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Amethyst

Internet outage
Pentium FDIV bug
Vendor no longer supports the product
Small animal kamikaze attack on power supplies
The vendor put the bug there.
SIMM crosstalk.
IRQ dropout
Collapsed Backbone
Power company testing new voltage spike (creation) equipment
operators on strike due to broken coffee machine
backup tape overwritten with copy of system manager's favourite CD
UPS interrupted the server's power
The electrician didn't know what the yellow cable was so he yanked the ethernet out.
The keyboard isn't plugged in
The air conditioning water supply pipe ruptured over the machine room
The electricity substation in the car park blew up.
The rolling stones concert down the road caused a brown out
The salesman drove over the CPU board.
The monitor is plugged into the serial port
Root nameservers are out of sync
electro-magnetic pulses from French above ground nuke testing.

Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Excuse.pm view on Meta::CPAN

Your mail is being routed through Germany ... and they're censoring us.
Only people with names beginning with 'A' are getting mail this week (a la Microsoft)
We didn't pay the Internet bill and it's been cut off.
Lightning strikes.
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
Change your language to Finnish.
Flourescent lights are generating negative ions. If turning them off doesn't work, take them out and put tin foil on the ends.
High nuclear activity in your area.
What office are you in? Oh, that one.  Did you know that your building was built over the universities first nuclear research site? And wow, aren't you the lucky one, your office is right over where the core is buried!
The MGs ran out of gas.
The UPS doesn't have a battery backup.
Recursivity.  Call back if it happens again.
Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch.
The mainframe needs to rest.  It's getting old, you know.
I'm not sure.  Try calling the Internet's head office -- it's in the book.
The lines are all busy (busied out, that is -- why let them in to begin with?).
Jan  9 16:41:27 huber su: 'su root' succeeded for .... on /dev/pts/1
It's those computer people in X {city of world}.  They keep stuffing things up.
A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN.
Fatal error right in front of screen
That function is not currently supported, but Bill Gates assures us it will be featured in the next upgrade.

Amethyst/Brain/Infobot/Module/Excuse.pm view on Meta::CPAN

Virus due to computers having unsafe sex.
Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters.
Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit.
Suspicious pointer corrupted virtual machine
Its the InterNIC's fault.
Root name servers corrupted.
Budget cuts forced us to sell all the power cords for the servers.
Someone hooked the twisted pair wires into the answering machine.
Operators killed by year 2000 bug bite.
We've picked COBOL as the language of choice.
Operators killed when huge stack of backup tapes fell over.
Robotic tape changer mistook operator's tie for a backup tape.
Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the halon systems.
Your processor has taken a ride to Heaven's Gate on the UFO behind Hale-Bopp's comet.
t's an ID-10-T error
Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers
The Internet is being scanned for viruses.
Your computer's union contract is set to expire at midnight.
Bad user karma.
/dev/clue was linked to /dev/null
Increased sunspot activity.
We already sent around a notice about that.

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

AddLibs.py => <reply> $who, Allows you to create amusing stories using words you enter.. URL: http://www.serv.net/~strad/AddLibs/
AddressBook => <reply> $who, Portable Personal Information Manager written in perl. URL: http://www.acm.rpi.edu/~jackal/ab.html
addrmuser => <reply> $who, . URL: http://impulse.bitz.net/~posix/addrmuser.tar.gz
ADFlib => <reply> $who, a free, portable, open and documented implementation of the Amiga filesystem. URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/lclevy/adflib/
ADiCT => <reply> $who, Shared event calendar for independant organisations. URL: http://www.adict.net/
ADL => <reply> $who, Assertion Definition Language. URL: http://www.gr.opengroup.org/adl/
Admin CGI => <reply> $who, Web based user administration with cgi scripts. URL: http://www.daemon.de/admin-cgi.html
adns => <reply> $who, An advanced alternative, asynchronous resolver. URL: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/
Adora => <reply> $who, Cross-Platform Email Client for Linux and Windows. URL: http://www.sover.net/~senecal/adora.html
AdRotate => <reply> $who, Banner Ad Rotation Program. URL: http://www.vanbrunt.com/adrotate
ADSM Client => <reply> $who, ADSM backup client for linux boxes.. URL: http://www.storage.ibm.com/adsm
Advanced Playstation Joystick => <reply> $who, Linux Support for Direct Pad Pro interface, NegCon, and Dual Shock Controllers.. URL: http://gator.naples.net/~nfn03343/joy-psx.1.1.2.tgz
Adventure++ => <reply> $who, A text-based game creator.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
adzapper => <reply> $who, HTTP proxy that filters ads. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/
aee => <reply> $who, A capable but easy to use editor for console and X11. URL: http://www.users.uswest.net/~hmahon/
Aegis => <reply> $who, Transaction-based software configuration management system. URL: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/
aewm => <reply> $who, A minimalistic window manager for X. URL: http://members.home.com/decklin/aewm/
afbackup => <reply> $who, Client-server backup system. URL: ftp://www.zn.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/linux/
AfterStep => <reply> $who, Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel. URL: http://www.afterstep.org/
AfterStep Clock => <reply> $who, themes-enabled version of the classic clock. URL: http://www.asclock.org/
AfterStep Mounter => <reply> $who, A module for the AfterStep Wharf that allows you to mount/unmount your devices.. URL: http://hem.telitel.se/tit00164/
afwd => <reply> $who, Transparent audio character device forwarder (kernel mod). URL: http://dancer.ca.sandia.gov/~pw/afwd.html
AGI Utilities => <reply> $who, Utilities to extract data from Sierra On-Line AGI games. URL: http://agi.helllabs.org/#utils
Aglaophone => <reply> $who, System for real-time audio processing and analysis. URL: http://www.tam.cornell.edu/~sdh4/aglaophone/
agm => <reply> $who, single- and multi-word anagram generator. URL: http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/anagrams.html
aGNeS Remote News Forum BBS => <reply> $who, Remote fully featured BBS allowing virtually any layout for each board.. URL: http://www.vestris.com/agnes.new/doc/agnes_en.html
AGuide => <reply> $who, An AmigaGuide clone written in Perl/Tk. URL: http://helllabs.org/~claudio/aguide/
AGX-UserProfile => <reply> $who, A 'controlpanel' to configure and administer a Linux box.. URL: http://www.badpenguin.org/

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

Aim-c => <reply> $who, Open-source reimplementation of the AOL Instant Messenger protocol.. URL: http://www.foo.org/aim/
aimirc => <reply> $who, AOL Instant Messenger to Internet Relay Chat gateway. URL: http://www.zevils.com/linux/aimirc/
Airmid => <reply> $who, A GNU/Linux rescue disk.. URL: http://airmid.netpedia.net/
aKtion! => <reply> $who, KDE video player based on xanim. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/3864/aktion.html
Aladdin Ghostscript => <reply> $who, An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language.. URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
alarm applet => <reply> $who, Simple alarm for the GNOME panel. URL: http://home.freeuk.net/igbarn/alarm-applet.html
Aldona => <reply> $who, Lithuanian keymap utility for the Window Maker dock. URL: http://soften.ktu.lt/~diskena/aldona/
ALE Clone => <reply> $who, Clone of WarCraft II. URL: http://user.exit.de/johns/
ALE One hand keyboard => <reply> $who, One hand typing with standard keyboard. URL: http://www.fourtytwo.de/
AleVT => <reply> $who, Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer. URL: http://user.exit.de/froese/
Alexandria for Linux => <reply> $who, Complete, automated, client/server backup. URL: http://www.storage.sterling.com/Alexandria/alexandria.html
Alfajor => <reply> $who, Cookie Filter (Python). URL: http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/alfajor/index.html
Alfalinux => <reply> $who, Slackware Linux on two floppy disks. URL: http://www.dadacasa.com/alfalinux/
AliantIRCD => <reply> $who, An ircd based on DAL4.6.7B.DREAMFORGE.. URL: 
aliases2cdbm => <reply> $who, Convert mail aliases into input suitable for cdbmake. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/software/index.html
aliasman.pl => <reply> $who, A Perl program for majordomo-like management of /etc/aliases.. URL: http://www.mmedia.is/~bre/aliasman/
Alien => <reply> $who, Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats. URL: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/
ALife => <reply> $who, Artificial Life for Linux. URL: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~f9808590/alife/
ALINKA LCM => <reply> $who, Tool for the management and configuration of Linux Beowulf clusters.. URL: http://www.alinka.com/
ALINKA RAISIN => <reply> $who, Web based tool to build and administrate beowulf type clusters. URL: http://www.alinka.com/
Alkaline UNIX/NT Search Engine => <reply> $who, Web site and intranet search engine and spider, ala Altavista or Excite.. URL: http://www.vestris.com/alkaline/

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

AVFS => <reply> $who, C library add-on, which enables all programs to look insidecompressed files. URL: http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/
aview => <reply> $who, ASCII art image browser/animation player. URL: http://www.ta.jcu.cz/aa/aview/
AVLTree => <reply> $who, An implementation of AVL trees that is useful for indexing objects.. URL: http://www.enteract.com/~cosine/project/AVLTree/
AVS => <reply> $who, Data visualization programming environment for end-users. URL: http://www.avs.com
AWE32ControlPanel => <reply> $who, SBAWE32 Control Panel. URL: http://huizen.nhkanaal.nl/~blade/
Awka => <reply> $who, An AWK to C translator and library.. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~awka
ax25-apps => <reply> $who, User applications for AX.25. URL: http://www.eye-net.com.au/hamradio/
ax25-tools => <reply> $who, Network Tools for AX.25 protocol. URL: http://www.eye-net.com.au/hamradio/
Babelj => <reply> $who, Language server for Java. URL: http://www.twmacinta.com/software/babelj/
BabyTrans => <reply> $who, GTK front-end for Windows Babylon Translator. URL: http://fjolliton.free.fr/babytrans/index.html
Backburner => <reply> $who, CD-Rewritable stream fixation and restoration (backup) software.. URL: http://w3.one.net/~bilshell/backburner/backburner.html
Backup Copy => <reply> $who, Copy program designed to quickly and efficiently store data.. URL: http://pep.netnation.com/cpbk/
backupd => <reply> $who, Small client/server backup solution for mixed networks. URL: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/backupd/
BackupExec Agent => <reply> $who, BackupExec Agent for Linux (and other *NIX). URL: http://www.veritas.com/
backupsd => <reply> $who, APC Back-UPS shutdown software for NetBSD. URL: http://www.capybara.org/~dfraser/backupsd/
bag => <reply> $who, bag is used to buffer data. URL: http://www.foi.hr/~dpavlin/projects/bag/
Bahwi's MailCheck => <reply> $who, Reads Procmail logfiles and creates a WindowMaker menu. URL: http://www.cityscope.net/~bahwi/BahwiProgs/
Bake => <reply> $who, A tool that supposes to replace many other build tools. URL: http://bake.werken.com/
Balsa => <reply> $who, A GNOME mail client with support for local mailboxes, POP3, and IMAP. URL: http://www.balsa.net/
BANAL => <reply> $who, Book-keeping (and other stuff) for small businesses. URL: http://www.starnix.com/banal/
Bandmin => <reply> $who, Bandmin is a package that monitors and logs ip accounting data. URL: http://www.bandmin.org
Bang => <reply> $who, Open Source multi-user 3D browser. URL: http://bang.is/
Banner Ad Rotation Program => <reply> $who, Sell out and manage banner ads with Perl and SSI. URL: http://dave.imarc.net/perl.php
barboot => <reply> $who, Fancy boot loader. URL: http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~timbert/soft/barboot/barboot-1.2.tar.bz2
barracuda => <reply> $who, Barracuda is a graphical BibTeX database manager. URL: http://barracuda.linuxbox.com

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

DarkFire IRCD [Twilight] => <reply> $who, Advanced IRCD. URL: http://www.darkfire.net/
Darwersi => <reply> $who, Othello game (strong genetic AI). URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Olivier.Arsac/darwersi/
Darxite => <reply> $who, Controllable daemon that downloads via FTP in the background. URL: http://darxite.cjb.net/
DashO-Pro => <reply> $who, Java Application Size-Reducer, Optimizer, and Obfuscator. URL: http://www.preemptive.com
Data::Address::Standardize Perl Module => <reply> $who, A Perl module for standardizing U.S. URL: http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/Data-Address-Standardize-0.001.html
Data::Locations => <reply> $who, A virtual file manager which allows to read/write data to and from virtual files. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/
DataGate's Connector => <reply> $who, DG Connector is a Web-based Instant Intranet solution.. URL: http://www.datagate.co.uk/products/connector/index.html
Datalink library => <reply> $who, Send data to the Timex DataLink watches. URL: http://datalink.fries.net/
DataManager => <reply> $who, Shared memory ringbuffers client-server library. URL: http://www.anatom.uni-tuebingen.de/~richi/linux/DataManager/datamanager.html
Datasphere => <reply> $who, Non-IRC text-based conferencing package. URL: http://www.wwcn.org/
Datbkr => <reply> $who, Tar based tape backup program with remote SSH support. URL: http://www.psychosis.com/datbkr/
Date::Calc => <reply> $who, Package for all kinds of date calculations based onthe Gregorian calendar. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/
Date::Pcalc => <reply> $who, All-Perl module for date calculations, based on Date::Calc. URL: http://www.best.com/~nessus/date/pcalc.html
Dave Gnukem => <reply> $who, GGI-based 2D scrolling platform game, similar to Duke Nukem 1. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2018/djgame.html
daVinci => <reply> $who, daVinci is a X-Window visualization tool for drawing directed graphs automatical. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~davinci/
Daydream => <reply> $who, Daydream BBS version 2.07. URL: http://daydream.iwn.fi/
DB2 => <reply> $who, Universal Database for Linux. URL: http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/linux/
DBE => <reply> $who, Easily insert, delete, and update records in a database table.. URL: http://edseek.com/developers.shtml
DBedit => <reply> $who, A system for integrating development web database applications. URL: http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/uu-gna/tech/dbedit/dbedit.html
dbf2pos => <reply> $who, Dbf to Postgresql converter. URL: http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~jerzy/wegorz/
DBInspector => <reply> $who, Easy-to-use front end to Oracle Databases written in Java.. URL: http://dbinspector.com/

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

Ding! => <reply> $who, ICQ like personal communicator. URL: http://www.activerse.com/ding
Dinotrace => <reply> $who, X Waveform viewer for Verilog. URL: http://www.ultranet.com/~wsnyder/veripool/dinotrace/
Diogenes => <reply> $who, Latin and ancient Greek text searching tool.. URL: http://www.ucd.ie/~classics/heslin/diogenes/
DIP: Dialup IP Protocol Driver => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/dip
DIPC => <reply> $who, DIPC can be used to build and program clusters (multi-computers). URL: http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc/
dips => <reply> $who, Distributed IP simulator. URL: http://members.xoom.com/posinaga/dips.html
Directory Stack => <reply> $who, Directory Stack is a very CSH-like pushd/popd for both Korn and Bourne shells. URL: http://janus.syracuse.net/~green/dir_stack-1.2.tar.gz
dirIcn => <reply> $who, A little view plugin for Zfm.. URL: http://zfm.xdev.org/
DirML => <reply> $who, Directory markup language parser/interpreter. URL: http://relativity.yi.org/DirML/
dirtypgp => <reply> $who, workslate for PGP based crypto manipulations. URL: http://www.owlriver.com/projects/dirtypgp/index.html
Disc Backup => <reply> $who, Backups files onto multipule CDs.. URL: http://discbackup.home.dhs.org/
Disc-Cover => <reply> $who, Generate covers for audio cds non-interactively using cddb. URL: http://www.liacs.nl/~jvhemert/disc-cover/
Discourse => <reply> $who, A utility to perform complex user interaction from shell scripts. URL: http://bluegreen.dhs.org/~daniel/discourse/
DiskDrake => <reply> $who, Graphical hard-drive partitioner. URL: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/
display => <reply> $who, Continuously redisplay output in a terminal window. URL: http://www.ipsmart.com/src/
Display Ghostscript => <reply> $who, The Display Ghostscript System for GNUstep.. URL: http://www.gnustep.org/
Distmp3 => <reply> $who, Distributed mp3compressing. URL: http://wlug.westbo.se/medlprog/medlprog.html
distributed.net clients => <reply> $who, Client for participation in the RC5 and DES cracking contests. URL: http://www.distributed.net/
DistroLib => <reply> $who, Library for distributed processes.. URL: http://www.gcu-squad.org/phir/distrolib.html
distWrap => <reply> $who, rdist wrapper that quickly generates an rdist script.. URL: http://www.kaostech.com/products/html/distWrap.html
divine => <reply> $who, automatic IP configuration detection for laptops. URL: http://www.fefe.de/divine/

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

ezbounce => <reply> $who, A very configurable IRC Proxy. URL: http://druglord.freelsd.org/ezbounce/
ezmlm => <reply> $who, Easy-to-use, high-speed mailing list manager for qmail. URL: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ezmlm.html
eznet => <reply> $who, Very simple PPP setup. URL: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/eznet/
EzRPM => <reply> $who, RPM dependency checker and installer. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~igloo/ezrpm/ezrpm-1.2.tar.gz
F => <reply> $who, Lightweight file browser for GNOME.. URL: http://www.maybe.net/f/
F-CULT => <reply> $who, File Collector's Universal Listing Tool. URL: http://www.mbnet.fi/~laurijh/
f/Calc => <reply> $who, Calculate several different photographic formulae.. URL: http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/photo/fcalc/
fact => <reply> $who, An automated system for managing small snippets of information.. URL: http://projects.ticons.com.au/fact/
failoverd => <reply> $who, Provide rudimentary failover capability for Linux. URL: http://ps-ax.com/failoverd/
FAIM => <reply> $who, An open source client for America Online's Instant Messenger service. URL: http://www.auk.cx/faim/
Fake => <reply> $who, Utility to switch in backup servers on a LAN. URL: http://vergenet.net/linux/fake/
fake identd => <reply> $who, Robust non-forking standalone fake ident daemon. URL: http://iki.fi/too/sw/identd.readme
FakeBO => <reply> $who, Fakes trojan server responses and logs incoming requests. URL: http://cvs.linux.hr/fakebo/
Falcon Module Player => <reply> $who, Various module formats ncurses color player for Linux. URL: http://www.fmp.da.ru
Falken => <reply> $who, An excellent multi-user BBS system for Linux.. URL: http://www.FalkenBBS.com
Falken Finger Daemon => <reply> $who, A finger daemon for Falken Sysops that will display current online BBS users. URL: http://bbs.ipass.net/rds/
Falling Blocks Game => <reply> $who, A falling blocks game of strategy.. URL: http://www.wolsi.com/~dwl/code/
FAQ PLAIN => <reply> $who, FAQ generator/preprocessor. URL: http://artho.com/webtools/faq/
Faq-O-Matic => <reply> $who, Automatic maintenance of a FAQ. URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jonh/faq.pl
faq-system => <reply> $who, cgi package to manage one or more faq databases.. URL: http://www.daemon.de/faq-system.html
farsh => <reply> $who, Find and Run shell. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/file/farsh/farsh-1.2.0-1.tar.gz

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

Firewalk => <reply> $who, traceroute like tool to determine gateway ACL filters and to map networks. URL: http://www.packetfactory.net/firewalk/
Firewall Manager => <reply> $who, Graphical interface for Firewalls. URL: http://www.tectrip.net/arg/
fix-rhcd => <reply> $who, Tool for creating your own Red Hat Linux CDR from the ftp site.. URL: http://www.ajusd.org/~edward/fix-rhcd/
flarE => <reply> $who, epplet that calls bottlerocket to control X10 devices. URL: http://athena.student.umd.edu/
Flash => <reply> $who, Secure menuing shell for restricting local unix users. URL: http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/flash/
Flash 4 Plugin for Netscape => <reply> $who, Flash 4 plugin for Netscape. URL: http://www.macromedia.com/
Flash Mount Menu => <reply> $who, Automounter/umounter. URL: http://lonestar.bizland.com/
Flash Web Server => <reply> $who, A fast, portable web server that performs aggressive caching. URL: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vivek/flash/
Flashback => <reply> $who, Flashback is an mp3 visualization program.. URL: http://deadzone.student.umd.edu/flashback/news.pl
fletch => <reply> $who, Non interactive, multiplexing FTP/HTTP client.. URL: http://vipul.net/perl/
flexbackup => <reply> $who, Flexible backup script. URL: http://members.home.com/flexbackup/
FlexButtonZ => <reply> $who, Make desktop buttons in X from shellscripts.. URL: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~buttonz/
Flight Gear => <reply> $who, Flight simulator. URL: http://www.flightgear.org/
flip => <reply> $who, Page-flipper for previewing TIFF sequence animations.. URL: http://www.reptilelabour.com/
flmake => <reply> $who, Graphical user interface for make , compiler output and nedit. URL: http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/fltk/
Flog => <reply> $who, ftpd log analyzer. URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ajoshi/
flow => <reply> $who, Particle animation software with GL preview and Renderman output.. URL: http://www.reptilelabour.com/
Flowersol => <reply> $who, Oonsoo and other flower card games for PySol. URL: http://www.inetarena.com/~grania/
FLS => <reply> $who, Library catalog/circulation system. URL: http://www.dorm4.org/~fuzz/fls/
flshutdown => <reply> $who, graphical shutdown application. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~aiel/flshutdown/
fltags => <reply> $who, GUI frontend for Exhuberant Ctags. URL: http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/fltk/fltags.html

factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN

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
IBCM3D => <reply> $who, . URL: http://cs.sonoma.edu/~kendrick/nbs/unix/x/icbm3d/
Ibis => <reply> $who, Another file browser for WindowMaker.. URL: http://www.altern.org/grugru
IBM International Classes for Unicode for C/C++ => <reply> $who, IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU) enable you to write fully cross-platform programs. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/icu/
IBM techexplorer => <reply> $who, IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser. URL: http://www.software.ibm.com/network/techexplorer/
IBM Visualization Data Explorer => <reply> $who, An application for data visualization.. URL: http://www.ibm.com/dx/
ibs => <reply> $who, The intelligent backup system for Debian GNU/Linux.. URL: http://ibs.brunox.qc.ca/
IBTK => <reply> $who, Basic self-contained no-frills toolkit for Xlib.. URL: http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/src/
Ical => <reply> $who, A tcl/tk based calendar program. URL: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Sanjay_Ghemawat/ical/home.html
ICBM => <reply> $who, Distributed MUD/Chat servers and sample client.. URL: http://members.home.com/carlsonj/
ICBM3D/2 => <reply> $who, A 3D. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/icbm3d2/
ICE Linux-Appletalk => <reply> $who, Complete Graphical Appletalk/Macintosh integration for Linux. URL: http://www.icenetworking.com/products/appletalk/
icecast => <reply> $who, MP3 Audio Broadcasting System. URL: http://www.icecast.org/
IceConf => <reply> $who, A graphical configuration program for IceWM. URL: http://www.ionet.net/~hestgray/files/
IceDJ => <reply> $who, MP3 streaming and radio station managment suite written in Perl. URL: http://www.remixradio.com/icedj/
ICEMail => <reply> $who, Java email client based on JavaMail API with SMIME support.. URL: http://www.ice.com/java/icemail/
IcePref => <reply> $who, A graphical configuration tool for Ice WM written with PyGTK. URL: http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref.html

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latencytest => <reply> $who, benchmarks scheduling latencies (of audio apps) during high system load. URL: http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/
lathi-themes => <reply> $who, Perl script to implement themes for the AfterStep window manager. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~alcornd/
Latrell Sprewell => <reply> $who, Linux Mini-distribution based on Slackware v3.6. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pygmy/
Latte => <reply> $who, Better web authoring language. URL: http://www.latte.org/
Launcher => <reply> $who, One-stop filetype/application mapping solution. URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~etgold/software/launcher/
LAuRA => <reply> $who, Little Audiogram Recorder/Archiver. URL: http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9525556/audiometry/
lavaps => <reply> $who, A lava lamp of currently running processes. URL: http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/index.html
Lazarus => <reply> $who, Lazarus Object Pascal IDE. URL: http://www.pcpros.net/~vbman/
Lazy Solitaire => <reply> $who, Solitaire card game for lazy people. URL: http://www.seindal.dk/rene/software/gtkabale/
lb => <reply> $who, Quick and Dirty Load-Balancing System in Perl. URL: ftp://212.208.183.137/pub/lbsystem.tgz
LBU => <reply> $who, Linux Backup Utility with minor enhancements.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/backup/Lnx-Bkp-Util-v1.21gc.tgz
lcc => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/
lcccd14 => <reply> $who, Kernel module for astronomical CCD camera LcCCD14. URL: http://www.schwebel.de/camera.html
LCD Developer's Toolkit (LcDTK) => <reply> $who, LCD Programmer's Toolkit for Matrix Orbital LCD Displays. URL: http://www.ptsi.net/user/compuwiz/index.html
LCDproc => <reply> $who, Displays system statistics on an external LCD display. URL: http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net
LCDproc client => <reply> $who, Displays METAR weather information via the lcdproc server on an LCD.. URL: http://noxs.org/tuxaid/lcdclients/lcdclients.html
LCL => <reply> $who, The LinuxClassLibrary. URL: http://dentrassi.de/lcl/
LCLint => <reply> $who, LCLint is an improved tool for checking C program syntax. URL: http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/lclint/
ld.so => <reply> $who, ELF dynamic linkers, dynamic linker library and utilities. URL: ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux/
LDAP Explorer => <reply> $who, PHP3 Application. URL: http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/LDAPExplorer/
LDAP Web Xplorer => <reply> $who, PHP based LDAP Browser, editor. URL: http://www.hklc.com/infocenter/articles/My_Software_x_LDAP_web_xplorer.html

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Leafnode => <reply> $who, NNTP server for small leaf sites. URL: http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html
leaguetable => <reply> $who, Little program/library generating league tables. URL: http://capsi.cx/new/?q=linux-leaguetable
leak => <reply> $who, Simple sysadm shell script for finding which process is leaking memory.. URL: http://www.galstar.com/~jmccorm/leak
LeakTracer => <reply> $who, Trace memory leaks in C++ programs. URL: http://www.andreasen.org/LeakTracer/
Leaky => <reply> $who, a memory leak tracer. URL: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/leaky/leaky.html
LeanWeb => <reply> $who, HTTP proxy for removing user-defined parts from Web pages.. URL: http://www.clasohm.com/leanweb/
LEAP RDBMS => <reply> $who, A free Relational Database Management System. URL: http://www.xnot.com/leap/
LED Counter => <reply> $who, All purpose counter. URL: http://gehtnix.fernuni-hagen.de/LED-Counter/index.html
Ledsm => <reply> $who, System monitor that displays CPU load and free memory using the keyboard leds. URL: http://personal5.iddeo.es/jajs/ledsm.html
Leech => <reply> $who, Recursive download automation tool. URL: http://nostamp.dynip.com/kars/phplib/projects/leech.phtml
Legato Networker => <reply> $who, Linux client to commercial backup server. URL: http://feral.com/NetWorker.html
legdoc => <reply> $who, C source code documentor. URL: http://www.moodfarm.demon.co.uk/download/index.html#legdoc
Legend => <reply> $who, A Swedish BBS/MUD system. URL: http://www.legend.se.eu.org/
LEM => <reply> $who, A small Linux/X11 distribution for embedding apps.. URL: http://linux-embedded.com
Lemon => <reply> $who, Modern parser generator. URL: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/index.html
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

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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/
Linux Cheatsheet => <reply> $who, A list of commands designed to be printed out and kept under your Linux Bible.. URL: http://www.purposenet.com/~boredzo/cheatsheet.txt
Linux Doom Editor => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.freenet.tlh.fl.us/~amstpi/lde.html
Linux driver for OnStream DI30 => <reply> $who, Driver for Onstream's DI30 tape drive. URL: http://www.onstream.com/support/linux/
Linux FreeS/WAN => <reply> $who, Build secure VPN's with Linux FreeS/WAN's IPSEC and IKE implementation. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/
Linux IEEE 1394 Subsystem => <reply> $who, Kernel subsystem and applications providing IEEE1394 (FireWire, iLink) support. URL: http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/ieee1394/
Linux Intrusion Detection System => <reply> $who, Linux Kernel-Based Intrusion Detect System. URL: http://www.soaring-bird.com.cn/oss_proj/lids/
Linux JDK => <reply> $who, Provides a full port of Sun's JDK (Solaris version) to Linux. URL: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
Linux joystick driver => <reply> $who, Provides Linux support for joysticks. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/
Linux JVM => <reply> $who, IBM incredibly fast JDK for the Linux platform.. URL: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/

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minicom => <reply> $who, Serial communication program. URL: http://www.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html
Minimalist => <reply> $who, Easy-but-powerful Mailing List Manager. URL: http://www.webest.com/minimalist/
MiniMate => <reply> $who, Administration tool for MiniVend. URL: http://linuxia.cobolt.ch/minimate/
MinIRC => <reply> $who, Ultra-small IRC client which uses Tcl/Tk (NOT a front-end for ircII). URL: http://minirc.hypermart.net
MiniSearch => <reply> $who, a simple website search engine written in Perl. URL: http://www.dansteinman.com/minisearch/
Ministry of Truth => <reply> $who, Web-based job tracking system. URL: http://tomato.nvgc.vt.edu/~hroberts/mot
MiniVend => <reply> $who, Powerful freely redistributable shopping cart package. URL: http://www.minivend.com/
minordomo => <reply> $who, A minimalistic mailing list manager. URL: http://www.nodomainname.net/software/minordomo/
Minotaur => <reply> $who, Embedding Perl, Python, Tcl scripts in each other. URL: http://mini.net/pub/ts2/minotaur.html
Mirror => <reply> $who, . URL: http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/
mirrordir => <reply> $who, Provides mirroring, backup, ftp, secure shell, secure file tranfer. URL: http://www.obsidian.co.za/mirrordir/
Miscellaneous Unix scripts => <reply> $who, A collection of miscellaneous useful Unix scripts. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~winitzki/
Mist => <reply> $who, Distributed Object Services. URL: http://www.saber.net/~dket/
mister index => <reply> $who, Web-based php multimedia file indexer.. URL: http://www.yggdrasil.cx/index-kun/
MIT Photonic-Bands => <reply> $who, Software for computing photonic band structures.. URL: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/
mixer => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~bb/linux/
Mixer.app => <reply> $who, Mixer.app is a mixer utility for Linux/FreeBSD systems. URL: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt96pli/mixer/
MiXView => <reply> $who, Sound Editor for X. URL: http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/~doug/htmls/MiXViews.html
mkdep.perl => <reply> $who, makedepend that does not include system header files.. URL: http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/mkdep.readme
mkdnstab => <reply> $who, DNS Table generator in Perl. URL: http://milosch.net/pub/scripts/mkdnstab/
mkl => <reply> $who, Creates and prints labels for use with CD-Rs. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~bstumm/

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mrtg => <reply> $who, Multi Router Traffic Grapher. URL: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html
mscal2html => <reply> $who, Generates an html calendar from a calendar saved as text from an ms/windows app.. URL: http://cblack.mokey.com/mscal2html/
msend => <reply> $who, An implementation of the message send protocol (RFC1312).. URL: http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mrudat/software/msend/home.frames.html
msgboard => <reply> $who, CGI message board that uses MySQL database to store messages.. URL: http://24.28.41.85:800/msgboard-1.0.tar.gz
MSL => <reply> $who, Real time distributed simulation environment interpreter. URL: http://www.hinttech.com/pub/msl/msl-1.2.tar.gz
MSNewsGrabber => <reply> $who, Grabs news headlines and stories from various sites. URL: http://news.saggaf.com/
MSNTP => <reply> $who, Simple Network Time Protocol Utility. URL: ftp://oozelum.csi.cam.ac.uk/dist/msntp-1.5.tar.gz
mSQL => <reply> $who, Mini SQL implementation. URL: http://www.Hughes.com.au/
msr => <reply> $who, Access the machine specific registers of a x86 cpu. URL: http://pobox.com/~smeyer/msr.html
MSToNS => <reply> $who, Convert Outlook Express/Internet E-Mail folders to Netscape folders. URL: http://www.halcyon.com/mango/mstons/
mtf => <reply> $who, A Microsoft Tape Format reader. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/backup/mtf-0.1.src.tgz
mtools => <reply> $who, . URL: http://mtools.linux.lu/
mtr => <reply> $who, Network diagnostic tool. URL: http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
MTX => <reply> $who, program for controlling the robotic mechanism of DDS autoloaders. URL: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/
mtxtools => <reply> $who, Controller daemon and client for Matrix Orbital 20x2 LCD devices.. URL: http://www.ip23.net/
Muac => <reply> $who, A fast (n log(n)) algorithm for the 2D KS test. URL: http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/muac/index.html
MUD Board Plugin => <reply> $who, Plugin for M* servers. URL: ftp://dreams.cpugeek.com/pub/plugins/
MUD Plugin Package => <reply> $who, Extends the usefulness of your M* server.. URL: ftp://dreams.cpugeek.com/pub/plugins/
MudBot => <reply> $who, IRC bot. URL: http://www.darkelf.net/mudbot
Muddleftpd => <reply> $who, A small, fast configurable ftp server that can run without root.. URL: http://www.arach.net.au/~wildfire/muddleftpd/
MudNames => <reply> $who, Mud character name generator. URL: http://personal.redestb.es/ragnar/

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TABLA => <reply> $who, HTML table generator. URL: http://www.cwareco.com/tabla.html
tableau => <reply> $who, Perl CGI program to generate and edit HTML tables based on CSV files.. URL: http://www.quality.gconnect.net/tableau/
TableGen => <reply> $who, Creates java classes to represent and access an SQL database. URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/joe.carter/
Tac => <reply> $who, An AOL Instant Messenger client in pure TCL. URL: http://users.tmok.com/~smike/
Tacacs+ => <reply> $who, Cisco tacacs+ daemon. URL: http://www.gazi.edu.tr/~devrim/tacacs/
tailbeep => <reply> $who, Watches an open file for a string and beeps the console if it sees it.. URL: http://soomka.com/
takepatch.pl => <reply> $who, Imports/applies patch files to CVS working directories. URL: http://www.loth.demon.co.uk/takepatch.pl
tal => <reply> $who, Aligns common trailing characters. URL: http://home.pages.de/~jensen/tal/
Tangleword Trainer => <reply> $who, Training program for Playsite's Tangleword. URL: http://w3.one.net/~benders/tangle.shtml
TAON => <reply> $who, Fancy sound editor for x86 linux, supports plugins. URL: http://jump.to/taon/
Taper => <reply> $who, Tape backup and restore program with a friendly user interface. URL: http://www.omen.net.au/~yusuf/
TAPIIR => <reply> $who, Multi-tap-delay audio effect processor. URL: http://www.things.nl/~maarten/fltk/tapiir/
taptunnel => <reply> $who, Ethernet-tunnel over TCP/IP using the new Linux-2.2-ethertap-device. URL: http://207.236.110.176/~poettering/lennart/projects/taptunnel/index.html
YAX Standard Services => <reply> $who, The Standard Services for the YAX API and YAX Window System.. URL: http://yax.netpedia.net/
TARA (Tiger Analytical Research Assistant) => <reply> $who, Local Security checking scripts. URL: http://home.arc.com/tara/index.html
TarCust => <reply> $who, A tar post-processor to ease rolling tarballs. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/tarcust/
Tarpd => <reply> $who, Proxy arp daemon for Linux.. URL: http://www.cs.hut.fi/~tricky/utils/net/tarpd-1.6.tar.gz
tavrasm => <reply> $who, Assembler for the Atmel AVR series of micro-controllers. URL: http://www.image.dk/~tomo/
TB MultiSound Drivers => <reply> $who, Driver for the Turtle Beach Pinnacleor Fiji,. URL: http://atv.ne.mediaone.net/linux-multisound
TBTM => <reply> $who, Pre-processor system designed to simplify web site development and maintenance. URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~jfpatry/tbtm/
TCD => <reply> $who, . URL: http://flow.ml.org/

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TmCde JAVA frontend => <reply> $who, Timecode calculator (JAVA frontend part). URL: http://www.epeios.org/
TmCde WEB frontend => <reply> $who, Timecode calculator (WEB frontend part). URL: http://www.epeios.org/
tmlm => <reply> $who, Powerful new mailing list manager. URL: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~taral/tmlm/
Tmp-audit => <reply> $who, Logs directory changes.. URL: http://poc.csoft.net/
tn3270 => <reply> $who, 3270 emulator for Unix. URL: http://www.luyer.net/software/tn3270/
tn5250 => <reply> $who, 5250 Terminal emulator for Linux, Unix and Win32. URL: http://www.blarg.net/~mmadore/5250.html
tnef => <reply> $who, Decodes application/ms-tnef attachments. URL: http://world.std.com/~damned/tnef-latest.tar.gz
TNT => <reply> $who, Emacs Clients for the AOL Instant Messenger service. URL: http://brokendreams.dyndns.com/tnt/
TNT Packet Radio Terminal => <reply> $who, A curses-based Packet Radio Terminal for Linux, Solaris, NetBSD.. URL: http://excelsior.kullen.rwth-aachen.de/WSPse/Packet.php3
TOAD => <reply> $who, C++ GUI library. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~hopf/toad/
tob => <reply> $who, A simple yet configurable shell-script which runs tar or afio backups.. URL: http://www.icce.rug.nl/docs/programs/tob.html
Toba => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/toba/
Toby => <reply> $who, Improved version of LOGO programming langauge.. URL: http://www.xnot.com/toby/
Today => <reply> $who, What important events happened today in history. URL: http://www.greabo.demon.co.uk/linux/
Todo => <reply> $who, Simple command line-based todo script in Perl. URL: http://moses.datasys.net/~power/todo/todo-1.0.tgz
todo list => <reply> $who, a set of CGI scripts that create a web-based to-do list. URL: http://users.intertex.net/marc/todo.html
Todokeru => <reply> $who, FTP Daemon implemented in Perl.. URL: http://www.futuresouth.com/~tomw/todokeru/
todolm => <reply> $who, A TO-DO List Manager. URL: http://todolm.rubiks.net/
Toenail => <reply> $who, App to parse menu and output to Blackbox style submenu file.. URL: http://remosa.linuxbox.com/
TOM => <reply> $who, The TOM compiler, tools, and basic libraries. URL: http://gerbil.org/tom/
Tom Bombem => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~weave/tb1

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UltimateIRCd => <reply> $who, Advanced IRC daemon based off the DAL DreamForge daemon with many new features.. URL: http://www.Shadow-Realm.org/
Ultra Power Effects Max II => <reply> $who, Reads from the soundcard, transforms the sound, and writes it back. URL: http://sed.free.fr/effects/index.html
UMENU => <reply> $who, Console menu command interface. URL: http://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm
umodunpack.pl => <reply> $who, Unpack umod files for Unreal Tournament.. URL: http://www.deepsky.com/~misaka/
ump => <reply> $who, Unix Midi Plugin. URL: http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/
unace => <reply> $who, extract, test and view ACE archives. URL: http://members.aol.com/mlemke6413/
unalog => <reply> $who, A lightweight, universal logging model for human-machine events.. URL: http://www.unalog.com/
unarj => <reply> $who, arj un-archiver. URL: ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/arj/
Undelete Utilities => <reply> $who, Undelete Capabilities for the Extended-2 Filesystem. URL: http://amadeus.upr.clu.edu/~undelete/
UNFAIR => <reply> $who, A neat game.. URL: http://gtkgo.netpedia.net/
UNiBACK for Linux => <reply> $who, Fast, easy, reliable network backup solution for UNIX & Linux.. URL: http://www.orbitsw.com/
UNICON => <reply> $who, A CJK framebuffer console for Linux.. URL: http://turbolinux.com.cn/TLDN/chinese/project/unicon/
UniDict => <reply> $who, Universal dictionary system. URL: http://www.arcticnet.no/~ovek/unidict/
units => <reply> $who, converts between different systems of units. URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/
Universal Related Popup Menus => <reply> $who, Related popup menus. URL: http://www.webreference.com/dev/menus/
Universal TUN/TAP device driver => <reply> $who, Universal TUN/TAP device driver. URL: http://vtun.netpedia.net/tun/
Universe => <reply> $who, Space Strategy game. URL: http://rmi.net/~starkey/Universe/
Unix Command Line Masqdialer Client => <reply> $who, Access the Masqdialer Server via the command line. URL: http://cpwright.villagenet.com/cli-mclient/
Unix Desktop Environment => <reply> $who, A new GUI for Unix with a completely new look'n'feel. URL: http://www.ude.org
unixODBC => <reply> $who, Provides ODBC 3 connectivity for Unix. URL: http://www.unixodbc.org/
Unlimited Simulator => <reply> $who, General purpose simulator. URL: http://www.hozelhoff.com/~brunobg/

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Xgfe => <reply> $who, X11 GUI front end to Gnuplot. URL: http://www.bl.physik.uni-muenchen.de/rechner/grafik/xgfe/xgfe.html
XGGI => <reply> $who, X server which uses LibGGI to do hardware independent graphics and input. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan/ggi/xggi/
XgIRC => <reply> $who, Internet Relay Chat client for Linux / X Windows. URL: http://www.inforoute.capway.com/pieraut/
XGlobe => <reply> $who, A toy that displays a globe on your X desktop. URL: http://wwwrzstud.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uddn/xglobe/
xgrk => <reply> $who, Support for GREEK keyboard in XWindows. URL: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/
Xhack => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.chronozon.demon.co.uk
xhangglider => <reply> $who, X-based program that makes hanggliders fly in the background of your screen.. URL: http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~redstar/xhang-en.html
xhdbench => <reply> $who, Qt-based X-program for testing the output speed of severaldevices. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/benchmark/
XHourGas => <reply> $who, An alarm clock that exhibits what can happen with an improper diet. URL: http://qu.dhs.org/xhourgas/xhourgas.html
XHpcd => <reply> $who, A GIMP plugin to read Kodak PhotoCD images. URL: http://studenti.csr.unibo.it/~abaldoni/hpcd.html
XIAS => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk-based front-end to IAS (N64 backup device transfer tool). URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0719xias-1_1_tar.htm
Xicq / KXicq => <reply> $who, An ICQ client for use in both console and X11.. URL: http://www.xtrophy.dk/xicq/
xinetd => <reply> $who, Powerful inetd replacement. URL: http://www.synack.net/xinetd/
Xing MP3 Encoder => <reply> $who, MP3 encoder. URL: http://www.xingtech.com/mp3/encoder/
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

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ypldapd => <reply> $who, LDAP to NIS gateway. URL: http://www.padl.com/ldap-nis_gateway.html
yplot => <reply> $who, A Yorick interface to PLPlot. URL: http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/conrad/yplot.html
ypserv => <reply> $who, Simple network lookupservice consisting of databases and processes. URL: http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nis/ypserv/
ytalk => <reply> $who, Multi-user replacement for the Unix talk(1) program.. URL: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/ytalk/ytalk.html
Ytree => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.han.de/~werner/ytree.html
yudit => <reply> $who, Unicode text editor for the X Window System. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X/
ywho => <reply> $who, Yet Another Who Utility. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/linux.html
yyyRSA => <reply> $who, A paranoid RSA encryption/decryption program.. URL: http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~inf24628/yyyRSA/
ZAngband => <reply> $who, Rogue-like roleplaying game. URL: http://thangorodrim.angband.org/
zarch => <reply> $who, linux remake of the classic game also known as virus. URL: http://www.nbn.com/~thom/software.html
zback => <reply> $who, Quick and easy utility to painlessly backup files to a zip archive.. URL: http://landau.phys.psu.edu/people/beach/software.html
zdisk => <reply> $who, Create floppy boot/rescue system with kernel of choice.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery/
Zebedee => <reply> $who, Encrypting, compressing TCP/IP tunnel. URL: http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/
Zebra => <reply> $who, Route Server and Route Reflector daemon. URL: http://www.zebra.org/
ZENamp => <reply> $who, Embedded MP3 audio engine. URL: http://www.zenamp.net
Zfm => <reply> $who, A new, very extensive and portable filemanager. URL: http://zfm.xdev.org/
Zgv => <reply> $who, graphic file viewer for VGA and SVGA displays. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/svga/
zh-sgmltools => <reply> $who, A wrapper for SGMLtools to process Chinese. URL: http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/zh-sgmltools.html
zICQ => <reply> $who, A console ICQ clone based on mICQ.. URL: http://www.asenteck.com/~zicq/
Zigzag => <reply> $who, A unique hyperstructure kit for Linux. URL: http://www.xanadu.net/zigzag/
ZIM => <reply> $who, A perl/tk instant-messenger client wrapper for the Zephyr Notification Service. URL: http://www.duke.edu/~gac3/zim.html

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PHP Color Scheme Demonstration => <reply> $who, The PHP Color Scheme Demonstration is a set of files that gives a petty fair demonstration of how to implement a simple color scheme system in PHP.. URL: http://2bit.dhs.org/files/php-colorschemes-0.0.0...
Gnapster => <reply> $who, Gnapster is a simple client to the napster online MP3 community. URL: http://www.gotlinux.org/~jasta/gnapster.html
xzgv => <reply> $who, xzgv is a GTK+/Imlib-based picture viewer for X, which supports most popular image formats. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/X/
gnome-napster => <reply> $who, gnome-napster is a GNOME client for Napster, the MP3-sharing system. URL: http://students.washington.edu/eeyem/gn/0.3.2/gnome-napster-0.3.2.tar.gz
Asterisk => <reply> $who, Asterisk is a PBX (Private Branch eXchange) and telephony toolkit. URL: ftp://ftp.asteriskpbx.com/pub/asterisk/
IRIS Performer for Linux => <reply> $who, IRIS Performer is a high-performance 3D rendering toolkit for developers of real-time visual simulation and other interactive graphics applications. URL: http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/Linux_performer...
QIR => <reply> $who, QIR (Quake 3 IRC Reporter) is an IRC bot that can be instructed to check a Quake3 server's status and neatly print the output to IRC. URL: http://dev.detroit.org/source/qir-0.2.tar.gz
ydSLitProg => <reply> $who, ydSLitProg is an SGML DTD intended to write literate programs. URL: http://www.altern.org/ydirson/soft/sgml-litprog/
KStella => <reply> $who, KStella is a KDE frontend to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella. URL: http://devel-home.kde.org/~kstella/download.html
Scinom => <reply> $who, Scinom is a site put together using WWWBoard and BigNoseBird's poll script. URL: http://www.scinomaly.org/Scinom.tar.gz
scdbackup => <reply> $who, scdbackup is a simplified CD backup program for Linux. URL: http://scdbackup.linuxbox.com/scdbackup-0.5.tar.gz
Gtkfxp => <reply> $who, Gtkfxp is a FXP client for GTK. URL: http://home.swipnet.se/~w-92416/gtkfxp/downloads.html
Thix => <reply> $who, Thix is an almost complete implementation of the POSIX.1 standard (IEEE Std 1003.1-1988). URL: ftp://ftp.cs.unh.edu/pub/grads/tudor/thix/src/thix-0.3.7.tar.gz
rshproxy => <reply> $who, rshproxy is an application-level gateway for the rsh, rlogin, and rexec protocols. URL: http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/download/
VxTools => <reply> $who, VxTools allows you to read files from Veritas Journaled Filesystem in Linux, with support for versions 2 and 4.. URL: ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/vxfs/
simscomputing.Test Bed => <reply> $who, simscomputing.Test Bed is a framework for writing tests against your Java code. URL: ftp://ftp.simscomputing.com/pub/simscomputing/simscomputing.jar
AUDPBACKDOOR => <reply> $who, AUDPBACKDOOR consists of a daemon and a client that commuicate over UDP. URL: http://www.elxsi.de/audpbackdoor.tar.gz
termix => <reply> $who, Termix is a DOS terminal-like console telnet client intended for calling telnet BBSes. URL: http://demonic.net/termix/termix-0.5.tar.gz
Flock => <reply> $who, Flock stands for Fortune Locker and is a small ncurses terminal locker with support for printing fortunes.. URL: http://capsi.cx/src/flock/flock-0.1.0.tar.bz2
ACPLTea => <reply> $who, The ACPLTea Java Library is a pure Java implementation of the open and free communication system ACPLT/KS. URL: http://www.plt.rwth-aachen.de/ks/english/acpltea.html
OpenBSD-ftp => <reply> $who, OpenBSD-ftp is a port of the ftp client from OpenBSD to Linux. URL: http://innominate.org/~oku/rpms/download/OpenBSD-ftp-1.0-1.src.rpm

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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
QIRpl => <reply> $who, QIRpl (Quake 3 IRC Reporter) is an IRC bot written in Perl that can be instructed to check a Quake3 server's status and neatly print the output to IRC. URL: http://bofh.st/code/qir.perl
Allegro => <reply> $who, Allegro is a portable game programming library, with support for DOS (djgpp and Watcom), Linux (console and X), and Windows. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/allegro/wip.html
chlastmeter => <reply> $who, According to given list of drinks, chlastmeter will display the amount of alcohol in blood as a function of time.. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/chlastmeter/

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APPEND => Displays or sets the search path for data files. DOS will search the specified path(s) if the file is not found in the current path.
ASSIGN => (External) ASSIGN x=y [...] /sta Redirects disk drive requests to a different drive. 
ATTRIB => (External) ATTRIB [d:][path]filename [/S] ATTRIB [+R|-R] [+A|-A] [+S|-S] [+H|-H] [d:][path]filename [/S] Sets or displays the read-only, archive, system, and hidden attributes of a file or directory.
BACKUP => (External) BACKUP d:[path][filename] d:[/S][/M][/A][/F:(size)] [/P][/D:date] [/T:time] [/L:[path]filename] Makes a backup copy of one or more files. (In DOS Version 6, this program is stored on the DOS supplemental disk.)
BREAK  => (Internal) BREAK =on|off Used from the DOS prompt or in a batch file or in the CONFIG.SYS file to set (or display) whether or not DOS should check for a Ctrl + Break key combination.
BUFFERS => (Internal) BUFFERS=(number),(read-ahead number) Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to set the number of disk buffers (number) that will be available for use during data input. Also used to set a value for the number of sectors to be read in advan...
CALL => (Internal) CALL [d:][path]batchfilename [options] Calls another batch file and then returns to current batch file to continue.
CHCP => (Internal) CHCP (codepage) Displays the current code page or changes the code page that DOS will use.
CHDIR => (Internal) CHDIR (CD) [d:]path CHDIR (CD)[..] Displays working (current) directory and/or changes to a different directory.
CHKDSK => (External) CHKDSK [d:][path][filename] [/F][/V] Checks a disk and provides a file and memory status report.
CHOICE => (Internal) CHOICE [/C[:]keys] [/N][/S][/T[:]c,nn] [text] Used to provide a prompt so that a user can make a choice while a batch program is running. 
CLS => (Clear Screen) (Internal) CLS Clears (erases) the screen.
COMMAND => (External) COMMAND [d:][path] [device] [/P][/E:(size)] [/MSG][/Y [/C (command)|/K (command)] Starts a new version of the DOS command processor (the program that loads the DOS Internal programs).
COMP => (External) COMP [d:][path][filename] [d:][path][filename] [/A][/C][/D][/L][/N:(number)] Compares two groups of files to find information that does not match. (See FC command).

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MEMMAKER => (External) MEMMAKER [/B][/batch][/session][/swap:d] [/T][/undo][/W:size1,size2] Starts the MemMaker program, a program that lets you optimize your computer's memory. 
MENUCOLOR => (Internal) MENUCOLOR=textcolor,[background] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to set the colors that will be used by DOS to display text on the screen.
MENUDEFAULT => (Internal) MENUDEFAULT=blockname, [timeout] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to set the startup configuration that will be used by DOS if no key is pressed within the specified timeout period.
MENUITEM => (Internal)MENUITEM=blockname, [menutext] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to create a start-up menu from which you can select a group of CONFIG.SYS commands to be processed upon reboot.
MIRROR => (External) MIRROR [d:]path [d:] path [...] IRROR [d1:][d2:][...] [/T(drive)(files)] [/partn][/U][/1] Saves disk storage information that can be used to recover accidentally erased files. 
MKDIR => (MD) (Internal) MKDIR (MD) [d:]path Creates a new subdirectory.
MODE => (External) Sets mode of operation for devices or communications.
MORE => (External) MORE < (filename or command) (name)MORE Sends output to console, one screen at a time. 
MOVE => (Internal) MOVE [/Y|/-Y] [d:][path]filename[,[d:][path]filename[...]] destination Moves one or more files to the location you specify. Can also be used to rename directories. 
MSAV => (External) MSAV [d:] [/S|/C][/R][/A][/L][/N][/P][/F][/video][/mouse] SAV /video Scans your computer for known viruses. 
MSBACKUP => External) MSBACKUP [setupfile] [/BW|/LCD|/MDA] Used to backup or restore one or more files from one disk to another. 
MSCDEX => (External) MSCDEX /D:driver [/D:driver2. . .] [/E][/K][/S][/V][/L:letter] [/M:number] Used to gain access to CD-ROM drives (new with DOS Version 6).
MSD => (External) MSD [/B][/I] BSD [/I] [/F[d:][path]filename [/P[d:][path]filename [/S[d:][path]filename Provides detailed technical information about your computer. 
NLSFUNC => (External) NLSFUNC [d:][path]filename Used to load a file with country-specific information.
NUMLOCK => (Internal) NUMLOCK=on|off Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to specify the state of the NumLock key.
PATH => (Internal) PATH; PATH [d:]path[;][d:]path[...]  Sets or displays directories that will be searched for programs not in the current directory.
PAUSE => (Internal) PAUSE [comment]  Suspends execution of a batch file until a key is pressed.
POWER => (External) POWER [adv:max|reg|min]|std|off] Used to turn power management on and off, report the status of power management, and set levels of power conservation. 
PRINT => (External) PRINT [/B:(buffersize)] [/D:(device)] [/M:(maxtick)] [/Q:(value] [/S:(timeslice)][/U:(busytick)] [/C][/P][/T] [d:][path][filename] [...] Queues and prints data files.
PROMPT => (Internal) PROMPT [prompt text] [options]  Changes the DOS command prompt. 
RECOVER => (External) RECOVER [d:][path]filename RECOVER d: Resolves sector problems on a file or a disk. (Beginning with DOS Version 6, RECOVER is no longer available ).

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domainist2 is  within the   top-level domain called com.  See also {big-endian}, sense 2.   2. Said of a site, mailer, or routing program which knows how to   handle domainist addresses.  3. Said of a person (esp. a site   admin) who prefers domain a...
domainist3 is  prosyletizes for domainist addressing and disdains {bang   path}s.  This is now (1991) semi-obsolete, as most sites have   converted. 
Don't do that, then! is  [from an old doctor's office joke about a   patient with a trivial complaint] Stock response to a user   complaint.  "When I type control-S, the whole system comes to a   halt for thirty seconds."  "Don't do that, then!" (or ...
dongle is  /dong'gl/ n. 1. A security or {copy-protection} device   for commercial microcomputer programs consisting of a serialized   EPROM and some drivers in a D-25 connector shell, which must be   connected to an I/O port of the computer while th...
dongle2 is  query the port at startup and at   programmed intervals thereafter, and terminate if it does not   respond with the dongle's programmed validation code.  Thus, users   can make as many copies of the program as they want but must pay   for...
dongle3 is  initially a failure, as   users disliked tying up a serial port this way.  Most dongles on   the market today (1991) will pass data through the port and monitor   for {magic} codes (and combinations of status lines) with minimal   if any ...
dongle4 is  --- this   innovation was necessary to allow daisy-chained dongles for   multiple pieces of software.  The devices are still not widely   used, as the industry has moved away from copy-protection schemes   in general.  2. By extension, an...
dongle5 is  required for a program to function.  See   {dongle-disk}. 
dongle-disk is  /don'gl disk/ n. See {dongle}; a `dongle-disk'   is a floppy disk with some coding that allows an application to   identify it uniquely.  It can therefore be used as a {dongle}.   Also called a `key disk'.
donuts is  n.obs. A collective noun for any set of memory bits.  This is   extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon; it dates from the   days of ferrite-{core} memories in which each bit was implemented by   a doughnut-shaped magnetic flip-...
doorstop is  n. Used to describe equipment that is non-functional and   halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept   around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup.  "When we   get another Wyse-50 in here, that ADM 3 wi...
dot file is  [UNIX] n. A file which is not visible to normal   directory-browsing tools (on UNIX, files named with a leading dot   are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings).   Many programs define one or more dot files in whic...
dot file2 is  be optionally recorded; a user can   customize the program's behavior by creating the appropriate file in   the current or home directory.  See also {rc file}. 
double bucky is  adj. Using both the CTRL and META keys.  "The   command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F."   This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and   was later taken up by users of the {space-cadet keyboard} at   MIT.  A...
double bucky2 is  {bucky bits}   (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't   enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a   Stanford keyboard.  An obvious way to address this was simply to   add more shifting ...
double bucky3 is  keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who   don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the   keyboard.  It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting   keys be implemented as pe...
double bucky4 is  much like playing a full pipe organ.  This idea is mentioned   in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called   "Rubber Duckie", which was published in `The Sesame   Street Songbook' (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 671-21036-...
double bucky5 is  1978, in celebration of the   Stanford keyboard   See also {meta bit}, {cokebottle}, and {quadruple bucky}. 
double DECkers is  n. Used to describe married couples in which both   partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
doubled sig is  [USENET] n. A {sig block} that has been included   twice in a {USENET} article or, less commonly, in an electronic   mail message.  An article or message with a doubled sig can be   caused by improperly configured software.  More ofte...
doubled sig2 is  experience in electronic   communication.  See {BIFF}, {pseudo}.

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drop-outs2 is  spurious character interrupts).  3. Mental   glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind   just seems to shut down for a couple of beats.  See {glitch},   {fried}. 
drugged is  adj. (also `on drugs') 1. Conspicuously stupid,   heading toward {brain-damaged}.  Often accompanied by a   pantomime of toking a joint (but see appendix B).  2. Of hardware,   very slow relative to normal performance.
drunk mouse syndrome is  n. A malady exhibited by the mouse pointing   device of some computers.  The typical symptom is for the mouse   cursor on the screen to move in random directions and not in sync   with the motion of the actual mouse.  Can usu...
drunk mouse syndrome2 is  and plugging it back again.  Another   recommended fix for optical mice is to rotate your mouse pad   90 degrees.   At Xerox PARC in the 1970s, most people kept a can of copier   cleaner (isopropyl alcohol) at their desks.  ...
drunk mouse syndrome3 is  up enough {cruft} to be unreliable, the mouse   was doused in cleaner, which restored it for a while.  However,   this operation left a fine residue that accelerated the accumulation   of cruft, so the dousings became more a...
drunk mouse syndrome4 is  declared `alcoholic' and sent to the clinic to be   dried out in a CFC ultrasonic bath. 
dumbass attack is  /duhm'as *-tak'/ [Purdue] n. Notional cause of a   novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while   running as root under UNIX, e.g., typing `rm -r *' or   `mkfs' on a mounted file system.  Compare {adger}.
dumbed down is  adj. Simplified, with a strong connotation of   *over*simplified.  Often, a {marketroid} will insist that the   interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the   designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil mak...
dump is  n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a   problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the   slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most   especially one consisting of hex or octal {ru...
dump2 is  memory, mass storage, or some file.  In {elder   days}, debugging was generally done by `groveling over' a dump   (see {grovel}); increasing use of high-level languages and   interactive debuggers has made this uncommon, and the term `dump'...
dump3 is  backup.  This usage is   typical only at large timesharing installations. 
dup killer is  /d[y]oop kill'r/ [FidoNet] n. Software that is   supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may   have reached the FidoNet system via different routes.
dup loop is  /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n. An   incorrectly configured system or network gateway may propagate   duplicate messages on one or more {echo}es, with different   identification information that renders {dup killer}s   ine...
dup loop2 is  eventually reaches a   system through which it has already passed (with the original   identification information), all systems passed on the way back to   that system are said to be involved in a {dup loop}. 
dusty deck is  n. Old software (especially applications) which one is   obliged to remain compatible with (or to maintain).  The term   implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch   days.  Used esp. when referring to old scien...
dusty deck2 is  of which was written in FORTRAN   and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to   replace.  See {fossil}. 
DWIM is  /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes   even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.   2. n.,obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to   accomplish this feat by correcting many ...
DWIM2 is  Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a   balky computer, esp. when one senses one might be tripping over   legalisms (see {legalese}).   Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and   spelling errors, so it was somewhat id...
DWIM3 is  make hash of anyone else's typos if they were   stylistically different.  This led a number of victims of DWIM to   claim the acronym stood for `Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'.   In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to t...
DWIM4 is  One day another hacker   there typed `delete *$' to free up some disk space.  (The editor   there named backup files by appending `$' to the original file   name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from   old editing sess...
DWIM5 is  editor   backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported `*$ not found, assuming   you meant 'delete *'.'  It then started to delete all the files on   the disk!  The hacker managed to stop it with a {Vulcan nerve   pinch} after only a half dozen ...
DWIM6 is  said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's   office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation,   and then type `delete *$' twice.   DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex   program; it is a...
DWIM7 is  instruction the ideal computer would have.  Back when proofs of   program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about   `DWIMC' (Do What I Mean, Correctly).  A related term, more often   seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thin...
dynner is  /din'r/ 32 bits, by analogy with {nybble} and {{byte}}.  Usage rare and extremely silly.  See also {playte}, {tayste}, {crumb}.*earthquake [IBM] n. The ultimate real-world shock test for   computer hardware.  Hackish sources at IBM deny th...
dynner2 is  initiated by the company to test   quality-assurance procedures at its California plants. 
Easter egg is  n. 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program   as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or   browsing the code.  2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted   by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in res...
Easter egg2 is  or keystrokes, intended as a joke or   to display program credits.  One well-known early Easter egg found   in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command   `make love' with `not war?'.  Many personal computers   have much ...
Easter egg3 is  lists of the   developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and   (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team. 
Easter egging is  [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated parts more or   less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.  Hackers   consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and   do not love them for it.  Compare {sho...
eat flaming death is  imp. A construction popularized among hackers by   the infamous {CPU Wars} comic; supposed to derive from a famously   turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran   "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or s...
eat flaming death2 is  reported that the Firesign Theater's   1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the   phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been   an influence).  Used in humorously overblown expressi...

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green card is  n. [after the `IBM System/360 Reference Data'   card] This is used for any summary of an assembly language, even if   the color is not green.  Less frequently used now because of the   decrease in the use of assembly language.  "I'll g...
green card2 is  addressing mode for that instruction."   Some green cards are actually booklets.   The original green card became a yellow card when the System/370   was introduced, and later a yellow booklet.  An anecdote from IBM   refers to a scen...
green card3 is  room   at Yorktown in 1978.  A luser overheard one of the programmers ask   another "Do you have a green card?"  The other grunted and   passed the first a thick yellow booklet.  At this point the luser   turned a delicate shade of ol...
green card4 is  return.  See also {card}. 
green lightning is  [IBM] n. 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on   the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being   downloaded.  This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as   some genius within IBM suggested it would let th...
green lightning2 is  That, it certainly does.  Later   microprocessor-driven IBM color graphics displays were actually   *programmed* to produce green lightning!  2. [proposed] Any   bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalization or ...
green lightning3 is  the 88000   architecture `compatibility logic', but I call it green   lightning".  See also {feature}. 
green machine is  n. A computer or peripheral device that has been   designed and built to military specifications for field equipment   (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature   and humidity, and so forth).  Comes from the o...
Green's Theorem is  [TMRC] prov. For any story, in any group of people   there will be at least one person who has not heard the story.   [The name of this theorem is a play on a fundamental theorem in   calculus. --- ESR]
grep is  /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p , where   re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the   Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it,   via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt. To rapidly scan a file or f...
grep2 is  pattern.  By extension, to look   for something by pattern.  "Grep the bulletin board for the system   backup schedule, would you?"  See also {vgrep}. 
grind is  vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To format code, especially LISP   code, by indenting lines so that it looks pretty.  This usage was   associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare;   {prettyprint} was and is the generic term for such   op...
grind2 is  version of a   document from the nroff, troff, TeX, or Scribe source.  The BSD   program `vgrind(1)' grinds code for printing on a Versatec   bitmapped printer.  3. To run seemingly interminably, esp. (but   not necessarily) if performing ...
grind3 is  Similar to {crunch} or {grovel}.  Grinding has a   connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind   a disk, network, etc.  See also {hog}.  4. To make the whole   system slow.  "Troff really grinds a PDP-11."  5. `grin...
grind crank is  n. A mythical accessory to a terminal.  A crank on the   side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and   causes the computer to run faster.  Usually one does not refer to a   grind crank out loud, but merely makes t...
grind crank2 is  {grind} and {wugga wugga}.   Historical note At least one real machine actually had a grind   crank --- the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the   days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959.  R1 (also known as   `...
grind crank3 is  as `The Rice   University Computer' (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for   use when debugging programs.  Since single-stepping through a large   program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and   gear arrang...
grind crank4 is  button.   This allowed one to `crank' through a lot of code, then slow down   to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke   at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on   cranking. 
gritch is  /grich/ 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a {glitch}).   2. vi. To complain.  Often verb-doubled "Gritch gritch".  3. A   synonym for {glitch} (as verb or noun).
grok is  /grok/, var. /grohk/ [from the novel `Stranger in   a Strange Land', by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word   meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one   with'] vt. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense.  Co...
grok2 is  Contrast {zen}, similar   supernal understanding as a single brief flash.  See also   {glark}.  2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient   understanding.  "Almost all C compilers grok the `void' type   these days."

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LISP4 is  Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar   Wilde quote) that "LISP programmers know the value of everything   and the cost of nothing".   One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example   that most newer languages...
LISP5 is  unnecessary {crock}s.  When the {Right Thing} has already   been done once, there is no justification for {bogosity} in newer   languages. 
literature, the is  n. Computer-science journals and other   publications, vaguely gestured at to answer a question that the   speaker believes is {trivial}.  Thus, one might answer an   annoying question by saying "It's in the literature."  Oppose  ...
little-endian is  adj. Describes a computer architecture in which,   within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have   lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first').  The   PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel ...
little-endian2 is  and networking hardware are little-endian.   See {big-endian}, {middle-endian}, {NUXI problem}.  The term   is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than   bytes; most often these are bits within a byte. 
live data is  n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes   over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such   as viewing it.  One use of such hacks is to break security.  For   example, some smart terminals have command...
live data2 is  program keys; this can be used to write live   data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a   security-breaking {virus} that is triggered the next time a   hapless user strikes that key.  For another, there are some   well...
live data3 is  send   arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed.   2. In C code, data that includes pointers to function {hook}s   (executable code).  3. An object, such as a {trampoline}, that is   constructed on the fly by ...
live data4 is  code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to `test data'.   For example, "I think I have the record deletion module   finished."  "Have you tried it out on live data?"  It usually   carries the connotation that live data is more frag...
live data5 is  things will happen.  So a possible alternate   response to the above claim might be "Well, make sure it works   perfectly before we throw live data at it."  The implication here   is that record deletion is something pretty significant...
live data6 is  running amok on live data would   cause great harm and probably require restoring from backups. 
Live Free Or Die! is  imp. 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which   appears on that state's automobile license plates.  2. A slogan   associated with UNIX in the romantic days when UNIX aficionados saw   themselves as a tiny, beleaguered undergro...
Live Free Or Die!2 is  industry.  The "free" referred specifically to   freedom from the {fascist} design philosophies and crufty   misfeatures common on commercial operating systems.  Armando   Stettner, one of the early UNIX developers, used to giv...
Live Free Or Die!3 is  under a large UNIX, all in New   Hampshire colors of green and white.  These are now valued   collector's items. 
livelock is  /liv'lok/ n. A situation in which some critical stage   of a task is unable to finish because its clients perpetually   create more work for it to do after they have been serviced but   before it can clear its queue.  Differs from {deadl...
livelock2 is  waiting for anything, but has a   virtually infinite amount of work to do and can never catch up. 
liveware is  /liv'weir/ n. 1. Synonym for {wetware}.  Less   common.  2. [Cambridge] Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my   salad..."
lobotomy is  n. 1. What a hacker subjected to formal management   training is said to have undergone.  At IBM and elsewhere this term   is used by both hackers and low-level management; the latter   doubtless intend it as a joke.  2. The act of remov...
lobotomy2 is  order to replace or upgrade it.   Some very cheap {clone} systems are sold in `lobotomized' form   --- everything but the brain. 
locked and loaded is  [from military slang for an M-16 rifle with   magazine inserted and prepared for firing] adj. Said of a removable   disk volume properly prepared for use --- that is, locked into the   drive and with the heads loaded.  Ironicall...
locked and loaded2 is  the power is up, this description is never   used of {{Winchester}} drives (which are named after a rifle).

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mainframe4 is  having been   swamped by the recent huge advances in IC technology and low-cost   personal computing.  As of 1991, corporate America hasn't quite   figured this out yet, though the wave of failures, takeovers, and   mergers among tradi...
mainframe5 is    the wind (see {dinosaurs mating}). 
management is  n. 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by   their distance from actual productive work and their chronic   failure to manage (see also {suit}).  Spoken derisively, as in   "*Management* decided that ...".  2. Mythically, ...
management2 is  world's minor irritations.   Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed `The Mgt'; this   derives from the `Illuminatus' novels (see the Bibliography). 
mandelbug is  /mon'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n. A bug   whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its   behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic.  This term   implies that the speaker thinks it is a {Bohr bug}, ...
manged is  /monjd/ [probably from the French `manger' or Italian   `mangiare', to eat; perhaps influenced by English n. `mange',   `mangy'] adj. Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged,   usually beyond repair.  "The disk was manged after the e...
mangle is  vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent   in its connotations; something that is mangled has been   irreversibly and totally trashed.
mangler is  [DEC] n. A manager.  Compare {mango}; see also   {management}.  Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different   in connotation.
mango is  /mang'go/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A manager.   Compare {mangler}.  See also {devo} and {doco}.
marbles is  [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] pl.n. The   minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools   or abstractions.  After a bad system crash, you need to determine   if the machine has enough marbles to come u...
marbles2 is  rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild   from scratch.  "This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to   compile `Hello World'." 
marginal is  adj. 1. Extremely small.  "A marginal increase in   {core} can decrease {GC} time drastically."  In everyday   terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if   you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you...
marginal2 is  merit.  "This proposed new   feature seems rather marginal to me."  3. Of extremely small   probability of {win}ning.  "The power supply was rather marginal   anyway; no wonder it fried." 
Marginal Hacks is  n. Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the   Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the   {D. C. Power Lab}).
marginally is  adv. Slightly.  "The ravs here are only marginally   better than at Small Eating Place."  See {epsilon}.
marketroid is  /mar'k*-troyd/ alt. `marketing slime',   `marketing droid', `marketeer' n. A member of a company's   marketing department, esp. one who promises users that the next   version of a product will have features that are not actually   sche...
marketroid2 is  to implement,   and/or are in violation of the laws of physics; and/or one who   describes existing features (and misfeatures) in ebullient,   buzzword-laden adspeak.  Derogatory.  Compare {droid}.*   martian: n. A packet sent on a TC...
marketroid3 is  test loopback interface [127.0.0.1].  This means   that it will come back at you labeled with a source address that   is clearly not of this earth.  "The domain server is getting lots   of packets from Mars.  Does that gateway have a ...
massage: vt. Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of is    a data set into a different form, esp. transformations that do   not lose information.  Connotes less pain than {munch} or {crunch}.   "He wrote a program that massages X bitm...
math-out: [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] n. A is    paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other   formal notation as to be incomprehensible.  This may be a device   for concealing the fact that it is actually {conte...
Matrix: [FidoNet] n. 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call is    {FidoNet}.  2. Fanciful term for a {cyberspace} expected to   emerge from current networking experiments (see {network, the}).   Some people refer to the totality of present net...

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doco => /do'koh/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A documentation writer. See also devo and mango.
documentation => n. The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see also tree-killer). Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist wri...
dodgy => adj. Syn. with flaky. Preferred outside the U.S.
dogcow => /dog'kow/ n. See Moof.
dogwash => /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field of a very optional software change request, ca. 1982. It was something like "Urgency Wash your dog first".] 1. n. A project of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious work....
domainist => /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. Said of an {{Internet address}} (as opposed to a {bang path}) because the part to the right of the `@' specifies a nested series of `domains'; for example, eric@snark.thyrsus.com specifies the machine called snark ...
Don't do that, then! => [from an old doctor's office joke about a patient with a trivial complaint] Stock response to a user complaint. "When I type control-S, the whole system comes to a halt for thirty seconds." "Don't do that, then!" (or "So don't...
dongle => /dong'gl/ n. 1. A security or copy-protection device for commercial microcomputer programs consisting of a serialized EPROM and some drivers in a D-25 connector shell, which must be connected to an I/O port of the computer while the program...
dongle-disk => /don'gl disk/ n. See dongle; a `dongle-disk' is a floppy disk with some coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely. It can therefore be used as a dongle. Also called a `key disk'.
donuts => n.obs. A collective noun for any set of memory bits. This is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon; it dates from the days of ferrite-core memories in which each bit was implemented by a doughnut-shaped magnetic flip-flop.
doorstop => n. Used to describe equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup. "When we get another Wyse-50 in here, that ADM 3 will turn ...
dot file => [UNIX] n. A file which is not visible to normal directory-browsing tools (on UNIX, files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings). Many programs define one or more dot files in which start...
dot file2 => be optionally recorded; a user can customize the program's behavior by creating the appropriate file in the current or home directory. See also {rc file}. 
double bucky => adj. Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the {space-cadet keyboard} at MIT. A typical MI...
double bucky2 => {bucky bits} (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and ...
double bucky3 => keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; ty...
double bucky4 => much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in `The Sesame Street Songbook' (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 671-21036-X). Thes...
double bucky5 => 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard See also {meta bit}, cokebottle, and {quadruple bucky}. 
double DECkers => n. Used to describe married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
doubled sig => [USENET] n. A {sig block} that has been included twice in a USENET article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however,...
doubled sig2 => experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.

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drop on the floor2 => {black hole}, {bit bucket}. 
drop-ins => [prob. by analogy with drop-outs] n. Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Esp. used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input. Compare drop-out...
drop-outs => n. 1. A variety of `power glitch' (see glitch); momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system saturation (this can happen under UNIX when a bad connection to a mod...
drugged => adj. (also `on drugs') 1. Conspicuously stupid, heading toward brain-damaged. Often accompanied by a pantomime of toking a joint (but see appendix B). 2. Of hardware, very slow relative to normal performance.
drunk mouse syndrome => n. A malady exhibited by the mouse pointing device of some computers. The typical symptom is for the mouse cursor on the screen to move in random directions and not in sync with the motion of the actual mouse. Can usually be c...
drunk mouse syndrome2 => and plugging it back again. Another recommended fix for optical mice is to rotate your mouse pad 90 degrees. At Xerox PARC in the 1970s, most people kept a can of copier cleaner (isopropyl alcohol) at their desks. When the st...
drunk mouse syndrome3 => up enough cruft to be unreliable, the mouse was doused in cleaner, which restored it for a while. However, this operation left a fine residue that accelerated the accumulation of cruft, so the dousings became more and more fr...
drunk mouse syndrome4 => declared `alcoholic' and sent to the clinic to be dried out in a CFC ultrasonic bath. 
dumbass attack => /duhm'as *-tak'/ [Purdue] n. Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as root under UNIX, e.g., typing `rm -r *' or `mkfs' on a mounted file system. Compare adger.
dumbed down => adj. Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it sma...
dump => n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal runes desc...
dup killer => /d[y]oop kill'r/ [FidoNet] n. Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes.
dup loop => /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n. An incorrectly configured system or network gateway may propagate duplicate messages on one or more echoes, with different identification information that renders {dup killer}s ineffective. I...
dup loop2 => eventually reaches a system through which it has already passed (with the original identification information), all systems passed on the way back to that system are said to be involved in a {dup loop}. 
dusty deck => n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with (or to maintain). The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used esp. when referring to old scientific and...
dusty deck2 => of which was written in FORTRAN and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil. 
DWIM => /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. n.,obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the ...
dynner => /din'r/ 32 bits, by analogy with nybble and {byte}. Usage rare and extremely silly. See also playte, tayste, crumb.*earthquake [IBM] n. The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the...
Easter egg => n. 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code. 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in response to...
Easter egg2 => or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command `make love' with `not war?'. Many personal computers have much more elabor...
Easter egg3 => lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team. 
Easter egging => [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated parts more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it. Compare {shotgun debu...
eat flaming death => imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous {CPU Wars} comic; supposed to derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or somethin...
eat flaming death2 => reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of h...
EBCDIC => /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [acronym, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n. An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as ...
echo => [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
eighty-column mind => [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke)...

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green bytes3 => out-of-band, zigamorph, fence (sense 1). 
green card => n. [after the `IBM System/360 Reference Data' card] This is used for any summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green. Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of assembly language. "I'll go get my ...
green card2 => addressing mode for that instruction." Some green cards are actually booklets. The original green card became a yellow card when the System/370 was introduced, and later a yellow booklet. An anecdote from IBM refers to a scene that too...
green card3 => room at Yorktown in 1978. A luser overheard one of the programmers ask another "Do you have a green card?" The other grunted and passed the first a thick yellow booklet. At this point the luser turned a delicate shade of olive and rapi...
green card4 => return. See also card. 
green lightning => [IBM] n. 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user k...
green lightning2 => That, it certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM color graphics displays were actually *programmed* to produce green lightning! 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalization or marketing...
green lightning3 => the 88000 architecture `compatibility logic', but I call it green lightning". See also feature. 
green machine => n. A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-dra...
Green's Theorem => [TMRC] prov. For any story, in any group of people there will be at least one person who has not heard the story. [The name of this theorem is a play on a fundamental theorem in calculus. --- ESR]
grep => /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p , where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {UNIX} `grep(1)'] vt. To rapidly scan a file or file set l...
grind => vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To format code, especially LISP code, by indenting lines so that it looks pretty. This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare; prettyprint was and is the generic term for such operations. 2....
grind crank => n. A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the approp...
grind crank2 => grind and {wugga wugga}. Historical note At least one real machine actually had a grind crank --- the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as `The Rice Ins...
grind crank3 => as `The Rice University Computer' (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that...
grind crank4 => button. This allowed one to `crank' through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking. 
gritch => /grich/ 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a glitch). 2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled "Gritch gritch". 3. A synonym for glitch (as verb or noun).
grok => /grok/, var. /grohk/ [from the novel `Stranger in a Strange Land', by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] vt. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes i...
gronk => /gronk/ [popularized by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that] vt. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than `to frob'. 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3....
gronk out => vi. To cease functioning. Of people, to go home and go to sleep. "I guess I'll gronk out now; see you all tomorrow."
gronked => adj. 1. Broken. "The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down." 2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly) sick. "I've been chasing that bug for 17 hours now and I am thoroughly gronked!" Compare b...

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lion food4 => discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976--77, and were for years after the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Wester...
lion food5 => secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees. In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early UNIX hackers. 
LISP => [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n. The name of AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the...
literature, the => n. Computer-science journals and other publications, vaguely gestured at to answer a question that the speaker believes is trivial. Thus, one might answer an annoying question by saying "It's in the literature." Oppose Knuth, which...
little-endian => adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first'). The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel micropro...
live data => n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that al...
live data2 => program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs ...
live data3 => send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C code, data that includes pointers to function hooks (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and ...
live data4 => code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to `test data'. For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" It usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and m...
live data5 => things will happen. So a possible alternate response to the above claim might be "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a h...
live data6 => running amok on live data would cause great harm and probably require restoring from backups. 
Live Free Or Die! => imp. 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's automobile license plates. 2. A slogan associated with UNIX in the romantic days when UNIX aficionados saw themselves as a tiny, beleaguered underground tilt...
Live Free Or Die!2 => industry. The "free" referred specifically to freedom from the fascist design philosophies and crufty misfeatures common on commercial operating systems. Armando Stettner, one of the early UNIX developers, used to give out fake ...
Live Free Or Die!3 => under a large UNIX, all in New Hampshire colors of green and white. These are now valued collector's items. 
livelock => /liv'lok/ n. A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable to finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it to do after they have been serviced but before it can clear its queue. Differs from deadlock in th...
liveware => /liv'weir/ n. 1. Synonym for wetware. Less common. 2. [Cambridge] Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad..."
lobotomy => n. 1. What a hacker subjected to formal management training is said to have undergone. At IBM and elsewhere this term is used by both hackers and low-level management; the latter doubtless intend it as a joke. 2. The act of removing the p...
locked and loaded => [from military slang for an M-16 rifle with magazine inserted and prepared for firing] adj. Said of a removable disk volume properly prepared for use --- that is, locked into the drive and with the heads loaded. Ironically, becau...
locked and loaded2 => the power is up, this description is never used of {Winchester} drives (which are named after a rifle). 
locked up => adj. Syn. for hung, wedged.
logic bomb => n. Code surreptitiously inserted in an application or OS that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met. Compare {back door}.

factpacks/jargon.fact view on Meta::CPAN

magic smoke3 => One time, I plugged one in backwards. I only discovered that *after* I realized that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs --- the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked ...
magic smoke4 => full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of {Murphy's Law}. 
main loop => n. Software tools are often written to perform some actions repeatedly on whatever input is handed to them, terminating when there is no more input or they are explicitly told to go away. In such programs, the loop that gets and processe...
mainframe => n. This term originally referred to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine. After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional ...
management => n. 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bure...
mandelbug => /mon'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n. A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a {Bohr bug}, rather t...
manged => /monjd/ [probably from the French `manger' or Italian `mangiare', to eat; perhaps influenced by English n. `mange', `mangy'] adj. Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged, usually beyond repair. "The disk was manged after the electrica...
mangle => vt. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed.
mangler => [DEC] n. A manager. Compare mango; see also management. Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation.
mango => /mang'go/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A manager. Compare mangler. See also devo and doco.
marbles => [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] pl.n. The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its...
marginal => adj. 1. Extremely small. "A marginal increase in core can decrease GC time drastically." In everyday terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort through...
Marginal Hacks => n. Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the {D. C. Power Lab}).
marginally => adv. Slightly. "The ravs here are only marginally better than at Small Eating Place." See epsilon.
marketroid => /mar'k*-troyd/ alt. `marketing slime', `marketing droid', `marketeer' n. A member of a company's marketing department, esp. one who promises users that the next version of a product will have features that are not actually scheduled for...
massage: vt. Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of => a data set into a different form, esp. transformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than munch or crunch. "He wrote a program that massages X bitmap files int...
math-out: [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] n. A => paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible. This may be a device for concealing the fact that it is actually content-free. ...
Matrix: [FidoNet] n. 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call => FidoNet. 2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see {network, the}). Some people refer to the totality of present networks this w...
Mbogo, Dr. Fred: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] n. The => archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, esp. an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleanin...
Mbogo, Dr. Fred: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] n. The2 => between bogus and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old "Addams Family" TV show. See also fred. 
meatware => n. Synonym for wetware. Less common.

factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN

port 800 => mdbs_daemon - mdbs_daemon 
port 801 => device - device 
port 810 => fcp-udp - FCP 
port 828 => itm-mcell-s - itm-mcell-s 
port 829 => pkix-3-ca-ra - PKIX-3 CA/RA 
port 873 => rsync - rsync 
port 886 => iclcnet-locate - ICL coNETion locate server 
port 887 => iclcnet_svinfo - ICL coNETion server info 
port 888 => accessbuilder - AccessBuilder (or cddbp - CD Database Protocol) 
port 900 => omginitialrefs - OMG Initial Refs 
port 911 => xact-backup - xact-backup 
port 989 => ftps-data - ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL 
port 990 => ftps - ftp protocol, control, over TLS/SSL 
port 991 => nas - Netnews Administration System 
port 992 => telnets - telnet protocol over TLS/SSL 
port 993 => imaps - imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL 
port 994 => ircs - irc protocol over TLS/SSL 
port 995 => pop3s - pop3 protocol over TLS/SSL (was spop3) 
port 996 => vsinet - vsinet 
port 997 => maitrd - maitrd 
port 998 => busboy - busboy

factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN

port 5768 => openmailpxy - OpenMail CMTS Server 
port 5968 => mppolicy-v5 - mppolicy-v5 
port 5969 => mppolicy-mgr - mppolicy-mgr 
port 6000 => x11 - X Windows System 
port 6001 => x11 - X Windows System 
port 6002 => x11 - X Windows System 
port 6003 => x11 - X Windows System 
port 6110 => softcm - HP SoftBench CM 
port 6111 => spc - HP SoftBench Sub-Process Control 
port 6112 => dtspcd - dtspcd 
port 6123 => backup-express - Backup Express 
port 6141 => meta-corp - Meta Corporation License Manager 
port 6142 => aspentec-lm - Aspen Technology License Manager 
port 6143 => watershed-lm - Watershed License Manager 
port 6144 => statsci1-lm - StatSci License Manager - 1 
port 6145 => statsci2-lm - StatSci License Manager - 2 
port 6146 => lonewolf-lm - Lone Wolf Systems License Manager 
port 6147 => montage-lm - Montage License Manager 
port 6148 => ricardo-lm - Ricardo North America License Manager 
port 6149 => tal-pod - tal-pod  
port 6253 => crip - CRIP

factpacks/security.fact view on Meta::CPAN

authenticate => (1) To verify the identity of a user, device, or other entity in a computer system, often as a prerequisite to allowing access to resources in a system. (2) To verify the integrity of data that have been stored, transmitted, or otherw...
authentication => (1) To establish the validity of a claimed identity. (2) To provide protection against fraudulent transactions by establishing the validity of message, station, individual, or originator.
authenticator => The means used to confirm the identity or to verify the eligibility of a station, originator, or individual.
authorised user => A user who has a specific right or permission to do something described in the TSP.
authorization => The granting of access rights to a user, program, or process.
authorized - Entitled to a specific mode of access.
AIS => Automated Information System - Any equipment or interconnected systems or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipula- tion, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission ...
ADP => Automated Data Processing - Synonymous with automated information systems security.
availability => The prevention of the unauthorised withholding of information or resources.
back door => Synonymous with trap door. 
backup plan => Synonymous with contingency plan.
bandwidth => Rate at which information is transmitted through a channel=2E (See channel capacity)  Note: Bandwidth is originally a term used in analog communication, measured in Hertz, and related to information rate by the "sampling theorem" (genera...
basic component => a component that is identifiable at the lowest hierarchical level of specification produced during Detailed Design.
bell-La padula model => A formal state transition model of computer security policy that describes a set of access control rules.  In this formal model, the entities in a computer system are divided into abstract sets of subjects and objects. The not...
benign environment => A nonhostile environment that may be protected from external hostile elements by physical, personnel, and procedural security countermeasures.
between-the-lines entry => Unauthorized access obtained by tapping the temporarily inactive terminal of a legitimate user. 
beyond A1 => A level of trust defined by the DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) that is beyond the state-of-the-art technology available at the time the criteria were developed.  It includes all the A1-level features plus additio...
binding of security functionality => The ability of security enforcing functions and mechanisms to work together in a way which is mutually supportive and provides an integrated and effective whole.
bit => Short for binary digit - 0 or 1. Keys are strings of bits.
browsing => The act of searching through storage to locate or acquire information without necessarily knowing of the existence or the format of the information being sought.
call back => A procedure for identifying a remote terminal.  In a call back, the host system disconnects the caller and then dials the authorized telephone number of the remote terminal to reestablish the connection.  Synonymous with dial back.

factpacks/security.fact view on Meta::CPAN

confinement => The prevention of the leaking of sensitive data from a program.
confinement channel => Synonymous with covert channel.
confinement property => Synonymous with star property (*-property).
connection => a liaison, in the sense of a network interrelationship, between two hosts for a period of time. The liaison is established (by an initiating host) for the purpose of information transfer (with the associated host); the period of time is...
constrained => A qualifier implying: within the TSF Scope of Control
construction => the process of creating a Target of Evaluation.
consumers => Individuals or groups responsible for specifying requirements for IT product security (e.g., policy makers and regulatory officials, system architects, integrators, acquisition managers, product purchasers, and end users.
contamination => The intermixing of data at different sensitivity and need-to-know levels.  The lower level data is said to be contaminated by the higher level data; thus, the contaminating (higher level) data may not receive the required level of pr...
content-dependent access control => Access control in which access is determined by the value of the data to be accessed.
context-dependent access control => Access control in which access is determined by the specific circumstances under which the data is being accessed.
contingency plan => A plan for emergency response, backup operations, and post-disaster recovery maintained by an activity as a part of its security program that will ensure the availability of critical resources and facilitate the continuity of oper...
control objective => Required result of protecting information within an IT product and its immediate environment.
control zone => The space, expressed in feet of radius, surrounding equipment processing sensitive information, that is under sufficient physical and technical control to preclude an unauthorized entry or compromise.
controlled access => See access control.
controlled sharing => The condition that exists when access control is applied to all users and components of a system.
corporate security policy => The set of laws, rules and practices that regulate how assets including sensitive information are managed, protected and distributed within a user organisation.
correctness => In security evaluation, the preservation of relevant properties between successive levels of representations. Examples of representations could be: top-level functional specification, detailed design specification, actual implementatio...
cost-risk analysis => The assessment of the costs of providing data protection for a system versus the cost of losing or compromising the data.
countermeasure => Action, device, procedure, technique, or other measure that reduces the vulnerability of an AIS.
covert channel => A communication channel that allows a process to transfer information in a manner that violates the system's security policy.  See also: Covert Storage Channel, Covert Timing Channel.
covert storage channel => A covert channel that involves the direct or indirect writing of a storage location by one process and the direct or indirect reading of the storage location by another process.  Covert storage channels typically involve a f...

factpacks/techdict.fact view on Meta::CPAN

DNS => (Domain Name Service) This service maps TCP/IP numbers such as 123.12.4.245 to a more easily remembered name, such as www.ugeek.com. Thus, when you type www.ugeek.com into your browser, it goes out to the DNS server you specified when you inst...
DNS Entry => The DNS routing tables are filled with DNS entries that map TCP/IP addresses to more easily recognized names. If your browser says it can't find a particular DNS entry, here are some possible reasons: => You may not be able to communicat...
Domain name => Domain names are used to represent more complex TCP/IP addresses. For example, we purchased the UGeek.com domain name so we could use it to represent our server's address. You purchase domain names through the InterNIC. They can be rea...
Domain Name Service => See DNS.
DOS => (Disk Operating System) This OS is what got it all started for PCs.
Dot Matrix Printer => This type of printer prints out little dots that can form graphics or characters. This type of printer was popular a while back because the only other choice was a daisy-wheel printer that didn't print any graphics. These printe...
Dot Pitch => The smaller the better, as it relates to monitors. The dot pitch is a measure of distance between phosphor dots of the same color on a CRT monitor. A high dot pitch generally produces a blurred and unclear picture. Smaller dot pitches pr...
Double Buffering => This shows you that the graphics engine uses two layers, or buffers, to produce an image: one for display and one for rendering. Since the viewer only sees the finished image, this allows for smooth-motion animation. (Again, play ...
DPMA => (Dynamic Power Management Architecture) This architecture allows computers to have a variety of advanced power management features.
DRAM => (Dynamic Random Access Memory) The standard and cheapest memory available. The fastest DRAM is about 60 nanoseconds. This is the most common form of computer memory. It needs to be continually refreshed in order to properly hold data, thus th...
Drive Bay => Usually a 5.25"-wide 1"-tall hole in a computer case, suitable for the installation of some sort of drive. Some are exposed so that a removable drive (e.g., floppy, CD-ROM) can fit. Some are not exposed and are meant for hard drives, tap...
Driver => A driver is software that works to communicate between an operating system and a peripheral. Think of it as a translator. If you use a crappy driver, your OS won't understand your video card and may become unstable and crash. Hardware manuf...
DS-0 => (Digital Signal level 0) This is the signal used to carry a standard analog or digital phone line connection. 24 DS-0 connections can be carried on a T1 line. The speed of the signal is either 64 Kbps, or 56 Kbps if the eighth bit is used for...
DS-1 => (Digital Signal level 1) Synonym for T1.
DS-3 => (Digital Signal level 3) Synonym for T3.
DS-4 => (Digital Signal level 4) Synonym for T4.
DSP => (Digital Signal Processor) A DSP is a microprocessor designed to work with analog signals such as video or audio that have been digitally encoded. The DSP then takes these digital representations and performs operations on them. DSPs are used ...
DSTN => (Double-layer Supertwist Nematic) This is a form of passive matrix LCD screen. It is an improved version of the standard supertwist nematic passive matrix LCD screen where the display is divided into two sections and addressed separately to d...
Dual boot => This describes a system that can boot to two different operating systems. Some OSs, such as Windows NT and OS/2, allow for dual booting when installed. Of course, you can also use other methods such as commercial programs that install a ...
Dualscan => Refers to a passive matrix LCD screen that uses a better method of displaying graphics, producing a sharper, more vivid image than normal passive matrix screens.
Dumb Terminal => These are hooked up to mainframes, and are little more than a monitor attatched to a keyboard. All they are good for is running programs using the mainframe's hard drive and memory.

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