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Digital Manipulator exceeding velocity parameters
appears to be a Slow/Narrow SCSI-0 Interface problem
microelectronic Riemannian curved-space fault in write-only file system
fractal radiation jamming the backbone
routing problems on the neural net
IRQ-problems with the Un-Interruptable-Power-Supply
CPU-angle has to be adjusted because of vibrations coming from the nearby road
emissions from GSM-phones
CD-ROM server needs recalibration
firewall needs cooling
asynchronous inode failure
transient bus protocol violation
incompatible bit-registration operators
your process is not ISO 9000 compliant
You need to upgrade your VESA local bus to a MasterCard local bus.
The recent proliferation of Nuclear Testing
Elves on strike. (Why do they call EMAG Elf Magic)
Internet exceeded Luser level, please wait until a luser logs off before attempting to log back on.
Your EMAIL is now being delivered by the USPS.
Your computer hasn't been returning all the bits it gets from the Internet.
You've been infected by the Telescoping Hubble virus.

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Ad Buster => <reply> $who, Simple personal proxy, which removes unwanted ad banners, depending on URL.. URL: http://lide.punknet.cz/miri/adbuster.html
AdaCGI => <reply> $who, Ada 95 interface to CGI for creating Web applications. URL: http://www.dwheeler.com/adacgi/
Adaptive Server Enterprise => <reply> $who, Adaptive Server Enterprise, (formerly Sybase SQL Server). URL: http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/linux/index.html
AddLibs.py => <reply> $who, Allows you to create amusing stories using words you enter.. URL: http://www.serv.net/~strad/AddLibs/
AddressBook => <reply> $who, Portable Personal Information Manager written in perl. URL: http://www.acm.rpi.edu/~jackal/ab.html
addrmuser => <reply> $who, . URL: http://impulse.bitz.net/~posix/addrmuser.tar.gz
ADFlib => <reply> $who, a free, portable, open and documented implementation of the Amiga filesystem. URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/lclevy/adflib/
ADiCT => <reply> $who, Shared event calendar for independant organisations. URL: http://www.adict.net/
ADL => <reply> $who, Assertion Definition Language. URL: http://www.gr.opengroup.org/adl/
Admin CGI => <reply> $who, Web based user administration with cgi scripts. URL: http://www.daemon.de/admin-cgi.html
adns => <reply> $who, An advanced alternative, asynchronous resolver. URL: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/
Adora => <reply> $who, Cross-Platform Email Client for Linux and Windows. URL: http://www.sover.net/~senecal/adora.html
AdRotate => <reply> $who, Banner Ad Rotation Program. URL: http://www.vanbrunt.com/adrotate
ADSM Client => <reply> $who, ADSM backup client for linux boxes.. URL: http://www.storage.ibm.com/adsm
Advanced Playstation Joystick => <reply> $who, Linux Support for Direct Pad Pro interface, NegCon, and Dual Shock Controllers.. URL: http://gator.naples.net/~nfn03343/joy-psx.1.1.2.tgz
Adventure++ => <reply> $who, A text-based game creator.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
adzapper => <reply> $who, HTTP proxy that filters ads. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/
aee => <reply> $who, A capable but easy to use editor for console and X11. URL: http://www.users.uswest.net/~hmahon/
Aegis => <reply> $who, Transaction-based software configuration management system. URL: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/
aewm => <reply> $who, A minimalistic window manager for X. URL: http://members.home.com/decklin/aewm/
afbackup => <reply> $who, Client-server backup system. URL: ftp://www.zn.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/linux/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

aliases2cdbm => <reply> $who, Convert mail aliases into input suitable for cdbmake. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/software/index.html
aliasman.pl => <reply> $who, A Perl program for majordomo-like management of /etc/aliases.. URL: http://www.mmedia.is/~bre/aliasman/
Alien => <reply> $who, Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats. URL: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/
ALife => <reply> $who, Artificial Life for Linux. URL: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~f9808590/alife/
ALINKA LCM => <reply> $who, Tool for the management and configuration of Linux Beowulf clusters.. URL: http://www.alinka.com/
ALINKA RAISIN => <reply> $who, Web based tool to build and administrate beowulf type clusters. URL: http://www.alinka.com/
Alkaline UNIX/NT Search Engine => <reply> $who, Web site and intranet search engine and spider, ala Altavista or Excite.. URL: http://www.vestris.com/alkaline/
Allen Bradley Ethernet utils => <reply> $who, Simple utilities for Allen Bradley Ethernet PLCs. URL: http://home.att.net/~rongage/ab/abplc5.tar.gz
ALSA driver => <reply> $who, An alternative implementation of Kernel sound support. URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/
AlsaPlayer => <reply> $who, PCM (audio) player for Linux/ALSA. URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~andy/
Altara netlib => <reply> $who, Asynchronous networking library for Java. URL: http://www.altara.org/netlib.html
Altima => <reply> $who, A free version of the Ultima online. URL: http://www.worldforge.org/
AMANDA => <reply> $who, Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver. URL: http://www.amanda.org/
Amapi => <reply> $who, A free modeler for Linux. URL: http://www.tgs.com/Amapi/
AMaViS => <reply> $who, A Mail Virus Scanner, looks for viruses in e-mail attachments. URL: http://amavis.org/
Amaya => <reply> $who, Ttest-bed browser/authoring tool of the W3C. URL: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
AMC => <reply> $who, Answering Machine Checker. URL: http://www.multimania.com/lionelbouton/
AMC (ATOM Module Compiler) => <reply> $who, A programmable compiler. URL: http://www.freeyellow.com/members7/mygfya/amc/
AMC Mail Client => <reply> $who, Gnome-Integrated Mail Client. URL: http://www.faceprint.com/~axion/index.html
Amcl => <reply> $who, A simple Mud CLient for X written in GTK libs.. URL: http://www.localhost.nu/apps/amcl/
AMD K6-II CTX-Kern Patch => <reply> $who, Linux Kernel 2.0.36 AMD K6-II CTX-Kern Patch. URL: http://www.klografx.de/misc/ctx/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Code Medic => <reply> $who, UNIX Debugging Environment. URL: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~glenn/medic/
code2html => <reply> $who, Converts a program's source code to syntax highlighted HTML. URL: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/code2html/
CodeBase => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.sequiter.com/
CodeWarrior => <reply> $who, Professional, industrial-strength IDE that integrates with EGCS/GNU coding tools. URL: http://www.metrowerks.com/desktop/linux/gnu/
Codewizard/Java => <reply> $who, Improves and standardizes your Java[tm] code-automatically.. URL: http://www.parasoft.com/products/wizard/java/
CoffeeCup HTML Editor for Linux => <reply> $who, Powerful GTK HTML Editor. URL: http://www.coffeecup.com/linux/
Cohesion => <reply> $who, Java-based Plugable Application Framework, including Modelling Plugin and others. URL: http://europa.it.swin.edu.au/teamb/
Coin => <reply> $who, 3D graphics library with Open Inventor API. URL: http://www.sim.no/coin.html
coldread => <reply> $who, A test-scoring and fortune-telling application.. URL: http://coldread.siteless.com/
ColdStore => <reply> $who, gigabyte-scale persistent object store. URL: http://coldstore.linuxbox.com/
ColdSync => <reply> $who, PalmPilot synchronization tool. URL: http://www.ooblick.com/software/coldsync/
cole => <reply> $who, A free C OLE library. URL: http://arturo.directmail.org/filtersweb/
Collaborative Virtual Workspace => <reply> $who, CVW takes virtual meetings one step further. URL: http://cvw.mitre.org/
colorgcc => <reply> $who, Cutomizable Perl wrapper to colorize gcc/g++ messages.. URL: http://home.i1.net/~jamoyers/software/
ColorLogs => <reply> $who, Color codes your system logs on the fly. URL: http://www.resentment.org/projects/colorlogs/
colormake => <reply> $who, Wrapper to colorize output from make. URL: http://www.mmedia.is/~bre/programs/colormake-0.1.tar.gz
Colortail => <reply> $who, Colorized tail.. URL: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html
Columns => <reply> $who, A columns game using SDL. URL: http://www.phreax.net/24h/index.html
Comanche => <reply> $who, Multiplatform configuration manager for the Apache web server. URL: http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/comanche/
Come Back 64/UNIX => <reply> $who, Freeware Commodore 64 emulator. URL: http://www.classicgaming.com/cb64/cb64unix.shtml
comedi => <reply> $who, Linux Control and Measurement Device Interface. URL: http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Cool Beats => <reply> $who, Small clock supporting the beat-time. URL: http://www.kLoGraFX.de/
Cool Notes => <reply> $who, Gtk/Gdk based 'notes-program' like xmemos. URL: http://www.idnet.de/~AdamK/
Cooledit => <reply> $who, Full featured text editor for the X Window System. URL: http://www.netins.net/showcase/Comput-IT/cooledit/index.html
cops.gcl => <reply> $who, A web counter for police sites. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/
Copy Quota => <reply> $who, Utility to copy a user quota to several users. URL: http://www.cosmos.dhs.org/~brandon/
Coral Tree Library Set => <reply> $who, Set of abstraction libraries covering both UNIX and Win32. URL: http://www.imonk.com
CorbaScript => <reply> $who, CORBA Scripting Language. URL: http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/CorbaScript/index.html
CoreDump Scripts => <reply> $who, Perl CGI scripts for displaying information about a Shout playlist.. URL: http://pitfall.org/coredump/
Corel Linux => <reply> $who, Corel Linux Distribution. URL: http://linux.corel.com/
Corel WordPerfect => <reply> $who, Commerical word processor for Linux (and many other platforms). URL: http://linux.corel.com/linux8/
COSA => <reply> $who, Linux driver and tools for the COSA and SRP synchronous serial boards. URL: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/cosa/
costd => <reply> $who, log phone costs. URL: http://linux.laban.net/costd/
count.pl => <reply> $who, Text based hit counter for SSI with unique features. URL: http://www.geeksanon.ab.ca/cgi/count.shtml
Countdown => <reply> $who, Perl script that counts down to specified events.. URL: http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/countdown.html
Country Codes => <reply> $who, ISO 3166 country code finder.. URL: http://www.grigna.com/diego/linux/countrycodes/
Courier-IMAP => <reply> $who, IMAP server for maildirs. URL: http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/
cowsay => <reply> $who, An easy way to add speaking and thinking cows to anything.. URL: http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
Coyote Linux => <reply> $who, A single-floppy distribution for sharing an Internet connection.. URL: http://www.vortech.net/coyote/
CPC 4 X => <reply> $who, Amstrad/Schneider CPC 464/664/6128 Emulator. URL: http://www.trans-it.de/cordes/amstrad/cpcemu_e.html
Cpscan => <reply> $who, Portscanner for console. URL: http://users.sti.com.br/degrade/
CPU Identifier => <reply> $who, Quickly identifies the CPU you are running.. URL: http://mottnews.horde.net/zero-g/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

freshmeatGrinder => <reply> $who, freshmeat digests, digested. URL: ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/fmg/
Frink => <reply> $who, A tcl/tk formatter/minimiser/obfuscator. URL: ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/
Frodo => <reply> $who, Free portable C64 emulator forBeOS/Unix/MacOS/AmigaOS/RiscOS/Win32. URL: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FRMain.html
Frontdesk => <reply> $who, Groupware application designed for customer support and bug tracking. URL: http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/uu-gna/tech/dbedit/frontdesk.html
Frotz => <reply> $who, A Portable Z-Machine Interpreter. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3222/frotz.html
fryit => <reply> $who, Graphical frontend for cdrecord.. URL: http://eikon.tum.de/~komor/index.html
FSDEXT2 => <reply> $who, Mounts your Linux ext2fs partitions on Windows 95. URL: http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/
fsh => <reply> $who, Fast and secure remote command execution.. URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/
fstool => <reply> $who, a Tcl/Tk-based file system mounter. URL: http://www.bit.net.au/~bhepple/fstool
FSViewer => <reply> $who, File Viewer lookalike for Window Maker.. URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~clernong/projects/fsviewer.html
fsync => <reply> $who, file synchronization program written in Perl. URL: http://www.hec.utah.edu/~schwitrs/fsync.html
Ftape => <reply> $who, A driver for tape drives that connect to the floppy controller. URL: http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
ftape-tools => <reply> $who, Utilities for floppy tapes under Linux. URL: http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
FTE => <reply> $who, Text editor for X-Windows and console with I18N support.. URL: http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fr0235/fte/
FTP Logger => <reply> $who, Perl(CGI) WU-FTPD log analyzer for WEB. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8236/unix.html
FTP LogView => <reply> $who, Web based xferlog viewer. URL: http://www.curtisonline.net/software/
FTP Mirror Tracker => <reply> $who, FTP mirror-handling software.. URL: http://squid.itep.ru/
FTP with Source => <reply> $who, The FTP JavaBean Suite implements the FTP protocol.. URL: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/
FTP4ALL => <reply> $who, FTP server program for UNIX systems. URL: http://www.ftp4all.de/v3/noframes/
ftpcheck => <reply> $who, Searches for anonymous ftp sites on given nodes/networks. URL: http://david.weekly.org/code/
ftpd-BSD => <reply> $who, Linux port of OpenBSD's ftp server. URL: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

intel2gas => <reply> $who, A converter between the NASM and GAS asm format (Intel/AT&T). URL: http://hermes.terminal.at/intel2gas/
Intelligent TETRIS => <reply> $who, A tetris clone for SVGAlib or X11. URL: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~michg/ace/itetris/
InterfaceLED => <reply> $who, Interface monitor program. URL: http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/
International Kernel Patch => <reply> $who, Collection of internationally developed crypto for the Linux kernel. URL: http://www.kerneli.org/
Internet Junkbuster => <reply> $who, Blocks unwanted banner ads and protects your privacy. URL: http://www.junkbuster.com
Internet Log Daemon => <reply> $who, Small application that logs your ppp activity. URL: http://members.xoom.com/narkos/soft/
Internet-Phone-Jack-Driver => <reply> $who, Linux Drivers for Voice Over IP Cards. URL: http://www.quicknet.net/develop.htm
interpcom => <reply> $who, Command interpreter Library. URL: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~drezet/
INTERSHOP 3 for Linux => <reply> $who, a complete line of products for e-commerce that scales!. URL: http://www.intershop.com
interstar => <reply> $who, Browser based/javascript game. URL: http://members.xoom.com/synaesmedia/interstar/index.html
intimed => <reply> $who, A time server for synchronizing networked machines' clocks.. URL: http://goliat.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/inet/intimed-2.00.tar.gz
IntraLaunch => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.particle.net/IntraLaunch/x.html
IntraSite => <reply> $who, Intranet Website with news, search, etc.. URL: http://www.bulme.at/~zangl_th/intrasite/
Intrasite DialUp Firewall => <reply> $who, An easy to configure DialUp Firewall script with transparent proxy support etc.. URL: http://www.bulme.at/~zangl_th/intrasite-firewall/
IntraStore Server 98 => <reply> $who, Hybrid IMAP/LDAP/SMTP/Web Groupware Server. URL: http://intrastore.cdc.com/
Introduction to Linux => <reply> $who, Introduction to Linux Training Manual. URL: http://w3.one.net/~johnb/linux/
Inverse BBS => <reply> $who, BBS software for Linux. URL: http://www.darktech.org/zoob/
iod => <reply> $who, Install software on-demand on diskless clients. URL: 
iODBC Driver Manager and SDK => <reply> $who, Cross Platform ODBC Driver Manager. URL: http://www.iodbc.org
iOffice2000 => <reply> $who, A Web-based groupware application suite.. URL: http://www.scseuro.de/ioffice2000/
IP Filter => <reply> $who, TCP/IP packet filter. URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

MakeCD FrontEND => <reply> $who, Frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~AfterStapIT/
MakeEnv => <reply> $who, Graphical front-end for make using GTK+. URL: http://www.rit.edu/~waw0573/soft.html
makeheaders => <reply> $who, Automatically generates headers from C/C++ source. URL: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mkhdr/index.html
makeHTML => <reply> $who, Script for generating HTML code. URL: http://www.theofel.de/oss/makehtml.html
makeissue.pl => <reply> $who, Creates system info in a nice format to /etc/issue.*. URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~sejanus/makeissue-0.02.tar.gz
makeMP3 => <reply> $who, Makes ripping MP3s even easier. URL: http://members.xoom.com/linuxfu/
makepicgall => <reply> $who, Photo gallery web page index generator. URL: http://www.nachoz.com/gallery/
makeself => <reply> $who, Script to create self-extractable gzipped tar archives. URL: http://www.lokigames.com/~megastep/makeself/
maketool => <reply> $who, GTK front end for GNU make. URL: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~gnb/maketool/
make_news_site => <reply> $who, A simple web news site creator. URL: http://www.concentric.net/~damberge/news/make_news_site.html
MAL Sync => <reply> $who, synchronize Palm OS devices to Mobile Application Link (MAL) compliant servers. URL: http://www.etpsoft.com/malsync.html
Malform => <reply> $who, Mailto form processing utility. URL: http://personal.mcla.mass.edu/jareth/malform.html
MAM => <reply> $who, A mod_auth_mysql user/group manager (mod_perl safe). URL: http://mam.screamdesign.com
MAM/VRS => <reply> $who, MAM/VRS is an extensible graphics and visualization library. URL: http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/~mam/
MAMELang-lib => <reply> $who, A portable, dynamic translation system. URL: http://mamelang.emuhq.com/
ZorkCit => <reply> $who, A CGI-based Web approximation of the Citadel BBS system.. URL: http://zork.net/cit/
man-pages => <reply> $who, The Linux manpages collection. URL: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/
man-pages-ja => <reply> $who, Japanese man-page collection.. URL: http://www.linux.or.jp/JM/
man2html => <reply> $who, A Unix manpage-to-HTML converter. URL: http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html
Mangle => <reply> $who, C/C++ Source de-formatter/de-commentor. URL: http://magik.netpedia.net/mangle/
Manix => <reply> $who, X11 game (pacman style). URL: http://mc.microcaos.pt/freeware/manix.tgz

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Max for Linux (Xbase / Clipper compiler) => <reply> $who, Xbase compiler similar to Clipper. URL: http://www.plugsys.com/
MaxiWeb => <reply> $who, C++ ASP compiler and embedded web server for Linux and Win32. URL: http://www.kimballsoftware.com/products.shtml
Maxwell => <reply> $who, Word processor application for Linux Computers. URL: http://www.eeyore-mule.demon.co.uk/
Mayko mXmap => <reply> $who, Map viewer / navigator with GPS ability. URL: http://www.mayko.com
mbi => <reply> $who, Tool for generating and manipulating huge mandelbrot sets (fractals). URL: http://www.uninet.ee/~ragnar/mbi/
MBSE Bulletin Board System (BBS) => <reply> $who, Fidonet-capable ANSI BBS.. URL: http://www.telematique.org/mbse/
mbx2mbox => <reply> $who, Converts Outlook Express .mbx files into standard RFC822 mail files.. URL: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/index.html
Mcal => <reply> $who, libmcal powered unix cal replacement. URL: http://mcal.chek.com
mcal-drivers => <reply> $who, Calendar drivers for libmcal. URL: http://mcal.chek.com/
McClone => <reply> $who, MacOS source-compatible library. URL: http://www.gate.net/~mclinux/mcclone.html
mcfeely => <reply> $who, fault-tolerant, asynchronous, ordered remote job execution. URL: http://web.systhug.com/mcfeely/
mchat => <reply> $who, Chat client that uses IP multicasting. URL: http://www.interloper.net/~dan/software/software.html#mchat
mcl => <reply> $who, MUD client for Linux. URL: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/
mconv => <reply> $who, Internet BBS working as an overlay on top of the UNIX file system. URL: http://www.poboxes.com/andrew.wood/linux/mconv/
mcrypt => <reply> $who, A replacement for the old unix crypt(1). URL: http://hq.hellug.gr/~mcrypt/
MD5 message digest library => <reply> $who, Independent implementation of RFC 1321. URL: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/packages/md5.tar.gz
mdate => <reply> $who, A freely-available mayan date program. URL: http://ewe2.cvis.com.au/mdate/
MDBMS => <reply> $who, RDBMS with web support. URL: http://www.hinttech.com/mdbms/
mdmpoold => <reply> $who, simulates linux serial devices on a windows box as serial port. URL: http://www.muehldorf.com/mdmpoold/index.html
Me3D => <reply> $who, OpenGL 3D vector-based modeling tool. URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/samr7/me3d/
MeatGrinder => <reply> $who, Java based binary newsgroup reader.. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~telliott/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

NSIReg => <reply> $who, NSIRegistry Whois Tool. URL: ftp://ftp.magenet.com/pub/nsireg/
NSKAN => <reply> $who, A simple portscan. URL: http://ntflander.freeweb.org/
nslint => <reply> $who, checks DNS files for syntax errors. URL: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/nslint-2.0.1a1.tar.Z
nsListen => <reply> $who, Clicking on a shoutcast or icecast server link starts the streaming mp3 playing. URL: http://theory.org/nslisten.pl
nss => <reply> $who, Netscape Startup Script. URL: http://users.telekabel.nl/eon/netscape.html
nss_ldap => <reply> $who, LDAP Nameservice Switch Module. URL: http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html
NSTAT => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.hax.net/~nuxx/stats/nstat.pl.gz
nstreams => <reply> $who, Network streams analyzer. URL: http://www.hsc.fr/cabinet/produits/index.html.en
NTFS for Linux => <reply> $who, Read-only NTFS module for Linux. URL: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/
ntop => <reply> $who, Network usage monitor. URL: http://www-serra.unipi.it/~ntop/
NTP => <reply> $who, A time synchronization daemon which keeps your system time accurate.. URL: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~ntp/
ntron => <reply> $who, A perl5 IRC bot in the early stages of development.. URL: http://core.linuxfreak.org/ntron/index.php3
Nubell Client => <reply> $who, Nubell Client is a Novell Client in TCL/TK. URL: http://masterjg.8m.com/nubell/
NUKE => <reply> $who, Perl Source Code for a complete automated news site with comments and surveys.. URL: http://linux.ncc.org.ve/
nullidentd => <reply> $who, Minimal lying identd daemon. URL: http://www.tildeslash.org/nullidentd.html
nullmailer => <reply> $who, A simple to configure relay-only MTA.. URL: http://em.ca/~bruceg/nullmailer/
number => <reply> $who, Print the English name of a number of any size. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/chongo/number/number.html
NumExp => <reply> $who, Numeric methods implementation for Linux. URL: http://numexp.sourceforge.net/
NumPres => <reply> $who, Caller ID program. URL: http://www.flashback.net/~hermann/numpres.html
nums => <reply> $who, Tiny C program to assist in shell loops.. URL: http://funkcity.com/0101/
numtracks => <reply> $who, Find out the number of audio tracks on a CDROM.. URL: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~skx/linux/index3.html

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PaNtS => <reply> $who, Allows an individual to connect an internal LAN to the Internet.. URL: http://www.vu.union.edu/~pants/
PAP-wizard => <reply> $who, Internet configurator and dialer. URL: http://members.xoom.com/softcasm/
Papadef => <reply> $who, Client for the ParaCHAT system. URL: http://bachue.com/papadef/
par => <reply> $who, Paragraph formatter for plain text. URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/
Paralogger => <reply> $who, Script to ease the process of setting up a root tail window. URL: http://home.sol.no/~perplexo/paralogger/
parseargs => <reply> $who, Extended replacement for getopt or getopts. URL: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~dutky/parseargs.html
parsecfg => <reply> $who, a library for parsing a configuration file. URL: http://www.enjoy.ne.jp/~gm/program/parsecfg/
pasdoc => <reply> $who, Pascal documentation generator. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/6686/pasdoc.html
Pash => <reply> $who, A full-screen shell (commander GUI) for *nix.. URL: http://home.inreach.com/xpierre/pash/
pasmon => <reply> $who, A Graphical Passive Network Monitor. URL: http://www.uq.edu.au/~cmamuys/source_downloads/
passwdd => <reply> $who, Password synchronization server/client. URL: http://www.varna.net/~alex/passwdd/
pasu => <reply> $who, Probability and Statistics Utilities. URL: http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/6885/
Zut => <reply> $who, Easy and fast graphical back-end. URL: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~loisel/zut/zut.html
PathFinder => <reply> $who, A personal web search engine. URL: http://www.imaginet.fr/~pcaron/
paul => <reply> $who, GTK+ image viewer specially designed for animations. URL: http://www.physik.uni-halle.de/~e2od5/debian/paul/
pavuk => <reply> $who, Webgrabber with an optional Xt or GTK GUI. URL: http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/
Paw => <reply> $who, Perl ASCII Widgets. URL: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/U/UG/UGANSERT/
Payload Delivery Vehicle => <reply> $who, Creates a single executable for one-step end user installs.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/pdv-1.1.tar.gz
pbm2l2030 => <reply> $who, Driver for the Lexmark 2030 printer. URL: http://home.fhtw-berlin.de/~s0226426/
pbm2ppa => <reply> $who, A Ghostscript PBM converter for printing to HP. URL: http://www.httptech.com/ppa/
pbmwbmp => <reply> $who, Convert beetween pbm and wbmp images.. URL: http://www.looplab.com/wap/tools/

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PerfectBackup => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.merlinsoftech.com/
PerfGraph => <reply> $who, Web based Unix Performance Grapher. URL: http://www.sysman.nl/perfgraph/
perfs => <reply> $who, A tool that helps dispatching processes over a network. URL: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/perfs.html
Perl => <reply> $who, High-level, general-purpose programming language. URL: http://www.perl.com/
Perl App Server => <reply> $who, Object Oriented Application Server written in Perl. URL: http://www.bgw.org/projects/pas/
Perl Composer => <reply> $who, Perl/Gtk integrated visual programming environment. URL: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/~wangy/PerlComposer/vperl.html
Perl Fantasy Football League => <reply> $who, Perl scripts to maintain a fantasy football league. URL: http://homepages.tesco.net/~grawlfang/fantasy/perlfootie.html
Perl Mailer => <reply> $who, E-mails the contents of any form, while doing basic data validation and auth.. URL: http://www.gallanttech.com/resources/documentation/mailer/
Perl PDC => <reply> $who, Perl Project Detour Client. URL: http://www.detour.net/
Perl Shell => <reply> $who, Simple interactive Perl shell. URL: http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/index.html
Perl Web Publisher => <reply> $who, Perl script to synchronize your ftp-only web site at your ISP.. URL: http://www.net-link.net/~jettero/pwebp/index.html
Perl WebStats => <reply> $who, Perl Apache log analyzer/report generator. URL: http://www.gallanttech.com/resources/documentation/webstats/
perl-cfd => <reply> $who, High-stability cfengine server daemon.. URL: http://www.suitenine.com/perl-cfd/
Perl-LZO => <reply> $who, Provides LZO bindings for Perl5. URL: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/lzo.html
Perl/Tk Finger => <reply> $who, Perl/Tk Finger Client. URL: http://www.whirlnet.demon.co.uk/linux/ptkfinger.html
Perl/Tk Headline Grabbers => <reply> $who, Headline grabbers for various Linux-related sites. URL: http://jade.netpedia.net/
Perl/Tk NSLookup => <reply> $who, DNS Lookup app written in Perl/Tk. URL: http://www.whirlnet.demon.co.uk/linux/ptknslookup.html
Perl/Tk Time Client => <reply> $who, Compares your system time with another machine. URL: http://www.whirlnet.demon.co.uk/linux/ptktime.html
perlbot => <reply> $who, An IRC bot in Perl written with simplicity in mind. URL: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~burke/perlbot/
perldap => <reply> $who, Perl C and OO interface to LDAP. URL: http://www.mozilla.org/directory/
perldbgui => <reply> $who, A GUI for the Perl debugger.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~CurtMcKelvey/perldbgui/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

pup => <reply> $who, Printer Cartridge Utility. URL: http://pup.hypermart.net/
purl => <reply> $who, A tool to check if web-pages have been modified. URL: http://homer.isoe.ch/~lanzm/purl/
PURP => <reply> $who, An ncurses-based RPM-manager. URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/purp/
pushsite => <reply> $who, Utility to update remote site. URL: http://www.dyer.demon.co.uk/slug/tipscrip.htm
PVCj => <reply> $who, Client side installation of JARs within Sun's Java Plugin. URL: http://granitepeaks.com/pvcj/
PVFS => <reply> $who, A parallel file system for clusters of PCs. URL: http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/
PVM => <reply> $who, A portable message-passingprogramming system. URL: http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/
PVM Gmake => <reply> $who, Distributed gmake. URL: http://www.crosswinds.net/~jlabrous/GNU/PVMGmake/
PVM++ => <reply> $who, A C++-Library for PVM. URL: http://goethe.ira.uka.de/~wilhelmi/pvm++/
pvmpov => <reply> $who, POV-Ray raytracing in a parallel environment. URL: http://www.luga.de/~flierl/pvmpov/
pvmsync => <reply> $who, Extends POSIX-like synchronization mechanisms to a Linux Beowulf cluster. URL: http://torch.rowan.edu/pvmsync/
pwcheck => <reply> $who, MySQL password authentication for the Cyrus IMAP server.. URL: http://earth.alsland.com/anewsome/pwcheck_mysql-0.7.tar.gz
pwcheck_pgsql => <reply> $who, pwcheck_pgsql is a an authentication module for the Cyrus IMAP server.. URL: ftp://ftp.kstu.edu.ru/pub/unix/cyrus/pwcheck_pgsql-0.1.tgz
pxtools => <reply> $who, Collection of tools to convert a Paradox-database. URL: http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/pxtools/
Pybliographer => <reply> $who, tool for bibliographic databases manipulation. URL: http://www.gnome.org/pybliographer/
PyBot => <reply> $who, An IRC bot written in Python.. URL: ftp://205.238.164.201/pub/pybot/pybot-latest.tar.gz
pyCA => <reply> $who, A project to create Certification Authority in Python. URL: http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/
pyCDAudio => <reply> $who, Python wrapperes for libcdaudio. URL: http://www.michigannet.com/~rbb/pycdaudio/
pyChing => <reply> $who, Cast and interpret I Ching hexagrams. URL: http://www.essemgee.xnot.com/pyching/
pydb => <reply> $who, A modified version of the standard Python debugger. URL: http://daikon.tuc.noao.edu/python/
pyDE => <reply> $who, Programmers editor for Python. URL: http://www.spirito.de/pyde/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

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
syncopt => <reply> $who, A Flexible and Simple Approach to Package Install. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/syncopt/index.html
Synthesis Toolkit => <reply> $who, C++ classes for software-based sound synthesis/processing. URL: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/STK/
sysdaemon => <reply> $who, Unix system monitor daemon and server. URL: http://www.marketrends.net/sysdaemon/
sysinfo => <reply> $who, Prints system information, all-in-one pack.. URL: http://www.aux-tech.org/aghi/prog/sysinfo-1.1.tar.gz
sysinfo.app => <reply> $who, A process manager designed for use with Window Maker.. URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~crn/sysinfo/
sysinfo.sh => <reply> $who, A bash script to gather system specs. URL: http://www.talug.org/HOWTO/sysinfo.html
sysklogd => <reply> $who, System log daemons. URL: ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/sysklogd/
syslog-ng => <reply> $who, A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.. URL: http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/
Sysmon => <reply> $who, Accurate and high performance network monitoring tool.. URL: http://puck.nether.net/sysmon/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Troll-FTPd => <reply> $who, A free, small, and secure virtual FTP server. URL: http://www.troll.no/freebies/ftpd.html
TRONtium => <reply> $who, A clone of the classic TRON light-cycles game.. URL: http://www.jigsawdezign.demon.co.uk/trontium.htm
TroubleTickets => <reply> $who, HelpDesk Trouble Ticket Web Application. URL: http://faculty.cinstate.cc.oh.us/TroubleTickets/
truc => <reply> $who, Two shell scripts that allow you to transfer big files via e-mail. URL: http://www.ensg.u-nancy.fr/~segonds/truc/
TrueReality => <reply> $who, N64 Emulator. URL: http://www.emuhq.com/truereality/
Truth VSA => <reply> $who, Open Source Lie Detection. URL: http://www.accessone.com/~rivero/POLITICS/VSA/truthvsa.html
TSambaClass => <reply> $who, Cross platform C++ class library for accessing smb.conf file.. URL: http://www.spanware.com/
tsbiff => <reply> $who, Tsbiff will oversee your mailbox and notify you when new messages appears. URL: http://www.tildeslash.com/tsbiff/
Tsinvest => <reply> $who, Quantitative financial analysis of equities.. URL: http://www2.inow.com/~conover/ntropix/
TSpaces => <reply> $who, Allows heterogeneous, Java-enabled devices to exchange data. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/
tsync => <reply> $who, A Perl scipt for synchronising the system time with a remote server.. URL: http://www.hibernaculum.demon.co.uk/
TT-News => <reply> $who, A headline-news ticker for various news-sources.. URL: http://www.student.lu.se/~etn97ksi/sim_home/
TTC => <reply> $who, Controls login on ttys. URL: http://poseidon.pspt.fi/~priikone/english/programs.shtml
TTdb => <reply> $who, Simple database API written entirely in /bin/sh. URL: http://www.tinaa.com/TTdb/index.html
TThread => <reply> $who, A Cross-platfrom Threading library.. URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~stanis/tthread.html
ttmkfdir => <reply> $who, A tool to create fonts.dir files from TrueType fonts. URL: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/ttmkfdir.tar.gz
ttysnoop => <reply> $who, Allows you to spy on telnet+serial connections. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/terminal/ttysnoop-0.12c.tar.gz
Turbo Vision => <reply> $who, Nice and complete console TUI (Text User Interface) for C++. URL: http://members.xoom.com/stropea/tvision.html
TurboCluster Server => <reply> $who, High availability load-balancer for IP applications, works w/ heterogeneous nets. URL: http://beta.turbolinux.com/cluster/
TurboJ => <reply> $who, High performance Java byte code compiler. URL: http://www.camb.opengroup.org/openitsol/turboj/index.htm
TurboVision for UNIX => <reply> $who, Linux port of well-known DOS application framework. URL: ftp://ftp.vix.com/guests/ssigala/pub/tvision/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

wmtv => <reply> $who, WindowMaker TV dock.app. URL: http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/~wliang/
WMUpTime => <reply> $who, Uptime-dockapp for Window Maker/Afterstep. URL: http://hem.passagen.se/joakime/linuxapp.html
wmWeather => <reply> $who, Displays your current local weather conditions.. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml
wmx => <reply> $who, Rather less minimal derivative of wm2. URL: http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/
wmx10 => <reply> $who, A WindowMaker/Afterstep applet to control X10's Firecracker kit. URL: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~jhawkins/wmx10/
wmxmms_spectrum => <reply> $who, XMMS spectrum analyzer plugin (WindowMaker Applet). URL: http://silicon.nu/~ponta/
wmxres => <reply> $who, Dock applet for changing X modes. URL: http://www.worldnet.net/~labayle/
wmy2k => <reply> $who, Countdown to y2k for your Window Maker dock. URL: http://wmaker.strlen.net/stuff.shtml
WN => <reply> $who, A simple, robust Webserver whose design emphasizes security. URL: http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/
WN/SSL => <reply> $who, SSL add-on for WN 2.0.x Webserver. URL: http://www.freestone.net/soft/
WNIC => <reply> $who, WNIC synchronous adaptdriver for Linux 2.2. URL: ftp://rvs.ctrl-c.liu.se/pub/wingel/wnic-0.1.tar.gz
wnmysqlauth => <reply> $who, mySQL authentication module for the WN web server. URL: http://www.freestone.net/soft/
Wolfenstein 3D for Linux => <reply> $who, A Linux port of Wolfenstein 3D. URL: http://jcs.superblock.net/wolf3d/
WolfGL => <reply> $who, 3D first-person shooter. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3479/wolfgl.htm
Wolfshade mud => <reply> $who, Wolfshade Mud: an original MUD code base written in C++. URL: http://www.wolfshade.com
Word Inspector => <reply> $who, GTK frontend to Dict dictionary program. URL: http://www.tir.com/~sgifford/wordinspect/
word2x => <reply> $who, MS Word doc to multiple format converter. URL: http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/
WordNet => <reply> $who, on-line lexical reference system. URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Work report => <reply> $who, Keeps track of your hours of work. URL: http://www.tobi.nu/work-report/
Worker => <reply> $who, Highly configurable graphical Filemanager for X. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~hoffmanr/
WorkMan => <reply> $who, X11 CD player. URL: http://www.midwinter.com/workman/

factpacks/Linux.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Xenon-SQL => <reply> $who, A Java based interactive SQL editor which uses Swing/JFC pluggable GUI. URL: http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/software.html
XEphem => <reply> $who, XEphem is a free interactive astronomy program for UNIX systems with X & Motif. URL: http://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com/xephem/
XEvil => <reply> $who, 3rd person, side-view, fast-action, kill-them-before-they-kill-yougame.. URL: http://www.xevil.com
XFB => <reply> $who, Hardware-accelerated fullscreen 2D graphics library. URL: http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/xfb/
XFCom_3DLabs => <reply> $who, XSuSE X Server for 3DLabs Chipsets. URL: http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html
XFCom_Rage128 => <reply> $who, XFCom server for ATI Rage128 based cards. URL: http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html#rage
xfedor => <reply> $who, Editor for BDF fonts, xbm and xpm images. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/
XFgradebook => <reply> $who, A simple grade tracking program for teachers written in Xforms.. URL: http://www.bluesine.tj/Software/xfgb/main.html
xfig => <reply> $who, Drawing Program. URL: http://epb1.lbl.gov/homepages/Brian_Smith/xfig/
xfigchart.pl => <reply> $who, Bar chart generator for XFig. URL: http://eda.ei.tum.de/~mcp/xfigchart.html
Xfiles => <reply> $who, Xfiles file tree synchronization and cross-validation. URL: http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/xfiles.html
xfIRC => <reply> $who, Extensible Java IRC Client currently in development. URL: http://kitsumi.nethack.net/software/xfirc/
xflame => <reply> $who, Graphic hack to draw a cool flickering flame. URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~rahul/
XFMail => <reply> $who, Email client for X11 based on XForms. URL: http://xfmail.slappy.org/
XForms => <reply> $who, . URL: http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms/
XFree86 => <reply> $who, Freely redistributable implementation of the X Window System. URL: http://www.xfree86.org/
XfreeCD => <reply> $who, GTK+ based cd player.. URL: http://www.tatoosh.com/nexus/xfreecd.shtml
xfreecell => <reply> $who, Another implementation of famous solitaire game. URL: http://www2.giganet.net/~nakayama
XFrisk => <reply> $who, Networked X11 version of Parker Brothers' classic game, with computer players.. URL: http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Info/People/mfeingol/elan/frisk.html
xfs => <reply> $who, XFS: A high-performance journaling filesystem. URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
xfsft => <reply> $who, X11 font server with TrueType support and Internationalization. URL: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/

factpacks/MacErrorCodes.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Mac Error -625 => ( cannotDeferErr ) Unable to defer additional user functions **Memory Dispatch Errors**
Mac Error -800 => ( rcDBNull ) The data item was NULL **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -801 => ( rcDBValue ) Data available or successfully retrieved **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -802 => ( rcDBError ) Error executing function **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -803 => ( rcDBBadType ) Next data item not of requested data type **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -804 => ( rcDBBreak ) Function timed out **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -805 => ( rcDBExec ) Query currently executing **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -806 => ( reDBBadSessID ) Session ID is invalid **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -807 => ( rcDBBadSessNum ) Invalid session number **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -808 => ( rcDBBadDDEV ) Couldn't find the specified database extension, or error occurred in opening database extension **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -809 => ( rcDBAsyncNotSupp ) The database extension does not support asynchronous calls **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -810 => ( rcDBBadAsyncPB ) Invalid parameter block specified **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -811 => ( rcDBNoHandler ) There is no handler for this data type installed for the current application **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -812 => ( rcDBWrongVersion ) Wrong version number **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -813 => ( rcDBPackNotInited ) The InitDBPack function has not yet been called **DatabaseAccess (Pack 13) Errors**
Mac Error -850 => ( hmHelpDisabled ) Help balloons are not enabled **Help Manager Errors**
Mac Error -851 => ( hmResNotFound ) ???? **Help Manager Errors**
Mac Error -852 => ( hmMemFullErr ) ???? **Help Manager Errors**
Mac Error -853 => ( hmBalloonAborted ) Because of constant cursor movement, the help balloon wasn't displayed **Help Manager Errors**
Mac Error -854 => ( hmSameAsLastBalloon ) Menu and item are same as previous menu and item **Help Manager Errors**
Mac Error -855 => ( hmHelpManagerNotInited ) Help menu not set up **Help Manager Errors**

factpacks/MacErrorCodes.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

Mac Error -1072 => ( aspSessClosed ) Session closed **ASP Errors (XPP driver)**
Mac Error -1073 => ( aspSizeErr ) Command block too big **ASP Errors (XPP driver)**
Mac Error -1074 => ( aspTooMany ) Too many clients (server error) **ASP Errors (XPP driver)**
Mac Error -1075 => ( aspNoAck ) No ack on attention request (server err) **ASP Errors (XPP driver)**
Mac Error -1096 => ( reqFailed ) Request to contact router failed: retry count exceeded **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1097 => ( tooManyReqs ) Too many concurrent requests **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1098 => ( tooManySkts ) Too many concurrent responding-sockets **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1099 => ( badATPSkt ) Bad ATP-responding socket **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1100 => ( badBuffNum ) Bad response buffer number specififed **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1101 => ( noRelErr ) No release received **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1102 => ( cbNotFound ) Control Block not found; no pending asynchronous calls **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1103 => ( noSendResp ) AddResponse issued without SendResponse **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1104 => ( noDataArea ) No data area for request to MPP **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1105 => ( reqAborted ) ERdCancel function called for this ERead [SendRequest aborted by RelTCB] **AppleTalk -  ATP Errors**
Mac Error -1273 => ( errOpenDenied ) Open request denied by recipient **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1274 => ( errDSPQueueSize ) Send or receive queue is too small **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1275 => ( errFwdReset ) Read terminated by forward reset **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1276 => ( errAttention ) Attention message too long **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1277 => ( errOpening ) Attempt to open connection failed **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1278 => ( errState ) Bad connection state for this operation **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1279 => ( errAborted ) Request aborted by dspRemove or dspClose function **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**

factpacks/jargon-split.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

emoticon4 is  world's communication channels."  [GLS   confirms that he remembers this original posting].   Note for the {newbie} Overuse of the smiley is a mark of   loserhood!  More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that   you've gone ov...
empire is  n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a   game written by Peter Langston many years ago.  There are five or six   multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication, and one   single-player version implemented for...
empire2 is  available as MS-DOS freeware.  All are notoriously addictive. 
engine is  n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function   but can't be used without some kind of {front end}.  Today we   have, especially, `print engine' the guts of a laser printer.   2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one ...
engine2 is  a `database engine'.   The hackish senses of `engine' are actually close to its original,   pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill, clever device, or   instrument (the word is cognate to `ingenuity').  This sense had   not been comple...
engine3 is  power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbage's time, which   explains why he named the stored-program computer that   he designed in 1844 the `Analytical Engine'. 
English is  1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in   any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary   produced from it by a compiler.  The idea behind the term is that   to a real hacker, a program written in his fav...
English2 is  readable as English.  Usage used mostly by   old-time hackers, though recognizable in context.  2. The official   name of the database language used by the Pick Operating System,   actually a sort of crufty interpreted BASIC with delusio...
English3 is  {marketroid}s to say "Yes, and you   can program our computers in English!" to ignorant {suit}s   without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws. 
enhancement is  n. {Marketroid}-speak for a bug {fix}.  This abuse   of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence   into increased revenue.  A hacker being ironic would instead call   the fix a {feature} --- or perhaps save some ...
ENQ is  /enkw/ or /enk/ [from the ASCII mnemonic ENQuire for   0000101] An on-line convention for querying someone's availability.   After opening a {talk mode} connection to someone apparently in   heavy hack mode, one might type `SYN SYN ENQ?' (the...
ENQ2 is  bytes), and expect a return   of {ACK} or {NAK} depending on whether or not the person felt   interruptible.  Compare {ping}, {finger}, and the usage of   `FOO?' listed under {talk mode}. 
EOF is  /E-O-F/ [acronym, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] Refers   esp. to whatever {out-of-band} value is returned by   C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in   other environments) when end of file has been reached.  Thi...
EOF2 is  V6 UNIX, but was   originally 0.  2. Used by extension in non-computer contexts when a   human is doing something that can be modeled as a sequential read   and can't go further.  "Yeah, I looked for a list of 360 mnemonics   to post as a jo...
EOF3 is  had   was a {JCL} manual."  See also {EOL}. 
EOL is  /E-O-L/ [End Of Line] n. Syn. for {newline}, derived   perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal.  Now rare, but widely   recognized and occasionally used for brevity.  Used in the   example entry under {BNF}.  See also {EOF}.
EOU is  /E-O-U/ n. The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control   character (End Of User) that could make an ASR-33 Teletype explode   on receipt.  This parodied the numerous obscure delimiter and   control characters left in ASCII from the days when it ...
EOU2 is  teletypes than computers (e.g.,   FS, GS, RS, US, EM, SUB, ETX, and esp. EOT).  It is worth   remembering that ASR-33s were big, noisy mechanical beasts with a   lot of clattering parts; the notion that one might explode was   nowhere near a...
EOU3 is  sitting in   front of a {tube} or flatscreen today. 
epoch is  [UNIX prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n. The time and   date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and   timestamp values.  Under most UNIX versions the epoch is 000000   GMT, January 1, 1970.  System time is measured in se...
epoch2 is  problems may ensue when the clock   wraps around (see {wrap around}), which is not necessarily a   rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a signed   32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years.  The   1-tick-per-second c...

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HAKMEM11 is  occurrence, typing it out,   and iterating.  This ensures that every 4-letter string output   occurs in the original.  The program typed BANANANANANANANA....  We   note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of."  In one   sense...
HAKMEM12 is  there are   nine.  The editing program TECO finds five.  Thus it finds only the   first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next.  By   Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a   loop.  An option to find ...
HAKMEM13 is  it would require backing up N - 1 characters before   seeking the next N-character string.   Note This last item refers to a {Dissociated Press}   implementation.  See also {banana problem}.   HAKMEM also contains some rather more compli...
HAKMEM14 is  these examples show some of its fun flavor. 
hakspek is  /hak'speek/ n. A shorthand method of spelling found on   many British academic bulletin boards and {talker system}s.   Syllables and whole words in a sentence are replaced by single   ASCII characters the names of which are phonetically s...
hakspek2 is  are usually dropped.  Hence,   `for' becomes `4'; `two', `too', and `to' become `2'; `ck'   becomes `k'.  "Before I see you tomorrow" becomes "b4 i c u   2moro".  First appeared in London about 1986, and was probably   caused by the slow...
hakspek3 is  operated on archaic machines with outdated operating systems and   no standard methods of communication.  Has become rarer since.   See also {talk mode}. 
hamster is  n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code   that does one thing well; a small, self-contained hack.  The image   is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel.  2. [UK] Any item   of hardware made by Amstrad, a com...
hand-hacking is  n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from   an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to   coerce the compiler into generating better code.  Both the term and   the practice are becoming uncommon.  See {tune},...
hand-hacking2 is  2. More generally, manual   construction or patching of data sets that would normally be   generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another   program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by   humans. 
handshaking is  n. Hardware or software activity designed to start or   keep two machines or programs in synchronization as they {do   protocol}.  Often applied to human activity; thus, a hacker might   watch two people in conversation nodding their ...
handshaking2 is  others' points and say "Oh, they're   handshaking!".  See also {protocol}. 
handwave is  [poss. from gestures characteristic of stage magicians]   1. v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to   support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty   logic.  2. n. The act of handwaving.  "Boy, wha...
handwave2 is  with "Clearly..." or   "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is   a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these   constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone   else's argument suggests...
handwave3 is  this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the   listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you   have said is {bogus}.  Failing that, if a listener does object,   you might try to dismiss the obj...
handwave4 is  this word is often accompanied by gestures both hands   up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting   at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the   handwave); alternatively, holding the forea...
handwave5 is  at the wrist to make them flutter.  In   context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker   makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave   your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloque...
hang is  v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.  "The   system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive".   See {wedged}, {hung}.  2. To wait for some event to occur; to   hang around until something happens.  "The program d...
hang2 is  a character."  Compare {block}.   3. To attach a peripheral device, esp. in the construction `hang   off'  "We're going to hang another tape drive off the file   server."  Implies a device attached with cables, rather than   something that ...
Hanlon's Razor is  prov. A corollary of {Finagle's Law}, similar to   Occam's Razor, that reads "Never attribute to malice that which can   be adequately explained by stupidity."  The derivation of the   common title Hanlon's Razor is unknown; a simi...
Hanlon's Razor2 is  James.  Quoted here because it seems to be a   particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in {fortune   cookie} files and the login banners of BBS systems and commercial   networks.  This probably reflects the hacker's daily...

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has the X nature2 is  nature!"  See also {the X that can be Y   is not the true X}. 
hash bucket is  n. A notional receptacle into which more than one   thing accessed by the same key or short code might be dropped.   When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you   typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the ...
hash bucket2 is  letter sections.  This is used as   techspeak with respect to code that uses actual hash functions; in   jargon, it is used for human associative memory as well.  Thus, two   things `in the same hash bucket' may be confused with each...
hash bucket3 is  length, you get too many common   grammar words in the first couple of hash buckets." Compare {hash   collision}. 
hash collision is  [from the technical usage] n. (var. `hash   clash') When used of people, signifies a confusion in associative   memory or imagination, especially a persistent one (see   {thinko}).  True story One of us [ESR] was once on the phone ...
hash collision2 is   When asked what he   expected Berkeley to be like, the friend replied "Well, I have   this mental picture of naked women throwing Molotov cocktails, but   I think that's just a collision in my hash tables."  Compare   {hash bucke...
hat is  n. Common (spoken) name for the circumflex (`^', ASCII   1011110) character.  See {ASCII} for other synonyms.
HCF is  /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of   several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with   destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on   several well-known architectures going as far back...
HCF2 is  was the first for which the HCF opcode   became widely known.  This instruction caused the processor to   {toggle} a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in   some configurations this can actually cause lines to burn   up. 
heads down is  [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so   long that everything outside the focus area is missed.  See also   {hack mode} and {larval stage}, although it is not confined to   fledgling hackers.
heartbeat is  n. 1. The signal emitted by a Level 2 Ethernet   transceiver at the end of every packet to show that the   collision-detection circuit is still connected.  2. A periodic   synchronization signal used by software or hardware, such as a b...
heartbeat2 is  `natural' oscillation   frequency of a computer's clock crystal, before frequency division   down to the machine's clock rate.  4. A signal emitted at regular   intervals by software to demonstrate that it is still alive.   Sometimes h...
heartbeat3 is  stops   hearing a heartbeat.  See also {breath-of-life packet}. 
heavy metal is  [Cambridge] n. Syn. {big iron}.
heavy wizardry is  n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly   intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system   or language or complex application interface.  Distinguished from   {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *th...
heavy wizardry2 is  drivers is heavy wizardry; so is   interfacing to {X} (sense 2) without a toolkit.  Esp. found in   comments similar to "Heavy wizardry begins here ...".  Compare   {voodoo programming}. 
heavyweight is  adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive;   featureful, but costly.  Esp. used of communication protocols,   language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum   generality and/or ease of implementation has been pu...
heavyweight2 is  considerations such as speed, memory utilization,   and startup time.  {EMACS} is a heavyweight editor; {X} is an   *extremely* heavyweight window system.  This term isn't   pejorative, but one man's heavyweight is another's {elephan...
heisenbug is  /hi'zen-buhg/ [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty   Principle in quantum physics] n. A bug that disappears or alters   its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.  Antonym of   {Bohr bug}; see also {mandelbug}.  In C, nine out of ...
heisenbug2 is  on core} phenomena (esp. lossage   related to corruption of the malloc {arena}) or errors that   {smash the stack}. 
Helen Keller mode is  n. State of a hardware or software system that   is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating no   output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion   into {deep space}.  (Unfair to the real He...

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swab2 is  equivalent to it.  See also   {big-endian}, {little-endian}, {middle-endian},   {bytesexual}. 
swap is  vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access   memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa   (`swap in').  Often refers specifically to the use of disks as   `virtual memory'.  As pieces of data or program are nee...
swap2 is  processing; when they are no longer   needed they may be swapped out again.  2. The jargon use of these   terms analogizes people's short-term memories with core.  Cramming   for an exam might be spoken of as swapping in.  If you temporaril...
swap3 is  it, your excuse is that it   was swapped out.  To `keep something swapped in' means to keep it   fresh in your memory "I reread the TECO manual every few months   to keep it swapped in."  If someone interrupts you just as you got   a good i...
swap4 is  this   out", implying that the piece of paper is your extra-somatic   memory and if you don't swap the info out by writing it down it   will get overwritten and lost as you talk.  Compare {page in},   {page out}. 
swap space is  n. Storage space, especially temporary storage space   used during a move or reconfiguration.  "I'm just using that corner   of the machine room for swap space."
swapped in is  n. See {swap}.  See also {page in}.
swapped out is  n. See {swap}.  See also {page out}.
swizzle is  v. To convert external names, array indices, or references   within a data structure into address pointers when the data   structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also   called `pointer swizzling'); this may be done f...
swizzle2 is  simplify code (e.g., by turning lots of   name lookups into pointer dereferences).  The converse operation is   sometimes termed `unswizzling'.  See also {snap}. 
sync is  /sink/ (var. `synch') n., vi. 1. To synchronize, to   bring into synchronization.  2. [techspeak] To force all pending   I/O to the disk; see {flush}, sense 2.  3. More generally, to   force a number of competing processes or agents to a sta...
sync2 is  to crash; thus, to checkpoint   (in the database-theory sense). 
syntactic sugar is  [coined by Peter Landin] n. Features added to a   language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for humans,   that do not affect the expressiveness of the formalism (compare   {chrome}).  Used esp. when there is an obvious and ...
syntactic sugar2 is  into other constructs already   present in the notation.  C's `a[i]' notation is syntactic   sugar for `*(a + i)'.  "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the   semicolon."  --- Alan Perlis   The variant `syntactic saccharine' is also...
syntactic sugar3 is  gratuitous, in that syntactic sugar   serves a purpose (making something more acceptable to humans) but   syntactic saccharine serves no purpose at all. 
sys-frog is  /sis'frog/ [the PLATO system] n. Playful variant of   `sysprog', which is in turn short for `systems programmer'.
sysadmin is  /sis'ad-min/ n. Common contraction of `system   admin'; see {admin}.
sysop is  /sis'op/ n. [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and   usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system.  A common neophyte   mistake on {FidoNet} is to address a message to `sysop' in an   international {echo}, thus sending it to hundreds of...
system is  n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.  2. The   entire computer system, including input/output devices, the   supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software.  3. Any   large-scale program.  4. Any method or algorithm.  5...
system2 is  (in senses 1 and 2 only; for   sense 3 one mentions the particular program e.g., `LISP   hacker') 
systems jock is  n. See {jock}, (sense 2).

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ELIZA effect3 => patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with ELIZA. ...
ELIZA effect4 => tendency to attach to words meanings which the computer never put there. The ELIZA effect is a {Good Thing} when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analyzing an Artificial Intelligence s...
elvish => n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the `Book of Kells'. Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in `The Lord of The Rings' as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' ...
EMACS => /ee'maks/ [from Editing MACroS] n. The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a program editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under {ITS} at the MIT AI lab, but the most widely used vers...
email => /ee'mayl/ 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. See {network address}. 2. vt. To send electronic mail. Oddly enough, the w...
emoticon => /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n. An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news. Hundreds have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include (These may become more comprehensible if you tilt your head sideways, to ...
empire => n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago. There are five or six multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication, and one single-player version implemented for both UN...
engine => n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of {front end}. Today we have, especially, `print engine' the guts of a laser printer. 2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that doe...
English => 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite pr...
enhancement => n. Marketroid-speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature --- or perhaps save some effort by decla...
ENQ => /enkw/ or /enk/ [from the ASCII mnemonic ENQuire for 0000101] An on-line convention for querying someone's availability. After opening a {talk mode} connection to someone apparently in heavy hack mode, one might type `SYN SYN ENQ?' (the SYNs r...
EOF => /E-O-F/ [acronym, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] Refers esp. to whatever out-of-band value is returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached. This value is...
EOL => /E-O-L/ [End Of Line] n. Syn. for newline, derived perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal. Now rare, but widely recognized and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry under BNF. See also EOF.
EOU => /E-O-U/ n. The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control character (End Of User) that could make an ASR-33 Teletype explode on receipt. This parodied the numerous obscure delimiter and control characters left in ASCII from the days when it was asso...
epoch => [UNIX prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n. The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most UNIX versions the epoch is 000000 GMT, January 1, 1970. System time is measured in seconds or ...
epsilon => [see delta] 1. n. A small quantity of anything. "The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible; less than marginal. "We can get this feature for epsilon cost." 3. `within epsilon of' close enough to be indistinguishable for all prac...
epsilon squared => n. A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go w...
epsilon squared2 => of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare {lost in the underflow}, {lost in the noise}. 
the era => Syn. epoch. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymous, but `era' usually connotes a span of time rather than a point in time. The epoch usage is recommended.
Eric Conspiracy => n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. The...
Eric Conspiracy2 => more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the `Allman style' described under {indent ...

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Hackintosh => n. 1. An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a `Mac XL'). 2. A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
hackish => /hak'ish/ adj. (also hackishness n.) 1. Said of something that is or involves a hack. 2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture. See also true-hacker.
hackishness => n. The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Syn. hackitude.
hackitude => n. Syn. hackishness; this word is considered sillier.
hair => [back-formation from hairy] n. The complications that make something hairy. "Decoding TECO commands requires a certain amount of hair." Often seen in the phrase `infinite hair', which connotes extreme complexity. Also in `hairiferous' (tendin...
hairy => adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy." 2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy." 3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context "He knows this h...
HAKMEM => /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for `hacks me...
hakspek => /hak'speek/ n. A shorthand method of spelling found on many British academic bulletin boards and {talker system}s. Syllables and whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ASCII characters the names of which are phonetically similar ...
hamster => n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel. 2. [UK] Any item of hardware made by Amstrad, a company famo...
hand-hacking => n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an HLL into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum, {by han...
handshaking => n. Hardware or software activity designed to start or keep two machines or programs in synchronization as they {do protocol}. Often applied to human activity; thus, a hacker might watch two people in conversation nodding their heads to...
handwave => [poss. from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] 1. v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. 2. n. The act of handwaving. "Boy, what a handw...
hang => v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur. "The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive". See wedged, hung. 2. To wait for some event to occur; to hang around until something happens. "The program displays a menu...
Hanlon's Razor => prov. A corollary of {Finagle's Law}, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." The derivation of the common title Hanlon's Razor is unknown; a similar epig...
Hanlon's Razor2 => James. Quoted here because it seems to be a particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in {fortune cookie} files and the login banners of BBS systems and commercial networks. This probably reflects the hacker's daily experien...
Hanlon's Razor3 => well-intentioned but short-sighted people. 
happily => adv. Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of `happy' here is not that of elatio...
hard boot => n. See boot.
hardcoded => adj. 1. Said of data inserted directly into a program, where it cannot be easily modified, as opposed to data in some profile, resource (see de-rezz sense 2), or environment variable that a user or hacker can easily modify. 2. In C, this...
hardwarily => /hard-weir'*-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective `hardwary' is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
hardwired => adj. 1. In software, syn. for hardcoded. 2. By extension, anything that is not modifiable, especially in the sense of customizable to one's particular needs or tastes.
has the X nature => [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?"] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis. "Anyone who can't even use a program with on-screen help embedded...
has the X nature2 => nature!" See also {the X that can be Y is not the true X}. 
hash bucket => n. A notional receptacle into which more than one thing accessed by the same key or short code might be dropped. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash bu...
hash bucket2 => letter sections. This is used as techspeak with respect to code that uses actual hash functions; in jargon, it is used for human associative memory as well. Thus, two things `in the same hash bucket' may be confused with each other. "...
hash bucket3 => length, you get too many common grammar words in the first couple of hash buckets." Compare {hash collision}. 
hash collision => [from the technical usage] n. (var. `hash clash') When used of people, signifies a confusion in associative memory or imagination, especially a persistent one (see thinko). True story One of us [ESR] was once on the phone with a fri...
hash collision2 => When asked what he expected Berkeley to be like, the friend replied "Well, I have this mental picture of naked women throwing Molotov cocktails, but I think that's just a collision in my hash tables." Compare {hash bucket}. 
hat => n. Common (spoken) name for the circumflex (`^', ASCII 1011110) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
HCF => /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the...
heads down => [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also {hack mode} and {larval stage}, although it is not confined to fledgling hackers.
heartbeat => n. 1. The signal emitted by a Level 2 Ethernet transceiver at the end of every packet to show that the collision-detection circuit is still connected. 2. A periodic synchronization signal used by software or hardware, such as a bus clock...
heavy metal => [Cambridge] n. Syn. {big iron}.
heavy wizardry => n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *theoretica...
heavy wizardry2 => drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Esp. found in comments similar to "Heavy wizardry begins here ...". Compare {voodoo programming}. 
heavyweight => adj. High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at th...
heisenbug => /hi'zen-buhg/ [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] n. A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. Antonym of {Bohr bug}; see also mandelbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenb...
Helen Keller mode => n. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}. (Unfair to the real Helen Kell...
Helen Keller mode2 => was triumphant.) See also {go flatline}, catatonic. 
hello, sailor! => interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of {hello, world}; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the traditional hooke...
hello, sailor!2 => off the boat, of course. 
hello, wall! => excl. See wall.

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superuser => [UNIX] n. Syn. root, avatar. This usage has spread to non-UNIX environments; the superuser is any account with all wheel bits on. A more specific term than wheel.
support => n. After-sale handholding; something many software vendors promise but few deliver. To hackers, most support people are useless --- because by the time a hacker calls support he or she will usually know the relevant manuals better than the...
Suzie COBOL => /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n. A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid a...
Suzie COBOL2 => or (in some non-IBM circles) `Cobol Charlie'. 2. [proposed] Meta-name for any {code grinder}, analogous to {J. Random Hacker}. 
swab => /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab' (see dd)] 1. vt. To solve the {NUXI problem} by swapping bytes in a file. 2. n. The program in V7 UNIX used to perform this ac...
swap => vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in'). Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual memory'. As pieces of data or program are needed, they...
swap space => n. Storage space, especially temporary storage space used during a move or reconfiguration. "I'm just using that corner of the machine room for swap space."
swapped in => n. See swap. See also {page in}.
swapped out => n. See swap. See also {page out}.
swizzle => v. To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called `pointer swizzling'); this may be done for spee...
sync => /sink/ (var. `synch') n., vi. 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization. 2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see flush, sense 2. 3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that wou...
syntactic sugar => [coined by Peter Landin] n. Features added to a language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for humans, that do not affect the expressiveness of the formalism (compare chrome). Used esp. when there is an obvious and trivial tr...
syntactic sugar2 => into other constructs already present in the notation. C's `a[i]' notation is syntactic sugar for `*(a + i)'. "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon." --- Alan Perlis The variant `syntactic saccharine' is also recorded. T...
syntactic sugar3 => gratuitous, in that syntactic sugar serves a purpose (making something more acceptable to humans) but syntactic saccharine serves no purpose at all. 
sys-frog => /sis'frog/ [the PLATO system] n. Playful variant of `sysprog', which is in turn short for `systems programmer'.
sysadmin => /sis'ad-min/ n. Common contraction of `system admin'; see admin.
sysop => /sis'op/ n. [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system. A common neophyte mistake on FidoNet is to address a message to `sysop' in an international echo, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops arou...
system => n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer. 2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software. 3. Any large-scale program. 4. Any method or algorithm. 5. `System h...
systems jock => n. See jock, (sense 2).
SysVile => /sis-vil'/ n. See Missed'em-five.
system mangler => n. Humorous synonym for `system manager', poss. from the fact that one major IBM OS had a root account called SYSMANGR. Refers specifically to a systems programmer in charge of administration, software maintenance, and updates at so...

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port 477 => ss7ns - ss7ns 
port 478 => spsc - spsc 
port 479 => iafserver - iafserver 
port 480 => iafdbase - iafdbase 
port 481 => ph - Ph service 
port 482 => bgs-nsi - bgs-nsi 
port 483 => ulpnet - ulpnet 
port 484 => integra-sme - Integra Software Management Environment 
port 485 => powerburst - Air Soft Power Burst 
port 486 => avian - avian 
port 487 => saft - saft Simple Asynchronous File Transfer 
port 488 => gss-http - gss-http 
port 489 => nest-protocol - nest-protocol 
port 490 => micom-pfs - micom-pfs 
port 491 => go-login - go-login 
port 492 => ticf-1 - Transport Independent Convergence for FNA 
port 493 => ticf-2 - Transport Independent Convergence for FNA 
port 494 => pov-ray - POV-Ray 
port 495 => intecourier - intecourier 
port 496 => pim-rp-disc - PIM-RP-DISC 
port 497 => dantz - dantz 

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rfc 2098 => Toshiba's Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview. Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, H. Esaki. February 1997. (Format: TXT=43622 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 2097 => The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP). G. Pall. January 1997. (Format: TXT=27104 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2096 => IP Forwarding Table MIB. F. Baker. January 1997. (Format: TXT=1354 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2095 => IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response. J. Klensin, R. Catoe, P. Krumviede. January 1997. (Format: TXT=10446 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC2195) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2094 => Group Key Management Protocol (GKMP) Architecture. H. Harney, C. Muckenhirn. July 1997. (Format: TXT=53097 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 2093 => Group Key Management Protocol (GKMP) Specification. H. Harney, C. Muckenhirn. July 1997. (Format: TXT=48678 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 2092 => Protocol Analysis for Triggered RIP. S. Sherry, G. Meyer. January 1997. (Format: TXT=10865 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 2091 => Triggered Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits. G. Meyer, S. Sherry. January 1997. (Format: TXT=44835 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2090 => TFTP Multicast Option. A. Emberson. February 1997. (Format: TXT=11857 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 2089 => V2ToV1 Mapping SNMPv2 onto SNMPv1 within a bi-lingual SNMP agent. B. Wijnen, D. Levi. January 1997. (Format: TXT=23814 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 2088 => IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals. J. Myers. January 1997. (Format: TXT=4052 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2087 => IMAP4 QUOTA extension. J. Myers. January 1997. (Format: TXT=8542 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2086 => IMAP4 ACL extension. J. Myers. January 1997. (Format: TXT=13925 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2085 => HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay Prevention. M. Oehler, R. Glenn. February 1997. (Format: TXT=13399 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2084 => Considerations for Web Transaction Security. G. Bossert, S. Cooper, W. Drummond. January 1997. (Format: TXT=9022 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 2083 => PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification. T. Boutell. January 1997. (Format: TXT=242528 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 2082 => RIP-2 MD5 Authentication. F. Baker, R. Atkinson. January 1997. (Format: TXT=25436 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2081 => RIPng Protocol Applicability Statement. G. Malkin. January 1997. (Format: TXT=6821 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 2080 => RIPng for IPv6. G. Malkin, R. Minnear. January 1997. (Format: TXT=47534 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2079 => Definition of an X.500 Attribute Type and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). M. Smith. January 1997. (Format: TXT=8757 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 2078 => Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2. J. Linn. January 1997. (Format: TXT=185990 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1508) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

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rfc 1234 => Tunneling IPX traffic through IP networks. D. Provan. Jun-01-1991. (Format: TXT=12333 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1233 => Definitions of managed objects for the DS3 Interface type. T.A. Cox, K. Tesink. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=49559 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1407) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1232 => Definitions of managed objects for the DS1 Interface type. F. Baker, C.P. Kolb. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=60757 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1406) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1231 => IEEE 802.5 Token Ring MIB. K. McCloghrie, R. Fox, E. Decker. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=53542 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1743, RFC1748) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1230 => IEEE 802.4 Token Bus MIB. K. McCloghrie, R. Fox. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=53100 bytes) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1229 => Extensions to the generic-interface MIB. K. McCloghrie. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=36022 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1573) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1228 => SNMP-DPI: Simple Network Management Protocol Distributed Program Interface. G. Carpenter, B. Wijnen. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=96972 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1592) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1227 => SNMP MUX protocol and MIB. M.T. Rose. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=25868 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1226 => Internet protocol encapsulation of AX.25 frames. B. Kantor. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=2573 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1225 => Post Office Protocol: Version 3. M.T. Rose. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=37340 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1081) (Obsoleted by RFC1460) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
rfc 1224 => Techniques for managing asynchronously generated alerts. L. Steinberg. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=54303 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1223 => OSI CLNS and LLC1 protocols on Network Systems HYPERchannel. J.M. Halpern. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=29601 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1222 => Advancing the NSFNET routing architecture. H.W. Braun, Y. Rekhter. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=15067 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1221 => Host Access Protocol (HAP) specification: Version 2. W. Edmond. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=152740 bytes) (Updates RFC0907) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1220 => Point-to-Point Protocol extensions for bridging. F. Baker. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=38165 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1638) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1219 => On the assignment of subnet numbers. P.F. Tsuchiya. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=30609 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1218 => Naming scheme for c=US. North American Directory Forum.. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=42698 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1255, RFC1417) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1217 => Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR). V.G. Cerf. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=11079 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1216 => Gigabit network economics and paradigm shifts. P. Richard, P. Kynikos. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=8130 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1215 => Convention for defining traps for use with the SNMP. M.T. Rose. Mar-01-1991. (Format: TXT=19336 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1214 => OSI internet management: Management Information Base. L. LaBarre. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=172564 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)

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rfc 1139 => Echo function for ISO 8473. R.A. Hagens. Jan-01-1990. (Format: TXT=14229 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1574, RFC1575) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1138 => Mapping between X.400(1988) / ISO 10021 and RFC 822. S.E. Kille. Dec-01-1989. (Format: TXT=191029 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1327) (Updates RFC0822, RFC0987, RFC1026) (Updated by RFC1148) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1137 => Mapping between full RFC 822 and RFC 822 with restricted encoding. S. Kille. Dec-01-1989. (Format: TXT=6266 bytes) (Updates RFC0976) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1136 => Administrative Domains and Routing Domains: A model for routing in the Internet. S. Hares, D. Katz. Dec-01-1989. (Format: TXT=22158 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1135 => Helminthiasis of the Internet. J.K. Reynolds. Dec-01-1989. (Format: TXT=77033 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1134 => Point-to-Point Protocol: A proposal for multi-protocol transmission of datagrams over Point-to-Point links. D. Perkins. Nov-01-1989. (Format: TXT=87352 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1171) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1133 => Routing between the NSFNET and the DDN. J.Y. Yu, H.W. Braun. Nov-01-1989. (Format: TXT=23169 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1132 => Standard for the transmission of 802.2 packets over IPX networks. L.J. McLaughlin. Nov-01-1989. (Format: TXT=8128 bytes) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 1131 => OSPF specification. J. Moy. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=268, PS=857280 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1247) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1130 => IAB official protocol standards. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Internet Activities Board. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=33858 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1100) (Obsoleted by RFC1140, RFC1250, RFC2200) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1129 => Internet time synchronization: The Network Time Protocol. D.L. Mills. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=298, PS=551697 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1128 => Measured performance of the Network Time Protocol in the Internet system. D.L. Mills. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=314, PS=633742 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1127 => Perspective on the Host Requirements RFCs. R.T. Braden. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=41267 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1126 => Goals and functional requirements for inter-autonomous system routing. M. Little. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=62725 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1125 => Policy requirements for inter Administrative Domain routing. D. Estrin. Nov-01-1989. (Format: TXT=55248, PS=282123 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1124 => Policy issues in interconnecting networks. B.M. Leiner. Sep-01-1989. (Format: TXT=118, PS=315692 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1123 => Requirements for Internet hosts - application and support. R.T. Braden. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=245503 bytes) (Updates RFC0822) (Updated by RFC2181) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 1122 => Requirements for Internet hosts - communication layers. R.T. Braden. Oct-01-1989. (Format: TXT=295992 bytes) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 1121 => Act one - the poems. J. Postel, L. Kleinrock, V.G. Cerf, B. Boehm. Sep-01-1989. (Format: TXT=10644 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1120 => Internet Activities Board. V. Cerf. Sep-01-1989. (Format: TXT=26123 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1160) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1119 => Network Time Protocol (version 2) specification and implementation. D.L. Mills. Sep-01-1989. (Format: TXT=143, PS=518020 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0958, RFC1059) (Obsoleted by RFC1305) (Status: STANDARD)

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rfc 967 => All victims together. M.A. Padlipsky. Dec-01-1985. (Format: TXT=4706 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 966 => Host groups: A multicast extension to the Internet Protocol. S.E. Deering, D.R. Cheriton. Dec-01-1985. (Format: TXT=59469 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC0988) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 965 => Format for a graphical communication protocol. L. Aguilar. Dec-01-1985. (Format: TXT=105456 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 964 => Some problems with the specification of the Military Standard Transmission Control Protocol. D.P. Sidhu. Nov-01-1985. (Format: TXT=20972 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 963 => Some problems with the specification of the Military Standard Internet Protocol. D.P. Sidhu. Nov-01-1985. (Format: TXT=44019 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 962 => TCP-4 prime. M.A. Padlipsky. Nov-01-1985. (Format: TXT=2773 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 961 => Official ARPA-Internet protocols. J.K. Reynolds, J. Postel. Dec-01-1985. (Format: TXT=52672 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0944) (Obsoleted by RFC0991) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 960 => Assigned numbers. J.K. Reynolds, J. Postel. Dec-01-1985. (Format: TXT=125814 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0943) (Obsoleted by RFC0990) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 959 => File Transfer Protocol. J. Postel, J.K. Reynolds. Oct-01-1985. (Format: TXT=151249 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0765) (Updated by RFC2228) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 958 => Network Time Protocol (NTP). D.L. Mills. Sep-01-1985. (Format: TXT=30723 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1059, RFC1119, RFC1305) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 957 => Experiments in network clock synchronization. D.L. Mills. Sep-01-1985. (Format: TXT=68952 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 956 => Algorithms for synchronizing network clocks. D.L. Mills. Sep-01-1985. (Format: TXT=67387 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 955 => Towards a transport service for transaction processing applications. R.T. Braden. Sep-01-1985. (Format: TXT=22497 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 954 => NICNAME/WHOIS. K. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler. Oct-01-1985. (Format: TXT=7397 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0812, RFC0813) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
rfc 953 => Hostname Server. K. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler. Oct-01-1985. (Format: TXT=8305 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0811) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 952 => DoD Internet host table specification. K. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler. Oct-01-1985. (Format: TXT=12388 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0810) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 951 => Bootstrap Protocol. W.J. Croft, J. Gilmore. Sep-01-1985. (Format: TXT=28354 bytes) (Updated by RFC1395, RFC1497, RFC1532, RFC1542) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 950 => Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure. J.C. Mogul, J. Postel. Aug-01-1985. (Format: TXT=37985 bytes) (Updates RFC0792) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 949 => FTP unique-named store command. M.A. Padlipsky. Jul-01-1985. (Format: TXT=4017 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 948 => Two methods for the transmission of IP datagrams over IEEE 802.3 networks. I. Winston. Jun-01-1985. (Format: TXT=11495 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1042, STD0043) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 947 => Multi-network broadcasting within the Internet. K. Lebowitz, D. Mankins. Jun-01-1985. (Format: TXT=12569 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 946 => Telnet terminal location number option. R. Nedved. May-01-1985. (Format: TXT=6285 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

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rfc 926 => Protocol for providing the connectionless mode network services. International Organization for Standardization.. Dec-01-1984. (Format: TXT=165895 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC0994) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 925 => Multi-LAN address resolution. J. Postel. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=31137 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 924 => Official ARPA-Internet protocols for connecting personal computers to the Internet. J.K. Reynolds, J. Postel. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=48513 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0901) (Obsoleted by RFC0944) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 923 => Assigned numbers. J.K. Reynolds, J. Postel. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=96467 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0900) (Obsoleted by RFC0943) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 922 => Broadcasting Internet datagrams in the presence of subnets. J.C. Mogul. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=24147 bytes) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 921 => Domain name system implementation schedule - revised. J. Postel. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=23318 bytes) (Updates RFC0897) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 920 => Domain requirements. J. Postel, J.K. Reynolds. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=27823 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 919 => Broadcasting Internet Datagrams. J.C. Mogul. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=16382 bytes) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 918 => Post Office Protocol. J.K. Reynolds. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=9876 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC0937) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 917 => Internet subnets. J.C. Mogul. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=47072 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 916 => Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol (RATP). G.G. Finn. Oct-01-1984. (Format: TXT=110737 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 915 => Network mail path service. M.A. Elvy, R. Nedved. Dec-01-1984. (Format: TXT=21635 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 914 => Thinwire protocol for connecting personal computers to the Internet. D.J. Farber, G. Delp, T.M. Conte. Sep-01-1984. (Format: TXT=57288 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 913 => Simple File Transfer Protocol. M. Lottor. Sep-01-1984. (Format: TXT=20929 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 912 => Authentication service. M. St. Johns. Sep-01-1984. (Format: TXT=4544 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC0931) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 911 => EGP Gateway under Berkeley UNIX 4.2. P. Kirton. Aug-22-1984. (Format: TXT=55908 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 910 => Multimedia mail meeting notes. H.C. Forsdick. Aug-01-1984. (Format: TXT=24915 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 909 => Loader Debugger Protocol. C. Welles, W. Milliken. Jul-01-1984. (Format: TXT=209813 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 908 => Reliable Data Protocol. D. Velten, R.M. Hinden, J. Sax. Jul-01-1984. (Format: TXT=97646 bytes) (Updated by RFC1151) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 907 => Host Access Protocol specification. Inc. Bolt Beranek and Newman. Jul-01-1984. (Format: TXT=129985 bytes) (Obsoleted by STD0040) (Updated by RFC1221) (Status: STANDARD)
rfc 906 => Bootstrap loading using TFTP. R. Finlayson. Jun-01-1984. (Format: TXT=10102 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)

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rfc 499 => Harvard's network RJE. B.R. Reussow. Apr-01-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 498 => On mail service to CCN. R.T. Braden. Apr-17-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 497 => Traffic statistics (March 1973). A.M. McKenzie. Apr-10-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 496 => TNLS quick reference card is available. M.F. Auerbach. Apr-05-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 495 => Telnet Protocol specifications. A.M. McKenzie. May-01-1973. (Not online) (Obsoletes RFC0158) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 494 => Availability of MIX and MIXAL in the Network. D.C. Walden. Apr-20-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 493 => Graphics Protocol. J.C. Michener, I.W. Cotton, K.C. Kelley, D.E. Liddle, Jr. Meyer, E.W.. Apr-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 492 => Response to RFC 467. Jr. Meyer, E.W.. Apr-18-1973. (Not online) (Updates RFC0467) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 491 => What is "Free"?. M.A. Padlipsky. Apr-12-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 490 => Surrogate RJS for UCLA-CCN. J.R. Pickens. Mar-06-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 489 => Comment on resynchronization of connection status proposal. J. Postel. Mar-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 488 => NLS classes at network sites. M.F. Auerbach. Mar-23-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 487 => Free file transfer. R.D. Bressler. Apr-06-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 486 => Data transfer revisited. R.D. Bressler. Mar-20-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 485 => MIX and MIXAL at UCSB. J.R. Pickens. Mar-19-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 483 => Cancellation of the resource notebook framework meeting. M.D. Kudlick. Mar-14-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 482 => Traffic statistics (February 1973). A.M. McKenzie. Mar-12-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 480 => Host-dependent FTP parameters. J.E. White. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 479 => Use of FTP by the NIC Journal. J.E. White. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 478 => FTP server-server interaction - II. R.D. Bressler, R. Thomas. Mar-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 477 => Remote Job Service at UCSB. M. Krilanovich. May-23-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 476 => IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule (rev. 2). A.M. McKenzie. Mar-07-1973. (Not online) (Obsoletes RFC0447) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 475 => FTP and network mail system. A.K. Bhushan. Mar-06-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 474 => Announcement of NGWG meeting: Call for papers. S. Bunch Mar-01-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 473 => MIX and MIXAL?. D.C. Walden. Feb-28-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 472 => Illinois' reply to Maxwell's request for graphics information (NIC 14925). S. Bunch. Mar-01-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 471 => Workshop on multi-site executive programs. R. Thomas. Mar-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 470 => Change in socket for TIP news facility. R. Thomas. Mar-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 469 => Network mail meeting summary. M.D. Kudlick. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 468 => FTP data compression. R.T. Braden. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 467 => Proposed change to Host-Host Protocol: Resynchronization of connection status. J.D. Burchfiel, R.S. Tomlinson. Feb-20-1973. (Not online) (Updated by RFC0492) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 466 => Telnet logger/server for host LL-67. J.M. Winett. Feb-27-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 464 => Resource notebook framework. M.D. Kudlick. Feb-27-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 463 => FTP comments and response to RFC 430. A.K. Bhushan. Feb-21-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 462 => Responding to user needs. J. Iseli, D. Crocker. Feb-22-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 461 => Telnet Protocol meeting announcement. A.M. McKenzie. Feb-14-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 460 => NCP survey. C. Kline. Feb-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 459 => Network questionnaires. W. Kantrowitz. Feb-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 458 => Mail retrieval via FTP. R.D. Bressler, R. Thomas. Feb-20-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 457 => TIPUG. D.C. Walden. Feb-15-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 456 => Memorandum: Date change of mail meeting. M.D. Kudlick. Feb-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)

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rfc 68 => Comments on Memory Allocation Control Commands: CEASE, ALL, GVB, RET, and RFNM. M. Elie. Aug-31-1970. (Format: TXT=5041 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 67 => Proposed Change to Host/IMP Spec to Eliminate Marking. W.R. Crowther. Jan-01-1970. (Format: TXT=1534 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 66 => NIC - third level ideas and other noise. S.D. Crocker. Aug-26-1970. (Not online) (Obsoleted by RFC0123) (Updated by RFC0080) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 65 => Comments on Host/Host Protocol document #1. D.C. Walden. Aug-29-1970. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 64 => Getting rid of marking. M. Elie. Jul-01-1970. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 63 => Belated Network Meeting Report. V.G. Cerf. Jul-31-1970. (Format: TXT=2961 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 62 => Systems for Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network. D.C. Walden. Aug-03-1970. (Format: TXT=55784 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0061) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 61 => Note on interprocess communication in a resource sharing computer network. D.C. Walden. Jul-17-1970. (Not online) (Obsoleted by RFC0062) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 60 => Simplified NCP Protocol. R.B. Kalin. Jul-15-1970. (Format: TXT=18941 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 59 => Flow Control - Fixed Versus Demand Allocation. Jr. Meyer, E.W.. Jun-27-1970. (Format: TXT=17691 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 58 => Logical message synchronization. T.P. Skinner. Jun-26-1970. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 57 => Thoughts and reflections on NWG/RFC 54. M. Kraley, J. Newkirk. Jun-19-1970. (Not online) (Updates RFC0054) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 56 => Third Level Protocol: Logger Protocol. E. Belove, D. Black, R. Flegal, L.G. Farquar. Jun-01-1970. (Format: TXT=13066 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 55 => Prototypical implementation of the NCP. J. Newkirk, M. Kraley, J. Postel, S.D. Crocker. Jun-19-1970. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 54 => Official Protocol Proffering. S.D. Crocker, J. Postel, J. Newkirk, M. Kraley. Jun-18-1970. (Format: TXT=20131 bytes) (Updated by RFC0057) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 53 => Official protocol mechanism. S.D. Crocker. Jun-09-1970. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 52 => Updated distribution list. J. Postel, S.D. Crocker. Jul-01-1970. (Not online) (Updated by RFC0069) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 51 => Proposal for a Network Interchange Language. M. Elie. May-04-1970. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 50 => Comments on the Meyer Proposal. E. Harslem, J. Haverty. Apr-30-1970. (Format: TXT=4070 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 49 => Conversations with S. Crocker (UCLA). Jr. Meyer, E.W.. Apr-23-1970. (Format: TXT=12384 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 48 => Possible protocol plateau. J. Postel, S.D. Crocker. Apr-21-1970. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)

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8 bits => Make up 1 byte. 
8-bit Memory Chips => 30-pin SIMMs are 8-bit memory chips. If you want to use them with a 32-bit chip such as a 386 or a486 you need to put four of them in at a time.
Access Speed => This refers to the average amount of time it takes for a floppy  drive, hard drive, CD drive or other drive to find any particular piece of data on a disk.
Accuracy => Accuracy is how close to the actual value you are. For example, if the number you are representing is 4 and you say it's 3, you are inaccurate by 1.
Accuracy/Precision => If the actual value is 4.321 and you say that it is 4.30, then you are precise to 3 places but inaccurate by .021. If a value is represented as a bullseye on a target, a group of guesses or measurements represented by closely gr...
ACPI => (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) This power management interface takes the power management out of the BIOS and gives control to the OS. Typically, a system's BIOS is only able to turn a device off after a certain period of inacti...
Active Matrix => LCD panels that are active matrix have a sharper, brighter image than those with passive matrix screens. They can also continue to be seen at much greater angles off of central viewing.
Active Movie => This is a Microsoft technology used for streaming video and audio over the Internet. It is an ActiveX control.
Active Server Pages => (ASP) Microsoft created this technology and bundled it with their IIS Web server. It is designed to allow easy combination of HTML, scripts (such as Javascript and Microsoft's VBScript), and ActiveX. Active Server Pages promise...
ActiveX => Microsoft technology designed to enable easier multimedia on the Web. ActiveX controls can be used in Java to create multimedia effects. For now, that means that when you go to Web sites, buttons can light up and sound effects can play whe...
ADSL => (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line) This is a new technology just starting to come out that is the phone company's answer to cable modems. It supports data speeds over 2 Mbps downstream (to the user) and slower speeds upstream (to the Inte...
AGP => (Accelerated Graphics Port) This is a special port that will begin to show up on motherboards in the second half of 1997. The port will bypass the PCI bus and allow much higher throughput from the graphics card to the processor for speedier 3D...
Alpha Blending => This allows two objects to be blended together. This is primarily used for atmospheric and environmental effects. It allows such things as "fogging," where an image is rendered behind a "translucent" image, which creates the effect ...
Analog => Analog refers to a representation of a quantity that varies over any continuous range of values. Analog signals can be thought of as pure in nature and not processed. Thus, the debate over whether record albums (analog representation of sou...
Analog Control => An analog control changes value in non-discrete steps. You can tune an analog control to non-distinct values. In some cases, like for volume, analog controls are better. Have you ever used a digital volume control on a new TV, and o...
ANSI => (American National Standards Institution) This organization represents the United States in the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). They work to develop coding and signaling standards.
Anti-Aliasing => This is a method used to better define higher resolution objects in lower resolution. For example, you would use anti-aliasing if you have two lines that are so close together that at 320 x 200 they look as if they are one double-wid...
Aperture Grill => See Slot Mask.
API => (Application Programming Interface) APIs allow you to program to a pre-constructed interface (the API) instead of programming a device or piece of software directly. This allows for faster development, since programming to a device's API is de...
Argument => This is what you have with your girlfriend when she wants you to stop using your computer so much. Actually, argument refers to the value you call a procedure with. For example, if you wrote a line of code that said "goto 140," telling yo...
ASIC => (Application-specific Integrated Circuit) An ASIC is a circuit designed for a very specific purpose, such as the processors in PDAs or the chips on a motherboard chipset. ASICs contrast with more general-purpose devices such as memory chips o...
Aspect Ratio => This is the ratio of the width by the height on a monitor or television screen. Most TVs and monitors have a 4 x 3 aspect ratio. The screens are 4 units wide and 3 units high. A movie screen has an aspect ratio of 16 x 9 (about 5 x 3)...
Asynchronous Communication => This method of transferring data does so without a specific timing mechanism between the two communicating parties. The party receiving data isn't expecting more data at any set interval.
ATA => (AT Attachment) More commonly known as IDE, the "AT" refers to the IBM-AT computer where this interface was first used.
ATA-33 => An extension to the ATA interface (IDE) that will effectively double the top data transfer speed up to 33 Mbps. Also known as Ultra-IDE.
ATM => (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) A networking protocol designed to move multimedia data around with high reliability and speed. Some ISPs use ATM as the protocol for their backbones.
ATX Form Factor => The ATX form factor specification takes the original baby AT-sized motherboard, rotates it 90 degrees, and calls for a power supply with a side-mounted fan that cools not only the power supply, but also the processor and add-in boa...
AUI => This is a synonym for the 10Base-5 Thicknet Ethernet standard.
Availability => This is a measure of how much time a network or a connection is running. Generally, the equation is: Time Running / Time Measured (time running divided by time measured). Thus, if you measured something for 20 minutes, and it was only...
Backbone => A segment of a network that's often a higher speed than therest of the network and connects all the other segments. If you don'thave a fast backbone, your network will lag. That's why a lot of ISPs areconstantly restructuring their backbo...
Bandwidth => This is a measure, in some amount of bits per second, of theamount of data that can be sent over a particular cable, interface, orbus.
BASIC => (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Thisprogramming language was developed in the mid '60s. The language wasconstructed of simple English-like commands that were run through aninterpreter, line by line, each time the program w...
Batch => A group of commands that are executed one at a time. Same asscript.
Baud => The measure of how frequently sound changes on a phone line. Thisused to be the measure of speed of modems because they worked by bruteforce and actually made a sound for each bit of information. Now, modemswork on a more sophisticated level....
Bilinear and Trilinear Filtering => This is used to smooth flat surfacesby averaging the colors of adjacent pixels, which blurs them and removesblockiness when viewed up close.
Binary code => Binary consists of a string of bits, i.e. 01010111000000001

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Transfer rate => This is the rate at which data is transferred in some amount of bits per second.
Transistor => An electronic device that acts like an electrically activated switch but has no moving parts so it can switch millions of times per second.
Trapezoidal Control => Control on better monitors that allows you to adjust the angles of the borders of the screen.
Trinitron => A technology developed by Sony to enhance the clarity of graphics on their monitors. The way this is done is by making the pixels more square.
True Color => The name given to 16.7 million color representation.
True Parity => This term has come about with the advent of logical parity. It simply means the original parity memory.
Truth table => This is a Boolean table that describes the way that a circuit reacts to input values by showing a complete set of possible input values with corresponding outputs.
Tuple => See n-tuple.
Turbo-Pascal => This is Borland's version of the Pascal programming language.
TWAIN => (Toolkit Without An Interesting Name) This is a standard set for scanners to allow them to have a standard interface to software. This allows the use of your favorite graphics package with your favorite scanner without worrying if one will s...
UART => (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) This is a chip that standardized serial communications. Its function is to change a byte into a standard sequence of electrical impulses.
Ultra SCSI => SCSI that communicates twice as fast as standard SCSI-2. Normal Ultra-SCSI transfers data at 20 Mbps, and Wide Ultra-SCSI transfers data at 40 Mbps. Similar to Ultra-IDE, Ultra-SCSI works its magic by transferring data on the up AND the...
UNC => (Universal Naming Convention) This is the name given for the naming used when one specifies: \\the sever\the volume\the path\then the file name of a file. So, a UNC will look like this: \\Myserver\Docdrive\Magazine\glossary.doc
UNIX => A lot like DOS, but a MUCH more powerful operating system. It was developed at Bell Labs and is now being developed by many other corporations. It is mainly used as a multi-user server for mainframes, although companies like Novell offer it f...
UPS => (Uninterruptible Power Supply) This is a device that contains a battery and some circuitry to supply your computer with power for a limited time (depending on the battery) if there is any sort of interruption in the outlet power.
URL => (Universal Resource Locator) This is what is used to give Web addresses for HTML, VRML, WAV and other files. It simply contains the Internet name of the machine containing the data and the path to the file. Much like the UNC, except specifical...
USB => (Universal Serial Bus) A technology in the works that will replace the current way that some peripheral devices connect to your computer. It is much faster than serial and parallel communications. It is also much more flexible: it will be able...
Usenet Newsgroups => Also referred to just as "newsgroups," Usenet newsgroups are a huge bunch of Internet discussion groups that replicate across the Internet every so often. If you get a bunch of people together and request a group for yourself, yo...
V.32 => A standard naming convention used in determining modem communications, all starting with "V." This one is for specifying the Hayes standard of bi-directional 9600 baud transmission.
V.32bis => This is the standard that came after V.32 which increased the speed from 9600 baud to 14.4 KB baud.
V.34 => This is the most recent dramatic improvement of modem communications. It has doubled the speed of the V.32bis standard to 28.8 KB.