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<html><head><title>0</title><link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/></head><body><a target="entry_frame" href="0/TM.html">(TM)</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/dev-null.html">/dev/null</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/me.html">/me</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/numeral-zero.html">0</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/one-TBS.html">1TBS</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/infix-2.html">2</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/code-404.html">404</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/code-404-compliant.html">404 compliant</a><br/><a target="entry_frame" href="0/at-party.html">@-party</a><br/></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>0</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="go01.html" title="Glossary"/><link rel="previous" href="lexicon.html" title="Part II. The Jargon Lexicon"/><link rel="next" href="0/TM.html" title="(TM)"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">0</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lexicon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Glossary</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="0/TM.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div xmlns="" class="glossdiv"><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title">0</h3><dl><dt><a href="0/TM.html">(TM)</a></dt><dt><a href="0/dev-null.html">/dev/null</a></dt><dt><a href="0/me.html">/me</a></dt><dt><a href="0/numeral-zero.html">0</a></dt><dt><a href="0/one-TBS.html">1TBS</a></dt><dt><a href="0/infix-2.html">2</a></dt><dt><a href="0/code-404.html">404</a></dt><dt><a href="0/code-404-compliant.html">404 compliant</a></dt><dt><a href="0/at-party.html">@-party</a></dt></dl></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lexicon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="go01.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="0/TM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Part II. The Jargon Lexicon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> (TM)</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>(TM)</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="previous" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="next" href="dev-null.html" title="/dev/null"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">(TM)</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../0.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">0</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dev-null.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TM"/><dt xmlns="" id="TM"><b>(TM)</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] ASCII rendition of the ™ appended to phrases that the
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author feels should be recorded for posterity, perhaps in future editions
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of this lexicon. Sometimes used ironically as a form of protest against
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the recent spate of software and algorithm patents and <span class="firstterm">look and feel</span> lawsuits. See also
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<a href="../U/UN-asterisk-X.html"><i class="glossterm">UN*X</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../0.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../0.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dev-null.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">0 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> /dev/null</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>@-party</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="previous" href="code-404-compliant.html" title="404 compliant"/><link rel="next" href="../A.html" title="A"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">@-party</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="code-404-compliant.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">0</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../A.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="at-party"/><dt xmlns="" id="at-party"><b>@-party</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/at´par`tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the @-sign in an Internet address] (alt.: ‘@-sign
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party’ <span class="pronunciation">/at´si:n par`tee/</span>) A
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semi-closed party thrown for hackers at a science-fiction convention (esp.
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the annual World Science Fiction Convention or “<span class="quote">Worldcon</span>”);
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one must have a <a href="../N/network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a> to get in, or at
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least be in company with someone who does. One of the most reliable
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opportunities for hackers to meet face to face with people who might
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otherwise be represented by mere phosphor dots on their screens. Compare
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<a href="../B/boink.html"><i class="glossterm">boink</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>The first recorded @-party was held at the Westercon (a U.S. western
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regional SF convention) over the July 4th weekend in 1980. It is not clear
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exactly when the canonical @-party venue shifted to the Worldcon but it had
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certainly become established by Constellation in 1983. Sadly, the @-party
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tradition has been in decline since about 1996, mainly because having an
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@-address no longer functions as an effective lodge pin.</p><p>We are informed, however, that <tt class="systemitem">rec.skydiving</tt> members have maintained a
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tradition of formation jumps in the shape of an @.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="code-404-compliant.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../0.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../A.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">404 compliant </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> A</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>404 compliant</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="previous" href="code-404.html" title="404"/><link rel="next" href="at-party.html" title="@-party"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">404 compliant</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="code-404.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">0</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="at-party.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="code-404-compliant"/><dt xmlns="" id="code-404-compliant"><b>404 compliant</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The status of a website which has been completely removed, usually
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website operators. The term is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the standard
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<a href="../S/spamvertize.html"><i class="glossterm">spamvertize</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="code-404.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../0.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="at-party.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">404 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> @-party</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>404</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="previous" href="infix-2.html" title="2"/><link rel="next" href="code-404-compliant.html" title="404 compliant"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">404</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infix-2.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">0</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="code-404-compliant.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="code-404"/><dt xmlns="" id="code-404"><b>404</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the HTTP error “<span class="quote">file not found on server</span>”]
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>/dev/null</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="previous" href="TM.html" title="(TM)"/><link rel="next" href="me.html" title="/me"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">/dev/null</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TM.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">0</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="me.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dev-null"/><dt xmlns="" id="dev-null"><b>/dev/null</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dev·nuhl/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>2</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="previous" href="one-TBS.html" title="1TBS"/><link rel="next" href="code-404.html" title="404"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">2</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="one-TBS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">0</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="code-404.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="infix-2"/><dt xmlns="" id="infix-2"><b>2</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">infix.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In translation software written by hackers, infix 2 often represents
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>/me</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../0.html" title="0"/><link rel="previous" href="dev-null.html" title="/dev/null"/><link rel="next" href="numeral-zero.html" title="0"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">/me</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dev-null.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">0</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="numeral-zero.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="me"/><dt xmlns="" id="me"><b>/me</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IRC; common] Under most IRC, /me is the “<span class="quote">pose</span>”
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in the upper-left corner). Are we sufficiently confused yet?</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="me.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../0.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="one-TBS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">/me </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 1TBS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ABEND</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="abbrev.html" title="abbrev"/><link rel="next" href="accumulator.html" title="accumulator"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ABEND</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="abbrev.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="accumulator.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ABEND"/><dt xmlns="" id="ABEND"><b>ABEND</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/a´bend/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@·bend´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [ABnormal END]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Abnormal termination (of software); <a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>;
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<a href="../L/lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">lossage</i></a>. Derives from an error message on the IBM
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grinder</i></a>s. Usually capitalized, but may appear as
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‘abend’. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is called
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<span class="firstterm">abend</span> because it is what system
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operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day,
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and hence is from the German <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">Abend</i></span> =
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‘Evening’.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [<tt class="systemitem">alt.callahans</tt>] Absent
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By Enforced Net Deprivation — used in the subject lines of postings
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warning friends of an imminent loss of Internet access. (This can be
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because of computer downtime, loss of provider, moving or illness.)
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Variants of this also appear: ABVND = ‘Absent By Voluntary Net
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Deprivation’ and ABSEND = ‘Absent By Self-Enforced Net
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ACK</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="accumulator.html" title="accumulator"/><link rel="next" href="Acme.html" title="Acme"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ACK</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="accumulator.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Acme.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ACK"/><dt xmlns="" id="ACK"><b>ACK</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ak/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">interj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used
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to register one's presence (compare mainstream <span class="emphasis"><em>Yo!</em></span>).
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An appropriate response to <a href="../P/ping.html"><i class="glossterm">ping</i></a> or
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<a href="../E/ENQ.html"><i class="glossterm">ENQ</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [from the comic strip <i class="citetitle">Bloom County</i>] An
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exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in “<span class="quote">Ack pffft!</span>”
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Semi-humorous. Generally this sense is not spelled in caps (ACK) and is
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distinguished by a following exclamation point. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell them you understand
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their point (see <a href="../N/NAK.html"><i class="glossterm">NAK</i></a>). Thus, for example, you might
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cut off an overly long explanation with “<span class="quote">Ack. Ack. Ack. I get it
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now</span>”. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. An affirmative. “<span class="quote">Think we ought to ditch that damn NT
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server for a Linux box?</span>” “<span class="quote">ACK!</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>There is also a usage “<span class="quote">ACK?</span>” (from sense 1) meaning
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“<span class="quote">Are you there?</span>”, often used in email when earlier mail has
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produced no reply, or during a lull in <a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a> to
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see if the person has gone away (the standard humorous response is of
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course <a href="../N/NAK.html"><i class="glossterm">NAK</i></a>, i.e., “<span class="quote">I'm not
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here</span>”).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="accumulator.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Acme.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">accumulator </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Acme</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ADVENT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="admin.html" title="admin"/><link rel="next" href="adware.html" title="adware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ADVENT</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="admin.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="adware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ADVENT"/><dt xmlns="" id="ADVENT"><b>ADVENT</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ad´vent/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will
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Crowther on the <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> in the mid-1970s as an
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attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a
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puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one
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of the authors of <a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>.) Now better known as
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Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but the
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<a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a> operating system permitted only six-letter
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filenames in uppercase. See also <a href="../V/vadding.html"><i class="glossterm">vadding</i></a>,
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<a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a>, and <a href="../I/Infocom.html"><i class="glossterm">Infocom</i></a>.</p><div class="figure"><a id="id2897239"/><p class="title"><b>Figure 1. Screen shot of the original ADVENT game</b></p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
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Orange River Chamber
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You are in a splendid chamber thirty feet high. The walls are frozen rivers of
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orange stone. An awkward canyon and a good passage exit from east and west
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sidesof the chamber.
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A cheerful little bird is sitting here singing.
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>drop rod
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Dropped.
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>take bird
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You catch the bird in the wicker cage.
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>take rod
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Taken.
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>w
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At Top of Small Pit
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At your feet is a small pit breathing traces of white mist. A west passage ends
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here except for a small crack leading on.
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Rough stone steps lead down the pit.
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>down
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In Hall of Mists
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You are at one end of a vast hall stretching forward out of sight to the west.
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There are openings to either side. Nearby, a wide stone staircase leads
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downward. The hall is filled with wisps of white mist swaying to and fro almost
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as if alive. A cold wind blows up the staircase. There is a passage at the top
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of a dome behind you.
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Rough stone steps lead up the dome.
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</pre></td></tr></table></div><p>This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in
|
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text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become
|
||||
fixtures of hacker-speak: “<span class="quote">A huge green fierce snake bars the
|
||||
way!</span>” “<span class="quote">I see no X here</span>” (for some noun X). “<span class="quote">You
|
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are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.</span>” “<span class="quote">You are
|
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in a little maze of twisty passages, all different.</span>” The
|
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‘magic words’ <a href="../X/xyzzy.html"><i class="glossterm">xyzzy</i></a> and
|
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<a href="../P/plugh.html"><i class="glossterm">plugh</i></a> also derive from this game.</p></dd><dd><p>Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth
|
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& Flint Ridge cave system; it actually <span class="emphasis"><em>has</em></span> a
|
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Colossal Cave and a Bedquilt as in the game, and the Y2 that also
|
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turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary
|
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entrance.</p><p>ADVENT sources are available for FTP at <a href="ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z" target="_top">ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z</a>.
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You can also play it as a <a href="http://www.forkexec.com/html/play-advent.html" target="_top">Java applet</a>.
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There is a good page of resources at the <a href="http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/" target="_top">Colossal Cave Adventure
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Page</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="admin.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="adware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">admin </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> adware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>AFAIK</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="adware.html" title="adware"/><link rel="next" href="AFJ.html" title="AFJ"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">AFAIK</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="adware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AFJ.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="AFAIK"/><dt xmlns="" id="AFAIK"><b>AFAIK</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; common] Abbrev. for “<span class="quote">As Far As I Know</span>”. There
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is a variant AFAICT “<span class="quote">As Far As I Can Tell</span>”; where AFAIK
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suggests that the writer knows his knowledge is limited, AFAICT suggests
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that he feels his knowledge is as complete as anybody else's but that the
|
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best available knowledge does not support firm conclusions.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="adware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AFJ.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">adware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> AFJ</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>AFJ</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AFAIK.html" title="AFAIK"/><link rel="next" href="AFK.html" title="AFK"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">AFJ</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AFAIK.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AFK.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="AFJ"/><dt xmlns="" id="AFJ"><b>AFJ</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Written-only abbreviation for “<span class="quote">April Fool's Joke</span>”.
|
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Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a long-established tradition on Usenet
|
||||
and Internet; see <a href="../K/kremvax.html"><i class="glossterm">kremvax</i></a> for an example. In fact,
|
||||
April Fool's Day is the <span class="emphasis"><em>only</em></span> seasonal holiday
|
||||
consistently marked by customary observances on Internet and other hacker
|
||||
networks.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AFAIK.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AFK.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AFAIK </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> AFK</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>AFK</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AFJ.html" title="AFJ"/><link rel="next" href="AI.html" title="AI"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">AFK</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AFJ.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AI.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="AFK"/><dt xmlns="" id="AFK"><b>AFK</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [MUD] Abbrev. for “<span class="quote">Away From Keyboard</span>”. Used to notify
|
||||
others that you will be momentarily unavailable online. eg. “<span class="quote">Let's
|
||||
not go kill that frost giant yet, I need to go AFK to make a phone
|
||||
call</span>”. Often MUDs will have a command to politely inform others of
|
||||
your absence when they try to talk with you. The term is not restricted to
|
||||
MUDs, however, and has become common in many chat situations, from IRC to
|
||||
Unix talk.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AFJ.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AFJ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> AI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>AI-complete</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AI.html" title="AI"/><link rel="next" href="airplane-rule.html" title="airplane rule"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">AI-complete</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="airplane-rule.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="AI-complete"/><dt xmlns="" id="AI-complete"><b>AI-complete</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/A·I k@m·pleet'/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT, Stanford: by analogy with <span class="firstterm">NP-complete</span> (see <a href="../N/NP-.html"><i class="glossterm">NP-</i></a>)]
|
||||
Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the
|
||||
solution presupposes a solution to the ‘strong AI problem’
|
||||
(that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is
|
||||
AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard.</p><p>Examples of AI-complete problems are ‘The Vision Problem’
|
||||
(building a system that can see as well as a human) and ‘The Natural
|
||||
Language Problem’ (building a system that can understand and speak a
|
||||
natural language as well as a human). These may appear to be modular, but
|
||||
all attempts so far (2003) to solve them have foundered on the amount of
|
||||
context information and ‘intelligence’ they seem to
|
||||
require. See also <a href="../G/gedanken.html"><i class="glossterm">gedanken</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="airplane-rule.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> airplane rule</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
3
original/html/A/AI.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>AI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AFK.html" title="AFK"/><link rel="next" href="AI-complete.html" title="AI-complete"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">AI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AFK.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AI-complete.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="AI"/><dt xmlns="" id="AI"><b>AI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/A·I/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Abbreviation for ‘Artificial Intelligence’, so common
|
||||
that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AFK.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AI-complete.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AFK </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> AI-complete</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
5
original/html/A/ANSI-standard-pizza.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ANSI standard pizza</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ANSI-standard.html" title="ANSI standard"/><link rel="next" href="anti-idiotarianism.html" title="anti-idiotarianism"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ANSI standard pizza</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ANSI-standard.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="anti-idiotarianism.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ANSI-standard-pizza"/><dt xmlns="" id="ANSI-standard-pizza"><b>ANSI standard pizza</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/an´see stan´d@rd peet´z@/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Coined allegedly because most
|
||||
pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990
|
||||
were of that flavor. See also <a href="../R/rotary-debugger.html"><i class="glossterm">rotary debugger</i></a>;
|
||||
compare <a href="../I/ISO-standard-cup-of-tea.html"><i class="glossterm">ISO standard cup of tea</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ANSI-standard.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="anti-idiotarianism.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ANSI standard </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> anti-idiotarianism</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
11
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ANSI standard</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="annoyware.html" title="annoyware"/><link rel="next" href="ANSI-standard-pizza.html" title="ANSI standard pizza"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ANSI standard</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="annoyware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ANSI-standard-pizza.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ANSI-standard"/><dt xmlns="" id="ANSI-standard"><b>ANSI standard</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/an´see stan´d@rd/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The ANSI standard usage of <span class="firstterm">ANSI
|
||||
standard</span> refers to any practice which is typical or broadly
|
||||
done. It's most appropriately applied to things that everyone does that
|
||||
are not quite regulation. For example: ANSI standard shaking of a laser
|
||||
printer cartridge to get extra life from it, or the ANSI standard word
|
||||
tripling in names of usenet alt groups.</p><p>This usage derives from the American National Standards
|
||||
Institute. ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards
|
||||
(ISO), standardized the C programming language (see <a href="../K/K-ampersand-R.html"><i class="glossterm">K&R</i></a>, <a href="../C/Classic-C.html"><i class="glossterm">Classic
|
||||
C</i></a>), and promulgates many other important software standards.
|
||||
</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="annoyware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ANSI-standard-pizza.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">annoyware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ANSI standard pizza</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/AOL-.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>AOL!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="anti-idiotarianism.html" title="anti-idiotarianism"/><link rel="next" href="app.html" title="app"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">AOL!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="anti-idiotarianism.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="app.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="AOL-"/><dt xmlns="" id="AOL-"><b>AOL!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] Common synonym for “<span class="quote">Me, too!</span>” alluding to the
|
||||
legendary propensity of America Online users to utter contentless
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Me, too!</span>” postings. The number of exclamation points
|
||||
following varies from zero to five or so. The pseudo-HTML</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p><AOL>Me, too!</AOL></p></blockquote></div><p>is also frequently seen. See also
|
||||
<a href="../S/September-that-never-ended.html"><i class="glossterm">September that never ended</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="anti-idiotarianism.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="app.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">anti-idiotarianism </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> app</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ARMM</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="arg.html" title="arg"/><link rel="next" href="armor-plated.html" title="armor-plated"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ARMM</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="arg.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="armor-plated.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ARMM"/><dt xmlns="" id="ARMM"><b>ARMM</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym, ‘Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation’] A
|
||||
Usenet <a href="../C/cancelbot.html"><i class="glossterm">cancelbot</i></a> created by Dick Depew of Munroe
|
||||
Falls, Ohio. ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from
|
||||
anonymous-posting sites. Unfortunately, the robot's recognizer for
|
||||
anonymous postings triggered on its own automatically-generated control
|
||||
messages! Transformed by this stroke of programming ineptitude into a
|
||||
monster of Frankensteinian proportions, it broke loose on the night of
|
||||
March 30, 1993 and proceeded to <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a> <tt class="systemitem">news.admin.policy</tt> with a recursive explosion
|
||||
of over 200 messages.</p><p>ARMM's bug produced a recursive <a href="../C/cascade.html"><i class="glossterm">cascade</i></a> of
|
||||
messages each of which mechanically added text to the ID and Subject and
|
||||
some other headers of its parent. This produced a flood of messages in
|
||||
which each header took up several screens and each message ID and subject
|
||||
line got longer and longer and longer.</p><p>Reactions varied from amusement to outrage. The pathological
|
||||
messages crashed at least one mail system, and upset people paying line
|
||||
charges for their Usenet feeds. One poster described the ARMM debacle as
|
||||
“<span class="quote">instant Usenet history</span>” (also establishing the term
|
||||
<a href="../D/despew.html"><i class="glossterm">despew</i></a>), and it has since been widely cited as a
|
||||
cautionary example of the havoc the combination of good intentions and
|
||||
incompetence can wreak on a network. The Usenet thread on the subject is
|
||||
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=tweekC4qM0A.H3q%40netcom.com" target="_top">
|
||||
archived here</a>. Compare <a href="../G/Great-Worm.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Worm</i></a>;
|
||||
<a href="../S/sorcerers-apprentice-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">sorcerer's apprentice mode</i></a>. See also
|
||||
<a href="../S/software-laser.html"><i class="glossterm">software laser</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../N/network-meltdown.html"><i class="glossterm">network meltdown</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="arg.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="armor-plated.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">arg </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> armor-plated</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ASCII art</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ASCII.html" title="ASCII"/><link rel="next" href="ASCIIbetical-order.html" title="ASCIIbetical order"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ASCII art</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ASCII.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ASCIIbetical-order.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ASCII-art"/><dt xmlns="" id="ASCII-art"><b>ASCII art</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set
|
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(mainly <tt class="literal">|</tt>, <tt class="literal">-</tt>, <tt class="literal">/</tt>,
|
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<tt class="literal">\</tt>, and <tt class="literal">+</tt>). Also known as <span class="firstterm">character graphics</span> or <span class="firstterm">ASCII graphics</span>; see also
|
||||
<a href="../B/boxology.html"><i class="glossterm">boxology</i></a>. Here is a serious example:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
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|
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o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O
|
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L )||( | | | C U
|
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A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T
|
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C N )||( | | | | P
|
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E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--|(--+-o U
|
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)||( | | | GND T
|
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o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+
|
||||
|
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A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit
|
||||
feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
|
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</pre></td></tr></table><p>And here are some very silly examples:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
|
||||
|\/\/\/| ____/| ___ |\_/| ___
|
||||
| | \ o.O| ACK! / \_ |` '| _/ \
|
||||
| | =(_)= THPHTH! / \/ \/ \
|
||||
| (o)(o) U / \
|
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C _) (__) \/\/\/\ _____ /\/\/\/
|
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| ,___| (oo) \/ \/
|
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| / \/-------\ U (__)
|
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/____\ || | \ /---V `v'- oo )
|
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/ \ ||---W|| * * |--| || |`. |_/\
|
||||
|
||||
//-o-\\
|
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____---=======---____
|
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====___\ /.. ..\ /___==== Klingons rule OK!
|
||||
// ---\__O__/--- \\
|
||||
\_\ /_/
|
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</pre></td></tr></table><p>There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the standard
|
||||
character names in the fashion of a rebus.</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
+--------------------------------------------------------+
|
||||
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
|
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| ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
|
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| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
|
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| ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ |
|
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| ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
|
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+--------------------------------------------------------+
|
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" A Bee in the Carrot Patch "
|
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</pre></td></tr></table><p>Within humorous ASCII art, there is for some reason an entire
|
||||
flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. Four of these are
|
||||
reproduced in the examples above, here are three more:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
|
||||
(__) (__) (__)
|
||||
(\/) ($$) (**)
|
||||
/-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
|
||||
/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
|
||||
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
|
||||
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
|
||||
Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
|
||||
</pre></td></tr></table><p>Finally, here's a magnificent example of ASCII art depicting an
|
||||
Edwardian train station in Dunedin, New Zealand:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
.-.
|
||||
/___\
|
||||
|___|
|
||||
|]_[|
|
||||
/ I \
|
||||
JL/ | \JL
|
||||
.-. i () | () i .-.
|
||||
|_| .^. /_\ LJ=======LJ /_\ .^. |_|
|
||||
._/___\._./___\_._._._._.L_J_/.-. .-.\_L_J._._._._._/___\._./___\._._._
|
||||
., |-,-| ., L_J |_| [I] |_| L_J ., |-,-| ., .,
|
||||
JL |-O-| JL L_J%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%L_J JL |-O-| JL JL
|
||||
IIIIII_HH_'-'-'_HH_IIIIII|_|=======H=======|_|IIIIII_HH_'-'-'_HH_IIIIII_HH_
|
||||
-------[]-------[]-------[_]----\.=I=./----[_]-------[]-------[]--------[]-
|
||||
_/\_ ||\\_I_//|| _/\_ [_] []_/_L_J_\_[] [_] _/\_ ||\\_I_//|| _/\_ ||\
|
||||
|__| ||=/_|_\=|| |__|_|_| _L_L_J_J_ |_|_|__| ||=/_|_\=|| |__| ||-
|
||||
|__| |||__|__||| |__[___]__--__===__--__[___]__| |||__|__||| |__| |||
|
||||
IIIIIII[_]IIIII[_]IIIIIL___J__II__|_|__II__L___JIIIII[_]IIIII[_]IIIIIIII[_]
|
||||
\_I_/ [_]\_I_/[_] \_I_[_]\II/[]\_\I/_/[]\II/[_]\_I_/ [_]\_I_/[_] \_I_/ [_]
|
||||
./ \.L_J/ \L_J./ L_JI I[]/ \[]I IL_J \.L_J/ \L_J./ \.L_J
|
||||
| |L_J| |L_J| L_J| |[]| |[]| |L_J |L_J| |L_J| |L_J
|
||||
|_____JL_JL___JL_JL____|-|| |[]| |[]| ||-|_____JL_JL___JL_JL_____JL_J
|
||||
</pre></td></tr></table><p>The next step beyond static tableaux in ASCII art is ASCII animation.
|
||||
There are not many large examples of this; perhaps the best known is the
|
||||
ASCII animation of the original <i class="citetitle">Star Wars</i> movie at
|
||||
<a href="http://www.asciimation.co.nz/" target="_top">http://www.asciimation.co.nz/</a>.</p><p>There is a newsgroup, <tt class="systemitem">alt.ascii-art</tt>, devoted to this genre;
|
||||
however, see also <a href="../W/warlording.html"><i class="glossterm">warlording</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ASCII.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ASCIIbetical-order.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ASCII </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ASCIIbetical order</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ASCII</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="asbestos-longjohns.html" title="asbestos longjohns"/><link rel="next" href="ASCII-art.html" title="ASCII art"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ASCII</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asbestos-longjohns.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ASCII-art.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ASCII"/><dt xmlns="" id="ASCII"><b>ASCII</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/as´kee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information
|
||||
Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set
|
||||
encoding of present-day computers. The standard version uses 7 bits for
|
||||
each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of ASCII
|
||||
prior to June 1961) used fewer. This change allowed the inclusion of
|
||||
lowercase letters — a major <a href="../W/win.html"><i class="glossterm">win</i></a> — but it
|
||||
did not provide for accented letters or any other letterforms not used in
|
||||
English (such as the German sharp-S ß. or the ae-ligature æ
|
||||
which is a letter in, for example, Norwegian). It could be worse, though.
|
||||
It could be much worse. See <a href="../E/EBCDIC.html"><i class="glossterm">EBCDIC</i></a> to understand
|
||||
how. A history of ASCII and its ancestors is at <a href="http://www.wps.com/texts/codes/index.html" target="_top">http://www.wps.com/texts/codes/index.html</a>.</p><p>Computers are much pickier and less flexible about spelling than
|
||||
humans; thus, hackers need to be very precise when talking about
|
||||
characters, and have developed a considerable amount of verbal shorthand
|
||||
for them. Every character has one or more names — some formal, some
|
||||
concise, some silly. Common jargon names for ASCII characters are
|
||||
collected here. See also individual entries for
|
||||
<a href="../B/bang.html"><i class="glossterm">bang</i></a>, <a href="../E/excl.html"><i class="glossterm">excl</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../O/open.html"><i class="glossterm">open</i></a>, <a href="../Q/ques.html"><i class="glossterm">ques</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../S/semi.html"><i class="glossterm">semi</i></a>, <a href="../S/shriek.html"><i class="glossterm">shriek</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../S/splat.html"><i class="glossterm">splat</i></a>, <a href="../T/twiddle.html"><i class="glossterm">twiddle</i></a>, and
|
||||
<a href="../Y/Yu-Shiang-Whole-Fish.html"><i class="glossterm">Yu-Shiang Whole Fish</i></a>.</p><p>This list derives from revision 2.3 of the Usenet ASCII pronunciation
|
||||
guide. Single characters are listed in ASCII order; character pairs are
|
||||
sorted in by first member. For each character, common names are given in
|
||||
rough order of popularity, followed by names that are reported but rarely
|
||||
seen; official ANSI/CCITT names are surrounded by brokets: <>.
|
||||
Square brackets mark the particularly silly names introduced by
|
||||
<a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>. The abbreviations “<span class="quote">l/r</span>” and
|
||||
“<span class="quote">o/c</span>” stand for left/right and “<span class="quote">open/close</span>”
|
||||
respectively. Ordinary parentheticals provide some usage
|
||||
information.</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>!</td><td>Common:
|
||||
<a href="../B/bang.html"><i class="glossterm">bang</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
; pling; excl; not; shriek; ball-bat; <exclamation mark>. Rare:
|
||||
factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka;
|
||||
[spark-spot]; soldier, control.</td></tr><tr><td>"</td><td>Common: double quote; quote. Rare: literal mark;
|
||||
double-glitch; snakebite; <quotation marks>; <dieresis>;
|
||||
dirk; [rabbit-ears]; double prime.</td></tr><tr><td>#</td><td>Common: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp;
|
||||
<a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
; hex; [mesh]. Rare: grid; crosshatch; octothorpe;
|
||||
flash; <square>, pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark;
|
||||
thud; thump;
|
||||
<a href="../S/splat.html"><i class="glossterm">splat</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
.</td></tr><tr><td>$</td><td>Common: dollar; <dollar sign>. Rare: currency symbol;
|
||||
buck; cash; bling; string (from BASIC); escape (when used as the echo of
|
||||
ASCII ESC); ding; cache; [big money].</td></tr><tr><td>%</td><td>Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes. Rare:
|
||||
[double-oh-seven].</td></tr><tr><td>&</td><td>Common: <ampersand>; amp; amper; and, and sign. Rare:
|
||||
address (from C); reference (from C++); andpersand; bitand;
|
||||
background (from
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sh</span>(1)</span>
|
||||
|
||||
); pretzel. [INTERCAL called this
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">ampersand</span>
|
||||
|
||||
; what could be sillier?]</td></tr><tr><td>'</td><td>Common: single quote; quote; <apostrophe>. Rare: prime;
|
||||
glitch; tick; irk; pop; [spark]; <closing single quotation
|
||||
mark>; <acute accent>.</td></tr><tr><td>( )</td><td>Common: l/r paren; l/r parenthesis; left/right;
|
||||
open/close; paren/thesis; o/c paren;
|
||||
o/c parenthesis; l/r parenthesis; l/r
|
||||
banana. Rare: so/already; lparen/rparen;
|
||||
<opening/closing parenthesis>; o/c round bracket, l/r round
|
||||
bracket, [wax/wane];
|
||||
parenthisey/unparenthisey;
|
||||
l/r ear.</td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>Common: star; [
|
||||
<a href="../S/splat.html"><i class="glossterm">splat</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
]; <asterisk>. Rare: wildcard; gear; dingle; mult; spider;
|
||||
aster; times; twinkle; glob (see
|
||||
<a href="../G/glob.html"><i class="glossterm">glob</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
);
|
||||
<a href="../N/Nathan-Hale.html"><i class="glossterm">Nathan Hale</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
.</td></tr><tr><td>+</td><td>Common: <plus>; add. Rare: cross;
|
||||
[intersection].</td></tr><tr><td>,</td><td>Common: <comma>. Rare: <cedilla>; [tail].</td></tr><tr><td>-</td><td>Common: dash; <hyphen>; <minus>. Rare: [worm];
|
||||
option; dak; bithorpe.</td></tr><tr><td>.</td><td>Common: dot; point; <period>; <decimal point>.
|
||||
Rare: radix point; full stop; [spot].</td></tr><tr><td>/</td><td>Common: slash; stroke; <slant>; forward slash. Rare:
|
||||
diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; [slat].</td></tr><tr><td>:</td><td>Common: <colon>. Rare: dots; [two-spot].</td></tr><tr><td>;</td><td>Common: <semicolon>; semi. Rare: weenie; [hybrid],
|
||||
pit-thwong.</td></tr><tr><td>< ></td><td>Common: <less/greater than>; bra/ket; l/r angle;
|
||||
l/r angle bracket; l/r broket. Rare: from/{into, towards}; read
|
||||
from/write to; suck/blow; comes-from/gozinta; in/out; crunch/zap (all
|
||||
from UNIX); tic/tac; [angle/right angle].</td></tr><tr><td>=</td><td>Common: <equals>; gets; takes. Rare: quadrathorpe;
|
||||
[half-mesh].</td></tr><tr><td>?</td><td>Common: query; <question mark>;
|
||||
<a href="../Q/ques.html"><i class="glossterm">ques</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
. Rare: quiz; whatmark; [what]; wildchar; huh; hook; buttonhook;
|
||||
hunchback.</td></tr><tr><td>@</td><td>Common: at sign; at; strudel. Rare: each; vortex; whorl;
|
||||
[whirlpool]; cyclone; snail; ape; cat; rose; cabbage; <commercial
|
||||
at>.</td></tr><tr><td>V</td><td>Rare: [book].</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Common: l/r square bracket; l/r bracket; <opening/closing
|
||||
bracket>; bracket/unbracket. Rare:
|
||||
square/unsquare; [U turn/U turn back].</td></tr><tr><td>\</td><td>Common: backslash, hack, whack; escape (from C/UNIX); reverse
|
||||
slash; slosh; backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; <reverse
|
||||
slant>; reversed virgule; [backslat].</td></tr><tr><td>^</td><td>Common: hat; control; uparrow; caret; <circumflex>.
|
||||
Rare: xor sign, chevron; [shark (or shark-fin)]; to the (‘to
|
||||
the power of’); fang; pointer (in Pascal).</td></tr><tr><td>_</td><td>Common: <underline>; underscore; underbar; under. Rare:
|
||||
score; backarrow; skid; [flatworm].</td></tr><tr><td>`</td><td>Common: backquote; left quote; left single quote; open quote;
|
||||
<grave accent>; grave. Rare: backprime; [backspark];
|
||||
unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; <opening
|
||||
single quotation mark>; quasiquote.</td></tr><tr><td>{ }</td><td>Common: o/c brace; l/r brace; l/r squiggly; l/r squiggly
|
||||
bracket/brace; l/r curly bracket/brace; <opening/closing
|
||||
brace>. Rare: brace/unbrace; curly/uncurly; leftit/rytit;
|
||||
l/r squirrelly; [embrace/bracelet]. A balanced pair of these may be
|
||||
called
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">curlies</span>
|
||||
|
||||
.</td></tr><tr><td>|</td><td>Common: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar. Rare:
|
||||
<vertical line>; gozinta; thru; pipesinta (last three from
|
||||
UNIX); [spike].</td></tr><tr><td>~</td><td>Common: <tilde>; squiggle;
|
||||
<a href="../T/twiddle.html"><i class="glossterm">twiddle</i></a>
|
||||
|
||||
; not. Rare: approx; wiggle; swung dash; enyay; [sqiggle
|
||||
(sic)].</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>The pronunciation of <tt class="literal">#</tt> as ‘pound’ is
|
||||
common in the U.S. but a bad idea;
|
||||
<a href="../C/Commonwealth-Hackish.html"><i class="glossterm">Commonwealth Hackish</i></a>
|
||||
has its own, rather more apposite use of ‘pound
|
||||
sign’ (confusingly, on British keyboards the £ happens to
|
||||
replace <tt class="literal">#</tt>; thus Britishers sometimes call
|
||||
<tt class="literal">#</tt> on a U.S.-ASCII keyboard ‘pound’,
|
||||
compounding the American error). The U.S. usage derives from an
|
||||
old-fashioned commercial practice of using a <tt class="literal">#</tt> suffix to
|
||||
tag pound weights on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced
|
||||
‘hash’ outside the U.S. There are more culture wars over the
|
||||
correct pronunciation of this character than any other, which has led to
|
||||
the <a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a> suggestion that it be
|
||||
pronounced “<span class="quote">shibboleth</span>” (see Judges 12:6 in an Old Testament or
|
||||
Tanakh).</p><p>The ‘uparrow’ name for circumflex and
|
||||
‘leftarrow’ name for underline are historical relics from
|
||||
archaic ASCII (the 1963 version), which had these graphics in those
|
||||
character positions rather than the modern punctuation characters.</p><p>The ‘swung dash’ or ‘approximation’ sign
|
||||
(∼) is not quite the same as tilde ~ in typeset material, but the ASCII
|
||||
tilde serves for both (compare <a href="angle-brackets.html"><i class="glossterm">angle brackets</i></a>).
|
||||
</p><p>Some other common usages cause odd overlaps. The
|
||||
<tt class="literal">#</tt>, <tt class="literal">$</tt>, <tt class="literal">></tt>, and
|
||||
<tt class="literal">&</tt> characters, for example, are all pronounced
|
||||
“<span class="quote">hex</span>” in different communities because various assemblers use
|
||||
them as a prefix tag for hexadecimal constants (in particular,
|
||||
<tt class="literal">#</tt> in many assembler-programming cultures,
|
||||
<tt class="literal">$</tt> in the 6502 world, <tt class="literal">></tt> at Texas
|
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Instruments, and <tt class="literal">&</tt> on the BBC Micro, Sinclair, and
|
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some Z80 machines). See also <a href="../S/splat.html"><i class="glossterm">splat</i></a>.</p><p>The inability of ASCII text to correctly represent any of the world's
|
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other major languages makes the designers' choice of 7 bits look more and
|
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more like a serious <a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a> as the use of
|
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international networks continues to increase (see
|
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<a href="../S/software-rot.html"><i class="glossterm">software rot</i></a>).
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Hardware and software from the U.S. still tends to
|
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embody the assumption that ASCII is the universal character set and that
|
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characters have 7 bits; this is a major irritant to people who want to use
|
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a character set suited to their own languages. Perversely, though, efforts
|
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to solve this problem by proliferating ‘national’ character
|
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sets produce an evolutionary pressure to use a <span class="emphasis"><em>smaller</em></span>
|
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subset common to all those in use.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asbestos-longjohns.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ASCII-art.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">asbestos longjohns </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ASCII art</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ASCIIbetical order</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ASCII-art.html" title="ASCII art"/><link rel="next" href="astroturfing.html" title="astroturfing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ASCIIbetical order</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ASCII-art.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="astroturfing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ASCIIbetical-order"/><dt xmlns="" id="ASCIIbetical-order"><b>ASCIIbetical order</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/as´kee·be'·t@·kl or´dr/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.,n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather
|
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than alphabetical order. This lexicon is sorted in something close to
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ASCIIbetical order, but with case ignored and entries beginning with
|
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non-alphabetic characters moved to the beginning.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ASCII-art.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="astroturfing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ASCII art </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> astroturfing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>AUP</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Aunt-Tillie.html" title="Aunt Tillie"/><link rel="next" href="autobogotiphobia.html" title="autobogotiphobia"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">AUP</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Aunt-Tillie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="autobogotiphobia.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="AUP"/><dt xmlns="" id="AUP"><b>AUP</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/A·U·P/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Abbreviation, “<span class="quote">Acceptable Use Policy</span>”. The policy of a
|
||||
given ISP which sets out what the ISP considers to be (un)acceptable uses
|
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of its Internet resources.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Aunt-Tillie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="autobogotiphobia.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Aunt Tillie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> autobogotiphobia</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Acme</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ACK.html" title="ACK"/><link rel="next" href="ad-hockery.html" title="ad-hockery"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Acme</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ACK.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ad-hockery.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Acme"/><dt xmlns="" id="Acme"><b>Acme</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Greek <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">akme</i></span> highest point of
|
||||
perfection or achievement] The canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate,
|
||||
and non-functional gadgetry — where Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson
|
||||
(two cartoonists who specialized in elaborate contraptions) shop. The name
|
||||
has been humorously expanded as A (or American) Company Making Everything.
|
||||
(In fact, Acme was a real brand sold from Sears Roebuck catalogs in the
|
||||
early 1900s.) Describing some X as an “<span class="quote">Acme X</span>” either means
|
||||
“<span class="quote">This is <a href="../I/insanely-great.html"><i class="glossterm">insanely great</i></a></span>”, or, more
|
||||
likely, “<span class="quote">This looks <a href="../I/insanely-great.html"><i class="glossterm">insanely great</i></a> on paper,
|
||||
but in practice it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot with
|
||||
it.</span>” Compare <a href="../P/pistol.html"><i class="glossterm">pistol</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>This term, specially cherished by American hackers and explained here
|
||||
for the benefit of our overseas brethren, comes from the Warner Brothers'
|
||||
series of “<span class="quote">Road-runner</span>” cartoons. In these cartoons, the
|
||||
famished Wile E. Coyote was forever attempting to catch up with, trap, and
|
||||
eat the Road-runner. His attempts usually involved one or more
|
||||
high-technology Rube Goldberg devices — rocket jetpacks, catapults,
|
||||
magnetic traps, high-powered slingshots, etc. These were usually delivered
|
||||
in large wooden crates labeled prominently with the Acme name —
|
||||
which, probably not by coincidence, was the trade name of a peg bar system
|
||||
for superimposing animation cels used by cartoonists since forever. Acme
|
||||
devices invariably malfunctioned in improbable and violent ways.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ACK.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ad-hockery.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ACK </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ad-hockery</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Alderson loop</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="airplane-rule.html" title="airplane rule"/><link rel="next" href="aliasing-bug.html" title="aliasing bug"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Alderson loop</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="airplane-rule.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="aliasing-bug.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Alderson-loop"/><dt xmlns="" id="Alderson-loop"><b>Alderson loop</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Intel] A special version of an <a href="../I/infinite-loop.html"><i class="glossterm">infinite loop</i></a>
|
||||
where there is an exit condition available, but inaccessible in the current
|
||||
implementation of the code. Typically this is created while debugging user
|
||||
interface code. An example would be when there is a menu stating,
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Select 1-3 or 9 to quit</span>” and 9 is not allowed by the function
|
||||
that takes the selection from the user.</p></dd><dd><p>This term received its name from a programmer who had coded a modal
|
||||
message box in MSAccess with no Ok or Cancel buttons, thereby disabling the
|
||||
entire program whenever the box came up. The message box had the proper
|
||||
code for dismissal and even was set up so that when the non-existent Ok
|
||||
button was pressed the proper code would be called.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="airplane-rule.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="aliasing-bug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">airplane rule </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> aliasing bug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Alice and Bob</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="aliasing-bug.html" title="aliasing bug"/><link rel="next" href="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-.html" title="All hardware sucks, all software sucks."/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Alice and Bob</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="aliasing-bug.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Alice-and-Bob"/><dt xmlns="" id="Alice-and-Bob"><b>Alice and Bob</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The archetypal individuals used as examples in discussions of
|
||||
cryptographic protocols. Originally, theorists would say something like:
|
||||
“<span class="quote">A communicates with someone who claims to be B, So to be sure, A
|
||||
tests that B knows a secret number K. So A sends to B a random number X. B
|
||||
then forms Y by encrypting X under key K and sends Y back to A</span>”
|
||||
Because this sort of thing is quite hard to follow, theorists stopped using
|
||||
the unadorned letters A and B to represent the main players and started
|
||||
calling them Alice and Bob. So now we say “<span class="quote">Alice communicates with
|
||||
someone claiming to be Bob, and to be sure, Alice tests that Bob knows a
|
||||
secret number K. Alice sends to Bob a random number X. Bob then forms Y by
|
||||
encrypting X under key K and sends Y back to Alice</span>”. A whole
|
||||
mythology rapidly grew up around the metasyntactic names; see <a href="http://www.conceptlabs.co.uk/alicebob.html" target="_top">http://www.conceptlabs.co.uk/alicebob.html</a>.</p></dd><dd><p>In Bruce Schneier's definitive introductory text <i class="citetitle">Applied
|
||||
Cryptography</i> (2nd ed., 1996, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN
|
||||
0-471-11709-9) he introduced a table of dramatis personae headed by Alice
|
||||
and Bob. Others include Carol (a participant in three- and four-party
|
||||
protocols), Dave (a participant in four-party protocols), Eve (an
|
||||
eavesdropper), Mallory (a malicious active attacker), Trent (a trusted
|
||||
arbitrator), Walter (a warden), Peggy (a prover) and Victor (a verifier).
|
||||
These names for roles are either already standard or, given the wide
|
||||
popularity of the book, may be expected to quickly become so.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="aliasing-bug.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">aliasing bug </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> All hardware sucks, all software sucks.</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>All hardware sucks, all software sucks.</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Alice-and-Bob.html" title="Alice and Bob"/><link rel="next" href="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html" title="all your base are belong to us"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">All hardware sucks, all software sucks.</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Alice-and-Bob.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-"/><dt xmlns="" id="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-"><b>All hardware sucks, all software sucks.</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[from <a href="../S/scary-devil-monastery.html"><i class="glossterm">scary devil monastery</i></a>] A general
|
||||
recognition of the fallibility of any computer system, ritually intoned as
|
||||
an attempt to quell incipient <a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>. It is a
|
||||
common response to any sort of <a href="../B/bigot.html"><i class="glossterm">bigot</i></a>. When
|
||||
discussing <a href="../W/Wintel.html"><i class="glossterm">Wintel</i></a> systems, however, it is often
|
||||
snidely appended with, ‘but some suck more than others.’</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Alice-and-Bob.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Alice and Bob </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> all your base are belong to us</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Aluminum Book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="alt-bit.html" title="alt bit"/><link rel="next" href="ambimouseterous.html" title="ambimouseterous"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Aluminum Book</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alt-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ambimouseterous.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Aluminum-Book"/><dt xmlns="" id="Aluminum-Book"><b>Aluminum Book</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT] <i class="citetitle">Common LISP: The Language</i>, by Guy L.
|
||||
Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990). Note
|
||||
that due to a technical screwup some printings of the second edition are
|
||||
actually of a color the author describes succinctly as “<span class="quote">yucky
|
||||
green</span>”. See also <a href="../B/book-titles.html"><i class="glossterm">book titles</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alt-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ambimouseterous.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">alt bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ambimouseterous</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Amiga Persecution Complex</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Amiga.html" title="Amiga"/><link rel="next" href="amp-off.html" title="amp off"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Amiga Persecution Complex</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Amiga.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="amp-off.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Amiga-Persecution-Complex"/><dt xmlns="" id="Amiga-Persecution-Complex"><b>Amiga Persecution Complex</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The disorder suffered by a particularly egregious variety of
|
||||
<a href="../B/bigot.html"><i class="glossterm">bigot</i></a>, those who believe that the marginality of
|
||||
their preferred machine is the result of some kind of industry-wide
|
||||
conspiracy (for without a conspiracy of some kind, the eminent superiority
|
||||
of their beloved shining jewel of a platform would obviously win over all,
|
||||
market pressures be damned!) Those afflicted are prone to engaging in
|
||||
<a href="../F/flame-war.html"><i class="glossterm">flame war</i></a>s and calling for boycotts and
|
||||
mailbombings. Amiga Persecution Complex is by no means limited to Amiga
|
||||
users; NeXT, <a href="../N/NeWS.html"><i class="glossterm">NeWS</i></a>, <a href="../O/OS-2.html"><i class="glossterm">OS/2</i></a>,
|
||||
Macintosh, <a href="../L/LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a>, and <a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a>
|
||||
users are also common victims. <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> users used to
|
||||
display symptoms very frequently before Linux started winning; some still
|
||||
do. See also <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>, <a href="../T/troll.html"><i class="glossterm">troll</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>, <a href="../W/weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">weenie</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../G/Get-a-life-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a life!</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Amiga.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="amp-off.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Amiga </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> amp off</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Amiga</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ambimouseterous.html" title="ambimouseterous"/><link rel="next" href="Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html" title="Amiga Persecution Complex"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Amiga</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ambimouseterous.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Amiga"/><dt xmlns="" id="Amiga"><b>Amiga</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A series of personal computer models originally sold by Commodore,
|
||||
based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an operating system
|
||||
that combined some of the best features of Macintosh and Unix with
|
||||
compatibility with neither.</p><p>The Amiga was released just as the personal computing world
|
||||
standardized on IBM-PC clones. This prevented it from gaining serious
|
||||
market share, despite the fact that the first Amigas had a substantial
|
||||
technological lead on the IBM XTs of the time. Instead, it acquired a small
|
||||
but zealous population of enthusiastic hackers who dreamt of one day
|
||||
unseating the clones (see <a href="Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html"><i class="glossterm">Amiga Persecution Complex</i></a>).
|
||||
The traits of this culture are both spoofed and
|
||||
illuminated in <a href="http://www.blazemonger.com/BM/" target="_top"> The BLAZE Humor
|
||||
Viewer</a>. The strength of the Amiga platform seeded a small industry
|
||||
of companies building software and hardware for the platform, especially in
|
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graphics and video applications (see <a href="../V/video-toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">video toaster</i></a>).
|
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</p><p>Due to spectacular mismanagement, Commodore did hardly any R&D,
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||||
allowing the competition to close Amiga's technological lead. After
|
||||
Commodore went bankrupt in 1994 the technology passed through several
|
||||
hands, none of whom did much with it. However, the Amiga is still being
|
||||
produced in Europe under license and has a substantial number of fans,
|
||||
which will probably extend the platform's life considerably.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ambimouseterous.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ambimouseterous </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Amiga Persecution Complex</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Angband</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html" title="and there was much rejoicing"/><link rel="next" href="angle-brackets.html" title="angle brackets"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Angband</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="angle-brackets.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Angband"/><dt xmlns="" id="Angband"><b>Angband</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ang´band/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Like <a href="../N/nethack.html"><i class="glossterm">nethack</i></a>, <a href="../M/moria.html"><i class="glossterm">moria</i></a>,
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||||
and <a href="../R/rogue.html"><i class="glossterm">rogue</i></a>, one of the large freely distributed
|
||||
Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of
|
||||
machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Pits of Angband
|
||||
(compare <a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>, <a href="../E/elvish.html"><i class="glossterm">elvish</i></a>).
|
||||
Has been described as “<span class="quote">Moria on steroids</span>”; but, unlike Moria,
|
||||
many aspects of the game are customizable. This leads many hackers and
|
||||
would-be hackers into fooling with these instead of doing productive work.
|
||||
There are many Angband variants, of which the most notorious is probably
|
||||
the rather whimsical Zangband. In this game, when a key that does not
|
||||
correspond to a command is pressed, the game will display “<span class="quote">Type ? for
|
||||
help</span>” 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, random error
|
||||
messages including “<span class="quote">An error has occurred because an error of type 42
|
||||
has occurred</span>” and “<span class="quote">Windows 95 uninstalled successfully</span>”
|
||||
will be displayed. Zangband also allows the player to kill Santa Claus
|
||||
(who has some really good stuff, but also has a lot of friends),
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Bull Gates</span>”, and Barney the Dinosaur (but be watchful; Barney
|
||||
has a nasty case of halitosis). There is an official angband home page at
|
||||
<a href="http://thangorodrim.angband.org/" target="_top">http://thangorodrim.angband.org/</a>
|
||||
and a zangband one at <a href="http://www.zangband.org/" target="_top">http://www.zangband.org/</a>. See also
|
||||
<a href="../R/Random-Number-God.html"><i class="glossterm">Random Number God</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="angle-brackets.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">and there was much rejoicing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> angle brackets</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Archimedes</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="app.html" title="app"/><link rel="next" href="arena.html" title="arena"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Archimedes</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="app.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="arena.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Archimedes"/><dt xmlns="" id="Archimedes"><b>Archimedes</b></dt></dt><dd><p> The world's first RISC microcomputer, available only in the British
|
||||
Commonwealth and europe. Built in 1987 in Great Britain by Acorn Computers,
|
||||
it was legendary for its use of the ARM-2 microprocessor as a CPU. Many a
|
||||
novice hacker in the Commonwealth first learnt his or her skills on the
|
||||
Archimedes, since it was specifically designed for use in schools and
|
||||
educational institutions. Owners of Archimedes machines are often still
|
||||
treated with awe and reverence. Familiarly, “<span class="quote">archi</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="app.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="arena.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">app </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> arena</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Aunt Tillie</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="attoparsec.html" title="attoparsec"/><link rel="next" href="AUP.html" title="AUP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Aunt Tillie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="attoparsec.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AUP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Aunt-Tillie"/><dt xmlns="" id="Aunt-Tillie"><b>Aunt Tillie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [linux-kernel mailing list] The archetypal non-technical user, one's
|
||||
elderly and scatterbrained maiden aunt. Invoked in discussions of
|
||||
usability for people who are not hackers and geeks; one sees references to
|
||||
the “<span class="quote">Aunt Tillie test</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="attoparsec.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AUP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">attoparsec </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> AUP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>abbrev</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="next" href="ABEND.html" title="ABEND"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">abbrev</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../A.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ABEND.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="abbrev"/><dt xmlns="" id="abbrev"><b>abbrev</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@·breev´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@·brev´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common abbreviation for ‘abbreviation’.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../A.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ABEND.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">A </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ABEND</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/accumulator.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>accumulator</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ABEND.html" title="ABEND"/><link rel="next" href="ACK.html" title="ACK"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">accumulator</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ABEND.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ACK.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="accumulator"/><dt xmlns="" id="accumulator"><b>accumulator</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n. obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">register</span> is a fairly reliable
|
||||
indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the
|
||||
architecture under discussion is quite old. The term in full is almost
|
||||
never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names
|
||||
for arithmetic registers beginning in ‘A’ derive from
|
||||
historical use of the term <span class="firstterm">accumulator</span> (and not, actually, from
|
||||
‘arithmetic’). Confusingly, though, an ‘A’
|
||||
register name prefix may also stand for <span class="firstterm">address</span>, as for example on the Motorola 680x0
|
||||
family. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A register being used for arithmetic or logic (as opposed to
|
||||
addressing or a loop index), especially one being used to accumulate a sum
|
||||
or count of many items. This use is in context of a particular routine or
|
||||
stretch of code. “<span class="quote">The FOOBAZ routine uses A3 as an
|
||||
accumulator.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p> 3. One's in-basket (esp. among old-timers who might use sense 1).
|
||||
“<span class="quote">You want this reviewed? Sure, just put it in the
|
||||
accumulator.</span>” (See <a href="../S/stack.html"><i class="glossterm">stack</i></a>.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ABEND.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ACK.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ABEND </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ACK</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/ad-hockery.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ad-hockery</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Acme.html" title="Acme"/><link rel="next" href="address-harvester.html" title="address harvester"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ad-hockery</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Acme.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="address-harvester.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ad-hockery"/><dt xmlns="" id="ad-hockery"><b>ad-hockery</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ad·hok'@r·ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Purdue] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp. expert
|
||||
systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are
|
||||
in fact entirely arbitrary. For example, fuzzy-matching of input tokens
|
||||
that might be typing errors against a symbol table can make it look as
|
||||
though a program knows how to spell.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Special-case code to cope with some awkward input that would
|
||||
otherwise cause a program to <a href="../C/choke.html"><i class="glossterm">choke</i></a>, presuming normal
|
||||
inputs are dealt with in some cleaner and more regular way.</p></dd><dd><p>Also called <span class="firstterm">ad-hackery</span>,
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">ad-hocity</span> (<span class="pronunciation">/ad-hos'@-tee/</span>), <span class="firstterm">ad-crockery</span>. See also
|
||||
<a href="../E/ELIZA-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">ELIZA effect</i></a>.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-10-31"/><img src="../graphics/73-10-31.png"/><div class="caption"><p>This is <a href="ad-hockery.html"><i class="glossterm">ad-hockery</i></a> in action.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
|
||||
<a href="../W/water-MIPS.html#crunchly74-08-18">74-08-18</a>. The previous one is
|
||||
<a href="../B/bug.html#crunchly73-07-29">73-07-29</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Acme.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="address-harvester.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Acme </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> address harvester</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/address-harvester.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>address harvester</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ad-hockery.html" title="ad-hockery"/><link rel="next" href="adger.html" title="adger"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">address harvester</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ad-hockery.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="adger.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="address-harvester"/><dt xmlns="" id="address-harvester"><b>address harvester</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic
|
||||
looking for valid email addresses. Some address harvesters are benign,
|
||||
used only for compiling address directories. Most, unfortunately, are run
|
||||
by miscreants compiling address lists to <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>.
|
||||
Address harvesters can be foiled by a <a href="../T/teergrube.html"><i class="glossterm">teergrube</i></a>.
|
||||
</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ad-hockery.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="adger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ad-hockery </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> adger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/adger.html
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original/html/A/adger.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>adger</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="address-harvester.html" title="address harvester"/><link rel="next" href="admin.html" title="admin"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">adger</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="address-harvester.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="admin.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="adger"/><dt xmlns="" id="adger"><b>adger</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/aj´r/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [UCLA mutant of <a href="../N/nadger.html"><i class="glossterm">nadger</i></a>, poss. also from the
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middle name of an infamous <a href="../T/tenured-graduate-student.html"><i class="glossterm">tenured graduate student</i></a>]
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To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen
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with even slight mental effort. E.g., “<span class="quote">He started removing files and
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promptly adgered the whole project</span>”. Compare
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<a href="../D/dumbass-attack.html"><i class="glossterm">dumbass attack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="address-harvester.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="admin.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">address harvester </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> admin</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>admin</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="adger.html" title="adger"/><link rel="next" href="ADVENT.html" title="ADVENT"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">admin</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="adger.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ADVENT.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="admin"/><dt xmlns="" id="admin"><b>admin</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ad·min´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Short for ‘administrator’; very commonly used in speech
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or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common
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constructions on this include <span class="firstterm">sysadmin</span> and <span class="firstterm">site
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admin</span> (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact
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for email and news) or <span class="firstterm">newsadmin</span>
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(focusing specifically on news). Compare
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<a href="../P/postmaster.html"><i class="glossterm">postmaster</i></a>, <a href="../S/sysop.html"><i class="glossterm">sysop</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/system-mangler.html"><i class="glossterm">system mangler</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="adger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ADVENT.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">adger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ADVENT</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>adware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ADVENT.html" title="ADVENT"/><link rel="next" href="AFAIK.html" title="AFAIK"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">adware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ADVENT.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AFAIK.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="adware"/><dt xmlns="" id="adware"><b>adware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>Software which is free to download and use but includes pop-up
|
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banner ads somewhere. See also <a href="../W/suffix-ware.html"><i class="glossterm">-ware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ADVENT.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AFAIK.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ADVENT </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> AFAIK</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>airplane rule</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AI-complete.html" title="AI-complete"/><link rel="next" href="Alderson-loop.html" title="Alderson loop"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">airplane rule</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AI-complete.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Alderson-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="airplane-rule"/><dt xmlns="" id="airplane-rule"><b>airplane rule</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> “<span class="quote">Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a
|
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twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine
|
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airplane.</span>” By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule
|
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that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that
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the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one
|
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basket, after making sure that you've built a really
|
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<span class="emphasis"><em>good</em></span> basket. See also
|
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<a href="../K/KISS-Principle.html"><i class="glossterm">KISS Principle</i></a>,
|
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<a href="../E/elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AI-complete.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Alderson-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AI-complete </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Alderson loop</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>aliasing bug</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Alderson-loop.html" title="Alderson loop"/><link rel="next" href="Alice-and-Bob.html" title="Alice and Bob"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">aliasing bug</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Alderson-loop.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Alice-and-Bob.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="aliasing-bug"/><dt xmlns="" id="aliasing-bug"><b>aliasing bug</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that
|
||||
does dynamic allocation, esp. via
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">malloc</span>(3)</span>
|
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or equivalent. If several pointers address (are <span class="firstterm">aliases for</span>) a given hunk of storage, it may
|
||||
happen that the storage is freed or reallocated (and thus moved) through
|
||||
one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle
|
||||
(and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the
|
||||
allocation history of the malloc <a href="arena.html"><i class="glossterm">arena</i></a>. Avoidable
|
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by use of allocation strategies that never alias allocated core, or by use
|
||||
of higher-level languages, such as <a href="../L/LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a>, which
|
||||
employ a garbage collector (see <a href="../G/GC.html"><i class="glossterm">GC</i></a>). Also called a
|
||||
<a href="../S/stale-pointer-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">stale pointer bug</i></a>. See also
|
||||
<a href="../P/precedence-lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">precedence lossage</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the stack</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../M/memory-smash.html"><i class="glossterm">memory smash</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../O/overrun-screw.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun screw</i></a>, <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: Though this term is nowadays associated with C
|
||||
programming, it was already in use in a very similar sense in the Algol-60
|
||||
and FORTRAN communities in the 1960s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Alderson-loop.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Alice-and-Bob.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Alderson loop </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Alice and Bob</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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original/html/A/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>all your base are belong to us</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-.html" title="All hardware sucks, all software sucks."/><link rel="next" href="alpha-geek.html" title="alpha geek"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">all your base are belong to us</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alpha-geek.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us"/><dt xmlns="" id="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us"><b>all your base are belong to us</b></dt></dt><dd><p> A declaration of victory or superiority. The phrase stems from a
|
||||
1991 adaptation of Toaplan's “<span class="quote">Zero Wing</span>” shoot-'em-up arcade
|
||||
game for the Sega Genesis game console. A brief introduction was added to
|
||||
the opening screen, and it has what many consider to be the worst
|
||||
Japanese-to-English translation in video game history. The introduction
|
||||
shows the bridge of a starship in chaos as a Borg-like figure named CATS
|
||||
materializes and says, “<span class="quote">How are you gentlemen!! All your base are
|
||||
belong to us.</span>” [sic] In 2001, this amusing mistranslation spread
|
||||
virally through the Internet, bringing with it a slew of JPEGs and a movie
|
||||
of hacked photographs, each showing a street sign, store front, package
|
||||
label, etc. hacked to read “<span class="quote">All your base are belong to us</span>” or
|
||||
one of the other many supremely dopey lines from the game (such as
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Somebody set up usthe bomb!!!</span>” or “<span class="quote">What
|
||||
happen?</span>”). When these phrases are used properly, the overall effect
|
||||
is both screamingly funny and somewhat chilling, reminiscent of the B movie
|
||||
“<span class="quote">They Live</span>”.</p><p>The original has been generalized to “<span class="quote">All your X are belong to
|
||||
us</span>”, where X is filled in to connote a sinister takeover of some
|
||||
sort. Thus, “<span class="quote">When Joe signed up for his new job at Yoyodyne, he had
|
||||
to sign a draconian NDA. It basically said: All your code are belong to
|
||||
us.</span>” Has many of the connotations of “<span class="quote">Resistance is futile;
|
||||
you will be assimilated</span>” (see
|
||||
<a href="../B/Borg.html"><i class="glossterm">Borg</i></a>). Considered silly, and most likely to be used
|
||||
by the type of person that finds <a href="../J/Jeff-K-.html"><i class="glossterm">Jeff K.</i></a>
|
||||
hilarious.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="All-hardware-sucks--all-software-sucks-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alpha-geek.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">All hardware sucks, all software sucks. </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> alpha geek</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>alpha geek</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html" title="all your base are belong to us"/><link rel="next" href="alpha-particles.html" title="alpha particles"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">alpha geek</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alpha-particles.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="alpha-geek"/><dt xmlns="" id="alpha-geek"><b>alpha geek</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from animal ethologists' <span class="firstterm">alpha
|
||||
male</span>] The most technically accomplished or skillful person in
|
||||
some implied context. “<span class="quote">Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek
|
||||
here.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alpha-particles.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">all your base are belong to us </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> alpha particles</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>alpha particles</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="alpha-geek.html" title="alpha geek"/><link rel="next" href="alt.html" title="alt"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">alpha particles</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alpha-geek.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alt.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="alpha-particles"/><dt xmlns="" id="alpha-particles"><b>alpha particles</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../B/bit-rot.html"><i class="glossterm">bit rot</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alpha-geek.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alt.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">alpha geek </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> alt</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>alt bit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="alt.html" title="alt"/><link rel="next" href="Aluminum-Book.html" title="Aluminum Book"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">alt bit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alt.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Aluminum-Book.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="alt-bit"/><dt xmlns="" id="alt-bit"><b>alt bit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/awlt bit/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../M/meta-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">meta bit</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alt.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Aluminum-Book.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">alt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Aluminum Book</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>alt</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="alpha-particles.html" title="alpha particles"/><link rel="next" href="alt-bit.html" title="alt bit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">alt</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alpha-particles.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alt-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="alt"/><dt xmlns="" id="alt"><b>alt</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/awlt/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The alt shift key on an
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IBM PC or <a href="../C/clone.html"><i class="glossterm">clone</i></a> keyboard; see
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<a href="../B/bucky-bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bucky bits</i></a>, sense 2
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(though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit).</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The option key on a
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Macintosh; use of this term usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs
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before coming to the Mac (see also <a href="../F/feature-key.html"><i class="glossterm">feature key</i></a>,
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which is sometimes <span class="emphasis"><em>incorrectly</em></span> called
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‘alt’).</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The <tt class="systemitem">alt</tt> hierarchy on
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Usenet, the tree of newsgroups created by users without a formal vote and
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approval procedure. There is a myth, not entirely implausible, that
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<tt class="systemitem">alt</tt> is acronymic for
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“<span class="quote">anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists</span>”; but in fact it is
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simply short for “<span class="quote">alternative</span>”.</p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">n.,obs</span>.
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Rare alternate name for the ASCII ESC character (ASCII 0011011).
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This use, derives, with the alt key itself, from archaic PDP-10
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operating systems, especially <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="alpha-particles.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="alt-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">alpha particles </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> alt bit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ambimouseterous</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Aluminum-Book.html" title="Aluminum Book"/><link rel="next" href="Amiga.html" title="Amiga"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ambimouseterous</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Aluminum-Book.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Amiga.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ambimouseterous"/><dt xmlns="" id="ambimouseterous"><b>ambimouseterous</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/am·b@·mows´ter·us/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/am·b@·mows´trus/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [modeled on <span class="i">ambidextrous</span>] Able to use
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a mouse with either hand.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Aluminum-Book.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Amiga.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Aluminum Book </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Amiga</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>amp off</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html" title="Amiga Persecution Complex"/><link rel="next" href="amper.html" title="amper"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">amp off</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="amper.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="amp-off"/><dt xmlns="" id="amp-off"><b>amp off</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Purdue] To run in <a href="../B/background.html"><i class="glossterm">background</i></a>. From the Unix
|
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shell ‘&’ operator.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="amper.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Amiga Persecution Complex </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> amper</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>amper</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="amp-off.html" title="amp off"/><link rel="next" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html" title="and there was much rejoicing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">amper</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="amp-off.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="amper"/><dt xmlns="" id="amper"><b>amper</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand
|
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(‘&’, ASCII 0100110) character. See
|
||||
<a href="ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a> for other synonyms.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="amp-off.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">amp off </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> and there was much rejoicing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>and there was much rejoicing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="amper.html" title="amper"/><link rel="next" href="Angband.html" title="Angband"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">and there was much rejoicing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="amper.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Angband.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="and-there-was-much-rejoicing"/><dt xmlns="" id="and-there-was-much-rejoicing"><b>and there was much rejoicing</b></dt></dt><dd><p>[from the movie <i class="citetitle">Monty Python and the Holy
|
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Grail</i>.]</p></dd><dd><p>Acknowledgement of a notable accomplishment. Something long-awaited,
|
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widely desired, possibly unexpected but secretly wished-for, with a suggestion
|
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that something about the problem (and perhaps the steps necessary to make it
|
||||
go away) was deeply disturbing to hacker sensibilities.</p><p>In person, the phrase is almost invariably pronounced with the same
|
||||
portentious intonation as the movie. The customary in-person (approving)
|
||||
response is a weak and halfhearted “<span class="quote">Yaaaay...</span>”,
|
||||
with one index finger raised like a flag and moved in a small circle.
|
||||
The reason for this, like most of the Monty Python
|
||||
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">oeuvre</i></span>, cannot easily be explained
|
||||
outside its original context.</p><p>Example: "changelog entry #436: with the foo driver brain damage taken
|
||||
care of, finally obsoleted BROKEN_EVIL_KLUDGE. Removed from source tree.
|
||||
(And there was much rejoicing)."</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="amper.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Angband.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">amper </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Angband</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>angle brackets</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Angband.html" title="Angband"/><link rel="next" href="angry-fruit-salad.html" title="angry fruit salad"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">angle brackets</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Angband.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="angry-fruit-salad.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="angle-brackets"/><dt xmlns="" id="angle-brackets"><b>angle brackets</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Either of the characters <tt class="literal"><</tt> (ASCII 0111100) and
|
||||
<tt class="literal">></tt> (ASCII 0111110) (ASCII less-than or greater-than
|
||||
signs). Typographers in the <a href="../R/Real-World.html"><i class="glossterm">Real World</i></a> use angle
|
||||
brackets which are either taller and slimmer (the ISO lang 〈 and rang
|
||||
〉 characters), or significantly smaller (single or double guillemets)
|
||||
than the less-than and greater-than signs. See
|
||||
<a href="../B/broket.html"><i class="glossterm">broket</i></a>, <a href="ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Angband.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="angry-fruit-salad.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Angband </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> angry fruit salad</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>angry fruit salad</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="angle-brackets.html" title="angle brackets"/><link rel="next" href="annoybot.html" title="annoybot"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">angry fruit salad</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="angle-brackets.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="annoybot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="angry-fruit-salad"/><dt xmlns="" id="angry-fruit-salad"><b>angry fruit salad</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colors. (This term
|
||||
derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colors found in canned fruit
|
||||
salad.) Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using
|
||||
color window systems such as <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>; there is a tendency
|
||||
to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable
|
||||
for long-term use.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="angle-brackets.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="annoybot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">angle brackets </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> annoybot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>annoybot</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="angry-fruit-salad.html" title="angry fruit salad"/><link rel="next" href="annoyware.html" title="annoyware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">annoybot</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="angry-fruit-salad.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="annoyware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="annoybot"/><dt xmlns="" id="annoybot"><b>annoybot</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@·noy·bot/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IRC] See <a href="../B/bot.html"><i class="glossterm">bot</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="angry-fruit-salad.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="annoyware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">angry fruit salad </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> annoyware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>annoyware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="annoybot.html" title="annoybot"/><link rel="next" href="ANSI-standard.html" title="ANSI standard"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">annoyware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="annoybot.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ANSI-standard.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="annoyware"/><dt xmlns="" id="annoyware"><b>annoyware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A type of <a href="../S/shareware.html"><i class="glossterm">shareware</i></a> that frequently disrupts
|
||||
normal program operation to display requests for payment to the author in
|
||||
return for the ability to disable the request messages. (Also called
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">nagware</span>) The requests generally
|
||||
require user action to acknowledge the message before normal operation is
|
||||
resumed and are often tied to the most frequently used features of the
|
||||
software. See also <a href="../C/careware.html"><i class="glossterm">careware</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../C/charityware.html"><i class="glossterm">charityware</i></a>, <a href="../C/crippleware.html"><i class="glossterm">crippleware</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../F/freeware.html"><i class="glossterm">freeware</i></a>, <a href="../F/FRS.html"><i class="glossterm">FRS</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../G/guiltware.html"><i class="glossterm">guiltware</i></a>, <a href="../P/postcardware.html"><i class="glossterm">postcardware</i></a>, and
|
||||
<a href="../W/suffix-ware.html"><i class="glossterm">-ware</i></a>; compare
|
||||
<a href="../P/payware.html"><i class="glossterm">payware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="annoybot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ANSI-standard.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">annoybot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ANSI standard</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>anti-idiotarianism</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ANSI-standard-pizza.html" title="ANSI standard pizza"/><link rel="next" href="AOL-.html" title="AOL!"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">anti-idiotarianism</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ANSI-standard-pizza.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AOL-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="anti-idiotarianism"/><dt xmlns="" id="anti-idiotarianism"><b>anti-idiotarianism</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[very common] Opposition to idiots of all political stripes. First
|
||||
coined in the <a href="../B/blog.html"><i class="glossterm">blog</i></a> named
|
||||
<a href="http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php" target="_top">Little Green
|
||||
Footballs</a> as part of a post expressing disgust with inane responses
|
||||
to post-9/11 Islamic terrorism. Anti-idiotarian wrath has focused on
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Islamic terrorists and their sympathizers in the Western political left,
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but also routinely excoriated right-wing politicians backing repressive
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’anti-terror‘ legislation and Christian religious figures who
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(in the blogosphere's view of the matter) have descended nearly to the
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level of jihad themselves.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ANSI-standard-pizza.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="AOL-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ANSI standard pizza </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> AOL!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>app</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AOL-.html" title="AOL!"/><link rel="next" href="Archimedes.html" title="Archimedes"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">app</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AOL-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Archimedes.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="app"/><dt xmlns="" id="app"><b>app</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ap/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Short for ‘application program’, as opposed to a systems
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program. Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to
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create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend
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not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker
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parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging
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systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. (Broadly, an
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app is often a self-contained environment for performing some well-defined
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task such as ‘word processing’; hackers tend to prefer more
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general-purpose tools.) See <a href="../K/killer-app.html"><i class="glossterm">killer app</i></a>; oppose
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<a href="../T/tool.html"><i class="glossterm">tool</i></a>, <a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating
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system</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AOL-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Archimedes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AOL! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Archimedes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>arena</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Archimedes.html" title="Archimedes"/><link rel="next" href="arg.html" title="arg"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">arena</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Archimedes.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="arg.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="arena"/><dt xmlns="" id="arena"><b>arena</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; Unix] The area of memory attached to a process by
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">brk</span>(2)</span>
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and
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sbrk</span>(2)</span>
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and used by
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">malloc</span>(3)</span>
|
||||
as dynamic storage. So named from a <b class="command">malloc: corrupt
|
||||
arena</b> message emitted when some early versions detected an
|
||||
impossible value in the free block list. See <a href="../O/overrun-screw.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun
|
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screw</i></a>, <a href="aliasing-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">aliasing bug</i></a>, <a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory
|
||||
leak</i></a>, <a href="../M/memory-smash.html"><i class="glossterm">memory smash</i></a>, <a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the
|
||||
stack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Archimedes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="arg.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Archimedes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> arg</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>arg</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="arena.html" title="arena"/><link rel="next" href="ARMM.html" title="ARMM"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">arg</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="arena.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ARMM.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="arg"/><dt xmlns="" id="arg"><b>arg</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/arg/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Abbreviation for ‘argument’ (to a function), used so
|
||||
often as to have become a new word (like ‘piano’ from
|
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‘pianoforte’). “<span class="quote">The sine function takes 1 arg, but the
|
||||
arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args.</span>” Compare
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<a href="../P/param.html"><i class="glossterm">param</i></a>, <a href="../P/parm.html"><i class="glossterm">parm</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../V/var.html"><i class="glossterm">var</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="arena.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ARMM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">arena </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ARMM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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original/html/A/armor-plated.html
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>armor-plated</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ARMM.html" title="ARMM"/><link rel="next" href="asbestos.html" title="asbestos"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">armor-plated</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ARMM.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asbestos.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="armor-plated"/><dt xmlns="" id="armor-plated"><b>armor-plated</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. for <a href="../B/bulletproof.html"><i class="glossterm">bulletproof</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ARMM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asbestos.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ARMM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> asbestos</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/asbestos-cork-award.html
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original/html/A/asbestos-cork-award.html
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>asbestos cork award</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="asbestos.html" title="asbestos"/><link rel="next" href="asbestos-longjohns.html" title="asbestos longjohns"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">asbestos cork award</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asbestos.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asbestos-longjohns.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="asbestos-cork-award"/><dt xmlns="" id="asbestos-cork-award"><b>asbestos cork award</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Once, long ago at MIT, there was a <a href="../F/flamer.html"><i class="glossterm">flamer</i></a> so
|
||||
consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed, had made, and
|
||||
distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">asbestos cork award</span>. (Any reader in
|
||||
doubt as to the intended application of the cork should consult the
|
||||
etymology under <a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>.) Since then, it is agreed
|
||||
that only a select few have risen to the heights of bombast required to
|
||||
earn this dubious dignity — but there is no agreement on
|
||||
<span class="emphasis"><em>which</em></span> few.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asbestos.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asbestos-longjohns.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">asbestos </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> asbestos longjohns</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
5
original/html/A/asbestos-longjohns.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>asbestos longjohns</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="asbestos-cork-award.html" title="asbestos cork award"/><link rel="next" href="ASCII.html" title="ASCII"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">asbestos longjohns</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asbestos-cork-award.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ASCII.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="asbestos-longjohns"/><dt xmlns="" id="asbestos-longjohns"><b>asbestos longjohns</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Notional garments donned by <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> posters
|
||||
just before emitting a remark they expect will elicit
|
||||
<a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a>. This is the most common of the
|
||||
<a href="asbestos.html"><i class="glossterm">asbestos</i></a> coinages. Also <span class="firstterm">asbestos underwear</span>, <span class="firstterm">asbestos overcoat</span>, etc.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asbestos-cork-award.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ASCII.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">asbestos cork award </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ASCII</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/A/asbestos.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>asbestos</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="armor-plated.html" title="armor-plated"/><link rel="next" href="asbestos-cork-award.html" title="asbestos cork award"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">asbestos</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="armor-plated.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asbestos-cork-award.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="asbestos"/><dt xmlns="" id="asbestos"><b>asbestos</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from
|
||||
<a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>s; also in other highly
|
||||
<a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>-suggestive usages. See, for example,
|
||||
<a href="asbestos-longjohns.html"><i class="glossterm">asbestos longjohns</i></a> and
|
||||
<a href="asbestos-cork-award.html"><i class="glossterm">asbestos cork award</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="armor-plated.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asbestos-cork-award.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">armor-plated </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> asbestos cork award</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>astroturfing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="ASCIIbetical-order.html" title="ASCIIbetical order"/><link rel="next" href="atomic.html" title="atomic"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">astroturfing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ASCIIbetical-order.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="atomic.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="astroturfing"/><dt xmlns="" id="astroturfing"><b>astroturfing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The use of paid shills to create the impression of a popular
|
||||
movement, through means like letters to newspapers from soi-disant
|
||||
‘concerned citizens’, paid opinion pieces, and the formation of
|
||||
grass-roots lobbying groups that are actually funded by a PR group
|
||||
(AstroTurf is fake grass; hence the term). See also <a href="../S/sock-puppet.html"><i class="glossterm">sock
|
||||
puppet</i></a>, <a href="../T/tentacle.html"><i class="glossterm">tentacle</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. What an individual posting to a public forum under an assumed
|
||||
name is said to be doing.</p></dd><dd><p>This term became common among hackers after it came to light in early
|
||||
1998 that Microsoft had attempted to use such tactics to forestall the
|
||||
U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust action against the company. The
|
||||
maneuver backfired horribly, angering a number of state attorneys-general
|
||||
enough to induce them to go public with plans to join the Federal suit. It
|
||||
also set anybody defending Microsoft on the net for the accusation
|
||||
“<span class="quote">You're just astroturfing!</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ASCIIbetical-order.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="atomic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ASCIIbetical order </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> atomic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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original/html/A/atomic.html
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>atomic</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="astroturfing.html" title="astroturfing"/><link rel="next" href="attoparsec.html" title="attoparsec"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">atomic</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="astroturfing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="attoparsec.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="atomic"/><dt xmlns="" id="atomic"><b>atomic</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Gk. <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">atomos</i></span>, indivisible]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Indivisible; cannot be split up. For example, an instruction may
|
||||
be said to do several things ‘atomically’, i.e., all the things
|
||||
are done immediately, and there is no chance of the instruction being
|
||||
half-completed or of another being interspersed. Used esp. to convey that
|
||||
an operation cannot be screwed up by interrupts. “<span class="quote">This routine locks
|
||||
the file and increments the file's semaphore atomically.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [primarily techspeak] Guaranteed to complete successfully or not
|
||||
at all, usu. refers to database transactions. If an error prevents a
|
||||
partially-performed transaction from proceeding to completion, it must be
|
||||
“<span class="quote">backed out</span>”, as the database must not be left in an
|
||||
inconsistent state.</p></dd><dd><p>Computer usage, in either of the above senses, has none of the
|
||||
connotations that ‘atomic’ has in mainstream English (i.e. of
|
||||
particles of matter, nuclear explosions etc.).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="astroturfing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="attoparsec.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">astroturfing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> attoparsec</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>attoparsec</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="atomic.html" title="atomic"/><link rel="next" href="Aunt-Tillie.html" title="Aunt Tillie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">attoparsec</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="atomic.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Aunt-Tillie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="attoparsec"/><dt xmlns="" id="attoparsec"><b>attoparsec</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> About an inch. <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">atto-</i></span> is the standard
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SI prefix for multiplication by
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<tt class="literal">10<sup>-18</sup></tt>. A
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parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus
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<tt class="literal">3.26 ×
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10<sup>-18</sup></tt> light years, or about 3.1
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cm (thus, 1 attoparsec/<a href="../M/microfortnight.html"><i class="glossterm">microfortnight</i></a> equals about 1
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inch/sec). This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very
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seriously) among hackers in the U.K. See
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<a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="atomic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Aunt-Tillie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">atomic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Aunt Tillie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>autobogotiphobia</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AUP.html" title="AUP"/><link rel="next" href="autoconfiscate.html" title="autoconfiscate"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">autobogotiphobia</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AUP.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="autoconfiscate.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="autobogotiphobia"/><dt xmlns="" id="autobogotiphobia"><b>autobogotiphobia</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/aw´toh·boh·got`@·foh´bee·@/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <span class="grammar">n.</span> See
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<a href="../B/bogotify.html"><i class="glossterm">bogotify</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AUP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="autoconfiscate.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AUP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> autoconfiscate</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>autoconfiscate</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="autobogotiphobia.html" title="autobogotiphobia"/><link rel="next" href="automagically.html" title="automagically"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">autoconfiscate</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="autobogotiphobia.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="automagically.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="autoconfiscate"/><dt xmlns="" id="autoconfiscate"><b>autoconfiscate</b></dt></dt><dd><p> To set up or modify a source-code
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<a href="../D/distribution.html"><i class="glossterm">distribution</i></a> so that it configures and builds using
|
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the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite. Among open-source
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hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full
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release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into
|
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binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf and friends
|
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been the standard way to adapt a distribution for portability so that it
|
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can be built on multiple operating systems without change.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="autobogotiphobia.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="automagically.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">autobogotiphobia </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> automagically</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>automagically</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="autoconfiscate.html" title="autoconfiscate"/><link rel="next" href="avatar.html" title="avatar"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">automagically</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="autoconfiscate.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="avatar.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="automagically"/><dt xmlns="" id="automagically"><b>automagically</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/aw·toh·maj´i·klee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adv.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because
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it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the
|
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speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See
|
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<a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a>. “<span class="quote">The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C,
|
||||
then automagically invokes
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cc</span>(1)</span>
|
||||
to produce an executable.</span>”</p><p>This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon
|
||||
and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in
|
||||
advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late
|
||||
1940s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="autoconfiscate.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="avatar.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">autoconfiscate </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> avatar</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>avatar</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="automagically.html" title="automagically"/><link rel="next" href="awk.html" title="awk"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">avatar</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="automagically.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="awk.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="avatar"/><dt xmlns="" id="avatar"><b>avatar</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Among people working on virtual reality and
|
||||
<a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a> interfaces, an <span class="firstterm">avatar</span> is an icon or representation of a user
|
||||
in a shared virtual reality. The term is sometimes used on
|
||||
<a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>s. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [CMU, Tektronix] <a href="../R/root.html"><i class="glossterm">root</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../S/superuser.html"><i class="glossterm">superuser</i></a>. There are quite a few Unix machines on
|
||||
which the name of the superuser account is ‘avatar’ rather than
|
||||
‘root’. This quirk was originated by a CMU hacker who found
|
||||
the terms <span class="firstterm">root</span> and <span class="firstterm">superuser</span> unimaginative, and thought
|
||||
‘avatar’ might better impress people with the responsibility
|
||||
they were accepting.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="automagically.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="awk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">automagically </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> awk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>awk</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="avatar.html" title="avatar"/><link rel="next" href="../B.html" title="B"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">awk</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="avatar.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../B.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="awk"/><dt xmlns="" id="awk"><b>awk</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/awk/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> [Unix techspeak] An
|
||||
interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter
|
||||
Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials). It
|
||||
is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable
|
||||
typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text
|
||||
processing. See also <a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Editing term for an
|
||||
expression awkward to manipulate through normal
|
||||
<a href="../R/regexp.html"><i class="glossterm">regexp</i></a> facilities (for example, one containing a
|
||||
<a href="../N/newline.html"><i class="glossterm">newline</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To process data using
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">awk</span>(1)</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="avatar.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../B.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">avatar </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> B</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>B1FF</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="next" href="B5.html" title="B5"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">B1FF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../B.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="B5.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="B1FF"/><dt xmlns="" id="B1FF"><b>B1FF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bif/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="firstterm">BIFF</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The most famous <a href="../P/pseudo.html"><i class="glossterm">pseudo</i></a>, and the prototypical
|
||||
<a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>. Articles from B1FF feature all uppercase
|
||||
letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, ‘cute’
|
||||
misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ KØØL DOOD AN
|
||||
HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!!!), use (and
|
||||
often misuse) of fragments of <a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>
|
||||
abbreviations, a long <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a> (sometimes even a
|
||||
<a href="../D/doubled-sig.html"><i class="glossterm">doubled sig</i></a>), and unbounded naivete. B1FF posts
|
||||
articles using his elder brother's VIC-20. B1FF's location is a mystery,
|
||||
as his articles appear to come from a variety of sites. However, BITNET
|
||||
seems to be the most frequent origin. The theory that B1FF is a denizen of
|
||||
BITNET is supported by B1FF's (unfortunately invalid) electronic mail
|
||||
address: B1FF@BIT.NET.</p></dd><dd><p>[1993: Now It Can Be Told! My spies inform me that B1FF was
|
||||
originally created by Joe Talmadge <jat@cup.hp.com>, also the author
|
||||
of the infamous and much-plagiarized “<span class="quote">Flamer's Bible</span>”. The
|
||||
BIFF filter he wrote was later passed to Richard Sexton, who posted
|
||||
BIFFisms much more widely. Versions have since been posted for the
|
||||
amusement of the net at large. See also <a href="../J/Jeff-K-.html"><i class="glossterm">Jeff K.</i></a>
|
||||
—ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../B.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="B5.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">B </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> B5</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>B5</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="B1FF.html" title="B1FF"/><link rel="next" href="back-door.html" title="back door"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">B5</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="B1FF.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="back-door.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="B5"/><dt xmlns="" id="B5"><b>B5</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Abbreviation for “<span class="quote">Babylon 5</span>”, a
|
||||
science-fiction TV series as revered among hackers as was the original Star
|
||||
Trek.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="B1FF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="back-door.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">B1FF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> back door</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BAD</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="backward-combatability.html" title="backward combatability"/><link rel="next" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html" title="Bad and Wrong"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BAD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backward-combatability.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BAD"/><dt xmlns="" id="BAD"><b>BAD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·A·D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM: acronym, “<span class="quote">Broken As Designed</span>”] Said of a program
|
||||
that is <a href="bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a> because of bad design and misfeatures
|
||||
rather than because of bugginess. See <a href="../W/working-as-designed.html"><i class="glossterm">working as
|
||||
designed</i></a>. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backward-combatability.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">backward combatability </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Bad and Wrong</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BASIC</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="baroque.html" title="baroque"/><link rel="next" href="batbelt.html" title="batbelt"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BASIC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baroque.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="batbelt.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BASIC"/><dt xmlns="" id="BASIC"><b>BASIC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bay'·sic/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's
|
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experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which for many years
|
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was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers. Edsger W. Dijkstra
|
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observed in <i class="citetitle">Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal
|
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Perspective</i> that “<span class="quote">It is practically impossible to teach
|
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good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC:
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as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
|
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regeneration.</span>” This is another case (like
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<a href="../P/Pascal.html"><i class="glossterm">Pascal</i></a>) of the cascading
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<a href="../L/lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">lossage</i></a> that happens when a language deliberately
|
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designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can
|
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write short BASIC programs (on the order of 10-20 lines) very easily;
|
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writing anything longer (a) is very painful, and (b) encourages bad habits
|
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that will make it harder to use more powerful languages well. This
|
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wouldn't be so bad if historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on
|
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low-end micros in the 1980s. As it is, it probably ruined tens of
|
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thousands of potential wizards.</p></dd><dd><p>[1995: Some languages called “<span class="quote">BASIC</span>” aren't quite this
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nasty any more, having acquired Pascal- and C-like procedures and control
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structures and shed their line numbers. —ESR]</p><p>BASIC stands for “<span class="quote">Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
|
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Code</span>”. Earlier versions of this entry claiming this was a later
|
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<a href="backronym.html"><i class="glossterm">backronym</i></a> were incorrect.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baroque.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="batbelt.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">baroque </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> batbelt</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BBS</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bboard.html" title="bboard"/><link rel="next" href="BCPL.html" title="BCPL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BBS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bboard.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BCPL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BBS"/><dt xmlns="" id="BBS"><b>BBS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·B·S/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; abbreviation, “<span class="quote">Bulletin Board System</span>”] An
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electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people
|
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can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into
|
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<a href="../T/topic-group.html"><i class="glossterm">topic group</i></a>s. The term was especially applied to
|
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the thousands of local BBS systems that operated during the pre-Internet
|
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microcomputer era of roughly 1980 to 1995, typically run by amateurs for
|
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fun out of their homes on MS-DOS boxes with a single modem line each. Fans
|
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of Usenet and Internet or the big commercial timesharing bboards such as
|
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CompuServe and GEnie tended to consider local BBSes the low-rent district
|
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of the hacker culture, but they served a valuable function by knitting
|
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together lots of hackers and users in the personal-micro world who would
|
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otherwise have been unable to exchange code at all. Post-Internet, BBSs
|
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are likely to be local newsgroups on an ISP; efficiency has increased but a
|
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certain flavor has been lost. See also
|
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<a href="bboard.html"><i class="glossterm">bboard</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bboard.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BCPL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bboard </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BCPL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BCPL</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BBS.html" title="BBS"/><link rel="next" href="BDFL.html" title="BDFL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BCPL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BBS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BDFL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BCPL"/><dt xmlns="" id="BCPL"><b>BCPL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbreviation, “<span class="quote">Basic Combined Programming Language</span>”) A
|
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programming language developed by Martin Richards in Cambridge in 1967. It
|
||||
is remarkable for its rich syntax, small size of compiler (it can be run in
|
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16k) and extreme portability. It reached break-even point at a very early
|
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stage, and was the language in which the original <a href="../H/hello-world.html"><i class="glossterm">hello
|
||||
world</i></a> program was written. It has been ported to so many
|
||||
different systems that its creator confesses to having lost count. It has
|
||||
only one data type (a machine word) which can be used as an integer, a
|
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character, a floating point number, a pointer, or almost anything else,
|
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depending on context. BCPL was a precursor of C, which inherited some of
|
||||
its features.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BBS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BDFL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BBS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BDFL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BDFL</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BCPL.html" title="BCPL"/><link rel="next" href="beam.html" title="beam"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BDFL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BCPL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beam.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BDFL"/><dt xmlns="" id="BDFL"><b>BDFL</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [Python; common] Benevolent Dictator For Life.
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||||
<a href="../G/Guido.html"><i class="glossterm">Guido</i></a>, considered in his role as the project leader
|
||||
of <a href="../P/Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a>. People who are feeling temporarily
|
||||
cheesed off by one of his decisions sometimes leave off the B. The mental
|
||||
image that goes with this, of a cigar-chomping caudillo in gold braid and
|
||||
sunglasses, is extremely funny to anyone who has ever met Guido in
|
||||
person.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BCPL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beam.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BCPL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> beam</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BFI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="beta.html" title="beta"/><link rel="next" href="BI.html" title="BI"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BFI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beta.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BI.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BFI"/><dt xmlns="" id="BFI"><b>BFI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·F·I/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="brute-force-and-ignorance.html"><i class="glossterm">brute force and ignorance</i></a>. Also
|
||||
encountered in the variants <span class="firstterm">BFMI</span>,
|
||||
“<span class="quote">brute force and <span class="emphasis"><em>massive</em></span> ignorance</span>” and
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">BFBI</span> “<span class="quote">brute force and bloody
|
||||
ignorance</span>”. In some parts of the U.S. this abbreviation was probably
|
||||
reinforced by a company called Browning-Ferris Industries in the
|
||||
waste-management business; a large BFI logo in white-on-blue could be seen
|
||||
on the sides of garbage trucks. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beta.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">beta </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BFI.html" title="BFI"/><link rel="next" href="bible.html" title="bible"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BFI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bible.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BI"/><dt xmlns="" id="BI"><b>BI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common written abbreviation for
|
||||
<a href="Breidbart-Index.html"><i class="glossterm">Breidbart Index</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BFI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bible.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BFI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bible</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BLOB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bloatware.html" title="bloatware"/><link rel="next" href="block.html" title="block"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BLOB</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bloatware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="block.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BLOB"/><dt xmlns="" id="BLOB"><b>BLOB</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> [acronym: Binary Large
|
||||
OBject] Used by database people to refer to any random large block of bits
|
||||
that needs to be stored in a database, such as a picture or sound file.
|
||||
The essential point about a BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be
|
||||
interpreted within the database itself. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To
|
||||
<a href="../M/mailbomb.html"><i class="glossterm">mailbomb</i></a> someone by sending a BLOB to him/her;
|
||||
esp. used as a mild threat. “<span class="quote">If that program crashes again, I'm
|
||||
going to BLOB the core dump to you.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bloatware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="block.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bloatware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> block</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="blow-up.html" title="blow up"/><link rel="next" href="blue-box.html" title="blue box"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BLT</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blow-up.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blue-box.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BLT"/><dt xmlns="" id="BLT"><b>BLT</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·L·T/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bl@t/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/belt/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Synonym for <a href="blit.html"><i class="glossterm">blit</i></a>. This is the original form
|
||||
of <a href="blit.html"><i class="glossterm">blit</i></a> and the ancestor of
|
||||
<a href="bitblt.html"><i class="glossterm">bitblt</i></a>. It referred to any large bit-field copy or
|
||||
move operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on
|
||||
pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS, and TOPS-10 was sardonically referred to
|
||||
as “<span class="quote">The Big BLT</span>”). The jargon usage has outlasted the
|
||||
<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> BLock Transfer instruction from which
|
||||
<a href="BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a> derives; nowadays, the assembler mnemonic
|
||||
<a href="BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a> almost always means “<span class="quote">Branch if Less Than
|
||||
zero</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blow-up.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blue-box.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">blow up </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> blue box</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BNF</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="blurgle.html" title="blurgle"/><link rel="next" href="boa.html" title="boa"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BNF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blurgle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="boa.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BNF"/><dt xmlns="" id="BNF"><b>BNF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·N·F/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] Acronym for <span class="firstterm">Backus Normal
|
||||
Form</span> (later retronymed to <span class="firstterm">Backus-Naur
|
||||
Form</span> because BNF was not in fact a normal form), a metasyntactic
|
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notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages, command sets,
|
||||
and the like. Widely used for language descriptions but seldom documented
|
||||
anywhere, so that it must usually be learned by osmosis from other hackers.
|
||||
Consider this BNF for a U.S. postal address:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
|
||||
<postal-address> ::= <name-part> <street-address> <zip-part><br/>
|
||||
<br/>
|
||||
<personal-part> ::= <name> | <initial> "."<br/>
|
||||
<br/>
|
||||
<name-part> ::= <personal-part> <last-name> [<jr-part>] <EOL><br/>
|
||||
| <personal-part> <name-part><br/>
|
||||
<br/>
|
||||
<street-address> ::= [<apt>] <house-num> <street-name> <EOL><br/>
|
||||
<br/>
|
||||
<zip-part> ::= <town-name> "," <state-code> <ZIP-code> <EOL><br/>
|
||||
</p></div><p>This translates into English as: “<span class="quote">A postal-address consists of
|
||||
a name-part, followed by a street-address part, followed by a zip-code
|
||||
part. A personal-part consists of either a first name or an initial
|
||||
followed by a dot. A name-part consists of either: a personal-part
|
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followed by a last name followed by an optional jr-part (Jr., Sr., or
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dynastic number) and end-of-line, or a personal part followed by a name
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part (this rule illustrates the use of recursion in BNFs, covering the case
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of people who use multiple first and middle names and/or initials). A
|
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street address consists of an optional apartment specifier, followed by a
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street number, followed by a street name. A zip-part consists of a
|
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town-name, followed by a comma, followed by a state code, followed by a
|
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ZIP-code followed by an end-of-line.</span>” Note that many things (such as
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the format of a personal-part, apartment specifier, or ZIP-code) are left
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unspecified. These are presumed to be obvious from context or detailed
|
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somewhere nearby. See also <a href="../P/parse.html"><i class="glossterm">parse</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Any of a number of variants and extensions of BNF proper,
|
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possibly containing some or all of the <a href="../R/regexp.html"><i class="glossterm">regexp</i></a>
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wildcards such as <b class="command">*</b> or <b class="command">+</b>. In fact the example above isn't the pure form
|
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invented for the Algol-60 report; it uses <b class="command">[]</b>, which was introduced a few years later in IBM's
|
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PL/I definition but is now universally recognized. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. In <a href="../S/science-fiction-fandom.html"><i class="glossterm">science-fiction fandom</i></a>, a
|
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‘Big-Name Fan’ (someone famous or notorious). Years ago a fan
|
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started handing out black-on-green BNF buttons at SF conventions; this
|
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confused the hacker contingent terribly.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blurgle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="boa.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">blurgle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> boa</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BOF</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bodge.html" title="bodge"/><link rel="next" href="BOFH.html" title="BOFH"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BOF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bodge.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BOFH.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BOF"/><dt xmlns="" id="BOF"><b>BOF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·O·F/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bof/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] Abbreviation for the phrase “<span class="quote">Birds Of a
|
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Feather</span>” (flocking together), an informal discussion group and/or
|
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bull session scheduled on a conference program. It is not clear where or
|
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when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX
|
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conferences for Unix techies and was already established there by 1984. It
|
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was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have
|
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been common at SHARE meetings as far back as the early 1960s.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Acronym, “<span class="quote">Beginning of File</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bodge.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BOFH.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bodge </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BOFH</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BOFH</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BOF.html" title="BOF"/><link rel="next" href="bogo-sort.html" title="bogo-sort"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BOFH</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BOF.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bogo-sort.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BOFH"/><dt xmlns="" id="BOFH"><b>BOFH</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Acronym, Bastard Operator From Hell. A system
|
||||
administrator with absolutely no tolerance for
|
||||
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s. “<span class="quote">You say you need more filespace?
|
||||
<massive-global-delete> Seems to me you have plenty left...</span>”
|
||||
Many BOFHs (and others who would be BOFHs if they could get away with it)
|
||||
hang out in the newsgroup <tt class="systemitem">alt.sysadmin.recovery</tt>, although there has
|
||||
also been created a top-level newsgroup hierarchy (<tt class="systemitem">bofh.*</tt>) of their own.</p><p>Several people have written stories about BOFHs. The set usually
|
||||
considered canonical is by Simon Travaglia and may be found at the <a href="http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html" target="_top">Bastard Home Page</a>. BOFHs
|
||||
and BOFH wannabes hang out on <a href="../S/scary-devil-monastery.html"><i class="glossterm">scary devil monastery</i></a>
|
||||
and wield <a href="../L/LART.html"><i class="glossterm">LART</i></a>s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BOF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bogo-sort.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BOF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bogo-sort</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BRS</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="browser.html" title="browser"/><link rel="next" href="brute-force.html" title="brute force"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BRS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="browser.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="brute-force.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BRS"/><dt xmlns="" id="BRS"><b>BRS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·R·S/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="Big-Red-Switch.html"><i class="glossterm">Big Red Switch</i></a>. This abbreviation is
|
||||
fairly common on-line.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="browser.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="brute-force.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">browser </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> brute force</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BSD</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="brute-force-and-ignorance.html" title="brute force and ignorance"/><link rel="next" href="BSOD.html" title="BSOD"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BSD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="brute-force-and-ignorance.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BSOD.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BSD"/><dt xmlns="" id="BSD"><b>BSD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·S·D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbreviation for ‘Berkeley Software Distribution’] a
|
||||
family of <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> versions for the
|
||||
<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> and
|
||||
<a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> developed by Bill Joy and others at
|
||||
<a href="Berzerkeley.html"><i class="glossterm">Berzerkeley</i></a> starting around 1977, incorporating
|
||||
paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancements, and many other
|
||||
features. The BSD versions (4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) and the commercial versions
|
||||
derived from them (SunOS, ULTRIX, and Mt. Xinu) held the technical lead in
|
||||
the Unix world until AT&T's successful standardization efforts after
|
||||
about 1986; descendants including Free/Open/NetBSD, BSD/OS and MacOS X are
|
||||
still widely popular. Note that BSD versions going back to 2.9 are often
|
||||
referred to by their version numbers alone, without the BSD prefix. See
|
||||
also <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="brute-force-and-ignorance.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BSOD.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">brute force and ignorance </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BSOD</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/B/BSOD.html
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BSOD</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BSD.html" title="BSD"/><link rel="next" href="BUAF.html" title="BUAF"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BSOD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BSD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BUAF.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BSOD"/><dt xmlns="" id="BSOD"><b>BSOD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·S·O·D/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Very common abbreviation for
|
||||
<a href="Blue-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Screen of Death</i></a>. Both spoken and written.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BSD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BUAF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BSD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BUAF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
10
original/html/B/BUAF.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BUAF</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BSOD.html" title="BSOD"/><link rel="next" href="BUAG.html" title="BUAG"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BUAF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BSOD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BUAG.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BUAF"/><dt xmlns="" id="BUAF"><b>BUAF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbreviation, from <tt class="systemitem">alt.fan.warlord</tt>] Big Ugly ASCII Font —
|
||||
a special form of <a href="../A/ASCII-art.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII art</i></a>. Various programs exist
|
||||
for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in
|
||||
cells between four and six character cells on a side; this is smaller than
|
||||
the letters generated by older <a href="banner.html"><i class="glossterm">banner</i></a> (sense 2)
|
||||
programs. These are sometimes used to render one's name in a
|
||||
<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>, and are critically referred to as
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">BUAF</span>s. See
|
||||
<a href="../W/warlording.html"><i class="glossterm">warlording</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BSOD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BUAG.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BSOD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BUAG</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
7
original/html/B/BUAG.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BUAG</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BUAF.html" title="BUAF"/><link rel="next" href="bubble-sort.html" title="bubble sort"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BUAG</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BUAF.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bubble-sort.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BUAG"/><dt xmlns="" id="BUAG"><b>BUAG</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbreviation, from <tt class="systemitem">alt.fan.warlord</tt>] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic.
|
||||
Pejorative term for ugly <a href="../A/ASCII-art.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII art</i></a>, especially as
|
||||
found in <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s. For some reason, mutations of
|
||||
the head of Bart Simpson are particularly common in the least imaginative
|
||||
<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s. See
|
||||
<a href="../W/warlording.html"><i class="glossterm">warlording</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BUAF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bubble-sort.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BUAF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bubble sort</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BWQ</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="buzzword-compliant.html" title="buzzword-compliant"/><link rel="next" href="by-hand.html" title="by hand"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BWQ</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="buzzword-compliant.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="by-hand.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BWQ"/><dt xmlns="" id="BWQ"><b>BWQ</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B·W·Q/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM: abbreviation, `Buzz Word Quotient'] The percentage of
|
||||
buzzwords in a speech or documents. Usually roughly proportional to
|
||||
<a href="bogosity.html"><i class="glossterm">bogosity</i></a>. See <a href="../T/TLA.html"><i class="glossterm">TLA</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="buzzword-compliant.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="by-hand.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">buzzword-compliant </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> by hand</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Bad Thing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html" title="Bad and Wrong"/><link rel="next" href="bag-on-the-side.html" title="bag on the side"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Bad Thing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bag-on-the-side.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Bad-Thing"/><dt xmlns="" id="Bad-Thing"><b>Bad Thing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the
|
||||
1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody of British history <i class="citetitle">1066 And All
|
||||
That</i>, but well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.]
|
||||
Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This
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term is always capitalized, as in “<span class="quote">Replacing all of the DSL links
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with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing</span>”. Oppose
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<a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a>. British correspondents confirm that
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<a href="Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</i></a> and <a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a>
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(and prob. therefore <a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right Thing</i></a> and
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<a href="../W/Wrong-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Wrong Thing</i></a>) come from the book referenced in the
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etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things.
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This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the
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pond. It is very common among American hackers, but not in mainstream
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usage in the U.S. Compare <a href="Bad-and-Wrong.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad and Wrong</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bag-on-the-side.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Bad and Wrong </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bag on the side</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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