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push(@hits, $hit);
print STDERR "**Found HIT Line**\n" if ($self->{_debug});
$url =~ s/(>.*)//g;
$hit->add_url(WWW::Search::strip_tags($url));
$title = "No Title" if ($title =~ /^\s+/);
$hit->title(WWW::Search::strip_tags($title));
$state = $HITS;
}
elsif ($state == $HITS && m|Description:</font></span>\s*(.*)<br>|i) {
print STDERR "**Parsing Description Line**\n" if ($self->{_debug});
if ($hit) {
my $desc = $1;
$desc =~ s/<.*?>//g;
$desc =~ s/Category.*//;
$hit->description($desc);
$state = $HITS;
}
else {
print STDERR "ERROR: No hit when parsing description\n";
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
DrScheme => <reply> $who, A graphical environment for developing programs using Scheme. URL: http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/drscheme/
DrumPatterns => <reply> $who, Free, open source, web oriented drum patterns generator. URL: http://www.linux-france.com/prj/drumpatterns/index-en.html
ds3 => <reply> $who, Modem/ISDN sharing tool for linux. URL: http://www.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE/~prefec2/
DSD => <reply> $who, An XML schema language.. URL: http://www.brics.dk/DSD/
DSM => <reply> $who, Distributed Site Management. URL: http://planet-x.linuxgeek.org/dsm.php3
dspd => <reply> $who, Utility to log (or record) the output of an audio application.. URL: http://www.relent.dircon.co.uk/dspd/
dtfs => <reply> $who, A Log-Structured Filesystem For Linux. URL: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/czezatke/lfs.html
Dtheatre News Grabber => <reply> $who, CGI/Perl script to fetch the newest DTheater.com Headlines. URL: http://www.dtheatre.com/
dtheatre.php3 => <reply> $who, Retrieves the latest 'digital theatre' news for a webpage.. URL: http://www.darkseed.net/
dti-suche => <reply> $who, A search script for the german dance music index. URL: http://www.bamberg.baynet.de/home/sledge/dti-suche/
DTM => <reply> $who, Easy font installation and configuration for X11/GS/TeX/.... URL: http://www.debian.org/~fog/dtm/
Dual Protocol File Server => <reply> $who, Hybrid FTP/HTTP file server. URL: http://www.karico.fi/dpfs/
DubMed => <reply> $who, An experimental Medline GUI with metadata-based links from cites to articles.. URL: http://dub.med.yale.edu
Duh DRAW => <reply> $who, A ANSI Editor for Linux similar to TheDraw.. URL: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/linux/sunsite/apps/graphics/draw/duhdraw-2.6.96.tar.gz
duhdraw => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/draw/
duke => <reply> $who, Curses based version of mpg123. URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/~md94-jmi/duke.html
DUMB => <reply> $who, A 3D game engine, reminiscent of id software's Doom. URL: http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/
Dump/Restore => <reply> $who, Utilities to dump and restore an ext2 partition. URL: http://perso.cybercable.fr/pop/dump/
durep => <reply> $who, Disk Usage Reporter. URL: http://www.hibernaculum.demon.co.uk/
dusk => <reply> $who, irc script that ports BitchX commands and documentation to portuguese. URL: http://www.linux.trix.net/irc-intro.htm
dvipdfm => <reply> $who, Dvipdfm is a DVI to PDF translator.. URL: http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Flying Windows => <reply> $who, A spoof of Microsoft(tm)'s Flying Windows screensaver. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/flyingwindows/
flyspell.el => <reply> $who, Emacs/Xemacs on-the-fly spell checker. URL: http://kaolin.unice.fr/~serrano/emacs/emacs.html
Fl_Editor => <reply> $who, Multiline text editor widget for FLTK, with extras.. URL: http://source.robertk.com/
Fm => <reply> $who, Gtk+ lightweight file manager. URL: http://thunderstorms.org/fm/
FMan => <reply> $who, FLTK Man page browser. URL: http://fman.sacredsoulrecords.com
fmnews.sh => <reply> $who, A cool shell script w/ ANSI that gets freshmeat headlines. URL: http://vtech.ml.org/~twiztah/fmnews.sh
fmPager => <reply> $who, Freshmeat Pager. URL: http://www.phobia.ms/fmpager
fmscore => <reply> $who, freshmeat daily newsletter parser (Mail::Freshmeat) and scorer. URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/fmscore/
Fnorb => <reply> $who, Python CORBA 2.0 ORB. URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Fnorb/
FocalMail => <reply> $who, Web based email interface which allows you to manage your mail. URL: http://www.focalmail.com/home/index.html
Font Print => <reply> $who, Allows you to use vga consolefonts when printing a file. URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~weave/vmwprod
fonted => <reply> $who, Linux WYSIWYG Console font editor and utilities.. URL: http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/fonted/
fonteditor => <reply> $who, Program for editing console fonts.. URL: http://www.logic.ru/peter/
Fonter => <reply> $who, A Linux Console Font Editor. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~roler/
fookb => <reply> $who, Xkb state indicator. URL: http://linux.piter-press.ru/fookb/fookb.html
FOP => <reply> $who, An XSL formatter written in Java that outputs PDF. URL: http://www.jtauber.com/fop/
FORGE JCE Provider => <reply> $who, A free JCE 1.2 crypto provider that gives RSA key services. URL: http://www.forge.com.au/
Form Maker => <reply> $who, Automated form generation and completion.. URL: ftp://coco.comstar.net/pub/
Formication => <reply> $who, Easy template driven form to email/file processor. URL: http://www.villainy.com/developers.html
Fortify => <reply> $who, Provides full strength, 128-bit encryption facilities to Netscape browsers. URL: http://www.fortify.net/
fortune-mod-extras => <reply> $who, Offensive aphorisms for the popular fortune program.. URL: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/noarch/SRPMS/fortune-mod-extras-1.0-2.src.rpm
Fortune2html => <reply> $who, Simple hack to put BSDI style fortunes on a web page.. URL: http://www.webokay.com/help/scripts/
FORUM => <reply> $who, Another PHP3/Mysql forum with some nifty features. URL: http://www.itcenter.ru/eng/forum/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
freemed => <reply> $who, Free medical management software in a web browser. URL: http://www.freemed.org/
FreeMWare => <reply> $who, Provides virtual computing for Linux.. URL: http://www.freemware.org/
freerdist => <reply> $who, Free remote distribution application. URL: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/freerdist/freerdist-0.9.0.tar.gz
FreeSCI => <reply> $who, Re-implementation of the Sierra Creative Interpreter. URL: http://freesci.linuxgames.com/
Freeside => <reply> $who, Billing and administration for ISPs. URL: http://www.sisd.com/freeside/
FreeSpeech => <reply> $who, Speech Recognition. URL: http://freespeech.on.openprojects.net/
freestyle => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/~ph116/freestyle.html
freesweep => <reply> $who, Curses-based minesweeper. URL: http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/sweep/
FreeTDS => <reply> $who, Open Source implementation of the TDS database protocol. URL: http://www.freetds.org/
FreeTrade => <reply> $who, A web application for implementing shopping sites.. URL: http://www.working-dogs.com/freetrade/
Freetype => <reply> $who, A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. URL: http://www.freetype.org
FreeVet => <reply> $who, A Y2K ready Animal Clinic System. URL: http://www.mecalc.co.za/ross/FreeVet/
FreeWorld BBS => <reply> $who, BBS Software for Linux. URL: http://www.freeworldbbs.org
FreeWRL => <reply> $who, Free VRML browser for Linux. URL: http://www.crc.ca/FreeWRL/
freezetag => <reply> $who, Program for Editing of id3 Tags of mp3 files. URL: http://katz.linuxpower.org/freezetag/
frequency => <reply> $who, stylostatistical analysis tool. URL: http://ruby.ddiworld.com/jreed/web/software/frequency.html
fresh-split => <reply> $who, Perl scripts for splitting freshmeat news. URL: http://techteam.static.golden.net/~emil/bins/fresh-split-1.0.tar.gz
Freshmeat Headline Grabber => <reply> $who, Perl-based headline grabber. URL: http://www.srijith.net/perl/
freshmeat newsletter to HTML converter => <reply> $who, procmail filter to convert freshmeat email newsletter to HTML. URL: http://www.kalka.org/linux/dox/freshmeat.html
freshmeat Ports Collection => <reply> $who, A quick way to download and compile FM-listed sources. URL: http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h089/
freshmeat.php3 => <reply> $who, Retrieves the latest freshmeat news for a webpage. URL: http://swamp.chl.chalmers.se/backends/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
getstatd => <reply> $who, Statistics Daemon for Linux Systems. URL: http://www.linux.opennet.ru/getstatd/
GetUf => <reply> $who, UF Strip grabbing perl program.. URL: http://www.jeffords.freeserve.co.uk/getuf.html
gEyes => <reply> $who, Gnome clone of xeyes. URL: http://internet.oit.edu/~campd/geyes.html
GF1 => <reply> $who, Play GIPF against your computer. URL: http://www.crosswinds.net/~gf1/
gfcc => <reply> $who, GTK+ firewall (ipchains). URL: http://icarus.autostock.co.kr/
gfind => <reply> $who, GUI front-end to GNU find utility. URL: http://iconmedia.com/aaron/gfind.html
GFingerPoken => <reply> $who, BlackBox-type GTK-based game. URL: http://gfpoken.bigw.org/
gfirecracker => <reply> $who, Gtk control panel for the X-10 Firecracker. URL: http://www.sector13.org/kazin/projects/gfirecracker.html
GFlash => <reply> $who, A testing/Flashcard application for Linux. URL: http://www.bgw.org/projects/gflash/
gfocustimer => <reply> $who, Tracking of X input focus for time charging. URL: http://quozl.us.netrek.org/gfocustimer/
gfontview => <reply> $who, Font Viewer. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/
Gforth => <reply> $who, GNU project implementation of the Forth programming language. URL: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/gforth.html
gfortune => <reply> $who, Enhanced fortune cookie program. URL: http://tirin.openworld.co.uk/fortune.html
gfract => <reply> $who, GTK-based fractal program. URL: http://www.iki.fi/osku/gfract/
gFTP => <reply> $who, A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows. URL: http://gftp.seul.org/
GFXIndex => <reply> $who, A program for creating indices of your pictures by making thumbnails and HTMLs.. URL: http://boost.linux.kz/gfxindex/
ggitv => <reply> $who, TV-application on ggi. URL: http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/ggi/
GGlyph => <reply> $who, Font previewer and installer for X11. URL: http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672/linux/gglyph/
GGUI => <reply> $who, An easy multi-purpose, multi-program GUI.. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/java/714/ggui/
gharmonic => <reply> $who, Interactive Tone Generation Toy. URL: http://members.xoom.com/etians/gharmonic.html
gHostLookup => <reply> $who, Finds the IP address of the hostname the user specifies. URL: http://iconmedia.com/aaron/ghostlookup.html
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Glimpse => <reply> $who, Indexing and querying system. URL: http://webglimpse.net/
glitter => <reply> $who, Text mode user interface for RPM. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvermeul/glitter/
GLload => <reply> $who, OpenGL(r) load meter. URL: http://glload.netpedia.net/
GLmame => <reply> $who, An OpenGL driver for xmame. URL: http://glmame.linuxgames.com
GLOBAL => <reply> $who, A common source code tag system for C and Yacc.. URL: http://www.tamacom.com/global/
GlobeCom Jukebox => <reply> $who, Music jukebox with integrated CDDB aware ripping and groupware functionality. URL: http://www.globecom.se/jukebox/
Glove => <reply> $who, Data acquisition, manipulation, and analysis program for X-Windows. URL: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~glenn/glove/
glowtext => <reply> $who, . URL: http://home.i1.net/~joed/
glpoisson => <reply> $who, Make waving flags and logos using finite element analysis. URL: http://sig.co.za/
glTron => <reply> $who, tron-like game with a 3D view. URL: http://www.ards.net/Andreas/gltron.html
gltt => <reply> $who, Allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in anyOpenGL application. URL: http://home.worldnet.fr/~rehel/gltt/index.html
GLUI => <reply> $who, GLUT-based C++ GUI library. URL: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui/
GLUT => <reply> $who, Implements a simple platform independent windowing API for OpenGL.. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/opengl/glut3/glut3.html
GMagic => <reply> $who, Realtime property database for UIs. URL: http://209.201.55.167/gtkmagic/
gmail => <reply> $who, Gmail is an experiment in an sql vfolder-based email system.. URL: http://gmail.linuxpower.org/
GMailWatch => <reply> $who, Mail monitor applet for GNOME Panel which displays summary of incoming mail. URL: http://www.employees.org/~ashokn/gmailwatch/
GMame => <reply> $who, X-Mame frontend. URL: http://members.xoom.com/gmame/
gman => <reply> $who, A user-friendly graphical front end for the man page system. URL: http://homex.s-one.net.sg/user/xkwang/gman/
GMasqdialer => <reply> $who, Gnome Client for the Masqdialer System. URL: http://xlife.dhs.org/gmasqdialer/
GMatH => <reply> $who, Computer Algebra Environment. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/1535/gmath.html
GMedia => <reply> $who, . URL: http://members.xoom.com/NadirX/gmedia/index.html
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
GtkComboButton => <reply> $who, A Combobutton for GTK+. URL: http://www.webtribe.net/a/ambiance/
gtkcookie => <reply> $who, edit your Netscape cookie file. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~manniwood/gtkcookie/
gtkctrlaltdel => <reply> $who, GTK+ frontend to CTRL ALT DEL key kombination. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/gtkctrlaltdel/
GtkDatabox => <reply> $who, Gtk+ Widget to display large amounts of numerical data (curves) fast and easy. URL: http://www.eudoxos.net/gtk/gtkdatabox/
GTKdiff => <reply> $who, GTK+ diff frontend. URL: http://www.ainet.or.jp/~inoue/software/gtkdiff/index-e.html
GtkEditor => <reply> $who, Source code editor widget for GTK.. URL: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/gtk.html
GtkExText => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.bahnhof.se/~mikeh/linux_software.html
GTKeyboard => <reply> $who, Graphical Keyboard for the physically disabled. URL: http://opop.nols.com/
GTKFIG => <reply> $who, Figure drawing tool for GTK, similar to xfig, TeXCAD and SmartDraw. URL: http://k332.feld.cvut.cz/~lemming/projects/gtkfig.html
gtkfind => <reply> $who, GTK+ version of find(1). URL: http://www.oz.net/~mattg/download.html
GtkFontsel => <reply> $who, GTK+ Font Selector. URL: http://glade.pn.org/fontsel/
gtkgo => <reply> $who, Go game for Linux and Windows. URL: http://gtkgo.netpedia.net
GtkGraph => <reply> $who, Graphing calculator for X. URL: http://gtkgraph.linuxbox.com/
GtkIconList => <reply> $who, Icon List Widget for GTK+. URL: http://www.ifir.edu.ar/grupos/gtk/
GtkICQ => <reply> $who, GtkICQ is a clone of Mirabilis' ICQ program based on Gtk/GNOME. URL: http://gtkicq.pn.org/
GtkJoy => <reply> $who, Sample Gtk+ App for Linux Joystick Driver. URL: http://trylinux.com/projects/joystick/
GtkLevel => <reply> $who, Addon widget to Gtk. URL: http://jester.htl.de/GtkLevel.php
gtkmail => <reply> $who, gtk-- mail client. URL: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yandle/gtkmail/
gtkMeat => <reply> $who, A Freshmeat new submissions ticker. URL: http://www.sonic.net/~tengel/gtkmeat/
GTKML => <reply> $who, A proposed XML markup language for describing GTK user interfaces. URL: http://www.k-3d.com/index_gtkml.html
gtkmmind => <reply> $who, Master Mind game. URL: http://webdat.com/seb/gtkmmind.html
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GyrosCoPe => <reply> $who, GTK colour picker for HTML documents. URL: http://www.millar.u-net.com/gyroscope.html
GYVE => <reply> $who, A vector-based drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw. URL: http://www.maru.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp/~sanchan/gyve/
Gzilla => <reply> $who, Free web browser written in the GTK+ framework. URL: http://www.gzilla.com/
gzip => <reply> $who, GNU compression utility (replacement for compress). URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
H3O.net for Web Developers => <reply> $who, Perl frontend to the H3O.net backend.. URL: http://www.h3o.net/h3o4/bin/h3grab.tgz
Hacked GTK engines => <reply> $who, Hacked gtk-engines is a replacement for the gtk pixmap engine. URL: http://brets.oxyd.net/gtk/
Half-life Server for Linux => <reply> $who, Half-life Dedicated Server for Linux. URL: http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/half-life/
Hallo => <reply> $who, Finds words with a character string. URL: http://www.whizziwig.com/hallo.html
Hamilton => <reply> $who, Open-Source Java-based Application Server. URL: http://microstate.com/tech.htm
HamLog => <reply> $who, Amateur Radio Logging Program for X. URL: http://student.dee.uc.pt/~slug/prog/
Hamster Font Manager => <reply> $who, Easy GUI to manage fonts for X11/GS/TeX. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/se/service/hamster/index_e.html
Hand => <reply> $who, Utility for manual starting applications. URL: http://www.playground.net/~brad/hand/
HAPPI => <reply> $who, Perl High-Availability Server Cluster Script. URL: http://happi.linuxgeneral.net/
HarnMaker => <reply> $who, A character generator for the HarnMaster role playing game.. URL: http://www.meer.net/~arandir/code.html
HaruspeX => <reply> $who, Visual environment for image databases. URL: http://www.linux.it/ospiti/haruspex/
harvest => <reply> $who, A Web-based document search system.. URL: ftp://arco.met.fu-berlin.de/pub/harvest/
hasci => <reply> $who, Interactive hex/ASCII file viewer with character color coding. URL: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~csc8gpr/hasci.html
Hatman => <reply> $who, a high-res pacman clone. URL: http://www.pharaoh0.demon.co.uk/hatman/
HB => <reply> $who, Simple language to create dynamic web content. URL: http://bachue.com/hb/
hbb => <reply> $who, Solution to #!/wrong/path/to/interpreter. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/misc/hbb-1.0.tar.gz
hc-cron => <reply> $who, A modified version of Paul Vixie's widely used cron daemon. URL: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/fbraun/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Jiten => <reply> $who, Perl DICT Server. URL: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/jiten/
JitterBug => <reply> $who, Web based bug tracking tool. URL: http://samba.anu.edu.au/jitterbug/
jivesyslog => <reply> $who, A silly version of syslog.. URL: ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/jivesyslog/
jlclient => <reply> $who, Utility for updating the dynamic DNS services at http://www.justlinux.com. URL: http://www.justlinux.com/dynamic_dns.html
JLex => <reply> $who, A lexical analyzer generator, written for Java, in Java.. URL: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/JLex/
jlip => <reply> $who, Multi-line SLIP driver for FreeBSD with IP-over-TCP tunnelling and encryption. URL: http://members.tripod.com/~Vasim/
jmake => <reply> $who, jmake is a tool for software developers that like to write code, not makefiles.. URL: http://slug.arlut.utexas.edu/~jmake/
Jmangle => <reply> $who, Java Classfile Symbol Mangler. URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~rrl/
JMap => <reply> $who, Creates HTML image map source. URL: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~poggy/
jmatrix => <reply> $who, Matrix the movie eye candy thingy. URL: http://www.net-link.net/~jettero/matrix/
jmk-x11-fonts => <reply> $who, Jim's character-cell fonts for the X Window System. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/fonts/
Jmol => <reply> $who, Java/Swing-based molecular dynamics viewer. URL: http://www.openscience.org/jmol/
jMon => <reply> $who, Distributed Resource Monitor. URL: http://www.dsp.sun.ac.za/~jjb/jmon/
JMR 0.7.25 => <reply> $who, Offline Mail Reader for BBS QWK packets. URL: http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/~jvuokko/jmr/
JMud => <reply> $who, An experimental MUD server written in Java(TM).. URL: http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~evertonm/jmud/
Job Control System => <reply> $who, A Web-based Helpdesk application. URL: http://members.xoom.com/prozach/
job manager => <reply> $who, Beowulf job manager. URL: http://bond.imm.dtu.dk/jobd/
joe => <reply> $who, A Free ASCII-Text Screen Editor for UNIX. URL: ftp://ftp.std.com/src/editors/
John the Ripper => <reply> $who, Password cracker to detect weak UNIX passwords. URL: http://www.openwall.com/john/
Johnson Keyboard => <reply> $who, Hacker's keyboard layout for X-Windows. URL: http://www.boswa.com/johnson.html
jonama => <reply> $who, SSL proxy. URL: http://www.multimania.com/jonama/
factpacks/Linux.fact view on Meta::CPAN
mkl => <reply> $who, Creates and prints labels for use with CD-Rs. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~bstumm/
mklinuxfw => <reply> $who, Project to develop a configuration tool which can configure filewalls. URL: http://www.madhouse.org.uk/~red/framepage.phtml?/mklinuxfw/index.html
mkrdns => <reply> $who, Program to automatically generate reverse DNS zone files (PTR records). URL: http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/mkrdns.html
mktclapp => <reply> $who, Mix C/C++ with Tcl/Tk to build a standalone program. URL: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/
mll2html => <reply> $who, Reformats mailinglists file to a HTML file.. URL: http://www.epeios.org/
mlvwm => <reply> $who, Window manager for X11 designed to look and feel like theMacintosh environment. URL: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html
MLWorks => <reply> $who, Development environment for the SML programming language. URL: http://www.harlequin.com/products/ads/ml/
MM => <reply> $who, Shared Memory Library. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/
MM.MySQL => <reply> $who, JDBC Drivers for MySQL. URL: http://www.worldserver.com/mm.mysql/
mmake => <reply> $who, <B>m</B>make will generate a Makefile for your Java programs.. URL: http://www.tildeslash.com/mmake/
mminstance => <reply> $who, Makes single-master PostScript fonts from multiple master fonts. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/type/
MMIX assembler/simulator => <reply> $who, MMIX Assembler and Simulator. URL: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html
mMosaic => <reply> $who, Web browser for X11. URL: http://sig.enst.fr/~dauphin/mMosaic/
Mmucl => <reply> $who, Mud client written in Tcl. URL: http://idt.net/~tmtr01/mmucl
mmusic => <reply> $who, Database Frontend to handle large music collections. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/8386/mmusic.html
MMX Emulator => <reply> $who, Allows execution of MMX binaries on non-MMX machines. URL: http://www.inria.fr/prisme/personnel/pion/progs/mmx-emu/
Mnemonic => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mnemonic.org
mnt => <reply> $who, Shell scripts to make mounting and umounting of removable media easier.. URL: http://paranoia.fox-net.net/mnt/mnt-1.0.1.tgz
Mobitex Radio Modem Driver => <reply> $who, Network driver for Ericsson Mobidems and other MASC-speaking modems. URL: http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mobitex.html
MOC => <reply> $who, Perl Script for updating myIP.org Dynamic DNS entries. URL: http://www.nmia.com/~trilia/perl/
MoCalc => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk-based calculator. URL: http://detroit.freenet.org/~as392/mocalc.html
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MOIS => <reply> $who, My Own IRC Script for ircII. URL: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uno4/linux/
moiss => <reply> $who, Quantum Monte Carlo simulation program. URL: http://moiss.pquim.unam.mx/moiss/
mol: Mac-on-Linux => <reply> $who, Mac-on-Linux: Run the MacOS from inside Linux!. URL: http://www.ibrium.se/linux/mac_on_linux.html
Molasses => <reply> $who, Sticky notes app. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/corel/632/molasses/
Molden => <reply> $who, Molden is a package for displaying Molecular Density from the Ab Initio packages. URL: http://www.caos.kun.nl/~schaft/molden/molden.html
Momoko => <reply> $who, Multi-user development environment. URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~blanu/mud/
mon => <reply> $who, Highly configurable service monitoring daemon. URL: http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/
Mondriaan => <reply> $who, Mondriaan Art by Evolution. URL: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/mondriaan/
Moneydance => <reply> $who, Personal finance application written in java. URL: http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/
monitor.c => <reply> $who, power off after prolonged inactivity. URL: http://www.poboxes.com/andrew.wood/linux/monitor/
moodss => <reply> $who, Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet. URL: http://jfontain.free.fr/
moonbase => <reply> $who, Simple Fortran-callable framebuffer. URL: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/comp/moonbase.shtml
Moonlight Creator => <reply> $who, . URL: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/moonlight/intro.html
Moonshine => <reply> $who, An application development environment for Linux.. URL: http://www.rednecksoft.com/
Mops => <reply> $who, 3D modeling environment written in C with Tcl/Tk.. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~rschultz/mops/
Mordor MUD => <reply> $who, Multi-user text based Internet Game Server. URL: http://mordor.nazgul.com/
Moreton Bay DHCP Server => <reply> $who, lightweight DHCP server. URL: http://www.moretonbay.com/dhcpd/
Mork => <reply> $who, Mork is like Lex/Yacc for Java.. URL: http://www.mlhartme.de/mork/
Morphon XMLEditor => <reply> $who, Editor for XML files. URL: http://www.lunatech.com/products/morphon-xml-editor/
morse => <reply> $who, A morse code translator.. URL: http://www.stampede.org/~mwh/
moRT => <reply> $who, tail for XWindow. URL: http://i.void.on.8m.com/
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PSPG => <reply> $who, Pretty simple password generator. URL: http://members.xoom.com/miscreants/
PSSlides => <reply> $who, Package for generating PostScript presentation slides. URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw/proj/psslides/
pstack => <reply> $who, Dump call stacks of active processes. URL: http://www.whatsis.com/pstack/
pstill => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html
PSUtils => <reply> $who, Manipulate PostScript files. URL: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html
PSXDEV => <reply> $who, A free GPL'd development environment for thePlayStation. URL: http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~dbalster/psxdev/index.html
PTax98 => <reply> $who, Computes most of the 1998 Federal 1040EZ.. URL: http://www.arborway.net/koch/
Ptester => <reply> $who, HTTP Benchmarking tool. URL: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/ptester
ptf => <reply> $who, A TCP forwarder written in Python. URL: http://www.tuts.net/~klausman/english/linux.html
ptk-phone => <reply> $who, Phonebook application in Perl/Tk. URL: http://tcfreenet.org/~schewe/ptk-phone/phone.html
ptkfonted => <reply> $who, Perl/Tk BDF Font Editor. URL: http://cantor.res.cmu.edu/gutenberg/
ptkrip => <reply> $who, Perl/Tk frontend to cdparanoia and bladeenc. URL: http://www.red-bean.com/~lefty/ptkrip.html
PTlink ircd => <reply> $who, New featured ircd with a great services integration. URL: http://www.ptlink.net/
PTlink Services => <reply> $who, IRC Registration Services. URL: http://www.ptlink.net/
ptrans => <reply> $who, Convert UTF-8 to plain text. URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/i18n/
ptris => <reply> $who, Pike GTK Tetris. URL: http://www.pike-community.org/code/show_single.html?id=20
PTSPACE => <reply> $who, Patrol in Space X11 arcade game. URL: http://www.ezmo.com/jason/projects.html
Public Bookmark Generator => <reply> $who, Generate a public bookmark (selected items) out of your bookmarks. URL: http://www.loria.fr/~michel/PBM/
PulseTLM => <reply> $who, A full featured 3D Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) simulator. URL: http://cemtach.org/
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/
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System Indexing Server => <reply> $who, Application allowing you to index the various systems you may have on your net. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/sis.html
System Info => <reply> $who, System Information Perl Script. URL: http://www.wpi.edu/~bowden/files/system-info.0.8.tar.gz
System Pantheon => <reply> $who, IRC RPG Game System. URL: http://www.superchat.org/pantheon/
System Recovery => <reply> $who, . URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/files.html
SystemG => <reply> $who, Graphical file manager. URL: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~glenn/systemg/
SysWatch => <reply> $who, Web based system watch utility. URL: http://www.weirdo.net/scripts/
T.I.A.H => <reply> $who, Hex-Editor with insert-mode.. URL: http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/messeturm/358
T.U.T. => <reply> $who, A simple UDP and TCP tunneler. URL: http://home.ctc.shadowlan.net/~vinny/projects/proxy/
T/TCP for Linux => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~heathclf/fyp
t1lib => <reply> $who, A Type 1 Rasterizer Library for UNIX/X11. URL: http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ini/PEOPLE/rmz/t1lib/t1lib.html
t1utils => <reply> $who, Tools for manipulating PostScript Type 1 fonts. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/
TABLA => <reply> $who, HTML table generator. URL: http://www.cwareco.com/tabla.html
tableau => <reply> $who, Perl CGI program to generate and edit HTML tables based on CSV files.. URL: http://www.quality.gconnect.net/tableau/
TableGen => <reply> $who, Creates java classes to represent and access an SQL database. URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/joe.carter/
Tac => <reply> $who, An AOL Instant Messenger client in pure TCL. URL: http://users.tmok.com/~smike/
Tacacs+ => <reply> $who, Cisco tacacs+ daemon. URL: http://www.gazi.edu.tr/~devrim/tacacs/
tailbeep => <reply> $who, Watches an open file for a string and beeps the console if it sees it.. URL: http://soomka.com/
takepatch.pl => <reply> $who, Imports/applies patch files to CVS working directories. URL: http://www.loth.demon.co.uk/takepatch.pl
tal => <reply> $who, Aligns common trailing characters. URL: http://home.pages.de/~jensen/tal/
Tangleword Trainer => <reply> $who, Training program for Playsite's Tangleword. URL: http://w3.one.net/~benders/tangle.shtml
TAON => <reply> $who, Fancy sound editor for x86 linux, supports plugins. URL: http://jump.to/taon/
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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/
turner => <reply> $who, C/C++/Java source code HTML colorizer written in C.. URL: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~dutky/turner.html
TuxEyes => <reply> $who, Javascript and pictures needed to add an XEyes-like Tux to a web page. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/4673/linux.html
TuxNES => <reply> $who, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Emulator. URL: http://tmmm.simplenet.com/tuxnes/index.html
TuxTime => <reply> $who, Control power-saving options on Toshiba laptops. URL: http://www2.prestel.co.uk/hex/tuxtime.html
tux_aqfh => <reply> $who, Tux the Penguin - A Quest for Herring. URL: http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/tux_aqfh/
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X-CD-Roast => <reply> $who, A program-package dedicated to easy CD creation underLinux. URL: http://www.xcdroast.org/
X-Chat => <reply> $who, GTK+ based IRC client, similar to AmIRC (Amiga).. URL: http://xchat.org/
X-Files => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.hut.fi/u/mkivinie/X-Files/
X-GnuDIP2 => <reply> $who, GTK client for the GnuDIP dynamic dns project. URL: http://gnudip.cheapnet.net
X-ISP => <reply> $who, X11 and XForms based visual interfaceto pppd and chat. URL: http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras/
X-Mame => <reply> $who, The Unix version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. URL: http://xmame.retrogames.com/
X-MESS => <reply> $who, A free emulator that can emulate a variety of systems. URL: http://mess.emuverse.com/
X-Plorer => <reply> $who, Unix clone of the Windows95 filemanager. URL: http://www.x-plorer.org
X-SETI => <reply> $who, Tk/Expect frontend for the SETI@home UNIX client. URL: http://www.nccn.net/~gc_kumon/xseti/
X-Tract => <reply> $who, XML Script processor. URL: http://www.xmlscript.org/
X-TrueType Server => <reply> $who, An X server and/or an X font server that can handle TrueType fonts directly. URL: http://hawk.ise.chuo-u.ac.jp/student/person/tshiozak/x-tt/index-eng.html
X/RTA => <reply> $who, Audio Real Time Analyzer for X. URL: http://www.nbn.com/~holmes/xrtamain.html
X10 Powerhouse Web Interface => <reply> $who, Web interface to the X10 Firecracker. URL: http://thunder.prohosting.com/~mfoster/firecracker.html
x10ephem => <reply> $who, Computes sunrise/sunset times and modifies crontab entries. URL: http://www.drwren.com/ephem/
X11 tuXeyes => <reply> $who, Draws a tux on your screen that will follow your mouse with its eyes. URL: http://zero.xs4all.nl/~ivo/tuXeyes/
X11Spy => <reply> $who, X11Spy is a GTK based Quake3 server browser. URL: http://www.linux3d.net/x11spy/
X2 => <reply> $who, AfterNet's powerfull IRC channel services. URL: http://www.afternet.org/x2/
X8Hz => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cie.fr/gcu/down.html
Xafe => <reply> $who, A frontend for XAnim. URL: http://ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~niceguy/xafe/index.html
XAL => <reply> $who, X10 Abstraction Library. URL: http://hugin.highlab.com/software/xal/
XAllWrite => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.axene.com/english/xallwrite.html
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XDM-External Greet => <reply> $who, . URL: http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
XEBOT => <reply> $who, Visual GUI application builder and self contained execution environment. URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/titan/XEBOT/
XEmacs => <reply> $who, Internationalized text editor. URL: http://www.xemacs.org/
Xenon => <reply> $who, A simple X-based text editor. URL: http://www.proximity.com.au/~ben/xenon.html
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/
Xfstt => <reply> $who, X11 Font Server for TT fonts. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/
XGalaga => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.rumsey.org/xgal.html
xgate => <reply> $who, Client-initiated X11 relay, for displaying X11 through firewalls.. URL: http://verdict.uthscsa.edu/gram/xgate/index.html
Xgfe => <reply> $who, X11 GUI front end to Gnuplot. URL: http://www.bl.physik.uni-muenchen.de/rechner/grafik/xgfe/xgfe.html
XGGI => <reply> $who, X server which uses LibGGI to do hardware independent graphics and input. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan/ggi/xggi/
XgIRC => <reply> $who, Internet Relay Chat client for Linux / X Windows. URL: http://www.inforoute.capway.com/pieraut/
XGlobe => <reply> $who, A toy that displays a globe on your X desktop. URL: http://wwwrzstud.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uddn/xglobe/
xgrk => <reply> $who, Support for GREEK keyboard in XWindows. URL: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/
Xhack => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.chronozon.demon.co.uk
xhangglider => <reply> $who, X-based program that makes hanggliders fly in the background of your screen.. URL: http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~redstar/xhang-en.html
xhdbench => <reply> $who, Qt-based X-program for testing the output speed of severaldevices. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/benchmark/
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XSwallow => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/Xswallow.html
xt2fbt => <reply> $who, The program makes fbset timings from XFree86 modelines. URL: http://www.tuts.net/~klausman/english/linux.html
Xtacy => <reply> $who, Graphics hack for X11. URL: http://www.gweep.net/~jer/xtacy.html
XTC => <reply> $who, An XTree Clone for Linux and other UNIXes. URL: http://freeshell.org/~pmk/xtc
xtell => <reply> $who, Simple messaging client and server, kind of networked write. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/xtell.html
Xtend => <reply> $who, X-10 daemon, homeautomation at your fingertips. URL: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/xtend/
xterm => <reply> $who, A terminal emulator for the X Window System. URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm/xterm.html
Xterminal => <reply> $who, Object Oriented User Interface with a client-serverarchitecture. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~Xterminal/
xterminals => <reply> $who, Manage X-Terminals as Netscape kiosks. URL: http://www.mtl.umn.edu/project/xterminals/
XTerminator => <reply> $who, Robots implementation for X in Ada95. URL: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~jankr/xrobots/
xtermset => <reply> $who, Changes xterm title, font, colors and size from the command line. URL: http://xtermset.netpedia.net/
xtet42 => <reply> $who, Two-player tetris with a twist. URL: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~oyvindmo/xtet42/
Xtheater => <reply> $who, GTK-based MPEG-1 video & video/audio player. URL: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jbjohns4/Xtheater/
xtide => <reply> $who, An X11 graphical tide prediction package.. URL: http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/
XTL - Externalization Template Library => <reply> $who, A C++ template library for object externalization.. URL: http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/~jop/xtl/
Xtraceroute => <reply> $who, OpenGL traceroute. URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3august/xt/index.html
Xtradius => <reply> $who, Cistron based Radius Daemon that allows user auth and acct via external scripts. URL: http://www.xtradius.com/
XTrkCad => <reply> $who, Model Railroad CAD program for Linux. URL: http://www.sillub.com/
xttitle => <reply> $who, Utility for changing the title of xterm windows. URL: http://www.jarvis.com/xttitle/
XtTV => <reply> $who, Simple TV/Video program for Linux/X Window. URL: http://home.pages.de/~rasca/xttv/
XTux => <reply> $who, Humorous Arcade game for X. URL: http://www.adelaide.net.au/~philaw/
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Mac Error -52 => ( gfpErr ) Get file position error **File System Error**
Mac Error -53 => ( volOffLinErr ) Volume is off line **File System Error**
Mac Error -54 => ( permErr ) Software lock on file; Not a subscriber [permissions error on file open] **File System Error**
Mac Error -55 => ( volOnLinErr ) drive volume already on-line at MountVol **File System Error**
Mac Error -56 => ( nsDrvErr ) no such drive (tried to mount a bad drive num) **File System Error**
Mac Error -57 => ( noMacDskErr ) not a mac diskette (sig bytes are wrong) **File System Error**
Mac Error -58 => ( extFSErr ) External file system - file system identifier is nonzero **File System Error**
Mac Error -59 => ( fsRnErr ) file system internal error: during rename the old entry was deleted but could not be restored **File System Error**
Mac Error -60 => ( badMDBErr ) bad master directory block **File System Error**
Mac Error -61 => ( wrPermErr ) Write permissions error; Not a publisher **File System Error**
Mac Error -64 => ( fontDecError ) error during font declaration **Font Manager Error** or ( lastDskErr ) **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error** or ( noDriveErr ) drive not installed **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -65 => ( fontNotDeclared ) font not declared **Font Manager Error** or ( offLinErr ) r/w requested for an off-line drive **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -66 => ( fontSubErr ) font substitution occured **Font Manager Error** or ( noNybErr ) couldn't find 5 nybbles in 200 tries **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -67 => ( noAdrMkErr ) couldn't find valid addr mark **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -68 => ( dataVerErr ) read verify compare failed **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -69 => ( badCksmErr ) addr mark checksum didn't check **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -70 => ( badBtSlpErr ) bad addr mark bit slip nibbles **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -71 => ( noDtaMkErr ) couldn't find a data mark header **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -72 => ( badDCksum ) bad data mark checksum **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -73 => ( badDBtSlp ) bad data mark bit slip nibbles **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -74 => ( wrUnderrun ) write underrun occurred **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -75 => ( cantStepErr ) step handshake failed **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
Mac Error -76 => ( tk0BadErr ) track 0 detect doesn't change **Disk, Serial Ports, Clock Specific Error**
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Airport BEL => The code for the airport in: Belem, PA <Brazil>
Airport BEN => The code for the airport in: Bengasi <Libya>
Airport BEO => The code for the airport in: Newcastle <Australia>
Airport BER => The code for the airport in: Berlin <Germany>
Airport BES => The code for the airport in: Brest <France>
Airport BET => The code for the airport in: Bethel, AK <USA>
Airport BEW => The code for the airport in: Beira <Mozambique>
Airport BEY => The code for the airport in: Beirut <Lebanon>
Airport BFD => The code for the airport in: Bradford/Warren, PA/Olean, NY <USA>
Airport BFL => The code for the airport in: Bakersfield, CA <USA>
Airport BFN => The code for the airport in: Bloemfontein <South Africa>
Airport BFO => The code for the airport in: Buffalo Range <Zimbabwe>
Airport BFS => The code for the airport in: Belfast - International <Great Britan>
Airport BGA => The code for the airport in: Bucaramanga <Colombia>
Airport BGF => The code for the airport in: Bangui Central <Africa>
Airport BGI => The code for the airport in: Bridgetown <Barbados>
Airport BGM => The code for the airport in: Binghampton/Endicott/Johnson City, NY <USA>
Airport BGO => The code for the airport in: Bergen <Norway>
Airport BGR => The code for the airport in: Bangor, ME <USA>
Airport BGU => The code for the airport in: Bangassou <Central Africa>
Airport BGV => The code for the airport in: Bento Goncalves, RS <Brazil>
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Airport SAV => The code for the airport in: Savannah, GA, USA
Airport SAY => The code for the airport in: Salisbury, Zimbabwe
Airport SBA => The code for the airport in: Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Airport SBK => The code for the airport in: Saint Brieuc, France
Airport SBN => The code for the airport in: South Bend, IN, USA
Airport SBP => The code for the airport in: San Luis Obisco, CA, USA
Airport SBU => The code for the airport in: Springbok, South Africa
Airport SBW => The code for the airport in: Sibu, Malaysia
Airport SBY => The code for the airport in: Sal=>bury, MD, USA
Airport SCC => The code for the airport in: Prudhoe Bay, AK, USA
Airport SCE => The code for the airport in: State College/Belefonte, PA, USA
Airport SCF => The code for the airport in: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Airport SCK => The code for the airport in: Stockton, CA, USA
Airport SCL => The code for the airport in: Santiago de Chile, Chile
Airport SCN => The code for the airport in: Saarbruecken, Germany
Airport SCQ => The code for the airport in: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Airport SDA => The code for the airport in: Bagdad - Saddam International, Irak
Airport SDF => The code for the airport in: Louisville, KY, USA
Airport SDJ => The code for the airport in: Sendai, Japan
Airport SDL => The code for the airport in: Sundsvall, Sweden
Airport SDQ => The code for the airport in: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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html <AU> => <Author> The author tag defines text that names the author of a document. It is typically displayed just like normal text, but is used by automatic indexers.
example <AU> => <AU> text </AU>
html <AUTHOR> => The author tag defines text that names the author of a document. It is typically displayed just like normal text, but is used by automatic indexers.
example <AUTHOR> => <AUTHOR> text </AUTHOR>
html <B> => <Bold> The bold tag defines text that should be shown in boldface. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag.
example <B> => <B> text </B>
html <BANNER> => <Banner> The banner element defines an image or block of text that does not scroll with the document and is displayed at the top of the screen as the user scrolls through the document.
example <BANNER> => <BANNER attributes </BANNER> Details of the attributes are not yet available -- use a BANNER attribute in the <LINK> section of the <HEAD>
html <BASE> => <Base> The base tag, which is valid only in the HEAD section, defines the base address of an HTML document, which is used to determine the full address of relative URL's that appear in the document.
example <BASE> => <BASE HREF="base address"> & <BASE TARGET="default target">
html <BASEFONT> => <Base Font> The base font tag defines the base that relative FONT changes are based on. (Default is 3.)
example <BASEFONT> => <BASEFONT SIZE=number>
html <BGSOUND> => <Background Sound> The background sound tag identifies a .wav, .au, or.mid resource that will be played when the page is opened.
example <BGSOUND> => <BGSOUND SRC="URL"> & <BGSOUND SRC="URL"LOOP=n>
html <BGSOUND LOOP> => The optional LOOP attribute will cause the resource to be played n times.
example <BGSOUND LOOP> => <BGSOUND SRC="URL"LOOP=n> LOOP="INFINITE" will cause the resource to be played continuously as long as the page is open.
html <BIG> => <Big Text> The big text tag defines text that should be displayed in a larger font than usual.
example <BIG> => <BIG> text </BIG>
html <BLINK> => The blink tag highlights the text by having it blink on and off.
example <BLINK> => <BLINK> text </BLINK>
html <BLOCKQUOTE> => <BQ> The block quote tag defines text that is quoted from elsewhere. Many browsers (including Netscape) display it in an indented block surrounded by blank lines.
example <BLOCKQUOTE> => <BLOCKQUOTE> text </BLOCKQUOTE> & <BQ> text </BQ> & <BQ CLEAR = attributes> text </BQ> & <BQ NOWRAP> text </BQ>
html <BQ CLEAR> => In HTML 3.0, the CLEAR attribute is used to position a quote after a graphic: it can be LEFT, RIGHT, or ALL and specifies which margin should be clear. <BQ CLEAR = attributes> text </BQ>
html <BQ NOWRAP> => The NOWRAP attribute stops the browser from wrapping except at a BR tag. <BQ NOWRAP> text </BQ>
html <BQ> => See: html <BLOCKQUOTE>
html <BODY> => <Body> The body tag introduces the body of the document. It should appear after the head section and occupy the remainder of the document.
example <BODY> => <BODY> document-body </BODY> & See also: <BODY attributes>
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html <CAPTION> => <Caption> The caption tag defines the caption of a figure or table. It is valid only within FIG or TABLE tags.
example <CAPTION> => <CAPTION> text </CAPTION> & <CAPTION ALIGN=alignment> text </CAPTION> & <CAPTION VALIGN=vertical-alignment> text </CAPTION>
html <CAPTION ALIGN> => The ALIGN attribute arranges for the caption to be at the TOP or BOTTOM of the table or figure. See: <CAPTION ALIGN> 2
html <CAPTION ALIGN> 2 => The ALIGN attribute sets the alignment of the caption within the table or figure border. It can be LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER.
example <CAPTION ALIGN> => <CAPTION ALIGN=alignment> text </CAPTION>
html <CAPTION VALIGN> => The VALIGN attribute arranges for the caption to be at the TOP or BOTTOM of the table or figure.
example <CAPTION VALIGN> => <CAPTION VALIGN=vertical-alignment> text </CAPTION>
html <CENTER> => <Center> The center tag defines text that should be centered. Example: <CENTER> text</CENTER>
html <CITE> => <Citation> The citation tag defines text that cites a book or other work - most browsers will display it in italics. It can be nested with other idiomatic/typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag
example <CITE> => <CITE> text </CITE>
html <CODE> => The code tag defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag. See: <CODE> 2
html <CODE> 2 => Many browsers use the same font for the KBD, SAMP, TT & CODE tags. For many lines of fixed width text, with the line breaks and other whitespace specified by the page author, use the <PRE> tag.
example <CODE> => <CODE> text </CODE>
html <COL> => <Table Column> The <COL> tag sets the properties of one table column at a time. Do not use this tag with a COLGROUP element.
example <COL> => <COL> content </COL> & <COL ALIGN=alignment> content </COL> & <COL SPAN=number> content </COL>
html <COL ALIGN> => The ALIGN attribute specifies the text alignment in the cells within the colums. The values for "alignment" are LEFT, MIDDLE & RIGHT and the default is MIDDLE.
example <COL ALIGN> => <COL ALIGN=alignment> content </COL>
example <COL SPAN> => <COL SPAN=number> content </COL>
html <COLGROUP> => <Table Column Group> The COLGROUP tag sets the properties of one or more table columns. ( Attributes = SPAN, WIDTH, HALIGN, VALIGN & ALIGN )
example <COLGROUP> => A few examples: <COLGROUP> column data </COLGROUP> & <COLGROUP ALIGN="align"> column data </COLGROUP> & <COLGROUP WIDTH="width"> column data </COLGROUP>
example <COLGROUP ALIGN> => <COLGROUP ALIGN="align"> column data </COLGROUP>
html <COLGROUP HALIGN> => The HALIGN attribute specifies the horizontal alignment of text in the cells for the column group. The values: LEFT, RIGHT and CENTER (the default.)
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html <FIG ALIGN> 2 => For Netscape: "alignment" should be one of LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, TEXTTOP, MIDDLE, ABSMIDDLE, BASELINE, BOTTOM, or ABSBOTTOM.
html <FIG HEIGHT> => ( HEIGHT=number ) This specifies the height of the image, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <FIG WIDTH> => ( WIDTH=number ) This specifies the width of the image, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <FIG UNITS> => (UNITS=units ) Here units is one of pixels, meaning the width and height are measured in pixels, or en, meaning the width and height are measured in en spaces. See:<FIG> 2
html <FIG UNITS> 2 => These units are not used for the shape co-ordinates of any anchor tags in the figure.
html <FIG NOFLOW> => Stops text from flowing around the figure.
html <FIG IMAGEMAP> => ( IMAGEMAP="URL" ) Points to a script that handles clicks and drags.
html <SHAPE attribute> => One of: Defualt, Circle ( x, y, r ), Rect ( x, y, w, h ) & Polygon ( x1, y1, x2, y2, ... )
html <FN> => <Footnote> The footnote tag defines a footnote, ideally displayed in a pop-up window. The text that refers to this footnote does so with a standard anchor tag using anchor-name.
example <FN> => <FN ID=anchor-name> text </FN>
html <FONT> => The font tag defines text with a smaller or larger font than usual. The normal font size corresponds to 3; smaller values of number will produce a smaller font, and larger values of number will produce a larger font. See: <FONT> 2
html <FONT> 2 => If number has a sign (for example +1), the font will be changed relative to the BASEFONT.
example <FONT> => <FONT SIZE=number> & <FONT COLOR="#RRGGBB"> & <FONT COLOR="colorname"> & <FONT FACE="facename1, facename2...">
html <FONT COLOR> => The COLOR attribute allows you to change the colour of the text.
example <FONT COLOR> => <FONT COLOR="#RRGGBB"> & <FONT COLOR="colorname">
html <FONT FACE> => The FACE attribute specifies the face to be used, such as Arial or Courier. If multiple names are specified, the first one listed that is installed on the client machine is used.
example <FONT FACE> => <FONT FACE="facename1, facename2...">
html <FORM> => The form tag introduces a form, which is made up of INPUT elements, described in the sections that follow. See: <FORM> 2
html <FORM> 2 => A form may be inside structural HTML tags & may also contain structural tags. Using tables and other elements a form can take on various shapes and looks.
example <FORM> => <FORM ACTION=action base> form tags </FORM> & <FORM METHOD=method> form tags </FORM> & <FORM ENCTYPE=media type> form tags </FORM>
html <FORM ACTION> => The ACTION attribute defaults to the document's base address.
example <FORM ACTION> => <FORM ACTION=action base> form tags </FORM> & <FORM ACTION=action base TARGET="target window name"> form tags </FORM>
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html <FRAME FRAMESPACING> => (FRAMESPACING=number) Here number is the spacing between frames in pixels.
html <FRAME ALIGN> => (ALIGN = "alignment") One of: LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, TEXTTOP, MIDDLE, ABSMIDDLE, BASELINE, BOTTOM, or ABSBOTTOM.
html <FRAMESET> => The FRAMESET tag replaces the BODY tag in a document and is used to split the documents window into a set of smaller frames. See: html <FRAMESET> 2
html <FRAMESET> 2 => FRAMESET tags can be nested to create more complicated frame layouts. NOFRAME tags can also be placed in a frameset.
example <FRAMESET> => <FRAMESET attributes> frame tags </FRAMESET>
html <FRAMESET attributes> => The attributes for the tag <FRAMESET> are: ROWS & COLS
html <FRAMESET ROWS> => (ROWS="row heights") Here "row heights" specifies a list of values for the rows, each one can be specified as a percentage, a pixel value or as "*". See: html <FRAMESET ROWS> 2
html <FRAMESET ROWS> 2 => The frameset will be split vertically into frames based on these values. Rows with "*"'s in them will have any remaining space split between them.
html <FRAMESET COLS> => (COLS="column widths") Here "column widths" specifies a list of values for the columns. The width of each column can be specified as a percentage, a pixel value or as "*". See: html <FRAMESET COLS> 2
html <FRAMESET COLS> 2 => The frameset will be split into frames based on these values. Columns with a width of "*" will split the space that is not assigned to other columns.
html <H1> => The heading 1 tag defines a level 1 heading. It is typically shown in a very large bold font with several blank lines around it, and is used by automatic indexers to describe a page.
example <H1> => <H1> text </H1> & <H1 ALIGN=alignment > text </H1> & <H1 SRC="URL" > text </H1> & <H1 DINGBAT="entity-name" > text </H1>
html <H1 attributes> => The attributes for the HTML tag <H1> are: ALIGN, SRC, DINGBAT, NOWRAP & CLEAR
html <H1 ALIGN> => The alignment attribute can be LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER -- it defines the placement of the header on the screen. <H1 ALIGN=alignment > text </H1>
html <H1 SRC> => The SRC attribute identifies a graphic image to be embedded before the header text. <H1 SRC="URL" > text </H1>
html <H1 DINGBAT> => The DINGBAT attribute identifies an iconic entity to be embedded. <H1 DINGBAT="entity-name" > text </H1>
html <H1 NOWRAP> => The NOWRAP attribute prevents the browser from breaking long header lines; use a <BR> to break those lines yourself. <H1 NOWRAP> text </H1>
html <H1 CLEAR> => The clear attribute is used to position a header after a graphic: it can be LEFT, RIGHT, or ALL & specifies which margin should be clear. <H1 CLEAR=clear > text </H1>
html <H2> => The heading 2 tag defines a level 2 heading. It is typically shown in a large bold font with several blank lines around it. See: <H1 attributes>
example <H2> => <H2> text </H2>
html <H3> => The heading 3 tag defines a level 3 heading. It is typically shown in a large italic font, slightly indented, with blank lines around it. See: <H1 attributes>
example <H3> => <H3> text </H3>
html <H4> => The heading 4 tag defines a level 4 heading. It is typically shown in a bold font, indented more than an level 3 heading, with blank lines around it. See: <H1 attributes>
example <H4> => <H4> text </H4>
html <H5> => The heading 5 tag defines a level 5 heading. It is typically shown in an italic font, indented the same as a level 4 heading, with a blank line above it. See: <H1 attributes>
example <H5> => <H5> text </H5>
html <H6> => The heading 6 tag defines a level 6 heading. It is typically shown in a normal font, indented more than a level 5 heading, with a blank line above it. See: <H1 attributes>
example <H6> => <H6> text </H6>
html <HEAD> => The head tag introduces text that describes an HTML document. Most documents have only a TITLE tag in the head section.
example <HEAD> => <HEAD> head-section </HEAD>
html <HR> => <Horizontal Rule> The horizontal rule tag causes a horizontal line to be drawn across the screen. There is no </HR> tag.
html <HTML> => The HTML tag defines an HTML document. The <HTML> tag should be the first in the entire document, and the </HTML> tag should be the last.
example <HTML> => <HTML> entire-document </HTML>
html <I> => <Italic> The italic tag defines text that should be shown in italics. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag
example <I> => <I> text </I>
html <IFRAME> => <Frame - Floating> The IFRAME tag defines a floating frame, and the end tag is required.
example <iframe> => <IFRAME attributes> frame data <IFRAME>
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html <IMG SRC> => (SRC="URL") Here "URL" identifies the image source, typically a GIF or JPEG file.
html <IMG UNITS> => (UNITS=units) Here units is one of pixels, meaning the width and height are measured in pixels, or en, meaning the width and height are measured in en spaces.
html <IMG USEMAP> => (USEMAP="url") This attribute overrides the ISMAP attribute, if present, and if the browser supports client-side image maps. It uses the MAP element found at url to translate clicks.
html <IMG WIDTH> => (WIDTH=number) This specifies the width of the image, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <IMG VSPACE> => (VSPACE=number) Here number is the space, in pixels, to leave above and below the image.
html <INPUT> => To be filled in at a later date <Form Input>
html <INS> => (Inserted Text) The inserted text tag marks text that has been inserted, for example in a group authoring situation or a legal document.
example <INS> => <INS> text </INS>
html <ISINDEX> => (Is Index) The isindex tag, which is only valid in a HEAD section, declares that the current HTML document is a searchable index. The user will be prompted for keywords to search for. A new URL will be formed by taking the base addr...
example <ISINDEX> => <ISINDEX HREF=URL> & <ISINDEX PROMPT=prompt>
html <KBD> => <Keyboard> The keyboard tag defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag. Many browsers use the same font for th...
example <KBD> => <KBD> text </KBD>
html <LANG> => <Language> The language tag is used to alter the language used for a block of text.
example <lang> => <LANG> text </LANG>
html <LH> => <List Heading> The list heading tag defines the heading for an ordered, unordered, or definition list. Other tags may be embedded in a list heading. It must come before any List Item (LI) or Definition Term (DT) tags in the list.
example <lh> => <LH> text </LH>
html <LI> => <List Item> The list item tag defines one entry in an ordered, unordered, menu, or directory list. Other tags may be embedded in a list item.
html <LI attributes => SRC, DINGBAT, SKIP, TYPE, and VALUE
html <LI SRC> => The SRC attribute uses the image specified by the URL as the bullet for this item. <LI SRC=URL> text </LI>
html <LI DINGBAT> => The DINGBAT attribute identifies an iconic entity for the bullet. <LI DINGBAT="entity-name"> text </LI>
html <LI SKIP> => The SKIP attribute is used with ordered lists to skip forward in the count. <LI SKIP=number> text </LI>
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html <OVERLAY HEIGHT> => (HEIGHT=number) This specifies the height of the image, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <OVERLAY WIDTH> => (WIDTH=number) This specifies the width of the image, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <OVERLAY UNITS> => (UNITS=units) Here units is one of pixels, meaning the width and height are measured in pixels, or en, meaning the width and height are measured in en spaces.
html <OVERLAY IMAGEMAP> => (IMAGEMAP="URL") Points to a script that handles clicks and drags.
html <P> => <Paragraph> The paragraph tag starts a new paragraph, equivalent to two BR tags. The </P> tag is optional if the tag is only to insert space between two paragraphs, but vital when attributes (for example, ALIGN="center") are to apply to t...
example <P> => <P> text <P> text </P> <P ALIGN=alignment> text <P NOWRAP> text
html <PARAM> => <Parameters> This tag, valid only within an APPLET element, passes parameters to the applet, which gets them with the getParameter() method.
example <PARAM> => <PARAM NAME="name" VALUE="value">
html <PERSON> => <Person> The person tag is used around names of people mentioned in a document. It is typically displayed just like normal text, but is used by automatic indexers
example <PERSON> => <PERSON> text </PERSON>
html <PLAINTEXT> => <Plain Text> The plain text tag defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font with the line breaks and other whitespace specified by the page author. There is no need to use <BR> tags to indicate line breaks -- line brea...
example <PLAINTEXT> => <PLAINTEXT> text </PLAINTEXT>
html <PRE> => The preformatted text tag defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font with the line breaks and other whitespace specified by the page author. There is no need to use <BR> tags to indicate line breaks -- line breaks in the so...
example <PRE> => <PRE> text </PRE> <PRE WIDTH=width> text </PRE>
html <Q> => <Quote> The quote tag defines text that should be displayed as a short quote. For English language documents this means the text will be surrounded with double quote (") symbols. Quotes nested within quotes will typically be displayed sur...
example <Q> => <Q> text </Q>
html <RANGE> => The range tag, which is valid only in the HEAD section, defines a range within the document. The FROM and UNTIL attributes refer to ID's of tags within the document. The SPOT tag can be used to specify a location in the document where...
example <RANGE> => <RANGE FROM="from id" UNTIL="until id">
html <SAMP> => The sample tag defines text that should be shown as literal characters in a fixed width font. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag. Many browsers use the same f...
example <SAMP> => <SAMP> text </SAMP>
html <SCRIPT> => The script tag identifies script code. This can be code to be executed at this point of the document or may contain functions for use later in the document. The statements are usually but not required to be enclosed in the comment ta...
example <SCRIPT> => <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="language"><!-- script statements --></SCRIPT>
html <SELECT> => To be filled in at a later date <Form Select>
html <SMALL> => <Small Text> The small text tag defines text that should be displayed in a smaller font than usual.
example <SMALL> => <SMALL> text </SMALL>
html <SPACER> => <White Space> The SPACER tag creates an area of white space within the document. ( See: html <SPACER attributes> )
html <SPACER attributes> => The attributes for this tag are: TYPE, SIZE, WIDTH, HEIGHT, and ALIGN
html <SPACER TYPE> => (TYPE=type) The TYPE attribute has three possible values: horizontal (the default,) vertical, and block.
html <SPACER SIZE> => (SIZE=pixels) The SIZE attribute only applies when the spacer has a type of horizontal or vertical. Then this attribute controls the absolute width or height in pixels of the spacing added.
html <SPACER WIDTH> => (WIDTH=pixels) The WIDTH attribute only applies when the spacer is of type block. Then this attribute controls the absolute width in pixels of the spacing rectangle added.
html <SPACER HEIGHT> => (HEIGHT=pixels) The HEIGHT attribute only applies when the spacer is of type block. Then this attribute controls the absolute height in pixels of the spacing rectangle added.
html <SPACER ALIGN> => (ALIGN=alignment) The ALIGN attribute only applies when the spacer is of type block. Then this attribute controls the alignment of the spacing rectangle in exactly the same way it would control the alignment of an IMG tag. "ali...
html <SPOT> => The spot tag can be used to specify a location in the document where there is no tag.
example <SPOT> => <SPOT ID="id">
html <STRIKE> => The strikethrough tag defines text that should be shown with a horizontal line through it. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag.
example <STRIKE> => <STRIKE> text </STRIKE>
html <STRONG> => The strong tag defines text that should be strongly emphasized -- most browsers will display it in boldface. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag.
example <STRONG> => <STRONG> text </STRONG>
html <SUB> => The subscript tag defines text that should be displayed in a smaller font than usual, lower on the line than usual. <Subscript>
example <SUB> => <SUB> text </SUB>
html <SUP> => The superscript tag defines text that should be displayed in a smaller font than usual, higher on the line than usual. <Superscript>
example <SUP> => <SUP> text </SUP>
html <TAB> => The horizontal tab tag is used to set or jump to a horizontal tab. The INDENT attribute specifies the amount in en spaces to set this indent to. The align attribute can be one of LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER, or DECIMAL and will position the fol...
example <TAB> => <TAB INDENT=number> <TAB TO=tab id ALIGN=align> <TAB DP=character>
html <TABLE> => A table consists of an optional caption (CAPTION) and one or more rows (TR.) ( See also: html <TABLE attributes> )
example <TABLE> => <TABLE attributes> table-content </TABLE>
html <TABLE attributes> => The attributes are: ALIGN, WIDTH, BORDER, CELLPADDING, BGCOLOR, BORDERCOLOR, BORDERCOLORLIGHT, BORDERCOLORDARK, VALIGN, CLEAR, NOFLOW, COLSPEC, UNITS, DP, and NOWRAP
html <TABLE ALIGN> => (ALIGN="alignment") This causes the table to be aligned in one of a variety of ways on the page. Here "alignment" should be one of, LEFT: To the left text margin, CENTER: In the centre of the page (Turns on NOFLOW.) RIGHT: To th...
html <TABLE WIDTH> => (WIDTH=number) The UNITS attribute is used to translate number.
html <TABLE BORDER> => (BORDER) This attribute causes the table to be drawn with a border. (BORDER=number) This attribute draws the table with a border number pixels thick.
html <TABLE CELLPADDING> => (CELLPADDING=number) This separates the cell borders and the text with a padding of number pixels.
html <TABLE CELLSPACING> => (CELLSPACING=number) This separates cells with a gutter of number pixels.
html <TABLE BGCOLOR> => (BGCOLOR="#rrggbb" -or- BGCOLOR="colorname") This attribute sets the background colour for the entire table.
html <TABLE BORDERCOLOR> => (BORDERCOLOR="#rrggbb" -or- BORDERCOLOR="colorname") This attribute sets the border colour for the entire table.
html <TABLE BORDERCOLORLIGHT> => (BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#rrggbb" -or- BORDERCOLORLIGHT="colorname") This attribute sets the border highlight colour for the entire table.
html <TABLE BORDERCOLORDARK> => (BORDERCOLORDARK="#rrggbb" -or- BORDERCOLORDARK="colorname") This attribute sets the border shadow colour for the entire table.
html <TABLE VALIGN> => (VALIGN="valign") This attribute sets the vertical alignment for the entire table. "valign"is TOP or BOTTOM.
html <TABLE CLEAR> => (CLEAR=clear) Here "clear" should be one of LEFT, RIGHT, or ALL and specifies which margin should be clear.
html <TABLE NOFLOW> => (NOFLOW) This attribute prevents text flow around the table and is equivalent to setting the CLEAR attribute on the element after the table.
html <TABLE COLSPEC> => (COLSPEC=colspec) Here colspec is a list of column alignments and widths, separated by spaces. There should be one entry for each column in the table, and each should be an optional capital letter for alignment (one of L (left...
html <TABLE UNITS> => (UNITS=units) This makes sense only if the COLSPEC or WIDTH attributes are being used and specifies the units to be used for the column or table widths. units should be one of, en: widths are in en spaces, proportional to font s...
html <TABLE DP> => (DP="character") Here "character" is the character (the default is ".") to be used in aligning for decimal point alignment.
html <TABLE NOWRAP> => (NOWRAP) This attribute prevents word wrap within table entries.
html <TBODY> => The TBODY tag is used to group together a number of rows within a table, for assigning ID or STYLE values. (CLASS=type) This attribute indicates the class that the element belongs too. (ID=value) This attribute specifies a unique valu...
example <TBODY> => <TBODY> table body </TBODY>
html <TD> => <Table Data> Valid only in a TR, the table data tag defines a table cell. ( See also: html <TD attributes> )
html <TD attributes> => The attributes for this tag are: COLSPAN, ROWSPAN, NOWRAP, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, BORDERCOLOR, BORDERCOLORLIGHT, and BORDERCOLORDARK
html <TD COLSPAN> => (COLSPAN="number") the number of columns this cell occupies.
html <TD ROWSPAN> => (ROWSPAN="number") the number of rows this cell occupies.
html <TD NOWRAP> => (NOWRAP) This attribute prevents word wrap within the cell.
html <TD ALIGN> => (ALIGN="align") governs the alignment of the text within the table cell. "align" can be LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER.
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example <TITLE> => <TITLE> title-text </TITLE>
html <TR> => Valid only in a TABLE, the table row tag defines a row of cells that are defined with TH and TD tags. <Table Row> ( See also: html <TR attributes> )
html <TR attributes> => The attributes for this tag are: ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, BORDERCOLOR, BORDERCOLORLIGHT, BORDERCOLORDARK, and CLASS
html <TR ALIGN> => (ALIGN="align") governs the alignment of the text within the table cell. "align" can be LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER.
html <TR VALIGN> => (VALIGN="align") governs the alignment of the text within the table cell. "align" can be TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, or BASELINE.
html <TR BGCOLOR> => (BGCOLOR="#rrggbb" -or- BGCOLOR="colorname") This attribute sets the background colour for the table row.
html <TR BORDERCOLOR> => (BORDERCOLOR="#rrggbb" -or- BORDERCOLOR="colorname") This attribute sets the border colour for the table row.
html <TR BORDERCOLORLIGHT> => (BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#rrggbb" -or- BORDERCOLORLIGHT="colorname") This attribute sets the border highlight colour for the table row.
html <TR BORDERCOLORDARK> => (BORDERCOLORDARK="#rrggbb" -or- BORDERCOLORDARK="colorname") This attribute sets the border shadow colour for the table row.
html <TR CLASS> => (CLASS="class") class is one of Header, Body, or Footer and allows the browser to arrange for header or footer rows to be displayed as the user scrolls through the document.
html <TT> => The teletype tag defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag. Many browsers use the same font for the KBD, SAMP,...
example <TT> => <TT> text </TT>
html <U> => The underlined tag defines text that should be shown with a line underneath it. It can be nested with other idiomatic or typographic tags but some browsers will respect only the innermost tag. Many browsers, including some versions of Net...
example <U> => <U> text </U>
html <UL> => The unordered list tag introduces an unordered (bulleted) list, which is made up of List Item (LI) tags. <UL> list entries </UL>
html <UL attributes> => The attributes for this tag are: COMPACT, SRC, DINGBAT, PLAIN, WRAP, and TYPE
html <UL COMPACT> => The COMPACT attribute instructs the browser to reduce the space occupied by the list. For a numbered list use OL. For a list without bullets or numbers use MENU. For a list without bullets or numbers made up of short items that c...
html <UL SRC> => The SRC attribute identifies a graphic image to be used as a bullet. <UL SRC="URL" > list entries </UL>
html <UL DINGBAT> => the DINGBAT attribute identifies an iconic entity for the bullet. UL DINGBAT="entity-name" > list entries </UL>
html <UL PLAIN> => The PLAIN attribute specifies not to use a bullet on each item. <UL PLAIN>
html <UL WRAP> => The WRAP attribute is either VERT or HORIZ, and indicates multiple columns of data. VERT indicates that the data is to go down the page and then wrap to the next column, and HORIZ indicates that the data is to wrap across each row. ...
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bare metal4 is overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in appendix A, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimize fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common...
bare metal5 is and machine resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems. See {real programmer}. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming (especially in s...
bare metal6 is considered a {Good Thing}, or at least a necessary thing (because these machines have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see {ill-behaved}). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the ...
bare metal7 is application to directly access device registers and machine addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing are held in high regard.
barf is /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See {bletch}. 2. vi. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar exp...
barf2 is hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to work because of unacceptable input. May mean to give an error message. Examples "The division operation barfs if you try...
barf3 is operation checks for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before writing o...
barf4 is Commonwealth hackish, `barf' is generally replaced by `puke' or `vom'. {barf} is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic variable, like {foo} or {bar}.
barfulation is /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ interj. Variation of {barf} used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
barfulous is /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj. (alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.
baroque is adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Meta...
baroque2 is variations to its letterform output. Now *that* is baroque!" See also {rococo}.
BartleMUD is /bar'tl-muhd/ n. Any of the MUDs derived from the original MUD game by Richard Bartle (see {MUD}). BartleMUDs are noted for their (usually slightly offbeat) humor, dry but friendly syntax, and lack of adjectives in object descrip...
BartleMUD2 is `brand172', for instance (see {brand brand brand}). Some MUDders intensely dislike Bartle and this term, and prefer to speak of `MUD-1'.
BASIC is n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers. This is another case (like {Pascal}) of t...
BASIC2 is deliberately designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can write short BASIC programs (on the order of 10--20 lines) very easily; writing anything longer is (a) very painful, and (b) encourages bad habits tha...
BASIC3 is hack in a real language. This wouldn't be so bad if historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on low-end micros. As it is, it ruins thousands of potential wizards a year.
batch is adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input ar...
batch2 is switches. A `batch file' is a series of instructions written to be handed to an interactive program running in batch mode. 2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. "I finally sat down in batch mode and wrote out checks fo...
batch3 is electricity back on next week..." 3. Accumulation of a number of small tasks that can be lumped together for greater efficiency. "I'm batching up those letters to send sometime" "I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling ce...
bathtub curve is n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the ...
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content-free3 is "He gave a talk on the implications of electronic networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was content-free."
control-C is vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program. Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a br...
control-O is vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running. Generally means that you are not interested in hearing anything more from that person, at least on t...
control-O2 is who is flaming. Considered silly.
control-Q is vi. "Resume." From the ASCII XON character used to undo a previous control-S (in fact it is also pronounced XON /X-on/).
control-S is vi. "Stop talking for a second." From the ASCII XOFF character (this is also pronounced XOFF /X-of/). Control-S differs from {control-O} in that the person is asked to stop talking (perhaps because you are on the phone) but will...
control-S2 is listen to him --- as opposed to control-O, which has more of the meaning of "Shut up." Considered silly.
Conway's Law is prov. The rule that the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler". This was or...
Conway's Law2 is early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE. The name `SAVE' didn't stand for anything; it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings because they all had SAVE written on them.
cookbook is [from amateur electronics and radio] n. A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various {magic} things in programs. One current example is the `PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook' by Adobe Systems, Inc ...
cookbook2 is has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts. Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into {voodoo programming}, but are useful for hackers trying to {monkey up} small programs in unk...
cookbook3 is of phrasebooks in human languages.
cookie is n. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie." The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie; the...
cookie2 is later transaction to this one (so you get the same clothes back). Compare {magic cookie}; see also {fortune cookie}.
cookie bear is n. Syn. {cookie monster}.
cookie file is n. A collection of {fortune cookie}s in a format that facilitates retrieval by a fortune program. There are several different ones in public distribution, and site admins often assemble their own from various sources including ...
cookie monster is [from "Sesame Street"] n. Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {{Multics}}, and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the {{console}} (on ...
cookie monster2 is "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also {wabbit}.
copper is n. Conventional electron-carrying network cable with a core conductor of copper --- or aluminum! Opposed to {light pipe} or, say, a short-range microwave link.
copy protection is n. A class of clever methods for preventing incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it. Considered silly.
copybroke is /ko'pee-brohk/ adj. [play on `copyright'] Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been `broken'; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled. Syn. {copywronged}.
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elephantine2 is in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain). In extreme cases, hackers have been known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive proboscatory mime at the...
elephantine3 is semi-humorous. Compare `has the elephant nature' and the somewhat more pejorative {monstrosity}. See also {second-system effect} and {baroque}.
elevator controller is n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical exa...
elevator controller2 is computation environment. "You can't require `printf(3)' to be part of the default runtime library --- what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both ...
ELIZA effect is /*-li'z* *-fekt'/ [AI community] n. The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol `+' that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's j...
ELIZA effect2 is Using `+' or `plus' to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. This term comes from the famous ELIZA program, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's ...
ELIZA effect3 is 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 w...
ELIZA effect4 is 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 Inte...
elvish is 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 ...
elvish2 is both visually and phonetically elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be interested by artificial languages in general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and the like to support a Fean...
elvish3 is also {elder days}. 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a graphics device. 3. The typeface mundanely called `B"ocklin', an art-decoish display font.
EMACS is /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 wide...
EMACS2 is includes facilities to run compilation subprocesses and send and receive mail; many hackers spend up to 80% of their {tube time} inside it. Some versions running under window managers iconify as an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps...
EMACS3 is not (yet) include. Indeed, some hackers find EMACS too heavyweight and {baroque} for their taste, and expand the name as `Escape Meta Alt Control Shift' to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with {bucky bits}. Other s...
EMACS4 is Constantly Swapping', `Eventually `malloc()'s All Computer Storage', and `EMACS Makes A Computer Slow' (see {{recursive acronym}}). See also {vi}.
email is /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. O...
email2 is listed in the OED; it means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French `emmailleure', network.
emoticon is /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 si...
emoticon2 is by far the most frequently encountered. Hyphenless forms of them are common on CompuServe, GEnie, and BIX; see also {bixie}. On {USENET}, `smiley' is often used as a generic term synonymous with {emoticon}, as well as specificall...
emoticon3 is that the emoticon was invented by one Scott Fahlman on the CMU {bboard} systems around 1980. He later wrote "I wish I had saved the original post, or at least recorded the date for posterity, but I had no idea that I was starting...
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...
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flavorful is adj. Full of {flavor}; esthetically pleasing. See {random} and {losing} for antonyms. See also the entries for {taste} and {elegant}.
flippy is /flip'ee/ n. A single-sided floppy disk altered for double-sided use by addition of a second write-notch, so called because it must be flipped over for the second side to be accessible. No longer common.
flowchart is [techspeak] n. An archaic form of visual control-flow specification employing arrows and `speech balloons' of various shapes. Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely silly, and associate them with {COBOL} programmer...
flowchart2 is of life. This is because (from a hacker's point of view) they are no easier to read than code, are less precise, and tend to fall out of sync with the code (so that they either obfuscate it rather than explaining it or require ...
flowchart3 is the code). See also {pdl}, sense 3.
flower key is [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
flush is v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation. "All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [UNIX/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call. This is *not* an abort or deletion as in sense 1...
flush2 is leave at the end of a day's work (as opposed to leaving for a meal). "I'm going to flush now." "Time to flush." 4. To exclude someone from an activity, or to ignore a person. `Flush' was standard ITS terminology for aborting an ...
flush3 is would have been printed, but was not, as having been flushed. It is speculated that this term arose from a vivid image of flushing unwanted characters by hosing down the internal output buffer, washing the characters away before t...
flush4 is other hand, was propagated by the `fflush(3)' call in C's standard I/O library (though it is reported to have been in use among BLISS programmers at DEC and on Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965). UNIX/C hackers find th...
Flyspeck 3 is n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable (by analogy with such names as `Helvetica 10' for 10-point Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
flytrap is n. See {firewall machine}.
FOAF is // [USENET] n. Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'. The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is much better recognized on USENET a...
FOD is /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people. From {MUD}s where the wizard command `FOD <player>' results in the imme...
FOD2 is as punishment for obnoxious behavior. This migrated to other circumstances, such as "I'm going to fod the process that is burning all the cycles." Compare {gun}. In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g., what happens when ...
FOD3 is bird in flight. Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of what this does to the engine.
fold case is v. See {smash case}. This term tends to be used more by people who don't mind that their tools smash case. It also connotes that case is ignored but case distinctions in data processed by the tool in question aren't destroyed.
followup is n. On USENET, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by email rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers c...
followup2 is news in `conversation' sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See {thread}.
foo is /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See al...
foo2 is {grault}, {garply}, {waldo}, {fred}, {plugh}, {xyzzy}, {thud}. {foo} is the {canonical} example of a `metasyntactic variable' --- a name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random...
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frednet is /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some {random} and uncommon protocol encountered on a network. "We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem."
freeware is n. Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, {USENET}, or other electronic media. At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the...
freeware2 is program PC-TALK III. It wasn't enforced after his mysterious disappearance and presumed death in 1984. See {shareware}.
freeze is v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date. "OK, fix that ...
freeze2 is are more specific constructions on this. A `feature freeze', for example, locks out modifications intended to introduce new features; a `code freeze' connotes no more changes at all. At Sun Microsystems and elsewhere, one may also ...
freeze3 is an almost-but-not-quite frozen state.
fried is adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to electroni...
fried2 is burn out and transformers can melt down, emitting noxious smoke. However, this term is also used metaphorically.) Compare {frotzed}. 2. Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those who continue to work in such a state. Often...
fried3 is know that fix destroyed the file system, but I was fried when I put it in." Esp. common in conjunction with `brain' "My brain is fried today, I'm very short on sleep."
friode is /fri'ohd/ [TMRC] n. A reversible (that is, fused or blown) diode. Compare {fried}.
fritterware is n. An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see {macdink}); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in functi...
frob is /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing; an object that you can comfortably hold in one hand; something you can frob. See {frobnit...
frob2 is {frobnicate}. 3. [from the {MUD} world] A command on some MUDs that changes a player's experience level (this can be used to make wizards); also, to request {wizard} privileges on the `professional courtesy' grounds that one is a w...
frobnicate is /frob'ni-kayt/ vt. [Poss. derived from {frobnitz}, and usually abbreviated to {frob}, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form.] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state device...
frobnicate2 is (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction `to frob a frob'. See {tweak} and {twiddle}. Usage frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum....
frobnicate3 is `twiddle' connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; `tweak' connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; ...
frobnicate4 is screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant `frobnosticate' has been recently reported.
frobnitz is /frob'nits/, pl. `frobnitzem' /frob'nit-zm/ or `frobni' /frob'ni/ n. An unspecified physical object, a widget. Also refers to electronic black boxes. This rare form is usually abbreviated to `frotz', or more commonly to {frob}. ...
frobnitz2 is `frobule' (/frob'yool/). Starting perhaps in 1979, `frobozz' /fruh-boz'/ (plural `frobbotzim' /fruh-bot'zm/) has also become very popular, largely through its exposure as a name via {Zork}. These can also be applied to nonphys...
frog is alt. `phrog' 1. interj. Term of disgust (we seem to have a lot of them). 2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}. 3. n. Of things, a crock. 4. n. Of people, somewhere in between a turkey and a toad. 5. `froggy' adj. S...
frog2 is milder. "This froggy program is taking forever to run!"front end n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end'). 2. What you're talking to w...
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go flatline is [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi., also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being c...
go flatline2 is employ jargon-jokes. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down UNIX but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, t...
go flatline3 is sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
go root is [UNIX] vi. To temporarily enter {root mode} in order to perform a privileged operation. This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. `root' refers to animal sex.
go-faster stripes is [UK] Syn. {chrome}.
gobble is vt. To consume or to obtain. The phrase `gobble up' tends to imply `consume', while `gobble down' tends to imply `obtain'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a {tty} output buffer." "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the doc...
Godzillagram is /god-zil'*-gram/ n. [from Japan's national hero] 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case of this is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]....
Godzillagram2 is enough to attempt to implement this! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets.
golden is adj. [prob. from folklore's `golden egg'] When used to describe a magnetic medium (e.g., `golden disk', `golden tape'), describes one containing a tested, up-to-spec, ready-to-ship software version. Compare {platinum-iridium}.
golf-ball printer is n. The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter. The `golf ball' was a round object bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four...
golf-ball printer2 is font by swapping in a different golf ball. This was the technology that enabled APL to use a non-EBCDIC, non-ASCII, and in fact completely non-standard character set. This put it 10 years ahead of its time --- where it ...
golf-ball printer3 is character displays gave way to programmable bit-mapped devices with the flexibility to support other character sets.
gonk is /gonk/ vt.,n. 1. To prevaricate or to embellish the truth beyond any reasonable recognition. It is alleged that in German the term is (mythically) `gonken'; in Spanish the verb becomes `gonkar'. "You're gonking me. That story you ju...
gonk2 is for example, "Du gonkst mir" (You're pulling my leg). See also {gonkulator}. 2. [British] To grab some sleep at an odd time; compare {gronk out}.
gonkulator is /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ [from the old "Hogan's Heroes" TV series] n. A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favorite piece of computer hardware. See {gonk}.
gonzo is /gon'zoh/ [from Hunter S. Thompson] adj. Overwhelming; outrageous; over the top; very large, esp. used of collections of source code, source files, or individual functions. Has some of the connotations of {moby} and {hairy}, but with...
Good Thing is n.,adj. Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice "The Trailblazer's 19.2Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites...
Good Thing2 is possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing." 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "YACC is a Good Th...
Good Thing3 is drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Oppose {Bad Thing}.
gorilla arm is n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those {spiffy} touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't ...
gorilla arm2 is their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized; hence `gorilla arm'. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "...
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Gosperism is /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying by arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in {HAKMEM} are Gosperisms; see also {life}.
gotcha is n. A {misfeature} of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it behaves in an unexpected way. For example, a classic gotcha in {C} is the fact that `if (a=b) {code;}' ...
gotcha2 is correct. It puts the value of `b' into `a' and then executes `code' if `a' is non-zero. What the programmer probably meant was `if (a==b) {code;}', which executes `code' if `a' and `b' are equal.
GPL is /G-P-L/ n. Abbrev. for `General Public License' in widespread use; see {copyleft}.
GPV is /G-P-V/ n. Abbrev. for {General Public Virus} in widespread use.
grault is /grawlt/ n. Yet another meta-syntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation. See {corge}.
gray goo is n. A hypothetical substance composed of {sagan}s of sub-micron-sized self-replicating robots programmed to make copies of themselves out of whatever is available. The image that goes with the term is one of the entire biosphere of...
gray goo2 is goo. This is the simplest of the {{nanotechnology}} disaster scenarios, easily refuted by arguments from energy requirements and elemental abundances. Compare {blue goo}.
Great Renaming is n. The {flag day} on which all of the non-local groups on the {USENET} had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Great Runes is n. Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also {runes}, {smash case}, {fold case}. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy ...
Great Runes2 is Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The question...
Great Runes3 is conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and wh...
Great Runes4 is obscured. The results were filtered up through {management}. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly....
Great Runes5 is folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. T...
Great Runes6 is Runes for thirty years.
great-wall is [from SF fandom] vi.,n. A mass expedition to an oriental restaurant, esp. one where food is served family-style and shared. There is a common heuristic about the amount of food to order, expressed as "Get N - 1 entrees"; the val...
great-wall2 is the group, can be inferred from context (see {N}). See {{oriental food}}, {ravs}, {stir-fried random}.
Green Book is n. 1. One of the three standard PostScript references `PostScript Language Program Design', bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988; QA76.73.P67P66 ISBN; 0-201-14396-8); see also {Red Book}, {Blue Book}). 2. Informal name ...
Green Book2 is SmallTalk `Smalltalk-80 Bits of History, Words of Advice', by Glenn Krasner (Addison-Wesley, 1983; QA76.8.S635S58; ISBN 0-201-11669-3) (this, too, is associated with blue and red books). 3. The `X/Open Compatibility Guide'. ...
Green Book3 is environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID; also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See {...
Green Book4 is Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards which will be issued by the CCITT's tenth plenary assembly. Until now, these have changed color each review cycle (1984 w...
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software rot5 is (e.g., the R1; see {grind crank}). If a program that depended on a peculiar instruction hadn't been run in quite a while, the user might discover that the opcodes no longer did the same things they once did. ("Hey, so-and-...
software rot6 is We can {snarf} this opcode, right? No one uses it.") Another classic example of this sprang from the time an MIT hacker found a simple way to double the speed of the unconditional jump instruction on a PDP-6, so he patched ...
software rot7 is fragile timing software in a music-playing program, throwing its output out of tune. This was fixed by adding a defensive initialization routine to compare the speed of a timing loop with the real-time clock; in other words, ...
software rot8 is day, and corrected appropriately. Compare {bit rot}.
softwarily is /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software. "The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective `softwary' is *not* used. See {hardwarily}.
softy is [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
some random X is adj. Used to indicate a member of class X, with the implication that Xs are interchangeable. "I think some random cracker tripped over the guest timeout last night." See also {J. Random}.
sorcerer's apprentice mode is [from the film "Fantasia"] n. A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug. Used esp. of s...
sorcerer's apprentice mode2 is loops in {email} software. Compare {broadcast storm}, {network meltdown}.
SOS is n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously {losing} text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfo...
SOS2 is discarded when new ones (in particular, {TECO}) came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to...
SOS3 is editor BILOS /bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed). 2. /sos/ n. To decrease; inverse of {AOS}, from the PDP-10 instruction set.
source of all good bits is n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained. If you need to know about a program, a {guru} might be the source of all good bits. The title is often applied to a particularly comp...
space-cadet keyboard is n. The Knight keyboard, a now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of {EMACS}. It was inspired by the Stanford keyboard and equipped wi...
space-cadet keyboard2 is keys for {bucky bits} (`control', `meta', `hyper', and `super') and three like regular shift keys, called `shift', `top', and `front'. Many keys had three symbols on them a letter and a symbol on the top, and a Greek ...
space-cadet keyboard3 is key had an `L' and a two-way arrow on the top, and the Greek letter lambda on the front. And of course each of these might also be typed with any combination of the control, meta, hyper, and super keys. On this keyb...
space-cadet keyboard4 is characters! This allowed the user to type very complicated mathematical text, and also to have thousands of single-character commands at his disposal. Many hackers were actually willing to memorize the command mean...
space-cadet keyboard5 is typing time (this attitude obviously shaped the interface of EMACS). Other hackers, however, thought having that many bucky bits was overkill, and objected that such a keyboard can require three or four hands to ope...
space-cadet keyboard6 is bucky}, {meta bit}, {quadruple bucky}.
SPACEWAR is n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemente...
SPACEWAR2 is aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became {{UNIX}}. Less ...
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wizard2 is if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it. 2. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has {wheel} ...
wizard3 is esp. a UNIX systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that `UNIX Wizard' is a recognized job title at some corporations and to most headhunters. See {guru}, {lord high fixer}. See also {deep magic}, {heavy wizar...
wizard4 is dance}, {voodoo programming}, {wave a dead chicken}.
Wizard Book is n. Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman's `Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1, an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizar...
Wizard Book2 is LISP/Scheme world.
wizard mode is [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges. Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used inst...
wizardly is adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly {feature} is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.
womb box is n. 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment. 2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix; mundanely called a `flight case'. Used for delicate...
WOMBAT is [Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] adj. Applied to problems which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as `wrestling w...
WOMBAT2 is {SMOP}. Also note the rather different usage as a meta-syntactic variable in {{Commonwealth Hackish}}.
wonky is /wong'kee/ [from Australian slang] adj. Yet another approximate synonym for {broken}. Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "That was the day the printer's font lo...
wonky2 is out in Tengwar." Also in `wonked out'. See {funky}, {demented}, {bozotic}.
workaround is n. A temporary {kluge} inserted in a system under development or test in order to avoid the effects of a {bug} or {misfeature} so that work can continue. Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by {fix}es; in practice, ...
workaround2 is workarounds in the first couple of releases. "The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I fixed it to interpret them as spaces." "That's not a fix, that's a workaround!"
working as designed is [IBM] adj. 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specification; useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility. 3. Unfortunately also used as a bogus reason for not accep...
working as designed2 is this sense is used in official documents! See {BAD}.
worm is [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel `The Shockwave Rider', via XEROX PARC] n. A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare {virus}. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is...
worm2 is Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's `Internet Worm' of 1988, a `benign' one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also {cracker}, {RTM}, {Trojan horse}, {ice}.
wound around the axle is adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.
wrap around is vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1. [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see {infinity}) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, eit...
wrap around2 is because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0). 2. To change {phase} gradually and continuously by maintaining a steady wake-sleep cycle somewhat longer than 24 hours, e.g., living six long (28-hour) days i...
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bare metal => n. 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an {operating system}, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase `programming on the bare metal', which refers to the arduous work of {bit bashing} ne...
bare metal2 => for a new machine. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back en...
bare metal3 => real development environment. 2. `Programming on the bare metal' is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, esp. tricks for speed and space optimization that...
bare metal4 => overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in appendix A, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimize fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the ...
bare metal5 => and machine resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems. See {real programmer}. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming (especially in sense 1 bu...
bare metal6 => considered a {Good Thing}, or at least a necessary thing (because these machines have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS i...
bare metal7 => application to directly access device registers and machine addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing are held in high regard.
barf => /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. vi. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of dis...
barfulation => /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ interj. Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
barfulous => /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj. (alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.
baroque => adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has...
BartleMUD => /bar'tl-muhd/ n. Any of the MUDs derived from the original MUD game by Richard Bartle (see MUD). BartleMUDs are noted for their (usually slightly offbeat) humor, dry but friendly syntax, and lack of adjectives in object descriptions, so ...
BASIC => n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers. This is another case (like Pascal) of the bad thing...
batch => adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often ...
bathtub curve => n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system'...
bathtub curve2 => `tires out'. See also {burn-in period}, {infant mortality}.
baud => /bawd/ [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning is `level transitions per second'; this coincides with bps only for two-level modulation with no f...
baud barf => /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp. line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts ...
baud barf2 => completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify pa...
baz => /baz/ [Stanford corruption of bar] n. 1. The third metasyntactic variable, after foo and bar and before quux (or, occasionally, `qux'; or local idiosyncracies like `rag', `zowie', etc.). "Suppose we have three functions FOO,BAR, and BAZ. FOO c...
bboard => /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n. 1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of BBS systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET newsgroup (in fact, use of the term for a newsgroup generally marks one eithe...
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considered harmful3 => over with the realization that both sides were wrong, but use of such titles has remained as a persistent minor in-joke (the `considered silly' found at various places in this lexicon is related).
console => n. 1. The operator's station of a mainframe. In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys. Under UNIX and other modern timesharing OSes, such privileges are guarded by passwo...
console jockey => n. See {terminal junkie}.
content-free => [by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] adj. Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that e...
control-C => vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program. Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!"
control-O => vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running. Generally means that you are not interested in hearing anything more from that person, at least on that topic...
control-Q => vi. "Resume." From the ASCII XON character used to undo a previous control-S (in fact it is also pronounced XON /X-on/).
control-S => vi. "Stop talking for a second." From the ASCII XOFF character (this is also pronounced XOFF /X-of/). Control-S differs from control-O in that the person is asked to stop talking (perhaps because you are on the phone) but will be allowed...
Conway's Law => prov. The rule that the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler". This was originally ...
Conway's Law2 => early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE. The name `SAVE' didn't stand for anything; it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings because they all had SAVE written on them.
cookbook => [from amateur electronics and radio] n. A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs. One current example is the `PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook' by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-We...
cookie => n. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie." The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie; the only thi...
cookie bear => n. Syn. {cookie monster}.
cookie file => n. A collection of {fortune cookie}s in a format that facilitates retrieval by a fortune program. There are several different ones in public distribution, and site admins often assemble their own from various sources including this lex...
cookie monster => [from "Sesame Street"] n. Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on {TOPS-10}, {ITS}, {Multics}, and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the {console} (on a batch mainfra...
cookie monster2 => "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
copper => n. Conventional electron-carrying network cable with a core conductor of copper --- or aluminum! Opposed to {light pipe} or, say, a short-range microwave link.
copy protection => n. A class of clever methods for preventing incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it. Considered silly.
copybroke => /ko'pee-brohk/ adj. [play on `copyright'] Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been `broken'; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled. Syn. copywronged.
copyleft => /kop'ee-left/ [play on `copyright'] n. 1. The copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by GNU EMACS and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also {General Public...
copywronged => /ko'pee-rongd/ [play on `copyright'] adj. Syn. for copybroke.
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El Camino Bignum5 => told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it `El Camino Bignum', and that name has stuck. (See bignum.)
elder days => n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, {ITS}, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic `The Lord of the Rings'. Compare {Iron Age}; see...
elegant => [from mathematical usage] adj. Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than `clever', `winning', or even cuspy.
elephantine => adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly hairy in source form. An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but...
elevator controller => n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical example of a ...
elevator controller2 => computation environment. "You can't require `printf(3)' to be part of the default runtime library --- what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of ...
ELIZA effect => /*-li'z* *-fekt'/ [AI community] n. The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol `+' that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that ...
ELIZA effect2 => Using `+' or `plus' to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. This term comes from the famous ELIZA program, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's statemen...
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.
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flat => adj. 1. Lacking any complex internal structure. "That {bitty box} has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one." The verb form is flatten. 2. Said of a memory architecture (like that of the VAX or 680x0) that is one big linear address s...
flat-ASCII => adj. Said of a text file that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that is, has no embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter or markup language, and no meta-characters). Syn....
flat-file => adj. A flattened representation of some database or tree or network structure as a single file from which the structure could implicitly be rebuilt, esp. one in flat-ASCII form.
flatten => vt. To remove structural information, esp. to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat-ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivale...
flavor => n. 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones." See vanilla. 2. The attribute that causes something to be flavorful. Usually used in the phrase "yields ad...
flavorful => adj. Full of flavor; esthetically pleasing. See random and losing for antonyms. See also the entries for taste and elegant.
flippy => /flip'ee/ n. A single-sided floppy disk altered for double-sided use by addition of a second write-notch, so called because it must be flipped over for the second side to be accessible. No longer common.
flowchart => [techspeak] n. An archaic form of visual control-flow specification employing arrows and `speech balloons' of various shapes. Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely silly, and associate them with COBOL programmers, {card w...
flower key => [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
flush => v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation. "All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [UNIX/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call. This is *not* an abort or deletion as in sense 1, but a d...
Flyspeck 3 => n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable (by analogy with such names as `Helvetica 10' for 10-point Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
flytrap => n. See {firewall machine}.
FOAF => // [USENET] n. Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'. The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is much better recognized on USENET and elsewh...
FOD => /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people. From MUDs where the wizard command `FOD <player>' results in the immediate and ...
fold case => v. See {smash case}. This term tends to be used more by people who don't mind that their tools smash case. It also connotes that case is ignored but case distinctions in data processed by the tool in question aren't destroyed.
followup => n. On USENET, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers can use this ...
foo => /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar, ba...
foobar => n. Another common metasyntactic variable; see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.
fool => n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise; it is not generally used in its other senses, i.e., to descri...
fool file, the => [USENET] n. A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever. There is a subgenre of {sig block}s that consists of the header "From the fool file" followed by some quote the poster wishes to re...
fool file, the2 => dimwittery; for this to be really effective, the quote has to be so obviously wrong as to be laughable. More than one USENETter has achieved an unwanted notoriety by being quoted in this way.
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four-color glossies => 1. Literature created by marketroids that allegedly containing technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally content-free. "Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech ref manuals." ...
four-color glossies2 => superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white. Four-color-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't contain enoug...
four-color glossies3 => program doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
fragile => adj. Syn brittle.
fred => n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a metasyntactic variable (see foo). Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Unlike {J. Random Hacker} or `J. Random Loser', this name ha...
frednet => /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some random and uncommon protocol encountered on a network. "We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem."
freeware => n. Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, USENET, or other electronic media. At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of...
freeze => v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date. "OK, fix that bug and ...
fried => adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to electronic circuits! ...
friode => /fri'ohd/ [TMRC] n. A reversible (that is, fused or blown) diode. Compare fried.
fritterware => n. An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but sed...
frob => /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing; an object that you can comfortably hold in one hand; something you can frob. See frobnitz. 2. vt. A...
frobnicate => /frob'ni-kayt/ vt. [Poss. derived from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form.] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus "Pl...
frobnitz => /frob'nits/, pl. `frobnitzem' /frob'nit-zm/ or `frobni' /frob'ni/ n. An unspecified physical object, a widget. Also refers to electronic black boxes. This rare form is usually abbreviated to `frotz', or more commonly to frob. Also used ar...
frog => alt. `phrog' 1. interj. Term of disgust (we seem to have a lot of them). 2. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo. 3. n. Of things, a crock. 4. n. Of people, somewhere in between a turkey and a toad. 5. `froggy' adj. Similar to `bag...
frotz => /frots/ 1. n. See frobnitz. 2. `mumble frotz' An interjection of very mild disgust.
frotzed => /frotst/ adj. down because of hardware problems. Compare fried. A machine that is merely frotzed may be fixable without replacing parts, but a fried machine is more seriously damaged.
frowney => n. (alt. `frowney face') See emoticon.
fry => 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See fried, {magic smoke}. 2. vt. To cause to fail; to roach, toast, or hose...
FTP => /F-T-P/, *not* /fit'ip/ 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on the Internet. 2. vt. To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol. 3. Sometimes used as a generic even for file transfers not usi...
FUBAR => n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX. A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the suits; see foobar.
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GNUMACS => /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS. Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS.
go flatline => [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi., also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considere...
go flatline2 => employ jargon-jokes. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down UNIX but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by ...
go flatline3 => sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
go root => [UNIX] vi. To temporarily enter {root mode} in order to perform a privileged operation. This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. `root' refers to animal sex.
go-faster stripes => [UK] Syn. chrome.
gobble => vt. To consume or to obtain. The phrase `gobble up' tends to imply `consume', while `gobble down' tends to imply `obtain'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer." "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation...
Godzillagram => /god-zil'*-gram/ n. [from Japan's national hero] 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case of this is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortuna...
golden => adj. [prob. from folklore's `golden egg'] When used to describe a magnetic medium (e.g., `golden disk', `golden tape'), describes one containing a tested, up-to-spec, ready-to-ship software version. Compare platinum-iridium.
golf-ball printer => n. The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter. The `golf ball' was a round object bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four meridi...
golf-ball printer2 => font by swapping in a different golf ball. This was the technology that enabled APL to use a non-EBCDIC, non-ASCII, and in fact completely non-standard character set. This put it 10 years ahead of its time --- where it stayed, f...
golf-ball printer3 => character displays gave way to programmable bit-mapped devices with the flexibility to support other character sets.
gonk => /gonk/ vt.,n. 1. To prevaricate or to embellish the truth beyond any reasonable recognition. It is alleged that in German the term is (mythically) `gonken'; in Spanish the verb becomes `gonkar'. "You're gonking me. That story you just told me...
gonkulator => /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ [from the old "Hogan's Heroes" TV series] n. A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favorite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
gonzo => /gon'zoh/ [from Hunter S. Thompson] adj. Overwhelming; outrageous; over the top; very large, esp. used of collections of source code, source files, or individual functions. Has some of the connotations of moby and hairy, but without the impl...
Good Thing => n.,adj. Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice "The Trailblazer's 19.2Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relayin...
Good Thing2 => possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing." 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "YACC is a Good Thing", spec...
Good Thing3 => drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Oppose {Bad Thing}.
gorilla arm => n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed t...
gorilla arm2 => their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized; hence `gorilla arm'. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember ...
gorilla arm3 => "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
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GOSMACS => /goz'maks/ [contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] n. The first EMACS-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNUMACS. Originally freeware; a commercial version is now modestly popular as `UniPress EMACS'. The author (James Gos...
Gosperism => /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying by arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms; see also life.
gotcha => n. A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it behaves in an unexpected way. For example, a classic gotcha in C is the fact that `if (a=b) code;' is syntactical...
GPL => /G-P-L/ n. Abbrev. for `General Public License' in widespread use; see copyleft.
GPV => /G-P-V/ n. Abbrev. for {General Public Virus} in widespread use.
grault => /grawlt/ n. Yet another meta-syntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the GOSMACS documentation. See corge.
gray goo => n. A hypothetical substance composed of sagans of sub-micron-sized self-replicating robots programmed to make copies of themselves out of whatever is available. The image that goes with the term is one of the entire biosphere of Earth bei...
gray goo2 => goo. This is the simplest of the {nanotechnology} disaster scenarios, easily refuted by arguments from energy requirements and elemental abundances. Compare {blue goo}.
Great Renaming => n. The {flag day} on which all of the non-local groups on the USENET had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Great Runes => n. Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, {smash case}, {fold case}. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal d...
Great Runes2 => Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The question was, whi...
Great Runes3 => conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the l...
Great Runes4 => obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this wa...
Great Runes5 => folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that ...
Great Runes6 => Runes for thirty years.
great-wall => [from SF fandom] vi.,n. A mass expedition to an oriental restaurant, esp. one where food is served family-style and shared. There is a common heuristic about the amount of food to order, expressed as "Get N - 1 entrees"; the value of N,...
Green Book => n. 1. One of the three standard PostScript references `PostScript Language Program Design', bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988; QA76.73.P67P66 ISBN; 0-201-14396-8); see also {Red Book}, {Blue Book}). 2. Informal name for one ...
Green Book2 => SmallTalk `Smalltalk-80 Bits of History, Words of Advice', by Glenn Krasner (Addison-Wesley, 1983; QA76.8.S635S58; ISBN 0-201-11669-3) (this, too, is associated with blue and red books). 3. The `X/Open Compatibility Guide'. Defines an ...
Green Book3 => environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID; also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See {Purple Bo...
Green Book4 => Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards which will be issued by the CCITT's tenth plenary assembly. Until now, these have changed color each review cycle (1984 was {Red B...
Green Book5 => is rumored that this convention is going to be dropped before 1992. These include, among other things, the X.400 email standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. See also {{book titles}}.
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software rot4 => Raleigh, North Carolina. The new system refused to issue the card, probably because with 2-digit years the ages 101 and 1 cannot be distinguished. Historical note Software rot in an even funnier sense than the mythical one was a real...
software rot5 => (e.g., the R1; see {grind crank}). If a program that depended on a peculiar instruction hadn't been run in quite a while, the user might discover that the opcodes no longer did the same things they once did. ("Hey, so-and-so needs an...
software rot6 => We can snarf this opcode, right? No one uses it.") Another classic example of this sprang from the time an MIT hacker found a simple way to double the speed of the unconditional jump instruction on a PDP-6, so he patched the hardware...
software rot7 => fragile timing software in a music-playing program, throwing its output out of tune. This was fixed by adding a defensive initialization routine to compare the speed of a timing loop with the real-time clock; in other words, it figur...
software rot8 => day, and corrected appropriately. Compare {bit rot}.
softwarily => /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software. "The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective `softwary' is *not* used. See hardwarily.
softy => [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
some random X => adj. Used to indicate a member of class X, with the implication that Xs are interchangeable. "I think some random cracker tripped over the guest timeout last night." See also {J. Random}.
sorcerer's apprentice mode => [from the film "Fantasia"] n. A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug. Used esp. of such beha...
sorcerer's apprentice mode2 => loops in email software. Compare {broadcast storm}, {network meltdown}.
SOS => n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously losing text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, t...
source of all good bits => n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained. If you need to know about a program, a guru might be the source of all good bits. The title is often applied to a particularly competent secr...
space-cadet keyboard => n. The Knight keyboard, a now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of EMACS. It was inspired by the Stanford keyboard and equipped with no fewe...
space-cadet keyboard2 => keys for {bucky bits} (`control', `meta', `hyper', and `super') and three like regular shift keys, called `shift', `top', and `front'. Many keys had three symbols on them a letter and a symbol on the top, and a Greek letter o...
space-cadet keyboard3 => key had an `L' and a two-way arrow on the top, and the Greek letter lambda on the front. And of course each of these might also be typed with any combination of the control, meta, hyper, and super keys. On this keyboard, you ...
space-cadet keyboard4 => characters! This allowed the user to type very complicated mathematical text, and also to have thousands of single-character commands at his disposal. Many hackers were actually willing to memorize the command meanings of tha...
space-cadet keyboard5 => typing time (this attitude obviously shaped the interface of EMACS). Other hackers, however, thought having that many bucky bits was overkill, and objected that such a keyboard can require three or four hands to operate. See ...
space-cadet keyboard6 => bucky}, {meta bit}, {quadruple bucky}.
SPACEWAR => n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the...
spaghetti code => n. Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp. one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs. Pejorative. The synonym `kangaroo code' has been reported, doubtless because such code has ma...
spaghetti inheritance => n. [encountered among users of object-oriented languages that use inheritance, such as Smalltalk] A convoluted class-subclass graph, often resulting from carelessly deriving subclasses from other classes just for the sake of ...
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wish list2 => interface." Compare {tick-list features}.
within delta of => adj. See delta.
within epsilon of => adj. See epsilon.
wizard => n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizar...
Wizard Book => n. Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman's `Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1, an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the...
Wizard Book2 => LISP/Scheme world.
wizard mode => [from rogue] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges. Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead).
wizardly => adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.
womb box => n. 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment. 2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix; mundanely called a `flight case'. Used for delicate test equ...
WOMBAT => [Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] adj. Applied to problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as `wrestling with a womb...
wonky => /wong'kee/ [from Australian slang] adj. Yet another approximate synonym for broken. Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "That was the day the printer's font logic went wo...
workaround => n. A temporary kluge inserted in a system under development or test in order to avoid the effects of a bug or misfeature so that work can continue. Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by fixes; in practice, customers often fi...
working as designed => [IBM] adj. 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specification; useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility. 3. Unfortunately also used as a bogus reason for not accepting a ...
working as designed2 => this sense is used in official documents! See BAD.
worm => [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel `The Shockwave Rider', via XEROX PARC] n. A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed th...
wound around the axle => adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.
wrap around => vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1. [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see infinity) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, either becau...
wrap around2 => because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0). 2. To change phase gradually and continuously by maintaining a steady wake-sleep cycle somewhat longer than 24 hours, e.g., living six long (28-hour) days in a week (...
wrap around3 => rate of 10 microhertz).
write-only code => [a play on `read-only memory'] n. Code so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by anyone but its author, and possibly not even by him/her. A {Bad Thing}.
write-only language => n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is {write-only code}. A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deser...
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Tk_FindPhoto => manipulate the image data stored in a photo image. - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_FreeXId => make X resource identifier available for reuse - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GeometryRequest => specify desired geometry or internal border for a window - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_Get3DBorder => draw borders with three-dimensional appearance - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetAnchor => translate between strings and anchor positions - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetBitmap => maintain database of single-plane pixmaps - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetCapStyle => translate between strings and cap styles - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetColor => maintain database of colors - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetColormap => allocate and free colormaps - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetCursor => maintain database of cursors - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetFontStruct => maintain database of fonts - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetGC => maintain database of read-only graphics contexts - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetImage => use an image in a widget - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetJoinStyle => translate between strings and join styles - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetJustify => translate between strings and justification styles - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetOption => retrieve an option from the option database - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetPixels => translate between strings and screen units - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetPixmap => allocate and free pixmaps - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetRelief => translate between strings and relief values - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetRootCoords => Compute root-window coordinates of window - TkLibrary Procedures
Tk_GetScrollInfo => parse arguments for scrolling commands - TkLibrary Procedures
factpacks/ports.fact view on Meta::CPAN
port 7007 => afs3-bos - basic overseer process
port 7008 => afs3-update - server-to-server updater
port 7009 => afs3-rmtsys - remote cache manager service
port 7010 => ups-onlinet - onlinet uninterruptable power supplies
port 7011 => talon-disc - Talon Discovery Port
port 7012 => talon-engine - Talon Engine
port 7020 => dpserve - DP Serve
port 7021 => dpserveadmin - DP Serve Admin
port 7070 => arcp - ARCP
port 7099 => lazy-ptop - lazy-ptop
port 7100 => font-service - X Font Service
port 7121 => virprot-lm - Virtual Prototypes License Manager
port 7174 => clutild - Clutild
port 7200 => fodms - FODMS FLIP
port 7201 => dlip - DLIP
port 7300 => netmon - Net Monitor TROJAN (or swx - The Swiss Exchange)
port 7301 => netmon - Net Monitor TROJAN (or swx - The Swiss Exchange)
port 7300 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7301 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7302 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
port 7303 => swx - The Swiss Exchange
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Newsgroups => See Usenet newsgroups
Nibble => Four bits or half a byte.
NIC => (Network Interface Card) The NIC is an add-in board that enables a computer to connect to some form of computer network.
NLX => This is a form factor similar to ATX. The difference is that NLX machines contain a riser card that the other expansion cards are plugged into. This allows for a shorter desktop case.
Non-parity Memory => DRAM that has no error correction or tracking, called parity.
Normal SCSI => This term is commonly used to refer to non-wide versions of SCSI that interface with 50-pin connectors.
NOS => (Network Operating System) This is an operating system designed to run across a network. It refers to the operating system that runs on a server, not the client.
Notebook computer => A computer the size of a notebook. Usually smaller and lighter than a laptop.
Null modem => There really is no "null modem" per se, but usually a null modem cable. This is a cable that connects two computers together via serial port and allows them to communicate. Some hardware manufacturers of network hardware, such as hubs a...
NVRAM => (Non-Volatile RAM) A small amount of RAM that stores information even after you turn off your computer. Used in modems (for storing your settings) and in hardware keys for protecting software.
Object => Objects can refer to the objects in object-oriented programming or the objects in OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). In OLE, an object is a piece of a document, a graphic, or some multimedia. In object-oriented programming, an object can b...
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) => Object Linking and Embedding => aka OLE. This is a standard for sharing data between applications. It has been around since Windows 3.1 and continues to get better. For example, if you cut a picture out of Paint ...
Object-oriented Programming => This term usually refers to programming languages that allow you to work with objects. These objects can contain not only data type and data structure information, but also information about how the object can be used b...
Object-oriented technology => This refers to technology, usually programming languages, designed to work with objects.
OC12 => see Optical Carrier 12.
OC3 => See Optical Carrier 3.
OCR => (Optical Character Recognition) This is the technology that allows computers to "read" the text from physical objects. It requires a graphical representation of text to interpret. This usually comes from a scanned image.
OEM => (Original Equipment Manufacturer) This acronym is used to denote equipment that is sold to other companies or resellers for integration into systems. For example, a hard drive manufacturer may sell an OEM hard drive in bulk quantities and no m...
Office Suite => The set of software products that are required by an office. Most often comprised of a spreadsheet program, a word processor, a scheduler, and a presentation manager. Sometimes they will include a financial package and a database prog...
OLE => (see Object Linking and Embedding) see Object Linking and Embedding
Online => The term refers to anything that's on the Internet, as in "I've got this great online magazine for you to check out at www.ugeek.com."
factpacks/usazips.fact view on Meta::CPAN
16750 => Turtlepoint McKean PA
16751 => Westline McKean PA
16801 => State College Centre PA
16802 => University Park Centre PA
16803 => State College Centre PA
16804 => State College Centre PA
16805 => State College Centre PA
16820 => Aaronsburg Centre PA
16821 => Allport Clearfield PA
16822 => Beech Creek Clinton PA
16823 => Bellefonte Centre PA
16825 => Bigler Clearfield PA
16826 => Blanchard Centre PA
16827 => Boalsburg Centre PA
16828 => Centre Hall Centre PA
16829 => Clarence Centre PA
16830 => Clearfield Clearfield PA
16832 => Coburn Centre PA
16833 => Curwensville Clearfield PA
16834 => Drifting Clearfield PA
16835 => Fleming Centre PA
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18848 => Towanda Bradford PA
18850 => Ulster Bradford PA
18851 => Warren Center Bradford PA
18853 => Wyalusing Bradford PA
18854 => Wysox Bradford PA
18901 => Doylestown Bucks PA
18910 => Bedminster Bucks PA
18911 => Blooming Glen Bucks PA
18912 => Buckingham Bucks PA
18913 => Carversville Bucks PA
18914 => Chalfont Bucks PA
18915 => Colmar Montgomery PA
18916 => Danboro Bucks PA
18917 => Dublin Bucks PA
18918 => Earlington Montgomery PA
18920 => Erwinna Bucks PA
18921 => Ferndale Bucks PA
18922 => Forest Grove Bucks PA
18923 => Fountainville Bucks PA
18924 => Franconia Montgomery PA
18925 => Furlong Bucks PA
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39669 => Woodville Wilkinson MS
39701 => Columbus Lowndes MS
39702 => Columbus Lowndes MS
39703 => Columbus Lowndes MS
39704 => Columbus Lowndes MS
39705 => Columbus Lowndes MS
39710 => Columbus Lowndes MS
39730 => Aberdeen Monroe MS
39735 => Ackerman Choctaw MS
39736 => Artesia Lowndes MS
39737 => Bellefontaine Webster MS
39739 => Brooksville Noxubee MS
39740 => Caledonia Monroe MS
39741 => Cedarbluff Clay MS
39743 => Crawford Lowndes MS
39744 => Eupora Webster MS
39745 => French Camp Choctaw MS
39746 => Hamilton Monroe MS
39747 => Kilmichael Montgomery MS
39750 => Maben Webster MS
39751 => Mantee Calhoun MS
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43286 => Columbus Franklin OH
43287 => Columbus Franklin OH
43291 => Columbus Franklin OH
43299 => Columbus Franklin OH
43301 => Marion Marion OH
43302 => Marion Marion OH
43305 => Marion Marion OH
43306 => Marion Marion OH
43307 => Marion Marion OH
43310 => Belle Center Logan OH
43311 => Bellefontaine Logan OH
43314 => Caledonia Marion OH
43315 => Cardington Morrow OH
43316 => Carey Wyandot OH
43317 => Chesterville Morrow OH
43318 => De Graff Logan OH
43319 => East Liberty Logan OH
43320 => Edison Morrow OH
43321 => Fulton Morrow OH
43322 => Green Camp Marion OH
43323 => Harpster Wyandot OH
factpacks/weather.fact view on Meta::CPAN
Donau => ETSN located in Germany 48-43N. Also see Neuburg
Pferdsfeld => ETSP located in Germany. 49-51N 007-36E.
Laarbruch => ETUL located in Germany. 51-36N 006-09E.
Nordhorn => ETUN located in Germany. 52-27N 007-10E.
Guetersloh => ETUO located in Germany. 51-55N 008-18E.
Brueggen => ETUR located in Germany. 51-12N 006-08E.
Riga => EVRA located in Belarus. 56-55N 023-58E.
Vilnius => EYVI located in Lithuania. 54-38N 025-06E.
Alexander Bay => FAAB located in South Africa. 28-34S 016-32E.
Aliwal North => FAAN located in South Africa. 30-43S 026-43E.
Bloemfontein J. B. M. Hertzog=> FABL located in South Africa. 29-06S 026-18E.
Bethlehem => FABM located in South Africa. 28-15S 028-20E.
Beaufort West => FABY located in South Africa. 32-21S 022-35E.
Carolina => FACL located in South Africa. 26-04S 030-07E.
Cape Town D. F. Malan => FACT located in South Africa. 33-59S 018-36E.
Calvinia => FACV located in South Africa. 31-28S 019-46E.
De Aar => FADA located in South Africa. 30-39S 024-01E.
Durban Louis Botha => FADN located in South Africa. 29-58S 030-57E.
East London => FAEL located in South Africa. 33-02S 027-50E.
Ermelo => FAEO located in South Africa. 26-30S 029-59E.
Frankfort => FAFF located in South Africa. 27-16S 028-30E.
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Lilongwe => FWKI located in Malawi. 13-47S 033-46E.
Nkhota Kota => FWKK located in Malawi. 12-55S 034-16E.
Mangochi => FWMG located in Malawi. 14-26S 035-15E.
Monkey Bay => FWMY located in Malawi. 14-05S 034-55E.
Mzimba => FWMZ located in Malawi. 11-53S 033-37E.
Salima => FWSM located in Malawi. 13-45S 034-35E.
Mzuzu => FWUU located in Malawi. 11-27S 034-01E.
Maseru => FXMM located in Lesotho. 29-27S 027-33E. Also see Moshoeshoe
Moshoeshoe => FXMM located in Lesotho 29-27S. Also see Maseru
Maseru-Mia => FXMU located in Lesotho. 29-27S 027-33E.
Grootfontein => FYGF located in Namibia. 19-36S 018-07E.
Keetmanshoop => FYKT located in Namibia. 26-32S 018-07E.
Luderitz => FYLZ located in Namibia. 26-41S 015-15E. Also see Diaz Point
Diaz Point => FYLZ located in Namibia 26-41S. Also see Luderitz
Rooikop Saaf => FYRK located in Namibia. 22-59S 014-39E. Also see Civ
Civ => FYRK located in Namibia 22-59S. Also see Rooikop Saaf
Rundu => FYRU located in Namibia. 17-55S 019-46E.
J. G. Strijdom => FYWH located in Namibia. 22-29S 017-28E.
Kinshasa => FZAA located in Zaire. 04-23S 015-26E. Also see N'Djili
N'Djili => FZAA located in Zaire 04-23S. Also see Kinshasa
Moanda => FZAG located in Zaire. 06-00S 012-25E.
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ETSN => Neuburg / Donau (Neuburg)
ETSP => Pferdsfeld (Pferdsfeld)
ETUL => Laarbruch (Laarbruch)
ETUN => Nordhorn (Nordhorn)
ETUO => Guetersloh (Guetersloh)
ETUR => Brueggen (Brueggen)
EVRA => Riga (Riga)
EYVI => Vilnius (Vilnius)
FAAB => Alexander Bay (Alexander Bay)
FAAN => Aliwal North (Aliwal North)
FABL => Bloemfontein J. B. M. Hertzog (Bloemfontein J. B. M. Hertzog)
FABM => Bethlehem (Bethlehem)
FABY => Beaufort West (Beaufort West)
FACL => Carolina (Carolina)
FACT => Cape Town D. F. Malan (Cape Town D. F. Malan)
FACV => Calvinia (Calvinia)
FADA => De Aar (De Aar)
FADN => Durban Louis Botha (Durban Louis Botha)
FAEL => East London (East London)
FAEO => Ermelo (Ermelo)
FAFF => Frankfort (Frankfort)
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FWKA => Karonga (Karonga)
FWKI => Lilongwe (Lilongwe)
FWKK => Nkhota Kota (Nkhota Kota)
FWMG => Mangochi (Mangochi)
FWMY => Monkey Bay (Monkey Bay)
FWMZ => Mzimba (Mzimba)
FWSM => Salima (Salima)
FWUU => Mzuzu (Mzuzu)
FXMM => Maseru / Moshoeshoe (Maseru)
FXMU => Maseru-Mia (Maseru-Mia)
FYGF => Grootfontein (Grootfontein)
FYKT => Keetmanshoop (Keetmanshoop)
FYLZ => Luderitz / Diaz Point (Luderitz)
FYRK => Rooikop Saaf / Civ (Rooikop Saaf)
FYRU => Rundu (Rundu)
FYWH => J. G. Strijdom (J. G. Strijdom)
FZAA => Kinshasa / N'Djili (Kinshasa)
FZAG => Moanda (Moanda)
FZAM => Matadi (Matadi)
FZAN => Inga (Inga)
FZBA => Inongo (Inongo)
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