, Change the max-topic length in tkIRC.. URL: http://www.tenebrous.com/
tkload => <reply> $who, TkPerl tool for monitoring load on remote servers using SNMP. URL: http://www.systhug.com/tkload/
TkMAME => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk Front End for XMAME. URL: http://tkmame.retrogames.com/
TkMan => <reply> $who, Graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser. URL: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/tcltk/
TkMasqdialer => <reply> $who, TCL/TK/Expect client for Jeff Meininger's Masqdialer daemon.. URL: http://www.midcoast.com.au/~mvoase/tkmasq.html
tkMOO-light => <reply> $who, Powerful cross-platform chat client.. URL: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/Andrew.Wilson/tkMOO-light/
tkmpeg => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.users.wineasy.se/aros0304/
TkMult => <reply> $who, Multiple Use Tk Frontend. URL: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RL/RLBJR/
TKnetbus => <reply> $who, Tcl/tk-client for the cracking-tool netbus. URL: http://computer.freepage.de/linux-azubi/
TkNotePad => <reply> $who, A simple notepad editor written in Tcl/tk. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html
tkpcr => <reply> $who, A tk (GUI) frontend to pcrd by Carl Walker for control of the ICOM IC-PCR1000. URL: http://www.hutta.com/tkpcr/index.html
TkPGP => <reply> $who, UNIX GUI shell for PGP and GnuPG. URL: http://www.geocities.com/tftp/tkpgp/tkpgp.htm
TkRat => <reply> $who, A graphical Mail User Agent (MUA) which handles MIME. URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~maf/ratatosk/
tkRender => <reply> $who, Wrapper for PovRay command line. URL: http://members.xoom.com/raydarx/
TkReq v8.0 => <reply> $who, X Windows interface to the req system, written in Tcl/Tk 8.0. URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/tkreq/
TKRio => <reply> $who, X front end for Rio and MPMan programs. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nebel/rio/
tkRunIt => <reply> $who, A simple, but featureful run dialog box for executing commands without an xterm. URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~etgold/software/tkRunIt/
TkSETI => <reply> $who, A GUI for automated control of the SETI@Home client for UNIX.. URL: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkseti/tkseti.html
TkSmb => <reply> $who, TclTk X11 shell for smbclient. URL: http://www.rt.mipt.ru/frtk/ivan/TkSmb/
tksmtp => <reply> $who, A simple SMTP client ONLY, no POP3 or IMAP, written in TCL and TK. URL: http://www.megaepic.com/gnudev/tksmtp/index.html
tkspong => <reply> $who, Perl/Tk frontend for spong. URL: http://milosch.net/tkspong/
tkSQL => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk interface to the popular mySQL database system.. URL: http://ringil.stampede.org/tksql/
TkSTEP => <reply> $who, Scriptics' Tk for Tcl, modified to adopt NeXTSTEP(R) look and feel. URL: http://touchwood.ee.uts.edu.au/TkSTEP/TkSTEP.html
TkTab => <reply> $who, Program to write guitar tablatures. URL: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~joe/TkTab.html
TkTag => <reply> $who, MP3 tag editor. URL: http://www.grapevine.net/~weasel/
tkvnc => <reply> $who, Button pallette for AT&T's VNC remote control software. URL: http://www.vitinc.com/~marc/progs.html
tkWeather => <reply> $who, Get up-to-date weather information for any city, world wide. URL: http://web.qx.net/sk8ball/tkweather.html
tkwget => <reply> $who, Graphical front-end to wget written in tcl/tk. URL: http://www.mediacom.it/~sna/linux.html
TkWho => <reply> $who, Graphical frontend to the Unix who, ps, and finger commands.. URL: http://pel.cs.byu.edu/~alen/computers/TkWho/
TkWineSetup => <reply> $who, TCL script to setup, compile, install, upgrade Wine. URL: http://panter.soci.aau.dk/~dailywine/tkwine/
tkWorld => <reply> $who, Wes's Own Really Lazy Desktop. URL: http://www.tkworld.org/
TkX10 => <reply> $who, Perl/Tk frontend for HEYU X10 control. URL: http://www.houseofhack.com/tkx10/
tkxanim => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk front end to xanim. URL: http://members.yourlink.net/aaron/tkxanim.html
TkZip => <reply> $who, X front end to standard archiving/compression programs. URL: http://www.pcnet.com/~proteus/TkZip/TkZip.html
tk_Brief => <reply> $who, GUI for writing letters with LaTeX. URL: http://krisralf.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/tk_Brief/
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Town => <reply> $who, Java database API with quick and easy access. URL: http://www.working-dogs.com/town/
ToyBoxFDTDbezhig => <reply> $who, A 3D FDTD code that adds a variety of features to ToyFDTD.. URL: http://www.borg.umn.edu/toyfdtd/
ToyFDTD => <reply> $who, Open source 3d FDTD code. URL: http://www.borg.umn.edu/toyfdtd/
ToyFDTDningodwaaswi => <reply> $who, 3D FDTD written in Delphi PASCAL with a Windows GUI. URL: http://www.borg.umn.edu/toyfdtd/
ToyPlaneFDTD => <reply> $who, In the vein of ToyFDTD, this is a 2D heavily commented FDTD code. URL: http://cemtach.org/
ToyTLM => <reply> $who, 3D Transmission-Line-Matrix Simulator for Computational Electromagnetics. URL: http://cemtach.org/
tozwgc => <reply> $who, Image to Zephyr message converter. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~maxz/programming/perl/index.html#tozwgc
tpctl => <reply> $who, a ThinkPad configuration tool for Linux. URL: http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~thood/tpctlhome.htm
tplay => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ik/tplay.html
TPROC => <reply> $who, Very simple text processing language for assembling Text files.. URL: http://www.bluesine.tj/Software/main.html
TProcedit => <reply> $who, TProcedit is a terminal / telnet procedure editor for Oracle. URL: http://www.mattshouse.com/procedit/
traceroute => <reply> $who, Utility for tracing IP packet routes.. URL: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/
traffic-vis => <reply> $who, Network analysis tool. URL: http://www.mindrot.org/code/traffic-vis.php3
Tragic => <reply> $who, Peer to Peer chat and ftp user lookup network. URL: http://nyti.spaghetti.com/
Trailer => <reply> $who, Squid Ipchains monitoring program that is uniqe in its sort. URL: http://trailer.linuxatwork.at/
transfig => <reply> $who, Graphics Conversion Tool. URL: ftp://epb1.lbl.gov/xfig/
transgif => <reply> $who, Gif image manipulations of transparent color. URL: http://www.fsai.fh-trier.de/~winterht/software.html
Traveller's Linux => <reply> $who, Minimal floppy Linux distribution. URL: http://cryogen.com/ror4/work/
tree => <reply> $who, Depth-indented directory listing program. URL: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
tree.pl => <reply> $who, Simple script to generate a html sitemap. URL: http://www.ev-stift-gymn.guetersloh.de/server/tree_e.html
TreeMultimap => <reply> $who, A Java class derived from java.util.TreeMap which allows nonunique keys. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~groovyjava/TreeMultimap/
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V-NUT => <reply> $who, Tools to help in amateur N64 (Nintendo 64 video game console) development. URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0505vn111a_l.htm
V-Server => <reply> $who, V-Server calculates/manages the internetcosts/-link. URL: http://www.straubing.baynet.de/~s.flossmann/vserver/vserver.html
VA-CTCS => <reply> $who, VA Linux Systems' Diagnostics Package. URL: ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/software/Cerberus/
Vacation => <reply> $who, A mail auto-responder. URL: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/igorl/ISL/programs/current.html#vacation
Vantaa Intranet Toolkit => <reply> $who, PHP3-based scripts for Intranet applications.. URL: http://members.xoom.com/vintra/
VariCAD => <reply> $who, Professional CAD system intended for mechanical engineering. URL: http://www.varicad.com/
VaS => <reply> $who, Vote and Survey scripts. URL: http://www.idata.sk/~robo/vas/
vb2c => <reply> $who, Visual Basic to C/GTK Converter. URL: http://home.i1.net/~naken/vb2c/
VBox2WWW => <reply> $who, Perl www gateway to i4l vbox.. URL: http://www.kalka.org/linux/dox/isdnvbox.html
VCDKutter => <reply> $who, Split VideoCD dat file.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pit/6195/vcdkutter.html
VCHE => <reply> $who, A hex editor which lets you see all 256 characters .. URL: http://www.grigna.com/diego/linux/vche/
vcron => <reply> $who, Graphical interface to cron and at. URL: http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/vcron/vcronGB.html
vcstime => <reply> $who, Titlebar clock for the Linux console. URL: http://www.magnetic-ink.dk/download/vcstime.html
VDK => <reply> $who, Easy to use C++ wrapper for Gtk++. URL: http://www.programmers.net/artic/Motta/vdk/index.htm
VDKBuilder => <reply> $who, A RAD tool based on VDK Libray (a C++ wrapper of gtk+). URL: http://www.programmers.net/artic/Motta/vdkbuilder/index.htm
VelociGen for Perl => <reply> $who, High performance server programminglanguage. URL: http://www.BinaryEvolution.com/
VelociGen for Tcl => <reply> $who, High performance web server programming using Tcl. URL: http://www.BinaryEvolution.com/
VeloMeter => <reply> $who, Java based http load tester and performance measurement tool.. URL: http://www.BinaryEvolution.com/velometer/velometer.vet
vemail => <reply> $who, E-mails phone messages from vgetty to your mailbox. URL: http://guru.nu/vemail/
Venezia => <reply> $who, C++/GTK++ based client for the c-mserver (masqdialing). URL: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/venezia/index_en.html
VenGaboyTK => <reply> $who, Gameboy Emulator using GTK. URL: http://emu5ever.emulationworld.com/boycot2.html
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VFU File Manager => <reply> $who, Extensivelyl featured console (text-mode) file manager.. URL: http://www.biscom.net/~cade/vfu/
vgproxy => <reply> $who, Virtual-hosting generic network proxy. URL: http://amphetamine.higherplane.net/vgproxy-0.9.1.tar.gz
VH Graph => <reply> $who, PHP3/PHP4 plotting package.. URL: http://www.vhconsultants.com/
ViaGratt => <reply> $who, A simulator of guitar racks. URL: http://www.epita.fr/~bempel_j/ViaGratt/
VICE => <reply> $who, Versatile Commodore Emulator. URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dsladic/vice/vice.html
vidbg => <reply> $who, Curses based front end to command line debuggers.. URL: http://www.tildeslash.org/vidbg.html
Video Server => <reply> $who, indexing, searching and video streaming mpeg data across the network. URL: http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~andrew/VideoServer/videoserver/index/book1.html
Videobase => <reply> $who, Video / Movie database. URL: http://www.stack.nl/~stilgar/videobase/
View Designer X => <reply> $who, User Interface Management System to create UIs with OSF/Motif widgets. URL: http://www.bredex.de/vdx/
viewmd2 => <reply> $who, Quake2 MD2/PCX viewer. URL: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~vance/
Viewmol => <reply> $who, Molecule builder/editor and visualizer for molecular modeling programs. URL: http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/resources/software/SOURCES/C/viewmol/
VigMeUp => <reply> $who, An alarm program for KDE that plays mp3s to wake you up.. URL: http://www.c-nix.com/vigmeup/
ViHP => <reply> $who, A streaming webcam server written in perl. URL: http://tharsis.gi.alaska.edu/vihp/
vile => <reply> $who, Extensible vi-like editor w/ optional X window and win32 support. URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile/vile.html
Vim => <reply> $who, Popular vi clone that features syntax highlighting and an X11 interface. URL: http://www.vim.org/
ViMmail => <reply> $who, A simple and fast mail viewer for Motif. URL: http://www.stud.enst.fr/~vmallet/ViMmail.html
vines => <reply> $who, Draw vines on your X or SunView screen. URL: http://www.rru.com/~meo/useful/Vines/
vio => <reply> $who, a logchecker for a Linux proxy using Squid and squidGuard.. URL: http://logcheck.cjb.net/
ViPEC => <reply> $who, Network analyzer for high frequency electrical networks. URL: http://www.netfold.com/~vipec/
ViperDB => <reply> $who, A smaller and faster option to Tripwire. URL: http://www.resentment.org/projects/viperdb/
Virtfs => <reply> $who, A utility to help create and configure virtual services and domains.. URL: http://www.prongs.org/virtfs/
Virtual eXecuting Environment => <reply> $who, Software for Linux server protection. URL: http://www.intes.odessa.ua/vxe/
Virtual GameBoy => <reply> $who, Free Gameboy Emulator for Linux. URL: http://www.komkon.org/fms/VGB/
Virtual Network Computing => <reply> $who, Cross-platform Virtual Network Computing. URL: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Virtual Server Project on Linux => <reply> $who, Virtual Server Project on Linux. URL: http://proxy.iinchina.net/~wensong/ippfvs/
Virtual X68000 => <reply> $who, X68000 emulator. URL: http://kaz.uw.hypercore.co.jp/vx68k.en.html
Vis5D => <reply> $who, System for interactive visualization of large 5-D gridded datasets. URL: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html
Visual DHTML => <reply> $who, Visual DHTML is a free Web-based authoring tool that lets you create interactive. URL: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/dynhtml/visual/index.html
Visual GTK => <reply> $who, A simple IDE to create GTK programs.. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/visualgtk/
Visual Oberon => <reply> $who, GUI library written in Oberon2. URL: http://www.ping.de/sites/edge/VisualOberon.html
Visual SlickEdit => <reply> $who, Graphical programmers' editor. URL: http://www.slickedit.com
Visual Tcl => <reply> $who, Visual application development environment. URL: http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
VisualPerl => <reply> $who, Perl/Gtk integrated development environment. URL: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/~wangy/VisualPerl/vperl.html
VisualRoute => <reply> $who, Visual traceroute utility incl. URL: http://www.visualroute.com/
VisualWorks => <reply> $who, A rich interactive programming environment for theSmalltalk-80 language. URL: http://www.objectshare.com
VK Tools => <reply> $who, MPEG Stream Analyzer. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~bsabsa/vk_tools/vk_tools_index.html
VLAN => <reply> $who, 802.1Q VLAN implementation for Linux. URL:
vlock => <reply> $who, Locks virtual consoles and normal ttys.. URL: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/
VM => <reply> $who, Emacs-based mail reader. URL: http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/
vMac => <reply> $who, Emulates a Motorola 68000 based Apple Macintosh Plus. URL: http://leb.net/vmac/
vmailmgr => <reply> $who, Powerful qmail addon package for virtual domain email. URL: http://em.ca/~bruceg/vmailmgr/
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WebKit => <reply> $who, Python scripts for website management. URL: http://members.xoom.com/s_l_u_g/techie/projects/webkit.html
WebKNotes => <reply> $who, Web based knowledge notes database written in Perl.. URL: http://www.dma.org/~dmahurin/files/software/wkn/doc/README.html
weblint => <reply> $who, Syntax and minimal style checker for HTML. URL: http://www.weblint.org/
Webliographer => <reply> $who, Mini URL search engine/database. URL: http://www.relax.com/webliographer/faq.html
WebLog => <reply> $who, Logfile toolkit for Python. URL: http://mnot.cbd.net.au//scripting/python/WebLog/
WebMacro Servlet Framework => <reply> $who, Java server-side web template engine and servletdevelopment framework. URL: http://www.webmacro.org
WebMagick => <reply> $who, Generates HTML to put image collections on the Web. URL: http://www.simplesystems.org/WebMagick/
WebMail => <reply> $who, Web frontend for Unix system mailboxes. URL: http://webmail.wastl.net/
Webmail module (Roxen) => <reply> $who, Roxen module to read e-mails via a Webbrowser. URL: http://mikael.mnf.nu/webmail
WebMailFolder => <reply> $who, Convert emails to html and creates index and statistics. URL: http://www.lugs.ch/lugs/mitglieder/norbert.kuemin/wmf.html
WebMaker => <reply> $who, HTML editor for Unix. URL: http://www.services.ru/linux/webmaker/
webmart => <reply> $who, java servlet environment for eCommerce. URL: http://www.techplace.net/~ktm/webmart.html
Webmetrics => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.nist.gov/webmetrics
Webmin => <reply> $who, Web-based interface for system administration for Unix. URL: http://www.webmin.com/webmin/
Webmon => <reply> $who, Web-based Packet Loss reporter. URL: http://www.jimsoffice.org/webmon/
WebMon-MRTG => <reply> $who, Packet Loss generator that works with MRTG. URL: http://www.jimsoffice.org/webmon/
WebNNTP => <reply> $who, Web-based news reader. URL: http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mkab/webnntp/
WebNow => <reply> $who, Allows you to provide WebPages to your visitors in a safe environment.. URL: http://www.ukwebs.com/webscripts/webnow.htm
webnpadmin => <reply> $who, Web front-end to npadmin. URL: http://www.penguincomputing.com/prtools/#webnpadmin
WebPageGen => <reply> $who, Java servlet web page generation interface and html template class.. URL: http://members.xoom.com/emtan/pub/webpagegen/wpg082b.html
WebPGA => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/3807/
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XChangeTitle => <reply> $who, Change title of X-titlebars. URL: http://deluded.theories.com/~lestat/download/Unix/xchtit-1.0.tar.gz
xcheckers => <reply> $who, Play at draughts. URL: http://super.tacheles.de/~girbal/xcheckers/
xcin => <reply> $who, An X Input Method Server for Chinese. URL: http://xcin.linux.org.tw/
XCircuit => <reply> $who, program for drawing electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figure. URL: http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/
Xclasses => <reply> $who, C++ layout library for the X Window System. URL: http://www.fsai.fh-trier.de/~schmitzj/Xclasses/
XCmail => <reply> $who, MIME and POP3 capable mailtool for X11. URL: http://www.fsai.fh-trier.de/~schmitzj/Xclasses/XCmail/
xCode => <reply> $who, Virtual Machine and Application Extension System w/ Optimized Network Streaming. URL: http://home.devlocus.org/psion/xcode/
Xconq => <reply> $who, Empire-building strategy game for X. URL: http://www.cygnus.com/~shebs/xconq.html
XCopilot => <reply> $who, Emulator for the 3Com/USRobotics Pilot/PalmPilot. URL: http://xcopilot.cuspy.com
XCoPilot-str => <reply> $who, A Palm Pilot Emulator, baised off of CoPilot (which is now POSE). URL: http://www.erols.com/tygris/xcopilot/
Xcoral => <reply> $who, Xcoral is a multiwindow mouse-based text editor for Unix/X11. URL: http://www.multimania.com/lfournigault/xcoral.html
xcrun => <reply> $who, single-lined command tool. URL: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr/Xclasses/
xcut => <reply> $who, Put standard input into X11 cut and paste buffer.. URL: http://acsys.anu.edu.au/~tpot/xcut/
XCuteALL => <reply> $who, File finder for X. URL: http://lonestar.bizland.com/
XDaliClock => <reply> $who, Digital clock for the X Window System. URL: http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/
XDBM => <reply> $who, Database Manager designed specifically to hold XML data. URL: http://www.bowerbird.com.au/XDBM/
XDelenn => <reply> $who, Advanced XTeddy version with an image of Delenn from Babylon-5. URL: http://darkstar.tabu.uni-bonn.de/~neo/xjohndel.html
XDelta => <reply> $who, Library and application for computing and applying file deltas. URL: http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html
xDiary => <reply> $who, a program for writing a diary. URL: http://www.linux.org.tw/~plateau/linux_notes/softwares/xdiary/index.htm
xdict => <reply> $who, German/English dictionary for Linux. URL: http://hp.globacom.net/mgloor/xdict.html
xdisa64 => <reply> $who, A nintendo 64 rom file disassembler. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/8608/
xdiskusage => <reply> $who, Graphical display of disk usage. URL: http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/xdiskusage/
XDM-External Greet => <reply> $who, . URL: http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
XEBOT => <reply> $who, Visual GUI application builder and self contained execution environment. URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/titan/XEBOT/
XEmacs => <reply> $who, Internationalized text editor. URL: http://www.xemacs.org/
Xenon => <reply> $who, A simple X-based text editor. URL: http://www.proximity.com.au/~ben/xenon.html
Xenon-SQL => <reply> $who, A Java based interactive SQL editor which uses Swing/JFC pluggable GUI. URL: http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/software.html
XEphem => <reply> $who, XEphem is a free interactive astronomy program for UNIX systems with X & Motif. URL: http://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com/xephem/
XEvil => <reply> $who, 3rd person, side-view, fast-action, kill-them-before-they-kill-yougame.. URL: http://www.xevil.com
XFB => <reply> $who, Hardware-accelerated fullscreen 2D graphics library. URL: http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/xfb/
XFCom_3DLabs => <reply> $who, XSuSE X Server for 3DLabs Chipsets. URL: http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html
XFCom_Rage128 => <reply> $who, XFCom server for ATI Rage128 based cards. URL: http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html#rage
xfedor => <reply> $who, Editor for BDF fonts, xbm and xpm images. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/
XFgradebook => <reply> $who, A simple grade tracking program for teachers written in Xforms.. URL: http://www.bluesine.tj/Software/xfgb/main.html
xfig => <reply> $who, Drawing Program. URL: http://epb1.lbl.gov/homepages/Brian_Smith/xfig/
xfigchart.pl => <reply> $who, Bar chart generator for XFig. URL: http://eda.ei.tum.de/~mcp/xfigchart.html
Xfiles => <reply> $who, Xfiles file tree synchronization and cross-validation. URL: http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/xfiles.html
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XPilot => <reply> $who, A multi-player 2D client/server space game.. URL: http://www.xpilot.org/
Xplanet => <reply> $who, An Xearth wannabe. URL: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~hari/xplanet/
xplay => <reply> $who, WAVE/AIFF/au audio player. URL: http://havana.iwsp.com/xplay/
Xplns => <reply> $who, Astronomy simulation. URL: http://www.astroarts.com/products/xplns/index.html
Xplore => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/xplore/
XPortShot RT => <reply> $who, A GTK based oscilloscope simulator. URL: http://www.carrotworks.com/software/xpshotrt/index.html
XPovray Frontend => <reply> $who, Cool X-Povray front-end written in X-Forms.. URL: http://yebo.co.za/~10251338
xppp => <reply> $who, . URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps
XPrint => <reply> $who, XPrint allow to print ASCII document very quickly and simply in a local printer. URL: http://slug.voyanet.org/C/xprint/index.htm
Xproc => <reply> $who, GTK-based system information program. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/files.html
Xpromacs => <reply> $who, Project editor for managing makefiles, dependencies, linking. URL: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~baillie/xpromacs.html
xps => <reply> $who, X/Motif dynamic display the Unix processes tree/forest. URL: http://www.netwinder.org/~rocky/xps-home/
xPS Apply => <reply> $who, Apply IPS and APS patches to N64 cartridge image files.. URL: http://dextrose.com/info/0503xpsapply-1.htm
xpulse => <reply> $who, System load gauge. URL: http://home.pages.de/~murmann/proj/xpulse/
xpuyopuyo => <reply> $who, Tetris-like puzzle game with AI. URL: http://chaos2.org/xpuyopuyo/
XQF => <reply> $who, QuakeWorld/Quake2 server browser and launcher for Linux/X11. URL: http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/
XqMixer => <reply> $who, X11 sound mixer that uses Qt.. URL: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ral/progs/
XRacer => <reply> $who, Clone of Psygnosis WipeOut. URL: http://xracer.annexia.org/
Xref-Speller => <reply> $who, Source browsing package for C and Java, Emacs and XEmacs inspired by ctags.. URL: http://www.xref-tech.com/speller/
Xringd => <reply> $who, Linux remote control via telephone. URL: ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/systems/linux/sunsite/system/network/daemons/xringd-1.20.tgz
xrio => <reply> $who, perl/tk frontend for the sba rio utility. URL: http://www.fireship.freeserve.co.uk/xrio.html
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Xwrits => <reply> $who, Reminds you to take wrist breaks. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/xwrits/
XwwChooser => <reply> $who, Switches X11 Window Managers. URL: http://gator.naples.net/~nfn03343/XwmC.html
Xxl => <reply> $who, Simple, easy to use and user friendly graphical spreadsheet. URL: http://www.esinsa.unice.fr/xxl.html
xy2k => <reply> $who, X11 Y2K countdown timer.. URL: http://www.ipsmart.com/x11/xy2k.c
XZip => <reply> $who, A Z-machine (Infocom games) interpreter for Unix / X windows. URL: http://www.eblong.com/zarf/xzip.html
XZX => <reply> $who, Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 emulator. URL: http://www.philosys.de/~kunze/xzx/
y2l => <reply> $who, Yacc to LaTeX grammar pretty printer. URL: http://www.alchar.org/~aedil/Projects/y2l.html
YA-EDA => <reply> $who, A complete EDA tool for Linux. URL: http://www.hashbang.org/~jarl/
ya-wipe => <reply> $who, Secure file wiper. URL: http://www.erols.com/thomassr/zero/download/wipe/
Yacas => <reply> $who, Yet Another Computer Algebra System. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~apinkus/yacas.html
Yadex => <reply> $who, Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X. URL: http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/yadex/
yafc => <reply> $who, Yet Another FTP Client. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mhe/yafc/
yagIRC => <reply> $who, Yet Another GTK+ IRC Client. URL: http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon/yagirc/
YahooChart.java => <reply> $who, A Java graphical interface to Yahoo Finance stock charts. URL: http://www.sharknet.tj/~java/yahoochartJ/
yaktest => <reply> $who, A small C++ unit testing framework. URL: http://www.nyx.net/~vputz/yaktest/
YAMD => <reply> $who, Yet Another Malloc Debugger. URL: http://www3.hmc.edu/~neldredge/yamd/
YaMMS => <reply> $who, Yet another Mpg123 Music Selector. URL: http://thereactor.cleptoscastle.com/downloads.html
YAMP => <reply> $who, Mp3 player written with GTK+. URL: http://hoosier.penguinpowered.com/yamp.html
Yams => <reply> $who, An e-commerce package written in Perl and utilizing a MySQL database.. URL: http://yams.screamdesign.com/
yank => <reply> $who, Yet another notekeeper.. URL: http://home.ins.de/~m.hussmann/software/yank/
YAP Prolog System => <reply> $who, Prolog Compiler. URL: http://www.ncc.up.pt/~vsc/Yap/
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Yodl => <reply> $who, Yet oneOther Document Language. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/yodl/
Yolk => <reply> $who, A perl script and set of modules to implement an eggdrop botnet bot. URL: ftp://ftp.netsplit.com/pub/yolk/
yp-tools => <reply> $who, NIS (YP) clients. URL: http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/nis.html
ypbind-mt => <reply> $who, ypbind-mt is a complete new implementation of a NIS binding daemon. URL: http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/nis.html
YPlayer => <reply> $who, Graphical tool to debug Lex/Bison syntax. URL: http://www.cse.nd.edu/~arodrig6/yplayer/
ypldapd => <reply> $who, LDAP to NIS gateway. URL: http://www.padl.com/ldap-nis_gateway.html
yplot => <reply> $who, A Yorick interface to PLPlot. URL: http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/conrad/yplot.html
ypserv => <reply> $who, Simple network lookupservice consisting of databases and processes. URL: http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nis/ypserv/
ytalk => <reply> $who, Multi-user replacement for the Unix talk(1) program.. URL: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/ytalk/ytalk.html
Ytree => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.han.de/~werner/ytree.html
yudit => <reply> $who, Unicode text editor for the X Window System. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X/
ywho => <reply> $who, Yet Another Who Utility. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/linux.html
yyyRSA => <reply> $who, A paranoid RSA encryption/decryption program.. URL: http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~inf24628/yyyRSA/
ZAngband => <reply> $who, Rogue-like roleplaying game. URL: http://thangorodrim.angband.org/
zarch => <reply> $who, linux remake of the classic game also known as virus. URL: http://www.nbn.com/~thom/software.html
zback => <reply> $who, Quick and easy utility to painlessly backup files to a zip archive.. URL: http://landau.phys.psu.edu/people/beach/software.html
zdisk => <reply> $who, Create floppy boot/rescue system with kernel of choice.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery/
Zebedee => <reply> $who, Encrypting, compressing TCP/IP tunnel. URL: http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/
Zebra => <reply> $who, Route Server and Route Reflector daemon. URL: http://www.zebra.org/
ZENamp => <reply> $who, Embedded MP3 audio engine. URL: http://www.zenamp.net
Zfm => <reply> $who, A new, very extensive and portable filemanager. URL: http://zfm.xdev.org/
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The PHP Text Graph Script => <reply> $who, The PHP Text Graph Script (PTGS) is a simple script that enables the production of bar graphs using text alone. URL: http://www.atari.co.uk/textgraph/
Stubby => <reply> $who, Stubby is a tool that enables programmers and packagers to add transparent support for optional run-time dynamic linking of shared libraries. URL: http://onegeek.org/~tom/software/stubby/dl/
3dfile => <reply> $who, 3dfile is a simple OpenGL-based file browser. URL:
quietrun => <reply> $who, quietrun is a tiny shell-script for running a command and hiding its output unless the exit code of the command wasn't zero. URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/quietrun
csnes9x => <reply> $who, csnes9x is a small and quick snes9x front end for the command line console. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~joelgg/csnes9x-0.9.10.tar.gz
BW whois => <reply> $who, BW whois is a replacement for the original whois program which works properly with the modified whois system that resulted from ICANN's takeover of the root domain system. URL: http://bw.org/whois/whois
remoted => <reply> $who, remoted provides an easy way to associate X10 MouseRemote remote control keypresses to shell commands, and runs on UNIX (tested using Linux). URL: http://www.sourcesurfer.com/misc/release/remoted.1.0.tar.gz
Groovy Java Database => <reply> $who, Groovy Java Database implements an object-oriented database. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~groovyjava/Database/Database-0.1.src.zip
apt-proxy => <reply> $who, apt-proxy is a simple script to build up a Debian FTP mirror based on requests which pass through the proxy. URL: ftp://ftp.linuxcare.com.au/pub/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-0.1.tar.bz2
konkhydra => <reply> $who, Konkhydra is a program that lets you control multiple X servers from one keyboard and mouse. URL: http://www.konkers.net/~konkers/konkhydra/konkhydra-0.0.1.tar.gz
Gift => <reply> $who, Gift is a Java platform which allows developers to create custom editors dedicated to any representation language or formalism. URL: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/ats/gift/download/download.html
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...
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iOffice2000 US English Patch => <reply> $who, The iOffice2000 US English Patch allows UK English users to install the US English version of iOffice2000 without loosing the data already entered.. URL: http://www.scseuro.de/ioffice2000/download.html
mini_httpd => <reply> $who, mini_httpd is a small HTTP server. URL: http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/mini_httpd_10dec99.tar.gz
Correcteur 101 => <reply> $who, Correcteur 101 is a French grammar checker that provides a complete grammatical analysis of a sentence. URL:
RTP => <reply> $who, RTP draws a single stream of X-Y points received from an input stream in connect-the-dots fashion. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/science/visualization/rtp-1.0.0.tar.gz
senv => <reply> $who, Senv allows you to run programs with a specified environment. URL: http://www.ids.pl/~kodzak/senv-0.1.tar.gz
mod_random => <reply> $who, mod_random allows you to specify a set of URLs which will be displayed in a random order when referenced.. URL: ftp://www.tangent.org/pub/apache/mod_random-0.9.tar.gz
LCAP => <reply> $who, LCAP allows a system administrator to remove specific capabilities from the kernel in order to make the system more secure. URL: http://www.netcom.com/~spoon/lcap-0.0.1.tar.bz2
PHP auto prepend/append script => <reply> $who, The PHP auto-prepend/append script is a ColdFusion-type application.cfm for PHP. URL: ftp://0x00.org/pub/php/php.prepend.append.tgz
OpenH323 gatekeeper => <reply> $who, The OpenH323 gatekeeper is a freely available H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. URL: http://www.willamowius.de/images/gk011.tar.gz
SMM++ Mud Client => <reply> $who, SMM++ Mud Client is a mud client with extended and unique features. URL: http://www.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE/~issevers/SMM++/downloads/smm4r2.tar.gz
SMB-Mode => <reply> $who, SMB-Mode is a simple Emacs major mode to assist in editing Samba's smb.conf configuration file. URL: http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/smb-mode.el
mpg123-mysql => <reply> $who, mpg123-mysql consists of some patches to mpg123 which make it support MySQL. URL: http://www.nonsensss.de/domi/mpg123-mysql/mpg123-mysql-0.3.tar.gz
netttimer => <reply> $who, netttimer is a very small, simple program that calculates the amount of time and money you've spent using the internet. URL: http://members.xoom.com/kodgehopper/nettimer-0.01.tar.gz
Mserv => <reply> $who, Mserv is an MP3 server that has clients for telnet, Web and shell, and is easily extendable to other forms of interface. URL: http://www.mserv.org/download/
wmMailMenu => <reply> $who, wmMailMenu creates a Window Maker menu with mail addresses. URL: http://student.dei.uc.pt/~mtavares/wmMailMenu/wmMailMenu-latest.tgz
XPLSISNJASP => <reply> $who, XPLSISNJASP (Xplisnjasp Parport LightShow Is Not Just A Software Project) is an XMMS visualization plugin and it provides a light show via parallel port. URL: http://www.na.linux.hr/projects/xplsisnjasp/
ipacct => <reply> $who, ipacct is a script which collects IP accounting information for metered IP accounting usage. URL: ftp://ftp2.empnet.com/pub/ipacct/ipacct-1.06.tar.gz
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/
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Dune => <reply> $who, Dune is a tiny Web server implementation, featuring minimal use of resources, customizable error messages, logging, and multiuser (ie. URL: http://www.cs.luther.edu/~mestanba/dune/dune-0.6.7.tar.gz
Sturm => <reply> $who, A Java implementation of the Sturm Theorem, which finds the number of roots of any polynomial using Euclidian divides.. URL: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/sturm.tar.gz
E-Weather => <reply> $who, E-weather is a port of wmWeather to Epplet form.. URL: http://www.pfnet.org/~cy/E-Weather-0.1.tar.gz
bitbus4linux => <reply> $who, bitbus4linux is a package consisting of a kernel driver, a user space protocol daemon, a set of libraries and a few sample applications for the bitbus, an open fieldbus.. URL: ftp://ftp.andrive.de/pub/bbus.tar.bz2
serproxy => <reply> $who, Serproxy is a multi-threaded proxy program for redirecting network socket connections to/from serial ports, in cases where the remote end of the serial link doesn't have a TCP/IP stack (eg an embedded or microcontroller syst...
simpleproxy => <reply> $who, Simpleproxy program acts as simple TCP proxy. URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?form_grp=604
Tk 42 => <reply> $who, Tk42 is a networked game of 42, a dominos game similar to spades or bridge that is very popular in Texas. URL: http://www.flash.net/~ckmobley/tk42-0.1.0.tar.gz
Quick Restore => <reply> $who, Quick Restore is a centrally-administered network backup and recovery system for heterogeneous networks. URL: ftp://ftp.worksta.com/pub/linux/
Cyrus SML ACAP => <reply> $who, ACAP, the Application Configuration Access Protocol, is a remote store for preferences, addressbooks, bookmarks, and other data useful to be accessible for mobile users and across applications. URL: http://asg.web.cmu....
WAI => <reply> $who, WAI is a little program that gives information about the current user. URL: http://web.interpuntonet.it/zerophobia/bin/wai-0.0.1.tar.gz
WebNews => <reply> $who, WebNews is a set of PHP scripts that allow adding, editing, and removing of Web page news. URL: ftp://sonicboom.2y.net/pub/internet/web/php/webnews0.04.tar.gz
Wizard Watchdog => <reply> $who, Wizard Watchdog is a High Availability software package. URL: http://www.wizard.de/english/downloads.html
LCDsys => <reply> $who, LCDsys is a small script that can display various information on an LCD supported by the generic LCD-driver from http://www.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de/~nils/lcd.html. URL: http://computer.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/4103...
gsteak => <reply> $who, gsteak is a translator from German to English and English to German, implemented as a GNOME applet. URL: http://gehtnix.fernuni-hagen.de/gsteak/gsteak-latest.tar.gz
QIRpl => <reply> $who, QIRpl (Quake 3 IRC Reporter) is an IRC bot written in Perl that can be instructed to check a Quake3 server's status and neatly print the output to IRC. URL: http://bofh.st/code/qir.perl
Allegro => <reply> $who, Allegro is a portable game programming library, with support for DOS (djgpp and Watcom), Linux (console and X), and Windows. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/allegro/wip.html
chlastmeter => <reply> $who, According to given list of drinks, chlastmeter will display the amount of alcohol in blood as a function of time.. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/chlastmeter/
WMRun.app => <reply> $who, WMRun.app is a small program for executing applications, based on the WINGs library (a part of WindowMaker). URL: http://www.clhs.kiev.ua/~andy/wmrun/WMRun.app.tar.gz
WhoiShOstFast => <reply> $who, WhoiShOstFast is multi-process TCP port scanner.. URL: http://web.interpuntonet.it/zerophobia/sources.html
mod_pcgi2 => <reply> $who, mod_pcgi2 is a module for Apache to handle PersistentCGI protocol. URL: http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2/mod_pcgi2.tar.gz
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lxpServ => <reply> $who, LXPServ is a C-based, socket-capable application server for Linux. URL: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/LXP/lxp.tar.gz
Rekop => <reply> $who, Rekop is a client-server poker game. URL:
QuakeForge => <reply> $who, QuakeForge is a project created for the purpose of maintaining and extending Id Software's Quake source releases. URL: https://www.sourceforge.net/project/?form_grp=882
SpaceWatcher => <reply> $who, SpaceWatcher is meant to be run from cron to keep an eye on your disk partitions and warn you by e-mail/sms if the amount of free space falls below a threshold that you set.. URL: http://www.penguinpowered.demon.co.uk/wa...
makeconf.makefile => <reply> $who, makeconf.makefile creates good Makefiles for you step-by-step with the standard targets of make (all, clean, install, uninstall, dist, and help).. URL: http://kabalak.linuxbox.com/scripts.html
citygen => <reply> $who, citygen is a program which creates Medieval city and kingdom demographics. URL: http://www.frontiernet.net/~phantoml/adnd/citygen-1.4.tar.gz
dstool => <reply> $who, dstool is a dynamical systems toolkit. URL: ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/dstool-tk-1.i386.rpm
libgsm_mmx => <reply> $who, libgsm_mmx is a set of MMX patches for the libgsm sound compression library. URL: http://www.megsinet.com/~stabro/gsm_mmx-1.0.10.tgz
newq => <reply> $who, newq is a Perl script that grabs quotes from datek.com and displays the bid, ask, last, volume, and change for each symbol it is given on the command line. URL: http://newq.blackwire.com/newq-0.1.tgz
mpatrol => <reply> $who, mpatrol is a link library that attempts to diagnose run-time errors that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory. URL:
Merchant-Store => <reply> $who, Merchant-Store is an easy-to-use Perl-based shopping cart script with an integrated product manager, backend order manager, and real-time credit card processing capabilities. URL: http://www.Merchant-Store.com/download...
kissme => <reply> $who, kissme is a Java Virtual Machine which provides support for "Persistent Java" in addition to the features provided by a normal JVM. URL: http://www.sourceforge.com/project/filelist.php?form_grp=784
GNOME Transcript => <reply> $who, GNOME Transcript is an SQL database client with a plugin system that supports multiple database servers. URL: http://mango.linuxbox.com/gtranscript/download.html
kconfigure => <reply> $who, Kconfigure is designed to compile programs using a graphical interface.. URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/javi_c/Download.html
freq => <reply> $who, freq is a script designed to generate reports and graphs from the lastlog. URL: http://www.bangmoney.org/projects/freq/freq-0.4.7-pre6.tar.gz
Quake Source => <reply> $who, This is Quake's source code.. URL: http://www.idsoftware.com/q1source/q1source.zip
DHSDynUp => <reply> $who, DHSDynUp is the first IP update client for DHS.org's dynamic IP update service, useful for anyone needing an update client for DHS, wanting to create their own client, or whatever.. URL: http://members.home.com/verbatim/file...
DROL => <reply> $who, DROL (Dragon Realm Of Lore) is a clone of the popular BBS door-game LORD (Legend Of the Red Dragon). URL: ftp://ftp.linuxguru.net/pub/drol/
JFwadmin => <reply> $who, JFwadmin is a high level GUI for ipchains and a reporting tool for your current firewall configuration. URL: http://www.cybermediation.com/JFwadmin/JFwadmin0_7.tar.gz
Wish You Were Here => <reply> $who, Wish You Were Here is a set of Perl scripts to bring your PPP link up wherever you are. URL: http://www.penguinpowered.demon.co.uk/wayne/wish_here.tgz
BookScape => <reply> $who, BookScape is a PHP script for presentation of Netscape Navigator bookmarks. URL:
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HTML2TEXT => <reply> $who, HTML2text converts HTML 3.2 documents into plain ASCII text. URL: http://www.gmrs.de/html2text-1.2.1.tar.gz
ID2 => <reply> $who, ID2 is a small utility which shows information about given users or groups in the system based on passwd and group structures.. URL: ftp://devil.inside.pin.pl/pub/Unix/tools/id2/id2-current.tar.gz
Cawfee CGI SDK => <reply> $who, Cawfee CGI SDK is a CGI library written in C++. URL: http://www.xcheese.org/csoft/cawfeecgi/cawfeecgi-0.1.tar.gz
Blur Scope MAX => <reply> $who, Blur Scope MAX is an offshoot of the Blur Scope that comes with XMMS. URL: http://home1.gte.net/mbardeen/blurscope/blur_scope_max-0.9.1.tar.gz
HPTalx => <reply> $who, HPTalx is a program to transfer files from/to your HP calculator. URL:
libtiff-lzw-compression-kit => <reply> $who, LZW compression has been removed from libtiff. URL: http://www.libtiff.org/libtiff-lzw-compression-kit.tar.gz
XIPM => <reply> $who, XIPM is a package management and system maintenance utility. URL: http://www.multimania.com/xsodax/main.htm#download
PHP4-Beta3 + Japanese libgd patch => <reply> $who, The Japanese libgd patch is a simple patch to PHP4 Beta 3 to enable use of Japanese and other multibyte characters in dynamic images generated with ImagePng and friends. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/l...
X-RAR => <reply> $who, X-RAR is a front-end to the archiving utility 'rar'. URL: http://twakar.fdns.net/xrar-0.2beta.tar.gz
miffmixr => <reply> $who, miffmixr is a Web-based MP3 jukebox. URL: http://9mm.com/philez/miffmixr.tar.gz
MIT Scheme => <reply> $who, MIT Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large runtime library. URL: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/ftpd...
ClanMecha => <reply> $who, ClanMecha is a 2D multiplayer platform game of the mecha genre. URL: http://sourceforge.net/download.php?fileid=1042
gecco => <reply> $who, gecco (GNOME Extensible Configuration COnsole) attempts to provide a common location for system, network and application configuration functions. URL: http://members.tripod.com/veeev/download.html
dupmerge => <reply> $who, Dupmerge reads a list of files from standard input (eg., as produced by "find . URL: http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/code/dupmerge/dupmerge.c
efx => <reply> $who, EFX is a standalone program which will load XMMS effect plugins for use with Esound. URL: http://code.linuxcore.com/download.php3?id=efx&type=tgz
MP3 Player Upload and Download utilities => <reply> $who, The MP3 Player Upload and Download utilities is a collection of programs which provide support for portable MP3 players such the Diamond Rio and the Saehan MpMan under operating systems other ...
cpp1 => <reply> $who, Cpp1 is an experimental chess program written in C++. URL: http://www.keetweej.demon.nl/cpp1.tgz
rdial => <reply> $who, rdial is an extremely simple RPC server for Linux. URL: http://colorfullife.com/~manfreds/rdial/rdial.tar.gz
dclock => <reply> $who, dclock is an X11 desktop clock with a realistic LED-style display of the current time. URL: http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/archive/dclock.tar.gz
gatO => <reply> $who, gatO is an interface to the UNIX command 'at'.. URL: http://www.arquired.es/users/aldelgado/proy/gato/gato-0.6.2.tgz
g3DSE => <reply> $who, g3DSE is a little tool to set the 3D Stereo Enhancement of your SoundBlaster card (if supported).. URL: http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~fcorneli/g3dse/download/g3dse-0.1.tar.gz
CAFire => <reply> $who, CAFire is a small toy that displays a burning trace after the mouse pointer in X. URL: http://home.zcu.cz/~cimrman3/cafire-latest.tgz
GPPP-Dialer => <reply> $who, GPPP-Dialer runs a connection script and shows the contents of a PPP log, and can run other programs after connecting. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~epg/software/gppp-dialer-0.1.0.tar.gz
Perlmclient => <reply> $who, Perlmclient is a Masqdialler client written in Perl. URL: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~jeremyl/perlmclient/perlmclient-0.2.tar.gz
Address Book => <reply> $who, Address Book is an extremely simple address database with search, edit, insert, drop, etc.. URL: http://ps-ax.com/address/
GTool => <reply> $who, GTool is a program to draw and analyze graphs (as in Graph Theory, not data analysis).. URL: http://erwin.math.lakeheadu.ca/gtool/index.php3?topic=download
gbgrand => <reply> $who, gbgrand is a small shell script that uses a list of directories to select a random background for the GNOME desktop. URL: http://www.chameleon.net/daf/gbgrand.tgz
The Bookexchange => <reply> $who, Bookexchange is a book exchange for the Web, allowing users to search, add, and edit books. URL: http://cs.uiowa.edu/~bdeitte/bookexchange.zip
WMFstatus => <reply> $who, WMFstatus is a general purpose 8x5 LCD screen dockapp for WindowMaker and other managers. URL: http://www.finik.net/files/wmfstatus-0.1.tar.gz
Metapixel => <reply> $who, Metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics. URL: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/metapixel-0.1.tar.gz
oracledump => <reply> $who, oracledump is a command-line tool that dumps Oracle data and table setup information as SQL. URL: http://www.bennyvision.com/~ddkilzer/projects/oracledump/
GNU Standard C++ Library v3 => <reply> $who, The Standard C++ Library v3, or libstc++-2.90.x, is an ongoing project to implement the ISO 14882 Standard C++ library as described in chapters 17 through 27 and annex D, as a drop-in replacement for the c...
GOOPS => <reply> $who, GOOPS is the object-oriented extension to Guile. URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-oops-0.1.6.tar.gz
PHP*Star => <reply> $who, PHP*Star makes CGI mailto forms and creates PHP scripts.. URL: http://www.xtremegroup.com/phpstar.html
Relayer => <reply> $who, Relayer allows for dynamic sendmail relay authentication.. URL: http://ps-ax.com/Relay/
rlwrap => <reply> $who, rlwrap is a readline wrapper, a small utility that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. URL: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/rlwrap-0.01.tgz
PlottGUI => <reply> $who, PlottGUI is a program to create worksheets with an HP/GL plotter. URL: http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa/plottgui/files/dynamic-bin.tar.gz
stripmime => <reply> $who, stripmime is a quick and dirty Perl script to strip user-specified MIME sections out of email messages. URL: http://www.clarity.net/~adam/stripmime/
Motif Launcher => <reply> $who, Launcher is an application launcher written for the MWM (Motif Window Manager/Lesstif Window Manager). URL: http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa/launcher/files/dynamic-bin.tar.gz
rccvs => <reply> $who, rccvs is Remote CCVS, a network wrapper for HKS's CCVS (Credit Card Verification System) software. URL: ftp://ftp.deepfreeze.org/pub/rccvs/
SigLab => <reply> $who, SigLab is a calculator designed for working on signals. URL: http://www.freealter.com/eng/siglab/siglab.tgz
factpacks/MacErrorCodes.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Mac Error -17 => ( i2CRangeErr ) from SetEntry **Color Manager Error** or ( controlErr ) Driver can't respond to Control call **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -18 => ( gdBadDev ) from SetEntry **Color Manager Error** or ( statusErr ) Driver can't respond to Status call **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -19 => ( reRangeErr ) from SetEntry **Color Manager Error** or ( readErr ) Driver can't respond to Read call **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -20 => ( seInvRequest ) from SetEntry **Color Manager Error** or ( writErr ) Driver can't respond to Write call **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -21 => ( seNoMemErr ) from SetEntry **Color Manager Error** or ( badUnitErr ) Driver ref num doesn't match unit table **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -22 => ( unitEmptyErr ) Driver ref num specifies NIL handle in unit table **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -23 => ( openErr ) Requested read/write permission doesn't match driver's open permission, or Attempt to open RAM serial Driver failed **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -24 => ( closErr ) Close failed; Permission to close .MPP driver was denied **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -25 => ( dRemovErr ) tried to remove an open driver **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -26 => ( dInstErr ) DrvrInstall couldn't find driver in resources **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -27 => ( abortErr ) I/O call aborted by KillIO; Publisher has written a new edition OR **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -27 => ( iIOAbortErr ) I/O abort error (Printing Manager) **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -28 => ( notOpenErr ) Couldn't rd/wr/ctl/sts cause driver not opened **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -29 => ( unitTblFullErr ) Unit table has no more entries **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -30 => ( dceExtErr ) dce extension error **I/O System Error**
Mac Error -33 => ( dirFulErr ) Directory full **File System Error**
Mac Error -34 => ( dskFulErr ) Disk full **File System Error**
Mac Error -35 => ( nsvErr ) No such volume; volume not found
Mac Error -36 => ( ioErr ) I/O error (bummers) **File System Error**
Mac Error -37 => ( bdNamErr ) Bad file name; there may be no bad names in the final system! **File System Error**
Mac Error -38 => ( fnOpnErr ) File not open **File System Error**
Mac Error -39 => ( eofErr ) End of file; no additional data in the format **File System Error**
Mac Error -40 => ( posErr ) Tried to position to before start of file (r/w) **File System Error**
Mac Error -41 => ( mFulErr ) Memory full (open) or file won't fit (load) **File System Error**
Mac Error -42 => ( tmfoErr ) too many files open **File System Error**
Mac Error -43 => ( fnfErr ) File not found; Folder not found; Edition container not found; Target not found **File System Error**
Mac Error -44 => ( wPrErr ) Diskette is write protected; Volume is locked through hardware **File System Error**
Mac Error -45 => ( fLckdErr ) File is locked **File System Error**
Mac Error -45 => ( fLckedErr ) Publisher writing to an edition **File System Error**
Mac Error -46 => ( vLckdErr ) Volume is locked through software **File System Error**
Mac Error -47 => ( fBsyErr ) File is busy (delete); Section doing I/O **File System Error**
Mac Error -48 => ( dupFNErr ) Duplicate filename (rename); File found instead of folder **File System Error**
Mac Error -49 => ( opWrErr ) File already open with with write permission **File System Error**
Mac Error -50 => ( paramErr ) Error in user parameter list **File System Error**
Mac Error -51 => ( rfNumErr ) Reference number invalid **File System Error**
Mac Error -52 => ( gfpErr ) Get file position error **File System Error**
Mac Error -53 => ( volOffLinErr ) Volume is off line **File System Error**
Mac Error -54 => ( permErr ) Software lock on file; Not a subscriber [permissions error on file open] **File System Error**
Mac Error -55 => ( volOnLinErr ) drive volume already on-line at MountVol **File System Error**
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Mac Error -344 => ( smNoMoresRsrcs ) No more sResources OR **Start Manager Error** or ( smNoMoresResources ) Specified sResource data structure not found **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -345 => ( smsGetDrvrErr ) Error occurred during _sGetDriver **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -346 => ( smBadsPtrErr ) Bad pointer was passed to sCaldSPointer function **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -347 => ( smByteLanesErr ) ByteLanes field in card's format block was determined to be zero **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -348 => ( smOffsetErr ) Offset was too big (temporary, should be fixed) **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -349 => ( smNoGoodOpens ) No opens were successfull in the loop **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -350 => ( smSRTOvrFlErr ) SRT over flow **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -351 => ( smRecNotFnd ) Record not found in the SRT **Start Manager Error**
Mac Error -360 => ( slotNumErr ) invalid slot # error **Device Manager Slot Support Error**
Mac Error -400 => ( gcrOnMFMErr ) gcr format on high density media error **Device Manager Slot Support Errors**
Mac Error -450 => ( editionMgrInitErr ) Manager not initialized or could not load package **Edition Manager Errors**
Mac Error -451 => ( badSectionErr ) Not a valid section type **Edition Manager Errors**
Mac Error -452 => ( notRegisteredSectionErr ) Not registered **Edition Manager Errors**
Mac Error -454 => ( badSubPartErr ) Bad edition container spec or invalid edition container **Edition Manager Errors**
Mac Error -460 => ( multiplePublisherWrn ) Already is a publisher **Edition Manager Errors**
Mac Error -461 => ( containerNotFoundWrn ) Alias was not resolved **Edition Manager Errors**
Mac Error -463 => ( notThePublisherWrn ) Not the publisher **Edition Manager Errors**
Mac Error -470 => ( scsiBadPBErr ) invalid field(s) in the parameter block **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -471 => ( scsiOverrunErr ) attempted to transfer too many bytes **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -472 => ( scsiTransferErr ) write flag conflicts with data transfer phase **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -473 => ( scsiBusTOErr ) bus error during transfer **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -474 => ( scsiSelectTOErr ) scsiSelTO exceeded (selection failed) **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -475 => ( scsiTimeOutErr ) scsiReqTO exceeded **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -476 => ( scsiBusResetErr ) the bus was reset, so your request was aborted **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -477 => ( scsiBadStatus ) non-zero (not "Good") status returned **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -478 => ( scsiNoStatusErr ) device did not go through a status phase **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -479 => ( scsiLinkFailErr ) linked command never executed **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -489 => ( scsiUnimpVctErr ) unimplemented routine was called **SCSI Manager Errors**
Mac Error -490 => ( userBreak ) user debugger break **SysErrs used instead of inline $A9FF & $ABFF**
Mac Error -491 => ( strUserBreak ) user debugger break - display string on stack **SysErrs used instead of inline $A9FF & $ABFF**
Mac Error -492 => ( exUserBreak ) user debugger break - execute commands on stack **SysErrs used instead of inline $A9FF & $ABFF**
Mac Error -500 => ( rgnTooBigErr ) Bitmap would convert into a region greater than 64 KB **QuickDraw Error**
Mac Error -501 => ( teScrapSizeErr ) scrap item too big for text edit record **Text Edit Error**
Mac Error -502 => ( hwParamrErr ) bad selector for _HWPriv **O/S Error**
Mac Error -600 => ( procNotFound ) No eligible process with specified process serial number **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -601 => ( memFragErr ) Not enough room to launch application with special requirements **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -602 => ( appModeErr ) Memory mode is 32-bit, but application is not 32-bit clean **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -603 => ( protocolErr ) app made module calls in improper order **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -604 => ( hardwareConfigErr ) hardware configuration not correct for call **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -605 => ( appMemFullErr ) Partition size specified in 'SIZE' resource is not big enough for launch **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -606 => ( appIsDaemon ) Application is background-only **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -607 => ( bufferIsSmall ) Buffer is too small **Processes Errors**
Mac Error -608 => ( noOutstandingHLE ) No outstanding high-level event **Processes Errors**
factpacks/dos.fact view on Meta::CPAN
CHKDSK => (External) CHKDSK [d:][path][filename] [/F][/V] Checks a disk and provides a file and memory status report.
CHOICE => (Internal) CHOICE [/C[:]keys] [/N][/S][/T[:]c,nn] [text] Used to provide a prompt so that a user can make a choice while a batch program is running.
CLS => (Clear Screen) (Internal) CLS Clears (erases) the screen.
COMMAND => (External) COMMAND [d:][path] [device] [/P][/E:(size)] [/MSG][/Y [/C (command)|/K (command)] Starts a new version of the DOS command processor (the program that loads the DOS Internal programs).
COMP => (External) COMP [d:][path][filename] [d:][path][filename] [/A][/C][/D][/L][/N:(number)] Compares two groups of files to find information that does not match. (See FC command).
COPY => (Internal) COPY [/Y|-Y] [/A][/B] [d:][path]filename [/A][/B] [d:][path][filename] [/V] or COPY [/Y|-Y][/A][/B] [d:][path]filename+[d:][path]filename[...][d:][path][filename] [/V] Copies and appends files.
COUNTRY => (Internal) COUNTRY=country code,[code page][,][d:][filename] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to tell DOS to use country-specific text conventions during processing.
CTTY => (Internal) CTTY (device) Changes the standard I/O (Input/Output) device to an auxiliary device.
DATE => (Internal) DATE mm-dd-yy Displays and/or sets the system date.
DBLSPACE => (External) DBLSPACE / automount=drives DBLSPACE A program available with DOS 6.0 that allows you to compress information on a disk.
DEBUG => (External) DEBUG [pathname] [parameters] An MS-DOS utility used to test and edit programs.
DEFRAG => (External) DEFRAG [d:] [/F][/S[:]order] [/B][/skiphigh [/LCD|/BW|/GO] [/H] DEFRAG [d:] [/V][/B][/skiphigh] [/LCD]|/BW|/GO] [/H]Optimizes disk performance by reorganizing the files on the disk.
DEL => (ERASE) (Internal) DEL (ERASE) [d:][path]filename [/P] Deletes (erases) files from disk.
DELOLDOS => (External) DELOLDOS [/B] Deletes all files from previous versions of DOS after a 5.0 or 6.0 installation.
DELTREE => (External) DELTREE [/Y] [d:]path [d:]path[...] Deletes (erases) a directory including all files and subdirectories that are in it.
DEVICE => (Internal) DEVICE=(driver name) Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to tell DOS which device driver to load.
DEVICEHIGH => (Internal) DEVICEHIGH=(driver name) Like DEVICE, DEVICEHIGH is used in the CONFIG.SYS file to tell DOS which device driver software to use for devices; however, this option is used to install the device driver into the upper memory area...
DIR => (Internal) DIR [d:][path][filename] [/A:(attributes)] [/O:(order)] [/B][/C][/CH][/L][/S][/P][/W]
Displays => directory of files and directories stored on disk.
DISKCOMP => (External) DISKCOMP [d:] [d:][/1][/8] Compares the contents of two diskettes.
DISKCOPY => (External) DISKCOPY [d:] [d:][/1][/V][/M] Makes an exact copy of a diskette.
DOS DOS => (Internal) DOS=[high|low],[umb|noumb] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to specify the memory location for DOS. It is used to load DOS into the upper memory area and to specify whether or not the upper memory blocks will be used.
DOSKEY => (External) DOSKEY [reinstall] [/bufsize=size][/macros][/history][/insert|/overstrike] [macroname=[text]] Loads the Doskey program into memory which can be used to recall DOS commands so that you can edit them.
DOSSHELL => (External) DOSSHELL [/B] [/G:[resolution][n]]|[/T:[resolution][n]] Initiates the graphic shell program using the specified screen resolution.
DRIVPARM => (Internal) DRIVPARM= /D:(number) [/C] [/F:(form factor)] [/H:(number)] [/I][ /N][/S:(number)] [/T:(tracks)] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to set parameters for a disk drive.
ECHO => (Internal) ECHO on|off ECHO (message) Displays messages or turns on or off the display of commands in a batch file.
EDIT => (External) EDIT [d:][path]filename [/B][/G][/H][/NOHI] Starts the MS-DOS editor, a text editor used to create and edit ASCII text files.
EMM386 => (External) EMM386 [on|off|auto] [w=on|off] Enables or disables EMM386 expanded-memory support on a computer with an 80386 or higher processor.
EXE2BIN => (External) EXE2BIN [d:][path]filename [d:][path]filename Converts .EXE (executable) files to binary format.
EXIT => (Internal) EXIT Exits a secondary command processor.
EXPAND => (External) EXPAND [d:][path]filename [[d:][path]filename[ . . .]] Expands a compressed file.
FASTHELP => (External) FASTHELP [command][command] /? Displays a list of DOS commands with a brief explanation of each.
FASTOPEN => (External) FASTOPEN d:[=n][/X] Keeps track of the locations of files for fast access.
FC => (External) FC [/A][/C][/L][/Lb n][/N][/T][/W][number] [d:][path]filename [d:][path]filename or (for binary comparisons) FC [/B][/number] [d:][path]filename [d:][path]filename Displays the differences between two files or sets of files.
FCBS => (Internal) FCBS=(number) Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to specify the number of file-control blocks for file sharing.
FDISK => (External) FDISK [/status] Prepares a fixed disk to accept DOS files for storage.
FILES => (Internal) FILES=(number) Used in the CONFIG.Sys file to specify the maximum number of files that can be open at the same time.
factpacks/html.fact view on Meta::CPAN
example <COLGROUP> => A few examples: <COLGROUP> column data </COLGROUP> & <COLGROUP ALIGN="align"> column data </COLGROUP> & <COLGROUP WIDTH="width"> column data </COLGROUP>
example <COLGROUP ALIGN> => <COLGROUP ALIGN="align"> column data </COLGROUP>
html <COLGROUP HALIGN> => The HALIGN attribute specifies the horizontal alignment of text in the cells for the column group. The values: LEFT, RIGHT and CENTER (the default.)
example <COLGROUP HALIGN> => <COLGROUP HALIGN="halign"> column data </COLGROUP>
html <COLGROUP VALIGN> => The VALIGN attribute sets the vertical alignment for the column. The values are TOP, MIDDLE (the default,) and BOTTOM.
example <COLGROUP VALIGN> => <COLGROUP VALIGN="valign"> column data </COLGROUP>
html <COLGROUP WIDTH> => The WIDTH attribute specifies the width of each column in the column group.
example <COLGROUP WIDTH> => <COLGROUP WIDTH="width"> column data </COLGROUP>
html <COLGROUP SPAN> => The SPAN attribute sets the number of consecutive columns for the group.
example <COLGROUP SPAN> => <COLGROUP SPAN="number"> column data </COLGROUP>
html <CREDIT> => <Credit> The credit tag defines text that credits a figure or quote. It is valid only within FIG or BQ tags. Example: <CREDIT> text </CREDIT>
html <DEL> => <Deleted Text> The deleted text tag marks text that has been deleted, for example in a group authoring situation or a legal document. Example: <DEL> list entries </DEL>
html <DFN> => <Definition> The definition tag defines text that defines a term -- many browsers will display it in italics, though others will ignore it.
example <DFN> => It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag. <DFN> text </DFN>
html <DIR> => <Directory List> The directory list tag introduces a directory list, which is made up of List Item (LI) tags and does not include bullets or numbers before them. See: <DIR> 2, 3 & 4
html <DIR> 2 => The items should be short so that they can be arranged into columns. For a bulleted list use UL.
html <DIR> 3 => For a numbered list use OL. For a list without bullets or numbers that is not arranged into columns use MENU.
html <DIR> 4 => In HTML 3.0, the same effect can be achieved with <UL PLAIN WRAP=HORIZ>. The DIR tag will probably be obsolete some day, so use UL.
example <DIR> => <DIR> list entries </DIR> & <DIR COMPACT> list entries </DIR>
html <DIR COMPACT> => The COMPACT attribute instructs the browser to reduce the space occupied by the list.
example <DIR COMPACT> => <DIR COMPACT> list entries </DIR>
factpacks/html.fact view on Meta::CPAN
html <EMBED attributes> => SCR, HEIGHT, WIDTH, UNITS, NAME, OPTIONAL PARAMETER & PALETTE
example <EMBED> => <EMBED attributes> alternate HTML </EMBED>
html <EMBED SCR> => ( SRC="URL" ) "URL" identifies the location of the object to be embedded.
html <EMBED HEIGHT> => ( HEIGHT=number ) This specifies the height of the object, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <EMBED WIDTH> => ( WIDTH=number ) This specifies the width of the object, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <EMBED UNITS> => ( UNITS=units ) Here units is one of pixels, meaning the width and height are measured in pixels, or en, meaning the width and height are measured in en spaces.
html <EMBED NAME> => ( NAME=text ) This indicates the name used by other objects or elements to refer to this object.
html <EMBED OPTIONAL PARAMETER> => ("OPTIONAL PARAMETER"=value) This specifies any parameters that are specific to the object. Put the name of the parameter in place of "OPTIONAL PARAMETER".
html <EMBED PALETTE> => ( PALETTE=#rgb|#rgb ) Sets the foreground or background color. The first colour is the foreground.
html <FIG> => <Figure> The figure element is an improvement over the inline image used in HTML 2.0 for a variety of reasons. See: <FIG> 2, 3, & 4
html <FIG> 2 => The text used to describe the figure for non-graphical browsers can contain markup tags & a separate credit and caption will be displayed by both graphical and non-graphical browsers
html <FIG> 3 => It also makes imagemaps much easier to code & independent of the server. (See the OBJECT and MAP tags for an alternate to this tag)
html <FIG> 4 => At the moment it isn't clear whether the built-in image maps of FIG or the client-side image maps of IMG with a USEMAP attribute will emerge as the long term alternative to server side image maps.
example <FIG> => <FIG attributes> figure-content </FIG>
html <FIG attributes> => The attributes for the <FIG> tag: SRC, ALIGN, HEIGHT, WIDTH, UNITS, NOFLOW & IMAGEMAP
html <FIG SRC> => ( SRC="URL" ) "URL" identifies the image source, typically a GIF or JPEG file.
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html <FIG ALIGN> 2 => For Netscape: "alignment" should be one of LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, TEXTTOP, MIDDLE, ABSMIDDLE, BASELINE, BOTTOM, or ABSBOTTOM.
html <FIG HEIGHT> => ( HEIGHT=number ) This specifies the height of the image, according to the UNITS attribute.
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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.
amp off is [Purdue] vt. To run in {background}. From the UNIX shell `&' operator.
amper is n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&', ASCII 0100110) character. See {ASCII} for other synonyms.
angle brackets is 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 sig...
angry fruit salad is 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 wi...
angry fruit salad2 is tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
AOS is 1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) [based on a PDP-10 increment instruction] vt.,obs. To increase the amount of something. "AOS the campfire." Usage considered silly, and now obsolete. Now largely supplanted by {bump}. See ...
AOS2 is supported at one time by Data General. This was pronounced /A-O-S/ or /A-os/. A spoof of the standard AOS system administrator's manual (`How to load and generate your AOS system') was created, issued a part number, and circulated ...
AOS3 is goad and levitate your chaos system'. 3. Algebraic Operating System, in reference to those calculators which use infix instead of postfix (reverse Polish) notation. Historical note AOS in sense 1 was the name of a {PDP-10} instruc...
AOS4 is computer and added 1 to it; AOS meant `Add One and do not Skip'. Why, you may ask, does the `S' stand for `do not Skip' rather than for `Skip'? Ah, here was a beloved piece of PDP-10 folklore. There were eight such instructions AO...
AOS5 is instruction if the result was Equal to zero; AOSG added 1 and then skipped if the result was Greater than 0; AOSN added 1 and then skipped if the result was Not 0; AOSA added 1 and then skipped Always; and so on. Just plain AOS didn...
AOS6 is For similar reasons, AOJ meant `Add One and do not Jump'. Even more bizarre, SKIP meant `do not SKIP'! If you wanted to skip the next instruction, you had to say `SKIPA'. Likewise, JUMP meant `do not JUMP'; the unconditional form wa...
AOS7 is By some quirk of the 10's design, the {JRST} (Jump and ReSTore flag with no flag specified) was actually faster and so was invariably used. Such were the perverse mysteries of assembler programming.
app is /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program. What systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend not to think of the things they t...
app2 is parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. Oppose {tool}, {operating system}.
arc is [primarily MSDOS] vt. To create a compressed {archive} from a group of files using SEA ARC, PKWare PKARC, or a compatible program. Rapidly becoming obsolete as the ARC compression method is falling into disuse, having been replaced by ...
arc2 is feather}, {zip}.
arc wars is [primarily MSDOS] n. {holy wars} over which archiving program one should use. The first arc war was sparked when System Enhancement Associates (SEA) sued PKWare for copyright and trademark infringement on its ARC program. PKWare'...
arc wars2 is and speed while largely retaining compatibility (it introduced a new compression type that could be disabled for backward-compatibility). PKWare settled out of court to avoid enormous legal costs (both SEA and PKWare are small ...
arc wars3 is of PKARC was changed to PKPAK. The public backlash against SEA for bringing suit helped to hasten the demise of ARC as a standard when PKWare and others introduced new, incompatible archivers with better compression algorithms....
archive is n. 1. A collection of several files bundled into one file by a program such as `ar(1)', `tar(1)', `cpio(1)', or {arc} for shipment or archiving (sense 2). See also {tar and feather}. 2. A collection of files or archives (sense 1) ...
archive2 is {FTP} or an email server.
arena is [UNIX] n. The area of memory attached to a process by `brk(2)' and `sbrk(2)' and used by `malloc(3)' as dynamic storage. So named from a semi-mythical `malloc corrupt arena' message supposedly emitted when some early versions becam...
arena2 is {aliasing bug}, {memory leak}, {smash the stack}.
arg is /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte'). "The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args." Compare {p...
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background4 is was started (and often running at a lower priority); oppose {foreground}. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with {{UNIX}}, but it appears to have been first used in this sense on OS/360.
backspace and overstrike is interj. Whoa! Back up. Used to suggest that someone just said or did something wrong. Common among APL programmers.
backward combatability is /bak'w*rd k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ [from `backward compatibility'] n. A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous protocols, formats, and layouts are discarded in favor of `new and improved' protocols, ...
backward combatability2 is making the transition between major releases. When the change is so drastic that the old formats are not retained in the new version, it is said to be `backward combatable'. See {flag day}.
BAD is /B-A-D/ [IBM acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj. Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess. See {working as designed}.
Bad Thing is [from the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody `1066 And All That'] n. Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalized, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle courier...
Bad Thing2 is Thing}. British correspondents confirm that {Bad Thing} and {Good Thing} (and prob. therefore {Right Thing} and {Wrong Thing}) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad ...
Bad Thing3 is mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
bag on the side is n. An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product ...
bag on the side2 is phrase, `to hang a bag on the side [of]'. "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C ...." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
bagbiter is /bag'bit-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner. "This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters! What a bagbiter!" 2. A ...
bagbiter2 is inadvertently or otherwise, typically by failing to program the computer properly. Synonyms {loser}, {cretin}, {chomper}. 3. adj. `bagbiting' Having the quality of a bagbiter. "This bagbiting system won't let me compute the f...
bagbiter3 is {losing}, {cretinous}, {bletcherous}, `barfucious' (under {barfulous}) and `chomping' (under {chomp}). 4. `bite the bag' vi. To fail in some manner. "The computer keeps crashing every 5 minutes." "Yes, the disk controller is ...
bagbiter4 is of these terms was almost undoubtedly obscene, possibly referring to the scrotum, but in their current usage they have become almost completely sanitized. A program called Lexiphage on the old MIT AI PDP-10 would draw on a selec...
bagbiter5 is BAG" in ornate letters, and then a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off. This is the first and to date only known example of a program *intended* to be a bagbiter.
bamf is /bamf/ 1. [from old X-Men comics] interj. Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in {virtual reality} (esp. {MUD}) electronic {fora} when a character wishes to make a drama...
bamf2 is magical transformation, used in virtual reality {fora} like sense 1. 3. [from `Don Washington's Survival Guide'] n. Acronym for `Bad-Ass Mother Fucker', used to refer to one of the handful of nastiest monsters on an LPMUD or other ...
banana label is n. The labels often used on the sides of {macrotape} reels, so called because they are shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas. This term, like macrotapes themselves, is still current but visibly headed for obsolescence.
banana problem is n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"]. Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare {fencepost error}). One may say `there is a ...
banana problem2 is defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also {creeping elegance}, {creeping featuritis}). See item 176 under {HAKMEM}, which describe...
banana problem3 is implementation.bandwidth n. 1. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics,...
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bang is 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish. In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}; ...
bang2 is it (esp. via the term {bang path}) and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for `!'. Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic written `!'; one would not say "Congratulations bang" (except possibly for humorous p...
bang3 is exact characters `foo!' one would speak "Eff oh oh bang". See {shriek}, {{ASCII}}. 2. interj. An exclamation signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge...
bang4 is immediately after one has been called on it.
bang on is vt. To stress-test a piece of hardware or software "I banged on the new version of the simulator all day yesterday and it didn't crash once. I guess it is ready to release." The term {pound on} is synonymous.
bang path is n. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee, so called because each {hop} is signified by a {bang} sign. Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!...
bang path2 is to machine bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the machine foovax to the account of user me on barbox. In the bad old days of not so long ago, before autorouting mailers b...
bang path3 is compound bang addresses using the { } convention (see {glob}) to give paths from *several* big machines, in the hopes that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably (example ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ih...
bang path4 is 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. See {{Inter...
banner is n. 1. The title page added to printouts by most print spoolers (see {spool}). Typically includes user or account ID information in very large character-graphics capitals. Also called a `burst page', because it indicates where to bu...
banner2 is one user's printout from the next. 2. A similar printout generated (typically on multiple pages of fan-fold paper) from user-specified text, e.g., by a program such as UNIX's `banner({1,6})'. 3. On interactive software, a first sc...
banner3 is and/or a copyright notice.
bar is /bar/ n. 1. The second metasyntactic variable, after {foo} and before {baz}. "Suppose we have two functions FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR...." 2. Often appended to {foo} to produce {foobar}.
bare metal is n. 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an {operating system}, an {HLL}, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase `programming on the bare metal', which refers to the arduous work of {bit b...
bare metal2 is for a new machine. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compil...
bare metal3 is real development environment. 2. `Programming on the bare metal' is also used to describe a style of {hand-hacking} that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, esp. tricks for speed and space optim...
bare metal4 is overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in appendix A, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimize fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common...
bare metal5 is and machine resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems. See {real programmer}. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming (especially in s...
bare metal6 is considered a {Good Thing}, or at least a necessary thing (because these machines have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see {ill-behaved}). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the ...
bare metal7 is application to directly access device registers and machine addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing are held in high regard.
barf is /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See {bletch}. 2. vi. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar exp...
barf2 is hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to work because of unacceptable input. May mean to give an error message. Examples "The division operation barfs if you try...
barf3 is operation checks for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before writing o...
barf4 is Commonwealth hackish, `barf' is generally replaced by `puke' or `vom'. {barf} is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic variable, like {foo} or {bar}.
barfulation is /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ interj. Variation of {barf} used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
barfulous is /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj. (alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.
baroque is adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Meta...
baroque2 is variations to its letterform output. Now *that* is baroque!" See also {rococo}.
BartleMUD is /bar'tl-muhd/ n. Any of the MUDs derived from the original MUD game by Richard Bartle (see {MUD}). BartleMUDs are noted for their (usually slightly offbeat) humor, dry but friendly syntax, and lack of adjectives in object descrip...
BartleMUD2 is `brand172', for instance (see {brand brand brand}). Some MUDders intensely dislike Bartle and this term, and prefer to speak of `MUD-1'.
BASIC is n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers. This is another case (like {Pascal}) of t...
BASIC2 is deliberately designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can write short BASIC programs (on the order of 10--20 lines) very easily; writing anything longer is (a) very painful, and (b) encourages bad habits tha...
BASIC3 is hack in a real language. This wouldn't be so bad if historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on low-end micros. As it is, it ruins thousands of potential wizards a year.
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big win is n. Serendipity. "Yes, those two physicists discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic that had been prepared incorrectly according to their experimental schedule. Small mistake; big win!" See {win big}.
big-endian is [From Swift's `Gulliver's Travels' via the famous paper `On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace' by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj. 1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numer...
big-endian2 is has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first'). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the {PDP-10}, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1991, are big...
big-endian3 is {NUXI problem}. 2. An {{Internet address}} the wrong way round. Most of the world follows the Internet standard and writes email addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the name of the country. I...
big-endian4 is decided to do it the other way round before the Internet domain standard was established; e.g., me@uk.ac.wigan.cs. Most gateway sites have {ad-hockery} in their mailers to handle this, but can still be confused. In particular,...
big-endian5 is (domain uk) or Czechoslovakia (domain cs).
bignum is /big'nuhm/ [orig. from MIT MacLISP] n. 1. [techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers. More generally, any very large number. "Have you ever looked at the United States Budget? There's bignums f...
bignum2 is numbers on the dice are called `bignums', especially a roll of double fives or double sixes (compare {moby}, sense 4). See also {El Camino Bignum}. Sense 1 may require some explanation. Most computer languages provide a kind of ...
bignum3 is integers are usually very limited in size; usually they must be smaller than than 2^{31} (2,147,483,648) or (on a losing {bitty box}) 2^{15} (32,768). If you want to work with numbers larger than that, you have to use floating-poin...
bignum4 is six or seven decimal places. Computer languages that provide bignums can perform exact calculations on very large numbers, such as 1000! (the factorial of 1000, which is 1000 times 999 times 998 times ... times 2 times 1).
bigot is n. A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see {religious issues}). Usually found with a specifier; thus, `cray bigot', {ITS bigot}, `APL bigot', `VMS bigot', ...
bigot2 is distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/or technology is threatening to obsolete the favored tool. It is said "You can tell a bigot, but you c...
bit is [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] n. 1. [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable. 2. [techspeak] A computation...
bit2 is values, such as true and false or 0 and 1. 3. A mental flag a reminder that something should be done eventually. "I have a bit set for you." (I haven't seen you for a while, and I'm supposed to tell or ask you something.) 4. More ...
bit3 is of belief. "I have a bit set that says that you were the last guy to hack on EMACS." (Meaning "I think you were the last guy to hack on EMACS, and what I am about to say is predicated on this, so please stop me if this isn't true.")...
bit4 is way of indicating that you intend only a short interruption for a question that can presumably be answered yes or no. A bit is said to be `set' if its value is true or 1, and `reset' or `clear' if its value is false or 0. One spea...
bit5 is or `invert' a bit is to change it, either from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0. See also {flag}, {trit}, {mode bit}.
bit bang is n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more...
bit bang2 is and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the {wannabee}s. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Z80 micros with ...
bit bang3 is instance of the {cycle of reincarnation}, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UA...
bit bashing is n. (alt. `bit diddling' or {bit twiddling}) Term used to describe any of several kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of {bit}, {flag}, {nybble}, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data; the...
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brain dump is n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system {core dump}...
brain dump2 is before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." See {core dump} (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as `TOI' (transfer of information).
brain-damaged is 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {{Multics}}] adj. Obviously wrong; {cretinous}; {demented}. There is an implication that th...
brain-damaged2 is brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Only six mon...
brain-damaged3 is brain-damaged!" 2. [esp. in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it is intended to sell. Syn. {crippleware...
brain-dead is adj. Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity. "This comm program doesn't know how to send a break --- how brain-dead!"
braino is /bray'no/ n. Syn. for {thinko}.
branch to Fishkill is [IBM from the location of one of the corporation's facilities] n. Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results. See {jump off into never-never land}, {hyperspace}.
brand brand brand is n. Humorous catch-phrase from {BartleMUD}s, in which players were described carrying a list of objects, the most common of which would usually be a brand. Often used as a joke in {talk mode} as in "Fred the wizard is here...
brand brand brand2 is kettle broadsword flamethrower". A brand is a torch, of course; one burns up a lot of those exploring dungeons. Prob. influenced by the famous Monty Python "Spam" skit.
break is 1. vt. To cause to be broken (in any sense). "Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands." 2. v. (of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a `breakpoint'. 3. [techs...
break2 is of line high) over a serial comm line. 4. [UNIX] vi. To strike whatever key currently causes the tty driver to send SIGINT to the current process. Normally, break (sense 3) or delete does this. 5. `break break' may be said to int...
break3 is verb doubling).
breath-of-life packet is [XEROX PARC] n. An Ethernet packet that contained bootstrap (see {boot}) code, periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that had happened to crash. ...
breath-of-life packet2 is would wait for such a packet after a catastrophic error.
breedle is n. See {feep}.
bring X to its knees is v. To present a machine, operating system, piece of software, or algorithm with a load so extreme or {pathological} that it grinds to a halt. "To bring a MicroVAX to its knees, try twenty users running {vi} --- or four...
brittle is adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to expec...
brittle2 is that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said to be brittle. This term is often used to describe the results of a research effort that were never intended to be robust, but it can be applied to commercially develope...
brittle3 is more often than it ought to. Oppose {robust}.
broadcast storm is n. An incorrect packet broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at once, typically with wrong answers that start the process over again. See {network meltdown}.
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brute force and ignorance is n. A popular design technique at many software houses --- {brute force} coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways. Dogmatic adherence to design methodologies te...
brute force and ignorance2 is early {larval stage} programming; unfortunately, many never outgrow it. Often abbreviated BFI "Gak, they used a bubble sort! That's strictly from BFI." Compare {bogosity}.
BSD is /B-S-D/ n. [acronym for `Berkeley System Distribution'] a family of {{UNIX}} versions for the DEC {VAX} and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at {Berzerkeley} starting around 1980, incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networ...
BSD2 is The BSD versions (4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) and the commercial versions derived from them (SunOS, ULTRIX, and Mt. Xinu) held the technical lead in the UNIX world until AT&T's successful standardization efforts after about 1986, and are stil...
bubble sort is n. Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries `bubble upward' in the list until they bump in...
bubble sort2 is is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by {na"ive} and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the {canonical} example of a na"ive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad...
bubble sort3 is might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
bucky bits is /buh'kee bits/ n. 1. obs. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard, resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right ...
bucky bits2 is character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see {space-cadet keyboard}). 2. By extension, bits associated with `extra' shift keys on any keyboard, e.g., the ALT on an IBM PC or command and ...
bucky bits3 is that `bucky bits' were named for Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, `Bucky' was Niklaus Wirth's nickname when *he* was at Stanford; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set...
bucky bits4 is character. This was used in a number of editors written at Stanford or in its environs (TV-EDIT and NLS being the best-known). The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. See {double bucky}, {quadruple b...
buffer overflow is n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun}), or because the...
buffer overflow2 is data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that {crunch}es a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in {lossage} as input from a long line overflows the ...
buffer overflow3 is defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full up. The term is used of and by humans in a metaphorical sense. "What time did I agree to meet you? My buffer...
buffer overflow4 is phone my buffer is going to overflow." See also {spam}, {overrun screw}.
bug is n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or hardware, esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of {feature}. Examples "There's a bug in the editor it writes things out backwards." "The system crashed because of a har...
bug2 is few bugs" (i.e., Fred is a good guy, but he has a few personality problems). Historical note Some have said this term came from telephone company usage, in which "bugs in a telephone cable" were blamed for noisy lines, but this appe...
bug3 is Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing {COBOL}) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a persistent {glitch} in the Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between t...
bug4 is subsequently promulgated {bug} in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in...
bug5 is Naval Surface Warfare Center. The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the `Annals of the History of Computing', Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (f...
bug6 is Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found". This wording seems to establish that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense. Indeed, the use of `bug' to mean an industrial defect was al...
bug7 is and `bug' in the sense of an disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of `bug' is "A frightful object; a walking spectre"; this is traced to `bugbear', a Welsh term for...
bug8 is complete the circle) has recently been reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games. In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects. Here is a plausible conversation that never actually hap...
bug9 is "What do you mean? I don't see any ants in it." "That's the bug." [There has been a widespread myth that the original bug was moved to the Smithsonian, and an earlier version of this entry so asserted. A correspondent who thought t...
bug10 is there. While investigating this, your editor discovered that the NSWC still had the bug, but had unsuccessfully tried to get the Smithsonian to accept it --- and that the present curator of the History of American Technology Museum d...
bug11 is a worthwhile exhibit. Thus, the process of investigating the original-computer-bug bug may have fixed it in an entirely unexpected way, by making the myth true! --- ESR]
bug-compatible is adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separ...
bug-compatible2 is choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
bug-for-bug compatible is n. Same as {bug-compatible}, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.
buglix is /buhg'liks/ n. Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without venom. Compare {HP-SUX}.
bulletproof is adj. Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely {robust}; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition. This is a rare and valued quality. Syn. {armor-plated}.
bum is 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity. "I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code." "I spent half the night bumming the interrupt code." 2. To squeeze out excess; to...
bum2 is whatever it was removed from (without changing function; this distinguishes the process from a {featurectomy}). 3. n. A small change to an algorithm, program, or hardware device to make it more efficient. "This hardware bum makes t...
bum3 is uncommon, largely superseded by v. {tune} (and n. {tweak}, {hack}), though none of these exactly capture sense 2. All these uses are rare in Commonwealth hackish, because in the parent dialects of English `bum' is a rude synonym for...
bump is vt. Synonym for increment. Has the same meaning as C's ++ operator. Used esp. of counter variables, pointers, and index dummies in `for', `while', and `do-while' loops.
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burn-in period2 is length in which a person using a computer is so intensely involved in his project that he forgets basic needs such as food, drink, sleep, etc. Warning Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See {hack mode}, {larval stag...
burst page is n. Syn. {banner}, sense 1.
busy-wait is vi. Used of human behavior, conveys that the subject is busy waiting for someone or something, intends to move instantly as soon as it shows up, and thus cannot do anything else at the moment. "Can't talk now, I'm busy-waiting ti...
busy-wait2 is `busy-wait' means to wait on an event by {spin}ning through a tight or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. T...
busy-wait3 is time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may {hog} the processor.
buzz is vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing; esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code. A program that is buzzing appears to be {catatonic}, but yo...
buzz2 is buzzing loop may eventually end of its own accord. "The program buzzes for about 10 seconds trying to sort all the names into order." See {spin}; see also {grovel}. 2. [ETA Systems] To test a wire or printed circuit trace for cont...
buzz3 is Some wire faults will pass DC tests but fail a buzz test. 3. To process an array or list in sequence, doing the same thing to each element. "This loop buzzes through the tz array looking for a terminator type."
BWQ is /B-W-Q/ [IBM acronym, `Buzz Word Quotient'] The percentage of buzzwords in a speech or documents. Usually roughly proportional to {bogosity}. See {TLA}.
by hand is adv. Said of an operation (especially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker instead has to step tediously through. "My mailer doesn't have a command ...
by hand2 is replying to, so I have to do it by hand." This does not necessarily mean the speaker has to retype a copy of the message; it might refer to, say, dropping into a {subshell} from the mailer, making a copy of one's mailbox file, r...
by hand3 is and bottom of the message in question, deleting the rest of the file, inserting `>' characters on each line, writing the file, leaving the editor, returning to the mailer, reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the ...
byte is /bit/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one character; on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines. Some older architectures used `byte' for quantities of...
byte2 is `bytes' that were actually bitfields of 1 to 36 bits! These usages are now obsolete, and even 9-bit bytes have become rare in the general trend toward power-of-2 word sizes. Historical note The term originated in 1956 during the earl...
byte3 is originally it was described as 1 to 6 bits (typical I/O equipment of the period used 6-bit chunks of information). The move to an 8-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by th...
byte4 is mutating the word `bite' so it would not be accidentally misspelled as {bit}. See also {nybble}.
bytesexual is /bit`sek'shu-*l/ adj. Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either {big-endian} or {little-endian} format (depending, presumably, on a {mode bit} somewhere). See also {NUXI problem}.*C n. 1. The third ...
bytesexual2 is 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement {{UNIX}}. So called because many features derived from an earlier compiler named `B' in comme...
bytesexual3 is Stroustrup settled the question by designing C++, there was a humorous debate over whether C's successor should be named `D' or `P'. C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the dominant langua...
bytesexual4 is programming. See also {languages of choice}, {indent style}. C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly la...
bytesexual5 is maintainability of assembly language".
calculator is [Cambridge] n. Syn. for {bitty box}.
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Christmas tree is n. A kind of RS-232 line tester or breakout box featuring rows of blinking red and green LEDs suggestive of Christmas lights.
Christmas tree packet is n. A packet with every single option set for whatever protocol is in use. See {kamikaze packet}, {Chernobyl packet}. (The term doubtless derives from a fanciful image of each little option bit being represented by a ...
chrome is [from automotive slang via wargaming] n. Showy features added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to the power of a system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they certainly are *pretty* chrome!" Distinguis...
chrome2 is that the latter are usually added to gratify developers' own desires for featurefulness. Often used as a term of contempt.
chug is vi. To run slowly; to {grind} or {grovel}. "The disk is chugging like crazy."
Church of the SubGenius is n. A mutant offshoot of {Discordianism} launched in 1981 as a spoof of fundamentalist Christianity by the `Reverend' Ivan Stang, a brilliant satirist with a gift for promotion. Popular among hackers as a rich source...
Church of the SubGenius2 is "Bob" the divine drilling-equipment salesman, the Benevolent Space Xists, and the Stark Fist of Removal. Much SubGenius theory is concerned with the acquisition of the mystical substance or quality of `slack'.
Cinderella Book is [CMU] n. `Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation', by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a R...
Cinderella Book2 is coming out of it. The back cover depicts the girl with the device in shambles after she has pulled on the rope. See also {{book titles}}.
CI$ is // n. Hackerism for `CIS', CompuServe Information Service. The dollar sign refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges. Often used in {sig block}s just before a CompuServe address. Syn. {Compu$erve}.
Classic C is /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n. The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions. It is also known as `K&R C'. The name came into use while C was being standardized by the ...
Classic C2 is This is sometimes applied elsewhere thus, `X Classic', where X = Star Trek (referring to the original TV series) or X = PC (referring to IBM's ISA-bus machines as opposed to the PS/2 series). This construction is especially us...
Classic C3 is versions are considered serious losers relative to the older ones.
clean is 1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend...
clean2 is or {crufty}. 2. v. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."
CLM is /C-L-M/ [Sun `Career Limiting Move'] 1. n. An action endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and raises, and possibly one's job "His Halloween costume was a parody of his manager. He won the prize for `best CLM'." ...
CLM2 is discovered by a customer and obviously missed earlier because of poor testing "That's a CLM bug!"
clobber is vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare {mung}, {scribble}, {trash}, and {smash the stack}.
clocks is n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing. The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are usually discussed in clocks rather than absolute frac...
clocks2 is is that clock speeds for various models of the machine may increase as technology improves, and it is usually the relative times one is interested in when discussing the instruction set. Compare {cycle}.
clone is n. 1. An exact duplicate "Our product is a clone of their product." Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering. Also connotes lower price. 2. A shoddy, spurious copy "Their product is a clone of...
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CTY2 is refer to the CTY as `the console'.
cube is n. 1. [short for `cubicle'] A module in the open-plan offices used at many programming shops. "I've got the manuals in my cube." 2. A NeXT machine (which resembles a matte-black cube).
cubing is [parallel with `tubing'] vi. 1. Hacking on an IPSC (Intel Personal SuperComputer) hypercube. "Louella's gone cubing *again*!!" 2. Hacking Rubik's Cube or related puzzles, either physically or mathematically. 3. An indescribable fo...
cursor dipped in X is n. There are a couple of metaphors in English of the form `pen dipped in X' (perhaps the most common values of X are `acid', `bile', and `vitriol'). These map over neatly to this hackish usage (the cursor being what move...
cursor dipped in X2 is composing on-line). "Talk about a {nastygram}! He must've had his cursor dipped in acid when he wrote that one!"
cuspy is /kuhs'pee/ [WPI from the DEC acronym CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1. (of a program) Well-written. 2. Functionally excellent. A program that performs well and interfaces ...
cuspy2 is [NYU] Said of an attractive woman, especially one regarded as available. Implies a certain curvaceousness.
cut a tape is [poss. fr. mainstream `cut a check' or from the recording industry's `cut a record'] vi. To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! Though t...
cut a tape2 is speaks of analogously `cutting a disk' or anything else in this sense.
cybercrud is /si'ber-kruhd/ [coined by Ted Nelson] n. Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese.
cyberpunk is /si'ber-puhnk/ [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] n.,adj. A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel `Neuromancer' (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's `True Na...
cyberpunk2 is Brunner's 1975 novel `The Shockwave Rider'). Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since...
cyberpunk3 is tremendously stimulating. Gibson's work was widely imitated, in particular by the short-lived but innovative "Max Headroom" TV series. See {cyberspace}, {ice}, {go flatline}.
cyberspace is /si'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'; a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), ...
cyberspace2 is reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets. Few hackers are prepared to deny outright the possibility ...
cyberspace3 is network (see {network, the}). 2. Occasionally, the metaphoric location of the mind of a person in {hack mode}. Some hackers report experiencing strong eidetic imagery when in hack mode; interestingly, independent reports fro...
cyberspace4 is common features to the experience. In particular, the dominant colors of this subjective `cyberspace' are often gray and silver, and the imagery often involves constellations of marching dots, elaborate shifting patterns of lin...
cycle is 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie"). One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'. Often the computer can access i...
cycle2 is one speaks also of `memory cycles'. These are technical meanings of {cycle}. The jargon meaning comes from the observation that there are only so many cycles per second, and when you are sharing a computer the cycles get divided ...
cycle3 is computer spends working on your program rather than someone else's, the faster your program will run. That's why every hacker wants more cycles so he can spend less time waiting for the computer to respond. 2. By extension, a notio...
cycle4 is emphasizing that lots of things compete for the typical hacker's think time. "I refused to get involved with the Rubik's Cube back when it was big. Knew I'd burn too many cycles on it if I let myself." 3. vt. Syn. {bounce}, {120 r...
cycle5 is the machine again, that serial port's still hung."
cycle crunch is n. A situation where the number of people trying to use the computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}. This ...
cycle crunch2 is applied to timesharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier in recent years, so much so that the very term `cycle crunch' now has a faintly archaic flavor; most hackers ...
cycle crunch3 is opposed to traditional timesharing systems.
cycle drought is n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a {cycle crunch}, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The {high moby} is {down}, so we're running with...
cycle drought2 is There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
cycle of reincarnation is [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca. 1970] n. Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evo...
cycle of reincarnation2 is its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again. Several iteratio...
cycle of reincarnation3 is graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. Also known as `the Wheel of Life', `the Wheel of Samsara', and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theolog...
cycle server is n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for running large {batch} jobs. Implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.*D.C. Power Lab n. The former site of {...
cycle server2 is funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent --- the lab was named for a Donald C. Power. Compare {Marginal Hacks}.
daemon is /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n. A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is t...
daemon2 is not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon). For example, under {{ITS}} writing a file on the {LPT} spooler's directory would in...
daemon3 is print the file. The advantage is that programs wanting (in this example) files printed need not compete for access to the {LPT}. They simply enter their implicit requests and let the daemon decide what to do with them. Daemons a...
daemon4 is and may either live forever or be regenerated at intervals. Daemon and {demon} are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations. The term `daemon' was introduced to computing by {CTSS} people (who pronounce...
daemon5 is ITS called a {dragon}. Although the meaning and the pronunciation have drifted, we think this glossary reflects current (1991) usage.
dangling pointer is n. A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere (in C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid). Usually this is because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disapp...
dangling pointer2 is of its techspeak meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved to the other coast is a dangling pointer.
Datamation is /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers assume all {suit}s read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in `Datamation?'" It used to publish something hackishly funny every once in a while, like...
Datamation2 is but it has since become much more exclusively {suit}-oriented and boring.
day mode is n. See {phase} (sense 1). Used of people only.
dd is /dee-dee/ [UNIX from IBM {JCL}] vt. Equivalent to {cat} or {BLT}. This was originally the name of a UNIX copy command with special options suitable for block-oriented devices. Often used in heavy-handed system maintenance, as in "Let's...
dd2 is the boot PROM to load it back on to a new disk". The UNIX `dd(1)' was designed with a weird, distinctly non-UNIXy keyword option syntax reminiscent of IBM System/360 JCL (which had a similar DD command); though the command filled a n...
dd3 is The jargon usage is now very rare outside UNIX sites and now nearly obsolete even there, as `dd(1)' has been {deprecated} for a long time (though it has no exact replacement). Replaced by {BLT} or simple English `copy'.
DDT is /D-D-T/ n. 1. Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them. In this sense the term DDT is now archaic, havin...
DDT2 is names of individual programs like `dbx', `adb', `gdb', or `sdb'. 2. [ITS] Under MIT's fabled {{ITS}} operating system, DDT (running under the alias HACTRN) was also used as the {shell} or top level command language used to execute o...
DDT3 is specific DDTs (sense 1) supported on early DEC hardware. The DEC PDP-10 Reference Handbook (1969) contained a footnote on the first page of the documentation for DDT which illuminates the origin of the term Historical footnote DDT...
DDT4 is computer in 1961. At that time DDT stood for "DEC Debugging Tape". Since then, the idea of an on-line debugging program has propagated throughout the computer industry. DDT programs are now available for all DEC computers. Sin...
DDT5 is used, the more descriptive name "Dynamic Debugging Technique" has been adopted, retaining the DDT acronym. Confusion between DDT-10 and another well known pesticide, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (C14-H9-Cl5) should be minim...
DDT6 is apparently mutually exclusive, class of bugs. Sadly, this quotation was removed from later editions of the handbook after the {suit}s took over and DEC became much more `businesslike'.
de-rezz is /dee-rez'/ [from `de-resolve' via the movie "Tron"] (also `derez') 1. vi. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static and then dissolving. Occasionally used of a pe...
de-rezz2 is mentally rather than physically. Usage extremely silly, also rare. This verb was actually invented as *fictional* hacker jargon, and adopted in a spirit of irony by real hackers years after the fact. 2. vt. On a Macintosh, many ...
de-rezz3 is are managed in small segments of the program file known as `resources'. The standard resource compiler is Rez. The standard resource decompiler is DeRez. Thus, decompiling a resource is `derezzing'. Usage very common.
dead code is n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed, or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else. The presen...
dead code2 is errors due to alterations in the program or significant changes in the assumptions and environment of the program (see also {software rot}); a good compiler should report dead code so a maintainer can think about what it means. ...
DEADBEEF is /ded-beef/ n. The hexadecimal word-fill pattern for freshly allocated memory (decimal -21524111) under a number of IBM environments, including the RS/6000. As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memo...
DEADBEEF2 is boundary, of course, you have BEEFDEAD.
deadlock is n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waitin...
deadlock2 is anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything. (It is reported that this particular flavor of deadlock is sometimes called a `starvation deadlo...
deadlock3 is properly used for situations where a program can never run simply because it never gets high enough priority. Another common flavor is `constipation', where each process is trying to send stuff to the other but all buffers are ...
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demigod is n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community. To qualify as a genuine demigod, the ...
demigod2 is hacker community and have helped shape it. Major demigods include Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (co-inventors of {{UNIX}} and {C}) and Richard M. Stallman (inventor of {EMACS}). In their hearts of hearts, most hackers dream of ...
demigod3 is more than one major software project has been driven to completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis. See also {net.god}, {true-hacker}.
demo is /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype. A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of {test} runs, especially when important people are watching. 2. n. The act of d...
demo mode is [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a {demo}, usually due yesterday. 2. A mode in which video games sit there by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract ...
demo mode2 is they use as a screen saver, or may go through a demo mode on startup (for example, the Microsoft Windows opening screen --- which lets you impress your neighbors without actually having to put up with {Microsloth Windows}).
demon is n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. See {daemon}. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are ...
demon2 is system. Demons are particularly common in AI programs. For example, a knowledge-manipulation program might implement inference rules as demons. Whenever a new piece of knowledge was added, various demons would activate (which de...
demon3 is and would create additional pieces of knowledge by applying their respective inference rules to the original piece. These new pieces could in turn activate more demons as the inferences filtered down through chains of logic. Mean...
demon4 is whatever its primary task was. 2. [outside MIT] Often used equivalently to {daemon} --- especially in the {{UNIX}} world, where the latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic.
depeditate is /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] vt. Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can resul...
depeditate2 is letters are said to have been depeditated.
deprecated is adj. Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in favor of a specified replacement. Deprecated features can, unfortunately, linger on for many years.
deserves to lose is adj. Said of someone who willfully does the {Wrong Thing}; humorously, if one uses a feature known to be {marginal}. What is meant is that one deserves the consequences of one's {losing} actions. "Boy, anyone who tries to...
deserves to lose2 is ({{ITS}} fans used to say this of {{UNIX}}; many still do.) See also {screw}, {chomp}, {bagbiter}.
desk check is n.,v. To {grovel} over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers --- though so...
desk check2 is Compare {eyeball search}, {vdiff}, {vgrep}.
Devil Book is n. `The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System', by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989) --- the standard reference book on ...
Devil Book2 is because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on {daemon}) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of UNIX, the {fork(2)} system call).
devo is /dee'voh/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A person in a development group. See also {doco} and {mango}.
dickless workstation is n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server. These combine all the di...
dickless workstation2 is disadvantages of distributed personal computers.
dictionary flame is [USENET] n. An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over...
diddle is 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of {ADVENT} so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." See {tweak} and {twiddl...
diddle2 is See also {tweak}, {twiddle}, {frob}.
diff is /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs'). "Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare {vdiff}. 2. Specifical...
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download is vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a {mainframe}) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp. a microcomputer or specialized peripheral. Oppose {upload}. However, note that groun...
download2 is rule for this term. Space-to-earth transmission is always download and the reverse upload regardless of the relative size of the computers involved. So far the in-space machines have invariably been smaller; thus the upload/down...
DP is /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a {suit}. See {DPer}. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}.
DPB is /d*-pib'/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt. To plop something down in the middle. Usage silly. "DPB yourself into that couch there." The connotation would be that the couch is full except for one slot just big enough for you to ...
DPB2 is the name of a PDP-10 instruction that inserts some bits into the middle of some other bits. This usage has been kept alive by the Common LISP function of the same name.
DPer is /dee-pee-er/ n. Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that {suit}s use this term self-referentially. "*Computers* process data, not people!" See {DP}.
dragon is n. [MIT] A program similar to a {daemon}, except that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks. A typical example would be an accounting program, which keeps track of who is logg...
dragon2 is etc. Under ITS, many terminals displayed a list of people logged in, where they were, what they were running, etc., along with some random picture (such as a unicorn, Snoopy, or the Enterprise), which was generated by the `name d...
dragon3 is and most other OSes this would be called a `background demon' or {daemon}. The best-known UNIX example of a dragon is `cron(1)'. At SAIL, they called this sort of thing a `phantom'.
Dragon Book is n. The classic text `Compilers Principles, Techniques and Tools', by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6), so called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labeled `c...
Dragon Book2 is bearing the lance `LALR parser generator' among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the `Red Dragon Book' (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled `Principles Of Compiler Design' (Alfred V. A...
Dragon Book3 is ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the `Green Dragon Book' (1977). (Also `New Dragon Book', `Old Dragon Book'.) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gaun...
Dragon Book4 is representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also {{book titles}}.
drain is [IBM] v. Syn. for {flush} (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline.
dread high-bit disease is n. A condition endemic to PRIME (a.k.a. PR1ME) minicomputers that results in all the characters having their high (0x80) bit ON rather than OFF. This of course makes transporting files to other systems much more diff...
dread high-bit disease2 is devices. It is reported that PRIME adopted the reversed-8-bit convention in order to save 25 cents per serial line per machine. This probably qualifies as one of the most {cretinous} design tradeoffs ever made. Se...
dread high-bit disease3 is (including the Atari 800) have exhibited similar brain damage.
DRECNET is /drek'net/ [from Yiddish/German `dreck', meaning dirt] n. Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the {VMS} community. So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either stupidly o...
DRECNET2 is violated that spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also {connector conspiracy}.
driver is n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 2. [techspeak] In `device driver', code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or...
driver2 is `driver' also means a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand.
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dump2 is memory, mass storage, or some file. In {elder days}, debugging was generally done by `groveling over' a dump (see {grovel}); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made this uncommon, and the term `dump'...
dump3 is backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing installations.
dup killer is /d[y]oop kill'r/ [FidoNet] n. Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes.
dup loop is /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n. An incorrectly configured system or network gateway may propagate duplicate messages on one or more {echo}es, with different identification information that renders {dup killer}s ine...
dup loop2 is eventually reaches a system through which it has already passed (with the original identification information), all systems passed on the way back to that system are said to be involved in a {dup loop}.
dusty deck is n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with (or to maintain). The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used esp. when referring to old scien...
dusty deck2 is of which was written in FORTRAN and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See {fossil}.
DWIM is /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. n.,obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many ...
DWIM2 is Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, esp. when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see {legalese}). Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat id...
DWIM3 is make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. This led a number of victims of DWIM to claim the acronym stood for `Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'. In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to t...
DWIM4 is One day another hacker there typed `delete *$' to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending `$' to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sess...
DWIM5 is editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported `*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'.' It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a {Vulcan nerve pinch} after only a half dozen ...
DWIM6 is said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type `delete *$' twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is a...
DWIM7 is instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about `DWIMC' (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thin...
dynner is /din'r/ 32 bits, by analogy with {nybble} and {{byte}}. Usage rare and extremely silly. See also {playte}, {tayste}, {crumb}.*earthquake [IBM] n. The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny th...
dynner2 is initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants.
Easter egg is n. 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code. 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in res...
Easter egg2 is or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command `make love' with `not war?'. Many personal computers have much ...
Easter egg3 is lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.
Easter egging is [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated parts more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it. Compare {sho...
eat flaming death is imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous {CPU Wars} comic; supposed to derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or s...
eat flaming death2 is reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressi...
EBCDIC is /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [acronym, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n. An alleged character set used on IBM {dinosaur}s. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such de...
EBCDIC2 is and the absence of several ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages (exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from {...
EBCDIC3 is promulgated it as a customer-control tactic (see {connector conspiracy}), spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants and how ...
EBCDIC4 is classified top-secret, burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very *name* of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest {evil}. See also {fear and loathing}.
echo is [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s echomail system. Compare {newsgroup}.
eighty-column mind is [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an o...
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elephantine3 is semi-humorous. Compare `has the elephant nature' and the somewhat more pejorative {monstrosity}. See also {second-system effect} and {baroque}.
elevator controller is n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical exa...
elevator controller2 is computation environment. "You can't require `printf(3)' to be part of the default runtime library --- what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both ...
ELIZA effect is /*-li'z* *-fekt'/ [AI community] n. The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol `+' that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's j...
ELIZA effect2 is Using `+' or `plus' to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. This term comes from the famous ELIZA program, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's ...
ELIZA effect3 is patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing w...
ELIZA effect4 is tendency to attach to words meanings which the computer never put there. The ELIZA effect is a {Good Thing} when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analyzing an Artificial Inte...
elvish is n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the `Book of Kells'. Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in `The Lord of The Rings' as an orthography for his fictional ...
elvish2 is both visually and phonetically elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be interested by artificial languages in general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and the like to support a Fean...
elvish3 is also {elder days}. 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a graphics device. 3. The typeface mundanely called `B"ocklin', an art-decoish display font.
EMACS is /ee'maks/ [from Editing MACroS] n. The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a program editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was originally written by Richard Stallman in {TECO} under {{ITS}} at the MIT AI lab, but the most wide...
EMACS2 is includes facilities to run compilation subprocesses and send and receive mail; many hackers spend up to 80% of their {tube time} inside it. Some versions running under window managers iconify as an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps...
EMACS3 is not (yet) include. Indeed, some hackers find EMACS too heavyweight and {baroque} for their taste, and expand the name as `Escape Meta Alt Control Shift' to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with {bucky bits}. Other s...
EMACS4 is Constantly Swapping', `Eventually `malloc()'s All Computer Storage', and `EMACS Makes A Computer Slow' (see {{recursive acronym}}). See also {vi}.
email is /ee'mayl/ 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}. See {network address}. 2. vt. To send electronic mail. O...
email2 is listed in the OED; it means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French `emmailleure', network.
emoticon is /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n. An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news. Hundreds have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include (These may become more comprehensible if you tilt your head si...
emoticon2 is by far the most frequently encountered. Hyphenless forms of them are common on CompuServe, GEnie, and BIX; see also {bixie}. On {USENET}, `smiley' is often used as a generic term synonymous with {emoticon}, as well as specificall...
emoticon3 is that the emoticon was invented by one Scott Fahlman on the CMU {bboard} systems around 1980. He later wrote "I wish I had saved the original post, or at least recorded the date for posterity, but I had no idea that I was starting...
emoticon4 is world's communication channels." [GLS confirms that he remembers this original posting]. Note for the {newbie} Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone ov...
empire is n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago. There are five or six multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication, and one single-player version implemented for...
empire2 is available as MS-DOS freeware. All are notoriously addictive.
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epoch is [UNIX prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n. The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most UNIX versions the epoch is 000000 GMT, January 1, 1970. System time is measured in se...
epoch2 is problems may ensue when the clock wraps around (see {wrap around}), which is not necessarily a rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a signed 32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years. The 1-tick-per-second c...
epoch3 is 2038, assuming word lengths don't increase by then. See also {wall time}.
epsilon is [see {delta}] 1. n. A small quantity of anything. "The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible; less than {marginal}. "We can get this feature for epsilon cost." 3. `within epsilon of' close enough to be indistinguishabl...
epsilon2 is closer than being `within delta of'. "That's not what I asked for, but it's within epsilon of what I wanted." Alternatively, it may mean not close enough, but very little is required to get it there "My program is within epsilo...
epsilon squared is n. A quantity even smaller than {epsilon}, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar termin...
epsilon squared2 is of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare {lost in the underflow}, {lost in the noise}.
the era is Syn. {epoch}. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymous, but `era' usually connotes a span of time rather than a point in time. The {epoch} usage is recommended.
Eric Conspiracy is n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuv...
Eric Conspiracy2 is more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the `Allman style' described under ...
Eric Conspiracy3 is NNTP); your editor has heard from about fourteen others by email, and the organization line `Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories' now emanates regularly from more than one site.
Eris is /e'ris/ n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinve...
Eris2 is creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of {Discordianism} and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several `fringe' cultures, including hackerdom. See {Discordianism}, {Church of the SubGenius}.
erotics is /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n. English-language university slang for electronics. Often used by hackers in Helsinki, maybe because good electronics excites them and makes them warm.
essentials is n. Things necessary to maintain a productive and secure hacking environment. "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, a 20-megahertz 80386 box with 8 meg of core and a 300-megabyte disk supporting full UNIX with source and X windows and...
essentials2 is Internet site, and thou."
evil is adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `e...
evil2 is design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This is more an esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a {Blue Glue} inter...
evil3 is "{TECO} is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos." Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/.
exa- is /ek's*/ [SI] pref. See {{quantifiers}}.
examining the entrails is n. The process of {grovel}ling through a core dump or hex image in the attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down. Compare {runes}, {incantation}, {black art}, {desk check}.
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glitch is /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1. n. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes recoverable. An interruption in electric service...
glitch2 is This is of grave concern because it usually crashes all the computers. In jargon, though, a hacker who got to the middle of a sentence and then forgot how he or she intended to complete it might say, "Sorry, I just glitched". 2....
glitch3 is [Stanford] To scroll a display screen, esp. several lines at a time. {{WAITS}} terminals used to do this in order to avoid continuous scrolling, which is distracting to the eye. 4. obs. Same as {magic cookie}, sense 2. All the...
glitch4 is technical meaning the term has to hardware people. If the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs change to some {random} value for some very brief time before they settle down to the correct value, then that is called a glit...
glitch5 is depending on what the circuit is connected to. This term is techspeak, found in electronics texts.
glob is /glob/, *not* /glohb/ [UNIX] vt.,n. To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing'). The UNIX conventions for filename wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive tha...
glob2 is English, especially in email or news on technical topics. Those commonly encountered include the following * wildcard for any string (see also {UN*X}) ? wildcard for any character (generally read this way only...
glob3 is a word) [] delimits a wildcard matching any of the enclosed characters {} alternation of comma-separated alternatives; thus, `foo{baz,qux}' would be read as `foobaz' or `fooqux' Some examples "He said hi...
glob4 is "I don't read talk.politics.*" (any of the talk.politics subgroups on {USENET}). Other examples are given under the entry for {X}. Compare {regexp}. Historical note The jargon usage derives from `glob', the name of a subprogram th...
glob5 is versions of the UNIX shell.
glork is /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of 2 hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed. 2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}. ...
glork2 is used reflexively. "My program just glorked itself." See also {glark}.
glue is n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks. For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue logic'.
gnarly is /nar'lee/ adj. Both {obscure} and {hairy} in the sense of complex. "{Yow}! --- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang.
GNU is /gnoo/, *not* /noo/ 1. [acronym `GNU's Not UNIX!', see {{recursive acronym}}] A UNIX-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu). GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two to...
GNU2 is very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is "Help stamp out s...
GNU3 is controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality softwa...
GNU4 is Software Foundation's imprimatur. See {EMACS}, {copyleft}, {General Public Virus}. 2. Noted UNIX hacker John Gilmore (gnu@toad.com), founder of USENET's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.
GNUMACS is /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the {GNU} project's flagship tool, {EMACS}. Used esp. in contrast with {GOSMACS}.
go flatline is [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi., also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being c...
go flatline2 is employ jargon-jokes. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down UNIX but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, t...
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grault is /grawlt/ n. Yet another meta-syntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation. See {corge}.
gray goo is n. A hypothetical substance composed of {sagan}s of sub-micron-sized self-replicating robots programmed to make copies of themselves out of whatever is available. The image that goes with the term is one of the entire biosphere of...
gray goo2 is goo. This is the simplest of the {{nanotechnology}} disaster scenarios, easily refuted by arguments from energy requirements and elemental abundances. Compare {blue goo}.
Great Renaming is n. The {flag day} on which all of the non-local groups on the {USENET} had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Great Runes is n. Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also {runes}, {smash case}, {fold case}. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy ...
Great Runes2 is Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The question...
Great Runes3 is conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and wh...
Great Runes4 is obscured. The results were filtered up through {management}. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly....
Great Runes5 is folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. T...
Great Runes6 is Runes for thirty years.
great-wall is [from SF fandom] vi.,n. A mass expedition to an oriental restaurant, esp. one where food is served family-style and shared. There is a common heuristic about the amount of food to order, expressed as "Get N - 1 entrees"; the val...
great-wall2 is the group, can be inferred from context (see {N}). See {{oriental food}}, {ravs}, {stir-fried random}.
Green Book is n. 1. One of the three standard PostScript references `PostScript Language Program Design', bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988; QA76.73.P67P66 ISBN; 0-201-14396-8); see also {Red Book}, {Blue Book}). 2. Informal name ...
Green Book2 is SmallTalk `Smalltalk-80 Bits of History, Words of Advice', by Glenn Krasner (Addison-Wesley, 1983; QA76.8.S635S58; ISBN 0-201-11669-3) (this, too, is associated with blue and red books). 3. The `X/Open Compatibility Guide'. ...
Green Book3 is environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID; also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See {...
Green Book4 is Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards which will be issued by the CCITT's tenth plenary assembly. Until now, these have changed color each review cycle (1984 w...
Green Book5 is is rumored that this convention is going to be dropped before 1992. These include, among other things, the X.400 email standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. See also {{book titles}}.
green bytes is n. 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. The term comes from an IBM user's group meeting (ca. 1962) ...
green bytes2 is debated and the diagram of the file on the blackboard had the `green bytes' drawn in green. 2. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing th...
green bytes3 is {out-of-band}, {zigamorph}, {fence} (sense 1).
green card is n. [after the `IBM System/360 Reference Data' card] This is used for any summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green. Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of assembly language. "I'll g...
green card2 is addressing mode for that instruction." Some green cards are actually booklets. The original green card became a yellow card when the System/370 was introduced, and later a yellow booklet. An anecdote from IBM refers to a scen...
green card3 is room at Yorktown in 1978. A luser overheard one of the programmers ask another "Do you have a green card?" The other grunted and passed the first a thick yellow booklet. At this point the luser turned a delicate shade of ol...
green card4 is return. See also {card}.
green lightning is [IBM] n. 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let th...
green lightning2 is That, it certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM color graphics displays were actually *programmed* to produce green lightning! 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalization or ...
green lightning3 is the 88000 architecture `compatibility logic', but I call it green lightning". See also {feature}.
green machine is n. A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the o...
Green's Theorem is [TMRC] prov. For any story, in any group of people there will be at least one person who has not heard the story. [The name of this theorem is a play on a fundamental theorem in calculus. --- ESR]
grep is /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p , where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt. To rapidly scan a file or f...
grep2 is pattern. By extension, to look for something by pattern. "Grep the bulletin board for the system backup schedule, would you?" See also {vgrep}.
grind is vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To format code, especially LISP code, by indenting lines so that it looks pretty. This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare; {prettyprint} was and is the generic term for such op...
grind2 is version of a document from the nroff, troff, TeX, or Scribe source. The BSD program `vgrind(1)' grinds code for printing on a Versatec bitmapped printer. 3. To run seemingly interminably, esp. (but not necessarily) if performing ...
grind3 is Similar to {crunch} or {grovel}. Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc. See also {hog}. 4. To make the whole system slow. "Troff really grinds a PDP-11." 5. `grin...
grind crank is n. A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes t...
grind crank2 is {grind} and {wugga wugga}. Historical note At least one real machine actually had a grind crank --- the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as `...
grind crank3 is as `The Rice University Computer' (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrang...
grind crank4 is button. This allowed one to `crank' through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
gritch is /grich/ 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a {glitch}). 2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled "Gritch gritch". 3. A synonym for {glitch} (as verb or noun).
grok is /grok/, var. /grohk/ [from the novel `Stranger in a Strange Land', by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] vt. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Co...
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hacker5 is Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if ...
hacker6 is quickly be labeled {bogus}).
hacking run is [analogy with `bombing run' or `speed run'] n. A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to `change phase the hard way' (see {phase}).
Hacking X for Y is [ITS] n. The information ITS made publicly available about each user (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out fields. On display, two of these fields were combined into a project description o...
Hacking X for Y2 is `"Hacking perceptrons for Minsky"'). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as UNIX {plan file}s).
Hackintosh is n. 1. An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a `Mac XL'). 2. A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
hackish is /hak'ish/ adj. (also {hackishness} n.) 1. Said of something that is or involves a hack. 2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture. See also {true-hacker}.
hackishness is n. The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Syn. {hackitude}.
hackitude is n. Syn. {hackishness}; this word is considered sillier.
hair is [back-formation from {hairy}] n. The complications that make something hairy. "Decoding {TECO} commands requires a certain amount of hair." Often seen in the phrase `infinite hair', which connotes extreme complexity. Also in `hairif...
hair2 is "GNUMACS Elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing modes." "Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right." (or just "Hair squared!")
hairy is adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy." 2. Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy." 3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context "...
hairy2 is nothing to worry about." See also {hirsute}.
HAKMEM is /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for ...
HAKMEM2 is techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased Item 41 (Gene Salamin) T...
HAKMEM3 is than 2^18. Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel) The most *probable* suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which is the most *evenly* distributed. This is because the world likes to have unequal numbers a ther...
HAKMEM4 is the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest disordered energy. Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel) Count the magic squares of order 5 (that is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all rows, columns, ...
HAKMEM5 is There are about 320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and reflection. Item 154 (Bill Gosper) The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of pow...
HAKMEM6 is with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-comple...
HAKMEM7 is period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary --- the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, som...
HAKMEM8 is to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more precisely, algebra Let X = the sum of many powers of 2 = ...111111. Now add X to its...
HAKMEM9 is X = -1. Therefore algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement. Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson) 21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the {PDP-10} as both an integer and a...
HAKMEM10 is two representations are identical. Item 176 (Gosper) The "banana phenomenon" was encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the t...
HAKMEM11 is occurrence, typing it out, and iterating. This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of." In one sense...
HAKMEM12 is there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to find ...
HAKMEM13 is it would require backing up N - 1 characters before seeking the next N-character string. Note This last item refers to a {Dissociated Press} implementation. See also {banana problem}. HAKMEM also contains some rather more compli...
HAKMEM14 is these examples show some of its fun flavor.
hakspek is /hak'speek/ n. A shorthand method of spelling found on many British academic bulletin boards and {talker system}s. Syllables and whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ASCII characters the names of which are phonetically s...
hakspek2 is are usually dropped. Hence, `for' becomes `4'; `two', `too', and `to' become `2'; `ck' becomes `k'. "Before I see you tomorrow" becomes "b4 i c u 2moro". First appeared in London about 1986, and was probably caused by the slow...
hakspek3 is operated on archaic machines with outdated operating systems and no standard methods of communication. Has become rarer since. See also {talk mode}.
hamster is n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel. 2. [UK] Any item of hardware made by Amstrad, a com...
hand-hacking is n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See {tune},...
hand-hacking2 is 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
handshaking is n. Hardware or software activity designed to start or keep two machines or programs in synchronization as they {do protocol}. Often applied to human activity; thus, a hacker might watch two people in conversation nodding their ...
handshaking2 is others' points and say "Oh, they're handshaking!". See also {protocol}.
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HCF is /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back...
HCF2 is was the first for which the HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to {toggle} a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this can actually cause lines to burn up.
heads down is [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also {hack mode} and {larval stage}, although it is not confined to fledgling hackers.
heartbeat is n. 1. The signal emitted by a Level 2 Ethernet transceiver at the end of every packet to show that the collision-detection circuit is still connected. 2. A periodic synchronization signal used by software or hardware, such as a b...
heartbeat2 is `natural' oscillation frequency of a computer's clock crystal, before frequency division down to the machine's clock rate. 4. A signal emitted at regular intervals by software to demonstrate that it is still alive. Sometimes h...
heartbeat3 is stops hearing a heartbeat. See also {breath-of-life packet}.
heavy metal is [Cambridge] n. Syn. {big iron}.
heavy wizardry is n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *th...
heavy wizardry2 is drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to {X} (sense 2) without a toolkit. Esp. found in comments similar to "Heavy wizardry begins here ...". Compare {voodoo programming}.
heavyweight is adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pu...
heavyweight2 is considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time. {EMACS} is a heavyweight editor; {X} is an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one man's heavyweight is another's {elephan...
heisenbug is /hi'zen-buhg/ [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] n. A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. Antonym of {Bohr bug}; see also {mandelbug}. In C, nine out of ...
heisenbug2 is on core} phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc {arena}) or errors that {smash the stack}.
Helen Keller mode is n. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}. (Unfair to the real He...
Helen Keller mode2 is was triumphant.) See also {go flatline}, {catatonic}.
hello, sailor! is interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of {hello, world}; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game {Zork} (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the tradi...
hello, sailor!2 is off the boat, of course.
hello, wall! is excl. See {wall}.
hello, world is interj. 1. The canonical minimal test message in the C/UNIX universe. 2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message. Traditionally, the first program a C coder is supposed to write in a new environment is one that jus...
hello, world2 is (and indeed it is the first example program in {K&R}). Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a {hairy} compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered to ...
hello, world3 is hacker making an entrance or requesting information from anyone present. "Hello, world! Is the {VAX} back up yet?"
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IYFEG is // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling racist jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See {JEDR}.*J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrar...
IYFEG2 is often prefixed to a noun to make a name out of it. It means roughly `some particular' or `any specific one'. "Would you let J. Random Loser marry your daughter?" The most common uses are `J. Random Hacker', `J. Random Loser', an...
IYFEG3 is be allowed to {gun} down other people?"), but it can be used simply as an elaborate version of {random} in any sense.
J. Random Hacker is [MIT] /J rand'm hak'r/ n. A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the archetypal hacker nerd. See {random}, {Suzie COBOL}. This may originally have been inspired or influenced by `J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee...
jaggies is /jag'eez/ n. The `stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp. a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a pixel device (as opposed to a vector display).
JCL is /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely {rude} Job Control Language. JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems. JCL has a very {fascist} syntax, and some versions will, for example, {barf} if tw...
JCL2 is programmers confronted with JCL simply copy a working file (or card deck), changing the file names. Someone who actually understands and generates unique JCL is regarded with the mixed respect one gives to someone who memorizes the ...
JCL3 is itself sometimes sing "Who's the breeder of the crud that mangles you and me? I-B-M, J-C-L, M-o-u-s-e" to the tune of the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme to express their opinion of the beast. 2. A comparative for any very {rude} softwar...
JCL4 is as bad as JCL." As with {COBOL}, JCL is often used as an archetype of ugliness even by those who haven't experienced it. See also {IBM}, {fear and loathing}.
JEDR is // n. Synonymous with {IYFEG}. At one time, people in the USENET newsgroup rec.humor.funny tended to use `JEDR' instead of {IYFEG} or `<ethnic>'; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made by a loser with initi...
JEDR2 is joke posted there. (The practice was {retcon}ned by the expanding these initials as `Joke Ethnic/Denomination/Race'.) After much sound and fury JEDR faded away; this term appears to be doing likewise. JEDR's only permanent effect...
JEDR3 is `sensitivity' arguments for censorship so thoroughly that more recent attempts to raise them have met with immediate and near-universal rejection.
JFCL is /jif'kl/, /jaf'kl/, /j*-fi'kl/ vt., obs. (alt. `jfcl') To cancel or annul something. "Why don't you jfcl that out?" The fastest do-nothing instruction on older models of the PDP-10 happened to be JFCL, which stands for "Jump if Flag ...
JFCL2 is something useful, but is a very fast no-operation if no flag is specified. Geoff Goodfellow, one of the jargon-1 co-authors, has long had JFCL on the license plate of his BMW. Usage rare except among old-time PDP-10 hackers.
jiffy is n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on the computer (see {tick}). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. "The swapper runs ...
jiffy2 is memory management routine is executed once for every 6 ticks of the clock, or about ten times a second. 2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond {wall time} interval. 3. Indeterminate time from a few secon...
jiffy3 is certainly not now and possibly never. This is a bit contrary to the more widespread use of the word. Oppose {nano}. See also {Real Soon Now}.
job security is n. When some piece of code is written in a particularly {obscure} fashion, and no good reason (such as time or space optimization) can be discovered, it is often said that the programmer was attempting to increase his job secur...
job security2 is for maintenance). This sour joke seldom has to be said in full; if two hackers are looking over some code together and one points at a section and says "job security", the other one may just nod.
jock is n. 1. A programmer who is characterized by large and somewhat brute-force programs. See {brute force}. 2. When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area. The compounds `compiler jock' and `sy...
jock2 is examples of this.
joe code is /joh' kohd`/ n. 1. Code that is overly {tense} and unmaintainable. "{Perl} may be a handy program, but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code." 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code. Correspondents wishing to remain ...
joe code2 is the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and observed that usage has drifted slightly; the original sobriquet `Joe code' was intended in sense 1.
JR[LN] is /J-R-L/, /J-R-N/ n. The names JRL and JRN were sometimes used as example names when discussing a kind of user ID used under {{TOPS-10}}; they were understood to be the initials of (fictitious) programmers named `J. Random Loser' and ...
JR[LN]2 is example, if one said "To log in, type log one comma jay are en" (that is, "log 1,JRN"), the listener would have understood that he should use his own computer ID in place of `JRN'.
JRST is /jerst/ [based on the PDP-10 jump instruction] v.,obs. To suddenly change subjects, with no intention of returning to the previous topic. Usage rather rare except among PDP-10 diehards, and considered silly. See also {AOS}.
juggling eggs is vi. Keeping a lot of {state} in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF nov...
juggling eggs2 is and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." That is a very hackish use of language. See also {hack mode}.
jump off into never-never land is [from J. M. Barrie's `Peter Pan'] v. Same as {branch to Fishkill}, but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'. Compare {hyperspace}.*...
jump off into never-never land2 is used both as a spoken word and a written suffix (like {meg} and {gig} for megabyte and gigabyte). See {{quantifiers}}.
K&R is [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book `The C Programming Language', esp. the classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978; ISBN 0-113-110163-3). Syn. {White Book}, {Old Testament}. See also ...
kahuna is /k*-hoo'nuh/ [IBM from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n. Synonym for {wizard}, {guru}.
kamikaze packet is n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a {Christmas tree packet}. RFC-1025, `TCP and IP Bake Off' says 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree...
kamikaze packet2 is is, correctly handle a segment with the maximum combination of features at once (e.g., a SYN URG PUSH FIN segment with options and data). See also {Chernobyl packet}.
kangaroo code is n. Syn. {spaghetti code}.
ken is /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's...
ken2 is third-person reference; it is widely understood (on USENET, in particular) that without a last name `Ken' refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). See als...
ken3 is This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken.
kgbvax is /K-G-B'vaks/ n. See {kremvax}.
kill file is [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or u...
kill file2 is other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in ...
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machinable is adj. Machine-readable. Having the {softcopy} nature.
machoflops is /mach'oh-flops/ [pun on `megaflops', a coinage for `millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second'] n. Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real applications are lucky to...
machoflops2 is mileage may vary}, {benchmark}.
Macintoy is /mak'in-toy/ n. The Apple Macintosh, considered as a {toy}. Less pejorative than {Macintrash}.
Macintrash is /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term {maggotbox} has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle ar...
Macintrash2 is See also {beige toaster}, {WIMP environment}, {drool-proof paper}, {user-friendly}.
macro is /mak'roh/ [techspeak] n. A name (possibly followed by a formal {arg} list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander. This ...
macro2 is dictionary; what those won't tell you is how the hackish connotations of the term have changed over time. The term `macro' originated in early assemblers, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding d...
macro3 is assemblers became ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as {HLL}s, only to fall from favor as improving compiler technology marginalized assembler programming (see {languages of choice}). Nowadays the term is m...
macro4 is preprocessor, LISP, or one of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion facility (such as TeX or UNIX's [nt]roff suite). Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective `macros' is now sometimes us...
macro5 is application control language (whether or not the language is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such as the `keyboard macros' supported in some text editors (and PC TSR or Macintosh INIT/CDEV keyboard...
macro- is pref. Large. Opposite of {micro-}. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix {mega-}, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.
macrology is /mak-rol'*-jee/ n. 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.g., as part of a large system written in {LISP}, {TECO}, or (less commonly) assembler. 2. The art and science involved in comprehending a macrology in sense 1. Som...
macrology2 is not unlike archeology, ecology, or {theology}, hence the sound-alike construction. See also {boxology}.
macrotape is /ma'kroh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape, as opposed to a {microtape}.
maggotbox is /mag'*t-boks/ n. See {Macintrash}. This is even more derogatory.
magic is adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain; compare {automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." "TTY echoing is controlled by a large numb...
magic2 is computes the parity of an 8-bit byte in three instructions." 2. Characteristic of something that works although no one really understands why (this is especially called {black magic}). 3. [Stanford] A feature not generally public...
magic3 is impossible, or a feature formerly in that category but now unveiled. Compare {black magic}, {wizardly}, {deep magic}, {heavy wizardry}. For more about hackish `magic', see appendix A.
magic cookie is [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a str...
magic cookie2 is E.g., on non-UNIX OSes with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of `ftell(3)' may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to `fseek(3)', but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase ...
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meeces is /mees'*z/ [TMRC] n. Occasional furry visitors who are not {urchin}s. [That is, mice. This may no longer be in live use; it clearly derives from the refrain of the early-1960s cartoon character Mr. Jinx: "I hate meeces to *pieces*!" ...
meg is /meg/ n. See {{quantifiers}}.
mega- is /me'g*/ [SI] pref. See {{quantifiers}}.
megapenny is /meg'*-pen`ee/ n. $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
MEGO is /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'. 1. n. A {handwave} intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement beca...
MEGO2 is not understanding what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLA}s. 2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among non-hackers this term often refers ...
MEGO3 is glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it.
meltdown, network is n. See {network meltdown}.
meme is /meem/ [coined on analogy with `gene' by Richard Dawkins] n. An idea considered as a {replicator}, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. Used esp. in the phrase `meme complex'...
meme2 is memes that form an organized belief system, such as a religion. This lexicon is an (epidemiological) vector of the `hacker subculture' meme complex; each entry might be considered a meme. However, `meme' is often misused to mean `...
meme3 is acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this...
meme plague is n. The spread of a successful but pernicious {meme}, esp. one that parasitizes the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage i...
meme plague2 is `joiner' ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
memetics is /me-met'iks/ [from {meme}] The study of memes. As of mid-1991, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. ...
memetics2 is among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
memory leak is n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion. Also (esp. at CMU) called {core leak}. See {aliasing bug}, {f...
memory leak2 is {precedence lossage}, {overrun screw}, {leaky heap}, {leak}.
menuitis is /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style inte...
menuitis2 is macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See {user-obsequious}, {drool-proof paper}, {WIMP environment}, {for the rest of us}.
mess-dos is /mes-dos/ n. Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!" See {{MS-DOS}}. Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, it...
mess-dos2 is IBMness (see {fear and loathing}). Also `mess-loss', `messy-dos', `mess-dog', `mess-dross', `mush-dos', and various combinations thereof. In Ireland and the U.K. it is even sometimes called `Domestos' after a brand of toilet c...
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MIPS is /mips/ [acronym] n. 1. A measure of computing speed; formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^{20}!); often rendered by hackers as `Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed' or in other unflattering...
MIPS2 is attitude about the value of most {benchmark} claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and {marketroid}s. The singular is sometimes `1 MIP' even though this is clearly etymologically wrong. See ...
MIPS3 is especially large computers, considered abstractly as sources of {computron}s. "This is just a workstation; the heavy MIPS are hidden in the basement." 3. The corporate name of a particular RISC-chip company; among other things, th...
MIPS4 is 3100 workstation series. 4. Acronym for `Meaningless Information per Second' (a joke, prob. from sense 1).
misbug is /mis-buhg/ [MIT] n. An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful; something that should have been a {bug} but turns out to be a {feature}. Usage: rare. Compare {green lightning}. See {miswart}.
misfeature is /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation which has evolved. It is not the same as a bug, because fixing it involves a substantial philoso...
misfeature2 is involved. A misfeature is different from a simple unforeseen side effect; the term implies that the misfeature was actually carefully planned to be that way, but its future consequences or circumstances just weren't predicted ...
misfeature3 is having thought ahead about it at all. Many misfeatures (especially in user-interface design) arise because the designers/implementors mistook their personal tastes for laws of nature. Often a former feature becomes a misfeat...
misfeature4 is parameters subsequently changed (possibly only in the judgment of the implementors). "Well, yeah, it is kind of a misfeature that file names are limited to 6 characters, but the original implementors wanted to save directory ...
Missed'em-five is n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX, generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood. (The synonym `SysVile' is also encountered.) See {software bloat}, {Berzerkeley}.
miswart is /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n. A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart} but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}. For example, in some versions of the {EMACS} text editor, the `transpose ch...
miswart2 is characters on either side of the cursor on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behavior is perhaps surprising, and certainly i...
miswart3 is extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
mod is vt.,n. 1. Short for `modify' or `modification'. Very commonly used --- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal. The plural `mods' is used esp. with reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardw...
mod2 is {patch} sets or a {diff}. 2. Short for {modulo} but used *only* for its techspeak sense.
mode is n. A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state. Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is b...
mode2 is thesis mode." In its jargon sense, `mode' is most often attributed to people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and inanimate objects. In particular, see {hack mode}, {day mode}, {night mode}, {demo mode}, {fireworks mode}...
mode3 is also often hears the verbs `enable' and `disable' used in connection with jargon modes. Thus, for example, a sillier way of saying "I'm going to crash" is "I'm going to enable crash mode now". One might also hear a request to "disab...
mode bit is n. A {flag}, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from {flag} bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom...
mode bit2 is lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction ...
modulo is /mo'dyu-loh/ prep. Except for. From mathematical terminology; one can consider saying that 4 = 22 except for the 9s (4 = 22 mod 9). "Well, LISP seems to work okay now, modulo that {GC} bug." "I feel fine today modulo a slight he...
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network address3 is business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (see also {{science-fiction fandom}}). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with ha...
network address4 is tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in email text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever ...
network address5 is also {sitename}, {domainist}.
network meltdown is n. A state of complete network overload; the network equivalent of {thrash}ing. This may be induced by a {Chernobyl packet}. See also {broadcast storm}, {kamikaze packet}.
network, the is n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial, academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, {BITNET}, and the virtual UUCP and {USENET} `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and...
network, the2 is CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site is generally considered `on the network' if it can be reached through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. See {bang path}, {{Internet address}}...
network, the3 is conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel `Schr"odinger's Cat', to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an examp...
network, the4 is `network' is often abbreviated to `net'. "Are you on the net?" is a frequent question when hackers first meet face to face, and "See you on the net!" is a frequent goodbye.
New Jersey is [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] adj. Brain-damaged or of poor design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as C, C++, and UNIX (which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey). "This comp...
New Jersey2 is from a compiler designed in New Jersey?" Compare {Berkeley Quality Software}. See also {UNIX conspiracy}.
New Testament is n. [C programmers] The second edition of K&R's `The C Programming Language' (Prentice-Hall, 1988; ISBN 0-13-110362-8), describing ANSI Standard C. See {K&R}.
newbie is /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte. This term surfaced in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre but is now in wide use. Criteria for being considered a newbie vary w...
newbie2 is newsgroup while remaining a respected regular in another. The label `newbie' is sometimes applied as a serious insult to a person who has been around USENET for a long time but who carefully hides all evidence of having a clue. ...
newgroup wars is /n[y]oo'groop wohrz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a {newsgroup} should be created net-wide. These usually settl...
newgroup wars2 is clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humor; e.g., the spinoff...
newgroup wars3 is alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialized abuse groups named after particularly notorious {flamer}s, e.g., alt.weemba.
newline is /n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily UNIX] The ASCII LF character (0001010), used under {{UNIX}} as a text line terminator. A Bell-Labs-ism rather than a Berkeleyism; interestingly (and unusually for UNIX jargon), it is said t...
newline2 is (Though the term `newline' appears in ASCII standards, it never caught on in the general computing world before UNIX). 2. More generally, any magic character, character sequence, or operation (like Pascal's writeln procedure) re...
newline3 is lines. See {crlf}, {terpri}.
NeWS is /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym; the `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken in window systems, an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't be...
NeWS2 is is a lesson here that too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Many hackers insist on the two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing NeWS from {news} (the {netnews} software).
news is n. See {netnews}.
newsfroup is // [USENET] n. Silly synonym for {newsgroup}, originally a typo but now in regular use on USENET's talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups.
newsgroup is [USENET] n. One of {USENET}'s huge collection of topic groups or {fora}. Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then po...
newsgroup2 is parallel {mailing list}s for Internet people with no netnews access, with postings to the group automatically propagated to the list and vice versa. Some moderated groups (especially those which are actually gatewayed Internet...
newsgroup3 is with groups of postings periodically collected into a single large posting with an index. Among the best-known are comp.lang.c (the C-language forum), comp.arch (on computer architectures), comp.unix.wizards (for UNIX wizards...
newsgroup4 is fans), and talk.politics.misc (miscellaneous political discussions and {flamage}).
nickle is /ni'kl/ [from `nickel', common name for the U.S. 5-cent coin] n. A {nybble} + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See als...
night mode is n. See {phase} (of people).
Nightmare File System is n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS). In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up. Some machine tries to acc...
Nightmare File System2 is repeats indefinitely. This causes it to appear dead to some messages (what is actually happening is that it is locked up in what should have been a brief excursion to a higher {spl} level). Then another machine trie...
Nightmare File System3 is pseudo-down machine, and itself becomes pseudo-down. The first machine to discover the down one is now trying both to access the down one and to respond to the pseudo-down one, so it is even harder to reach. This sn...
Nightmare File System4 is network of machines is frozen --- the user can't even abort the file access that started the problem! (ITS partisans are apt to cite this as proof of UNIX's alleged bogosity; ITS had a working NFS-like shared file sy...
Nightmare File System5 is 1970s.) See also {broadcast storm}.
NIL is /nil/ [from LISP terminology for `false'] No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the `-P' convention. See {T}.
NMI is /N-M-I/ n. Non-Maskable Interrupt. An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or 680[01234]0; the NMI line on an 80{88,[1234]}86. In contrast with a {priority interrupt} (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored.
no-op is /noh'op/ alt. NOP /nop/ [no operation] n. 1. (also v.) A machine instruction that does nothing (sometimes used in assembler-level programming as filler for data or patch areas, or to overwrite code to be removed in binaries). See als...
no-op2 is nothing to a project, or has nothing going on upstairs, or both. As in "He's a no-op." 3. Any operation or sequence of operations with no effect, such as circling the block without finding a parking space, or putting money into a ...
no-op3 is into the coin-return box, or asking someone for help and being told to go away. "Oh, well, that was a no-op." Hot-and-sour soup (see {great-wall}) that is insufficiently either is `no-op soup'; so is wonton soup if everybody else...
noddy is /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] adj. 1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system. The archetypal noddy program is {hello, world}. Noddy co...
noddy2 is bug of a compiler. May be used of real hardware or software to imply that it isn't worth using. "This editor's a bit noddy." 2. A program that is more or less instant to produce. In this use, the term does not necessarily connot...
noddy3 is sufficiently trivial that it can be written and debugged while carrying on (and during the space of) a normal conversation. "I'll just throw together a noddy {awk} script to dump all the first fields." In North America this might...
NOMEX underwear is /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [USENET] n. Syn. {asbestos longjohns}, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups. NOMEX underwear is an actual product available on the racing equipment market, used as a fire resista...
non-optimal solution is n. (also `sub-optimal solution') An astoundingly stupid way to do something. This term is generally used in deadpan sarcasm, as its impact is greatest when the person speaking looks completely serious. Compare {stunni...
nonlinear is adj. [scientific computation] 1. Behaving in an erratic and unpredictable fashion. When used to describe the behavior of a machine or program, it suggests that said machine or program is being forced to run far outside of design ...
nonlinear2 is induced by unreasonable inputs, or may be triggered when a more mundane bug sends the computation far off from its expected course. 2. When describing the behavior of a person, suggests a tantrum or a {flame}. "When you talk to...
nonlinear3 is go nonlinear for hours." In this context, `go nonlinear' connotes `blow up out of proportion' (proportion connotes linearity).
nontrivial is adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing power. Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial"). The preferred ...
nontrivial2 is See {trivial}, {uninteresting}, {interesting}.
notwork is /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting {flaky} or is {down}. Compare {nyetwork}. Said at IBM to have orig. referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network, ca. 1988; but there are independent repor...
NP- is /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty; the connotation is often `more so than it should be' (NP-complete problems all seem to be very hard, but so far no one has found a good a pri...
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Objectionable-C2 is method calls, and (like many such efforts) comes frustratingly close to attaining the {Right Thing} without actually doing so.
obscure is adj. Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning, to imply total incomprehensibility. "The reason for that last crash is obscure." "The `find(1)' command's syntax is obscure!" The phrase `moderately obscure' implies that it coul...
obscure2 is the trouble. The construction `obscure in the extreme' is the preferred emphatic form.
octal forty is /ok'tl for'tee/ n. Hackish way of saying "I'm drawing a blank." Octal 40 is the {{ASCII}} space character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, {hex} 40 (01000000) is the {{EBCDIC}} space character. See {wall}.
off the trolley is adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually {crash} or abort. See {glitch}, {bug}, {deep space}.
off-by-one error is n. Exceedingly common error induced in many ways, such as by starting at 0 when you should have started at 1 or vice versa, or by writing `< N' instead of `<= N' or vice-versa. Also applied to giving something to the perso...
off-by-one error2 is Often confounded with {fencepost error}, which is properly a particular subtype of it.
offline is adv. Not now or not here. "Let's take this discussion offline." Specifically used on {USENET} to suggest that a discussion be taken off a public newsgroup to email.
old fart is n. Tribal elder. A title self-assumed with remarkable frequency by (esp.) USENETters who have been programming for more than about 25 years; often appears in {sig block}s attached to Jargon File contributions of great archeologica...
old fart2 is the second or third person but one of pride in first person.
Old Testament is n. [C programmers] The first edition of {K&R}, the sacred text describing {Classic C}.
one-line fix is n. Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system. Usually `cured' by another one-line fix. See also {I didn't change anything!}
one-liner wars is n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language}). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly...
one-liner wars2 is was practiced among {TECO} hackers. Ken Iverson, the inventor of APL, has been credited with a one-liner that, given a number N, produces a list of the prime numbers from 1 to N inclusive. It looks like this (2 = 0 +.= T...
one-liner wars3 is character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and `i' represents the APL iota.
ooblick is /oo'blik/ [from Dr. Seuss's `Bartholomew and the Oobleck'] n. A bizarre semi-liquid sludge made from cornstarch and water. Enjoyed among hackers who make batches during playtime at parties for its amusing and extremely non-Newtonia...
ooblick2 is resists rapid motion like a solid and will even crack when hit by a hammer. Often found near lasers. Here is a field-tested ooblick recipe contributed by GLS 1 cup cornstarch 1 cup baking soda 3/4 cup water N drops o...
ooblick3 is non-Newtonian as a pure cornstarch ooblick, but has an appropriately slimy feel. Some, however, insist that the notion of an ooblick *recipe* is far too mechanical, and that it is best to add the water in small increments so that...
ooblick4 is through as it *becomes* ooblick can be grokked in fullness by many hands. For optional ingredients of this experience, see the "Ceremonial Chemicals" section of appendix B.
open is n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' --- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity. To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say "Open defun foo, open eks close, open, plus eks one, close clos...
open switch is [IBM prob. from railroading] n. An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
operating system is [techspeak] n. (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine, of course; that which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications. The facilities an o...
operating system2 is design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around its host machines. Hacker folklore has been shaped primarily by the {{UNIX}}, {{ITS}}, {{TOPS-10...
operating system3 is {{CP/M}}, {{MS-DOS}}, and {{Multics}} operating systems (most importantly by ITS and UNIX).
Orange Book is n. The U.S. Government's standards document `Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, DOD standard 5200.28-STD, December, 1985' which characterize secure computing architectures and defines levels A1 (most secure) through D ...
Orange Book2 is can be upgraded to about C1 without excessive pain. See also {{book titles}}.
oriental food is n. Hackers display an intense tropism towards oriental cuisine, especially Chinese, and especially of the spicier varieties such as Szechuan and Hunan. This phenomenon (which has also been observed in subcultures that overlap...
oriental food2 is science-fiction fandom) has never been satisfactorily explained, but is sufficiently intense that one can assume the target of a hackish dinner expedition to be the best local Chinese place and be right at least three times o...
oriental food3 is {stir-fried random}, {laser chicken}, {Yu-Shiang Whole Fish}. Thai, Indian, Korean, and Vietnamese cuisines are also quite popular.
orphan is [UNIX] n. A process whose parent has died; one inherited by `init(1)'. Compare {zombie}.
orphaned i-node is /or'f*nd i'nohd/ [UNIX] n. 1. [techspeak] A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a filesystem. 2. By extension, a pejorative for any person serving no useful function within some organizatio...
orthogonal is [from mathematics] adj. Mutually independent; well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a generalization of its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, s...
orthogonal2 is system and are in some sense non-overlapping or mutually independent. For example, in architectures such as the PDP-11 or VAX where all or nearly all registers can be used interchangeably in any role with respect to any instr...
orthogonal3 is orthogonal. Or, in logic, the set of operators `not' and `or' is orthogonal, but the set `nand', `or', and `not' is not (because any one of these can be expressed in terms of the others). Also used in comments on human disco...
OS is /O-S/ 1. [Operating System] n. An acronym heavily used in email, occasionally in speech. 2. n.,obs. On ITS, an output spy. See appendix A.
OS/2 is /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micros; proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either. Mentioning it is usually good for a cheap laugh among hackers --- the design wa...
OS/22 is 1.x so bad, that 3 years after introduction you could still count the major {app}s shipping for it on the fingers of two hands --- in unary. Often called `Half-an-OS'. On January 28, 1991, Microsoft announced that it was dropping it...
OS/23 is leaving the OS entirely in the hands of IBM; on January 29 they claimed the media had got the story wrong, but were vague about how. It looks as though OS/2 is moribund. See {vaporware}, {monstrosity}, {cretinous}, {second-system ...
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phase is 1. n. The phase of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle. This is a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's ph...
phase2 is regular basis. "What's your phase?" "I've been getting in about 8 P.M. lately, but I'm going to {wrap around} to the day schedule by Friday." A person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in `night mode'. ...
phase3 is frequently) used, meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of altering one's cycle is called `changing phase'; `phase shifting' has also been recently reported from Caltech. 2. `change phase the hard way'...
phase4 is to get into a different phase. 3. `change phase the easy way' To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is *shortening* your day or night that's hard (see {wra...
phase5 is travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short per...
phase6 is experience something very like jet lag without traveling.
phase of the moon is n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to dete...
phase of the moon2 is channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." True story Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There is a little subroutine that had ...
phase of the moon3 is MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a LISP program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally t...
phase of the moon4 is and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would {barf}. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specificatio...
phase of the moon5 is bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter `corrected' it. Th...
phreaking is [from `phone phreak'] n. 1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on co...
phreaking2 is phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers; there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo. There was significant c...
phreaking3 is hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own through such media as the legendary `TAP Newsletter'. This ethos began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider dissemination of the techniques put them in ...
phreaking4 is the same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card numbers. The crimes an...
phreaking5 is turned that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just to keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of `blue boxes' or any of the other paraphernalia of the great phreaks of yore.
pico- is [SI a quantifier meaning * 10^-12] pref. Smaller than {nano-}; used in the same rather loose connotative way as {nano-} and {micro-}. This usage is not yet common in the way {nano-} and {micro-} are, but should be instantly recog...
pico-2 is {{quantifiers}}, {micro-}.
run like a pig is v. To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from {hog}.
pilot error is [Sun from aviation] n. A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare {UBD}). "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's ...
ping is [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob. originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1. n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and ...
ping2 is a phone greeting. See {ACK}, also {ENQ}. 2. vt. To verify the presence of. 3. vt. To get the attention of. From the UNIX command `ping(1)' that sends an ICMP ECHO packet to another host. 4. vt. To send a message to all members ...
ping3 is order to verify that everybody's addresses are reachable). "We haven't heard much of anything from Geoff, but he did respond with an ACK both times I pinged jargon-friends." The funniest use of `ping' to date was described in Janua...
ping4 is comp.sys.next. He was trying to isolate a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT machine, and got tired of having to run back to his console after each cabling tweak to see if the ping packets were getting th...
ping5 is on the NeXT, then wrote a script that repeatedly invoked `ping(8)', listened for an echo, and played back the recording on each returned packet. Result? A program that caused the machine to repeat, over and over, "Ping ... ping ......
ping6 is turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no time.
Pink-Shirt Book is `The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC'. The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has...
Pink-Shirt Book2 is pink shirt. See also {{book titles}}.
PIP is /pip/ [Peripheral Interchange Program] vt.,obs. To copy; from the program PIP on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file ...
PIP2 is that when the program was originated, during the development of the PDP-6 in 1963, it was called ATLATL (`Anything, Lord, to Anything, Lord').
pistol is [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. "UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!"
pizza box is [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two meg single-platter removable disk packs ...
pizza box2 is they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
ANSI standard pizza is /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor. See also {rotary debugger}; comp...
plain-ASCII is /playn-as'kee/ Syn. {flat-ASCII}.
plan file is [UNIX] n. On systems that support {finger}, the `.plan' file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's locatio...
plan file2 is almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a {sig block}). See {Hacking X for Y}.
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prestidigitization is /pres`t*-di`j*-ti-zay'sh*n/ n. 1. The act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand. 2. Data entry through legerdemain.
pretty pictures is n. [scientific computation] The next step up from {numbers}. Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model. Good for showing to {mana...
prettyprint is /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v. 1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representation; esp. used for the process of {grind}ing (sense 2) LISP code. 2. To format in some particularly slick...
pretzel key is [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
prime time is [from TV programming] n. Normal high-usage hours on a timesharing system; the day shift. Avoidance of prime time is a major reason for {night mode} hacking.
priority interrupt is [from the hardware term] n. Describes any stimulus compelling enough to yank one right out of {hack mode}. Classically used to describe being dragged away by an {SO} for immediate sex, but may also refer to more mundane i...
priority interrupt2 is in the near vicinity. Also called an {NMI} (non-maskable interrupt), especially in PC-land.
profile is n. 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior. Used to avoid {hardcoded} choices....
profile2 is time spent in each routine of a program, used to find and {tune} away the {hot spot}s in it. This sense is often verbed. Some profiling modes report units other than time (such as call counts) and/or report at granularities other...
proglet is /prog'let/ [UK] n. A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long, and contains no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off...
proglet2 is any editing, and that runs correctly the first time (this amount varies significantly according to the language one is using). Compare {toy program}, {noddy}, {one-liner wars}.
program is n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. 2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3. A form of art, ostensibly intended for the instruction of computers, which is neverthele...
program2 is programmers can't understand it.
Programmer's Cheer is "Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down! Byte! Byte! Byte!" A joke so old it has hair on it.
programming is n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file). 2. n. A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward...
programming2 is clothes on (although clothes are not mandatory).
propeller head is n. Used by hackers, this is syn. with {computer geek}. Non-hackers sometimes use it to describe all techies. Prob. derives from SF fandom's tradition (originally invented by old-time fan Ray Faraday Nelson) of propeller bean...
propeller head2 is actually wears them except as a joke).
propeller key is [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
proprietary is adj. 1. In {marketroid}-speak, superior; implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's hardware or software designers. 2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a pr...
proprietary2 is standards, and thus one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor able to gouge freely on service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has locked the customer in (that's assuming it wasn't too expensive in the first...
protocol is n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting; hackers don't care about such th...
protocol2 is set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity. So, for example, it does include niceties about the proper form for addressing packets on a network or the order in...
protocol3 is Philosophers Problem. It implies that there is some common message format and an accepted set of primitives or commands that all parties involved understand, and that transactions among them follow predictable logical sequences. ...
provocative maintenance is [common ironic mutation of `preventive maintenance'] n. Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called because it is all too often pe...
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pubic directory is [NYU] (also `pube directory' /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) n. The `pub' (public) directory on a machine that allows {FTP} access. So called because it is the default location for {SEX} (sense 1). "I'll have the source in the p...
puff is vt. To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* `PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Oppose {huff}.
punched card is alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs. The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops. The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control devic...
punched card2 is patented by Hollerith and used with mechanical tabulating machines in the 1890 U.S. Census was a piece of cardboard about 90 mm by 215 mm, designed to fit exactly in the currency trays used for that era's larger dollar bills. ...
punched card3 is manufacturer) married the punched card to computers, encoding binary information as patterns of small rectangular holes; one character per column, 80 columns per card. Other coding schemes, sizes of card, and hole shapes we...
punched card4 is width of most character terminals is a legacy of the IBM punched card; so is the size of the quick-reference cards distributed with many varieties of computers even today. See {chad}, {chad box}, {eighty-column mind}, {green ...
punt is [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football "Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] v. 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying. "Let's punt the movie tonight." "I was going to hack all night to get t...
punt2 is mean that you've decided not to stay up all night, and may also mean you're not ever even going to put in the feature. 2. More specifically, to give up on figuring out what the {Right Thing} is and resort to an inefficient hack. 3...
punt3 is problem, typically because one cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well to frame an algorithmic solution. "No way to know what the right form to dump the graph in is --- we'll punt that for now." 4. To hand a tricky impleme...
punt4 is the design. "It's too hard to get the compiler to do that; let's punt to the runtime system."
Purple Book is n. The `System V Interface Definition'. The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. See also {{book titles}}.
push is [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/ (the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction). 1. To...
push2 is one says that something has been pushed onto one's stack, it means that the Damoclean list of things hanging over ones's head has grown longer and heavier yet. This may also imply that one will deal with it *before* other pending i...
push3 is was `added to my queue'. 2. vi. To enter upon a digression, to save the current discussion for later. Antonym of {pop}; see also {stack}, {pdl}.*quad n. 1. Two bits; syn. for {quarter}, {crumb}, {tayste}. 2. A four-pack of anything ...
push4 is box glyph used in the APL language for various arcane purposes mostly related to I/O. Former Ivy-Leaguers and Oxbridge types are said to associate it with nostalgic memories of dear old University.
quadruple bucky is n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while...
quadruple bucky2 is shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and ...
quadruple bucky3 is fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply th...
quadruple bucky4 is or features, you can say something like "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See {double bucky}, {bucky bits}, {cokebottle}.
quantifiers is In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Syst`eme International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses. With units of time or things that come in powers of 10, such as money, they re...
quantifiers2 is by powers of 1000 = 10^3. But when used with bytes or other things that naturally come in powers of 2, they usually denote multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^{10}. The binary peta- and exa- loadings are not in common us...
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rave3 is implies somewhat more strongly that the tone is offensive as well.
rave on! is imp. Sarcastic invitation to continue a {rave}, often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realizes this is unlikely.
ravs is /ravz/, also `Chinese ravs' n. Jiao-zi (steamed or boiled) or Guo-tie (pan-fried). A Chinese appetizer, known variously in the plural as dumplings, pot stickers (the literal translation of guo-tie), and (around Boston) `Peking Ravioli...
ravs2 is which among hackers always means the Chinese kind rather than the Italian kind. Both consist of a filling in a pasta shell, but the Chinese kind includes no cheese, uses a thinner pasta, has a pork-vegetable filling (good ones incl...
ravs3 is either by steaming or frying. A rav or dumpling can be cooked any way, but a potsticker is always the fried kind (so called because it sticks to the frying pot and has to be scraped off). "Let's get hot-and-sour soup and three ord...
raw mode is n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Compare {rare}. This is techspeak under UNIX, jargon elsewhere.
rc file is /R-C fil/ [UNIX from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n. Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire ope...
rc file2 is commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also {dot file}.
RE is /R-E/ n. Common spoken and written shorthand for {regexp}.
read-only user is n. Describes a {luser} who uses computers almost exclusively for reading USENET, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See {twink}, {terminal junkie}, {lurker}.
README file is n. By convention, the top-level directory of a UNIX source distribution always contains a file named `README' (or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or some other variant), which is a hacker's-eye introduction containing a pointer to mor...
README file2 is miscellaneous revision history notes, etc. When asked, hackers invariably relate this to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's `Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink...
real estate is n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area. Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also {nanoacre}). May also be used of fl...
real estate2 is on a crowded desktop (whether physical or electronic).
real hack is n. A {crock}. This is sometimes used affectionately; see {hack}.
real operating system is n. The sort the speaker is used to. People from the academic community are likely to issue comments like "System V? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?", people from the commercial/industrial UNIX sector are...
real operating system2 is a *real* operating system?", and people from IBM object "UNIX? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?" See {holy wars}, {religious issues}, {proprietary}, {Get a real computer!}
real programmer is [indirectly, from the book `Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'] n. A particular sub-variety of hacker one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal `real p...
real programmer2 is metal} and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Pro...
real programmer3 is been {bum}med into a state of {tense}ness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Pr...
real programmer4 is were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on junk food a...
real programmer5 is walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers --- because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a {Good Thing} that there are...
real programmer6 is For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "The Story of Mel" in appendix A.
Real Soon Now is [orig. from SF's fanzine community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's column in `BYTE'] adv. 1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical....
Real Soon Now2 is commitments permit one to get to it (in other words, don't hold your breath). Often abbreviated RSN.
real time is 1. [techspeak] adj. Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic exa...
real time2 is special operating systems (because everything else must take a back seat to response time) and speed-tuned hardware. 2. adv. In jargon, refers to doing something while people are watching or waiting. "I asked her how to find the...
real time3 is stack and she came up with an algorithm in real time."
real user is n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage. 2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc.) other than pure exploration. See {user}. H...
real user2 is real users. "I need this fixed so I can do a problem set. I'm not complaining out of randomness, but as a real user." See also {luser}.
Real World is n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `{COBOL}', `RPG', `{IBM}', `DBASE', etc. Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things a...
Real World2 is 2. The location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. 3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see {code grinder}...
Real World3 is fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the Real World." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. See also ...
reality check is n. 1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware; doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4. The software equivalent of a {smoke test}. 2. The act of letting a {real user} try out proto...
reaper is n. A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been `reaped'.
rectangle slinger is n. See {polygon pusher}.
recursion is n. See {recursion}. See also {tail recursion}.
recursive acronym is pl.n. A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not EMACS") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Wa...
recursive acronym2 is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and {GNU} (q.v., sense 1) stands for "GNU's Not UNIX!" --- and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also {mung...
Red Book is n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on PostScript (`PostScript Language Reference Manual', Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985; QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2); the others are known as the {Green Book} ...
Red Book2 is one of the 3 standard references on Smalltalk (`Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment' by Adele Goldberg (Addison-Wesley, 1984; QA76.8.S635G638; ISBN 0-201-11372-4); this too is associated with blue and green book...
Red Book3 is CCITT eighth plenary assembly. Until now, these have changed color each review cycle (1988 was {Blue Book}, 1992 will be {Green Book}); however, it is rumored that this convention is going to be dropped before 1992. These incl...
Red Book4 is and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 4. The new version of the {Green Book} (sense 4) --- IEEE 1003.1-1990, a.k.a ISO 9945-1 --- is (because of the color and the fact that it is printed on A4 paper) known in the U.S.A. as "th...
Red Book5 is and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size". 5. The NSA `Trusted Network Interpretation' companion to the {Orange Book}. See also {{book titles}}.
regexp is /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1. Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e.g., by UNIX utilities such as `grep(1)', `sed(1)', and `awk(1)'. These use con...
regexp2 is those described under {glob}. For purposes of this lexicon, it is sufficient to note that regexps also allow complemented character sets using `^'; thus, one can specify `any non-alphabetic character' with `[^A-Za-z]'. 2. Name o...
regexp3 is portable C, written by revered USENETter Henry Spencer (henry@zoo.toronto.edu).
reinvent the wheel is v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use woo...
reinvent the wheel2 is be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.
religious issues is n. Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off {holy wars}, such as "What is the best operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news reader)?", "What about that Heinlein gu...
religious issues2 is Jargon File?" See {holy wars}; see also {theology}, {bigot}. This term is an example of {ha ha only serious}. People actually develop the most amazing and religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the t...
religious issues3 is thing one can do when one stumbles into the crossfire is mumble {Get a life!} and leave --- unless, of course, one's *own* unassailably rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed.
replicator is n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program (see {worm}, {wabbit}, and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or (speculativ...
replicator2 is claimed by some that {{UNIX}} and {C} are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see {UNIX conspiracy}.
reply is n. See {followup}.
reset is [the MUD community] v. In AberMUD, to bring all dead mobiles to life and move items back to their initial starting places. New players who can't find anything shout "Reset! Reset!" quite a bit. Higher-level players shout back "No way!...
reset2 is found. Used in {RL}, it means to put things back to the way they were when you found them.
restriction is n. A {bug} or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a {feature}. Often used (esp. by {marketroid} types) to make it s...
restriction2 is been intended by the designers all along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false). Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcom...
restriction3 is quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you impose a limit of 17 items in a list, everyone will know it is a random number --- on the other hand, a limit of 15...
restriction4 is 0- or 1-based indexing in binary) and you will get less {flamage} for it. Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are always especially suspect.
retcon is /ret'kon/ [`retroactive continuity', from the USENET newsgroup rec.arts.comics] 1. n. The common situation in pulp fiction (esp. comics or soap operas) where a new story `reveals' things about events in previous stories, usually leav...
retcon2 is continuity) while completely changing their interpretation. E.g., revealing that a whole season of "Dallas" was a dream was a retcon. 2. vt. To write such a story about a character or fictitious object. "Byrne has retconned Sup...
retcon3 is unbreakable." "Marvelman's old adventures were retconned into synthetic dreams." "Swamp Thing was retconned from a transformed person into a sentient vegetable." [This is included because it is a good example of hackish linguisti...
retcon4 is to computers. The word `retcon' will probably spread through comics fandom and lose its association with hackerdom within a couple of years; for the record, it started here. --- ESR]
RETI is v. Syn. {RTI}
retrocomputing is /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or par...
retrocomputing2 is the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the `pnch(6)' or `bcd(6)' program on V7 and other early UNIX versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in...
retrocomputing3 is retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language {INTERCAL}, a {JCL}-emulating shell for UNIX, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators wr...
RFC is /R-F-C/ [Request For Comment] n. One of a long-established series of numbered Internet standards widely followed by commercial and PD software in the Internet and UNIX communities. Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-8...
RFC2 is RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated through an institution such as ANSI. For this reason, they remain ...
RFE is /R-F-E/ n. 1. [techspeak] Request For Enhancement. 2. [from `Radio Free Europe', Bellcore and Sun] Radio Free Ethernet, a system (originated by Peter Langston) for broadcasting audio among Sun SPARCstations over the ethernet.
rib site is [by analogy with {backbone site}] n. A machine that has an on-demand high-speed link to a {backbone site} and serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in email and USENET news. Compare {leaf site}, {...
rice box is [from ham radio slang] n. Any Asian-made commodity computer, esp. an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards.
Right Thing is n. That which is {compellingly} the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc. Often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized. Use of this term often implies that in fact reasonable people may dis...
Right Thing2 is do when it sees `(mod a 0)'? Should it return `a', or give a divide-by-0 error?" Oppose {Wrong Thing}.
RL is // [MUD community] n. Real Life. "Firiss laughs in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing. Oppose {VR}.
roach is [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached.
robust is adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment. One step below {bulletproof}. Carries the additional connotation of elega...
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screw is [MIT] n. A {lose}, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature. This use has become quite widespread outside MIT.
screwage is /skroo'*j/ n. Like {lossage} but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
scribble is n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines ...
scribble2 is {trash}; compare {mung}, which conveys a bit more intention, and {mangle}, which is more violent and final.
scrog is /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure. "The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id". Equivalent to {scribble} or {mangle}.
scrool is /skrool/ [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca. 1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] n. The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation. It was...
scrool2 is because an early version of the roundtable software had a bug where it would dump all 8K of scrool on a user's terminal.
scrozzle is /skroz'l/ vt. Used when a self-modifying code segment runs incorrectly and corrupts the running program or vital data. "The damn compiler scrozzled itself again!"
SCSI is [Small Computer System Interface] n. A bus-independent standard for system-level interfacing between a computer and intelligent devices. Typically annotated in literature with `sexy' (/sek'see/), `sissy' (/sis'ee/), and `scuzzy' (/sku...
SCSI2 is being the overwhelmingly predominant form, much to the dismay of the designers and their marketing people. One can usually assume that a person who pronounces it /S-C-S-I/ is clueless.
search-and-destroy mode is n. Hackerism for the search-and-replace facility in an editor, so called because an incautiously chosen match pattern can cause {infinite} damage.
second-system effect is n. (sometimes, more euphoniously, `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design ...
second-system effect2 is The term was first used by Fred Brooks in his classic `The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering' (Addison-Wesley, 1975; ISBN 0-201-00650-2). It described the jump from a set of nice, simple operating sy...
second-system effect3 is 360 series. A similar effect can also happen in an evolving system; see {Brooks's Law}, {creeping elegance}, {creeping featurism}. See also {{Multics}}, {OS/2}, {X}, {software bloat}. This version of the jargon lex...
second-system effect4 is much truth for comfort) as an example of second-system effect run amok on jargon-1....
secondary damage is n. When a fatal error occurs (esp. a {segfault}) the immediate cause may be that a pointer has been trashed due to a previous {fandango on core}. However, this fandango may have been due to an *earlier* fandango, so no a...
secondary damage2 is the damage occurred. "The data structure was clobbered, but it was secondary damage." By extension, the corruption resulting from N cascaded fandangoes on core is `Nth-level damage'. There is at least one case on record...
secondary damage3 is actually dug up the underlying bug behind an instance of seventh-level damage! The hacker who accomplished this near-superhuman feat was presented with an award by his fellows.
security through obscurity is n. A name applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes --- namely, ignoring them and not documenting them and trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who ...
security through obscurity2 is This never works for long and occasionally sets the world up for debacles like the {RTM} worm of 1988, but once the brief moments of panic created by such events subside most vendors are all too willing to turn o...
security through obscurity3 is fixing the bugs would siphon off the resources needed to implement the next user-interface frill on marketing's wish list --- and besides, if they started fixing security bugs customers might begin to *expect* it...
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SEX2 is course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a {Good Thing}, but unprotected SEX can propagate a {virus}. See also {pubic directory}. 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used ...
SEX3 is the PDP-11 and many other architectures. DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the `SEX' mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time th...
SEX4 is 8086 Primer', who was one of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was originally a `SEX' instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the in...
SEX5 is (depending on what was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight `SEX' but has logical-or and logical-and instructions `ORL' and `ANL'. The Motorola 6809, used ...
SEX6 is actually had an official `SEX' instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II it competed with did not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could have sex with a dragon, but you can'...
sex changer is n. Syn. {gender mender}.
shareware is /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself. Such payment may or may not buy additional suppor...
shelfware is /shelfweir/ n. Software purchased on a whim (by an individual user) or in accordance with policy (by a corporation or government agency), but not actually required for any particular use. Therefore, it often ends up on some shelf.
shell is [orig. {{Multics}} techspeak, widely propagated via UNIX] n. 1. [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system; so called because it is the part of the operating system that interfaces with the outsid...
shell2 is program that mediates access to a special resource or {server} for convenience, efficiency, or security reasons; for this meaning, the usage is usually `a shell around' whatever. This sort of program is also called a `wrapper'.
shell out is [UNIX] n. To spawn an interactive {subshell} from within a program (e.g., a mailer or editor). "Bang foo runs foo in a subshell, while bang alone shells out."
shift left logical is [from any of various machines' instruction sets] 1. vi. To move oneself to the left (right). To move out of the way. 2. imper. "Get out of that (my) seat! You can shift to that empty one to the left (right)." Often ...
shift left logical2 is instead of `shift left'. Sometimes heard as LSH /lish/, from the {PDP-10} instruction set. See {Programmer's Cheer}.
shitogram is /shit'oh-gram/ n. A *really* nasty piece of email. Compare {nastygram}, {flame}.
short card is n. A half-length IBM PC expansion card or adapter that will fit in one of the two short slots located towards the right rear of a standard chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives). See also {tall card}.
shotgun debugging is n. The software equivalent of {Easter egging}; the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence. This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs.
showstopper is n. A hardware or (especially) software bug that makes an implementation effectively unusable; one that absolutely has to be fixed before development can go on. Opposite in connotation from its original theatrical use, which ref...
shriek is n. See {excl}. Occasional CMU usage, also in common use among APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists.
Shub-Internet is /shuhb in't*r-net/ [MUD from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity `Shub-Niggurath', the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] n. The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Ava...
Shub-Internet2 is the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail --- its purpose is malign and...
Shub-Internet3 is slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by use...
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sig block2 is quite an art form, including an ASCII logo or one's choice of witty sayings (see {sig quote}, {fool file}); but many consider large sigs a waste of {bandwidth}, and it has been observed that the size of one's sig block is usual...
sig block3 is and level of prestige on the net.
sig quote is /sig kwoht/ [USENET] n. A maxim, quote, proverb, joke, or slogan embedded in one's {sig block} and intended to convey something of one's philosophical stance, pet peeves, or sense of humor. "Calm down, it's only ones and zeroes."
signal-to-noise ratio is [from analog electronics] n. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning. `Signal' refers to useful information conveyed by some communications medium, and `noise' to anything else on that medium. He...
signal-to-noise ratio2 is paying attention to the medium in question. Figures for such metaphorical ratios are never given. The term is most often applied to {USENET} newsgroups during {flame war}s. Compare {bandwidth}. See also {coefficient...
silicon is n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare {iron}). Contrasted with software. See also {sandbender}.
silicon foundry is n. A company that {fab}s chips to the designs of others. As of the late 1980s, the combination of silicon foundries and good computer-aided design software made it much easier for hardware-designing startup companies to com...
silicon foundry2 is silicon foundry is that the distance from the actual chip-fabrication processes reduces designers' control of detail. This is somewhat analogous to the use of {HLL}s versus coding in assembler.
silly walk is [from Monty Python's Flying Circus] vi. 1. A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task. Like {grovel}, but more {random} and humorous. "I had to silly-walk through half the /usr directories to find the maps file." 2. ...
silo is n. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card. So called from DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11, presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that you put in the top and to...
Silver Book is n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous `Pascal User Manual and Report', so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See {{book titles}}, {Pascal}.
since time T equals minus infinity is adj. A long time ago; for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed. Usually the word `time' is omitted. See also {time T}.
sitename is /sit'naym/ [UNIX/Internet] n. The unique electronic name of a computer system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, USENET, or other forms of electronic information interchange. The folklore interest of sitenames stems from the creat...
sitename2 is Interpreting a sitename is not unlike interpreting a vanity license plate; one has to mentally unpack it, allowing for mono-case and length restrictions and the lack of whitespace. Hacker tradition deprecates dull, institutiona...
sitename3 is and clever coinages (except that it is considered appropriate for the official public gateway machine of an organization to bear the organization's name or acronym). Mythological references, cartoon characters, animal names, an...
sitename4 is probably the most popular sources for sitenames (in roughly descending order). The obligatory comment when discussing these is Harris's Lament "All the good ones are taken!" See also {network address}.
skrog is v. Syn. {scrog}.
skulker is n. Syn. {prowler}.
slap on the side is n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated `SOTS'.) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e.g., Commodore for the Amiga 500/1000 series and IBM for the hideous failure called `PCjr'). ...
slap on the side2 is as memory, hard drive controllers, and conventional expansion slots.
slash is n. Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character. See {ASCII} for other synonyms.
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snail-mail is n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'. One's postal address is, correspondingly, a `snail address'. Derives from earlier coinage `USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which there ...
snap is v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer; to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there. If you telephone the main number for an institution and ask for a particular person by name, the operator ma...
snap2 is connecting you, in the hopes that you will `snap your pointer' and dial direct next time. The underlying metaphor may be that of a rubber band stretched through a number of intermediate points; if you remove all the thumbtacks in the...
snap3 is first to last. See {chase pointers}. Often, the behavior of a {trampoline} is to perform an error check once and then snap the pointer that invoked it so as henceforth to bypass the trampoline (and its one-shot error check). In th...
snap4 is links'. For example, in a Lisp implementation, a function interface trampoline might check to make sure that the caller is passing the correct number of arguments; if it is, and if the caller and the callee are both compiled, then ...
snap5 is to use a direct procedure-call instruction with no further overhead.
snarf is /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also {BLT}. 2. [in the UNIX community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See als...
snarf2 is late 1960s, meaning `to eat piggishly'. It may still have this connotation in context. "He's in the snarfing phase of hacking --- {FTP}ing megs of stuff a day." 3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but...
snarf3 is away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them." 4. Syn. for {slurp}. "This program starts by snarfing the entire database into core, then...."
snarf & barf is /snarf'n-barf`/ n. Under a {WIMP environment}, the act of grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this ...
snarf & barf2 is regret it later' cheap-restaurant expedition.
snarf down is v. To {snarf}, with the connotation of absorbing, processing, or understanding. "I'll snarf down the latest version of the {nethack} user's guide --- It's been a while since I played last and I don't know what's changed recentl...
snark is [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n. 1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!" 2. More generally, any kind of unexplained or threatening event o...
snark2 is boojum). Often used to refer to an event or a log file entry that might indicate an attempted security violation. See {snivitz}. 3. UUCP name of snark.thyrsus.com, home site of the Jargon File 2.*.* versions (i.e., this lexicon)...
sneakernet is /snee'ker-net/ n. Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape, disks, or some other media from one machine to another. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stati...
sneakernet2 is filled with CD-ROMs." Also called `Tennis-Net', `Armpit-Net', `Floppy-Net'.
sniff is v.,n. Synonym for {poll}.
snivitz is /sniv'itz/ n. A hiccup in hardware or software; a small, transient problem of unknown origin (less serious than a {snark}). Compare {glitch}.
SO is /S-O/ n. 1. (also `S.O.') Abbrev. for Significant Other, almost invariably written abbreviated and pronounced /S-O/ by hackers. Used to refer to one's primary relationship, esp. a live-in to whom one is not married. See {MOTAS}, {MOT...
SO2 is character in ASCII (Control-N, 0001110).
social science number is [IBM] n. A statistic that is {content-free}, or nearly so. A measure derived via methods of questionable validity from data of a dubious and vague nature. Predictively, having a social science number in hand is seldom...
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software rot4 is Raleigh, North Carolina. The new system refused to issue the card, probably because with 2-digit years the ages 101 and 1 cannot be distinguished. Historical note Software rot in an even funnier sense than the mythical one ...
software rot5 is (e.g., the R1; see {grind crank}). If a program that depended on a peculiar instruction hadn't been run in quite a while, the user might discover that the opcodes no longer did the same things they once did. ("Hey, so-and-...
software rot6 is We can {snarf} this opcode, right? No one uses it.") Another classic example of this sprang from the time an MIT hacker found a simple way to double the speed of the unconditional jump instruction on a PDP-6, so he patched ...
software rot7 is fragile timing software in a music-playing program, throwing its output out of tune. This was fixed by adding a defensive initialization routine to compare the speed of a timing loop with the real-time clock; in other words, ...
software rot8 is day, and corrected appropriately. Compare {bit rot}.
softwarily is /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software. "The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective `softwary' is *not* used. See {hardwarily}.
softy is [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
some random X is adj. Used to indicate a member of class X, with the implication that Xs are interchangeable. "I think some random cracker tripped over the guest timeout last night." See also {J. Random}.
sorcerer's apprentice mode is [from the film "Fantasia"] n. A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug. Used esp. of s...
sorcerer's apprentice mode2 is loops in {email} software. Compare {broadcast storm}, {network meltdown}.
SOS is n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously {losing} text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfo...
SOS2 is discarded when new ones (in particular, {TECO}) came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to...
SOS3 is editor BILOS /bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed). 2. /sos/ n. To decrease; inverse of {AOS}, from the PDP-10 instruction set.
source of all good bits is n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained. If you need to know about a program, a {guru} might be the source of all good bits. The title is often applied to a particularly comp...
space-cadet keyboard is n. The Knight keyboard, a now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of {EMACS}. It was inspired by the Stanford keyboard and equipped wi...
space-cadet keyboard2 is keys for {bucky bits} (`control', `meta', `hyper', and `super') and three like regular shift keys, called `shift', `top', and `front'. Many keys had three symbols on them a letter and a symbol on the top, and a Greek ...
space-cadet keyboard3 is key had an `L' and a two-way arrow on the top, and the Greek letter lambda on the front. And of course each of these might also be typed with any combination of the control, meta, hyper, and super keys. On this keyb...
space-cadet keyboard4 is characters! This allowed the user to type very complicated mathematical text, and also to have thousands of single-character commands at his disposal. Many hackers were actually willing to memorize the command mean...
space-cadet keyboard5 is typing time (this attitude obviously shaped the interface of EMACS). Other hackers, however, thought having that many bucky bits was overkill, and objected that such a keyboard can require three or four hands to ope...
space-cadet keyboard6 is bucky}, {meta bit}, {quadruple bucky}.
SPACEWAR is n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemente...
SPACEWAR2 is aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became {{UNIX}}. Less ...
SPACEWAR3 is commercialized as one of the first video games; descendants are still {feep}ing in video arcades everywhere.
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splat3 is used by mathematicians as a notation for `tensor product'. 5. [Stanford] Name for the semi-mythical extended ASCII circle-plus character. 6. Canonical name for an output routine that outputs whatever the local interpretation of...
splat4 is 4--6 are now nearly obsolete. See also {{ASCII}}.
sponge is [UNIX] n. A special case of a {filter} that reads its entire input before writing any output; the canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stre...
sponge2 is ITS did and VMS does now) the sponge/filter distinction loses its usefulness, because directing filter output would just write a new version. See also {slurp}.
spooge is /spooj/ 1. n. Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program. 2. vi. To generate spooge (sense 1).
spool is [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt. To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something usefu...
spool2 is understood is the `print spooler' controlling output of jobs to a printer, but the term has been used in connection with other peripherals (especially plotters and graphics devices). See also {demon}.
stack is n. A person's stack is the set of things he or she has to do in the future. One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack. "I'm afraid I've got real work to do, so this'll have to be pushed wa...
stack2 is because every time I pop my stack something new gets pushed." If you are interrupted several times in the middle of a conversation, "My stack overflowed" means "I forget what we were talking about." The implication is that more i...
stack3 is remembered, so the least recent items were lost. The usual physical example of a stack is to be found in a cafeteria a pile of plates or trays sitting on a spring in a well, so that when you put one on the top they all sink down, ...
stack4 is spring up a bit. See also {push} and {pop}. At MIT, {pdl} used to be a more common synonym for {stack} in all these contexts, and this may still be true. Everywhere else {stack} seems to be the preferred term. {Knuth} (`The Art ...
stack5 is 1, p. 236) says Many people who realized the importance of stacks and queues independently have given other names to these structures stacks have been called push-down lists, reversion storages, cellars, nesti...
stack6 is lists, and even yo-yo lists!
stack puke is n. Some processor architectures are said to `puke their guts onto the stack' to save their internal state during exception processing. The Motorola 68020, for example, regurgitates up to 92 bytes on a bus fault. On a pipelined ...
stale pointer bug is n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp. among microcomputer hackers.
state is n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged state." The standard question "What's your state?" ...
state2 is you about to do?" Typical answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry". Another standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning "What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and humorous way of asking these...
state3 is of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be "state-p latest hack?". 2. Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic or human).
steam-powered is adj. Old-fashioned or underpowered; archaic. This term does not have a strong negative loading and may even be used semi-affectionately for something that clanks and wheezes a lot but hangs in there doing the job.
stiffy is [University of Lowell, Massachusetts.] n. 3.5-inch {microfloppies}, so called because their jackets are more firm than those of the 5.25-inch and the 8-inch floppy. Elsewhere this might be called a `firmy'.
stir-fried random is alt. `stir-fried mumble' n. Term used for the best dish of many of those hackers who can cook. Consists of random fresh veggies and meat wokked with random spices. Tasty and economical. See {random}, {great-wall}, {rav...
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tar and feather2 is an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.
taste is [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also `tasty, `tasteful, `tastefulness. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors." ...
taste2 is essentially synonyms, `taste and {flavor} are not. Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or feature can *exhibit* taste but cannot {have} taste. On the other hand, a feature can have {flavor}. Also...
taste3 is `kind or `variety not shared by `taste. {Flavor} is a more popular word than `taste, though both are used. See also {elegant}. 2. Alt. sp. of {tayste}.
tayste is /tayst/ n. Two bits; also as {taste}. Syn. {crumb}, {quarter}. Compare {{byte}}, {dynner}, {playte}, {nybble}, {quad}.
TCB is /T-C-B/ [IBM] n. 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect. Compare {heisenbug}. Not to be confused with 2. Trusted Computing Base, an `official jargon term from the...
ISO standard cup of tea is [South Africa] n. A cup of tea with milk and one teaspoon of sugar, where the milk is poured into the cup before the tea. Variations are ISO 0, with no sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of sugar; and so on. Like many ...
ISO standard cup of tea2 is ring in North America, where hackers generally shun the decadent British practice of adulterating perfectly good tea with dairy products and prefer instead to add a wedge of lemon, if anything. If one were feelin...
ISO standard cup of tea3 is analogous `ANSI standard cup of tea and wind up with a political situation distressingly similar to several that arise in much more serious technical contexts. Milk and lemon dont mix very well.
TechRef is /tekref/ [MS-DOS] n. The original `IBM PC Technical Reference Manual, including the BIOS listing and complete schematics for the PC. The only PC documentation in the issue package thats considered serious by real hackers.
TECO is /teekoh/ obs. 1. vt. Originally, to edit using the TECO editor in one of its infinite variations (see below). 2. vt.,obs. To edit even when TECO is *not* the editor being used! This usage is rare and now primarily historical. 2. [or...
TECO2 is and COrrector; later, `Text Editor and COrrector] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody. With all the dialects included, TECO might have been the most prolific editor in use before {EMACS}, to which...
TECO3 is powerful programming-language-like features and its unspeakably hairy syntax. It is literally the case that every string of characters is a valid TECO program (though probably not a useful one); one common hacker game used to be ment...
TECO4 is corresponding to human names did. As an example of TECOs obscurity, here is a TECO program that takes a list of names such as Loser, J. Random Quux, The Great Dick, Moby sorts them alphabetically according to surname, and...
TECO5 is comma, to produce the following Moby Dick J. Random Loser The Great Quux The program is [1 J^P$L$$ J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K L I $ G1 L>$$ (where ^B means `Control-B (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an {ALT}...
TECO6 is fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted list from the first list. The first hack at it had a {bug} GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the `@ in front of `F^B, which as anyone can see is clearly the {Wron...
TECO7 is There is no space to describe all the features of TECO, but it may be of interest that `^P means `sort and `J<.-Z; ... L> is an idiomatic series of commands for `do once for every line. In mid-1991, TECO is pretty much one with the ...
TECO8 is affections of hackerdom by {EMACS}. Descendants of an early (and somewhat lobotomized) version adopted by DEC can still be found lurking on VMS and a couple of crufty PDP-11 operating systems, however, and ports of the more advanced ...
TECO9 is antiquarian interest. See also {retrocomputing}, {write-only language}.
tee is n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. "Oh, youre sending him the {bits} to that? Slap on a tee for me." From the UNIX command `tee(1), itself named after a pipe fitting (see {plumbing}). Can also mean `save one...
Telerat is /tel*-rat/ n. Unflattering hackerism for `Teleray, a line of extremely losing terminals. See also {terminak}, {sun-stools}, {HP-SUX}.
TELNET is /telnet/ vt. To communicate with another Internet host using the {TELNET} program. TOPS-10 people used the word IMPCOM, since that was the program name for them. Sometimes abbreviated to TN /T-N/. "I usually TN over to SAIL just t...
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terpri2 is line was formed, so this operation terminated the line and emitted the output.
test is n. 1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to get thoroughly acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and followup of the results. 2. Some bored random user trying a couple of the simpler features with a developer looking ...
test2 is mistakes. Judging by the quality of most software, the second definition is far more prevalent. See also {demo}.
TeX is /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful {macro}-based text formatter written by Donald E. Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced UNIX `troff(1), the other favored formatter, even at many UNI...
TeX2 is correct (guttural) pronunciation, and the correct spelling (all caps, squished together, with the E depressed below the baseline; the mixed-case `TeX is considered an acceptable kluge on ASCII-only devices). Fans like to proliferate...
TeX3 is TeXnician (TeX user), TeXhacker (TeX programmer), TeXmaster (competent TeX programmer), TeXhax, and TeXnique. Knuth began TeX because he had become annoyed at the declining quality of the typesetting in volumes I--III of his monument...
TeX4 is {bible}). In a manifestation of the typical hackish urge to solve the problem at hand once and for all, he began to design his own typesetting language. He thought he would finish it on his sabbatical in 1978; he was wrong by only ...
TeX5 is frozen around 1985, but volume IV of `The Art of Computer Programming has yet to appear as of mid-1991. The impact and influence of TeXs design has been such that nobody minds this very much. Many grand hackish projects have started ...
TeX6 is something else; Knuths diversion was simply on a grander scale than most.
text is n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS (compare {English}). 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary {{ASCII}} or {...
text2 is "Those are text files; you can review them using the editor." These two contradictory senses confuse hackers, too.
thanks in advance is [USENET] Conventional net.politeness ending a posted request for information or assistance. Sometimes written `advTHANKSance or `aTdHvAaNnKcSe or abbreviated `TIA. See {net.-}, {netiquette}.
the X that can be Y is not the true X is Yet another instance of hackerdoms peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things. The template is from the `Tao te Ching "T...
the X that can be Y is not the true X2 is true Tao." The implication is often that the X is a mystery accessible only to the enlightened. See the {trampoline} entry for an example, and compare {has the X nature}.
theology is n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to {religious issues}. 2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp. those where the resolution is of theoretical interest but is relatively {marginal} with respect to actual use...
theology2 is software issues with a heavy AI or language-design component, such as the smart-data vs. smart-programs dispute in AI.
theory is n. The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that is currently being used to inform a behavior. This is a generalization and abuse of the technical meaning. "Whats the theory on fixing this TECO loss?" "Whats the theory on...
theory2 is "Whats the current theory on letting lusers on during the day?" "The theory behind this change is to fix the following well-known screw...."
thinko is /thingkoh/ [by analogy with `typo] n. A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. {braino}. Compare {mouso}.
This time, for sure! is excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruit...
This time, for sure!2 is heard "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" The {canonical} response is, of course, "But that trick *never* works!" See {{Humor, Hacker}}.
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to a zeroth approximation is [from `to a first approximation] A *really* sloppy approximation; a wild guess. Compare {social science number}.
toast is 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast." 2. vt. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manua...
toast2 is {firewall machine} again."
toaster is n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "{DWIM} for an assembler? Thatd...
toaster2 is toaster!" 2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster." See {bitty box}, {Get a real computer!}, {toy}, {beige toaster}. 3. A Macintosh, esp. the Classic Mac. Some hold that this is implied b...
toaster3 is my box without toasters, but since then Ive added two boards and a second disk drive."
toeprint is n. A {footprint} of especially small size.
toggle is vt. To change a {bit} from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches, such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle actually refers to the mechanism...
toggle2 is which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it. (Mathematically, one would say t...
toggle3 is functions of one boolean argument, but saying that is much less fun than talking about toggling bits.)
tool is 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose {app}, {operating system}. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple,...
tool2 is interface designed specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see {filter}). 3. [MIT general to students there] vi. To work; to study (connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set ones brain ...
tool3 is A student who studies too much and hacks too little. (MITs student humor magazine rejoices in the name `Tool and Die.)
toolsmith is n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specializes in making the {tool}s with which other programmers create applications. See also {uninteresting}.
topic drift is n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results ...
topic drift2 is reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. "I think we started with a question about Nivens last book, but weve ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *thats* topic drift!"
topic group is n. Syn. {forum}.
TOPS-10 is /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10} machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A. See also {{ITS}}, {{TOPS-20}}, {{TWENEX}}, {VMS}, {operating...
TOPS-102 is BOTS-10 (from `bottoms-ten) as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.
TOPS-20 is /tops-twentee/ n. See {{TWENEX}}.
toto is /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a francophone {foo}.
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vaxocentrism3 is have been used synonymously.
vdiff is /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}. The term `optical diff' has also been reported. See {diff}.
veeblefester is /vee'b*l-fes`tr/ [from the "Born Loser" comix via Commodore; prob. originally from `Mad' Magazine's `Veeblefeetzer' parodies ca. 1960] n. Any obnoxious person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management. An...
Venus flytrap is [after the insect-eating plant] n. See {firewall machine}.
verbage is /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of {verbiage} that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. Compare {content-free}. More pejorative than `verbiage'.
verbiage is n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to {{documentation}}. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motive...
verbiage2 is with the ostensible subject.
Version 7 is alt. V7 /vee' se'vn/ n. The 1978 unsupported release of {{UNIX}} ancestral to all current commercial versions. Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a UNIX portability baseline. See ...
Version 72 is old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True UNIX.
vgrep is /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally. See {grep}; compare {vdiff}.
vi is /V-I/, *not* /vi/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n. A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} version. Became the de facto standard UNIX editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite until the rise o...
vi2 is frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode one is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often hear...
vi3 is Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 USENET poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than bulky EM...
videotex is n. obs. An electronic service offering people the privilege of paying to read the weather on their television screens instead of having somebody read it to them for free while they brush their teeth. The idea bombed everywhere it ...
videotex2 is time videotex was practical the installed base of personal computers could hook up to timesharing services and do the things for which videotex might have been worthwhile better and cheaper. Videotex planners badly overestimate...
videotex3 is computer and the cost of local intelligence at the user's end. Like the {gorilla arm} effect, this has been a cautionary tale to hackers ever since. See also {vannevar}.
virgin is adj. Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. "Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again." (Esp. useful after contracting a {virus} through {SEX}.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that...
virtual is [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob. from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1. Common alternative to {logical}. 2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's ...
virtual Friday is n. The last day before an extended weekend, if that day is not a `real' Friday. For example, the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The next day is often also a holiday or taken as an extra day off, in which...
virtual Friday2 is Friday (and Thursday is a virtual Saturday, as is Friday). There are also `virtual Mondays' that are actually Tuesdays, after the three-day weekends associated with many national holidays in the U.S.
virtual reality is n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation. See {cyberspace}. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing...
virtual reality2 is comedy, and `true confessions' magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as USENET's alt.callahans newsgroup or the {MUD} experiments on Internet), interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel co...
virtual reality3 is that may be personae utterly unlike the people who write them, and common `background characters' manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that you may not write irreversible changes to a character without the con...
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voodoo programming is [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] n. The use by guess or cookbook of an {obscure} or {hairy} system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly understand. The implication is that the technique may not work, and...
voodoo programming2 is Almost synonymous with {black magic}, except that black magic typically isn't documented and *nobody* understands it. Compare {magic}, {deep magic}, {heavy wizardry}, {rain dance}, {cargo cult programming}, {wave a de...
VR is // [MUD] n. On-line abbrev for {virtual reality}, as opposed to {RL}.
Vulcan nerve pinch is n. [from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers] The keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On many micros this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; ...
Vulcan nerve pinch2 is <Cmd>-<Power switch>! Also called {three-finger salute}. Compare {quadruple bucky}.
vulture capitalist is n. Pejorative hackerism for `venture capitalist', deriving from the common practice of pushing contracts that deprive inventors of control over their own innovations and most of the money they ought to have made from them...
vulture capitalist2 is Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] n. 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978. The program would make two copies of itself every time it was run, eventually crashi...
vulture capitalist3 is includes infinite self-replication but is not a {virus} or {worm}. See also {cookie monster}.
WAITS is /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990. There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequ...
WAITS2 is ITS'. Though WAITS was less visible than ITS, there was frequent exchange of people and ideas between the two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence. The early screen modes of {EMACS}, ...
WAITS3 is `E' editor --- one of a family of editors that were the first to do `real-time editing', in which the editing commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point of insertion/overwriting. The modern style of multi-region...
WAITS4 is and WAITS alumni at XEROX PARC and elsewhere played major roles in the developments that led to the XEROX Star, the Macintosh, and the Sun workstations. {Bucky bits} were also invented there --- thus, the ALT key on every IBM PC is ...
WAITS5 is seldom duplicated elsewhere was a news-wire interface that allowed WAITS hackers to read, store, and filter AP and UPI dispatches from their terminals; the system also featured a still-unusual level of support for what is now called ...
WAITS6 is and video signals to be switched to programming terminals.
waldo is /wol'doh/ [From Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the invention des...
waldo2 is wrote in 1942. Now known by the more generic term `telefactoring', this technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students), this is used i...
waldo3 is and general nonsense word. See {foo}, {bar}, {foobar}, {quux}.
walk is n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or linked-list data structure in {core}. See also {codewalker}, {silly walk}, {clobber}.
walk off the end of is vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble. Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare {clobber}, {roach}, {smash the stack}.
walking drives is n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s. Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or ...
walking drives2 is with the floor could cause them to `walk' across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple of millimeters at a time. There is a legend about a drive that walked over to the only door to the computer room and jamme...
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wart is n. A small, {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an otherwise {clean} design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)', single quot...
wart2 is except `!'. In ANSI C, the `??' syntax used obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also {miswart}.
washing machine is n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'. The washing...
washing machine2 is it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. The thick channel cables connecting these were called `bit hoses' (see {hose}).
water MIPS is n. (see {MIPS}, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional {mainframe} type.
wave a dead chicken is v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "...
wave a dead chicken2 is code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}.
weasel is n. [Cambridge] A na"ive user, one who deliberately or accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised. Roughly synonymous with {loser}.
wedged is [from a common description of recto-cranial inversion] adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, then it has become totally non-functioning. If the...
wedged2 is something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may become wedged if it {deadlock}s with another (but not all instances of wedging are deadlocks). B...
wedged3 is {hung}. See also {gronk}, {locked up}, {hosed}. Describes a {deadlock}ed condition. 2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. "He's totally wedged --- he's convinced that he can levitate through meditation." 3. [UNIX...
wedged4 is TTY left in a losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line discipline in some obscure way.
wedgie is [Fairchild] n. A bug. Prob. related to {wedged}.
wedgitude is /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being {wedged}.
weeble is /weeb'l/ [Cambridge] interj. Used to denote frustration, usually at amazing stupidity. "I stuck the disk in upside down." "Weeble...." Compare {gurfle}.
weeds is n. 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from `off in the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds...." 2. At CDC/ETA be...
weeds2 is weeds' was equivalent to IBM's {branch to Fishkill} and mainstream hackerdom's {jump off into never-never land}.
weenie is n. 1. When used with a qualifier (for example, as in {UNIX weenie}, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or not it is applied by a person who consi...
weenie2 is weenie. Implies that the weenie has put a major investment of time, effort, and concentration into the area indicated; whether this is positive or negative depends on the hearer's judgment of how the speaker feels about that area. ...
weenie3 is character, `;' (ASCII 0111011).
Weenix is /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {{UNIX}}, derived from {UNIX weenie}. According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenies typified by poor modularity, poor reliability, hard file deletion...
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worm is [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel `The Shockwave Rider', via XEROX PARC] n. A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare {virus}. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is...
worm2 is Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's `Internet Worm' of 1988, a `benign' one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also {cracker}, {RTM}, {Trojan horse}, {ice}.
wound around the axle is adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.
wrap around is vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1. [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see {infinity}) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, eit...
wrap around2 is because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0). 2. To change {phase} gradually and continuously by maintaining a steady wake-sleep cycle somewhat longer than 24 hours, e.g., living six long (28-hour) days i...
wrap around3 is rate of 10 microhertz).
write-only code is [a play on `read-only memory'] n. Code so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by anyone but its author, and possibly not even by him/her. A {Bad Thing}.
write-only language is n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is {write-only code}. A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though {INTERCAL} and {TECO} cer...
write-only memory is n. The obvious antonym to `read-only memory'. Out of frustration with the long and seemingly useless chain of approvals required of component specifications, during which no actual checking seemed to occur, an engineer at...
write-only memory2 is a write-only memory and included it with a bunch of other specifications to be approved. This inclusion came to the attention of Signetics {management} only when regular customers started calling and asking for pricing ...
write-only memory3 is edition of the data book and requested the return of the `erroneous' ones. Later, around 1974, Signetics bought a double-page spread in `Electronics' magazine's April issue and used the spec as an April Fools' Day joke...
write-only memory4 is characteristic curves, the 25120 "fully encoded, 9046 x N, Random Access, write-only-memory" data sheet included diagrams of "bit capacity vs. Temp.", "Iff vs. Vff", "Number of pins remaining vs. number of socket insert...
write-only memory5 is required a 6.3 VAC VFF supply, a +10V VCC, and VDD of 0V, +/- 2%.
Wrong Thing is n. A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if capitalized. The opposite of the {Right Thing}; more generally, anything that is not the Right T...
Wrong Thing2 is of the best', the merely good --- although good --- is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong T...
wugga wugga is /wuh'g* wuh'g*/ n. Imaginary sound that a computer program makes as it labors with a tedious or difficult task. Compare {cruncha cruncha cruncha}, {grind} (sense 4).
WYSIWYG is /wiz'ee-wig/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is What You Get", as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands which do not result in immediate visual feedback. The term can be mildly derogatory,...
WYSIWYG2 is {user-friendly} interfaces targeted at non-programmers; a hacker has no fear of obscure commands. On the other hand, EMACS was one of the very first WYSIWYG editors, replacing (actually, at first overlaying) the extremely obscure, ...
WYSIWYG3 is environment}. [Oddly enough, this term has already made it into the OED. --- ESR]*X /X/ n. 1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in roughly its algebraic sense of `unknown within a set defined by conte...
WYSIWYG4 is 680x0 stands for 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, or 68040, and 80x86 stands for 80186, 80286 80386 or 80486 (note that a UNIX hacker might write these as 680[0-4]0 and 80[1-4]86 or 680?0 and 80?86 respectively; see {glob}). 2. [after ...
WYSIWYG5 is `W'] An over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated window system developed at MIT and widely used on UNIX systems.
XOFF is /X'of/ n. Syn. {control-s}.
xor is /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'. "I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of it...
xref is /X'ref/ vt., n. Hackish standard abbreviation for `cross-reference'.
XXX is /X-X-X/ n. A marker that attention is needed. Commonly used in program comments to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be. Some hackers liken `XXX' to the notional heavy-porn movie rating.
xyzzy is /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ [from the ADVENT game] adj. The {canonical} `magic word'. This comes from {ADVENT}, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures ...
xyzzy2 is appropriate time, you can move instantly between two otherwise distant points. If, therefore, you encounter some bit of {magic}, you might remark on this quite succinctly by saying simply "Xyzzy!" "Ordinarily you can't look at so...
xyzzy3 is if you type quadruple-bucky-clear the system will let you do it anyway." "Xyzzy!" Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several OSes; in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it would typically res...
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Yow! is /yow/ [from "Zippy the Pinhead" comix] interj. A favored hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. "Yow! Check out what happens when you twiddle the foo option on this display hack!" Compare {gurfle}.
yoyo mode is n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down. Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits....
yoyo mode2 is SIGPLAN '88. Tourists staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists testing yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish is /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs. The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which ...
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish2 is covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Usage primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand....
zap is 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.)...
zap2 is correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again." In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs...
zap3 is `superzap', whose file name is `IMASPZAP' (I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To erase or reset. 6. To {fry} a chip with static electricity. "Uh oh --- I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."
zapped is adj. Spicy. This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is *spicy*-hot. For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast,...
zapped2 is zapped. See also {{oriental food}}, {laser chicken}. See {zap}, senses 1 and 2.
zen is vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "How'd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned...
zen2 is time-extended version of zenning a system. Compare {hack mode}. See also {guru}.
zero is vt. 1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp. in the construction `zero out'). 2. To erase; to discard all data from. Said of disks and directories, where `zeroing' need not involve actually w...
zero2 is zeroed. One may speak of something being `logically zeroed' rather than being `physically zeroed'. See {scribble}.
zero-content is adj. Syn. {content-free}.
zeroth is /zee'rohth/ adj. First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays. Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1; this is natural since, e.g., the 256 states of 8 bits correspond...
zeroth2 is the digital devices known as `counters' count in this way. Hackers and computer scientists often like to call the first chapter of a publication `chapter 0', especially if it is of an introductory nature (one of the classic instan...
zeroth3 is recent years this trait has also been observed among many pure mathematicians (who have an independent tradition of numbering from 0). Zero-based numbering tends to reduce {fencepost error}s, though it cannot eliminate them entir...
zigamorph is /zig'*-morf/ n. Hex FF (11111111) when used as a delimiter or {fence} character. Usage primarily at IBM shops.
zip is [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver. Its use is spreading now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written. Commonly used as fol...
zip2 is See {arc}, {tar and feather}.
zipperhead is [IBM] n. A person with a closed mind.
zombie is [UNIX] n. A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a `wait(2)' for it yet). These can be seen in `ps(1)' listings occasionally. Compare {orphan}.
zorch is /zorch/ 1. [TMRC] v. To attack with an inverse heat sink. 2. [TMRC] v. To travel, with v approaching c [that is, with velocity approaching lightspeed --- ESR]. 3. [MIT] v. To propel something very quickly. "The new comm software is ...
zorch2 is the network." 4. [MIT] n. Influence. Brownie points. Good karma. The intangible and fuzzy currency in which favors are measured. "I'd rather not ask him for that just yet; I think I've used up my quota of zorch with him for th...
zorch3 is ability. "I think I'll {punt} that change for now; I've been up for 30 hours and I've run out of zorch."
Zork is /zork/ n. The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see {ADVENT}. Originally written on MIT-DM during the late 1970s, later distributed with BSD UNIX and commercialized as `The Zork Trilogy' by Infocom.
zorkmid is /zork'mid/ n. The canonical unit of currency in hacker-written games. This originated in {zork} but has spread to {nethack} and is referred to in several other games.= [^A-Za-z] (see {regexp}) =
'Snooze is /snooz/ [FidoNet] n. Fidonews, the weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet. As the editorial policy of Fidonews is "anything that arrives, we print", there are often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in tu...
(TM) is // [USENET] ASCII rendition of the trademark-superscript symbol appended to phrases that the author feels should be recorded for posterity, perhaps in future editions of this lexicon. Sometimes used ironically as a form of protest aga...
(TM)2 is algorithm patents and `look and feel' lawsuits. See also {UN*X}.
-oid is [from `android'] suff. 1. This suffix is used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance. Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words...
-oid2 is mainstream English. For example, "He's a nerdoid" means that he superficially resembles a nerd but can't make the grade; a `modemoid' might be a 300-baud box (Real Modems run at 9600); a `computeroid' might be any {bitty box}. The ...
-oid3 is {chiclet keyboard}, but would have to be written; spoken, it would confuse the listener as to the speaker's city of origin. 2. There is a more specific sense of `oid' as an indicator for `resembling an android' which in the past ha...
-oid4 is hackers. It too has recently (in 1991) started to go mainstream (most notably in the term `trendoid' for victims of terminal hipness). This is probably traceable to the popularization of the term {droid} in "Star Wars" and its seque...
-oid5 is in science fiction for at least fifty years, and hackers (who are often SF fans) have probably been making `-oid' jargon for almost that long [though GLS and I can personally confirm only that they were already common in the mid-197...
-ware is [from `software'] suff. Commonly used to form jargon terms for classes of software. For examples, see {careware}, {crippleware}, {crudware}, {freeware}, {fritterware}, {guiltware}, {liveware}, {meatware}, {payware}, {psychedelicwar...
/dev/null is /dev-nuhl/ [from the UNIX null device, used as a data sink] n. A notional `black hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to. A controversial posting, for example, might end "Kudos to rasputin@kremlin.org...
120 reset is /wuhn-twen'tee ree'set/ [from 120 volts, U.S. wall voltage] n. To cycle power on a machine in order to reset or unjam it. Compare {Big Red Switch}, {power cycle}.
2 is infix. In translation software written by hackers, infix 2 often represents the syllable *to* with the connotation `translate to' as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string (integer to string), and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff).
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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...
angry fruit salad2 => tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
AOS => 1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) [based on a PDP-10 increment instruction] vt.,obs. To increase the amount of something. "AOS the campfire." Usage considered silly, and now obsolete. Now largely supplanted by bump. See SOS. 2. A {Mu...
app => /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program. What systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves...
arc => [primarily MSDOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a group of files using SEA ARC, PKWare PKARC, or a compatible program. Rapidly becoming obsolete as the ARC compression method is falling into disuse, having been replaced by newer comp...
arc wars => [primarily MSDOS] n. {holy wars} over which archiving program one should use. The first arc war was sparked when System Enhancement Associates (SEA) sued PKWare for copyright and trademark infringement on its ARC program. PKWare's PKARC o...
arc wars2 => and speed while largely retaining compatibility (it introduced a new compression type that could be disabled for backward-compatibility). PKWare settled out of court to avoid enormous legal costs (both SEA and PKWare are small companies)...
arc wars3 => of PKARC was changed to PKPAK. The public backlash against SEA for bringing suit helped to hasten the demise of ARC as a standard when PKWare and others introduced new, incompatible archivers with better compression algorithms.
archive => n. 1. A collection of several files bundled into one file by a program such as `ar(1)', `tar(1)', `cpio(1)', or arc for shipment or archiving (sense 2). See also {tar and feather}. 2. A collection of files or archives (sense 1) made availa...
arena => [UNIX] n. The area of memory attached to a process by `brk(2)' and `sbrk(2)' and used by `malloc(3)' as dynamic storage. So named from a semi-mythical `malloc corrupt arena' message supposedly emitted when some early versions became terminal...
arg => /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte'). "The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args." Compare param, parm, ...
armor-plated => n. Syn. for bulletproof.
asbestos => adj. Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from flames. Important cases of this include {asbestos longjohns} and {asbestos cork award}, but it is used more generally.
asbestos cork award => n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed, had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'. Persons in any...
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background => n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attention, and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority. "For now, we'll just print a list of nod...
backspace and overstrike => interj. Whoa! Back up. Used to suggest that someone just said or did something wrong. Common among APL programmers.
backward combatability => /bak'w*rd k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ [from `backward compatibility'] n. A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous protocols, formats, and layouts are discarded in favor of `new and improved' protocols, formats...
backward combatability2 => making the transition between major releases. When the change is so drastic that the old formats are not retained in the new version, it is said to be `backward combatable'. See {flag day}.
BAD => /B-A-D/ [IBM acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj. Said of a program that is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess. See {working as designed}.
Bad Thing => [from the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody `1066 And All That'] n. Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalized, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would ...
Bad Thing2 => Thing}. British correspondents confirm that {Bad Thing} and {Good Thing} (and prob. therefore {Right Thing} and {Wrong Thing}) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. Th...
Bad Thing3 => mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
bag on the side => n. An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly,...
bag on the side2 => phrase, `to hang a bag on the side [of]'. "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C ...." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
bagbiter => /bag'bit-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner. "This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters! What a bagbiter!" 2. A person who...
bamf => /bamf/ 1. [from old X-Men comics] interj. Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in {virtual reality} (esp. MUD) electronic fora when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance...
banana label => n. The labels often used on the sides of macrotape reels, so called because they are shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas. This term, like macrotapes themselves, is still current but visibly headed for obsolescence.
banana problem => n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"]. Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare {fencepost error}). One may say `there is a banana pr...
banana problem2 => defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also {creeping elegance}, {creeping featuritis}). See item 176 under HAKMEM, which describes a banana...
banana problem3 => implementation.bandwidth n. 1. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I m...
banana problem4 => bandwidth, I guess." Compare low-bandwidth. 2. Attention span. 3. On USENET, a measure of network capacity that is often wasted by people complaining about how items posted by others are a waste of bandwidth.
bang => 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish. In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek; but the spread...
bang on => vt. To stress-test a piece of hardware or software "I banged on the new version of the simulator all day yesterday and it didn't crash once. I guess it is ready to release." The term {pound on} is synonymous.
bang path => n. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee, so called because each hop is signified by a bang sign. Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me d...
bang path2 => to machine bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the machine foovax to the account of user me on barbox. In the bad old days of not so long ago, before autorouting mailers became commo...
bang path3 => compound bang addresses using the { } convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big machines, in the hopes that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably (example ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!b...
bang path4 => 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. See {{Internet addres...
banner => n. 1. The title page added to printouts by most print spoolers (see spool). Typically includes user or account ID information in very large character-graphics capitals. Also called a `burst page', because it indicates where to burst (tear a...
bar => /bar/ n. 1. The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. "Suppose we have two functions FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR...." 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.
bare metal => n. 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an {operating system}, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase `programming on the bare metal', which refers to the arduous work of {bit bashing} ne...
bare metal2 => for a new machine. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back en...
bare metal3 => real development environment. 2. `Programming on the bare metal' is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, esp. tricks for speed and space optimization that...
bare metal4 => overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in appendix A, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimize fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the ...
bare metal5 => and machine resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems. See {real programmer}. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming (especially in sense 1 bu...
bare metal6 => considered a {Good Thing}, or at least a necessary thing (because these machines have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS i...
bare metal7 => application to directly access device registers and machine addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing are held in high regard.
barf => /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. vi. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of dis...
barfulation => /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ interj. Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
barfulous => /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj. (alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.
baroque => adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has...
BartleMUD => /bar'tl-muhd/ n. Any of the MUDs derived from the original MUD game by Richard Bartle (see MUD). BartleMUDs are noted for their (usually slightly offbeat) humor, dry but friendly syntax, and lack of adjectives in object descriptions, so ...
BASIC => n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers. This is another case (like Pascal) of the bad thing...
batch => adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often ...
bathtub curve => n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system'...
bathtub curve2 => `tires out'. See also {burn-in period}, {infant mortality}.
baud => /bawd/ [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning is `level transitions per second'; this coincides with bps only for two-level modulation with no f...
baud barf => /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp. line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts ...
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Big Gray Wall => n. What faces a VMS user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multivendor netwo...
Big Gray Wall2 => Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with gray binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange (`big orange wall'), and under version 3 they were blue. See VMS.
big iron => n. Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. Term of approval; compare {heavy metal}, oppose dinosaur.
Big Red Switch => [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp. the `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This !@%$% {bitty box} is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch."...
Big Red Switch2 => tune with the company's passion for TLAs, this is often acronymized as `BRS' (this has also become established on FidoNet and in the PC clone world). It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a no...
Big Red Switch3 => power feed; the BRSes on more recent machines physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare {power cycle}, {th...
the Big Room => n. The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone rig...
big win => n. Serendipity. "Yes, those two physicists discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic that had been prepared incorrectly according to their experimental schedule. Small mistake; big win!" See {win big}.
big-endian => [From Swift's `Gulliver's Travels' via the famous paper `On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace' by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj. 1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric repr...
bignum => /big'nuhm/ [orig. from MIT MacLISP] n. 1. [techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers. More generally, any very large number. "Have you ever looked at the United States Budget? There's bignums for you!" ...
bigot => n. A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see {religious issues}). Usually found with a specifier; thus, `cray bigot', {ITS bigot}, `APL bigot', `VMS bigot', {Berkele...
bit => [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] n. 1. [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable. 2. [techspeak] A computational quant...
bit bang => n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesti...
bit bang2 => and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO b...
bit bang3 => instance of the {cycle of reincarnation}, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
bit bashing => n. (alt. `bit diddling' or {bit twiddling}) Term used to describe any of several kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of bit, flag, nybble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data; these include lo...
bit bashing2 => encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavors of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usual...
bit bashing3 => decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also {bit bang}, {mode bit}.
bit bucket => n. 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'. On ...
bit bucket2 => /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as `the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky'. 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to {Finagle's Law}; important mail is much more likely to end u...
bit bucket3 => mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted ma...
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bozotic => /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ [from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald] adj. Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. Compare wonky, demented. Not...
BQS => /B-Q-S/ adj. Syn. {Berkeley Quality Software}.
brain dump => n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system {core dump} in that ...
brain dump2 => before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." See {core dump} (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as `TOI' (transfer of information).
brain-damaged => 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {Multics}] adj. Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person respo...
brain-dead => adj. Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity. "This comm program doesn't know how to send a break --- how brain-dead!"
braino => /bray'no/ n. Syn. for thinko.
branch to Fishkill => [IBM from the location of one of the corporation's facilities] n. Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results. See {jump off into never-never land}, hyperspace.
brand brand brand => n. Humorous catch-phrase from BartleMUDs, in which players were described carrying a list of objects, the most common of which would usually be a brand. Often used as a joke in {talk mode} as in "Fred the wizard is here, carrying...
brand brand brand2 => kettle broadsword flamethrower". A brand is a torch, of course; one burns up a lot of those exploring dungeons. Prob. influenced by the famous Monty Python "Spam" skit.
break => 1. vt. To cause to be broken (in any sense). "Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands." 2. v. (of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a `breakpoint'. 3. [techspeak] vi. To...
breath-of-life packet => [XEROX PARC] n. An Ethernet packet that contained bootstrap (see boot) code, periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that had happened to crash. The machin...
breath-of-life packet2 => would wait for such a packet after a catastrophic error.
breedle => n. See feep.
bring X to its knees => v. To present a machine, operating system, piece of software, or algorithm with a load so extreme or pathological that it grinds to a halt. "To bring a MicroVAX to its knees, try twenty users running vi --- or four running EMA...
brittle => adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to expected exte...
broadcast storm => n. An incorrect packet broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at once, typically with wrong answers that start the process over again. See {network meltdown}.
broken => adj. 1. Not working properly (of programs). 2. Behaving strangely; especially (when used of people) exhibiting extreme depression.
broken arrow => [IBM] n. The error code displayed on line 25 of a 3270 terminal (or a PC emulating a 3270) for various kinds of protocol violations and "unexpected" error conditions (including connection to a down computer). On a PC, simulated with `...
broken arrow2 => characters overstruck. In true luser fashion, the original documentation of these codes (visible on every 3270 terminal, and necessary for debugging network problems) was confined to an IBM customer engineering manual. Note to apprec...
broken arrow3 => know that `broken arrow' is also military jargon for an accident involving nuclear weapons....
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brute force9 => tradeoffs in software design, the choice between brute force and complex, finely-tuned cleverness is often a difficult one that requires both engineering savvy and delicate esthetic judgment.
brute force and ignorance => n. A popular design technique at many software houses --- {brute force} coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways. Dogmatic adherence to design methodologies tends to e...
brute force and ignorance2 => early {larval stage} programming; unfortunately, many never outgrow it. Often abbreviated BFI "Gak, they used a bubble sort! That's strictly from BFI." Compare bogosity.
BSD => /B-S-D/ n. [acronym for `Berkeley System Distribution'] a family of {UNIX} versions for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at Berzerkeley starting around 1980, incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancem...
bubble sort => n. Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries `bubble upward' in the list until they bump into one ...
bubble sort2 => is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by na"ive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a na"ive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is...
bubble sort3 => might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
bucky bits => /buh'kee bits/ n. 1. obs. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard, resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL ...
bucky bits2 => character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see {space-cadet keyboard}). 2. By extension, bits associated with `extra' shift keys on any keyboard, e.g., the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option key...
bucky bits3 => that `bucky bits' were named for Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, `Bucky' was Niklaus Wirth's nickname when *he* was at Stanford; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th...
bucky bits4 => character. This was used in a number of editors written at Stanford or in its environs (TV-EDIT and NLS being the best-known). The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. See {double bucky}, {quadruple bucky}.
buffer overflow => n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see overrun), or because the buffer is...
buffer overflow2 => data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and t...
buffer overflow3 => defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full up. The term is used of and by humans in a metaphorical sense. "What time did I agree to meet you? My buffer must hav...
buffer overflow4 => phone my buffer is going to overflow." See also spam, {overrun screw}.
bug => n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or hardware, esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature. Examples "There's a bug in the editor it writes things out backwards." "The system crashed because of a hardware bug."...
bug-compatible => adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bu...
bug-for-bug compatible => n. Same as bug-compatible, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.
buglix => /buhg'liks/ n. Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without venom. Compare HP-SUX.
bulletproof => adj. Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition. This is a rare and valued quality. Syn. armor-plated.
bum => 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity. "I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code." "I spent half the night bumming the interrupt code." 2. To squeeze out excess; to remove so...
bump => vt. Synonym for increment. Has the same meaning as C's ++ operator. Used esp. of counter variables, pointers, and index dummies in `for', `while', and `do-while' loops.
burble => [from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] v. Like flame, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FUL...
buried treasure => n. A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastical...
buried treasure2 => anything *but* treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using {bubble sort}! Buried treasure!"
burn-in period => n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with marginal components before they get out the door; the theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the {bathtub curve} (see {infant mortality})....
burn-in period2 => length in which a person using a computer is so intensely involved in his project that he forgets basic needs such as food, drink, sleep, etc. Warning Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See {hack mode}, {larval stage}.
burst page => n. Syn. banner, sense 1.
busy-wait => vi. Used of human behavior, conveys that the subject is busy waiting for someone or something, intends to move instantly as soon as it shows up, and thus cannot do anything else at the moment. "Can't talk now, I'm busy-waiting till Bill ...
buzz => vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing; esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code. A program that is buzzing appears to be catatonic, but you never ge...
BWQ => /B-W-Q/ [IBM acronym, `Buzz Word Quotient'] The percentage of buzzwords in a speech or documents. Usually roughly proportional to bogosity. See TLA.
by hand => adv. Said of an operation (especially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker instead has to step tediously through. "My mailer doesn't have a command to inclu...
by hand2 => replying to, so I have to do it by hand." This does not necessarily mean the speaker has to retype a copy of the message; it might refer to, say, dropping into a subshell from the mailer, making a copy of one's mailbox file, reading that ...
by hand3 => and bottom of the message in question, deleting the rest of the file, inserting `>' characters on each line, writing the file, leaving the editor, returning to the mailer, reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the file. Com...
byte => /bit/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one character; on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines. Some older architectures used `byte' for quantities of 6 or 7 ...
bytesexual => /bit`sek'shu-*l/ adj. Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a {mode bit} somewhere). See also {NUXI problem}.*C n. 1. The third letter of th...
calculator => [Cambridge] n. Syn. for {bitty box}.
can => vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp. when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the {console}". Frequently used in an imperative sense, as in "Can that print job, the LPT just popped a sprocket!" Synony...
canonical => [historically, `according to religious law'] adj. The usual or standard state or manner of something. This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics. Two formulas such as 9 + x and x + 9 are said to be equivalent because ...
card => n. 1. An electronic printed-circuit board (see also {tall card}, {short card}. 2. obs. Syn. {{punched card}}.
card walloper => n. An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do stupid things like print people's paychecks. Compare {code grinder}. See also {{punched card}}, {eighty-column mind}.
careware => /keir'weir/ n. Shareware for which either the author suggests that some payment be made to a nominated charity or a levy directed to charity is included on top of the distribution charge. Syn. charityware; compare crippleware, sense 2.
cargo cult programming => n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug ...
cargo cult programming2 => neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare {shotgun debugging}, {voodoo programming}). The term `cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in ...
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chomper => n. Someone or something that is chomping; a loser. See loser, bagbiter, chomp.
Christmas tree => n. A kind of RS-232 line tester or breakout box featuring rows of blinking red and green LEDs suggestive of Christmas lights.
Christmas tree packet => n. A packet with every single option set for whatever protocol is in use. See {kamikaze packet}, {Chernobyl packet}. (The term doubtless derives from a fanciful image of each little option bit being represented by a different...
chrome => [from automotive slang via wargaming] n. Showy features added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to the power of a system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they certainly are *pretty* chrome!" Distinguished from ...
chug => vi. To run slowly; to grind or grovel. "The disk is chugging like crazy."
Church of the SubGenius => n. A mutant offshoot of Discordianism launched in 1981 as a spoof of fundamentalist Christianity by the `Reverend' Ivan Stang, a brilliant satirist with a gift for promotion. Popular among hackers as a rich source of bizarr...
Church of the SubGenius2 => "Bob" the divine drilling-equipment salesman, the Benevolent Space Xists, and the Stark Fist of Removal. Much SubGenius theory is concerned with the acquisition of the mystical substance or quality of `slack'.
Cinderella Book => [CMU] n. `Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation', by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Gold...
Cinderella Book2 => coming out of it. The back cover depicts the girl with the device in shambles after she has pulled on the rope. See also {{book titles}}.
CI$ => // n. Hackerism for `CIS', CompuServe Information Service. The dollar sign refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges. Often used in {sig block}s just before a CompuServe address. Syn. Compu$erve.
Classic C => /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n. The C programming language as defined in the first edition of K&R, with some small additions. It is also known as `K&R C'. The name came into use while C was being standardized by the ANSI X3J11 ...
Classic C2 => This is sometimes applied elsewhere thus, `X Classic', where X = Star Trek (referring to the original TV series) or X = PC (referring to IBM's ISA-bus machines as opposed to the PS/2 series). This construction is especially used of prod...
Classic C3 => versions are considered serious losers relative to the older ones.
clean => 1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from t...
CLM => /C-L-M/ [Sun `Career Limiting Move'] 1. n. An action endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and raises, and possibly one's job "His Halloween costume was a parody of his manager. He won the prize for `best CLM'." 2. adj. D...
clobber => vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble, trash, and {smash the stack}.
clocks => n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing. The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are usually discussed in clocks rather than absolute fractions o...
clone => n. 1. An exact duplicate "Our product is a clone of their product." Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering. Also connotes lower price. 2. A shoddy, spurious copy "Their product is a clone of our product...
clover key => [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
clustergeeking => /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ [CMU] n. Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
COBOL => /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n. (Synonymous with evil.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes. Hackers believe all COBOL programmers are suits or {c...
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CTSS => /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System. An early (1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems, ancestral to {Multics}, {UNIX}, and {ITS}. The name {ITS} (Incompatible Time-sharing System) was a hack on CT...
CTY => /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ n. [MIT] The terminal physically associated with a computer's system {console}. The term is a contraction of `Console tty', that is, `Console TeleTYpe'. This {ITS}- and {TOPS-10}-associated term has become less common, as m...
cube => n. 1. [short for `cubicle'] A module in the open-plan offices used at many programming shops. "I've got the manuals in my cube." 2. A NeXT machine (which resembles a matte-black cube).
cubing => [parallel with `tubing'] vi. 1. Hacking on an IPSC (Intel Personal SuperComputer) hypercube. "Louella's gone cubing *again*!!" 2. Hacking Rubik's Cube or related puzzles, either physically or mathematically. 3. An indescribable form of self...
cursor dipped in X => n. There are a couple of metaphors in English of the form `pen dipped in X' (perhaps the most common values of X are `acid', `bile', and `vitriol'). These map over neatly to this hackish usage (the cursor being what moves, leavi...
cursor dipped in X2 => composing on-line). "Talk about a nastygram! He must've had his cursor dipped in acid when he wrote that one!"
cuspy => /kuhs'pee/ [WPI from the DEC acronym CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1. (of a program) Well-written. 2. Functionally excellent. A program that performs well and interfaces well to u...
cut a tape => [poss. fr. mainstream `cut a check' or from the recording industry's `cut a record'] vi. To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! Though this usage...
cut a tape2 => speaks of analogously `cutting a disk' or anything else in this sense.
cybercrud => /si'ber-kruhd/ [coined by Ted Nelson] n. Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese.
cyberpunk => /si'ber-puhnk/ [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] n.,adj. A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel `Neuromancer' (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's `True Names' (s...
cyberspace => /si'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'; a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious eff...
cycle => 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie"). One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'. Often the computer can access its memory...
cycle crunch => n. A situation where the number of people trying to use the computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This is an inev...
cycle crunch2 => applied to timesharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier in recent years, so much so that the very term `cycle crunch' now has a faintly archaic flavor; most hackers now use w...
cycle crunch3 => opposed to traditional timesharing systems.
cycle drought => n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a {cycle crunch}, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The {high moby} is down, so we're running with only half...
cycle drought2 => There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
cycle of reincarnation => [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca. 1970] n. Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves to...
cycle of reincarnation2 => its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again. Several iterations of th...
cycle of reincarnation3 => graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. Also known as `the Wheel of Life', `the Wheel of Samsara', and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological ide...
cycle server => n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for running large batch jobs. Implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.*D.C. Power Lab n. The former site of {SAIL}. Hac...
cycle server2 => funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent --- the lab was named for a Donald C. Power. Compare {Marginal Hacks}.
daemon => /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n. A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the ...
dangling pointer => n. A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere (in C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid). Usually this is because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared. U...
dangling pointer2 => of its techspeak meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved to the other coast is a dangling pointer.
Datamation => /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers assume all suits read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in `Datamation?'" It used to publish something hackishly funny every once in a while, like the origi...
day mode => n. See phase (sense 1). Used of people only.
dd => /dee-dee/ [UNIX from IBM JCL] vt. Equivalent to cat or BLT. This was originally the name of a UNIX copy command with special options suitable for block-oriented devices. Often used in heavy-handed system maintenance, as in "Let's dd the root pa...
DDT => /D-D-T/ n. 1. Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them. In this sense the term DDT is now archaic, having been w...
de-rezz => /dee-rez'/ [from `de-resolve' via the movie "Tron"] (also `derez') 1. vi. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static and then dissolving. Occasionally used of a person who...
dead code => n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed, or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else. The presence of de...
dead code2 => errors due to alterations in the program or significant changes in the assumptions and environment of the program (see also {software rot}); a good compiler should report dead code so a maintainer can think about what it means. Syn. gru...
DEADBEEF => /ded-beef/ n. The hexadecimal word-fill pattern for freshly allocated memory (decimal -21524111) under a number of IBM environments, including the RS/6000. As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory); if ...
deadlock => n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for ou...
deadly embrace => n. Same as deadlock, though usually used only when exactly 2 processes are involved. This is the more popular term in Europe, while deadlock predominates in the United States.
Death Star => [from the movie "Star Wars"] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the `Death Star' in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD UNIX, who tend ...
Death Star2 => inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labeled 4.2 BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, `Fo...
Death Star3 => incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light --- a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
DEC Wars => n. A 1983 USENET posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-lon...
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defined as => adj. In the role of, usually in an organization-chart sense. "Pete is currently defined as bug prioritizer." Compare logical.
dehose => /dee-hohz/ vt. To clear a hosed condition.
delint => /dee-lint/ v. To modify code to remove problems detected when linting.
delta => n. 1. [techspeak] A quantitative change, especially a small or incremental one (this use is general in physics and engineering). "I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta on program size?" "About 30 percent." (He doubled ...
demented => adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program. The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a program that generates large numbers of meaningless error mess...
demigod => n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community. To qualify as a genuine demigod, the person ...
demo => /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype. A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of test runs, especially when important people are watching. 2. n. The act of demoing.
demo mode => [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a demo, usually due yesterday. 2. A mode in which video games sit there by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'. So...
demo mode2 => they use as a screen saver, or may go through a demo mode on startup (for example, the Microsoft Windows opening screen --- which lets you impress your neighbors without actually having to put up with {Microsloth Windows}).
demon => n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. See daemon. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually pro...
depeditate => /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] vt. Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chop...
deprecated => adj. Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in favor of a specified replacement. Deprecated features can, unfortunately, linger on for many years.
deserves to lose => adj. Said of someone who willfully does the {Wrong Thing}; humorously, if one uses a feature known to be marginal. What is meant is that one deserves the consequences of one's losing actions. "Boy, anyone who tries to use mess-dos...
deserves to lose2 => ({ITS} fans used to say this of {UNIX}; many still do.) See also screw, chomp, bagbiter.
desk check => n.,v. To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers --- though some mainta...
desk check2 => Compare {eyeball search}, vdiff, vgrep.
Devil Book => n. `The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System', by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989) --- the standard reference book on the int...
Devil Book2 => because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of UNIX, the fork(2) system call).
devo => /dee'voh/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A person in a development group. See also doco and mango.
dickless workstation => n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server. These combine all the disadvanta...
dickless workstation2 => disadvantages of distributed personal computers.
dictionary flame => [USENET] n. An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over defini...
diddle => 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." See tweak and twiddle. 2. n. The ac...
diff => /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs'). "Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare vdiff. 2. Specifically, such a l...
digit => n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation. See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10, {TOPS-10}, DEChead, {double DECkers}, {field circus}.
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double DECkers => n. Used to describe married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
doubled sig => [USENET] n. A {sig block} that has been included twice in a USENET article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however,...
doubled sig2 => experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
down => 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say, and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on. With respect to computers, this u...
download => vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a mainframe) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp. a microcomputer or specialized peripheral. Oppose upload. However, note that ground-to-space co...
DP => /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a suit. See DPer. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}.
DPB => /d*-pib'/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt. To plop something down in the middle. Usage silly. "DPB yourself into that couch there." The connotation would be that the couch is full except for one slot just big enough for you to sit in. DPB...
DPer => /dee-pee-er/ n. Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that suits use this term self-referentially. "*Computers* process data, not people!" See DP.
dragon => n. [MIT] A program similar to a daemon, except that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks. A typical example would be an accounting program, which keeps track of who is logged in, acc...
Dragon Book => n. The classic text `Compilers Principles, Techniques and Tools', by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6), so called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labeled `complexi...
Dragon Book2 => bearing the lance `LALR parser generator' among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the `Red Dragon Book' (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled `Principles Of Compiler Design' (Alfred V. Aho and Jef...
Dragon Book3 => ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the `Green Dragon Book' (1977). (Also `New Dragon Book', `Old Dragon Book'.) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at ...
Dragon Book4 => representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also {{book titles}}.
drain => [IBM] v. Syn. for flush (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline.
dread high-bit disease => n. A condition endemic to PRIME (a.k.a. PR1ME) minicomputers that results in all the characters having their high (0x80) bit ON rather than OFF. This of course makes transporting files to other systems much more difficult, n...
dread high-bit disease2 => devices. It is reported that PRIME adopted the reversed-8-bit convention in order to save 25 cents per serial line per machine. This probably qualifies as one of the most cretinous design tradeoffs ever made. See {meta bit}...
dread high-bit disease3 => (including the Atari 800) have exhibited similar brain damage.
DRECNET => /drek'net/ [from Yiddish/German `dreck', meaning dirt] n. Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community. So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either stupidly or as a mal...
driver => n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 2. [techspeak] In `device driver', code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or tape u...
droid => n. A person (esp. a low-level bureaucrat or service-business employee) exhibiting most of the following characteristics (a) na"ive trust in the wisdom of the parent organization or `the system'; (b) a propensity to believe obvious nonsense e...
drool-proof paper => n. Documentation that has been obsessively {dumbed down}, to the point where only a cretin could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the `drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been `written on drool-proof paper'. For e...
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drunk mouse syndrome3 => up enough cruft to be unreliable, the mouse was doused in cleaner, which restored it for a while. However, this operation left a fine residue that accelerated the accumulation of cruft, so the dousings became more and more fr...
drunk mouse syndrome4 => declared `alcoholic' and sent to the clinic to be dried out in a CFC ultrasonic bath.
dumbass attack => /duhm'as *-tak'/ [Purdue] n. Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as root under UNIX, e.g., typing `rm -r *' or `mkfs' on a mounted file system. Compare adger.
dumbed down => adj. Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it sma...
dump => n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal runes desc...
dup killer => /d[y]oop kill'r/ [FidoNet] n. Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes.
dup loop => /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n. An incorrectly configured system or network gateway may propagate duplicate messages on one or more echoes, with different identification information that renders {dup killer}s ineffective. I...
dup loop2 => eventually reaches a system through which it has already passed (with the original identification information), all systems passed on the way back to that system are said to be involved in a {dup loop}.
dusty deck => n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with (or to maintain). The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used esp. when referring to old scientific and...
dusty deck2 => of which was written in FORTRAN and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil.
DWIM => /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. n.,obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the ...
dynner => /din'r/ 32 bits, by analogy with nybble and {byte}. Usage rare and extremely silly. See also playte, tayste, crumb.*earthquake [IBM] n. The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the...
Easter egg => n. 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code. 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in response to...
Easter egg2 => or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command `make love' with `not war?'. Many personal computers have much more elabor...
Easter egg3 => lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.
Easter egging => [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated parts more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it. Compare {shotgun debu...
eat flaming death => imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous {CPU Wars} comic; supposed to derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or somethin...
eat flaming death2 => reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of h...
EBCDIC => /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [acronym, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n. An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as ...
echo => [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
eighty-column mind => [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke)...
eighty-column mind2 => `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card). This directive is inscribed on IBM's 1422 and 1602 card readers and is referenced in a famous bit of doggerel called "The Last Bug", the climactic lines of wh...
eighty-column mind3 => the console Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, 9-edge first. The eighty-column mind is thought by most hackers to dominate IBM's customer base and its thinking. See IBM, {fear and loathing}, {card walloper...
El Camino Bignum => /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on ...
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elder days => n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, {ITS}, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic `The Lord of the Rings'. Compare {Iron Age}; see...
elegant => [from mathematical usage] adj. Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than `clever', `winning', or even cuspy.
elephantine => adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly hairy in source form. An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but...
elevator controller => n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical example of a ...
elevator controller2 => computation environment. "You can't require `printf(3)' to be part of the default runtime library --- what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of ...
ELIZA effect => /*-li'z* *-fekt'/ [AI community] n. The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol `+' that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that ...
ELIZA effect2 => Using `+' or `plus' to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. This term comes from the famous ELIZA program, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's statemen...
ELIZA effect3 => patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with ELIZA. ...
ELIZA effect4 => tendency to attach to words meanings which the computer never put there. The ELIZA effect is a {Good Thing} when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analyzing an Artificial Intelligence s...
elvish => n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the `Book of Kells'. Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in `The Lord of The Rings' as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' ...
EMACS => /ee'maks/ [from Editing MACroS] n. The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a program editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under {ITS} at the MIT AI lab, but the most widely used vers...
email => /ee'mayl/ 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. See {network address}. 2. vt. To send electronic mail. Oddly enough, the w...
emoticon => /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n. An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news. Hundreds have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include (These may become more comprehensible if you tilt your head sideways, to ...
empire => n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago. There are five or six multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication, and one single-player version implemented for both UN...
engine => n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of {front end}. Today we have, especially, `print engine' the guts of a laser printer. 2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that doe...
English => 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite pr...
enhancement => n. Marketroid-speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature --- or perhaps save some effort by decla...
ENQ => /enkw/ or /enk/ [from the ASCII mnemonic ENQuire for 0000101] An on-line convention for querying someone's availability. After opening a {talk mode} connection to someone apparently in heavy hack mode, one might type `SYN SYN ENQ?' (the SYNs r...
EOF => /E-O-F/ [acronym, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] Refers esp. to whatever out-of-band value is returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached. This value is...
EOL => /E-O-L/ [End Of Line] n. Syn. for newline, derived perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal. Now rare, but widely recognized and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry under BNF. See also EOF.
EOU => /E-O-U/ n. The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control character (End Of User) that could make an ASR-33 Teletype explode on receipt. This parodied the numerous obscure delimiter and control characters left in ASCII from the days when it was asso...
epoch => [UNIX prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n. The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most UNIX versions the epoch is 000000 GMT, January 1, 1970. System time is measured in seconds or ...
epsilon => [see delta] 1. n. A small quantity of anything. "The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible; less than marginal. "We can get this feature for epsilon cost." 3. `within epsilon of' close enough to be indistinguishable for all prac...
epsilon squared => n. A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go w...
epsilon squared2 => of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare {lost in the underflow}, {lost in the noise}.
the era => Syn. epoch. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymous, but `era' usually connotes a span of time rather than a point in time. The epoch usage is recommended.
Eric Conspiracy => n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. The...
Eric Conspiracy2 => more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the `Allman style' described under {indent ...
Eric Conspiracy3 => NNTP); your editor has heard from about fourteen others by email, and the organization line `Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories' now emanates regularly from more than one site.
Eris => /e'ris/ n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as ...
erotics => /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n. English-language university slang for electronics. Often used by hackers in Helsinki, maybe because good electronics excites them and makes them warm.
essentials => n. Things necessary to maintain a productive and secure hacking environment. "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, a 20-megahertz 80386 box with 8 meg of core and a 300-megabyte disk supporting full UNIX with source and X windows and EMACS a...
evil => adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged series, `evil' does ...
exa- => /ek's*/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
examining the entrails => n. The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in the attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down. Compare runes, incantation, {black art}, {desk check}.
EXCH => /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ vt. To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10 ins...
excl => /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'. See bang, shriek, {ASCII}.
EXE => /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable binary file. Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension .EXE to mark such files. This usage is also occasionally found among UNIX programmers even though UNIX ex...
exec => /eg-zek'/ vt.,n. 1. [UNIX from `execute'] Synonym for chain, derives from the `exec(2)' call. 2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an OS (see shell); term esp. used around mainframes, and prob. derived from UNIVAC's archaic ...
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GIGO => /gi'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' --- usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't complain about faulty data. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, ...
gillion => /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ [formed from giga- by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] n. 10^9. Same as an American billion or a British `milliard'. How one pronounces this depends on whether one speaks giga- with a hard or soft `g'.
GIPS => /gips/ or /jips/ [analogy with MIPS] n. Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of Instructions per Second'; see gillion). In 1991, this is used of only a handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected to change. Comp...
glark => /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many no...
glass => [IBM] n. Synonym for silicon.
glass tty => /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both like a pri...
glass tty2 => display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early `dumb' version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty. See appendix A for an interesting true story about a glass t...
glassfet => /glas'fet/ [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] n. Syn. firebottle, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube.
glitch => /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1. n. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes recoverable. An interruption in electric service is spec...
glob => /glob/, *not* /glohb/ [UNIX] vt.,n. To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing'). The UNIX conventions for filename wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive that many h...
glork => /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of 2 hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed. 2. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo. 3. vt. Simi...
glue => n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks. For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue logic'.
gnarly => /nar'lee/ adj. Both obscure and hairy in the sense of complex. "Yow! --- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang.
GNU => /gnoo/, *not* /noo/ 1. [acronym `GNU's Not UNIX!', see {{recursive acronym}}] A UNIX-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu). GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools desi...
GNUMACS => /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS. Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS.
go flatline => [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi., also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considere...
go flatline2 => employ jargon-jokes. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down UNIX but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by ...
go flatline3 => sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
go root => [UNIX] vi. To temporarily enter {root mode} in order to perform a privileged operation. This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. `root' refers to animal sex.
go-faster stripes => [UK] Syn. chrome.
gobble => vt. To consume or to obtain. The phrase `gobble up' tends to imply `consume', while `gobble down' tends to imply `obtain'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer." "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation...
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grault => /grawlt/ n. Yet another meta-syntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the GOSMACS documentation. See corge.
gray goo => n. A hypothetical substance composed of sagans of sub-micron-sized self-replicating robots programmed to make copies of themselves out of whatever is available. The image that goes with the term is one of the entire biosphere of Earth bei...
gray goo2 => goo. This is the simplest of the {nanotechnology} disaster scenarios, easily refuted by arguments from energy requirements and elemental abundances. Compare {blue goo}.
Great Renaming => n. The {flag day} on which all of the non-local groups on the USENET had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Great Runes => n. Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, {smash case}, {fold case}. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal d...
Great Runes2 => Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The question was, whi...
Great Runes3 => conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the l...
Great Runes4 => obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this wa...
Great Runes5 => folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that ...
Great Runes6 => Runes for thirty years.
great-wall => [from SF fandom] vi.,n. A mass expedition to an oriental restaurant, esp. one where food is served family-style and shared. There is a common heuristic about the amount of food to order, expressed as "Get N - 1 entrees"; the value of N,...
Green Book => n. 1. One of the three standard PostScript references `PostScript Language Program Design', bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988; QA76.73.P67P66 ISBN; 0-201-14396-8); see also {Red Book}, {Blue Book}). 2. Informal name for one ...
Green Book2 => SmallTalk `Smalltalk-80 Bits of History, Words of Advice', by Glenn Krasner (Addison-Wesley, 1983; QA76.8.S635S58; ISBN 0-201-11669-3) (this, too, is associated with blue and red books). 3. The `X/Open Compatibility Guide'. Defines an ...
Green Book3 => environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID; also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See {Purple Bo...
Green Book4 => Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards which will be issued by the CCITT's tenth plenary assembly. Until now, these have changed color each review cycle (1984 was {Red B...
Green Book5 => is rumored that this convention is going to be dropped before 1992. These include, among other things, the X.400 email standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. See also {{book titles}}.
green bytes => n. 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. The term comes from an IBM user's group meeting (ca. 1962) at which...
green bytes2 => debated and the diagram of the file on the blackboard had the `green bytes' drawn in green. 2. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing...
green bytes3 => out-of-band, zigamorph, fence (sense 1).
green card => n. [after the `IBM System/360 Reference Data' card] This is used for any summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green. Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of assembly language. "I'll go get my ...
green card2 => addressing mode for that instruction." Some green cards are actually booklets. The original green card became a yellow card when the System/370 was introduced, and later a yellow booklet. An anecdote from IBM refers to a scene that too...
green card3 => room at Yorktown in 1978. A luser overheard one of the programmers ask another "Do you have a green card?" The other grunted and passed the first a thick yellow booklet. At this point the luser turned a delicate shade of olive and rapi...
green card4 => return. See also card.
green lightning => [IBM] n. 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user k...
green lightning2 => That, it certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM color graphics displays were actually *programmed* to produce green lightning! 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalization or marketing...
green lightning3 => the 88000 architecture `compatibility logic', but I call it green lightning". See also feature.
green machine => n. A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-dra...
Green's Theorem => [TMRC] prov. For any story, in any group of people there will be at least one person who has not heard the story. [The name of this theorem is a play on a fundamental theorem in calculus. --- ESR]
grep => /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p , where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {UNIX} `grep(1)'] vt. To rapidly scan a file or file set l...
grind => vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To format code, especially LISP code, by indenting lines so that it looks pretty. This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare; prettyprint was and is the generic term for such operations. 2....
grind crank => n. A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the approp...
grind crank2 => grind and {wugga wugga}. Historical note At least one real machine actually had a grind crank --- the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as `The Rice Ins...
grind crank3 => as `The Rice University Computer' (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that...
grind crank4 => button. This allowed one to `crank' through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
gritch => /grich/ 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a glitch). 2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled "Gritch gritch". 3. A synonym for glitch (as verb or noun).
grok => /grok/, var. /grohk/ [from the novel `Stranger in a Strange Land', by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] vt. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes i...
gronk => /gronk/ [popularized by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that] vt. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than `to frob'. 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3....
gronk out => vi. To cease functioning. Of people, to go home and go to sleep. "I guess I'll gronk out now; see you all tomorrow."
gronked => adj. 1. Broken. "The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down." 2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly) sick. "I've been chasing that bug for 17 hours now and I am thoroughly gronked!" Compare b...
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hacked up => adj. Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare {critical mass}). Not all programs that are hacked become `hacked up'; if modifications are done with some eye to co...
hacked up2 => maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast {hack up}.
hacker => [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] n. 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2...
hacking run => [analogy with `bombing run' or `speed run'] n. A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to `change phase the hard way' (see phase).
Hacking X for Y => [ITS] n. The information ITS made publicly available about each user (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out fields. On display, two of these fields were combined into a project description of the fo...
Hacking X for Y2 => `"Hacking perceptrons for Minsky"'). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as UNIX {plan file}s).
Hackintosh => n. 1. An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a `Mac XL'). 2. A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
hackish => /hak'ish/ adj. (also hackishness n.) 1. Said of something that is or involves a hack. 2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture. See also true-hacker.
hackishness => n. The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Syn. hackitude.
hackitude => n. Syn. hackishness; this word is considered sillier.
hair => [back-formation from hairy] n. The complications that make something hairy. "Decoding TECO commands requires a certain amount of hair." Often seen in the phrase `infinite hair', which connotes extreme complexity. Also in `hairiferous' (tendin...
hairy => adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy." 2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy." 3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context "He knows this h...
HAKMEM => /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for `hacks me...
hakspek => /hak'speek/ n. A shorthand method of spelling found on many British academic bulletin boards and {talker system}s. Syllables and whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ASCII characters the names of which are phonetically similar ...
hamster => n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel. 2. [UK] Any item of hardware made by Amstrad, a company famo...
hand-hacking => n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an HLL into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum, {by han...
handshaking => n. Hardware or software activity designed to start or keep two machines or programs in synchronization as they {do protocol}. Often applied to human activity; thus, a hacker might watch two people in conversation nodding their heads to...
handwave => [poss. from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] 1. v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. 2. n. The act of handwaving. "Boy, what a handw...
hang => v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur. "The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive". See wedged, hung. 2. To wait for some event to occur; to hang around until something happens. "The program displays a menu...
Hanlon's Razor => prov. A corollary of {Finagle's Law}, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." The derivation of the common title Hanlon's Razor is unknown; a similar epig...
Hanlon's Razor2 => James. Quoted here because it seems to be a particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in {fortune cookie} files and the login banners of BBS systems and commercial networks. This probably reflects the hacker's daily experien...
Hanlon's Razor3 => well-intentioned but short-sighted people.
happily => adv. Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of `happy' here is not that of elatio...
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hash bucket3 => length, you get too many common grammar words in the first couple of hash buckets." Compare {hash collision}.
hash collision => [from the technical usage] n. (var. `hash clash') When used of people, signifies a confusion in associative memory or imagination, especially a persistent one (see thinko). True story One of us [ESR] was once on the phone with a fri...
hash collision2 => When asked what he expected Berkeley to be like, the friend replied "Well, I have this mental picture of naked women throwing Molotov cocktails, but I think that's just a collision in my hash tables." Compare {hash bucket}.
hat => n. Common (spoken) name for the circumflex (`^', ASCII 1011110) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
HCF => /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the...
heads down => [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also {hack mode} and {larval stage}, although it is not confined to fledgling hackers.
heartbeat => n. 1. The signal emitted by a Level 2 Ethernet transceiver at the end of every packet to show that the collision-detection circuit is still connected. 2. A periodic synchronization signal used by software or hardware, such as a bus clock...
heavy metal => [Cambridge] n. Syn. {big iron}.
heavy wizardry => n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *theoretica...
heavy wizardry2 => drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Esp. found in comments similar to "Heavy wizardry begins here ...". Compare {voodoo programming}.
heavyweight => adj. High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at th...
heisenbug => /hi'zen-buhg/ [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] n. A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. Antonym of {Bohr bug}; see also mandelbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenb...
Helen Keller mode => n. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}. (Unfair to the real Helen Kell...
Helen Keller mode2 => was triumphant.) See also {go flatline}, catatonic.
hello, sailor! => interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of {hello, world}; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the traditional hooke...
hello, sailor!2 => off the boat, of course.
hello, wall! => excl. See wall.
hello, world => interj. 1. The canonical minimal test message in the C/UNIX universe. 2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message. Traditionally, the first program a C coder is supposed to write in a new environment is one that just prints ...
hello, world2 => (and indeed it is the first example program in K&R). Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered to lose (see X)....
hello, world3 => hacker making an entrance or requesting information from anyone present. "Hello, world! Is the VAX back up yet?"
hex => n. 1. Short for {hexadecimal}, base 16. 2. A 6-pack of anything (compare quad, sense 2). Neither usage has anything to do with magic or {black art}, though the pun is appreciated and occasionally used by hackers. True story As a joke, some hac...
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Iron Age2 => introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also {Stone Age}; compare {elder days}.
iron box => [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the hacker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files designed to...
iron box2 => on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap}, and Clifford Stoll's account in `The Cuckoo's Egg' of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography). Compare {padded cell}.
ironmonger => [IBM] n. Derogatory. A hardware specialist. Compare sandbender, {polygon pusher}.
ITS => /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `...
IWBNI => // [acronym] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare WIBNI.
IYFEG => // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling racist jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See JEDR.*J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrary; ordinary...
J. Random Hacker => [MIT] /J rand'm hak'r/ n. A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the archetypal hacker nerd. See random, {Suzie COBOL}. This may originally have been inspired or influenced by `J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee whose name...
jaggies => /jag'eez/ n. The `stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp. a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a pixel device (as opposed to a vector display).
JCL => /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language. JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems. JCL has a very fascist syntax, and some versions will, for example, barf if two spaces appear...
JEDR => // n. Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the USENET newsgroup rec.humor.funny tended to use `JEDR' instead of IYFEG or `<ethnic>'; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made by a loser with initials JEDR aft...
JFCL => /jif'kl/, /jaf'kl/, /j*-fi'kl/ vt., obs. (alt. `jfcl') To cancel or annul something. "Why don't you jfcl that out?" The fastest do-nothing instruction on older models of the PDP-10 happened to be JFCL, which stands for "Jump if Flag set and t...
jiffy => n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on the computer (see tick). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. "The swapper runs every 6 jif...
job security => n. When some piece of code is written in a particularly obscure fashion, and no good reason (such as time or space optimization) can be discovered, it is often said that the programmer was attempting to increase his job security (i.e....
job security2 => for maintenance). This sour joke seldom has to be said in full; if two hackers are looking over some code together and one points at a section and says "job security", the other one may just nod.
jock => n. 1. A programmer who is characterized by large and somewhat brute-force programs. See {brute force}. 2. When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area. The compounds `compiler jock' and `systems jock...
joe code => /joh' kohd`/ n. 1. Code that is overly tense and unmaintainable. "Perl may be a handy program, but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code." 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code. Correspondents wishing to remain anonymous have ...
joe code2 => the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and observed that usage has drifted slightly; the original sobriquet `Joe code' was intended in sense 1.
JR[LN] => /J-R-L/, /J-R-N/ n. The names JRL and JRN were sometimes used as example names when discussing a kind of user ID used under {TOPS-10}; they were understood to be the initials of (fictitious) programmers named `J. Random Loser' and `J. Rando...
JRST => /jerst/ [based on the PDP-10 jump instruction] v.,obs. To suddenly change subjects, with no intention of returning to the previous topic. Usage rather rare except among PDP-10 diehards, and considered silly. See also AOS.
juggling eggs => vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel `The Mot...
juggling eggs2 => and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." That is a very hackish use of language. See also {hack mode}.
jump off into never-never land => [from J. M. Barrie's `Peter Pan'] v. Same as {branch to Fishkill}, but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'. Compare hyperspace.*K /K/ [fro...
jump off into never-never land2 => used both as a spoken word and a written suffix (like meg and gig for megabyte and gigabyte). See {quantifiers}.
K&R => [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book `The C Programming Language', esp. the classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978; ISBN 0-113-110163-3). Syn. {White Book}, {Old Testament}. See also {New Test...
kahuna => /k*-hoo'nuh/ [IBM from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n. Synonym for wizard, guru.
kamikaze packet => n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a {Christmas tree packet}. RFC-1025, `TCP and IP Bake Off' says 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree packet, lamp...
kamikaze packet2 => is, correctly handle a segment with the maximum combination of features at once (e.g., a SYN URG PUSH FIN segment with options and data). See also {Chernobyl packet}.
kangaroo code => n. Syn. {spaghetti code}.
ken => /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's a login ...
kgbvax => /K-G-B'vaks/ n. See kremvax.
kill file => [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some USENET reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) ...
kill file2 => other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other med...
killer micro => [popularized by Eugene Brooks] n. A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsi...
killer micro2 => architectures. The popularity of the phrase `attack of the killer micros' is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has eve...
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low-bandwidth => [from communication theory] adj. Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidt...
LPT => /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ [MIT, via DEC] n. Line printer, of course. Rare under UNIX, commoner in hackers with MS-DOS or CP/M background. The printer device is called `LPT' on those systems that, like ITS, were strongly influenced by ea...
lunatic fringe => [IBM] n. Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
lurker => n. One of the `silent majority' in a electronic forum; one who posts occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's postings regularly. This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually used reflexively "Oh, I'm just lurking."...
luser => /loo'zr/ n. A user; esp. one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's atten...
macdink => /mak'dink/ [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior] vt. To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. "When...
machinable => adj. Machine-readable. Having the softcopy nature.
machoflops => /mach'oh-flops/ [pun on `megaflops', a coinage for `millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second'] n. Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real applications are lucky to get hal...
Macintoy => /mak'in-toy/ n. The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
Macintrash => /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term maggotbox has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of Nort...
macro => /mak'roh/ [techspeak] n. A name (possibly followed by a formal arg list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander. This definition...
macro- => pref. Large. Opposite of micro-. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.
macrology => /mak-rol'*-jee/ n. 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.g., as part of a large system written in LISP, TECO, or (less commonly) assembler. 2. The art and science involved in comprehending a macrology in sense 1. Sometimes studyi...
macrotape => /ma'kroh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape, as opposed to a microtape.
maggotbox => /mag'*t-boks/ n. See Macintrash. This is even more derogatory.
magic => adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain; compare automagically and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." "TTY echoing is controlled by a large number of magi...
magic cookie => [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or ...
magic cookie2 => E.g., on non-UNIX OSes with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of `ftell(3)' may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to `fseek(3)', but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase `it hands y...
magic cookie3 => a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g., inverse video or underlining) or performing other control function...
magic cookie4 => leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch. See also cookie.
magic number => [UNIX/C] n. 1. In source code, some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented `#defin...
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Matrix: [FidoNet] n. 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call => FidoNet. 2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see {network, the}). Some people refer to the totality of present networks this w...
Mbogo, Dr. Fred: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] n. The => archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, esp. an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleanin...
Mbogo, Dr. Fred: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] n. The2 => between bogus and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old "Addams Family" TV show. See also fred.
meatware => n. Synonym for wetware. Less common.
meeces => /mees'*z/ [TMRC] n. Occasional furry visitors who are not urchins. [That is, mice. This may no longer be in live use; it clearly derives from the refrain of the early-1960s cartoon character Mr. Jinx: "I hate meeces to *pieces*!" --- ESR]
meg => /meg/ n. See {quantifiers}.
mega- => /me'g*/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
megapenny => /meg'*-pen`ee/ n. $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
MEGO => /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'. 1. n. A handwave intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the li...
meltdown, network => n. See {network meltdown}.
meme => /meem/ [coined on analogy with `gene' by Richard Dawkins] n. An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. Used esp. in the phrase `meme complex' denoting ...
meme plague => n. The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, esp. one that parasitizes the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given poi...
meme plague2 => `joiner' ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
memetics => /me-met'iks/ [from meme] The study of memes. As of mid-1991, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is...
memory leak => n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion. Also (esp. at CMU) called {core leak}. See {aliasing bug}, {fandango o...
memory leak2 => {precedence lossage}, {overrun screw}, {leaky heap}, leak.
menuitis => /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces,...
mess-dos => /mes-dos/ n. Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!" See {MS-DOS}. Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, its nasty prim...
meta => /me't*/ or /may't*/ or (Commonwealth) /mee't*/ [from analytic philosophy] adj.,pref. One level of description up. A meta-syntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe lang...
meta bit => n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called {high bit}, {alt bit}, or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see {space-cadet keyboard}) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dic...
meta bit2 => machines) have an ALT key. See also {bucky bits}.
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microReid => /mi:'kroh-reed/ n. See bogosity.
Microsloth Windows => /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. Hackerism for `Microsoft Windows', a windowing system for the IBM-PC which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with mess-dos that it is agonizingly slow on anything less than a fast 386. Comp...
microtape => /mi:'kroh-tayp/ n. Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. A DECtape is a small reel, about 4 inches in diameter, of magnetic tape about an inch wide. Unlike drivers for today's macrotapes, microtape drivers allow...
middle-endian => adj. Not big-endian or little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See {NUXI problem}.
milliLampson => /mil'*-lamp`sn/ n. A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This un...
minifloppies => n. 5.25-inch vanilla floppy disks, as opposed to 3.5-inch or microfloppies and the now-obsolescent 8-inch variety. At one time, this term was a trademark of Shugart Associates for their SA-400 minifloppy drive. Nobody paid any attenti...
MIPS => /mips/ [acronym] n. 1. A measure of computing speed; formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^20!); often rendered by hackers as `Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed' or in other unflattering ways. This...
misbug => /mis-buhg/ [MIT] n. An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful; something that should have been a bug but turns out to be a feature. Usage: rare. Compare {green lightning}. See miswart.
misfeature => /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation which has evolved. It is not the same as a bug, because fixing it involves a substantial philosophical c...
Missed'em-five => n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood. (The synonym `SysVile' is also encountered.) See {software bloat}, Berzerkeley.
miswart => /mis-wort/ [from wart by analogy with misbug] n. A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}. For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the `transpose characters' command ...
mod => vt.,n. 1. Short for `modify' or `modification'. Very commonly used --- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal. The plural `mods' is used esp. with reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardware or so...
mode => n. A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state. Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carri...
mode bit => n. A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly ...
mode bit2 => lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
modulo => /mo'dyu-loh/ prep. Except for. From mathematical terminology; one can consider saying that 4 = 22 except for the 9s (4 = 22 mod 9). "Well, LISP seems to work okay now, modulo that GC bug." "I feel fine today modulo a slight headache."
molly-guard => /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] n. A shield to prevent tripping of some {Big Red Switch} by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of some plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler d...
Mongolian Hordes technique => n. Development by {gang bang} (poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression `Mongolian clusterfuck' for a public orgy). Implies that large numbers of inexperienced programmers are being put on a job better performed ...
Mongolian Hordes technique2 => `Chinese Army technique'; see also {Brooks's Law}.
monkey up => vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare {hack up}, {kluge up}, {cruft together}, {cruft together}.
monkey, scratch => n. See {scratch monkey}.
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network address3 => business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (see also {{science-fiction fandom}}). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with hackerdom (l...
network address4 => tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in email text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning...
network address5 => also sitename, domainist.
network meltdown => n. A state of complete network overload; the network equivalent of thrashing. This may be induced by a {Chernobyl packet}. See also {broadcast storm}, {kamikaze packet}.
network, the => n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial, academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and USENET `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial...
network, the2 => CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site is generally considered `on the network' if it can be reached through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. See {bang path}, {{Internet address}}, {networ...
network, the3 => conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel `Schr"odinger's Cat', to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of {ha...
network, the4 => `network' is often abbreviated to `net'. "Are you on the net?" is a frequent question when hackers first meet face to face, and "See you on the net!" is a frequent goodbye.
New Jersey => [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] adj. Brain-damaged or of poor design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as C, C++, and UNIX (which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey). "This compiler bite...
New Jersey2 => from a compiler designed in New Jersey?" Compare {Berkeley Quality Software}. See also {UNIX conspiracy}.
New Testament => n. [C programmers] The second edition of K&R's `The C Programming Language' (Prentice-Hall, 1988; ISBN 0-13-110362-8), describing ANSI Standard C. See K&R.
newbie => /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte. This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but is now in wide use. Criteria for being considered a newbie vary wildly; a per...
newgroup wars => /n[y]oo'groop wohrz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide. These usually settle out with...
newgroup wars2 => clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humor; e.g., the spinoff of alt....
newgroup wars3 => alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialized abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g., alt.weemba.
newline => /n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily UNIX] The ASCII LF character (0001010), used under {UNIX} as a text line terminator. A Bell-Labs-ism rather than a Berkeleyism; interestingly (and unusually for UNIX jargon), it is said to have ori...
NeWS => /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym; the `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken in window systems, an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with X if it hadn't been propri...
news => n. See netnews.
newsfroup => // [USENET] n. Silly synonym for newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on USENET's talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups.
newsgroup => [USENET] n. One of USENET's huge collection of topic groups or fora. Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the resu...
nickle => /ni'kl/ [from `nickel', common name for the U.S. 5-cent coin] n. A nybble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See also deckle.
night mode => n. See phase (of people).
Nightmare File System => n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS). In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up. Some machine tries to access the d...
Nightmare File System2 => repeats indefinitely. This causes it to appear dead to some messages (what is actually happening is that it is locked up in what should have been a brief excursion to a higher spl level). Then another machine tries to reach ...
Nightmare File System3 => pseudo-down machine, and itself becomes pseudo-down. The first machine to discover the down one is now trying both to access the down one and to respond to the pseudo-down one, so it is even harder to reach. This snowballs v...
Nightmare File System4 => network of machines is frozen --- the user can't even abort the file access that started the problem! (ITS partisans are apt to cite this as proof of UNIX's alleged bogosity; ITS had a working NFS-like shared file system wit...
Nightmare File System5 => 1970s.) See also {broadcast storm}.
NIL => /nil/ [from LISP terminology for `false'] No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the `-P' convention. See T.
NMI => /N-M-I/ n. Non-Maskable Interrupt. An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or 680[01234]0; the NMI line on an 8088,[1234]86. In contrast with a {priority interrupt} (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored.
no-op => /noh'op/ alt. NOP /nop/ [no operation] n. 1. (also v.) A machine instruction that does nothing (sometimes used in assembler-level programming as filler for data or patch areas, or to overwrite code to be removed in binaries). See also JFCL. ...
noddy => /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] adj. 1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system. The archetypal noddy program is {hello, world}. Noddy code may be ...
NOMEX underwear => /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [USENET] n. Syn. {asbestos longjohns}, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups. NOMEX underwear is an actual product available on the racing equipment market, used as a fire resistance meas...
non-optimal solution => n. (also `sub-optimal solution') An astoundingly stupid way to do something. This term is generally used in deadpan sarcasm, as its impact is greatest when the person speaking looks completely serious. Compare stunning. See al...
nonlinear => adj. [scientific computation] 1. Behaving in an erratic and unpredictable fashion. When used to describe the behavior of a machine or program, it suggests that said machine or program is being forced to run far outside of design specific...
nontrivial => adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing power. Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial"). The preferred emphatic ...
notwork => /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting flaky or is down. Compare nyetwork. Said at IBM to have orig. referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network, ca. 1988; but there are independent reports of the term ...
NP- => /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty; the connotation is often `more so than it should be' (NP-complete problems all seem to be very hard, but so far no one has found a good a priori reas...
nuke => vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume. "On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem." Never used for accidental deletion. Oppose {blow away}. 2. Syn. for dike, applied t...
number-crunching => n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp. those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers. The only thing Fortrash is good for. This term is in widespread informal use outside hackerdom and even in mainstream slang, but ...
numbers => [scientific computation] n. Output of a computation that may not be significant results but at least indicate that the program is running. May be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc. `Making numbers' means running a program bec...
NUXI problem => /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ n. This refers to the problem of transferring data between machines with differing byte-order. The string `UNIX' might look like `NUXI' on a machine with a different `byte sex' (e.g., when transferring data from a l...
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obi-wan error => /oh'bee-won` er'*r/ [RPI, from `off-by-one' and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars"] n. A loop of some sort in which the index is off by 1. Common when the index should have started from 0 but instead started from 1. A kind o...
Objectionable-C => n. Hackish take on "Objective-C", the name of an object-oriented dialect of C in competition with the better-known C++ (it is used to write native applications on the NeXT machine). Objectionable-C uses a Smalltalk-like syntax, but...
obscure => adj. Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning, to imply total incomprehensibility. "The reason for that last crash is obscure." "The `find(1)' command's syntax is obscure!" The phrase `moderately obscure' implies that it could be figu...
octal forty => /ok'tl for'tee/ n. Hackish way of saying "I'm drawing a blank." Octal 40 is the {ASCII} space character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, hex 40 (01000000) is the {EBCDIC} space character. See wall.
off the trolley => adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually crash or abort. See glitch, bug, {deep space}.
off-by-one error => n. Exceedingly common error induced in many ways, such as by starting at 0 when you should have started at 1 or vice versa, or by writing `< N' instead of `<= N' or vice-versa. Also applied to giving something to the person next t...
off-by-one error2 => Often confounded with {fencepost error}, which is properly a particular subtype of it.
offline => adv. Not now or not here. "Let's take this discussion offline." Specifically used on USENET to suggest that a discussion be taken off a public newsgroup to email.
old fart => n. Tribal elder. A title self-assumed with remarkable frequency by (esp.) USENETters who have been programming for more than about 25 years; often appears in {sig block}s attached to Jargon File contributions of great archeological signif...
old fart2 => the second or third person but one of pride in first person.
Old Testament => n. [C programmers] The first edition of K&R, the sacred text describing {Classic C}.
one-line fix => n. Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system. Usually `cured' by another one-line fix. See also {I didn't change anything!}
one-liner wars => n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language}). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy p...
one-liner wars2 => was practiced among TECO hackers. Ken Iverson, the inventor of APL, has been credited with a one-liner that, given a number N, produces a list of the prime numbers from 1 to N inclusive. It looks like this (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <...
one-liner wars3 => character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and `i' represents the APL iota.
ooblick => /oo'blik/ [from Dr. Seuss's `Bartholomew and the Oobleck'] n. A bizarre semi-liquid sludge made from cornstarch and water. Enjoyed among hackers who make batches during playtime at parties for its amusing and extremely non-Newtonian behavi...
open => n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' --- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity. To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say "Open defun foo, open eks close, open, plus eks one, close close."
open switch => [IBM prob. from railroading] n. An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
operating system => [techspeak] n. (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine, of course; that which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications. The facilities an operating...
operating system2 => design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around its host machines. Hacker folklore has been shaped primarily by the {UNIX}, {ITS}, {TOPS-10}, {TOPS-20}}...
operating system3 => {CP/M}, {MS-DOS}, and {Multics} operating systems (most importantly by ITS and UNIX).
Orange Book => n. The U.S. Government's standards document `Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, DOD standard 5200.28-STD, December, 1985' which characterize secure computing architectures and defines levels A1 (most secure) through D (least)...
Orange Book2 => can be upgraded to about C1 without excessive pain. See also {{book titles}}.
oriental food => n. Hackers display an intense tropism towards oriental cuisine, especially Chinese, and especially of the spicier varieties such as Szechuan and Hunan. This phenomenon (which has also been observed in subcultures that overlap heavily...
oriental food2 => science-fiction fandom) has never been satisfactorily explained, but is sufficiently intense that one can assume the target of a hackish dinner expedition to be the best local Chinese place and be right at least three times out of f...
oriental food3 => {stir-fried random}, {laser chicken}, {Yu-Shiang Whole Fish}. Thai, Indian, Korean, and Vietnamese cuisines are also quite popular.
orphan => [UNIX] n. A process whose parent has died; one inherited by `init(1)'. Compare zombie.
orphaned i-node => /or'f*nd i'nohd/ [UNIX] n. 1. [techspeak] A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a filesystem. 2. By extension, a pejorative for any person serving no useful function within some organization, esp. ...
orthogonal => [from mathematics] adj. Mutually independent; well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a generalization of its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, span the ...
OS => /O-S/ 1. [Operating System] n. An acronym heavily used in email, occasionally in speech. 2. n.,obs. On ITS, an output spy. See appendix A.
OS/2 => /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micros; proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either. Mentioning it is usually good for a cheap laugh among hackers --- the design was so bar...
out-of-band => [from telecommunications and network theory] adj. 1. In software, describes values of a function which are not in its `natural' range of return values, but are rather signals that some kind of exception has occurred. Many C functions, ...
overflow bit => n. 1. [techspeak] On some processors, an attempt to calculate a result too large for a register to hold causes a particular flag called an {overflow bit} to be set. 2. Hackers use the term of human thought too. "Well, the {Ada} descri...
overflow bit2 => but I could hack it OK until they got to the exception handling ... that set my overflow bit." 3. The hypothetical bit that will be set if a hacker doesn't get to make a trip to the Room of Porcelain Fixtures "I'd better process an i...
overrun => n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp. in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if your silo can hol...
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pessimal => /pes'im-l/ [Latin-based antonym for `optimal'] adj. Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also `pessimize' vt. To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for `optimal' and `optimize', but for som...
pessimizing compiler => /pes'*-miz`ing k*m-pil'r/ [antonym of `optimizing compiler'] n. A compiler that produces object code that is worse than the straightforward or obvious hand translation. The implication is that the compiler is actually trying t...
pessimizing compiler2 => excessive cleverness is doing the opposite. A few pessimizing compilers have been written on purpose, however, as pranks or burlesques.
peta- => /pe't*/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
PETSCII => /pet'skee/ [abbreviation of PET ASCII] n. The variation (many would say perversion) of the {ASCII} character set used by the Commodore Business Machines PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore C64, C16, and C128 machines. ...
phase => 1. n. The phase of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle. This is a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as...
phase of the moon => n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "...
phase of the moon2 => channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." True story Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There is a little subroutine that had traditiona...
phase of the moon3 => MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a LISP program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first li...
phase of the moon4 => and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the t...
phase of the moon5 => bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter `corrected' it. This has sin...
phreaking => [from `phone phreak'] n. 1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on communicat...
pico- => [SI a quantifier meaning * 10^-12] pref. Smaller than nano-; used in the same rather loose connotative way as nano- and micro-. This usage is not yet common in the way nano- and micro- are, but should be instantly recognizable to any hacker....
run like a pig => v. To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
pilot error => [Sun from aviation] n. A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare UBD). "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, ...
ping => [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob. originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1. n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alivenes...
Pink-Shirt Book => `The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC'. The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a differ...
Pink-Shirt Book2 => pink shirt. See also {{book titles}}.
PIP => /pip/ [Peripheral Interchange Program] vt.,obs. To copy; from the program PIP on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operati...
pistol => [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. "UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!"
pizza box => [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two meg single-platter removable disk packs used to...
pizza box2 => they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
ANSI standard pizza => /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor. See also {rotary debugger}; compare {tea,...
plain-ASCII => /playn-as'kee/ Syn. flat-ASCII.
plan file => [UNIX] n. On systems that support finger, the `.plan' file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near...
plan file2 => almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a {sig block}). See {Hacking X for Y}.
platinum-iridium => adj. Standard, against which all others of the same category are measured. Usage silly. The notion is that one of whatever it is has actually been cast in platinum-iridium alloy and placed in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram...
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precedence lossage3 => happen in *their* favorite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere. See {aliasing bug}, {memory leak}, {smash the stack}, {fandango on core}, {overrun screw}.
prepend => /pree`pend'/ [by analogy with `append'] vt. To prefix. As with `append' (but not `prefix' or `suffix' as a verb), the direct object is always the thing being added and not the original word (or character string, or whatever). "If you prepe...
prestidigitization => /pres`t*-di`j*-ti-zay'sh*n/ n. 1. The act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand. 2. Data entry through legerdemain.
pretty pictures => n. [scientific computation] The next step up from numbers. Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model. Good for showing to management.
prettyprint => /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v. 1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a hairy internal representation; esp. used for the process of grinding (sense 2) LISP code. 2. To format in some particularly slick and nontriv...
pretzel key => [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
prime time => [from TV programming] n. Normal high-usage hours on a timesharing system; the day shift. Avoidance of prime time is a major reason for {night mode} hacking.
priority interrupt => [from the hardware term] n. Describes any stimulus compelling enough to yank one right out of {hack mode}. Classically used to describe being dragged away by an SO for immediate sex, but may also refer to more mundane interrupti...
priority interrupt2 => in the near vicinity. Also called an NMI (non-maskable interrupt), especially in PC-land.
profile => n. 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior. Used to avoid hardcoded choices. 2. [techs...
proglet => /prog'let/ [UK] n. A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long, and contains no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off the top...
program => n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. 2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3. A form of art, ostensibly intended for the instruction of computers, which is nevertheless almost...
Programmer's Cheer => "Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down! Byte! Byte! Byte!" A joke so old it has hair on it.
programming => n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file). 2. n. A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. 3. n. ...
propeller head => n. Used by hackers, this is syn. with {computer geek}. Non-hackers sometimes use it to describe all techies. Prob. derives from SF fandom's tradition (originally invented by old-time fan Ray Faraday Nelson) of propeller beanies as f...
propeller head2 => actually wears them except as a joke).
propeller key => [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
proprietary => adj. 1. In marketroid-speak, superior; implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's hardware or software designers. 2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a product not ...
protocol => n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting; hackers don't care about such things. I...
provocative maintenance => [common ironic mutation of `preventive maintenance'] n. Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed ...
provocative maintenance2 => know what he is doing; this results in the machine's remaining in an *un*usable state for an indeterminate amount of time. See also {scratch monkey}.
prowler => [UNIX] n. A daemon that is run periodically (typically once a week) to seek out and erase core files, truncate administrative logfiles, nuke `lost+found' directories, and otherwise clean up the cruft that tends to pile up in the corners of...
pseudo => /soo'doh/ [USENET truncation of `pseudonym'] n. 1. An electronic-mail or USENET persona adopted by a human for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's net.behavior; a `nom de USENET', often associated with ...
pseudoprime => n. A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a...
pseudosuit => /soo'doh-s[y]oot`/ n. A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily. It's his funeral. See also lobotomy.
psychedelicware => /si`k*-del'-ik-weir/ [UK] n. Syn. {display hack}. See also {smoking clover}.
psyton => /si'ton/ [TMRC] n. The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fa...
pubic directory => [NYU] (also `pube directory' /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) n. The `pub' (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (sense 1). "I'll have the source in the pube directory b...
puff => vt. To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* `PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Oppose huff.
punched card => alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs. The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops. The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control device for me...
punched card2 => patented by Hollerith and used with mechanical tabulating machines in the 1890 U.S. Census was a piece of cardboard about 90 mm by 215 mm, designed to fit exactly in the currency trays used for that era's larger dollar bills. IBM (wh...
punched card3 => manufacturer) married the punched card to computers, encoding binary information as patterns of small rectangular holes; one character per column, 80 columns per card. Other coding schemes, sizes of card, and hole shapes were tried a...
punched card4 => width of most character terminals is a legacy of the IBM punched card; so is the size of the quick-reference cards distributed with many varieties of computers even today. See chad, {chad box}, {eighty-column mind}, {green card}, {du...
punt => [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football "Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] v. 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying. "Let's punt the movie tonight." "I was going to hack all night to get this featu...
Purple Book => n. The `System V Interface Definition'. The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. See also {{book titles}}.
push => [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/ (the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction). 1. To put som...
quadruple bucky => n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while typing ...
quadruple bucky2 => shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta...
quadruple bucky3 => fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a progr...
quadruple bucky4 => or features, you can say something like "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See {double bucky}, {bucky bits}, cokebottle.
quantifiers => In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Syst`eme International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses. With units of time or things that come in powers of 10, such as money, they retain the...
quantum bogodynamics => /kwon'tm boh`goh-di-nam'iks/ n. A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and suits in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), ...
quantum bogodynamics2 => Bogon absorption, of course, causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise mechanics of the bogon-computron interaction are not yet unde...
quantum bogodynamics3 => Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. See bogon, computron, suit, psyton.
quarter => n. Two bits. This in turn comes from the `pieces of eight' famed in pirate movies --- Spanish gold pieces that could be broken into eight pie-slice-shaped `bits' to make change. Early in American history the Spanish coin was considered equ...
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raster burn => n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp. graphics monitors. See {terminal illness}.
rat belt => n. A cable tie, esp. the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs). Small cable ties are `mouse belts'.
rave => [WPI] vi. 1. To persist in discussing a specific subject. 2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very little. 3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the difficulty. 4. To purposely annoy another...
rave on! => imp. Sarcastic invitation to continue a rave, often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realizes this is unlikely.
ravs => /ravz/, also `Chinese ravs' n. Jiao-zi (steamed or boiled) or Guo-tie (pan-fried). A Chinese appetizer, known variously in the plural as dumplings, pot stickers (the literal translation of guo-tie), and (around Boston) `Peking Ravioli'. The t...
raw mode => n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Compare rare. This is techspeak under UNIX, jargon elsewhere.
rc file => /R-C fil/ [UNIX from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n. Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating sy...
rc file2 => commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also {dot file}.
RE => /R-E/ n. Common spoken and written shorthand for regexp.
read-only user => n. Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading USENET, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, {terminal junkie}, lurker.
README file => n. By convention, the top-level directory of a UNIX source distribution always contains a file named `README' (or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or some other variant), which is a hacker's-eye introduction containing a pointer to more detai...
README file2 => miscellaneous revision history notes, etc. When asked, hackers invariably relate this to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's `Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
real estate => n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area. Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also nanoacre). May also be used of floor space i...
real estate2 => on a crowded desktop (whether physical or electronic).
real hack => n. A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
real operating system => n. The sort the speaker is used to. People from the academic community are likely to issue comments like "System V? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?", people from the commercial/industrial UNIX sector are known to...
real operating system2 => a *real* operating system?", and people from IBM object "UNIX? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?" See {holy wars}, {religious issues}, proprietary, {Get a real computer!}
real programmer => [indirectly, from the book `Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'] n. A particular sub-variety of hacker one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal `real programme...
real programmer2 => metal} and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers a...
real programmer3 => been bummed into a state of tenseness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Programmers can m...
real programmer4 => were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee...
real programmer5 => walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers --- because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a {Good Thing} that there aren't many...
real programmer6 => For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "The Story of Mel" in appendix A.
Real Soon Now => [orig. from SF's fanzine community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's column in `BYTE'] adv. 1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical. 2. Whe...
Real Soon Now2 => commitments permit one to get to it (in other words, don't hold your breath). Often abbreviated RSN.
real time => 1. [techspeak] adj. Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. Su...
real time2 => special operating systems (because everything else must take a back seat to response time) and speed-tuned hardware. 2. adv. In jargon, refers to doing something while people are watching or waiting. "I asked her how to find the calling...
real time3 => stack and she came up with an algorithm in real time."
real user => n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage. 2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc.) other than pure exploration. See user. Hackers who are...
real user2 => real users. "I need this fixed so I can do a problem set. I'm not complaining out of randomness, but as a real user." See also luser.
Real World => n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `COBOL', `RPG', `IBM', `DBASE', etc. Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating...
Real World2 => 2. The location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. 3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see {code grinder}). 4. Anyw...
Real World3 => fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the Real World." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. See also {fear and ...
reality check => n. 1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware; doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4. The software equivalent of a {smoke test}. 2. The act of letting a {real user} try out prototype softwa...
reaper => n. A prowler that GFRs files. A file removed in this way is said to have been `reaped'.
rectangle slinger => n. See {polygon pusher}.
recursion => n. See recursion. See also {tail recursion}.
recursive acronym => pl.n. A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not EMACS") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE I...
recursive acronym2 => a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU (q.v., sense 1) stands for "GNU's Not UNIX!" --- and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung, EMACS.
Red Book => n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on PostScript (`PostScript Language Reference Manual', Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985; QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2); the others are known as the {Green Book} and the...
Red Book2 => one of the 3 standard references on Smalltalk (`Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment' by Adele Goldberg (Addison-Wesley, 1984; QA76.8.S635G638; ISBN 0-201-11372-4); this too is associated with blue and green books). 3. An...
Red Book3 => CCITT eighth plenary assembly. Until now, these have changed color each review cycle (1988 was {Blue Book}, 1992 will be {Green Book}); however, it is rumored that this convention is going to be dropped before 1992. These include, among ...
Red Book4 => and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 4. The new version of the {Green Book} (sense 4) --- IEEE 1003.1-1990, a.k.a ISO 9945-1 --- is (because of the color and the fact that it is printed on A4 paper) known in the U.S.A. as "the Ugly R...
Red Book5 => and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size". 5. The NSA `Trusted Network Interpretation' companion to the {Orange Book}. See also {{book titles}}.
regexp => /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1. Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e.g., by UNIX utilities such as `grep(1)', `sed(1)', and `awk(1)'. These use conventions ...
reinvent the wheel => v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden roll...
reinvent the wheel2 => be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.
religious issues => n. Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off {holy wars}, such as "What is the best operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news reader)?", "What about that Heinlein guy, eh?"...
religious issues2 => Jargon File?" See {holy wars}; see also theology, bigot. This term is an example of {ha ha only serious}. People actually develop the most amazing and religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the tools are intang...
religious issues3 => thing one can do when one stumbles into the crossfire is mumble {Get a life!} and leave --- unless, of course, one's *own* unassailably rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed.
replicator => n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see worm, wabbit, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or n...
reply => n. See followup.
reset => [the MUD community] v. In AberMUD, to bring all dead mobiles to life and move items back to their initial starting places. New players who can't find anything shout "Reset! Reset!" quite a bit. Higher-level players shout back "No way!" since...
restriction => n. A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a feature. Often used (esp. by marketroid types) to make it sound as though...
retcon => /ret'kon/ [`retroactive continuity', from the USENET newsgroup rec.arts.comics] 1. n. The common situation in pulp fiction (esp. comics or soap operas) where a new story `reveals' things about events in previous stories, usually leaving the...
RETI => v. Syn. RTI
retrocomputing => /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies o...
RFC => /R-F-C/ [Request For Comment] n. One of a long-established series of numbered Internet standards widely followed by commercial and PD software in the Internet and UNIX communities. Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the ...
RFE => /R-F-E/ n. 1. [techspeak] Request For Enhancement. 2. [from `Radio Free Europe', Bellcore and Sun] Radio Free Ethernet, a system (originated by Peter Langston) for broadcasting audio among Sun SPARCstations over the ethernet.
rib site => [by analogy with {backbone site}] n. A machine that has an on-demand high-speed link to a {backbone site} and serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in email and USENET news. Compare {leaf site}, {backbone...
rice box => [from ham radio slang] n. Any Asian-made commodity computer, esp. an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards.
Right Thing => n. That which is compellingly the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc. Often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized. Use of this term often implies that in fact reasonable people may disagree. "Wha...
Right Thing2 => do when it sees `(mod a 0)'? Should it return `a', or give a divide-by-0 error?" Oppose {Wrong Thing}.
RL => // [MUD community] n. Real Life. "Firiss laughs in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing. Oppose VR.
roach => [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached.
robust => adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment. One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in add...
rococo => adj. Baroque in the extreme. Used to imply that a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design. Called after the later and more extreme forms...
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scratch monkey3 => university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when DEC PMed the PDP-11 contr...
scratch monkey4 => {provocative maintainance}). It is recorded that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the {field circus} manager responsible and aske...
scratch monkey5 => all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local `humane' society. The moral is clear When in doubt, always mount a...
screw => [MIT] n. A lose, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature. This use has become quite widespread outside MIT.
screwage => /skroo'*j/ n. Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
scribble => n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled...
scrog => /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure. "The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id". Equivalent to scribble or mangle.
scrool => /skrool/ [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca. 1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] n. The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation. It was origin...
scrozzle => /skroz'l/ vt. Used when a self-modifying code segment runs incorrectly and corrupts the running program or vital data. "The damn compiler scrozzled itself again!"
SCSI => [Small Computer System Interface] n. A bus-independent standard for system-level interfacing between a computer and intelligent devices. Typically annotated in literature with `sexy' (/sek'see/), `sissy' (/sis'ee/), and `scuzzy' (/skuh'zee/) ...
search-and-destroy mode => n. Hackerism for the search-and-replace facility in an editor, so called because an incautiously chosen match pattern can cause infinite damage.
second-system effect => n. (sometimes, more euphoniously, `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an elep...
second-system effect2 => The term was first used by Fred Brooks in his classic `The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering' (Addison-Wesley, 1975; ISBN 0-201-00650-2). It described the jump from a set of nice, simple operating systems on t...
second-system effect3 => 360 series. A similar effect can also happen in an evolving system; see {Brooks's Law}, {creeping elegance}, {creeping featurism}. See also {Multics}, OS/2, X, {software bloat}. This version of the jargon lexicon has been des...
second-system effect4 => much truth for comfort) as an example of second-system effect run amok on jargon-1....
secondary damage => n. When a fatal error occurs (esp. a segfault) the immediate cause may be that a pointer has been trashed due to a previous {fandango on core}. However, this fandango may have been due to an *earlier* fandango, so no amount of ana...
secondary damage2 => the damage occurred. "The data structure was clobbered, but it was secondary damage." By extension, the corruption resulting from N cascaded fandangoes on core is `Nth-level damage'. There is at least one case on record in which ...
secondary damage3 => actually dug up the underlying bug behind an instance of seventh-level damage! The hacker who accomplished this near-superhuman feat was presented with an award by his fellows.
security through obscurity => n. A name applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes --- namely, ignoring them and not documenting them and trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find...
security through obscurity2 => This never works for long and occasionally sets the world up for debacles like the RTM worm of 1988, but once the brief moments of panic created by such events subside most vendors are all too willing to turn over and g...
security through obscurity3 => fixing the bugs would siphon off the resources needed to implement the next user-interface frill on marketing's wish list --- and besides, if they started fixing security bugs customers might begin to *expect* it and im...
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selvage => /sel'v*j/ [from sewing] n. See chad (sense 1).
semi => /se'mee/ or /se'mi/ 1. n. Abbreviation for `semicolon', when speaking. "Commands to grind are prefixed by semi-semi-star" means that the prefix is `;;*', not 1/4 of a star. 2. A prefix used with words such as `immediately' as a qualifier. "Wh...
semi-infinite => n. See infinite.
senior bit => [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}.
server => n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `name servers', `domain servers', `...
SEX => /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popul...
sex changer => n. Syn. {gender mender}.
shareware => /sheir'weir/ n. Freeware (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself. Such payment may or may not buy additional support or funct...
shelfware => /shelfweir/ n. Software purchased on a whim (by an individual user) or in accordance with policy (by a corporation or government agency), but not actually required for any particular use. Therefore, it often ends up on some shelf.
shell => [orig. {Multics} techspeak, widely propagated via UNIX] n. 1. [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system; so called because it is the part of the operating system that interfaces with the outside world. ...
shell out => [UNIX] n. To spawn an interactive subshell from within a program (e.g., a mailer or editor). "Bang foo runs foo in a subshell, while bang alone shells out."
shift left logical => [from any of various machines' instruction sets] 1. vi. To move oneself to the left (right). To move out of the way. 2. imper. "Get out of that (my) seat! You can shift to that empty one to the left (right)." Often used without ...
shift left logical2 => instead of `shift left'. Sometimes heard as LSH /lish/, from the PDP-10 instruction set. See {Programmer's Cheer}.
shitogram => /shit'oh-gram/ n. A *really* nasty piece of email. Compare nastygram, flame.
short card => n. A half-length IBM PC expansion card or adapter that will fit in one of the two short slots located towards the right rear of a standard chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives). See also {tall card}.
shotgun debugging => n. The software equivalent of {Easter egging}; the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence. This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs.
showstopper => n. A hardware or (especially) software bug that makes an implementation effectively unusable; one that absolutely has to be fixed before development can go on. Opposite in connotation from its original theatrical use, which refers to s...
shriek => n. See excl. Occasional CMU usage, also in common use among APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists.
Shub-Internet => /shuhb in't*r-net/ [MUD from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity `Shub-Niggurath', the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] n. The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of L...
sidecar => n. 1. Syn. {slap on the side}. Esp. used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr. 2. The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. Designed and produced by Commodore, it broke all of the company's own...
sig block => /sig blok/ [UNIX often written `.sig' there] n. Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will automagically append to outgoing mail and news. The c...
sig block2 => quite an art form, including an ASCII logo or one's choice of witty sayings (see {sig quote}, {fool file}); but many consider large sigs a waste of bandwidth, and it has been observed that the size of one's sig block is usually inversel...
sig block3 => and level of prestige on the net.
sig quote => /sig kwoht/ [USENET] n. A maxim, quote, proverb, joke, or slogan embedded in one's {sig block} and intended to convey something of one's philosophical stance, pet peeves, or sense of humor. "Calm down, it's only ones and zeroes."
signal-to-noise ratio => [from analog electronics] n. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning. `Signal' refers to useful information conveyed by some communications medium, and `noise' to anything else on that medium. Hence a low...
signal-to-noise ratio2 => paying attention to the medium in question. Figures for such metaphorical ratios are never given. The term is most often applied to USENET newsgroups during {flame war}s. Compare bandwidth. See also {coefficient of X}, {lost...
silicon => n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare iron). Contrasted with software. See also sandbender.
silicon foundry => n. A company that fabs chips to the designs of others. As of the late 1980s, the combination of silicon foundries and good computer-aided design software made it much easier for hardware-designing startup companies to come into bei...
silicon foundry2 => silicon foundry is that the distance from the actual chip-fabrication processes reduces designers' control of detail. This is somewhat analogous to the use of HLLs versus coding in assembler.
silly walk => [from Monty Python's Flying Circus] vi. 1. A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task. Like grovel, but more random and humorous. "I had to silly-walk through half the /usr directories to find the maps file." 2. Syn. {fandango...
silo => n. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card. So called from DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11, presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that you put in the top and took out t...
Silver Book => n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous `Pascal User Manual and Report', so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See {{book titles}}, Pascal.
since time T equals minus infinity => adj. A long time ago; for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed. Usually the word `time' is omitted. See also {time T}.
sitename => /sit'naym/ [UNIX/Internet] n. The unique electronic name of a computer system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, USENET, or other forms of electronic information interchange. The folklore interest of sitenames stems from the creativity an...
skrog => v. Syn. scrog.
skulker => n. Syn. prowler.
slap on the side => n. (also called a sidecar, or abbreviated `SOTS'.) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e.g., Commodore for the Amiga 500/1000 series and IBM for the hideous failure called `PCjr'). Various SOT...
slap on the side2 => as memory, hard drive controllers, and conventional expansion slots.
slash => n. Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
sleep => vi. 1. [techspeak] On a timesharing system, a process that relinquishes its claim on the scheduler until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses is said to `go to sleep'. 2. In jargon, used very similarly to v. block; also ...
slim => n. A small, derivative change (e.g., to code).
slop => n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions. For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large am...
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smoking clover2 => spaced one pixel apart around the perimeter of a large square. The color map is then repeatedly rotated. This results in a striking, rainbow-hued, shimmering four-leaf clover. Gosper joked about keeping it hidden from the FDA (the ...
smoking clover3 => Administration) lest its hallucinogenic properties cause it to be banned.
SMOP => /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n. 1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity. Used to refer to a program that could obviously be written, but is not worth th...
SNAFU principle => /sna'foo prin'si-pl/ [from WWII Army acronym for `Situation Normal, All Fucked Up'] n. "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies ...
SNAFU principle2 => central tenet of Discordianism, often invoked by hackers to explain why authoritarian hierarchies screw up so reliably and systematically. The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive disconnection of decision-makers from re...
snail => vt. To snail-mail something. "Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you?"
snail-mail => n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'. One's postal address is, correspondingly, a `snail address'. Derives from earlier coinage `USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which there have been ...
snap => v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer; to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there. If you telephone the main number for an institution and ask for a particular person by name, the operator may tell ...
snarf => /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also BLT. 2. [in the UNIX community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also blast. Thi...
snarf & barf => /snarf'n-barf`/ n. Under a {WIMP environment}, the act of grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this was a ma...
snarf & barf2 => regret it later' cheap-restaurant expedition.
snarf down => v. To snarf, with the connotation of absorbing, processing, or understanding. "I'll snarf down the latest version of the nethack user's guide --- It's been a while since I played last and I don't know what's changed recently."
snark => [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n. 1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!" 2. More generally, any kind of unexplained or threatening event on a compu...
sneakernet => /snee'ker-net/ n. Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape, disks, or some other media from one machine to another. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon...
sniff => v.,n. Synonym for poll.
snivitz => /sniv'itz/ n. A hiccup in hardware or software; a small, transient problem of unknown origin (less serious than a snark). Compare glitch.
SO => /S-O/ n. 1. (also `S.O.') Abbrev. for Significant Other, almost invariably written abbreviated and pronounced /S-O/ by hackers. Used to refer to one's primary relationship, esp. a live-in to whom one is not married. See MOTAS, MOTOS, MOTSS. 2. ...
social science number => [IBM] n. A statistic that is content-free, or nearly so. A measure derived via methods of questionable validity from data of a dubious and vague nature. Predictively, having a social science number in hand is seldom much bett...
social science number2 => considerably worse. Management loves them. See also numbers, math-out, {pretty pictures}.
soft boot => n. See boot.
softcopy => /soft'ko-pee/ n. [by analogy with `hardcopy'] A machine-readable form of corresponding hardcopy. See bits, machinable.
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software rot4 => Raleigh, North Carolina. The new system refused to issue the card, probably because with 2-digit years the ages 101 and 1 cannot be distinguished. Historical note Software rot in an even funnier sense than the mythical one was a real...
software rot5 => (e.g., the R1; see {grind crank}). If a program that depended on a peculiar instruction hadn't been run in quite a while, the user might discover that the opcodes no longer did the same things they once did. ("Hey, so-and-so needs an...
software rot6 => We can snarf this opcode, right? No one uses it.") Another classic example of this sprang from the time an MIT hacker found a simple way to double the speed of the unconditional jump instruction on a PDP-6, so he patched the hardware...
software rot7 => fragile timing software in a music-playing program, throwing its output out of tune. This was fixed by adding a defensive initialization routine to compare the speed of a timing loop with the real-time clock; in other words, it figur...
software rot8 => day, and corrected appropriately. Compare {bit rot}.
softwarily => /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software. "The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective `softwary' is *not* used. See hardwarily.
softy => [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
some random X => adj. Used to indicate a member of class X, with the implication that Xs are interchangeable. "I think some random cracker tripped over the guest timeout last night." See also {J. Random}.
sorcerer's apprentice mode => [from the film "Fantasia"] n. A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug. Used esp. of such beha...
sorcerer's apprentice mode2 => loops in email software. Compare {broadcast storm}, {network meltdown}.
SOS => n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously losing text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, t...
source of all good bits => n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained. If you need to know about a program, a guru might be the source of all good bits. The title is often applied to a particularly competent secr...
space-cadet keyboard => n. The Knight keyboard, a now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of EMACS. It was inspired by the Stanford keyboard and equipped with no fewe...
space-cadet keyboard2 => keys for {bucky bits} (`control', `meta', `hyper', and `super') and three like regular shift keys, called `shift', `top', and `front'. Many keys had three symbols on them a letter and a symbol on the top, and a Greek letter o...
space-cadet keyboard3 => key had an `L' and a two-way arrow on the top, and the Greek letter lambda on the front. And of course each of these might also be typed with any combination of the control, meta, hyper, and super keys. On this keyboard, you ...
space-cadet keyboard4 => characters! This allowed the user to type very complicated mathematical text, and also to have thousands of single-character commands at his disposal. Many hackers were actually willing to memorize the command meanings of tha...
space-cadet keyboard5 => typing time (this attitude obviously shaped the interface of EMACS). Other hackers, however, thought having that many bucky bits was overkill, and objected that such a keyboard can require three or four hands to operate. See ...
space-cadet keyboard6 => bucky}, {meta bit}, {quadruple bucky}.
SPACEWAR => n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the...
spaghetti code => n. Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp. one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs. Pejorative. The synonym `kangaroo code' has been reported, doubtless because such code has ma...
spaghetti inheritance => n. [encountered among users of object-oriented languages that use inheritance, such as Smalltalk] A convoluted class-subclass graph, often resulting from carelessly deriving subclasses from other classes just for the sake of ...
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special-case => vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing. This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive interface...
speedometer => n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes). The pattern is shifted left every N times the software goes through its main loop. A swiftly moving pattern indicates t...
spell => n. Syn. incantation.
spiffy => /spi'fee/ adj. 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" 2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have little more than a flashy...
spin => vi. Equivalent to buzz. More common among C and UNIX programmers.
spl => /S-P-L/ [abbrev, from Set Priority Level] The way traditional UNIX kernels implement mutual exclusion by running code at high interrupt levels. Used in jargon to describe the act of tuning in or tuning out ordinary communication. Classically, ...
splat => n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers. 2. [MIT] Name used by some people for the...
sponge => [UNIX] n. A special case of a filter that reads its entire input before writing any output; the canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream. If you...
spooge => /spooj/ 1. n. Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program. 2. vi. To generate spooge (sense 1).
spool => [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt. To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with ...
stack => n. A person's stack is the set of things he or she has to do in the future. One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack. "I'm afraid I've got real work to do, so this'll have to be pushed way down on...
stack puke => n. Some processor architectures are said to `puke their guts onto the stack' to save their internal state during exception processing. The Motorola 68020, for example, regurgitates up to 92 bytes on a bus fault. On a pipelined machine, ...
stale pointer bug => n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp. among microcomputer hackers.
state => n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged state." The standard question "What's your state?" means "What...
steam-powered => adj. Old-fashioned or underpowered; archaic. This term does not have a strong negative loading and may even be used semi-affectionately for something that clanks and wheezes a lot but hangs in there doing the job.
stiffy => [University of Lowell, Massachusetts.] n. 3.5-inch microfloppies, so called because their jackets are more firm than those of the 5.25-inch and the 8-inch floppy. Elsewhere this might be called a `firmy'.
stir-fried random => alt. `stir-fried mumble' n. Term used for the best dish of many of those hackers who can cook. Consists of random fresh veggies and meat wokked with random spices. Tasty and economical. See random, great-wall, ravs, {{laser chick...
stomp on => vt. To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically. "All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script." Compare scribble, mangle, trash, scrog, roach.
Stone Age => n., adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca. 1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs. Sometimes used for the entire period up to 1960--61 (see {Iron Age}); however, it is funnier an...
Stone Age2 => the latter period in terms of a `Bronze Age' era of transistor-logic, pre-ferrite-core machines with drum or CRT mass storage (as opposed to just mercury delay lines and/or relays). See also {Iron Age}. 2. More generally, a pejorative f...
Stone Age3 => hardware or software technology. Note that this is used even by people who were there for the {Stone Age} (sense 1).
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tanked => adj. Same as down, used primarily by UNIX hackers. See also hosed. Popularized as a synonym for `drunk by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip.
tar and feather => [from UNIX `tar(1)] vt. To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with `tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress). The latter action is dubbed `featherin...
tar and feather2 => an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.
taste => [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also `tasty, `tasteful, `tastefulness. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors." Although ...
tayste => /tayst/ n. Two bits; also as taste. Syn. crumb, quarter. Compare {byte}, dynner, playte, nybble, quad.
TCB => /T-C-B/ [IBM] n. 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect. Compare heisenbug. Not to be confused with 2. Trusted Computing Base, an `official jargon term from the {Orange Boo...
ISO standard cup of tea => [South Africa] n. A cup of tea with milk and one teaspoon of sugar, where the milk is poured into the cup before the tea. Variations are ISO 0, with no sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of sugar; and so on. Like many ISO standa...
ISO standard cup of tea2 => ring in North America, where hackers generally shun the decadent British practice of adulterating perfectly good tea with dairy products and prefer instead to add a wedge of lemon, if anything. If one were feeling extremel...
ISO standard cup of tea3 => analogous `ANSI standard cup of tea and wind up with a political situation distressingly similar to several that arise in much more serious technical contexts. Milk and lemon dont mix very well.
TechRef => /tekref/ [MS-DOS] n. The original `IBM PC Technical Reference Manual, including the BIOS listing and complete schematics for the PC. The only PC documentation in the issue package thats considered serious by real hackers.
TECO => /teekoh/ obs. 1. vt. Originally, to edit using the TECO editor in one of its infinite variations (see below). 2. vt.,obs. To edit even when TECO is *not* the editor being used! This usage is rare and now primarily historical. 2. [originally a...
tee => n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. "Oh, youre sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me." From the UNIX command `tee(1), itself named after a pipe fitting (see plumbing). Can also mean `save one for me, as in...
Telerat => /tel*-rat/ n. Unflattering hackerism for `Teleray, a line of extremely losing terminals. See also terminak, sun-stools, HP-SUX.
TELNET => /telnet/ vt. To communicate with another Internet host using the TELNET program. TOPS-10 people used the word IMPCOM, since that was the program name for them. Sometimes abbreviated to TN /T-N/. "I usually TN over to SAIL just to read the A...
ten-finger interface => n. The interface between two networks that cannot be directly connected for security reasons; refers to the practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an operator read from one and type into the other.
tense => adj. Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly bummed, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at C...
tenured graduate student => n. One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5 or 6) a `ten-yeared student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginning in his seventh year. Students dont really get...
tenured graduate student2 => professors do, but a tenth-year graduate student has probably been around the university longer than any untenured professor.
tera- => /ter*/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
teraflop club => /ter*-flop kluhb/ [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] n. A mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques. C...
teraflop club2 => said to have been the founder.
terminak => /termi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] n. Any malfunctioning computer terminal. A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the `L key to produce the `K code instead; complaints about this tended to look like "Terminak #3 has ...
terminal brain death => n. The extreme form of {terminal illness} (sense 1). What someone who has obviously been hacking continuously for far too long is said to be suffering from.
terminal illness => n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in condition your CRT tends to get if you dont have a screen saver.
terminal junkie => [UK] n. A wannabee or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of computer time. Variants include `terminal jockey, `console junkie, an...
terminal junkie2 => `console jockey seems to imply more expertise than the other three (possibly because of the exalted status of the {console} relative to an ordinary terminal). See also twink, {read-only user}.
terpri => /terpree/ [from LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP)] vi. To output a newline. Now rare as jargon, though still used as techspeak in Common LISP. It is a contraction of `TERminate PRInt line, named for the fact that, on early OSes, no characters w...
test => n. 1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to get thoroughly acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and followup of the results. 2. Some bored random user trying a couple of the simpler features with a developer looking over his...
TeX => /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E. Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced UNIX `troff(1), the other favored formatter, even at many UNIX installat...
text => n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS (compare English). 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary {ASCII} or {EBCDIC} repr...
thanks in advance => [USENET] Conventional net.politeness ending a posted request for information or assistance. Sometimes written `advTHANKSance or `aTdHvAaNnKcSe or abbreviated `TIA. See net.-, netiquette.
the X that can be Y => not the true X is Yet another instance of hackerdoms peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things. The template is from the `Tao te Ching "The Tao w...
the X that can be Y => not the true X2 is true Tao." The implication is often that the X is a mystery accessible only to the enlightened. See the trampoline entry for an example, and compare {has the X nature}.
theology => n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to {religious issues}. 2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp. those where the resolution is of theoretical interest but is relatively marginal with respect to actual use of a desi...
theory => n. The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that is currently being used to inform a behavior. This is a generalization and abuse of the technical meaning. "Whats the theory on fixing this TECO loss?" "Whats the theory on dinner to...
thinko => /thingkoh/ [by analogy with `typo] n. A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. braino. Compare mouso.
This time, for sure! => excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity imitat...
This time, for sure!2 => heard "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" The canonical response is, of course, "But that trick *never* works!" See {{Humor, Hacker}}.
thrash => vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore s...
thread => n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
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TLA => /T-L-A/ [Three-Letter Acronym] n. 1. Self-describing acronym for a species with which computing terminology is infested. 2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA. People who like this looser...
TMRC => /tmerk/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture. The 1959 `Dictionary of the TMRC Language compiled by Peter Samson included several terms which became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp. foo an...
to a first approximation => 1. [techspeak] When one is doing certain numerical computations, an approximate solution may be computed by any of several heuristic methods, then refined to a final value. By using the starting point of a first approximat...
to a first approximation2 => algorithm that converges more quickly to the correct result. 2. In jargon, a preface to any comment that indicates that the comment is only approximately true. The remark "To a first approximation, I feel good" might indi...
to a first approximation3 => reveal that not all is perfect (e.g., a nagging cough still remains after an illness).
to a zeroth approximation => [from `to a first approximation] A *really* sloppy approximation; a wild guess. Compare {social science number}.
toast => 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast." 2. vt. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual reboot...
toaster => n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "DWIM for an assembler? Thatd be as sill...
toeprint => n. A footprint of especially small size.
toggle => vt. To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches, such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle actually refers to the mechanism that keep...
tool => 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose app, {operating system}. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple, `transpar...
toolsmith => n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specializes in making the tools with which other programmers create applications. See also uninteresting.
topic drift => n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that t...
topic drift2 => reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. "I think we started with a question about Nivens last book, but weve ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *thats* topic drift!"
topic group => n. Syn. forum.
TOPS-10 => /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A. See also {ITS}, {TOPS-20}, {TWENEX}, VMS, {operating system}. TOPS-10 ...
TOPS-20 => /tops-twentee/ n. See {TWENEX}.
toto => /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a francophone foo.
tourist => [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some so...
tourist information => n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewers gestalt of whats going on with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category depends p...
tourist information2 => for at any given time. The `bytes free information at the bottom of an MS-DOS `dir display is tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a UNIX `ps(1) display.
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vaxism => /vak'sizm/ n. A piece of code that exhibits vaxocentrism in critical areas. Compare PC-ism, unixism.
vaxocentrism => /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] n. A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp. under UNIX) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these a...
vdiff => /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}. The term `optical diff' has also been reported. See diff.
veeblefester => /vee'b*l-fes`tr/ [from the "Born Loser" comix via Commodore; prob. originally from `Mad' Magazine's `Veeblefeetzer' parodies ca. 1960] n. Any obnoxious person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management. Antonym of...
Venus flytrap => [after the insect-eating plant] n. See {firewall machine}.
verbage => /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. Compare content-free. More pejorative than `verbiage'.
verbiage => n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to {documentation}. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind i...
Version 7 => alt. V7 /vee' se'vn/ n. The 1978 unsupported release of {UNIX} ancestral to all current commercial versions. Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a UNIX portability baseline. See BSD, {USG U...
Version 72 => old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True UNIX.
vgrep => /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally. See grep; compare vdiff.
vi => /V-I/, *not* /vi/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n. A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD version. Became the de facto standard UNIX editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite until the rise of EMACS af...
videotex => n. obs. An electronic service offering people the privilege of paying to read the weather on their television screens instead of having somebody read it to them for free while they brush their teeth. The idea bombed everywhere it wasn't g...
virgin => adj. Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. "Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again." (Esp. useful after contracting a virus through SEX.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that have not yet ...
virtual => [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob. from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1. Common alternative to logical. 2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's doll may be...
virtual Friday => n. The last day before an extended weekend, if that day is not a `real' Friday. For example, the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The next day is often also a holiday or taken as an extra day off, in which case Wed...
virtual Friday2 => Friday (and Thursday is a virtual Saturday, as is Friday). There are also `virtual Mondays' that are actually Tuesdays, after the three-day weekends associated with many national holidays in the U.S.
virtual reality => n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation. See cyberspace. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, int...
virtual reality2 => comedy, and `true confessions' magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as USENET's alt.callahans newsgroup or the MUD experiments on Internet), interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel complete with ...
virtual reality3 => that may be personae utterly unlike the people who write them, and common `background characters' manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that you may not write irreversible changes to a character without the consent of th...
virtual reality4 => anything goes. See bamf, cyberspace.
virus => [from the obvious analogy with biological viruses, via SF] n. A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become {Trojan Horse}s. When these programs are executed,...
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voice => vt. To phone someone, as opposed to emailing them or connecting in talk mode. "I'm busy now; I'll voice you later."
voice-net => n. Hackish way of referring to the telephone system, analogizing it to a digital network. USENET {sig block}s not uncommonly include the sender's phone next to a "Voice" or "Voice-Net" header; common variants of this are "Voicenet" and "...
voodoo programming => [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] n. The use by guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly understand. The implication is that the technique may not work, and if it doesn...
voodoo programming2 => Almost synonymous with {black magic}, except that black magic typically isn't documented and *nobody* understands it. Compare magic, {deep magic}, {heavy wizardry}, {rain dance}, {cargo cult programming}, {wave a dead chicken}....
VR => // [MUD] n. On-line abbrev for {virtual reality}, as opposed to RL.
Vulcan nerve pinch => n. [from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers] The keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On many micros this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns,...
Vulcan nerve pinch2 => <Cmd>-<Power switch>! Also called {three-finger salute}. Compare {quadruple bucky}.
vulture capitalist => n. Pejorative hackerism for `venture capitalist', deriving from the common practice of pushing contracts that deprive inventors of control over their own innovations and most of the money they ought to have made from them.*wabbi...
vulture capitalist2 => Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] n. 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978. The program would make two copies of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the sys...
vulture capitalist3 => includes infinite self-replication but is not a virus or worm. See also {cookie monster}.
WAITS => /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {TOPS-10} used on a handful of systems at {SAIL} up to 1990. There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glosse...
waldo => /wol'doh/ [From Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the invention described b...
walk => n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or linked-list data structure in core. See also codewalker, {silly walk}, clobber.
walk off the end of => vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble. Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare clobber, roach, {smash the stack}.
walking drives => n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s. Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific angular momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn beari...
walking drives2 => with the floor could cause them to `walk' across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple of millimeters at a time. There is a legend about a drive that walked over to the only door to the computer room and jammed it shu...
walking drives3 => wall in order to get at it! Walking could also be induced by certain patterns of drive access (a fast seek across the whole width of the disk, followed by a slow seek in the other direction). Some bands of old-time hackers figured ...
walking drives4 => patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.
wall => [WPI] interj. 1. An indication of confusion, usually spoken with a quizzical tone "Wall??" 2. A request for further explication. Compare {octal forty}. It is said that "Wall?" really came from `like talking to a blank wall'. It was initially ...
wall follower => n. A person or algorithm that compensates for lack of sophistication or native stupidity by efficiently following some simple procedure shown to have been effective in the past. Used of an algorithm, this is not necessarily pejorativ...
wall follower2 => the winning robot in an early AI contest (named, of course, after the cocktail). Harvey successfully solved mazes by keeping a `finger' on one wall and running till it came out the other end. This was inelegant, but it was mathemati...
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wank => /wangk/ [Columbia University prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness. May describe (negatively)...
wannabee => /won'*-bee/ (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; prob. originally from biker slang] n. A would-be hacker. The connotations of this term dif...
warm boot => n. See boot.
wart => n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)', single quotes literalize ...
washing machine => n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'. The washing-machine ...
washing machine2 => it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. The thick channel cables connecting these were called `bit hoses' (see hose).
water MIPS => n. (see MIPS, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional mainframe type.
wave a dead chicken => v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "I'll wav...
wave a dead chicken2 => code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}.
weasel => n. [Cambridge] A na"ive user, one who deliberately or accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised. Roughly synonymous with loser.
wedged => [from a common description of recto-cranial inversion] adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, then it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is...
wedgie => [Fairchild] n. A bug. Prob. related to wedged.
wedgitude => /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being wedged.
weeble => /weeb'l/ [Cambridge] interj. Used to denote frustration, usually at amazing stupidity. "I stuck the disk in upside down." "Weeble...." Compare gurfle.
weeds => n. 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from `off in the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds...." 2. At CDC/ETA before its d...
weenie => n. 1. When used with a qualifier (for example, as in {UNIX weenie}, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or not it is applied by a person who considers hi...
Weenix => /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {UNIX}, derived from {UNIX weenie}. According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenies typified by poor modularity, poor reliability, hard file deletion, no file ...
well-behaved => adj. 1. [primarily {MS-DOS}] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards. Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics. Oppose...
well-connected => adj. Said of a computer installation, this means that it has reliable email links with {the network} and/or that it relays a large fraction of available USENET newsgroups. `Well-known' can be almost synonymous, but also implies that...
wetware => /wet'weir/ [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] n. 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software. "Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers." 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) at...
whacker => [University of Maryland from hacker] n. 1. A person, similar to a hacker, who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities. Whereas a hacker tends to produce great hacks, a whacker only ends up...
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working as designed2 => this sense is used in official documents! See BAD.
worm => [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel `The Shockwave Rider', via XEROX PARC] n. A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed th...
wound around the axle => adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.
wrap around => vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1. [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see infinity) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, either becau...
wrap around2 => because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0). 2. To change phase gradually and continuously by maintaining a steady wake-sleep cycle somewhat longer than 24 hours, e.g., living six long (28-hour) days in a week (...
wrap around3 => rate of 10 microhertz).
write-only code => [a play on `read-only memory'] n. Code so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by anyone but its author, and possibly not even by him/her. A {Bad Thing}.
write-only language => n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is {write-only code}. A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deser...
write-only memory => n. The obvious antonym to `read-only memory'. Out of frustration with the long and seemingly useless chain of approvals required of component specifications, during which no actual checking seemed to occur, an engineer at Signeti...
write-only memory2 => a write-only memory and included it with a bunch of other specifications to be approved. This inclusion came to the attention of Signetics management only when regular customers started calling and asking for pricing information...
write-only memory3 => edition of the data book and requested the return of the `erroneous' ones. Later, around 1974, Signetics bought a double-page spread in `Electronics' magazine's April issue and used the spec as an April Fools' Day joke. Instead ...
write-only memory4 => characteristic curves, the 25120 "fully encoded, 9046 x N, Random Access, write-only-memory" data sheet included diagrams of "bit capacity vs. Temp.", "Iff vs. Vff", "Number of pins remaining vs. number of socket insertions", an...
write-only memory5 => required a 6.3 VAC VFF supply, a +10V VCC, and VDD of 0V, +/- 2%.
Wrong Thing => n. A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if capitalized. The opposite of the {Right Thing}; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In ...
Wrong Thing2 => of the best', the merely good --- although good --- is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
wugga wugga => /wuh'g* wuh'g*/ n. Imaginary sound that a computer program makes as it labors with a tedious or difficult task. Compare {cruncha cruncha cruncha}, grind (sense 4).
WYSIWYG => /wiz'ee-wig/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is What You Get", as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands which do not result in immediate visual feedback. The term can be mildly derogatory, as it i...
XOFF => /X'of/ n. Syn. control-s.
xor => /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'. "I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two argu...
xref => /X'ref/ vt., n. Hackish standard abbreviation for `cross-reference'.
XXX => /X-X-X/ n. A marker that attention is needed. Commonly used in program comments to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be. Some hackers liken `XXX' to the notional heavy-porn movie rating.
xyzzy => /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ [from the ADVENT game] adj. The canonical `magic word'. This comes from ADVENT, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find the...
YA- => [Yet Another] abbrev. In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to {Yet Another}, following the precedent set by UNIX `yacc(1)'. See YABA.
YABA => /ya'b*/ [Cambridge] n. Yet Another Bloody Acronym. Whenever some program is being named, someone invariably suggests that it be given a name that is acronymic. The response from those with a trace of originality is to remark ironically that t...
YAUN => /yawn/ [Acronym for `Yet Another UNIX Nerd'] n. Reported from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer users' group) as a good-natured punning insult aimed at UNIX zealots.
Yellow Book => [proposed] n. The print version of this Jargon File; `The New Hacker's Dictionary', forthcoming from MIT Press, 1991. Includes all the material in the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L. Steele and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most import...
Yellow Book2 => typeset and includes almost all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each attached to an appropriate entry.
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You know you've been hacking too long when...5 => made up out of whole cloth. Although more respondents picked that one out as fiction than any of the others, I also received multiple independent reports of its actually happening. --- ESR]
Your mileage may vary => cav. [from the standard disclaimer attached to EPA mileage ratings by American car manufacturers] 1. A ritual warning often found in UNIX freeware distributions. Translates roughly as "Hey, I tried to write this portably, but...
Your mileage may vary2 => system?" 2. A qualifier more generally attached to advice. "I find that sending flowers works well, but your mileage may vary."
Yow! => /yow/ [from "Zippy the Pinhead" comix] interj. A favored hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. "Yow! Check out what happens when you twiddle the foo option on this display hack!" Compare gurfle.
yoyo mode => n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down. Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits. Sun Mi...
yoyo mode2 => SIGPLAN '88. Tourists staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists testing yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish => /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs. The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which a fish i...
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish2 => covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Usage primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand.
zap => 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See zapped...
zapped => adj. Spicy. This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is *spicy*-hot. For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast, vanilla...
zen => vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "How'd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned it." Cont...
zero => vt. 1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp. in the construction `zero out'). 2. To erase; to discard all data from. Said of disks and directories, where `zeroing' need not involve actually writing zer...
zero-content => adj. Syn. content-free.
zeroth => /zee'rohth/ adj. First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays. Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1; this is natural since, e.g., the 256 states of 8 bits correspond to the b...
zigamorph => /zig'*-morf/ n. Hex FF (11111111) when used as a delimiter or fence character. Usage primarily at IBM shops.
zip => [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver. Its use is spreading now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written. Commonly used as follows "I'l...
zipperhead => [IBM] n. A person with a closed mind.
zombie => [UNIX] n. A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a `wait(2)' for it yet). These can be seen in `ps(1)' listings occasionally. Compare orphan.
zorch => /zorch/ 1. [TMRC] v. To attack with an inverse heat sink. 2. [TMRC] v. To travel, with v approaching c [that is, with velocity approaching lightspeed --- ESR]. 3. [MIT] v. To propel something very quickly. "The new comm software is very fast...
Zork => /zork/ n. The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Originally written on MIT-DM during the late 1970s, later distributed with BSD UNIX and commercialized as `The Zork Trilogy' by Infocom.
zorkmid => /zork'mid/ n. The canonical unit of currency in hacker-written games. This originated in zork but has spread to nethack and is referred to in several other games.= [^A-Za-z] (see regexp) =
'Snooze => /snooz/ [FidoNet] n. Fidonews, the weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet. As the editorial policy of Fidonews is "anything that arrives, we print", there are often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend ...
(TM) => // [USENET] ASCII rendition of the trademark-superscript symbol appended to phrases that the author feels should be recorded for posterity, perhaps in future editions of this lexicon. Sometimes used ironically as a form of protest against the...
-oid => [from `android'] suff. 1. This suffix is used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance. Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wo...
-ware => [from `software'] suff. Commonly used to form jargon terms for classes of software. For examples, see careware, crippleware, crudware, freeware, fritterware, guiltware, liveware, meatware, payware, psychedelicware, shareware, shelfware, vapo...
/dev/null => /dev-nuhl/ [from the UNIX null device, used as a data sink] n. A notional `black hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to. A controversial posting, for example, might end "Kudos to rasputin@kremlin.org, flames...
120 reset => /wuhn-twen'tee ree'set/ [from 120 volts, U.S. wall voltage] n. To cycle power on a machine in order to reset or unjam it. Compare {Big Red Switch}, {power cycle}.
2 => infix. In translation software written by hackers, infix 2 often represents the syllable *to* with the connotation `translate to' as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string (integer to string), and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff).
@-party => /at'par`tee/ [from the @-sign in an Internet address] n. (alt. `@-sign party' /at'sin par`tee/) A semi-closed party thrown for hackers at a science-fiction convention (esp. the annual Worldcon); one must have a {network address} to get in,...
@Begin => // See \begin.
\begin => // [from the LaTeX command] With \end, used humorously in writing to indicate a context or to remark on the surrounded text. For example \beginflame Predicate logic is the only good programming language. Anyone who would use anything else i...
factpacks/old_test_meanings.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Apocrypha => hidden
Apollonia => perdition, destruction
Apollonius => destroying
Apollos => one who destroys; destroyer
Apollyon => a destroyer
Appaim => face; nostrils
Apphia => productive; fruitful
Aquila => an eagle
Ar => awakening; uncovering
Ara => cursing; seeing
Arab => multiplying; sowing sedition; a window; a locust
Arabia => evening; desert; ravens
Arad => a wild ass; a dragon
Arah => the way; a traveler
Aram => highness, magnificence or one that deceives; curse
Aran => an ark; their curse
Ararat => the curse of trembling
Araunah => ark; song; joyful cry
Arba => four
Archelaus => the prince of the people
Archippus => a master of horses
factpacks/old_test_meanings.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Hazar-shual => a wolf's house
Hazar-susah => or susim, the hay-paunch of a horse
Hazelelponi => sorrow of countenance
Hazeroth => villages; palaces
Hazezon-tamar => drawing near to bitterness
Hazo => seeing; prophesying
Hazor => court; hay
Heber => one that passes; anger
Hebrews => descendants of Heber
Hebron => society; friendship
Hegai => meditation; word; groaning; separation
Helam => their army; their trouble
Helbah => Helbon, milk, fatness
Heldai => Heleb, Heled: the world; rustiness
Helek => part; portion
Helem => dreaming; healing
Heleph => changing; passing over
Helez => armed; set free
Heli => ascending; climbing up
Helkai => same as Helek
Helkath-hazzurim => the field of strong men or of rocks
factpacks/old_test_meanings.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Heth => trembling; fear
Hethlon => a fearful dwelling
Hezekiah => strength of the Lord
Hezer => Hezir, a bog; converted
Hezrai => an entry or vestibule
Hezron => the dart of joy; the division of the song
Hiddai => a praise; a cry
Hiddekel; sharp voice; sound
Hiel => God lives; the life of God
Hierapolis => holy city
Higgaion => meditation; consideration
Hilen => a window; grief
Hilkiah => God is my portion
Hillel => he that praises
Hinnom => there they are; their riches
Hirah => liberty; anger
Hiram => exaltation of life; a destroyer
Hittite => one who is broken; who fears
Hivites => wicked; wickedness
Hizkijah => the strength of the Lord
Hobab => favored; beloved
factpacks/old_test_meanings.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Jerubbaal => he that defends Baal , let Baal defend his cause
Jerubbesheth => let the idol of confusion defend itself
Jeruel => fear , or vision of God
Jerusalem => vision of peace
Jerusha => banished; possession; inheritance
Jesaiah => health , or salvation , of the Lord
Jeshebeab => sitting , or captivity , of the father
Jesher => right; singing
Jeshimon => solitude; desolation
Jeshishai => ancient; rejoicing exceedingly
Jeshohaia => the Lord pressing; the meditation of God
Jeshua => same as Joshua
Jesiah => sprinkling of the Lord
Jesimiel => naming , or astonishment , of God
Jesse => gift; oblation; one who is
Jesui => even-tempered; flat country
Jesus => savior; deliverer
Jether => he that excels
Jetheth => giving
Jethlah => hanging up; heaping up
Jethro => his excellence; his posterity
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 111 => sunrpc - SUN Remote Procedure Call
port 112 => mcidas - McIDAS Data Transmission Protocol
port 113 => ident - 113/tcp => auth - Authentication Service
port 114 => audionews - Audio News Multicast
port 115 => sftp - Simple File Transfer Protocol
port 116 => ansanotify - ANSA REX Notify
port 117 => uucp-path - UUCP Path Service
port 118 => sqlserv - SQL Services
port 119 => nntp - Network News Transfer Protocol
port 120 => cfdptkt - CFDPTKT
port 121 => erpc - Encore Expedited Remote Pro.Call
port 122 => smakynet - SMAKYNET
port 123 => ntp - Network Time Protocol
port 124 => ansatrader - ANSA REX Trader
port 125 => locus-map - Locus PC-Interface Net Map Ser
port 126 => nxedit - NXEdit (previously assigned to unitary - Unisys Unitary Login)
port 127 => locus-con - Locus PC-Interface Conn Server
port 128 => gss-xlicen - GSS X License Verification
port 129 => pwdgen - Password Generator Protocol
port 130 => cisco-fna - cisco FNATIVE
port 131 => cisco-tna - cisco TNATIVE
port 132 => cisco-sys - cisco SYSMAINT
port 133 => statsrv - Statistics Service
port 134 => ingres-net - INGRES-NET Service
port 135 => epmap - DCE endpoint resolution
port 136 => profile - PROFILE Naming System
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 1312 => sti-envision - STI Envision
port 1313 => bmc_patroldb - BMC_PATROLDB
port 1314 => pdps - Photoscript Distributed Printing System
port 1321 => pip - PIP
port 1335 => digital-notary - Digital Notary Protocol
port 1345 => vpjp - VPJP
port 1346 => alta-ana-lm - Alta Analytics License Manager
port 1347 => bbn-mmc - multi media conferencing
port 1348 => bbn-mmx - multi media conferencing
port 1349 => sbook - Registration Network Protocol
port 1350 => editbench - Registration Network Protocol
port 1351 => equationbuilder - Digital Tool Works (MIT)
port 1352 => lotusnote - Lotus Note
port 1353 => relief - Relief Consulting
port 1354 => rightbrain - RightBrain Software
port 1355 => intuitive-edge - Intuitive Edge
port 1356 => cuillamartin - CuillaMartin Company
port 1357 => pegboard - Electronic PegBoard
port 1358 => connlcli - CONNLCLI
port 1359 => ftsrv - FTSRV
port 1360 => mimer - MIMER
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 7390 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7391 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7392 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7393 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7394 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7395 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7396 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7397 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7398 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7399 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7395 => winqedit - winqedit
port 7426 => pmdmgr - OpenView DM Postmaster Manager
port 7427 => oveadmgr - OpenView DM Event Agent Manager
port 7428 => ovladmgr - OpenView DM Log Agent Manager
port 7429 => opi-sock - OpenView DM rqt communication
port 7430 => xmpv7 - OpenView DM xmpv7 api pipe
port 7431 => pmd - OpenView DM ovc/xmpv3 api pipe
port 7437 => faximum - Faximum
port 7491 => telops-lmd - telops-lmd
port 7511 => pafec-lm - pafec-lm
port 7544 => nta-ds - FlowAnalyzer DisplayServer
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 19410 => hp-sco - hp-sco
port 19411 => hp-sca - hp-sca
port 19541 => jcp - JCP Client
port 20000 => dnp - DNP (or Millennium TROJAN)
port 20670 => track - Track
port 21554 => girlfriend - Girlfriend TROJAN
port 21845 => webphone - webphone
port 21846 => netspeak-is - NetSpeak Corp. Directory Services
port 21847 => netspeak-cs - NetSpeak Corp. Connection Services
port 21848 => netspeak-acd - NetSpeak Corp. Automatic Call Distribution
port 21849 => netspeak-cps - NetSpeak Corp. Credit Processing System
port 22000 => snapenetio - SNAPenetIO
port 22001 => optocontrol - OptoControl
port 22273 => wnn6 - wnn6
port 22555 => vocaltec-wconf - Vocaltec Web Conference
port 22800 => aws-brf - Telerate Information Platform LAN
port 22951 => brf-gw - Telerate Information Platform WAN
port 24000 => med-ltp - med-ltp
port 24001 => med-fsp-rx - med-fsp-rx
port 24002 => med-fsp-tx - med-fsp-tx
port 24003 => med-supp - med-supp
factpacks/rfc_index.fact view on Meta::CPAN
rfc 1908 => Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework. SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=21463 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1452) (Status:...
rfc 1907 => Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=34881 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1450) (Status: DRAF...
rfc 1906 => Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=27465 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1449) (Status: DRAFT STANDAR...
rfc 1905 => Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=55526 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1448) (Status: DRAFT STANDA...
rfc 1904 => Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=47083 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1444) (Status: DRAFT STA...
rfc 1903 => Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=52652 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1443) (Status: DRAFT STANDA...
rfc 1902 => Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=77453 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1442) (Stat...
rfc 1901 => Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2. SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose & S. Waldbusser. January 1996. (Format: TXT=15903 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1900 => Renumbering Needs Work. B. Carpenter & Y. Rekhter. February 1996. (Format: TXT=9528 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1899 => Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1800-1899. J. Elliott. January 1997. (Format: TXT=37984 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1898 => CyberCash Credit Card Protocol Version 0.8. D. Eastlake 3rd, B. Boesch, S. Crocker & M. Yesil. February 1996. (Format: TXT=113633 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1897 => IPv6 Testing Address Allocation. R. Hinden & J. Postel. January 1996. (Format: TXT=6643 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1896 => The text/enriched MIME Content-type. P. Resnick & A. Walker. February 1996. (Format: TXT=45926, PS=81217 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1523, RFC1563) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1895 => The Application/CALS-1840 Content-type. E. Levinson. February 1996. (Format: TXT=10576 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1894 => An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications. K. Moore & G. Vaudreuil. January 1996. (Format: TXT=77462 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1893 => Enhanced Mail System Status Codes. G. Vaudreuil. January 1996. (Format: TXT=28218 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1892 => The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages. G. Vaudreuil. January 1996. (Format: TXT=7800 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1891 => SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications. K. Moore. January 1996. (Format: TXT=65192 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1890 => RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control. Audio-Video Transport Working Group, H. Schulzrinne. January 1996. (Format: TXT=37509 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1889 => RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications. Audio-Video Transport Working Group, H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick & V. Jacobson. January 1996. (Format: TXT=188544 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1888 => OSI NSAPs and IPv6. J. Bound, B. Carpenter, D. Harrington, J. Houldsworth & A. Lloyd. August 1996. (Format: TXT=36469 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
factpacks/rfc_index.fact view on Meta::CPAN
rfc 581 => Corrections to RFC 560: Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Telnet option. D. Crocker, J. Postel. Nov-02-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 580 => Note to Protocol Designers and Implementers. J. Postel. Oct-25-1973. (Not online) (Updated by RFC0582) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 579 => Traffic statistics (September 1973). A.M. McKenzie. Nov-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 578 => Using MIT-Mathlab MACSYMA from MIT-DMS Muddle. A.K. Bhushan, N.D. Ryan. Oct-29-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 577 => Mail priority. D. Crocker. Oct-18-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 576 => Proposal for modifying linking. K. Victor. Sep-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 574 => Announcement of a mail facility at UCSB. M. Krilanovich. Sep-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 573 => Data and file transfer: Some measurement results. A.K. Bhushan. Sep-14-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 571 => Tenex FTP problem. R.T. Braden. Nov-15-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 570 => Experimental input mapping between NVT ASCII and UCSB On Line System. J.R. Pickens. Oct-30-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 569 => NETED: A common editor for the ARPA network. M.A. Padlipsky. Oct-15-1973. (Not online) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 568 => Response to RFC 567 - cross country network bandwidth. J.M. McQuillan. Sep-18-1973. (Not online) (Updates RFC0567) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 567 => Cross country network bandwidth. L.P. Deutsch. Sep-06-1973. (Not online) (Updated by RFC0568) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 566 => Traffic statistics (August 1973). A.M. McKenzie. Sep-04-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 565 => Storing network survey data at the datacomputer. D. Cantor. Aug-28-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 563 => Comments on the RCTE Telnet option. J. Davidson. Aug-28-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 562 => Modifications to the Telnet specification. A.M. McKenzie. Aug-28-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 561 => Standardizing network mail headers. A.K. Bhushan, K.T. Pogran, R.S. Tomlinson, J.E. White. Sep-05-1973. (Not online) (Updated by RFC0680) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 560 => Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Telnet option. D. Crocker, J. Postel. Aug-18-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 559 => Comments on the new Telnet Protocol and its implementation. A.K. Bhushan. Aug-15-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 557 => Revelations in network host measurements. B.D. Wessler. Aug-30-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
factpacks/security.fact view on Meta::CPAN
access control => Process of limiting access to the resources of an IT product only to authorized users, programs, processes, systems, or other IT products.
access control List => Mechanism implementing discretionary access control in an IT product that identifies the users who may access an object and the type of access to the object that a user is permitted.
access control Mechanism => Security safeguards designed to detect and prevent unauthorized access, and to permit authorized access in an IT product.
access mediation => Process of monitoring and controlling access to the resources of an IT product, including but not limited to the monitoring and updating of policy at- tributes during accesses as well as the protection of unauthorized or inappropr...
access right => A granted permission for a User or Subject to carry out an Access Type.
access level => The hierarchical portion of the security level used to identify the sensitivity of data and the clearance or authorization of users. Note: The access level, in conjunction with the nonhierarchical categories, forms the sensitivity la...
access period => A segment of time, generally expressed on a daily or weekly basis, during which access rights prevail.
access port => A logical or physical identifier that a computer uses to distinguish different terminal input/output data streams.
access type => The nature of an access right to a particular device, program, or file (e.g., read, write, execute, append, modify, delete, or create).
accountability => The property that enables activities on a system to be traced to individuals who may then be held responsible for their actions.
accreditation => The administrative process of granting authority.
add-on security => The retrofitting of protection mechanisms, implemented by hardware or software.
administration documentation => The information about a Target of Evaluation supplied by the developer for use by an administrator.
administrative security => The management constraints and supplemental controls established to provide an acceptable level of protection for data. Synonymous with procedural security.
administrator => a person in contact with the Target of Evaluation who is responsible for maintaining its operational capability.
algorithm => A mathematical procedure that can usually be explicitly encoded in a set of computer language instructions that manipulate data. Cryptographic algorithms are mathematical procedures used for such purposes as encrypting and decrypting mes...
API => Application Program Interface - System access point or library function that has a well- defined syntax and is accessible from application programs or user code to provide well-defined functionality.
architectural design => a phase of the Development Process wherein the top level definition and design of a Target of Evaluation is specified.
assignment => Requirement in a protection profile taken directly as stated, without change, from the list of components or derived by placing a bound on a threshold definition. Note: The assignment of environment-specific requirements to generic comp...
assurance => the confidence that may be held in the security provided by a Target of Evaluation.
assurance level => In evaluation criteria, a specific level on a hierarchical scale representing successively increased confidence that a TOE adequately fulfills the security requirements.
factpacks/security.fact view on Meta::CPAN
beyond A1 => A level of trust defined by the DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) that is beyond the state-of-the-art technology available at the time the criteria were developed. It includes all the A1-level features plus additio...
binding of security functionality => The ability of security enforcing functions and mechanisms to work together in a way which is mutually supportive and provides an integrated and effective whole.
bit => Short for binary digit - 0 or 1. Keys are strings of bits.
browsing => The act of searching through storage to locate or acquire information without necessarily knowing of the existence or the format of the information being sought.
call back => A procedure for identifying a remote terminal. In a call back, the host system disconnects the caller and then dials the authorized telephone number of the remote terminal to reestablish the connection. Synonymous with dial back.
CTCPEC => Canadian Trusted Computer Product Evaluation Criteria - Canadian secure products criteria.
candidate TCB subset => The identification of the hardware, firmware, and software that make up the proposed TCB subset, along with the identification of its subjects and objects; one of the conditions for evaluation by parts.
capability => A protected identifier that both identifies the object and specifies the access rights to be allowed to the accessor who possesses the capability. In a capability-based system, access to protected objects such as files is granted if the...
category => A restrictive label that has been applied to classified or unclassified data as a means of increasing the protection of the data and further restricting access to the data.
cellular transmission => Data transmission via interchangeable wireless (radio) communications in a network of numerous small geographic cells. Most current technology is analog - represented as electrical levels, not bits. However, the trend is towa...
certification => The technical evaluation of a system's security features, made as part of and in support of the approval/accreditation process, that establishes the extent to which a particular computer system's design and implementation meet a set ...
certification body => an independent and impartial national organisation that performs certification.
channel => An information transfer path within a system. May also refer to the mechanism by which the path is effected.
channel capacity => Maximum possible error-free rate, measured in bits per second, at which information can be sent along a communications path.
class => A group of related Families which reflects a specific set of security
cleartext => Intelligible data, the semantic content of which is available. Also referred to as plaintext.
closed user group => a closed user group permits users belonging to a group to communicate with each other, but precludes communications with other users who are not members of the group.
closed security environment => An environment in which both of the following conditions hold true: (1) Application developers (including maintainers) have sufficient clearances and authorizations to provide an acceptable presumption that they have no...
CCITS => Common Criteria for Information Technology Security - Evolving international security evaluation criteria being developed by the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, and France.
communication channel => the physical media and devices which provide the means for transmitting information from one component of a network to (one or more) other components.
communication link => the physical means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and/or receiving data.
factpacks/security.fact view on Meta::CPAN
environment => (1) All entities - users, procedures, conditions, objects, AISs (automated information systems), and other IT (information technology) products - that interact with (affect the development, operation, and maintenance of) an IT product....
erasure => A process by which a signal recorded on magnetic media is removed. Erasure is accomplished in two ways: (1) by alternating current erasure, by which the information is destroyed by applying an alternating high and low magnetic field to the...
evaluation => Technical assessment of a component's, product's, subsystem's, or system's security properties that establishes whether or not the component, product, subsystem, or system meets a specific set of requirements. Note: Evaluation is a term...
evaluation assurance => Source of IT product assurance based on the kind and intensity of the evaluation analysis performed on the product.
ealuation assurance Component => Fundamental building block, specifying the type and the rigor of required evaluation activities, from which evaluation assurance requirements are assembled.
evaluation assurance package => Grouping of evaluation assurance components assembled to ease specification and common understanding of the type and the rigor of re- quired evaluation activities.
evaluation assurance requirements => Requirements in a protection profile which address both the type and the rigor of activities that must occur during product evaluation.
evaluation criteria => A set of requirements defining the conditions under which an evaluation is performed. These requirements can also be used in specification and development of systems and products.
evaluator => the independent person or organisation that performs an evaluation.
evaluator actions => a component of the evaluation criteria for a particular phase or aspect of evaluation, identifying what the evaluator must do to check the information supplied by the sponsor of the evaluator, and the additional activities he mus...
evaluators => Individuals or groups responsible for the independent assessment of IT product security (e.g., product evaluators, system security officers, system certifiers, and system accreditors).
executive state => (1) One of several states in which a system may operate and the only one in which certain privileged instructions may be executed. Such instructions cannot be executed when the system is operating in other (for example, user) state...
explain => Give required information and show that it satisfies all relevant requirements.
exploitable channel => Covert channel that is usable or detectable by subjects external to the AIS's trusted computing base and can be used to violate the AIS's technical security policy. (See covert channel.)
external security controls => Measures which include physical, personnel, procedural, and administrative security requirements and a separate certification and accreditation process that govern physical access to an IT product. <br><br>Note: These me...
fail safe => Pertaining to the automatic protection of programs and/or processing systems to maintain safety when a hardware or software failure is detected in a system.
fail soft => Pertaining to the selective termination of affected nonessential processing when a hardware or software failure is detected in a system.
failure access => An unauthorized and usually inadvertent access to data resulting from a hardware or software failure in the system.
failure control => The methodology used to detect and provide fail-safe or fail-soft recovery from hardware and software failures in a system.
family => Grouping of related components that all address the same type of
fault => A condition that causes a device or system component to fail to perform in a required manner.
fetch protection => (1) A system-provided restriction to prevent a program from accessing data in another user's segment of storage. (2) The aggregate of all processes and procedures in a system designed to inhibit unauthorized access, contamination,...
file protection => The aggregate of all processes and procedures in a system designed to inhibit unauthorized access, contamination, or elimination of a file.
file security => The means by which access to computer files is limited to authorized users only.
flaw => An error of commission, omission, or oversight in a system that allows protection mechanisms to be bypassed.
factpacks/security.fact view on Meta::CPAN
functional protection requirements => Requirements in a protection profile which address what conforming IT products must be capable of doing.
functional testing => The portion of security testing in which the advertised features of a system are tested for correct operation.
functional unit => a functionally distinct part of a basic component.
functionality => The totality of functional properties of a TOE that contributes to security.
functionality class => a predefined set of complementary security enforcing functions capable of being implemented in a Target of Evaluation.
general-purpose system => A computer system that is designed to aid in solving a wide variety of problems.
generic threat => Class of threats with common characteristics pertaining to vulnerabilities, agents, event sequences, and resulting misfortunes=2E
global requirements => Those which require analysis of the entire system and for which separate analysis of the individual TCB (trusted computing base) subsets does not suffice.
granularity => Relative fineness or coarseness to which an access control mechanism or oth- er IT product aspect can be adjusted. Note: Protection at the file level is considered course granularity, whereas protection at the field level is considered...
group => Named collection of user identifiers.
gypsy verification environment => An integrated set of tools for specifying, coding, and verifying programs written in the Gypsy language, a language similar to Pascal which has both specification and programming features. This methology includes an...
handshaking procedure => A dialogue between two entities (e.g., a user and a computer, a computer and another computer, or a program and another program) for the purpose of identifying and authenticating the entities to one another.
hierarchical decomposition => the ordered, structured reduction of a system or a component to primitives.
hierarchical development methodology => A methodology for specifying and verifying the design programs written in the Special specification language. The tools for this methodology include the Special specification processor, the Boyer-Moore theorem ...
host => any computer-based system connected to the network and containing the necessary protocol interpreter software to initiate network access and carry out information exchange across the communications network. This definition encompasses typical...
identification => The process that enables recognition of an entity by a system, generally by the use of unique machine-readable user names.
impersonating => Synonymous with spoofing.
implementation => a phase of the Development Process wherein the detailed specification of a Target of Evaluation is translated into actual hardware and software.
individual accountability => The ability to associate positively the identity of a user with the time, method, and degree of access to a system.
informal => Expressed in natural language.
informal specification => Statement about (the properties of) a product made using the gram- mar, syntax, and common definitions of a natural language (e.g., English). >Note: While no notational restrictions apply, the informal specification is also ...
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SFP => Security Function Policy (SFP) - A closely related subset of the rules and objectives of the TSP. The security policy enforced by a security function (SF).
security kernel => The hardware, firmware, and software elements of a Trusted Computing Base that implement the reference monitor concept. It must mediate all accesses, be protected from modification, and be verifiable as correct.
security level => The combination of a hierarchical classification and a set of non-hierarchical categories that represents the sensitivity of information.
security mechanism => the logic or algorithm that implements a particular security enforcing or security relevant function in hardware and software.
security objectives => The contribution to security which a system or product is intended to achieve.
security policy => A set of rules and procedures regulating the use of information including its processing, storage, distribution and presentation.
security relevant => that which is not security enforcing, but must function correctly for the Target of Evaluation to enforce security.
security target => a specification of the security required of a Target of Evaluation, used as a baseline for evaluation. The security target will specify the security enforcing functions of the Target of Evaluation. It will also specify the security...
security testing => A process used to determine that the security features of a system are implemented as designed and that they are adequate for a proposed application environment. This process includes hands-on functional testing, penetration testi...
security audit trail => The set of records that collectively provide documentary evidence of processing used to aid in tracing from original transactions forward to related records and reports, and/or backward from records and reports to their compon...
security evaluation => An evaluation done to assess the degree of trust that can be placed in systems for the secure handling of sensitive information. One type, a product evaluation, is an evaluation performed on the hardware and software features ...
security fault analysis => A security analysis, usually performed on hardware at gate level, to determine the security properties of a device when a hardware fault is encountered.
security features => The security-relevant functions, mechanisms, and characteristics of system hardware and software. Security features are a subset of system security safeguards.
security filter => A trusted subsystem that enforces a security policy on the data that pass through it.
security flaw => An error of commission or omission in a system that may allow protection mechanisms to be bypassed.
security measures => Elements of software, firmware, hardware, or procedures that are included in a system for the satisfaction of security specifications.
security perimeter => The boundary where security controls are in effect to protect assets.
security range => The highest and lowest security levels that are permitted in or on a system, system component, subsystem or network.
security requirements => The types and levels of protection necessary for equipment, data, information, applications, and facilities to meet security policy.
security safeguards => The protective measures and controls that are prescribed to meet the security requirements specified for a system. Those safeguards may include but are not necessarily limited to: hardware and software security features, oper...
security specifications => A detailed description of the safeguards required to protect a system.
security target => (1) A specification of the security required of a target of evaluation, used as a baseline for evaluation. The security target will specify the security-enforcing functions of the target of evaluation. It will also specify the secu...
security testing => A process used to determine that the security features of a system are implemented as designed. This includes hands-on functional testing, penetration testing, and verification.
sensitive information => Any information, the loss, misuse, modification of, or unauthorized access to, could affect the national interest or the conduct of Federal programs, or the privacy to which individuals are entitled under Section 552a of Tit...
shall => Indication that a requirement must be met unless a justification of why it cannot be met is given and accepted.
should => Indication of an objective requirement that requires less justification for non-con- formancy and should be more readily approved. Note: Should is often used when a specific requirement is not feasible in some situations or with common curr...
simple security condition => A Bell-LaPadula security model rule allowing a subject read access to an object only if the security level of the subject dominates the security level of the object.
simple security property => A Bell-La Padula security model rule allowing a subject read access to an object only if the security level of the subject dominates the security level of the object. Synonymous with simple security condition.
single level device => A device that is used to process data of a single security level at any one time. Since the device need not be trusted to separate data of different security levels, sensitivity labels do not have to be stored with the data be...
site certification => The comprehensive assessment of the technical and nontechnical security functions of an IT (information technology) system in its operational environment to establish the extent to which the system meets a set of specified secu...
skipjack => A classified 64-bit block encryption, or secret key encryption,algorithm. The algorithm uses 80-bit keys (compared with 56 for DES) and has 32 computational rounds or iterations (compared with 16 for DES)=2E Skipjack supports all DES mod...
software security => General purpose (executive, utility or software development tools) and applications programs or routines that protect data handled by a system.
sponsor => the person or organisation that requests an evaluation.
spoofing => An attempt to gain access to a system by posing as an authorized user. (Synonymous with impersonating, masquerading, and mimicking.)
state delta verification system => A system designed to give high confidence regarding microcode performance by using formulas that represent isolated states of a computation to check proofs concerning the course of that computation.
state variable => A variable that represents either the state of the system or the state of some system resource.
state => Give required information with no attempted or implied requirement, to justify the information presented.
storage object => An object that supports both read and write accesses.
SAISS => Subcommittee on Automated Information Systems Security - authorizes and directs the establishment, under the NTISSC, of a permanent Subcommittee on Automated Information Systems Security. The SAISS is composed of one voting member from eac...
subject => Active entity in an IT product or AIS, generally in the form of a process or device, that causes information to flow among objects or changes the system state.
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MIME => see Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
MIP Mapping => (Multum in Parvam--"many in few") This stores a copy of the bitmap used as a texture in different sizes to minimize the distortion caused by shrinking or enlarging the textures during perspective correction.
MIPS => (Million Instructions Per Second) This is a rating of how quickly a processor can process instructions. A processor rated at 100 MIPS can process 100,000,000 instructions per second.
Mirror => This can refer to many things in the land of technology. Most often, it is used to describe a method of redundancy where data is mirrored across two devices, whether they are physically separate devices or not. Basically, the same data is w...
MIS => (Management Information Systems/Services) This is the department at most companies that everyone loves to hate. These are the people that work with Information Technology.
Mission-Critical Application => This is any application that is critical to the proper running of a business. If this application fails for any length of time, you may be out of business. For example, an order-entry system may be considered mission c...
MMX => (Matrix Math Extensions / Multi Media Extensions) 64 additional instructions for matrix math operations that are commonly used to process multimedia data. A slight improvement of the Pentium and Pentium Pro chip designs that is supposed to mak...
MODEM => (Modulator/Demodulator) A device to turn digital signals to analog ones and back again, so they can be transmitted and translated back to digital at another modem without loss. Used for communication through means of audio, telephone, CB, et...
Moiré => An interference pattern that gets created when small dots are placed in a tight pattern.
Monitor => A device for viewing the output from a computer, traditionally a much more precise TV set.
Moore's Law => Former Intel chairman Gordon Moore is credited with predicting the trend that transistor counts in processors double every 18 months. This law has held true since the 1970s. The law can also be applied to other technologies and works f...
Motherboard => The circuit board that your CPU, IO chips and all the peripheral cards plug into.
MotherGlass => The sheet of silicon that the wafers are stamped out of to make computer chips.
Mouse => A pointing device that uses a roller ball on the bottom to detect motion.
Mousepad => A pad that has a surface made for use with a mouse.
MP3 => (MPEG 3) This is a compression standard for music. It enables you to fit over 100 full length songs on a single CD with almost no loss of quality. You can find MP3 players and MP3 files on the Web--you just have to look. The music industry is ...
MPEG => (Moving Pictures Expert Group) This is a format for compressing video in a format similar to JPEG. It works.
MTBF => (Mean Time Between Failures) This is a time normally given in hours that predicts the failure of a device. The larger the number the better.
Multi-Threaded => Some operating systems allow multiple parts, or threads, of a single process to run simultaneously. These OSs are referred to as multi-threaded. UNIX is a multi-threaded OS, as is Windows NT.
Multi-tier client server => This is a form of client/server application that uses the multi-tiered architecture.
Multi-tiered architecture => This is the most scalable application architecture (over 2-tier and 3-tier). This architecture refers to 4-, 5-, or even higher-tiered architectures. It is the most complex type of architecture, splitting the application ...
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Newsgroups => See Usenet newsgroups
Nibble => Four bits or half a byte.
NIC => (Network Interface Card) The NIC is an add-in board that enables a computer to connect to some form of computer network.
NLX => This is a form factor similar to ATX. The difference is that NLX machines contain a riser card that the other expansion cards are plugged into. This allows for a shorter desktop case.
Non-parity Memory => DRAM that has no error correction or tracking, called parity.
Normal SCSI => This term is commonly used to refer to non-wide versions of SCSI that interface with 50-pin connectors.
NOS => (Network Operating System) This is an operating system designed to run across a network. It refers to the operating system that runs on a server, not the client.
Notebook computer => A computer the size of a notebook. Usually smaller and lighter than a laptop.
Null modem => There really is no "null modem" per se, but usually a null modem cable. This is a cable that connects two computers together via serial port and allows them to communicate. Some hardware manufacturers of network hardware, such as hubs a...
NVRAM => (Non-Volatile RAM) A small amount of RAM that stores information even after you turn off your computer. Used in modems (for storing your settings) and in hardware keys for protecting software.
Object => Objects can refer to the objects in object-oriented programming or the objects in OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). In OLE, an object is a piece of a document, a graphic, or some multimedia. In object-oriented programming, an object can b...
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) => Object Linking and Embedding => aka OLE. This is a standard for sharing data between applications. It has been around since Windows 3.1 and continues to get better. For example, if you cut a picture out of Paint ...
Object-oriented Programming => This term usually refers to programming languages that allow you to work with objects. These objects can contain not only data type and data structure information, but also information about how the object can be used b...
Object-oriented technology => This refers to technology, usually programming languages, designed to work with objects.
OC12 => see Optical Carrier 12.
OC3 => See Optical Carrier 3.
OCR => (Optical Character Recognition) This is the technology that allows computers to "read" the text from physical objects. It requires a graphical representation of text to interpret. This usually comes from a scanned image.
OEM => (Original Equipment Manufacturer) This acronym is used to denote equipment that is sold to other companies or resellers for integration into systems. For example, a hard drive manufacturer may sell an OEM hard drive in bulk quantities and no m...
Office Suite => The set of software products that are required by an office. Most often comprised of a spreadsheet program, a word processor, a scheduler, and a presentation manager. Sometimes they will include a financial package and a database prog...
OLE => (see Object Linking and Embedding) see Object Linking and Embedding
Online => The term refers to anything that's on the Internet, as in "I've got this great online magazine for you to check out at www.ugeek.com."
OpenGL => (Open Graphics Language) This is a 3D graphics language developed by Silicon Graphics. OpenGL support is built into Windows NT. You can see some examples by checking out the NT screen savers. Some 3D graphics accelerators have OpenGL accele...
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Parallel Port => The parallel port is found on just about all PCs. It's a 25-pin interface cable (DB-25) that is designed for connection to a printer. Normally, it will take up IRQ 7. In addition to printers, you can connect many other devices such a...
Parity => Meaning that there is an equality. Usually for the purpose of safety, so that if one goes bad there is still the other.
Parity Memory => Not quite memory that has a twin, but instead, more like a summary. The parity does not exactly have a copy of the original, but rather enough information to verify the integrity of the original.
Partition => You can partition your hard drive by breaking it up into one or more pieces, or "partitions." Partition
Pascal => This is a programming language that was designed to teach computer science students the concepts of programming. It's almost like C for dummies. In fact, the two languages are very similar, but the stoic brackets of C are changed to happy a...
Passive Matrix => LCD panels that are passive matrix have a duller, dimmer image than those with active matrix screens. Visibility and clarity decrease at greater angles off of central viewing.
Patch cable => This is the common name for any 10BaseT network cable that is used to connect, or "patch," any two network ports.
Patch panel => This is a group of network ports stuck together for easy accessibility. Usually, this panel resides in a wiring closet or server room. Connections are made between this panel and ports on a hub to enable a network connection at a remot...
PC Card => This is a newer synonym for PCMCIA Card.
PCI => (Peripheral Connect Interface) This interface was designed to supplant the VL-Bus architecture and provide a standard slot with a reduced size for high-speed peripherals. It normally runs at 33 MHz on a PC, but can run faster. PCI slots are 32...
PCMCIA => (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) Aside from winning the award for being the longest and most-annoying-to-pronounce technology acronym, PCMCIA is a credit card-sized interface card standard. PCMCIA cards are most com...
PDA => (Personal Digital Assistant) PDAs are basically beefed-up organizers. They have small LCD screens, some form of pen or keyboard input, and software for organization, OCR, and contact management. Some have even more features, such as Web browsi...
Peripherals => Any device that is not part of the motherboard, aside from memory and the CPU. For example, video card, sound card, modem, hard drive.
Perspective Correction => This correctly alters the textures in a scene to give a sense that all the images on the screen converge on one central point way out in the distance. It's why things far away look smaller.
Petabyte => One thousand terabytes / one million gigabytes / one billion megabytes / one trillion kilobytes / one quadrillion bytes (approximately)
PGA => (Pin Grid Array) This is a form of chip with a group of pins in concentric rectangles, designed to fit into a PGA slot. Most x86 compatible chips are designed in this format.
PGA slot => This slot accepts a PGA chip. See PGA.
Pincushioning => This is one form of image distortion on a monitor. Good monitors have controls to deal with this problem. Basically, the top and bottom of the screen are wider than the middle (convex), or vice versa (concave). When corrected properl...
PING => see Packet InterNet Gopher.
PIO => See Programmed Input/Output.
Pipeburst Cache => See Pipeline Burst Cache. This is an abbreviation, or contraction, for it, just like "ain't" is an abbreviation for "am not."
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USB => (Universal Serial Bus) A technology in the works that will replace the current way that some peripheral devices connect to your computer. It is much faster than serial and parallel communications. It is also much more flexible: it will be able...
Usenet Newsgroups => Also referred to just as "newsgroups," Usenet newsgroups are a huge bunch of Internet discussion groups that replicate across the Internet every so often. If you get a bunch of people together and request a group for yourself, yo...
V.32 => A standard naming convention used in determining modem communications, all starting with "V." This one is for specifying the Hayes standard of bi-directional 9600 baud transmission.
V.32bis => This is the standard that came after V.32 which increased the speed from 9600 baud to 14.4 KB baud.
V.34 => This is the most recent dramatic improvement of modem communications. It has doubled the speed of the V.32bis standard to 28.8 KB.
V.34+ => This standard was made by US Robotics to indicate that their modems are superior to a standard V.34 modem in that they run at 33.6 KB baud instead of the slower 28.8 KB baud.
V.42 => This is the name given to the standard for transmitting at 2400 baud.
V.42Bis => This is not a speed standard like V.32 and V.34. It is an error correction and compression method that is hardware-based. Its major improvement comes from knowing when compression will be beneficial and when it will not be.
V.Everything => This is US Robotics' designation for their Courier Dual standard modems, which support all types of analog modem communications.
V.Fast => This standard was made between the time of V.32bis and V.34. It is also a 28.8 KB baud speed, but is not as reliable as the approved V.34 standard.
VB => (Visual Basic) This is a software product developed by Microsoft. Its purpose is to bring programming down to a drag-and-drop level to speed up development cycles. In many ways, that goal has been achieved. VB's main competitor is Borland's Del...
Vector => A vector is a set of scalar numbers that refers to a point in space. Say, for example, you are in a two-dimensional space. A vector may be (5,6), which is 5 units across the X axis, and 6 units up the Y axis. See also scalar.
Vector Graphics => As opposed to raster graphics, vector graphics are composed of groups of colored lines. If you've ever seen those old Atari arcade games like Tempest, Battlezone, or Asteroids, that's vector graphics. At one point a company even ma...
Vertical market => This refers to an industry or group of companies that can be marketed to in a similar manner because they have similar needs. Common examples of vertical markets include the government, health care, and insurance.
Vertical Market Application => This is an application written specifically for a particular vertical market, as opposed to more generic multi-purpose applications such as office suites. One example is a program written for the insurance industry that...
Video Card => A device in computers that deals specifically with displaying to a monitor. Without one, you cannot see what's going on in your computer and may have to resort to the ancient method of using a printer as a monitor.
Virtual Memory => A part of your hard drive used to temporarily store what is in RAM. Usually used for little-used items, or when the required RAM is insufficient (since most every computer has more hard drive space than RAM).
Virtual Private Network => (VPN) This is a "virtual" network constructed by connecting computers together over the Internet and encrypting their communications so that other people cannot understand the communications. The benefit is that people can ...
Virus => A program that makes unbidden copies of itself in order to proliferate. Usually plays a role either as graffiti or for malicious intent.
Visitor => When a user arrives on a website, he or she is considered one visitor regardless of how many pages he or she looks at.
Visual C++ => This is a Microsoft product that is basically VB on steroids. It features a similar visual interface with drag-and-drop functionality, but the code is C++, which is more robust than BASIC. It's also much faster when compiled.
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690 => San Antonio Aguadilla PR
692 => Vega Alta Vega Alta PR
693 => Vega Baja Vega Baja PR
694 => Vega Baja Vega Baja PR
698 => Yauco Yauco PR
703 => Aguas Buenas Aguas Buenas PR
704 => Aguirre Guayama PR
705 => Aibonito Aibonito PR
707 => Maunabo Maunabo PR
714 => Arroyo Arroyo PR
715 => Mercedita Ponce PR
718 => Naguabo Naguabo PR
719 => Naranjito Naranjito PR
720 => Orocovis Orocovis PR
721 => Palmer Rio Grande PR
723 => Patillas Patillas PR
725 => Caguas Caguas PR
726 => Caguas Caguas PR
729 => Canovanas Canovanas PR
731 => Ponce Ponce PR
732 => Ponce Ponce PR
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3240 => Grafton Grafton NH
3241 => Hebron Grafton NH
3242 => Henniker Merrimack NH
3243 => Hill Merrimack NH
3244 => Hillsboro Hillsborough NH
3245 => Holderness Grafton NH
3246 => Laconia Belknap NH
3247 => Laconia Belknap NH
3251 => Lincoln Grafton NH
3252 => Lochmere Belknap NH
3253 => Meredith Belknap NH
3254 => Moultonborough Carroll NH
3255 => Newbury Merrimack NH
3256 => New Hampton Belknap NH
3257 => New London Merrimack NH
3259 => North Sandwich Carroll NH
3260 => North Sutton Merrimack NH
3261 => Northwood Rockingham NH
3262 => North Woodstock Grafton NH
3263 => Pittsfield Merrimack NH
3264 => Plymouth Grafton NH
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13748 => Conklin Broome NY
13749 => Corbettsville Broome NY
13750 => Davenport Delaware NY
13751 => Davenport Center Delaware NY
13752 => De Lancey Delaware NY
13753 => Delhi Delaware NY
13754 => Deposit Broome NY
13755 => Downsville Delaware NY
13756 => East Branch Delaware NY
13757 => East Meredith Delaware NY
13758 => East Pharsalia Chenango NY
13760 => Endicott Broome NY
13761 => Endicott Broome NY
13762 => Endwell Broome NY
13763 => Endicott Broome NY
13774 => Fishs Eddy Delaware NY
13775 => Franklin Delaware NY
13776 => Gilbertsville Otsego NY
13777 => Glen Aubrey Broome NY
13778 => Greene Chenango NY
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23850 => Ford Dinwiddie VA
23851 => Franklin Franklin City VA
23856 => Freeman Brunswick VA
23857 => Gasburg Brunswick VA
23860 => Hopewell Hopewell City VA
23866 => Ivor Southampton VA
23867 => Jarratt Sussex VA
23868 => Lawrenceville Brunswick VA
23870 => Jarratt Greensville VA
23872 => Mc Kenney Dinwiddie VA
23873 => Meredithville Brunswick VA
23874 => Newsoms Southampton VA
23875 => Prince George Prince George VA
23876 => Rawlings Brunswick VA
23878 => Sedley Southampton VA
23879 => Skippers Greensville VA
23881 => Spring Grove Surry VA
23882 => Stony Creek Sussex VA
23883 => Surry Surry VA
23884 => Sussex Sussex VA
23885 => Sutherland Dinwiddie VA
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Le Raizet => TFFR located in Guadeloupe Guadeloupe. 16-16N 061-31W.
Point Salines => TGPY located in Grenada. 12-00N 061-47W.
Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas=> TIST located in Cyril E. King Virgin Islands, United States. 18-20N 064-59W.
Christiansted => TISX located in Saint Croix Virgin Islands. 17-42N 064-48W. Also see Henry E. Rohlsen
Henry E. Rohlsen => TISX located in Saint Croix Virgin Islands 17-42N. Also see Christiansted
Aquadilla => TJBQ located in Puerto Rico. 18-30N 067-08W. Also see Borinquen
Borinquen => TJBQ located in Puerto Rico 18-30N. Also see Aquadilla
Mayaguez => TJMZ located in Puerto Rico. 18-16N 067-09W. Also see Eugenio
Eugenio => TJMZ located in Puerto Rico 18-16N. Also see Mayaguez
Roosevelt Roads => TJNR located in Naval Station United States. 18-15-19N 065-38-19W.
Ponce => TJPS located in Puerto Rico. 18-01N 066-34W. Also see Mercedita
Mercedita => TJPS located in Puerto Rico 18-01N. Also see Ponce
Luis Munoz Marin => TJSJ located in Puerto Rico. 18-27N 066-00W.
Golden Rock => TKPK located in Saint Kitts and Nevis. 17-18N 062-41W.
Charlestown => TKPN located in Antigua and Barbuda. 17-12N 062-35W. Also see Newcast
Newcast => TKPN located in Antigua and Barbuda 17-12N. Also see Charlestown
Vigie => TLPC located in Saint Lucia. 14-01N 061-00W.
Hewanorra => TLPL located in Saint Lucia. 13-45N 060-57W.
Queen Beatrix => TNCA located in Aruba Aruba. 12-30N 070-01W.
Flamingo => TNCB located in Bonaire Netherlands Antilles. 12-09N 068-17W.
Hato => TNCC located in Curacao Netherlands Antilles. 12-12N 068-58W.
Roosevelt Saint Eustatius=> TNCE located in Netherlands Antilles. 17-29N 062-59W.
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TDPR => Roseau (Roseau)
TFFF => Le Lamentin (Le Lamentin)
TFFJ => Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy (Gustavia)
TFFR => Le Raizet, Guadeloupe (Le Raizet)
TGPY => Point Salines (Point Salines)
TIST => Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas, Cyril E. King (Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas)
TISX => Christiansted / Henry E. Rohlsen, Saint Croix (Christiansted)
TJBQ => Aquadilla / Borinquen (Aquadilla)
TJMZ => Mayaguez / Eugenio (Mayaguez)
TJNR => Roosevelt Roads, Naval Station (Roosevelt Roads)
TJPS => Ponce / Mercedita (Ponce)
TJSJ => Luis Munoz Marin (Luis Munoz Marin)
TKPK => Golden Rock (Golden Rock)
TKPN => Charlestown / Newcast (Charlestown)
TLPC => Vigie (Vigie)
TLPL => Hewanorra (Hewanorra)
TNCA => Queen Beatrix, Aruba (Queen Beatrix)
TNCB => Flamingo, Bonaire (Flamingo)
TNCC => Hato, Curacao (Hato)
TNCE => Roosevelt Saint Eustatius (Roosevelt Saint Eustatius)
TNCM => Juliana, Saint Maarten (Juliana)
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