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ficl => <reply> $who, Forth interpreter for embedded applications. URL: http://www.taygeta.com/ficl.html
FidoGate => <reply> $who, A Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser.. URL: http://www.fido.de/fidogate/
Filaments => <reply> $who, A parallel processing library package. URL: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~dkl/filaments/dist.html
file => <reply> $who, File type identification utility. URL: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
Filelooker => <reply> $who, A small X11 program for viewing Oracle datafile information. URL: http://www.mattshouse.com/procedit/
FileRunner => <reply> $who, simple and efficient filemanager. URL: http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
Filesystems HOWTO => <reply> $who, HOWTO about filesystems and accessing filesystems from several OSes.. URL: http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/
fileutils => <reply> $who, The GNU file management utilities. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/
fillrio.sh => <reply> $who, Script to load random MP3s to Rio.. URL: http://www.tanj.com/fillrio.html
Final Battle => <reply> $who, A multiplayer space game for the X Window System. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/finalbattle/
finddups => <reply> $who, Find duplicate files by way of MD5 signatures irregardless of file renames.. URL: http://sites.netscape.net/fcheck/
find_duplicates => <reply> $who, Find identical files. URL: http://www.pike-community.org/code/show_single.html?id=3
finger daemon user configurable => <reply> $who, User configurable finger daemon. URL: http://www.elf.stuba.sk/~trebular/projects.html
FIPS => <reply> $who, DOS program for non-destructive splitting of harddisk partitions.. URL: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/tools/fips20.zip
Fire Gnome => <reply> $who, A GNOME tool for an ipchains firewall configuration.. URL: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/gfirewall/
Firecracker control software for Linux => <reply> $who, Turn on and off your lights using the X10 FireCracker CM17 control module. URL: http://org.negaverse.org/firecracker/
FireMail => <reply> $who, Tool sorting the incoming mail and removing spam. URL: http://azzie.home.staszic.waw.pl/?en
firesoft => <reply> $who, Tools for viewing ipchains firewall logs and snort logs.. URL: http://www.unix.gr/
Firewalk => <reply> $who, traceroute like tool to determine gateway ACL filters and to map networks. URL: http://www.packetfactory.net/firewalk/
Firewall Manager => <reply> $who, Graphical interface for Firewalls. URL: http://www.tectrip.net/arg/
fix-rhcd => <reply> $who, Tool for creating your own Red Hat Linux CDR from the ftp site.. URL: http://www.ajusd.org/~edward/fix-rhcd/
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icoutils => <reply> $who, A set of programs that deal with MS Windows icons and cursors. URL: http://www.ludat.lth.se/~dat99oli/
icqlib => <reply> $who, ICQ interface library. URL: http://www.cn.ua/~denis/kde/icqlib.html
icqmail => <reply> $who, ICQ->Email gateway. URL: http://www.crocodile.org/software.html
ICQnix => <reply> $who, ICQ clone for X. URL: http://icqnix.linuxbox.com
icqtech => <reply> $who, A Unix console daemon that assists technical support via ICQ. URL: http://hnm.zzweb.com/utils/icqtech/
ICRADIUS => <reply> $who, Powerful cross platform radius server. URL: ftp://ftp.cheapnet.net/pub/icradius/
ics.el => <reply> $who, Emacs mode for internet chess server interactions. URL: http://www.camembert.freeserve.co.uk/mark/icsel/
id-utils => <reply> $who, Very fast, very high capacity indexer for C/C++ source code.. URL: ftp://tug.org/gnu/id-utils-3.2d.tar.gz
ID3.py => <reply> $who, ID3 MP3 info tag manipulation in Python. URL: http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/python/id3.html
id3ed => <reply> $who, ID3 tag editor for mp3 files. URL: http://www.azstarnet.com/~donut/
id3ren => <reply> $who, Batch rename (from tags) and tag MP3s. URL: http://tscnet.com/pages/badcrc/apps/id3ren/
id3tool => <reply> $who, Command Line tool for editing ID3 tags on MP3s.. URL: http://www.tip.net.au/~ccollins/xware/id3tool/
id3x => <reply> $who, Extension to MP3's ID3 tags to make reasonable-length fields. URL: http://www.lag.net/~robey/id3x/
ide-smart => <reply> $who, IDE SMART test and query tool. URL: http://personal.redestb.es/ragnar/
ident2 => <reply> $who, Multi-faceted identity/authentication server w/ ip masquerade support. URL: http://nyct.net/~defile/programs/ident2/
identdtestd => <reply> $who, Nice, small, fast, identd testing facility. URL: http://feldman.dyn.ml.org
IDEntify => <reply> $who, Extensible Integrated Development Environment. URL: http://www.pietrobo.com/projects/IDEntify/
IDproxy => <reply> $who, Daemon for integrating an IDenticard access card system into Unix environment. URL: http://www.mtl.umn.edu/project/idproxy/
ifbridge => <reply> $who, User-space ethernet bridge for Linux 2.2.x.. URL: ftp://portal.paranor.cx/ifbridge.c
ifhp => <reply> $who, A Great Printfilter for HP printers. URL: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html
ifmail => <reply> $who, Fidonet package for UN*X platform. URL: http://www.average.org/ifmail/
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regutils => <reply> $who, Windows 9x ini and registry tools for unix. URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/regutils/
reiserfs => <reply> $who, A filesystem which stores the files themselves in a B*-tree, gaining speed.. URL: http://www.devlinux.com/namesys
Rel => <reply> $who, Determine the relevance of text documents to a boolean expression of keywords. URL: http://www2.inow.com/~conover/nformatix/
Relay-JFC => <reply> $who, Open Source IRC chat program with a graphical user interface similar to mIRC. URL: http://relayirc.netpedia.net
relaycheck => <reply> $who, Scans a network for SMTP hosts that permit. URL: http://david.weekly.org/code/
Remembrance Agent => <reply> $who, Remembrance Agents are an augmented, associative memory.. URL: http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/RA/
Remind => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.doe.carleton.ca/pub/remind-3.0/
remindo => <reply> $who, Useful utility to warn of important dates and events.. URL: http://www.syspac.com/~madlather/remindo.html
Remote Command => <reply> $who, Script to allow remote commands to run via http web interface. URL: http://www.erols.com/pastorekp/
Remote Microscope => <reply> $who, Client/server system for controlling an optical microscope over the Internet. URL: http://www.mems-exchange.org/exchange/software/microscope/
renameit => <reply> $who, bash/sed scripts for standardizing MP3 filenames.. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~dghender/CBS.html
RenderDotC => <reply> $who, RDC is a RenderMan(R)-compliant photorealistic rendering toolkit. URL: http://www.dotcsw.com
RenderPark => <reply> $who, Physics-Based Photorealistic Rendering Tool. URL: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cwis/research/graphics/RENDERPARK/
replace => <reply> $who, Replace ASCII or hex strings in text or binary files. URL: http://public.connect.org.uk/~rkl/replace/
Replay => <reply> $who, GTK-based MP3 player for X11. URL: http://replay.linuxpower.org
Replay+ Arcade Emulator => <reply> $who, multi-game Arcade emulator.. URL: http://www.icomm.ca/replay/
RePop => <reply> $who, A pop3 daemon that seamlessly glues together a list of pop3 mailboxes.. URL: http://ziggy.dhs.org/repop/
Report Magic for Analog => <reply> $who, Create tabular reports and graphs from Analog web statistics.. URL: http://www.reportmagic.com/
Req => <reply> $who, Email-based request tracking system. URL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/software/ccs/req/
ReqNG => <reply> $who, Request tracking system. URL: http://scuttlebutt.explore.com/reqng/
Request Tracker => <reply> $who, Web, command-line and email based trouble ticketing and bugtracking package. URL: http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/
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SLRN => <reply> $who, An NNTP based newsreader for Unix, VMS, and OS/2 systems. URL: http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html
slurp => <reply> $who, Watches as any program is installed and turns it into an RPM. URL: http://students.vassar.edu/~jajohnst/slurp/
Slurpie => <reply> $who, Distributed passwd cracker. URL: http://www.jps.net/coati/archives/slurpie.html
slush => <reply> $who, SSL remote shell. URL: http://violet.ibs.com.au/slush/
SLXT => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www2.gol.com/gaijin/Linux
Smail => <reply> $who, Electronic mail transport system. URL: ftp://ftp.planix.com/pub/Smail/
SMake => <reply> $who, Skeleton Make - Makefile Generator. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smake/
Small Arms Ballistics => <reply> $who, Basic small arms ballistics calculator. URL: http://members.xoom.com/joshua_weage/ballistic/
Small Linux => <reply> $who, Three diskette distribution that uses less than 4 megs of RAM. URL: http://smalllinux.netpedia.net/
SmallEiffel => <reply> $who, The GNU Eiffel Compiler. URL: http://SmallEiffel.loria.fr/index.html
SmarTagger => <reply> $who, Tag and rename a full album of MP3s at once.. URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~lafor/SmarTagger/
smartctl => <reply> $who, S.M.A.R.T. URL: http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/software/smart/
SmartHTML => <reply> $who, HTML preprocessor. URL: http://www.andreasen.org/smart/
SmartInst => <reply> $who, A smart install wrapper script. URL: http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/OpenSoft/smartinst.shtml
SmartPlay => <reply> $who, Perl/GTK mpg123 front end w/ artificial intelegence. URL: http://havoc.gtf.org/weasel/smartplay
SmartWorker => <reply> $who, Web Application Development / Deployment Framework. URL: http://www.smartworker.org/
SMAUG => <reply> $who, Ultimate Medieval-Style MUD Codebase. URL: http://www.game.org/smaug/
SMB2WWW => <reply> $who, Windows Network client that is accessible through a webbrowser. URL: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/samba/smb2www/
smbUserFolder => <reply> $who, SMB NT domain validation for Zope.. URL: http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/mcdonc/smbUserFolder/
smb_auth => <reply> $who, Authenticate proxy users against an SMB server like Windows NT or Samba. URL: http://www.hacom.nl/~richard/software/smb_auth.html
SMDI => <reply> $who, SMDI serial and TCP session protocol as APE library. URL: http://www.voxilla.org/projects/projsmdi.html
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WebCalendar => <reply> $who, WebCalendar is a PHP/MySQL application used to maintain a calendar for one or more persons.. URL: http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/webcalendar/files/WebCalendar-0.9.tar.gz
SDCC-z80 => <reply> $who, SDCC-z80 is a version of the optimising C compiler SDCC targeted to the 8 bit Zilog Z80. URL: http://earthling.net.nz/~michaelh/snapshots/
SPS4Linux => <reply> $who, SPS4Linux is an implementation of the SPS Language. URL: http://www.eilers.net/sps/
XMagick => <reply> $who, XMagick is a library written in C which allows integration of the ImageMagick library with any X application by providing functions which convert between the native X image format (XImage) and the native ImageMagick format (I...
libiconv => <reply> $who, libiconv provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems which don't have one or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. URL: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-0.1.tar.gz
libutf8 => <reply> $who, libutf8 provides UTF-8 locale support for use on systems which don't have UTF-8 locales or whose UTF-8 locales are unreasonably slow. URL: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/libutf8-0.6.1.tar.gz
as-gps => <reply> $who, as-gps contains a basic support library for accessing the inexpensive ($20) Aisin-Seiki GPS Module previously available at mavin.com. URL: http://www.amphibious.org/gps/as-gps-0.2.tgz
E8Ball => <reply> $who, E8Ball is an epplet that responds to questions you ask it. URL: http://free.house.cx/~adrian/epplets/
gmap => <reply> $who, gmap is a map viewer with emphasis on temporal data. URL: http://academy.cas.cz/~gis/dload.html
keeper => <reply> $who, The keeper library provides a simple-to-use C interface for reading and writing configuration data. URL: http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/keeper/keeper.html#dist
BHRPFF => <reply> $who, Ben Hates Reading Poorly Formatted Filenames, or BHRPFF, is a Perl script that will help you to rename your mp3 files so that they are more readable. URL: http://my.yi.org/~brain/bhrpff/bhrpff.tar.gz
123 Session Module => <reply> $who, The 123 Session Module enables the Roxen Web server to identify connections from identical browsers by branding them with a cookie for identification. URL: http://123.org/technik/webserver/session/src/
KDiary => <reply> $who, KDiary is an application for keeping a personal or professional diary. URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/download.php?fileid=754
GameTrakker => <reply> $who, GameTrakker is a Perl application which allows communication to flow between QStat and MRTG for displaying game server status on a Web server. URL: ftp://games.gci.net/pub/Utils/GameTrakker/
gProjectGenerator => <reply> $who, GPrjGen is a tool to generate GNOME source trees.. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~linuxsite/gPrjGen-0.1.1.tar.gz
StatistX => <reply> $who, StatistX wraps the small statistics program 'statist' into a graphical user interface. URL: http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~abeyer/private/StatistX/download/
iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition => <reply> $who, The iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition is a multi-process, multi-threaded HTTP1.1 compliant web server that delivers a high-performance Java application platform with support for Java Servle...
MeterMaid => <reply> $who, MeterMaid is a troubleticket system written in Perl which uses an SQL database for a backend. URL: http://world.std.com/~durist/perl/metermaid/MeterMaid-1.0.tar.gz
GTS => <reply> $who, The GNU Triangulated Surface Library (GTS) provides a set of useful functions to deal with 3D surfaces meshed with interconnected triangles. URL: ftp://marangoni.lmm.jussieu.fr/pub/gts/
wml-tools => <reply> $who, wml-tools is small suite of tools related to WAP WML development. URL:
loadlib => <reply> $who, loadlib.c is a program to load shared libraries via dlopen() and hold them in memory until the user types 'q' and hits enter. URL: http://ns2.cnsnet.net/~spirilis/loadlib.c
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Mac Error -39 => ( eofErr ) End of file; no additional data in the format **File System Error**
Mac Error -40 => ( posErr ) Tried to position to before start of file (r/w) **File System Error**
Mac Error -41 => ( mFulErr ) Memory full (open) or file won't fit (load) **File System Error**
Mac Error -42 => ( tmfoErr ) too many files open **File System Error**
Mac Error -43 => ( fnfErr ) File not found; Folder not found; Edition container not found; Target not found **File System Error**
Mac Error -44 => ( wPrErr ) Diskette is write protected; Volume is locked through hardware **File System Error**
Mac Error -45 => ( fLckdErr ) File is locked **File System Error**
Mac Error -45 => ( fLckedErr ) Publisher writing to an edition **File System Error**
Mac Error -46 => ( vLckdErr ) Volume is locked through software **File System Error**
Mac Error -47 => ( fBsyErr ) File is busy (delete); Section doing I/O **File System Error**
Mac Error -48 => ( dupFNErr ) Duplicate filename (rename); File found instead of folder **File System Error**
Mac Error -49 => ( opWrErr ) File already open with with write permission **File System Error**
Mac Error -50 => ( paramErr ) Error in user parameter list **File System Error**
Mac Error -51 => ( rfNumErr ) Reference number invalid **File System Error**
Mac Error -52 => ( gfpErr ) Get file position error **File System Error**
Mac Error -53 => ( volOffLinErr ) Volume is off line **File System Error**
Mac Error -54 => ( permErr ) Software lock on file; Not a subscriber [permissions error on file open] **File System Error**
Mac Error -55 => ( volOnLinErr ) drive volume already on-line at MountVol **File System Error**
Mac Error -56 => ( nsDrvErr ) no such drive (tried to mount a bad drive num) **File System Error**
Mac Error -57 => ( noMacDskErr ) not a mac diskette (sig bytes are wrong) **File System Error**
Mac Error -58 => ( extFSErr ) External file system - file system identifier is nonzero **File System Error**
Mac Error -59 => ( fsRnErr ) file system internal error: during rename the old entry was deleted but could not be restored **File System Error**
Mac Error -60 => ( badMDBErr ) bad master directory block **File System Error**
Mac Error -61 => ( wrPermErr ) Write permissions error; Not a publisher **File System Error**
Mac Error -64 => ( fontDecError ) error during font declaration **Font Manager Error** or ( lastDskErr ) **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error** or ( noDriveErr ) drive not installed **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -65 => ( fontNotDeclared ) font not declared **Font Manager Error** or ( offLinErr ) r/w requested for an off-line drive **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -66 => ( fontSubErr ) font substitution occured **Font Manager Error** or ( noNybErr ) couldn't find 5 nybbles in 200 tries **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -67 => ( noAdrMkErr ) couldn't find valid addr mark **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -68 => ( dataVerErr ) read verify compare failed **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -69 => ( badCksmErr ) addr mark checksum didn't check **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -70 => ( badBtSlpErr ) bad addr mark bit slip nibbles **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -71 => ( noDtaMkErr ) couldn't find a data mark header **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
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LOADHIGH => (Internal) LOADHIGH (LH) [d:][path]filename [parameters] Loads memory resident application into reserved area of memory (between 640K-1M).
MEM => (External) MEM [/program|/debug|/classify|/free|/module(name)] [/page] Displays amount of installed and available memory, including extended, expanded, and upper memory.
MEMMAKER => (External) MEMMAKER [/B][/batch][/session][/swap:d] [/T][/undo][/W:size1,size2] Starts the MemMaker program, a program that lets you optimize your computer's memory.
MENUCOLOR => (Internal) MENUCOLOR=textcolor,[background] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to set the colors that will be used by DOS to display text on the screen.
MENUDEFAULT => (Internal) MENUDEFAULT=blockname, [timeout] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to set the startup configuration that will be used by DOS if no key is pressed within the specified timeout period.
MENUITEM => (Internal)MENUITEM=blockname, [menutext] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to create a start-up menu from which you can select a group of CONFIG.SYS commands to be processed upon reboot.
MIRROR => (External) MIRROR [d:]path [d:] path [...] IRROR [d1:][d2:][...] [/T(drive)(files)] [/partn][/U][/1] Saves disk storage information that can be used to recover accidentally erased files.
MKDIR => (MD) (Internal) MKDIR (MD) [d:]path Creates a new subdirectory.
MODE => (External) Sets mode of operation for devices or communications.
MORE => (External) MORE < (filename or command) (name)MORE Sends output to console, one screen at a time.
MOVE => (Internal) MOVE [/Y|/-Y] [d:][path]filename[,[d:][path]filename[...]] destination Moves one or more files to the location you specify. Can also be used to rename directories.
MSAV => (External) MSAV [d:] [/S|/C][/R][/A][/L][/N][/P][/F][/video][/mouse] SAV /video Scans your computer for known viruses.
MSBACKUP => External) MSBACKUP [setupfile] [/BW|/LCD|/MDA] Used to backup or restore one or more files from one disk to another.
MSCDEX => (External) MSCDEX /D:driver [/D:driver2. . .] [/E][/K][/S][/V][/L:letter] [/M:number] Used to gain access to CD-ROM drives (new with DOS Version 6).
MSD => (External) MSD [/B][/I] BSD [/I] [/F[d:][path]filename [/P[d:][path]filename [/S[d:][path]filename Provides detailed technical information about your computer.
NLSFUNC => (External) NLSFUNC [d:][path]filename Used to load a file with country-specific information.
NUMLOCK => (Internal) NUMLOCK=on|off Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to specify the state of the NumLock key.
PATH => (Internal) PATH; PATH [d:]path[;][d:]path[...] Sets or displays directories that will be searched for programs not in the current directory.
PAUSE => (Internal) PAUSE [comment] Suspends execution of a batch file until a key is pressed.
POWER => (External) POWER [adv:max|reg|min]|std|off] Used to turn power management on and off, report the status of power management, and set levels of power conservation.
PRINT => (External) PRINT [/B:(buffersize)] [/D:(device)] [/M:(maxtick)] [/Q:(value] [/S:(timeslice)][/U:(busytick)] [/C][/P][/T] [d:][path][filename] [...] Queues and prints data files.
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EBCDIC3 is promulgated it as a customer-control tactic (see {connector conspiracy}), spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants and how ...
EBCDIC4 is classified top-secret, burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very *name* of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest {evil}. See also {fear and loathing}.
echo is [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s echomail system. Compare {newsgroup}.
eighty-column mind is [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an o...
eighty-column mind2 is `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card). This directive is inscribed on IBM's 1422 and 1602 card readers and is referenced in a famous bit of doggerel called "The Last Bug", the climactic lin...
eighty-column mind3 is the console Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, 9-edge first. The eighty-column mind is thought by most hackers to dominate IBM's customer base and its thinking. See {IBM}, {fear ...
El Camino Bignum is /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Naviga...
El Camino Bignum2 is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines {logical} north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University and so is familiar to hackers. The...
El Camino Bignum3 is /ray-ahl'/) means `royal'; El Camino Real is `the royal road'. In the FORTRAN language, a `real' quantity is a number typically precise to 7 significant digits, and a `double precision' quantity is a larger floating-poi...
El Camino Bignum4 is significant digits (other languages have similar `real' types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on `real', he started calling it `El Camino ...
El Camino Bignum5 is told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it `El Camino Bignum', and that name has stuck. (See {bignum}.)
elder days is n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic `The Lord of the Rings'. Compare ...
elegant is [from mathematical usage] adj. Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than `clever', `winning', or even {cuspy}.
elephantine is adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form. An elephantine program may be functional and even f...
elephantine2 is in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain). In extreme cases, hackers have been known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive proboscatory mime at the...
elephantine3 is semi-humorous. Compare `has the elephant nature' and the somewhat more pejorative {monstrosity}. See also {second-system effect} and {baroque}.
elevator controller is n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical exa...
elevator controller2 is computation environment. "You can't require `printf(3)' to be part of the default runtime library --- what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both ...
ELIZA effect is /*-li'z* *-fekt'/ [AI community] n. The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol `+' that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's j...
ELIZA effect2 is Using `+' or `plus' to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. This term comes from the famous ELIZA program, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's ...
ELIZA effect3 is patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing w...
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foreground is [UNIX] vt. To foreground a task is to bring it to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks. "If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foregr...
foreground2 is Technically, on a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user; oppose {background}. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with {{UNIX}}, but it appears...
foreground3 is OS/360. Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window); having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is a good way to {lose}.
forked is [UNIX; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] adj. Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system slowed to incredibly bad speeds because of a process recursively spawning copies of itself (using the UNIX system call `for...
Fortrash is /for'trash/ n. Hackerism for the FORTRAN language, referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.
fortune cookie is [UNIX] n. A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies. See {cookie file}.
forum is n. [USENET, GEnie CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in {BBS}, a {mailing list}, or a {newsgroup} (see {network, the}). A forum functions much like a bulletin board; users submit {posting}s ...
forum2 is Contrast real-time chat via {talk mode} or point-to-point personal {email}.
fossil is n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility. Example the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, ...
fossil2 is to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures. See {dusty deck}. 2. More restrictively, a feature with past but no present utility. Example the force-all-caps (LCASE) bits in the V7 and {BSD} UNIX tty driver, designed for ...
fossil3 is of the usual backward-compatibility goal, this functionality has actually been expanded and renamed in some later {USG UNIX} releases as the IUCLC and OLCUC bits. 3. The FOSSIL (Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Level) driver s...
fossil4 is replace the {brain-dead} routines in the IBM PC ROMs. Fossils are used by most MS-DOS {BBS} software in lieu of programming the {bare metal} of the serial ports, as the ROM routines do not support interrupt-driven operation or setti...
fossil5 is specification allows additional functionality to be hooked in, drivers that use the {hook} but do not provide serial-port access themselves are named with a modifier, as in `video fossil'.
four-color glossies is 1. Literature created by {marketroid}s that allegedly containing technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally {content-free}. "Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech ref...
four-color glossies2 is superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white. Four-color-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't con...
four-color glossies3 is program doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
fragile is adj. Syn {brittle}.
fred is n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a metasyntactic variable (see {foo}). Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Unlike {J. Random Hacker} or `J. Random Loser', ...
fred2 is (but see {Mbogo, Dr. Fred}). 2. An acronym for `Flipping Ridiculous Electronic Device'; other F-verbs may be substituted for `flipping'.
frednet is /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some {random} and uncommon protocol encountered on a network. "We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem."
freeware is n. Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, {USENET}, or other electronic media. At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the...
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self-reference is n. See {self-reference}.
selvage is /sel'v*j/ [from sewing] n. See {chad} (sense 1).
semi is /se'mee/ or /se'mi/ 1. n. Abbreviation for `semicolon', when speaking. "Commands to {grind} are prefixed by semi-semi-star" means that the prefix is `;;*', not 1/4 of a star. 2. A prefix used with words such as `immediately' as a q...
semi2 is "Semi-immediately." (That is, maybe not for an hour.) "We did consider that possibility semi-seriously." See also {infinite}.
semi-infinite is n. See {infinite}.
senior bit is [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}.
server is n. A kind of {daemon} that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `name servers', `domain s...
SEX is /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties ...
SEX2 is course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a {Good Thing}, but unprotected SEX can propagate a {virus}. See also {pubic directory}. 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used ...
SEX3 is the PDP-11 and many other architectures. DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the `SEX' mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time th...
SEX4 is 8086 Primer', who was one of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was originally a `SEX' instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the in...
SEX5 is (depending on what was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight `SEX' but has logical-or and logical-and instructions `ORL' and `ANL'. The Motorola 6809, used ...
SEX6 is actually had an official `SEX' instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II it competed with did not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could have sex with a dragon, but you can'...
sex changer is n. Syn. {gender mender}.
shareware is /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself. Such payment may or may not buy additional suppor...
shelfware is /shelfweir/ n. Software purchased on a whim (by an individual user) or in accordance with policy (by a corporation or government agency), but not actually required for any particular use. Therefore, it often ends up on some shelf.
shell is [orig. {{Multics}} techspeak, widely propagated via UNIX] n. 1. [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system; so called because it is the part of the operating system that interfaces with the outsid...
shell2 is program that mediates access to a special resource or {server} for convenience, efficiency, or security reasons; for this meaning, the usage is usually `a shell around' whatever. This sort of program is also called a `wrapper'.
shell out is [UNIX] n. To spawn an interactive {subshell} from within a program (e.g., a mailer or editor). "Bang foo runs foo in a subshell, while bang alone shells out."
shift left logical is [from any of various machines' instruction sets] 1. vi. To move oneself to the left (right). To move out of the way. 2. imper. "Get out of that (my) seat! You can shift to that empty one to the left (right)." Often ...
shift left logical2 is instead of `shift left'. Sometimes heard as LSH /lish/, from the {PDP-10} instruction set. See {Programmer's Cheer}.
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eat flaming death2 => reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of h...
EBCDIC => /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [acronym, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n. An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as ...
echo => [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
eighty-column mind => [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke)...
eighty-column mind2 => `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card). This directive is inscribed on IBM's 1422 and 1602 card readers and is referenced in a famous bit of doggerel called "The Last Bug", the climactic lines of wh...
eighty-column mind3 => the console Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, 9-edge first. The eighty-column mind is thought by most hackers to dominate IBM's customer base and its thinking. See IBM, {fear and loathing}, {card walloper...
El Camino Bignum => /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on ...
El Camino Bignum2 => usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University and so is familiar to hackers. The Spanish wor...
El Camino Bignum3 => /ray-ahl'/) means `royal'; El Camino Real is `the royal road'. In the FORTRAN language, a `real' quantity is a number typically precise to 7 significant digits, and a `double precision' quantity is a larger floating-point number,...
El Camino Bignum4 => significant digits (other languages have similar `real' types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on `real', he started calling it `El Camino Double Pre...
El Camino Bignum5 => told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it `El Camino Bignum', and that name has stuck. (See bignum.)
elder days => n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, {ITS}, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic `The Lord of the Rings'. Compare {Iron Age}; see...
elegant => [from mathematical usage] adj. Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than `clever', `winning', or even cuspy.
elephantine => adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly hairy in source form. An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but...
elevator controller => n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical example of a ...
elevator controller2 => computation environment. "You can't require `printf(3)' to be part of the default runtime library --- what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of ...
ELIZA effect => /*-li'z* *-fekt'/ [AI community] n. The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol `+' that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that ...
ELIZA effect2 => Using `+' or `plus' to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. This term comes from the famous ELIZA program, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's statemen...
ELIZA effect3 => patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with ELIZA. ...
ELIZA effect4 => tendency to attach to words meanings which the computer never put there. The ELIZA effect is a {Good Thing} when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analyzing an Artificial Intelligence s...
elvish => n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the `Book of Kells'. Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in `The Lord of The Rings' as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' ...
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for the rest of us => [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the rest of us"] adj. 1. Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe spiffy but very overpriced pr...
for the rest of us2 => with a limited interface, deliberately limited capabilities, non-orthogonality, inability to compose primitives, or any other limitation designed to not `confuse' a na"ive user. This places an upper bound on how far that user c...
for the rest of us3 => get in the way of the task instead of helping accomplish it. Used in reference to Macintosh software which doesn't provide obvious capabilities because it is thought that the poor lusers might not be able to handle them. Become...
for the rest of us4 => third-party reference; thus, "Yes, it is an attractive program, but it's designed for The Rest Of Them" means a program that superficially looks neat but has no depth beyond the surface flash. See also {WIMP environment}, Macin...
fora => pl.n. Plural of forum.
foreground => [UNIX] vt. To foreground a task is to bring it to the top of one's stack for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks. "If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writ...
forked => [UNIX; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] adj. Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system slowed to incredibly bad speeds because of a process recursively spawning copies of itself (using the UNIX system call `fork(2)') a...
Fortrash => /for'trash/ n. Hackerism for the FORTRAN language, referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.
fortune cookie => [UNIX] n. A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies. See {cookie file}.
forum => n. [USENET, GEnie CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in BBS, a {mailing list}, or a newsgroup (see {network, the}). A forum functions much like a bulletin board; users submit postings for all to read ...
fossil => n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility. Example the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite o...
four-color glossies => 1. Literature created by marketroids that allegedly containing technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally content-free. "Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech ref manuals." ...
four-color glossies2 => superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white. Four-color-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't contain enoug...
four-color glossies3 => program doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
fragile => adj. Syn brittle.
fred => n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a metasyntactic variable (see foo). Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Unlike {J. Random Hacker} or `J. Random Loser', this name ha...
frednet => /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some random and uncommon protocol encountered on a network. "We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem."
freeware => n. Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, USENET, or other electronic media. At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of...
freeze => v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date. "OK, fix that bug and ...
fried => adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to electronic circuits! ...
friode => /fri'ohd/ [TMRC] n. A reversible (that is, fused or blown) diode. Compare fried.
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seggie => /seg'ee/ [UNIX] n. Shorthand for {segmentation fault} reported from Britain.
segment => /seg'ment/ vi. To experience a {segmentation fault}. Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun `segment' than like mainstream v. segment; this is because it is actually a noun shorthand that has been verbed.
segmentation fault => n. [UNIX] 1. An error in which a running program attempts to access memory not allocated to it and {core dump}s with a segmentation violation error. 2. To lose a train of thought or a line of reasoning. Also uttered as an exclam...
segv => /seg'vee/ n.,vi. Yet another synonym for {segmentation fault} (actually, in this case, `segmentation violation').
self-reference => n. See self-reference.
selvage => /sel'v*j/ [from sewing] n. See chad (sense 1).
semi => /se'mee/ or /se'mi/ 1. n. Abbreviation for `semicolon', when speaking. "Commands to grind are prefixed by semi-semi-star" means that the prefix is `;;*', not 1/4 of a star. 2. A prefix used with words such as `immediately' as a qualifier. "Wh...
semi-infinite => n. See infinite.
senior bit => [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}.
server => n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `name servers', `domain servers', `...
SEX => /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popul...
sex changer => n. Syn. {gender mender}.
shareware => /sheir'weir/ n. Freeware (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself. Such payment may or may not buy additional support or funct...
shelfware => /shelfweir/ n. Software purchased on a whim (by an individual user) or in accordance with policy (by a corporation or government agency), but not actually required for any particular use. Therefore, it often ends up on some shelf.
shell => [orig. {Multics} techspeak, widely propagated via UNIX] n. 1. [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system; so called because it is the part of the operating system that interfaces with the outside world. ...
shell out => [UNIX] n. To spawn an interactive subshell from within a program (e.g., a mailer or editor). "Bang foo runs foo in a subshell, while bang alone shells out."
shift left logical => [from any of various machines' instruction sets] 1. vi. To move oneself to the left (right). To move out of the way. 2. imper. "Get out of that (my) seat! You can shift to that empty one to the left (right)." Often used without ...
shift left logical2 => instead of `shift left'. Sometimes heard as LSH /lish/, from the PDP-10 instruction set. See {Programmer's Cheer}.
shitogram => /shit'oh-gram/ n. A *really* nasty piece of email. Compare nastygram, flame.
short card => n. A half-length IBM PC expansion card or adapter that will fit in one of the two short slots located towards the right rear of a standard chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives). See also {tall card}.
shotgun debugging => n. The software equivalent of {Easter egging}; the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence. This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs.
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