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ktranslator => <reply> $who, A graphical utility that helps translating po files for GPL projects.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/4288/
KTsp => <reply> $who, TSP optimizer for KDE. URL: ftp://ftp.SysEx.com.na/pub/ktsp/ktsp-0.2.0.tgz
ktuner => <reply> $who, KDE program to control a radio card connected to your pc. URL: http://leg.uct.ac.za/cRadio/index2.html
ku => <reply> $who, A utmp based shell admin utility for maintaining shell logins.. URL: http://www.technotronic.com/issue/ku
Kugel => <reply> $who, Board Game - moving objects on the board and putting them into rows. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/4329/kugel/Kugel.html
KuickShow => <reply> $who, A fast, comfortable and easy-to-use image viewer/browser. URL: http://www.millenniumx.de/kuickshow.html
Kuninstaller => <reply> $who, Program for uninstalling KDE applications.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/3400/kuninstaller/index.html
KUrlRec => <reply> $who, Keeps URLs and converts the links to an HTML file to use with lynx.. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kshell/
KVEC => <reply> $who, A tool that can vectorize images using several graphic formats. URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kkuhl/
kvideogen => <reply> $who, Modeline generator for XFree86. URL: http://without.netpedia.net/kvideogen/
KVideolist => <reply> $who, A videotape management utility. URL: http://bnvbbg.bamberg.baynet.de/home/ba1005/kde/kvlist.html
KVIrc => <reply> $who, Enhanced visual IRC client for X11/KDE. URL: http://www.kvirc.org/
Kvirus => <reply> $who, A board/puzzle game for the KDE Environment.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/sungsoo/
kvncviewer => <reply> $who, VNCviewer for the KDE Project. URL: http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0197/kde/kvnc/
kvoice => <reply> $who, A graphical frontend for easy handling of voice mails and faxes. URL: ftp://xpc56.mpi-hd.mpg.de/pub/kde/kvoice/
KVoiceControl => <reply> $who, Speech recognition system for the KDE Desktop. URL: http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/kde/index.html
kWall => <reply> $who, A GUI to ipfwadm to help new users to make a firewall.. URL: http://kbyteplace.cjb.net/
kwave => <reply> $who, A simple digital sound signal editor for KDE. URL: http://fs.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~kwave/
KWeather => <reply> $who, A KDE dock applet that can display the current weather outside.. URL: http://www.msoe.edu/~geiseri/projects.phtml?project=kweather
KWebDev => <reply> $who, Web Development Environment. URL: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ebanker/kwebdev/index.html
KWebHeadlines => <reply> $who, Displays Web Headlines in the KDE root menu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/cpiccione/

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bytesexual4 is  programming.   See also {languages of choice}, {indent style}.   C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain   varying according to the speaker, as "a language that combines   all the elegance and power of assembly la...
bytesexual5 is  maintainability of assembly language". 
calculator is  [Cambridge] n. Syn. for {bitty box}.
can is  vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system.  Used esp. when the   person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the   {{console}}".  Frequently used in an imperative sense, as in "Can   that print job, the LPT just popped a sprock...
can2 is  that the ASCII character with mnemonic CAN   (0011000) was used as a kill-job character on some early OSes. 
canonical is  [historically, `according to religious law'] adj. The   usual or standard state or manner of something.  This word has a   somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics.  Two formulas such   as 9 + x and x + 9 are said to be equivalent...
canonical2 is  second one is in `canonical   form' because it is written in the usual way, with the highest   power of x first.  Usually there are fixed rules you can use   to decide whether something is in canonical form.  The jargon   meaning, a re...
canonical3 is    present loading in computer-science culture largely through its   prominence in Alonzo Church's work in computation theory and   mathematical logic (see {Knights of the Lambda Calculus}).   Compare {vanilla}.   This word has an inter...
canonical4 is  not use the adjective `canonical' in any of the senses defined   above with any regularity; they do however use the nouns `canon' and   `canonicity' (not *canonicalness or *canonicality). The `canon' of   a given author is the complete...
canonical5 is  usage is familiar to Sherlock Holmes fans as well as   to literary scholars).  `*The* canon' is the body of works in   a given field (e.g., works of literature, or of art, or of music)   deemed worthwhile for students to study and for ...
canonical6 is  non-techspeak academic usages derive ultimately from the   historical meaning, specifically the classification of the books of   the Bible into two groups by Christian theologians.  The   `canonical' books were the ones widely accepted...
canonical7 is  authority.  The   `deuterocanonical' books (literally `secondarily canonical';   also known as the `Apochrypha') were held to be of lesser   authority --- indeed they have been held in such low esteem that to   this day they are omitte...
canonical8 is  this term with a playfulness that makes an ironic   contrast with its historical meaning.  A true story One Bob   Sjoberg, new at the MIT AI Lab, expressed some annoyance at the use   of jargon.  Over his loud objections, GLS and RMS m...
canonical9 is  in his presence, and eventually it   began to sink in.  Finally, in one conversation, he used the word   `canonical' in jargon-like fashion without thinking.  Steele   "Aha!  We've finally got you talking jargon too!"  Stallman   "What...
canonical10 is  `canonical' in the   canonical way."   Of course, canonicality depends on context, but it is implicitly   defined as the way *hackers* normally expect things to be.   Thus, a hacker may claim with a straight face that `according to   ...
card is  n. 1. An electronic printed-circuit board (see also {tall   card}, {short card}.  2. obs. Syn. {{punched card}}.
card walloper is  n. An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs   that do stupid things like print people's paychecks.  Compare   {code grinder}.  See also {{punched card}}, {eighty-column   mind}.
careware is  /keir'weir/ n. {Shareware} for which either the   author suggests that some payment be made to a nominated charity   or a levy directed to charity is included on top of the   distribution charge.  Syn. {charityware}; compare   {cripplewa...
cargo cult programming is  n. A style of (incompetent) programming   dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that   serve no real purpose.  A cargo cult programmer will usually   explain the extra code as a way of working around s...
cargo cult programming2 is  neither the bug nor the reason   the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood   (compare {shotgun debugging}, {voodoo programming}).   The term `cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that   gr...
cargo cult programming3 is  The practices of   these cults center on building elaborate mockups of airplanes and   military style landing strips in the hope of bringing the return of   the god-like airplanes that brought such marvelous cargo during t...

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cycle3 is  computer spends working on your program rather than someone else's,   the faster your program will run.  That's why every hacker wants   more cycles so he can spend less time waiting for the computer to   respond.  2. By extension, a notio...
cycle4 is  emphasizing that lots of things compete for the typical   hacker's think time.  "I refused to get involved with the Rubik's   Cube back when it was big.  Knew I'd burn too many cycles on it if   I let myself."  3. vt. Syn. {bounce}, {120 r...
cycle5 is  the machine again, that serial port's   still hung." 
cycle crunch is  n. A situation where the number of people trying to   use the computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one   can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the   system has probably begun to {thrash}.  This ...
cycle crunch2 is  applied to timesharing.  Usually the only   solution is to buy more computer.  Happily, this has rapidly become   easier in recent years, so much so that the very term `cycle   crunch' now has a faintly archaic flavor; most hackers ...
cycle crunch3 is  opposed to traditional   timesharing systems. 
cycle drought is  n. A scarcity of cycles.  It may be due to a {cycle   crunch}, but it could also occur because part of the computer is   temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.   "The {high moby} is {down}, so we're running with...
cycle drought2 is  There will be a cycle drought   until it's fixed." 
cycle of reincarnation is  [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca. 1970] n.   Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a   computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose   peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evo...
cycle of reincarnation2 is  its job, then somebody notices that   it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the   architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at   which point the cycle begins again.  Several iteratio...
cycle of reincarnation3 is  graphics-processor design, and at least   one or two in communications and floating-point processors.  Also   known as `the Wheel of Life', `the Wheel of Samsara', and other   variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theolog...
cycle server is  n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for   running large {batch} jobs.  Implies that interactive tasks such as   editing are done on other machines on the network, such as   workstations.*D.C. Power Lab n. The former site of {...
cycle server2 is  funny because the obvious connection to electrical   engineering was nonexistent --- the lab was named for a Donald C.   Power.  Compare {Marginal Hacks}. 
daemon is  /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning,   later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n.   A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting   for some condition(s) to occur.  The idea is t...
daemon2 is  not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though   often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it   will implicitly invoke a daemon).  For example, under {{ITS}}   writing a file on the {LPT} spooler's directory would in...
daemon3 is  print the file.  The advantage is   that programs wanting (in this example) files printed need not   compete for access to the {LPT}.  They simply enter their   implicit requests and let the daemon decide what to do with them.   Daemons a...
daemon4 is  and may   either live forever or be regenerated at intervals.  Daemon and   {demon} are often used interchangeably, but seem to have   distinct connotations.  The term `daemon' was introduced to   computing by {CTSS} people (who pronounce...
daemon5 is  ITS called a {dragon}.  Although the   meaning and the pronunciation have drifted, we think this glossary   reflects current (1991) usage. 
dangling pointer is  n. A reference that doesn't actually lead   anywhere (in C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't   actually point at anything valid).  Usually this is because it   formerly pointed to something that has moved or disapp...
dangling pointer2 is  of its techspeak meaning; for   example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved to the   other coast is a dangling pointer. 
Datamation is  /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers   assume all {suit}s read.  Used to question an unbelieved quote,   as in "Did you read that in `Datamation?'" It used to   publish something hackishly funny every once in a while, like...

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gender mender2 is  original D-25 or the IBM PC's bogus D-9 format.   Also called `gender bender', `gender blender', `sex   changer', and even `homosexual adapter'; however, there appears   to be some confusion as to whether a `male homosexual adapter...
gender mender3 is  on both sides (connects two   males). 
General Public Virus is  n. Pejorative name for some versions of the   {GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL), which   requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating copylefted code   must be source-distributed on the same counter-...
General Public Virus2 is  alleged that the copyleft `infects' software   generated with GNU tools, which may in turn infect other software   that reuses any of its code.  The Free Software Foundation's   official position as of January 1991 is that c...
General Public Virus3 is  "programs textually incorporating   significant amounts of GNU code", and that the `infection' is not   passed on to third parties unless actual GNU source is transmitted   (as in, for example, use of the Bison parser skelet...
General Public Virus4 is  the {copyleft} language   is `boobytrapped' has caused many developers to avoid using GNU   tools and the GPL.  Recent (July 1991) changes in the language of   the version 2.00 language may eliminate this problem. 
generate is  vt. To produce something according to an algorithm or   program or set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect   of the execution of an algorithm or program.  The opposite of   {parse}.  This term retains its mechanistic conn...
generate2 is  of human behavior.  "The guy is   rational most of the time, but mention nuclear energy around him   and he'll generate {infinite} flamage." 
gensym is  /jen'sim/ [from MacLISP for `generated symbol'] 1. v.   To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that   the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in   use.  2. n.  The resulting name.  The canonical f...
gensym2 is  represents a number; any LISP hacker would   recognize G0093 (for example) as a gensym.  3. A freshly generated   data structure with a gensymmed name.  These are useful for storing   or uniquely identifying crufties (see {cruft}). 
Get a life! is  imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person   to whom you are speaking has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see   {computer geek}).  Often heard on {USENET}, esp. as a way of   suggesting that the target is taking some obscur...
Get a life!2 is  exhortation was popularized by   William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that   ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to   have been in use before then. 
Get a real computer! is  imp. Typical hacker response to news that   somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that   (a) is single-tasking, (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address   space smaller than 4 megabytes.  This is as of m...
Get a real computer!2 is  computer' rises with time, and it may well   be (for example) that machines with character-only displays will be   generally considered `unreal' in a few years (GLS points out that   they already are in some circles).  See {...
GFR is  /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS] From `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and Lisp   Machine utility.  To remove a file or files according to some   program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially   one designed to reclaim mass storage space or redu...
GFR2 is  actually moved files to tape).  Often   generalized to pieces of data below file level.  "I used to have   his phone number, but I guess I {GFR}ed it."  See also   {prowler}, {reaper}.  Compare {GC}, which discards only   provably worthless ...
gig is  /jig/ or /gig/ [SI] n. See {{quantifiers}}.
giga- is  /ji'ga/ or /gi'ga/ [SI] pref. See {{quantifiers}}.
GIGO is  /gi'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' ---   usually said in response to {luser}s who complain that a program   didn't complain about faulty data.  Also commonly used to describe   failures in human decision making due to faulty, in...
GIGO2 is  In, Gospel Out' this more recent   expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have   to put excessive trust in `computerized' data. 
gillion is  /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ [formed from {giga-} by analogy   with mega/million and tera/trillion] n. 10^9. Same as an   American billion or a British `milliard'.  How one pronounces   this depends on whether one speaks {giga-} with a hard or ...

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hirsute is  adj. Occasionally used humorously as a synonym for {hairy}.
HLL is  /H-L-L/ n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)]   Found primarily in email and news rather than speech.  Rarely, the   variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found.  VHLL stands for `Very-High-Level   Language' and is used to describe a {bo...
HLL2 is  speaker happens to like; Prolog and Backus's FP   are often called VHLLs.  `MLL' stands for `Medium-Level Language' and is   sometimes used half-jokingly to describe {C}, alluding to its   `structured-assembler' image.  See also {languages o...
hobbit is  n. 1. The High Order Bit of a byte; same as the {meta   bit} or {high bit}.  2. The non-ITS name of vad@ai.mit.edu   (*Hobbit*), master of lasers.
hog is  n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that   seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources,   esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive response.   *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely large...
hog2 is  slow themselves (see {pig,   run like a}).  More often than not encountered in qualified forms,   e.g., `memory hog', `core hog', `hog the processor', `hog   the disk'.  "A controller that never gives up the I/O bus   gets killed after the b...
hog3 is  *people* who use more than their fair share of resources   (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90%   of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use   it).  Of course, once disk hogs fill up one fi...
hog4 is  one to infect, claiming to the   sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete. 
holy wars is  [from {USENET}, but may predate it] n. {flame   war}s over {religious issues}.  The paper by Danny Cohen that   popularized the terms {big-endian} and {little-endian} in   connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled...
holy wars2 is  perennial Holy   Wars have included {EMACS} vs. {vi}, my personal computer vs.   everyone else's personal computer, {{ITS}} vs. {{UNIX}},   {{UNIX}} vs. {VMS}, {BSD} UNIX vs. {USG UNIX}, {C} vs.   {{Pascal}}, {C} vs. {LISP}, etc., ad n...
holy wars3 is  distinguishes {holy wars} from normal   technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants   spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and   cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See ...
home box is  n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she   owns.  "Yeah?  Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2 BSD, so   there!"
hook is  n. A software or hardware feature included in order to   simplify later additions or changes by a user.  For example,   a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in   base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variab...
hook2 is  variable to 5 would make   the program print numbers in base 5.  The variable is a simple   hook.  An even more flexible program might examine the variable   and treat a value of 16 or less as the base to use, but treat any   other number a...
hook3 is  printing   a number.  This is a {hairy} but powerful hook; one can then write a   routine to print numbers as Roman numerals, say, or as Hebrew   characters, and plug it into the program through the hook.  Often   the difference between a g...
hook4 is  latter has useful hooks in judiciously chosen places.  Both may do   the original job about equally well, but the one with the hooks is   much more flexible for future expansion of capabilities ({EMACS},   for example, is *all* hooks).  The...
hook5 is  formal and less hackish. 
hop is  n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file   from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.  On such   networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet}), the important   inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the s...
hop2 is  geographical separation.  See   {bang path}. 
hose is  1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in   performance.  "That big ray-tracing program really hoses the   system."  See {hosed}.  2. n. A narrow channel through which   data flows under pressure.  Generally denotes data paths tha...
hose2 is  Cabling, especially   thick Ethernet cable.  This is sometimes called `bit hose' or   `hosery' (play on `hosiery') or `etherhose'.  See also   {washing machine}.

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Macintoy is  /mak'in-toy/ n. The Apple Macintosh, considered as a   {toy}.  Less pejorative than {Macintrash}.
Macintrash is  /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described   by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the   *real computer* by the interface.  The term {maggotbox} has   been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle ar...
Macintrash2 is  See also {beige toaster},   {WIMP environment}, {drool-proof paper}, {user-friendly}. 
macro is  /mak'roh/ [techspeak] n. A name (possibly followed by a   formal {arg} list) that is equated to a text or symbolic   expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the   substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander.  This ...
macro2 is  dictionary; what those   won't tell you is how the hackish connotations of the term have   changed over time.   The term `macro' originated in early assemblers, which encouraged   the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding d...
macro3 is  assemblers became ubiquitous, and   sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as {HLL}s, only to fall   from favor as improving compiler technology marginalized assembler   programming (see {languages of choice}).  Nowadays the term is   m...
macro4 is  preprocessor, LISP, or one   of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion   facility (such as TeX or UNIX's [nt]roff suite).   Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective   `macros' is now sometimes us...
macro5 is  application control language (whether or not the language is   actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities   such as the `keyboard macros' supported in some text editors   (and PC TSR or Macintosh INIT/CDEV keyboard...
macro- is  pref. Large.  Opposite of {micro-}.  In the mainstream   and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people)   this competes with the prefix {mega-}, but hackers tend to   restrict the latter to quantification.
macrology is  /mak-rol'*-jee/ n. 1. Set of usually complex or crufty   macros, e.g., as part of a large system written in {LISP},   {TECO}, or (less commonly) assembler.  2. The art and science   involved in comprehending a macrology in sense 1.  Som...
macrology2 is  not unlike archeology,   ecology, or {theology}, hence the sound-alike construction.  See   also {boxology}. 
macrotape is  /ma'kroh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape, as   opposed to a {microtape}.
maggotbox is  /mag'*t-boks/ n. See {Macintrash}.  This is even   more derogatory.
magic is  adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain;   compare {automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law:   "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from   magic."  "TTY echoing is controlled by a large numb...
magic2 is  computes the parity of an 8-bit   byte in three instructions."  2. Characteristic of something that   works although no one really understands why (this is especially called   {black magic}).  3. [Stanford] A feature not generally   public...
magic3 is  impossible, or a feature   formerly in that category but now unveiled.  Compare {black   magic}, {wizardly}, {deep magic}, {heavy wizardry}.   For more about hackish `magic', see appendix A. 
magic cookie is  [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or   programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a   capability ticket or opaque identifier.  Especially used of small   data objects that contain data encoded in a str...
magic cookie2 is   E.g., on non-UNIX OSes with a   non-byte-stream model of files, the result of `ftell(3)' may   be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to   `fseek(3)', but not operated on in any meaningful way.  The   phrase ...
magic cookie3 is  a result   whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the   same or some other program later.  2. An in-band code for   changing graphic rendition (e.g., inverse video or underlining) or   performing other contro...
magic cookie4 is  leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic   cookies; this was also called a {glitch}.  See also {cookie}. 
magic number is  [UNIX/C] n. 1. In source code, some non-obvious   constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program   and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line ({hardcoded}),   rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commente...

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mega- is  /me'g*/ [SI] pref. See {{quantifiers}}.
megapenny is  /meg'*-pen`ee/ n. $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6).   Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and   performance figures.
MEGO is  /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes   Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn]   Also `MEGO factor'.  1. n. A {handwave} intended to confuse the   listener and hopefully induce agreement beca...
MEGO2 is  not understanding what is going on.  MEGO is   usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a   high proportion of {TLA}s.  2. excl. An appropriate response to   MEGO tactics.  3. Among non-hackers this term often refers ...
MEGO3 is  glaze, but to the eye-glazing   reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of   technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it. 
meltdown, network is  n.  See {network meltdown}.
meme is  /meem/ [coined on analogy with `gene' by Richard   Dawkins] n. An idea considered as a {replicator}, esp. with   the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them   much as viruses do.  Used esp. in the phrase `meme complex'...
meme2 is  memes that form an   organized belief system, such as a religion.  This lexicon is an   (epidemiological) vector of the `hacker subculture' meme complex;   each entry might be considered a meme.  However, `meme' is often   misused to mean `...
meme3 is  acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool-   and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of   adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of   hereditary traits.  Hackers find this...
meme plague is  n. The spread of a successful but pernicious {meme},   esp. one that parasitizes the victims into giving their all to   propagate it.  Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are   often considered to be examples.  This usage i...
meme plague2 is  `joiner' ideologies like Naziism or various   forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles   of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir   populations. 
memetics is  /me-met'iks/ [from {meme}] The study of memes.  As of   mid-1991, this is still an extremely informal and speculative   endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor   have been made by H. Keith Henson and others.  ...
memetics2 is  among hackers, who like to see   themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in   which memes live and replicate. 
memory leak is  n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation   logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading   to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.  Also (esp. at   CMU) called {core leak}.  See {aliasing bug}, {f...
memory leak2 is  {precedence lossage}, {overrun   screw}, {leaky heap}, {leak}. 
menuitis is  /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software   with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.   Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the   flexibility of command-line or language-style inte...
menuitis2 is  macros or a special-purpose   language in which one can encode useful hacks.  See   {user-obsequious}, {drool-proof paper}, {WIMP environment},   {for the rest of us}. 
mess-dos is  /mes-dos/ n. Derisory term for MS-DOS.  Often followed   by the ritual banishing "Just say No!"  See {{MS-DOS}}.  Most   hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its   single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, it...
mess-dos2 is  IBMness (see {fear and   loathing}).  Also `mess-loss', `messy-dos', `mess-dog',   `mess-dross', `mush-dos', and various combinations thereof.  In   Ireland and the U.K. it is even sometimes called `Domestos' after a   brand of toilet c...
meta is  /me't*/ or /may't*/ or (Commonwealth) /mee't*/ [from   analytic philosophy] adj.,pref. One level of description up.   A meta-syntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe   syntax, and meta-language is language used to descri...
meta2 is  briefly, but much hacker humor turns   on deliberate confusion between meta-levels.  See {{Humor,   Hacker}}.

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obi-wan error is  /oh'bee-won` er'*r/ [RPI, from `off-by-one' and   the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars"] n.  A loop of   some sort in which the index is off by 1.  Common when the index   should have started from 0 but instead started from 1....
Objectionable-C is  n. Hackish take on "Objective-C", the name of an   object-oriented dialect of C in competition with the    better-known C++ (it is used to write native applications on the NeXT   machine).  Objectionable-C uses a Smalltalk-like sy...
Objectionable-C2 is  method calls, and (like many such   efforts) comes frustratingly close to attaining the {Right Thing}   without actually doing so. 
obscure is  adj. Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning, to   imply total incomprehensibility.  "The reason for that last crash   is obscure."  "The `find(1)' command's syntax is obscure!"   The phrase `moderately obscure' implies that it coul...
obscure2 is  the trouble.  The construction   `obscure in the extreme' is the preferred emphatic form. 
octal forty is  /ok'tl for'tee/ n. Hackish way of saying "I'm   drawing a blank."  Octal 40 is the {{ASCII}} space character,   0100000; by an odd coincidence, {hex} 40 (01000000) is the   {{EBCDIC}} space character.  See {wall}.
off the trolley is  adj. Describes the behavior of a program that   malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually {crash} or   abort.  See {glitch}, {bug}, {deep space}.
off-by-one error is  n. Exceedingly common error induced in many   ways, such as by starting at 0 when you should have started at 1 or   vice versa, or by writing `< N' instead of `<= N' or   vice-versa.  Also applied to giving something to the perso...
off-by-one error2 is   Often confounded with   {fencepost error}, which is properly a particular subtype of it. 
offline is  adv. Not now or not here.  "Let's take this   discussion offline."  Specifically used on {USENET} to suggest   that a discussion be taken off a public newsgroup to email.
old fart is  n. Tribal elder.  A title self-assumed with remarkable   frequency by (esp.) USENETters who have been programming for more   than about 25 years; often appears in {sig block}s attached to   Jargon File contributions of great archeologica...
old fart2 is  the second or third person but one of   pride in first person. 
Old Testament is  n. [C programmers] The first edition of {K&R}, the   sacred text describing {Classic C}.
one-line fix is  n. Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a   program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to   the moment it crashes the system.  Usually `cured' by another   one-line fix.  See also {I didn't change anything!}
one-liner wars is  n. A game popular among hackers who code in the   language APL (see {write-only language}).  The objective is to   see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one   line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly...
one-liner wars2 is  was practiced among {TECO} hackers.      Ken Iverson, the inventor of APL, has been credited with a   one-liner that, given a number N, produces a list of the   prime numbers from 1 to N inclusive.  It looks like this	(2 = 0 +.= T...
one-liner wars3 is  character, the assignment arrow is a   single character, and `i' represents the APL iota. 
ooblick is  /oo'blik/ [from Dr. Seuss's `Bartholomew and the   Oobleck'] n. A bizarre semi-liquid sludge made from cornstarch and   water.  Enjoyed among hackers who make batches during playtime at   parties for its amusing and extremely non-Newtonia...
ooblick2 is  resists rapid motion like a solid and will   even crack when hit by a hammer.  Often found near lasers.   Here is a field-tested ooblick recipe contributed by GLS     1 cup cornstarch     1 cup baking soda     3/4 cup water     N drops o...
ooblick3 is  non-Newtonian as a pure cornstarch   ooblick, but has an appropriately slimy feel.   Some, however, insist that the notion of an ooblick *recipe*   is far too mechanical, and that it is best to add the water in   small increments so that...
ooblick4 is  through as it *becomes* ooblick can be grokked in   fullness by many hands.  For optional ingredients of this   experience, see the "Ceremonial Chemicals" section of   appendix B.

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Red Book2 is  one of the 3 standard   references on Smalltalk (`Smalltalk-80 The Interactive   Programming Environment' by Adele Goldberg (Addison-Wesley, 1984;   QA76.8.S635G638; ISBN 0-201-11372-4); this too is associated with   blue and green book...
Red Book3 is    CCITT eighth plenary assembly.  Until now, these have changed color   each review cycle (1988 was {Blue Book}, 1992 will be {Green   Book}); however, it is rumored that this convention is going to be   dropped before 1992.  These incl...
Red Book4 is  and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards.  4. The   new version of the {Green Book} (sense 4) --- IEEE 1003.1-1990, a.k.a   ISO 9945-1 --- is (because of the color and the fact that it is   printed on A4 paper) known in the U.S.A. as "th...
Red Book5 is  and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book   That's A Sensible Size".  5. The NSA `Trusted Network   Interpretation' companion to the {Orange Book}.  See also   {{book titles}}. 
regexp is  /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex')   1. Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular   expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e.g., by UNIX   utilities such as `grep(1)', `sed(1)', and `awk(1)'.   These use con...
regexp2 is  those   described under {glob}.  For purposes of this lexicon, it is   sufficient to note that regexps also allow complemented character   sets using `^'; thus, one can specify `any non-alphabetic   character' with `[^A-Za-z]'.  2. Name o...
regexp3 is  portable C, written by revered USENETter   Henry Spencer (henry@zoo.toronto.edu). 
reinvent the wheel is  v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to   an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so   is silly or a waste of time.  This is often a valid criticism.   On the other hand, automobiles don't use woo...
reinvent the wheel2 is  be reinvented many times before you get them   right.  On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to   come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset   axle. 
religious issues is  n. Questions which seemingly cannot be raised   without touching off {holy wars}, such as "What is the best   operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail   reader, news reader)?", "What about that Heinlein gu...
religious issues2 is  Jargon File?"  See {holy wars};   see also {theology}, {bigot}.   This term is an example of {ha ha only serious}.  People   actually develop the most amazing and religiously intense   attachments to their tools, even when the t...
religious issues3 is  thing one can do when one stumbles into the   crossfire is mumble {Get a life!} and leave --- unless, of course,   one's *own* unassailably rational and obviously correct   choices are being slammed. 
replicator is  n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself;   this could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program   (see {worm}, {wabbit}, and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular   automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or (speculativ...
replicator2 is  claimed by some that {{UNIX}} and {C}   are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see   {UNIX conspiracy}. 
reply is  n. See {followup}.
reset is  [the MUD community] v. In AberMUD, to bring all dead mobiles   to life and move items back to their initial starting places. New   players who can't find anything shout "Reset! Reset!" quite a bit.   Higher-level players shout back "No way!...
reset2 is  found.  Used in {RL}, it means to put things back   to the way they were when you found them. 
restriction is  n. A {bug} or design error that limits a program's   capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can   quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a {feature}.  Often   used (esp. by {marketroid} types) to make it s...
restriction2 is  been intended by the designers all   along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a   nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are   almost invariably false).   Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcom...
restriction3 is  quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a   power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1.  If you impose a limit of   17 items in a list, everyone will know it is a random number --- on   the other hand, a limit of 15...
restriction4 is  0- or 1-based indexing in binary) and you will get less   {flamage} for it.  Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are   always especially suspect.

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TeX2 is  correct (guttural)   pronunciation, and the correct spelling (all caps, squished   together, with the E depressed below the baseline; the   mixed-case `TeX is considered an acceptable kluge on ASCII-only   devices).  Fans like to proliferate...
TeX3 is  TeXnician (TeX user), TeXhacker (TeX   programmer), TeXmaster (competent TeX programmer), TeXhax,   and TeXnique.   Knuth began TeX because he had become annoyed at the declining   quality of the typesetting in volumes I--III of his monument...
TeX4 is  {bible}).  In a   manifestation of the typical hackish urge to solve the problem at   hand once and for all, he began to design his own typesetting   language.  He thought he would finish it on his sabbatical in 1978;   he was wrong by only ...
TeX5 is  frozen around 1985, but volume IV of `The Art of Computer   Programming has yet to appear as of mid-1991.  The impact and   influence of TeXs design has been such that nobody minds this   very much.  Many grand hackish projects have started ...
TeX6 is  something else; Knuths diversion was   simply on a grander scale than most. 
text is  n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code   portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a   multitasking OS (compare {English}).  2. Textual material in the   mainstream sense; data in ordinary {{ASCII}} or {...
text2 is   "Those are text files;   you can review them using the editor."  These two contradictory   senses confuse hackers, too. 
thanks in advance is  [USENET] Conventional net.politeness ending a   posted request for information or assistance.  Sometimes written   `advTHANKSance or `aTdHvAaNnKcSe or abbreviated `TIA.  See   {net.-}, {netiquette}.
the X that can be Y is not the true X is  Yet another instance of   hackerdoms peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common   humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of   things.  The template is from the `Tao te Ching "T...
the X that can be Y is not the true X2 is  true Tao."  The implication   is often that the X is a mystery accessible only to the   enlightened.  See the {trampoline} entry for an example, and   compare {has the X nature}. 
theology is  n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to   {religious issues}.  2. Technical fine points of an abstruse   nature, esp. those where the resolution is of theoretical   interest but is relatively {marginal} with respect to actual use...
theology2 is  software issues with a   heavy AI or language-design component, such as the smart-data vs.   smart-programs dispute in AI. 
theory is  n. The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that   is currently being used to inform a behavior.  This is a   generalization and abuse of the technical meaning.  "Whats the   theory on fixing this TECO loss?"  "Whats the theory on...
theory2 is  "Whats the current theory   on letting lusers on during the day?"  "The theory behind this   change is to fix the following well-known screw...." 
thinko is  /thingkoh/ [by analogy with `typo] n. A momentary,   correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving   recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of   consciousness.  Syn. {braino}.  Compare {mouso}.
This time, for sure! is  excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered   during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small   obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection).  For the   proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruit...
This time, for sure!2 is  heard "Hey, Rocky!  Watch me pull a   rabbit out of my hat!"  The {canonical} response is, of course,   "But that trick *never* works!"  See {{Humor, Hacker}}. 
thrash is  vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing   anything useful.  Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded   waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather   than performing useful computation) and are the...
thrash2 is  changing his mind (esp. about what to   work on next) is said to be thrashing.  A person frantically trying   to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on   any single task) may also be described as thrashing.  Compa...
thread is  n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of   `topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a   single topic.
three-finger salute is  n. Syn. {Vulcan nerve pinch}.
thud is  n. 1. Yet another meta-syntactic variable (see {foo}).   It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of   these was `foo, `bar, `thud, `blat.  2. Rare term   for the hash character, `# (ASCII 0100011).  See {ASCII} for...

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busy-wait => vi. Used of human behavior, conveys that the subject is busy waiting for someone or something, intends to move instantly as soon as it shows up, and thus cannot do anything else at the moment. "Can't talk now, I'm busy-waiting till Bill ...
buzz => vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing; esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code. A program that is buzzing appears to be catatonic, but you never ge...
BWQ => /B-W-Q/ [IBM acronym, `Buzz Word Quotient'] The percentage of buzzwords in a speech or documents. Usually roughly proportional to bogosity. See TLA.
by hand => adv. Said of an operation (especially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker instead has to step tediously through. "My mailer doesn't have a command to inclu...
by hand2 => replying to, so I have to do it by hand." This does not necessarily mean the speaker has to retype a copy of the message; it might refer to, say, dropping into a subshell from the mailer, making a copy of one's mailbox file, reading that ...
by hand3 => and bottom of the message in question, deleting the rest of the file, inserting `>' characters on each line, writing the file, leaving the editor, returning to the mailer, reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the file. Com...
byte => /bit/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one character; on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines. Some older architectures used `byte' for quantities of 6 or 7 ...
bytesexual => /bit`sek'shu-*l/ adj. Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a {mode bit} somewhere). See also {NUXI problem}.*C n. 1. The third letter of th...
calculator => [Cambridge] n. Syn. for {bitty box}.
can => vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp. when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the {console}". Frequently used in an imperative sense, as in "Can that print job, the LPT just popped a sprocket!" Synony...
canonical => [historically, `according to religious law'] adj. The usual or standard state or manner of something. This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics. Two formulas such as 9 + x and x + 9 are said to be equivalent because ...
card => n. 1. An electronic printed-circuit board (see also {tall card}, {short card}. 2. obs. Syn. {{punched card}}.
card walloper => n. An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do stupid things like print people's paychecks. Compare {code grinder}. See also {{punched card}}, {eighty-column mind}.
careware => /keir'weir/ n. Shareware for which either the author suggests that some payment be made to a nominated charity or a levy directed to charity is included on top of the distribution charge. Syn. charityware; compare crippleware, sense 2.
cargo cult programming => n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug ...
cargo cult programming2 => neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare {shotgun debugging}, {voodoo programming}). The term `cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in ...
cargo cult programming3 => The practices of these cults center on building elaborate mockups of airplanes and military style landing strips in the hope of bringing the return of the god-like airplanes that brought such marvelous cargo during the war....
cargo cult programming4 => Richard Feynman's characterization of certain practices as "cargo cult science" in his book `Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman' (W. W. Norton & Co, New York 1985, ISBN 0-393-01921-7). 
case and paste => [from `cut and paste'] n. 1. The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone...
case and paste2 => statements. Leads to {software bloat}. In some circles of EMACS users this is called `programming by Meta-W', because Meta-W is the EMACS command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewher...
case and paste3 => implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases.

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cyberpunk => /si'ber-puhnk/ [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] n.,adj. A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel `Neuromancer' (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's `True Names' (s...
cyberspace => /si'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'; a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious eff...
cycle => 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie"). One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'. Often the computer can access its memory...
cycle crunch => n. A situation where the number of people trying to use the computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This is an inev...
cycle crunch2 => applied to timesharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier in recent years, so much so that the very term `cycle crunch' now has a faintly archaic flavor; most hackers now use w...
cycle crunch3 => opposed to traditional timesharing systems. 
cycle drought => n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a {cycle crunch}, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The {high moby} is down, so we're running with only half...
cycle drought2 => There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed." 
cycle of reincarnation => [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca. 1970] n. Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves to...
cycle of reincarnation2 => its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again. Several iterations of th...
cycle of reincarnation3 => graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. Also known as `the Wheel of Life', `the Wheel of Samsara', and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological ide...
cycle server => n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for running large batch jobs. Implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.*D.C. Power Lab n. The former site of {SAIL}. Hac...
cycle server2 => funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent --- the lab was named for a Donald C. Power. Compare {Marginal Hacks}. 
daemon => /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n. A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the ...
dangling pointer => n. A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere (in C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid). Usually this is because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared. U...
dangling pointer2 => of its techspeak meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved to the other coast is a dangling pointer. 
Datamation => /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers assume all suits read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in `Datamation?'" It used to publish something hackishly funny every once in a while, like the origi...
day mode => n. See phase (sense 1). Used of people only.
dd => /dee-dee/ [UNIX from IBM JCL] vt. Equivalent to cat or BLT. This was originally the name of a UNIX copy command with special options suitable for block-oriented devices. Often used in heavy-handed system maintenance, as in "Let's dd the root pa...
DDT => /D-D-T/ n. 1. Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them. In this sense the term DDT is now archaic, having been w...
de-rezz => /dee-rez'/ [from `de-resolve' via the movie "Tron"] (also `derez') 1. vi. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static and then dissolving. Occasionally used of a person who...

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gen => /jen/ n.,v. Short for generate, used frequently in both spoken and written contexts.
gender mender => n. A cable connector shell with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some loser didn't understand the RS232C specification and the distinction between DTE and DCE. Used esp. ...
gender mender2 => original D-25 or the IBM PC's bogus D-9 format. Also called `gender bender', `gender blender', `sex changer', and even `homosexual adapter'; however, there appears to be some confusion as to whether a `male homosexual adapter' has p...
gender mender3 => on both sides (connects two males). 
General Public Virus => n. Pejorative name for some versions of the GNU project copyleft or General Public License (GPL), which requires that any tools or apps incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same counter-commercial te...
General Public Virus2 => alleged that the copyleft `infects' software generated with GNU tools, which may in turn infect other software that reuses any of its code. The Free Software Foundation's official position as of January 1991 is that copyright...
General Public Virus3 => "programs textually incorporating significant amounts of GNU code", and that the `infection' is not passed on to third parties unless actual GNU source is transmitted (as in, for example, use of the Bison parser skeleton). Ne...
General Public Virus4 => the copyleft language is `boobytrapped' has caused many developers to avoid using GNU tools and the GPL. Recent (July 1991) changes in the language of the version 2.00 language may eliminate this problem. 
generate => vt. To produce something according to an algorithm or program or set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect of the execution of an algorithm or program. The opposite of parse. This term retains its mechanistic connotations (t...
gensym => /jen'sim/ [from MacLISP for `generated symbol'] 1. v. To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use. 2. n. The resulting name. The canonical form of a g...
Get a life! => imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to whom you are speaking has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see {computer geek}). Often heard on USENET, esp. as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of...
Get a life!2 => exhortation was popularized by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. 
Get a real computer! => imp. Typical hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that (a) is single-tasking, (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space smaller than 4 megabytes. This is as of mid-1991;...
Get a real computer!2 => computer' rises with time, and it may well be (for example) that machines with character-only displays will be generally considered `unreal' in a few years (GLS points out that they already are in some circles). See essential...
GFR => /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS] From `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and Lisp Machine utility. To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-...
gig => /jig/ or /gig/ [SI] n. See {quantifiers}.
giga- => /ji'ga/ or /gi'ga/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
GIGO => /gi'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' --- usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't complain about faulty data. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, ...
gillion => /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ [formed from giga- by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] n. 10^9. Same as an American billion or a British `milliard'. How one pronounces this depends on whether one speaks giga- with a hard or soft `g'.
GIPS => /gips/ or /jips/ [analogy with MIPS] n. Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of Instructions per Second'; see gillion). In 1991, this is used of only a handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected to change. Comp...
glark => /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many no...

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high bit2 => mainstream slang `bottom line'. 
high moby => /hi' mohb'ee/ n. The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Sc...
high moby2 => (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last {ITS} machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the `high moby' and the other the `low moby'. All parties...
highly => [scientific computation] adv. The preferred modifier for overstating an understatement. As in `highly nonoptimal', the worst possible way to do something; `highly nontrivial', either impossible or requiring a major research project; `highly...
hirsute => adj. Occasionally used humorously as a synonym for hairy.
HLL => /H-L-L/ n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech. Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found. VHLL stands for `Very-High-Level Language' and is used to describe a {bondage-and...
hobbit => n. 1. The High Order Bit of a byte; same as the {meta bit} or {high bit}. 2. The non-ITS name of vad@ai.mit.edu (*Hobbit*), master of lasers.
hog => n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely large or com...
holy wars => [from USENET, but may predate it] n. {flame war}s over {religious issues}. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars...
holy wars2 => perennial Holy Wars have included EMACS vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, {ITS} vs. {UNIX}, {UNIX} vs. VMS, BSD UNIX vs. {USG UNIX}, C vs. {Pascal}, C vs. LISP, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that...
holy wars3 => distinguishes {holy wars} from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also th...
home box => n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2 BSD, so there!"
hook => n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user. For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable deter...
hop => n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), the important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path...
hose => 1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance. "That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system." See hosed. 2. n. A narrow channel through which data flows under pressure. Generally denotes data paths that represent p...
hosed => adj. Same as down. Used primarily by UNIX hackers. Humorous also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse. Probably derived from the Canadian slang `hoser' popularized by the Bob and Doug Mackenzie skits on SCTV. See hose...
hot spot => n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time; if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would ty...
hot spot2 => a lot of low-level noise. Such spikes are called `hot spots' and are good candidates for heavy optimization or hand-hacking. The term is especially used of tight loops and recursions in the code's central algorithm, as opposed to (say) i...
hot spot3 => infrequent I/O operations. See tune, bum, hand-hacking. 2. The active location of a cursor on a bit-map display. "Put the mouse's hot spot on the `ON' widget and click the left button." 3. In a massively parallel computer with shared mem...
hot spot4 => all 10,000 processors are trying to read or write at once (perhaps because they are all doing a busy-wait on the same lock). 
house wizard => [prob. from ad-agency lingo, `house freak'] n. A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible ra...

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lunatic fringe => [IBM] n. Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
lurker => n. One of the `silent majority' in a electronic forum; one who posts occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's postings regularly. This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually used reflexively "Oh, I'm just lurking."...
luser => /loo'zr/ n. A user; esp. one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's atten...
macdink => /mak'dink/ [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior] vt. To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. "When...
machinable => adj. Machine-readable. Having the softcopy nature.
machoflops => /mach'oh-flops/ [pun on `megaflops', a coinage for `millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second'] n. Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real applications are lucky to get hal...
Macintoy => /mak'in-toy/ n. The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
Macintrash => /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term maggotbox has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of Nort...
macro => /mak'roh/ [techspeak] n. A name (possibly followed by a formal arg list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander. This definition...
macro- => pref. Large. Opposite of micro-. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.
macrology => /mak-rol'*-jee/ n. 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.g., as part of a large system written in LISP, TECO, or (less commonly) assembler. 2. The art and science involved in comprehending a macrology in sense 1. Sometimes studyi...
macrotape => /ma'kroh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape, as opposed to a microtape.
maggotbox => /mag'*t-boks/ n. See Macintrash. This is even more derogatory.
magic => adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain; compare automagically and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." "TTY echoing is controlled by a large number of magi...
magic cookie => [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or ...
magic cookie2 => E.g., on non-UNIX OSes with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of `ftell(3)' may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to `fseek(3)', but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase `it hands y...
magic cookie3 => a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g., inverse video or underlining) or performing other control function...
magic cookie4 => leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch. See also cookie. 
magic number => [UNIX/C] n. 1. In source code, some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented `#defin...
magic number2 => are bad style. 2. A number that encodes critical information used in an algorithm in some opaque way. The classic examples of these are the numbers used in hash or CRC functions, or the coefficients in a linear congruential generator...
magic number3 => sense actually predates and was ancestral to the more common sense 1. 3. Special data located at the beginning of a binary data file to indicate its type to a utility. Under UNIX, the system and various applications programs (especia...

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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.
meeces => /mees'*z/ [TMRC] n. Occasional furry visitors who are not urchins. [That is, mice. This may no longer be in live use; it clearly derives from the refrain of the early-1960s cartoon character Mr. Jinx: "I hate meeces to *pieces*!" --- ESR]
meg => /meg/ n. See {quantifiers}.
mega- => /me'g*/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
megapenny => /meg'*-pen`ee/ n. $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
MEGO => /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'. 1. n. A handwave intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the li...
meltdown, network => n. See {network meltdown}.
meme => /meem/ [coined on analogy with `gene' by Richard Dawkins] n. An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. Used esp. in the phrase `meme complex' denoting ...
meme plague => n. The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, esp. one that parasitizes the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given poi...
meme plague2 => `joiner' ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations. 
memetics => /me-met'iks/ [from meme] The study of memes. As of mid-1991, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is...
memory leak => n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion. Also (esp. at CMU) called {core leak}. See {aliasing bug}, {fandango o...
memory leak2 => {precedence lossage}, {overrun screw}, {leaky heap}, leak. 
menuitis => /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces,...
mess-dos => /mes-dos/ n. Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!" See {MS-DOS}. Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, its nasty prim...
meta => /me't*/ or /may't*/ or (Commonwealth) /mee't*/ [from analytic philosophy] adj.,pref. One level of description up. A meta-syntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe lang...
meta bit => n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called {high bit}, {alt bit}, or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see {space-cadet keyboard}) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dic...
meta bit2 => machines) have an ALT key. See also {bucky bits}. 
MFTL => /M-F-T-L/ [acronym: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1. adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e.g., type systems), but rarely, if ever, has any ...
mickey => n. The resolution unit of mouse movement. It has been suggested that the `disney' will become a benchmark unit for animation graphics performance.

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Obfuscated C Contest2 => and macro-preprocessor facilities give contestants a lot of maneuvering room. The winning programs often manage to be simultaneously (a) funny, (b) breathtaking works of art, and (c) horrible examples of how *not* to code in ...
Obfuscated C Contest3 => entry might help convey the flavor of obfuscated C /* * HELLO WORLD program * by Jack Applin and Robert Heckendorn, 1985 */ main(v,c)char**c;{for(v[c++]="Hello, world!\n)"; (!!c)[*c]&&(v--||--c&&execlp(*c,*c,c[!!c]+!!c,!c)); ...
obi-wan error => /oh'bee-won` er'*r/ [RPI, from `off-by-one' and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars"] n. A loop of some sort in which the index is off by 1. Common when the index should have started from 0 but instead started from 1. A kind o...
Objectionable-C => n. Hackish take on "Objective-C", the name of an object-oriented dialect of C in competition with the better-known C++ (it is used to write native applications on the NeXT machine). Objectionable-C uses a Smalltalk-like syntax, but...
obscure => adj. Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning, to imply total incomprehensibility. "The reason for that last crash is obscure." "The `find(1)' command's syntax is obscure!" The phrase `moderately obscure' implies that it could be figu...
octal forty => /ok'tl for'tee/ n. Hackish way of saying "I'm drawing a blank." Octal 40 is the {ASCII} space character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, hex 40 (01000000) is the {EBCDIC} space character. See wall.
off the trolley => adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually crash or abort. See glitch, bug, {deep space}.
off-by-one error => n. Exceedingly common error induced in many ways, such as by starting at 0 when you should have started at 1 or vice versa, or by writing `< N' instead of `<= N' or vice-versa. Also applied to giving something to the person next t...
off-by-one error2 => Often confounded with {fencepost error}, which is properly a particular subtype of it. 
offline => adv. Not now or not here. "Let's take this discussion offline." Specifically used on USENET to suggest that a discussion be taken off a public newsgroup to email.
old fart => n. Tribal elder. A title self-assumed with remarkable frequency by (esp.) USENETters who have been programming for more than about 25 years; often appears in {sig block}s attached to Jargon File contributions of great archeological signif...
old fart2 => the second or third person but one of pride in first person. 
Old Testament => n. [C programmers] The first edition of K&R, the sacred text describing {Classic C}.
one-line fix => n. Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system. Usually `cured' by another one-line fix. See also {I didn't change anything!}
one-liner wars => n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language}). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy p...
one-liner wars2 => was practiced among TECO hackers. Ken Iverson, the inventor of APL, has been credited with a one-liner that, given a number N, produces a list of the prime numbers from 1 to N inclusive. It looks like this	(2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <...
one-liner wars3 => character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and `i' represents the APL iota. 
ooblick => /oo'blik/ [from Dr. Seuss's `Bartholomew and the Oobleck'] n. A bizarre semi-liquid sludge made from cornstarch and water. Enjoyed among hackers who make batches during playtime at parties for its amusing and extremely non-Newtonian behavi...
open => n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' --- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity. To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say "Open defun foo, open eks close, open, plus eks one, close close."
open switch => [IBM prob. from railroading] n. An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
operating system => [techspeak] n. (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine, of course; that which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications. The facilities an operating...

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recursive acronym2 => a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU (q.v., sense 1) stands for "GNU's Not UNIX!" --- and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung, EMACS. 
Red Book => n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on PostScript (`PostScript Language Reference Manual', Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985; QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2); the others are known as the {Green Book} and the...
Red Book2 => one of the 3 standard references on Smalltalk (`Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment' by Adele Goldberg (Addison-Wesley, 1984; QA76.8.S635G638; ISBN 0-201-11372-4); this too is associated with blue and green books). 3. An...
Red Book3 => CCITT eighth plenary assembly. Until now, these have changed color each review cycle (1988 was {Blue Book}, 1992 will be {Green Book}); however, it is rumored that this convention is going to be dropped before 1992. These include, among ...
Red Book4 => and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 4. The new version of the {Green Book} (sense 4) --- IEEE 1003.1-1990, a.k.a ISO 9945-1 --- is (because of the color and the fact that it is printed on A4 paper) known in the U.S.A. as "the Ugly R...
Red Book5 => and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size". 5. The NSA `Trusted Network Interpretation' companion to the {Orange Book}. See also {{book titles}}. 
regexp => /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1. Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e.g., by UNIX utilities such as `grep(1)', `sed(1)', and `awk(1)'. These use conventions ...
reinvent the wheel => v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden roll...
reinvent the wheel2 => be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle. 
religious issues => n. Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off {holy wars}, such as "What is the best operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news reader)?", "What about that Heinlein guy, eh?"...
religious issues2 => Jargon File?" See {holy wars}; see also theology, bigot. This term is an example of {ha ha only serious}. People actually develop the most amazing and religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the tools are intang...
religious issues3 => thing one can do when one stumbles into the crossfire is mumble {Get a life!} and leave --- unless, of course, one's *own* unassailably rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed. 
replicator => n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see worm, wabbit, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or n...
reply => n. See followup.
reset => [the MUD community] v. In AberMUD, to bring all dead mobiles to life and move items back to their initial starting places. New players who can't find anything shout "Reset! Reset!" quite a bit. Higher-level players shout back "No way!" since...
restriction => n. A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a feature. Often used (esp. by marketroid types) to make it sound as though...
retcon => /ret'kon/ [`retroactive continuity', from the USENET newsgroup rec.arts.comics] 1. n. The common situation in pulp fiction (esp. comics or soap operas) where a new story `reveals' things about events in previous stories, usually leaving the...
RETI => v. Syn. RTI
retrocomputing => /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies o...
RFC => /R-F-C/ [Request For Comment] n. One of a long-established series of numbered Internet standards widely followed by commercial and PD software in the Internet and UNIX communities. Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the ...
RFE => /R-F-E/ n. 1. [techspeak] Request For Enhancement. 2. [from `Radio Free Europe', Bellcore and Sun] Radio Free Ethernet, a system (originated by Peter Langston) for broadcasting audio among Sun SPARCstations over the ethernet.

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terminal illness => n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in condition your CRT tends to get if you dont have a screen saver.
terminal junkie => [UK] n. A wannabee or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of computer time. Variants include `terminal jockey, `console junkie, an...
terminal junkie2 => `console jockey seems to imply more expertise than the other three (possibly because of the exalted status of the {console} relative to an ordinary terminal). See also twink, {read-only user}. 
terpri => /terpree/ [from LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP)] vi. To output a newline. Now rare as jargon, though still used as techspeak in Common LISP. It is a contraction of `TERminate PRInt line, named for the fact that, on early OSes, no characters w...
test => n. 1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to get thoroughly acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and followup of the results. 2. Some bored random user trying a couple of the simpler features with a developer looking over his...
TeX => /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E. Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced UNIX `troff(1), the other favored formatter, even at many UNIX installat...
text => n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS (compare English). 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary {ASCII} or {EBCDIC} repr...
thanks in advance => [USENET] Conventional net.politeness ending a posted request for information or assistance. Sometimes written `advTHANKSance or `aTdHvAaNnKcSe or abbreviated `TIA. See net.-, netiquette.
the X that can be Y => not the true X is Yet another instance of hackerdoms peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things. The template is from the `Tao te Ching "The Tao w...
the X that can be Y => not the true X2 is true Tao." The implication is often that the X is a mystery accessible only to the enlightened. See the trampoline entry for an example, and compare {has the X nature}. 
theology => n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to {religious issues}. 2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp. those where the resolution is of theoretical interest but is relatively marginal with respect to actual use of a desi...
theory => n. The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that is currently being used to inform a behavior. This is a generalization and abuse of the technical meaning. "Whats the theory on fixing this TECO loss?" "Whats the theory on dinner to...
thinko => /thingkoh/ [by analogy with `typo] n. A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. braino. Compare mouso.
This time, for sure! => excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity imitat...
This time, for sure!2 => heard "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" The canonical response is, of course, "But that trick *never* works!" See {{Humor, Hacker}}. 
thrash => vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore s...
thread => n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
three-finger salute => n. Syn. {Vulcan nerve pinch}.
thud => n. 1. Yet another meta-syntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo, `bar, `thud, `blat. 2. Rare term for the hash character, `# (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synony...
thunk => /thuhnk/ n. 1. "A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in Algol-60 procedure calls. If a procedure is called wi...
tick => n. 1. A jiffy (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ...

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Priscilla => same as Prisca
Prochorus => he that presides over the choirs
Puah => mouth; corner; bush of hair
Publius => common
Pudens => shamefaced
Pul => bean; destruction
Punites => beholding; my face
Punon => precious stone; that beholds
Pur => Purim, lot
Putiel => God is my fatness
Puteoli => sulphureous wells
Quartus => fourth
Raamah => greatness; thunder; some sort of evil
Raamiah => thunder , or evil , from the Lord
Rabbah => great; powerful; contentious
Rabbi => Rabboni , my master
Rabmag => who overthrows or destroys a multitude
Rab-saris => chief of the eunuchs
Rab-shakeh => cup-bearer of the prince
Raca => worthless; good-for-nothing
Rachab => same as Rahab

factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN

port 589 => eyelink - EyeLink 
port 590 => tns-cml - TNS CML 
port 591 => http-alt - FileMaker, Inc. - HTTP Alternate (see Port 80) 
port 592 => eudora-set - Eudora Set 
port 593 => http-rpc-epmap - HTTP RPC Ep Map 
port 594 => tpip - TPIP 
port 595 => cab-protocol - CAB Protocol 
port 596 => smsd - SMSD 
port 597 => ptcnameservice - PTC Name Service 
port 598 => sco-websrvrmg3 - SCO Web Server Manager 3 
port 599 => acp - Aeolon Core Protocol 
port 600 => ipcserver - Sun IPC server 
port 606 => urm - Cray Unified Resource Manager 
port 607 => nqs - nqs 
port 608 => sift-uft - Sender-Initiated/Unsolicited File Transfer  
port 609 => npmp-trap - npmp-trap 
port 610 => npmp-local - npmp-local 
port 611 => npmp-gui - npmp-gui 
port 612 => hmmp-ind - HMMP Indication 
port 613 => hmmp-op - HMMP Operation 
port 614 => sshell - SSLshell

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

11472	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11474	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11476	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11478	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11480	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11482	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11484	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11486	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11488	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11499	=> 	Jamaica	Queens	NY
11501	=> 	Mineola	Nassau	NY
11507	=> 	Albertson	Nassau	NY
11509	=> 	Atlantic Beach	Nassau	NY
11510	=> 	Baldwin	Nassau	NY
11514	=> 	Carle Place	Nassau	NY
11516	=> 	Cedarhurst	Nassau	NY
11518	=> 	East Rockaway	Nassau	NY
11520	=> 	Freeport	Nassau	NY
11530	=> 	Garden City	Nassau	NY
11531	=> 	Garden City	Nassau	NY
11535	=> 	Garden City	Nassau	NY

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

16655	=> 	Imler	Bedford	PA
16656	=> 	Irvona	Clearfield	PA
16657	=> 	James Creek	Huntingdon	PA
16659	=> 	Loysburg	Bedford	PA
16660	=> 	Mc Connellstown	Huntingdon	PA
16661	=> 	Madera	Clearfield	PA
16662	=> 	Martinsburg	Blair	PA
16663	=> 	Morann	Clearfield	PA
16664	=> 	New Enterprise	Bedford	PA
16665	=> 	Newry	Blair	PA
16666	=> 	Osceola Mills	Clearfield	PA
16667	=> 	Osterburg	Bedford	PA
16668	=> 	Patton	Cambria	PA
16669	=> 	Petersburg	Huntingdon	PA
16670	=> 	Queen	Bedford	PA
16671	=> 	Ramey	Clearfield	PA
16672	=> 	Riddlesburg	Bedford	PA
16673	=> 	Roaring Spring	Blair	PA
16674	=> 	Robertsdale	Huntingdon	PA
16675	=> 	Saint Boniface	Cambria	PA
16677	=> 	Sandy Ridge	Centre	PA

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

16930	=> 	Liberty	Tioga	PA
16932	=> 	Mainesburg	Tioga	PA
16933	=> 	Mansfield	Tioga	PA
16935	=> 	Middlebury Center	Tioga	PA
16936	=> 	Millerton	Tioga	PA
16937	=> 	Mills	Potter	PA
16938	=> 	Morris	Tioga	PA
16939	=> 	Morris Run	Tioga	PA
16940	=> 	Nelson	Tioga	PA
16941	=> 	Genesee	Potter	PA
16942	=> 	Osceola	Tioga	PA
16943	=> 	Sabinsville	Tioga	PA
16945	=> 	Sylvania	Bradford	PA
16946	=> 	Tioga	Tioga	PA
16947	=> 	Troy	Bradford	PA
16948	=> 	Ulysses	Potter	PA
16950	=> 	Westfield	Tioga	PA
17001	=> 	Camp Hill	Cumberland	PA
17002	=> 	Allensville	Mifflin	PA
17003	=> 	Annville	Lebanon	PA
17004	=> 	Belleville	Mifflin	PA

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

17527	=> 	Gap	Lancaster	PA
17528	=> 	Goodville	Lancaster	PA
17529	=> 	Gordonville	Lancaster	PA
17532	=> 	Holtwood	Lancaster	PA
17533	=> 	Hopeland	Lancaster	PA
17534	=> 	Intercourse	Lancaster	PA
17535	=> 	Kinzers	Lancaster	PA
17536	=> 	Kirkwood	Lancaster	PA
17537	=> 	Lampeter	Lancaster	PA
17538	=> 	Landisville	Lancaster	PA
17540	=> 	Leola	Lancaster	PA
17543	=> 	Lititz	Lancaster	PA
17545	=> 	Manheim	Lancaster	PA
17547	=> 	Marietta	Lancaster	PA
17549	=> 	Martindale	Lancaster	PA
17550	=> 	Maytown	Lancaster	PA
17551	=> 	Millersville	Lancaster	PA
17552	=> 	Mount Joy	Lancaster	PA
17554	=> 	Mountville	Lancaster	PA
17555	=> 	Narvon	Lancaster	PA
17557	=> 	New Holland	Lancaster	PA

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

24942	=> 	Glace	Monroe	WV
24943	=> 	Grassy Meadows	Greenbrier	WV
24944	=> 	Green Bank	Pocahontas	WV
24945	=> 	Greenville	Monroe	WV
24946	=> 	Hillsboro	Pocahontas	WV
24950	=> 	Kieffer	Greenbrier	WV
24951	=> 	Lindside	Monroe	WV
24954	=> 	Marlinton	Pocahontas	WV
24957	=> 	Maxwelton	Greenbrier	WV
24958	=> 	Meadow Bluff	Greenbrier	WV
24961	=> 	Neola	Greenbrier	WV
24962	=> 	Pence Springs	Summers	WV
24963	=> 	Peterstown	Monroe	WV
24966	=> 	Renick	Greenbrier	WV
24970	=> 	Ronceverte	Greenbrier	WV
24973	=> 	Sarton	Monroe	WV
24974	=> 	Secondcreek	Monroe	WV
24976	=> 	Sinks Grove	Monroe	WV
24977	=> 	Smoot	Greenbrier	WV
24980	=> 	Sweet Springs	Monroe	WV
24981	=> 	Talcott	Summers	WV

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

28652	=> 	Minneapolis	Avery	NC
28653	=> 	Montezuma	Avery	NC
28654	=> 	Moravian Falls	Wilkes	NC
28655	=> 	Morganton	Burke	NC
28656	=> 	North Wilkesboro	Wilkes	NC
28657	=> 	Newland	Avery	NC
28658	=> 	Newton	Catawba	NC
28659	=> 	North Wilkesboro	Wilkes	NC
28660	=> 	Olin	Iredell	NC
28661	=> 	Patterson	Caldwell	NC
28662	=> 	Pineola	Avery	NC
28663	=> 	Piney Creek	Alleghany	NC
28664	=> 	Plumtree	Avery	NC
28665	=> 	Purlear	Wilkes	NC
28666	=> 	Icard	Burke	NC
28667	=> 	Rhodhiss	Caldwell	NC
28668	=> 	Roaring Gap	Alleghany	NC
28669	=> 	Roaring River	Wilkes	NC
28670	=> 	Ronda	Wilkes	NC
28671	=> 	Rutherford College	Burke	NC
28672	=> 	Scottville	Ashe	NC

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

33838	=> 	Dundee	Polk	FL
33839	=> 	Eagle Lake	Polk	FL
33840	=> 	Eaton Park	Polk	FL
33841	=> 	Fort Meade	Polk	FL
33842	=> 	Fort Ogden	De Soto	FL
33843	=> 	Frostproof	Polk	FL
33844	=> 	Haines City	Polk	FL
33845	=> 	Haines City	Polk	FL
33846	=> 	Highland City	Polk	FL
33847	=> 	Homeland	Polk	FL
33848	=> 	Intercession City	Osceola	FL
33849	=> 	Kathleen	Polk	FL
33850	=> 	Lake Alfred	Polk	FL
33851	=> 	Lake Hamilton	Polk	FL
33852	=> 	Lake Placid	Highlands	FL
33853	=> 	Lake Wales	Polk	FL
33854	=> 	Fedhaven	Polk	FL
33855	=> 	Indian Lake Estates	Polk	FL
33856	=> 	Nalcrest	Polk	FL
33857	=> 	Lorida	Highlands	FL
33858	=> 	Loughman	Polk	FL

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

34697	=> 	Dunedin	Pinellas	FL
34698	=> 	Dunedin	Pinellas	FL
34705	=> 	Astatula	Lake	FL
34711	=> 	Clermont	Lake	FL
34712	=> 	Clermont	Lake	FL
34729	=> 	Ferndale	Lake	FL
34731	=> 	Fruitland Park	Lake	FL
34734	=> 	Gotha	Orange	FL
34736	=> 	Groveland	Lake	FL
34737	=> 	Howey In The Hills	Lake	FL
34739	=> 	Kenansville	Osceola	FL
34740	=> 	Killarney	Orange	FL
34741	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34742	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34743	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34744	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34745	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34746	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34747	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34748	=> 	Leesburg	Lake	FL
34749	=> 	Leesburg	Lake	FL
34753	=> 	Mascotte	Lake	FL
34755	=> 	Minneola	Lake	FL
34756	=> 	Montverde	Lake	FL
34758	=> 	Kissimmee	Osceola	FL
34759	=> 	Kissimmee	Polk	FL
34760	=> 	Oakland	Orange	FL
34761	=> 	Ocoee	Orange	FL
34762	=> 	Okahumpka	Lake	FL
34769	=> 	Saint Cloud	Osceola	FL
34770	=> 	Saint Cloud	Osceola	FL
34771	=> 	Saint Cloud	Osceola	FL
34772	=> 	Saint Cloud	Osceola	FL
34773	=> 	Saint Cloud	Osceola	FL
34777	=> 	Winter Garden	Orange	FL
34778	=> 	Winter Garden	Orange	FL
34785	=> 	Wildwood	Sumter	FL
34786	=> 	Windermere	Orange	FL
34787	=> 	Winter Garden	Orange	FL
34788	=> 	Leesburg	Lake	FL
34789	=> 	Leesburg	Lake	FL
34797	=> 	Yalaha	Lake	FL
34945	=> 	Fort Pierce	Saint Lucie	FL
34946	=> 	Fort Pierce	Saint Lucie	FL

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

36510	=> 	Bigbee	Washington	AL
36511	=> 	Bon Secour	Baldwin	AL
36512	=> 	Bucks	Mobile	AL
36513	=> 	Calvert	Washington	AL
36515	=> 	Carlton	Clarke	AL
36518	=> 	Chatom	Washington	AL
36521	=> 	Chunchula	Mobile	AL
36522	=> 	Citronelle	Mobile	AL
36523	=> 	Coden	Mobile	AL
36524	=> 	Coffeeville	Clarke	AL
36525	=> 	Creola	Mobile	AL
36526	=> 	Daphne	Baldwin	AL
36527	=> 	Spanish Fort	Baldwin	AL
36528	=> 	Dauphin Island	Mobile	AL
36529	=> 	Deer Park	Washington	AL
36530	=> 	Elberta	Baldwin	AL
36532	=> 	Fairhope	Baldwin	AL
36533	=> 	Fairhope	Baldwin	AL
36535	=> 	Foley	Baldwin	AL
36536	=> 	Foley	Baldwin	AL
36538	=> 	Frankville	Washington	AL

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

44848	=> 	Nankin	Ashland	OH
44849	=> 	Nevada	Wyandot	OH
44850	=> 	New Haven	Huron	OH
44851	=> 	New London	Huron	OH
44853	=> 	New Riegel	Seneca	OH
44854	=> 	New Washington	Crawford	OH
44855	=> 	North Fairfield	Huron	OH
44856	=> 	North Robinson	Crawford	OH
44857	=> 	Norwalk	Huron	OH
44859	=> 	Nova	Ashland	OH
44860	=> 	Oceola	Crawford	OH
44861	=> 	Old Fort	Seneca	OH
44862	=> 	Ontario	Richland	OH
44864	=> 	Perrysville	Ashland	OH
44865	=> 	Plymouth	Richland	OH
44866	=> 	Polk	Ashland	OH
44867	=> 	Republic	Seneca	OH
44870	=> 	Sandusky	Erie	OH
44871	=> 	Sandusky	Erie	OH
44874	=> 	Savannah	Ashland	OH
44875	=> 	Shelby	Richland	OH

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

45601	=> 	Chillicothe	Ross	OH
45612	=> 	Bainbridge	Ross	OH
45613	=> 	Beaver	Pike	OH
45614	=> 	Bidwell	Gallia	OH
45616	=> 	Blue Creek	Adams	OH
45617	=> 	Bourneville	Ross	OH
45618	=> 	Cherry Fork	Adams	OH
45619	=> 	Chesapeake	Lawrence	OH
45620	=> 	Cheshire	Gallia	OH
45621	=> 	Coalton	Jackson	OH
45622	=> 	Creola	Vinton	OH
45623	=> 	Crown City	Gallia	OH
45624	=> 	Cynthiana	Pike	OH
45628	=> 	Frankfort	Ross	OH
45629	=> 	Franklin Furnace	Scioto	OH
45630	=> 	Friendship	Scioto	OH
45631	=> 	Gallipolis	Gallia	OH
45633	=> 	Hallsville	Ross	OH
45634	=> 	Hamden	Vinton	OH
45636	=> 	Haverhill	Scioto	OH
45638	=> 	Ironton	Lawrence	OH

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

46543	=> 	Millersburg	Elkhart	IN
46544	=> 	Mishawaka	St Joseph	IN
46545	=> 	Mishawaka	St Joseph	IN
46546	=> 	Mishawaka	St Joseph	IN
46550	=> 	Nappanee	Elkhart	IN
46552	=> 	New Carlisle	St Joseph	IN
46553	=> 	New Paris	Elkhart	IN
46554	=> 	North Liberty	St Joseph	IN
46555	=> 	North Webster	Kosciusko	IN
46556	=> 	Notre Dame	St Joseph	IN
46561	=> 	Osceola	St Joseph	IN
46562	=> 	Pierceton	Kosciusko	IN
46563	=> 	Plymouth	Marshall	IN
46565	=> 	Shipshewana	Lagrange	IN
46566	=> 	Sidney	Kosciusko	IN
46567	=> 	Syracuse	Kosciusko	IN
46570	=> 	Tippecanoe	Marshall	IN
46571	=> 	Topeka	Lagrange	IN
46572	=> 	Tyner	Marshall	IN
46573	=> 	Wakarusa	Elkhart	IN
46574	=> 	Walkerton	St Joseph	IN

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

49620	=> 	Buckley	Wexford	MI
49621	=> 	Cedar	Leelanau	MI
49622	=> 	Central Lake	Antrim	MI
49623	=> 	Chase	Lake	MI
49625	=> 	Copemish	Manistee	MI
49626	=> 	Eastlake	Manistee	MI
49627	=> 	Eastport	Antrim	MI
49628	=> 	Elberta	Benzie	MI
49629	=> 	Elk Rapids	Antrim	MI
49630	=> 	Empire	Leelanau	MI
49631	=> 	Evart	Osceola	MI
49632	=> 	Falmouth	Missaukee	MI
49633	=> 	Fife Lake	Grand Traverse	MI
49634	=> 	Filer City	Manistee	MI
49635	=> 	Frankfort	Benzie	MI
49636	=> 	Glen Arbor	Leelanau	MI
49637	=> 	Grawn	Grand Traverse	MI
49638	=> 	Harrietta	Wexford	MI
49639	=> 	Hersey	Osceola	MI
49640	=> 	Honor	Benzie	MI
49642	=> 	Idlewild	Lake	MI
49643	=> 	Interlochen	Grand Traverse	MI
49644	=> 	Irons	Lake	MI
49645	=> 	Kaleva	Manistee	MI
49646	=> 	Kalkaska	Kalkaska	MI
49648	=> 	Kewadin	Antrim	MI
49649	=> 	Kingsley	Grand Traverse	MI
49650	=> 	Lake Ann	Benzie	MI
49651	=> 	Lake City	Missaukee	MI
49653	=> 	Lake Leelanau	Leelanau	MI
49654	=> 	Leland	Leelanau	MI
49655	=> 	Leroy	Osceola	MI
49656	=> 	Luther	Lake	MI
49657	=> 	Mc Bain	Missaukee	MI
49659	=> 	Mancelona	Antrim	MI
49660	=> 	Manistee	Manistee	MI
49663	=> 	Manton	Wexford	MI
49664	=> 	Maple City	Leelanau	MI
49665	=> 	Marion	Osceola	MI
49666	=> 	Mayfield	Grand Traverse	MI
49667	=> 	Merritt	Missaukee	MI
49668	=> 	Mesick	Wexford	MI
49670	=> 	Northport	Leelanau	MI
49673	=> 	Old Mission	Grand Traverse	MI
49674	=> 	Omena	Leelanau	MI
49675	=> 	Onekama	Manistee	MI
49676	=> 	Rapid City	Kalkaska	MI
49677	=> 	Reed City	Osceola	MI
49679	=> 	Sears	Osceola	MI
49680	=> 	South Boardman	Kalkaska	MI
49682	=> 	Suttons Bay	Leelanau	MI
49683	=> 	Thompsonville	Benzie	MI
49684	=> 	Traverse City	Grand Traverse	MI
49685	=> 	Traverse City	Grand Traverse	MI
49686	=> 	Traverse City	Grand Traverse	MI
49688	=> 	Tustin	Osceola	MI
49689	=> 	Wellston	Manistee	MI
49690	=> 	Williamsburg	Grand Traverse	MI
49696	=> 	Traverse City	Grand Traverse	MI
49701	=> 	Mackinaw City	Cheboygan	MI
49705	=> 	Afton	Cheboygan	MI
49706	=> 	Alanson	Emmet	MI
49707	=> 	Alpena	Alpena	MI
49709	=> 	Atlanta	Montmorency	MI
49710	=> 	Barbeau	Chippewa	MI
49711	=> 	Bay Shore	Charlevoix	MI

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

50177	=> 	Grinnell	Poweshiek	IA
50197	=> 	Knoxville	Marion	IA
50198	=> 	Knoxville	Marion	IA
50201	=> 	Nevada	Story	IA
50206	=> 	New Providence	Hardin	IA
50207	=> 	New Sharon	Mahaska	IA
50208	=> 	Newton	Jasper	IA
50210	=> 	New Virginia	Warren	IA
50211	=> 	Norwalk	Warren	IA
50212	=> 	Ogden	Boone	IA
50213	=> 	Osceola	Clarke	IA
50214	=> 	Otley	Marion	IA
50216	=> 	Panora	Guthrie	IA
50217	=> 	Paton	Greene	IA
50218	=> 	Patterson	Madison	IA
50219	=> 	Pella	Marion	IA
50220	=> 	Perry	Dallas	IA
50221	=> 	Pershing	Marion	IA
50222	=> 	Peru	Madison	IA
50223	=> 	Pilot Mound	Boone	IA
50225	=> 	Pleasantville	Marion	IA

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

51105	=> 	Sioux City	Woodbury	IA
51106	=> 	Sioux City	Woodbury	IA
51107	=> 	Sioux City	Woodbury	IA
51108	=> 	Sioux City	Woodbury	IA
51109	=> 	Sioux City	Woodbury	IA
51110	=> 	Sioux City	Woodbury	IA
51111	=> 	Sioux City	Woodbury	IA
51201	=> 	Sheldon	Obrien	IA
51230	=> 	Alvord	Lyon	IA
51231	=> 	Archer	Obrien	IA
51232	=> 	Ashton	Osceola	IA
51234	=> 	Boyden	Sioux	IA
51235	=> 	Doon	Lyon	IA
51237	=> 	George	Lyon	IA
51238	=> 	Hospers	Sioux	IA
51239	=> 	Hull	Sioux	IA
51240	=> 	Inwood	Lyon	IA
51241	=> 	Larchwood	Lyon	IA
51242	=> 	Lester	Lyon	IA
51243	=> 	Little Rock	Lyon	IA
51244	=> 	Matlock	Sioux	IA
51245	=> 	Primghar	Obrien	IA
51246	=> 	Rock Rapids	Lyon	IA
51247	=> 	Rock Valley	Sioux	IA
51248	=> 	Sanborn	Obrien	IA
51249	=> 	Sibley	Osceola	IA
51250	=> 	Sioux Center	Sioux	IA
51301	=> 	Spencer	Clay	IA
51330	=> 	Allendorf	Osceola	IA
51331	=> 	Arnolds Park	Dickinson	IA
51333	=> 	Dickens	Clay	IA
51334	=> 	Estherville	Emmet	IA
51338	=> 	Everly	Clay	IA
51340	=> 	Fostoria	Clay	IA
51341	=> 	Gillett Grove	Clay	IA
51342	=> 	Graettinger	Palo Alto	IA
51343	=> 	Greenville	Clay	IA
51344	=> 	Gruver	Emmet	IA
51345	=> 	Harris	Osceola	IA
51346	=> 	Hartley	Obrien	IA
51347	=> 	Lake Park	Dickinson	IA
51349	=> 	May City	Osceola	IA
51350	=> 	Melvin	Osceola	IA
51351	=> 	Milford	Dickinson	IA
51354	=> 	Ocheyedan	Osceola	IA
51355	=> 	Okoboji	Dickinson	IA
51357	=> 	Royal	Clay	IA
51358	=> 	Ruthven	Palo Alto	IA
51360	=> 	Spirit Lake	Dickinson	IA
51363	=> 	Superior	Dickinson	IA
51364	=> 	Terril	Dickinson	IA
51365	=> 	Wallingford	Emmet	IA
51366	=> 	Webb	Clay	IA
51401	=> 	Carroll	Carroll	IA
51430	=> 	Arcadia	Carroll	IA

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

51543	=> 	Kimballton	Audubon	IA
51544	=> 	Lewis	Cass	IA
51545	=> 	Little Sioux	Harrison	IA
51546	=> 	Logan	Harrison	IA
51548	=> 	Mc Clelland	Pottawattamie	IA
51549	=> 	Macedonia	Pottawattamie	IA
51550	=> 	Magnolia	Harrison	IA
51551	=> 	Malvern	Mills	IA
51552	=> 	Marne	Cass	IA
51553	=> 	Minden	Pottawattamie	IA
51554	=> 	Mineola	Mills	IA
51555	=> 	Missouri Valley	Harrison	IA
51556	=> 	Modale	Harrison	IA
51557	=> 	Mondamin	Harrison	IA
51558	=> 	Moorhead	Monona	IA
51559	=> 	Neola	Pottawattamie	IA
51560	=> 	Oakland	Pottawattamie	IA
51561	=> 	Pacific Junction	Mills	IA
51562	=> 	Panama	Shelby	IA
51563	=> 	Persia	Harrison	IA
51564	=> 	Pisgah	Harrison	IA
51565	=> 	Portsmouth	Shelby	IA
51566	=> 	Red Oak	Montgomery	IA
51570	=> 	Shelby	Pottawattamie	IA
51571	=> 	Silver City	Mills	IA
51572	=> 	Soldier	Monona	IA

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

54007	=> 	Deer Park	Saint Croix	WI
54009	=> 	Dresser	Polk	WI
54010	=> 	East Ellsworth	Pierce	WI
54011	=> 	Ellsworth	Pierce	WI
54012	=> 	Emerald	Saint Croix	WI
54013	=> 	Glenwood City	Saint Croix	WI
54014	=> 	Hager City	Pierce	WI
54015	=> 	Hammond	Saint Croix	WI
54016	=> 	Hudson	Saint Croix	WI
54017	=> 	New Richmond	Saint Croix	WI
54020	=> 	Osceola	Polk	WI
54021	=> 	Prescott	Pierce	WI
54022	=> 	River Falls	Pierce	WI
54023	=> 	Roberts	Saint Croix	WI
54024	=> 	Saint Croix Falls	Polk	WI
54025	=> 	Somerset	Saint Croix	WI
54026	=> 	Star Prairie	Polk	WI
54027	=> 	Wilson	Saint Croix	WI
54028	=> 	Woodville	Saint Croix	WI
54082	=> 	Saint Joseph	Saint Croix	WI
54101	=> 	Abrams	Oconto	WI

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

57442	=> 	Gettysburg	Potter	SD
57445	=> 	Groton	Brown	SD
57446	=> 	Hecla	Brown	SD
57448	=> 	Hosmer	Edmunds	SD
57449	=> 	Houghton	Brown	SD
57450	=> 	Hoven	Potter	SD
57451	=> 	Ipswich	Edmunds	SD
57452	=> 	Java	Walworth	SD
57454	=> 	Langford	Marshall	SD
57455	=> 	Lebanon	Potter	SD
57456	=> 	Leola	McPherson	SD
57457	=> 	Longlake	McPherson	SD
57460	=> 	Mansfield	Spink	SD
57461	=> 	Mellette	Spink	SD
57462	=> 	Mina	Edmunds	SD
57465	=> 	Northville	Spink	SD
57466	=> 	Onaka	Faulk	SD
57467	=> 	Orient	Faulk	SD
57468	=> 	Pierpont	Day	SD
57469	=> 	Redfield	Spink	SD
57470	=> 	Rockham	Faulk	SD

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

64761	=> 	Leeton	Johnson	MO
64762	=> 	Liberal	Barton	MO
64763	=> 	Lowry City	Saint Clair	MO
64765	=> 	Metz	Vernon	MO
64766	=> 	Milford	Barton	MO
64767	=> 	Milo	Vernon	MO
64769	=> 	Mindenmines	Barton	MO
64770	=> 	Montrose	Henry	MO
64771	=> 	Moundville	Vernon	MO
64772	=> 	Nevada	Vernon	MO
64776	=> 	Osceola	Saint Clair	MO
64777	=> 	Passaic	Bates	MO
64778	=> 	Richards	Vernon	MO
64779	=> 	Rich Hill	Bates	MO
64780	=> 	Rockville	Bates	MO
64781	=> 	Roscoe	Saint Clair	MO
64783	=> 	Schell City	Vernon	MO
64784	=> 	Sheldon	Vernon	MO
64788	=> 	Urich	Henry	MO
64789	=> 	Vista	Saint Clair	MO
64790	=> 	Walker	Vernon	MO

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

67855	=> 	Johnson	Stanton	KS
67856	=> 	Kalvesta	Finney	KS
67857	=> 	Kendall	Hamilton	KS
67858	=> 	Kingsdown	Ford	KS
67859	=> 	Kismet	Seward	KS
67860	=> 	Lakin	Kearny	KS
67861	=> 	Leoti	Wichita	KS
67862	=> 	Manter	Stanton	KS
67863	=> 	Marienthal	Wichita	KS
67864	=> 	Meade	Meade	KS
67865	=> 	Minneola	Clark	KS
67867	=> 	Montezuma	Gray	KS
67868	=> 	Pierceville	Finney	KS
67869	=> 	Plains	Meade	KS
67870	=> 	Satanta	Haskell	KS
67871	=> 	Scott City	Scott	KS
67876	=> 	Spearville	Ford	KS
67877	=> 	Sublette	Haskell	KS
67878	=> 	Syracuse	Hamilton	KS
67879	=> 	Tribune	Greeley	KS
67880	=> 	Ulysses	Grant	KS

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

68637	=> 	Ericson	Wheeler	NE
68638	=> 	Fullerton	Nance	NE
68640	=> 	Genoa	Nance	NE
68641	=> 	Howells	Colfax	NE
68642	=> 	Humphrey	Platte	NE
68643	=> 	Leigh	Colfax	NE
68644	=> 	Lindsay	Platte	NE
68647	=> 	Monroe	Platte	NE
68648	=> 	Morse Bluff	Saunders	NE
68649	=> 	North Bend	Dodge	NE
68651	=> 	Osceola	Polk	NE
68652	=> 	Petersburg	Boone	NE
68653	=> 	Platte Center	Platte	NE
68654	=> 	Polk	Polk	NE
68655	=> 	Primrose	Boone	NE
68658	=> 	Rising City	Butler	NE
68659	=> 	Rogers	Colfax	NE
68660	=> 	Saint Edward	Boone	NE
68661	=> 	Schuyler	Colfax	NE
68662	=> 	Shelby	Polk	NE
68663	=> 	Silver Creek	Merrick	NE

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

70606	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70607	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70609	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70611	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70612	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70615	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70616	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70629	=> 	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	LA
70630	=> 	Bell City	Calcasieu	LA
70631	=> 	Cameron	Cameron	LA
70632	=> 	Creole	Cameron	LA
70633	=> 	Dequincy	Calcasieu	LA
70634	=> 	Deridder	Beauregard	LA
70637	=> 	Dry Creek	Beauregard	LA
70638	=> 	Elizabeth	Allen	LA
70639	=> 	Evans	Vernon	LA
70640	=> 	Fenton	Jefferson Davis	LA
70642	=> 	Fullerton	Vernon	LA
70643	=> 	Grand Chenier	Cameron	LA
70644	=> 	Grant	Allen	LA
70645	=> 	Hackberry	Cameron	LA

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

72073	=> 	Humphrey	Arkansas	AR
72074	=> 	Hunter	Woodruff	AR
72075	=> 	Jacksonport	Jackson	AR
72076	=> 	Jacksonville	Pulaski	AR
72078	=> 	Jacksonville	Pulaski	AR
72079	=> 	Jefferson	Jefferson	AR
72080	=> 	Jerusalem	Conway	AR
72081	=> 	Judsonia	White	AR
72082	=> 	Kensett	White	AR
72083	=> 	Keo	Lonoke	AR
72084	=> 	Leola	Grant	AR
72085	=> 	Letona	White	AR
72086	=> 	Lonoke	Lonoke	AR
72087	=> 	Lonsdale	Garland	AR
72088	=> 	Fairfield Bay	Van Buren	AR
72089	=> 	Bryant	Saline	AR
72099	=> 	Little Rock Air Force Base	Pulaski	AR
72101	=> 	Mc Crory	Woodruff	AR
72102	=> 	Mc Rae	White	AR
72103	=> 	Mabelvale	Pulaski	AR
72104	=> 	Malvern	Hot Spring	AR

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

72355	=> 	Lexa	Lee	AR
72358	=> 	Luxora	Mississippi	AR
72359	=> 	Madison	Saint Francis	AR
72360	=> 	Marianna	Lee	AR
72364	=> 	Marion	Crittenden	AR
72365	=> 	Marked Tree	Poinsett	AR
72366	=> 	Marvell	Phillips	AR
72367	=> 	Mellwood	Phillips	AR
72368	=> 	Moro	Lee	AR
72369	=> 	Oneida	Phillips	AR
72370	=> 	Osceola	Mississippi	AR
72372	=> 	Palestine	Saint Francis	AR
72373	=> 	Parkin	Cross	AR
72374	=> 	Poplar Grove	Phillips	AR
72376	=> 	Proctor	Crittenden	AR
72377	=> 	Rivervale	Poinsett	AR
72379	=> 	Snow Lake	Desha	AR
72381	=> 	Tomato	Mississippi	AR
72383	=> 	Turner	Phillips	AR
72384	=> 	Turrell	Crittenden	AR
72385	=> 	Twist	Cross	AR

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

75759	=> 	Cuney	Cherokee	TX
75760	=> 	Cushing	Nacogdoches	TX
75762	=> 	Flint	Smith	TX
75763	=> 	Frankston	Anderson	TX
75764	=> 	Gallatin	Cherokee	TX
75765	=> 	Hawkins	Wood	TX
75766	=> 	Jacksonville	Cherokee	TX
75770	=> 	Larue	Henderson	TX
75771	=> 	Lindale	Smith	TX
75772	=> 	Maydelle	Cherokee	TX
75773	=> 	Mineola	Wood	TX
75778	=> 	Murchison	Henderson	TX
75779	=> 	Neches	Anderson	TX
75780	=> 	New Summerfield	Cherokee	TX
75782	=> 	Poynor	Henderson	TX
75783	=> 	Quitman	Wood	TX
75784	=> 	Reklaw	Cherokee	TX
75785	=> 	Rusk	Cherokee	TX
75788	=> 	Sacul	Nacogdoches	TX
75789	=> 	Troup	Smith	TX
75790	=> 	Van	Van Zandt	TX

factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN

84041	=> 	Layton	Davis	UT
84042	=> 	Lindon	Utah	UT
84043	=> 	Lehi	Utah	UT
84044	=> 	Magna	Salt Lake	UT
84046	=> 	Manila	Daggett	UT
84047	=> 	Midvale	Salt Lake	UT
84049	=> 	Midway	Wasatch	UT
84050	=> 	Morgan	Morgan	UT
84051	=> 	Mountain Home	Duchesne	UT
84052	=> 	Myton	Duchesne	UT
84053	=> 	Neola	Duchesne	UT
84054	=> 	North Salt Lake	Davis	UT
84055	=> 	Oakley	Summit	UT
84056	=> 	Hill Afb	Davis	UT
84057	=> 	Orem	Utah	UT
84058	=> 	Orem	Utah	UT
84059	=> 	Orem	Utah	UT
84060	=> 	Park City	Summit	UT
84061	=> 	Peoa	Summit	UT
84062	=> 	Pleasant Grove	Utah	UT
84063	=> 	Randlett	Uintah	UT

factpacks/weather.fact view on Meta::CPAN

Jacksonville             => KOAJ located in  United States. 34-50N 077-37W.
Oakland                  => KOAK located in  Metropolitan Oakland United States. 37-42-10N 122-13-07W.
Valley                   => KOAX located in  United States. 41-19N 096-22W.
Ocala                    => KOCF located in  United States. 29-10N 082-13W.
Nacogdoches              => KOCH located in  United States. 31-35N 094-43W.
Washington               => KOCW located in  Warren Field United States. 35-34-14N 077-02-59W.
Odessa                   => KODO located in  Odessa-Schlemeyer Field United States. 31-55-17N 102-23-30W.
Ord                      => KODX located in  United States. 41-37N 098-57W. Also see Sharp Field
Sharp Field => KODX located in  United States 41-37N. Also see Ord
Coldwater                => KOEB located in  Branch County Memorial United States. 41-56N 085-03-09W.
Osceola                  => KOEO located in  L O Simenstad United States. 45-18-31N 092-41-24W.
Omaha                    => KOFF located in  United States. 41-07N 095-54W. Also see Offutt
Offutt => KOFF located in  United States 41-07N. Also see Omaha
Norfolk                  => KOFK located in  Stefan Memorial United States. 41-58-50N 097-26-13W.
Ashland                  => KOFP located in  Hanover County United States. 37-42-29N 077-26-04W.
Ogallala                 => KOGA located in  Searle Field United States. 41-07-11N 101-46-08W.
Orangeburg               => KOGB located in  Orangeburg United States. 33-27-50N 080-51-13W.
Ogden                    => KOGD located in  Ogden-Hinckley United States. 41-11-37N 112-00-59W.
Ogdensburg               => KOGS located in  United States. 44-41N 075-28W.
Nashville                => KOHX located in  United States. 36-45N 086-34W.
Olathe                   => KOJC located in  Johnson County Executive United States. 38-51-00N 094-44-21W.

factpacks/weather.fact view on Meta::CPAN

Funafuti                 => NGFU located in  Tuvalu. 08-31S 179-13E.
Tarawa                   => NGTA located in  Kiribati. 01-21N 172-55E.
Arorae                   => NGTR located in  Kiribati. 02-40S 176-50E.
Butaritari               => NGTU located in  Kiribati. 03-02N 172-47E.
Alofi                    => NIUE located in  Cook Islands. 19-04S 169-55W. Also see Niue
Niue => NIUE located in  Cook Islands 19-04S. Also see Alofi
Maopoopo Ile Futuna      => NLWF located in  France. 14-19S 178-07W.
Hihifo Ile Wallis        => NLWW located in  France. 13-14S 176-10W.
Apia                     => NSAP located in  Samoa. 13-48S 171-47W. Also see Upolu Island
Upolu Island => NSAP located in  Samoa 13-48S. Also see Apia
Faleolo                  => NSFA located in  Samoa. 13-49S 172-00W. Also see Apia
Apia => NSFA located in  Samoa 13-49S. Also see Faleolo
Pago Pago                => NSTU located in  United States Minor Outlying Islands. 14-20S 170-43W. Also see Airp.
Airp. => NSTU located in  United States Minor Outlying Islands 14-20S. Also see Pago Pago
Tahiti-Faaa              => NTAA located in  French Polynesia. 17-33S 149-37W.
Tubuai                   => NTAT located in  French Polynesia. 23-21S 149-29W.
Bora-Bora                => NTTB located in  French Polynesia. 16-27S 151-45W.
Rangiroa                 => NTTG located in  French Polynesia. 14-58S 147-40W. Also see Tuamoto Island
Tuamoto Island => NTTG located in  French Polynesia 14-58S. Also see Rangiroa
Hao                      => NTTO located in  French Polynesia. 18-04S 140-57W.
Mururoa                  => NTTX located in  French Polynesia. 21-49S 138-48W.
Sola Vanua Lava          => NVSC located in  Vanuatu. 13-51S 167-33E.

factpacks/weather2.fact view on Meta::CPAN

KO87 => Shelter Cove (Shelter Cove)
KOAJ => Jacksonville (Jacksonville)
KOAK => Oakland, Metropolitan Oakland (Oakland)
KOAX => Valley (Valley)
KOCF => Ocala Municipal (Ocala Municipal)
KOCH => Nacogdoches (Nacogdoches)
KOCW => Washington, Warren Field (Washington)
KODO => Odessa, Odessa-Schlemeyer Field (Odessa)
KODX => Ord / Sharp Field (Ord)
KOEB => Coldwater, Branch County Memorial (Coldwater)
KOEO => Osceola, L O Simenstad Municipal (Osceola)
KOFF => Omaha / Offutt (Omaha)
KOFK => Norfolk, Stefan Memorial (Norfolk)
KOFP => Ashland, Hanover County Municipal (Ashland)
KOGA => Ogallala, Searle Field (Ogallala)
KOGB => Orangeburg, Orangeburg Municipal (Orangeburg)
KOGD => Ogden, Ogden-Hinckley (Ogden)
KOGS => Ogdensburg (Ogdensburg)
KOHX => Nashville NEXRAD (Nashville NEXRAD)
KOJC => Olathe, Johnson County Executive (Olathe)
KOKB => Oceanside, Oceanside Municipal (Oceanside)

factpacks/weather2.fact view on Meta::CPAN

NGBR => Beru (Beru)
NGFO => Nanumea (Nanumea)
NGFU => Funafuti (Funafuti)
NGTA => Tarawa (Tarawa)
NGTR => Arorae (Arorae)
NGTU => Butaritari (Butaritari)
NIUE => Alofi / Niue (Alofi)
NLWF => Maopoopo Ile Futuna (Maopoopo Ile Futuna)
NLWW => Hihifo Ile Wallis (Hihifo Ile Wallis)
NSAP => Apia / Upolu Island (Apia)
NSFA => Faleolo / Apia (Faleolo)
NSTU => Pago Pago / Airp. (Pago Pago)
NTAA => Tahiti-Faaa (Tahiti-Faaa)
NTAT => Tubuai (Tubuai)
NTTB => Bora-Bora (Bora-Bora)
NTTG => Rangiroa / Tuamoto Island (Rangiroa)
NTTO => Hao (Hao)
NTTX => Mururoa (Mururoa)
NVSC => Sola Vanua Lava (Sola Vanua Lava)
NVSL => Lamap Malekula (Lamap Malekula)
NVSS => Pekoa Santo (Pekoa Santo)

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