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GGlyph => <reply> $who, Font previewer and installer for X11. URL: http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672/linux/gglyph/
GGUI => <reply> $who, An easy multi-purpose, multi-program GUI.. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/java/714/ggui/
gharmonic => <reply> $who, Interactive Tone Generation Toy. URL: http://members.xoom.com/etians/gharmonic.html
gHostLookup => <reply> $who, Finds the IP address of the hostname the user specifies. URL: http://iconmedia.com/aaron/ghostlookup.html
ghost_edit => <reply> $who, A fast and simple GTK-based host table editor. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~jonathanbrisbin/ghost_edit/
ghttpd => <reply> $who, A HTTP daemon, secure, fast, efficient with CGI support. URL: http://www.gaztek.co.uk/
GHUp! => <reply> $who, Java applications that replaces EZ File Upload into the GeoCities FileManager. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/java/GHUp/
GHX => <reply> $who, GTK clone of the Hotline software. URL: http://ac2i.tzo.com/ghx_e.html
GICQ => <reply> $who, GTK based ICQ client. URL: http://www.korsoft.com/gicq/
gicqd => <reply> $who, GNU ICQ-compatible Server. URL: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cbbettin/gicqd/
gIDE => <reply> $who, GTK-based Integrated Development Environment for C. URL: http://gide.pn.org/
gif2png => <reply> $who, converts GIF image files to PNG format.. URL: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/
GIFgraph::Map => <reply> $who, Generate HTNL map text. URL: http://amk.al.lg.ua/~ra/
giflib => <reply> $who, A library for reading and writing gif images. URL: http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/giflib.shtml
Gifsicle => <reply> $who, Command-line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing GIFs and animations. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
GILT => <reply> $who, Vector drawing program based on openGL and gtk. URL: http://www.vicksburg.com/~phoenix/main.html
GiMd2Viewer => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mygale.org/~bbrox/GiMd2Viewer/
Gimmick => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.support.unisource.nl/~markj/gimmick
GIMP IFF plugin => <reply> $who, An autoconf'd plug-in which adds support for IFF/ILBM pictures to the Gimp. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~jtevessen/
GIMP Imagemap plug-in => <reply> $who, GIMP plug-in for creation of clickable imagemaps.. URL: http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736/imagemap.html
gimp-python => <reply> $who, A package that allows you to write gimp plugins in python. URL: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygimp/
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Swift Generator => <reply> $who, Dynamic Flash content generator.. URL: http://www.swift-tools.com/
Swift Inspector => <reply> $who, Flash file editor. URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/odebon/swift.html
SwiftView => <reply> $who, HPGL, PCL Online Document Viewing System. URL: http://www.swiftview.com/
swim => <reply> $who, Package administration and research tool for Debian. URL: http://the.netpedia.net/the-software.html
Swish => <reply> $who, CGI news engine. URL: http://munchkin.comlab.ox.ac.uk/~simon/about.html
SWISH++ => <reply> $who, File indexing and searching engine (typically used for web servers).. URL: http://www.best.com/~pjl/software/swish/
SWORD Project => <reply> $who, Free Bible Study Software Development Libraries and Tools. URL: http://www.crosswire.org
SWplayer => <reply> $who, Plays Simon Jansen's Star Wars ASCIImation on a Unix text terminal. URL: http://people.tamu.edu/~cwb2900/
sws => <reply> $who, A Star Wars style scroller using GLUT. URL: http://helllabs.org/~claudio/sws/
swsus => <reply> $who, Software Suspend using pretty near only high level routines. URL: http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html
sXid => <reply> $who, All in one suid/sgid monitoring script written in C. URL: ftp://marcus.seva.net/pub/sxid/
Sybase ASE => <reply> $who, Full featured SQL Backend. URL: http://www.sybase.com
SybSQL => <reply> $who, X11-based SQL Query tool for Sybase and MS SQL.. URL: http://www.megsinet.net/~agatka/
sybtable.pl => <reply> $who, Web-based table browser/SQL interface for Sybase databases. URL: http://www.pdamusic.com/computer/sybtable.html
Sybtcl => <reply> $who, Sybase interface for Tcl. URL: http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html#Sybtcl
Sympa => <reply> $who, A powerful multilingual List Manager- LDAP and SQL features.. URL: http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/
Synaesthesia => <reply> $who, Program to reperesent music from CD or MP3 graphically.. URL: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/synaesthesia.html
Synapse => <reply> $who, 3d Graphical User Interface. URL: http://www.oreality.com
Syncal => <reply> $who, Syncs an ical calendar with a Palm Pilot DateBookDB. URL: http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/syncal/
SyncBuilder => <reply> $who, Build synchronization applications with a Palm device in Java. URL: http://come.to/SyncBuilder/
SyncDet => <reply> $who, Clone detection program for IRC admins. URL: http://mars.superlink.net/jason/small/syncdet.html
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DWIM4 is One day another hacker there typed `delete *$' to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending `$' to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sess...
DWIM5 is editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported `*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'.' It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a {Vulcan nerve pinch} after only a half dozen ...
DWIM6 is said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type `delete *$' twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is a...
DWIM7 is instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about `DWIMC' (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thin...
dynner is /din'r/ 32 bits, by analogy with {nybble} and {{byte}}. Usage rare and extremely silly. See also {playte}, {tayste}, {crumb}.*earthquake [IBM] n. The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny th...
dynner2 is initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants.
Easter egg is n. 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code. 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in res...
Easter egg2 is or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command `make love' with `not war?'. Many personal computers have much ...
Easter egg3 is lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.
Easter egging is [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated parts more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it. Compare {sho...
eat flaming death is imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous {CPU Wars} comic; supposed to derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or s...
eat flaming death2 is reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressi...
EBCDIC is /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [acronym, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n. An alleged character set used on IBM {dinosaur}s. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such de...
EBCDIC2 is and the absence of several ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages (exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from {...
EBCDIC3 is promulgated it as a customer-control tactic (see {connector conspiracy}), spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants and how ...
EBCDIC4 is classified top-secret, burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very *name* of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest {evil}. See also {fear and loathing}.
echo is [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s echomail system. Compare {newsgroup}.
eighty-column mind is [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an o...
eighty-column mind2 is `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card). This directive is inscribed on IBM's 1422 and 1602 card readers and is referenced in a famous bit of doggerel called "The Last Bug", the climactic lin...
eighty-column mind3 is the console Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, 9-edge first. The eighty-column mind is thought by most hackers to dominate IBM's customer base and its thinking. See {IBM}, {fear ...
El Camino Bignum is /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Naviga...
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slop3 is code generated by a compiler over the size of equivalent assembler code produced by {hand-hacking}; i.e., the space (or maybe time) you lose because you didn't do it yourself. This number is often used as a measure of the goodness ...
slop4 is 10% is usually acceptable. With modern compiler technology, esp. on RISC machines, the compiler's slop may actually be *negative*; that is, humans may be unable to generate code as good. This is one of the reasons assembler program...
slopsucker is /slop'suhk-r/ n. A lowest-priority task that must wait around until everything else has `had its fill' of machine resources. Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the task allowed to `suck up the slop'. Also called a...
slopsucker2 is slopsucker hunts for large prime numbers. Compare {background}.
slurp is vt. To read a large data file entirely into {core} before working on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the next piece. "This program slurps in a 1K-by-1K...
smart is adj. Said of a program that does the {Right Thing} in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent pr...
smart2 is {robust} (smart programs can be {brittle}).
smart terminal is n. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to. The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term a...
smart terminal2 is semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'...
smart terminal3 is Compare {glass tty}. There is a classic quote from Rob Pike (inventor of the {blit} terminal) "A smart terminal is not a smart*ass* terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate." This illustrates a common design proble...
smart terminal4 is else) intelligent sometimes results in finicky, rigid `special features' that become just so much dead weight if you try to use the device in any way the designer didn't anticipate. Flexibility and programmability, on the...
smash case is vi. To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input. "MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create." Compare {fold case}.
smash the stack is [C programming] n. On many C implementations it is possible to corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of an array declared `auto' in a routine. Code that does this is said to `smash the stack', and can cause re...
smash the stack2 is address. This can produce some of the most insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind. Variants include `trash' the stack, {scribble} the stack, {mangle} the stack; the term *{mung} the stack is not used, as this is n...
smash the stack3 is also {aliasing bug}, {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {precedence lossage}, {overrun screw}.
smiley is n. See {emoticon}.
smoke test is n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to electronic equipment following repair or reconfiguration, in which power is applied and the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or other dramatic signs of fundamental failure. See {mag...
smoke test2 is of a piece of software after construction or a critical change. See and compare {reality check}. There is an interesting semi-parallel to this term among typographers and printers When new typefaces are being punch-cut by han...
smoke test3 is smoke, then press it onto paper) is used to check out new dies.
smoking clover is [ITS] n. A {display hack} originally due to Bill Gosper. Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in {AOS} mode (so that every pixel struck has its color incremented). The lines all have one endpoint in the middle...
smoking clover2 is spaced one pixel apart around the perimeter of a large square. The color map is then repeatedly rotated. This results in a striking, rainbow-hued, shimmering four-leaf clover. Gosper joked about keeping it hidden from the...
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dup loop => /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n. An incorrectly configured system or network gateway may propagate duplicate messages on one or more echoes, with different identification information that renders {dup killer}s ineffective. I...
dup loop2 => eventually reaches a system through which it has already passed (with the original identification information), all systems passed on the way back to that system are said to be involved in a {dup loop}.
dusty deck => n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with (or to maintain). The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used esp. when referring to old scientific and...
dusty deck2 => of which was written in FORTRAN and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil.
DWIM => /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. n.,obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the ...
dynner => /din'r/ 32 bits, by analogy with nybble and {byte}. Usage rare and extremely silly. See also playte, tayste, crumb.*earthquake [IBM] n. The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the...
Easter egg => n. 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code. 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in response to...
Easter egg2 => or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command `make love' with `not war?'. Many personal computers have much more elabor...
Easter egg3 => lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.
Easter egging => [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated parts more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it. Compare {shotgun debu...
eat flaming death => imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous {CPU Wars} comic; supposed to derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or somethin...
eat flaming death2 => reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of h...
EBCDIC => /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [acronym, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n. An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as ...
echo => [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
eighty-column mind => [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke)...
eighty-column mind2 => `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card). This directive is inscribed on IBM's 1422 and 1602 card readers and is referenced in a famous bit of doggerel called "The Last Bug", the climactic lines of wh...
eighty-column mind3 => the console Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, 9-edge first. The eighty-column mind is thought by most hackers to dominate IBM's customer base and its thinking. See IBM, {fear and loathing}, {card walloper...
El Camino Bignum => /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on ...
El Camino Bignum2 => usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University and so is familiar to hackers. The Spanish wor...
El Camino Bignum3 => /ray-ahl'/) means `royal'; El Camino Real is `the royal road'. In the FORTRAN language, a `real' quantity is a number typically precise to 7 significant digits, and a `double precision' quantity is a larger floating-point number,...
El Camino Bignum4 => significant digits (other languages have similar `real' types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on `real', he started calling it `El Camino Double Pre...
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slash => n. Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
sleep => vi. 1. [techspeak] On a timesharing system, a process that relinquishes its claim on the scheduler until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses is said to `go to sleep'. 2. In jargon, used very similarly to v. block; also ...
slim => n. A small, derivative change (e.g., to code).
slop => n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions. For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large am...
slopsucker => /slop'suhk-r/ n. A lowest-priority task that must wait around until everything else has `had its fill' of machine resources. Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the task allowed to `suck up the slop'. Also called a {hungry ...
slurp => vt. To read a large data file entirely into core before working on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the next piece. "This program slurps in a 1K-by-1K matrix and...
smart => adj. Said of a program that does the {Right Thing} in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (...
smart terminal => n. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to. The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the p...
smart terminal2 => semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote server's storage...
smart terminal3 => Compare {glass tty}. There is a classic quote from Rob Pike (inventor of the blit terminal) "A smart terminal is not a smart*ass* terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate." This illustrates a common design problem The attemp...
smart terminal4 => else) intelligent sometimes results in finicky, rigid `special features' that become just so much dead weight if you try to use the device in any way the designer didn't anticipate. Flexibility and programmability, on the other han...
smash case => vi. To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input. "MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create." Compare {fold case}.
smash the stack => [C programming] n. On many C implementations it is possible to corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of an array declared `auto' in a routine. Code that does this is said to `smash the stack', and can cause return fro...
smash the stack2 => address. This can produce some of the most insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind. Variants include `trash' the stack, scribble the stack, mangle the stack; the term *mung the stack is not used, as this is never done inten...
smash the stack3 => also {aliasing bug}, {fandango on core}, {memory leak}, {precedence lossage}, {overrun screw}.
smiley => n. See emoticon.
smoke test => n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to electronic equipment following repair or reconfiguration, in which power is applied and the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or other dramatic signs of fundamental failure. See {magic smoke...
smoke test2 => of a piece of software after construction or a critical change. See and compare {reality check}. There is an interesting semi-parallel to this term among typographers and printers When new typefaces are being punch-cut by hand, a `smok...
smoke test3 => smoke, then press it onto paper) is used to check out new dies.
smoking clover => [ITS] n. A {display hack} originally due to Bill Gosper. Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in AOS mode (so that every pixel struck has its color incremented). The lines all have one endpoint in the middle of the scr...
smoking clover2 => spaced one pixel apart around the perimeter of a large square. The color map is then repeatedly rotated. This results in a striking, rainbow-hued, shimmering four-leaf clover. Gosper joked about keeping it hidden from the FDA (the ...
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Ardon => ruling; a judgment of malediction
Areli => the light or vision of God
Areopagus => the hill of Mars
Aretas => agreeable, virtuous
Argob => a turf, or fat land
Ariel => altar; light or lion of God
Arimathea => a lion dead to the Lord
Arioch => long; great; tall
Aristarchus => the best prince
Aristobulus => a good counselor
Armageddon => hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo
Arnon => rejoicing; sunlight
Aroer => heath; tamarisk
Arpad => the light of redemption
Arphaxad => a healer; a releaser
Artaxerxes => the silence of light; fervent to spoil
Artemas => whole, sound
Arumah => high; exalted
Asa => physician; cure
Asahel => creature of God
Asaiah => the Lord hath wrought
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Hodesh => a table; news
Hoglah => his festival or dance
Hoham => woe to them
Holon => a window; grief
Homam => making an uproar
Hophin => he that covers; my fist
Hor => who conceives, or shows; a hill
Horam => their hill
Horeb => desert; solitude; destruction
Horem => an offering dedicated to God
Hor-hagidgad => the hill of felicity
Hori => a prince; freeborn
Horims => princes; being angry
Hormah => devoted or consecrated to God; utter destruction
Horonaim => angers; ragings
Horonites => men of anger, or of fury, or of liberty
Hosah => trusting
Hosanna => save I pray thee; keep; preserve
Hosea => Hoshea, savior; safety
Hoshaiah => the salvation of the Lord
Hoshama => heard; he obeys
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Matthias => Mattithiah , same as Mattathias
Mazzaroth => the twelve signs of the zodiac
Meah => a hundred cubits
Mearah => den; cave; making empty
Mebunnai => son; building; understanding
Mecherath => selling; knowledge
Medad => he that measures; water of love
Medan => judgment; process
Medeba => waters of grief; waters springing up
Media => measure; habit; covering
Megiddo => his precious fruit; declaring a message
Megiddon => same as Megiddo
Mehetabel => how good is God
Mehida => a riddle; sharpness of wit
Mehir => a reward
Mehujael => who proclaims God
Mehuman => making an uproar; a multitude
Mejarkon => the waters of Jordan
Mekonah => a foot of a pillar; provision
Melatiah => deliverance of the Lord
Melchi => my king; my counsel
Melchiah => God is my king
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