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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
Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Excuse.pm view on Meta::CPAN
transient bus protocol violation
incompatible bit-registration operators
your process is not ISO 9000 compliant
You need to upgrade your VESA local bus to a MasterCard local bus.
The recent proliferation of Nuclear Testing
Elves on strike. (Why do they call EMAG Elf Magic)
Internet exceeded Luser level, please wait until a luser logs off before attempting to log back on.
Your EMAIL is now being delivered by the USPS.
Your computer hasn't been returning all the bits it gets from the Internet.
You've been infected by the Telescoping Hubble virus.
Scheduled global CPU outage
Your Pentium has a heating problem - try cooling it with ice cold water.(Do not turn of your computer, you do not want to cool down the Pentium Chip while he isn't working, do you?)
Your processor has processed too many intructions. Turn it off emideately, do not type any commands!!
Your packets were eaten by the terminator
Your processor does not develop enough heat.
We need a licensed electrician to replace the light bulbs in the computer room.
The POP server is out of Coke
Fiber optics caused gas main leak
Server depressed, needs Prozak
quatnum decoherence
those damn racoons!
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
AMC => <reply> $who, Answering Machine Checker. URL: http://www.multimania.com/lionelbouton/
AMC (ATOM Module Compiler) => <reply> $who, A programmable compiler. URL: http://www.freeyellow.com/members7/mygfya/amc/
AMC Mail Client => <reply> $who, Gnome-Integrated Mail Client. URL: http://www.faceprint.com/~axion/index.html
Amcl => <reply> $who, A simple Mud CLient for X written in GTK libs.. URL: http://www.localhost.nu/apps/amcl/
AMD K6-II CTX-Kern Patch => <reply> $who, Linux Kernel 2.0.36 AMD K6-II CTX-Kern Patch. URL: http://www.klografx.de/misc/ctx/
AMessage => <reply> $who, GTK+ rewrite of XMessage. URL: http://ayerie.linuxbox.com/
amiwm => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html
AML => <reply> $who, AML -- an implementation of a basic register machine with support for ASM.. URL: http://www.cris.com/~adhawan/
AMMP => <reply> $who, Molecular mechanics, dynamics, and modeling package. URL: http://asterix.jci.tju.edu/ammp.html
amor => <reply> $who, A small animation that sits on the active window.. URL: http://www.powerup.com.au/~mjones/amor/
Ampctl => <reply> $who, A nifty little tool to handle and control the mixer and the dsp device. URL: http://www.globalserve.net/~adeneault/ampctl/
Amy => <reply> $who, Multi-language, multi-platform Integrated Development Environment. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/amy/
Anachronism => <reply> $who, RTS strategy. URL: http://members.xoom.com/nbasili/anachr/
Anaglyph Schlecht's => <reply> $who, anaglyph stereoscopic red/blue glasses 3d cyan blue. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6006/anaglyph/anaglyph.html
analog => <reply> $who, WWW logfile analysis program. URL: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/
Angel Network Monitor => <reply> $who, A simple yet useful tool to monitor the services on your network. URL: http://www.ism.com.br/~paganini/angel/
angela! => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~pabst/angela
angif => <reply> $who, LZW-free GIF code to output animation and/or true-color. URL: http://phil.ipal.org/freeware/angif/angif-1.0.0beta2.tar.gz
ANICI => <reply> $who, An extended version of Tim Long's ICI interpreter. URL: http://www.zeta.org.au/~atrn/ici/distfiles/contrib/anici.html
AnimaBob => <reply> $who, An interactive 3D volume render for generating movies.. URL: http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~grant/AnimaBob/
anniversary => <reply> $who, Birthday, course deadline reminder program. URL: http://www.greabo.demon.co.uk/linux/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
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/
cdcd => <reply> $who, A versatile command-line CD player. URL: http://cdcd.undergrid.net/
cdctl => <reply> $who, Controls your CD-ROM drive under linux.. URL: http://host30.frys.com/cdctl/
CDDA Paranoia III => <reply> $who, CD ripping application. URL: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
cdda2wav => <reply> $who, A CD ripping application. URL: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/cdda2wav/
CDDB.py => <reply> $who, Audio CD track title access in Python via CDDB. URL: http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/python/cddb.html
CDDBD.sh => <reply> $who, Read-only CDDBP Server. URL: ftp://beteigeuze.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/net/
CDDBP Proxy => <reply> $who, CDDBP to HTTP proxy.. URL: http://www.phoebe.co.uk/cddb/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
CDXA => <reply> $who, Play Audio from Playstation CDROM XA files. URL: http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/cdxa/
Celebrat => <reply> $who, Very simple non-interactive command-line calendar. URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/~d92-jwa/code/
cell.pl => <reply> $who, Cellular One Text Message Email. URL: http://eric.superblock.net/
centerICQ => <reply> $who, a textmode-based ICQ clone for Linux. URL: http://konst.org.ua/software.centericq.html
Cervisia => <reply> $who, KDE CVS frontend. URL: http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~gehrmab/cervisia/cervisia.html
CFCC Video Algorithm => <reply> $who, Video coding and compression algorithm for low bit rate channels. URL: http://www.linuxtel.com/
ZMailer => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.zmailer.org/
CfgTie => <reply> $who, Perl modules to access system configuration information. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1862/script/CfgTie_1.html
cfingerd => <reply> $who, The Configurable Finger Daemon. URL: http://www.infodrom.north.de/cfingerd/
cftp => <reply> $who, A termcap-based FTP client.. URL: http://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/nih/cftp/
Cfunctions => <reply> $who, Program to extract function prototype and global variable information from C. URL: http://www.hayamasa.demon.co.uk/cfunctions/
CGI Port Scanner => <reply> $who, CGI Port Scanner. URL: http://www.novia.net/~muesu/PORTSCAN/helpdoc.html
CGI Tool Box => <reply> $who, CGI Library. URL: http://sdf.lonestar.org/~jevans/
CGI++ => <reply> $who, C++ macro-preprocessor for writing CGI/Database applications. URL: http://www.sashanet.com/internet/download.html#anc1
CGI-NoFlood => <reply> $who, Perl CGI massive calls detector. URL: http://www.senga.org/CGI-NoFlood/
cgi-util => <reply> $who, A C library for developing web CGI programs.. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/cgi-util/
CGI-x10 => <reply> $who, Perl/CGI interface to Bottlerocket x10 firecracker software. URL: http://bubba.org/cgi-x10
CGI::Formmail => <reply> $who, Better HTML form email mousetrap. URL: http://wildcat.imaginet.co.uk/
CGI::Persistent => <reply> $who, State persistent for CGI scripts in Perl.. URL: http://www.vipul.net/perl/
CGI::WeT => <reply> $who, A set of Perl scripts to allow Web Themeing.. URL: http://www.jamesmith.com/cgi-wet/
CGI::XMLForm => <reply> $who, Structured XML Generator from HTML Forms. URL: http://sergeant.org/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Glide Voodoo Graphics drivers => <reply> $who, Glide 2.46 for Voodoo Graphics. URL: http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=48
Glide Voodoo Rush Drivers => <reply> $who, Glide 2.46 for Voodoo Rush. URL: http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=189
Glide Voodoo2 drivers => <reply> $who, Glide 2.53 for Voodoo 2. URL: http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=36
Glide Voodoo3/Banshee drivers => <reply> $who, Glide 2.60 for Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3. URL: http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=31
GlideControl => <reply> $who, GTK-based interface for configuring 3Dfx voodoo cards. URL: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliphant/gc
Glilo => <reply> $who, GTK+ based lilo frontend. URL: http://www.student.hig.se/~nd96pwt/glilo/glilo.html
Glimpse => <reply> $who, Indexing and querying system. URL: http://webglimpse.net/
glitter => <reply> $who, Text mode user interface for RPM. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvermeul/glitter/
GLload => <reply> $who, OpenGL(r) load meter. URL: http://glload.netpedia.net/
GLmame => <reply> $who, An OpenGL driver for xmame. URL: http://glmame.linuxgames.com
GLOBAL => <reply> $who, A common source code tag system for C and Yacc.. URL: http://www.tamacom.com/global/
GlobeCom Jukebox => <reply> $who, Music jukebox with integrated CDDB aware ripping and groupware functionality. URL: http://www.globecom.se/jukebox/
Glove => <reply> $who, Data acquisition, manipulation, and analysis program for X-Windows. URL: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~glenn/glove/
glowtext => <reply> $who, . URL: http://home.i1.net/~joed/
glpoisson => <reply> $who, Make waving flags and logos using finite element analysis. URL: http://sig.co.za/
glTron => <reply> $who, tron-like game with a 3D view. URL: http://www.ards.net/Andreas/gltron.html
gltt => <reply> $who, Allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in anyOpenGL application. URL: http://home.worldnet.fr/~rehel/gltt/index.html
GLUI => <reply> $who, GLUT-based C++ GUI library. URL: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui/
GLUT => <reply> $who, Implements a simple platform independent windowing API for OpenGL.. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/opengl/glut3/glut3.html
GMagic => <reply> $who, Realtime property database for UIs. URL: http://209.201.55.167/gtkmagic/
gmail => <reply> $who, Gmail is an experiment in an sql vfolder-based email system.. URL: http://gmail.linuxpower.org/
GMailWatch => <reply> $who, Mail monitor applet for GNOME Panel which displays summary of incoming mail. URL: http://www.employees.org/~ashokn/gmailwatch/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
GtkWhois => <reply> $who, GTK frontend to the 'whois' command. URL: http://www.kadets.d20.co.edu/~jgeo/GtkWhois/
GtkX10 => <reply> $who, GTK app for controlling X10 devices from a Firecracker device. URL: http://darkblack.dhs.org/projects/gtkx10/
GTKYahoo => <reply> $who, GTK based Yahoo! Pager client. URL: http://www.unixtools.org/gtkyahoo/
GtkZip => <reply> $who, A program for maintaining your Iomega Zip drive disks underLinux. URL: http://home.netvigator.com/~sallymak/gtkzip/
gtk_pizza => <reply> $who, Pizza Delivery System for Pizza Services and Bistros. URL: http://members.iweb.net.au/~steveoc/gtk_pizza.html
gtml => <reply> $who, An HTML pre-processor specially designed for maintaining web sites.. URL: http://www.lifl.fr/~beaufils/gtml/
GTransferManager => <reply> $who, GNOME frontend and more for wget. URL: http://camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~bapm/gtm/
gTune => <reply> $who, a nice Instrument Tuner for GNOME. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/4189/index.html
Gtuner => <reply> $who, A highly configurable gtk based radio tuner. URL: http://www.gtuner.seul.org
gTuring => <reply> $who, A Turing Machine simulator for GNOME.. URL: http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~arturo/gTuring
Guava => <reply> $who, C-like preprocessing for HTML. URL: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~morphet/comp/guava.html
guichooser => <reply> $who, Tool for switching window managers. URL: http://www.open-systems.com/guichooser.html
guiftp => <reply> $who, A simple FTP client using the GTK+ toolkit. URL: http://www.altern.org/ldufresne/guiftp/
guile => <reply> $who, GNU extension language, an embeddable library implementation of scheme. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
Guile-gtk => <reply> $who, guile bindings for GTK.. URL: http://www.ping.de/sites/zagadka/guile-gtk/
Guilty => <reply> $who, A lightweight Tinderbox look-alike.. URL: http://www.acc.umu.se/~mortis/guilty/index.html
GuiSlp => <reply> $who, An slp-package manager.. URL: http://www.acc.umu.se/~snaggen/guislp/
guiTAR => <reply> $who, A tar frontend for Gtk+. URL: http://disq.bir.net.tr/guitar/
gunk => <reply> $who, Amorphous computing simulator. URL: http://world.std.com/~wware/
Guppi => <reply> $who, GNOME application for plotting and analyzing data. URL: http://www.gnome.org/guppi/
GURU => <reply> $who, GURU Understands Real Unix. URL: http://www.dimensional.com/~dhawkins/GURU/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Jikes => <reply> $who, Java compiler that translates Java source into bytecoded instruction sets. URL: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/jikes/
Jikes Debugger => <reply> $who, multi-paneled graphical debugger for remotely executing Java programs. URL: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/
Jiten => <reply> $who, Perl DICT Server. URL: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/jiten/
JitterBug => <reply> $who, Web based bug tracking tool. URL: http://samba.anu.edu.au/jitterbug/
jivesyslog => <reply> $who, A silly version of syslog.. URL: ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/jivesyslog/
jlclient => <reply> $who, Utility for updating the dynamic DNS services at http://www.justlinux.com. URL: http://www.justlinux.com/dynamic_dns.html
JLex => <reply> $who, A lexical analyzer generator, written for Java, in Java.. URL: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/JLex/
jlip => <reply> $who, Multi-line SLIP driver for FreeBSD with IP-over-TCP tunnelling and encryption. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~Vasim/
jmake => <reply> $who, jmake is a tool for software developers that like to write code, not makefiles.. URL: http://slug.arlut.utexas.edu/~jmake/
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/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Libcfg => <reply> $who, A simple configuration management library.. URL: http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/libcfg/
libcsc => <reply> $who, General Programming Library. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~jerome/Hackerlabs/hackerlabs.html
libctk-0.1.1 => <reply> $who, A support library to create CGI programs. URL: http://www.500mhz.net/ctk
libdatablk => <reply> $who, A MOO-like flat type library for C. URL: http://www.fargus.net/nick/downloads.html
Libero => <reply> $who, Generates code in many languages from state diagrams.. URL: http://www.imatix.com/html/libero/
libfax => <reply> $who, Library for C programs to easily send faxes using external programs.. URL: http://nueorder.netpedia.net/
libgcj => <reply> $who, Runtime library for gcc's Java front end. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/
libgeom => <reply> $who, Geometry library useful for OpenGL programming, games, simulations. URL: http://www.calvin.edu/~jdemaa17/programs/programs.html
LibGGI => <reply> $who, Generic graphics library running on top of many graphics subsystems. URL: http://www.ggi-project.org/
libglade => <reply> $who, XML-based runtime user interface loader for GNOME. URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libglade/libglade.html
libGLobs => <reply> $who, A set of C++ OpenGL object manipulation classes. URL: http://globs.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
Libgraph => <reply> $who, A library to build graphs in gif format.. URL: http://www.arcavia.com/rd/libgraph/
LibGTop => <reply> $who, A library that fetches information about the running system such as cpu .... URL: http://www.home-of-linux.org/gnome/libgtop/
libical => <reply> $who, Library for iCal protocols: iCAL core, iTIP, iMIP, iRIP, CAP. URL: http://softwarestudio.org/libical/index.html
libjpeg => <reply> $who, Library of JPEG support functions.. URL: http://www.ijg.org/
LibLoc.pl => <reply> $who, ldconf maintanance tool. URL: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~sdeutsch/projects.html
libmcal => <reply> $who, Modular Calendar Library. URL: http://mcal.chek.com/
libmcrypt => <reply> $who, A library to access various encryption algorithms. URL: http://hq.hellug.gr/~mcrypt/
libmd => <reply> $who, MD2, MD4 and MD5 library. URL: ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/libmd/
libmikmod => <reply> $who, Full-featured sound library. URL: http://mikmod.darkorb.net
libmmoss => <reply> $who, Provides Java sound in Linux version of Netscape Communicator. URL: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dairiki/libmmoss/README.html
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
mixer => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~bb/linux/
Mixer.app => <reply> $who, Mixer.app is a mixer utility for Linux/FreeBSD systems. URL: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt96pli/mixer/
MiXView => <reply> $who, Sound Editor for X. URL: http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/~doug/htmls/MiXViews.html
mkdep.perl => <reply> $who, makedepend that does not include system header files.. URL: http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/mkdep.readme
mkdnstab => <reply> $who, DNS Table generator in Perl. URL: http://milosch.net/pub/scripts/mkdnstab/
mkl => <reply> $who, Creates and prints labels for use with CD-Rs. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~bstumm/
mklinuxfw => <reply> $who, Project to develop a configuration tool which can configure filewalls. URL: http://www.madhouse.org.uk/~red/framepage.phtml?/mklinuxfw/index.html
mkrdns => <reply> $who, Program to automatically generate reverse DNS zone files (PTR records). URL: http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/mkrdns.html
mktclapp => <reply> $who, Mix C/C++ with Tcl/Tk to build a standalone program. URL: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/
mll2html => <reply> $who, Reformats mailinglists file to a HTML file.. URL: http://www.epeios.org/
mlvwm => <reply> $who, Window manager for X11 designed to look and feel like theMacintosh environment. URL: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html
MLWorks => <reply> $who, Development environment for the SML programming language. URL: http://www.harlequin.com/products/ads/ml/
MM => <reply> $who, Shared Memory Library. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/
MM.MySQL => <reply> $who, JDBC Drivers for MySQL. URL: http://www.worldserver.com/mm.mysql/
mmake => <reply> $who, <B>m</B>make will generate a Makefile for your Java programs.. URL: http://www.tildeslash.com/mmake/
mminstance => <reply> $who, Makes single-master PostScript fonts from multiple master fonts. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/type/
MMIX assembler/simulator => <reply> $who, MMIX Assembler and Simulator. URL: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html
mMosaic => <reply> $who, Web browser for X11. URL: http://sig.enst.fr/~dauphin/mMosaic/
Mmucl => <reply> $who, Mud client written in Tcl. URL: http://idt.net/~tmtr01/mmucl
mmusic => <reply> $who, Database Frontend to handle large music collections. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/8386/mmusic.html
MMX Emulator => <reply> $who, Allows execution of MMX binaries on non-MMX machines. URL: http://www.inria.fr/prisme/personnel/pion/progs/mmx-emu/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
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/
Mozart => <reply> $who, Browser-based contact and case/project manager. URL: http://www.virtual-attorney.com/mozart/
Mozart (Oz) => <reply> $who, Development platform for constraint and distributed applications. URL: http://www.mozart-oz.org
Mozilla => <reply> $who, Webbrowser for X11 derived from Netscape Communicator. URL: http://www.mozilla.org/
Mp3 Commander => <reply> $who, A tool to search and play mp3 collections and generate playlists. URL: http://www.digitallabyrinth.com/linux/mp3commander/
MP3 encode scripts => <reply> $who, Example scripts for batch encoding and converting an entire CD to MP3 files. URL: http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/
MP3 Requester => <reply> $who, php / mysql requesting front end to shout ( icecast ). URL: http://radio.ammiinc.com
MP3 Server Box => <reply> $who, MP3 Player that can be controlled over network. URL: http://igalaxie.com/ltt/mp3/
MP3-Studio => <reply> $who, Integrated enviroment for playing and recording MP3-files. URL: http://mp3.nederland.net/
mp3.app => <reply> $who, . URL: http://global.uibk.ac.at/~fatal/mp3-app/
Mp32SQL => <reply> $who, Searches for mp3 files and adds them to an SQL database. URL: http://wrm.grdn.net/mp32sql/
mp3agent => <reply> $who, Automatic search and retrieval for mp3 files. URL: http://www.digitallabyrinth.com/linux/mp3agent/index.html
mp3album.pl => <reply> $who, MP3 Album list generator in Perl. URL: http://zeus.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~corion/
mp3blaster => <reply> $who, Provides interactive playing of mp3 files on a text console. URL: http://www.stack.nl/~brama/mp3blaster.html
MP3c => <reply> $who, Audio-CD to MP3-Converter, with use of CDDB. URL: http://excelsior.kullen.rwth-aachen.de/WSPse/Linux-MP3c.php3
mp3d => <reply> $who, Client-server MP3-player. URL: http://student.fho-emden.de/~hhaak/progs.html
mp3db => <reply> $who, Recursively scans a directory for mp3s and uploads them to a database or file.. URL: http://www.malign.net/~bojay/hacks/
MP3ENC => <reply> $who, Demo version of a commercial MP3 encoder. URL: http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/mp3enc/
MP3html => <reply> $who, Make configurable listings of MP3s based on their ID3v1 tags. URL: http://ns.bethany.edu/bdc/software/mp3html.html
MP3info => <reply> $who, A small program to set MP3s' ID3. URL: ftp://ftp.ssi.aaum.pt/pub/linux/mp3info/
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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/
MystCLK For Linux => <reply> $who, Linux users can now try this little utility to speed up their Matrox Cards.. URL: http://mgatools.matroxusers.com/Files/mystclk.tar.gz
Mystic Arena III => <reply> $who, Play-By-e-Mail (PBeM) game. URL: http://www.lemuria.org/ma3/
Myth II: Soulblighter for Linux patch => <reply> $who, Patch for the battle-strategy game from Loki. URL: http://www.lokigames.com/products/myth2/
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PHP layout => <reply> $who, PHP3 class for web page layout. URL: http://www.vhconsultants.com/layout.htm
php-LugMembers => <reply> $who, Interface to access a members database written in php3/MySql. URL: http://www.alienated.org/scripts/
PHP3 News Script => <reply> $who, Simple website news script written in PHP3 with MySQL backend.. URL: http://mana.landofhaze.com/
PHP3 Text Counter => <reply> $who, Website hit counter written in PHP3. URL: http://mana.landofhaze.com/
phpAds => <reply> $who, Banner management and tracking system written in PHP. URL: http://phpwizard.net/phpAds/
phpAnyVote => <reply> $who, A user-suggestable Internet voting system.. URL: http://www.punknews.org/code/
phPERL => <reply> $who, Preprocessor for embedding perl in html files. URL: http://armitage.advdata.net/?ACTIVE=PHPERL
PHPezmlmAdmin => <reply> $who, Browser based ezmlm-idx mailing list administrator. URL: http://www.elysium.pl/members/brush/php-ezmlm/index.html
PHPGem => <reply> $who, A generator of PHP-scripts for working with tables on SQL-servers.. URL: http://sptl.org/phpgem/
PHPGen => <reply> $who, Small PHP-script for generating PHP frontends to MySQL Databases. URL: http://www.byggsoft.se/~mikaelu/
phpImageGallery => <reply> $who, php-Image Gallery Creator. URL: http://www.globalserve.net/~stargate/phpImageGallery_0.8b.tar.gz
phpIRC => <reply> $who, PHP IRC layer (IRC client for PHP). URL: http://www.phpwizard.net/phpIRC/
PHPLIB => <reply> $who, Web Application Development Package for the PHP language. URL: http://phplib.netuse.de/
phpMyAdmin => <reply> $who, Handles the basic adminstration of MySQL over the WWW. URL: http://phpwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/
phpop => <reply> $who, Simple PHP Web based POP e-mail reader. URL: http://renaghan.com/pcr/phpop.html
phpPolls => <reply> $who, PHP Voting Booth. URL: http://www.phpwizard.net/phpPolls/
phpSearch => <reply> $who, Extendable generic search re-director including major search engines. URL: http://resnet.albany.edu/phpSearch/
phpSysInfo => <reply> $who, phpSysInfo will display things like Uptime, CPU, Memory, etc.. URL: http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/
phttpd => <reply> $who, A multithreaded HTTP server. URL: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/phttpd/
Pi AGM => <reply> $who, A very fast program for calculating Pi. URL: http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/5815/program.html
pi-address => <reply> $who, X11 based Address Manager for Palm Pilot Address DB. URL: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/miwie/pia/
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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
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The Comic Book Database for Linux => <reply> $who, Comics helps you keep track of almost every facet of you comic book collection.. URL: http://zorro.pangea.ca/~mcrewson/comics/
The Cool Zippi Tool => <reply> $who, X-Forms based compression frontend. URL: http://home.metroweb.co.za/~r0cknr0l/coolzippitool.html
The Cycon Online Gaming Engine => <reply> $who, Online Gaming Authoring System. URL: http://cogengine.linuxbox.com/
The Dammit Patch => <reply> $who, Adds the long option --dammit to ln, mv, and rm.. URL: http://counterintuitive.org/
The Dotfile Generator => <reply> $who, Configures programs dotfiles using a GUI. URL: http://www.imada.ou.dk/~blackie/dotfile/
The Entity Project => <reply> $who, An advanced adventure game engine written in Java.. URL: http://www.acc.umu.se/~entity/
The Finger Server => <reply> $who, Web based, pseudo unix finger server. URL: http://www.glazed.org/finger/
The fOX Project => <reply> $who, Desktop project centered around Hector Peraza'sXclass95. URL: http://foxproject.org
The Gimp => <reply> $who, The GNU Image Manipulation Program. URL: http://www.gimp.org/
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler => <reply> $who, A compiler for Haskell 98. URL: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
The Global File System => <reply> $who, A Shared Disk File System for Linux. URL: http://www.globalfilesystem.org/
The GNU Privacy Guard => <reply> $who, GPLed PGP replacement tool. URL: http://www.gnupg.org/
The Goods => <reply> $who, An Authenticator/Fileserver CGI app designed for use with multimedia files.. URL: http://dalleyjo.user.msu.edu/cgi-bin/goods/goods_home.cgi
The GOTE converter => <reply> $who, Automatic GTK Objects To Eiffel converter.. URL: http://sam.oconnor.net/gote.html
The Graph Template Library => <reply> $who, Graph library for c++, inspired by STL. URL: http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/Graphlet/GTL/
The Guild => <reply> $who, A fully 3d-rendered/raytraced first-person interactive adventure. URL: http://theguild.linuxgames.com/
The Harbour Project => <reply> $who, An open source, cross platform xbase compiler. URL: http://www.harbour-project.org/
The I Computer => <reply> $who, A Computer simulator for learning computer architecture.. URL: http://www1.idc.ac.il/projecti/
The Igor Project => <reply> $who, A Java library that can be used to transform DB records into XML.. URL: http://www.synz.com/projects/igor/
The Java SSH/Telnet Application/Applet => <reply> $who, Fully featured telnet program for WWW-Browsers. URL: http://www.mud.de/se/jta/
The Kiwi Toolkit => <reply> $who, Java foundation class library that complements the JFC. URL: http://www.nerosworld.com/ping/kiwi/
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TurboCluster Server => <reply> $who, High availability load-balancer for IP applications, works w/ heterogeneous nets. URL: http://beta.turbolinux.com/cluster/
TurboJ => <reply> $who, High performance Java byte code compiler. URL: http://www.camb.opengroup.org/openitsol/turboj/index.htm
TurboVision for UNIX => <reply> $who, Linux port of well-known DOS application framework. URL: ftp://ftp.vix.com/guests/ssigala/pub/tvision/
turner => <reply> $who, C/C++/Java source code HTML colorizer written in C.. URL: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~dutky/turner.html
TuxEyes => <reply> $who, Javascript and pictures needed to add an XEyes-like Tux to a web page. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/4673/linux.html
TuxNES => <reply> $who, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Emulator. URL: http://tmmm.simplenet.com/tuxnes/index.html
TuxTime => <reply> $who, Control power-saving options on Toshiba laptops. URL: http://www2.prestel.co.uk/hex/tuxtime.html
tux_aqfh => <reply> $who, Tux the Penguin - A Quest for Herring. URL: http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/tux_aqfh/
TV Soup => <reply> $who, A Web application for viewing and discussing Internet videos.. URL: http://tvsoup.com/
tv.app => <reply> $who, tv.app is a wharf dockable applet that acts as a remote control for XawTV.. URL: http://www.erols.com/imoore/tvapp/
TVListing.sh => <reply> $who, Fetches today's TV listings and emails them to you.. URL: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~kermit/myc/frame/tvguide.html
TWIG => <reply> $who, A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3. URL: http://twig.screwdriver.net/
TWiki => <reply> $who, Web based collaboration tool. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~peterthoeny/twiki/index.html
TwinTRIS => <reply> $who, Multiplayer tetris clone for all Unix boxes. URL: http://membres.tripod.fr/twintris/
Twist => <reply> $who, Embedded Python text processor. URL: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/twist/twist.html
Twisted Reality => <reply> $who, A fully buzzword-compliant roleplaying system.. URL: http://www.twistedmatrix.com/
twonz => <reply> $who, secure hash calculator for password management. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~graydon/twonz/twonz.html
twz1jdbcForMysql => <reply> $who, A type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL. URL: http://www.voicenet.com/~zellert/tjFM/
txt2html => <reply> $who, Converts plain text to HTML. URL: http://www.thehouse.org/txt2html/
txt2pdf => <reply> $who, A very flexible and powerful PERL5 converter from text files to PDF. URL: http://www.sanface.com/
txt2pdf.cgi => <reply> $who, a very flexible PERL cgi-bin application based on the powerful txt2pdf script. URL: http://www.sanface.com/
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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/
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xfreecell => <reply> $who, Another implementation of famous solitaire game. URL: http://www2.giganet.net/~nakayama
XFrisk => <reply> $who, Networked X11 version of Parker Brothers' classic game, with computer players.. URL: http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Info/People/mfeingol/elan/frisk.html
xfs => <reply> $who, XFS: A high-performance journaling filesystem. URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
xfsft => <reply> $who, X11 font server with TrueType support and Internationalization. URL: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/
Xfstt => <reply> $who, X11 Font Server for TT fonts. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/
XGalaga => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.rumsey.org/xgal.html
xgate => <reply> $who, Client-initiated X11 relay, for displaying X11 through firewalls.. URL: http://verdict.uthscsa.edu/gram/xgate/index.html
Xgfe => <reply> $who, X11 GUI front end to Gnuplot. URL: http://www.bl.physik.uni-muenchen.de/rechner/grafik/xgfe/xgfe.html
XGGI => <reply> $who, X server which uses LibGGI to do hardware independent graphics and input. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan/ggi/xggi/
XgIRC => <reply> $who, Internet Relay Chat client for Linux / X Windows. URL: http://www.inforoute.capway.com/pieraut/
XGlobe => <reply> $who, A toy that displays a globe on your X desktop. URL: http://wwwrzstud.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uddn/xglobe/
xgrk => <reply> $who, Support for GREEK keyboard in XWindows. URL: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/
Xhack => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.chronozon.demon.co.uk
xhangglider => <reply> $who, X-based program that makes hanggliders fly in the background of your screen.. URL: http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~redstar/xhang-en.html
xhdbench => <reply> $who, Qt-based X-program for testing the output speed of severaldevices. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/benchmark/
XHourGas => <reply> $who, An alarm clock that exhibits what can happen with an improper diet. URL: http://qu.dhs.org/xhourgas/xhourgas.html
XHpcd => <reply> $who, A GIMP plugin to read Kodak PhotoCD images. URL: http://studenti.csr.unibo.it/~abaldoni/hpcd.html
XIAS => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk-based front-end to IAS (N64 backup device transfer tool). URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0719xias-1_1_tar.htm
Xicq / KXicq => <reply> $who, An ICQ client for use in both console and X11.. URL: http://www.xtrophy.dk/xicq/
xinetd => <reply> $who, Powerful inetd replacement. URL: http://www.synack.net/xinetd/
Xing MP3 Encoder => <reply> $who, MP3 encoder. URL: http://www.xingtech.com/mp3/encoder/
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admin is /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's...
admin2 is or `newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news). Compare {postmaster}, {sysop}, {system mangler}.
ADVENT is /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the {PDP-10} by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods. Now better known as ...
ADVENT2 is system permitted only 6-letter filenames. See also {vadding}. This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak "A...
ADVENT3 is see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different." The `magic words' {xyzzy} and {plugh} also derive from this game. Crowthe...
ADVENT4 is of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a `Colossal Cave' and a `Bedquilt' as in the game, and the `Y2' that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.
AI-complete is /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford by analogy with `NP-complete' (see {NP-})] adj. Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthe...
AI-complete2 is problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. Examples of AI-complete problems are `The Vision Problem' (building a system that can see as well as a human) and `The Natural Language Problem' (building a syste...
AI-complete3 is language as well as a human). These may appear to be modular, but all attempts so far (1991) to solve them have foundered on the amount of context information and `intelligence' they seem to require. See also {gedanken}.
AI koans is /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included in appendix A). See also {ha ha only serious}, {mu...
AIDS is /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a {glob} pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe {SEX}. See {virus}, {worm}, {Trojan horse}, {virgin}.
airplane rule is n. "Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robu...
airplane rule2 is correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really *good* basket.
aliasing bug is n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp. via `malloc(3)' or equivalent. If more than one pointer addresses (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that th...
aliasing bug2 is then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc {arena}. Avoidable by use of allocation strategies that never ali...
aliasing bug3 is higher-level languages, such as {LISP}, which employ a garbage collector (see {GC}). Also called a {stale pointer bug}. See also {precedence lossage}, {smash the stack}, {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {overrun screw}, ...
aliasing bug4 is nowadays associated with C programming, it was already in use in a very similar sense in the Algol-60 and FORTRAN communities in the 1960s.
all-elbows is adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) IBM PC program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on {BBS} systems unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it n...
all-elbows2 is also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt. See also {mess-dos}.
alpha particles is n. See {bit rot}.
ALT is /awlt/ 1. n. The ALT shift key on an IBM PC or {clone}. 2. [possibly lowercased] n. The `clover' or `Command' key on a Macintosh; use of this term usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs before coming to the Mac (see also {command k...
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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,...
banana problem4 is 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 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...
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fall through4 is other than `PINK', and (and this is the important part) `do_pink()' *and then* `do_red()' when color is `PINK'. Fall-through is {considered harmful} by some, though there are contexts (such as the coding of state machines) ...
fall through5 is considered good practice to include a comment highlighting the fall-through where one would normally expect a break.
fandango on core is [UNIX/C hackers, from the Mexican dance] n. In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a {core dump}, or corrupts the `malloc(3)' {arena} in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said ...
fandango on core2 is low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See {aliasing bug}, {precedence lossage}...
FAQ list is /F-A-Q list/ [USENET] n. A compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to high-volume newsgroups in an attempt to forestall Frequently Asked Questions. This lexicon itself serves as a good example of a collection of one ki...
FAQ list2 is regular posting. Examples "What is the proper type of NULL?" and "What's that funny name for the `#' character?" are both Frequently Asked Questions. Several extant FAQ lists do (or should) make reference to the Jargon File (t...
FAQL is /fa'kl/ n. Syn. {FAQ list}.
farming is [Adelaide University, Australia] n. What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media. Associated with a {crash}. Typically used as follows "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I ho...
fascist is adj. 1. Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant `fascis...
fascist2 is poss. by analogy with `touristic' (see {tourist}). 2. In the design of languages and other software tools, `the fascist alternative' is the most restrictive and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication ...
fascist3 is simplify the implementation or provide tighter error checking. Compare {bondage-and-discipline language}, but that term is global rather than local.
faulty is adj. Non-functional; buggy. Same denotation as {bletcherous}, {losing}, q.v., but the connotation is much milder.
fd leak is /ef dee leek/ n. A kind of programming bug analogous to a {core leak}, in which a program fails to close file descriptors (`fd's) after file operations are completed, and thus eventually runs out of them. See {leak}.
fear and loathing is [from Hunter Thompson] n. A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous --- Intel 8086s, or {COBOL}, or {{EBCDIC}}, or any {IBM} m...
fear and loathing2 is RS/6000). "Ack! They want PCs to be able to talk to the AI machine. Fear and loathing time!"
feature is n. 1. A good property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2. An intended property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a {misfeatur...
feature2 is in particular, one that is purposely inconsistent because it works better that way --- such an inconsistency is therefore a {feature} and not a {bug}. This kind of feature is sometimes called a {miswart}; see that entry for a cl...
feature3 is is gratuitous or unnecessary, though perhaps also impressive or cute. For example, one feature of Common LISP's `format' function is the ability to print numbers in two different Roman-numeral formats (see {bells, whistles, and g...
feature4 is put in to help someone else but that happens to be in your way. 6. A bug that has been documented. To call something a feature sometimes means the author of the program did not consider the particular case, and that the program r...
feature5 is strictly incorrect. A standard joke is that a bug can be turned into a {feature} simply by documenting it (then theoretically no one can complain about it because it's in the manual), or even by simply declaring it to be good. "T...
feature6 is common catchphrase. See also {feetch feetch}, {creeping featurism}, {wart}, {green lightning}. The relationship among bugs, features, misfeatures, warts, and miswarts might be clarified by the following hypothetical exchange b...
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glark3 is established jargon term. Compare {grok}, {zen}.
glass is [IBM] n. Synonym for {silicon}.
glass tty is /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 lik...
glass tty2 is 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...
glassfet is /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 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...
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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...
grok2 is Contrast {zen}, similar supernal understanding as a single brief flash. See also {glark}. 2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. "Almost all C compilers grok the `void' type these days."
gronk is /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 similarl...
gronk2 is diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".
gronk out is 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 is 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!"...
gronked2 is same as {gronk} used of hardware, but connotes depression or mental/emotional problems in people.
grovel is vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with `over' or `through'. "The file scavenger has been groveling through the file directories for 10 minutes now." Compare {grind} and {crunch}. Em...
grovel2 is examine minutely or in complete detail. "The compiler grovels over the entire source program before beginning to translate it." "I grovelled through all the documentation, but I still couldn't find the command I wanted."
grunge is /gruhnj/ n. 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so. 2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is {dead code}.
gubbish is /guhb'*sh/ [a portmanteau of `garbage' and `rubbish'?] n. Garbage; crap; nonsense. "What is all this gubbish?" The opposite portmanteau `rubbage' is also reported.
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MFTL is /M-F-T-L/ [acronym: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1. adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e.g., type systems), but rarely, if ever, h...
MFTL2 is broadly applied to talks --- even when the topic is not a programming language --- in which the subject matter is gone into in unnecessary and meticulous detail at the sacrifice of any conceptual content. "Well, it was a typical MFTL...
MFTL3 is which the developers are passionate (often to the point of prosyletic zeal) but no one else cares about. Applied to the language by those outside the originating group. "He cornered me about type resolution in his MFTL." The fir...
MFTL4 is MFTL is usually to write a compiler for it, then bootstrap the design away from contamination by lesser languages by writing a compiler for it in itself. Thus, the standard put-down question at an MFTL talk is "Has it been used for...
MFTL5 is other hand, a language that *cannot* be used to write its own compiler is beneath contempt...
mickey is n. The resolution unit of mouse movement. It has been suggested that the `disney' will become a benchmark unit for animation graphics performance.
mickey mouse program is n. North American equivalent of a {noddy} (that is, trivial) program. Doesn't necessarily have the belittling connotations of mainstream slang "Oh, that's just mickey mouse stuff!"; sometimes trivial programs can be ve...
micro- is pref. 1. Very small; this is the root of its use as a quantifier prefix. 2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication by 10^{-6} (see {{quantifiers}}). Neither of these uses is peculiar to hackers, but hackers tend to fling ...
micro-2 is countenanced in standard English. It is recorded, for example, that one CS professor used to characterize the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury --- that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also {attoparsec}, {nanoacre}, a...
micro-3 is or human-scale --- that is, capable of being maintained or comprehended or manipulated by one human being. This sense is generalized from `microcomputer', and is esp. used in contrast with `macro-' (the corresponding Greek prefix...
micro-4 is global (or {macro-}). Thus a hacker might say that buying a smaller car to reduce pollution only solves a microproblem; the macroproblem of getting to work might be better solved by using mass transit, moving to within walking di...
micro-5 is microfloppies n. 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch {vanilla} or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floa...
micro-6 is {stiffy}, {minifloppies}.
microfortnight is n. About 1.2 sec. The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and...
microfortnight2 is current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights!
microLenat is /mi:-kroh-len'-*t/ n. See {bogosity}.
microReid is /mi:'kroh-reed/ n. See {bogosity}.
Microsloth Windows is /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 ...
microtape is /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 {macrotape}s, microtape ...
microtape2 is therefore could be used to support file systems and even for swapping (this was generally done purely for {hack value}, as they were far too slow for practical use). In their heyday they were used in pretty much the same ways ...
microtape3 is portable way to save and transport files and programs. Apparently the term `microtape' was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word `DECtape', which, of course, sounded sexier to t...
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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!...
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twiddle2 is something in a small way. Bits, for example, are often twiddled. Twiddling a switch or knob implies much less sense of purpose than toggling or tweaking it; see {frobnicate}. To speak of twiddling a bit connotes aimlessness, a...
twiddle3 is the bit; `toggling a bit has a more specific meaning (see {bit twiddling}, {toggle}).
twink is /twink/ [UCSC] n. Equivalent to {read-only user}. Also reported on the USENET group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs.
two pi is quant. The number of years it takes to finish ones thesis. Occurs in stories in the following form "He started on his thesis; 2 pi years later..."
two-to-the-N is quant. An amount much larger than {N} but smaller than {infinity}. "I have 2-to-the-N things to do before I can go out for lunch" means you probably wont show up.
twonkie is /twonkee/ n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent of `chick); a useless `feature added to look sexy and placate a {marketroid} (compare {Saturday-night sp...
twonkie2 is Twonky", title menace of a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942 `Astounding Science Fiction and subsequently much anthologized.*UBD /U-B-D/ [abbreviation f...
twonkie3 is to close out trouble reports obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare {pilot error}; oppose {PBD}; see also {brain-damaged}.
UN*X is n. Used to refer to the UNIX operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly {(TM)} typography. Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. Ironically, lawyers now s...
UN*X2 is TM-postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow. It has been suggested that there may be a psychological connection to practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which the name of the deity is ne...
UN*X3 is `G--d' is used. See also {glob}.
undefined external reference is excl. [UNIX] A message from UNIX's linker. Used in speech to flag loose ends or dangling references in an argument or discussion.
under the hood is prep. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about ...
under the hood2 is now look under the hood to see how ...." 2. Can also imply that the implementation is much simpler than the appearance would indicate "Under the hood, we are just fork/execing the shell." 3. Inside a chassis, as in "Under...
undocumented feature is n. See {feature}.
uninteresting is adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial}, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it. 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design...
uninteresting2 is problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. *Real* hackers (see {toolsmith}) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them --- thus solving the ori...
uninteresting3 is {SMOP}; compare {toy problem}, oppose {interesting}.
UNIX is /yoo'niks/ [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics"] n. (also `Unix') An interactive time-sharing system originally invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on ...
UNIX2 is inventor of C, is considered a co-author of the system. The turning point in UNIX's history came when it was reimplemented almost entirely in C during 1972--1974, making it the first source-portable OS. UNIX subsequently underwent...
UNIX3 is many different people, resulting in a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly environment. In 1991, UNIX is the most widely used multiuser general-purpose operating system in the world. Many people consider this the most important ...
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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...
xyzzy4 is if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word. See also {plugh}.
YA- is [Yet Another] abbrev. In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to {Yet Another}, following the precedent set by UNIX `yacc(1)'. See {YABA}.
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accumulator => n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old. The term in fu...
ACK => /ak/ interj. 1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream *Yo!*). An appropriate response to ping or ENQ. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust...
ad-hockery => /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp. expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary. For example, fuzzy-matching input toke...
Ada => n. A {Pascal}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon. Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of en...
adger => /aj'r/ [UCLA] vt. To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with a slight amount of mental effort. E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project". Compare {dumbass attack}.
admin => /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as...
ADVENT => /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the PDP-10 by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods. Now better known as Adventure,...
AI-complete => /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford by analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] adj. Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a ...
AI koans => /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included in appendix A). See also {ha ha only serious}, mu, and {{H...
AIDS => /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe SEX. See virus, worm, {Trojan horse}, virgin.
airplane rule => n. "Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness (...
airplane rule2 => correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really *good* basket.
aliasing bug => n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp. via `malloc(3)' or equivalent. If more than one pointer addresses (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that the storag...
aliasing bug2 => then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc arena. Avoidable by use of allocation strategies that never alias allocated...
aliasing bug3 => higher-level languages, such as LISP, which employ a garbage collector (see GC). Also called a {stale pointer bug}. See also {precedence lossage}, {smash the stack}, {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {overrun screw}, spam. Historica...
aliasing bug4 => nowadays associated with C programming, it was already in use in a very similar sense in the Algol-60 and FORTRAN communities in the 1960s.
all-elbows => adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) IBM PC program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs witho...
alpha particles => n. See {bit rot}.
ALT => /awlt/ 1. n. The ALT shift key on an IBM PC or clone. 2. [possibly lowercased] n. The `clover' or `Command' key on a Macintosh; use of this term usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs before coming to the Mac (see also {command key}). Som...
alt bit => /awlt bit/ [from alternate] adj. See {meta bit}.
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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.
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fall through2 => 1950s. 2. To fail a test that would have passed control to a subroutine or some other distant portion of code. 3. In C, `fall-through' occurs when the flow of execution in a switch statement reaches a `case' label other than by jumpi...
fall through3 => passing a point where one would normally expect to find a `break'. A trivial example The variant spelling `/* FALL THRU */' is also common. The effect of this code is to `do_green()' when color is `GREEN', `do_red()' when color is `R...
fall through4 => other than `PINK', and (and this is the important part) `do_pink()' *and then* `do_red()' when color is `PINK'. Fall-through is {considered harmful} by some, though there are contexts (such as the coding of state machines) in which i...
fall through5 => considered good practice to include a comment highlighting the fall-through where one would normally expect a break.
fandango on core => [UNIX/C hackers, from the Mexican dance] n. In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a {core dump}, or corrupts the `malloc(3)' arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `...
fandango on core2 => low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See {aliasing bug}, {precedence lossage}, {smash...
FAQ list => /F-A-Q list/ [USENET] n. A compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to high-volume newsgroups in an attempt to forestall Frequently Asked Questions. This lexicon itself serves as a good example of a collection of one kind of lo...
FAQ list2 => regular posting. Examples "What is the proper type of NULL?" and "What's that funny name for the `#' character?" are both Frequently Asked Questions. Several extant FAQ lists do (or should) make reference to the Jargon File (the on-line ...
FAQL => /fa'kl/ n. Syn. {FAQ list}.
farming => [Adelaide University, Australia] n. What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media. Associated with a crash. Typically used as follows "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard...
fascist => adj. 1. Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant `fascistic' seem...
faulty => adj. Non-functional; buggy. Same denotation as bletcherous, losing, q.v., but the connotation is much milder.
fd leak => /ef dee leek/ n. A kind of programming bug analogous to a {core leak}, in which a program fails to close file descriptors (`fd's) after file operations are completed, and thus eventually runs out of them. See leak.
fear and loathing => [from Hunter Thompson] n. A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous --- Intel 8086s, or COBOL, or {EBCDIC}, or any IBM machine except t...
fear and loathing2 => RS/6000). "Ack! They want PCs to be able to talk to the AI machine. Fear and loathing time!"
feature => n. 1. A good property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2. An intended property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a misfeature). 3. A s...
feature creature => [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a horror movie] n. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or taste. See also {feeping creaturism}, {creeping featurism}.
feature shock => [from Alvin Toffler's book title `Future Shock'] n. A user's (or programmer's!) confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
featurectomy => /fee`ch*r-ek't*-mee/ n. The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavors, the `righteous' and the `reluctant'. Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be mo...
feep => /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep). 2. vi. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not fee...
feeper => /fee'pr/ n. The device in a terminal or workstation (usually a loudspeaker of some kind) that makes the feep sound.
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giga- => /ji'ga/ or /gi'ga/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
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.
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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...
grovel => vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with `over' or `through'. "The file scavenger has been groveling through the file directories for 10 minutes now." Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic form `g...
grunge => /gruhnj/ n. 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so. 2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is {dead code}.
gubbish => /guhb'*sh/ [a portmanteau of `garbage' and `rubbish'?] n. Garbage; crap; nonsense. "What is all this gubbish?" The opposite portmanteau `rubbage' is also reported.
guiltware => /gilt'weir/ n. 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money...
gumby => /guhm'bee/ [from a class of Monty Python characters, poss. themselves named after the 1960s claymation character] n. An act of minor but conspicuous stupidity, often in `gumby maneuver' or `pull a gumby'.
gun => [ITS from the `GUN' command] vt. To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer, not career). "Some idiot left a background process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it." Compare can.
gunch => /guhnch/ [TMRC] vt. To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost produced the desired result. Implies a threat to mung.
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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}.
MFTL => /M-F-T-L/ [acronym: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1. adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e.g., type systems), but rarely, if ever, has any ...
mickey => n. The resolution unit of mouse movement. It has been suggested that the `disney' will become a benchmark unit for animation graphics performance.
mickey mouse program => n. North American equivalent of a noddy (that is, trivial) program. Doesn't necessarily have the belittling connotations of mainstream slang "Oh, that's just mickey mouse stuff!"; sometimes trivial programs can be very useful.
micro- => pref. 1. Very small; this is the root of its use as a quantifier prefix. 2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication by 10^-6 (see {quantifiers}). Neither of these uses is peculiar to hackers, but hackers tend to fling them both arou...
microfortnight => n. About 1.2 sec. The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time a...
microLenat => /mi:-kroh-len'-*t/ n. See bogosity.
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.
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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...
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tune => [from automotive or musical usage] vt. To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp. by adjusting numerical parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e.g., by changing `#define lines in C. One may `tune for time (fastest e...
turbo nerd => n. See {computer geek}.
turist => /toorist/ n. Var. sp. of tourist, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic. Poss. influenced by luser and `Turing.
tweak => vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works. See frobnicate and {f...
TWENEX => /tweneks/ n. The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC --- the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 --- preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not {ITS} or {WAITS} partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Bera...
twiddle => n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, `~). Also called `squiggle, `sqiggle (sic --- pronounced /skigl/), and `twaddle, but twiddle is the most common term. 2. A small and insignificant change to a program. Usually fixes one bug and generates several...
twink => /twink/ [UCSC] n. Equivalent to {read-only user}. Also reported on the USENET group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs.
two pi => quant. The number of years it takes to finish ones thesis. Occurs in stories in the following form "He started on his thesis; 2 pi years later..."
two-to-the-N => quant. An amount much larger than N but smaller than infinity. "I have 2-to-the-N things to do before I can go out for lunch" means you probably wont show up.
twonkie => /twonkee/ n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent of `chick); a useless `feature added to look sexy and placate a marketroid (compare {Saturday-night special}). Th...
UN*X => n. Used to refer to the UNIX operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography. Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. Ironically, lawyers now say (1990) th...
undefined external reference => excl. [UNIX] A message from UNIX's linker. Used in speech to flag loose ends or dangling references in an argument or discussion.
under the hood => prep. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enabl...
under the hood2 => now look under the hood to see how ...." 2. Can also imply that the implementation is much simpler than the appearance would indicate "Under the hood, we are just fork/execing the shell." 3. Inside a chassis, as in "Under the hood,...
undocumented feature => n. See feature.
uninteresting => adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it. 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
UNIX => /yoo'niks/ [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics"] n. (also `Unix') An interactive time-sharing system originally invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his sca...
UNIX brain damage => n. Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-UNIX system so that it will interoperate with UNIX systems. The hack may qualify as `UNIX brain damage' if the program conforms to publishe...
UNIX brain damage2 => question does not. UNIX brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behavior than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of UNIX systems out the...
UNIX brain damage3 => is a kluge in a mail server to recognize bare line feed (the UNIX newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock wee...
UNIX conspiracy => [ITS] n. According to a conspiracy theory long popular among {ITS} and {TOPS-20} fans, UNIX's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them depen...
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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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port 1764 => cft-3 - cft-3
port 1765 => cft-4 - cft-4
port 1766 => cft-5 - cft-5
port 1767 => cft-6 - cft-6
port 1768 => cft-7 - cft-7
port 1769 => bmc-net-adm - bmc-net-adm
port 1770 => bmc-net-svc - bmc-net-svc
port 1771 => vaultbase - vaultbase
port 1772 => essweb-gw - EssWeb Gateway
port 1773 => kmscontrol - KMSControl
port 1774 => global-dtserv - global-dtserv
port 1776 => femis - Federal Emergency Management Information System
port 1777 => powerguardian - powerguardian
port 1778 => prodigy-intrnet - prodigy-internet
port 1779 => pharmasoft - pharmasoft
port 1780 => dpkeyserv - dpkeyserv
port 1781 => answersoft-lm - answersoft-lm
port 1782 => hp-hcip - hp-hcip
port 1783 => fjris - Fujitsu Remote Install Service
port 1784 => finle-lm - Finle License Manager
port 1785 => windlm - Wind River Systems License Manager
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 1895 => vista-4gl - Vista 4GL
port 1899 => mc2studios - MC2Studios
port 1901 => fjicl-tep-a - Fujitsu ICL Terminal Emulator Program A
port 1902 => fjicl-tep-b - Fujitsu ICL Terminal Emulator Program B
port 1903 => linkname - Local Link Name Resolution
port 1904 => fjicl-tep-c - Fujitsu ICL Terminal Emulator Program C
port 1905 => sugp - Secure UP.Link Gateway Protocol
port 1906 => tpmd - TPortMapperReq
port 1907 => intrastar - IntraSTAR
port 1908 => dawn - Dawn
port 1909 => global-wlink - Global World Link
port 1910 => ultrabac - ultrabac
port 1911 => mtp - Starlight Networks Multimedia Transport Protocol
port 1912 => rhp-iibp - rhp-iibp
port 1913 => armadp - armadp
port 1914 => elm-momentum - Elm-Momentum
port 1915 => facelink - FACELINK
port 1916 => persona - Persoft Persona
port 1917 => noagent - nOAgent
port 1918 => can-nds - Candle Directory Service - NDS
port 1919 => can-dch - Candle Directory Service - DCH
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 1992 => stun-p3 - cisco STUN Priority 3 port (or IPsendmsg)
port 1993 => snmp-tcp-port - cisco SNMP TCP port
port 1994 => stun-port - cisco serial tunnel port
port 1995 => perf-port - cisco perf port
port 1996 => tr-rsrb-port - cisco Remote SRB port
port 1997 => gdp-port - cisco Gateway Discovery Protocol
port 1998 => x25-svc-port - cisco X.25 service (XOT)
port 1999 => tcp-id-port - cisco identification port
port 2000 => callbook - callbook
port 2001 => dc - dc
port 2002 => globe - globe
port 2004 => mailbox - mailbox
port 2005 => berknet - berknet
port 2006 => invokator - invokator
port 2007 => dectalk - dectalk
port 2008 => conf - conf
port 2009 => news - news
port 2010 => search - search
port 2011 => raid-cc - raid
port 2012 => ttyinfo - ttyinfo
port 2013 => raid-am - raid-am
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 2509 => fjmpss - fjmpss
port 2510 => fjappmgrbulk - fjappmgrbulk
port 2511 => metastorm - Metastorm
port 2512 => citrixima - Citrix IMA
port 2513 => citrixadmin - Citrix ADMIN
port 2514 => facsys-ntp - Facsys NTP
port 2515 => facsys-router - Facsys Router
port 2516 => maincontrol - Main Control
port 2517 => call-sig-trans - H.323 Annex E call signaling transport
port 2518 => willy - Willy
port 2519 => globmsgsvc - globmsgsvc
port 2520 => pvsw - pvsw
port 2521 => adaptecmgr - Adaptec Manager
port 2522 => windb - WinDb
port 2523 => qke-llc-v3 - Qke LLC V.3
port 2524 => optiwave-lm - Optiwave License Management
port 2525 => ms-v-worlds - MS V-Worlds
port 2526 => ema-sent-lm - EMA License Manager
port 2527 => iqserver - IQ Server
port 2528 => ncr_ccl - NCR CCL
port 2529 => utsftp - UTS FTP
factpacks/rfc_index.fact view on Meta::CPAN
rfc 1283 => SNMP over OSI. M. Rose. December 1991. (Format: TXT=16857 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1418) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1282 => BSD Rlogin. B. Kantor. December 1991. (Format: TXT=10704 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1281 => Guidelines for the Secure Operation of the Internet. R. Pethia, S. Crocker, B. Fraser. November 1991. (Format: TXT=22618 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1280 => IAB OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS. J. Postel. March 1992. (Format: TXT=70458 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC2200) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1279 => X.500 and Domains. S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. November 1991. (Format: TXT=26669, PS=170029 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1278 => A string encoding of Presentation Address. S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. November 1991. (Format: TXT=10256, PS=128696 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1277 => Encoding Network Addresses to support operation over non-OSI lower layers. S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. November 1991. (Format: TXT=22254, PS=176169 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1276 => Replication and Distributed Operations extensions to provide an Internet Directory using X.500. S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. November 1991. (Format: TXT=33731, PS=217170 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1275 => Replication Requirements to provide an Internet Directory using X.500. S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. November 1991. (Format: TXT=4616, PS=83736 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1274 => The COSINE and Internet X.500 Schema. P. Barker, S. Kille. November 1991. (Format: TXT=92827 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1273 => Measurement study of changes in service-level reachability in the global TCP/IP Internet: Goals, experimental design, implementation, and policy considerations. M.F. Schwartz. Nov-01-1991. (Format: TXT=19949 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1272 => Internet accounting: Background. C. Mills, D. Hirsh, G.R. Ruth. Nov-01-1991. (Format: TXT=46562 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1271 => Remote network monitoring Management Information Base. S. Waldbusser. Nov-01-1991. (Format: TXT=184111 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1757) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1270 => SNMP communications services. F. Kastenholz. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=26167 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1269 => Definitions of managed objects for the Border Gateway Protocol: Version 3. S. Willis, J.W. Burruss. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=25717 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1268 => Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet. Y. Rekhter, P. Gross. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=31102 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1164) (Obsoleted by RFC1655) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1267 => Border Gateway Protocol 3 (BGP-3). K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=80724 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1163) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1266 => Experience with the BGP protocol. Y. Rekhter. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=21938 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1265 => BGP protocol analysis. Y. Rekhter. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=20728 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1264 => Internet Engineering Task Force internet routing protocol standardization criteria. R.M. Hinden. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=17016 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1263 => TCP extensions considered harmful. S. O'Malley, L.L. Peterson. Oct-01-1991. (Format: TXT=54078 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
factpacks/security.fact view on Meta::CPAN
security filter => A security filter, which could be implemented in hardware or software, that is logically separated from the remainder of the system to protect the system's integrity.
functional component => Fundamental building block, specifying what an IT product must be capable of doing, from which functional protection requirements are assembled.
functional package => Grouping of functional components assembled to ease specification and common understanding of what an IT product is capable of doing.
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.
factpacks/techdict.fact view on Meta::CPAN
I2O => The I2O standard is designed to simplify and speed up I/O operations on servers. It will eliminate the need for different drivers for each OS, and for each SCSI card and network card. The speedup is achieved by using an Intel 960 chip on the s...
IA-32 => (Intel Architecture-32 bit) This is Intel's 32-bit instruction architecture that runs on their 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, and Pentium II chips.
IA-64 => (Intel Architecture-64 bit) Intel's 64-bit instruction architecture that will feature EPIC and run on the Merced processor when it is released.
IDE => (Integrated Device Electronics) IDE is the standard hard drive interface for PCs. You can connect a maximum of two hard drives to an IDE connection or channel. IDE hard drives are cheaper than SCSI drives, but IDE is generally slower than SCSI...
Impression => When a user looks at a page on the World Wide Web, that visit is counted as one impression regardless of how many images are on that page. Most access log analysis tools remove server requests that reference ".gif", or ".jpg" (image tag...
Inkjet Printer => The next generation of dot matrix printers. It uses a head that sprays tiny droplets of ink onto print material. There are three major benefits to this method: 1) it is quieter than standard dot matrix printers, 2) it is able to mak...
Input => Anything entered into a computer or system. This includes keystrokes, mouse movement, and talking into a microphone.
Instruction => The simplest direction that you can give to a processor. Programs are made up of these, but you usually don't go down to such nitty-gritty levels. An example of what a single instruction would do is incrementing a piece of data by one,...
Intermediate Code => This is code that is generated by the first step in a compiler. Rather than translating code directly from one language to another, it first translates it to this more generic and easier to manipulate language and then spits it a...
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) => This is a Swiss organization that decides on international telecommunications standards. Currently, they are working on the 56K standard.
Internet => The global network of computers constantly connected to each other using standardized communications protocols, specifically TCP/IP.
Intranet => Local network of computers using TCP/IP as the standard communications protocol. Usually an Intranet features some sort of HTML content that you can use a browser to look at. Think of it as a mini, private Internet.
IP Address => The specific network address of a computer on a network using TCP/IP as its network protocol.
IRDA => (InfraRed Data Association) These people developed the IRDA port standard that transfers data through the use of infrared light. Of course, you must have two IRDA devices to get any real use out of this technology. Most notebooks today come s...
IRQ => (Interrupt request) This is a gateway for devices to request time from the processor to do their jobs. For instance, every time you hit a key on your keyboard an interrupt is generated on the keyboard IRQ. This is mainly only a concern for PC ...
IS => (Information Services) This refers to the field of computer technology but has been replaced by the newer and sexier term, "IT."
ISA => (Industry Standard Adapter) The 8- and 16-bit original connectors used in PCs. They run at a bus speed of 8 MHz. You can plug ISA expansion cards into an ISA slot. Modems and sound cards are ISA cards due to their low bandwidth requirements.
ISAPI => (Internet Server API) This is an API proposed by Microsoft to replace CGI. Programs written to ISAPI are compiled as DLLs and stored in memory so they can be run faster than CGI scripts.
ISDN => (Integrated Services Digital Network) This is a digital line that is often used to connect to the Internet. It generally come in two flavors: one is a 56 Kbps version, which in actuality only uses half of the ISDN line's bandwidth; the other ...
ISP => (Internet Service Provider) An ISP provides Internet access to people or corporations. ISPs generally have pools of modems awaiting dial-up connections. Smaller ISPs buy bandwidth from larger ISPs. There are two basic ways of connecting: one i...
IT => (Information Technology) This term refers to the field of work dealing with computers and technology.
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