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# Linux factpack
# 1999-Dec-29
# Author: Kimmie Dicaire <kdicaire@ispchannel.com>
# see http://novaone.linux-help.org/linuxiqs
Open CASCADE => <reply> $who, The Open CASCADE Object Libraries are reusable C++ object libraries for producing all types of domain-specific graphic modeling applications. URL: http://www.opencascade.org/downloads/down.html
nettimer => <reply> $who, netttimer is a very small, simple program that calculates the amount of time and money you've spent using the Internet. URL: http://members.xoom.com/kodgehopper/nettimer-0.02.tar.gz
TkUsr => <reply> $who, TkUsr is a small program that allows you to manage the Self-mode of a USR/3Com MessagePlus modem. URL: http://ldrolez.free.fr/tkusr-latest.tar.gz
PAG Project => <reply> $who, The PAG Project is a travel agency program that features travel registrations, client database and billing with advanced search features and a really nice looking interface. URL: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/pag.tar.gz
3D-Stereogram => <reply> $who, Generates 3D pixelpictures which are visible without 3d-glasses.. URL: http://www.snafu.de/~mathe.kcbo/
3Dfx Banshee framebuffer driver for Linux/x86 => <reply> $who, 3Dfx Banshee driver for Linux framebuffer subsystem. URL: http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/linux/3dfx.html
3dom => <reply> $who, A general purpose 3d object modeler.. URL: http://www.gv.kotnet.org/~kdf/3dom/
3dPM => <reply> $who, Modeller for Povray 3. URL: http://rupert.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~kraftts/
3Dto3D => <reply> $who, Conversion between 3D formats, e.g. URL: http://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/tools.html
4DOM => <reply> $who, A CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C's Document Object Model in Python. URL: http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM/
4inarow => <reply> $who, ascii art four in a row game via tcp/ip. URL: http://utenti.tripod.it/konrad/
4XSLT => <reply> $who, Python XSLT processor.. URL: http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT/
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getset addressbook => <reply> $who, Easy to use and extendable addressbook (PIM).. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~jkillen/getset/
getstatd => <reply> $who, Statistics Daemon for Linux Systems. URL: http://www.linux.opennet.ru/getstatd/
GetUf => <reply> $who, UF Strip grabbing perl program.. URL: http://www.jeffords.freeserve.co.uk/getuf.html
gEyes => <reply> $who, Gnome clone of xeyes. URL: http://internet.oit.edu/~campd/geyes.html
GF1 => <reply> $who, Play GIPF against your computer. URL: http://www.crosswinds.net/~gf1/
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
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GTalk and QTalk => <reply> $who, GTK+ and QT Squeak Smalltalk. URL: http://www.informatik.fernuni-hagen.de/import/pi3/joerg/squeak/talktalk.html
gTans => <reply> $who, Tangram puzzle game. URL: http://altern.org/bwt/
gtaskman => <reply> $who, A process manager for X using GTK+. URL: http://darkchild.home.dhs.org/gtaskman/
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/
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popxbiff => <reply> $who, X11 and console pop-box checker, like xbiff but for POP3. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/popxbiff/
Poqqo => <reply> $who, CD Data server. URL: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/poqqo/
Portable Easy Quote => <reply> $who, A fortune like random quote displayer. URL: http://rope.cjb.net
Portable Object Compiler => <reply> $who, . URL: http://cage.rug.ac.be/~stes/compiler.html
Portaloo => <reply> $who, Web Portal Engine. URL: http://www.linux.org.uk/cgi-bin/portaloo
portfwd => <reply> $who, Forwards incoming TCP connections and UDP packets.. URL: http://nucleo.freeservers.com/portfwd/
PortScanner => <reply> $who, Simple and easy to use TCP port scanner. URL: http://www.ameth.org/~veilleux/portscan.html
PortSentry => <reply> $who, Detects and responds to port scans against a target host inreal-time.. URL: http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry/
Portslave => <reply> $who, . URL: http://portslave.linuxrouter.org/
PortZilla => <reply> $who, Port scanner for Linux. URL: http://www.altern.org/vih/pzilla/
POSIX 1003.1b clock/timer patch => <reply> $who, Kernel patch to provide POSIX 1003.1b clocks and timers. URL: http://www.rhdv.cistron.nl/posix.html
POSIX ACLs for Linux => <reply> $who, Kernel patches for ACLs, Ext2 file system implementation, and user utilities. URL: http://major.rithus.co.at/acl/
Post Office => <reply> $who, X11 Emailer/Newsreader. URL: http://www.tarball.net/postoffice/
Postfix => <reply> $who, The Postfix MTA. URL: http://www.postfix.org/
PostgreSQL => <reply> $who, Robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS(ORDBMS). URL: http://www.postgresql.org/
PostgreSQL JDBC Driver => <reply> $who, JDBC driver for the PostgreSQL DBS. URL: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/
PostgreSQL Win Access => <reply> $who, . URL: http://studio.id-pro.de//v1//617297960/html/t/projects/detail.thtml?pid=4
Postilion => <reply> $who, A mail user agent based upon the popular TkRat program. URL: http://www.postilion.org/
POV-Ray => <reply> $who, High-quality, no-charge (not open source) tool for creating stunning 3D graphics. URL: http://www.povray.org
povfront => <reply> $who, GTK+ graphical interface for povray. URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/clovis1/
PowerChute plus => <reply> $who, APC's usual UPS interface for Linux.. URL: http://www.apcc.com/products/management/pcp_linux.cfm
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qmail_regex => <reply> $who, Permits usage of regular expressions in qmail's control/locals. URL: http://beteigeuze.cs.tu-berlin.de/linux/qmail/
qmHandle => <reply> $who, A tool to manage the qmail message queue. URL: http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html
qml => <reply> $who, Quick Markup to HTML language translator. URL: http://www.qml.org
qmp3 => <reply> $who, Quick MPG123 frontend to support m3u playlists. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~kost/qmp3/
QMySql => <reply> $who, A little client for MySql using Qt.. URL: http://www.etu.info.unicaen.fr/~fbilhaut/frames.software.html
qotdd => <reply> $who, Quote of the Day daemon. URL: http://www.zevils.com/linux/qotdd/qotdd.html
qpasswd => <reply> $who, POP3 password changing utility for qmail+poppasswd. URL: ftp://games.online.bg/pub/unix/net/qpasswd/qpasswd-1.1pl1.tar.gz
Qpopper => <reply> $who, POP3 server. URL: http://eudora.qualcomm.com/freeware/qpop.html
qpopper-mysql => <reply> $who, A patch to add a decent set of MySQL capabilities to qpopper 2.53. URL: http://www.riverstyx.net/qpopmysql/
qps => <reply> $who, Displays processes in an X11 window. URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/~f91-men/qps/
QpThread Library for C++ => <reply> $who, Thread library for C++ with support for signals, exceptions, timer etc.. URL: http://www.gncz.cz/kra/index.html
qrend => <reply> $who, Minimalist raytracer. URL: http://esh.netpedia.net/qrend/
QScheme => <reply> $who, Really fast, small and easy to interface Scheme interpreter. URL: http://www.sof.ch/dan/qscheme/index-e.html
Qstat => <reply> $who, A command-line program that displays the status of Internet Quake servers. URL: http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html
Qt => <reply> $who, GUI software toolkit. URL: http://www.troll.no/products/qt.html
Qt Architect => <reply> $who, GUI dialog designer for the Qt widget set.. URL: http://www.qtarch.intranova.net/
QT Font Dialog => <reply> $who, QT Font Dialog box that doesnt require KDE. URL: http://polywog.navpoint.com/qt/download.html
Qt Masqdialer => <reply> $who, Qt based client for Jeff Meininger's Masqdialer server. URL: http://cpwright.villagenet.com/qt-mclient/
QtArchitect => <reply> $who, Dialog Creation Interface for Qt. URL: http://www.qtarch.intranova.net/
QtBuddies => <reply> $who, Official Client for the NetBuddies Instant Messaging Protocol. URL: http://piggletsoft.linuxbox.com
QtCD => <reply> $who, Qt-based cd player with CDDB support. URL: http://www.unf.edu/~kschin/qtcd/
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UOOS => <reply> $who, Ultima Online Game Server Emulator. URL: http://www.uoos.com/
up => <reply> $who, Replacement program for uptime.. URL: http://www.burdell.org/up.php3
uparrow => <reply> $who, tcl command loop. URL: http://www.aist.go.jp/NIBH/~tomh/
upd => <reply> $who, Makes hiscores of your best five uptimes, ready for when showing off!. URL: http://tisprut.n3.net/
UPS => <reply> $who, Light C and C++ debugger under X11.. URL: http://www.concerto.demon.co.uk/UPS/
UPSomatic => <reply> $who, UPS parcel pricing for US sources, all destinations. URL: ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/UPSomatic/
Uptime client => <reply> $who, Keep track of your uptime and compare it with other hosts.. URL: http://uptime.hexon.cx/
Uptime Daemon => <reply> $who, Constantly checks your current uptime against uptime records. URL: http://www.vistasafe.com/ud/
Uptime Record Suite => <reply> $who, Records the record uptime. URL: http://jaeger.festing.org/projects/uptime-record/
Uptimed => <reply> $who, Uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes the system ever had. URL: http://capsi.cx/?q=code/uptimed
uptimer => <reply> $who, Adds the current uptime to your .sig file. URL: http://212.19.67.58/
uptime_applet => <reply> $who, Gnome applet which will display your system uptime. URL: http://outsole.com/uptime.shtml
UPX => <reply> $who, powerful executable packer. URL: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
URBAN => <reply> $who, A nice shoot-'em-up game for Linux and DOS, lots of blood and gore.. URL: http://urban.home.dhs.org/
Urchin ASAP => <reply> $who, Web visitor-analysis reporting system (log analyzer). URL: http://www.urchin.com/
uredir => <reply> $who, Program to redirect UDP packets. URL: http://members.home.net/id-est/uredir.html
uri => <reply> $who, URI manipulation library. URL: http://www.senga.org/uri/html/
urlmon => <reply> $who, URL monitoring and report tool. URL: http://source.syr.edu/~jdimpson/urlmon/
UrlRec => <reply> $who, Keeps urls and make a bookmark file to use with any browser. URL: http://members.xoom.com/janeri/
urlredir => <reply> $who, URL redirector for use with the squid proxy server. URL: ftp://seldon.ormond.unimelb.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/urlredir/
urmcore => <reply> $who, Quickly finds, verifies, and removes old core files with minimum system load.. URL: http://uber.linuxbox.com/uberdog/urmcore/
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wmsound => <reply> $who, Sound server package for WindowMaker. URL: http://www.frontiernet.net/~southgat/wmsound/
wmSpaceWeather => <reply> $who, Shows environmental conditions in space.. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml
wmss => <reply> $who, WindowMaker Sound Server Configurator. URL: http://windowmaker.shada.com/wmss.html
wmSun => <reply> $who, Shows Rise/Set times for the Sun.. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml
wmsvencd => <reply> $who, A dockable CD player with local CDDB support, for Window Maker or Afterstep. URL: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~wmsvencd/
WMSysMon => <reply> $who, System monitor dock app for WindowMaker/AfterStep. URL: http://www.neotokyo.org/illusion/
wmTicTacToe => <reply> $who, Dock application game for the Window Maker window manager. URL: http://atlas.ucpel.tche.br/~acamargo/
WMTime => <reply> $who, Window Maker dockapp for displaying time and date. URL: http://windowmaker.mezaway.org/dockapps/wmtime.html
WMTime-beats => <reply> $who, WMTime with internet time (beats) hack. URL: http://lengtat.com/ronny/wmtime-itime.phtml
WMTimeBomb => <reply> $who, Mine sweeper type game for WindowMaker. URL: http://www.maliwan.org/wmtimebomb.shtml
wmtimer => <reply> $who, Alarm/Countdown timer applet for Windowmaker. URL: http://www.dwave.net/~jking/wmtimer/
wmto2deb => <reply> $who, Convert WindowMaker themes to Debian packages. URL: http://keeney180-203.keeney.brown.edu/wmto2deb
wmtool => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~ademko/gnu/
wmtools => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.spyda.co.za/lunglet/
wmtop => <reply> $who, Graphical WindowMaker dock app to monitor the top 3 processes. URL: http://www.tanelorn.demon.co.uk/Computing/
wmToshiba.app => <reply> $who, WindowMaker dock app. URL: http://sparc.wtic.net/~inphrar3d/
WMTune => <reply> $who, Premier dockable radio tuner. URL: http://soren.org/linux/wmtune/
wmtune for bttv => <reply> $who, window maker radio tuner applet for bttv based TV/radio cards. URL: http://home.pages.de/~fionn/archive/wmtune-1.0_bttv.tar.bz2
wmtuneup => <reply> $who, Put the latest tuneup tips on your WindowMaker menu. URL: http://linux.com/tuneup/
wmtv => <reply> $who, WindowMaker TV dock.app. URL: http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/~wliang/
WMUpTime => <reply> $who, Uptime-dockapp for Window Maker/Afterstep. URL: http://hem.passagen.se/joakime/linuxapp.html
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XVoice => <reply> $who, Enables speech to text for many X applications. URL: http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/Xvoice/
XVScan => <reply> $who, Scanning software based on xv. URL: http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/
XWget => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk front end to the Wget program.. URL: http://www.nexus.hu/trunx/XWget-0.1.tar.gz
Xwhois => <reply> $who, Small and fast GTK+ X11 client for the internet whois network services.. URL: http://www.oxygene.500mhz.net/software.html
XwinAllegro => <reply> $who, Game programming Library for X11. URL: http://www.canvaslink.com/allegro/xwinallegro/index.html
xwintv => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wenk/xwintv.html
xwpe-alpha => <reply> $who, A programming environment for UNIX systems. URL: http://www.identicalsoftware.com/xwpe/
Xwrits => <reply> $who, Reminds you to take wrist breaks. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/xwrits/
XwwChooser => <reply> $who, Switches X11 Window Managers. URL: http://gator.naples.net/~nfn03343/XwmC.html
Xxl => <reply> $who, Simple, easy to use and user friendly graphical spreadsheet. URL: http://www.esinsa.unice.fr/xxl.html
xy2k => <reply> $who, X11 Y2K countdown timer.. URL: http://www.ipsmart.com/x11/xy2k.c
XZip => <reply> $who, A Z-machine (Infocom games) interpreter for Unix / X windows. URL: http://www.eblong.com/zarf/xzip.html
XZX => <reply> $who, Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 emulator. URL: http://www.philosys.de/~kunze/xzx/
y2l => <reply> $who, Yacc to LaTeX grammar pretty printer. URL: http://www.alchar.org/~aedil/Projects/y2l.html
YA-EDA => <reply> $who, A complete EDA tool for Linux. URL: http://www.hashbang.org/~jarl/
ya-wipe => <reply> $who, Secure file wiper. URL: http://www.erols.com/thomassr/zero/download/wipe/
Yacas => <reply> $who, Yet Another Computer Algebra System. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~apinkus/yacas.html
Yadex => <reply> $who, Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X. URL: http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/yadex/
yafc => <reply> $who, Yet Another FTP Client. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mhe/yafc/
yagIRC => <reply> $who, Yet Another GTK+ IRC Client. URL: http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon/yagirc/
YahooChart.java => <reply> $who, A Java graphical interface to Yahoo Finance stock charts. URL: http://www.sharknet.tj/~java/yahoochartJ/
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Correcteur 101 => <reply> $who, Correcteur 101 is a French grammar checker that provides a complete grammatical analysis of a sentence. URL:
RTP => <reply> $who, RTP draws a single stream of X-Y points received from an input stream in connect-the-dots fashion. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/science/visualization/rtp-1.0.0.tar.gz
senv => <reply> $who, Senv allows you to run programs with a specified environment. URL: http://www.ids.pl/~kodzak/senv-0.1.tar.gz
mod_random => <reply> $who, mod_random allows you to specify a set of URLs which will be displayed in a random order when referenced.. URL: ftp://www.tangent.org/pub/apache/mod_random-0.9.tar.gz
LCAP => <reply> $who, LCAP allows a system administrator to remove specific capabilities from the kernel in order to make the system more secure. URL: http://www.netcom.com/~spoon/lcap-0.0.1.tar.bz2
PHP auto prepend/append script => <reply> $who, The PHP auto-prepend/append script is a ColdFusion-type application.cfm for PHP. URL: ftp://0x00.org/pub/php/php.prepend.append.tgz
OpenH323 gatekeeper => <reply> $who, The OpenH323 gatekeeper is a freely available H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. URL: http://www.willamowius.de/images/gk011.tar.gz
SMM++ Mud Client => <reply> $who, SMM++ Mud Client is a mud client with extended and unique features. URL: http://www.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE/~issevers/SMM++/downloads/smm4r2.tar.gz
SMB-Mode => <reply> $who, SMB-Mode is a simple Emacs major mode to assist in editing Samba's smb.conf configuration file. URL: http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/smb-mode.el
mpg123-mysql => <reply> $who, mpg123-mysql consists of some patches to mpg123 which make it support MySQL. URL: http://www.nonsensss.de/domi/mpg123-mysql/mpg123-mysql-0.3.tar.gz
netttimer => <reply> $who, netttimer is a very small, simple program that calculates the amount of time and money you've spent using the internet. URL: http://members.xoom.com/kodgehopper/nettimer-0.01.tar.gz
Mserv => <reply> $who, Mserv is an MP3 server that has clients for telnet, Web and shell, and is easily extendable to other forms of interface. URL: http://www.mserv.org/download/
wmMailMenu => <reply> $who, wmMailMenu creates a Window Maker menu with mail addresses. URL: http://student.dei.uc.pt/~mtavares/wmMailMenu/wmMailMenu-latest.tgz
XPLSISNJASP => <reply> $who, XPLSISNJASP (Xplisnjasp Parport LightShow Is Not Just A Software Project) is an XMMS visualization plugin and it provides a light show via parallel port. URL: http://www.na.linux.hr/projects/xplsisnjasp/
ipacct => <reply> $who, ipacct is a script which collects IP accounting information for metered IP accounting usage. URL: ftp://ftp2.empnet.com/pub/ipacct/ipacct-1.06.tar.gz
fblogo => <reply> $who, fblogo will let you replace the penguin boot-logo you see when booting kernels with framebuffer support.. URL: http://home.sol.no/~dvedoy/fblogo-0.1.tar.gz
FutureForum Web Discussion Software => <reply> $who, FutureForum Web Discussion Software is a Web discussion forum written in Perl and MySQL, using DBI:DBD. URL:
Python Builder => <reply> $who, Python Builder is a direct replacement for MS Visual Basic on both the Windows and Linux platforms. URL: http://www.pcpros.net/~vbman/pbuilder.zip
TINY => <reply> $who, TINY is a small Linux distribution designed especially for reusing old computers. URL: ftp://ftp2.seul.org/tiny/
Tea => <reply> $who, Tea offers a new philosophy in PGP/GPG encrypted e-mails. URL: ftp://ftp.lemuria.org/pub/Code/
hello-world => <reply> $who, hello-world is a simple Roxen Web server module demonstrating Roxen's abilities.. URL: http://linux.kub.trollhattan.se/~ian/hello-world-0.6.tar.gz
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accumulator is n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old. The t...
accumulator2 is microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in `A' derive from historical use of the term `accumulator' (and not, actually, from `arithmetic'). Confusingly, though, an `A' re...
accumulator3 is `address', as for example on the Motorola 680x0 family. 2. A register being used for arithmetic or logic (as opposed to addressing or a loop index), especially one being used to accumulate a sum or count of many items. This u...
accumulator4 is stretch of code. "The FOOBAZ routine uses A3 as an accumulator." 3. One's in-basket (esp. among old-timers who might use sense 1). "You want this reviewed? Sure, just put it in the accumulator." (See {stack}.)
ACK is /ak/ interj. 1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream *Yo!*). An appropriate response to {ping} or {ENQ}. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of su...
ACK2 is Semi-humorous. Generally this sense is not spelled in caps (ACK) and is distinguished by a following exclamation point. 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell them you understand their point (see {NAK}). Thus, for example, y...
ACK3 is with "Ack. Ack. Ack. I get it now". There is also a usage "ACK?" (from sense 1) meaning "Are you there?", often used in email when earlier mail has produced no reply, or during a lull in {talk mode} to see if the person has gone a...
ACK4 is course {NAK} (sense 2), i.e., "I'm not here").
ad-hockery is /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp. expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary. For example, fuzzy-matching in...
ad-hockery2 is against a symbol table can make it look as though a program knows how to spell. 2. Special-case code to cope with some awkward input that would otherwise cause a program to {choke}, presuming normal inputs are dealt with in som...
ad-hockery3 is `ad-hackery', `ad-hocity' (/ad-hos'*-tee/). See also {ELIZA effect}.
Ada is n. A {{Pascal}}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon. Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that ...
Ada2 is committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description is "The PL/I of the 1980s"). Hackers find Ada's exception-handling and inter-process communication features par...
Ada3 is daughter of Lord Byron who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s) would almost certainly blanch at the use to which her name has ...
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batch3 is electricity back on next week..." 3. Accumulation of a number of small tasks that can be lumped together for greater efficiency. "I'm batching up those letters to send sometime" "I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling ce...
bathtub curve is n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the ...
bathtub curve2 is `tires out'. See also {burn-in period}, {infant mortality}.
baud is /bawd/ [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning is `level transitions per second'; this coincides with bps only for two-level modulation w...
baud2 is are aware of these nuances but blithely ignore them.
baud barf is /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp. line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise di...
baud barf2 is completely {random}, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can...
baz is /baz/ [Stanford corruption of {bar}] n. 1. The third metasyntactic variable, after {foo} and {bar} and before {quux} (or, occasionally, `qux'; or local idiosyncracies like `rag', `zowie', etc.). "Suppose we have three functions FOO,BAR...
baz2 is BAZ...." 2. interj. A term of mild annoyance. In this usage the term is often drawn out for 2 or 3 seconds, producing an effect not unlike the bleating of a sheep; /baaaaaaz/. 3. Occasionally appended to {foo} to produce `foobaz'.
bboard is /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n. 1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS} systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET {newsgroup} (in fact, use of the term for a newsgroup generally ma...
bboard2 is BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET). 2. At CMU and other colleges with similar facilities, refers to campus-wide electronic bulletin boards. 3. The term `physical bboard' is sometimes used to refer to a old-fashio...
bboard3 is it refers to a particular one outside the CS Lounge. In either of senses 1 or 2, the term is usually prefixed by the name of the intended board (`the Moonlight Casino bboard' or `market bboard'); however, if the context is clear, th...
bboard4 is name alone, as in (at CMU) "Don't post for-sale ads on general".
BBS is /B-B-S/ [acronym, `Bulletin Board System'] n. An electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into {topic group}s. Thousands of local ...
BBS2 is U.S., typically run by amateurs for fun out of their homes on MS-DOS boxes with a single modem line each. Fans of USENET and Internet or the big commercial timesharing bboards such as CompuServe and GEnie tend to consider local BBSes ...
BBS3 is but they serve a valuable function by knitting together lots of hackers and users in the personal-micro world who would otherwise be unable to exchange code at all.
beam is [from Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up, Scotty!"] vt. To transfer {softcopy} of a file electronically; most often in combining forms such as `beam me a copy' or `beam that over to his site'. Compare {blast}, {snarf}, {BLT}.
beanie key is [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
beep is n.,v. Syn. {feep}. This term seems to be preferred among micro hobbyists.
beige toaster is n. A Macintosh. See {toaster}; compare {Macintrash}, {maggotbox}.
bells and whistles is [by analogy with the toyboxes on theater organs] n. Features added to a program or system to make it more {flavorful} from a hacker's point of view, without necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function. Dis...
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high bit2 is mainstream slang `bottom line'.
high moby is /hi' mohb'ee/ n. The high half of a 512K {PDP-10}'s physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized in a way that has outlasted the {PDP-10}; for example, at the 1990 Washington ...
high moby2 is (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last {{ITS}} machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the `high moby' and the other the `low moby'. A...
highly is [scientific computation] adv. The preferred modifier for overstating an understatement. As in `highly nonoptimal', the worst possible way to do something; `highly nontrivial', either impossible or requiring a major research project;...
highly2 is unpredictable; `highly nontechnical', drivel written for {luser}s, oversimplified to the point of being misleading or incorrect (compare {drool-proof paper}). In other computing cultures, postfixing of {in the extreme} might be p...
hirsute is adj. Occasionally used humorously as a synonym for {hairy}.
HLL is /H-L-L/ n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech. Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found. VHLL stands for `Very-High-Level Language' and is used to describe a {bo...
HLL2 is speaker happens to like; Prolog and Backus's FP are often called VHLLs. `MLL' stands for `Medium-Level Language' and is sometimes used half-jokingly to describe {C}, alluding to its `structured-assembler' image. See also {languages o...
hobbit is n. 1. The High Order Bit of a byte; same as the {meta bit} or {high bit}. 2. The non-ITS name of vad@ai.mit.edu (*Hobbit*), master of lasers.
hog is n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely large...
hog2 is slow themselves (see {pig, run like a}). More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., `memory hog', `core hog', `hog the processor', `hog the disk'. "A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the b...
hog3 is *people* who use more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one fi...
hog4 is one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.
holy wars is [from {USENET}, but may predate it] n. {flame war}s over {religious issues}. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms {big-endian} and {little-endian} in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled...
holy wars2 is perennial Holy Wars have included {EMACS} vs. {vi}, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, {{ITS}} vs. {{UNIX}}, {{UNIX}} vs. {VMS}, {BSD} UNIX vs. {USG UNIX}, {C} vs. {{Pascal}}, {C} vs. {LISP}, etc., ad n...
holy wars3 is distinguishes {holy wars} from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See ...
home box is n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2 BSD, so there!"
hook is n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user. For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variab...
hook2 is variable to 5 would make the program print numbers in base 5. The variable is a simple hook. An even more flexible program might examine the variable and treat a value of 16 or less as the base to use, but treat any other number a...
hook3 is printing a number. This is a {hairy} but powerful hook; one can then write a routine to print numbers as Roman numerals, say, or as Hebrew characters, and plug it into the program through the hook. Often the difference between a g...
hook4 is latter has useful hooks in judiciously chosen places. Both may do the original job about equally well, but the one with the hooks is much more flexible for future expansion of capabilities ({EMACS}, for example, is *all* hooks). The...
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interrupt list, the is [MS-DOS] n. The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu). As of ear...
interrupts locked out is When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym `interrupts disabled' is...
interrupts locked out2 is have one's interrupt mask bit set" or "interrupts masked out" is also heard. See also {spl}.
iron is n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers). Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose ...
Iron Age is n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial {mainframe} technology, when {big iron} {dinosaur}s ruled the earth. These began with the delivery of the first PDP-1, coincided with the dominance of ...
Iron Age2 is introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also {Stone Age}; compare {elder days}.
iron box is [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a {cracker} logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified {shell} restricting the hacker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files...
iron box2 is on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap}, and Clifford Stoll's account in `The Cuckoo's Egg' of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography). Compare {padded cell}.
ironmonger is [IBM] n. Derogatory. A hardware specialist. Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}.
ITS is /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to hav...
ITS2 is instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort. ITS pioneered many important innovations, including transparent file sharing between machines and terminal-independent I/O. After about 1982, most actual work was shifted to new...
ITS3 is essentially as a hobby and service to the hacker community. The shutdown of the lab's last ITS machine in May 1990 marked the end of an era and sent old-time hackers into mourning nationwide (see {high moby}). The Royal Institute of ...
ITS4 is `live' ITS site at its computer museum (right next to the only TOPS-10 system still on the Internet), so ITS is still alleged to hold the record for OS in longest continuous use (however, {{WAITS}} is a credible rival for this palm). ...
ITS5 is operating-system perfection worshiped by a bizarre, fervent retro-cult of old-time hackers and ex-users (see {troglodyte}, sense 2). ITS worshipers manage somehow to continue believing that an OS maintained by assembly-language hand...
ITS6 is 6-character filenames in one directory per account remains superior to today's state of commercial art (their venom against UNIX is particularly intense). See also {holy wars}, {Weenix}.
IWBNI is // [acronym] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare {WIBNI}.
IYFEG is // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling racist jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See {JEDR}.*J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrar...
IYFEG2 is often prefixed to a noun to make a name out of it. It means roughly `some particular' or `any specific one'. "Would you let J. Random Loser marry your daughter?" The most common uses are `J. Random Hacker', `J. Random Loser', an...
IYFEG3 is be allowed to {gun} down other people?"), but it can be used simply as an elaborate version of {random} in any sense.
J. Random Hacker is [MIT] /J rand'm hak'r/ n. A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the archetypal hacker nerd. See {random}, {Suzie COBOL}. This may originally have been inspired or influenced by `J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee...
jaggies is /jag'eez/ n. The `stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp. a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a pixel device (as opposed to a vector display).
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JRST is /jerst/ [based on the PDP-10 jump instruction] v.,obs. To suddenly change subjects, with no intention of returning to the previous topic. Usage rather rare except among PDP-10 diehards, and considered silly. See also {AOS}.
juggling eggs is vi. Keeping a lot of {state} in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF nov...
juggling eggs2 is and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." That is a very hackish use of language. See also {hack mode}.
jump off into never-never land is [from J. M. Barrie's `Peter Pan'] v. Same as {branch to Fishkill}, but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'. Compare {hyperspace}.*...
jump off into never-never land2 is used both as a spoken word and a written suffix (like {meg} and {gig} for megabyte and gigabyte). See {{quantifiers}}.
K&R is [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book `The C Programming Language', esp. the classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978; ISBN 0-113-110163-3). Syn. {White Book}, {Old Testament}. See also ...
kahuna is /k*-hoo'nuh/ [IBM from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n. Synonym for {wizard}, {guru}.
kamikaze packet is n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a {Christmas tree packet}. RFC-1025, `TCP and IP Bake Off' says 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree...
kamikaze packet2 is is, correctly handle a segment with the maximum combination of features at once (e.g., a SYN URG PUSH FIN segment with options and data). See also {Chernobyl packet}.
kangaroo code is n. Syn. {spaghetti code}.
ken is /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's...
ken2 is third-person reference; it is widely understood (on USENET, in particular) that without a last name `Ken' refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). See als...
ken3 is This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken.
kgbvax is /K-G-B'vaks/ n. See {kremvax}.
kill file is [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or u...
kill file2 is other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in ...
killer micro is [popularized by Eugene Brooks] n. A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of th...
killer micro2 is architectures. The popularity of the phrase `attack of the killer micros' is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the {canonical} examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). ...
killer micro3 is micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
killer poke is n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) in a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory manag...
killer poke2 is that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor. See also {HCF}.
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PC-ism is /P-C-izm/ n. A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using har...
PC-ism2 is {vaxism}, {unixism}. Also, `PC-ware' n., a program full of PC-isms on a machine with a more capable operating system. Pejorative.
PD is /P-D/ adj. Common abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over {USENET} and from Internet archive sites. Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the legal sense but travels under various copyright...
PD2 is anyone who can {snarf} a copy. See {copyleft}.
pdl is /pid'l/ or /puhd'l/ [acronym for `Push Down List'] 1. In ITS days, the preferred MITism for {stack}. 2. Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of {Zork}; (his {network address} on the ITS machines was at one time pdl@dms). 3. `Program De...
pdl2 is formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which {management} forces one to design programs. {Management} often expects it to be maintained in parallel with the code. See also {{flowchart}}. 4. To design using a program des...
pdl3 is eyes won't focus beyond 2 feet."
PDP-10 is [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real. It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT ...
PDP-102 is the instruction set (most notably the bit-field instructions) are still considered unsurpassed. The 10 was eventually eclipsed by the VAX machines (descendants of the PDP-11) when DEC recognized that the 10 and VAX product lines we...
PDP-103 is concentrate its software development effort on the more profitable VAX. The machine was finally dropped from DEC's line in 1983, following the failure of the Jupiter Project at DEC to build a viable new model. (Some attempts by o...
PDP-104 is nothing; see {Foonly}) This event spelled the doom of {{ITS}} and the technical cultures that had spawned the original Jargon File, but by mid-1991 it had become something of a badge of honorable old-timerhood among hackers to hav...
PDP-105 is {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {AOS}, {BLT}, {DDT}, {DPB}, {EXCH}, {HAKMEM}, {JFCL}, {LDB}, {pop}, {push}, appendix A.
PDP-20 is n. The most famous computer that never was. {PDP-10} computers running the {{TOPS-10}} operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11. Later on, those systems running {TOPS-20} were lab...
PDP-202 is being the result of a lawsuit brought against DEC by Singer, which once made a computer called `system-10'), but contrary to popular lore there was never a `PDP-20'; the only difference between a 10 and a 20 was the operating syst...
PDP-203 is all) machines sold to run TOPS-10 were painted `Basil Blue', whereas most TOPS-20 machines were painted `Chinese Red' (often mistakenly called orange).
peek is n.,vt. (and {poke}) The commands in most microcomputer BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an absolute address; often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any {HLL} (peek reads memory, poke modifies it). Much ...
peek2 is {peek}ing around memory, more or less at random, to find the location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers circulate (see {{interrupt list, the}}). Th...
peek3 is highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or (most likely) total {lossage} (see {killer poke}).
pencil and paper is n. An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved `write-once' update devices w...
pencil and paper2 is balls to deposit colored pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called `handwriting' technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers h...
pencil and paper3 is years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts. See also append...
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vaxocentrism is /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] n. A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp. under UNIX) on {VAXen} but false elsewhere. Amo...
vaxocentrism2 is validly be accused of vaxocentrism even if he or she has never seen a VAX. Some of these assumptions (esp. 2--5) were valid on the PDP-11, the original C machine, and became endemic years before the VAX. The terms `vaxocentr...
vaxocentrism3 is have been used synonymously.
vdiff is /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}. The term `optical diff' has also been reported. See {diff}.
veeblefester is /vee'b*l-fes`tr/ [from the "Born Loser" comix via Commodore; prob. originally from `Mad' Magazine's `Veeblefeetzer' parodies ca. 1960] n. Any obnoxious person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management. An...
Venus flytrap is [after the insect-eating plant] n. See {firewall machine}.
verbage is /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of {verbiage} that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. Compare {content-free}. More pejorative than `verbiage'.
verbiage is n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to {{documentation}}. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motive...
verbiage2 is with the ostensible subject.
Version 7 is alt. V7 /vee' se'vn/ n. The 1978 unsupported release of {{UNIX}} ancestral to all current commercial versions. Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a UNIX portability baseline. See ...
Version 72 is old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True UNIX.
vgrep is /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally. See {grep}; compare {vdiff}.
vi is /V-I/, *not* /vi/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n. A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} version. Became the de facto standard UNIX editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite until the rise o...
vi2 is frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode one is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often hear...
vi3 is Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 USENET poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than bulky EM...
videotex is n. obs. An electronic service offering people the privilege of paying to read the weather on their television screens instead of having somebody read it to them for free while they brush their teeth. The idea bombed everywhere it ...
videotex2 is time videotex was practical the installed base of personal computers could hook up to timesharing services and do the things for which videotex might have been worthwhile better and cheaper. Videotex planners badly overestimate...
videotex3 is computer and the cost of local intelligence at the user's end. Like the {gorilla arm} effect, this has been a cautionary tale to hackers ever since. See also {vannevar}.
virgin is adj. Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. "Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again." (Esp. useful after contracting a {virus} through {SEX}.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that...
virtual is [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob. from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1. Common alternative to {logical}. 2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's ...
virtual Friday is n. The last day before an extended weekend, if that day is not a `real' Friday. For example, the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The next day is often also a holiday or taken as an extra day off, in which...
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accumulator => n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old. The term in fu...
ACK => /ak/ interj. 1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream *Yo!*). An appropriate response to ping or ENQ. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust...
ad-hockery => /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp. expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary. For example, fuzzy-matching input toke...
Ada => n. A {Pascal}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon. Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of en...
adger => /aj'r/ [UCLA] vt. To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with a slight amount of mental effort. E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project". Compare {dumbass attack}.
admin => /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as...
ADVENT => /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the PDP-10 by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods. Now better known as Adventure,...
AI-complete => /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford by analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] adj. Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a ...
AI koans => /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included in appendix A). See also {ha ha only serious}, mu, and {{H...
AIDS => /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe SEX. See virus, worm, {Trojan horse}, virgin.
airplane rule => n. "Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness (...
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baroque => adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has...
BartleMUD => /bar'tl-muhd/ n. Any of the MUDs derived from the original MUD game by Richard Bartle (see MUD). BartleMUDs are noted for their (usually slightly offbeat) humor, dry but friendly syntax, and lack of adjectives in object descriptions, so ...
BASIC => n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers. This is another case (like Pascal) of the bad thing...
batch => adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often ...
bathtub curve => n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system'...
bathtub curve2 => `tires out'. See also {burn-in period}, {infant mortality}.
baud => /bawd/ [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning is `level transitions per second'; this coincides with bps only for two-level modulation with no f...
baud barf => /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp. line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts ...
baud barf2 => completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify pa...
baz => /baz/ [Stanford corruption of bar] n. 1. The third metasyntactic variable, after foo and bar and before quux (or, occasionally, `qux'; or local idiosyncracies like `rag', `zowie', etc.). "Suppose we have three functions FOO,BAR, and BAZ. FOO c...
bboard => /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n. 1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of BBS systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET newsgroup (in fact, use of the term for a newsgroup generally marks one eithe...
BBS => /B-B-S/ [acronym, `Bulletin Board System'] n. An electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into {topic group}s. Thousands of local BBS syst...
beam => [from Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up, Scotty!"] vt. To transfer softcopy of a file electronically; most often in combining forms such as `beam me a copy' or `beam that over to his site'. Compare blast, snarf, BLT.
beanie key => [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
beep => n.,v. Syn. feep. This term seems to be preferred among micro hobbyists.
beige toaster => n. A Macintosh. See toaster; compare Macintrash, maggotbox.
bells and whistles => [by analogy with the toyboxes on theater organs] n. Features added to a program or system to make it more flavorful from a hacker's point of view, without necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function. Distinguished...
bells and whistles2 => to attract users. "Now that we've got the basic program working, let's go back and add some bells and whistles." No one seems to know what distinguishes a bell from a whistle.
bells, whistles, and gongs => n. A standard elaborated form of {bells and whistles}; typically said with a pronounced and ironic accent on the `gongs'.
benchmark => [techspeak] n. An inaccurate measure of computer performance. "In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lies lies, damn lies, and benchmarks." Well-known ones include Whetstone, Dhrystone, Rhealstone (see h), the Gabriel LISP b...
Berkeley Quality Software => adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem. It usually has nonexistent, incomple...
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hidden flag => [scientific computation] n. An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might...
hidden flag2 => meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. Liberal use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand.
high bit => [from `high-order bit'] n. 1. The most significant bit in a byte. 2. By extension, the most significant part of something other than a data byte "Spare me the whole saga, just give me the high bit." See also {meta bit}, hobbit, {dread hig...
high bit2 => mainstream slang `bottom line'.
high moby => /hi' mohb'ee/ n. The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Sc...
high moby2 => (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last {ITS} machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the `high moby' and the other the `low moby'. All parties...
highly => [scientific computation] adv. The preferred modifier for overstating an understatement. As in `highly nonoptimal', the worst possible way to do something; `highly nontrivial', either impossible or requiring a major research project; `highly...
hirsute => adj. Occasionally used humorously as a synonym for hairy.
HLL => /H-L-L/ n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech. Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found. VHLL stands for `Very-High-Level Language' and is used to describe a {bondage-and...
hobbit => n. 1. The High Order Bit of a byte; same as the {meta bit} or {high bit}. 2. The non-ITS name of vad@ai.mit.edu (*Hobbit*), master of lasers.
hog => n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely large or com...
holy wars => [from USENET, but may predate it] n. {flame war}s over {religious issues}. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars...
holy wars2 => perennial Holy Wars have included EMACS vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, {ITS} vs. {UNIX}, {UNIX} vs. VMS, BSD UNIX vs. {USG UNIX}, C vs. {Pascal}, C vs. LISP, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that...
holy wars3 => distinguishes {holy wars} from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also th...
home box => n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2 BSD, so there!"
hook => n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user. For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable deter...
hop => n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), the important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path...
hose => 1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance. "That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system." See hosed. 2. n. A narrow channel through which data flows under pressure. Generally denotes data paths that represent p...
hosed => adj. Same as down. Used primarily by UNIX hackers. Humorous also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse. Probably derived from the Canadian slang `hoser' popularized by the Bob and Doug Mackenzie skits on SCTV. See hose...
hot spot => n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time; if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would ty...
hot spot2 => a lot of low-level noise. Such spikes are called `hot spots' and are good candidates for heavy optimization or hand-hacking. The term is especially used of tight loops and recursions in the code's central algorithm, as opposed to (say) i...
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interrupt => 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine. See also trap. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Often explicitly...
interrupt list, the => [MS-DOS] n. The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu). As of early 1991,...
interrupts locked out => When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym `interrupts disabled' is also com...
interrupts locked out2 => have one's interrupt mask bit set" or "interrupts masked out" is also heard. See also spl.
iron => n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of mainframe class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers). Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose silicon. See ...
Iron Age => n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial mainframe technology, when {big iron} dinosaurs ruled the earth. These began with the delivery of the first PDP-1, coincided with the dominance of ferrite core...
Iron Age2 => introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also {Stone Age}; compare {elder days}.
iron box => [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the hacker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files designed to...
iron box2 => on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap}, and Clifford Stoll's account in `The Cuckoo's Egg' of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography). Compare {padded cell}.
ironmonger => [IBM] n. Derogatory. A hardware specialist. Compare sandbender, {polygon pusher}.
ITS => /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `...
IWBNI => // [acronym] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare WIBNI.
IYFEG => // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling racist jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See JEDR.*J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrary; ordinary...
J. Random Hacker => [MIT] /J rand'm hak'r/ n. A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the archetypal hacker nerd. See random, {Suzie COBOL}. This may originally have been inspired or influenced by `J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee whose name...
jaggies => /jag'eez/ n. The `stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp. a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a pixel device (as opposed to a vector display).
JCL => /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language. JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems. JCL has a very fascist syntax, and some versions will, for example, barf if two spaces appear...
JEDR => // n. Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the USENET newsgroup rec.humor.funny tended to use `JEDR' instead of IYFEG or `<ethnic>'; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made by a loser with initials JEDR aft...
JFCL => /jif'kl/, /jaf'kl/, /j*-fi'kl/ vt., obs. (alt. `jfcl') To cancel or annul something. "Why don't you jfcl that out?" The fastest do-nothing instruction on older models of the PDP-10 happened to be JFCL, which stands for "Jump if Flag set and t...
jiffy => n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on the computer (see tick). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. "The swapper runs every 6 jif...
job security => n. When some piece of code is written in a particularly obscure fashion, and no good reason (such as time or space optimization) can be discovered, it is often said that the programmer was attempting to increase his job security (i.e....
job security2 => for maintenance). This sour joke seldom has to be said in full; if two hackers are looking over some code together and one points at a section and says "job security", the other one may just nod.
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JRST => /jerst/ [based on the PDP-10 jump instruction] v.,obs. To suddenly change subjects, with no intention of returning to the previous topic. Usage rather rare except among PDP-10 diehards, and considered silly. See also AOS.
juggling eggs => vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel `The Mot...
juggling eggs2 => and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." That is a very hackish use of language. See also {hack mode}.
jump off into never-never land => [from J. M. Barrie's `Peter Pan'] v. Same as {branch to Fishkill}, but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'. Compare hyperspace.*K /K/ [fro...
jump off into never-never land2 => used both as a spoken word and a written suffix (like meg and gig for megabyte and gigabyte). See {quantifiers}.
K&R => [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book `The C Programming Language', esp. the classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978; ISBN 0-113-110163-3). Syn. {White Book}, {Old Testament}. See also {New Test...
kahuna => /k*-hoo'nuh/ [IBM from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n. Synonym for wizard, guru.
kamikaze packet => n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a {Christmas tree packet}. RFC-1025, `TCP and IP Bake Off' says 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree packet, lamp...
kamikaze packet2 => is, correctly handle a segment with the maximum combination of features at once (e.g., a SYN URG PUSH FIN segment with options and data). See also {Chernobyl packet}.
kangaroo code => n. Syn. {spaghetti code}.
ken => /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's a login ...
kgbvax => /K-G-B'vaks/ n. See kremvax.
kill file => [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some USENET reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) ...
kill file2 => other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other med...
killer micro => [popularized by Eugene Brooks] n. A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsi...
killer micro2 => architectures. The popularity of the phrase `attack of the killer micros' is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has eve...
killer micro3 => micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
killer poke => n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) in a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory management (su...
killer poke2 => that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
kilo- => [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
KIPS => /kips/ [acronym, by analogy with MIPS using K] n. Thousands (*not* 1024s) of Instructions Per Second. Usage rare.
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patch => 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature. A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program. Distinguished from ...
patch space => n. An unused block of bits left in a binary so that it can later be modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically, the patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is patched to contain...
patch space2 => The widening use of HLLs has made this term rare; it is now primarily historical outside IBM shops. See patch (sense 4), zap (sense 4), hook.
path => n. 1. A {bang path} or explicitly routed {{Internet address}}; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. 2. [UNIX] A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory (as opposed to relative to the current directory;...
pathological => adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp. one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using. An algorithm that can be broken by pathological inputs ...
payware => /pay'weir/ n. Commercial software. Oppose shareware or freeware.
PBD => /P-B-D/ [abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage'] n. Applied to bug reports revealing places where the program was obviously broken by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer. Compare UBD; see also brain-damaged.
PC-ism => /P-C-izm/ n. A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using hard timin...
PD => /P-D/ adj. Common abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over USENET and from Internet archive sites. Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting...
pdl => /pid'l/ or /puhd'l/ [acronym for `Push Down List'] 1. In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. 2. Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of Zork; (his {network address} on the ITS machines was at one time pdl@dms). 3. `Program Design Language...
PDP-10 => [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real. It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, ...
PDP-20 => n. The most famous computer that never was. PDP-10 computers running the {TOPS-10} operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11. Later on, those systems running TOPS-20 were labeled `DECSYSTE...
peek => n.,vt. (and poke) The commands in most microcomputer BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an absolute address; often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any HLL (peek reads memory, poke modifies it). Much hacking on s...
pencil and paper => n. An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved `write-once' update devices which use...
pencil and paper2 => balls to deposit colored pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called `handwriting' technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible ...
pencil and paper3 => years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts. See also appendix B.
peon => n. A person with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system. "I can't create an account on *foovax* for you; I'm only a peon there."
percent-S => /per-sent' es'/ [From the code in C's `printf(3)' library function used to insert an arbitrary string argument] n. An unspecified person or object. "I was just talking to some percent-s in administration." Compare random.
perf => /perf/ n. See chad (sense 1). The term `perfory' /per'f*-ree/ is also heard.
perfect programmer syndrome => n. Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal human error. Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability but relatively little experience (especially new graduates; their perceptions...
perfect programmer syndrome2 => excellent performance at solving {toy problem}s). "Of course my program is correct, there is no need to test it." "Yes, I can see there may be a problem here, but *I'll* never type `rm -r /' while in root."
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VAXen => /vak'sn/ [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] n. (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen." See boxen.
vaxherd => n. /vaks'herd/ [from `oxherd'] A VAX operator.
vaxism => /vak'sizm/ n. A piece of code that exhibits vaxocentrism in critical areas. Compare PC-ism, unixism.
vaxocentrism => /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] n. A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp. under UNIX) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these a...
vdiff => /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}. The term `optical diff' has also been reported. See diff.
veeblefester => /vee'b*l-fes`tr/ [from the "Born Loser" comix via Commodore; prob. originally from `Mad' Magazine's `Veeblefeetzer' parodies ca. 1960] n. Any obnoxious person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management. Antonym of...
Venus flytrap => [after the insect-eating plant] n. See {firewall machine}.
verbage => /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. Compare content-free. More pejorative than `verbiage'.
verbiage => n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to {documentation}. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind i...
Version 7 => alt. V7 /vee' se'vn/ n. The 1978 unsupported release of {UNIX} ancestral to all current commercial versions. Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a UNIX portability baseline. See BSD, {USG U...
Version 72 => old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True UNIX.
vgrep => /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally. See grep; compare vdiff.
vi => /V-I/, *not* /vi/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n. A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD version. Became the de facto standard UNIX editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite until the rise of EMACS af...
videotex => n. obs. An electronic service offering people the privilege of paying to read the weather on their television screens instead of having somebody read it to them for free while they brush their teeth. The idea bombed everywhere it wasn't g...
virgin => adj. Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. "Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again." (Esp. useful after contracting a virus through SEX.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that have not yet ...
virtual => [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob. from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1. Common alternative to logical. 2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's doll may be...
virtual Friday => n. The last day before an extended weekend, if that day is not a `real' Friday. For example, the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The next day is often also a holiday or taken as an extra day off, in which case Wed...
virtual Friday2 => Friday (and Thursday is a virtual Saturday, as is Friday). There are also `virtual Mondays' that are actually Tuesdays, after the three-day weekends associated with many national holidays in the U.S.
virtual reality => n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation. See cyberspace. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, int...
virtual reality2 => comedy, and `true confessions' magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as USENET's alt.callahans newsgroup or the MUD experiments on Internet), interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel complete with ...
virtual reality3 => that may be personae utterly unlike the people who write them, and common `background characters' manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that you may not write irreversible changes to a character without the consent of th...
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18221 => Drifton Luzerne PA
18222 => Drums Luzerne PA
18223 => Ebervale Luzerne PA
18224 => Freeland Luzerne PA
18225 => Harleigh Luzerne PA
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50440 => Grafton Worth IA
50441 => Hampton Franklin IA
50444 => Hanlontown Worth IA
50446 => Joice Worth IA
50447 => Kanawha Hancock IA
50448 => Kensett Worth IA
50449 => Klemme Hancock IA
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74530 => Bromide Johnston OK
74531 => Calvin Hughes OK
74533 => Caney Atoka OK
74534 => Centrahoma Coal OK
74535 => Clarita Coal OK
74536 => Clayton Pushmataha OK
74538 => Coalgate Coal OK
74540 => Daisy Atoka OK
74542 => Atoka Atoka OK
74543 => Finley Pushmataha OK
74545 => Gowen Latimer OK
74546 => Haileyville Pittsburg OK
74547 => Hartshorne Pittsburg OK
74549 => Honobia Le Flore OK
74552 => Kinta Haskell OK
74553 => Kiowa Pittsburg OK
74554 => Krebs Pittsburg OK
74555 => Lane Atoka OK
74556 => Lehigh Atoka OK
74557 => Moyers Pushmataha OK
74558 => Nashoba Pushmataha OK
74559 => Panola Latimer OK
74560 => Pittsburg Pittsburg OK
74561 => Quinton Pittsburg OK
74562 => Rattan Pushmataha OK
74563 => Red Oak Latimer OK
74565 => Savanna Pittsburg OK
74567 => Snow Pushmataha OK
74569 => Stringtown Atoka OK
74570 => Stuart Hughes OK
74571 => Talihina Latimer OK
74572 => Tupelo Coal OK
74574 => Tuskahoma Pushmataha OK
74576 => Wardville Pittsburg OK
74577 => Whitesboro Le Flore OK
74578 => Wilburton Latimer OK
74601 => Ponca City Kay OK
74602 => Ponca City Kay OK
74603 => Ponca City Kay OK
74604 => Ponca City Kay OK
74630 => Billings Noble OK
74631 => Blackwell Kay OK
74632 => Braman Kay OK
74633 => Burbank Osage OK
74636 => Deer Creek Grant OK
74637 => Fairfax Osage OK
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