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BeOpen.com Hyperbole => <reply> $who, hypertextual information manager. URL: http://www.BeOpen.com/
BeOpen.com InfoDock => <reply> $who, An Integrated Development Environment & Info Manager. URL: http://www.BeOpen.com/
Berkeley DB => <reply> $who, Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application. URL: http://www.sleepycat.com/
Berkeley MPEG Tools => <reply> $who, A set of tools for playing, encoding MPEG layer 1 video files. URL: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/research/mpeg/mpeg_encode.html
Berlin => <reply> $who, distributed windowing system. URL: http://www.berlin-consortium.org
Bero Offline Mail => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/bero/offline/BeroOfflineMail-1.0.0.tar.gz
BeroFTPD => <reply> $who, FTP server program based on WU-FTPD. URL: ftp://bero.x5.net/pub/BeroFTPD-1.3.4.tar.bz2
BeroList => <reply> $who, easy-to-use mailing list server with NNTP and WWW gateway. URL: http://www.in-trier.de/~bero/BeroList/
BestCrypt => <reply> $who, Creates and supports encrypted virtual volumes for Linux/Windows/MSDOS.. URL: http://www.jetico.com/linux.html
BET => <reply> $who, Encrypted network talk program. URL: http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hamblin/BET.html
BetaFTPD => <reply> $who, Single-threaded, small FTP daemon. URL: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/
Bezerk => <reply> $who, IRC client written with the GTK toolkit. URL: http://www.gtk.org/~trog/
BFRIS Zero Gravity Fighter Combat => <reply> $who, 3-D Accelerated zero-gravity space fighter combat w/ net support. URL: http://www.aegistech.com/
bfs => <reply> $who, UnixWare Boot Filesystem for Linux. URL: http://penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/bfs/
BFS Filesystem for Linux => <reply> $who, read-only BFS modules for Linux. URL: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/
bgcheck => <reply> $who, A process monitor used to limit the amount of background processes. URL: http://blue.dhs.org/bgcheck/
BGM => <reply> $who, Background music player / music on-hold source daemon for PBX. URL: http://www.tycho.com/bgm/
BibleReader => <reply> $who, Bible browsing program using Gtk. URL: http://alfenpeg.thewhites.com/Bible/
BibleTime => <reply> $who, A bible study program for KDE. URL: http://www.bibletime.de/
bibtool => <reply> $who, Simple tool to help BibTeX users maintain bibliography files. URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dbt93/Downloads/bibtool/
Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator => <reply> $who, Calculates thenumber of calories expended on a bicycle ride. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6434/calcalc.html

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cid => <reply> $who, TCP client/server Caller-ID system, including server and Tk GUI client.. URL: http://www.tummy.com/cid
Cinderella => <reply> $who, Interactive Geometry Software (like Geometers' Sketchpad or Cabri). URL: http://www.cinderella.de/
CINQ => <reply> $who, Portable BASIC Compiler. URL: http://shell.flite.net/~rmann/index.html
CINT => <reply> $who, C/C++ Interpreter. URL: http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html
CIPE => <reply> $who, Crypto IP Encapsulation. URL: http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/cipe.html
cipherczar => <reply> $who, ncurses environment that helps solve simple substitution ciphers. URL: http://wil.langford.net/cipherczar/
CircleMUD => <reply> $who, Multi User Dungeon for Linux. URL: http://www.circlemud.org/
cIRCus => <reply> $who, Graphical IRC client for Linux/X11. URL: http://www.nijenrode.nl/~ivo/circus/
CIS => <reply> $who, A Web-application System used to. URL: http://www.bionode.com/cis/
Cistron Radius Server => <reply> $who, Free Radius Server with many features. URL: http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/radius/
Citadel/UX => <reply> $who, Multiuser, multithreaded BBS software. URL: http://uncnsrd.mt-kisco.ny.us
Citadel/UX BBS Software => <reply> $who, Advanced client/server BBS program. URL: http://uncnsrd.mt-kisco.ny.us/citadel/
Citation => <reply> $who, Web Based Tool for Bibliographic Conversions. URL: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/RWL/Projects/citation/index.html
ckmame => <reply> $who, MAME rom set checker and fixer. URL: http://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/nih/ckmame/
ckpatch.pl => <reply> $who, Automatically download RedHat patches. URL: http://homepage.interaccess.com/~cgaff/
ClanBomber => <reply> $who, Bomberman clone for ClanLib (X11 for now).. URL: http://www.clanbomber.de/
ClanLib => <reply> $who, The platform independent game SDK.. URL: http://www.clanlib.org/
Clarrhmos => <reply> $who, Description language and simulator for models of heart electrophysiology.. URL: http://www.clarrhmos.cardio.uhosp.ro/
class.AccessDBM.php3 => <reply> $who, A PHP3 wrapper class to the DBM functions. URL: http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/
class.Htgroup.php3 => <reply> $who, A PHP class to manage Apache style group files.. URL: http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/
class.Htpasswd.php3 => <reply> $who, A PHP class for maintaining Apache style htpasswd files.. URL: http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/

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Cuttlefish pushcache => <reply> $who, Push server based on Squid. URL: http://www.pushcache.com/
cvi => <reply> $who, Looks for information about variables and data types in an ANSI C program. URL: http://www.crosswinds.net/~alcvi/
CVS => <reply> $who, Concurrent Versions System. URL: http://www.cyclic.com/
cvs2cl.pl => <reply> $who, Generates ChangeLog for any CVS working copy. URL: http://www.red-bean.com/~kfogel/cvs2cl.shtml
cvsd => <reply> $who, cvsd is a chroot/suid wrapper for running a cvs pserver more securely.. URL: http://cblack.mokey.com/cvsd/
CVSup => <reply> $who, CVS-Aware Network File Distribution System. URL: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/
cvsweb => <reply> $who, A visual (www) interface to explore a CVS repository. URL: http://lemming.stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi
cwc => <reply> $who, Crossword Compiler. URL: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~larsch/cwc/
cwmtx => <reply> $who, C++ Library for matrix, vector and quaternion math. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hkuiper/cwmtx.html
CX => <reply> $who, A platform independant, interface independant, programming language independant,. URL: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/shallow/
CxIV => <reply> $who, Fully threaded discussion system with many features written in C. URL: http://www.leonine.com/~ltemplin/cxiv/
Cxref => <reply> $who, C Cross Referencing & Documenting tool. URL: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/cxref/
CyberScheduler => <reply> $who, Internet-based calendaring andscheduling solution for workgroups. URL: http://www.crosswind.com
CybOrg => <reply> $who, Web-based backoffice application suite. URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/product/cyborg/
CYCAS => <reply> $who, CAD Software for Linux. URL: http://www.cycas.de/
Cyclone => <reply> $who, Internet Relay Chat Daemon used by SlashNET. URL: ftp://ftp.slashnet.org/pub/cyclone/
Cygnus Java Compiler => <reply> $who, GNU compiler extension that allows compilation of Javasource and byte code. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/gcj.html
Cygwin => <reply> $who, Gcc cross-compiler for win32, with UNIX-like API.. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
Cyphesis => <reply> $who, Fantasy RPG using A-Life techniques.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/4279/
Cyrus IMAP server => <reply> $who, Full featured IMAP server. URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
Cyrus SASL => <reply> $who, generic client/server library for SASL authentication. URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/

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esound => <reply> $who, Enlightened Sound Daemon. URL: http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
eSquire => <reply> $who, Web based Majordomo replacement and autoresponder manager. URL: http://www.gamerz.net/esquire/
ET-Linux => <reply> $who, RTOS for embedded systems. URL: ftp://ftp.prosa.it/pub/etlinux
Eterm => <reply> $who, An X11 VT102 emulator with Enlightenment features. URL: http://www.eterm.org/
ETest => <reply> $who, Regression Test Framework for Eiffel Programs. URL: http://w3.one.net/~jweirich/etest/
Etherboot => <reply> $who, Source code for making TCP/IP boot ROMs to boot Linux and other OSes. URL: http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/
Ethereal => <reply> $who, GUI network protocol analyzer. URL: http://ethereal.zing.org/
Ethernet Phone => <reply> $who, Software which allows point-to-point voice communication over the Internet. URL: http://www.linuxtel.com/
Ethernet TAP driver => <reply> $who, Ethernet TAP driver for FreeBSD. URL: http://vtun.netpedia.net/tun
Ethiopian Fortunes => <reply> $who, Ethiopian Fortunes in UTF8 Encoding. URL: ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/fortunes/EthFortunes.tar.gz
eThreads => <reply> $who, Highly customizable database driven forum software. URL: http://ethreads.com/
EtLinux => <reply> $who, Embedded RealTime operating system based on Linux. URL: http://www.prosa.it/embedded/etlinux/
Eucalyptus => <reply> $who, Advanced MIME email program. URL: http://www.isengard-dev.org/
eud2mbox => <reply> $who, Eudora Mailbox (.mbx) to standard mbox converter. URL: http://provo.doit.wisc.edu/~miner/eud2mbox/
Euphoria => <reply> $who, A great fast extensible language. URL: http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
Euphoria Programming Language => <reply> $who, Simple, flexible, powerful programming language for Linux, DOS and Windows. URL: http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/
Europa => <reply> $who, multi-player realtime strategic action war game. URL: http://play.mpog.com/europa
Event Calendar => <reply> $who, PHP/PostgreSQL-based online event calendar. URL: http://www.simons-rock.edu/~fluffy/index.php3?link=.%2FEvent+Calendar
Event Monitor Project => <reply> $who, Monitoring tool for heterogeneous networks and systems based on message passing. URL: http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~assman/em/
Everybuddy => <reply> $who, Universal Instant Messaging Client. URL: http://www.everybuddy.com/
EveryChat => <reply> $who, Minimalist Perl CGI Chat Program. URL: http://www.everysoft.com/everychat/

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fphdb => <reply> $who, Printing Business Job, Ordering, and Inventory Management Application. URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~ajr4/fphdb/
FPL => <reply> $who, Very C-like interpreted language. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/fpl/
fplan => <reply> $who, A flight planning tool for pilots. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/fplan/
FPSE Clone => <reply> $who, Microsoft Frontpage Server Extensions CLONE (non MS). URL: http://www.nimh.org/fpse.shtml
fpted => <reply> $who, Easy to use Text Editor (small but powefull). URL: http://mc.microcaos.pt/freeware/
Fract-O-Rama => <reply> $who, Qt-based, flexible fractal generation program. URL: http://locutus.kingwoodcable.com/jfd/fractal/
FramerD/FDScript => <reply> $who, Distributed knowledge/object repository and scripting language. URL: http://www.framerd.org/
Free Pascal Compiler => <reply> $who, Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi II compatible 32bit Pascal Compiler. URL: http://tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/~michael/fpc/
Free recode => <reply> $who, Converts files between character sets and usages. URL: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/recode/HTML/
Free Standard Game Server => <reply> $who, Battle.net-compatible game server. URL: http://www.fsgs.com/
Free Threads => <reply> $who, Web based discussion forums based on the Commercial package WWWThreads.. URL: http://www.freethreads.org/
Free Trek => <reply> $who, Star Trek type space battle simulator. URL: http://freetrek.linuxgames.com
FreeAmp => <reply> $who, Open Source MP3 player. URL: http://www.freeamp.org/
Freebirth => <reply> $who, Integrated bass synthesizer/step sequencer/sample player. URL: http://www.bitmechanic.com/projects/freebirth/
FreeBSD => <reply> $who, A stable secure open source operating system.. URL: http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD JDK => <reply> $who, FreeBSD Java-Team's Sun JDK port. URL: http://www.freebsd.org/java/
Freebuilder => <reply> $who, Free Java Integrated Development Environment. URL: http://www.freebuilder.org/
freeCGI++ => <reply> $who, C++ hierarchy for developing object-oriented CGI applications. URL: http://supernova.underpass.com/~achacha/freeCGI/
Freeciv => <reply> $who, Implementation of Civilization II for UNIX/X released under the GPL. URL: http://www.freeciv.org/
freecolor => <reply> $who, Colorized free command with graphs. URL: http://www.suspend.net/~rkeene/freecolor/
FreeDCE => <reply> $who, Distributed Computing Environment. URL: http://www.bu.edu/~jrd/FreeDCE/

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gEDA => <reply> $who, gEDA is an collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design,. URL: http://www.geda.seul.org
gEdit => <reply> $who, GTK+ based text editor. URL: http://gedit.pn.org/
Geek Code Generator => <reply> $who, Generates a Geek Code using a series of qeustions. URL: http://seymour.napalm.net/geekcode.html
Geeknews.Org Headline Grabber => <reply> $who, A Perl script to grab headlines from Geeknews.Org.. URL: http://www.srijith.net/perl/
geektalkd => <reply> $who, Simple, yet extendable chat server. URL: http://www.geektalk.org/
gefax => <reply> $who, Frontend for efax. URL: http://www.konqui.de/
geg => <reply> $who, Simple GTK+ 2D-function plotting program. URL: http://www.infolaunch.com/~daveb/
Geheimnis => <reply> $who, A KDE shell for GPG/PGP2/PGP5. URL: http://members.home.com/cdwiegand/geheimnis/
Gem Drop X => <reply> $who, A fast-paced puzzle game. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/gemdropx/
GEM/3 => <reply> $who, GUI desktop environment produced by Digital Research. URL: http://www.devili.iki.fi/cpm/gemworld.html
GEMTA => <reply> $who, Convenience library for mutithreaded apps using glib. URL: http://surazal.nerp.net/fractals/eoti/
GemVT => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.SoftHome.net/pub/users/timj/gemvt/index.htm
Generic Colouriser => <reply> $who, Colourises any files or outputs of commands.. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/grc.html
Generic Graphical Server Daemon => <reply> $who, Generic Graphical Server Daemon. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/files.html
Generic Information Server Toolkit => <reply> $who, GIST is a free tool kit for the development of interactive web sites. URL: http://gist.jrc.it/
Generic Multithreaded Server Class => <reply> $who, C++ c;lass implementing a generic multithreaded server. URL: http://www.concentric.net/~myers1/MTServer/
Generic NQS => <reply> $who, The Leading OpenSource Batch Processing System For UNIX. URL: http://www.gnqs.org/
Genes => <reply> $who, Personal genealogy database. URL: http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~slambo/genes/
GeneWeb => <reply> $who, A combo web interface and genealogy program combined on steroids. URL: http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/
gengetopt => <reply> $who, Easy generate a C `main' function that uses `getopt_long' to parse given options. URL: http://arturo.directmail.org/code/gengetopt/
Genius => <reply> $who, An arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floatingpoint calculator. URL: http://www.5z.com/jirka/genius.html
GeniusTrader => <reply> $who, A stock market trading software. URL: http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/geniustrader/
Genpage => <reply> $who, Provides framework for separating content management from layout design. URL: http://www.freddyfrog.com/hacks/genpage/
genscan => <reply> $who, A generic port scanner. URL: http://www.programmerz.org/reid/
gensig => <reply> $who, Random signature/tagline generator. URL: http://www.geeks.com/~robf/gensig/
gentoo => <reply> $who, Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable. URL: http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/

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gfcc => <reply> $who, GTK+ firewall (ipchains). URL: http://icarus.autostock.co.kr/
gfind => <reply> $who, GUI front-end to GNU find utility. URL: http://iconmedia.com/aaron/gfind.html
GFingerPoken => <reply> $who, BlackBox-type GTK-based game. URL: http://gfpoken.bigw.org/
gfirecracker => <reply> $who, Gtk control panel for the X-10 Firecracker. URL: http://www.sector13.org/kazin/projects/gfirecracker.html
GFlash => <reply> $who, A testing/Flashcard application for Linux. URL: http://www.bgw.org/projects/gflash/
gfocustimer => <reply> $who, Tracking of X input focus for time charging. URL: http://quozl.us.netrek.org/gfocustimer/
gfontview => <reply> $who, Font Viewer. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/
Gforth => <reply> $who, GNU project implementation of the Forth programming language. URL: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/gforth.html
gfortune => <reply> $who, Enhanced fortune cookie program. URL: http://tirin.openworld.co.uk/fortune.html
gfract => <reply> $who, GTK-based fractal program. URL: http://www.iki.fi/osku/gfract/
gFTP => <reply> $who, A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows. URL: http://gftp.seul.org/
GFXIndex => <reply> $who, A program for creating indices of your pictures by making thumbnails and HTMLs.. URL: http://boost.linux.kz/gfxindex/
ggitv => <reply> $who, TV-application on ggi. URL: http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/ggi/
GGlyph => <reply> $who, Font previewer and installer for X11. URL: http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672/linux/gglyph/
GGUI => <reply> $who, An easy multi-purpose, multi-program GUI.. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/java/714/ggui/
gharmonic => <reply> $who, Interactive Tone Generation Toy. URL: http://members.xoom.com/etians/gharmonic.html
gHostLookup => <reply> $who, Finds the IP address of the hostname the user specifies. URL: http://iconmedia.com/aaron/ghostlookup.html
ghost_edit => <reply> $who, A fast and simple GTK-based host table editor. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~jonathanbrisbin/ghost_edit/
ghttpd => <reply> $who, A HTTP daemon, secure, fast, efficient with CGI support. URL: http://www.gaztek.co.uk/
GHUp! => <reply> $who, Java applications that replaces EZ File Upload into the GeoCities FileManager. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/java/GHUp/
GHX => <reply> $who, GTK clone of the Hotline software. URL: http://ac2i.tzo.com/ghx_e.html

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Glacier => <reply> $who, Another e-mail client for Gnome.. URL: http://glacier.linuxbox.com/
Glade => <reply> $who, GTK+ interface builder. URL: http://glade.pn.org/
glade-- => <reply> $who, An extension to glade to create C++ sources. URL: http://home.wtal.de/petig/Gtk/index.html
gladecc => <reply> $who, Generates delphi style C++ source code for Gtk-- from Glade's XML output. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bit/8083/gladecc.htm
gLaptop => <reply> $who, Laptop utility for GNOME. URL: http://www.scs.unr.edu/~scottf/glaptop/
GLE => <reply> $who, GLE Tubing and Extrusion drawing Library. URL: http://linas.org/gle/
GLE (interactive Graphics Language Editor) => <reply> $who, high-quality graphics package for scientists. URL: ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/emagic/gle/src/gle-3.3h-src.tar.gz
GLeyes => <reply> $who, A GLUT version of Xeyes. URL: http://eyeworld.helllabs.org/
glFtpD => <reply> $who, FTP Daemon for Linux. URL: http://www.glftpd.org/
GLib => <reply> $who, The GLib library of C routines. URL: http://www.gtk.org/
Glibc and gdb rpms with thread debugging support => <reply> $who, Glibc and gdb with patches for debugging threads. URL: http://odin.appliedtheory.com/
Glide Rasterization Library (SDK) for Linux => <reply> $who, nerijus. URL: http://www.3dfx.com/view_io.asp?ID=109
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/

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gTaskMgr => <reply> $who, Task Manager for X11 written in GTK. URL: http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/OpenSoft/gtaskmgr.shtml
GTC => <reply> $who, Game Programming Library. URL: http://gtc.seul.org/
gTempConv => <reply> $who, Small utility for conversion between misc. URL: http://sites.inka.de/~W1752/gtc/
GTerm => <reply> $who, Abstract terminal emulator core (VT102/VT52). URL: ftp://www.techsource.com/gtermv09.tar
GTetrinet => <reply> $who, A clone of the game Tetrinet.. URL: http://gtetrinet.netpedia.net/
GTExplorer => <reply> $who, A game theory visualization tool. URL: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliphant/gte
gTick => <reply> $who, GTK+ based metronome. URL: http://bsenet.cjb.net/gtick
GTimer => <reply> $who, Scheduler for your personal activities. URL: http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/gtimer/
GTK File Browser => <reply> $who, Small, fast, lightweight, GTK File Browser. URL: http://members.tripod.com/Yarick/FileBrowser.html
GTK H3O.net Headline Viewer => <reply> $who, Headline grabber for your Linux desktop.. URL: http://www.h3o.net/h3o4/bin/gtk.h3opoll.tgz
GTK MikMod => <reply> $who, An advanced multi-threaded module player.. URL: http://www.gnugeneration.com/
Gtk See => <reply> $who, An image viewer based on the X-Window system and GTK+. URL: http://hotaru.clinuxworld.com/gtksee/
Gtk Undo Library => <reply> $who, A multilevel undo/redo facility for GTK.. URL: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/software/undo.html
GTK xset => <reply> $who, GTK xset is a graphical frontend to xset(1), based on GTK+. URL: http://www.seindal.dk/rene/software/gxset/
GTK+ => <reply> $who, Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces. URL: http://www.gtk.org/
GTK+ MAGIC => <reply> $who, Realtime Configuration Environment for GTK+. URL: http://209.201.55.167/gtkmagic/
GTK+ Metal Theme => <reply> $who, Java Metal look-and-feel theme engine for GTK+ 1.1.2.. URL: http://www.integrand.com
GTK+XFce => <reply> $who, Easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11. URL: http://www.xfce.org/
Gtk-- => <reply> $who, C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.. URL: http://lazy.ton.tut.fi/gtk--/gtk--.html
Gtk--Draw => <reply> $who, Gtk-- add-on library for drawing and plotting. URL: http://www.gnome.org/guppi/
gtk-engines-extra => <reply> $who, Extra themes and engines for GTK toolkit. URL: http://members.xoom.com/Gavrilov_Con/gnome/gtk-engines.html

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hifs => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://skynet.stack.nl/pub/linux/hifs/
hindent => <reply> $who, HTML indentation (pretty printing) utility. URL: http://www.domtools.com/unix/hindent.shtml
hinv => <reply> $who, Display Hardware INVentory of a running Linux system, a la the IRIX hinv command. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/raju/software.html
hip => <reply> $who, hip hosts.allow daemon. URL: http://www.shocking.com/~doemill/
Hips => <reply> $who, HIPPI Switch Programming Software. URL: http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/LAN/Software/hips/
Hitchhiker => <reply> $who, An astronomy program which shows the planets and their orbits. URL: 
HNDG => <reply> $who, Generates a daily digest from the popular Heise Web Newsticker. URL: http://paul.boehm.org/
Hoard => <reply> $who, A fast, scalable, and memory-efficient SMP memory allocator. URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/emery/hoard/
Homebrew Decompiler => <reply> $who, Decompiles Java .class files to .java files.. URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pdr/hbd/
Homer Applet => <reply> $who, Animated Homer for the GNOME panel. URL: http://www.lsd.getreal.co.uk/homer/
Hood => <reply> $who, A threads library for multiprogrammed multiprocessors. URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hood/
Hopkins FBI for Linux => <reply> $who, Adventure game. URL: http://www.hopkinsfbi.com
host-connect => <reply> $who, A launcher for telnet/ssh. URL: http://www.sol-1.demon.co.uk/software.html
HostSentry => <reply> $who, Host based login anomaly detection and response tool. URL: http://www.psionic.com/abacus/hostsentry/
HotlineX => <reply> $who, HotlineX is a full screen, comand line interface to Hotline.. URL: http://www.krazynet.com/hx/
hotmole => <reply> $who, Bash script to download and forward a user's Hotmail email as a batch job. URL: http://www.jin-sei-kai.demon.co.uk/hugo/linux.html#hotmole
howto pager => <reply> $who, This program is a clone of man,showing HOWTO pages. URL: http://clockwork.duse.net/
HOWTO Search => <reply> $who, Easy to search HOWTO database with over 200 HOWTOs.. URL: http://codebox.net/
HP OfficeJet Linux Driver => <reply> $who, Linux support for the HP Officejet All-In-One series. URL: http://hpoj.bstc.net/
hping2 => <reply> $who, Network auditing / testing tool. URL: http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/hping2.html
HPP => <reply> $who, Simple including and conditionalities for HTML like cpp.. URL: http://www.peak.org/~masked/

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Zombie => <reply> $who, Library and server for developing networked apps/games.. URL: http://www.infa.abo.fi/~chakie/zombie/
Hurricane => <reply> $who, A highly extensible IRC daemon.. URL: http://www.aracnet.com/~chrisv/ircd-0.3.tar.gz
hutrans => <reply> $who, Converts text to UTF-8. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/i18n/
hwclock => <reply> $who, Read and set the Hardware Clock. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/
hwinfo2html => <reply> $who, Benchmark Outputs To Html File. URL: http://rob.current.nu/hwinfo2html/
hybridcon => <reply> $who, Console utility for Hybrid cable modems. URL: http://www.auk.cx/hybridcon/
Hybris => <reply> $who, Tree editor / Structured document editor (in development phase). URL: http://hybris.netpedia.net/
HybServ => <reply> $who, Services for the Hybrid IRCD server. URL: ftp://ftp.magenet.com/pub/hybserv/
HylaFax => <reply> $who, A telecommunication system for UNIX systems. URL: http://www.hylafax.org
HyperHelp => <reply> $who, Context-sensitive, on-line help system for UNIX. URL: http://www.bristol.com/Company/Announce/hyperhelp52an.html
Hypermail => <reply> $who, Mail(box) to HTML converter with threads and MIME support.. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/hypermail/
hypermail.pl => <reply> $who, Converts e-mail archives into web pages. URL: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~northrup/hypermail.html
Hyperplay => <reply> $who, Multimedia authoring engine. URL: http://www.hypercore.co.jp/hyperplay/en.html
hypersrc => <reply> $who, freeware GUI (GTK+) program for browsing source code. URL: http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/hypersrc/hypersrc.html
HZIP => <reply> $who, Parser/file stripper that compresses HTMLs by as much as 70%. URL: http://www.jitit.com/Products/HZIP/hzip.html
I-Gear => <reply> $who, Internet Content Management Software. URL: http://www.urlabs.com/
I4LRH6 => <reply> $who, Scripts and a FAQ on how to use I4L with Red Hat 6.0 Systems. URL: http://www.kalka.org/linux/dox/i4l2rwth.html
i8255 => <reply> $who, i8255 (digital I/O) kernel module. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sgraaf/i8255/index.html
IA => <reply> $who, A little AI program.. URL: http://utenti.tripod.it/Claudio1977/ia.html
Iaijutsu => <reply> $who, Perl-based content management and object-oriented web application framework. URL: http://www.ninjacode.com/iaijutsu/
IAS => <reply> $who, A transfer tool for N64 development units with many other features.. URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0713iasl136.htm

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javelin => <reply> $who, Server side javascript-HTML web scripting system. URL: http://javelin.web.ee/
JayGo => <reply> $who, Game engine for any tile/stone based game, specifically written for Go.. URL: http://obsidian.teter.indiana.edu/JayGo-1.32.jar
Jazilla => <reply> $who, A port of Mozilla into Java. URL: http://www.jazilla.org/
jaZip => <reply> $who, A program for maintaining your Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drive(s) anddisks. URL: http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith/jazip/
jBase => <reply> $who, Application Development and Database Independent Management System. URL: http://www.jbase.com/
jbc => <reply> $who, Displays the time in BCD (Binary Coded Decimal). URL: http://snoopy.net/~jon/jbc
jbofihe => <reply> $who, Parses Lojban text and provides rough English translation. URL: http://www.rrbcurnow.freeserve.co.uk/lojban/
jbpe => <reply> $who, Java back-propagation neural network editor. URL: http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~koutnij/studium/jbpe.html
JCam => <reply> $who, Java application for downloading images from many popular digital cameras. URL: http://www.jcam.com
JCCSP => <reply> $who, JavaServer Pages 1.0 Engine w/ some JSP 1.1 support.. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~shemnon/
JCheckLinks => <reply> $who, HTML hyperlink validator, java, multithreaded. URL: http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/jchecklinks/
JChemPaint => <reply> $who, A 2D molecular structure editor written in Java. URL: http://www.ice.mpg.de/~stein/projects/JChemPaint/
jCIFS => <reply> $who, Implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java. URL: http://jcifs.samba.org/
jCVS => <reply> $who, Java implementation of client-server CVS (version control for team projects). URL: http://www.ice.com/java/jcvs/
jDBA => <reply> $who, Java Database Administration tool. URL: http://www.techgnosis.org/
jdbtool => <reply> $who, GPL Java Graphical Debugger. URL: http://www.oops.demon.co.uk/jdbtool/
JDDB => <reply> $who, GUI debugger for JDK1.3. URL: http://sdn.sybase.com/sdn/mec/mec_down_jddb.stm
jdfetch => <reply> $who, A set of tools to fetch and format news boxes. URL: http://jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdfetch/
JDHCP => <reply> $who, API for writing Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) applications in Java. URL: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~jgoldsch/dhcp/
JDK => <reply> $who, Java Development Kit. URL: http://java.sun.com
jdresolve => <reply> $who, Resolves IP addresses into hostnames. URL: http://www.jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdresolve/

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JRun => <reply> $who, JSP Engine. URL: http://www.allaire.com/products/jrun/
JSBeautifier => <reply> $who, Free, small and fast automatic indention for Java source files. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~davidsont/jstyle/jsbeautifier.html
jsd => <reply> $who, Joystick daemon/mp3 player/image viewer. URL: http://linux.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/jsd.html
JSetiTracker => <reply> $who, Java Add-On Client for SETI@home. URL: http://zap.to/jsetitracker/
JSF => <reply> $who, GUI Front end to SpeakFreely audio conferencing tool.. URL: http://www.germane-software.com/SpeakFreely/jsf/index.html
JSFormatter => <reply> $who, Free style-formatter for Java source files. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~davidsont/jstyle/jsformatter.html
jSig => <reply> $who, A signature randomizer written in java. URL: http://www.vaporwarepublishing.com/software/jSig/
jslaunch => <reply> $who, Joystick shell command execution utility. URL: http://gene.wins.uva.nl/~spronk/jslaunch/
jt => <reply> $who, Template to compose LaTeX jewel case CD inserts. URL: http://www-stud.enst.fr/~michon/realisations.html
JTetris => <reply> $who, Java version of Tetris. URL: http://complicity.olf.co.uk:8080/jtetris.html
JThreads/C++ => <reply> $who, Java like threads for C++. URL: http://www.ooc.com/jtc/
JTypist => <reply> $who, Typing Tutor. URL: http://www.ocston.org/~simonb/typist/
Juggernaut Application Server => <reply> $who, Java-based Web Application Server. URL: http://www.beachdogsoftware.com/
Juke => <reply> $who, Curses based juke box program. URL: http://www.nocrew.org/software/juke/
jukebox => <reply> $who, Jukebox for mp3-files with html-interface and playerdaemon. URL: http://daemon.ratisbona.com/
Jultaf => <reply> $who, Jumble Library for Tcl and Friends. URL: http://www.linuxia.de/jultaf/
Juniper Firewall Toolkit => <reply> $who, Juniper: a firewall toolkit product. URL: http://www.obtuse.com/juniper/
JUnit => <reply> $who, Java testing framework (XP). URL: ftp://www.armaties.com/TestingFramework/JUnit/article/index.html
Just Another GTK Tetris => <reply> $who, Small and simple GTK Tetris clone.. URL: http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/
Just Another Tetris => <reply> $who, Small and simple Tetris clone. URL: http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/
jV => <reply> $who, Java image viewer. URL: http://www.flat222.org/mac/jV/

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Klipper => <reply> $who, KDE Clipboard history. URL: ftp://ftp.ksirc.org/pub/klipper/
klm => <reply> $who, KDE frontend for the LM SENSORS linux kernel. URL: http://synergy.linuxbox.com/klm_home.html
klogic => <reply> $who, Digital circuit simulation in KDE GUI. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/scientific/
kludge => <reply> $who, Document generator using a user-defined markup language.. URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/john.sutton/programming/kludge/
KLyX => <reply> $who, A modern approach of writing documents with a computer. URL: http://www.devel.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html
Kmap => <reply> $who, Nmap port-scanner frontend for QT/KDE. URL: http://www.islc.net/~icszepp/index.html
kmc_remote => <reply> $who, Gnome interface for controlling a Kodak Motion Corder fast digital camera. URL: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu/~muet/linux/kmc/kmc_utils.html
kmc_utils => <reply> $who, Control and grab images from a Kodak Motion Corder high speed camera.. URL: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu/~muet/linux/kmc/kmc_utils.html
kmemmon => <reply> $who, A KDE panel memory monitor. URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smf/
KMid => <reply> $who, Midi/Karaoke player with many features. URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html
kmikmod => <reply> $who, Multithreaded module player for KDE. URL: http://myy.helia.fi/~anttiner/kmikmod.html
KMLOFax => <reply> $who, Facsimile utility for the ELSA MicroLink(tm) Office. URL: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0000441/kmlofax_e.html
kmodbox => <reply> $who, Module player for KDE based on MikMod. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/3864/
KModem => <reply> $who, Displays the status of a modem over aninternet connection using ppp. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network/
KMol => <reply> $who, Chemical calculator for the KDE. URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tomi/kmol.html
KMonop => <reply> $who, The Monopoly(tm) boardgame for KDE.. URL: http://capsi.com/kmonop/
Kmp3 => <reply> $who, A KDE MP3 Player. URL: http://area51.mfh-iserlohn.de/kmp3/
Kmp3te => <reply> $who, MP3 tag editor. URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smf/
kmpg => <reply> $who, A mp3 player for the K Desktop Environment.. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~mvogt/linux/kmpg/index.html
kmplot => <reply> $who, Mathematical function plotter for the kde-desktop. URL: http://members.tripod.de/~kdm/
kmp_msql => <reply> $who, KMySql plugin to connect to mSQL databases. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/

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LeoCAD => <reply> $who, CAD application that uses plastic bricks. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3479/leocad.htm
less => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.flash.net/~marknu/less/
Lesstif => <reply> $who, LGPL'd re-implementation of Motif. URL: http://www.lesstif.org/
LexiMUD => <reply> $who, C++ MUD Codebase for Sci-fi MUDs, based on CircleMUD. URL: http://avp.dhs.org/leximud/
Lexmark 1100 driver for Linux => <reply> $who, Converts raw ppm files to the Lexmark 1100 printer protocol.. URL: http://209.233.17.85/lexmark/
Lexmark 2070 B/W Linux Driver => <reply> $who, B/W 300dpi printer driver (filter) for the Lexmark 2070 inkjet printer. URL: http://www.studet.fh-muenster.de/~kornblum/Lexmark2070.html
Lexmark 5700/7000 Printer Driver => <reply> $who, Lexmark 5700/7000 Colorjet Printer Driver for Linux. URL: http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/l7kdriver/
Lexmark2070 driver => <reply> $who, Driver for Lexmark 2070 Inkjet Printer. URL: http://www.studet.fh-muenster.de/~kornblum/Lexmark2070.html
lftp => <reply> $who, Sophisticated command line based FTP client. URL: http://ftp.yars.free.net/projects/lftp/
libasset => <reply> $who, A library for managing game assets. URL: http://www.sylvantech.com/~talin/projects/libasset.html
libavl => <reply> $who, Iterative AVL tree library with threaded variants. URL: http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/avl/
libax25 => <reply> $who, Library for AX.25 using hamradio programs. URL: http://www.eye-net.com.au/hamradio/
libbles => <reply> $who, A networked snake-game for Linux.. URL: http://linux.unixcity.de/libbles/
libcdaudio => <reply> $who, A versatile multiplatform CD player library supporing CDDB and CD Index. URL: http://cdcd.undergrid.net/libcdaudio/
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/

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libptb => <reply> $who, Library to develop apps with user customizable toolbars and menus. URL: http://www.serconet.com/usr/jrfr/libptb.html
Libra => <reply> $who, Ada '95 Data Structures and Networking Library. URL: http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/programming/libra/
libradio => <reply> $who, A simple, easy to use C library to control FM Tuner cards. URL: http://www.progworks.net/~djj/libradio.html
libraw1394 => <reply> $who, Library providing API to access IEEE 1394 bus (FireWire, iLink). URL: http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/ieee1394/
libRPG => <reply> $who, A library for making RPG/Adventure games.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
librt => <reply> $who, General Programming Library. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~jerome/Hackerlabs/hackerlabs.html
Libsigc++ => <reply> $who, Callback framework for C++. URL: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~kenelson/libsigc++/
libsmb => <reply> $who, Enables access to SMB shares in any C++ program under Unix. URL: http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/~brodu/smblib/
libsmbpw => <reply> $who, getpwent/putpwent interface to the Samba smbpasswd file. URL: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~atp/comp/libsmb/
libsndfile => <reply> $who, A library for reading and writing sound files.. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/
libsock => <reply> $who, High performance multi-threaded socket C library.. URL: http://www.sqrl.org/sqrl/
libstash => <reply> $who, Thread-safe C Library of algorithms and support routines.. URL: http://www.sqrl.org/sqrl/
libSTCP => <reply> $who, C Library for STCP (Secure Transport Control Protocol) support. URL: http://members.xoom.it/rustino/
libtcp++ => <reply> $who, C++ class library to create TCP/IP clients/servers. URL: http://www.sashanet.com/internet/download.html
libtiff => <reply> $who, Library for manipulation of TIFF (Tag Image File Format) images.. URL: http://www.libtiff.org/
Libtool => <reply> $who, GNU libtool is a generic library support script. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
Libundo => <reply> $who, Undo/redo management library. URL: http://undo.xnot.com/
libungif => <reply> $who, A library for reading and writing gif images without LZW compression. URL: http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif.shtml
libunicode => <reply> $who, Library of unicode string functions and charset converters. URL: http://www.bowerbird.com.au/libunicode/
libutf-8 => <reply> $who, Library of i18n routines for UTF-8 encoding/decoding. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/i18n/
LibVRML97/Lookat => <reply> $who, Open VRML97 Toolkit and Browser. URL: http://www.vermontel.net/~cmorley/vrml.html

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LinCVS => <reply> $who, A graphical frontend for the CVS-client.. URL: http://ppprs1.phy.tu-dresden.de/~trogisch/linux/lincvsen.html
LineFeed => <reply> $who, DOS to UNIX text files converter. URL: http://www.littleigloo.org/
linenum => <reply> $who, Aids coders in finding simple syntax errors.. URL: http://iconmedia.com/aaron/linenum.shtml
Liner => <reply> $who, Simple strategy game, as a java applet. URL: http://www.casema.net/~lvd77/Liner.html
Lines => <reply> $who, A logical board game. URL: http://www.genesisnet.hr/~nlovric/lines/
LinGate for Linux => <reply> $who, Network gateway software with many facilities.. URL: http://lingate.cjb.net
LingoTeach => <reply> $who, A very simple language-teaching program.. URL: http://lingoteach.xnot.com/
Link Site => <reply> $who, Weblication to store bookmarks and make them available on the web. URL: http://www.wanetwork.net/linksite/
LinkChecker => <reply> $who, LinkChecker is a URL link checker. URL: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~calvin/?LinkChecker
Links => <reply> $who, Lynx-like text WWW browser. URL: http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/
Links Mananger => <reply> $who, Web-based link directory management system. URL: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/links/index.htm
Links SQL => <reply> $who, An SQL-based solution to maintain a large web-based directory of links. URL: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/links-sql/
LinkScan => <reply> $who, checks links, validates HTML and creates SiteMaps. URL: http://www.elsop.com/
LinKT => <reply> $who, Packet-Radio terminal for radio amateurs. URL: http://1409.org/projects/linkt/index.html
linleech => <reply> $who, Program that automates the processof downloading USENET articles. URL: http://cerealbox.suspicion.org/linleech.html
LinNeighborhood => <reply> $who, Linux Port of Windows Network Neighborhood. URL: http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/
LinPopup => <reply> $who, Linux port of Winpopup, running over Samba.. URL: http://www.littleigloo.org/
LinPyro => <reply> $who, A pyromaniacs game for Linux.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~retep/linpyro.html
LinuDent => <reply> $who, A Dental Practice Management Software program. URL: http://smalllinux.netpedia.net/dental/index.html
Linux Administrators Security Guide => <reply> $who, A 160+ page PDF on Linux Security. URL: https://www.seifried.org/lasg/
Linux Backup => <reply> $who, A small utility to backup files. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/lnxbackup/
Linux Boot Logo Patch => <reply> $who, Displays a boot logo bitmap in text mode during boot. URL: http://www.hanno.com/linux-bootlogo/

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Linux-HA => <reply> $who, Heartbeat subsystem for High-Availability Linux project. URL: http://linux-ha.org/
Linux-Kontor => <reply> $who, A free Commodities, Bookkeeping, Accountancy and Inventory Management software. URL: http://www.linux-kontor.de/
Linux-PAM => <reply> $who, Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules. URL: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Linux-Sna => <reply> $who, SNA for Linux. URL: http://www.linux-sna.org/
Linux/Coldfire => <reply> $who, Port of Linux to the Motorola Coldfire processors. URL: http://www.moretonbay.com/coldfire/linux-coldfire.html
Linuxconf => <reply> $who, Sophisticated administrative tool. URL: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
LinuxGT => <reply> $who, Formerly OpenShare Linux - LinuxGT Features a GUI Installation. URL: http://www.greysite.com/
LinuxGT Server Edition => <reply> $who, Streamlined (textual install) Linux for use as a robust Server. URL: http://www.greysite.com/
LinuxInfo => <reply> $who, Gives system information about your Linux system. URL: http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/prog.html
LinuxTaRT => <reply> $who, Feature-rich email signature generator. URL: http://mvgrafx.penguinpowered.com/~vmark/LT/
LinuxThreads => <reply> $who, An implementation of the Posix 1003.1c thread package for Linux. URL: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/
LinWars => <reply> $who, Role Playing Game in Bard's-Tale-Style. URL: http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/klaus/
lirc => <reply> $who, Linux Infra-red Remote Control. URL: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~columbus/lirc/index.html
lisp debug => <reply> $who, Source level lisp debugger. URL: http://bewoner.dma.be/marclisp/intro.html
LiSP2TeX => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www-spi.lip6.fr/~queinnec/WWW//LiSP2TeX.html
LiSt Directory => <reply> $who, lists files & subdirectories recursively in a list format. URL: http://www.ncat.edu/~sully/lsd/
Listar => <reply> $who, Modular Mailing list management software. URL: http://www.listar.org/
Lithium => <reply> $who, Suite of Network/System Admin Tools with a GTK+ GUI. URL: http://jw.themes.org/
Live CD => <reply> $who, Scripts to create Debian Linux System on Live CD - runs w/out HD.. URL: http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/
LiveMix => <reply> $who, Mixing of live broadcasts of streaming media.. URL: http://livemix.mini.dhs.org/
lizcam => <reply> $who, Easy-to-use webcam program with automatic archiving of pictures.. URL: http://www.syspac.com/~madlather/lizcam.html

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Name Server Configurator => <reply> $who, A set of scripts for easy DNS configuration.. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/linux.html
Name service browser => <reply> $who, A browser for CORBA naming service. URL: http://lazy.ton.tut.fi/name-service-browser.html
namegen => <reply> $who, Tool and library for randomly generating strings of a specified format.. URL: http://www.worldforge.org/website/tools/namegen/
NAMG => <reply> $who, Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~gsymonds/NAMG/
Nannie => <reply> $who, System file watcher and notification program. URL: ftp://tools.tradeservices.com/pub/nannie/
Nano-X => <reply> $who, Tiny X replacement for Linux based palmtops and POS units. URL: http://www.linuxhacker.org/nanogui/
nanocrypt => <reply> $who, RC4 file encryption. URL: http://www.mindrot.org/code/nanocrypt.php3
Narcan Blacklister v1.0 => <reply> $who, process blacklister. URL: http://narcan.g0v.tj/
nasm => <reply> $who, 80x86 assembler designed for portability and modularity. URL: http://www.cryogen.com/nasm/
navmutt => <reply> $who, Use your favorite e-mail client under Netscape. URL: http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/brian_winters/mutt/
NBChk => <reply> $who, Multi-threaded Perl banner-checking utility. URL: http://www.nfsg.org/downloads/nbchk.html
nbench => <reply> $who, Byte CPU benchmark. URL: http://members.xoom.com/Gavrilov_Con/nbench/index.html
NCatalog => <reply> $who, The GTKtalog databse ncurses browser and searcher.. URL: http://gtktalog.iskewl.com/
NcFTP => <reply> $who, UNIX application program implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). URL: http://www.ncftp.com/
NcFTPd => <reply> $who, High-performance File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for UNIXsystems. URL: http://www.ncftp.com
ncftpd_admin => <reply> $who, Tcl/tk Front end to ncftpd_passwd.. URL: http://www.curtisonline.net/software/
ncp => <reply> $who, Copy files quickly inside your LAN. URL: http://www.fefe.de/ncp/
Ncpfs => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/ncpfs/
ncps => <reply> $who, ncurses based process killer. URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~pc171/ncps.html
NCSfck => <reply> $who, Program to detected file changes.. URL: http://www.ncsn.za.net
nct => <reply> $who, Color-extended tetris game. URL: ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/unix/games/tetris/
ncurses => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.html
Ncurses Hexedit => <reply> $who, Ncurses file hex editor - edit/insert/delete/search. URL: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~apoc/programs/c/hexedit/
NDir => <reply> $who, Console tool to display directory's contents. URL: http://www.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE/~mw/software/
ne => <reply> $who, A free editor easy to use for the beginner, but powerful for the wizard. URL: http://gongolo.usr.dsi.unimi.it/~vigna/ftp/ne-1.17.tgz
NED => <reply> $who, Dyndns server and client package. URL: http://www.bluecherry.net/~rain/ned-0.3.tar.gz
NEdit => <reply> $who, . URL: http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html
Nemesis => <reply> $who, Linux Video Security System. URL: http://nemesis.inodes.org/
NeoBoard => <reply> $who, A whole new multi-threaded message board with great look and feel. URL: http://www.neoqst.com/public/neoboard/neoboard.html
NeoMagic X Server => <reply> $who, Binary-only X server for Neomagic graphic chips. URL: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/
NeoStats => <reply> $who, IRC Statistical Services. URL: http://codeworks.kamserve.com/
nep => <reply> $who, An interactive plot program base on BLT. URL: http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/nephome/
neped => <reply> $who, Promiscuous Ethernet Detector, to check for sniffers on local subnet. URL: http://apostols.org/projectz/neped/
neshdr => <reply> $who, Writes NES headers in iNES format. URL: http://emu.simplenet.com/misc/neshdr.1.tar.gz
Neslie => <reply> $who, FTN Type2+ packet/message viewer. URL: http://kafedra.ipmce.ru:8013/neslie/
Nessus => <reply> $who, A free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool. URL: http://www.nessus.org/
NEStra => <reply> $who, Dynamic-Recompiling NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator. URL: http://nestra.linuxgames.com/
Net Lightning => <reply> $who, x-10 device control server for Linux and OS/2. URL: http://nyti.spaghetti.com
Net Partitioner => <reply> $who, Network Access Policy Manager. URL: http://www.netpartitioner.com/

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One Step Beyond => <reply> $who, Simple Print Filter. URL: http://www.grawlfang.demon.co.uk/Linux/linux.htm
One Time Pad Toolkit => <reply> $who, Cheezy Encryption. URL: http://www.bluesine.tj/art_opt.html
oneline calculator => <reply> $who, perl oneliner in an alias statement that makes a calculator. URL: http://iki.fi/too/sw/oc.readme
Online Promotions Publisher => <reply> $who, A web-based publishing service for OSS promotional efforts.. URL: http://www.promopub.org/
onShore Timesheet => <reply> $who, A comprehensive, web-based, multi-user, time-billing and project management tool. URL: http://www.onshore-timesheet.org/
OnyX => <reply> $who, . URL: http://fox.unixville.com/~fhall/OnyX/
oo2c => <reply> $who, Optimizing Oberon2 to C Compiler. URL: http://www.uni-kl.de/OOC/
oolaboola => <reply> $who, digital DJ tool; real-time sound-file mixer. URL: http://www.hyperreal.org/~est/oolaboola/
Open Cubic Player => <reply> $who, A music player for modules, midi, cd, mp3 and sid. URL: http://www.cubic.org/player/
Open GRiD => <reply> $who, A project to create Open Global Ranking Search Engine and Directory (Open GRiD). URL: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~maxim/OpenGRiD/
Open Group Linux JDK => <reply> $who, A port of the Java Development Kit to Linux using native linux threads. URL: http://www.opengroup.org/RI/java/linux/
Open Source Audio Library Project => <reply> $who, C++ Audio class library. URL: http://osalp.sourceforge.net/
Open sources fortune file => <reply> $who, Fortune file with quotes from the O'Reilly book. URL: http://www.dibona.com/opensources/index.shtml
Open Track => <reply> $who, Flexible Unix based client/server issue tracking tool, customizeable via tcl. URL: http://www.ede.com/ot/index.html
OpenBasic => <reply> $who, Commercial Quality BASIC compiler and run time environment. URL: http://www.openbasic.org
OpenBSD => <reply> $who, OpenBSD - Proactively Secure Multiplatform OS. URL: http://www.openbsd.org/
OpenCA => <reply> $who, Open Certification Authority Package. URL: http://www.openca.org/
OpenCart => <reply> $who, Perl-based online shopping cart system. URL: http://www.opencart.com/
OpenCCVS => <reply> $who, Open Credit Card Verification System. URL: ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/openccvs/
OpenCD => <reply> $who, Fast fuzzy-search directory changer.. URL: http://baldo.home.ml.org/
OpenClasses => <reply> $who, Powerful C++ class library, featuring threading and dynamic loading of classes. URL: http://ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~bavo/devel/OpenClasses-0.99b.tar.gz
OpenClasses & OpenNet => <reply> $who, Fundamental C++ classes to do multithreading, networking, dynamic loading, .... URL: http://ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~bavo/devel
OpenClassroom => <reply> $who, Linux distribution for the Educational market.. URL: http://www.openclassroom.org/
OpenDesk.com source code base => <reply> $who, Web. URL: http://www.opendesk.com/
OpenDiS => <reply> $who, Linux support for digital cameras running the Digita operating system.. URL: http://digitalux.netpedia.net
OpenH323 => <reply> $who, H.323 protocol stack. URL: http://www.openh323.org/
OpenLDAP => <reply> $who, LDAP suite of applications and development tools. URL: http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
OpenLink Universal Data Access Driver Suite For Linux => <reply> $who, High-Performance ODBC, JDBC, and UDBC Drivers for Linux. URL: http://www.openlinksw.com/
OpenLink Virtuoso => <reply> $who, Virtual Database Engine enabing Heterogeneous Data Access. URL: http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/
OpenMail => <reply> $who, Business Messaging for Linux, including MS Outlook support. URL: http://www.hp.com/go/openmail/
OpenMap => <reply> $who, JavaBeans tool kit for building applications/applets with maps. URL: http://openmap.bbn.com
OpenNaken => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk client for Naken Chat. URL: http://daemon.netfirms.com/

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Perro => <reply> $who, This is a set of daemons that log TCP/UDP/ICMP packets.. URL: http://www.grigna.com/diego/linux/perro/
Personal Webspace => <reply> $who, A set of scripts that allows users to maintain their web pages using a browser.. URL: http://zorro.pangea.ca/~mcrewson/pws/
Petey => <reply> $who, Fortune like application for story generation. URL: http://members.xoom.com/uruk/index.html
Petidomo => <reply> $who, Easy to use mailing list processor and manager. URL: http://www.petidomo.com/
Petite Chez Scheme => <reply> $who, An implementation of extended ANSI Scheme. URL: http://www.scheme.com/
petopt => <reply> $who, C command line argument parsing library. URL: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/petopt
pex => <reply> $who, A PSX (Sony Playstation Emulator). URL: http://www.fastlane.net/~gpwossum/pex.shtml
PFinger => <reply> $who, Highly configurable replacement for GNU Finger. URL: http://www.xelia.ch/unix/pfinger/
PFlow => <reply> $who, Fluid Dynamics Demonstration Program. URL: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/insouciant/pflow/index.html
pftp => <reply> $who, A tool for IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP data transfer.. URL: http://www.pftp.de
pftpd => <reply> $who, Multithreaded anonymous FTP daemon. URL: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/pftpd/
pg2d => <reply> $who, Generic 2d graphics library.. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/
pg2xbase => <reply> $who, Converter from/to DBF file to/from Postgres database table. URL: http://w3.man.torun.pl/~makler/prog/pg2xbase/
PgAccess => <reply> $who, TCL/TK frontend for PostgreSQL. URL: http://flex.flex.ro/pgaccess/
pgdbm => <reply> $who, db/dbm-emulation for PostgreSQL RDBMS. URL: http://www.is.kiruna.se/~goran/ldap/be.html
pgp4pine => <reply> $who, Interactive program for using PGP with email programs, specifically Pine. URL: http://pgp4pine.flatline.de/
pgp4pine by Marcin Marszalek => <reply> $who, Bash script that allows using PGP under PINE. URL: http://azzie.xnot.com/
pgpenvelope => <reply> $who, GPG/PGP5 filter for Pine. URL: http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/resources.html
pgpgpg => <reply> $who, wrapper around GnuPG which takes PGP 2.6 command line options. URL: http://www.nessie.de/mroth/pgpgpg/
PGPHTML => <reply> $who, Generates PGP signed web-pages. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4794/pgphtml.html
pgppipe => <reply> $who, Allows encrypting a stream with IDEA.. URL: http://www.handshake.de/user/kroening/pgppipe/

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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/
Pi3Web => <reply> $who, HTTPserver and development environment. URL: http://www.johnroy.com/pi3/pi3web/
PicBook => <reply> $who, automatically produces a photo album in HTML format of your photographs. URL: http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~pete/PICS/PicBook/
Pico => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Picview => <reply> $who, Thumbnail preview, image viewer and slideshow program for Gnome.. URL: http://www.digitallabyrinth.com/linux/picview/index.html
pidentd => <reply> $who, Daemon implementing the IDENT (RFC1413) protocol. URL: http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/~pen/pidentd/
pidentd+fm patch => <reply> $who, Patch for pidentd to add fake userid query, IP masquerade and relay. URL: http://www.manpages.org/pidentd/
PiGTK => <reply> $who, Provides GTK+ bindings for Pike. URL: http://pike-community.org/sites/pigtk/
Pike => <reply> $who, Interpreted, object-oriented programming language with a syntax similar to C. URL: http://pike.idonex.se/

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treeps => <reply> $who, X/Motif graphical process tree visualizer. URL: http://www.slip.net/~gmd/tps/treeps.htm
treeutils => <reply> $who, Set of shell scripts for managing software installed from source distributions. URL: http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~edgy/treeutils/treeutils-latest.tar.gz
treeview.cgi => <reply> $who, treeview 'widget' for html. URL: http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/math/rschiele/
Trestlemail => <reply> $who, Automatically redistributes multi-drop Fetchmail. URL: http://www.trestle.com/linux/trestlemail/
Trf => <reply> $who, Filtering channels for Tcl, MAC, Encryption, Error correction, various encodings. URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/trf/
Trfcrypt => <reply> $who, Add-on to Trf with various encryption algorithms.. URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/trfcrypt/
Trinux => <reply> $who, 2-disk distribution that includes network security tools and runs in RAM. URL: http://www.trinux.org/
trio => <reply> $who, very portable *printf() clones and generic string functions. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/trio/
Triplight => <reply> $who, Intrusion detection/integrity monitor, uses md5sum to verify a list of files.. URL: http://linux.rice.edu/magic/triplight/
Tripwire => <reply> $who, Intrusion Detection System for Linux. URL: http://www.tripwiresecurity.com
trn => <reply> $who, Text-based newsreader with threading. URL: http://www.clari.net/~wayne/
Troll-FTPd => <reply> $who, A free, small, and secure virtual FTP server. URL: http://www.troll.no/freebies/ftpd.html
TRONtium => <reply> $who, A clone of the classic TRON light-cycles game.. URL: http://www.jigsawdezign.demon.co.uk/trontium.htm
TroubleTickets => <reply> $who, HelpDesk Trouble Ticket Web Application. URL: http://faculty.cinstate.cc.oh.us/TroubleTickets/
truc => <reply> $who, Two shell scripts that allow you to transfer big files via e-mail. URL: http://www.ensg.u-nancy.fr/~segonds/truc/
TrueReality => <reply> $who, N64 Emulator. URL: http://www.emuhq.com/truereality/
Truth VSA => <reply> $who, Open Source Lie Detection. URL: http://www.accessone.com/~rivero/POLITICS/VSA/truthvsa.html
TSambaClass => <reply> $who, Cross platform C++ class library for accessing smb.conf file.. URL: http://www.spanware.com/
tsbiff => <reply> $who, Tsbiff will oversee your mailbox and notify you when new messages appears. URL: http://www.tildeslash.com/tsbiff/
Tsinvest => <reply> $who, Quantitative financial analysis of equities.. URL: http://www2.inow.com/~conover/ntropix/
TSpaces => <reply> $who, Allows heterogeneous, Java-enabled devices to exchange data. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/
tsync => <reply> $who, A Perl scipt for synchronising the system time with a remote server.. URL: http://www.hibernaculum.demon.co.uk/
TT-News => <reply> $who, A headline-news ticker for various news-sources.. URL: http://www.student.lu.se/~etn97ksi/sim_home/
TTC => <reply> $who, Controls login on ttys. URL: http://poseidon.pspt.fi/~priikone/english/programs.shtml
TTdb => <reply> $who, Simple database API written entirely in /bin/sh. URL: http://www.tinaa.com/TTdb/index.html
TThread => <reply> $who, A Cross-platfrom Threading library.. URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~stanis/tthread.html
ttmkfdir => <reply> $who, A tool to create fonts.dir files from TrueType fonts. URL: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/ttmkfdir.tar.gz
ttysnoop => <reply> $who, Allows you to spy on telnet+serial connections. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/terminal/ttysnoop-0.12c.tar.gz
Turbo Vision => <reply> $who, Nice and complete console TUI (Text User Interface) for C++. URL: http://members.xoom.com/stropea/tvision.html
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

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wvDecrypt => <reply> $who, microsoft word 97 password validator and *almost* decrypter. URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/wvDecrypt.html
WvDial => <reply> $who, Intelligent Internet Dialer. URL: http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/
WWIV/X => <reply> $who, WWIV Bulletin Board Software for Linux. URL: http://wwiv-x.2y.net/
WWR => <reply> $who, . URL: http://wwr.bln.de/
www-sql => <reply> $who, Displays information from MySQL or PostgreSQL databases in web pages. URL: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/www-sql/
WWW2Popup => <reply> $who, A simple web interface to send Winpopup Messages to groups or individuals.. URL: http://www.stsi.net/~bakins/files/www2popup.tar.gz
WWW::Poll => <reply> $who, Perl module for generating Polls.. URL: http://temple.stickydata.com/~mgammon/poll/
WWWatson => <reply> $who, Sherlock-compatible extensible metasearch engine. URL: http://www.molehill.org/~jtl/wwwatson/
WWWdb => <reply> $who, Database-access over HTTP with consistency-check. URL: http://linux.twc.de/WWWdb/
WWWOFFLE => <reply> $who, Simple proxy server with special features for use with dial-up internet links. URL: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
WWWThreads => <reply> $who, WWW based discussion forums. URL: http://www.wwwthreads.org
www_proxy => <reply> $who, HTTP proxy with the capability of modifying User-Agent value. URL: http://www.sashanet.com/internet/download.html
wx200d => <reply> $who, Client/server weather data collector for WX200/WM918. URL: http://www.quiknet.com/~twitham/wx200d/
WXftp => <reply> $who, FTP client for X with nice and intuitive GTK+ and Motif GUI. URL: http://www.wxftp.seul.org
wxHTML => <reply> $who, HTML (and richtext viewer) widget for wxWindows 2. URL: http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~vsla8348/wxhtml/
wxPython => <reply> $who, Python extension module for wxWindows. URL: http://alldunn.com/wxPython/
wxWindows/GTK => <reply> $who, GTK port of the cross-platform wxWindows C++application framework class library. URL: http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt/
Wrstelstand => <reply> $who, German Hot-dog booth simulation. URL: http://poboxes.com/futureware/wurst.htm
X ARCHON => <reply> $who, A clone of the classic ARCHON game. URL: http://xarchon.seul.org/
X Northern Captain => <reply> $who, Filemanager for X Windows. URL: http://www.xnc.dubna.su
X WinCommander => <reply> $who, File Manager for X11. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/7912/xwc.html

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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/
xipdump => <reply> $who, displays ip packets using the X Window System.. URL: http://www.epita.fr/~lse/xipdump/
xIrc => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.croftj.net/~xirc/
Xitami => <reply> $who, A fast, portable, and best of all free multi-threaded web server. URL: http://www.xitami.com/
XKeyCaps => <reply> $who, A graphical front-end to xmodmap.. URL: http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
XKobo => <reply> $who, Fastpaced multiway scrolling shoot-em-up.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/arcade/
Xlab => <reply> $who, Automates any X application by recording and playing backX-events.. URL: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mvertes/xlab.html
xlHtml => <reply> $who, XLS to HTML converter. URL: http://www.gate.net/~ddata/xlHtml/index.htm
xlnotice => <reply> $who, Login time public notice board for X. URL: http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~guazzibe/XLN/
Xlockmore => <reply> $who, screen saver / locker for the X Window System. URL: http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlockmore.html
Xlogmaster => <reply> $who, Tool to monitor logfiles and hardware status. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/xlogmaster/xlogmaster.html
XLogMonitor => <reply> $who, Tool for monitoring linux log's. URL: http://members.xoom.com/chaosmaker/linux/
xls2xml => <reply> $who, A free converter from Microsoft Excel to XML, and a free C library. URL: http://arturo.directmail.org/filtersweb/
Xmahjongg => <reply> $who, Colorful X solitaire Mah Jongg game. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/xmahjongg/

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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
teapop => <reply> $who, Teapop is another RFC1939 compliant POP3-server, however Teapop takes a step further. URL: http://www.val-axs.net/~ibo/teapop/teapop-latest.tar.gz
mailshift => <reply> $who, mailshift is a utility that reads a user's UNIX mailbox and writes the messages in a form readable by Infradig's Inframail Windows POP3 (and other protocols) server. URL: http://www.tranchant.freeserve.co.uk/software/mailsh...
BRINK => <reply> $who, Bad Risky Insanely Noodleriffic Kludge (BRINK) is a perl cgi that lets users change their current password via a web page. URL: http://brink.linuxguru.net/brink-1.2.tar.gz
Performance Co-Pilot => <reply> $who, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a framework and set of services for supporting system-level performance monitoring and performance management. URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download/
timofometro => <reply> $who, timofometro can help you know your telephone expenses in your connections to the Internet. URL: http://members.xoom.com/rvmsoft/download/timos/timofometro_0.14.tar.gz
MPAC => <reply> $who, MPAC (Microstrip Patch Antenna Calculator) was designed out of a need for a low cost, fast, and easy to use program to calculate critical design parameters of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna. URL: http://antenna.linuxbox....

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upgrade => <reply> $who, upgrade updates the HP49's ROM. URL: http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/pc/rom/hp49fl02.tgz
gCatalog => <reply> $who, gCatalog is an inventory program to keep track of just about anything. URL: http://gCatalog.sourceforge.net/downloads/
QPOV => <reply> $who, QPOV is a simple Qt-based front-end to the Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer (POV). URL: http://members.home.net/krobillard/qpov/qpov-0.1.0.tar.gz
CoreLinux++ => <reply> $who, CoreLinux++ is an initiative to normalize methods and conventions for OOA/OOD/C++ development for Linux, materialized in a set of Open Source C++ class libraries (libcorelinux++ and libcoreframework++) to support common p...
Zen => <reply> $who, Zen is a Web browser for the Linux framebuffer, although a modular design allows different user interfaces. URL: ftp://ftp.nocrew.org/pub/nocrew/linux/zen-0.0.1.tar.gz
wmSu => <reply> $who, wmSu is an su-like program that runs some other executable with different user and group IDs, and uses WINGs for its UI.. URL: http://student.dei.uc.pt/~mtavares/wmSu/wmSu-latest.tgz
impose+ => <reply> $who, impose+ is a set of PostScript utilities. URL: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/impose+/impose+-0.1.tar.gz
THCNET Message System => <reply> $who, The THCNET Message System is a customizable PHP-enabled Web application which provides a moderated message system using a backend MySQL database.. URL: http://krux.thcnet.net/php/thcnet-current.tar.gz
FROGS => <reply> $who, FROGS is an object-oriented, general-purpose, event-driven simulation tool designed for efficent and fast behavioral evaluation of complex architectures. URL: ftp://ftp.realiant.com/frogs/
JFlash => <reply> $who, JFlash is a Java flash card organizer that enables you to create and review electronic flash cards. URL: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~wlee/codes/jflash/jflash-latest.zip
Soma => <reply> $who, Soma is a multithreaded, mostly HTTP/1.1-compliant Web server written in Java. URL: http://www.auntfloyd.com/~rob/files/soma-0.75.tar.gz
iOffice2000 US English Patch => <reply> $who, The iOffice2000 US English Patch allows UK English users to install the US English version of iOffice2000 without loosing the data already entered.. URL: http://www.scseuro.de/ioffice2000/download.html
mini_httpd => <reply> $who, mini_httpd is a small HTTP server. URL: http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/mini_httpd_10dec99.tar.gz
Correcteur 101 => <reply> $who, Correcteur 101 is a French grammar checker that provides a complete grammatical analysis of a sentence. URL: 
RTP => <reply> $who, RTP draws a single stream of X-Y points received from an input stream in connect-the-dots fashion. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/science/visualization/rtp-1.0.0.tar.gz
senv => <reply> $who, Senv allows you to run programs with a specified environment. URL: http://www.ids.pl/~kodzak/senv-0.1.tar.gz
mod_random => <reply> $who, mod_random allows you to specify a set of URLs which will be displayed in a random order when referenced.. URL: ftp://www.tangent.org/pub/apache/mod_random-0.9.tar.gz
LCAP => <reply> $who, LCAP allows a system administrator to remove specific capabilities from the kernel in order to make the system more secure. URL: http://www.netcom.com/~spoon/lcap-0.0.1.tar.bz2
PHP auto prepend/append script => <reply> $who, The PHP auto-prepend/append script is a ColdFusion-type application.cfm for PHP. URL: ftp://0x00.org/pub/php/php.prepend.append.tgz
OpenH323 gatekeeper => <reply> $who, The OpenH323 gatekeeper is a freely available H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. URL: http://www.willamowius.de/images/gk011.tar.gz
SMM++ Mud Client => <reply> $who, SMM++ Mud Client is a mud client with extended and unique features. URL: http://www.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE/~issevers/SMM++/downloads/smm4r2.tar.gz

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KSEG => <reply> $who, KSeg is a program for exploring Euclidean geometry, similar to Geometer's Sketchpad, Cabri, Cinderella, and Dr. URL: http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/kseg-0.1.tar.gz
LxA => <reply> $who, LxA is a collection of documentation, tools, and sample components put together to assist in assembling useful Linux-based 'appliances' which boot from and are entirely contained on one floppy disk. URL: http://equusasinus.com/lx...
Melys => <reply> $who, Melys is a MIDI sequencer application for ALSA. URL: http://sourceforge.net/download.php?fileid=826
EpsClean => <reply> $who, Epsclean is a very simple utility used to clean the print heads of an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer.. URL: http://tip.penguinpowered.com/epsclean-0.2.tar.gz
SPIRO-Bastille => <reply> $who, SPIRO-Bastille is an adaption of the original Bastille-Linux product. URL: http://www.openshare.net/files/security/
E-Speak => <reply> $who, E-Speak is a development platform for e-services. URL: http://www.e-speak.net/download/download_howto.html
Dune => <reply> $who, Dune is a tiny Web server implementation, featuring minimal use of resources, customizable error messages, logging, and multiuser (ie. URL: http://www.cs.luther.edu/~mestanba/dune/dune-0.6.7.tar.gz
Sturm => <reply> $who, A Java implementation of the Sturm Theorem, which finds the number of roots of any polynomial using Euclidian divides.. URL: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/sturm.tar.gz
E-Weather => <reply> $who, E-weather is a port of wmWeather to Epplet form.. URL: http://www.pfnet.org/~cy/E-Weather-0.1.tar.gz
bitbus4linux => <reply> $who, bitbus4linux is a package consisting of a kernel driver, a user space protocol daemon, a set of libraries and a few sample applications for the bitbus, an open fieldbus.. URL: ftp://ftp.andrive.de/pub/bbus.tar.bz2
serproxy => <reply> $who, Serproxy is a multi-threaded proxy program for redirecting network socket connections to/from serial ports, in cases where the remote end of the serial link doesn't have a TCP/IP stack (eg an embedded or microcontroller syst...
simpleproxy => <reply> $who, Simpleproxy program acts as simple TCP proxy. URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?form_grp=604
Tk 42 => <reply> $who, Tk42 is a networked game of 42, a dominos game similar to spades or bridge that is very popular in Texas. URL: http://www.flash.net/~ckmobley/tk42-0.1.0.tar.gz
Quick Restore => <reply> $who, Quick Restore is a centrally-administered network backup and recovery system for heterogeneous networks. URL: ftp://ftp.worksta.com/pub/linux/
Cyrus SML ACAP => <reply> $who, ACAP, the Application Configuration Access Protocol, is a remote store for preferences, addressbooks, bookmarks, and other data useful to be accessible for mobile users and across applications. URL: http://asg.web.cmu....
WAI => <reply> $who, WAI is a little program that gives information about the current user. URL: http://web.interpuntonet.it/zerophobia/bin/wai-0.0.1.tar.gz
WebNews => <reply> $who, WebNews is a set of PHP scripts that allow adding, editing, and removing of Web page news. URL: ftp://sonicboom.2y.net/pub/internet/web/php/webnews0.04.tar.gz
Wizard Watchdog => <reply> $who, Wizard Watchdog is a High Availability software package. URL: http://www.wizard.de/english/downloads.html
LCDsys => <reply> $who, LCDsys is a small script that can display various information on an LCD supported by the generic LCD-driver from http://www.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de/~nils/lcd.html. URL: http://computer.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/4103...

gsteak => <reply> $who, gsteak is a translator from German to English and English to German, implemented as a GNOME applet. URL: http://gehtnix.fernuni-hagen.de/gsteak/gsteak-latest.tar.gz

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Mac Error -120 => ( dirNFErr ) Directory not found **HFS Error**
Mac Error -121 => ( tmwdoErr ) No free WDCB available **HFS Error**
Mac Error -122 => ( badMovErr ) Move into offspring error **HFS Error**
Mac Error -123 => ( wrgVolTypErr ) Not an HFS volume [wrong volume type error or (obsolete) operation not supported for MFS] **HFS Error**
Mac Error -124 => ( volGoneErr ) Server volume has been disconnected **HFS Error**
Mac Error -125 => ( updPixMemErr ) Insufficient memory to update a pixmap **HFS Error**
Mac Error -127 => ( fsDSIntErr ) Internal file system error **HFS Error**
Mac Error -126 => ( dsMBarNFnd ) System error code for MBDF not found **Menu Manager Error**
Mac Error -127 => ( dsHMenuFindErr ) Could not find HMenu's parent in MenuKey **Menu Manager Error**
Mac Error -128 => ( userCanceledErr ) User canceled an operation **Menu Manager Error**
Mac Error -130 => ( fidNotFound ) no file thread exists **HFS FileID Error**
Mac Error -131 => ( fidNotAFile ) directory specified **HFS FileID Error**
Mac Error -132 => ( fidExists ) file id already exists **HFS FileID Error**
Mac Error -147 => ( regionTooBigError ) Region too big or complex **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**
Mac Error -148 => ( pixMapTooBigErr ) Pixel map record is deeper than 1 bit per pixel [passed pixelmap is too large] **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**
Mac Error -149 => ( notEnoughStack ) Not enough stack space for the necessary buffers OR **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**
Mac Error -149 => ( mfStackErr ) Insufficient stack **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**
Mac Error -150 => ( cMatchErr ) Color2Index failed to find an index **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**
Mac Error -151 => ( cTempMemErr ) Failed to allocate memory for temporary structures **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**
Mac Error -152 => ( cNoMemErr ) Failed to allocate memory for structure **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**
Mac Error -153 => ( cRangeErr ) Range error on colorTable request **Color Quickdraw & Color Manager Error**

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Mac Error -1104 => ( noDataArea ) No data area for request to MPP **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1105 => ( reqAborted ) ERdCancel function called for this ERead [SendRequest aborted by RelTCB] **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1273 => ( errOpenDenied ) Open request denied by recipient **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1274 => ( errDSPQueueSize ) Send or receive queue is too small **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1275 => ( errFwdReset ) Read terminated by forward reset **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1276 => ( errAttention ) Attention message too long **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1277 => ( errOpening ) Attempt to open connection failed **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1278 => ( errState ) Bad connection state for this operation **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1279 => ( errAborted ) Request aborted by dspRemove or dspClose function **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1280 => ( errRefNum ) Bad connection reference number **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1300 => ( fidNotFound ) File ID not found [No file thread exists] **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1301 => ( fidExists ) File id already exists **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1302 => ( notAFileErr ) Specified file is a directory **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1303 => ( diffVolErr ) Files on different volumes **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1304 => ( catChangedErr ) Catalog has changed and CatPosition may be invalid **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1305 => ( desktopDamagedErr ) The desktop database has become corrupted - the Finder will fix this, but if your application is not running with the Finder, use DTReset or DTDelete **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1700 => ( errAECoercionFail ) Data could not be coerced to the requested descriptor type **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1701 => ( errAEDescNotFound ) Descriptor record was not found **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1702 => ( errAECorruptData ) Data in an Apple event could not be read **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1703 => ( errAEWrongDataType ) Wrong descriptor type **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1704 => ( errAENotAEDesc ) Not a valid descriptor record **AppleEvent Errors**

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bogon2 is  again" means that it is broken or   acting in an erratic or bogus fashion.  2. A query packet sent from   a TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server, having the reply bit set   instead of the query bit.  3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed  ...
bogon3 is  used to refer to any   bogus thing, as in "I'd like to go to lunch with you but I've got   to go to the weekly staff bogon".  5. A person who is bogus or who   says bogus things.  This was historically the original usage, but   has been ov...
bogon4 is  also {bogosity}, {bogus}; compare {psyton}. 
bogon filter is  /boh'gon fil'tr/ n. Any device, software or hardware,   that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons.   "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and   the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets....
bogon flux is  /boh'gon fluhks/ n. A measure of a supposed field of   {bogosity} emitted by a speaker, measured by a {bogometer};   as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener   might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising"...
bogosity is  /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is   {bogus}.  At CMU, bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in   a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might   raise his hand and say "My bogometer just trigger...
bogosity2 is  bogometer"  means you just said   or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale,   pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one   might also say "You just redlined my bogometer").  The   agreed-upo...
bogosity3 is  /mik`roh-len'*t/   (uL).   The consensus is that this is the largest unit practical   for everyday use.  2. The potential field generated by a {bogon   flux}; see {quantum bogodynamics}.  See also {bogon flux},   {bogon filter}, {bogus}...
bogosity4 is  as a attack against   noted computer scientist Doug Lenat by a {tenured graduate   student}.  Doug had failed the student on an important exam for   giving only "AI is bogus" as his answer to the questions.  The   slur is generally cons...
bogosity5 is  gag nevertheless.  Some of Doug's friends argue that *of   course* a microLenat is bogus, since it is only one millionth of a   Lenat.  Others have suggested that the unit should be redesignated   after the grad student, as the microRei...
bogotify is  /boh-go't*-fi/ vt. To make or become bogus.  A   program that has been changed so many times as to become completely   disorganized has become bogotified.  If you tighten a nut too hard   and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has b...
bogotify2 is  it any more.  This coinage led to the   notional `autobogotiphobia' defined as `the fear of becoming   bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter has ever been   `live' jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about   jargo...
bogue out is  /bohg owt/ vi. To become bogus, suddenly and   unexpectedly.  "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked   him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but   {flame} afterwards."  See also {bogosity}, {bogus}.
bogus is  adj. 1. Non-functional.  "Your patches are bogus."   2. Useless.  "OPCON is a bogus program."  3. False.  "Your   arguments are bogus."  4. Incorrect.  "That algorithm is bogus."   5. Unbelievable.  "You claim to have solved the halting pro...
bogus2 is  bogus."  6. Silly.  "Stop   writing those bogus sagas."   Astrology is bogus.  So is a bolt that is obviously about to break.   So is someone who makes blatantly false claims to have solved a   scientific problem.  (This word seems to have...
bogus3 is  {random} --- mostly the negative ones.)   It is claimed that `bogus' was originally used in the hackish sense   at Princeton in the late 1960s.  It was spread to CMU and Yale by   Michael Shamos, a migratory Princeton alumnus.  A glossary ...
bogus4 is  word was first popularized (see   {autobogotiphobia} under {bogotify}). The word spread into   hackerdom from CMU and MIT.  By the early 1980s it was also   current in something like the hackish sense in West Coast teen   slang, and it had...
bogus5 is    Cambridge reports, by contrast, that these uses of `bogus' grate on   British nerves; in Britain the word means, rather specifically,   `counterfeit', as in "a bogus 10-pound note". 
Bohr bug is  /bohr buhg/ [from quantum physics] n. A repeatable   {bug}; one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but   well-defined set of conditions.  Antonym of {heisenbug}; see also   {mandelbug}.
boink is  /boynk/ [USENET ascribed there to the TV series   "Cheers" and "Moonlighting"] 1. To have sex with;   compare {bounce}, sense 3. (This is mainstream slang.) In   Commonwealth hackish the variant `bonk' is more common.  2. After   the origin...
boink2 is  for   almost any net social gathering, e.g., Miniboink, a small boink   held by Nancy Gillett in 1988; Minniboink, a Boinkcon in Minnesota   in 1989; Humpdayboinks, Wednesday get-togethers held in the San   Francisco Bay Area.  Compare {@-...

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flush3 is  would have been printed, but   was not, as having been flushed.  It is speculated that this term   arose from a vivid image of flushing unwanted characters by hosing   down the internal output buffer, washing the characters away before   t...
flush4 is  other hand, was   propagated by the `fflush(3)' call in C's standard I/O library   (though it is reported to have been in use among BLISS programmers   at DEC and on Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965).   UNIX/C hackers find th...
Flyspeck 3 is  n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be   unreadable (by analogy with such names as `Helvetica 10' for   10-point Helvetica).  Legal boilerplate is usually printed in   Flyspeck 3.
flytrap is  n. See {firewall machine}.
FOAF is  // [USENET] n. Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'.  The   source of an unverified, possibly untrue story.  This was not   originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban   folklore), but is much better recognized on USENET a...
FOD is  /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a   spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice   and with no regard for other people.  From {MUD}s where the   wizard command `FOD <player>' results in the imme...
FOD2 is  as punishment for obnoxious behavior.   This migrated to other circumstances, such as "I'm going to fod   the process that is burning all the cycles."  Compare {gun}.   In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g., what happens   when ...
FOD3 is  bird in   flight.  Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of   what this does to the engine. 
fold case is  v. See {smash case}.  This term tends to be used   more by people who don't mind that their tools smash case.  It also   connotes that case is ignored but case distinctions in data   processed by the tool in question aren't destroyed.
followup is  n. On USENET, a {posting} generated in response to   another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by email   rather than being broadcast).  Followups include the ID of the   {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers c...
followup2 is  news in `conversation' sequence   rather than order-of-arrival.  See {thread}. 
foo is  /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust.  2. Used very generally   as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files   (esp. scratch files).  3. First on the standard list of   metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples.  See al...
foo2 is  {grault},   {garply}, {waldo}, {fred}, {plugh}, {xyzzy},   {thud}.   {foo} is the {canonical} example of a `metasyntactic   variable' --- a name used in examples and understood to stand for   whatever thing is under discussion, or any random...
foo3 is  discussion.  To avoid confusion, hackers never use   `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything.  In   filenames, a common convention is that any filename beginning   `foo' is a scratch file that may be deleted at any time....
foo4 is  When used in   connection with `bar' it is generally traced to the WWII-era Army   slang acronym FUBAR (`Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition'), later   bowdlerized to {foobar}.  (See also {FUBAR}).   However, the use of the word `foo' itself ha...
foo5 is  long history in comic strips and cartoons.   The old "Smokey Stover" comic strips by Bill Holman often   included the word `FOO', in particular on license plates of cars;   allegedly, `FOO' and `BAR' also occurred in Walt Kelly's   "Pogo" st...
foo6 is   early version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying "SILENCE IS   FOO!"; oddly, this seems to refer to some approving or positive   affirmative use of foo.  It is even possible that hacker usage   actually springs from `FOO, Lampoons and Par...
foo7 is  in September 1958; the byline read   `C. Crumb' but this may well have been a sort-of pseudonym for   noted weird-comix artist Robert Crumb.  The title FOO was featured   in large letters on the front cover.   An old-time member reports that...
foo8 is  Language', compiled at {TMRC} there was an entry that went   something like this        FOO The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase "FOO MANE PADME        HUM."  Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning.   For more abou...
foo9 is  Almost   the entire AI staff was involved with TMRC, so it is not clear   which group introduced the other to the word FOO.   Very probably, hackish `foo' had no single origin and derives   through all these channels from Yiddish `feh' and/o...
foobar is  n. Another common metasyntactic variable; see {foo}.   Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in   either the slang or jargon sense.

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ill-behaved is  adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or   computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated   roundoff error or poor convergence properties.  2. Software that   bypasses the defined {OS} interfaces to do t...
ill-behaved2 is  itself, often in a way that depends on the   hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or   incompatible with other pieces of software.  In the IBM PC/MS-DOS   world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to th...
ill-behaved3 is  and performance penalties in the OS   interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved.  See also   {bare metal}. Oppose {well-behaved}, compare {PC-ism}.  See   {mess-dos}. 
IMHO is  // [from SF fandom via USENET; acronym for `In My Humble   Opinion']  "IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as   mistyping something in the wrong case can cause hard-to-detect   errors --- and they look too Pascalish anyhow."  Also se...
IMHO2 is  Not-So-Humble Opinion) and IMAO   (In My Arrogant Opinion). 
in the extreme is  adj. A preferred superlative suffix for many hackish   terms.  See, for example, `obscure in the extreme' under {obscure},   and compare {highly}.
incantation is  n. Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that   one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result.  Not used   of passwords or other explicit security features.  Especially used   of tricks that are so poorly documented t...
incantation2 is  compiler normally locates initialized data   in the data segment, but if you {mutter} the right incantation they   will be forced into text space." 
include is  vt. [USENET] 1. To duplicate a portion (or whole) of   another's message (typically with attribution to the source) in a   reply or followup, for clarifying the context of one's response.   See the the discussion of inclusion styles under...
include2 is  `#include <disclaimer.h>'   has appeared in {sig block}s to refer to a notional `standard   disclaimer file'. 
include war is  n. Excessive multi-leveled including within a   discussion {thread}, a practice that tends to annoy readers.  In   a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as USENET, this can lead   to {flame}s and the urge to start a {kill file}.
indent style is  [C programmers] n. The rules one uses to indent code   in a readable fashion; a subject of {holy wars}.  There are four   major C indent styles, described below; all have the aim of   making it easier for the reader to visually track...
indent style2 is  significant variable is the placement of   `{' and `}' with respect to the statement(s) they   enclose and the guard or controlling statement (`if',   `else', `for', `while', or `do') on the block,   if any.   `K&R style' --- Named ...
indent style3 is  examples in {K&R} are formatted this way.  Also called `kernel   style' because the UNIX kernel is written in it, and the `One True   Brace Style' (abbrev. 1TBS) by its partisans.  The basic indent   shown here is eight spaces (or o...
indent style4 is  seen, but are much less common.     if (cond) {             <body>     }   `Allman style' --- Named for Eric Allman, a Berkeley hacker who   wrote a lot of the BSD utilities in it (it is sometimes called   `BSD style').  Resembles n...
indent style5 is  indent per level shown here is eight spaces, but four is just   as common (esp. in C++ code).     if (cond)     {             <body>     }   `Whitesmiths style' --- popularized by the examples that came   with Whitesmiths C, an earl...
indent style6 is  level shown here is eight spaces, but four is occasionally seen.     if (cond)             {             <body>             }   `GNU style' --- Used throughout GNU EMACS and the Free Software   Foundation code, and just about nowher...
indent style7 is  level, with `{' and `}' halfway between the   outer and inner indent levels.     if (cond)       {         <body>       }   Surveys have shown the Allman and Whitesmiths styles to be the most   common, with about equal mind shares. ...
indent style8 is  now much less common (the opening brace tends to   get lost against the right paren of the guard part in an `if'   or `while', which is a {Bad Thing}).  Defenders of 1TBS   argue that any putative gain in readability is less importa...
indent style9 is  vertical space, which enables   one to see more code on one's screen at once.  Doubtless these   issues will continue to be the subject of {holy wars}. 
index is  n. See {coefficient}.

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the X that can be Y is not the true X2 is  true Tao."  The implication   is often that the X is a mystery accessible only to the   enlightened.  See the {trampoline} entry for an example, and   compare {has the X nature}. 
theology is  n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to   {religious issues}.  2. Technical fine points of an abstruse   nature, esp. those where the resolution is of theoretical   interest but is relatively {marginal} with respect to actual use...
theology2 is  software issues with a   heavy AI or language-design component, such as the smart-data vs.   smart-programs dispute in AI. 
theory is  n. The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that   is currently being used to inform a behavior.  This is a   generalization and abuse of the technical meaning.  "Whats the   theory on fixing this TECO loss?"  "Whats the theory on...
theory2 is  "Whats the current theory   on letting lusers on during the day?"  "The theory behind this   change is to fix the following well-known screw...." 
thinko is  /thingkoh/ [by analogy with `typo] n. A momentary,   correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving   recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of   consciousness.  Syn. {braino}.  Compare {mouso}.
This time, for sure! is  excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered   during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small   obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection).  For the   proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruit...
This time, for sure!2 is  heard "Hey, Rocky!  Watch me pull a   rabbit out of my hat!"  The {canonical} response is, of course,   "But that trick *never* works!"  See {{Humor, Hacker}}. 
thrash is  vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing   anything useful.  Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded   waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather   than performing useful computation) and are the...
thrash2 is  changing his mind (esp. about what to   work on next) is said to be thrashing.  A person frantically trying   to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on   any single task) may also be described as thrashing.  Compa...
thread is  n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of   `topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a   single topic.
three-finger salute is  n. Syn. {Vulcan nerve pinch}.
thud is  n. 1. Yet another meta-syntactic variable (see {foo}).   It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of   these was `foo, `bar, `thud, `blat.  2. Rare term   for the hash character, `# (ASCII 0100011).  See {ASCII} for...
thunk is  /thuhnk/ n. 1. "A piece of coding which provides an   address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks   in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal   definitions in Algol-60 procedure calls.  If a procedure is c...
thunk2 is  formal parameter, the compiler   generates a {thunk} to compute the expression and leave the   address of the result in some standard location.  2. Later   generalized into an expression, frozen together with its   environment, for later e...
thunk3 is  in techspeak is called a `closure).  The process of   unfreezing these thunks is called `forcing.  3. A   {stubroutine}, in an overlay programming environment, that loads   and jumps to the correct overlay.  Compare {trampoline}.   4. Peop...
thunk4 is  manner.  "It   occurred to me the other day that I am rather accurately modeled by   a thunk --- I frequently need to be forced to completion." ---   paraphrased from a {plan file}.   Historical note There are a couple of onomatopoeic myth...
thunk5 is  The most common is that   it is the sound made by data hitting the stack; another holds that   the sound is that of the data hitting an accumulator.  Yet another   holds that it is the sound of the expression being unfrozen at   argument-e...
thunk6 is  inventors, it   was coined after they realized (in the wee hours after hours of   discussion) that the type of an argument in Algol-60 could be   figured out in advance with a little compile-time thought,   simplifying the evaluation machi...
thunk7 is  thought of; thus it was christened a `thunk,   which is "the past tense of `think at two in the morning". 
tick is  n. 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1).  2. In simulations, the   discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the   simulation mechanism.  In AI applications, this amount of time is   often left unspecified, since the only constraint of inter...

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toaster2 is  toaster!"  2. A very, very dumb   computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster."  See   {bitty box}, {Get a real computer!}, {toy}, {beige toaster}.   3. A Macintosh, esp. the Classic Mac.  Some hold that this is   implied b...
toaster3 is  my box   without toasters, but since then Ive added two boards and a second   disk drive." 
toeprint is  n. A {footprint} of especially small size.
toggle is  vt. To change a {bit} from whatever state it is in to the   other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.  This comes from   `toggle switches, such as standard light switches, though the   word `toggle actually refers to the mechanism...
toggle2 is  which it is flipped rather than to the   fact that the switch has two positions.  There are four things you   can do to a bit set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it,   leave it alone, or toggle it.  (Mathematically, one would say t...
toggle3 is  functions of one boolean   argument, but saying that is much less fun than talking about   toggling bits.) 
tool is  1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify,   or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a   cross-referencing program.  Oppose {app}, {operating system}.   2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple,...
tool2 is  interface designed specifically to be used   in programmed combination with other tools (see {filter}).   3. [MIT general to students there] vi. To work; to study (connotes   tedium).  The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set ones brain ...
tool3 is  A student who   studies too much and hacks too little.  (MITs student humor   magazine rejoices in the name `Tool and Die.) 
toolsmith is  n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist;   one who specializes in making the {tool}s with which other   programmers create applications.  See also {uninteresting}.
topic drift is  n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic   fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from   the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject   header of the originating message), or the results ...
topic drift2 is  reminders that the discussion has   strayed off any useful track.  "I think we started with a question   about Nivens last book, but weve ended up discussing the sexual   habits of the common marmoset.  Now *thats* topic drift!" 
topic group is  n. Syn. {forum}.
TOPS-10 is  /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10}   machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct.   A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A.  See also {{ITS}},   {{TOPS-20}}, {{TWENEX}}, {VMS}, {operating...
TOPS-102 is  BOTS-10 (from `bottoms-ten) as a comment on the   inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything. 
TOPS-20 is  /tops-twentee/ n. See {{TWENEX}}.
toto is  /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch   file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a   francophone {foo}.
tourist is  [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who   generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm   mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.  One step below   {luser}.  Hackers often spell this {turist}, perha...
tourist2 is  {luser} (this also expresses the   ITS cultures penchant for six-letterisms).  Compare {twink},   {read-only user}. 
tourist information is  n. Information in an on-line display that is   not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewers gestalt of   whats going on with the software or hardware behind it.  Whether a   given piece of info falls in this category d...
tourist information2 is  for at any given time.  The `bytes free   information at the bottom of an MS-DOS `dir display is   tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information   in a UNIX `ps(1) display. 

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unixism2 is  undocumented but well-known features of   UNIX libraries such as `stdio(3)' are supported elsewhere;   reliance on {obscure} side-effects of system calls (use of   `sleep(2)' with a 0 argument to clue the scheduler that   you're willing ...
unixism3 is  assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption   that fragmentation problems won't arise from never `free()'ing   memory.  Compare {vaxocentrism}; see also {New Jersey}. 
unswizzle is  v. See {swizzle}.
unwind the stack is  vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a   procedural language, one is said to `unwind the stack' from a   called procedure up to a caller when one discards the stack frame   and any number of frames above it, popping back up...
unwind the stack2 is  this is done with   `longjmp'/`setjmp', in LISP with `throw/catch'.   See also {smash the stack}.  2. People can unwind the stack as   well, by quickly dealing with a bunch of problems "Oh heck, let's   do lunch.  Just a second ...
unwind-protect is  [MIT from the name of a LISP operator] n. A task you   must remember to perform before you leave a place or finish a   project.  "I have an unwind-protect to call my advisor."
up is  adj. 1. Working, in order.  "The down escalator is up."   Oppose {down}.  2. `bring up' vt. To create a working   version and start it.  "They brought up a down system."    3. `come up' vi. To become ready for production use.
upload is  /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data   over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral   `client' system to a larger or central `host' one.  A transfer in   the other direction is, of course, called a {...
upload2 is  ground-to-space comm under that entry).   2. [speculatively] To move the essential patterns and algorithms   that make up one's mind from one's brain into a computer.  Only   those who are convinced that such patterns and algorithms captu...
upload3 is  prospect with   gusto. 
upthread is  adv. Earlier in the discussion (see {thread}), i.e.,   `above'. "As Joe pointed out upthread, ..."  See also   {followup}.
urchin is  n. See {munchkin}.
USENET is  /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ [from `Users' Network'] n.   A distributed {bboard} (bulletin board) system supported mainly   by UNIX machines.  Originally implemented in 1979-1980 by Steve   Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel a...
USENET2 is  become international in scope   and is now probably the largest decentralized information utility   in existence.  As of early 1991, it hosts well over   700 {newsgroup}s and an average of 16 megabytes (the equivalent   of several thousan...
USENET3 is    discussion, chatter, and {flamage} every day. 
user is  n. 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using   it as a means rather than an end.  Someone who pays to use a   computer.  See {real user}.  2. A programmer who will believe   anything you tell him.  One who asks silly questions.  ...
user2 is  is true that users ask   questions (of necessity).  Sometimes they are thoughtful or deep.   Very often they are annoying or downright stupid, apparently   because the user failed to think for two seconds or look in the   documentation befo...
user3 is  3. Someone who uses a program from the outside, however skillfully,   without getting into the internals of the program.  One who reports   bugs instead of just going ahead and fixing them.   The general theory behind this term is that ther...
user4 is  program there are implementors (hackers)   and {luser}s.  The users are looked down on by hackers to a mild   degree because they don't understand the full ramifications of the   system in all its glory.  (The few users who do are known as ...
user5 is  a skilled hacker   may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not   hack.  A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who   uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker).  A LISP user is one who   uses LISP, whether s...
user6 is  between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by   context. 

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walking drives3 is  wall in order to get at   it!  Walking could also be induced by certain patterns of drive   access (a fast seek across the whole width of the disk, followed by   a slow seek in the other direction).  Some bands of old-time   hacke...
walking drives4 is  patterns that   would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races. 
wall is  [WPI] interj. 1. An indication of confusion, usually spoken   with a quizzical tone  "Wall??"  2. A request for further   explication.  Compare {octal forty}.   It is said that "Wall?" really came from `like talking to a   blank wall'.  It w...
wall2 is  you   had carefully answered a question, the questioner stared at you   blankly, clearly having understood nothing that was explained.  You   would then throw out a "Hello, wall?" to elicit some sort of   response from the questioner.  Late...
wall3 is  themselves. 
wall follower is  n. A person or algorithm that compensates for lack   of sophistication or native stupidity by efficiently following some   simple procedure shown to have been effective in the past.  Used of   an algorithm, this is not necessarily p...
wall follower2 is  the winning robot in an early AI contest   (named, of course, after the cocktail).  Harvey successfully solved   mazes by keeping a `finger' on one wall and running till it came   out the other end.  This was inelegant, but it was ...
wall follower3 is  simply-connected mazes --- and, in fact,   Harvey outperformed more sophisticated robots that tried to   `learn' each maze by building an internal representation of it.   Used of humans, the term *is* pejorative and implies an   un...
wall follower4 is  See also {code   grinder}, {droid}. 
wall time is  n. (also `wall clock time') 1. `Real world' time (what   the clock on the wall shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea   of time.  2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the   number of {clocks} required to execute i...
wall time2 is  differ, as no one program gets all the   {clocks}, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support   one may get more processor clocks than real-time clocks). 
wallpaper is  n. 1. A file containing a listing (e.g., assembly   listing) or a transcript, esp. a file containing a transcript of   all or part of a login session.  (The idea was that the paper for   such listings was essentially good only for wallp...
wallpaper2 is  used to cover windows.)  Now rare,   esp. since other systems have developed other terms for it (e.g.,   PHOTO on TWENEX).  However, the UNIX world doesn't have an   equivalent term, so perhaps {wallpaper} will take hold there.   The t...
wallpaper3 is  commands to begin   and end transcript files were `WALBEG' and `WALEND',   with default file `WALL PAPER' (the space was a path   delimiter).  2. The background pattern used on graphical   workstations (this is techspeak under the `Win...
wallpaper4 is  3. `wallpaper file' n. The file that   contains the wallpaper information before it is actually printed on   paper.  (Even if you don't intend ever to produce a real paper copy   of the file, it is still called a wallpaper file.) 
wango is  /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in   a system during some unspecified operation.  Often used in   combination with {mumble}.  For example "You start with the `.o'   file, run it through this postprocessor that does mumb...
wango2 is  object-oriented executable." 
wank is  /wangk/ [Columbia University prob. by mutation from   Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as   {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or   person or the result of such cleverness.  May describe (n...
wank2 is  sake ("Quit wanking, let's go get   supper!")  or (more positively) a {wizard}.  Adj.  `wanky'   describes something particularly clever (a person, program, or   algorithm).  Conversations can also get wanky when there are too   many wanks ...
wank3 is  by an   overload of the `wankometer' (compare {bogometer}).  When the   wankometer overloads, the conversation's subject must be changed,   or all non-wanks will leave.  Compare `neep-neeping' (under   {neep-neep}).  Usage U.S. only.  In Br...
wank4 is  *extremely* rude and is best avoided unless one   intends to give offense. 

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BNF => /B-N-F/ n. 1. [techspeak] Acronym for `Backus-Naur Form', a metasyntactic notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages, command sets, and the like. Widely used for language descriptions but seldom documented anywhere, so that i...
boa => [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a {dinosaur pen}. Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time. It is...
board => n. 1. In-context synonym for bboard; sometimes used even for USENET newsgroups. 2. An electronic circuit board (compare card).
boat anchor => n. 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space.
bogo-sort => /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to {bubble sort}, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm). Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, pi...
bogometer => /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. See bogosity. Compare the `wankometer' described in the wank entry; see also bogus.
bogon => /boh'gon/ [by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's `Vogons'; see the Bibliography] n. 1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see {quantum bogodynamics}). For instance...
bogon filter => /boh'gon fil'tr/ n. Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See a...
bogon flux => /boh'gon fluhks/ n. A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See {quan...
bogosity => /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is bogus. At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More ex...
bogotify => /boh-go't*-fi/ vt. To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bog...
bogue out => /bohg owt/ vi. To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterwards." See also bogosity, bogus.
bogus => adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus." 2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your arguments are bogus." 4. Incorrect. "That algorithm is bogus." 5. Unbelievable. "You claim to have solved the halting problem for Turin...
Bohr bug => /bohr buhg/ [from quantum physics] n. A repeatable bug; one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions. Antonym of heisenbug; see also mandelbug.
boink => /boynk/ [USENET ascribed there to the TV series "Cheers" and "Moonlighting"] 1. To have sex with; compare bounce, sense 3. (This is mainstream slang.) In Commonwealth hackish the variant `bonk' is more common. 2. After the original Peter Kor...
bomb => 1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb." 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a UNIX `panic' or Am...
bondage-and-discipline language => A language (such as Pascal, Ada, APL, or Prolog) that, though ostensibly general-purpose, is designed so as to enforce an author's theory of `right programming' even though said theory is demonstrably inadequate for...
bondage-and-discipline language2 => general-purpose programming. Often abbreviated `B&D'; thus, one may speak of things "having the B&D nature". See {Pascal}; oppose {languages of choice}. 
bonk/oif => /bonk/, /oyf/ interj. In the MUD community, it has become traditional to express pique or censure by `bonking' the offending person. There is a convention that one should acknowledge a bonk by saying `oif!' and a myth to the effect that f...
book titles => There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this lexico...
book titles2 => {Aluminum Book}, {Blue Book}, {Cinderella Book}, {Devil Book}, {Dragon Book}, {Green Book}, {Orange Book}, {Pink-Shirt Book}, {Purple Book}, {Red Book}, {Silver Book}, {White Book}, {Wizard Book}, {Yellow Book}, and bible.boot [techsp...

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flavorful => adj. Full of flavor; esthetically pleasing. See random and losing for antonyms. See also the entries for taste and elegant.
flippy => /flip'ee/ n. A single-sided floppy disk altered for double-sided use by addition of a second write-notch, so called because it must be flipped over for the second side to be accessible. No longer common.
flowchart => [techspeak] n. An archaic form of visual control-flow specification employing arrows and `speech balloons' of various shapes. Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely silly, and associate them with COBOL programmers, {card w...
flower key => [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
flush => v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation. "All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [UNIX/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call. This is *not* an abort or deletion as in sense 1, but a d...
Flyspeck 3 => n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable (by analogy with such names as `Helvetica 10' for 10-point Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
flytrap => n. See {firewall machine}.
FOAF => // [USENET] n. Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'. The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is much better recognized on USENET and elsewh...
FOD => /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people. From MUDs where the wizard command `FOD <player>' results in the immediate and ...
fold case => v. See {smash case}. This term tends to be used more by people who don't mind that their tools smash case. It also connotes that case is ignored but case distinctions in data processed by the tool in question aren't destroyed.
followup => n. On USENET, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers can use this ...
foo => /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar, ba...
foobar => n. Another common metasyntactic variable; see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.
fool => n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise; it is not generally used in its other senses, i.e., to descri...
fool file, the => [USENET] n. A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever. There is a subgenre of {sig block}s that consists of the header "From the fool file" followed by some quote the poster wishes to re...
fool file, the2 => dimwittery; for this to be really effective, the quote has to be so obviously wrong as to be laughable. More than one USENETter has achieved an unwanted notoriety by being quoted in this way. 
Foonly => n. 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC timesharing system SAIL ...
footprint => n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware. 2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints'). See also toeprint.
for free => adj. Said of a capability of a programming language or hardware equipment that is available by its design without needing cleverness to implement "In APL, we get the matrix operations for free." "And owing to the way revisions are stored ...
for free2 => trees for free." Usually it refers to a serendipitous feature of doing things a certain way (compare {big win}), but it may refer to an intentional but secondary feature. 
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...

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i18n => // n. Abbrev. for `internationaliz,sation', with the 18 replacing 18 letters. Used in the X (windows) community.
IBM => /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near-infinite number of even less complimentary expansions, including `International Business Machines'. ...
IBM discount => n. A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause p...
ice => [coined by USENETter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novels acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to literally kill...
ifdef out => /if'def owt/ v. Syn. for {condition out}, specific to C.
ill-behaved => adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (lik...
IMHO => // [from SF fandom via USENET; acronym for `In My Humble Opinion'] "IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as mistyping something in the wrong case can cause hard-to-detect errors --- and they look too Pascalish anyhow." Also seen in var...
in the extreme => adj. A preferred superlative suffix for many hackish terms. See, for example, `obscure in the extreme' under obscure, and compare highly.
incantation => n. Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of passwords or other explicit security features. Especially used of tricks that are so poorly documented they must ...
include => vt. [USENET] 1. To duplicate a portion (or whole) of another's message (typically with attribution to the source) in a reply or followup, for clarifying the context of one's response. See the the discussion of inclusion styles under "Hacke...
include war => n. Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as USENET, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a {kill file}.
indent style => [C programmers] n. The rules one uses to indent code in a readable fashion; a subject of {holy wars}. There are four major C indent styles, described below; all have the aim of making it easier for the reader to visually track the sco...
indent style2 => significant variable is the placement of `{' and `}' with respect to the statement(s) they enclose and the guard or controlling statement (`if', `else', `for', `while', or `do') on the block, if any. `K&R style' --- Named after Kerni...
indent style3 => examples in K&R are formatted this way. Also called `kernel style' because the UNIX kernel is written in it, and the `One True Brace Style' (abbrev. 1TBS) by its partisans. The basic indent shown here is eight spaces (or one tab) per...
indent style4 => seen, but are much less common. if (cond) { <body> } `Allman style' --- Named for Eric Allman, a Berkeley hacker who wrote a lot of the BSD utilities in it (it is sometimes called `BSD style'). Resembles normal indent style in Pascal...
indent style5 => indent per level shown here is eight spaces, but four is just as common (esp. in C++ code). if (cond) { <body> } `Whitesmiths style' --- popularized by the examples that came with Whitesmiths C, an early commercial C compiler. Basic ...
indent style6 => level shown here is eight spaces, but four is occasionally seen. if (cond) { <body> } `GNU style' --- Used throughout GNU EMACS and the Free Software Foundation code, and just about nowhere else. Indents are always four spaces per Se...
indent style7 => level, with `{' and `}' halfway between the outer and inner indent levels. if (cond) { <body> } Surveys have shown the Allman and Whitesmiths styles to be the most common, with about equal mind shares. K&R/1TBS used to be nearly univ...
indent style8 => now much less common (the opening brace tends to get lost against the right paren of the guard part in an `if' or `while', which is a {Bad Thing}). Defenders of 1TBS argue that any putative gain in readability is less important than ...
indent style9 => vertical space, which enables one to see more code on one's screen at once. Doubtless these issues will continue to be the subject of {holy wars}. 
index => n. See coefficient.

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text => n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS (compare English). 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary {ASCII} or {EBCDIC} repr...
thanks in advance => [USENET] Conventional net.politeness ending a posted request for information or assistance. Sometimes written `advTHANKSance or `aTdHvAaNnKcSe or abbreviated `TIA. See net.-, netiquette.
the X that can be Y => not the true X is Yet another instance of hackerdoms peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things. The template is from the `Tao te Ching "The Tao w...
the X that can be Y => not the true X2 is true Tao." The implication is often that the X is a mystery accessible only to the enlightened. See the trampoline entry for an example, and compare {has the X nature}. 
theology => n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to {religious issues}. 2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp. those where the resolution is of theoretical interest but is relatively marginal with respect to actual use of a desi...
theory => n. The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that is currently being used to inform a behavior. This is a generalization and abuse of the technical meaning. "Whats the theory on fixing this TECO loss?" "Whats the theory on dinner to...
thinko => /thingkoh/ [by analogy with `typo] n. A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. braino. Compare mouso.
This time, for sure! => excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity imitat...
This time, for sure!2 => heard "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" The canonical response is, of course, "But that trick *never* works!" See {{Humor, Hacker}}. 
thrash => vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore s...
thread => n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
three-finger salute => n. Syn. {Vulcan nerve pinch}.
thud => n. 1. Yet another meta-syntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo, `bar, `thud, `blat. 2. Rare term for the hash character, `# (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synony...
thunk => /thuhnk/ n. 1. "A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in Algol-60 procedure calls. If a procedure is called wi...
tick => n. 1. A jiffy (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ...
tick-list features => [Acorn Computers] n. Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing). The American equivalent would be `checklist features, but this jargon sense of th...
tickle a bug => vt. To cause a normally hidden bug to manifest through some known series of inputs or operations. "You can tickle the bug in the Paradise VGA cards highlight handling by trying to set bright yellow reverse video."
tiger team => [U.S. military jargon] n. A team whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures. These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e.g., leave cardboard signs saying "bomb" in critical defense insta...
tiger team2 => "Your codebooks have been stolen" (they usually havent been) inside safes, etc. After a successful penetration, some high-ranking security type shows up the next morning for a `security review and finds the sign, note, etc., and all he...
tiger team3 => of tiger teams sometimes lead to early retirement for base commanders and security officers (see the patch entry for an example). A subset of tiger teams are professional crackers, testing the security of military computer installation...
tiger team4 => via networks or supposedly `secure comm channels. Some of their escapades, if declassified, would probably rank among the greatest hacks of all times. The term has been adopted in commercial computer-security circles in this more speci...

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to a first approximation => 1. [techspeak] When one is doing certain numerical computations, an approximate solution may be computed by any of several heuristic methods, then refined to a final value. By using the starting point of a first approximat...
to a first approximation2 => algorithm that converges more quickly to the correct result. 2. In jargon, a preface to any comment that indicates that the comment is only approximately true. The remark "To a first approximation, I feel good" might indi...
to a first approximation3 => reveal that not all is perfect (e.g., a nagging cough still remains after an illness). 
to a zeroth approximation => [from `to a first approximation] A *really* sloppy approximation; a wild guess. Compare {social science number}.
toast => 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast." 2. vt. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual reboot...
toaster => n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "DWIM for an assembler? Thatd be as sill...
toeprint => n. A footprint of especially small size.
toggle => vt. To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches, such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle actually refers to the mechanism that keep...
tool => 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose app, {operating system}. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple, `transpar...
toolsmith => n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specializes in making the tools with which other programmers create applications. See also uninteresting.
topic drift => n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that t...
topic drift2 => reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. "I think we started with a question about Nivens last book, but weve ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *thats* topic drift!" 
topic group => n. Syn. forum.
TOPS-10 => /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A. See also {ITS}, {TOPS-20}, {TWENEX}, VMS, {operating system}. TOPS-10 ...
TOPS-20 => /tops-twentee/ n. See {TWENEX}.
toto => /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a francophone foo.
tourist => [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some so...
tourist information => n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewers gestalt of whats going on with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category depends p...
tourist information2 => for at any given time. The `bytes free information at the bottom of an MS-DOS `dir display is tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a UNIX `ps(1) display. 
touristic => adj. Having the quality of a tourist. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum. Often spelled `turistic or `turistik, so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum.
toy => n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers. 1. `nice toy One that supports the speakers hacking style adequately. 2. `just a toy A machine that yields insufficient computrons for the speakers preferred uses. This is not condemnatory, as...

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UNIX weenie => [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly ...
UNIX weenie2 => is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs. "This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have bee...
UNIX weenie3 => 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of UNIX. Often appearing in the context "stupid UNIX weenie". See Weenix, {UNIX conspiracy}. See also weenie. 
unixism => n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory UNIX systems. Common unixisms include gratuitous use of `fork(2)'; th...
unswizzle => v. See swizzle.
unwind the stack => vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a procedural language, one is said to `unwind the stack' from a called procedure up to a caller when one discards the stack frame and any number of frames above it, popping back up to the...
unwind the stack2 => this is done with `longjmp'/`setjmp', in LISP with `throw/catch'. See also {smash the stack}. 2. People can unwind the stack as well, by quickly dealing with a bunch of problems "Oh heck, let's do lunch. Just a second while I unw...
unwind-protect => [MIT from the name of a LISP operator] n. A task you must remember to perform before you leave a place or finish a project. "I have an unwind-protect to call my advisor."
up => adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up." Oppose down. 2. `bring up' vt. To create a working version and start it. "They brought up a down system." 3. `come up' vi. To become ready for production use.
upload => /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one. A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a download ...
upthread => adv. Earlier in the discussion (see thread), i.e., `above'. "As Joe pointed out upthread, ..." See also followup.
urchin => n. See munchkin.
USENET => /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ [from `Users' Network'] n. A distributed bboard (bulletin board) system supported mainly by UNIX machines. Originally implemented in 1979-1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke Uni...
user => n. 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. See {real user}. 2. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions. [GLS observe...
user-friendly => adj. Programmer-hostile. Generally used by hackers in a critical tone, to describe systems that hold the user's hand so obsessively that they make it painful for the more experienced and knowledgeable to get any work done. See menuit...
user-obsequious => adj. Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable. "Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will want to use it." See {WIMP environment...
USG UNIX => /U-S-G yoo'niks/ n. Refers to AT&T UNIX commercial versions after {Version 7}, especially System III and System V releases 1, 2, and 3. So called because during most of the life-span of those versions AT&T's support crew was called the `U...
UTSL => // [UNIX] n. On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in `Star Wars') --- analogous to RTFM but more polite. This is a common way of suggesting that someone would be best off reading the sou...
UUCPNET => n. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected UNIX machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) software). Any machine reachable only via a {bang path} is on UUCPNET. See {network addre...
vanilla => [from the default flavor of ice cream in the U.S.] adj. Ordinary flavor, standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract! For example, `vanilla wonton soup' means ordinary wonton soup, a...
vannevar => /van'*-var/ n. A bogus technological prediction or a foredoomed engineering concept, esp. one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly, incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact the learning...

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walking drives => n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s. Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific angular momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn beari...
walking drives2 => with the floor could cause them to `walk' across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple of millimeters at a time. There is a legend about a drive that walked over to the only door to the computer room and jammed it shu...
walking drives3 => wall in order to get at it! Walking could also be induced by certain patterns of drive access (a fast seek across the whole width of the disk, followed by a slow seek in the other direction). Some bands of old-time hackers figured ...
walking drives4 => patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races. 
wall => [WPI] interj. 1. An indication of confusion, usually spoken with a quizzical tone "Wall??" 2. A request for further explication. Compare {octal forty}. It is said that "Wall?" really came from `like talking to a blank wall'. It was initially ...
wall follower => n. A person or algorithm that compensates for lack of sophistication or native stupidity by efficiently following some simple procedure shown to have been effective in the past. Used of an algorithm, this is not necessarily pejorativ...
wall follower2 => the winning robot in an early AI contest (named, of course, after the cocktail). Harvey successfully solved mazes by keeping a `finger' on one wall and running till it came out the other end. This was inelegant, but it was mathemati...
wall follower3 => simply-connected mazes --- and, in fact, Harvey outperformed more sophisticated robots that tried to `learn' each maze by building an internal representation of it. Used of humans, the term *is* pejorative and implies an uncreative,...
wall follower4 => See also {code grinder}, droid. 
wall time => n. (also `wall clock time') 1. `Real world' time (what the clock on the wall shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. 2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of clocks required to execute it (on a ti...
wall time2 => differ, as no one program gets all the clocks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor clocks than real-time clocks). 
wallpaper => n. 1. A file containing a listing (e.g., assembly listing) or a transcript, esp. a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper for such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as...
wango => /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level grovelling going on in a system during some unspecified operation. Often used in combination with mumble. For example "You start with the `.o' file, run it through this postprocessor that does mumble-wango --- ...
wank => /wangk/ [Columbia University prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness. May describe (negatively)...
wannabee => /won'*-bee/ (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; prob. originally from biker slang] n. A would-be hacker. The connotations of this term dif...
warm boot => n. See boot.
wart => n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)', single quotes literalize ...
washing machine => n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'. The washing-machine ...
washing machine2 => it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. The thick channel cables connecting these were called `bit hoses' (see hose). 
water MIPS => n. (see MIPS, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional mainframe type.
wave a dead chicken => v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "I'll wav...

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Uz => counsel; words
Uzai => he
Uzal => wandering
Uzzah => strength; goat
Uzzen-sherah => ear of the flesh
Uzzi => my strength; my kid
Uzziah => Uzziel , the strength , or kid , of the Lord
Vajezatha => sprinkling the chamber
Vaniah => nourishment , or weapons , of the Lord
Vashni => the second; changed; a tooth
Vashti => that drinks; thread
Vophsi => fragrant; diminution
Zaanannim => movings; a person asleep
Zaavan => trembling
Zabad => dowry; endowed
Zabbai => flowing
Zabdi => same as Zabad
Zaccai => pure meat; just
Zaccheus => pure; clean; just
Zaccur => of the male kind; mindful
Zachariah => memory of the Lord

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Moiré => An interference pattern that gets created when small dots are placed in a tight pattern.
Monitor => A device for viewing the output from a computer, traditionally a much more precise TV set.
Moore's Law => Former Intel chairman Gordon Moore is credited with predicting the trend that transistor counts in processors double every 18 months. This law has held true since the 1970s. The law can also be applied to other technologies and works f...
Motherboard => The circuit board that your CPU, IO chips and all the peripheral cards plug into.
MotherGlass => The sheet of silicon that the wafers are stamped out of to make computer chips.
Mouse => A pointing device that uses a roller ball on the bottom to detect motion.
Mousepad => A pad that has a surface made for use with a mouse.
MP3 => (MPEG 3) This is a compression standard for music. It enables you to fit over 100 full length songs on a single CD with almost no loss of quality. You can find MP3 players and MP3 files on the Web--you just have to look. The music industry is ...
MPEG => (Moving Pictures Expert Group) This is a format for compressing video in a format similar to JPEG. It works.
MTBF => (Mean Time Between Failures) This is a time normally given in hours that predicts the failure of a device. The larger the number the better.
Multi-Threaded => Some operating systems allow multiple parts, or threads, of a single process to run simultaneously. These OSs are referred to as multi-threaded. UNIX is a multi-threaded OS, as is Windows NT.
Multi-tier client server => This is a form of client/server application that uses the multi-tiered architecture.
Multi-tiered architecture => This is the most scalable application architecture (over 2-tier and 3-tier). This architecture refers to 4-, 5-, or even higher-tiered architectures. It is the most complex type of architecture, splitting the application ...
Multicast IP => This is a form of TCP/IP being proposed that will allow for high-bandwidth transmissions (like television channels) to be broadcast over the Internet to all the routers in the world (possibly) that are connected to someone watching th...
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions => (MIME) This refers to functions used for the attachment of binary files to an e-mail message. MIME is the most common group of functions used to make this translation, and allows us to tack on graphics, sound,...
n-tuple => ((pronounced en-too-pull)) This is a mathematical term for a finite sequence of n terms. For example, the set {1, 2, 3, 4} is a 4-tuple. The set {Frank, Jane, Ed} is a 3-tuple. Any time there is a list of n things in a certain order, you c...
Nanosecond => (One billionth of a second) Used most often to measure the speed of memory.
NC => (Network Computer) This is a concept that came from the old days of dumb terminals. They are supposed to reduce the cost of standardized computers in the office environment.
NDIS => (Network Driver Interface Specification) This spec was designed by Microsoft to allow multiple protocols to easily communicate with Network Interface Cards (NICs) without knowing anything about those cards. In theory, you just have to install...
Network => This refers to a group of interconnected computers. The computers must be capable of transferring data to form a true network--you can't just weld a bunch of computers together.
Newsgroups => See Usenet newsgroups