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Lightning strikes.
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
Change your language to Finnish.
Flourescent lights are generating negative ions. If turning them off doesn't work, take them out and put tin foil on the ends.
High nuclear activity in your area.
What office are you in? Oh, that one. Did you know that your building was built over the universities first nuclear research site? And wow, aren't you the lucky one, your office is right over where the core is buried!
The MGs ran out of gas.
The UPS doesn't have a battery backup.
Recursivity. Call back if it happens again.
Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch.
The mainframe needs to rest. It's getting old, you know.
I'm not sure. Try calling the Internet's head office -- it's in the book.
The lines are all busy (busied out, that is -- why let them in to begin with?).
Jan 9 16:41:27 huber su: 'su root' succeeded for .... on /dev/pts/1
It's those computer people in X {city of world}. They keep stuffing things up.
A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN.
Fatal error right in front of screen
That function is not currently supported, but Bill Gates assures us it will be featured in the next upgrade.
wrong polarity of neutron flow
Lusers learning curve appears to be fractal
We had to turn off that service to comply with the CDA Bill.
Ionisation from the air-conditioning
TCP/IP UDP alarm threshold is set too low.
Someone is broadcasting pigmy packets and the router dosn't know how to deal with them.
The new frame relay network hasn't bedded down the software loop transmitter yet.
Fanout dropping voltage too much, try cutting some of those little traces
Plate voltage too low on demodulator tube
You did wha... oh _dear_....
CPU needs bearings repacked
Too many little pins on CPU confusing it, bend back and forth until 10-20% are neatly removed. Do _not_ leave metal bits visible!
_Rosin_ core solder? But...
Software uses US measurements, but the OS is in metric...
The computer fletely, mouse and all.
Your cat tried to eat the mouse.
The Borg tried to assimilate your system. Resistance is futile.
It must have been the lightning storm we had (yesterdy) (last week) (last month)
Due to Federal Budget problems we have been forced to cut back on the number of users able to access the system at one time. (namely none allowed....)
Too much radiation coming from the soil.
Unfortunately we have run out of bits/bytes/whatever. Don't worry, the next supply will be coming next week.
Program load too heavy for processor to lift.
Processes running slowly due to weak power supply
Our ISP is having {switching,routing,SMDS,frame relay} problems
We've run out of licenses
Interference from lunar radiation
Standing room only on the bus.
You need to install an RTFM interface.
That would be because the software doesn't work.
That's easy to fix, but I can't be bothered.
Someone's tie is caught in the printer, and if anything else gets printed, he'll be in it too.
We're upgrading /dev/null
The Usenet news is out of date
Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel.
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The kernel license has expired
Netscape has crashed
The cord jumped over and hit the power switch.
It was OK before you touched it.
Bit rot
U.S. Postal Service
Your Flux Capacitor has gone bad.
The Dilithium Cyrstals need to be rotated.
The static electricity routing is acting up...
Traceroute says that there is a routing problem in the backbone. It's not our problem.
The co-locator cannot verify the frame-relay gateway to the ISDN server.
High altitude condensation from U.S.A.F prototype aircraft has contaminated the primary subnet mask. Turn off your computer for 9 days to avoid damaging it.
Lawn mower blade in your fan need sharpening
Electrons on a bender
Telecommunications is upgrading.
Telecommunications is downgrading.
Telecommunications is downshifting.
Hard drive sleeping. Let it wake up on it's own...
Interference between the keyboard and the chair.
The CPU has shifted, and become decentralized.
Due to the CDA, we no longer have a root account.
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This ASEXUAL PIG really BOILS my BLOOD ... He's so ... so ... URGENT!!
"This is a job for BOB VIOLENCE and SCUM, the INCREDIBLY STUPID MUTANT DOG." -- Bob Violence
This is a NO-FRILLS flight -- hold th' CANADIAN BACON!!
This MUST be a good party -- My RIB CAGE is being painfully pressed up against someone's MARTINI!! ... this must be what it's like to be a COLLEGE GRADUATE!!
This PIZZA symbolizes my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL RECOVERY!!
This PORCUPINE knows his ZIPCODE ... And he has "VISA"!!
This TOPS OFF my partygoing experience! Someone I DON'T LIKE is talking to me about a HEART-WARMING European film ...
Those aren't WINOS -- that's my JUGGLER, my AERIALIST, my SWORD
SWALLOWER, and my LATEX NOVELTY SUPPLIER!!
Thousands of days of civilians ... have produced a ... feeling for the aesthetic modules --
Today, THREE WINOS from DETROIT sold me a framed photo of TAB HUNTER before his MAKEOVER!
Toes, knees, NIPPLES. Toes, knees, nipples, KNUCKLES ... Nipples, dimples, knuckles, NICKLES, wrinkles, pimples!! TONY RANDALL! Is YOUR life a PATIO of FUN??
Uh-oh -- WHY am I suddenly thinking of a VENERABLE religious leader frolicking on a FORT LAUDERDALE weekend?
Uh-oh!! I forgot to submit to COMPULSORY URINALYSIS!
UH-OH!! I put on "GREAT HEAD-ON TRAIN COLLISIONS of the 50's" by mistake!!!
UH-OH!! I think KEN is OVER-DUE on his R.V. PAYMENTS and HE'S having a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN too!! Ha ha.
Uh-oh!! I'm having TOO MUCH FUN!!
UH-OH!! We're out of AUTOMOBILE PARTS and RUBBER GOODS!
Used staples are good with SOY SAUCE!
VICARIOUSLY experience some reason to LIVE!!
Vote for ME -- I'm well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and TAX-DEFERRED!
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# Linux factpack
# 1999-Dec-29
# Author: Kimmie Dicaire <kdicaire@ispchannel.com>
# see http://novaone.linux-help.org/linuxiqs
Open CASCADE => <reply> $who, The Open CASCADE Object Libraries are reusable C++ object libraries for producing all types of domain-specific graphic modeling applications. URL: http://www.opencascade.org/downloads/down.html
nettimer => <reply> $who, netttimer is a very small, simple program that calculates the amount of time and money you've spent using the Internet. URL: http://members.xoom.com/kodgehopper/nettimer-0.02.tar.gz
TkUsr => <reply> $who, TkUsr is a small program that allows you to manage the Self-mode of a USR/3Com MessagePlus modem. URL: http://ldrolez.free.fr/tkusr-latest.tar.gz
PAG Project => <reply> $who, The PAG Project is a travel agency program that features travel registrations, client database and billing with advanced search features and a really nice looking interface. URL: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/pag.tar.gz
3D-Stereogram => <reply> $who, Generates 3D pixelpictures which are visible without 3d-glasses.. URL: http://www.snafu.de/~mathe.kcbo/
3Dfx Banshee framebuffer driver for Linux/x86 => <reply> $who, 3Dfx Banshee driver for Linux framebuffer subsystem. URL: http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/linux/3dfx.html
3dom => <reply> $who, A general purpose 3d object modeler.. URL: http://www.gv.kotnet.org/~kdf/3dom/
3dPM => <reply> $who, Modeller for Povray 3. URL: http://rupert.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~kraftts/
3Dto3D => <reply> $who, Conversion between 3D formats, e.g. URL: http://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/tools.html
4DOM => <reply> $who, A CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C's Document Object Model in Python. URL: http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM/
4inarow => <reply> $who, ascii art four in a row game via tcp/ip. URL: http://utenti.tripod.it/konrad/
4XSLT => <reply> $who, Python XSLT processor.. URL: http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT/
624 => <reply> $who, Elf-executable (produced by tinlink) compressor. URL: http://sed.free.fr/624/
68HC11 Target for GCC => <reply> $who, Patch to add 68HC11 target to gcc-2.8.1 compiler. URL: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/
8hz-mp3 => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.8hz.com/mp3/
9libs => <reply> $who, Libraries to emulate the Plan 9 programming environment on Unix and X11. URL: ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/research/9libs/9libs-1.0.tar.gz
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AARG NPC Database => <reply> $who, Web-based NPC database suitable for roleplaying game websites. URL: http://www.aarg.net/files.html
AB.pl => <reply> $who, Portable PIM. URL: http://forsythe.dhs.org/~hdiwan/
Abacus => <reply> $who, Spreadsheet for Linux/XWindows written in Tcl/Tk and C/C++. URL: http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html
AbiWord => <reply> $who, Fully featured word processor. URL: http://www.abisource.com/
abs => <reply> $who, Full featured spreadsheet for X11. URL: http://www.ping.be/bertin/abs.shtml
AC3D => <reply> $who, A powerful and intuitive 3D modeller that really shows off the power of Linux.. URL: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ac3d.html
ac3dec => <reply> $who, A free Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder for unix. URL: http://ess.engr.uvic.ca/~aholtzma/ac3/
acalc => <reply> $who, A console calculator.. URL: http://homepages.infoseek.com/~googlefritz/acalc.htm
Accuradar => <reply> $who, Shell script that downloads radar images using an Accuweather account. URL: http://www.digital-galaxy.net/~patt/storm.html
AccuRev => <reply> $who, Cross Platform Configuration Management for Distributed Development. URL: http://www.accurev.com/
ACE => <reply> $who, Object-oriented C++ class library and framework. URL: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
Acidblood => <reply> $who, Full-featured IRC Bot. URL: http://www.darkice.com/site/acidblood/
acl => <reply> $who, Colorizes log files using advanced parsing capabilities.. URL: http://www.LinuxRC.org/projects/acl/
acmemail => <reply> $who, A multiuser POP3/IMAP to Web gateway with MIME and mod_perl support. URL: http://www.astray.com/acmemail/
ACPLT/KS => <reply> $who, Open and free communication system for Process Control (Engineering). URL: http://www.plt.rwth-aachen.de/ks/english/
acro => <reply> $who, Random character-sequence generator. URL: http://finbar.dyndns.org/programs/acro/
Acrobat Reader => <reply> $who, Acrobat reader for linux and other unices. URL: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html#reader
ACS => <reply> $who, GPL licensed multi-line voice response telephony platform. URL: http://www.voxilla.org/projects/projacs.html
active => <reply> $who, news, events and projects on the web. URL: http://active.org.au/about/
Active Guardian => <reply> $who, Server based web content filter. URL: http://www.activeguardian.com/
ACUA => <reply> $who, . URL: http://acua.ebbs.com.au/
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Apache-SSL => <reply> $who, Secure Webserver (using SSLeay). URL: http://www.apache-ssl.org/
Apache-Ssl-Jserv => <reply> $who, Leading World Wide Web server with SSL and Java servlet support.. URL: http://fornax.elf.stuba.sk/~hany/software/apache-ssl-jserv/
apache-userdirldap => <reply> $who, LDAP UserDir lookups for the Apache web server. URL: http://horde.net/~jwm/software/apache-userdirldap/
Apache::Archive => <reply> $who, Allow users to view/download component parts of archive files. URL: http://www.snowdrift.org/computers/perl/archive.html
Apache::MimeXML => <reply> $who, An Apache MIME Type handler for detecting XML files.. URL: http://sergeant.org/perl/modules/docs/Apache-MimeXML.txt
Apache::Session => <reply> $who, Session manager for web applications. URL: http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Apache/
Apache::SetWWWTheme => <reply> $who, Apache perl module to create nav tools and give a common look/feel to a site. URL: http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~chogan/
APC Log Analyser => <reply> $who, Generates HTML output of power disturbances from APCUPSD logs.. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/linux/scripts.html
apcupsd => <reply> $who, UPS power management under Linux for APCC Products.. URL: http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/
APE => <reply> $who, APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc.. URL: http://www.voxilla.org/projects/projape.html
aperts => <reply> $who, The APE class framework for Real Time Streaming. URL: ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/arts/aperts-0.1.1.tar.gz
APIsingularity => <reply> $who, Portable OpenGL C++ API based on GLUT. URL: http://www.enteract.com/~pas/
apmd => <reply> $who, Set of tools for managing notebook power consumption. URL: http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/
Apollo => <reply> $who, Svgalib Multiplayer Gravity Game. URL: http://members.xoom.com/jopman/
App => <reply> $who, Algebraic Typing and Pattern Matching Preprocessor for C++. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~georgen/app.html
Appindex browser => <reply> $who, Simple ncurses-based Freshmeat appindex.txt browser. URL: http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/appindex/
Appletalk Configurator => <reply> $who, GTK+ GUI for Netatalk package. URL: http://members.yourlink.net/aaron/atalkconf.html
Applix SHELF => <reply> $who, An embedable fully featured programming language for Linux. URL: http://www.applixware.org
Applixware => <reply> $who, Integrated suite of desktop productivity tools.. URL: http://linux.applixware.com/
APRIL => <reply> $who, Agent Process Interaction Language. URL: http://www.nar.fla.com/Activities/Programming/APRIL/april.html
aproxy => <reply> $who, Forwarding TCP-Proxy. URL: http://www.dilledabb.de/projects/aproxy.html
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Boa => <reply> $who, Lightweight and High Performance WebServer. URL: http://www.boa.org/
BoboBot => <reply> $who, A. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bobobot/
bobot++ => <reply> $who, An IRC bot written in C++.. URL: http://www.via.ecp.fr/~eb/bobot++/
Bochs => <reply> $who, Portable x86 PC emulation software package. URL: http://www.bochs.com/
boclient => <reply> $who, BackOrifice and NetBus remote administration client. URL: http://cvs.linux.hr/boclient/
Bogg => <reply> $who, . URL: http://yoss.canweb.net/~frank/bogg
bogtk => <reply> $who, The back orifice client with a gtk interface. URL: http://www.execulink.com/~mdarling/bogtk/index.html
Bomb => <reply> $who, automatic interactive visual stimulation. URL: http://draves.org/bomb
Bomb Bomb => <reply> $who, A high-speed clone of bomberman. URL: http://david.fauthoux.free.fr/
Bomb Squad => <reply> $who, Team17's worms like game. URL: http://members.xoom.com/kbrlek/bombs.html
Bond => <reply> $who, Distributed object system, agent framework. URL: http://bond.cs.purdue.edu/
Bookmark Daemon => <reply> $who, Bookmark server.. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/projects/bookmarkd/
bookmarker => <reply> $who, WWW based bookmark manager. URL: http://renaghan.com/pcr/bookmarker.html
bookmng => <reply> $who, Turn netscape bookmarks into html files. URL: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~sariel/misc/bookmng.html
BookShelf => <reply> $who, A how to do a automatic generated, dynamically Table Documentation. URL: http://www.delec.com/is/products/prep/examples/BookShelf/
BookStore => <reply> $who, Remote bookmark management via web on a UNIX server.. URL: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~kledford/
BOOM => <reply> $who, The World's First Linux-Only Modification For Quake 2. URL: http://fragland.net/boom/
BootLogo => <reply> $who, A bootmessage generator for Lilo-colors. URL: http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/LostEden/html/bootlogo.html
bootpc => <reply> $who, Boot protocol client. URL: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/linux/bootpc/
boscript => <reply> $who, A scriptable interface library to the Back Orifice Server. URL: http://blevins.simplenet.com/boscript
botnet => <reply> $who, Communication package for making IRC bots (or even clients). URL: http://zekiller.skytech.org
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BottleRocket => <reply> $who, command-line X10 FireCracker control software. URL: http://mlug.missouri.edu/~tymm
boust => <reply> $who, A Tcl/Tk text reader for Linux that formats text in boustrophedon.. URL: http://www.vis.colostate.edu/~traevoli/boust/
boxes => <reply> $who, Draws any kind of box around some given text. URL: http://home.pages.de/~jensen/boxes/
BP6mon => <reply> $who, GTK app displaying temperatures, voltages and fans speed of an Abit BP6.. URL: http://goupil.linuxfr.org/downloads/
bpowerd => <reply> $who, UPS line monitor daemon for Best Patriot power supplies. URL: http://www.ccraig.org/bpowerd/
Brahms => <reply> $who, Music sequencer and notation program. URL: http://lienhard.desy.de/mackag/homepages/jan/Brahms/
Brain => <reply> $who, Prototype based, object-oriented scripting language. URL: http://leonardo.spidernet.net/Copernicus/9697/brain_main.html
bras => <reply> $who, rule based command execution with Tcl. URL: http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome/
Brass Monkey => <reply> $who, PHP scripts that let you maintain an online journal. URL: http://personal.bellsouth.net/lig/z/z/zztzed/brassmonkey/
Bricklayer World Tour => <reply> $who, A Gnome game inspired by Breakout. URL: http://www.plexus.demon.co.uk/brickworld/
BRICO Knowledge Base => <reply> $who, Large semantic network of concepts and words referring to them. URL: http://www.framerd.org/brico/
Bridge Filter patch => <reply> $who, Filtering capability for linux bridge.. URL: http://ac2i.tzo.com/bridge_filter/
BrijnSMS => <reply> $who, A web-based authentication front-end to SMS Client written in PHP. URL: http://www.sms.brijn.nu/
BRLTTY => <reply> $who, Access software for Unix for a blind person using a soft Braille terminal. URL: http://www.cam.org/~nico/brltty/
Broadcast => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3709/bc.html
Broadcast2000 => <reply> $who, Non linear audio and video editor. URL: http://www.freeyellow.com/members4/heroine/
Brothel => <reply> $who, An addicting door game for Falken BBS systems. URL: http://bbs.ipass.net/rds/
BSB-Monitor => <reply> $who, Simple, but powerfull network monitor. URL: http://www.bsb-software.com/download/bsb-monitor/
bscxlpr => <reply> $who, X11 interface to lpr/lpc, using Motif 2.1 on glibc system. URL: http://www.surfshop.net/~mfburgo/pub/bscxlpr.html
BsdScan => <reply> $who, Simple port-scanning utility. URL: ftp://annuvin.cosmicfire.net/pub/bsdscan/
BSMTP => <reply> $who, . URL: http://wwwrzstud.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uk1o/bsmtp/
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FavToHtml => <reply> $who, Utility to Convert MS Internet Explorer 4.x Favorites to HTML Format. URL: http://web3.foxinternet.net/johnmcc/FavToHtml
fb => <reply> $who, Binary file viewer, editor, and manipulator.. URL: http://home.mho.net/jswaby/fb.html
FBBSEcho => <reply> $who, A Fidonet Echomail tosser for Falken BBS systems. URL: http://www.FalkenBBS.com
fbgetty => <reply> $who, An extended mingetty for Linux. URL: http://www.multimania.com/lch/fbgetty/
Zsh => <reply> $who, Powerful UNIX shell. URL: http://www.zsh.org/
fbsound => <reply> $who, Framebuffer waveform viewer and frequency analyzer like X11Amp. URL: http://phoenix.penguinpowered.com/programs/
fbtv direct channel hack => <reply> $who, Simple to to add functionality to fbtv. URL: http://members.iglou.com/nemesis2/fbtv/
fbview => <reply> $who, An image viewer for Linux consoles, using the oFBis library. URL: http://www.nocrew.org/software/fbview/
FCheck => <reply> $who, Baseline filesystem and administration policy monitor.. URL: http://sites.netscape.net/fcheck/fcheck.html
FCT => <reply> $who, HTML based tool for the configuration of a firewall. URL: http://www.fen.baynet.de/~ft114/FCT/index.htm
FDScript => <reply> $who, Lightweight multi-lingual Scheme interpreter. URL: http://www.framerd.org/
fdutils => <reply> $who, Floppy disk utilities. URL: http://fdutils.linux.lu/
FEAST => <reply> $who, Toolkit for area-based simulation games (ala Sym*) - previously FUSE. URL: http://feast.linuxbox.com/
feeder-stats => <reply> $who, Daily statistics script for the DIABLO news server.. URL: ftp://ftp.bricbrac.de/pub/news/feeder-stats/
Festival => <reply> $who, General multi-lingual speech synthesis system. URL: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
fetchmail => <reply> $who, Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval utility. URL: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/
fetchnews => <reply> $who, 'fetchmail' for NNTP protocols. URL: http://files.moo.ca/~laotzu/fetchnews.html
ffcall => <reply> $who, Foreign function call interface library. URL: http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-ffcall.html
ffingerd => <reply> $who, Secure finger daemon for Unix. URL: http://www.fefe.de/ffingerd/
FFTW => <reply> $who, The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. URL: http://www.fftw.org/
fhttpd => <reply> $who, FTP/HTTP server with modules support. URL: http://www.fhttpd.org/
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FORUM => <reply> $who, Another PHP3/Mysql forum with some nifty features. URL: http://www.itcenter.ru/eng/forum/
FOX => <reply> $who, C++-Based Library for Graphical User Interface Development. URL: http://www.cfdrc.com/FOX/fox.html
FoxPilot => <reply> $who, Visual Development tool for the FOX widget set.(GUI Builder). URL: http://ipro.lug.usf.edu/~celer/foxpilot/
foxxess => <reply> $who, Database management front-end for the fOX Project. URL: http://www.foxproject.org/~mike/foxxess/
fphdb => <reply> $who, Printing Business Job, Ordering, and Inventory Management Application. URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~ajr4/fphdb/
FPL => <reply> $who, Very C-like interpreted language. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/fpl/
fplan => <reply> $who, A flight planning tool for pilots. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/fplan/
FPSE Clone => <reply> $who, Microsoft Frontpage Server Extensions CLONE (non MS). URL: http://www.nimh.org/fpse.shtml
fpted => <reply> $who, Easy to use Text Editor (small but powefull). URL: http://mc.microcaos.pt/freeware/
Fract-O-Rama => <reply> $who, Qt-based, flexible fractal generation program. URL: http://locutus.kingwoodcable.com/jfd/fractal/
FramerD/FDScript => <reply> $who, Distributed knowledge/object repository and scripting language. URL: http://www.framerd.org/
Free Pascal Compiler => <reply> $who, Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi II compatible 32bit Pascal Compiler. URL: http://tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/~michael/fpc/
Free recode => <reply> $who, Converts files between character sets and usages. URL: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/recode/HTML/
Free Standard Game Server => <reply> $who, Battle.net-compatible game server. URL: http://www.fsgs.com/
Free Threads => <reply> $who, Web based discussion forums based on the Commercial package WWWThreads.. URL: http://www.freethreads.org/
Free Trek => <reply> $who, Star Trek type space battle simulator. URL: http://freetrek.linuxgames.com
FreeAmp => <reply> $who, Open Source MP3 player. URL: http://www.freeamp.org/
Freebirth => <reply> $who, Integrated bass synthesizer/step sequencer/sample player. URL: http://www.bitmechanic.com/projects/freebirth/
FreeBSD => <reply> $who, A stable secure open source operating system.. URL: http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD JDK => <reply> $who, FreeBSD Java-Team's Sun JDK port. URL: http://www.freebsd.org/java/
Freebuilder => <reply> $who, Free Java Integrated Development Environment. URL: http://www.freebuilder.org/
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fstool => <reply> $who, a Tcl/Tk-based file system mounter. URL: http://www.bit.net.au/~bhepple/fstool
FSViewer => <reply> $who, File Viewer lookalike for Window Maker.. URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~clernong/projects/fsviewer.html
fsync => <reply> $who, file synchronization program written in Perl. URL: http://www.hec.utah.edu/~schwitrs/fsync.html
Ftape => <reply> $who, A driver for tape drives that connect to the floppy controller. URL: http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
ftape-tools => <reply> $who, Utilities for floppy tapes under Linux. URL: http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
FTE => <reply> $who, Text editor for X-Windows and console with I18N support.. URL: http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fr0235/fte/
FTP Logger => <reply> $who, Perl(CGI) WU-FTPD log analyzer for WEB. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8236/unix.html
FTP LogView => <reply> $who, Web based xferlog viewer. URL: http://www.curtisonline.net/software/
FTP Mirror Tracker => <reply> $who, FTP mirror-handling software.. URL: http://squid.itep.ru/
FTP with Source => <reply> $who, The FTP JavaBean Suite implements the FTP protocol.. URL: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/
FTP4ALL => <reply> $who, FTP server program for UNIX systems. URL: http://www.ftp4all.de/v3/noframes/
ftpcheck => <reply> $who, Searches for anonymous ftp sites on given nodes/networks. URL: http://david.weekly.org/code/
ftpd-BSD => <reply> $who, Linux port of OpenBSD's ftp server. URL: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD
ftpgrab => <reply> $who, FTP mirror utility. URL: ftp://ftp.lmh.ox.ac.uk/pub/linux/ftpgrab-0.1.0.tar.gz
FtpLocate => <reply> $who, FTP sites search engine. URL: http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/ftplocate.html
FTPWebLog => <reply> $who, A freeware integrated WWW and FTP log reporting tool.. URL: http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/ftpweblog/
ftservices => <reply> $who, IRC services whithsome new and cool features. URL:
Ftwalk => <reply> $who, General purpose high level script programming language. URL: http://www.ocston.org/~thull/ftwalk/
Fugu => <reply> $who, GUI client for the Gale instant messaging system. URL: http://ofb.net/fugu/
Fujitsu Lifebook B112/B142 Touch panel driver => <reply> $who, Gpm and XFree86 touch panel driver for the Fujitsu Lifebook B112. URL: http://parzelle.de/Linux/Lifebook/
fulogin => <reply> $who, ANSI login frontend. URL: http://csomalin.csoma.elte.hu/~demon/fulogin/
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Generic Colouriser => <reply> $who, Colourises any files or outputs of commands.. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/grc.html
Generic Graphical Server Daemon => <reply> $who, Generic Graphical Server Daemon. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/files.html
Generic Information Server Toolkit => <reply> $who, GIST is a free tool kit for the development of interactive web sites. URL: http://gist.jrc.it/
Generic Multithreaded Server Class => <reply> $who, C++ c;lass implementing a generic multithreaded server. URL: http://www.concentric.net/~myers1/MTServer/
Generic NQS => <reply> $who, The Leading OpenSource Batch Processing System For UNIX. URL: http://www.gnqs.org/
Genes => <reply> $who, Personal genealogy database. URL: http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~slambo/genes/
GeneWeb => <reply> $who, A combo web interface and genealogy program combined on steroids. URL: http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/
gengetopt => <reply> $who, Easy generate a C `main' function that uses `getopt_long' to parse given options. URL: http://arturo.directmail.org/code/gengetopt/
Genius => <reply> $who, An arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floatingpoint calculator. URL: http://www.5z.com/jirka/genius.html
GeniusTrader => <reply> $who, A stock market trading software. URL: http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/geniustrader/
Genpage => <reply> $who, Provides framework for separating content management from layout design. URL: http://www.freddyfrog.com/hacks/genpage/
genscan => <reply> $who, A generic port scanner. URL: http://www.programmerz.org/reid/
gensig => <reply> $who, Random signature/tagline generator. URL: http://www.geeks.com/~robf/gensig/
gentoo => <reply> $who, Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable. URL: http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/
Gentry => <reply> $who, GTK application for data entry into a MySQL database. URL: http://freethrow.bus.utexas.edu/~bfdi533/gentry/
genvarsizes.sh => <reply> $who, Fixed defines (typedefs) for 8/16/32 bit variables in C programs. URL: http://iki.fi/too/sw/genvarsizes.readme
Geo::METAR => <reply> $who, Perl module for processing aviation weather reports.. URL: http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/perl/Geo-METAR/
Geodas/X => <reply> $who, National Geophysical Data Center's GEODAS data management system. URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html
GeomPrm => <reply> $who, Linear Geometric Library- Solutions to generic linear geometric needs. URL: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt3388b/oss/
Geomview => <reply> $who, 3D Geometric Visualization Software. URL: http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/geomview/
GeoStats => <reply> $who, IRC Statistical Services. URL: http://www.lite.net/
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GSLgen code generator => <reply> $who, Universal XML template-based code generator. URL: http://www.imatix.com/html/gslgen/index.htm
gsmbstatus => <reply> $who, GTK based smb status display. URL: http://www.plum.de/~mg/
gsmlib => <reply> $who, GSM mobile phone control library using AT command set. URL: http://www.pxh.de/fs/gsmlib/
gsndconfig => <reply> $who, gsndconfig is a sound configurator written in Gtk+ 1.2.. URL: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
GSnes9x => <reply> $who, GNOME front end for the Snes9X SNES emulator. URL: http://abulafia.fciencias.unam.mx/~canek/gsnes9x/
Gsnhood => <reply> $who, SMB share browse utility. URL: http://gsnhood.linuxbox.com/
GSokoban => <reply> $who, A GNOME implementation of the Sokoban game.. URL: http://home.swipnet.se/darshiva/gsokoban/
GSpot => <reply> $who, A control panel for cDc's Back Orifice. URL: http://www.eburg.com/~yinyang/gspot/
gstalker => <reply> $who, Stock charting viewer and tracker. URL: http://www.pathcom.com/~sstratos/
gstar => <reply> $who, GUI for Alan Paeth's starchart. URL: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/gstar/
GStreamer => <reply> $who, Streaming-media framework. URL: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/gnome/gst/
Gstring => <reply> $who, Guitar tuner. URL: http://www.employees.org/~stannous/gstring.html
gSwissKnife => <reply> $who, floppy disks management tool. URL: http://sites.inka.de/~W1752/gsk/
GSwitchIt => <reply> $who, Xkb state indicator for the GNOME panel. URL: http://gswitchit.sourceforge.net/
gsyn => <reply> $who, TB-303 software synthesizer. URL: http://www.guildsoftware.com/gsyn/
gsynth => <reply> $who, gtk+ modular synthesizer/buzz clone. URL: http://www.guildsoftware.com/gsynth.html
Gsysboard => <reply> $who, GTK+ application which show informations in real time about the system.. URL: http://altern.org/valos/gsysboard.html
gsysinfo => <reply> $who, a system monitor for the gnome panel. URL: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jdhildeb/gsysinfo/
GTalk and QTalk => <reply> $who, GTK+ and QT Squeak Smalltalk. URL: http://www.informatik.fernuni-hagen.de/import/pi3/joerg/squeak/talktalk.html
gTans => <reply> $who, Tangram puzzle game. URL: http://altern.org/bwt/
gtaskman => <reply> $who, A process manager for X using GTK+. URL: http://darkchild.home.dhs.org/gtaskman/
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gx10 => <reply> $who, X10 controller. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/projects/gx10/
GXAnim => <reply> $who, GTK+ front end for Xanim movie player. URL: http://www.iag.net/~aleris/gxanim.html
GXdesktop => <reply> $who, . URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/gxdesktop.html
GXedit => <reply> $who, Simple GPL'ed graphical editor using GTK. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~drow/GXedit/
GXF86vidmode => <reply> $who, Change your video mode when using a XFree86 X server. URL: http://itactics.com/~rgwood/GXF86vidmode/doc/
gxsnmp => <reply> $who, snmp managment frontend. URL: http://www.gxsnmp.org
gxTar => <reply> $who, Gnome/GTK+ front-end to tar/gzip/zip. URL: http://gxtar.netpedia.net/
Gyahtzee => <reply> $who, gnomified version of yahtzee. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7731/gyahtzee.html
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/
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HyperHelp => <reply> $who, Context-sensitive, on-line help system for UNIX. URL: http://www.bristol.com/Company/Announce/hyperhelp52an.html
Hypermail => <reply> $who, Mail(box) to HTML converter with threads and MIME support.. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/hypermail/
hypermail.pl => <reply> $who, Converts e-mail archives into web pages. URL: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~northrup/hypermail.html
Hyperplay => <reply> $who, Multimedia authoring engine. URL: http://www.hypercore.co.jp/hyperplay/en.html
hypersrc => <reply> $who, freeware GUI (GTK+) program for browsing source code. URL: http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/hypersrc/hypersrc.html
HZIP => <reply> $who, Parser/file stripper that compresses HTMLs by as much as 70%. URL: http://www.jitit.com/Products/HZIP/hzip.html
I-Gear => <reply> $who, Internet Content Management Software. URL: http://www.urlabs.com/
I4LRH6 => <reply> $who, Scripts and a FAQ on how to use I4L with Red Hat 6.0 Systems. URL: http://www.kalka.org/linux/dox/i4l2rwth.html
i8255 => <reply> $who, i8255 (digital I/O) kernel module. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sgraaf/i8255/index.html
IA => <reply> $who, A little AI program.. URL: http://utenti.tripod.it/Claudio1977/ia.html
Iaijutsu => <reply> $who, Perl-based content management and object-oriented web application framework. URL: http://www.ninjacode.com/iaijutsu/
IAS => <reply> $who, A transfer tool for N64 development units with many other features.. URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0713iasl136.htm
IBCM3D => <reply> $who, . URL: http://cs.sonoma.edu/~kendrick/nbs/unix/x/icbm3d/
Ibis => <reply> $who, Another file browser for WindowMaker.. URL: http://www.altern.org/grugru
IBM International Classes for Unicode for C/C++ => <reply> $who, IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU) enable you to write fully cross-platform programs. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/icu/
IBM techexplorer => <reply> $who, IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser. URL: http://www.software.ibm.com/network/techexplorer/
IBM Visualization Data Explorer => <reply> $who, An application for data visualization.. URL: http://www.ibm.com/dx/
ibs => <reply> $who, The intelligent backup system for Debian GNU/Linux.. URL: http://ibs.brunox.qc.ca/
IBTK => <reply> $who, Basic self-contained no-frills toolkit for Xlib.. URL: http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/src/
Ical => <reply> $who, A tcl/tk based calendar program. URL: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Sanjay_Ghemawat/ical/home.html
ICBM => <reply> $who, Distributed MUD/Chat servers and sample client.. URL: http://members.home.com/carlsonj/
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Ishmail => <reply> $who, Very powerful GUI e-mail tool. URL: http://ishmail.linuxbox.com
ISIC => <reply> $who, Sends controlled, semi-random packets to test IP Stacks and Firewalls. URL: http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~frantzen/
IsinGlass => <reply> $who, Firewall setup script designed to protect dial-up users.. URL: http://www.tummy.com/isinglass
isinglass-hzd => <reply> $who, Firewall script designed to protect dial-up users. URL: http://www.hazard.maks.net/~hazard
Islamic Timer => <reply> $who, Calculates Islamic Prayer times, Hijri calender, calender converter. URL: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~wmuhanna/IslamicTimer.html
ISO8211Lib => <reply> $who, ISO/IEC 8211 library. URL: http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/iso8211/
isp-watcher => <reply> $who, A perl script which monitors lines at an ISP for disconnects.. URL: http://cyberpunks.org/holograph/darkewolf.phtml
ISPd => <reply> $who, Billing/user management software for ISPs. URL: http://ispd.eburg.com
isreal => <reply> $who, Tells if an image is real, computer generated, or not real.. URL: http://www.striker.ottawa.on.ca/~aland/isreal/
ITISSL => <reply> $who, A Java 2 implementation of Sun' SSL Reference API based on SSLeay/OpenSSL. URL: http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/itissl/
ivtools => <reply> $who, Application frameworks for drawing editors and spatial data servers. URL: http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/
J'Express Professional => <reply> $who, Lets you create multilingual installers and auto-updaters. URL: http://www.denova.com
J'Express Standard => <reply> $who, Lets you create multilingual, cross platform installers and auto-updaters. URL: http://www.denova.com
Jabber => <reply> $who, Instant Messaging Platform. URL: http://jabber.org/
jac => <reply> $who, Command line CD Player. URL: http://kyd.net/vaga/jac.html
jack => <reply> $who, A console cd-ripper written in python. URL: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/arne/jack/
Jacl => <reply> $who, Tcl shell implemented in Java, a perfect way to add scripting to a Java app.. URL: http://www.scriptics.com/java/
JacORB => <reply> $who, Object request broker written in Java. URL: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~brose/jacorb/
jahtml => <reply> $who, Module to handle HTML and CGI output. URL: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/jahtml/
jail => <reply> $who, Just Another ICMP Logger. URL: http://www.wiw.org/~ams/jail/
Jakarta => <reply> $who, Open-source, community-developed commercial-quality Java server solutions.. URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/
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jslaunch => <reply> $who, Joystick shell command execution utility. URL: http://gene.wins.uva.nl/~spronk/jslaunch/
jt => <reply> $who, Template to compose LaTeX jewel case CD inserts. URL: http://www-stud.enst.fr/~michon/realisations.html
JTetris => <reply> $who, Java version of Tetris. URL: http://complicity.olf.co.uk:8080/jtetris.html
JThreads/C++ => <reply> $who, Java like threads for C++. URL: http://www.ooc.com/jtc/
JTypist => <reply> $who, Typing Tutor. URL: http://www.ocston.org/~simonb/typist/
Juggernaut Application Server => <reply> $who, Java-based Web Application Server. URL: http://www.beachdogsoftware.com/
Juke => <reply> $who, Curses based juke box program. URL: http://www.nocrew.org/software/juke/
jukebox => <reply> $who, Jukebox for mp3-files with html-interface and playerdaemon. URL: http://daemon.ratisbona.com/
Jultaf => <reply> $who, Jumble Library for Tcl and Friends. URL: http://www.linuxia.de/jultaf/
Juniper Firewall Toolkit => <reply> $who, Juniper: a firewall toolkit product. URL: http://www.obtuse.com/juniper/
JUnit => <reply> $who, Java testing framework (XP). URL: ftp://www.armaties.com/TestingFramework/JUnit/article/index.html
Just Another GTK Tetris => <reply> $who, Small and simple GTK Tetris clone.. URL: http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/
Just Another Tetris => <reply> $who, Small and simple Tetris clone. URL: http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/
jV => <reply> $who, Java image viewer. URL: http://www.flat222.org/mac/jV/
jvSQL => <reply> $who, A java application that makes database modulation easy!. URL: http://wiw.org/~olas/jvSQL/
jwhois => <reply> $who, A collection of Perl programs for the whois service. URL: http://www.coyote.org/jwhois/
JX => <reply> $who, C++ application framework and GUI widget library for X. URL: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jx/
JX Development Suite => <reply> $who, Integrated Development Environment. URL: http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/
jzIntv => <reply> $who, Portable Intellivision Emulator. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~im14u2c/intv/
Jzip => <reply> $who, Infocom z-code adventure game interpreter. URL: http://www.frii.com/~jholder/jzip/
k-ftes => <reply> $who, KDE port of the FTE editor. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/utils
k12admin-client => <reply> $who, A web-based server administration tool for K-12 school systems (client package).. URL: http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca/
k12admin-server => <reply> $who, A web-based server administration tool for K-12 school systems (server package).. URL: http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca/
k3de => <reply> $who, 3Deditor for the KDE which generates sources for POVray. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/graphics/
K4DE => <reply> $who, 3d-Editor for KDE with poor animation and sound posibilities.. URL: http://www.k4de.de/
kaffe => <reply> $who, Complete, PersonalJava 1.1 compliant Java environment. URL: http://www.kaffe.org/
KAGENT => <reply> $who, A simple and extensible mail filter. URL: http://patriot.net/~kurt/kagent/
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L-fire CTF mod for Quake2 => <reply> $who, Server-side mod that adds many significant features to Id's official Quake2 CTF.. URL: http://www.planetquake.com/LFire/
L-fire DM mod for Quake 2 => <reply> $who, Server-side Deathmatch mod for id software's Quake2. URL: http://www.planetquake.com/LFire/
l0g monitor => <reply> $who, Log monitor for X Window. URL: http://secso.virtualave.net/logmonitor/
l2tpd => <reply> $who, Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP) user space implementation. URL: http://www.marko.net/l2tp/
la51 => <reply> $who, A51 assembler for unix/linux. URL: http://www.downunder.net.au/~jsno/
Lab3Timer => <reply> $who, A Laboratory Triple Timer Application. URL: http://i112pc09.vu-wien.ac.at/~bunka/software/Lab3Timer.html
LabVIEW => <reply> $who, Full Development System which offers full-featured graphical programming. URL: http://www.natinst.com/linux/
laddr => <reply> $who, Lesstif Address Book. URL: http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/laddr/
LAGII => <reply> $who, Linux AGI Interpreter. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~gsymonds/LAGII/
LAIM => <reply> $who, An ncurses based AOL Instant Messenger(tm) client. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/majutsu/laim.html
LAME => <reply> $who, open source MP3 encoder and graphical frame analyzer. URL: http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/
LANdb => <reply> $who, Provides network managers with a means of cataloging network connections.. URL: http://avenir.dhs.org/landb/
lando => <reply> $who, command execution server for UNIX. URL: http://www.moonglade.com/lando/
Langton's Ant => <reply> $who, Langton's Ant-Cellular Automata. URL: http://theory.org/software/ant/
Lanlord => <reply> $who, A dhcpd lease reporting program. URL: http://linux.uhw.com/software/lanlord/index.html
LAPACK-D => <reply> $who, Dynamically loadable version of LAPACK libraries. URL: http://www.honeylocust.com/lapack_d/
Laptop Tracker => <reply> $who, Client for SaveTheLaptop. URL: http://savethelaptop.zzweb.com/
Laptop-HOWTO => <reply> $who, How to make the best of Linux features with laptops.. URL: http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html
lasteject => <reply> $who, Eject CD on reboot/halt. URL: http://home.pages.de/~stesch/stuff/lasteject/lasteject.html
latencytest => <reply> $who, benchmarks scheduling latencies (of audio apps) during high system load. URL: http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/
lathi-themes => <reply> $who, Perl script to implement themes for the AfterStep window manager. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~alcornd/
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libpcap => <reply> $who, A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.. URL: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap-0.4.tar.Z
libpng => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngcode.html
libprint => <reply> $who, Printing and Font Management Library for Application Development. URL: http://marktwain.net/~newcent/libprint/
libPropList => <reply> $who, A utility library used by GNOME, Window Maker, and several other applications. URL: ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/beta/srcs/libPropList.tar.gz
libptb => <reply> $who, Library to develop apps with user customizable toolbars and menus. URL: http://www.serconet.com/usr/jrfr/libptb.html
Libra => <reply> $who, Ada '95 Data Structures and Networking Library. URL: http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/programming/libra/
libradio => <reply> $who, A simple, easy to use C library to control FM Tuner cards. URL: http://www.progworks.net/~djj/libradio.html
libraw1394 => <reply> $who, Library providing API to access IEEE 1394 bus (FireWire, iLink). URL: http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/ieee1394/
libRPG => <reply> $who, A library for making RPG/Adventure games.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
librt => <reply> $who, General Programming Library. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~jerome/Hackerlabs/hackerlabs.html
Libsigc++ => <reply> $who, Callback framework for C++. URL: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~kenelson/libsigc++/
libsmb => <reply> $who, Enables access to SMB shares in any C++ program under Unix. URL: http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/~brodu/smblib/
libsmbpw => <reply> $who, getpwent/putpwent interface to the Samba smbpasswd file. URL: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~atp/comp/libsmb/
libsndfile => <reply> $who, A library for reading and writing sound files.. URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/
libsock => <reply> $who, High performance multi-threaded socket C library.. URL: http://www.sqrl.org/sqrl/
libstash => <reply> $who, Thread-safe C Library of algorithms and support routines.. URL: http://www.sqrl.org/sqrl/
libSTCP => <reply> $who, C Library for STCP (Secure Transport Control Protocol) support. URL: http://members.xoom.it/rustino/
libtcp++ => <reply> $who, C++ class library to create TCP/IP clients/servers. URL: http://www.sashanet.com/internet/download.html
libtiff => <reply> $who, Library for manipulation of TIFF (Tag Image File Format) images.. URL: http://www.libtiff.org/
Libtool => <reply> $who, GNU libtool is a generic library support script. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
Libundo => <reply> $who, Undo/redo management library. URL: http://undo.xnot.com/
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LUMP => <reply> $who, Program to display Linux memory usage. URL: http://linux.uhw.com/software/memory/index.html
lwm => <reply> $who, . URL: http://users.ch.genedata.com/~enh/lwm/
lwpp => <reply> $who, Lightweight `ifdef'-style text file preprocessor. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/software/index.html
lxandria => <reply> $who, Small database for managing books. URL: http://homepages.emsnet.de/~gerpen/
LxDoom => <reply> $who, Enhanced Linux port of the classic fps Doom. URL: http://lxdoom.linuxgames.com/
lxrun => <reply> $who, Lxrun is a user-space program that allows users of SCO(r) OpenServer(tm), UnixWa. URL: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~steven/lxrun/
LxScope => <reply> $who, An oscilloscope device for Linux.. URL: http://www.etcsk.com/linux/
lxTimeClock => <reply> $who, A great Timecard program for businesses. URL: http://www.texascomputers.com/tclock.html
Lycadican FRPG => <reply> $who, Lycadican Pen and Paper Open Content FRPG Game. URL: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican/
LynkStation => <reply> $who, Drive Thousands Of Visitors To Your Website, Automatically. URL: http://www.tri-polar.com/ls/index.html
lyntin => <reply> $who, Python-based MUD client and development framework. URL: http://cs.uchicago.edu/~laheadle/lyntin.html
Lynx => <reply> $who, fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser. URL: http://lynx.browser.org/
lyskom => <reply> $who, An online discussion system, sort of like a mix between Mail, News and IRC. URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/lyskom/
LyX => <reply> $who, Advanced LaTeX-based typesetting and text-editing program for X11. URL: http://www.lyx.org/
LZO => <reply> $who, Data compression library with very fast (de-)compression. URL: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/lzo.html
lzop => <reply> $who, A very fast file compressor similar to gzip. URL: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/lzop.html
m(UH!)Client => <reply> $who, m(UH!)Client is a client for Charles P. URL: http://members.tripod.de/muhgatus/java/
m3gtk => <reply> $who, Modula-3 binding to the GTK. URL: http://m3.linuks.org/
Mace => <reply> $who, A free Macintosh compatibility layer, implemented similar to Wine.. URL: http://MaceHQ.cjb.net/
macfork => <reply> $who, Macintosh resource fork reader and extracter. URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ajw/public/dist/macfork.tar.gz
MachineInfo => <reply> $who, author. URL: http://www.e-nef.com/CGI/MachineInfo.html
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Mesa/Vista Enterprise => <reply> $who, Mesa/Vista is an integrated project data management tool.. URL: http://www.mesasys.com/
Meta-HTML => <reply> $who, Powerful, extensionable server-side programming language.. URL: http://www.metahtml.org/
metachk => <reply> $who, analyse the safety of your Solaris RAID. URL: http://www.nettaxi.com/citizens/uutil/metachk
MetaData => <reply> $who, A java application to explore Databases through JDBC. URL: http://java.tique.org/
Metagroup => <reply> $who, Utility which adds hierarchical structure to Linux groups.. URL: http://nucleo.freeservers.com/metagroup/
MetaHTML => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.metahtml.com/
MetaKit => <reply> $who, Structured storage database library in C++, with Tcl and Python interfaces. URL: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
Metakit for Python => <reply> $who, Cross-platform, highly dynamic database library. URL: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
MetaKit for Tcl => <reply> $who, Cross-platform, highly dynamic database extension for Tcl. URL: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
metamail => <reply> $who, Generic MIME package. URL: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/
Meteor => <reply> $who, Driver and utilities for the Matrox Meteor frame grabber.. URL: http://www.gnofn.org/~marksu/meteorman.html
Mew => <reply> $who, A MIME mail reader for Emacs/XEmacs. URL: http://www.mew.org/
Mexx => <reply> $who, Shoot'em up for Linux/Win32/BeOS. URL: http://members.xoom.com/mexxcorp/mexx.html
mfm => <reply> $who, A graphical frontend for mtools. URL: http://www.core-coutainville.org/mfm/
MG => <reply> $who, A suite of programs for compressing and indexing text and images.. URL: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/
MGA => <reply> $who, Masquerading Gateway Administation script. URL: http://www.nss.nu/~patrik/mga/
mgetty => <reply> $who, Intelligent getty and fax support. URL: http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/
mgeupsd => <reply> $who, MGE Pulsar UPS monitor. URL: http://linux.esc.kharkov.com/Linux/myown/mgeupsd.lsm
mgrep => <reply> $who, mailbox grep. URL: ftp://ftp.bogus.net/pub/users/codex/mgrep-1.00.tar.gz
mGSTEP => <reply> $who, An attempt at creating a small lite derivative of GNUstep. URL: http://farz.home.mindspring.com/far.html
mg^2 => <reply> $who, Truespace work/look alike 3D modeler using Gtk and OpenGL. URL: http://www.op.net/~finklesk/3d.html
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Miscellaneous Unix scripts => <reply> $who, A collection of miscellaneous useful Unix scripts. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~winitzki/
Mist => <reply> $who, Distributed Object Services. URL: http://www.saber.net/~dket/
mister index => <reply> $who, Web-based php multimedia file indexer.. URL: http://www.yggdrasil.cx/index-kun/
MIT Photonic-Bands => <reply> $who, Software for computing photonic band structures.. URL: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/
mixer => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~bb/linux/
Mixer.app => <reply> $who, Mixer.app is a mixer utility for Linux/FreeBSD systems. URL: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt96pli/mixer/
MiXView => <reply> $who, Sound Editor for X. URL: http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/~doug/htmls/MiXViews.html
mkdep.perl => <reply> $who, makedepend that does not include system header files.. URL: http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/mkdep.readme
mkdnstab => <reply> $who, DNS Table generator in Perl. URL: http://milosch.net/pub/scripts/mkdnstab/
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
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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
MOCTk => <reply> $who, Perl/Tk version of myip.org-client. URL: http://www.nmia.com/~trilia/perl/
mod-php3 => <reply> $who, PHP 3.0.12 RPMS for Apache+ModSSL. URL: http://www.php.net/
mod2wav => <reply> $who, Shell script to convert modules to .wav files. URL: http://www.godsey.net/~dragon/gmod.html
Modeline => <reply> $who, A small utility to make XFree86/svgalib/framebuffer modelines.. URL: http://home.kvalito.no/~bragthor/files/files.shtml
ModSQL => <reply> $who, Modular JDBC SQL Engine. URL: http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/cstudhol/unix/software/ModSQL/
Modular Game Base => <reply> $who, Modular Game Development Kit. URL: http://nobs.cs.mcla.mass.edu/~jareth/game/
Modulef => <reply> $who, Modular finite element library. URL: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/modulef/
modutils => <reply> $who, Linux module utilities. URL: ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/modutils/v2.3/
mod_auth_kerb => <reply> $who, kerberos v5/v4 authentication module for apache. URL: http://stonecold.unity.ncsu.edu/software/mod_auth_kerb/
mod_auth_ldap => <reply> $who, LDAP authentication module for Apache web server (http://www.apache.org/).. URL: http://nona.net/software/ldap/
mod_auth_nds => <reply> $who, NDS authentication module for Apache. URL: http://www.users.drew.edu/~pwilson/
mod_auth_smb => <reply> $who, Authenticate users against smb servers (like windows nt and samba). URL: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/mod_auth_smb/
mod_backhand => <reply> $who, Local-area, heterogeneous web cluster load balancing module for Apache.. URL: http://www.backhand.org/
mod_cgisock => <reply> $who, A CGI interface over a Unix Domain socket. URL: http://www.midcoast.com.au/~mvoase/
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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/
Mosaic => <reply> $who, Web browser for X11. URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/
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mpserv => <reply> $who, A LAN distributed MP3 architecture. URL: http://theory.org/software/mpserv/
mpstat => <reply> $who, Helps monitoring SMP machines. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html
mr => <reply> $who, Console based mail reader. URL: http://rhea.ids.pl/~pborys/software/linux/
mrDBC => <reply> $who, python database classes for easy creation of database applications. URL: http://heimat.de/mrtopf/mrdbc/
mrouted => <reply> $who, DVMRP multicast routing daemon. URL: ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/fenner/mrouted/
MRPC => <reply> $who, A very open and modular remote procedure call system.. URL: http://www.tildeslash.org/mrpc.html
Mrsh => <reply> $who, Tool to issue the same command on many machines (quickly). URL: http://www.net-link.net/~jettero/mrsh/
MRTd => <reply> $who, Routing protocol daemon (BGP, RIP, OSPF) and tools. URL: http://www.mrtd.net/
mrtg => <reply> $who, Multi Router Traffic Grapher. URL: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html
mscal2html => <reply> $who, Generates an html calendar from a calendar saved as text from an ms/windows app.. URL: http://cblack.mokey.com/mscal2html/
msend => <reply> $who, An implementation of the message send protocol (RFC1312).. URL: http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mrudat/software/msend/home.frames.html
msgboard => <reply> $who, CGI message board that uses MySQL database to store messages.. URL: http://24.28.41.85:800/msgboard-1.0.tar.gz
MSL => <reply> $who, Real time distributed simulation environment interpreter. URL: http://www.hinttech.com/pub/msl/msl-1.2.tar.gz
MSNewsGrabber => <reply> $who, Grabs news headlines and stories from various sites. URL: http://news.saggaf.com/
MSNTP => <reply> $who, Simple Network Time Protocol Utility. URL: ftp://oozelum.csi.cam.ac.uk/dist/msntp-1.5.tar.gz
mSQL => <reply> $who, Mini SQL implementation. URL: http://www.Hughes.com.au/
msr => <reply> $who, Access the machine specific registers of a x86 cpu. URL: http://pobox.com/~smeyer/msr.html
MSToNS => <reply> $who, Convert Outlook Express/Internet E-Mail folders to Netscape folders. URL: http://www.halcyon.com/mango/mstons/
mtf => <reply> $who, A Microsoft Tape Format reader. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/backup/mtf-0.1.src.tgz
mtools => <reply> $who, . URL: http://mtools.linux.lu/
mtr => <reply> $who, Network diagnostic tool. URL: http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
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OpenNaken => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk client for Naken Chat. URL: http://daemon.netfirms.com/
opensched => <reply> $who, A project scheduling system for Unix systems, with LaTeX and EPS output.. URL: http://www.vision.irl.cri.nz/~alan/opensched/
OpenScheme => <reply> $who, OpenScheme programming environment. URL: http://www.open-scheme.com/
OpenScrabble => <reply> $who, Free, open source implementation of Scrabble(tm). URL: http://w3.one.net/~benders/openscrabble/index.shtml
OpenShare Linux => <reply> $who, OpenShare Linux - Full distribution of Linux Server or Workstation Editions. URL: http://www.openshare.net
OpenSSH Unix Port => <reply> $who, Port of OpenBSD's free SSH release to Linux. URL: http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/
OpenSSL => <reply> $who, The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security. URL: http://www.openssl.org/
OpenTrader => <reply> $who, Multiprocess trading platform. URL: http://www.noris.net/~smurf/opentrader/
OpenVerse Visual Chat => <reply> $who, Free Multiplatform Visual Chat software written in Tcl/TK. URL: http://openverse.org/
openWAP => <reply> $who, WAP GNU Open Source Project. URL: http://www.openwap.org/
OpenXML => <reply> $who, Pure Java, commercial-grade, fully featured framework for XML-based applications. URL: http://www.openxml.org
Orac => <reply> $who, Database Administration Tool. URL: http://www.kkitts.com/orac-dba/
Oracle Database HOWTO => <reply> $who, Installation Guide for the Oracle Database Server on Linux. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Oracle-HOWTO.html
Oracle Procedit => <reply> $who, X11 Oracle Procedure and Function Editor. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracle Session Monitor => <reply> $who, X11 program that can be used to manage user sessions on your Oracle Database. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracle SQLWork => <reply> $who, An SQL Worksheet-like querying tool for Oracle. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracle TableBrowser => <reply> $who, An Oracle Table and Index Browser/Modifier for Linux/GTK. URL: http://oracle.mattshouse.com/
Oracletool => <reply> $who, A web based tool for Oracle DBA's written in Perl.. URL: http://www.oracletool.com/
ORBacus => <reply> $who, CORBA 2.0 compliant ORB for C++ and Java. URL: http://www.ooc.com/ob/
ORBit => <reply> $who, Thin/fast CORBA ORB. URL: http://www.labs.redhat.com/orbit/
ORBit C++ => <reply> $who, C++ support for ORBit ORB. URL: http://www.orbitcpp.freeserve.co.uk/
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Pilot-PPP => <reply> $who, Connects your palm pilot to your linux box with PPP. URL: http://www.linux-support.net/pilot-ppp/
pilot2pine => <reply> $who, Converts Palm Pilot addressbooks to pine's addressbook and vica versa. URL: http://www.psilord.com/code
PilotManager => <reply> $who, Synchronize databases on your PalmPilot with applications on Unix. URL: http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/
Pine => <reply> $who, Tool for reading,sending, and managing electronic messages. URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/
PinePGP => <reply> $who, PGP and GnuPG filters for pine for both PGP 2.6.x and 5.0. URL: http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/RPM/pinepgp.html
pinfo => <reply> $who, Hypertext info file viewer. URL: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/
PinfoMan => <reply> $who, Personal Information Manager (English or Esperanto). URL: http://www.tne.net.au/wanderer/project/
Ping => <reply> $who, The official tennis simulator of the US army.. URL: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/
Ping Sting => <reply> $who, ICMP Traffic Identifier. URL: http://www.ksrt.org/psting/
pingirva => <reply> $who, GTK+ interface for the ping command.. URL: http://www.mirva.com/pingirva/
Pingo => <reply> $who, C++ class library and framework for X-Windows with MOTIF look-and-feel.. URL: http://pingo.netpedia.net/
PingScan => <reply> $who, Scans Networks via Ping for reachable Hosts. URL: http://www.freestone.net/soft/
Pingus => <reply> $who, Lemmings clone with penguins.. URL: http://pingus.seul.org/
pioct => <reply> $who, Controls Pioneer HiFi equipment from the commandline. URL: http://www.schnism.net/system/
pircd => <reply> $who, An IRC daemon, written in Perl.. URL: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/pircd/
Pixcon & Anitroll => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.radix.net/~dunbar/index.html
Pizza => <reply> $who, A small, fast and free compiler for Java. URL: http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~pizza/
pk => <reply> $who, An Open-Source POSIX Threads embedded real-time kernel. URL: http://www.cornfed.com/pk/
pkgbuild => <reply> $who, The RPM package development environment. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~davin
pkgview => <reply> $who, X based RPM package viewer. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~davin/
PKZIP for Linux => <reply> $who, Extracts from TAR, GZIP, UUencode XXencode, MIME and BinHex files.. URL: http://www.pkware.com/
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Postfix => <reply> $who, The Postfix MTA. URL: http://www.postfix.org/
PostgreSQL => <reply> $who, Robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS(ORDBMS). URL: http://www.postgresql.org/
PostgreSQL JDBC Driver => <reply> $who, JDBC driver for the PostgreSQL DBS. URL: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/
PostgreSQL Win Access => <reply> $who, . URL: http://studio.id-pro.de//v1//617297960/html/t/projects/detail.thtml?pid=4
Postilion => <reply> $who, A mail user agent based upon the popular TkRat program. URL: http://www.postilion.org/
POV-Ray => <reply> $who, High-quality, no-charge (not open source) tool for creating stunning 3D graphics. URL: http://www.povray.org
povfront => <reply> $who, GTK+ graphical interface for povray. URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/clovis1/
PowerChute plus => <reply> $who, APC's usual UPS interface for Linux.. URL: http://www.apcc.com/products/management/pcp_linux.cfm
PowerPak => <reply> $who, An attempt at a high-level game SDK. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/va/powerpakgsdk/
ZxLink => <reply> $who, A utility that lets you hook up a ZX Spectrum to a UNIX machine. URL: http://www.philosys.de/~kunze/zxlink/
ppmtofb => <reply> $who, Display graphics on universal framebuffer devices.. URL: http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ppmtofb.html
ppower => <reply> $who, Software for listening to and controlling x10 home automation devices.. URL: http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~swbrown/ppower/
PPP-Setup => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.tux.org/~claudio/
PPP/M Server kit => <reply> $who, Pokey the Penguin Proxy/Mirror server toolkit. URL: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~mmastrac/pokey/pppm.html
pppcosts => <reply> $who, A small utility that calculates and displays online cost and time. URL: http://www.isjm.com/tst/pppcosts.htm
pppctl => <reply> $who, A suite of simple programs of use for controlling a ppp connection.. URL: http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/pppctl.html
YAPM => <reply> $who, Tool to publish historic pings and traceroute over the WWW. URL: http://nutula.tach.ula.ve/yapm
PPPKit => <reply> $who, . URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/network/serial/ppp/PPPKit-0.7.tar.gz
pppoe => <reply> $who, PPP-over-Ethernet redirector for Linux. URL: http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~stras/pppoe.html
PPPOEd => <reply> $who, PPP over Ethernet. URL: http://www.davin.ottawa.on.ca/pppoe/
pppParse => <reply> $who, pppd usage statistics log file generator. URL: http://www.structeng.com/pppParse
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privtool => <reply> $who, Sun mailtool replacement with PGP support. URL: http://www.linuxfan.com/~ggt/privtool.html
procinfo => <reply> $who, A package to allow you to get useful information from /proc.. URL: ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/svm/
procmail => <reply> $who, Versatile e-mail processor.. URL: http://www.procmail.org/
ProcMeter3 => <reply> $who, System monitor with multiple graphical outputs. URL: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/procmeter3/
procps => <reply> $who, A package of utilities which report on the state of the system. URL: ftp://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/procps/procps-2.0.6.tar.gz
profit => <reply> $who, Low-level Open Flight support library. URL: http://www.sim.no/profit.html
ProFTPD => <reply> $who, Advanced, incredibly configurable and secure FTP daemon. URL: http://www.proftpd.org/
proftpd-ldap => <reply> $who, LDAP auth patch for ProFTPD. URL: http://horde.net/~jwm/software/proftpd-ldap/
Project Ballantain => <reply> $who, Yet another single floppy router, dialup<->ethernet+IP masq+dhcpd+diald. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~router/
PROL => <reply> $who, Fast Web Journal/Web Log Hybrid. URL: http://jade.cs.uct.ac.za/prol/
Prometheus Truecolour (PTC) => <reply> $who, A portable, lowlevel framebuffer access library with very fast on the fly conver. URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/students/c.nentwich/ptc
Prometheus-Library => <reply> $who, Object-oriented PHP API. URL: http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/index.php3?api=1
Proof General => <reply> $who, Emacs interface for Proof Assistants. URL: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/proofgen/
Prospector => <reply> $who, Web-based calendaring program similar to one found at yahoo.. URL: http://www.icebox.org/~tenney/prospector.html
Prostat => <reply> $who, Squid statistic toolkit. URL: http://cache.cnrs.fr/prostat/
ProtectImage => <reply> $who, PERL CGI that protects images from being hotlinked from remote sites. URL: http://www.zebra.net/~irni/
proxy => <reply> $who, Simple Proxy Server. URL: http://www.mindstorm.com/~sparlin/projects.shtml
proxyarp => <reply> $who, A proxyarp daemon for linux.. URL: ftp://guido.dhs.org:50021/proxyarp-0.7.3.tar.gz
prwhod => <reply> $who, An extended rwhod daemon. URL: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/prwhod
pscal => <reply> $who, shell script to create PostScript calendars. URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mb/mbh/pscal-1.7.tar.gz
psgplay => <reply> $who, Music player for all the old Atari tunes.. URL: http://www.nocrew.org/software/psgplay/
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QextMDI => <reply> $who, cross-platform GUI library extending Qt with MDI functionality. URL: http://www.geocities.com/gigafalk/qextmdi.htm
QGraphi => <reply> $who, Solves graph problems in a wysiwyg way. URL: http://pharma.unime.it/~franci/progs/
Qial => <reply> $who, DTMF tone generation program. URL: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/qial/
QIPchains => <reply> $who, A shell script which helps you to quickly add/remove Linux FW rules.. URL: http://www.vano.odessa.net/software/
qmail => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.qmail.org/
QmailAdmin => <reply> $who, Web based interface for Qmail Administration. URL: http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/
qmail_regex => <reply> $who, Permits usage of regular expressions in qmail's control/locals. URL: http://beteigeuze.cs.tu-berlin.de/linux/qmail/
qmHandle => <reply> $who, A tool to manage the qmail message queue. URL: http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html
qml => <reply> $who, Quick Markup to HTML language translator. URL: http://www.qml.org
qmp3 => <reply> $who, Quick MPG123 frontend to support m3u playlists. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~kost/qmp3/
QMySql => <reply> $who, A little client for MySql using Qt.. URL: http://www.etu.info.unicaen.fr/~fbilhaut/frames.software.html
qotdd => <reply> $who, Quote of the Day daemon. URL: http://www.zevils.com/linux/qotdd/qotdd.html
qpasswd => <reply> $who, POP3 password changing utility for qmail+poppasswd. URL: ftp://games.online.bg/pub/unix/net/qpasswd/qpasswd-1.1pl1.tar.gz
Qpopper => <reply> $who, POP3 server. URL: http://eudora.qualcomm.com/freeware/qpop.html
qpopper-mysql => <reply> $who, A patch to add a decent set of MySQL capabilities to qpopper 2.53. URL: http://www.riverstyx.net/qpopmysql/
qps => <reply> $who, Displays processes in an X11 window. URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/~f91-men/qps/
QpThread Library for C++ => <reply> $who, Thread library for C++ with support for signals, exceptions, timer etc.. URL: http://www.gncz.cz/kra/index.html
qrend => <reply> $who, Minimalist raytracer. URL: http://esh.netpedia.net/qrend/
QScheme => <reply> $who, Really fast, small and easy to interface Scheme interpreter. URL: http://www.sof.ch/dan/qscheme/index-e.html
Qstat => <reply> $who, A command-line program that displays the status of Internet Quake servers. URL: http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html
Qt => <reply> $who, GUI software toolkit. URL: http://www.troll.no/products/qt.html
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R => <reply> $who, A language and environment for statistical computing.. URL: http://www.r-project.org
R2D2 => <reply> $who, Tool for developing applications that require run-time symbolic data access.. URL: http://www.zentropix.com/
RabbIT => <reply> $who, Mutating, caching webproxy to speed up surfing over slow links. URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/projects/prup98/web_proxy/
Rabbit Selector => <reply> $who, A happy restaurant selector. URL: http://eclipse.knight-rider.org/rabbit/
Rabid Squirrel Linux => <reply> $who, A Linux distribution for power users and sysadmins. URL: http://www.rabid.de
Raceway => <reply> $who, Embedded interface for ZENamp. URL: http://www.zenamp.net/sections/raceway
Radio Jockey => <reply> $who, Random multi-format player for mp3's, au's, wav's and pictures. URL: http://www.acorn.net/~ajalics/
radio-spase => <reply> $who, SPASE PCRadio V4L device driver. URL: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/mr/radio-spase.c
RadioActive => <reply> $who, Radio tuner for X11 and Video4Linux. URL: http://cactus.rulez.org/radioactive/
Radius => <reply> $who, Remote Authentication Dial In User Service. URL: http://www.livingston.com/tech/docs/radius/
radiusclient => <reply> $who, framework and library for writing RADIUS clients. URL: http://www.cityline.net/~lf/radius/
radiusContext => <reply> $who, A RADIUS accounting log analysis package. URL: http://www.tummy.com/radiusContext/
radiusd-sql => <reply> $who, RADIUS server modified to store accounting in a MySQL database. URL: http://www.mindrot.org/code/radiusd-sql.php3
radkill => <reply> $who, BASH script for ISP's that wish to guarantee no busy signals. URL: ftp://ftp.nmo.net/pub/radkill/
Rael's Binary Grabber => <reply> $who, Automated tool for downloading binaries from UseNet newsgroups.. URL: http://thelamb.dhs.org/~rael/bgrab/
Rain's PPP scripts => <reply> $who, Scripts to simplify the use and setup of pppd. URL: http://www.bluecherry.net/~rain/rppp-2.9.fix.tar.gz
rainbow => <reply> $who, OpenGL visualization plugin for xmms, based on pulsating rainbows. URL: http://horizon.pair.com/linux/
Ramp Music Player => <reply> $who, A front end to mpg123 with next-generation playlist capabilities. URL: http://www.brilligsys.com/ramp/
Ranalis => <reply> $who, A MOO2-like strategy game. URL: http://antaran.dhs.org/
rand => <reply> $who, random pipe. URL: http://math.smsu.edu/~br0ke/rand.html
Random line selector => <reply> $who, Selects random line from STDIN. URL: http://artho.com/randline.html
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recent.el => <reply> $who, An XEMACS enhancement to keep recently edited files under the File button. URL: http://www.bit.net.au/~bhepple/
Recital Unix Developer => <reply> $who, RDBMS with complete development tools and 4GL. URL: http://www.recital.com
Record Management => <reply> $who, Program to manage large sound carrier archives (LPs, CDs, MP3s, singles, ...).. URL: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu
record_cd2mp3 => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.cnc.com/pub/record_cd2mp3/
recover => <reply> $who, A utility which automates some steps to undelete a file.. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover/
Red => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/terminal
Red Hat Linux => <reply> $who, The Red Hat Official Linux distribution. URL: http://www.redhat.com/
RED-Linux => <reply> $who, A real-time extension of the Linux kernel. URL: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/RED-Linux/
RedHat CD Kit => <reply> $who, Tools for creating bootable RedHat installation CDs.. URL: http://www.mmedia.is/~bre/programs/redhat-cd-kit-1.1.tar.gz
redir => <reply> $who, Redirects TCP ports to another IP address and port.. URL: http://users.qual.net/~sammy/hacks/
redirect 4 all => <reply> $who, Redirector for FTP and IRC sessions. URL: http://www.ftp4all.de/v3/noframes/
Reflex60 smart card terminal OCF driver => <reply> $who, A pure Java OCF driver for the Schlumberger Reflex60 smart card terminal. URL: http://www.forge.com.au
RegExplorer => <reply> $who, Regular Expression Explorer. URL: http://qtvu.netpedia.net/regexplorer/
Registry.pl => <reply> $who, Perl Library to utilize a text based Windows 95 style registry. URL: http://www.dsnet.net/oss/registry.html
regutils => <reply> $who, Windows 9x ini and registry tools for unix. URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/regutils/
reiserfs => <reply> $who, A filesystem which stores the files themselves in a B*-tree, gaining speed.. URL: http://www.devlinux.com/namesys
Rel => <reply> $who, Determine the relevance of text documents to a boolean expression of keywords. URL: http://www2.inow.com/~conover/nformatix/
Relay-JFC => <reply> $who, Open Source IRC chat program with a graphical user interface similar to mIRC. URL: http://relayirc.netpedia.net
relaycheck => <reply> $who, Scans a network for SMTP hosts that permit. URL: http://david.weekly.org/code/
Remembrance Agent => <reply> $who, Remembrance Agents are an augmented, associative memory.. URL: http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/RA/
Remind => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.doe.carleton.ca/pub/remind-3.0/
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Robot Race => <reply> $who, An Excellent 90% completed Robo Rally server needing an equivalent client.. URL: http://roborally.linuxguru.net/
ROCK Linux => <reply> $who, Linux Distribution for high skilled Linux User and Admins. URL: http://linux.rock-projects.com/
RockBot => <reply> $who, A powerfull, smart, IRC robot.. URL: http://www.rdrop.com/~rubin/irc/RockBot/
RocketJSP => <reply> $who, JSP 1.0 Engine. URL: http://rocketjsp.homepage.com/index.html
RockHead => <reply> $who, Plays rock paper scissors, and guesses your next move.. URL: http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~vtu001/rh.html
Rocks'n'Diamonds => <reply> $who, Arcade style Boulderdash/EmeraldMine clone for X11 with stereo sounds. URL: http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/
Rodian => <reply> $who, Layer for handling, representing and storing information objects in a tree. URL: http://www.edlund.org/hacks/rodian/index.html
RODUN => <reply> $who, An extended Rogue clone (Dungeon Game). URL: http://members.xoom.com/jrocho/
Roids => <reply> $who, Scrolling asteroids game using (mostly) simple X11 polygons. URL: http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~bschroed/roids.html
Roll => <reply> $who, A program for rolling complex dice combinations. URL: http://electricrain.com/epos_6/downloads.html
ROOT => <reply> $who, Comprehensive object oriented framework. URL: http://root.cern.ch/
Root Park => <reply> $who, Build a network that will stand the test of time. URL: http://root.park.free.fr/
Root-Portal => <reply> $who, Background Desktop System Logger. URL: http://driftwood.draconic.com/root-portal/
root-tail => <reply> $who, Allows printing of text directly to the X11 rootwindow. URL: http://208.240.253.47/root-tail/
Rosegarden => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
Rosenet Community Calendar => <reply> $who, Interactive Community Calendar for PHP3 and MySQL. URL: http://modems.rosenet.net/calendar/download/
rotfl => <reply> $who, simple text formatting language. URL: http://www.bangmoney.org/projects/rotfl/
routemon => <reply> $who, Default route monitor for ISDN and PPP links. URL: http://members.xoom.com/Gavrilov_Con/isdn/routemon.html
ROX-Filer => <reply> $who, Drag-and-drop based filemanager.. URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/rox.php3
Roxen Challenger => <reply> $who, Platform independent webserver featuring strong encryption and SSL3. URL: http://www.roxen.com/
rpcobol => <reply> $who, compiler for cobol74. URL: http://members.xoom.com/rpragana/cobol.html
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Rush ircd => <reply> $who, An amazing ircd. URL: http://www.extremerush.dhs.org/
rview => <reply> $who, Game resource data exlorer and ripper tool. URL: http://pluto.spaceports.com/~rview/
RXP => <reply> $who, Validating XML parser in C. URL: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html
rxtx => <reply> $who, rxtx is a native serial library for linux supporting CommAPI. URL: http://www.frii.com/~jarvi/rxtx/
rxvt => <reply> $who, A VT102 emulator for the X window system. URL: http://www.rxvt.org/
rz/sz => <reply> $who, ZMODEM, YMODEM or XMODEM error correcting protocol send and receive. URL: http://www.rdrop.com/users/caf/rzsz3.html
rzMail => <reply> $who, A wxPython-based e-mail client.. URL: http://rozzin.homepage.com/
s-news => <reply> $who, Small news server using suck for news transport.. URL: http://www.sylph.u-net.com/snews.html
S/key => <reply> $who, One time password system. URL: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nmh/
S1000 => <reply> $who, Device driver for Ocean Optics's spectrometer S1000 with A/D card ADC500.. URL: http://dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk/~rybar/programming/programming.html
S3 Trio64 frame buffer driver for Linux/x86 => <reply> $who, Linux framebuffer driver for S3 Trio64-based cards on Intel. URL: http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/linux/s3.html
Sabre Flight Plane Simulator => <reply> $who, Fligh simulator. URL: http://sabre.cobite.com/
SAC => <reply> $who, System Accounting Tool. URL: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/sac/
safecat => <reply> $who, Copies stdin to a qmail-style maildir. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat.html
SafeGossip => <reply> $who, SSL support for FTP, IMAP, POP, SMTP and telnet. URL: http://www.skygate.co.uk/safegossip/
Sailor Mars => <reply> $who, Anime desktopmate. URL: http://home.rmci.net/fiachra/
Saint => <reply> $who, Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool. URL: http://www.wwdsi.com/saint/
sam => <reply> $who, Rob Pike's sam editor for Unix, using 9libs for Plan 9 support.. URL: ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/research/9libs/sam-9libs.tar.gz
Samba => <reply> $who, Allows clients to access to a server's filespace and printers via SMB. URL: http://www.samba.org/
Sambaconfig => <reply> $who, Edit your smb.conf file with you web browser. URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Zone/5267/sambaconfig/
SambaLink/Q => <reply> $who, Qt version of smb.conf file editor. URL: http://www.spanware.com/linkq/sambalinkq.html
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SNEmul => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mygale.org/09/cassiop/
snes9express => <reply> $who, Gtk GUI front-end for snes9x. URL: http://www.linuxgames.com/snes9express/
SNES9x => <reply> $who, Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System(SNES) emulator. URL: http://www.snes9x.com
SNiFF+ => <reply> $who, An open, extensible and scalable cross-platform programming environment. URL: http://www.takefive.com/
SNiFF+ LinuxLand => <reply> $who, Integrated development environment on Linux. URL: http://www.linuxland.de
SNiFF+ Penguin IDE => <reply> $who, Free professional IDE for Linux C/C++ developers. URL: http://www.takefive.com/
Sniffit => <reply> $who, Full-featured packet sniffer. URL: http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html
SNMP Monitor (Ex) => <reply> $who, SNMP critical values monitoring. URL: http://geekcorp.com/snmpmonitor/
SNMP Sniff => <reply> $who, A promiscuous SNMP Sniffer/Decoder that allows you to look inside SNMP PDU's. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~nunol/snmpsniff/
SNMP Sniffer => <reply> $who, SNMP promiscuous packet sniffer/decoder.. URL: http://elektra.porto.ucp.pt/snmpsniff
SNMP with Source => <reply> $who, SNMP provides network management framework for enabling and monitoring a network. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/
Snmpd (Scotty) => <reply> $who, SNMP daemon-based network management program. URL: http://geekcorp.com/snmpd/
snmpscan => <reply> $who, Scan hosts or routers running SNMPD for common communities (passwords).. URL: http://www.phunc.com/tools/snmpscan/
Snoopy => <reply> $who, Snoopy is a PHP class that implements web client functionality.. URL: http://www.phpinsider.com
Snort => <reply> $who, Libpcap packet sniffer/logger/lightweight IDS. URL: http://www.clark.net/~roesch/security.html
Snow* => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk GUI for Snowblind CLI rio tools. URL: http://www.daft.com/~armadilo/projects/snowstar/snowstar.html
Snoweb => <reply> $who, hypertext literate programming mode for xemacs. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~graydon/snoweb.html
snowflake => <reply> $who, An interactive snowflake image generator. URL: http://www.infomatch.com/~donaldj/
snplog => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.franken.de/users/gauss/snplog/
snpp2web => <reply> $who, Simple network paging protocol to Web page gateway. URL: http://www.novia.net/~rexracer/snpp2web/
sock => <reply> $who, Shell interface for network sockets. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/linux.html
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TexturePaint => <reply> $who, Plugin for the Gimp. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/uwe_maurer/texpaint.htm
textutils => <reply> $who, GNU text file processing utilities. URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/textutils/
TFidentd => <reply> $who, A very small ident server with a few neat features.. URL: ftp://ftp.jaded.net/pub/tfidentd/
tgif => <reply> $who, Vector-based draw tool. URL: http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/
The Ace of Penguins => <reply> $who, X11 solitaire card games. URL: http://www.delorie.com/store/ace/
The Ace ORB => <reply> $who, Open Source, real-time CORBA 2.2 ORB. URL: http://theaceorb.com/
The Amazing Anagram Thingie! => <reply> $who, A feature-rich anagram generator and browser. URL: http://www.vis.colostate.edu/~scriven/anagrammer.php3
The BeOpen.com OO-Browser => <reply> $who, A fast, multi-language, multi-platform object-oriented code browser. URL: http://www.BeOpen.com/
The Bomb's black jack => <reply> $who, A console Black Jack game.. URL: http://bir24.hgo.se/bj/
The Calculator => <reply> $who, A four function calculator for UNIX and Linux. URL: http://www.sd2600.net/calc/
The Casbah Project => <reply> $who, A web application framework.. URL: http://casbah.org/
The CGI Toolkit => <reply> $who, A simple support library to create CGI program.s. URL: http://www.500mhz.net/ctk/
The Comic Book Database for Linux => <reply> $who, Comics helps you keep track of almost every facet of you comic book collection.. URL: http://zorro.pangea.ca/~mcrewson/comics/
The Cool Zippi Tool => <reply> $who, X-Forms based compression frontend. URL: http://home.metroweb.co.za/~r0cknr0l/coolzippitool.html
The Cycon Online Gaming Engine => <reply> $who, Online Gaming Authoring System. URL: http://cogengine.linuxbox.com/
The Dammit Patch => <reply> $who, Adds the long option --dammit to ln, mv, and rm.. URL: http://counterintuitive.org/
The Dotfile Generator => <reply> $who, Configures programs dotfiles using a GUI. URL: http://www.imada.ou.dk/~blackie/dotfile/
The Entity Project => <reply> $who, An advanced adventure game engine written in Java.. URL: http://www.acc.umu.se/~entity/
The Finger Server => <reply> $who, Web based, pseudo unix finger server. URL: http://www.glazed.org/finger/
The fOX Project => <reply> $who, Desktop project centered around Hector Peraza'sXclass95. URL: http://foxproject.org
The Gimp => <reply> $who, The GNU Image Manipulation Program. URL: http://www.gimp.org/
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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/
TV Soup => <reply> $who, A Web application for viewing and discussing Internet videos.. URL: http://tvsoup.com/
tv.app => <reply> $who, tv.app is a wharf dockable applet that acts as a remote control for XawTV.. URL: http://www.erols.com/imoore/tvapp/
TVListing.sh => <reply> $who, Fetches today's TV listings and emails them to you.. URL: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~kermit/myc/frame/tvguide.html
TWIG => <reply> $who, A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3. URL: http://twig.screwdriver.net/
TWiki => <reply> $who, Web based collaboration tool. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~peterthoeny/twiki/index.html
TwinTRIS => <reply> $who, Multiplayer tetris clone for all Unix boxes. URL: http://membres.tripod.fr/twintris/
Twist => <reply> $who, Embedded Python text processor. URL: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/twist/twist.html
Twisted Reality => <reply> $who, A fully buzzword-compliant roleplaying system.. URL: http://www.twistedmatrix.com/
twonz => <reply> $who, secure hash calculator for password management. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~graydon/twonz/twonz.html
twz1jdbcForMysql => <reply> $who, A type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL. URL: http://www.voicenet.com/~zellert/tjFM/
txt2html => <reply> $who, Converts plain text to HTML. URL: http://www.thehouse.org/txt2html/
txt2pdf => <reply> $who, A very flexible and powerful PERL5 converter from text files to PDF. URL: http://www.sanface.com/
txt2pdf.cgi => <reply> $who, a very flexible PERL cgi-bin application based on the powerful txt2pdf script. URL: http://www.sanface.com/
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Ultra Power Effects Max II => <reply> $who, Reads from the soundcard, transforms the sound, and writes it back. URL: http://sed.free.fr/effects/index.html
UMENU => <reply> $who, Console menu command interface. URL: http://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm
umodunpack.pl => <reply> $who, Unpack umod files for Unreal Tournament.. URL: http://www.deepsky.com/~misaka/
ump => <reply> $who, Unix Midi Plugin. URL: http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/
unace => <reply> $who, extract, test and view ACE archives. URL: http://members.aol.com/mlemke6413/
unalog => <reply> $who, A lightweight, universal logging model for human-machine events.. URL: http://www.unalog.com/
unarj => <reply> $who, arj un-archiver. URL: ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/arj/
Undelete Utilities => <reply> $who, Undelete Capabilities for the Extended-2 Filesystem. URL: http://amadeus.upr.clu.edu/~undelete/
UNFAIR => <reply> $who, A neat game.. URL: http://gtkgo.netpedia.net/
UNiBACK for Linux => <reply> $who, Fast, easy, reliable network backup solution for UNIX & Linux.. URL: http://www.orbitsw.com/
UNICON => <reply> $who, A CJK framebuffer console for Linux.. URL: http://turbolinux.com.cn/TLDN/chinese/project/unicon/
UniDict => <reply> $who, Universal dictionary system. URL: http://www.arcticnet.no/~ovek/unidict/
units => <reply> $who, converts between different systems of units. URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/
Universal Related Popup Menus => <reply> $who, Related popup menus. URL: http://www.webreference.com/dev/menus/
Universal TUN/TAP device driver => <reply> $who, Universal TUN/TAP device driver. URL: http://vtun.netpedia.net/tun/
Universe => <reply> $who, Space Strategy game. URL: http://rmi.net/~starkey/Universe/
Unix Command Line Masqdialer Client => <reply> $who, Access the Masqdialer Server via the command line. URL: http://cpwright.villagenet.com/cli-mclient/
Unix Desktop Environment => <reply> $who, A new GUI for Unix with a completely new look'n'feel. URL: http://www.ude.org
unixODBC => <reply> $who, Provides ODBC 3 connectivity for Unix. URL: http://www.unixodbc.org/
Unlimited Simulator => <reply> $who, General purpose simulator. URL: http://www.hozelhoff.com/~brunobg/
UnLockPRO => <reply> $who, ZZT world lock manipulator. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~kvance/sw_byname.html#U
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WebGrams => <reply> $who, Web-based greeting card application. URL: http://www.vanbrunt.com/webgrams
webgrep => <reply> $who, HTML check and search utilities. URL: http://www.linuxfocus.org/~guido.socher/
WebGuys Instant Message Service => <reply> $who, Instant Messaging solution for small team environments. URL: http://www.webguys.com/wimd.html
WebInsight => <reply> $who, Gather and analyze information about activity on your website. URL: http://www.applix.com/webinsight/
Webinterface for Unix Listproc => <reply> $who, A Webinterface for Unix Listproc; user functions only; no admin stuff (yet?). URL: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/wiful/
WebKit => <reply> $who, Python scripts for website management. URL: http://members.xoom.com/s_l_u_g/techie/projects/webkit.html
WebKNotes => <reply> $who, Web based knowledge notes database written in Perl.. URL: http://www.dma.org/~dmahurin/files/software/wkn/doc/README.html
weblint => <reply> $who, Syntax and minimal style checker for HTML. URL: http://www.weblint.org/
Webliographer => <reply> $who, Mini URL search engine/database. URL: http://www.relax.com/webliographer/faq.html
WebLog => <reply> $who, Logfile toolkit for Python. URL: http://mnot.cbd.net.au//scripting/python/WebLog/
WebMacro Servlet Framework => <reply> $who, Java server-side web template engine and servletdevelopment framework. URL: http://www.webmacro.org
WebMagick => <reply> $who, Generates HTML to put image collections on the Web. URL: http://www.simplesystems.org/WebMagick/
WebMail => <reply> $who, Web frontend for Unix system mailboxes. URL: http://webmail.wastl.net/
Webmail module (Roxen) => <reply> $who, Roxen module to read e-mails via a Webbrowser. URL: http://mikael.mnf.nu/webmail
WebMailFolder => <reply> $who, Convert emails to html and creates index and statistics. URL: http://www.lugs.ch/lugs/mitglieder/norbert.kuemin/wmf.html
WebMaker => <reply> $who, HTML editor for Unix. URL: http://www.services.ru/linux/webmaker/
webmart => <reply> $who, java servlet environment for eCommerce. URL: http://www.techplace.net/~ktm/webmart.html
Webmetrics => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.nist.gov/webmetrics
Webmin => <reply> $who, Web-based interface for system administration for Unix. URL: http://www.webmin.com/webmin/
Webmon => <reply> $who, Web-based Packet Loss reporter. URL: http://www.jimsoffice.org/webmon/
WebMon-MRTG => <reply> $who, Packet Loss generator that works with MRTG. URL: http://www.jimsoffice.org/webmon/
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Word Inspector => <reply> $who, GTK frontend to Dict dictionary program. URL: http://www.tir.com/~sgifford/wordinspect/
word2x => <reply> $who, MS Word doc to multiple format converter. URL: http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/
WordNet => <reply> $who, on-line lexical reference system. URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Work report => <reply> $who, Keeps track of your hours of work. URL: http://www.tobi.nu/work-report/
Worker => <reply> $who, Highly configurable graphical Filemanager for X. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~hoffmanr/
WorkMan => <reply> $who, X11 CD player. URL: http://www.midwinter.com/workman/
Workplace => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~hideki70/
World Engine => <reply> $who, Java Search Engine Front End. URL: http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
World Foundry => <reply> $who, 3D level game engine and asset production pathway. URL: http://www.worldfoundry.org/
WorldEd => <reply> $who, 3D Modeller for KDE. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2865
WorldForge => <reply> $who, Massively multiplayer online roleplaying game framework/system. URL: http://www.worldforge.org/
WORM => <reply> $who, ncurses based console game similar to nibbles. URL: http://www.localhost.nu/apps/worm/worm-0.3.tar.gz
Worm Zone => <reply> $who, Worm Zone is a multi-player worm game with Linux, win32 and DOS ports available.. URL: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~hydron/wormz.html
Wormz => <reply> $who, Multiplayer game, similar to 'worm'. URL: http://lide.punknet.cz/miri/wormz.html
WOTS => <reply> $who, Logfile monitoring program, generates action reports based on patterns. URL: http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/%7Etc/tools/
wpage => <reply> $who, Perl script to page PageMart pagers.. URL: http://209.164.99.100/will/page/
WPAM => <reply> $who, A simple set of routines to handle login/session managment for web applications.. URL: http://epsilon3.mcc.ac.uk/WPAM/
WPC => <reply> $who, web password security checker. URL: http://members.xoom.com/g1soft/
WPeople => <reply> $who, Contact Manager written in WINGs. URL: http://lemur.uvm.edu/~kelvin/WPeople/
WPM => <reply> $who, Web-based Proxy Manager. URL: http://www.chmd.edu.mx/~gwolf/wpm/
WPP => <reply> $who, Small perl5 script that allows preprocessing of HTML files. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/wpp/
WRMF => <reply> $who, WhiteBarn Reliable Multicast Framework. URL: http://www.whitebarn.com/links/software.html
WRMF-PGM => <reply> $who, Reliable Multicast Protocol framework and Cisco PGM implementation. URL: http://www.whitebarn.com/
Wroonian => <reply> $who, A script which will help you create and maintain knowledge, information and FAQs. URL: http://www.edlund.org/hacks/wroonian/index.html
wscr => <reply> $who, A program to solve word jumbles and permute strings.. URL: http://hood.sjfn.nb.ca/~eddie/wscr.html
wsmake => <reply> $who, Website make tool written in C++. URL: http://wsmake.org/
wsmap => <reply> $who, Fully configurable sitemap generator. URL: http://kyd.net/vaga/
WSoundPrefs => <reply> $who, WMSound Server Configuration Utility. URL: ftp://shadowmere.student.utwente.nl/pub/WindowMaker/
WSoundServer => <reply> $who, Sound Server for Window Maker. URL: http://shadowmere.student.utwente.nl/
wterm => <reply> $who, Bitching X11 terminal emulator. URL: http://wm.current.nu/files/wterm-6.2.6.tar.bz2
WTEST => <reply> $who, Web application testing tool. URL: http://www.interlog.com/~bibhas/
wu-ftpd => <reply> $who, FTP Daemon for UNIX systems. URL: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/
WU-IMAP/Linuxconf VDM => <reply> $who, WU-IMAP with support for Linuxconf Virtual Domain Mail. URL: http://phall.kdsoft.fi/~phall/vimap/
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WWW::Poll => <reply> $who, Perl module for generating Polls.. URL: http://temple.stickydata.com/~mgammon/poll/
WWWatson => <reply> $who, Sherlock-compatible extensible metasearch engine. URL: http://www.molehill.org/~jtl/wwwatson/
WWWdb => <reply> $who, Database-access over HTTP with consistency-check. URL: http://linux.twc.de/WWWdb/
WWWOFFLE => <reply> $who, Simple proxy server with special features for use with dial-up internet links. URL: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
WWWThreads => <reply> $who, WWW based discussion forums. URL: http://www.wwwthreads.org
www_proxy => <reply> $who, HTTP proxy with the capability of modifying User-Agent value. URL: http://www.sashanet.com/internet/download.html
wx200d => <reply> $who, Client/server weather data collector for WX200/WM918. URL: http://www.quiknet.com/~twitham/wx200d/
WXftp => <reply> $who, FTP client for X with nice and intuitive GTK+ and Motif GUI. URL: http://www.wxftp.seul.org
wxHTML => <reply> $who, HTML (and richtext viewer) widget for wxWindows 2. URL: http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~vsla8348/wxhtml/
wxPython => <reply> $who, Python extension module for wxWindows. URL: http://alldunn.com/wxPython/
wxWindows/GTK => <reply> $who, GTK port of the cross-platform wxWindows C++application framework class library. URL: http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt/
Wrstelstand => <reply> $who, German Hot-dog booth simulation. URL: http://poboxes.com/futureware/wurst.htm
X ARCHON => <reply> $who, A clone of the classic ARCHON game. URL: http://xarchon.seul.org/
X Northern Captain => <reply> $who, Filemanager for X Windows. URL: http://www.xnc.dubna.su
X WinCommander => <reply> $who, File Manager for X11. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/7912/xwc.html
X-10 Heyu => <reply> $who, Home automation with Linux. URL: http://heyu.tanj.com/heyu/
X-bomber => <reply> $who, A multiplayer game for Unix systems. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/xbomber/
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
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XZip => <reply> $who, A Z-machine (Infocom games) interpreter for Unix / X windows. URL: http://www.eblong.com/zarf/xzip.html
XZX => <reply> $who, Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 emulator. URL: http://www.philosys.de/~kunze/xzx/
y2l => <reply> $who, Yacc to LaTeX grammar pretty printer. URL: http://www.alchar.org/~aedil/Projects/y2l.html
YA-EDA => <reply> $who, A complete EDA tool for Linux. URL: http://www.hashbang.org/~jarl/
ya-wipe => <reply> $who, Secure file wiper. URL: http://www.erols.com/thomassr/zero/download/wipe/
Yacas => <reply> $who, Yet Another Computer Algebra System. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~apinkus/yacas.html
Yadex => <reply> $who, Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X. URL: http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/yadex/
yafc => <reply> $who, Yet Another FTP Client. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mhe/yafc/
yagIRC => <reply> $who, Yet Another GTK+ IRC Client. URL: http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon/yagirc/
YahooChart.java => <reply> $who, A Java graphical interface to Yahoo Finance stock charts. URL: http://www.sharknet.tj/~java/yahoochartJ/
yaktest => <reply> $who, A small C++ unit testing framework. URL: http://www.nyx.net/~vputz/yaktest/
YAMD => <reply> $who, Yet Another Malloc Debugger. URL: http://www3.hmc.edu/~neldredge/yamd/
YaMMS => <reply> $who, Yet another Mpg123 Music Selector. URL: http://thereactor.cleptoscastle.com/downloads.html
YAMP => <reply> $who, Mp3 player written with GTK+. URL: http://hoosier.penguinpowered.com/yamp.html
Yams => <reply> $who, An e-commerce package written in Perl and utilizing a MySQL database.. URL: http://yams.screamdesign.com/
yank => <reply> $who, Yet another notekeeper.. URL: http://home.ins.de/~m.hussmann/software/yank/
YAP Prolog System => <reply> $who, Prolog Compiler. URL: http://www.ncc.up.pt/~vsc/Yap/
YIFF Sound Server => <reply> $who, Sound server with multi-client and network-transparent io library.. URL: http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/yiff/
Yiff! for X11 => <reply> $who, A foxy puzzle game. URL: http://www.iki.fi/wwwwolf/games/xyiff.html
yip => <reply> $who, An enhancement kit for aub. URL: http://yip.boners.com
Yodl => <reply> $who, Yet oneOther Document Language. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/yodl/
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IRIS Performer for Linux => <reply> $who, IRIS Performer is a high-performance 3D rendering toolkit for developers of real-time visual simulation and other interactive graphics applications. URL: http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/Linux_performer...
QIR => <reply> $who, QIR (Quake 3 IRC Reporter) is an IRC bot that can be instructed to check a Quake3 server's status and neatly print the output to IRC. URL: http://dev.detroit.org/source/qir-0.2.tar.gz
ydSLitProg => <reply> $who, ydSLitProg is an SGML DTD intended to write literate programs. URL: http://www.altern.org/ydirson/soft/sgml-litprog/
KStella => <reply> $who, KStella is a KDE frontend to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella. URL: http://devel-home.kde.org/~kstella/download.html
Scinom => <reply> $who, Scinom is a site put together using WWWBoard and BigNoseBird's poll script. URL: http://www.scinomaly.org/Scinom.tar.gz
scdbackup => <reply> $who, scdbackup is a simplified CD backup program for Linux. URL: http://scdbackup.linuxbox.com/scdbackup-0.5.tar.gz
Gtkfxp => <reply> $who, Gtkfxp is a FXP client for GTK. URL: http://home.swipnet.se/~w-92416/gtkfxp/downloads.html
Thix => <reply> $who, Thix is an almost complete implementation of the POSIX.1 standard (IEEE Std 1003.1-1988). URL: ftp://ftp.cs.unh.edu/pub/grads/tudor/thix/src/thix-0.3.7.tar.gz
rshproxy => <reply> $who, rshproxy is an application-level gateway for the rsh, rlogin, and rexec protocols. URL: http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/download/
VxTools => <reply> $who, VxTools allows you to read files from Veritas Journaled Filesystem in Linux, with support for versions 2 and 4.. URL: ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/vxfs/
simscomputing.Test Bed => <reply> $who, simscomputing.Test Bed is a framework for writing tests against your Java code. URL: ftp://ftp.simscomputing.com/pub/simscomputing/simscomputing.jar
AUDPBACKDOOR => <reply> $who, AUDPBACKDOOR consists of a daemon and a client that commuicate over UDP. URL: http://www.elxsi.de/audpbackdoor.tar.gz
termix => <reply> $who, Termix is a DOS terminal-like console telnet client intended for calling telnet BBSes. URL: http://demonic.net/termix/termix-0.5.tar.gz
Flock => <reply> $who, Flock stands for Fortune Locker and is a small ncurses terminal locker with support for printing fortunes.. URL: http://capsi.cx/src/flock/flock-0.1.0.tar.bz2
ACPLTea => <reply> $who, The ACPLTea Java Library is a pure Java implementation of the open and free communication system ACPLT/KS. URL: http://www.plt.rwth-aachen.de/ks/english/acpltea.html
OpenBSD-ftp => <reply> $who, OpenBSD-ftp is a port of the ftp client from OpenBSD to Linux. URL: http://innominate.org/~oku/rpms/download/OpenBSD-ftp-1.0-1.src.rpm
ToutDoux => <reply> $who, ToutDoux is a project manager which lets you design a plan of action using a tree structure.. URL: http://altern.org/toutdoux/dl/ToutDoux-1.1.3.tar.gz
fwlogstat => <reply> $who, fwlogstat helps system administrators to analyze Checkpoint FW-1 (4.0) Account Logs. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bit/9363/pub/fwlogstat/fwlogstat-1_0.tgz
qtmixer => <reply> $who, qtmixer is a soundcard mixer for use under the X Window System.. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/mixers/qtmixer-1.2.tgz
tclPov => <reply> $who, tclPov is a GUI front-end to PovRay designed to free you from typing long, sometimes cryptic command lines. URL: http://www.nasland.nu/gallery/index.no?page=tclpov
ToyFDTD2 => <reply> $who, ToyFDTD2 builds an alternate memory allocation scheme into ToyFDTD1. URL: http://www.borg.umn.edu/toyfdtd/ToyFDTD2/ToyFDTD2-v1.0.tar.gz
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Groovy Java Database => <reply> $who, Groovy Java Database implements an object-oriented database. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~groovyjava/Database/Database-0.1.src.zip
apt-proxy => <reply> $who, apt-proxy is a simple script to build up a Debian FTP mirror based on requests which pass through the proxy. URL: ftp://ftp.linuxcare.com.au/pub/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-0.1.tar.bz2
konkhydra => <reply> $who, Konkhydra is a program that lets you control multiple X servers from one keyboard and mouse. URL: http://www.konkers.net/~konkers/konkhydra/konkhydra-0.0.1.tar.gz
Gift => <reply> $who, Gift is a Java platform which allows developers to create custom editors dedicated to any representation language or formalism. URL: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/ats/gift/download/download.html
CodeGuide => <reply> $who, CodeGuide is an IDE that detects errors in your code as you type, offers powerful code completion features, maintains a structured view of your program, has an integrated visual debugger, supports the latest Java technologi...
Koala Complete MUD Server => <reply> $who, Koala is a complete, IPv6-compliant MUD server.. URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?form_grp=312
JIPSY => <reply> $who, Jipsy is a drop-in replacement for parts of the java.net classes that enables Java applications to seamlessly communicate using IPv4 and IPv6. URL: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~mpf/jipsy/jipsy-0.1.0.tar.gz
Style-print => <reply> $who, Style-print is a small program that prints files with a lot of styles like underline, bold, double width, superindex, etc. URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal/style-print-0.1.tar.gz
Updee => <reply> $who, Updee is an uptime daemon designed to run on as many UNIX systems as possible. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~iretd/updee-current.tar.gz
gShield => <reply> $who, gShield (formerly Godot's Modified Modular Firewall), is an aggressive, modular, ipchains-based firewall script. URL: http://muse.linuxgeek.org/files/gShield-1.0.tgz
tdof => <reply> $who, tdof is an APE-derived C++ framework for use in developing telephony applications with native drivers which lack a pre-existing SDK. URL: ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/tdof/
gg => <reply> $who, gg is a graphical guestbook for the Web. URL: http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/files/gg-0.0.2.tar.gz
ODBC Socket Server => <reply> $who, ODBC Socket Server is an open source database access toolkit that exposes Windows NT ODBC data sources via an XML-based TCP/IP interface. URL: http://odbc.linuxbox.com/download.html
Conglomerate => <reply> $who, Conglomerate will be a system for authoring, storing, transforming, and generally working with structured information like XML/SGML (yes, it will do DocBook, or any other DTD you care to throw at it). URL: http://www.con...
WebCalendar => <reply> $who, WebCalendar is a PHP/MySQL application used to maintain a calendar for one or more persons.. URL: http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/webcalendar/files/WebCalendar-0.9.tar.gz
SDCC-z80 => <reply> $who, SDCC-z80 is a version of the optimising C compiler SDCC targeted to the 8 bit Zilog Z80. URL: http://earthling.net.nz/~michaelh/snapshots/
SPS4Linux => <reply> $who, SPS4Linux is an implementation of the SPS Language. URL: http://www.eilers.net/sps/
XMagick => <reply> $who, XMagick is a library written in C which allows integration of the ImageMagick library with any X application by providing functions which convert between the native X image format (XImage) and the native ImageMagick format (I...
libiconv => <reply> $who, libiconv provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems which don't have one or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. URL: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-0.1.tar.gz
libutf8 => <reply> $who, libutf8 provides UTF-8 locale support for use on systems which don't have UTF-8 locales or whose UTF-8 locales are unreasonably slow. URL: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/libutf8-0.6.1.tar.gz
as-gps => <reply> $who, as-gps contains a basic support library for accessing the inexpensive ($20) Aisin-Seiki GPS Module previously available at mavin.com. URL: http://www.amphibious.org/gps/as-gps-0.2.tgz
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gProjectGenerator => <reply> $who, GPrjGen is a tool to generate GNOME source trees.. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~linuxsite/gPrjGen-0.1.1.tar.gz
StatistX => <reply> $who, StatistX wraps the small statistics program 'statist' into a graphical user interface. URL: http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~abeyer/private/StatistX/download/
iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition => <reply> $who, The iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition is a multi-process, multi-threaded HTTP1.1 compliant web server that delivers a high-performance Java application platform with support for Java Servle...
MeterMaid => <reply> $who, MeterMaid is a troubleticket system written in Perl which uses an SQL database for a backend. URL: http://world.std.com/~durist/perl/metermaid/MeterMaid-1.0.tar.gz
GTS => <reply> $who, The GNU Triangulated Surface Library (GTS) provides a set of useful functions to deal with 3D surfaces meshed with interconnected triangles. URL: ftp://marangoni.lmm.jussieu.fr/pub/gts/
wml-tools => <reply> $who, wml-tools is small suite of tools related to WAP WML development. URL:
loadlib => <reply> $who, loadlib.c is a program to load shared libraries via dlopen() and hold them in memory until the user types 'q' and hits enter. URL: http://ns2.cnsnet.net/~spirilis/loadlib.c
teapop => <reply> $who, Teapop is another RFC1939 compliant POP3-server, however Teapop takes a step further. URL: http://www.val-axs.net/~ibo/teapop/teapop-latest.tar.gz
mailshift => <reply> $who, mailshift is a utility that reads a user's UNIX mailbox and writes the messages in a form readable by Infradig's Inframail Windows POP3 (and other protocols) server. URL: http://www.tranchant.freeserve.co.uk/software/mailsh...
BRINK => <reply> $who, Bad Risky Insanely Noodleriffic Kludge (BRINK) is a perl cgi that lets users change their current password via a web page. URL: http://brink.linuxguru.net/brink-1.2.tar.gz
Performance Co-Pilot => <reply> $who, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a framework and set of services for supporting system-level performance monitoring and performance management. URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download/
timofometro => <reply> $who, timofometro can help you know your telephone expenses in your connections to the Internet. URL: http://members.xoom.com/rvmsoft/download/timos/timofometro_0.14.tar.gz
MPAC => <reply> $who, MPAC (Microstrip Patch Antenna Calculator) was designed out of a need for a low cost, fast, and easy to use program to calculate critical design parameters of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna. URL: http://antenna.linuxbox....
tiny cobol => <reply> $who, Tiny Cobol is an effort to bring a free cobol compiler to Linux. URL: http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/snapshots/
upgrade => <reply> $who, upgrade updates the HP49's ROM. URL: http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/pc/rom/hp49fl02.tgz
gCatalog => <reply> $who, gCatalog is an inventory program to keep track of just about anything. URL: http://gCatalog.sourceforge.net/downloads/
QPOV => <reply> $who, QPOV is a simple Qt-based front-end to the Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer (POV). URL: http://members.home.net/krobillard/qpov/qpov-0.1.0.tar.gz
CoreLinux++ => <reply> $who, CoreLinux++ is an initiative to normalize methods and conventions for OOA/OOD/C++ development for Linux, materialized in a set of Open Source C++ class libraries (libcorelinux++ and libcoreframework++) to support common p...
Zen => <reply> $who, Zen is a Web browser for the Linux framebuffer, although a modular design allows different user interfaces. URL: ftp://ftp.nocrew.org/pub/nocrew/linux/zen-0.0.1.tar.gz
wmSu => <reply> $who, wmSu is an su-like program that runs some other executable with different user and group IDs, and uses WINGs for its UI.. URL: http://student.dei.uc.pt/~mtavares/wmSu/wmSu-latest.tgz
impose+ => <reply> $who, impose+ is a set of PostScript utilities. URL: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/impose+/impose+-0.1.tar.gz
THCNET Message System => <reply> $who, The THCNET Message System is a customizable PHP-enabled Web application which provides a moderated message system using a backend MySQL database.. URL: http://krux.thcnet.net/php/thcnet-current.tar.gz
FROGS => <reply> $who, FROGS is an object-oriented, general-purpose, event-driven simulation tool designed for efficent and fast behavioral evaluation of complex architectures. URL: ftp://ftp.realiant.com/frogs/
JFlash => <reply> $who, JFlash is a Java flash card organizer that enables you to create and review electronic flash cards. URL: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~wlee/codes/jflash/jflash-latest.zip
Soma => <reply> $who, Soma is a multithreaded, mostly HTTP/1.1-compliant Web server written in Java. URL: http://www.auntfloyd.com/~rob/files/soma-0.75.tar.gz
iOffice2000 US English Patch => <reply> $who, The iOffice2000 US English Patch allows UK English users to install the US English version of iOffice2000 without loosing the data already entered.. URL: http://www.scseuro.de/ioffice2000/download.html
mini_httpd => <reply> $who, mini_httpd is a small HTTP server. URL: http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/mini_httpd_10dec99.tar.gz
Correcteur 101 => <reply> $who, Correcteur 101 is a French grammar checker that provides a complete grammatical analysis of a sentence. URL:
RTP => <reply> $who, RTP draws a single stream of X-Y points received from an input stream in connect-the-dots fashion. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/science/visualization/rtp-1.0.0.tar.gz
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PHP auto prepend/append script => <reply> $who, The PHP auto-prepend/append script is a ColdFusion-type application.cfm for PHP. URL: ftp://0x00.org/pub/php/php.prepend.append.tgz
OpenH323 gatekeeper => <reply> $who, The OpenH323 gatekeeper is a freely available H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. URL: http://www.willamowius.de/images/gk011.tar.gz
SMM++ Mud Client => <reply> $who, SMM++ Mud Client is a mud client with extended and unique features. URL: http://www.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE/~issevers/SMM++/downloads/smm4r2.tar.gz
SMB-Mode => <reply> $who, SMB-Mode is a simple Emacs major mode to assist in editing Samba's smb.conf configuration file. URL: http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/smb-mode.el
mpg123-mysql => <reply> $who, mpg123-mysql consists of some patches to mpg123 which make it support MySQL. URL: http://www.nonsensss.de/domi/mpg123-mysql/mpg123-mysql-0.3.tar.gz
netttimer => <reply> $who, netttimer is a very small, simple program that calculates the amount of time and money you've spent using the internet. URL: http://members.xoom.com/kodgehopper/nettimer-0.01.tar.gz
Mserv => <reply> $who, Mserv is an MP3 server that has clients for telnet, Web and shell, and is easily extendable to other forms of interface. URL: http://www.mserv.org/download/
wmMailMenu => <reply> $who, wmMailMenu creates a Window Maker menu with mail addresses. URL: http://student.dei.uc.pt/~mtavares/wmMailMenu/wmMailMenu-latest.tgz
XPLSISNJASP => <reply> $who, XPLSISNJASP (Xplisnjasp Parport LightShow Is Not Just A Software Project) is an XMMS visualization plugin and it provides a light show via parallel port. URL: http://www.na.linux.hr/projects/xplsisnjasp/
ipacct => <reply> $who, ipacct is a script which collects IP accounting information for metered IP accounting usage. URL: ftp://ftp2.empnet.com/pub/ipacct/ipacct-1.06.tar.gz
fblogo => <reply> $who, fblogo will let you replace the penguin boot-logo you see when booting kernels with framebuffer support.. URL: http://home.sol.no/~dvedoy/fblogo-0.1.tar.gz
FutureForum Web Discussion Software => <reply> $who, FutureForum Web Discussion Software is a Web discussion forum written in Perl and MySQL, using DBI:DBD. URL:
Python Builder => <reply> $who, Python Builder is a direct replacement for MS Visual Basic on both the Windows and Linux platforms. URL: http://www.pcpros.net/~vbman/pbuilder.zip
TINY => <reply> $who, TINY is a small Linux distribution designed especially for reusing old computers. URL: ftp://ftp2.seul.org/tiny/
Tea => <reply> $who, Tea offers a new philosophy in PGP/GPG encrypted e-mails. URL: ftp://ftp.lemuria.org/pub/Code/
hello-world => <reply> $who, hello-world is a simple Roxen Web server module demonstrating Roxen's abilities.. URL: http://linux.kub.trollhattan.se/~ian/hello-world-0.6.tar.gz
pakajla.sh => <reply> $who, pakajla.sh is a script which can pack all subdirs in a dir with one command via tar and bzip2; this is very useful if you check out many files from CVS-trees.. URL: http://kabalak.linuxbox.com/scripts.html
avtv => <reply> $who, avtv is an SVGAlib/X11 program to capture and display TV or video input from all Accuview based TV/Video cards. URL: http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/avtv-0.04.tar.gz
ptkRun => <reply> $who, ptkRun is a program similiar to the Microsoft Windows Run dialog. URL: http://nut.dhs.org/code/ptkrun/src/ptkrun-0.14.tar.gz
GalaxyNG => <reply> $who, Galaxy is a game of interstellar war for several players. URL: http://galaxy.pbem.net/Download/galaxyng.tgz
KLuach => <reply> $who, KLuach is a Jewish calendar program for KDE. URL: ftp://moses.wi.mit.edu/pub/kluach/kluach-0.1.tar.gz
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gsteak => <reply> $who, gsteak is a translator from German to English and English to German, implemented as a GNOME applet. URL: http://gehtnix.fernuni-hagen.de/gsteak/gsteak-latest.tar.gz
QIRpl => <reply> $who, QIRpl (Quake 3 IRC Reporter) is an IRC bot written in Perl that can be instructed to check a Quake3 server's status and neatly print the output to IRC. URL: http://bofh.st/code/qir.perl
Allegro => <reply> $who, Allegro is a portable game programming library, with support for DOS (djgpp and Watcom), Linux (console and X), and Windows. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/allegro/wip.html
chlastmeter => <reply> $who, According to given list of drinks, chlastmeter will display the amount of alcohol in blood as a function of time.. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/chlastmeter/
WMRun.app => <reply> $who, WMRun.app is a small program for executing applications, based on the WINGs library (a part of WindowMaker). URL: http://www.clhs.kiev.ua/~andy/wmrun/WMRun.app.tar.gz
WhoiShOstFast => <reply> $who, WhoiShOstFast is multi-process TCP port scanner.. URL: http://web.interpuntonet.it/zerophobia/sources.html
mod_pcgi2 => <reply> $who, mod_pcgi2 is a module for Apache to handle PersistentCGI protocol. URL: http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2/mod_pcgi2.tar.gz
C-XSC++ => <reply> $who, C-XSC++ is a C++ class library for eXtended Scientific Computing. URL: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uad3/cxsc/
PHP firewall generator => <reply> $who, The PHP firewall generator is a simple PHP script that generates a firewall script for ipchains-based firewalls. URL: http://www.babel.com.au/phpfwgen/phpfwgen-0.1.tar.gz
Adobe Framemaker => <reply> $who, Framemaker is widely used in the technical publishing field to create and manage complex documents. URL: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/framemaker/unix/5.x/beta/fmlinux.tar.gz
Webtasker => <reply> $who, WebTasker is a simple Web application to manage tasks in a work group. URL: http://www.centrored.com/centroredWWW/webtasker/webtasker1.0.tgz
cacheprof => <reply> $who, Cacheprof is a tool for quantifying and understanding the data cache behaviour of programs. URL: http://www.cacheprof.org/
nethack-cow => <reply> $who, nethack-cow is a small and simple patch to NetHack 3.3.0 to include a new monster (cows, which occasionally show up in 'cowhives').. URL: http://www.goldinc.com/~shammack/nethack-cow.diff.gz
DHTML Dynamic Headline Fader => <reply> $who, The dynamic headline fader/flipper display is a highly configurable DHTML gizmo, compatible with all DHTML-capable browsers (such as Netscape 4.x or IE 4.x). URL: http://webreference.com/dhtml/column27/fa...
ZZplayer => <reply> $who, Zplayer is a MPEG-I video player for the KDE environement, based on the SMPEG library. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/multimedia/video/zzplayer-0.2.tar.gz
NotLame MP3 encoder => <reply> $who, NotLame is the resultant executable after applying the LAME patch to ISO source code, compiled without GTK frame analyzer support.. URL: http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/notlame350_rh6.tgz
xraw => <reply> $who, xraw is a development kit for creating games, demos, and intros under Linux and derivatives. URL: http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~i656/xraw-12081999.tgz
SocratEase => <reply> $who, SocratEase is a web-based training package with everything needed to build, deliver and track online courses. URL: http://www.SocratEase.com/downloads/trial/
SquirrelMail => <reply> $who, SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. URL: http://squirrelmail.sourceforge.net/index.php3?page=5
WebEvent Calendar => <reply> $who, WebEvent is a Web-based calendar and scheduling program. URL: http://www.WebEvent.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi
gps3d => <reply> $who, gps is a set of utilities that lets you manipulate your GPS from your Linux box. URL: http://www.mgix.com/gps3d/gps3d-1.1.tar.bz2
jString => <reply> $who, jString is a class for C++ that extends basic string functionality. URL: http://simple.dhs.org/src/jString/jString-0.1.tar.gz
NatesWinEmu => <reply> $who, In the spirit of GTKTrue, NatesWinEmu is a Windows Emulator for Linux. URL: http://www.udlug.org/~nate/NatesWinEmu.c
GtkExtra => <reply> $who, GTKExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUIs for the X Window System using GTK+. URL: http://magnet.fsu.edu/~feiguin/gtk/download.html
Demolization => <reply> $who, Demolization is a strategy game which is a cross between Sid Meier's Civilization and Risk. URL: http://demolization.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
GMCAL => <reply> $who, GMCAL is a GTK+ frontend for the libmcal package.. URL: http://mcal.chek.com/download.php3
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Mail Modernization Project => <reply> $who, The goal of the Mail Modernization Project is to integrate popular MTA's, delivery agents and retreival daemons with databases for authentication and delivery into the database. URL: http://sendmail.jacked-...
Akkord => <reply> $who, Akkord is the Advanced KDE Commander, similar to Dos Navigator and Norton Commander. URL: http://home.retribution.net/products/akkord/download.php3
TkHeadlines => <reply> $who, TkHeadlines is a headline viewer for some news and software sites. URL: http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/tkheadlines_0.68.tgz
gnome-8ball => <reply> $who, gnome-8ball is a simple magic 8-ball GNOME-panel application.. URL: http://mocat.qpt.com/gnome-8ball/gnome-8ball-0.1.tar.gz
dhcp-conf => <reply> $who, dhcpd-conf helps with creating and maintaning a DHCPd configuration file for small- to medium- sized LANs. URL: http://members.xoom.com/vschade/dhcp-conf/dhcp-conf.tgz
wwsympa => <reply> $who, WWSympa is a Web interface to the Sympa mailling list manager. URL: http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/distribution/contrib/wwsympa/
JSwat => <reply> $who, JSwat is an extensible, standalone, graphical Java debugger front-end. URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~nfiedler/java/jswat/download.html
LUCI => <reply> $who, LUCI is an Universal Configuration Interface. URL: http://www.multimania.com/zubro/luci/luci-0.1.0.tar.gz
Blade-- => <reply> $who, Blade-- is a C++ wrapper/interface to the BLADE web-based environment. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/file/blade/libblade---0.1.0.tar.gz
gendns => <reply> $who, With a site config file, a domain script, and gendns.pl you can create everything you need to manage lots of domains quickly and easily. URL: http://wildgear.com/gendns/gendns.tar.gz
ANTLR => <reply> $who, ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++ or Java actions. URL: http://www.a...
Apprentice => <reply> $who, Apprentice is an HTTP daemon written in Perl, based on HTML::Mason and libwww-perl.. URL: http://www.halyava.ru/do/Apprentice-0.1.tar.gz
XCounter => <reply> $who, XCounter is a X11-based traffic monitoring program for Linux that displays information about IP traffic on a selected interface. URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/romrow/935/XCounter-1.0.1.tar.gz
ttm => <reply> $who, ttm is a simple but flexible command-line based Perl program for managing lists of tasks. URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/ttm/ttm
EXG => <reply> $who, EXG is an extension to the eiffel-gtk wrapping library which provides almost complete Gdk wrapping (this was a minus of eiffel-gtk), Imlib wrapping, simple wizard support, trivial turtle graphics, and modal dialogs for file selec...
Craft: The Viscious Vikings => <reply> $who, The Viscious Vikings is a Warcraft-style strategy game with Vikings fighting each other for national survival.. URL: http://borneo.gmd.de/AS/janus/craft/craftcc35.html
ec64 => <reply> $who, ec64 (emulated C64) is an emulator for the Commodore 64 written in x86 assembly.. URL: http://mars.wiwi.uni-halle.de/ec64/download/
nb++ => <reply> $who, nb++ is a nuts-and-bolts C++ toolkit. URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/download.php?fileid=850
Empire Linux => <reply> $who, Empire Linux is a mini-distribution that fits on a floppy. URL: http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/empire/
dash => <reply> $who, dash is a shell to help make the V2 operating system easier to use. URL: http://v2dash.hypermart.net/downloads.html
FoSaT => <reply> $who, Friend of Snails and Turtles (FoSaT, pronounced "faucet") is a method to slowly read text files. URL: http://www.blackant.net/fosat/fosat-current.tar.gz
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RESTORE=> (External) RESTORE d: [d:][path]filename [/P][/S][/B:mm-dd-yy] [/A:mm-dd-yy][/E:hh:mm:ss] [/L:hh:mm:ss] [/M][/N][/D] Restores to standard disk storage format files previously stored using the BACKUP command.
RMDIR => (RD) (Internal) RMDIR (RD) [d:]path Removes a subdirectory.
SCANDISK => (External) Starts the Microsoft ScanDisk program which is a disk analysis and repair tool used to check a drive for errors and correct any problems that it finds.
SELECT => (External) SELECT [d:] [d:][path] [country code][keyboard code] Formats a disk and installs country-specific information and keyboard codes (starting with DOS Version 6, this command is no longer available).
SET => (Internal) SET (string1)=(string2) Inserts strings into the command environment. The set values can be used later by programs.
SETVER => (External) SETVER [d:]:path][filename (number)][/delete][/quiet] Displays the version table and sets the version of DOS that is reported to programs.
SHARE => (External) SHARE [/F:space] [/L:locks] Installs support for file sharing and file locking.
SHELL => (Internal) SHELL=[d:][path]filename [parameters] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to specify the command interpreter that DOS should use.
SHIFT => (Internal) SHIFT Increases number of replaceable parameters to more than the standard ten for use in batch files.
SORT => (External) SORT [/R][/+n] < (filename) SORT [/R][/+n] > (filename2) Sorts input and sends it to the screen or to a file.
STACKS => (Internal) STACKS=(number),(size) Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to set the number of stack frames and the size of each stack frame.
SUBMENU => (Internal) SUBMENU=blockname, [menutext] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to create a multilevel menu from which you can select start-up options.
SUBST => (External) SUBST d: d:path SUBST d: /D Substitutes a virtual drive letter for a path designation.
SWITCHES => (Internal) SWITCHES= [/K][/F][/N][/W] Used in the CONFIG.SYS file to configure DOS in a special way; for example, to tell DOS to emulate different hardware configurations.
SYS => (External) SYS [source] d: Transfers the operating system files to another disk.
TIME => (Internal) TIME hh:mm[:ss][.cc][A|P] Displays current time setting of system clock and provides a way for you to reset the time.
TREE => (External) TREE [d:][path] [/A][/F] Displays directory paths and (optionally) files in each subdirectory.
TYPE => (Internal) TYPE [d:][path]filename Displays the contents of a file.
UNDELETE => (External) UNDELETE [d:][path][filename] [/DT|/DS|/DOS] Restores files deleted with the DELETE command.
UNFORMAT => (External) UNFORMAT d: [/J][/L][/test][/partn][/P][/U] Used to undo the effects of formatting a disk.
VER => (Internal) VER Displays the DOS version number.
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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>
html <FORM METHOD> => The METHOD attribute can be GET or POST. GET specifies a query form, used to get data from a server. See: <FORM METHOD> 2
html <FORM METHOD> 2 => POST specifies a form that gives information to the server and perhaps causes a database to be updated or a message to be sent.
example <FORM METHOD> => <FORM METHOD=method> form tags </FORM>
html <FORM ENCTYPE> => See: example <FORM ENCTYPE>
example <FORM ENCTYPE> => <FORM ENCTYPE=media type> form tags </FORM>
html <FORM SCRIPT> => The SCRIPT attribute points to a script to be run. The browser must be able to run the type of script that is specified.
example <FORM SCRIPT> => <FORM SCRIPT=URL> form tags </FORM>
html <FRAME> => The frame tag appears inside the FRAMESET tag and specifies one frame in the frameset.
example <FRAME> => <FRAME attributes>
html <FRAME attributes> => One or all of these: SRC, NAME, MARGINWIDTH, MARGINHEIGHT, SCROLLING, NORESIZE, FRAMEBORDER, FRAMESPACING & ALIGN
html <FRAME SRC> => (SRC="URL") The URL of the source document to be displayed in this frame. If the frame does not specify a source it will be displayed as blank space.
html <FRAME NAME> => (NAME="window name") Here "window name" is the name associated with this frame. It can be used by the TARGET attribute in the A, BASE, AREA, and FORM tags to target this frame.
html <FRAME MARGINWIDTH> => ( MARGINWIDTH=number ) Here number is the left and right margin thickness in pixels.
html <FRAME MARGINHEIGHT> => ( MARGINHEIGHT=number ) Here number is the top and bottom margin thickness in pixels.
html <FRAME SCROLLING> => (SCROLLING=type) Here type is one of yes, no or auto. It specifies if the frame is to have a scroll bar: auto (the default) means the browser will decide.
html <FRAME NORESIZE> => Stops the user from resizing the frame..
html <FRAME FRAMEBORDER> => (FRAMEBORDER=yes/no) Specifies if the border should be displayed.
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>
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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>
html <IFRAME attributes> => ALIGN, FRAMEBORDER, HEIGHT, MARGINHEIGHT, MARGINWIDTH, NAME, SCROLLING, SRC and WIDTH
html <IFRAME ALIGN> => (ALIGN=left|center|top|bottom) This sets the alignment of the frame or of the surrounding text. The default is LEFT
html <IFRAME FRAMEBORDER> => (FRAMEBORDER=1|0) Renders a 3-D edge border around the frame. 1 (default) inserts a border. 0 displays no border
html <IFRAME HEIGHT> => (HEIGHT=height) Controls the height (in pixels) of the floating frame
html <IFRAME MARGINHEIGHT> => (MARGINHEIGHT=height) Controls the margin height for the frame, in pixels
html <IFRAME MARGINWIDTH> => (MARGINWIDTH=width) Controls the margin width for the frame, in pixels
html <IFRAME NAME> => (NAME=name) Provides a target name for the frame
html <IFRAME SCROLLING> => (SCROLLING=yes|no) Creates a scrolling frame
html <IFRAME SRC> => (SRC=address) Displays the source file for the frame
html <IFRAME WIDTH> => (WIDTH=width) Controls the width of the floating frame, in pixels
html <IMG> => <Inline Image> The inline image tag displays an image referred to by a URL. It must contain at least an SRC attribute
html <IMG attributes> => ALIGN, ALT, BORDER, CONTROLS, DYNSRC, HEIGHT, HSPACE, ISMAP, LOOP, LOWSRC, START, SRC, UNITS, USEMAP, WIDTH, and VSPACE
html <IMG ALIGN> => (ALIGN="alignment") Here "alignment" should be one of TOP, MIDDLE, or BOTTOM. This causes the top, middle, or bottom of the image to be aligned with the text on the line containing the IMG tag."alignment" should be one of LEFT, RI...
html <IMG ALT> => (ALT="text") Here "text" is the text to be displayed by a browser that does not display images, such as Lynx, or to be used when image display is suppressed.
html <IMG BORDER> => (BORDER=number) Here number is the border thickness in pixels. (Do not use BORDER=0 for images that are links.)
html <IMG CONTROLS> => If present, and an AVI resource is being played, displays controls under the resource.
html <IMG DYNSRC> => (DYNSRC="url") Specifies an AVI resource to be played, or a VRML world. Always include a still image as well with the SRC attribute, for use by browsers that do not display inline video or VRML.
html <IMG HEIGHT> => (HEIGHT=number) This specifies the height of the image, according to the UNITS attribute.
html <IMG HSPACE> => (HSPACE=number) Here number is the space, in pixels, to leave to the left and right of the image.
html <IMG ISMAP> => (ISMAP="url") This attribute indicates that this image is a server side image map.
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example <MARQUEE SCROLLDELAY> => <MARQUEE SCROLLDELAY=n> text </MARQUEE>
html <MARQUEE VSPACE> => The HSPACE and VSPACE attributes specify a margin to the left and right, or above and below, the marquee box, in pixels.
example <MARQUEE VSPACE> => <MARQUEE VSPACE=n> text </MARQUEE>
html <MARQUEE WIDTH> => The HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes size the marquee box. If n is an absolute number, it is taken to mean pixels; if n is followed by a % sign it is taken to mean a percentage of the width or height (as appropriate) of the screen.
example <MARQUEE WIDTH> => <MARQUEE WIDTH=n%> text </MARQUEE>
html <MATH> => The math tag introduces a description of an equation or formula. math-content is not yet fully defined.
example <MATH> => <MATH> math-content </MATH>
html <MENU> => <Menu List> The menu list tag introduces a menu list, which is made up of List Item (LI) tags and does not include bullets or numbers before them. For a bulleted list use UL. For a numbered list use OL. For a list without bullets or nu...
example <MENU> => <MENU> list entries </MENU> & <MENU COMPACT> list entries </MENU> **In HTML 3.0, the same effect can be achieved with <UL PLAIN>. The MENU tag will probably be obsolete some day, so use UL.
html <META> => <META [...]> The meta tag, which is only valid in a HEAD section, declares HTTP meta name/value pairs that are associated with the HTML document. These are used to extend the HTTP header information returned by the HTTP server. The sup...
html <MULTICOL> => <Multi Column Text> This tag is a container, used to split the display into columns without using frames or tables. The attributes of this tag are: COLS, GUTTER, and WIDTH
html <MULTICOL COLS> => (COLS="number") The COLS attribute is mandatory and controls how many columns the display will be split into.
html <MULTICOL GUTTER> => (GUTTER="pixels") The GUTTER attribute controls the pixels of space between columns. It defaults to a value of 10.
html <MULTICOL WIDTH> => (WIDTH="number") The WIDTH attribute controls the width of an individual column.
html <NOBR> => <No Break> The no break tag defines a block of text which will have no line breaks except those explicitly requested with BR or suggested with WOBR.
example <NOBR> => <NOBR> text </NOBR>
html <NOFRAMES> => <No Frames> The NOFRAMES tag specifies HTML that can be used by browsers that do not support frames. Everything between the start and end tag is ignored by browsers that understand frames.
example <NOFRAMES> => <NOFRAMES> alternate HTML </NOFRAMES>
html <NOTE> => <Note> The note tag defines text that forms a note. Many browsers display it in an indented block surrounded by blank lines with a graphic. The CLASS attribute specifies the type of note, such as a warning, caution, or note. The graphi...
example <NOTE> => <NOTE> text </NOTE> <NOTE CLASS=class> text </NOTE> <NOTE SRC=URL> text </NOTE>
html <OL> => <Ordered List> The ordered list tag introduces an ordered (numbered) list, which is made up of List Item (LI) tags.
example <OL> => <OL> list entries </OL> and See also: html <OL attributes>
html <OL attributes> => COMPACT, SEQNUM, CONTINUE, START, and TYPE
html <OL COMPACT> => The COMPACT attribute instructs the browser to reduce the space occupied by the list.
example <OL COMPACT> => <OL COMPACT> list entries </OL>
html <OL SEQNUM> => The SEQNUM attribute allows the first list item to be number instead of the default 1.
example <OL SEQNUM> => <OL SEQNUM=number> list entries </OL>
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BFI is /B-F-I/ n. See {brute force and ignorance}. Also encountered in the variant `BFMI', `brute force and *massive* ignorance'.
bible is n. 1. One of a small number of fundamental source books such as {Knuth} and {K&R}. 2. The most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular language, operating system, or other complex software system.
BiCapitalization is n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as NeXT, {NeWS}, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter) that have been raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization. Too many {mar...
BiCapitalization2 is really cute, even the 2,317th time they do it. Compare {studlycaps}.
BIFF is /bif/ [USENET] n. The most famous {pseudo}, and the prototypical {newbie}. Articles from BIFF are characterized by all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, `cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HE"S...
BIFF2 is IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!!!), use (and often misuse) of fragments of {talk mode} abbreviations, a long {sig block} (sometimes even a {doubled sig}), and unbounded na"ivet'e. BIFF posts articles using his elder brother's VIC-20....
BIFF3 is appear to come from a variety of sites. However, {BITNET} seems to be the most frequent origin. The theory that BIFF is a denizen of BITNET is supported by BIFF's (unfortunately invalid) electronic mail address BIFF@BIT.NET.
biff is /bif/ vt. To notify someone of incoming mail. From the BSD utility `biff(1)', which was in turn named after the implementor's dog (it barked whenever the mailman came). No relation to {BIFF}.
Big Gray Wall is n. What faces a {VMS} user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multive...
Big Gray Wall2 is Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with gray binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange (`big orange wall'), and under version 3 they were blue. See {VMS}.
big iron is n. Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of {number-crunching} supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. Term of approval; compare {heavy metal}, oppose {di...
Big Red Switch is [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp. the `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe} or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This !@%$% {bitty box} is hung again; time to hit the Big Re...
Big Red Switch2 is tune with the company's passion for {TLA}s, this is often acronymized as `BRS' (this has also become established on FidoNet and in the PC {clone} world). It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actuall...
Big Red Switch3 is power feed; the BRSes on more recent machines physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also {molly-guard}). Compare {powe...
the Big Room is n. The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the p...
big win is n. Serendipity. "Yes, those two physicists discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic that had been prepared incorrectly according to their experimental schedule. Small mistake; big win!" See {win big}.
big-endian is [From Swift's `Gulliver's Travels' via the famous paper `On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace' by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj. 1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numer...
big-endian2 is has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first'). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the {PDP-10}, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1991, are big...
big-endian3 is {NUXI problem}. 2. An {{Internet address}} the wrong way round. Most of the world follows the Internet standard and writes email addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the name of the country. I...
big-endian4 is decided to do it the other way round before the Internet domain standard was established; e.g., me@uk.ac.wigan.cs. Most gateway sites have {ad-hockery} in their mailers to handle this, but can still be confused. In particular,...
big-endian5 is (domain uk) or Czechoslovakia (domain cs).
bignum is /big'nuhm/ [orig. from MIT MacLISP] n. 1. [techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers. More generally, any very large number. "Have you ever looked at the United States Budget? There's bignums f...
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book titles9 is turn was smart enough to read the application or operating system from a magnetic tape drive or disk drive. Thus, in successive steps, the computer `pulled itself up by its bootstraps' to a useful operating state. Nowadays th...
book titles10 is and reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the disk, called the `boot block'. When this program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual OS and hand control over to it.
bottom-up implementation is n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'. It is now received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of...
bottom-up implementation2 is to actual code. Hackers often find (especially in exploratory designs that cannot be closely specified in advance) that it works best to *build* things in the opposite order, by writing and testing a clean set of ...
bounce is v. 1. [perhaps from the image of a thrown ball bouncing off a wall] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To pl...
bounce2 is Power Lab} building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s, there was a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 the computer would b...
bounce3 is voice would cry, "Now hear this bounce, bounce!" followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob. from the expression `bounci...
bounce4 is psychosexually loaded "Bounce on me too, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare {boink}. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among {VMS} users. 5. [IBM] To {po...
bounce message is [UNIX] n. Notification message returned to sender by a site unable to relay {email} to the intended {{Internet address}} recipient or the next link in a {bang path} (see {bounce}). Reasons might include a nonexistent or missp...
bounce message2 is Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see {sorcerer's apprentice mode}. The term `bounce mail' is also common.
box is n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the...
box2 is qualification but within an SNA-using site, this refers specifically to an IBM front-end processor or FEP /F-E-P/. An FEP is a small computer necessary to enable an IBM {mainframe} to communicate beyond the limits of the {dinosaur p...
box3 is cry that goes up when an SNA network goes down "Looks like the {box} has fallen over." (See {fall over}.) See also {IBM}, {fear and loathing}, {fepped out}, {Blue Glue}.
boxed comments is n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselves; so called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like this Common va...
boxed comments2 is column 2 or add a matching row of asterisks closing the right side of the box. The sparest variant omits all but the comment delimiters themselves; the `box' is implied. Oppose {winged comments}.
boxen is /bok'sn/ [by analogy with {VAXen}] pl.n. Fanciful plural of {box} often encountered in the phrase `UNIX boxen', used to describe commodity {{UNIX}} hardware. The connotation is that any two UNIX boxen are interchangeable.
boxology is /bok-sol'*-jee/ n. Syn. {ASCII art}. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare {macrology}.
bozotic is /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ [from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald] adj. Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. Compare {wonky}, {de...
bozotic2 is in slang, but the mainstream adjectival form would be `bozo-like' or (in New England) `bozoish'.
BQS is /B-Q-S/ adj. Syn. {Berkeley Quality Software}.
brain dump is n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system {core dump}...
brain dump2 is before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." See {core dump} (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as `TOI' (transfer of information).
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CLM2 is discovered by a customer and obviously missed earlier because of poor testing "That's a CLM bug!"
clobber is vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare {mung}, {scribble}, {trash}, and {smash the stack}.
clocks is n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing. The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are usually discussed in clocks rather than absolute frac...
clocks2 is is that clock speeds for various models of the machine may increase as technology improves, and it is usually the relative times one is interested in when discussing the instruction set. Compare {cycle}.
clone is n. 1. An exact duplicate "Our product is a clone of their product." Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering. Also connotes lower price. 2. A shoddy, spurious copy "Their product is a clone of...
clone2 is likely violating copyright, patent, or trade secret protections "Your product is a clone of my product." This use implies legal action is pending. 4. A `PC clone'; a PC-BUS/ISA or EISA-compatible 80x86-based microcomputer (this u...
clone3 is These invariably have much more bang for the buck than the IBM archetypes they resemble. 5. In the construction `UNIX clone' An OS designed to deliver a UNIX-lookalike environment without UNIX license fees, or with additional `mis...
clone4 is real-time programming. 6. v. To make an exact copy of something. "Let me clone that" might mean "I want to borrow that paper so I can make a photocopy" or "Let me get a copy of that file before you {mung} it".
clover key is [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
clustergeeking is /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ [CMU] n. Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
COBOL is /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n. (Synonymous with {evil}.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on {dinosaur} mainframes. Hackers believe all COBOL programmers ...
COBOL2 is self-respecting hacker will ever admit to having learned the language. Its very name is seldom uttered without ritual expressions of disgust or horror. See also {fear and loathing}, {software rot}.
COBOL fingers is /koh'bol fing'grz/ n. Reported from Sweden, a (hypothetical) disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason; thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's...
COBOL fingers2 is endless typing. "I refuse to type in all that source code again; it would give me COBOL fingers!"
code grinder is n. 1. A {suit}-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors. In his native habitat, the code grinder often removes...
code grinder2 is consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie. In times of dire stress, the sleeves (if long) may be rolled up and the tie loosened about half an inch. It seldom helps. The {code grinder}'s milieu is about as ...
code grinder3 is touch a computer; the term connotes pity. See {Real World}, {suit}. 2. Used of or to a hacker, a really serious slur on the person's creative ability; connotes a design style characterized by primitive technique, rule-boun...
code grinder4 is imagination. Compare {card walloper}; contrast {hacker}, {real programmer}.
code police is [by analogy with George Orwell's `thought police'] n. A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that might burst into one's office and arrest one for violating programming style rules. May be used either seriously, to unde...
code police2 is violation is dangerous, or ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive {weenie}s. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more comm...
codewalker is n. A program component that traverses other programs for a living. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much wi...
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connector conspiracy is [probably came into prominence with the appearance of the KL-10 (one model of the {PDP-10}), none of whose connectors matched anything else] n. The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension, programmers or purveyors o...
connector conspiracy2 is that don't fit together with the old stuff, thereby making you buy either all new stuff or expensive interface devices. The KL-10 Massbus connector was actually *patented* by DEC, which reputedly refused to license ...
connector conspiracy3 is parties out of competition for the lucrative Massbus peripherals market. This is a source of never-ending frustration for the diehards who maintain older PDP-10 or VAX systems. Their CPUs work fine, but they are st...
connector conspiracy4 is drives with low capacity and high power requirements. In these latter days of open-systems computing this term has fallen somewhat into disuse, to be replaced by the observation that "Standards are great! There are ...
cons is /konz/ or /kons/ [from LISP] 1. vt. To add a new element to a specified list, esp. at the top. "OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda." 2. `cons up' vt. To synthesize from smaller pieces "to cons up an ex...
cons2 is fundamental operation for building structures. It takes any two objects and returns a `dot-pair' or two-branched tree with one object hanging from each branch. Because the result of a cons is an object, it can be used to build bin...
cons3 is think of it as a sort of universal constructor, and that is where the jargon meanings spring from.
considered harmful is adj. Edsger W. Dijkstra's note in the March 1968 `Communications of the ACM', "Goto Statement Considered Harmful", fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars. Amusingly, the ACM considered the resulting a...
considered harmful2 is policy) no longer print an article taking so assertive a position against a coding practice. In the ensuing decades, a large number of both serious papers and parodies have borne titles of the form "X considered Y". ...
considered harmful3 is 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 is 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 guarde...
console2 is just the {tty} the system was booted from. Some of the mystique remains, however, and it is traditional for sysadmins to post urgent messages to all users from the console (on UNIX, /dev/console). 2. On microcomputer UNIX boxes, ...
console3 is character-only terminals talking to a serial port). Typically only the console can do real graphics or run {X}. See also {CTY}.
console jockey is n. See {terminal junkie}.
content-free is [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 styl...
content-free2 is centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators. "Content-free? Uh...that's anything printed on glossy...
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/).
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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}.
copyleft is /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 {Gen...
copyleft2 is copyright notice intended to achieve similar aims.
copywronged is /ko'pee-rongd/ [play on `copyright'] adj. Syn. for {copybroke}.
core is n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived ...
core2 is example, means `in memory' (as opposed to `on disk'), and both {core dump} and the `core image' or `core file' produced by one are terms in favor. Commonwealth hackish prefers {store}.
core dump is n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1. [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error. 2. By extension, used for humans passing out, vomiting, or r...
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diddle2 is See also {tweak}, {twiddle}, {frob}.
diff is /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs'). "Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare {vdiff}. 2. Specifical...
diff2 is command, esp. when used as specification input to the `patch(1)' utility (which can actually perform the modifications; see {patch}). This is a common method of distributing patches and source updates in the UNIX/C world. See also...
digit is n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation. See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}.
dike is vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack software pr...
dike2 is increasing it.) The word `dikes' is widely used among mechanics and engineers to mean `diagonal cutters', esp. a heavy-duty metal-cutting device, but may also refer to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics techs. To `dike so...
dike3 is remove something. Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack with dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects such as sections of code.
ding is n.,vi. 1. Synonym for {feep}. Usage rare among hackers, but commoner in the {Real World}. 2. `dinged' What happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about something, esp. something trivial. "I was dinged for havin...
dink is /dink/ n. Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with --- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker (BADOB) working on a CP/M system w...
dink2 is then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream `dinky', which isn't sufficiently pejorative.
dinosaur is n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power. Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1988 UNIX EXPO, Bill Joy compared the m...
dinosaur2 is grazing dinosaur "with a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it". IBM was not amused. Compare {big iron}; see also {mainframe}. 2. [IBM] A very conservative user; a {zipperhead}.
dinosaur pen is n. A traditional {mainframe} computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See {boa}.
dinosaurs mating is n. Said to occur when yet another {big iron} merger or buyout occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the {mainframe} industry. In its glory days of the 1960s, it...
dinosaurs mating2 is Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. RCA and GE sold out early, and it was `IBM and the Bunch' (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by ...
dinosaurs mating3 is Unisys (in 1984 --- this was when the phrase `dinosaurs mating' was coined); and as this is written AT&T is attempting to recover from a disastrously bad first 6 years in the hardware industry by absorbing NCR. More such ...
dirty power is n. Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, {drop-outs}, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlet...
Discordianism is /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ n. The veneration of {Eris}, a.k.a. Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by Robert Anton Wilson's `Illuminatus!' trilogy as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Western...
Discordianism2 is seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from `Principia Discordia' "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usuall...
Discordianism3 is theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See appendix B, {Church of the SubGenius}, and {ha ha only ...
disk farm is n. (also {laundromat}) A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp. {washing machine}s).
display hack is n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include {munching squares}, {smoking clover}, the BSD UNIX `rain(6)' program, `worms(6)' on miscellaneous UNIXes, ...
display hack2 is hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkli...
display hack3 is The {hack value} of a display hack is proportional to the esthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Syn. {psychedelicware}.
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double bucky2 is {bucky bits} (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting ...
double bucky3 is keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pe...
double bucky4 is much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in `The Sesame Street Songbook' (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 671-21036-...
double bucky5 is 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard See also {meta bit}, {cokebottle}, and {quadruple bucky}.
double DECkers is n. Used to describe married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
doubled sig is [USENET] n. A {sig block} that has been included twice in a {USENET} article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More ofte...
doubled sig2 is experience in electronic communication. See {BIFF}, {pseudo}.
down is 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say, and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on. With respect to computer...
down2 is mainstream; the extension to other kinds of machine is still hackish. 2. `go down' vi. To stop functioning; usually said of the {system}. The message from the {console} that every hacker hates to hear from the operator is "The sys...
down3 is down', `bring down' vt. To deactivate purposely, usually for repair work or {PM}. "I'm taking the system down to work on that bug in the tape drive." Occasionally one hears the word `down' by itself used as a verb in this vt. sens...
download is vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a {mainframe}) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp. a microcomputer or specialized peripheral. Oppose {upload}. However, note that groun...
download2 is rule for this term. Space-to-earth transmission is always download and the reverse upload regardless of the relative size of the computers involved. So far the in-space machines have invariably been smaller; thus the upload/down...
DP is /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a {suit}. See {DPer}. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}.
DPB is /d*-pib'/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt. To plop something down in the middle. Usage silly. "DPB yourself into that couch there." The connotation would be that the couch is full except for one slot just big enough for you to ...
DPB2 is the name of a PDP-10 instruction that inserts some bits into the middle of some other bits. This usage has been kept alive by the Common LISP function of the same name.
DPer is /dee-pee-er/ n. Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that {suit}s use this term self-referentially. "*Computers* process data, not people!" See {DP}.
dragon is n. [MIT] A program similar to a {daemon}, except that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks. A typical example would be an accounting program, which keeps track of who is logg...
dragon2 is etc. Under ITS, many terminals displayed a list of people logged in, where they were, what they were running, etc., along with some random picture (such as a unicorn, Snoopy, or the Enterprise), which was generated by the `name d...
dragon3 is and most other OSes this would be called a `background demon' or {daemon}. The best-known UNIX example of a dragon is `cron(1)'. At SAIL, they called this sort of thing a `phantom'.
Dragon Book is n. The classic text `Compilers Principles, Techniques and Tools', by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6), so called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labeled `c...
Dragon Book2 is bearing the lance `LALR parser generator' among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the `Red Dragon Book' (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled `Principles Of Compiler Design' (Alfred V. A...
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essentials2 is Internet site, and thou."
evil is adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `e...
evil2 is design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This is more an esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a {Blue Glue} inter...
evil3 is "{TECO} is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos." Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/.
exa- is /ek's*/ [SI] pref. See {{quantifiers}}.
examining the entrails is n. The process of {grovel}ling through a core dump or hex image in the attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down. Compare {runes}, {incantation}, {black art}, {desk check}.
EXCH is /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ vt. To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a P...
EXCH2 is contents of a register and a memory location. Many newer hackers tend to be thinking instead of the PostScript exchange operator (which is usually written in lowercase).
excl is /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'. See {bang}, {shriek}, {{ASCII}}.
EXE is /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable binary file. Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension .EXE to mark such files. This usage is also occasionally found among UNIX programmers even thoug...
exec is /eg-zek'/ vt.,n. 1. [UNIX from `execute'] Synonym for {chain}, derives from the `exec(2)' call. 2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an {OS} (see {shell}); term esp. used around mainframes, and prob. derived from ...
exec2 is systems. 3. At IBM, the equivalent of a shell command file (among VM/CMS users). The mainstream `exec' as an abbreviation for (human) executive is *not* used. To a hacker, an `exec' is a always a program, never a person.
left as an exercise is [from technical books] Used to complete a proof when one doesn't mind a {handwave}, or to avoid one entirely. The complete phrase is "The proof (or the rest) is left as an exercise for the reader." This comment *has* o...
left as an exercise2 is research problems by authors possessed of either an evil sense of humor or a vast faith in the capabilities of their audiences.
eyeball search is n. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like {grep} or any other automated search tool. Also called a {vgrep}; comp...
eyeball search2 is `fabricate'] v. 1. To produce chips from a design that may have been created by someone at another company. Fabbing chips based on the designs of others is the activity of a {silicon foundry}. To a hacker, `fab' is practica...
eyeball search3 is line' the production system (lithography, diffusion, etching, etc.) for chips at a chip manufacturer. Different `fab lines' are run with different process parameters, die sizes, or technologies, or simply to provide more ...
face time is n. Time spent interacting with somebody face-to-face (as opposed to via electronic links). "Oh, yeah, I spent some face time with him at the last Usenix."
factor is n. See {coefficient}.
fall over is [IBM] vi. Yet another synonym for {crash} or {lose}. `Fall over hard' equates to {crash and burn}.
fall through is v. (n. `fallthrough', var. `fall-through') 1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e., by having fulfilled its exit condition rather than via a break or exception condition that exits from the middle of it. This usage appears to be...
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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...
frog3 is is making replies without paying attention. "Look at the dancing elephants!" "Uh-huh." "Do you know what I just said?" "Sorry, you were talking to the front end." See also {fepped out}. 3. Software that provides an interface to...
frog4 is as user-friendly. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends (see sense 1) that interfaced with mainframes.
frotz is /frots/ 1. n. See {frobnitz}. 2. `mumble frotz' An interjection of very mild disgust.
frotzed is /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 is n. (alt. `frowney face') See {emoticon}.
fry is 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}...
fry2 is Never used of software or humans, but compare {fried}.
FTP is /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 transf...
FTP2 is `Wuthering Heights' ftp'd from uunet."
FUBAR is n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX. A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the {suit}s; see {foobar}.
fuck me harder is excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by the imp of the perverse). Often theatrically elaborated "Aiigh...
fuck me harder2 is curare-tipped wrought-iron fence *and no lubricants*!" The phrase is sometimes heard abbreviated `FMH' in polite company. [This entry is an extreme example of the hackish habit of coining elaborate and evocative terms for ...
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gaseous is adj. Deserving of being {gas}sed. Disseminated by Geoff Goodfellow while at SRI; became particularly popular after the Moscone-Milk killings in San Francisco, when it was learned that the defendant Dan White (a politician who had s...
gaseous2 is chamber under Proposition 7 if convicted of first-degree murder (he was eventually convicted of manslaughter).
GC is /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1. vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today." When said of files, this is equivalent to {GFR}. 2. vt. To recycle, reclaim, or put to an...
GC2 is garbage collector process. `Garbage collection' is computer-science jargon for a particular class of strategies for dynamically reallocating computer memory. One such strategy involves periodically scanning all the data in memory an...
GC3 is useless data items are then discarded so that the memory they occupy can be recycled and used for another purpose. Implementations of the LISP language usually use garbage collection. In jargon, the full phrase is sometimes heard but...
GC4 is it is shorter. Note that there is an ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved by context "I'm going to garbage-collect my desk" usually means to clean out the drawers, but it could also mean to throw away or recycle the desk itself...
GCOS is /jee'kohs/ n. A {quick-and-dirty} {clone} of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970; originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System). Later kluged to support primitive timesharing and transaction...
GCOS2 is computer division by Honeywell, the name was changed to General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS). Other OS groups at Honeywell began referring to it as `God's Chosen Operating System', allegedly in reaction to the GCOS crowd's ...
GCOS3 is superiority of their product. All this might be of zero interest, except for two facts (1) The GCOS people won the political war, and this led in the orphaning and eventual death of Honeywell {{Multics}}, and (2) GECOS/GCOS left on...
GCOS4 is systems at Bell Labs were GCOS machines for print spooling and various other services; the field added to `/etc/passwd' to carry GCOS ID information was called the `GECOS field' and survives today as the `pw_gecos' member used for the...
GCOS5 is information. GCOS later played a major role in keeping Honeywell a dismal also-ran in the mainframe market, and was itself ditched for UNIX in the late 1980s when Honeywell retired its aging {big iron} designs.
GECOS is /jee'kohs/ n. See {{GCOS}}.
gedanken is /g*-don'kn/ adj. Ungrounded; impractical; not well-thought-out; untried; untested. `Gedanken' is a German word for `thought'. A thought experiment is one you carry out in your head. In physics, the term `gedanken experiment' is ...
gedanken2 is impractical to carry out, but useful to consider because you can reason about it theoretically. (A classic gedanken experiment of relativity theory involves thinking about a man in an elevator accelerating through space.) Gedank...
gedanken3 is but you have to be careful. It's too easy to idealize away some important aspect of the real world in contructing your `apparatus'. Among hackers, accordingly, the word has a pejorative connotation. It is said of a project, espe...
gedanken4 is research, that is written up in grand detail (typically as a Ph.D. thesis) without ever being implemented to any great extent. Such a project is usually perpetrated by people who aren't very good hackers or find programming dista...
gedanken5 is thesis' is usually marked by an obvious lack of intuition about what is programmable and what is not, and about what does and does not constitute a clear specification of an algorithm. See also {AI-complete}, {DWIM}.
geef is v. [ostensibly from `gefingerpoken'] vt. Syn. {mung}. See also {blinkenlights}.
geek out is vi. To temporarily enter techno-nerd mode while in a non-hackish context, for example at parties held near computer equipment. Especially used when you need to do something highly technical and don't have time to explain "Pardon m...
gen is /jen/ n.,v. Short for {generate}, used frequently in both spoken and written contexts.
gender mender is n. A cable connector shell with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some {loser} didn't understand the RS232C specification and the distinction between DTE and DCE. ...
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Internet address3 is this includes {bang path} addresses and some internal corporate and government networks. Reading Internet addresses is something of an art. Here are the four most important top-level functional Internet domains followed...
Internet address4 is com commercial organizations edu educational institutions gov U.S. government civilian sites mil U.S. military sites Note that most of the sites in the com and edu domains are in...
Internet address5 is the U.S. outside the functional domains su sites in the Soviet Union (see {kremvax}). uk sites in the United Kingdom Within the us domain, there are subdomains for the fifty states, each generally w...
Internet address6 is abbreviation. Within the uk domain, there is an ac subdomain for academic sites and a co domain for commercial ones. Other top-level domains may be divided up in similar ways.
interrupt is 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine. See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Oft...
interrupt2 is seen Joe recently?" See {priority interrupt}. 3. Under MS-DOS, the term `interrupt' is nearly synonymous with `system call', because the OS and BIOS routines are both called using the INT instruction (see {{interrupt list, th...
interrupt3 is bypass the OS (going directly to a BIOS interrupt) to get reasonable performance.
interrupt list, the is [MS-DOS] n. The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu). As of ear...
interrupts locked out is When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym `interrupts disabled' is...
interrupts locked out2 is have one's interrupt mask bit set" or "interrupts masked out" is also heard. See also {spl}.
iron is n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers). Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose ...
Iron Age is n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial {mainframe} technology, when {big iron} {dinosaur}s ruled the earth. These began with the delivery of the first PDP-1, coincided with the dominance of ...
Iron Age2 is introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also {Stone Age}; compare {elder days}.
iron box is [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a {cracker} logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified {shell} restricting the hacker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files...
iron box2 is on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap}, and Clifford Stoll's account in `The Cuckoo's Egg' of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography). Compare {padded cell}.
ironmonger is [IBM] n. Derogatory. A hardware specialist. Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}.
ITS is /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to hav...
ITS2 is instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort. ITS pioneered many important innovations, including transparent file sharing between machines and terminal-independent I/O. After about 1982, most actual work was shifted to new...
ITS3 is essentially as a hobby and service to the hacker community. The shutdown of the lab's last ITS machine in May 1990 marked the end of an era and sent old-time hackers into mourning nationwide (see {high moby}). The Royal Institute of ...
ITS4 is `live' ITS site at its computer museum (right next to the only TOPS-10 system still on the Internet), so ITS is still alleged to hold the record for OS in longest continuous use (however, {{WAITS}} is a credible rival for this palm). ...
ITS5 is operating-system perfection worshiped by a bizarre, fervent retro-cult of old-time hackers and ex-users (see {troglodyte}, sense 2). ITS worshipers manage somehow to continue believing that an OS maintained by assembly-language hand...
ITS6 is 6-character filenames in one directory per account remains superior to today's state of commercial art (their venom against UNIX is particularly intense). See also {holy wars}, {Weenix}.
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kahuna is /k*-hoo'nuh/ [IBM from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n. Synonym for {wizard}, {guru}.
kamikaze packet is n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a {Christmas tree packet}. RFC-1025, `TCP and IP Bake Off' says 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree...
kamikaze packet2 is is, correctly handle a segment with the maximum combination of features at once (e.g., a SYN URG PUSH FIN segment with options and data). See also {Chernobyl packet}.
kangaroo code is n. Syn. {spaghetti code}.
ken is /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's...
ken2 is third-person reference; it is widely understood (on USENET, in particular) that without a last name `Ken' refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). See als...
ken3 is This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken.
kgbvax is /K-G-B'vaks/ n. See {kremvax}.
kill file is [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or u...
kill file2 is other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in ...
killer micro is [popularized by Eugene Brooks] n. A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of th...
killer micro2 is architectures. The popularity of the phrase `attack of the killer micros' is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the {canonical} examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). ...
killer micro3 is micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
killer poke is n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) in a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory manag...
killer poke2 is that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor. See also {HCF}.
kilo- is [SI] pref. See {{quantifiers}}.
KIPS is /kips/ [acronym, by analogy with {MIPS} using {K}] n. Thousands (*not* 1024s) of Instructions Per Second. Usage rare.
KISS Principle is /kis' prin'si-pl/ n. "Keep It Simple, Stupid". A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off {creeping featurism} and control development complexity. Possibly related to the {marketroid} maxim on sales presentati...
kit is [USENET] n. A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard UNIX tools, and entirely documented by some reasona...
kit2 is {README file}. The more general term {distribution} may imply that special tools or more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.
klone is /klohn/ n. See {clone}, sense 4.
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LERP is /lerp/ vi.,n. Quasi-acronym for Linear Interpolation, used as a verb or noun for the operation. E.g., Bresenham's algorithm lerps incrementally between the two endpoints of the line.
let the smoke out is v. To fry hardware (see {fried}). See {magic smoke} for the mythology behind this.
letterbomb is n. A piece of {email} containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they a...
letterbomb2 is {cycle power} to unwedge them. Under UNIX, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its contents interpreted as a shell command to the mailer. The results of this could range from silly to tragic. See also {Trojan horse}; co...
lexer is /lek'sr/ n. Common hacker shorthand for `lexical analyzer', the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces). "Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like `=-'....
lexiphage is /lek'si-fayj`/ n. A notorious word {chomper} on ITS. See {bagbiter}.
life is n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner (`Scientific American', October 1970). Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it, and hackers at various plac...
life2 is analysis of this game (most notably Bill Gosper at MIT, who even implemented life in {TECO}!; see {Gosperism}). When a hacker mentions `life', he is much more likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, or the...
life3 is {USENET}. As in {Get a life!}
light pipe is n. Fiber optic cable. Oppose {copper}.
like kicking dead whales down the beach is adj. Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. "Well, you *could* write a ...
like kicking dead whales down the beach2 is kicking dead whales down the beach." See also {fear and loathing}
like nailing jelly to a tree is adj. Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp. one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem domain. "Trying to display the `prettiest' arrangeme...
like nailing jelly to a tree2 is graph is like nailing jelly to a tree, because nobody's sure what `prettiest' means algorithmically."
line eater, the is [USENET] n. 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab. This bu...
line eater, the2 is creature called the `line eater', and postings often included a dummy line of `line eater food'. Ironically, line eater `food' not beginning with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if ther...
line eater, the3 is line eater would eat the food *and* the beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of `sacrificing to the line eater' continued for some time after the bug had been {nailed to the wall}, and is ...
line eater, the4 is is still (in mid-1991) occasionally reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways. 2. See {NSA line eater}.
line starve is [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print `X squared', you just output `X', ...
line starve2 is starve causes the `2' to appear on the line above the `X', and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. n. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. Unlike `line feed', `line ...
line starve3 is terminology. Even among hackers it is considered a bit silly. 3. [proposed] A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff/troff) that suppresses a {newline} or other character(s) that would normally be emitte...
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magic number is [UNIX/C] n. 1. In source code, some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line ({hardcoded}), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commente...
magic number2 is are bad style. 2. A number that encodes critical information used in an algorithm in some opaque way. The classic examples of these are the numbers used in hash or CRC functions, or the coefficients in a linear congruentia...
magic number3 is sense actually predates and was ancestral to the more common sense 1. 3. Special data located at the beginning of a binary data file to indicate its type to a utility. Under UNIX, the system and various applications program...
magic number4 is types of executable file by looking for a magic number. Once upon a time, these magic numbers were PDP-11 branch instructions that skipped over header data to the start of executable code; the 0407, for example, was octal for...
magic number5 is {wizard} knows the spells to create magic numbers. How do you choose a fresh magic number of your own? Simple --- you pick one at random. See? It's magic!
magic smoke is n. A substance trapped inside IC packages that enables them to function (also called `blue smoke'; this is similar to the archaic `phlogiston' hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a c...
magic smoke2 is out, so it doesn't work any more. See {smoke test}, {let the smoke out}. USENETter Jay Maynard tells the following story: "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them...
magic smoke3 is One time, I plugged one in backwards. I only discovered that *after* I realized that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs --- the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPRO...
magic smoke4 is full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of {Murphy's Law}.
main loop is n. Software tools are often written to perform some actions repeatedly on whatever input is handed to them, terminating when there is no more input or they are explicitly told to go away. In such programs, the loop that gets and p...
mainframe is n. This term originally referred to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine. After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the tr...
mainframe2 is as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes. The term carries the connotation of a machine designed for batch rather than interactive use, though possibly with an interactive timesharing operating system retrofi...
mainframe3 is built by IBM, Unisys, and the other great {dinosaur}s surviving from computing's {Stone Age}. It is common wisdom among hackers that the mainframe architectural tradition is essentially dead (outside of the tiny market for {n...
mainframe4 is having been swamped by the recent huge advances in IC technology and low-cost personal computing. As of 1991, corporate America hasn't quite figured this out yet, though the wave of failures, takeovers, and mergers among tradi...
mainframe5 is the wind (see {dinosaurs mating}).
management is n. 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also {suit}). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...". 2. Mythically, ...
management2 is world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed `The Mgt'; this derives from the `Illuminatus' novels (see the Bibliography).
mandelbug is /mon'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n. A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a {Bohr bug}, ...
manged is /monjd/ [probably from the French `manger' or Italian `mangiare', to eat; perhaps influenced by English n. `mange', `mangy'] adj. Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged, usually beyond repair. "The disk was manged after the e...
mangle is vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed.
mangler is [DEC] n. A manager. Compare {mango}; see also {management}. Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation.
mango is /mang'go/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A manager. Compare {mangler}. See also {devo} and {doco}.
marbles is [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] pl.n. The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come u...
marbles2 is rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile `Hello World'."
marginal is adj. 1. Extremely small. "A marginal increase in {core} can decrease {GC} time drastically." In everyday terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you...
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psyton is /si'ton/ [TMRC] n. The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more lik...
psyton2 is watching. [This term appears to have been largely superseded by {bogon}; see also {quantum bogodynamics}. --- ESR]
pubic directory is [NYU] (also `pube directory' /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) n. The `pub' (public) directory on a machine that allows {FTP} access. So called because it is the default location for {SEX} (sense 1). "I'll have the source in the p...
puff is vt. To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* `PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Oppose {huff}.
punched card is alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs. The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops. The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control devic...
punched card2 is patented by Hollerith and used with mechanical tabulating machines in the 1890 U.S. Census was a piece of cardboard about 90 mm by 215 mm, designed to fit exactly in the currency trays used for that era's larger dollar bills. ...
punched card3 is manufacturer) married the punched card to computers, encoding binary information as patterns of small rectangular holes; one character per column, 80 columns per card. Other coding schemes, sizes of card, and hole shapes we...
punched card4 is width of most character terminals is a legacy of the IBM punched card; so is the size of the quick-reference cards distributed with many varieties of computers even today. See {chad}, {chad box}, {eighty-column mind}, {green ...
punt is [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football "Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] v. 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying. "Let's punt the movie tonight." "I was going to hack all night to get t...
punt2 is mean that you've decided not to stay up all night, and may also mean you're not ever even going to put in the feature. 2. More specifically, to give up on figuring out what the {Right Thing} is and resort to an inefficient hack. 3...
punt3 is problem, typically because one cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well to frame an algorithmic solution. "No way to know what the right form to dump the graph in is --- we'll punt that for now." 4. To hand a tricky impleme...
punt4 is the design. "It's too hard to get the compiler to do that; let's punt to the runtime system."
Purple Book is n. The `System V Interface Definition'. The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. See also {{book titles}}.
push is [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/ (the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction). 1. To...
push2 is one says that something has been pushed onto one's stack, it means that the Damoclean list of things hanging over ones's head has grown longer and heavier yet. This may also imply that one will deal with it *before* other pending i...
push3 is was `added to my queue'. 2. vi. To enter upon a digression, to save the current discussion for later. Antonym of {pop}; see also {stack}, {pdl}.*quad n. 1. Two bits; syn. for {quarter}, {crumb}, {tayste}. 2. A four-pack of anything ...
push4 is box glyph used in the APL language for various arcane purposes mostly related to I/O. Former Ivy-Leaguers and Oxbridge types are said to associate it with nostalgic memories of dear old University.
quadruple bucky is n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while...
quadruple bucky2 is shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and ...
quadruple bucky3 is fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply th...
quadruple bucky4 is or features, you can say something like "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See {double bucky}, {bucky bits}, {cokebottle}.
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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 ...
SPACEWAR3 is commercialized as one of the first video games; descendants are still {feep}ing in video arcades everywhere.
spaghetti code is 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 co...
spaghetti inheritance is 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 s...
spaghetti inheritance2 is (successful) attempt to discourage such practice, through guilt-by-association with {spaghetti code}.
spam is [from the {MUD} community] vt. To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data. See also {buffer overflow}, {overrun screw}, {smash the stack}.
special-case is vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing. This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive i...
special-case2 is normal commands), or for processing of {hidden flag}s in the input of a batch program or {filter}.
speedometer is n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes). The pattern is shifted left every N times the software goes through its main loop. A swiftly moving pattern in...
speedometer2 is speedometer slows down as the system becomes overloaded. The speedometer on Sun Microsystems hardware bounces back and forth like the eyes on one of the Cylons from the wretched "Battlestar Galactica" TV series. Historical n...
speedometer3 is 600) actually had an *analog* speedometer on the front panel, calibrated in instructions executed per second.
spell is n. Syn. {incantation}.
spiffy is /spi'fee/ adj. 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy {X} version of {empire} yet?" 2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have little more ...
spiffy2 is meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice and context. This word was common mainstream slang during the 1940s, in a sense close to #1.
spin is vi. Equivalent to {buzz}. More common among C and UNIX programmers.
spl is /S-P-L/ [abbrev, from Set Priority Level] The way traditional UNIX kernels implement mutual exclusion by running code at high interrupt levels. Used in jargon to describe the act of tuning in or tuning out ordinary communication. Clas...
spl2 is at spl 6 today." would mean that he is very hard to interrupt. "Wait till I finish this; I'll spl down then." See also {interrupts locked out}.
splat is n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers. 2. [MIT] Name used by some peopl...
splat2 is [Rochester Institute of Technology] The {command key} on a Mac (same as {ALT}, sense 2). 4. [Stanford] Name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII circle-x character. This character is also called `blobby' and ...
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TOPS-10 is /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10} machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A. See also {{ITS}}, {{TOPS-20}}, {{TWENEX}}, {VMS}, {operating...
TOPS-102 is BOTS-10 (from `bottoms-ten) as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.
TOPS-20 is /tops-twentee/ n. See {{TWENEX}}.
toto is /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a francophone {foo}.
tourist is [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perha...
tourist2 is {luser} (this also expresses the ITS cultures penchant for six-letterisms). Compare {twink}, {read-only user}.
tourist information is n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewers gestalt of whats going on with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category d...
tourist information2 is for at any given time. The `bytes free information at the bottom of an MS-DOS `dir display is tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a UNIX `ps(1) display.
touristic is adj. Having the quality of a {tourist}. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum. Often spelled `turistic or `turistik, so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum.
toy is n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers. 1. `nice toy One that supports the speakers hacking style adequately. 2. `just a toy A machine that yields insufficient {computron}s for the speakers preferred uses. This is not con...
toy2 is least be fun. It is also strongly conditioned by ones expectations; Cray XMP users sometimes consider the Cray-1 a `toy, and certainly all RISC boxes and mainframes are toys by their standards. See also {Get a real computer!}.
toy language is n. A language useful for instructional purposes or as a proof-of-concept for some aspect of computer-science theory, but inadequate for general-purpose programming. {Bad Thing}s can result when a toy language is promoted as a ...
toy language2 is (see {bondage-and-discipline language}); the classic example is {{Pascal}}. Several moderately well-known formalisms for conceptual tasks such as programming Turing machines also qualify as toy languages in a less negative se...
toy problem is [AI] n. A deliberately oversimplified case of a challenging problem used to investigate, prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem. Sometimes used pejoratively. See also {gedanken}, {toy program}.
toy program is n. 1. One that can be readily comprehended; hence, a trivial program (compare {noddy}). 2. One for which the effort of initial coding dominates the costs through its life cycle. See also {noddy}.
trampoline is n. An incredibly {hairy} technique, found in some {HLL} and program-overlay implementations (e.g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do...
trampoline2 is pieces of {live data} are called `trampolines. Trampolines are notoriously difficult to understand in action; in fact, it is said by those who use this term that the trampoline that doesnt bend your brain is not the true tram...
trap is 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program. In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program. 2. vi. To cause a trap. "These instructions tr...
trap2 is to indicate the cause of the trap. "The monitor traps all input/output instructions." This term is associated with assembler programming (`interrupt or `exception is more common among {HLL} programmers) and appears to be fading int...
trap3 is assembler continues to shrink. However, it is still important to computer architects and systems hackers (see {system}, sense 1), who use it to distinguish deterministically repeatable exceptions from timing-dependent ones (such as I...
trap door is alt. `trapdoor n. 1. Syn. {back door}. 2. [techspeak] A `trap-door function is one which is easy to compute but very difficult to compute the inverse of. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically ...
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UNIX conspiracy3 is was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the {back door} entry. In this view, UNIX was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see {virus}) --- but a virus spread to computers indirectly ...
UNIX conspiracy4 is directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this `UNIX virus' theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "UNIX is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began activ...
UNIX conspiracy5 is workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
UNIX weenie is [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a w...
UNIX weenie2 is is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs. "This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must...
UNIX weenie3 is 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of UNIX. Often appearing in the context "stupid UNIX weenie". See {Weenix}, {UNIX conspiracy}. See also {weenie}.
unixism is n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory UNIX systems. Common {unixism}s include gratuitous use of `for...
unixism2 is undocumented but well-known features of UNIX libraries such as `stdio(3)' are supported elsewhere; reliance on {obscure} side-effects of system calls (use of `sleep(2)' with a 0 argument to clue the scheduler that you're willing ...
unixism3 is assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never `free()'ing memory. Compare {vaxocentrism}; see also {New Jersey}.
unswizzle is v. See {swizzle}.
unwind the stack is vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a procedural language, one is said to `unwind the stack' from a called procedure up to a caller when one discards the stack frame and any number of frames above it, popping back up...
unwind the stack2 is this is done with `longjmp'/`setjmp', in LISP with `throw/catch'. See also {smash the stack}. 2. People can unwind the stack as well, by quickly dealing with a bunch of problems "Oh heck, let's do lunch. Just a second ...
unwind-protect is [MIT from the name of a LISP operator] n. A task you must remember to perform before you leave a place or finish a project. "I have an unwind-protect to call my advisor."
up is adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up." Oppose {down}. 2. `bring up' vt. To create a working version and start it. "They brought up a down system." 3. `come up' vi. To become ready for production use.
upload is /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one. A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a {...
upload2 is ground-to-space comm under that entry). 2. [speculatively] To move the essential patterns and algorithms that make up one's mind from one's brain into a computer. Only those who are convinced that such patterns and algorithms captu...
upload3 is prospect with gusto.
upthread is adv. Earlier in the discussion (see {thread}), i.e., `above'. "As Joe pointed out upthread, ..." See also {followup}.
urchin is n. See {munchkin}.
USENET is /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ [from `Users' Network'] n. A distributed {bboard} (bulletin board) system supported mainly by UNIX machines. Originally implemented in 1979-1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel a...
USENET2 is become international in scope and is now probably the largest decentralized information utility in existence. As of early 1991, it hosts well over 700 {newsgroup}s and an average of 16 megabytes (the equivalent of several thousan...
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wannabee4 is Compare {newbie}. Historical note The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different flavor now (1991) than it did ten or fifteen years ago. When the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in {larval stage}, the proc...
wannabee5 is unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular culture --- communities formed spontaneously around people who, *as individuals*, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly p...
wannabee6 is wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consc...
wannabee7 is hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; amo...
wannabee8 is about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one.
warm boot is n. See {boot}.
wart is n. A small, {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an otherwise {clean} design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)', single quot...
wart2 is except `!'. In ANSI C, the `??' syntax used obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also {miswart}.
washing machine is n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'. The washing...
washing machine2 is it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. The thick channel cables connecting these were called `bit hoses' (see {hose}).
water MIPS is n. (see {MIPS}, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional {mainframe} type.
wave a dead chicken is v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "...
wave a dead chicken2 is code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}.
weasel is n. [Cambridge] A na"ive user, one who deliberately or accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised. Roughly synonymous with {loser}.
wedged is [from a common description of recto-cranial inversion] adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, then it has become totally non-functioning. If the...
wedged2 is something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may become wedged if it {deadlock}s with another (but not all instances of wedging are deadlocks). B...
wedged3 is {hung}. See also {gronk}, {locked up}, {hosed}. Describes a {deadlock}ed condition. 2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. "He's totally wedged --- he's convinced that he can levitate through meditation." 3. [UNIX...
wedged4 is TTY left in a losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line discipline in some obscure way.
wedgie is [Fairchild] n. A bug. Prob. related to {wedged}.
wedgitude is /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being {wedged}.
weeble is /weeb'l/ [Cambridge] interj. Used to denote frustration, usually at amazing stupidity. "I stuck the disk in upside down." "Weeble...." Compare {gurfle}.
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You know you've been hacking too long when...4 is early version of this entry said "All but one of these have been reliably reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often). Even hackers may have trouble spotting the ringer." The ringer ...
You know you've been hacking too long when...5 is made up out of whole cloth. Although more respondents picked that one out as fiction than any of the others, I also received multiple independent reports of its actually happening. --- ESR]
Your mileage may vary is cav. [from the standard disclaimer attached to EPA mileage ratings by American car manufacturers] 1. A ritual warning often found in UNIX freeware distributions. Translates roughly as "Hey, I tried to write this porta...
Your mileage may vary2 is system?" 2. A qualifier more generally attached to advice. "I find that sending flowers works well, but your mileage may vary."
Yow! is /yow/ [from "Zippy the Pinhead" comix] interj. A favored hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. "Yow! Check out what happens when you twiddle the foo option on this display hack!" Compare {gurfle}.
yoyo mode is n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down. Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits....
yoyo mode2 is SIGPLAN '88. Tourists staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists testing yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish is /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs. The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which ...
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish2 is covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Usage primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand....
zap is 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.)...
zap2 is correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again." In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs...
zap3 is `superzap', whose file name is `IMASPZAP' (I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To erase or reset. 6. To {fry} a chip with static electricity. "Uh oh --- I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."
zapped is adj. Spicy. This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is *spicy*-hot. For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast,...
zapped2 is zapped. See also {{oriental food}}, {laser chicken}. See {zap}, senses 1 and 2.
zen is vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "How'd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned...
zen2 is time-extended version of zenning a system. Compare {hack mode}. See also {guru}.
zero is vt. 1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp. in the construction `zero out'). 2. To erase; to discard all data from. Said of disks and directories, where `zeroing' need not involve actually w...
zero2 is zeroed. One may speak of something being `logically zeroed' rather than being `physically zeroed'. See {scribble}.
zero-content is adj. Syn. {content-free}.
zeroth is /zee'rohth/ adj. First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays. Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1; this is natural since, e.g., the 256 states of 8 bits correspond...
zeroth2 is the digital devices known as `counters' count in this way. Hackers and computer scientists often like to call the first chapter of a publication `chapter 0', especially if it is of an introductory nature (one of the classic instan...
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berserking => vi. A MUD term meaning to gain points *only* by killing other players and mobiles (non-player characters). Hence, a Berserker-Wizard is a player character that has achieved enough points to become a wizard, but only by killing other cha...
Berzerkeley => /b*r-zer'klee/ [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label] n. Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the BSD UNIX hackers. See {software bloat}, Missed'em-five, {Berkeley ...
beta => /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n. 1. In the {Real World}, software often goes through two stages of testing Alpha (in-house) and Beta (out-house?). Software is said to be `in beta'. 2. Anything that is new and experimental is in...
BFI => /B-F-I/ n. See {brute force and ignorance}. Also encountered in the variant `BFMI', `brute force and *massive* ignorance'.
bible => n. 1. One of a small number of fundamental source books such as Knuth and K&R. 2. The most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular language, operating system, or other complex software system.
BiCapitalization => n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as NeXT, NeWS, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter) that have been raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization. Too many marketroid types...
BIFF => /bif/ [USENET] n. The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie. Articles from BIFF are characterized by all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, `cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HE"S A K00L DOOD...
biff => /bif/ vt. To notify someone of incoming mail. From the BSD utility `biff(1)', which was in turn named after the implementor's dog (it barked whenever the mailman came). No relation to BIFF.
Big Gray Wall => n. What faces a VMS user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multivendor netwo...
Big Gray Wall2 => Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with gray binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange (`big orange wall'), and under version 3 they were blue. See VMS.
big iron => n. Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. Term of approval; compare {heavy metal}, oppose dinosaur.
Big Red Switch => [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp. the `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This !@%$% {bitty box} is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch."...
Big Red Switch2 => tune with the company's passion for TLAs, this is often acronymized as `BRS' (this has also become established on FidoNet and in the PC clone world). It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a no...
Big Red Switch3 => power feed; the BRSes on more recent machines physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare {power cycle}, {th...
the Big Room => n. The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone rig...
big win => n. Serendipity. "Yes, those two physicists discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic that had been prepared incorrectly according to their experimental schedule. Small mistake; big win!" See {win big}.
big-endian => [From Swift's `Gulliver's Travels' via the famous paper `On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace' by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj. 1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric repr...
bignum => /big'nuhm/ [orig. from MIT MacLISP] n. 1. [techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers. More generally, any very large number. "Have you ever looked at the United States Budget? There's bignums for you!" ...
bigot => n. A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see {religious issues}). Usually found with a specifier; thus, `cray bigot', {ITS bigot}, `APL bigot', `VMS bigot', {Berkele...
bit => [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] n. 1. [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable. 2. [techspeak] A computational quant...
bit bang => n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesti...
bit bang2 => and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO b...
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book titles6 => the mess-dos emulator, control-alt-insert will cause a soft-boot of the emulator, while leaving the rest of the system running." Opposed to this there is `hard boot', which connotes hostility towards or frustration with the machine be...
book titles7 => hard-boot this losing Sun." "I recommend booting it hard." Historical note this term derives from `bootstrap loader', a short program that was read in from cards or paper tape, or toggled in from the front panel switches. This program...
book titles8 => were expended on making it short in order to minimize the labor and chance of error involved in toggling it in), but was just smart enough to read in a slightly more complex program (usually from a card or paper tape reader), to which...
book titles9 => turn was smart enough to read the application or operating system from a magnetic tape drive or disk drive. Thus, in successive steps, the computer `pulled itself up by its bootstraps' to a useful operating state. Nowadays the bootstr...
book titles10 => and reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the disk, called the `boot block'. When this program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual OS and hand control over to it.
bottom-up implementation => n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'. It is now received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of action ...
bottom-up implementation2 => to actual code. Hackers often find (especially in exploratory designs that cannot be closely specified in advance) that it works best to *build* things in the opposite order, by writing and testing a clean set of primitiv...
bounce => v. 1. [perhaps from the image of a thrown ball bouncing off a wall] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play volle...
bounce message => [UNIX] n. Notification message returned to sender by a site unable to relay email to the intended {{Internet address}} recipient or the next link in a {bang path} (see bounce). Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled usern...
bounce message2 => Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see {sorcerer's apprentice mode}. The term `bounce mail' is also common.
box => n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainfra...
boxed comments => n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselves; so called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like this Common variants of...
boxed comments2 => column 2 or add a matching row of asterisks closing the right side of the box. The sparest variant omits all but the comment delimiters themselves; the `box' is implied. Oppose {winged comments}.
boxen => /bok'sn/ [by analogy with VAXen] pl.n. Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase `UNIX boxen', used to describe commodity {UNIX} hardware. The connotation is that any two UNIX boxen are interchangeable.
boxology => /bok-sol'*-jee/ n. Syn. {ASCII art}. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
bozotic => /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ [from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald] adj. Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. Compare wonky, demented. Not...
BQS => /B-Q-S/ adj. Syn. {Berkeley Quality Software}.
brain dump => n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system {core dump} in that ...
brain dump2 => before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." See {core dump} (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as `TOI' (transfer of information).
brain-damaged => 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {Multics}] adj. Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person respo...
brain-dead => adj. Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity. "This comm program doesn't know how to send a break --- how brain-dead!"
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Classic C => /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n. The C programming language as defined in the first edition of K&R, with some small additions. It is also known as `K&R C'. The name came into use while C was being standardized by the ANSI X3J11 ...
Classic C2 => This is sometimes applied elsewhere thus, `X Classic', where X = Star Trek (referring to the original TV series) or X = PC (referring to IBM's ISA-bus machines as opposed to the PS/2 series). This construction is especially used of prod...
Classic C3 => versions are considered serious losers relative to the older ones.
clean => 1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from t...
CLM => /C-L-M/ [Sun `Career Limiting Move'] 1. n. An action endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and raises, and possibly one's job "His Halloween costume was a parody of his manager. He won the prize for `best CLM'." 2. adj. D...
clobber => vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble, trash, and {smash the stack}.
clocks => n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing. The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are usually discussed in clocks rather than absolute fractions o...
clone => n. 1. An exact duplicate "Our product is a clone of their product." Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering. Also connotes lower price. 2. A shoddy, spurious copy "Their product is a clone of our product...
clover key => [Mac users] n. See {command key}.
clustergeeking => /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ [CMU] n. Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
COBOL => /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n. (Synonymous with evil.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes. Hackers believe all COBOL programmers are suits or {c...
COBOL fingers => /koh'bol fing'grz/ n. Reported from Sweden, a (hypothetical) disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason; thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers...
COBOL fingers2 => endless typing. "I refuse to type in all that source code again; it would give me COBOL fingers!"
code grinder => n. 1. A suit-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors. In his native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit ...
code grinder2 => consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie. In times of dire stress, the sleeves (if long) may be rolled up and the tie loosened about half an inch. It seldom helps. The {code grinder}'s milieu is about as far from h...
code grinder3 => touch a computer; the term connotes pity. See {Real World}, suit. 2. Used of or to a hacker, a really serious slur on the person's creative ability; connotes a design style characterized by primitive technique, rule-boundedness, {bru...
code grinder4 => imagination. Compare {card walloper}; contrast hacker, {real programmer}.
code police => [by analogy with George Orwell's `thought police'] n. A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that might burst into one's office and arrest one for violating programming style rules. May be used either seriously, to underline a ...
code police2 => violation is dangerous, or ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
codewalker => n. A program component that traverses other programs for a living. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source...
coefficient of X => n. Hackish speech makes rather heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors. Four particularly important ones involve the terms `coefficient', `factor', `index', and `quotient'. They are often loosely applied to things you cannot re...
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condition out => vt. To prevent a section of code from being compiled by surrounding it with a conditional-compilation directive whose condition is always false. The canonical examples are `#if 0' (or `#ifdef notdef', though some find this bletcherou...
condom => n. 1. The protective plastic bag that accompanies 3.5-inch microfloppy diskettes. Rarely, also used of (paper) disk envelopes. Unlike the write protect tab, the condom (when left on) not only impedes the practice of SEX but has also been sh...
connector conspiracy => [probably came into prominence with the appearance of the KL-10 (one model of the PDP-10), none of whose connectors matched anything else] n. The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension, programmers or purveyors of anythin...
connector conspiracy2 => that don't fit together with the old stuff, thereby making you buy either all new stuff or expensive interface devices. The KL-10 Massbus connector was actually *patented* by DEC, which reputedly refused to license the design...
connector conspiracy3 => parties out of competition for the lucrative Massbus peripherals market. This is a source of never-ending frustration for the diehards who maintain older PDP-10 or VAX systems. Their CPUs work fine, but they are stuck with dy...
connector conspiracy4 => drives with low capacity and high power requirements. In these latter days of open-systems computing this term has fallen somewhat into disuse, to be replaced by the observation that "Standards are great! There are so *many* ...
cons => /konz/ or /kons/ [from LISP] 1. vt. To add a new element to a specified list, esp. at the top. "OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda." 2. `cons up' vt. To synthesize from smaller pieces "to cons up an example". I...
considered harmful => adj. Edsger W. Dijkstra's note in the March 1968 `Communications of the ACM', "Goto Statement Considered Harmful", fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars. Amusingly, the ACM considered the resulting acrimony su...
considered harmful2 => policy) no longer print an article taking so assertive a position against a coding practice. In the ensuing decades, a large number of both serious papers and parodies have borne titles of the form "X considered Y". The structu...
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.
core => n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms ar...
core dump => n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1. [techspeak] A copy of the contents of core, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error. 2. By extension, used for humans passing out, vomiting, or registering...
core dump2 => All over the floor. What a mess." "He heard about X and dumped core." 3. Occasionally used for a human rambling on pointlessly at great length; esp. in apology "Sorry, I dumped core on you". 4. A recapitulation of knowledge (compare bit...
core dump3 => one knows about a topic, esp. in a lecture or answer to an exam question. "Short, concise answers are better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia; syn. {brain dump}). See core.
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devo => /dee'voh/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A person in a development group. See also doco and mango.
dickless workstation => n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server. These combine all the disadvanta...
dickless workstation2 => disadvantages of distributed personal computers.
dictionary flame => [USENET] n. An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over defini...
diddle => 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." See tweak and twiddle. 2. n. The ac...
diff => /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs'). "Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare vdiff. 2. Specifically, such a l...
digit => n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation. See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10, {TOPS-10}, DEChead, {double DECkers}, {field circus}.
dike => vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack software problems by...
ding => n.,vi. 1. Synonym for feep. Usage rare among hackers, but commoner in the {Real World}. 2. `dinged' What happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about something, esp. something trivial. "I was dinged for having a messy de...
dink => /dink/ n. Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with --- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker (BADOB) working on a CP/M system with 64K,...
dinosaur => n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power. Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1988 UNIX EXPO, Bill Joy compared the mainframe ...
dinosaur pen => n. A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
dinosaurs mating => n. Said to occur when yet another {big iron} merger or buyout occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was `IBM ...
dinosaurs mating2 => Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. RCA and GE sold out early, and it was `IBM and the Bunch' (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull; Burro...
dinosaurs mating3 => Unisys (in 1984 --- this was when the phrase `dinosaurs mating' was coined); and as this is written AT&T is attempting to recover from a disastrously bad first 6 years in the hardware industry by absorbing NCR. More such earth-sh...
dirty power => n. Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and seve...
Discordianism => /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ n. The veneration of Eris, a.k.a. Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by Robert Anton Wilson's `Illuminatus!' trilogy as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners --- it ...
disk farm => n. (also laundromat) A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp. {washing machine}s).
display hack => n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include {munching squares}, {smoking clover}, the BSD UNIX `rain(6)' program, `worms(6)' on miscellaneous UNIXes, and the X...
display hack2 => hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights...
display hack3 => The {hack value} of a display hack is proportional to the esthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Syn. psychedelicware.
Dissociated Press => [play on `Associated Press'; perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"] n. An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it t...
Dissociated Press2 => printing any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step you search for any random occurrence in the original text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then print the next word or letter. EMA...
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dot file2 => be optionally recorded; a user can customize the program's behavior by creating the appropriate file in the current or home directory. See also {rc file}.
double bucky => adj. Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the {space-cadet keyboard} at MIT. A typical MI...
double bucky2 => {bucky bits} (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and ...
double bucky3 => keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; ty...
double bucky4 => much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in `The Sesame Street Songbook' (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 671-21036-X). Thes...
double bucky5 => 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard See also {meta bit}, cokebottle, and {quadruple bucky}.
double DECkers => n. Used to describe married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
doubled sig => [USENET] n. A {sig block} that has been included twice in a USENET article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however,...
doubled sig2 => experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
down => 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say, and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on. With respect to computers, this u...
download => vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a mainframe) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp. a microcomputer or specialized peripheral. Oppose upload. However, note that ground-to-space co...
DP => /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a suit. See DPer. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}.
DPB => /d*-pib'/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt. To plop something down in the middle. Usage silly. "DPB yourself into that couch there." The connotation would be that the couch is full except for one slot just big enough for you to sit in. DPB...
DPer => /dee-pee-er/ n. Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that suits use this term self-referentially. "*Computers* process data, not people!" See DP.
dragon => n. [MIT] A program similar to a daemon, except that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks. A typical example would be an accounting program, which keeps track of who is logged in, acc...
Dragon Book => n. The classic text `Compilers Principles, Techniques and Tools', by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6), so called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labeled `complexi...
Dragon Book2 => bearing the lance `LALR parser generator' among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the `Red Dragon Book' (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled `Principles Of Compiler Design' (Alfred V. Aho and Jef...
Dragon Book3 => ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the `Green Dragon Book' (1977). (Also `New Dragon Book', `Old Dragon Book'.) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at ...
Dragon Book4 => representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also {{book titles}}.
drain => [IBM] v. Syn. for flush (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline.
dread high-bit disease => n. A condition endemic to PRIME (a.k.a. PR1ME) minicomputers that results in all the characters having their high (0x80) bit ON rather than OFF. This of course makes transporting files to other systems much more difficult, n...
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Eric Conspiracy3 => NNTP); your editor has heard from about fourteen others by email, and the organization line `Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories' now emanates regularly from more than one site.
Eris => /e'ris/ n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as ...
erotics => /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n. English-language university slang for electronics. Often used by hackers in Helsinki, maybe because good electronics excites them and makes them warm.
essentials => n. Things necessary to maintain a productive and secure hacking environment. "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, a 20-megahertz 80386 box with 8 meg of core and a 300-megabyte disk supporting full UNIX with source and X windows and EMACS a...
evil => adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged series, `evil' does ...
exa- => /ek's*/ [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
examining the entrails => n. The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in the attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down. Compare runes, incantation, {black art}, {desk check}.
EXCH => /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ vt. To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10 ins...
excl => /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'. See bang, shriek, {ASCII}.
EXE => /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable binary file. Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension .EXE to mark such files. This usage is also occasionally found among UNIX programmers even though UNIX ex...
exec => /eg-zek'/ vt.,n. 1. [UNIX from `execute'] Synonym for chain, derives from the `exec(2)' call. 2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an OS (see shell); term esp. used around mainframes, and prob. derived from UNIVAC's archaic ...
left as an exercise => [from technical books] Used to complete a proof when one doesn't mind a handwave, or to avoid one entirely. The complete phrase is "The proof (or the rest) is left as an exercise for the reader." This comment *has* occasionally...
left as an exercise2 => research problems by authors possessed of either an evil sense of humor or a vast faith in the capabilities of their audiences.
eyeball search => n. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Also called a vgrep; compare vdiff, {...
eyeball search2 => `fabricate'] v. 1. To produce chips from a design that may have been created by someone at another company. Fabbing chips based on the designs of others is the activity of a {silicon foundry}. To a hacker, `fab' is practically neve...
eyeball search3 => line' the production system (lithography, diffusion, etching, etc.) for chips at a chip manufacturer. Different `fab lines' are run with different process parameters, die sizes, or technologies, or simply to provide more manufactur...
face time => n. Time spent interacting with somebody face-to-face (as opposed to via electronic links). "Oh, yeah, I spent some face time with him at the last Usenix."
factor => n. See coefficient.
fall over => [IBM] vi. Yet another synonym for crash or lose. `Fall over hard' equates to {crash and burn}.
fall through => v. (n. `fallthrough', var. `fall-through') 1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e., by having fulfilled its exit condition rather than via a break or exception condition that exits from the middle of it. This usage appears to be *really...
fall through2 => 1950s. 2. To fail a test that would have passed control to a subroutine or some other distant portion of code. 3. In C, `fall-through' occurs when the flow of execution in a switch statement reaches a `case' label other than by jumpi...
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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.
fuck me harder => excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by the imp of the perverse). Often theatrically elaborated "Aiighhh! Fuck...
fuck me harder2 => curare-tipped wrought-iron fence *and no lubricants*!" The phrase is sometimes heard abbreviated `FMH' in polite company. [This entry is an extreme example of the hackish habit of coining elaborate and evocative terms for lossage. ...
fuck me harder3 => parody of mainstream expletives that has become a running gag in part of the hacker culture; it illustrates the hackish tendency to turn any situation, even one of extreme frustration, into an intellectual game (the point being, in...
fuck me harder4 => long-winded description of the most anatomically absurd mental image possible --- the short forms implicitly allude to all the ridiculous long forms ever spoken). Scatological language is actually relatively uncommon among hackers,...
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gabriel => /gay'bree-*l/ [for Dick Gabriel, SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic] n. An unnecessary (in the opinion of the opponent) stalling tactic, e.g., tying one's shoelaces or combing one's hair repeatedly, asking the time, etc. Also used to ...
gag => vi. Equivalent to choke, but connotes more disgust. "Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler gagged." See also barf.
gang bang => n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time. Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend assembler port mentioned in ...
gang bang2 => perpetrated by large companies trying to meet deadlines and produce enormous buggy masses of code entirely lacking in orthogonality. When market-driven managers make a list of all the features the competition has and assign one programm...
gang bang3 => miss the importance of maintaining a coherent design. See also firefighting, {Mongolian Hordes technique}, {Conway's Law}.
garbage collect => vi. (also `garbage collection', n.) See GC.
garply => /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another meta-syntactic variable (see foo); once popular among SAIL hackers.
gas => [as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust and hatred, implying that gas should be dispensed in generous quantities, thereby exterminating the source of irritation. "Some loser just reloaded the system for no reason! Gas!" 2. interj. A...
gaseous => adj. Deserving of being gassed. Disseminated by Geoff Goodfellow while at SRI; became particularly popular after the Moscone-Milk killings in San Francisco, when it was learned that the defendant Dan White (a politician who had supported P...
GC => /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1. vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today." When said of files, this is equivalent to GFR. 2. vt. To recycle, reclaim, or put to another use. 3. ...
GCOS => /jee'kohs/ n. A quick-and-dirty clone of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970; originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System). Later kluged to support primitive timesharing and transaction processing....
GECOS => /jee'kohs/ n. See {GCOS}.
gedanken => /g*-don'kn/ adj. Ungrounded; impractical; not well-thought-out; untried; untested. `Gedanken' is a German word for `thought'. A thought experiment is one you carry out in your head. In physics, the term `gedanken experiment' is used to re...
geef => v. [ostensibly from `gefingerpoken'] vt. Syn. mung. See also blinkenlights.
geek out => vi. To temporarily enter techno-nerd mode while in a non-hackish context, for example at parties held near computer equipment. Especially used when you need to do something highly technical and don't have time to explain "Pardon me while ...
gen => /jen/ n.,v. Short for generate, used frequently in both spoken and written contexts.
gender mender => n. A cable connector shell with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some loser didn't understand the RS232C specification and the distinction between DTE and DCE. Used esp. ...
gender mender2 => original D-25 or the IBM PC's bogus D-9 format. Also called `gender bender', `gender blender', `sex changer', and even `homosexual adapter'; however, there appears to be some confusion as to whether a `male homosexual adapter' has p...
gender mender3 => on both sides (connects two males).
General Public Virus => n. Pejorative name for some versions of the GNU project copyleft or General Public License (GPL), which requires that any tools or apps incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same counter-commercial te...
General Public Virus2 => alleged that the copyleft `infects' software generated with GNU tools, which may in turn infect other software that reuses any of its code. The Free Software Foundation's official position as of January 1991 is that copyright...
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Internet address => n. 1. [techspeak] An absolute network address of the form foo@bar.baz, where foo is a user name, bar is a sitename, and baz is a `domain' name, possibly including periods itself. Contrast with {bang path}; see also {network, the} ...
Internet address2 => Internet machines and most UUCP sites can now resolve these addresses, thanks to a large amount of behind-the-scenes magic and PD software written since 1980 or so. See also {bang path}, domainist. 2. More loosely, any network ad...
Internet address3 => this includes {bang path} addresses and some internal corporate and government networks. Reading Internet addresses is something of an art. Here are the four most important top-level functional Internet domains followed by a sele...
Internet address4 => com commercial organizations edu educational institutions gov U.S. government civilian sites mil U.S. military sites Note that most of the sites in the com and edu domains are in the U.S. or Canada. us sites in See: Internet addr...
Internet address5 => the U.S. outside the functional domains su sites in the Soviet Union (see kremvax). uk sites in the United Kingdom Within the us domain, there are subdomains for the fifty states, each generally with a name identical to the state...
Internet address6 => abbreviation. Within the uk domain, there is an ac subdomain for academic sites and a co domain for commercial ones. Other top-level domains may be divided up in similar ways.
interrupt => 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine. See also trap. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Often explicitly...
interrupt list, the => [MS-DOS] n. The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu). As of early 1991,...
interrupts locked out => When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym `interrupts disabled' is also com...
interrupts locked out2 => have one's interrupt mask bit set" or "interrupts masked out" is also heard. See also spl.
iron => n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of mainframe class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers). Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose silicon. See ...
Iron Age => n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial mainframe technology, when {big iron} dinosaurs ruled the earth. These began with the delivery of the first PDP-1, coincided with the dominance of ferrite core...
Iron Age2 => introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also {Stone Age}; compare {elder days}.
iron box => [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the hacker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files designed to...
iron box2 => on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap}, and Clifford Stoll's account in `The Cuckoo's Egg' of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography). Compare {padded cell}.
ironmonger => [IBM] n. Derogatory. A hardware specialist. Compare sandbender, {polygon pusher}.
ITS => /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `...
IWBNI => // [acronym] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare WIBNI.
IYFEG => // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling racist jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See JEDR.*J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrary; ordinary...
J. Random Hacker => [MIT] /J rand'm hak'r/ n. A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the archetypal hacker nerd. See random, {Suzie COBOL}. This may originally have been inspired or influenced by `J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee whose name...
jaggies => /jag'eez/ n. The `stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp. a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a pixel device (as opposed to a vector display).
JCL => /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language. JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems. JCL has a very fascist syntax, and some versions will, for example, barf if two spaces appear...
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jump off into never-never land2 => used both as a spoken word and a written suffix (like meg and gig for megabyte and gigabyte). See {quantifiers}.
K&R => [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book `The C Programming Language', esp. the classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978; ISBN 0-113-110163-3). Syn. {White Book}, {Old Testament}. See also {New Test...
kahuna => /k*-hoo'nuh/ [IBM from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n. Synonym for wizard, guru.
kamikaze packet => n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a {Christmas tree packet}. RFC-1025, `TCP and IP Bake Off' says 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree packet, lamp...
kamikaze packet2 => is, correctly handle a segment with the maximum combination of features at once (e.g., a SYN URG PUSH FIN segment with options and data). See also {Chernobyl packet}.
kangaroo code => n. Syn. {spaghetti code}.
ken => /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's a login ...
kgbvax => /K-G-B'vaks/ n. See kremvax.
kill file => [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some USENET reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) ...
kill file2 => other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other med...
killer micro => [popularized by Eugene Brooks] n. A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsi...
killer micro2 => architectures. The popularity of the phrase `attack of the killer micros' is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has eve...
killer micro3 => micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
killer poke => n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) in a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory management (su...
killer poke2 => that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
kilo- => [SI] pref. See {quantifiers}.
KIPS => /kips/ [acronym, by analogy with MIPS using K] n. Thousands (*not* 1024s) of Instructions Per Second. Usage rare.
KISS Principle => /kis' prin'si-pl/ n. "Keep It Simple, Stupid". A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off {creeping featurism} and control development complexity. Possibly related to the marketroid maxim on sales presentations, "Keep ...
kit => [USENET] n. A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard UNIX tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable cha...
klone => /klohn/ n. See clone, sense 4.
kludge => /kluhj/ n. Common (but incorrect) variant of kluge, q.v.
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legal => adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp. in connection with some set of constraints defined by software. "The older =+ alternate for += is no longer legal syntax in ANSI C." "This parser processes each line...
legalese => n. Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard; text that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a {language lawyer} to parse it. Though hackers are not afraid of high information den...
LER => /L-E-R/ [TMRC, from `Light-Emitting Diode] n. A light-emitting resistor (that is, one in the process of burning up). Ohm's law was broken. See SED.
LERP => /lerp/ vi.,n. Quasi-acronym for Linear Interpolation, used as a verb or noun for the operation. E.g., Bresenham's algorithm lerps incrementally between the two endpoints of the line.
let the smoke out => v. To fry hardware (see fried). See {magic smoke} for the mythology behind this.
letterbomb => n. A piece of email containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed,...
lexer => /lek'sr/ n. Common hacker shorthand for `lexical analyzer', the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces). "Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like `=-'."
lexiphage => /lek'si-fayj`/ n. A notorious word chomper on ITS. See bagbiter.
life => n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner (`Scientific American', October 1970). Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it, and hackers at various places contr...
light pipe => n. Fiber optic cable. Oppose copper.
like kicking dead whales down the beach => adj. Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. "Well, you *could* write a C compile...
like kicking dead whales down the beach2 => kicking dead whales down the beach." See also {fear and loathing}
like nailing jelly to a tree => adj. Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp. one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem domain. "Trying to display the `prettiest' arrangement of n...
like nailing jelly to a tree2 => graph is like nailing jelly to a tree, because nobody's sure what `prettiest' means algorithmically."
line eater, the => [USENET] n. 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab. This bug was qui...
line eater, the2 => creature called the `line eater', and postings often included a dummy line of `line eater food'. Ironically, line eater `food' not beginning with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if there *was* ...
line eater, the3 => line eater would eat the food *and* the beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of `sacrificing to the line eater' continued for some time after the bug had been {nailed to the wall}, and is still humo...
line eater, the4 => is still (in mid-1991) occasionally reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways. 2. See {NSA line eater}.
line starve => [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print `X squared', you just output `X', line sta...
line starve2 => starve causes the `2' to appear on the line above the `X', and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. n. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. Unlike `line feed', `line starve' i...
line starve3 => terminology. Even among hackers it is considered a bit silly. 3. [proposed] A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff/troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
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magic number => [UNIX/C] n. 1. In source code, some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented `#defin...
magic number2 => are bad style. 2. A number that encodes critical information used in an algorithm in some opaque way. The classic examples of these are the numbers used in hash or CRC functions, or the coefficients in a linear congruential generator...
magic number3 => sense actually predates and was ancestral to the more common sense 1. 3. Special data located at the beginning of a binary data file to indicate its type to a utility. Under UNIX, the system and various applications programs (especia...
magic number4 => types of executable file by looking for a magic number. Once upon a time, these magic numbers were PDP-11 branch instructions that skipped over header data to the start of executable code; the 0407, for example, was octal for `branch...
magic number5 => wizard knows the spells to create magic numbers. How do you choose a fresh magic number of your own? Simple --- you pick one at random. See? It's magic!
magic smoke => n. A substance trapped inside IC packages that enables them to function (also called `blue smoke'; this is similar to the archaic `phlogiston' hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burn...
magic smoke2 => out, so it doesn't work any more. See {smoke test}, {let the smoke out}. USENETter Jay Maynard tells the following story: "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them in the sy...
magic smoke3 => One time, I plugged one in backwards. I only discovered that *after* I realized that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs --- the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked ...
magic smoke4 => full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of {Murphy's Law}.
main loop => n. Software tools are often written to perform some actions repeatedly on whatever input is handed to them, terminating when there is no more input or they are explicitly told to go away. In such programs, the loop that gets and processe...
mainframe => n. This term originally referred to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine. After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional ...
management => n. 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bure...
mandelbug => /mon'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n. A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a {Bohr bug}, rather t...
manged => /monjd/ [probably from the French `manger' or Italian `mangiare', to eat; perhaps influenced by English n. `mange', `mangy'] adj. Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged, usually beyond repair. "The disk was manged after the electrica...
mangle => vt. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed.
mangler => [DEC] n. A manager. Compare mango; see also management. Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation.
mango => /mang'go/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A manager. Compare mangler. See also devo and doco.
marbles => [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] pl.n. The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its...
marginal => adj. 1. Extremely small. "A marginal increase in core can decrease GC time drastically." In everyday terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort through...
Marginal Hacks => n. Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the {D. C. Power Lab}).
marginally => adv. Slightly. "The ravs here are only marginally better than at Small Eating Place." See epsilon.
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pseudoprime => n. A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a...
pseudosuit => /soo'doh-s[y]oot`/ n. A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily. It's his funeral. See also lobotomy.
psychedelicware => /si`k*-del'-ik-weir/ [UK] n. Syn. {display hack}. See also {smoking clover}.
psyton => /si'ton/ [TMRC] n. The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fa...
pubic directory => [NYU] (also `pube directory' /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) n. The `pub' (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (sense 1). "I'll have the source in the pube directory b...
puff => vt. To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* `PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Oppose huff.
punched card => alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs. The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops. The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control device for me...
punched card2 => patented by Hollerith and used with mechanical tabulating machines in the 1890 U.S. Census was a piece of cardboard about 90 mm by 215 mm, designed to fit exactly in the currency trays used for that era's larger dollar bills. IBM (wh...
punched card3 => manufacturer) married the punched card to computers, encoding binary information as patterns of small rectangular holes; one character per column, 80 columns per card. Other coding schemes, sizes of card, and hole shapes were tried a...
punched card4 => width of most character terminals is a legacy of the IBM punched card; so is the size of the quick-reference cards distributed with many varieties of computers even today. See chad, {chad box}, {eighty-column mind}, {green card}, {du...
punt => [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football "Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] v. 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying. "Let's punt the movie tonight." "I was going to hack all night to get this featu...
Purple Book => n. The `System V Interface Definition'. The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. See also {{book titles}}.
push => [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/ (the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction). 1. To put som...
quadruple bucky => n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while typing ...
quadruple bucky2 => shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta...
quadruple bucky3 => fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a progr...
quadruple bucky4 => or features, you can say something like "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See {double bucky}, {bucky bits}, cokebottle.
quantifiers => In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Syst`eme International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses. With units of time or things that come in powers of 10, such as money, they retain the...
quantum bogodynamics => /kwon'tm boh`goh-di-nam'iks/ n. A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and suits in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), ...
quantum bogodynamics2 => Bogon absorption, of course, causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise mechanics of the bogon-computron interaction are not yet unde...
quantum bogodynamics3 => Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. See bogon, computron, suit, psyton.
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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 ...
spaghetti inheritance2 => (successful) attempt to discourage such practice, through guilt-by-association with {spaghetti code}.
spam => [from the MUD community] vt. To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data. See also {buffer overflow}, {overrun screw}, {smash the stack}.
special-case => vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing. This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive interface...
speedometer => n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes). The pattern is shifted left every N times the software goes through its main loop. A swiftly moving pattern indicates t...
spell => n. Syn. incantation.
spiffy => /spi'fee/ adj. 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" 2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have little more than a flashy...
spin => vi. Equivalent to buzz. More common among C and UNIX programmers.
spl => /S-P-L/ [abbrev, from Set Priority Level] The way traditional UNIX kernels implement mutual exclusion by running code at high interrupt levels. Used in jargon to describe the act of tuning in or tuning out ordinary communication. Classically, ...
splat => n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers. 2. [MIT] Name used by some people for the...
sponge => [UNIX] n. A special case of a filter that reads its entire input before writing any output; the canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream. If you...
spooge => /spooj/ 1. n. Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program. 2. vi. To generate spooge (sense 1).
spool => [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt. To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with ...
stack => n. A person's stack is the set of things he or she has to do in the future. One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack. "I'm afraid I've got real work to do, so this'll have to be pushed way down on...
stack puke => n. Some processor architectures are said to `puke their guts onto the stack' to save their internal state during exception processing. The Motorola 68020, for example, regurgitates up to 92 bytes on a bus fault. On a pipelined machine, ...
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topic drift => n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that t...
topic drift2 => reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. "I think we started with a question about Nivens last book, but weve ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *thats* topic drift!"
topic group => n. Syn. forum.
TOPS-10 => /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A. See also {ITS}, {TOPS-20}, {TWENEX}, VMS, {operating system}. TOPS-10 ...
TOPS-20 => /tops-twentee/ n. See {TWENEX}.
toto => /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a francophone foo.
tourist => [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some so...
tourist information => n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewers gestalt of whats going on with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category depends p...
tourist information2 => for at any given time. The `bytes free information at the bottom of an MS-DOS `dir display is tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a UNIX `ps(1) display.
touristic => adj. Having the quality of a tourist. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum. Often spelled `turistic or `turistik, so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum.
toy => n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers. 1. `nice toy One that supports the speakers hacking style adequately. 2. `just a toy A machine that yields insufficient computrons for the speakers preferred uses. This is not condemnatory, as...
toy language => n. A language useful for instructional purposes or as a proof-of-concept for some aspect of computer-science theory, but inadequate for general-purpose programming. {Bad Thing}s can result when a toy language is promoted as a general ...
toy language2 => (see {bondage-and-discipline language}); the classic example is {Pascal}. Several moderately well-known formalisms for conceptual tasks such as programming Turing machines also qualify as toy languages in a less negative sense. See a...
toy problem => [AI] n. A deliberately oversimplified case of a challenging problem used to investigate, prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem. Sometimes used pejoratively. See also gedanken, {toy program}.
toy program => n. 1. One that can be readily comprehended; hence, a trivial program (compare noddy). 2. One for which the effort of initial coding dominates the costs through its life cycle. See also noddy.
trampoline => n. An incredibly hairy technique, found in some HLL and program-overlay implementations (e.g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirectio...
trap => 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program. In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program. 2. vi. To cause a trap. "These instructions trap to the...
trap door => alt. `trapdoor n. 1. Syn. {back door}. 2. [techspeak] A `trap-door function is one which is easy to compute but very difficult to compute the inverse of. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in the con...
trash => vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure). The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble.
tree-killer => [Sun] n. 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper. This should be interpreted in a broad sense; `wasting paper includes the production of spiffy but content-free documents. Thus, most suits are tree-killers.
trit => /trit/ [by analogy with `bit] n. One base-3 digit; the amount of information conveyed by a selection among one of three equally likely outcomes (see also bit). These arise, for example, in the context of a flag that should actually be able to...
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UNIX conspiracy => [ITS] n. According to a conspiracy theory long popular among {ITS} and {TOPS-20} fans, UNIX's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them depen...
UNIX conspiracy2 => evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing...
UNIX conspiracy3 => was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the {back door} entry. In this view, UNIX was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) --- but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people ...
UNIX conspiracy4 => directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this `UNIX virus' theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "UNIX is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promot...
UNIX conspiracy5 => workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
UNIX weenie => [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly ...
UNIX weenie2 => is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs. "This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have bee...
UNIX weenie3 => 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of UNIX. Often appearing in the context "stupid UNIX weenie". See Weenix, {UNIX conspiracy}. See also weenie.
unixism => n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory UNIX systems. Common unixisms include gratuitous use of `fork(2)'; th...
unswizzle => v. See swizzle.
unwind the stack => vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a procedural language, one is said to `unwind the stack' from a called procedure up to a caller when one discards the stack frame and any number of frames above it, popping back up to the...
unwind the stack2 => this is done with `longjmp'/`setjmp', in LISP with `throw/catch'. See also {smash the stack}. 2. People can unwind the stack as well, by quickly dealing with a bunch of problems "Oh heck, let's do lunch. Just a second while I unw...
unwind-protect => [MIT from the name of a LISP operator] n. A task you must remember to perform before you leave a place or finish a project. "I have an unwind-protect to call my advisor."
up => adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up." Oppose down. 2. `bring up' vt. To create a working version and start it. "They brought up a down system." 3. `come up' vi. To become ready for production use.
upload => /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one. A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a download ...
upthread => adv. Earlier in the discussion (see thread), i.e., `above'. "As Joe pointed out upthread, ..." See also followup.
urchin => n. See munchkin.
USENET => /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ [from `Users' Network'] n. A distributed bboard (bulletin board) system supported mainly by UNIX machines. Originally implemented in 1979-1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke Uni...
user => n. 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. See {real user}. 2. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions. [GLS observe...
user-friendly => adj. Programmer-hostile. Generally used by hackers in a critical tone, to describe systems that hold the user's hand so obsessively that they make it painful for the more experienced and knowledgeable to get any work done. See menuit...
user-obsequious => adj. Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable. "Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will want to use it." See {WIMP environment...
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wall time => n. (also `wall clock time') 1. `Real world' time (what the clock on the wall shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. 2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of clocks required to execute it (on a ti...
wall time2 => differ, as no one program gets all the clocks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor clocks than real-time clocks).
wallpaper => n. 1. A file containing a listing (e.g., assembly listing) or a transcript, esp. a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper for such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as...
wango => /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level grovelling going on in a system during some unspecified operation. Often used in combination with mumble. For example "You start with the `.o' file, run it through this postprocessor that does mumble-wango --- ...
wank => /wangk/ [Columbia University prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness. May describe (negatively)...
wannabee => /won'*-bee/ (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; prob. originally from biker slang] n. A would-be hacker. The connotations of this term dif...
warm boot => n. See boot.
wart => n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)', single quotes literalize ...
washing machine => n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'. The washing-machine ...
washing machine2 => it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. The thick channel cables connecting these were called `bit hoses' (see hose).
water MIPS => n. (see MIPS, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional mainframe type.
wave a dead chicken => v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "I'll wav...
wave a dead chicken2 => code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}.
weasel => n. [Cambridge] A na"ive user, one who deliberately or accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised. Roughly synonymous with loser.
wedged => [from a common description of recto-cranial inversion] adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, then it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is...
wedgie => [Fairchild] n. A bug. Prob. related to wedged.
wedgitude => /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being wedged.
weeble => /weeb'l/ [Cambridge] interj. Used to denote frustration, usually at amazing stupidity. "I stuck the disk in upside down." "Weeble...." Compare gurfle.
weeds => n. 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from `off in the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds...." 2. At CDC/ETA before its d...
weenie => n. 1. When used with a qualifier (for example, as in {UNIX weenie}, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or not it is applied by a person who considers hi...
Weenix => /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {UNIX}, derived from {UNIX weenie}. According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenies typified by poor modularity, poor reliability, hard file deletion, no file ...
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You know you've been hacking too long when...3 => value than your car. * in your universe, `round numbers' are powers of 2, not 10. * more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language. * you realize you have never seen ...
You know you've been hacking too long when...4 => early version of this entry said "All but one of these have been reliably reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often). Even hackers may have trouble spotting the ringer." The ringer was balan...
You know you've been hacking too long when...5 => made up out of whole cloth. Although more respondents picked that one out as fiction than any of the others, I also received multiple independent reports of its actually happening. --- ESR]
Your mileage may vary => cav. [from the standard disclaimer attached to EPA mileage ratings by American car manufacturers] 1. A ritual warning often found in UNIX freeware distributions. Translates roughly as "Hey, I tried to write this portably, but...
Your mileage may vary2 => system?" 2. A qualifier more generally attached to advice. "I find that sending flowers works well, but your mileage may vary."
Yow! => /yow/ [from "Zippy the Pinhead" comix] interj. A favored hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. "Yow! Check out what happens when you twiddle the foo option on this display hack!" Compare gurfle.
yoyo mode => n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down. Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits. Sun Mi...
yoyo mode2 => SIGPLAN '88. Tourists staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists testing yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish => /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs. The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which a fish i...
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish2 => covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Usage primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand.
zap => 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See zapped...
zapped => adj. Spicy. This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is *spicy*-hot. For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast, vanilla...
zen => vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "How'd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned it." Cont...
zero => vt. 1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp. in the construction `zero out'). 2. To erase; to discard all data from. Said of disks and directories, where `zeroing' need not involve actually writing zer...
zero-content => adj. Syn. content-free.
zeroth => /zee'rohth/ adj. First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays. Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1; this is natural since, e.g., the 256 states of 8 bits correspond to the b...
zigamorph => /zig'*-morf/ n. Hex FF (11111111) when used as a delimiter or fence character. Usage primarily at IBM shops.
zip => [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver. Its use is spreading now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written. Commonly used as follows "I'l...
zipperhead => [IBM] n. A person with a closed mind.
zombie => [UNIX] n. A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a `wait(2)' for it yet). These can be seen in `ps(1)' listings occasionally. Compare orphan.
zorch => /zorch/ 1. [TMRC] v. To attack with an inverse heat sink. 2. [TMRC] v. To travel, with v approaching c [that is, with velocity approaching lightspeed --- ESR]. 3. [MIT] v. To propel something very quickly. "The new comm software is very fast...
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HList => Create and manipulate Tix Hierarchial List widgets - TkWidget Classes
InputOnly => Create and manipulate TIX InputOnly widgets - TkWidget Classes
button => Create and manipulate button widgets - TkWidget Classes
canvas => Create and manipulate canvas widgets - TkWidget Classes
checkbutton => Create and manipulate checkbutton widgets - TkWidget Classes
entry => Create and manipulate entry widgets - TkWidget Classes
frame => Create and manipulate frame widgets - TkWidget Classes
label => Create and manipulate label widgets - TkWidget Classes
listbox => Create and manipulate listbox widgets - TkWidget Classes
menu => Create and manipulate menu widgets - TkWidget Classes
menubutton => Create and manipulate menubutton widgets - TkWidget Classes
message => Create and manipulate message widgets - TkWidget Classes
radiobutton => Create and manipulate radiobutton widgets - TkWidget Classes
scale => Create and manipulate scale widgets - TkWidget Classes
scrollbar => Create and manipulate scrollbar widgets - TkWidget Classes
text => Create and manipulate text widgets - TkWidget Classes
toplevel => Create and manipulate toplevel widgets - TkWidget Classes
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rfc 1236 => IP to X.121 address mapping for DDN. Jr. Morales, L.F., P.R. Hasse. Jun-01-1991. (Format: TXT=12626 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1235 => Coherent File Distribution Protocol. J. Ioannidis, Jr. Maguire, G.Q.. Jun-01-1991. (Format: TXT=29345 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1234 => Tunneling IPX traffic through IP networks. D. Provan. Jun-01-1991. (Format: TXT=12333 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1233 => Definitions of managed objects for the DS3 Interface type. T.A. Cox, K. Tesink. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=49559 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1407) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1232 => Definitions of managed objects for the DS1 Interface type. F. Baker, C.P. Kolb. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=60757 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1406) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1231 => IEEE 802.5 Token Ring MIB. K. McCloghrie, R. Fox, E. Decker. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=53542 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1743, RFC1748) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1230 => IEEE 802.4 Token Bus MIB. K. McCloghrie, R. Fox. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=53100 bytes) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1229 => Extensions to the generic-interface MIB. K. McCloghrie. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=36022 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1573) (Updated by RFC1239) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1228 => SNMP-DPI: Simple Network Management Protocol Distributed Program Interface. G. Carpenter, B. Wijnen. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=96972 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1592) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1227 => SNMP MUX protocol and MIB. M.T. Rose. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=25868 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1226 => Internet protocol encapsulation of AX.25 frames. B. Kantor. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=2573 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1225 => Post Office Protocol: Version 3. M.T. Rose. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=37340 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1081) (Obsoleted by RFC1460) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
rfc 1224 => Techniques for managing asynchronously generated alerts. L. Steinberg. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=54303 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
rfc 1223 => OSI CLNS and LLC1 protocols on Network Systems HYPERchannel. J.M. Halpern. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=29601 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1222 => Advancing the NSFNET routing architecture. H.W. Braun, Y. Rekhter. May-01-1991. (Format: TXT=15067 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1221 => Host Access Protocol (HAP) specification: Version 2. W. Edmond. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=152740 bytes) (Updates RFC0907) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1220 => Point-to-Point Protocol extensions for bridging. F. Baker. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=38165 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1638) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 1219 => On the assignment of subnet numbers. P.F. Tsuchiya. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=30609 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1218 => Naming scheme for c=US. North American Directory Forum.. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=42698 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1255, RFC1417) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1217 => Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR). V.G. Cerf. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=11079 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 1216 => Gigabit network economics and paradigm shifts. P. Richard, P. Kynikos. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=8130 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
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rfc 717 => Assigned network numbers. J. Postel. Jul-01-1976. (Not online) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 716 => Interim revision to Appendix F of BBN 1822. D.C. Walden, J. Levin. May-24-1976. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 715 => ( NEVER ISSUED). . November 1993. (Format: TXT=29 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 714 => Host-Host Protocol for an ARPANET-type network. A.M. McKenzie. Apr-21-1976. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 713 => MSDTP-Message Services Data Transmission Protocol. J. Haverty. Apr-06-1976. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 712 => Distributed Capability Computing System (DCCS). J.E. Donnelley. Feb-05-1976. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 711 => ( NEVER ISSUED). . November 1993. (Format: TXT=29 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 710 => ( NEVER ISSUED). . November 1993. (Format: TXT=29 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 709 => ( NEVER ISSUED). . November 1993. (Format: TXT=29 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 708 => Elements of a distributed programming system. J.E. White. Jan-28-1976. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 707 => High-level framework for network-based resource sharing. J.E. White. Dec-23-1975. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 706 => On the junk mail problem. J. Postel. Nov-08-1975. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 705 => Front-end Protocol B6700 version. R.F. Bryan. Nov-05-1975. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 704 => IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol change. P.J. Santos. Sep-15-1975. (Not online) (Obsoletes RFC0687) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 703 => July, 1975, survey of New-Protocol Telnet Servers. D.W. Dodds. Jul-11-1975. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 702 => September, 1974, survey of New-Protocol Telnet servers. D.W. Dodds. Sep-25-1974. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 701 => August, 1974, survey of New-Protocol Telnet servers. D.W. Dodds. Aug-01-1974. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 700 => Protocol experiment. E. Mader, W.W. Plummer, R.S. Tomlinson. Aug-01-1974. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 699 => Request For Comments summary notes: 600-699. J. Postel, J. Vernon. Nov-01-1982. (Not online) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
rfc 698 => Telnet extended ASCII option. T. Mock. Jul-23-1975. (Not online) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
rfc 697 => CWD command of FTP. J. Lieb. Jul-14-1975. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
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rfc 494 => Availability of MIX and MIXAL in the Network. D.C. Walden. Apr-20-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 493 => Graphics Protocol. J.C. Michener, I.W. Cotton, K.C. Kelley, D.E. Liddle, Jr. Meyer, E.W.. Apr-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 492 => Response to RFC 467. Jr. Meyer, E.W.. Apr-18-1973. (Not online) (Updates RFC0467) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 491 => What is "Free"?. M.A. Padlipsky. Apr-12-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 490 => Surrogate RJS for UCLA-CCN. J.R. Pickens. Mar-06-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 489 => Comment on resynchronization of connection status proposal. J. Postel. Mar-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 488 => NLS classes at network sites. M.F. Auerbach. Mar-23-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 487 => Free file transfer. R.D. Bressler. Apr-06-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 486 => Data transfer revisited. R.D. Bressler. Mar-20-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 485 => MIX and MIXAL at UCSB. J.R. Pickens. Mar-19-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 483 => Cancellation of the resource notebook framework meeting. M.D. Kudlick. Mar-14-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 482 => Traffic statistics (February 1973). A.M. McKenzie. Mar-12-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 480 => Host-dependent FTP parameters. J.E. White. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 479 => Use of FTP by the NIC Journal. J.E. White. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 478 => FTP server-server interaction - II. R.D. Bressler, R. Thomas. Mar-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 477 => Remote Job Service at UCSB. M. Krilanovich. May-23-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 476 => IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule (rev. 2). A.M. McKenzie. Mar-07-1973. (Not online) (Obsoletes RFC0447) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 475 => FTP and network mail system. A.K. Bhushan. Mar-06-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 474 => Announcement of NGWG meeting: Call for papers. S. Bunch Mar-01-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 473 => MIX and MIXAL?. D.C. Walden. Feb-28-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 472 => Illinois' reply to Maxwell's request for graphics information (NIC 14925). S. Bunch. Mar-01-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 471 => Workshop on multi-site executive programs. R. Thomas. Mar-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 470 => Change in socket for TIP news facility. R. Thomas. Mar-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 469 => Network mail meeting summary. M.D. Kudlick. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 468 => FTP data compression. R.T. Braden. Mar-08-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 467 => Proposed change to Host-Host Protocol: Resynchronization of connection status. J.D. Burchfiel, R.S. Tomlinson. Feb-20-1973. (Not online) (Updated by RFC0492) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 466 => Telnet logger/server for host LL-67. J.M. Winett. Feb-27-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 464 => Resource notebook framework. M.D. Kudlick. Feb-27-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 463 => FTP comments and response to RFC 430. A.K. Bhushan. Feb-21-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 462 => Responding to user needs. J. Iseli, D. Crocker. Feb-22-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 461 => Telnet Protocol meeting announcement. A.M. McKenzie. Feb-14-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 460 => NCP survey. C. Kline. Feb-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 459 => Network questionnaires. W. Kantrowitz. Feb-26-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 458 => Mail retrieval via FTP. R.D. Bressler, R. Thomas. Feb-20-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 457 => TIPUG. D.C. Walden. Feb-15-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 456 => Memorandum: Date change of mail meeting. M.D. Kudlick. Feb-13-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 455 => Traffic statistics (January 1973). A.M. McKenzie. Feb-12-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 454 => File Transfer Protocol - meeting announcement and a new proposed document. A.M. McKenzie. Feb-16-1973. (Not online) (Status: UNKNOWN)
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functionality class => a predefined set of complementary security enforcing functions capable of being implemented in a Target of Evaluation.
general-purpose system => A computer system that is designed to aid in solving a wide variety of problems.
generic threat => Class of threats with common characteristics pertaining to vulnerabilities, agents, event sequences, and resulting misfortunes=2E
global requirements => Those which require analysis of the entire system and for which separate analysis of the individual TCB (trusted computing base) subsets does not suffice.
granularity => Relative fineness or coarseness to which an access control mechanism or oth- er IT product aspect can be adjusted. Note: Protection at the file level is considered course granularity, whereas protection at the field level is considered...
group => Named collection of user identifiers.
gypsy verification environment => An integrated set of tools for specifying, coding, and verifying programs written in the Gypsy language, a language similar to Pascal which has both specification and programming features. This methology includes an...
handshaking procedure => A dialogue between two entities (e.g., a user and a computer, a computer and another computer, or a program and another program) for the purpose of identifying and authenticating the entities to one another.
hierarchical decomposition => the ordered, structured reduction of a system or a component to primitives.
hierarchical development methodology => A methodology for specifying and verifying the design programs written in the Special specification language. The tools for this methodology include the Special specification processor, the Boyer-Moore theorem ...
host => any computer-based system connected to the network and containing the necessary protocol interpreter software to initiate network access and carry out information exchange across the communications network. This definition encompasses typical...
identification => The process that enables recognition of an entity by a system, generally by the use of unique machine-readable user names.
impersonating => Synonymous with spoofing.
implementation => a phase of the Development Process wherein the detailed specification of a Target of Evaluation is translated into actual hardware and software.
individual accountability => The ability to associate positively the identity of a user with the time, method, and degree of access to a system.
informal => Expressed in natural language.
informal specification => Statement about (the properties of) a product made using the gram- mar, syntax, and common definitions of a natural language (e.g., English). >Note: While no notational restrictions apply, the informal specification is also ...
information protection policy => Set of laws, rules, and practices that regulate how an IT product will, within specified limits, counter threats expected in the product's assumed operational environment.
ISSO => Information System Security Officer - The person responsible to the DAA for ensuring that security is provided for and implemented throughout the life cycle of an AIS from the beginning of the concept development plan through its design, de...
ITSEC => Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria - European security evaluation criteria for targets of evaluation (TOE).
information flow control => A procedure to ensure that information transfers within a system are not made from a higher security level object to an object of a lower security level. See covert channel, simple security property, star property (*-prop...
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network reference monitor => an access control concept that refers to an abstract machine that mediates all access to objects within the network by subjects within the network.
network security => the protection of networks and their services from unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure. Providing an assurance that the network performs its critical functions correctly and there are no harmful side-effects. Inc...
network security architecture => a subset of network architecture specifically addressing security-relevant issues.
network sponsor => the individual or organization that is responsible for stating the security policy enforced by the network, for designing the network security architecture to properly enforce that policy, and for ensuring that the network is imple...
network system => a system which is implemented with a collection of interconnected network components. A network system is based on a coherent security architecture and design.
NTCB => Network trusted computing base - the totality of protection mechanisms within a network system -- including hardware, firmware, and software -- the combination of which is responsible for enforcing a security policy. (See also Trusted Computi...
network front end => A device that implements the necessary network protocols, including security-related protocols, to allow a computer system to be attached to a network.
nondiscretionary access control => Means of restricting access to objects based largely on administrative actions. (See mandatory access control=2E)
normal operation => Process of using a system.
object => A passive entity that contains or receives information. Access to an object potentially implies access to the information it contains. Examples of objects are: records, blocks, pages, segments, files, directories, directory trees, and pro...
object reuse => The reassignment and reuse of a storage medium (e.g., page frame, disk sector, magnetic tape) that once contained one or more objects. To be securely reused and assigned to a new subject, storage media must contain no residual data (...
open security environment => An environment that includes those systems in which at least one of the following conditions holds true: (l) Application developers (including maintainers) do not have sufficient clearance or authorization to provide an a...
operating procedure => a set of rules defining correct use of a Target of Evaluation.
operation => the process of using a Target of Evaluation.
operational documentation => the information produced by the developer of a Target of Evaluation to specify and explain how customers should use it.
OPSEC => Operations Security - An analytical process by which the U.S. Government and its supporting contractors can deny to potential adversaries information about capabilities and intentions by identifying, controlling, and protecting evidence of t...
orange book => Alternate name for DoD Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria.
OSI => The International Organization for Standardization provides a framework for defining the communications process between systems. This framework includes a network architecture, consisting of seven layers. The architecture is referred to as the...
output => Information that has been exported by a TCB.
overt channel => an overt channel is a path within a network which is designed for the authorized transfer of data.
overwrite procedure => A stimulation to change the state of a bit followed by a known pattern. See magnetic remanence.
owner => User granted privileges with respect to security attributes and privileges affecting specific subjects and objects.
package => A set of components combined together to satisfy a set of identified objectives.
partial order => A relation that is symmetric (a is related to a), transitive (if a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is related to c), and antisymmetric (if a is related to b and b is related to a, then a and b are identical.)
partitioned security mode => A mode of operation wherein all personnel have the clearance but not necessarily formal access approval and need-to-know for all information contained in the system. Not to be confused with compartmented security mode.
passive => (1) A property of an object or network object that it lacks logical or computational capability and is unable to change the information it contains. (2) Those threats to the confidentiality of data which, if realized, would not result in a...
password => Protected/private character string used to authenticate an identity or to authorize access to data.
penetration => the successful violation of a protected system.
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Category 3 cable standard => Cat 3 cable is certified to run at up to 16 MHz. You can achieve speeds of up to 10 Mbps on Cat 3 cable. This cable maxes out with standard 10 Mbps Ethernet.
Category 4 cable standard => Cat 4 cable is certified to run at up to 20 MHz. You can achieve speeds of up to 16 Mbps, such as with the 16 Mbps token-ring standard.
Category 5 cable standard => This is the latest and greatest copper wire standard. It uses an RJ-45 plug like Cat 3, and 4, and 4-pair wire, but it is certified to run up to 100 MHz and is suitable for 100 Mbps wiring standards. The guys that wired u...
CAV => (Constant Angular Velocity) This refers to a spinning disk. As data is read from the disk, the drive motor spins at the same speed. For example, CD-drives that work at CAV will read data at 12x towards the center and 20x towards the edge, wher...
CD-R => (Compact Disk Recordable) CD-R drives will record up to 650 MB of data onto specialized CD-R media. The media is expensive compared to the mass-produced CDs that software is generally distributed on, but cheap for the amount of data you can s...
CD-ROM => (Compact Disk Read Only Media) CD-ROM media is read-only media that holds 650 MB of data. It's generally accepted as the easiest way to distribute software. CD-ROM drives can also read music CDs even though they are in a different format th...
CGI => (Common Gateway Interface) This interface allows scripts or programs to run on a Web server. All Web servers support CGI scripting. You can make a CGI script do pretty much anything a computer program can. Most commonly, they are implemented t...
Channel => This refers to the group of resellers that supply most companies with software, hardware, and support. The channel is a force to be reckoned with, and it competes directly against companies like Gateway 2000 and Dell. A channel can also be...
CIR => (Committed Information Rate) This term is used by ISPs to represent an amount of data that you should, on the average, be able to draw through your connection to them. This is measured in kilobits or megabits per second.
CISC => (Complex Instruction Set Computer) Intel x86 chips are CISC chips because of the complexity of the instruction set. On the other side of the coin, you have RISC chips that use a reduced instruction set. RISC chips split big operations into lo...
Client/Server => Client server technology came about when computers began to cost less. Mainframes are very expensive, and didn't give users much personal freedom. The client/server model promised to change that scenario and it's much more popular to...
Clock chipping => Synonym for over-clocking.
Clock Cycle => Think of a clock cycle as one tick of the second hand (but generally at a much higher speed). Computer clocks run voltage through a tiny crystal that oscillates at a predictable speed to give a meaningful timing method to the computer....
Clustering => Clustering is an up-and-coming technology using two or more computers that function together as a single entity for fault tolerance and load balancing. This increases reliability and up-time in a client/server environment. One computer ...
CLV => (Constant Linear Velocity) In terms of disk drives, it means that the rate of data being read off of the disk stays the same from center to outer edge. To accomplish this, the drive motor speeds up and slows down as data is read from different...
CMOS => (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) This is the common reference for the BIOS preferences in your computer. Actually, it is a low power version of a chip. The low power comes into play because it is what commonly holds your BIOS prefere...
Coaxial cable => This is the original Ethernet cable. It consists of a single, insulated copper wire, surrounded by a copper braid or foil. The wire is then coated with plastic. Coaxial cable is used in bus topology.
COBOL => (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) This is a programming language developed in the '60s by several computer companies and the US Department of Defense. COBOL is still used today for programming business applications and COBOL programmers ar...
Code => A series of instructions that make up a program.
Code generator => A code generator is part of a compiler. It takes intermediate code and translates it into the final workable code in the target language.
Coily => Enemy of Q-Bert.
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Drive Bay => Usually a 5.25"-wide 1"-tall hole in a computer case, suitable for the installation of some sort of drive. Some are exposed so that a removable drive (e.g., floppy, CD-ROM) can fit. Some are not exposed and are meant for hard drives, tap...
Driver => A driver is software that works to communicate between an operating system and a peripheral. Think of it as a translator. If you use a crappy driver, your OS won't understand your video card and may become unstable and crash. Hardware manuf...
DS-0 => (Digital Signal level 0) This is the signal used to carry a standard analog or digital phone line connection. 24 DS-0 connections can be carried on a T1 line. The speed of the signal is either 64 Kbps, or 56 Kbps if the eighth bit is used for...
DS-1 => (Digital Signal level 1) Synonym for T1.
DS-3 => (Digital Signal level 3) Synonym for T3.
DS-4 => (Digital Signal level 4) Synonym for T4.
DSP => (Digital Signal Processor) A DSP is a microprocessor designed to work with analog signals such as video or audio that have been digitally encoded. The DSP then takes these digital representations and performs operations on them. DSPs are used ...
DSTN => (Double-layer Supertwist Nematic) This is a form of passive matrix LCD screen. It is an improved version of the standard supertwist nematic passive matrix LCD screen where the display is divided into two sections and addressed separately to d...
Dual boot => This describes a system that can boot to two different operating systems. Some OSs, such as Windows NT and OS/2, allow for dual booting when installed. Of course, you can also use other methods such as commercial programs that install a ...
Dualscan => Refers to a passive matrix LCD screen that uses a better method of displaying graphics, producing a sharper, more vivid image than normal passive matrix screens.
Dumb Terminal => These are hooked up to mainframes, and are little more than a monitor attatched to a keyboard. All they are good for is running programs using the mainframe's hard drive and memory.
DVD => (Digital Variable/Versatile/Video Disc) Much like a CD-ROM except that it stores up to 12 times as much and is re-writeable. Although the industry claims that DVD really stands for NOTHING, I think otherwise. DVD is the successor to CD-ROM tec...
EBCDIC => see Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code.
EBIOS => (Enhanced BIOS) The EBIOS translates between the partition table limitations of a standard computer BIOS and the IDE limitations to provide up to 8 GB of storage space using the IDE interface. Your computer's BIOS has maximums of 1024 cylind...
ECC => (Error Checking and Correcting) Generally refers to memory chips, or motherboards that support this type of behavior in full-parity memory chips. ECC memory uses some extra memory on the memory chips for parity information and checks to see wh...
EDO RAM => (Extended Data Out RAM) This refers to the successor of DRAM. Most systems today support EDO RAM. It's a conceptually faster RAM chip that has small bits of SRAM cache built into it. It still runs at slow DRAM speeds ( <= 50 MHz), however.
EIDE => (Enhanced IDE) Allows for two IDE channels that can each support two devices in peaceful coexistence. It also allows for hard drives up to 8 GB in size and CD-ROM devices.
EISA => (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) 16-bit ISA was extended to 32-bits and they called it EISA. Pretty creative. But, really, it's generally used only in server machines, and it never caught on because of VL-Bus and PCI. It beats out VL...
Enhanced Small Device Interface => (ESDI) This was a popular form of hard drive and controller before IDE took over the PC market.
Environment => Normally, this is your surroundings. In your computer, the environment is what a group of variables are set to. Think of it as your computer's surroundings.
EPIC => see Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
ESCD => (Extended System Configuration Data) This is setup data that is stored in a Plug-and-Play-compatible system BIOS. It consists of the system resource requirements of legacy (non PNP) devices, and the last working configuration of Plug-and-Play...
ESDI => see Enhanced Small Device Interface.
Expansion Slot => Refers to any type of slot in a computer that you can plug an expansion card into. Generally, it's limited to ISA, EISA, PCI, and PCMCIA, but there are other types and there will be more in the future.
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing => (EPIC) This is Intel and Hewlett-Packard's invention, designed to be used on Intel's forthcoming Merced processor. It is a method for arranging instructions so that they are ordered to be explicitly parall...
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code => (EBCDIC) This is a way of encoding 256 characters in binary, much like ASCII, but used mainly on mainframes. Most of the time, EBCDIC is only mentioned in translations between EBCDIC and ASCII.
Extended partition => This is a type of partition that is an extension of a primary partition. It's possible to have many extended partitions on a hard drive.
Extranet => An Extranet is an intranet that extends onto the Internet. Confusing? Yes. Extranets are external extensions of a company's intranet that allow certain people to interact from the Internet. Not all intranets are Extranets.
Fabless => This term refers to a company that produces chips but doesn't own a fabrication plant, or fab. These companies are starting to become more and more successful at creating chips and renting out other companies' excess fabs to produce their ...
Fabrication Plant => A fab is a factory that takes raw silicon wafers and creates chips with them. Often, fabs are categorized by what micron process they use. For example, the Intel Pentium chip with MMX is produced in a fab with a 0.35 micron proce...
FAQ => (Frequently Asked Questions) This is a document that lists the most common questions about something (with the answers, of course).
Fast SCSI 2 => This version of SCSI transfers data at 10 Mbps. The connections all contain 50 pins. See also Fast-Wide SCSI 2.
Fast-SCSI => Plain vanilla fast-SCSI never really existed. See Fast-SCSI 2
Fast-Wide SCSI 2 => This version of SCSI upped the pin count to 68, effectively doubling the signal speed of Fast-SCSI 2 to 20 Mbps.
Fat Client => Today's fast PCs are fat clients. They've got lots of memory and big hard drives. They store information and run programs locally off of their hard drives. Fat clients usually work in client/server environments, where they leave the ser...
FCC => (Federal Communications Commission) These are the people in the government who decide what's legal and illegal to broadcast, including what frequencies are allowed to be used by whom.
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Leased Line => A phone line that can be purchased from the telephone company that is yours only. With the assurance that you are the only one on the line you can work at faster speeds and stay connected 24 hours a day.
LED => (Light Emitting Diode) A piece of electronics that emits light when a current is passed through it. It does not work the same way as a light bulb so it does not have the problem of burning out. It also only emits a few frequencies of light so ...
Legacy device => This is a type of device or peripheral that is not plug-and-play-compatible.
Legacy System => This is any old computer system that was set up before your time, and now continues to work and need support. Often, legacy systems are problematic to upgrade because the people that put them together aren't around any more. One grea...
LFN => (Long file name) Since DOS only allows eight letters then a period then three more letters, there is a separate distinction for it. Almost all other file systems allow for longer names. With Windows 95 now so prevalent, long file names have be...
Linux => Linux is a free personal computer operating system based on the UNIX operating system. It has almost all of the functionality of UNIX but has no official support. The code and the support come from the users and developers of the operating s...
Log => This is a record of events.
Log File => This is a file that records events. Many programs produce log files. Often, tech support will ask you to look at a log file to determine what is happening when problems occur. Log files usually record much "grittier" events than are shown...
Logical Parity => Fake parity that always agrees. In other words, when something checks to see if the data is in error the logical parity always says that it is not.
M2020 riser => This board holds a Pentium Pro processor and fits into a Slot 1 slot on a motherboard. This provides a sort of backwards compatibility of Pentium Pro chips with the newer Pentium II motherboards.
Mainframe => Basically, a large and powerful computer designed to be very fault tolerant. Historically, mainframes with lots of memory and disk space are hooked to a bunch of dumb terminals that can be used to access data on the mainframe, but can do...
MB => see Megabyte; also an abbreviation for Motherboard.
Mbps => (Mega-bits per second) This is a measure of throughput in millions of bits per second.
MDRAM => (Multibank DRAM) This is a form of graphics RAM created by MoSys that allows transfers of up to 1 GB/second. Tseng Labs' popular ET6000 2D graphics chipset uses this form of graphics RAM to help achieve its high performance.
Mechanical Control => A mechanical control is a dial or knob whose physical setting directly affects some measurement. For example, the power button on your PC is a mechanical control. By pushing the button you are physically making an electrical con...
Megabit => (One million bits) 1,048,576 bits (that's 2^20 bits).
Megabyte => (One million bytes) This is 1,048,576 bytes (that's 1024 x 1024, or 2^20).
Memory => Chips in a computer that remember data. Also commonly referred to as RAM.
MHz => (Megahertz) One million hertz.
Microcontroller => This is like a scaled-down computer designed for a very specific task, unlike a desktop computer, which has many uses. An example of an application for a microcontroller would be a traffic light, or the chip that controls the suspe...
Micron Process => This refers to the size of lines capable of being etched onto a chip. A fabrication plant with a .25 micron process can create smaller chips that consume less power, and can run faster than a fab with a .35 micron process.
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PDA => (Personal Digital Assistant) PDAs are basically beefed-up organizers. They have small LCD screens, some form of pen or keyboard input, and software for organization, OCR, and contact management. Some have even more features, such as Web browsi...
Peripherals => Any device that is not part of the motherboard, aside from memory and the CPU. For example, video card, sound card, modem, hard drive.
Perspective Correction => This correctly alters the textures in a scene to give a sense that all the images on the screen converge on one central point way out in the distance. It's why things far away look smaller.
Petabyte => One thousand terabytes / one million gigabytes / one billion megabytes / one trillion kilobytes / one quadrillion bytes (approximately)
PGA => (Pin Grid Array) This is a form of chip with a group of pins in concentric rectangles, designed to fit into a PGA slot. Most x86 compatible chips are designed in this format.
PGA slot => This slot accepts a PGA chip. See PGA.
Pincushioning => This is one form of image distortion on a monitor. Good monitors have controls to deal with this problem. Basically, the top and bottom of the screen are wider than the middle (convex), or vice versa (concave). When corrected properl...
PING => see Packet InterNet Gopher.
PIO => See Programmed Input/Output.
Pipeburst Cache => See Pipeline Burst Cache. This is an abbreviation, or contraction, for it, just like "ain't" is an abbreviation for "am not."
Pipeline => This refers to the technique of processing multiple parts of an instruction at the same time. Many processers have two or more instruction pipelines. Think of it as an automobile assembly line. As one instruction is executed, the next ins...
Pipeline Burst Cache => This is a form of L2 cache that uses pipelining to speed data access by being able to feed data to the CPU at the same time it pulls data from memory. The burst mode also allows the cache to fetch additional data from main mem...
Pixel => The smallest dot that a computer can display at a particular resolution. Screen size is often referred to in pixels: 800 x 600, for example. This means that the screen is 800 pixels across and 600 pixels vertically.
Platform => This is a means of generically grouping like computers. Macintosh computers are a platform; so are PCs running DOS. It's not very specific, and multi-platform support can mean many things. If someone says to you "this application supports...
PNP => (Plug and Play) This is a standard that was supposed to make adding peripherals to your system as easy as plugging them in and using them. Its biggest contribution, aside from headaches, is the removal of jumpers from many devices.
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol => (PPTP) This is a remote access protocol that allows people to make a connection to easily connect to their local network through the Internet or some other large network. Conversations are kept private through enc...
POP => (Point Of Presence) This is a local telephone number through which you can access your ISP. The largest national ISPs have POPs all over the country.
Port => To port something, you translate the code for a program from one platform to another. You could port a program you wrote on a PC over to a Macintosh, for example. Port
Portable Computer => Technically, any computer that is self-contained to allow easy moving. Most often refers to a computer that can work away from an outlet.
Power Supply => A device attached to the case that converts 120 AC to DC at voltages that a computer needs to run. They come rated by wattage.
PPP => (Point to Point Protocol) The mode of transport used to connect a computer to the Internet via a dial-up adapter (a/k/a a modem).
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Switch => This refers to a hub that directs network packets to the port they are intended for, without broadcasting them to all connections. Switching is an alternative to moving to faster architectures. Switched 10Base-T can move data faster in some...
Sybase => This company makes a SQL database product that competes with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. It's also the type of SQL that Microsoft based Microsoft SQL Server on.
Synchronous => Meaning that things happen at the same time. More commonly, used in electronics to signify something occurring at the set pace of a clock, much like a metronome.
System Software => This term can refer to all of the software that comes with a computer system, or more specifically, the operating system.
T1 => Two pairs of copper wire that carry data at a rate of 1.544 Mbps. T1 lines are used to carry 24 DS-0 signals. They can be used to carry 24 phone lines or an Internet connection capable of 1.544 Mbps data transfer. See also fractional T1.
T3 => 28 T1 lines together make up a T3, which can carry 672 separate voice channels or up to 44.736 Mbps data throughput. Many large Internet providers brag of about having T3 backbones.
T4 => Six T3 lines make up a T4 which carries data at 274 Mbps.
Tag RAM => This is a bank of SRAM that only holds addresses. Tag RAM is used to store addresses so that when the processor makes a call for memory, it first checks to see if the data is in the cache by looking for the memory address in the tag RAM. I...
Tape Drive => A device that can store data on a tape. The advantage of storing data on a tape is that a tape can hold enormous amounts of data in a small and inexpensive package. On the down side, a tape cannot store the data indefinitely, and it is ...
TAPI => (see Telephony API) see Telephony API
TCO => (Total Cost of Ownership) This phrase was coined by the creaters of the Network Computer (NC) to describe the benefits of using a system that is more Mainframe and less Client/Server. Their logic states that NCs, although they may cost the sam...
TCP/IP => (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) The TCP/IP suite first saw usage on the original Department of Defense Internet in 1983. Its first implementation was amazingly successful, and it is still THE protocol of the Internet. In...
Technographer => This person types into a computer exactly what a person speaking at a meeting requests of them. The output is displayed on a screen for all to see. The important thing here is that anyone can speak and ask the technographer to type i...
Telephony => This is the science of audio communication through electric devices. It commonly refers to the many pieces of software that will make your $2,000 computer act like a $20 telephone. Of course, you can make this work for you with CTI. With...
Telephony API => (TAPI) This is an API for using telephony functions in Windows. For example, you can include TAPI instructions in your program that can dial numbers, receive calls, and interpret touch-tones.
Telnet => An old protocol for remotely logging in to another computer. It is one of the basic utilities for TCP/IP.
Terabyte => One trillion bytes, or one thousand gigabytes.
Texture Mapping => Pastes saved images, to be used as textures, onto triangle surfaces to improve realism. (Take a picture of a grassy field and code the program to use this picture to fill in your triangles on the floor--you get what looks like gras...
TFT => (Thin Film Transistor) This is a synonym for the Active Matrix display. You'll often see screens referred to as "TFT-Active Matrix," or just "TFT" if they're low on space.
ThickNet => See AUI.
Thin Client => A thin client is similar to a dumb terminal in that it gets all of its information from the network. Some thin clients have their own memory, but lack a hard drive. They're basically stripped down computers that are supposed to lower t...
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Trinitron => A technology developed by Sony to enhance the clarity of graphics on their monitors. The way this is done is by making the pixels more square.
True Color => The name given to 16.7 million color representation.
True Parity => This term has come about with the advent of logical parity. It simply means the original parity memory.
Truth table => This is a Boolean table that describes the way that a circuit reacts to input values by showing a complete set of possible input values with corresponding outputs.
Tuple => See n-tuple.
Turbo-Pascal => This is Borland's version of the Pascal programming language.
TWAIN => (Toolkit Without An Interesting Name) This is a standard set for scanners to allow them to have a standard interface to software. This allows the use of your favorite graphics package with your favorite scanner without worrying if one will s...
UART => (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) This is a chip that standardized serial communications. Its function is to change a byte into a standard sequence of electrical impulses.
Ultra SCSI => SCSI that communicates twice as fast as standard SCSI-2. Normal Ultra-SCSI transfers data at 20 Mbps, and Wide Ultra-SCSI transfers data at 40 Mbps. Similar to Ultra-IDE, Ultra-SCSI works its magic by transferring data on the up AND the...
UNC => (Universal Naming Convention) This is the name given for the naming used when one specifies: \\the sever\the volume\the path\then the file name of a file. So, a UNC will look like this: \\Myserver\Docdrive\Magazine\glossary.doc
UNIX => A lot like DOS, but a MUCH more powerful operating system. It was developed at Bell Labs and is now being developed by many other corporations. It is mainly used as a multi-user server for mainframes, although companies like Novell offer it f...
UPS => (Uninterruptible Power Supply) This is a device that contains a battery and some circuitry to supply your computer with power for a limited time (depending on the battery) if there is any sort of interruption in the outlet power.
URL => (Universal Resource Locator) This is what is used to give Web addresses for HTML, VRML, WAV and other files. It simply contains the Internet name of the machine containing the data and the path to the file. Much like the UNC, except specifical...
USB => (Universal Serial Bus) A technology in the works that will replace the current way that some peripheral devices connect to your computer. It is much faster than serial and parallel communications. It is also much more flexible: it will be able...
Usenet Newsgroups => Also referred to just as "newsgroups," Usenet newsgroups are a huge bunch of Internet discussion groups that replicate across the Internet every so often. If you get a bunch of people together and request a group for yourself, yo...
V.32 => A standard naming convention used in determining modem communications, all starting with "V." This one is for specifying the Hayes standard of bi-directional 9600 baud transmission.
V.32bis => This is the standard that came after V.32 which increased the speed from 9600 baud to 14.4 KB baud.
V.34 => This is the most recent dramatic improvement of modem communications. It has doubled the speed of the V.32bis standard to 28.8 KB.
V.34+ => This standard was made by US Robotics to indicate that their modems are superior to a standard V.34 modem in that they run at 33.6 KB baud instead of the slower 28.8 KB baud.
V.42 => This is the name given to the standard for transmitting at 2400 baud.
V.42Bis => This is not a speed standard like V.32 and V.34. It is an error correction and compression method that is hardware-based. Its major improvement comes from knowing when compression will be beneficial and when it will not be.
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