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leaf site2 is  Compare {backbone site}, {rib   site}. 
leak is  n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs   that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations   on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out).   This leads to eventual exhaustion as new al...
leak2 is  and {fd leak} have their own entries; one   might also refer, to, say, a `window handle leak' in a window   system. 
leaky heap is  [Cambridge] n. An {arena} with a {memory leak}.
legal is  adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the   relevant rules', esp. in connection with some set of constraints   defined by software.  "The older =+ alternate for += is no longer   legal syntax in ANSI C."  "This parser processes ...
legal2 is  the trailing linefeed."  Hackers   often model their work as a sort of game played with the   environment in which the objective is to maneuver through the   thicket of `natural laws' to achieve a desired objective.  Their   use of `legal'...
legal3 is  as by   the more conventional one having to do with courts and lawyers.   Compare {language lawyer}, {legalese}. 
legalese is  n. Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description,   product specification, or interface standard; text that seems   designed to obfuscate and requires a {language lawyer} to   {parse} it.  Though hackers are not afraid of high infor...
legalese2 is  (indeed, they rather enjoy   both), they share a deep and abiding loathing for legalese; they   associate it with deception, {suit}s, and situations in which   hackers generally get the short end of the stick. 
LER is  /L-E-R/ [TMRC, from `Light-Emitting Diode] n. A   light-emitting resistor (that is, one in the process of burning   up).  Ohm's law was broken.  See {SED}.
LERP is  /lerp/ vi.,n. Quasi-acronym for Linear Interpolation, used as a   verb or noun for the operation.  E.g., Bresenham's algorithm lerps   incrementally between the two endpoints of the line.
let the smoke out is  v. To fry hardware (see {fried}).  See   {magic smoke} for the mythology behind this.
letterbomb is  n. A piece of {email} containing {live data}   intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or   terminal.  It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that   will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they a...
letterbomb2 is  {cycle power} to unwedge them.   Under UNIX, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its contents   interpreted as a shell command to the mailer.  The results of this   could range from silly to tragic.  See also {Trojan horse};   co...
lexer is  /lek'sr/ n. Common hacker shorthand for `lexical   analyzer', the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language   (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces).  "Some C lexers   get confused by the old-style compound ops like `=-'....
lexiphage is  /lek'si-fayj`/ n. A notorious word {chomper} on   ITS.  See {bagbiter}.
life is  n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton   Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner (`Scientific   American', October 1970).  Many hackers pass through a stage of   fascination with it, and hackers at various plac...
life2 is  analysis of this game (most notably   Bill Gosper at MIT, who even implemented life in {TECO}!; see   {Gosperism}).  When a hacker mentions `life', he is much more   likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal,   or the...
life3 is  {USENET}.   As in {Get a life!} 
light pipe is  n. Fiber optic cable.  Oppose {copper}.
like kicking dead whales down the beach is  adj. Describes a slow,   difficult, and disgusting process.  First popularized by a famous   quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's   mainframe OSes.  "Well, you *could* write a ...

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smart terminal3 is  Compare {glass tty}.   There is a classic quote from Rob Pike (inventor of the {blit}   terminal) "A smart terminal is not a smart*ass* terminal,   but rather a terminal you can educate."  This illustrates a common   design proble...
smart terminal4 is  else)   intelligent sometimes results in finicky, rigid `special   features' that become just so much dead weight if you try to use   the device in any way the designer didn't anticipate.  Flexibility   and programmability, on the...
smash case is  vi. To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase   distinction in text input.  "MS-DOS will automatically smash case   in the names of all the files you create."  Compare {fold case}.
smash the stack is  [C programming] n. On many C implementations it is   possible to corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of   an array declared `auto' in a routine.  Code that does this is   said to `smash the stack', and can cause re...
smash the stack2 is  address.  This can produce some of the most   insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind.  Variants include   `trash' the stack, {scribble} the stack, {mangle} the stack;   the term *{mung} the stack is not used, as this is n...
smash the stack3 is  also {aliasing bug},   {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {precedence lossage},   {overrun screw}. 
smiley is  n. See {emoticon}.
smoke test is  n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to   electronic equipment following repair or reconfiguration, in which   power is applied and the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or other   dramatic signs of fundamental failure.  See {mag...
smoke test2 is  of a piece of software after construction   or a critical change.  See and compare {reality check}.   There is an interesting semi-parallel to this term among   typographers and printers When new typefaces are being punch-cut by   han...
smoke test3 is  smoke, then press   it onto paper) is used to check out new dies. 
smoking clover is  [ITS] n. A {display hack} originally due to   Bill Gosper.  Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in   {AOS} mode (so that every pixel struck has its color   incremented).  The lines all have one endpoint in the middle...
smoking clover2 is  spaced one pixel apart around the   perimeter of a large square.  The color map is then repeatedly   rotated.  This results in a striking, rainbow-hued, shimmering   four-leaf clover.  Gosper joked about keeping it hidden from the...
smoking clover3 is  Administration) lest its   hallucinogenic properties cause it to be banned. 
SMOP is  /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.   1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is   significantly greater than its complexity.  Used to refer to a   program that could obviously be written, but is not ...
SMOP2 is  imply that a difficult problem   can be easily solved because a program can be written to do it; the   irony is that it is very clear that writing such a program will be   a great deal of work.  "It's easy to enhance a FORTRAN compiler to  ...
SMOP3 is  Often used   ironically by the intended victim when a suggestion for a program   is made which seems easy to the suggester, but is obviously (to the   victim) a lot of work. 
SNAFU principle is  /sna'foo prin'si-pl/ [from WWII Army acronym   for `Situation Normal, All Fucked Up'] n. "True communication is   possible only between equals, because inferiors are more   consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasan...
SNAFU principle2 is  central tenet of   {Discordianism}, often invoked by hackers to explain why   authoritarian hierarchies screw up so reliably and systematically.   The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive disconnection of   decision-mak...
snail is  vt. To {snail-mail} something. "Snail me a copy of those   graphics, will you?"
snail-mail is  n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.  Sometimes   written as the single word `SnailMail'.  One's postal address is,   correspondingly, a `snail address'.  Derives from earlier coinage   `USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which there ...
snap is  v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer;   to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there.   If you telephone the main number for an institution and ask for a   particular person by name, the operator ma...

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laser chicken3 => mythically, do some of the inhabitants of Chernobyl). 
laundromat => n. Syn. {disk farm}; see {washing machine}.
LDB => /l*'d*b/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt. To extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please." This usage has been kept alive by Common LISP's function of the same name. Considered silly. See also DPB.
leaf site => n. A machine that merely originates and reads USENET news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the netw...
leaf site2 => Compare {backbone site}, {rib site}. 
leak => n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocatio...
leaky heap => [Cambridge] n. An arena with a {memory leak}.
legal => adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp. in connection with some set of constraints defined by software. "The older =+ alternate for += is no longer legal syntax in ANSI C." "This parser processes each line...
legalese => n. Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard; text that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a {language lawyer} to parse it. Though hackers are not afraid of high information den...
LER => /L-E-R/ [TMRC, from `Light-Emitting Diode] n. A light-emitting resistor (that is, one in the process of burning up). Ohm's law was broken. See SED.
LERP => /lerp/ vi.,n. Quasi-acronym for Linear Interpolation, used as a verb or noun for the operation. E.g., Bresenham's algorithm lerps incrementally between the two endpoints of the line.
let the smoke out => v. To fry hardware (see fried). See {magic smoke} for the mythology behind this.
letterbomb => n. A piece of email containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed,...
lexer => /lek'sr/ n. Common hacker shorthand for `lexical analyzer', the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces). "Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like `=-'."
lexiphage => /lek'si-fayj`/ n. A notorious word chomper on ITS. See bagbiter.
life => n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner (`Scientific American', October 1970). Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it, and hackers at various places contr...
light pipe => n. Fiber optic cable. Oppose copper.
like kicking dead whales down the beach => adj. Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. "Well, you *could* write a C compile...
like kicking dead whales down the beach2 => kicking dead whales down the beach." See also {fear and loathing} 
like nailing jelly to a tree => adj. Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp. one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem domain. "Trying to display the `prettiest' arrangement of n...
like nailing jelly to a tree2 => graph is like nailing jelly to a tree, because nobody's sure what `prettiest' means algorithmically." 

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smart terminal3 => Compare {glass tty}. There is a classic quote from Rob Pike (inventor of the blit terminal) "A smart terminal is not a smart*ass* terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate." This illustrates a common design problem The attemp...
smart terminal4 => else) intelligent sometimes results in finicky, rigid `special features' that become just so much dead weight if you try to use the device in any way the designer didn't anticipate. Flexibility and programmability, on the other han...
smash case => vi. To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input. "MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create." Compare {fold case}.
smash the stack => [C programming] n. On many C implementations it is possible to corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of an array declared `auto' in a routine. Code that does this is said to `smash the stack', and can cause return fro...
smash the stack2 => address. This can produce some of the most insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind. Variants include `trash' the stack, scribble the stack, mangle the stack; the term *mung the stack is not used, as this is never done inten...
smash the stack3 => also {aliasing bug}, {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {precedence lossage}, {overrun screw}. 
smiley => n. See emoticon.
smoke test => n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to electronic equipment following repair or reconfiguration, in which power is applied and the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or other dramatic signs of fundamental failure. See {magic smoke...
smoke test2 => of a piece of software after construction or a critical change. See and compare {reality check}. There is an interesting semi-parallel to this term among typographers and printers When new typefaces are being punch-cut by hand, a `smok...
smoke test3 => smoke, then press it onto paper) is used to check out new dies. 
smoking clover => [ITS] n. A {display hack} originally due to Bill Gosper. Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in AOS mode (so that every pixel struck has its color incremented). The lines all have one endpoint in the middle of the scr...
smoking clover2 => spaced one pixel apart around the perimeter of a large square. The color map is then repeatedly rotated. This results in a striking, rainbow-hued, shimmering four-leaf clover. Gosper joked about keeping it hidden from the FDA (the ...
smoking clover3 => Administration) lest its hallucinogenic properties cause it to be banned. 
SMOP => /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n. 1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity. Used to refer to a program that could obviously be written, but is not worth th...
SNAFU principle => /sna'foo prin'si-pl/ [from WWII Army acronym for `Situation Normal, All Fucked Up'] n. "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies ...
SNAFU principle2 => central tenet of Discordianism, often invoked by hackers to explain why authoritarian hierarchies screw up so reliably and systematically. The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive disconnection of decision-makers from re...
snail => vt. To snail-mail something. "Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you?"
snail-mail => n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'. One's postal address is, correspondingly, a `snail address'. Derives from earlier coinage `USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which there have been ...
snap => v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer; to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there. If you telephone the main number for an institution and ask for a particular person by name, the operator may tell ...
snarf => /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also BLT. 2. [in the UNIX community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also blast. Thi...
snarf & barf => /snarf'n-barf`/ n. Under a {WIMP environment}, the act of grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this was a ma...

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port 125 => locus-map - Locus PC-Interface Net Map Ser 
port 126 => nxedit - NXEdit (previously assigned to unitary - Unisys Unitary Login) 
port 127 => locus-con - Locus PC-Interface Conn Server 
port 128 => gss-xlicen - GSS X License Verification 
port 129 => pwdgen - Password Generator Protocol 
port 130 => cisco-fna - cisco FNATIVE 
port 131 => cisco-tna - cisco TNATIVE 
port 132 => cisco-sys - cisco SYSMAINT 
port 133 => statsrv - Statistics Service 
port 134 => ingres-net - INGRES-NET Service 
port 135 => epmap - DCE endpoint resolution 
port 136 => profile - PROFILE Naming System 
port 137 => netbios-ns - NETBIOS Name Service 
port 138 => netbios-dgm - NETBIOS Datagram Service 
port 139 => netbios-ssn - NETBIOS Session Service 
port 140 => emfis-data - EMFIS Data Service 
port 141 => emfis-cntl - EMFIS Control Service 
port 142 => bl-idm - Britton-Lee IDM 
port 143 => imap - Internet Message Access Protocol 
port 144 => uma - Universal Management Architecture 
port 145 => uaac - UAAC Protocol