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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
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<a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>. Articles from B1FF feature all uppercase
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letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, ‘cute’
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misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ KØØL DOOD AN
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HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!!!), use (and
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often misuse) of fragments of <a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>
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abbreviations, a long <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a> (sometimes even a
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<a href="../D/doubled-sig.html"><i class="glossterm">doubled sig</i></a>), and unbounded naivete. B1FF posts
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articles using his elder brother's VIC-20. B1FF's location is a mystery,
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as his articles appear to come from a variety of sites. However, BITNET
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seems to be the most frequent origin. The theory that B1FF is a denizen of
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BITNET is supported by B1FF's (unfortunately invalid) electronic mail
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address: B1FF@BIT.NET.</p></dd><dd><p>[1993: Now It Can Be Told! My spies inform me that B1FF was
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originally created by Joe Talmadge <jat@cup.hp.com>, also the author
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of the infamous and much-plagiarized “<span class="quote">Flamer's Bible</span>”. The
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BIFF filter he wrote was later passed to Richard Sexton, who posted
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BIFFisms much more widely. Versions have since been posted for the
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amusement of the net at large. See also <a href="../J/Jeff-K-.html"><i class="glossterm">Jeff K.</i></a>
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—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
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science-fiction TV series as revered among hackers as was the original Star
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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
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that is <a href="bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a> because of bad design and misfeatures
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rather than because of bugginess. See <a href="../W/working-as-designed.html"><i class="glossterm">working as
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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="../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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<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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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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<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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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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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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<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
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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
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OBject] Used by database people to refer to any random large block of bits
|
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that needs to be stored in a database, such as a picture or sound file.
|
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The essential point about a BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be
|
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interpreted within the database itself. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To
|
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<a href="../M/mailbomb.html"><i class="glossterm">mailbomb</i></a> someone by sending a BLOB to him/her;
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esp. used as a mild threat. “<span class="quote">If that program crashes again, I'm
|
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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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<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
|
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of <a href="blit.html"><i class="glossterm">blit</i></a> and the ancestor of
|
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<a href="bitblt.html"><i class="glossterm">bitblt</i></a>. It referred to any large bit-field copy or
|
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move operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on
|
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pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS, and TOPS-10 was sardonically referred to
|
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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
|
||||
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/>
|
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<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
|
||||
followed by a last name followed by an optional jr-part (Jr., Sr., or
|
||||
dynastic number) and end-of-line, or a personal part followed by a name
|
||||
part (this rule illustrates the use of recursion in BNFs, covering the case
|
||||
of people who use multiple first and middle names and/or initials). A
|
||||
street address consists of an optional apartment specifier, followed by a
|
||||
street number, followed by a street name. A zip-part consists of a
|
||||
town-name, followed by a comma, followed by a state code, followed by a
|
||||
ZIP-code followed by an end-of-line.</span>” Note that many things (such as
|
||||
the format of a personal-part, apartment specifier, or ZIP-code) are left
|
||||
unspecified. These are presumed to be obvious from context or detailed
|
||||
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,
|
||||
possibly containing some or all of the <a href="../R/regexp.html"><i class="glossterm">regexp</i></a>
|
||||
wildcards such as <b class="command">*</b> or <b class="command">+</b>. In fact the example above isn't the pure form
|
||||
invented for the Algol-60 report; it uses <b class="command">[]</b>, which was introduced a few years later in IBM's
|
||||
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
|
||||
‘Big-Name Fan’ (someone famous or notorious). Years ago a fan
|
||||
started handing out black-on-green BNF buttons at SF conventions; this
|
||||
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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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<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
|
||||
Feather</span>” (flocking together), an informal discussion group and/or
|
||||
bull session scheduled on a conference program. It is not clear where or
|
||||
when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX
|
||||
conferences for Unix techies and was already established there by 1984. It
|
||||
was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have
|
||||
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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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<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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|
||||
<?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>
|
||||
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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>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 —
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a special form of <a href="../A/ASCII-art.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII art</i></a>. Various programs exist
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for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in
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cells between four and six character cells on a side; this is smaller than
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the letters generated by older <a href="banner.html"><i class="glossterm">banner</i></a> (sense 2)
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programs. These are sometimes used to render one's name in a
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<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>, and are critically referred to as
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<span class="firstterm">BUAF</span>s. See
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<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>
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<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.
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Pejorative term for ugly <a href="../A/ASCII-art.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII art</i></a>, especially as
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found in <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s. For some reason, mutations of
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the head of Bart Simpson are particularly common in the least imaginative
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<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s. See
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<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"?>
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<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
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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
|
||||
term is always capitalized, as in “<span class="quote">Replacing all of the DSL links
|
||||
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
|
||||
<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
|
||||
<a href="../W/Wrong-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Wrong Thing</i></a>) come from the book referenced in the
|
||||
etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things.
|
||||
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
|
||||
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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15
original/html/B/Bad-and-Wrong.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 and Wrong</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.html" title="BAD"/><link rel="next" href="Bad-Thing.html" title="Bad Thing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Bad and Wrong</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BAD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Bad-Thing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Bad-and-Wrong"/><dt xmlns="" id="Bad-and-Wrong"><b>Bad and Wrong</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and
|
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wrongly executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by
|
||||
contrast with, three less common terms — Bad and Right (a kludge,
|
||||
something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other
|
||||
attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms
|
||||
entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from
|
||||
elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Evil and Bad and Wrong</span>” (abbreviated EBW) is reported from
|
||||
there. There are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo
|
||||
for “<span class="quote">Bad and Wrong</span>”. Consequently, B&W is actually
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Bad and Right</span>”, G&R = “<span class="quote">Good and Wrong</span>”, and
|
||||
G&W = “<span class="quote">Good and Right</span>”. Compare
|
||||
<a href="../E/evil-and-rude.html"><i class="glossterm">evil and rude</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a>, <a href="Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</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.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-Thing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BAD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Bad Thing</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>Batman factor</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="bathtub-curve.html" title="bathtub curve"/><link rel="next" href="baud.html" title="baud"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Batman factor</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bathtub-curve.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="baud.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Batman-factor"/><dt xmlns="" id="Batman-factor"><b>Batman factor</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. An integer number representing the number of items hanging from a
|
||||
<a href="batbelt.html"><i class="glossterm">batbelt</i></a>. In most settings, a Batman factor of more
|
||||
than 3 is not acceptable without odd stares and whispering. This encourages
|
||||
the hacker in question to choose items for the batbelt carefully to avoid
|
||||
awkward social situations, usually amongst non-hackers. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A somewhat more vaguely defined index of contribution to sense 1.
|
||||
Devices that are especially obtrusive, such as large, older model cell
|
||||
phones, “<span class="quote">Pocket</span>” PC devices and walkie talkies are said to
|
||||
have a high batman factor. Sleeker devices such as a later-model Palm or
|
||||
StarTac phone are prized for their low batman factor and lessened
|
||||
obtrusiveness and weight.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bathtub-curve.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="baud.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bathtub curve </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> baud</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>Befunge</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="beep.html" title="beep"/><link rel="next" href="beige-toaster.html" title="beige toaster"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Befunge</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beep.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beige-toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Befunge"/><dt xmlns="" id="Befunge"><b>Befunge</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A worthy companion to <a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>; a computer
|
||||
language family which escapes the quotidian limitation of linear control
|
||||
flow and embraces program counters flying through multiple dimensions with
|
||||
exotic topologies. The Befunge home page is at <a href="http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/befunge/" target="_top">http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/befunge/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beep.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="beige-toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">beep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> beige toaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
10
original/html/B/Berkeley-Quality-Software.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>Berkeley Quality Software</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="benchmark.html" title="benchmark"/><link rel="next" href="Berzerkeley.html" title="Berzerkeley"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Berkeley Quality Software</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="benchmark.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Berzerkeley.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Berkeley-Quality-Software"/><dt xmlns="" id="Berkeley-Quality-Software"><b>Berkeley Quality Software</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (often abbreviated “<span class="quote">BQS</span>”) Term used in a pejorative
|
||||
sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out
|
||||
hackers late at night to solve some unique problem. It usually has
|
||||
nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at
|
||||
least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it.
|
||||
This term was frequently applied to early versions of the
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">dbx</span>(1)</span>
|
||||
debugger. See also <a href="Berzerkeley.html"><i class="glossterm">Berzerkeley</i></a>.</p><p>Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's <span class="pronunciation">/berk´lee/</span>, not <span class="pronunciation">/bark´lee/</span> as in British Received
|
||||
Pronunciation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="benchmark.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="Berzerkeley.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">benchmark </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Berzerkeley</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>Berzerkeley</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="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html" title="Berkeley Quality Software"/><link rel="next" href="beta.html" title="beta"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Berzerkeley</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beta.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Berzerkeley"/><dt xmlns="" id="Berzerkeley"><b>Berzerkeley</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/b@r·zer´klee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from ‘berserk’, via the name of a now-deceased record
|
||||
label; poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion
|
||||
of “<span class="quote">Berkeley</span>” used esp. to refer to the practices or products
|
||||
of the <a href="BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix hackers. See <a href="../S/software-bloat.html"><i class="glossterm">software
|
||||
bloat</i></a>, <a href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html"><i class="glossterm">Berkeley Quality Software</i></a>.</p><p>Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
|
||||
political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as
|
||||
far back as the 1960s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.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="beta.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Berkeley Quality Software </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> beta</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
8
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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>BiCapitalization</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="bible.html" title="bible"/><link rel="next" href="biff.html" title="biff"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BiCapitalization</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bible.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="biff.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BiCapitalization"/><dt xmlns="" id="BiCapitalization"><b>BiCapitalization</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as
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<a href="../P/PostScript.html"><i class="glossterm">PostScript</i></a>, NeXT, <a href="../N/NeWS.html"><i class="glossterm">NeWS</i></a>,
|
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VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter) that have been raised above
|
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the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization. Too many
|
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<a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a> types think this sort of thing is really
|
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cute, even the 2,317th time they do it. Compare
|
||||
<a href="../S/studlycaps.html"><i class="glossterm">studlycaps</i></a>, <a href="../I/InterCaps.html"><i class="glossterm">InterCaps</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bible.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="biff.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bible </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> biff</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>Big Red Switch</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="big-iron.html" title="big iron"/><link rel="next" href="Big-Room.html" title="Big Room"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Big Red Switch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-iron.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Big-Room.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Big-Red-Switch"/><dt xmlns="" id="Big-Red-Switch"><b>Big Red Switch</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM] The power switch on a computer, esp. the ‘Emergency
|
||||
Pull’ switch on an IBM <a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a> or the power
|
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switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. “<span class="quote">This !@%$%
|
||||
<a href="bitty-box.html"><i class="glossterm">bitty box</i></a> is hung again; time to hit the Big Red
|
||||
Switch.</span>” Sources at IBM report that, in tune with the company's
|
||||
passion for <a href="../T/TLA.html"><i class="glossterm">TLA</i></a>s, this is often abbreviated as
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">BRS</span> (this has also become established
|
||||
on FidoNet and in the PC <a href="../C/clone.html"><i class="glossterm">clone</i></a> world). It is
|
||||
alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a
|
||||
non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent
|
||||
mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed
|
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back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately
|
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(see also <a href="../M/molly-guard.html"><i class="glossterm">molly-guard</i></a>). Compare <a href="../P/power-cycle.html"><i class="glossterm">power
|
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cycle</i></a>, <a href="../T/three-finger-salute.html"><i class="glossterm">three-finger salute</i></a>; see also
|
||||
<a href="../S/scram-switch.html"><i class="glossterm">scram switch</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-iron.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="Big-Room.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">big iron </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Big Room</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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original/html/B/Big-Room.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>Big Room</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="Big-Red-Switch.html" title="Big Red Switch"/><link rel="next" href="big-win.html" title="big win"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Big Room</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Big-Red-Switch.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="big-win.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Big-Room"/><dt xmlns="" id="Big-Room"><b>Big Room</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (Also <span class="firstterm">Big Blue Room</span>) The
|
||||
extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light
|
||||
(during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during
|
||||
the night) found outside all computer installations. “<span class="quote">He can't come
|
||||
to the phone right now, he's somewhere out in the Big Room.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Big-Red-Switch.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="big-win.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Big Red Switch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> big win</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>Black Screen of Death</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="black-magic.html" title="black magic"/><link rel="next" href="blammo.html" title="blammo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Black Screen of Death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="black-magic.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blammo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Black-Screen-of-Death"/><dt xmlns="" id="Black-Screen-of-Death"><b>Black Screen of Death</b>: </dt></dt><dd><p> [prob.: related to the Floating Head of Death in a famous
|
||||
<i class="citetitle">Far Side</i> cartoon.] A failure mode of
|
||||
<a href="../M/Microsloth-Windows.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsloth Windows</i></a>. On an attempt to launch a DOS
|
||||
box, a networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks
|
||||
up the PC so hard that it requires a cold <a href="boot.html"><i class="glossterm">boot</i></a> to
|
||||
recover. This unhappy phenomenon is known as The Black Screen of Death.
|
||||
See also <a href="Blue-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Screen of Death</i></a>, which has become
|
||||
rather more common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="black-magic.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="blammo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">black magic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> blammo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/B/Bloggs-Family.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>Bloggs Family</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="blog.html" title="blog"/><link rel="next" href="blogosphere.html" title="blogosphere"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Bloggs Family</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blog.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blogosphere.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Bloggs-Family"/><dt xmlns="" id="Bloggs-Family"><b>Bloggs Family</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An imaginary family consisting of Fred and Mary Bloggs and their
|
||||
children. Used as a standard example in knowledge representation to show
|
||||
the difference between extensional and intensional objects. For example,
|
||||
every occurrence of “<span class="quote">Fred Bloggs</span>” is the same unique person,
|
||||
whereas occurrences of “<span class="quote">person</span>” may refer to different people.
|
||||
Members of the Bloggs family have been known to pop up in bizarre places
|
||||
such as the old <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> Telephone Directory. Compare
|
||||
<a href="../D/Dr--Fred-Mbogo.html"><i class="glossterm">Dr. Fred Mbogo</i></a>;
|
||||
<a href="../J/J--Random-Hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">J. Random Hacker</i></a>; <a href="../F/Fred-Foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">Fred Foobar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blog.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="blogosphere.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">blog </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> blogosphere</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/B/Blue-Glue.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>Blue Glue</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="blue-box.html" title="blue box"/><link rel="next" href="blue-goo.html" title="blue goo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Blue Glue</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-box.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blue-goo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Blue-Glue"/><dt xmlns="" id="Blue-Glue"><b>Blue Glue</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM; obs.] IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly
|
||||
<a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a> and <a href="bletcherous.html"><i class="glossterm">bletcherous</i></a>
|
||||
communications protocol once widely favored at commercial shops that didn't
|
||||
know any better (like other proprietary networking protocols, it became
|
||||
obsolete and effectively disappeared after the Internet explosion c.1994).
|
||||
The official IBM definition is “<span class="quote">that which binds blue boxes
|
||||
together.</span>” See <a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>. It may not
|
||||
be irrelevant that Blue Glue is the trade name of a 3M product that is
|
||||
commonly used to hold down the carpet squares to the removable panel floors
|
||||
common in <a href="../D/dinosaur-pen.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur pen</i></a>s. A correspondent at
|
||||
U. Minn. reports that the CS department there has about 80 bottles of the
|
||||
stuff hanging about, so they often refer to any messy work to be done as
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">using the blue glue</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-box.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-goo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">blue box </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> blue goo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/B/Blue-Screen-of-Death.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>Blue Screen of Death</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="blue-goo.html" title="blue goo"/><link rel="next" href="blue-wire.html" title="blue wire"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Blue Screen of Death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-goo.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blue-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Blue-Screen-of-Death"/><dt xmlns="" id="Blue-Screen-of-Death"><b>Blue Screen of Death</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] This term is closely related to the older
|
||||
<a href="Black-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Black Screen of Death</i></a> but much more common (many non-hackers have
|
||||
picked it up). Due to the extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft
|
||||
Windows, misbehaving applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS
|
||||
sometimes crashes itself spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death,
|
||||
sometimes decorated with hex error codes, is what you get when this
|
||||
happens. (Commonly abbreviated <a href="BSOD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSOD</i></a>.) The
|
||||
following entry from the <a href="http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal.html" target="_top"> Salon
|
||||
Haiku Contest</a>, seems to have predated popular use of the
|
||||
term:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
|
||||
Windows NT crashed.<br/>
|
||||
I am the Blue Screen of Death<br/>
|
||||
No one hears your screams.<br/>
|
||||
</p></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-goo.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-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">blue goo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> blue wire</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>BogoMIPS</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="bogometer.html" title="bogometer"/><link rel="next" href="bogon.html" title="bogon"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BogoMIPS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bogometer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bogon.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BogoMIPS"/><dt xmlns="" id="BogoMIPS"><b>BogoMIPS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bo´go·mips/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The number of million times a second a processor can do absolutely
|
||||
nothing. The <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> OS measures BogoMIPS at startup
|
||||
in order to calibrate some soft timing loops that will be used later on;
|
||||
details at <a href=" http://www.clifton.nl/" target="_top"> the BogoMIPS
|
||||
mini-HOWTO</a>. The name Linus chose, of course, is an ironic comment
|
||||
on the uselessness of all <span class="emphasis"><em>other</em></span>
|
||||
<a href="../M/MIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">MIPS</i></a> figures.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bogometer.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="bogon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bogometer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bogon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/B/Bohr-bug.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>Bohr 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="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bogus.html" title="bogus"/><link rel="next" href="boink.html" title="boink"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Bohr bug</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bogus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="boink.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Bohr-bug"/><dt xmlns="" id="Bohr-bug"><b>Bohr bug</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bohr buhg/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from quantum physics] A repeatable <a href="bug.html"><i class="glossterm">bug</i></a>; one
|
||||
that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of
|
||||
conditions. Antonym of <a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>; see also
|
||||
<a href="../M/mandelbug.html"><i class="glossterm">mandelbug</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../S/schroedinbug.html"><i class="glossterm">schroedinbug</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bogus.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="boink.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bogus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> boink</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/B/Borg.html
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Borg</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="boot.html" title="boot"/><link rel="next" href="borken.html" title="borken"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Borg</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boot.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="borken.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Borg"/><dt xmlns="" id="Borg"><b>Borg</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In <i class="citetitle">Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> the Borg is
|
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a species of cyborg that ruthlessly seeks to incorporate all sentient life
|
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into itself; their slogan is “<span class="quote">You will be assimilated. Resistance is
|
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futile.</span>” In hacker parlance, the Borg is usually
|
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<a href="../M/Microsoft.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsoft</i></a>, which is thought to be trying just as
|
||||
ruthlessly to assimilate all computers and the entire Internet to itself
|
||||
(there is a widely circulated image of Bill Gates as a Borg). Being forced
|
||||
to use Windows or NT is often referred to as being “<span class="quote">Borged</span>”.
|
||||
Interestingly, the <a href="../H/Halloween-Documents.html"><i class="glossterm">Halloween Documents</i></a> reveal that
|
||||
this jargon is live within Microsoft itself. See also
|
||||
<a href="../E/Evil-Empire.html"><i class="glossterm">Evil Empire</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../I/Internet-Exploiter.html"><i class="glossterm">Internet Exploiter</i></a>.</p><p>Other companies, notably Intel and UUNet, have also occasionally been
|
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equated to the Borg. In IETF circles, where direct pressure from Microsoft
|
||||
is not a daily reality, the Borg is sometimes Cisco. This usage
|
||||
commemorates their tendency to pay any price to hire talent away from their
|
||||
competitors. In fact, at the Spring 1997 IETF, a large number of ex-Cisco
|
||||
employees, all former members of Routing Geeks, showed up with t-shirts
|
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printed with “<span class="quote">Recovering Borg</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boot.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="borken.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">boot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> borken</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Breidbart Index</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="breedle.html" title="breedle"/><link rel="next" href="brick.html" title="brick"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Breidbart Index</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="breedle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="brick.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Breidbart-Index"/><dt xmlns="" id="Breidbart-Index"><b>Breidbart Index</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bri:d´bart ind@ks/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A measurement of the severity of spam invented by long-time hacker
|
||||
Seth Breidbart, used for programming cancelbots. The Breidbart Index takes
|
||||
into account the fact that excessive multi-posting
|
||||
<a href="../E/EMP.html"><i class="glossterm">EMP</i></a> is worse than excessive cross-posting
|
||||
<a href="../E/ECP.html"><i class="glossterm">ECP</i></a>. The Breidbart Index is computed as follows:
|
||||
For each article in a spam, take the square-root of the number of
|
||||
newsgroups to which the article is posted. The Breidbart Index is the sum
|
||||
of the square roots of all of the posts in the spam. For example, one
|
||||
article posted to nine newsgroups and again to sixteen would have BI =
|
||||
sqrt(9) + sqrt(16) = 7. It is generally agreed that a spam is cancelable
|
||||
if the Breidbart Index exceeds 20.</p><p>The Breidbart Index accumulates over a 45-day window. Ten articles
|
||||
yesterday and ten articles today and ten articles tomorrow add up to a
|
||||
30-article spam. Spam fighters will often reset the count if you can
|
||||
convince them that the spam was accidental and/or you have seen the error
|
||||
of your ways and won't repeat it. Breidbart Index can accumulate over
|
||||
multiple authors. For example, the “<span class="quote">Make Money Fast</span>” pyramid
|
||||
scheme exceeded a BI of 20 a long time ago, and is now considered
|
||||
“<span class="quote">cancel on sight</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="breedle.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="brick.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">breedle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> brick</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BrokenWindows</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="broken-ring-network.html" title="broken-ring network"/><link rel="next" href="broket.html" title="broket"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BrokenWindows</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="broken-ring-network.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="broket.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BrokenWindows"/><dt xmlns="" id="BrokenWindows"><b>BrokenWindows</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Abusive hackerism for the <a href="../C/crufty.html"><i class="glossterm">crufty</i></a> and
|
||||
<a href="../E/elephantine.html"><i class="glossterm">elephantine</i></a> <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> environment on
|
||||
Sun machines; properly called ‘OpenWindows’.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="broken-ring-network.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="broket.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">broken-ring network </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> broket</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Brooks's Law</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="broket.html" title="broket"/><link rel="next" href="brown-paper-bag-bug.html" title="brown-paper-bag bug"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Brooks's Law</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="broket.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="brown-paper-bag-bug.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Brookss-Law"/><dt xmlns="" id="Brookss-Law"><b>Brooks's Law</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> “<span class="quote">Adding manpower to a late software project makes it
|
||||
later</span>” — a result of the fact that the expected advantage from
|
||||
splitting development work among <tt class="literal">N</tt>
|
||||
programmers is <tt class="literal">O(N)</tt> (that is, proportional
|
||||
to <tt class="literal">N</tt>), but the complexity and
|
||||
communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their
|
||||
work is <tt class="literal">O(N^2)</tt> (that is, proportional to
|
||||
the square of <tt class="literal">N</tt>). The quote is from Fred
|
||||
Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of <i class="citetitle">The
|
||||
Mythical Man-Month</i> (Addison-Wesley, 1975, ISBN 0-201-00650-2),
|
||||
an excellent early book on software engineering. The myth in question has
|
||||
been most tersely expressed as “<span class="quote">Programmer time is fungible</span>”
|
||||
and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never
|
||||
forgotten his advice (though it's not the whole story; see
|
||||
<a href="bazaar.html"><i class="glossterm">bazaar</i></a>); too often,
|
||||
<a href="../M/management.html"><i class="glossterm">management</i></a> still does. See also
|
||||
<a href="../C/creationism.html"><i class="glossterm">creationism</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../S/second-system-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">second-system effect</i></a>, <a href="../O/optimism.html"><i class="glossterm">optimism</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="broket.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="brown-paper-bag-bug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">broket </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> brown-paper-bag bug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Bzzzt! Wrong.</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="bytesexual.html" title="bytesexual"/><link rel="next" href="../C.html" title="C"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Bzzzt! Wrong.</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bytesexual.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../C.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Bzzzt-Wrong"/><dt xmlns="" id="Bzzzt-Wrong"><b>Bzzzt! Wrong.</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bzt rong/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">excl.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; Usenet/Internet; punctuation varies] From a Robin Williams
|
||||
routine in the movie <i class="citetitle">Dead Poets Society</i> spoofing
|
||||
radio or TV quiz programs, such as <span class="emphasis"><em>Truth or
|
||||
Consequences</em></span>, where an incorrect answer earns one a blast from
|
||||
the buzzer and condolences from the interlocutor. A way of expressing
|
||||
mock-rude disagreement, usually immediately following an included quote
|
||||
from another poster. The less abbreviated “<span class="quote">*Bzzzzt*, wrong, but
|
||||
thank you for playing</span>” is also common; capitalization and emphasis
|
||||
of the buzzer sound varies.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bytesexual.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="../C.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bytesexual </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> C</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>back door</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="B5.html" title="B5"/><link rel="next" href="backbone-cabal.html" title="backbone cabal"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">back door</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="B5.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="backbone-cabal.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="back-door"/><dt xmlns="" id="back-door"><b>back door</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in
|
||||
place by designers or maintainers. The motivation for such holes is not
|
||||
always sinister; some operating systems, for example, come out of the box
|
||||
with privileged accounts intended for use by field service technicians or
|
||||
the vendor's maintenance programmers. Syn.
|
||||
<a href="../T/trap-door.html"><i class="glossterm">trap door</i></a>; may also be called a <span class="firstterm">wormhole</span>. See also
|
||||
<a href="../I/iron-box.html"><i class="glossterm">iron box</i></a>, <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../W/worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a>, <a href="../L/logic-bomb.html"><i class="glossterm">logic bomb</i></a>.</p><p>Historically, back doors have often lurked in systems longer than
|
||||
anyone expected or planned, and a few have become widely known. Ken
|
||||
Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture to the ACM admitted the existence of a
|
||||
back door in early Unix versions that may have qualified as the most
|
||||
fiendishly clever security hack of all time. In this scheme, the C
|
||||
compiler contained code that would recognize when the <span class="firstterm">login</span> command was being recompiled and insert
|
||||
some code recognizing a password chosen by Thompson, giving him entry to
|
||||
the system whether or not an account had been created for him.</p><p>Normally such a back door could be removed by removing it from the
|
||||
source code for the compiler and recompiling the compiler. But to
|
||||
recompile the compiler, you have to <span class="emphasis"><em>use</em></span> the compiler
|
||||
— so Thompson also arranged that the compiler would
|
||||
<span class="emphasis"><em>recognize when it was compiling a version of itself</em></span>,
|
||||
and insert into the recompiled compiler the code to insert into the
|
||||
recompiled <span class="firstterm">login</span> the code to allow
|
||||
Thompson entry — and, of course, the code to recognize itself and do
|
||||
the whole thing again the next time around! And having done this once, he
|
||||
was then able to recompile the compiler from the original sources; the hack
|
||||
perpetuated itself invisibly, leaving the back door in place and active but
|
||||
with no trace in the sources.</p><p>The Turing lecture that reported this truly moby hack was later
|
||||
published as “<span class="quote">Reflections on Trusting Trust</span>”,
|
||||
<i class="citetitle">Communications of the ACM 27</i>, 8 (August 1984),
|
||||
pp. 761--763 (text available at <a href="http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/" target="_top">http://www.acm.org/classics/</a>).
|
||||
Ken Thompson has since confirmed that this hack was implemented and that
|
||||
the Trojan Horse code did appear in the login binary of a Unix Support
|
||||
group machine. Ken says the crocked compiler was never distributed. Your
|
||||
editor has heard two separate reports that suggest that the crocked login
|
||||
did make it out of Bell Labs, notably to BBN, and that it enabled at least
|
||||
one late-night login across the network by someone using the login name
|
||||
“<span class="quote">kt</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="B5.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="backbone-cabal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">B5 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> backbone cabal</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>backbone cabal</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="back-door.html" title="back door"/><link rel="next" href="backbone-site.html" title="backbone site"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">backbone cabal</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="back-door.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="backbone-site.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="backbone-cabal"/><dt xmlns="" id="backbone-cabal"><b>backbone cabal</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the
|
||||
<a href="../G/Great-Renaming.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Renaming</i></a> and reined in the chaos of
|
||||
<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> during most of the 1980s. During most of its
|
||||
lifetime, the Cabal (as it was sometimes capitalized) steadfastly denied
|
||||
its own existence; it was almost obligatory for anyone privy to their
|
||||
secrets to respond “<span class="quote">There is no Cabal</span>” whenever the existence
|
||||
or activities of the group were speculated on in public.</p><p>The result of this policy was an attractive aura of mystery. Even a
|
||||
decade after the cabal <a href="../M/mailing-list.html"><i class="glossterm">mailing list</i></a> disbanded in
|
||||
late 1988 following a bitter internal catfight, many people believed (or
|
||||
claimed to believe) that it had not actually disbanded but only gone deeper
|
||||
underground with its power intact.</p><p>This belief became a model for various paranoid theories about
|
||||
various Cabals with dark nefarious objectives beginning with taking over
|
||||
the Usenet or Internet. These paranoias were later satirized in ways that
|
||||
took on a life of their own. See <a href="../E/Eric-Conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">Eric Conspiracy</i></a>
|
||||
for one example. Part of the background for this kind of humor is that
|
||||
many hackers cultivate a fondness for conspiracy theory considered as a
|
||||
kind of surrealist art; see the bibliography entry om
|
||||
<i class="citetitle">Illuminatus!</i> for the novel that launched this
|
||||
trend.</p><p>See <a href="../N/NANA.html"><i class="glossterm">NANA</i></a> for the subsequent history of
|
||||
“<span class="quote">the Cabal</span>”. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="back-door.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="backbone-site.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">back door </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> backbone site</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>backbone site</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="backbone-cabal.html" title="backbone cabal"/><link rel="next" href="backgammon.html" title="backgammon"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">backbone site</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backbone-cabal.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="backgammon.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="backbone-site"/><dt xmlns="" id="backbone-site"><b>backbone site</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Formerly, a key Usenet and email site, one that processes a large
|
||||
amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of
|
||||
the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as
|
||||
of early 1993, when this sense of the term was beginning to pass out of
|
||||
general use due to wide availability of cheap Internet connections,
|
||||
included <tt class="systemitem">uunet</tt> and the mail
|
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machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>'s
|
||||
Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University, and the University of
|
||||
Texas. Compare <a href="../L/leaf-site.html"><i class="glossterm">leaf site</i></a>.</p><p>[2001 update: This term has passed into history. The UUCP network
|
||||
world that gave it meaning is gone; everyone is on the Internet now and
|
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network traffic is distributed in very different patterns. Today one might
|
||||
see references to a “<span class="quote">backbone router</span>” instead
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—ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backbone-cabal.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="backgammon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">backbone cabal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> backgammon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>backgammon</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="backbone-site.html" title="backbone site"/><link rel="next" href="background.html" title="background"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">backgammon</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backbone-site.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="background.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="backgammon"/><dt xmlns="" id="backgammon"><b>backgammon</b></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="bignum.html"><i class="glossterm">bignum</i></a> (sense 3),
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<a href="../M/moby.html"><i class="glossterm">moby</i></a> (sense 4), and
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<a href="../P/pseudoprime.html"><i class="glossterm">pseudoprime</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backbone-site.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="background.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">backbone site </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> background</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>background</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="backgammon.html" title="backgammon"/><link rel="next" href="backreference.html" title="backreference"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">background</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backgammon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="backreference.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="background"/><dt xmlns="" id="background"><b>background</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,adj.,vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] To do a task <span class="firstterm">in
|
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background</span> is to do it whenever
|
||||
<a href="../F/foreground.html"><i class="glossterm">foreground</i></a> matters are not claiming your undivided
|
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attention, and <span class="firstterm">to background</span>
|
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something means to relegate it to a lower priority. “<span class="quote">For now, we'll
|
||||
just print a list of nodes and links; I'm working on the graph-printing
|
||||
problem in background.</span>” Note that this implies ongoing activity but
|
||||
at a reduced level or in spare time, in contrast to mainstream ‘back
|
||||
burner’ (which connotes benign neglect until some future resumption
|
||||
of activity). Some people prefer to use the term for processing that they
|
||||
have queued up for their unconscious minds (a tack that one can often
|
||||
fruitfully take upon encountering an obstacle in creative work). Compare
|
||||
<a href="../A/amp-off.html"><i class="glossterm">amp off</i></a>, <a href="../S/slopsucker.html"><i class="glossterm">slopsucker</i></a>.</p><p>Technically, a task running in background is detached from the
|
||||
terminal where it was started (and often running at a lower priority);
|
||||
oppose <a href="../F/foreground.html"><i class="glossterm">foreground</i></a>. Nowadays this term is primarily
|
||||
associated with <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>, but it appears to have been
|
||||
first used in this sense on OS/360.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backgammon.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="backreference.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">backgammon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> backreference</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>backreference</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="background.html" title="background"/><link rel="next" href="backronym.html" title="backronym"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">backreference</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="background.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="backronym.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="backreference"/><dt xmlns="" id="backreference"><b>backreference</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. In a regular expression or pattern match, the text which was
|
||||
matched within grouping parentheses</p></dd><dd><p> 2. The part of the pattern which refers back to the matched
|
||||
text. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. By extension, anything which refers back to something which has
|
||||
been seen or discussed before. “<span class="quote">When you said ‘she’ just
|
||||
now, who were you backreferencing?</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="background.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="backronym.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">background </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> backronym</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>backronym</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="backreference.html" title="backreference"/><link rel="next" href="backward-combatability.html" title="backward combatability"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">backronym</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backreference.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="backward-combatability.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="backronym"/><dt xmlns="" id="backronym"><b>backronym</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [portmanteau of back + acronym] A word interpreted as an acronym
|
||||
that was not originally so intended. This is a special case of what
|
||||
linguists call <span class="firstterm">back formation</span>.
|
||||
Examples are given under <a href="../R/recursive-acronym.html"><i class="glossterm">recursive acronym</i></a> (Cygnus),
|
||||
<a href="../A/Acme.html"><i class="glossterm">Acme</i></a>, and <a href="../M/mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a>. Discovering
|
||||
backronyms is a common form of wordplay among hackers. Compare
|
||||
<a href="../R/retcon.html"><i class="glossterm">retcon</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backreference.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="backward-combatability.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">backreference </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> backward combatability</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>backward combatability</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="backronym.html" title="backronym"/><link rel="next" href="BAD.html" title="BAD"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">backward combatability</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backronym.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BAD.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="backward-combatability"/><dt xmlns="" id="backward-combatability"><b>backward combatability</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bak´w@rd k@m·bat'@·bil'@·tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[CMU, Tektronix: from <span class="firstterm">backward
|
||||
compatibility</span>] A property of hardware or software revisions in
|
||||
which previous protocols, formats, layouts, etc. are irrevocably discarded
|
||||
in favor of ‘new and improved’ protocols, formats, and layouts,
|
||||
leaving the previous ones not merely deprecated but actively defeated.
|
||||
(Too often, the old and new versions cannot definitively be distinguished,
|
||||
such that lingering instances of the previous ones yield crashes or other
|
||||
infelicitous effects, as opposed to a simple “<span class="quote">version
|
||||
mismatch</span>” message.) A backwards compatible change, on the other
|
||||
hand, allows old versions to coexist without crashes or error messages, but
|
||||
too many major changes incorporating elaborate backwards compatibility
|
||||
processing can lead to extreme <a href="../S/software-bloat.html"><i class="glossterm">software bloat</i></a>. See
|
||||
also <a href="../F/flag-day.html"><i class="glossterm">flag day</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backronym.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.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">backronym </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BAD</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>bag on the side</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-Thing.html" title="Bad Thing"/><link rel="next" href="bagbiter.html" title="bagbiter"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bag on the side</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Bad-Thing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bagbiter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bag-on-the-side"/><dt xmlns="" id="bag-on-the-side"><b>bag on the side</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [prob. originally related to a colostomy bag] An extension to an
|
||||
established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the
|
||||
original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being
|
||||
overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly,
|
||||
inelegant, or bloated. Also <span class="grammar">v.</span> phrase,
|
||||
“<span class="quote">to hang a bag on the side [of]</span>”. “<span class="quote">C++? That's just a
|
||||
bag on the side of C ....</span>” “<span class="quote">They want me to hang a
|
||||
bag on the side of the accounting system.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Bad-Thing.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="bagbiter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Bad Thing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bagbiter</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>bagbiter</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="bag-on-the-side.html" title="bag on the side"/><link rel="next" href="bagbiting.html" title="bagbiting"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bagbiter</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bag-on-the-side.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bagbiting.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bagbiter"/><dt xmlns="" id="bagbiter"><b>bagbiter</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bag´bi:t·@r/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work,
|
||||
or works in a remarkably clumsy manner. “<span class="quote">This text editor won't let
|
||||
me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters! What a
|
||||
bagbiter!</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A person who has caused you some trouble, inadvertently or
|
||||
otherwise, typically by failing to program the computer properly.
|
||||
Synonyms: <a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a>, <a href="../C/cretin.html"><i class="glossterm">cretin</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../C/chomper.html"><i class="glossterm">chomper</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">bite the bag</span> <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To fail in some manner. “<span class="quote">The computer
|
||||
keeps crashing every five minutes.</span>” “<span class="quote">Yes, the disk controller
|
||||
is really biting the bag.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>The original loading of these terms was almost undoubtedly obscene,
|
||||
possibly referring to a douche bag or the scrotum (we have reports of
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Bite the douche bag!</span>” being used as a taunt at MIT 1970-1976,
|
||||
and we have another report that “<span class="quote">Bite the bag!</span>” was in common
|
||||
use at least as early as 1965), but in their current usage they have become
|
||||
almost completely sanitized.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bag-on-the-side.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="bagbiting.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bag on the side </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bagbiting</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>bagbiting</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="bagbiter.html" title="bagbiter"/><link rel="next" href="baggy-pantsing.html" title="baggy pantsing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bagbiting</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bagbiter.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="baggy-pantsing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bagbiting"/><dt xmlns="" id="bagbiting"><b>bagbiting</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT; now rare] Having the quality of a
|
||||
<a href="bagbiter.html"><i class="glossterm">bagbiter</i></a>. “<span class="quote">This bagbiting system won't let me
|
||||
compute the factorial of a negative number.</span>” Compare
|
||||
<a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a>, <a href="../C/cretinous.html"><i class="glossterm">cretinous</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="bletcherous.html"><i class="glossterm">bletcherous</i></a>, <span class="firstterm">barfucious</span> (under
|
||||
<a href="barfulous.html"><i class="glossterm">barfulous</i></a>) and <span class="firstterm">chomping</span> (under
|
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<a href="../C/chomp.html"><i class="glossterm">chomp</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bagbiter.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="baggy-pantsing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bagbiter </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> baggy pantsing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>baggy pantsing</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="bagbiting.html" title="bagbiting"/><link rel="next" href="balloonian-variable.html" title="balloonian variable"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">baggy pantsing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bagbiting.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="balloonian-variable.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="baggy-pantsing"/><dt xmlns="" id="baggy-pantsing"><b>baggy pantsing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Georgia Tech] A “<span class="quote">baggy pantsing</span>” is used to reprimand
|
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hackers who incautiously leave their terminals unlocked. The affected user
|
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will come back to find a post from them on internal newsgroups discussing
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exactly how baggy their pants are, an accepted stand-in for
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“<span class="quote">unattentive user who left their work unprotected in the
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clusters</span>”. A properly-done baggy pantsing is highly mocking and
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humorous. It is considered bad form to post a baggy pantsing to off-campus
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newsgroups or the more technical, serious groups. A particularly nice
|
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baggy pantsing may be “<span class="quote">claimed</span>” by immediately quoting the
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message in full, followed by your <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>; this
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has the added benefit of keeping the embarassed victim from being able to
|
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delete the post. Interesting baggy-pantsings have been done involving
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adding commands to login scripts to repost the message every time the
|
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unlucky user logs in; Unix boxes on the residential network, when cracked,
|
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oftentimes have their homepages replaced (after being politely backed-up to
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another file) with a baggy-pants message; .plan files are also occasionally
|
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targeted. Usage: “<span class="quote">Prof. Greenlee fell asleep in the Solaris cluster
|
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again; we baggy-pantsed him to <tt class="systemitem">git.cc.class.2430.flame</tt>.</span>” Compare
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<a href="../D/derf.html"><i class="glossterm">derf</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bagbiting.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="balloonian-variable.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bagbiting </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> balloonian variable</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>balloonian variable</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="baggy-pantsing.html" title="baggy pantsing"/><link rel="next" href="bamf.html" title="bamf"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">balloonian variable</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baggy-pantsing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bamf.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="balloonian-variable"/><dt xmlns="" id="balloonian-variable"><b>balloonian variable</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Commodore users; perh. a deliberate phonetic mangling of <span class="firstterm">boolean variable</span>?] Any variable that doesn't
|
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actually hold or control state, but must nevertheless be declared, checked,
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or set. A typical balloonian variable started out as a flag attached to
|
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some environment feature that either became obsolete or was planned but
|
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never implemented. Compatibility concerns (or politics attached to same)
|
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may require that such a flag be treated as though it were
|
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<a href="../L/live.html"><i class="glossterm">live</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baggy-pantsing.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="bamf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">baggy pantsing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bamf</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bamf</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="balloonian-variable.html" title="balloonian variable"/><link rel="next" href="banana-problem.html" title="banana problem"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bamf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="balloonian-variable.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="banana-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bamf"/><dt xmlns="" id="bamf"><b>bamf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bamf/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [from X-Men comics; originally “<span class="quote">bampf</span>”] <span class="grammar">interj.</span> Notional sound made by a person or object
|
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teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in
|
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<a href="../V/virtual-reality.html"><i class="glossterm">virtual reality</i></a> (esp. <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>)
|
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electronic <a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a> when a character wishes to make a
|
||||
dramatic entrance or exit. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality
|
||||
<a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a> like MUDs. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. In MUD circles, “<span class="quote">bamf</span>” is also used to refer to the
|
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act by which a MUD server sends a special notification to the MUD client to
|
||||
switch its connection to another server (“<span class="quote">I'll set up the old site to
|
||||
just bamf people over to our new location.</span>”). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to
|
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sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource
|
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(“<span class="quote">A user was asking about some technobabble so I bamfed them to
|
||||
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/" target="_top">http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/</a></span>”.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="balloonian-variable.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="banana-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">balloonian variable </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> banana problem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>banana problem</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="bamf.html" title="bamf"/><link rel="next" href="bandwidth.html" title="bandwidth"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">banana problem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bamf.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bandwidth.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="banana-problem"/><dt xmlns="" id="banana-problem"><b>banana problem</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the story of the little girl who said “<span class="quote">I know how to
|
||||
spell ‘banana’, but I don't know when to stop</span>”]. Not
|
||||
knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare
|
||||
<a href="../F/fencepost-error.html"><i class="glossterm">fencepost error</i></a>). One may say <span class="firstterm">there is a banana problem</span> of an algorithm with
|
||||
poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the
|
||||
evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also
|
||||
<a href="../C/creeping-elegance.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping elegance</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../C/creeping-featuritis.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping featuritis</i></a>).
|
||||
See item 176 under <a href="../H/HAKMEM.html"><i class="glossterm">HAKMEM</i></a>,
|
||||
which describes a banana problem in a
|
||||
<a href="../D/Dissociated-Press.html"><i class="glossterm">Dissociated Press</i></a> implementation.
|
||||
Also, see <a href="../O/one-banana-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">one-banana problem</i></a>
|
||||
for a superficially similar but unrelated usage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bamf.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="bandwidth.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bamf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bandwidth</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>bandwidth</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="banana-problem.html" title="banana problem"/><link rel="next" href="bang.html" title="bang"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bandwidth</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banana-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bang.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bandwidth"/><dt xmlns="" id="bandwidth"><b>bandwidth</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical
|
||||
meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer,
|
||||
person, or transmission medium can handle. “<span class="quote">Those are amazing
|
||||
graphics, but I missed some of the detail — not enough bandwidth, I
|
||||
guess.</span>” Compare <a href="../L/low-bandwidth.html"><i class="glossterm">low-bandwidth</i></a>; see also
|
||||
<a href="brainwidth.html"><i class="glossterm">brainwidth</i></a>. This generalized usage began to go
|
||||
mainstream after the Internet population explosion of 1993-1994. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Attention span. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. On <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, a measure of network capacity
|
||||
that is often wasted by people complaining about how items posted by others
|
||||
are a waste of bandwidth.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banana-problem.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="bang.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">banana problem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bang</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>bang on</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="bang.html" title="bang"/><link rel="next" href="bang-path.html" title="bang path"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bang on</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bang.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bang-path.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bang-on"/><dt xmlns="" id="bang-on"><b>bang on</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To stress-test a piece of hardware or software: “<span class="quote">I banged on
|
||||
the new version of the simulator all day yesterday and it didn't crash
|
||||
once. I guess it is ready for release.</span>” The term
|
||||
<a href="../P/pound-on.html"><i class="glossterm">pound on</i></a> is synonymous.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bang.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="bang-path.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bang </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bang path</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>bang path</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="bang-on.html" title="bang on"/><link rel="next" href="banner.html" title="banner"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bang path</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bang-on.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="banner.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bang-path"/><dt xmlns="" id="bang-path"><b>bang path</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [now historical] An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address
|
||||
specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the
|
||||
addressee, so called because each <a href="../H/hop.html"><i class="glossterm">hop</i></a> is signified
|
||||
by a <a href="bang.html"><i class="glossterm">bang</i></a> sign. Thus, for example, the path
|
||||
<tt class="systemitem">...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me</tt>
|
||||
directs people to route their mail to machine <tt class="systemitem">bigsite</tt> (presumably a well-known location
|
||||
accessible to everybody) and from there through the machine <tt class="systemitem">foovax</tt> to the account of user <tt class="systemitem">me</tt> on <tt class="systemitem">barbox</tt>.</p></dd><dd><p>In the bad old days of not so long ago, before autorouting mailers
|
||||
and Internet became commonplace, people often published compound bang
|
||||
addresses using the { } convention (see <a href="../G/glob.html"><i class="glossterm">glob</i></a>) to
|
||||
give paths from <span class="emphasis"><em>several</em></span> big machines, in the hopes
|
||||
that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably
|
||||
(example: <tt class="systemitem">...!{seismo, ut-sally,
|
||||
ihnp4</tt>!rice!beta!gamma!me}). Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were
|
||||
not uncommon. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long
|
||||
transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission
|
||||
time and reliability, as messages would not infrequently get lost. See
|
||||
<a href="../T/the-network.html"><i class="glossterm">the network</i></a> and
|
||||
<a href="../S/sitename.html"><i class="glossterm">sitename</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bang-on.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="banner.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bang on </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> banner</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>bang</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="bandwidth.html" title="bandwidth"/><link rel="next" href="bang-on.html" title="bang on"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bang</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bandwidth.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bang-on.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bang"/><dt xmlns="" id="bang"><b>bang</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Common spoken name for
|
||||
<tt class="literal">!</tt> (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a
|
||||
<a href="bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang path</i></a> in spoken hackish. In <a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder
|
||||
days</i></a> this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford
|
||||
hackers preferring <a href="../E/excl.html"><i class="glossterm">excl</i></a> or
|
||||
<a href="../S/shriek.html"><i class="glossterm">shriek</i></a>; but the spread of Unix has carried
|
||||
‘bang’ with it (esp. via the term <a href="bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang
|
||||
path</i></a>) and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for
|
||||
<tt class="literal">!</tt>. Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic
|
||||
written <tt class="literal">!</tt>; one would not say “<span class="quote">Congratulations
|
||||
bang</span>” (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted to
|
||||
specify the exact characters “<span class="quote">foo!</span>” one would speak “<span class="quote">Eff
|
||||
oh oh bang</span>”. See <a href="../S/shriek.html"><i class="glossterm">shriek</i></a>,
|
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<a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> An exclamation
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signifying roughly “<span class="quote">I have achieved enlightenment!</span>”, or
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“<span class="quote">The dynamite has cleared out my brain!</span>” Often used to
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acknowledge that one has perpetrated a <a href="../T/thinko.html"><i class="glossterm">thinko</i></a>
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immediately after one has been called on it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bandwidth.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="bang-on.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bandwidth </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bang on</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>banner ad</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="banner.html" title="banner"/><link rel="next" href="banner-site.html" title="banner site"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">banner ad</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banner.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="banner-site.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="banner-ad"/><dt xmlns="" id="banner-ad"><b>banner ad</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Any of the annoying graphical advertisements that span the tops of
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way too many Web pages.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banner.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="banner-site.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">banner </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> banner site</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>banner site</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="banner-ad.html" title="banner ad"/><link rel="next" href="bar.html" title="bar"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">banner site</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banner-ad.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bar.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="banner-site"/><dt xmlns="" id="banner-site"><b>banner site</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [warez d00dz] An FTP site storing pirated files where one must first
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click on several banners and/or subscribe to various ‘free’
|
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services, usually generating some form of revenues for the site owner, to
|
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be able to access the site. More often than not, the username/password
|
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painfully obtained by clicking on banners and subscribing to bogus services
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or mailing lists turns out to be non-working or gives access to a site that
|
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always responds busy. See <a href="../R/ratio-site.html"><i class="glossterm">ratio site</i></a>,
|
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<a href="../L/leech-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">leech mode</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banner-ad.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="bar.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">banner ad </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bar</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>banner</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="bang-path.html" title="bang path"/><link rel="next" href="banner-ad.html" title="banner ad"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">banner</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bang-path.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="banner-ad.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="banner"/><dt xmlns="" id="banner"><b>banner</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A top-centered graphic on a web page. Esp. used in
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<a href="banner-ad.html"><i class="glossterm">banner ad</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. On interactive software, a first screen containing a logo and/or
|
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author credits and/or a copyright notice. Similar to <a href="../S/splash-screen.html"><i class="glossterm">splash
|
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screen</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The title page added to printouts by most print spoolers (see
|
||||
<a href="../S/spool.html"><i class="glossterm">spool</i></a>). Typically includes user or account ID
|
||||
information in very large character-graphics capitals. Also called a
|
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<span class="firstterm">burst page</span>, because it indicates
|
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where to burst (tear apart) fanfold paper to separate one user's printout
|
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from the next. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A similar printout generated (typically on multiple pages of
|
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fan-fold paper) from user-specified text, e.g., by a program such as Unix's
|
||||
<b class="command">banner({1,6</b>)}. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bang-path.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="banner-ad.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bang path </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> banner ad</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>bar</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="banner-site.html" title="banner site"/><link rel="next" href="bare-metal.html" title="bare metal"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bar</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banner-site.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bare-metal.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bar"/><dt xmlns="" id="bar"><b>bar</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bar/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [very common] The second
|
||||
<a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>,
|
||||
after <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> and before
|
||||
<a href="baz.html"><i class="glossterm">baz</i></a>. “<span class="quote">Suppose we have two functions: FOO and
|
||||
BAR. FOO calls BAR....</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Often appended to <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> to produce
|
||||
<a href="../F/foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">foobar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banner-site.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="bare-metal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">banner site </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bare metal</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>bare metal</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="bar.html" title="bar"/><link rel="next" href="barf.html" title="barf"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bare metal</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bar.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barf.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bare-metal"/><dt xmlns="" id="bare-metal"><b>bare metal</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and
|
||||
delusions as an <a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating system</i></a>, an
|
||||
<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a>, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">programming on the bare metal</span>, which
|
||||
refers to the arduous work of <a href="bit-bashing.html"><i class="glossterm">bit bashing</i></a> needed to
|
||||
create these basic tools for a new machine. Real bare-metal programming
|
||||
involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic
|
||||
monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will
|
||||
be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a
|
||||
real development environment. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. “<span class="quote">Programming on the bare metal</span>” is also used to
|
||||
describe a style of <a href="../H/hand-hacking.html"><i class="glossterm">hand-hacking</i></a> that relies on
|
||||
bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, esp. tricks for
|
||||
speed and space optimization that rely on crocks such as overlapping
|
||||
instructions (or, as in the famous case described in <a href="../story-of-mel.html" title="The Story of Mel">The Story of Mel'</a> (in Appendix A),
|
||||
interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimize fetch delays due to
|
||||
the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become rare as
|
||||
the relative costs of programming time and machine resources have changed,
|
||||
but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial
|
||||
embedded systems. See <a href="../R/Real-Programmer.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Programmer</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bar.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="barf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bar </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> barf</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>barf</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="bare-metal.html" title="bare metal"/><link rel="next" href="barfmail.html" title="barfmail"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bare-metal.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barfmail.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barf"/><dt xmlns="" id="barf"><b>barf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/barf/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; from mainstream slang meaning ‘vomit’] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> Term of disgust.
|
||||
This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak “<span class="quote">gag me with a
|
||||
spoon</span>”. (Like, euwww!) See <a href="bletch.html"><i class="glossterm">bletch</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To say
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Barf!</span>” or emit some similar expression of disgust. “<span class="quote">I
|
||||
showed him my latest hack and he barfed</span>” means only that he
|
||||
complained about it, not that he literally vomited. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To fail to work because
|
||||
of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not.
|
||||
Examples: “<span class="quote">The division operation barfs if you try to divide by
|
||||
0.</span>” (That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide
|
||||
by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some
|
||||
unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) “<span class="quote">The text editor barfs
|
||||
if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old
|
||||
one.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>See <a href="../C/choke.html"><i class="glossterm">choke</i></a>. In
|
||||
Commonwealth Hackish, <span class="firstterm">barf</span> is
|
||||
generally replaced by ‘puke’ or ‘vom’.
|
||||
<a href="barf.html"><i class="glossterm">barf</i></a> is sometimes also used as a
|
||||
<a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>, like
|
||||
<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> or <a href="bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bare-metal.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="barfmail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bare metal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> barfmail</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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original/html/B/barfmail.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>barfmail</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="barf.html" title="barf"/><link rel="next" href="barfulation.html" title="barfulation"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barfmail</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barf.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barfulation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barfmail"/><dt xmlns="" id="barfmail"><b>barfmail</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Multiple <a href="bounce-message.html"><i class="glossterm">bounce message</i></a>s accumulating to the
|
||||
level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when
|
||||
an inter-network mail gateway goes down or wonky.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barf.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="barfulation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">barf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> barfulation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
5
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>barfulation</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="barfmail.html" title="barfmail"/><link rel="next" href="barfulous.html" title="barfulous"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barfulation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barfmail.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barfulous.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barfulation"/><dt xmlns="" id="barfulation"><b>barfulation</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bar`fyoo·lay´sh@n/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">interj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Variation of <a href="barf.html"><i class="glossterm">barf</i></a> used around the Stanford
|
||||
area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad
|
||||
code one might exclaim, “<span class="quote">Barfulation! Who wrote this,
|
||||
Quux?</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barfmail.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="barfulous.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">barfmail </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> barfulous</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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3
original/html/B/barfulous.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>barfulous</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="barfulation.html" title="barfulation"/><link rel="next" href="barn.html" title="barn"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barfulous</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barfulation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barn.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barfulous"/><dt xmlns="" id="barfulous"><b>barfulous</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bar´fyoo·l@s/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (alt.: <span class="firstterm">barfucious</span>, <span class="pronunciation">/bar-fyoo-sh@s/</span>) Said of something
|
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that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barfulation.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="barn.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">barfulation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> barn</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>barn</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="barfulous.html" title="barfulous"/><link rel="next" href="barney.html" title="barney"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barn</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barfulous.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barney.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barn"/><dt xmlns="" id="barn"><b>barn</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [uncommon; prob. from the nuclear military] An unexpectedly large
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quantity of something: a unit of measurement. “<span class="quote">Why is /var/adm
|
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taking up so much space?</span>” “<span class="quote">The logs have grown to several
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barns.</span>” The source of this is clear: when physicists were first
|
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studying nuclear interactions, the probability was thought to be
|
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proportional to the cross-sectional area of the nucleus (this probability
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is still called the cross-section). Upon experimenting, they discovered
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the interactions were far more probable than expected; the nuclei were
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“<span class="quote">as big as a barn</span>”. The units for cross-sections were
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christened Barns, (10<sup>-24</sup>
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cm<sup>2</sup>) and the book containing cross-sections has
|
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a picture of a barn on the cover.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barfulous.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="barney.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">barfulous </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> barney</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>barney</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="barn.html" title="barn"/><link rel="next" href="baroque.html" title="baroque"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barney</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barn.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="baroque.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barney"/><dt xmlns="" id="barney"><b>barney</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In Commonwealth hackish, <span class="firstterm">barney</span> is to <a href="../F/fred.html"><i class="glossterm">fred</i></a> (sense
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#1) as <a href="bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a> is to <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>. That
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is, people who commonly use <span class="firstterm">fred</span> as
|
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their first metasyntactic variable will often use <span class="firstterm">barney</span> second. The reference is, of course, to
|
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Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barn.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="baroque.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">barn </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> baroque</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>baroque</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="barney.html" title="barney"/><link rel="next" href="BASIC.html" title="BASIC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">baroque</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barney.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BASIC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="baroque"/><dt xmlns="" id="baroque"><b>baroque</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
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Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the
|
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connotations of <a href="../E/elephantine.html"><i class="glossterm">elephantine</i></a> or
|
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<a href="../M/monstrosity.html"><i class="glossterm">monstrosity</i></a> but is less extreme and not pejorative
|
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in itself. In the absence of other, more negative descriptions this term
|
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suggests that the software is trembling on the edge of bad taste but has
|
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not quite tipped over into it. “<span class="quote">Metafont even has features to
|
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introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now
|
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<span class="emphasis"><em>that</em></span> is baroque!</span>” See also
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<a href="../R/rococo.html"><i class="glossterm">rococo</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barney.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="BASIC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">barney </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BASIC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>batbelt</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="BASIC.html" title="BASIC"/><link rel="next" href="batch.html" title="batch"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">batbelt</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BASIC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="batch.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="batbelt"/><dt xmlns="" id="batbelt"><b>batbelt</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Many hackers routinely hang numerous devices such as pagers,
|
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cell-phones, personal organizers, leatherman multitools, pocket knives,
|
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flashlights, walkie-talkies, even miniature computers from their
|
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belts. When many of these devices are worn at once, the hacker's belt
|
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somewhat resembles Batman's utility belt; hence it is referred to as a
|
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batbelt.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BASIC.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="batch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BASIC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> batch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>batch</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="batbelt.html" title="batbelt"/><link rel="next" href="bathtub-curve.html" title="bathtub curve"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">batch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="batbelt.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bathtub-curve.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="batch"/><dt xmlns="" id="batch"><b>batch</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the
|
||||
traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a
|
||||
normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive
|
||||
command input are often referred to as <span class="firstterm">batch
|
||||
mode</span> switches. A <span class="firstterm">batch
|
||||
file</span> is a series of instructions written to be handed to an
|
||||
interactive program running in batch mode. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. “<span class="quote">I finally
|
||||
sat down in batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I guess
|
||||
they'll turn the electricity back on next week...</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">batching up</span>: Accumulation
|
||||
of a number of small tasks that can be lumped together for greater
|
||||
efficiency. “<span class="quote">I'm batching up those letters to send sometime</span>”
|
||||
“<span class="quote">I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling
|
||||
center.</span>”</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly-2"/><img src="../graphics/crunchly-2.png"/><div class="caption"><p/><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
|
||||
<a href="../F/flush.html#crunchly-5678">76-03-17:5-8</a>. The previous one is
|
||||
<a href="../W/washing-machine.html#crunchly76-02-14">76-02-14</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="batbelt.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="bathtub-curve.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">batbelt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bathtub curve</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bathtub curve</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="batch.html" title="batch"/><link rel="next" href="Batman-factor.html" title="Batman factor"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bathtub curve</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="batch.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Batman-factor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bathtub-curve"/><dt xmlns="" id="bathtub-curve"><b>bathtub curve</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one
|
||||
of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure
|
||||
rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most
|
||||
of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it ‘tires out’.
|
||||
See also <a href="burn-in-period.html"><i class="glossterm">burn-in period</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../I/infant-mortality.html"><i class="glossterm">infant mortality</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="batch.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="Batman-factor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">batch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Batman factor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>baud</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="Batman-factor.html" title="Batman factor"/><link rel="next" href="baz.html" title="baz"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">baud</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Batman-factor.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="baz.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="baud"/><dt xmlns="" id="baud"><b>baud</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bawd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [simplified from its technical meaning] <span class="grammar">n.</span> Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud,
|
||||
thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning is <span class="firstterm">level transitions per second</span>; this coincides
|
||||
with bps only for two-level modulation with no framing or stop bits. Most
|
||||
hackers are aware of these nuances but blithely ignore them.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: <span class="firstterm">baud</span> was
|
||||
originally a unit of telegraph signalling speed, set at one pulse per
|
||||
second. It was proposed at the November, 1926 conference of the
|
||||
Comité Consultatif International Des Communications
|
||||
Télégraphiques as an improvement on the then standard
|
||||
practice of referring to line speeds in terms of words per minute, and
|
||||
named for Jean Maurice Emile Baudot (1845-1903), a French engineer who did
|
||||
a lot of pioneering work in early teleprinters.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Batman-factor.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="baz.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Batman factor </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> baz</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>baz</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="baud.html" title="baud"/><link rel="next" href="bazaar.html" title="bazaar"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">baz</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baud.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bazaar.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="baz"/><dt xmlns="" id="baz"><b>baz</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/baz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] The third <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Suppose we have three functions: FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR,
|
||||
which calls BAZ....</span>” (See also
|
||||
<a href="../F/fum.html"><i class="glossterm">fum</i></a>)</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> A term of mild
|
||||
annoyance. In this usage the term is often drawn out for 2 or 3 seconds,
|
||||
producing an effect not unlike the bleating of a sheep; <span class="pronunciation">/baaaaaaz/</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Occasionally appended to <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> to produce
|
||||
‘foobaz’.</p></dd><dd><p>Earlier versions of this lexicon derived <span class="firstterm">baz</span> as a Stanford corruption of
|
||||
<a href="bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>. However, Pete Samson (compiler of the
|
||||
<a href="../T/TMRC.html"><i class="glossterm">TMRC</i></a> lexicon) reports it was already current when he
|
||||
joined TMRC in 1958. He says “<span class="quote">It came from
|
||||
<i class="citetitle">Pogo</i>. Albert the Alligator, when vexed or outraged,
|
||||
would shout ‘<span class="quote">Bazz Fazz!</span>’ or ‘<span class="quote">Rowrbazzle!</span>’ The
|
||||
club layout was said to model the (mythical) New England counties of
|
||||
Rowrfolk and Bassex (Rowrbazzle mingled with
|
||||
(Norfolk/Suffolk/Middlesex/Essex).</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baud.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="bazaar.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">baud </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bazaar</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bazaar</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="baz.html" title="baz"/><link rel="next" href="bboard.html" title="bboard"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bazaar</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baz.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bboard.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bazaar"/><dt xmlns="" id="bazaar"><b>bazaar</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In 1997, after meditating on the success of
|
||||
<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> for three years, the Jargon File's own editor
|
||||
ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models
|
||||
titled <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/" target="_top">
|
||||
The Cathedral and the Bazaar</a>. The main argument of the paper was
|
||||
that <a href="Brookss-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Brooks's Law</i></a> is not the whole story; given the
|
||||
right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across
|
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large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also
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arguments for <a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baz.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="bboard.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">baz </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bboard</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bboard</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="bazaar.html" title="bazaar"/><link rel="next" href="BBS.html" title="BBS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bboard</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bazaar.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BBS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bboard"/><dt xmlns="" id="bboard"><b>bboard</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bee´bord/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [contraction of ‘bulletin board’]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of
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<a href="BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> systems running on personal micros, less
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frequently of a Usenet <a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> (in fact, use of
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this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a
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<a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a> fresh in from the BBS world or as a real
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old-timer predating Usenet). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. At CMU and other colleges with similar facilities, refers to
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campus-wide electronic bulletin boards. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The term <span class="firstterm">physical bboard</span> is
|
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sometimes used to refer to an old-fashioned, non-electronic
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cork-and-thumbtack memo board. At CMU, it refers to a particular one
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outside the CS Lounge.</p></dd><dd><p>In either of senses 1 or 2, the term is usually prefixed by the name
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of the intended board (‘the Moonlight Casino bboard’ or
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‘market bboard’); however, if the context is clear, the
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better-read bboards may be referred to by name alone, as in (at CMU)
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“<span class="quote">Don't post for-sale ads on general</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bazaar.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="BBS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bazaar </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BBS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>beam</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="BDFL.html" title="BDFL"/><link rel="next" href="beanie-key.html" title="beanie key"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">beam</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BDFL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beanie-key.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="beam"/><dt xmlns="" id="beam"><b>beam</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Star Trek Classic's “<span class="quote">Beam me up, Scotty!</span>”]
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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. To transfer <a href="../S/softcopy.html"><i class="glossterm">softcopy</i></a> of a file
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electronically; most often in combining forms such as <span class="firstterm">beam me a copy</span> or <span class="firstterm">beam that over to his site</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Palm Pilot users very commonly use this term for the act of
|
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exchanging bits via the infrared links on their machines (this term seems
|
||||
to have originated with the ill-fated Newton Message Pad). Compare
|
||||
<a href="blast.html"><i class="glossterm">blast</i></a>, <a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a>,
|
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<a href="BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a>. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BDFL.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="beanie-key.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BDFL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> beanie key</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>beanie key</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="beam.html" title="beam"/><link rel="next" href="beep.html" title="beep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">beanie key</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beam.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="beanie-key"/><dt xmlns="" id="beanie-key"><b>beanie key</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[Mac users] See <a href="../C/command-key.html"><i class="glossterm">command key</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beam.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="beep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">beam </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> beep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>beep</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="beanie-key.html" title="beanie key"/><link rel="next" href="Befunge.html" title="Befunge"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">beep</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beanie-key.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Befunge.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="beep"/><dt xmlns="" id="beep"><b>beep</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="../F/feep.html"><i class="glossterm">feep</i></a>. This term is techspeak under
|
||||
MS-DOS/Windows and OS/2, and seems to be generally preferred among micro
|
||||
hobbyists.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beanie-key.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="Befunge.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">beanie key </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Befunge</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>beige toaster</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="Befunge.html" title="Befunge"/><link rel="next" href="bells-and-whistles.html" title="bells and whistles"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">beige toaster</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Befunge.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bells-and-whistles.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="beige-toaster"/><dt xmlns="" id="beige-toaster"><b>beige toaster</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [obs.] An original Macintosh in the boxy beige case. See
|
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<a href="../T/toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">toaster</i></a>; compare <a href="../M/Macintrash.html"><i class="glossterm">Macintrash</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../M/maggotbox.html"><i class="glossterm">maggotbox</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Befunge.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="bells-and-whistles.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Befunge </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bells and whistles</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bells and whistles</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="beige-toaster.html" title="beige toaster"/><link rel="next" href="bells-whistles-and-gongs.html" title="bells whistles and gongs"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bells and whistles</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="beige-toaster.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bells-whistles-and-gongs.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bells-and-whistles"/><dt xmlns="" id="bells-and-whistles"><b>bells and whistles</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Features added to a program or system to make it more
|
||||
<a href="../F/flavorful.html"><i class="glossterm">flavorful</i></a> from a hacker's point of view, without
|
||||
necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function. Distinguished
|
||||
from <a href="../C/chrome.html"><i class="glossterm">chrome</i></a>, which is intended to attract users.
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Now that we've got the basic program working, let's go back and add
|
||||
some bells and whistles.</span>” No one seems to know what distinguishes a
|
||||
bell from a whistle. The recognized emphatic form is “<span class="quote">bells,
|
||||
whistles, and gongs</span>”.</p></dd><dd><p>It used to be thought that this term derived from the toyboxes on
|
||||
theater organs. However, the “<span class="quote">and gongs</span>” strongly suggests a
|
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different origin, at sea. Before powered horns, ships routinely used
|
||||
bells, whistles, and gongs to signal each other over longer distances than
|
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voice can carry.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-05-28"/><img src="../graphics/73-05-28.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Sometimes ‘trouble’ is spelled
|
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<a href="bells-and-whistles.html"><i class="glossterm">bells and whistles</i></a>...</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
|
||||
<a href="../G/glitch.html#crunchly73-06-04">73-06-04</a>. The previous one is
|
||||
<a href="bells-and-whistles.html#crunchly73-05-28">73-05-28</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="beige-toaster.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="bells-whistles-and-gongs.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">beige toaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bells whistles and gongs</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bells whistles and gongs</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="bells-and-whistles.html" title="bells and whistles"/><link rel="next" href="benchmark.html" title="benchmark"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bells whistles and gongs</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bells-and-whistles.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="benchmark.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bells-whistles-and-gongs"/><dt xmlns="" id="bells-whistles-and-gongs"><b>bells whistles and gongs</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A standard elaborated form of
|
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<a href="bells-and-whistles.html"><i class="glossterm">bells and whistles</i></a>;
|
||||
typically said with a pronounced and ironic accent
|
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on the ‘gongs’.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bells-and-whistles.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="benchmark.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bells and whistles </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> benchmark</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>benchmark</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="bells-whistles-and-gongs.html" title="bells whistles and gongs"/><link rel="next" href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html" title="Berkeley Quality Software"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">benchmark</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bells-whistles-and-gongs.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="benchmark"/><dt xmlns="" id="benchmark"><b>benchmark</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer performance.
|
||||
“<span class="quote">In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn
|
||||
lies, and benchmarks.</span>” Well-known ones include Whetstone, Dhrystone,
|
||||
Rhealstone (see <a href="../H/h.html"><i class="glossterm">h</i></a>), the Gabriel LISP benchmarks, the
|
||||
SPECmark suite, and LINPACK. See also <a href="../M/machoflops.html"><i class="glossterm">machoflops</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../M/MIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">MIPS</i></a>, <a href="../S/smoke-and-mirrors.html"><i class="glossterm">smoke and mirrors</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bells-whistles-and-gongs.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="Berkeley-Quality-Software.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bells whistles and gongs </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Berkeley Quality Software</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>beta</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="Berzerkeley.html" title="Berzerkeley"/><link rel="next" href="BFI.html" title="BFI"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">beta</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Berzerkeley.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BFI.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="beta"/><dt xmlns="" id="beta"><b>beta</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bay´t@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/be´t@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bee´t@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with
|
||||
“<span class="quote">in</span>”: <span class="firstterm">in beta</span>. In the
|
||||
<a href="../R/Real-World.html"><i class="glossterm">Real World</i></a>, hardware or software systems often go
|
||||
through two stages of release testing: Alpha (in-house) and Beta
|
||||
(out-house?). Beta releases are generally made to a group of lucky (or
|
||||
unlucky) trusted customers. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Anything that is new and experimental. “<span class="quote">His girlfriend is
|
||||
in beta</span>” means that he is still testing for compatibility and
|
||||
reserving judgment. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Flaky; dubious; suspect (since beta software is notoriously
|
||||
buggy).</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: More formally, to beta-test is to test a pre-release
|
||||
(potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it
|
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available to selected (or self-selected) customers and users. This term
|
||||
derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first
|
||||
used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. <span class="firstterm">Alpha Test</span> was the unit, module, or component
|
||||
test phase; <span class="firstterm">Beta Test</span> was initial
|
||||
system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for
|
||||
hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation
|
||||
done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a
|
||||
demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The
|
||||
C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early
|
||||
samples of the production design, and the D test was the C test repeated
|
||||
after the model had been in production a while.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Berzerkeley.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="BFI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Berzerkeley </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BFI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bible</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="BI.html" title="BI"/><link rel="next" href="BiCapitalization.html" title="BiCapitalization"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bible</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="BiCapitalization.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bible"/><dt xmlns="" id="bible"><b>bible</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. One of a small number of fundamental source books such as
|
||||
<a href="../K/Knuth.html"><i class="glossterm">Knuth</i></a>, <a href="../K/K-ampersand-R.html"><i class="glossterm">K&R</i></a>, or the <a href="../C/Camel-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Camel
|
||||
Book</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular
|
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language, operating system, or other complex software system.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BI.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="BiCapitalization.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> BiCapitalization</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>biff</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="BiCapitalization.html" title="BiCapitalization"/><link rel="next" href="big-iron.html" title="big iron"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">biff</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BiCapitalization.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="big-iron.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="biff"/><dt xmlns="" id="biff"><b>biff</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bif/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [now rare] To notify someone of incoming mail. From the BSD utility
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">biff</span>(1)</span>,
|
||||
which was in turn named after a friendly dog who used to chase frisbees in
|
||||
the halls at UCB while 4.2BSD was in development. There was a legend that
|
||||
it had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but the author of
|
||||
<b class="command">biff</b> says this is not true. No relation to
|
||||
<a href="B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BiCapitalization.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="big-iron.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BiCapitalization </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> big iron</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>big-endian</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="big-win.html" title="big win"/><link rel="next" href="bignum.html" title="bignum"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">big-endian</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-win.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bignum.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="big-endian"/><dt xmlns="" id="big-endian"><b>big-endian</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; From Swift's <i class="citetitle">Gulliver's Travels</i> via
|
||||
the famous paper <i class="citetitle">On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace</i>
|
||||
by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI <a href="http://khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu/wollman/ien-137.txt" target="_top">IEN 137</a>,
|
||||
dated April 1, 1980]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given
|
||||
multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest
|
||||
address (the word is stored ‘big-end-first’). Most processors,
|
||||
including the IBM 370 family, the <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>, the
|
||||
Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs are
|
||||
big-endian. Big-endian byte order is also sometimes called <span class="firstterm">network order</span>. See
|
||||
<a href="../L/little-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">little-endian</i></a>, <a href="../M/middle-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">middle-endian</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../N/NUXI-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">NUXI problem</i></a>, <a href="../S/swab.html"><i class="glossterm">swab</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An Internet address the wrong way round. Most of the world
|
||||
follows the Internet standard and writes email addresses starting with the
|
||||
name of the computer and ending up with the name of the country. In the
|
||||
U.K.: the Joint Academic Networking Team had decided to do it the other way
|
||||
round before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway
|
||||
sites have <a href="../A/ad-hockery.html"><i class="glossterm">ad-hockery</i></a> in their mailers to handle
|
||||
this, but can still be confused. In particular, the address <tt class="systemitem">me@uk.ac.bris.pys.as</tt> could be interpreted in
|
||||
JANET's big-endian way as one in the U.K. (domain <tt class="systemitem">uk</tt>) or in the standard little-endian way as
|
||||
one in the domain <tt class="systemitem">as</tt> (American
|
||||
Samoa) on the opposite side of the world.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-win.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="bignum.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">big win </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bignum</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>big iron</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="biff.html" title="biff"/><link rel="next" href="Big-Red-Switch.html" title="Big Red Switch"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">big iron</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="biff.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Big-Red-Switch.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="big-iron"/><dt xmlns="" id="big-iron"><b>big iron</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of
|
||||
<a href="../N/number-crunching.html"><i class="glossterm">number-crunching</i></a> supercomputers, but
|
||||
can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. Term of
|
||||
approval; compare <a href="../H/heavy-metal.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy metal</i></a>, oppose
|
||||
<a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="biff.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="Big-Red-Switch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">biff </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Big Red Switch</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>big win</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="Big-Room.html" title="Big Room"/><link rel="next" href="big-endian.html" title="big-endian"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">big win</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Big-Room.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="big-endian.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="big-win"/><dt xmlns="" id="big-win"><b>big win</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] Major success. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [MIT] Serendipity. “<span class="quote">Yes, those two physicists discovered
|
||||
high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic that had been
|
||||
prepared incorrectly according to their experimental schedule. Small
|
||||
mistake; big win!</span>” See <a href="../W/win-big.html"><i class="glossterm">win big</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Big-Room.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="big-endian.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Big Room </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> big-endian</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>bignum</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="big-endian.html" title="big-endian"/><link rel="next" href="bigot.html" title="bigot"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bignum</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-endian.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bigot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bignum"/><dt xmlns="" id="bignum"><b>bignum</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/big´nuhm/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; orig. from MIT MacLISP]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation for very
|
||||
large integers. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, any very large number. “<span class="quote">Have you ever
|
||||
looked at the United States Budget? There's bignums for you!</span>”
|
||||
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Stanford] In backgammon, large numbers on the dice especially a
|
||||
roll of double fives or double sixes (compare <a href="../M/moby.html"><i class="glossterm">moby</i></a>,
|
||||
sense 4). See also <a href="../E/El-Camino-Bignum.html"><i class="glossterm">El Camino Bignum</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Sense 1 may require some explanation. Most computer languages
|
||||
provide a kind of data called <span class="firstterm">integer</span>, but such computer integers are usually
|
||||
very limited in size; usually they must be smaller than
|
||||
<tt class="literal">2<sup>31</sup></tt> (2,147,483,648). If you
|
||||
want to work with numbers larger than that, you have to use floating-point
|
||||
numbers, which are usually accurate to only six or seven decimal places.
|
||||
Computer languages that provide bignums can perform exact calculations on
|
||||
very large numbers, such as 1000! (the factorial of 1000, which is 1000
|
||||
times 999 times 998 times ... times 2 times 1). For example, this
|
||||
value for 1000! was computed by the MacLISP system using bignums:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
|
||||
40238726007709377354370243392300398571937486421071<br/>
|
||||
46325437999104299385123986290205920442084869694048<br/>
|
||||
00479988610197196058631666872994808558901323829669<br/>
|
||||
94459099742450408707375991882362772718873251977950<br/>
|
||||
59509952761208749754624970436014182780946464962910<br/>
|
||||
56393887437886487337119181045825783647849977012476<br/>
|
||||
63288983595573543251318532395846307555740911426241<br/>
|
||||
74743493475534286465766116677973966688202912073791<br/>
|
||||
43853719588249808126867838374559731746136085379534<br/>
|
||||
52422158659320192809087829730843139284440328123155<br/>
|
||||
86110369768013573042161687476096758713483120254785<br/>
|
||||
89320767169132448426236131412508780208000261683151<br/>
|
||||
02734182797770478463586817016436502415369139828126<br/>
|
||||
48102130927612448963599287051149649754199093422215<br/>
|
||||
66832572080821333186116811553615836546984046708975<br/>
|
||||
60290095053761647584772842188967964624494516076535<br/>
|
||||
34081989013854424879849599533191017233555566021394<br/>
|
||||
50399736280750137837615307127761926849034352625200<br/>
|
||||
01588853514733161170210396817592151090778801939317<br/>
|
||||
81141945452572238655414610628921879602238389714760<br/>
|
||||
88506276862967146674697562911234082439208160153780<br/>
|
||||
88989396451826324367161676217916890977991190375403<br/>
|
||||
12746222899880051954444142820121873617459926429565<br/>
|
||||
81746628302955570299024324153181617210465832036786<br/>
|
||||
90611726015878352075151628422554026517048330422614<br/>
|
||||
39742869330616908979684825901254583271682264580665<br/>
|
||||
26769958652682272807075781391858178889652208164348<br/>
|
||||
34482599326604336766017699961283186078838615027946<br/>
|
||||
59551311565520360939881806121385586003014356945272<br/>
|
||||
24206344631797460594682573103790084024432438465657<br/>
|
||||
24501440282188525247093519062092902313649327349756<br/>
|
||||
55139587205596542287497740114133469627154228458623<br/>
|
||||
77387538230483865688976461927383814900140767310446<br/>
|
||||
64025989949022222176590433990188601856652648506179<br/>
|
||||
97023561938970178600408118897299183110211712298459<br/>
|
||||
01641921068884387121855646124960798722908519296819<br/>
|
||||
37238864261483965738229112312502418664935314397013<br/>
|
||||
74285319266498753372189406942814341185201580141233<br/>
|
||||
44828015051399694290153483077644569099073152433278<br/>
|
||||
28826986460278986432113908350621709500259738986355<br/>
|
||||
42771967428222487575867657523442202075736305694988<br/>
|
||||
25087968928162753848863396909959826280956121450994<br/>
|
||||
87170124451646126037902930912088908694202851064018<br/>
|
||||
21543994571568059418727489980942547421735824010636<br/>
|
||||
77404595741785160829230135358081840096996372524230<br/>
|
||||
56085590370062427124341690900415369010593398383577<br/>
|
||||
79394109700277534720000000000000000000000000000000<br/>
|
||||
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000<br/>
|
||||
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000<br/>
|
||||
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000<br/>
|
||||
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000<br/>
|
||||
00000000000000000.<br/>
|
||||
</p></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-endian.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="bigot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">big-endian </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bigot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bigot</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="bignum.html" title="bignum"/><link rel="next" href="bikeshedding.html" title="bikeshedding"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bigot</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bignum.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bikeshedding.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bigot"/><dt xmlns="" id="bigot"><b>bigot</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] A person who is religiously attached to a particular
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||||
computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see
|
||||
<a href="../R/religious-issues.html"><i class="glossterm">religious issues</i></a>). Usually found with a specifier;
|
||||
thus, <span class="firstterm">Cray bigot</span>, <span class="firstterm">ITS bigot</span>, <span class="firstterm">APL
|
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bigot</span>, <span class="firstterm">VMS bigot</span>,
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">Berkeley bigot</span>. Real bigots can be
|
||||
distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse
|
||||
to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/or technology is
|
||||
threatening to obsolete the favored tool. It is truly said “<span class="quote">You can
|
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tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much.</span>” Compare
|
||||
<a href="../W/weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">weenie</i></a>,
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<a href="../A/Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html"><i class="glossterm">Amiga Persecution Complex</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bignum.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="bikeshedding.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bignum </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bikeshedding</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bikeshedding</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="bigot.html" title="bigot"/><link rel="next" href="binary-four.html" title="binary four"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bikeshedding</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bigot.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="binary-four.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bikeshedding"/><dt xmlns="" id="bikeshedding"><b>bikeshedding</b></dt></dt><dd><p>[originally BSD, now common] Technical disputes over minor, marginal
|
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issues conducted while more serious ones are being overlooked. The
|
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implied image is of people arguing over what color to paint the bicycle
|
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shed while the house is not finished.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bigot.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="binary-four.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bigot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> binary four</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>binary four</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="bikeshedding.html" title="bikeshedding"/><link rel="next" href="bit.html" title="bit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">binary four</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bikeshedding.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="binary-four"/><dt xmlns="" id="binary-four"><b>binary four</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] The finger, in the sense of <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">digitus
|
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impudicus</i></span>. This comes from an analogy between binary and
|
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the hand, i.e. 1=00001=thumb, 2=00010=index finger, 3=00011=index and
|
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thumb, 4=00100. Considered silly. Prob. from humorous derivative of
|
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<a href="../F/finger.html"><i class="glossterm">finger</i></a>, sense 4.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bikeshedding.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="bit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bikeshedding </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bit bang</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="bit.html" title="bit"/><link rel="next" href="bit-bashing.html" title="bit bashing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bit bang</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-bashing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bit-bang"/><dt xmlns="" id="bit-bang"><b>bit bang</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly
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tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The
|
||||
technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for
|
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each byte. Input is more interesting. And full duplex (doing input and
|
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output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the
|
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<a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>s.</p></dd><dd><p>Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers,
|
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presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Z80 micros with a
|
||||
Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the <a href="../C/cycle-of-reincarnation.html"><i class="glossterm">cycle
|
||||
of reincarnation</i></a>, this technique returned to use in the early
|
||||
1990s on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal
|
||||
part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
|
||||
Compare <a href="../C/cycle-of-reincarnation.html"><i class="glossterm">cycle of reincarnation</i></a>. Nowadays it's used
|
||||
to describe I2C, a serial protocol for monitoring motherboard
|
||||
hardware.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit.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="bit-bashing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bit bashing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bit bashing</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="bit-bang.html" title="bit bang"/><link rel="next" href="bit-bucket.html" title="bit bucket"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bit bashing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-bang.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-bucket.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bit-bashing"/><dt xmlns="" id="bit-bashing"><b>bit bashing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (alt.: <span class="firstterm">bit diddling</span> or
|
||||
<a href="bit-twiddling.html"><i class="glossterm">bit twiddling</i></a>) Term used to describe any of several
|
||||
kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of
|
||||
<a href="bit.html"><i class="glossterm">bit</i></a>, <a href="../F/flag.html"><i class="glossterm">flag</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../N/nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a>, and other smaller-than-character-sized
|
||||
pieces of data; these include low-level device control, encryption
|
||||
algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some
|
||||
flavors of graphics programming (see <a href="bitblt.html"><i class="glossterm">bitblt</i></a>), and
|
||||
assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real
|
||||
technical challenge (more usually the former). “<span class="quote">The command decoding
|
||||
for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the
|
||||
control registers still has bugs.</span>” See also
|
||||
<a href="../M/mode-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">mode 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="bit-bang.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="bit-bucket.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bit bang </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bit bucket</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bit bucket</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="bit-bashing.html" title="bit bashing"/><link rel="next" href="bit-decay.html" title="bit decay"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bit bucket</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-bashing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-decay.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bit-bucket"/><dt xmlns="" id="bit-bucket"><b>bit bucket</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used
|
||||
to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift
|
||||
instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have <span class="firstterm">gone to the bit bucket</span>. On
|
||||
<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>, often used for
|
||||
<a href="../0/dev-null.html"><i class="glossterm">/dev/null</i></a>. Sometimes amplified as <span class="firstterm">the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go.
|
||||
The selection is performed according to
|
||||
<a href="../F/Finagles-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Finagle's Law</i></a>; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit
|
||||
bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting
|
||||
delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by
|
||||
mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network.
|
||||
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: “<span class="quote">Flames
|
||||
about this article to the bit bucket.</span>” Such a request is guaranteed
|
||||
to overflow one's mailbox with flames. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. “<span class="quote">I mailed you
|
||||
those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket.</span>”
|
||||
Compare <a href="black-hole.html"><i class="glossterm">black hole</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion
|
||||
that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This
|
||||
appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term ‘bit box’,
|
||||
about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that
|
||||
trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was
|
||||
actually pulling them “<span class="quote">out of the bit box</span>”. See also
|
||||
<a href="../C/chad-box.html"><i class="glossterm">chad box</i></a>.</p><p>Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the
|
||||
“<span class="quote">parity preservation law</span>”, the number of 1 bits that go to the
|
||||
bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits
|
||||
filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a
|
||||
full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance.</p><p>The source for all these meanings, is, historically, the fact that
|
||||
the <a href="../C/chad-box.html"><i class="glossterm">chad box</i></a> on a paper-tape punch was sometimes
|
||||
called a bit bucket.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly75-10-04"/><img src="../graphics/75-10-04.png"/><div class="caption"><p>A literal <a href="bit-bucket.html"><i class="glossterm">bit bucket</i></a>.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
|
||||
<a href="../W/washing-machine.html#crunchly76-02-14">76-02-14</a>. The previous one is
|
||||
<a href="bit-bucket.html#crunchly75-10-04">75-10-04</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="bit-bashing.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="bit-decay.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bit bashing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bit decay</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bit decay</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="bit-bucket.html" title="bit bucket"/><link rel="next" href="bit-rot.html" title="bit rot"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bit decay</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-bucket.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-rot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bit-decay"/><dt xmlns="" id="bit-decay"><b>bit decay</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="bit-rot.html"><i class="glossterm">bit rot</i></a>. People with a physics
|
||||
background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
|
||||
See also <a href="../C/computron.html"><i class="glossterm">computron</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html"><i class="glossterm">quantum bogodynamics</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-bucket.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="bit-rot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bit bucket </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bit rot</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>bit-paired keyboard</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="bit-twiddling.html" title="bit twiddling"/><link rel="next" href="bitblt.html" title="bitblt"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bit-paired keyboard</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-twiddling.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bitblt.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bit-paired-keyboard"/><dt xmlns="" id="bit-paired-keyboard"><b>bit-paired keyboard</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (alt.: <span class="firstterm">bit-shift keyboard</span>) A
|
||||
non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the
|
||||
Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer
|
||||
equipment. The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see
|
||||
<a href="../E/EOU.html"><i class="glossterm">EOU</i></a>), so the only way to generate the character
|
||||
codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage. The design of the
|
||||
ASR-33 assigned each character key a basic pattern that could be modified
|
||||
by flipping bits if the SHIFT or the CTRL key was pressed. In order to
|
||||
avoid making the thing even more of a kluge than it already was, the design
|
||||
had to group characters that shared the same basic bit pattern on one
|
||||
key.</p><p>Looking at the ASCII chart, we find:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
high low bits
|
||||
bits 0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001
|
||||
010 ! " # $ % & ' ( )
|
||||
011 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
|
||||
</pre></td></tr></table><p>This is why the characters !"#$%&'() appear where they do on a
|
||||
Teletype (thankfully, they didn't use shift-0 for space). The Teletype
|
||||
Model 33 was actually designed before ASCII existed, and was originally
|
||||
intended to use a code that contained these two rows:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
low bits
|
||||
high 0000 0010 0100 0110 1000 1010 1100 1110
|
||||
bits 0001 0011 0101 0111 1001 1011 1101 1111
|
||||
10 ) ! bel # $ % wru & * ( " : ? _ , .
|
||||
11 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ' ; / - esc del
|
||||
</pre></td></tr></table><p>The result would have been something closer to a normal keyboard.
|
||||
But as it happened, Teletype had to use a lot of persuasion just to keep
|
||||
ASCII, and the Model 33 keyboard, from looking like this instead:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
! " ? $ ' & - ( ) ; : * / , .
|
||||
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + ~ < > × |
|
||||
</pre></td></tr></table><p>Teletype's was <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> the weirdest variant of the
|
||||
<a href="../Q/QWERTY.html"><i class="glossterm">QWERTY</i></a> layout widely seen, by the way; that prize
|
||||
should probably go to one of several (differing) arrangements on IBM's even
|
||||
clunkier 026 and 029 card punches.</p><p>When electronic terminals became popular, in the early 1970s, there
|
||||
was no agreement in the industry over how the keyboards should be laid out.
|
||||
Some vendors opted to emulate the Teletype keyboard, while others used the
|
||||
flexibility of electronic circuitry to make their product look like an
|
||||
office typewriter. Either choice was supported by the ANSI computer
|
||||
keyboard standard, X4.14-1971, which referred to the alternatives as
|
||||
“<span class="quote">logical bit pairing</span>” and “<span class="quote">typewriter
|
||||
pairing</span>”. These alternatives became known as <span class="firstterm">bit-paired</span> and <span class="firstterm">typewriter-paired</span> keyboards. To a hacker, the
|
||||
bit-paired keyboard seemed far more logical — and because most
|
||||
hackers in those days had never learned to touch-type, there was little
|
||||
pressure from the pioneering users to adapt keyboards to the typewriter
|
||||
standard.</p><p>The doom of the bit-paired keyboard was the large-scale introduction
|
||||
of the computer terminal into the normal office environment, where
|
||||
out-and-out technophobes were expected to use the equipment. The <span class="firstterm">typewriter-paired</span> standard became universal,
|
||||
X4.14 was superseded by X4.23-1982, <span class="firstterm">bit-paired</span> hardware was quickly junked or
|
||||
relegated to dusty corners, and both terms passed into disuse.</p><p>However, in countries without a long history of touch typing, the
|
||||
argument against the bit-paired keyboard layout was weak or nonexistent. As
|
||||
a result, the standard Japanese keyboard, used on PCs, Unix boxen
|
||||
etc. still has all of the !"#$%&'() characters above the numbers in the
|
||||
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