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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DAU</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="Datamation.html" title="Datamation"/><link rel="next" href="Dave-the-Resurrector.html" title="Dave the Resurrector"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DAU</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Datamation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Dave-the-Resurrector.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DAU"/><dt xmlns="" id="DAU"><b>DAU</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dow/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [German FidoNet] German acronym for Dümmster Anzunehmender User
(stupidest imaginable user). From the engineering-slang GAU for
Grösster Anzunehmender Unfall, worst assumable accident, esp. of a LNG
tank farm plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences. In
popular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case nuclear accidents
such as a core meltdown. See <a href="../C/cretin.html"><i class="glossterm">cretin</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fool.html"><i class="glossterm">fool</i></a>, <a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a> and
<a href="../W/weasel.html"><i class="glossterm">weasel</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Datamation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Dave-the-Resurrector.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Datamation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Dave the Resurrector</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DDT</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dd.html" title="dd"/><link rel="next" href="de-rezz.html" title="de-rezz"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DDT</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dd.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="de-rezz.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DDT"/><dt xmlns="" id="DDT"><b>DDT</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/D·D·T/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene]
</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other
programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic
form and letting the user change them. In this sense the term DDT is now
archaic, having been widely displaced by <span class="firstterm">debugger</span> or names of individual programs like
<b class="command">adb</b>, <b class="command">sdb</b>,
<b class="command">dbx</b>, or <b class="command">gdb</b>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [ITS] Under MIT's fabled <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> operating
system, DDT (running under the alias HACTRN, a six-letterism for
&#8216;Hack Translator&#8217;) was also used as the
<a href="../S/shell.html"><i class="glossterm">shell</i></a> or top level command language used to execute
other programs. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Any one of several specific DDTs (sense 1) supported on early
<a href="DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> hardware and CP/M. The PDP-10 Reference
Handbook (1969) contained a footnote on the first page of the documentation
for DDT that illuminates the origin of the term:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>Historical footnote: DDT was developed at MIT for the PDP-1
computer in 1961. At that time DDT stood for &#8220;<span class="quote">DEC Debugging
Tape</span>&#8221;. Since then, the idea of an on-line debugging program has
propagated throughout the computer industry. DDT programs are now
available for all DEC computers. Since media other than tape are
now frequently used, the more descriptive name &#8220;<span class="quote">Dynamic Debugging
Technique</span>&#8221; has been adopted, retaining the DDT abbreviation. Confusion
between DDT-10 and another well known pesticide,
dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane
C<sub>14</sub>H<sub>9</sub>Cl<sub>5</sub>
should be minimal since each attacks a
different, and apparently mutually exclusive, class of bugs.</p></blockquote></div><p>(The &#8216;tape&#8217; referred to was, incidentally, not magnetic
but paper.) Sadly, this quotation was removed from later editions of the
handbook after the <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s took over and
<a href="DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> became much more
&#8216;businesslike&#8217;.</p><p>The history above is known to many old-time hackers. But there's
more: Peter Samson, compiler of the original <a href="../T/TMRC.html"><i class="glossterm">TMRC</i></a>
lexicon, reports that he named <span class="firstterm">DDT</span>
after a similar tool on the TX-0 computer, the direct ancestor of the PDP-1
built at MIT's Lincoln Lab in 1957. The debugger on that ground-breaking
machine (the first transistorized computer) rejoiced in the name FLIT
(FLexowriter Interrogation Tape). Flit was for many years the trade-name
of a popular insecticide.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dd.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="de-rezz.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dd </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> de-rezz</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DEADBEEF</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dead-tree-version.html" title="dead-tree version"/><link rel="next" href="deadlock.html" title="deadlock"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DEADBEEF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dead-tree-version.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deadlock.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DEADBEEF"/><dt xmlns="" id="DEADBEEF"><b>DEADBEEF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ded·beef/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The hexadecimal word-fill pattern for freshly allocated memory under
a number of IBM environments, including the RS/6000. Some modern debugging
tools deliberately fill freed memory with this value as a way of converting
<a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>s into <a href="../B/Bohr-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">Bohr bug</i></a>s.
As in &#8220;<span class="quote">Your program is DEADBEEF</span>&#8221; (meaning gone, aborted,
flushed from memory); if you start from an odd half-word boundary, of
course, you have BEEFDEAD. See also the anecdote under
<a href="../F/fool.html"><i class="glossterm">fool</i></a> and
<a href="dead-beef-attack.html"><i class="glossterm">dead beef attack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dead-tree-version.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deadlock.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dead-tree version </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deadlock</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Steve Tarr spoofing the <i class="citetitle">Star Wars</i> movies in hackish
terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure
to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer
complete rewrite called <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unixwars.html" target="_top"> Unix WARS</a>;
the two are often confused.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DEC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="decay.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DEC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> decay</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DEC</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="Death--X-of.html" title="Death, X of"/><link rel="next" href="DEC-Wars.html" title="DEC Wars"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DEC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Death--X-of.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DEC-Wars.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DEC"/><dt xmlns="" id="DEC"><b>DEC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dek/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <span class="grammar">n.</span> Commonly used abbreviation
for Digital Equipment Corporation, later deprecated by DEC itself in favor
of &#8220;<span class="quote">Digital</span>&#8221; and now entirely obsolete following the buyout by
Compaq. Before the <a href="../K/killer-micro.html"><i class="glossterm">killer micro</i></a> revolution of the
late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering
timesharing machines. The first of the group of cultures described by this
lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see <a href="../T/TMRC.html"><i class="glossterm">TMRC</i></a>).
Subsequently, the PDP-6, <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>,
<a href="../P/PDP-20.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-20</i></a>, <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> and
<a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> were all foci of large and important hackerdoms,
and DEC machines long dominated the ARPANET and Internet machine
population. DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era
(roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace microcomputers and Unix
early cost it heavily in profits and prestige after
<a href="../S/silicon.html"><i class="glossterm">silicon</i></a> got cheap. Nevertheless, the microprocessor
design tradition owes a major debt to the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>
instruction set, and every one of the major general-purpose microcomputer
OSs so far (CP/M, MS-DOS, Unix, OS/2, Windows NT) was either genetically
descended from a DEC OS, or incubated on DEC hardware, or both.
Accordingly, DEC was for many years still regarded with a certain wry
affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC
machines.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Death--X-of.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DEC-Wars.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Death, X of </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DEC Wars</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DED</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="deckle.html" title="deckle"/><link rel="next" href="deep-hack-mode.html" title="deep hack mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DED</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deckle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deep-hack-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DED"/><dt xmlns="" id="DED"><b>DED</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/D·E·D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Dark-Emitting Diode (that is, a burned-out LED). Compare
<a href="../S/SED.html"><i class="glossterm">SED</i></a>, <a href="../L/LER.html"><i class="glossterm">LER</i></a>,
<a href="../W/write-only-memory.html"><i class="glossterm">write-only memory</i></a>. In the early 1970s both
Signetics and Texas instruments released DED spec sheets as
<a href="../A/AFJ.html"><i class="glossterm">AFJ</i></a>s (suggested uses included &#8220;<span class="quote">as a power-off
indicator</span>&#8221;).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deckle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deep-hack-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deckle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deep hack mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of a private network that is visible through the network's firewalls (see
<a href="../F/firewall-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">firewall machine</i></a>). Coined in the late 1990s as
jargon, this term is now borderline techspeak.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disusered.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="do-protocol.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">disusered </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> do protocol</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of the term marks one immediately as a <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>. See
<a href="DPer.html"><i class="glossterm">DPer</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Common abbrev for
<a href="Dissociated-Press.html"><i class="glossterm">Dissociated Press</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="download.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DPer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">download </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DPer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s use this term self-referentially.
<span class="emphasis"><em>Computers</em></span> process data, not people! See
<a href="DP.html"><i class="glossterm">DP</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Dr--Fred-Mbogo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Dr. Fred Mbogo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the
<a href="../V/VMS.html"><i class="glossterm">VMS</i></a> community. So called because
<a href="DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> helped write the Ethernet specification and then
(either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that
spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also
<a href="../C/connector-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">connector conspiracy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dread-questionmark-disease.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="driver.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dread questionmark disease </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> driver</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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people boasting about who has the faster machine, keys on (either physical
or cryptographic) keyring, greyer hair, or almost anything. Salvos in a
DSW are typically humorous and playful, often self-mocking.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="drunk-mouse-syndrome.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dub-dub-dub.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">drunk mouse syndrome </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dub dub dub</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n. obs.</span> The BBNLISP/INTERLISP
function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the
more common errors. See <a href="../H/hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, esp.
when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see
<a href="../L/legalese.html"><i class="glossterm">legalese</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Of a person, someone whose directions are incomprehensible and
vague, but who nevertheless has the expectation that you will solve the
problem using the specific method he/she has in mind.</p></dd><dd><p>Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling
errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make
hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some
victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for &#8216;Damn
Warren&#8217;s Infernal Machine!'.</p><p>In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command
interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed
<b class="command">delete *$</b> to free up some disk space. (The
editor there named backup files by appending <b class="command">$</b> to the original file name, so he was trying to
delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened
that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported
<b class="command">*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete
*'.</b> It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The
hacker managed to stop it with a <a href="../V/Vulcan-nerve-pinch.html"><i class="glossterm">Vulcan nerve pinch</i></a>
after only a half dozen or so files were lost.</p><p>The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to
Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation,
and then type <b class="command">delete *$</b> twice.</p><p>DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex
program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the
ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in
vogue, there were also jokes about <span class="firstterm">DWIMC</span> (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related
term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see
<a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right 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="dusty-deck.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dynner.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dusty deck </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dynner</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in &#8220;<span class="quote">Did you read that
in <i class="citetitle">Datamation?</i></span>&#8221;. It used to publish something
hackishly funny every once in a while, like the original paper on
<a href="../C/COME-FROM.html"><i class="glossterm">COME FROM</i></a> in 1973, and Ed Post's <i class="citetitle">Real
Programmers Don't Use Pascal</i> ten years later, but for a long
time after that it was much more exclusively
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>-oriented and boring. Following a change of
editorship in 1994, Datamation briefly tried for more the technical content
and irreverent humor that marked its early days, but this did not
last.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dark-side-hacker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DAU.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dark-side hacker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DAU</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that cancels cancels. Dave the Resurrector originated when some
<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>-spewers decided to try to impede spam-fighting
by wholesale cancellation of anti-spam coordination messages in the
<tt class="systemitem">news.admin.net-abuse.usenet</tt>
newsgroup.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DAU.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="day-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DAU </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> day mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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usually with intent to ridicule. The ancestor of this term is a famous
<i class="citetitle">Far Side</i> cartoon from the 1980s in which a balloon
with a fierce face painted on it is passed off as the &#8220;<span class="quote">Floating Head
of Death</span>&#8221;. Hackers and SF fans have been using the suffix &#8220;<span class="quote">of
Death</span>&#8221; ever since to label things which appear to be vastly
threatening but will actually pop like a balloon if you prick them. Such
constructions are properly spoken in a tone of over-exagerrated
portentiousness: &#8220;<span class="quote">Behold! The Spinning - Pizza - of -
<span class="emphasis"><em>Death</em></span>!</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../B/Blue-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Screen of Death</i></a>, <a href="../P/Ping-O--Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Ping O' Death</i></a>,
<a href="../S/Spinning-Pizza-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Spinning Pizza of Death</i></a>,
<a href="../C/click-of-death.html"><i class="glossterm">click of death</i></a>. Compare <a href="Doom--X-of.html"><i class="glossterm">Doom, X of</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Death-Star.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DEC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Death Star </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DEC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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AT&amp;T let go of it (Novell eventually sold the Unix group to SCO).
Coined by analogy with <a href="Death-Star.html"><i class="glossterm">Death Star</i></a>, because many
people believed Novell was bungling the lead in Unix systems exactly as
AT&amp;T did for many years.</p><p>[They were right &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="death-code.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Death-Star.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">death code </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Death Star</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to the Death Star in the Star Wars movies. This usage was particularly
common among partisans of <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix in the 1980s, who
tended to regard the AT&amp;T versions as inferior and AT&amp;T as a bad
guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a
starscape with a space fighter labeled 4.2 BSD streaking away from a broken
AT&amp;T logo wreathed in flames.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. AT&amp;T's internal magazine, <i class="citetitle">Focus</i>, uses
<span class="firstterm">death star</span> to describe an incorrectly
done AT&amp;T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark
instead of light &#8212; a frequent result of dark-on-light logo
images.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Death-Square.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Death--X-of.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Death Square </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Death, X of</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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common in 2001 after Google acquired Dejanews, and with it the largest
on-line archive of Usenet postings.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dehose.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deletia.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dehose </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deletia</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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comic strip nationally syndicated in the U.S. and enormously popular among
hackers. Dilbert is an archetypical engineer-nerd who works at an
anonymous high-technology company; the strips present a lacerating satire
of insane working conditions and idiotic <a href="../M/management.html"><i class="glossterm">management</i></a>
practices all too readily recognized by hackers. Adams, who spent nine
years in <a href="../C/cube.html"><i class="glossterm">cube</i></a> 4S700R at Pacific Bell (not
<a href="DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> as often reported), often remarks that he has
never been able to come up with a fictional management blunder that his
correspondents didn't quickly either report to have actually happened or
top with a similar but even more bizarre incident. In 1996 Adams distilled
his insights into the collective psychology of businesses into an even
funnier book, <i class="citetitle">The Dilbert Principle</i> (HarperCollins,
ISBN 0-887-30787-6). See also <a href="../P/pointy-haired.html"><i class="glossterm">pointy-haired</i></a>,
<a href="../R/rat-dance.html"><i class="glossterm">rat dance</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dike.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ding.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dike </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ding</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Discordianism</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="disclaimer.html" title="disclaimer"/><link rel="next" href="disemvowel.html" title="disemvowel"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Discordianism</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disclaimer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="disemvowel.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Discordianism"/><dt xmlns="" id="Discordianism"><b>Discordianism</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dis·kor´di·@n·ism/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The veneration of <a href="../E/Eris.html"><i class="glossterm">Eris</i></a>, a.k.a. Discordia;
widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by Robert Shea
and Robert Anton Wilson's novel <i class="citetitle">Illuminatus!</i> as a
sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners &#8212; it should on no
account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes.
Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from
<i class="citetitle">Principia Discordia</i>: &#8220;<span class="quote">A Discordian is
Prohibited of Believing What he Reads.</span>&#8221; Discordianism is usually
connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long
warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent,
authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See
<a href="../religion.html" title="Religion">Religion</a> in Appendix B,
<a href="../C/Church-of-the-SubGenius.html"><i class="glossterm">Church of the SubGenius</i></a>, and
<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disclaimer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="disemvowel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">disclaimer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> disemvowel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Dissociated Press</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dispress.html" title="dispress"/><link rel="next" href="distribution.html" title="distribution"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dissociated Press</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dispress.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="distribution.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Dissociated-Press"/><dt xmlns="" id="Dissociated-Press"><b>Dissociated Press</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [play on &#8216;Associated Press&#8217;; perhaps inspired by a
reference in the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon <i class="citetitle">What's Up,
Doc?</i>] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially
humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a
<a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>. The algorithm starts by printing any
<tt class="literal">N</tt> consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at
every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of
the last <tt class="literal">N</tt> words (or letters) already printed and then
prints the next word or letter. <a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> has a handy
command for this. Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated Press
applied to an earlier version of this Jargon File:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
wart: <span class="grammar">n.</span> A small, crocky
<a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> that sticks out of an array (C has no checks
for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent
so as to be not worth paying attention to the medium in question.
</p></blockquote></div><p>Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to
the same source:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p> window sysIWYG: <span class="grammar">n.</span> A bit was named aften <span class="pronunciation">/bee´t@/</span> prefer to use the other
guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful
informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual
abstractionsidered <span class="grammar">interj.</span> Indeed spectace
logic or problem! </p></blockquote></div><p>A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to
a random body of text and <a href="../V/vgrep.html"><i class="glossterm">vgrep</i></a> the output in hopes
of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example,
&#8216;window sysIWYG&#8217; and &#8216;informash&#8217; show some
promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield better
results. Similar techniques called <span class="firstterm">travesty
generators</span> have been employed with considerable satirical effect
to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see
<a href="../P/pseudo.html"><i class="glossterm">pseudo</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dispress.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="distribution.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dispress </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> distribution</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DoS attack</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="doorstop.html" title="doorstop"/><link rel="next" href="dot-file.html" title="dot file"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DoS attack</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="doorstop.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dot-file.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DoS-attack"/><dt xmlns="" id="DoS-attack"><b>DoS attack</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet,common; note that it's unrelated to <span class="firstterm">DOS</span> as name of an operating system]
Abbreviation for Denial-Of-Service attack. This abbreviation is most often
used of attempts to shut down newsgroups with floods of
<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>, or to flood network links with large amounts
of traffic, or to flood network links with large amounts of traffic, often
by abusing network broadcast addresses. Compare
<a href="../S/slashdot-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">slashdot effect</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="doorstop.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dot-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">doorstop </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dot file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Don't do that then!</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dogwash.html" title="dogwash"/><link rel="next" href="dongle.html" title="dongle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Don't do that then!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogwash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dongle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Don-t-do-that-then-"/><dt xmlns="" id="Don-t-do-that-then-"><b>Don't do that then!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from an old doctor's office joke about a patient with a trivial
complaint] Stock response to a user complaint. &#8220;<span class="quote">When I type
control-S, the whole system comes to a halt for thirty seconds.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Don't do that, then!</span>&#8221; (or &#8220;<span class="quote">So don't do that!</span>&#8221;).
Compare <a href="../R/RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>.</p><p>Here's a classic example of &#8220;<span class="quote">Don't do that then!</span>&#8221; from
Neal Stephenson's <i class="citetitle">In The Beginning Was The Command
Line</i>. A friend of his built a network with a load of Macs and
a few high-powered database servers. He found that from time to time the
whole network would lock up for no apparent reason. The problem was
eventually tracked down to MacOS's cooperative multitasking: when a user
held down the mouse button for too long, the network stack wouldn't get a
chance to run...</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogwash.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dongle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dogwash </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dongle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of</i></a>, but derived rather from the Cracks of Doom in
J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s <i class="citetitle">Lord of the Rings</i> trilogy.
The connotations are slightly different; a Foo of Death is mainly being
held up to ridicule, but one would have to take a Foo of Doom a bit more
seriously.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dongle-disk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="doorstop.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dongle-disk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> doorstop</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Dr. Fred Mbogo</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="DPer.html" title="DPer"/><link rel="next" href="dragon.html" title="dragon"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dr. Fred Mbogo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DPer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dragon.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Dr--Fred-Mbogo"/><dt xmlns="" id="Dr--Fred-Mbogo"><b>Dr. Fred Mbogo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@m·boh´goh, dok´tr fred/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem,
esp. an incompetent professional; a shyster. &#8220;<span class="quote">Do you know a good
eye doctor?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry
Cleaning.</span>&#8221; The name comes from synergy between
<a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a> and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who
was Gomez Addams' physician on the old <i class="citetitle">Addams Family</i>
TV show. Interestingly enough, it turns out that under the rules for
Swahili noun classes, &#8216;m-&#8217; is the characteristic prefix of
&#8220;<span class="quote">nouns referring to human beings</span>&#8221;. As such,
&#8220;<span class="quote">mbogo</span>&#8221; is quite plausible as a Swahili coinage for a person
having the nature of a <a href="../B/bogon.html"><i class="glossterm">bogon</i></a>. Actually,
&#8220;<span class="quote">mbogo</span>&#8221; is indeed a Ki-Swahili word referring to the African
Cape Buffalo, <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">syncerus caffer</i></span>. It is one of
the &#8220;<span class="quote">big five</span>&#8221; dangerous African game animals, and many people
with bush experience believe it to be the most dangerous of them. Compare
<a href="../B/Bloggs-Family.html"><i class="glossterm">Bloggs Family</i></a> and
<a href="../J/J--Random-Hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">J. Random Hacker</i></a>; see also <a href="../F/Fred-Foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">Fred Foobar</i></a> and
<a href="../F/fred.html"><i class="glossterm">fred</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DPer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dragon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DPer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dragon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Dragon Book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dragon.html" title="dragon"/><link rel="next" href="drain.html" title="drain"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dragon Book</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dragon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="drain.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Dragon-Book"/><dt xmlns="" id="Dragon-Book"><b>Dragon Book</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The classic text <i class="citetitle">Compilers: Principles, Techniques and
Tools</i>, by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman
(Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6), so called because of the cover
design featuring a dragon labeled &#8216;complexity of compiler
design&#8217; and a knight bearing the lance &#8216;LALR parser
generator&#8217; among his other trappings. This one is more specifically
known as the &#8216;Red Dragon Book&#8217; (1986); an earlier edition, sans
Sethi and titled <i class="citetitle">Principles Of Compiler Design</i>
(Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN
0-201-00022-9), was the `&#8216;reen Dragon Book&#8217; (1977). (Also
<span class="firstterm">New Dragon Book</span>, <span class="firstterm">Old Dragon Book</span>.) The horsed knight and the
Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is
typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game
representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends
back in normal space. See also <a href="../B/book-titles.html"><i class="glossterm">book titles</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dragon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="drain.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dragon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> drain</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Duff's device</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dub-dub-dub.html" title="dub dub dub"/><link rel="next" href="dumb-terminal.html" title="dumb terminal"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Duff's device</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dub-dub-dub.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dumb-terminal.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Duffs-device"/><dt xmlns="" id="Duffs-device"><b>Duff's device</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The most dramatic use yet seen of
<a href="../F/fall-through.html"><i class="glossterm">fall through</i></a> in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm.
Trying to optimize all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that
copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then
realized that the unrolled version could be implemented by
<span class="emphasis"><em>interlacing</em></span> the structures of a switch and a
loop:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="programlisting">
register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count &gt; 0 assumed */
switch (count % 8)
{
case 0: do { *to = *from++;
case 7: *to = *from++;
case 6: *to = *from++;
case 5: *to = *from++;
case 4: *to = *from++;
case 3: *to = *from++;
case 2: *to = *from++;
case 1: *to = *from++;
} while (--n &gt; 0);
}
</pre></td></tr></table><p>Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first
time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default
<a href="../F/fall-through.html"><i class="glossterm">fall through</i></a> in case statements has long been its
most controversial single feature; Duff observed that &#8220;<span class="quote">This code
forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's
for or against.</span>&#8221; Duff has discussed the device in detail at <a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html" target="_top">http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html</a>.
Note that the omission of postfix <b class="command">++</b> from
<b class="command">*to</b> was intentional (though confusing).
Duff's device can be used to implement memory copy, but the original aim
was to copy values serially into a magic IO register.</p><p>[For maximal obscurity, the outermost pair of braces above could
actually be removed &#8212; GLS]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dub-dub-dub.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dumb-terminal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dub dub dub </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dumb terminal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Operating System</i>, by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick,
Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989,
ISBN 0-201-06196-1); or <i class="citetitle">The Design and Implementation of the 4.4
BSD Operating System</i> by Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic,
Michael J. Karels and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1996,
ISBN 0-201-54979-4) Either of the standard reference books on the internals
of <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix. So called because the covers have a
picture depicting a little demon (a visual play on
<a href="daemon.html"><i class="glossterm">daemon</i></a>) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring
to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fork</span>(2)</span>
system call).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="daemon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dahmum.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">daemon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dahmum</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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And Execution MONitor&#8217;] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but
lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the
perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking
(though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it
will implicitly invoke a daemon). For example, under
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>, writing a file on the LPT spooler's directory
would invoke the spooling daemon, which would then print the file. The
advantage is that programs wanting (in this example) files printed need
neither compete for access to nor understand any idiosyncrasies of the LPT.
They simply enter their implicit requests and let the daemon decide what to
do with them. Daemons are usually spawned automatically by the system, and
may either live forever or be regenerated at intervals.</p></dd><dd><p>Daemon and <a href="demon.html"><i class="glossterm">demon</i></a> are often used
interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations. The term
<span class="firstterm">daemon</span> was introduced to computing by
<a href="../C/CTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">CTSS</i></a> people (who pronounced it <span class="pronunciation">/dee´mon/</span>) and used it to refer to
what ITS called a <a href="dragon.html"><i class="glossterm">dragon</i></a>; the prototype was a
program called DAEMON that automatically made tape backups of the file
system. Although the meaning and the pronunciation have drifted, we think
this glossary reflects current (2003) usage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../D.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="daemon-book.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">D </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> daemon book</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/flame-war.html"><i class="glossterm">flame war</i></a>s, especially those about operating systems, is composed.
Homeomorphic to <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>. The term <span class="firstterm">dahmum</span> is derived from the name of a militant
<a href="../O/OS-2.html"><i class="glossterm">OS/2</i></a> advocate, and originated when an extensively
cross-posted OS/2-versus-<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> debate was fed
through <a href="Dissociated-Press.html"><i class="glossterm">Dissociated Press</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="daemon-book.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dancing-frog.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">daemon book </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dancing frog</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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reappear while anyone else is watching. From the classic Warner Brothers
cartoon <i class="citetitle">One Froggy Evening</i>, featuring a dancing and
singing Michigan J. Frog that just croaks when anyone else is around (now
the WB network mascot).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dahmum.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dangling-pointer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dahmum </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dangling pointer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything
valid). Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that
has moved or disappeared. Used as jargon in a generalization of its
techspeak meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has
since moved to the other coast is a dangling pointer.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dancing-frog.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dark-side-hacker.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dancing frog </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dark-side hacker</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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From George Lucas's Darth Vader, &#8220;<span class="quote">seduced by the dark side of the
Force</span>&#8221;. The implication that hackers form a sort of elite of
technological Jedi Knights is intended. Oppose
<a href="../S/samurai.html"><i class="glossterm">samurai</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dangling-pointer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Datamation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dangling pointer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Datamation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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only.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Dave-the-Resurrector.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dd.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Dave the Resurrector </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dd</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/cat.html"><i class="glossterm">cat</i></a> or <a href="../B/BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a>. Originally the
name of a Unix copy command with special options suitable for
block-oriented devices; it was often used in heavy-handed system
maintenance, as in &#8220;<span class="quote">Let's <b class="command">dd</b> the root
partition onto a tape, then use the boot PROM to load it back on to a new
disk</span>&#8221;. The Unix
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">dd</span>(1)</span>
was designed with a weird, distinctly non-Unixy keyword option syntax
reminiscent of IBM System/360 JCL (which had an elaborate DD &#8216;Dataset
Definition&#8217; specification for I/O devices); though the command filled
a need, the interface design was clearly a prank. The jargon usage is now
very rare outside Unix sites and now nearly obsolete even there, as
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">dd</span>(1)</span>
has been <a href="deprecated.html"><i class="glossterm">deprecated</i></a> for a long time (though it has
no exact replacement). The term has been displaced by
<a href="../B/BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a> or simple English &#8216;copy&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="day-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DDT.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">day mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DDT</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<i class="citetitle">Tron</i>] (also <span class="firstterm">derez</span>) </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To disappear or dissolve;
the image that goes with it is of an object breaking up into raster lines
and static and then dissolving. Occasionally used of a person who seems to
have suddenly &#8216;fuzzed out&#8217; mentally rather than physically.
Usage: extremely silly, also rare. This verb was actually invented as
<span class="emphasis"><em>fictional</em></span> hacker jargon, and adopted in a spirit of
irony by real hackers years after the fact. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> The Macintosh resource
decompiler. On a Macintosh, many program structures (including the code
itself) are managed in small segments of the program file known as
<span class="firstterm">resources</span>; <span class="firstterm">Rez</span> and <span class="firstterm">DeRez</span> are a pair of utilities for compiling and
decompiling resource files. Thus, decompiling a resource is <span class="firstterm">derezzing</span>. Usage: very common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DDT.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dead.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DDT </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dead</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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consisting of publishing a key having the same ID as another key (thus
making it possible to spoof a user's identity if recipients aren't careful
about verifying keys). In PGP and GPG the key ID is the last eight hex
digits of (for RSA keys) the product of two primes. The attack was
demonstrated by creating a key whose ID was 0xdeadbeef (see
<a href="DEADBEEF.html"><i class="glossterm">DEADBEEF</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dead.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dead-code.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dead </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dead code</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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been removed, or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a
control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere
else. The presence of dead code may reveal either logical errors due to
alterations in the program or significant changes in the assumptions and
environment of the program (see also <a href="../S/software-rot.html"><i class="glossterm">software rot</i></a>);
a good compiler should report dead code so a maintainer can think about
what it means. (Sometimes it simply means that an
<span class="emphasis"><em>extremely</em></span> defensive programmer has inserted
<a href="../C/can-t-happen.html"><i class="glossterm">can't happen</i></a> tests which really can't happen &#8212;
yet.) Syn. <a href="../G/grunge.html"><i class="glossterm">grunge</i></a>. See also
<a href="dead.html"><i class="glossterm">dead</i></a>, and
<a href="../story-of-mel.html" title="The Story of Mel">The Story of Mel'</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dead-beef-attack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dead-tree-version.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dead beef attack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dead-tree version</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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trees. In this context, &#8220;<span class="quote">dead trees</span>&#8221; always refers to paper.
See also <a href="../T/tree-killer.html"><i class="glossterm">tree-killer</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dead-code.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DEADBEEF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dead code </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DEADBEEF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>ed. Especially used of hardware. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing
continued development and support.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: <span class="firstterm">live</span>. Compare
<a href="dead-code.html"><i class="glossterm">dead code</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="de-rezz.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dead-beef-attack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">de-rezz </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dead beef attack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find
itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to
it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the
controlling program before outputting anything. (It is reported that this
particular flavor of deadlock is sometimes called a <span class="firstterm">starvation deadlock</span>, though the term <span class="firstterm">starvation</span> is more properly used for situations
where a program can never run simply because it never gets high enough
priority. Another common flavor is <span class="firstterm">constipation</span>, in which each process is trying
to send stuff to the other but all buffers are full because nobody is
reading anything.) See <a href="deadly-embrace.html"><i class="glossterm">deadly embrace</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Also used of deadlock-like interactions between humans, as when
two people meet in a narrow corridor, and each tries to be polite by moving
aside to let the other pass, but they end up swaying from side to side
without making any progress because they always move the same way at the
same time.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DEADBEEF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deadly-embrace.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DEADBEEF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deadly embrace</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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when exactly two processes are involved. This is the more popular term in
Europe, while <a href="deadlock.html"><i class="glossterm">deadlock</i></a> predominates in the United
States.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deadlock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="death-code.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deadlock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> death code</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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registers, memory, flags, everything &#8212; to zero, including that
portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to <a href="../S/stomp-on.html"><i class="glossterm">stomp
on</i></a> its own &#8220;<span class="quote">store zero</span>&#8221; instruction. Death code
isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on
architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the
PDP-8 (it has also been done on the DG Nova).</p></dd><dd><p>Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all
registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction &#8220;<span class="quote">store immediate
0</span>&#8221; has the opcode &#8220;<span class="quote">0</span>&#8221;. The PC will immediately wrap
around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty
memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of
this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore
survive).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deadly-embrace.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Death-Square.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deadly embrace </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Death Square</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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most array-valued expressions in <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>; they
&#8216;decay into&#8217; pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's
first element. This term is borderline techspeak, but is not used in the
official standard for the language.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DEC-Wars.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deckle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DEC Wars </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deckle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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seems to have been <span class="firstterm">decle</span>] Two
<a href="../N/nickle.html"><i class="glossterm">nickle</i></a>s; 10 bits. Reported among developers for
Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with
16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See <a href="../N/nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a> for
other such terms.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="decay.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DED.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">decay </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DED</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp. one
neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare
<a href="../B/black-art.html"><i class="glossterm">black art</i></a>); one that could only have been composed
by a true <a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>. Compiler optimization techniques
and many aspects of <a href="../O/OS.html"><i class="glossterm">OS</i></a> design used to be
<a href="deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>; many techniques in cryptography, signal
processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare
<a href="../H/heavy-wizardry.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy wizardry</i></a>. Esp.: found in comments of the form &#8220;<span class="quote">Deep
magic begins here...</span>&#8221;. Compare
<a href="../V/voodoo-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">voodoo programming</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deep-hack-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deep-space.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deep hack mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deep space</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../O/off-the-trolley.html"><i class="glossterm">off the trolley</i></a>. Esp.: used of programs that just
sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is
expected. &#8220;<span class="quote">Uh oh. I should have gotten a prompt ten seconds ago.
The program's in deep space somewhere.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../B/buzz.html"><i class="glossterm">buzz</i></a>, <a href="../C/catatonic.html"><i class="glossterm">catatonic</i></a>,
<a href="../H/hyperspace.html"><i class="glossterm">hyperspace</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The metaphorical location of a human so dazed and/or confused or
caught up in some esoteric form of <a href="../B/bogosity.html"><i class="glossterm">bogosity</i></a> that he
or she no longer responds coherently to normal communication. Compare
<a href="../P/page-out.html"><i class="glossterm">page out</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deep-magic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="defenestration.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deep magic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> defenestration</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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fandom] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, ghod, that was <span class="emphasis"><em>awful</em></span>!</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Quick!
Defenestrate him!</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in
favor of a better OS (typically Linux).</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will
improve matters. &#8220;<span class="quote">I don't have any disk space left.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core
dumps?</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto
the screen). &#8220;<span class="quote">Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 5. [obs.] The act of exiting a window system in order to get better
response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary
meaning of <span class="firstterm">defenestrate</span>, which is to
throw something out a window. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deep-space.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="defined-as.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deep space </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> defined as</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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is currently defined as bug prioritizer.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../L/logical.html"><i class="glossterm">logical</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="defenestration.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deflicted.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">defenestration </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deflicted</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">afflicted</span>&#8221;; common among PC repair technicians, and probably
originated among hardware techs outside the hacker community proper] Term
used of hardware that is broken due to poor design or shoddy manufacturing
or (especially) both; less frequently used of software and rarely of
people. This term is normally employed in a tone of weary contempt by
technicians who have seen the specific failure in the trouble report before
and are cynically confident they'll see it again. Ultimately this may
derive from Frank Zappa's 1974 album <i class="citetitle">Apostrophe</i>, on
which the Fur Trapper infamously rubs his deflicted eyes...</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="defined-as.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dehose.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">defined as </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dehose</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of the original. Usually written rather than spoken; often appears as a
pseudo-tag or ellipsis in the body of the reply, as
&#8220;<span class="quote">[deletia]</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">&lt;deletia&gt;</span>&#8221; or
&#8220;<span class="quote">&lt;snip&gt;</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Dejagoo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deliminator.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Dejagoo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deliminator</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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delimit text into fields, but which is itself eliminated from the resulting
list of fields. This jargon seems to have originated among Perl hackers in
connection with the Perl split() function; however, it has been sighted in
live use among Java and even Visual Basic programmers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deletia.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="delint.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deletia </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> delint</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/lint.html"><i class="glossterm">lint</i></a>ing. Confusingly, this process is also referred
to as <span class="firstterm">linting</span> code. This term is no
longer in general use because ANSI C compilers typically issue compile-time
warnings almost as detailed as lint warnings.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deliminator.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="delta.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deliminator </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> delta</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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incremental one (this use is general in physics and engineering). &#8220;<span class="quote">I
just doubled the speed of my program!</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">What was the delta on
program size?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">About 30 percent.</span>&#8221; (He doubled the
speed of his program, but increased its size by only 30 percent.) </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix] A <a href="diff.html"><i class="glossterm">diff</i></a>, especially a
<a href="diff.html"><i class="glossterm">diff</i></a> stored under the set of version-control tools
called SCCS (Source Code Control System) or RCS (Revision Control System).
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A small quantity, but not
as small as <a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>. The jargon usage of
<a href="delta.html"><i class="glossterm">delta</i></a> and <a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a> stems from
the traditional use of these letters in mathematics for very small
numerical quantities, particularly in &#8216;epsilon-delta&#8217; proofs in
limit theory (as in the differential calculus). The term
<a href="delta.html"><i class="glossterm">delta</i></a> is often used, once
<a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a> has been mentioned, to mean a quantity that
is slightly bigger than <a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a> but still very
small. &#8220;<span class="quote">The cost isn't epsilon, but it's delta</span>&#8221; means that
the cost isn't totally negligible, but it is nevertheless very small.
Common constructions include <span class="firstterm">within delta of
&#8212;</span>, <span class="firstterm">within epsilon of
&#8212;</span>: that is, &#8216;close to&#8217; and &#8216;even closer
to&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="delint.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demented.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">delint </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demented</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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program. The connotation in this case is that the program works as
designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a program that
generates large numbers of meaningless error messages, implying that it is
on the brink of imminent collapse. Compare <a href="../W/wonky.html"><i class="glossterm">wonky</i></a>,
<a href="../B/brain-damaged.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-damaged</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bozotic.html"><i class="glossterm">bozotic</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="delta.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demigod.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">delta </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demigod</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>demigod</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="demented.html" title="demented"/><link rel="next" href="demo.html" title="demo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">demigod</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demented.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="demigod"/><dt xmlns="" id="demigod"><b>demigod</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide reputation, and a
major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by
or known to more than half of the hacker community. To qualify as a
genuine demigod, the person must recognizably identify with the hacker
community and have helped shape it. Major demigods include Ken Thompson
and Dennis Ritchie (co-inventors of <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> and
<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>), Richard M. Stallman (inventor of
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>), Larry Wall (inventor of
<a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a>), Linus Torvalds (inventor of
<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>), and most recently James Gosling (inventor of
Java, <a href="../N/NeWS.html"><i class="glossterm">NeWS</i></a>, and <a href="../G/GOSMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">GOSMACS</i></a>) and
Guido van Rossum (inventor of <a href="../P/Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a>). In their
hearts of hearts, most hackers dream of someday becoming demigods
themselves, and more than one major software project has been driven to
completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis. See also
<a href="../N/net-god.html"><i class="glossterm">net.god</i></a>, <a href="../T/true-hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">true-hacker</i></a>,
<a href="../U/ubergeek.html"><i class="glossterm">ubergeek</i></a>. Since 1995 or so this term has been
gradually displaced by <a href="../U/ubergeek.html"><i class="glossterm">ubergeek</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demented.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demented </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>demo mode</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="demo.html" title="demo"/><link rel="next" href="demoeffect.html" title="demoeffect"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">demo mode</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demo.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demoeffect.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="demo-mode"/><dt xmlns="" id="demo-mode"><b>demo mode</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [Sun] The state of being <a href="../H/heads-down.html"><i class="glossterm">heads down</i></a> in
order to finish code in time for a <a href="demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>, usually due
yesterday. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a
portion of the game, also known as <span class="firstterm">attract
mode</span>. Some serious <a href="../A/app.html"><i class="glossterm">app</i></a>s have a demo mode
they use as a screen saver, or may go through a demo mode on startup (for
example, the Microsoft Windows opening screen &#8212; which lets you
impress your neighbors without actually having to put up with
<a href="../M/Microsloth-Windows.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsloth Windows</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demoeffect.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demoeffect</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>demo</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="demigod.html" title="demigod"/><link rel="next" href="demo-mode.html" title="demo mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">demo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demigod.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demo-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="demo"/><dt xmlns="" id="demo"><b>demo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/de´moh/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [short for &#8216;demonstration&#8217;] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To demonstrate a product
or prototype. A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than
any number of <a href="../T/test.html"><i class="glossterm">test</i></a> runs, especially when important
people are watching. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The act of demoing.
&#8220;<span class="quote">I've gotta give a demo of the drool-proof interface; how does it
work again?</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Esp. as <span class="firstterm">demo version</span>, can refer either to an early,
barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration
purposes as long as the operator uses <span class="emphasis"><em>exactly</em></span> the
right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and
unimplemented portions, or to a special version of a program (frequently
with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to
the user for enticement purposes. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. [<a href="demoscene.html"><i class="glossterm">demoscene</i></a>] A sequence of
<a href="demoeffect.html"><i class="glossterm">demoeffect</i></a>s (usually) combined with self-composed
music and hand-drawn (&#8220;<span class="quote">pixelated</span>&#8221;) graphics. These days (1997)
usually built to attend a <a href="../C/compo.html"><i class="glossterm">compo</i></a>. Often called
<span class="firstterm">eurodemos</span> outside Europe, as most of
the <a href="demoscene.html"><i class="glossterm">demoscene</i></a> activity seems to have gathered in
northern Europe and especially Scandinavia. See also
<a href="../I/intro.html"><i class="glossterm">intro</i></a>, <a href="dentro.html"><i class="glossterm">dentro</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demigod.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demo-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demigod </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demo mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="display-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">display hack</i></a>. Classical effects include &#8220;<span class="quote">plasma</span>&#8221; (colorful
mess), &#8220;<span class="quote">keftales</span>&#8221; (<tt class="literal">x*x+y*y</tt>
and other similar patterns, usually combined with color-cycling), realtime
fractals, realtime 3d graphics, etc. Historically, demo effects have
cheated as much as possible to gain more speed and more complexity, using
low-precision math and masses of assembler code and building animation
realtime are three common tricks, but use of special hardware to fake
effects is a <a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a> on the demoscene (though
this is becoming less common as platforms like the Amiga fade
away). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Finland] Opposite of <a href="dancing-frog.html"><i class="glossterm">dancing frog</i></a>. The
crash that happens when you demonstrate a perfectly good prototype to a
client. Plagues most often CS students and small businesses, but there is a
well-known case involving Bill Gates demonstrating a brand new version of a
major operating system.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demo-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demogroup.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demo mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demogroup</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a> (sense 4) composers. Job titles within a group
include coders (the ones who write programs), graphicians (the ones who
painstakingly pixelate the fine art), musicians (the music composers),
<a href="../S/sysop.html"><i class="glossterm">sysop</i></a>s, traders/swappers (the ones who do the
trading and other PR), and organizers (in larger groups). It is not
uncommon for one person to do multiple jobs, but it has been observed that
good coders are rarely good composers and vice versa. [How odd. Musical
talent seems common among Internet/Unix hackers &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demoeffect.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demoeffect </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>demon dialer</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="demon.html" title="demon"/><link rel="next" href="demoparty.html" title="demoparty"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">demon dialer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demoparty.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="demon-dialer"/><dt xmlns="" id="demon-dialer"><b>demon dialer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A program which repeatedly calls the same telephone number. Demon
dialing may be benign (as when a number of communications programs contend
for legitimate access to a <a href="../B/BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> line) or malign (that
is, used as a prank or denial-of-service attack). This term dates from the
<a href="../B/blue-box.html"><i class="glossterm">blue box</i></a> days of the 1970s and early 1980s and is
now semi-obsolescent among <a href="../P/phreaker.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaker</i></a>s; see
<a href="../W/war-dialer.html"><i class="glossterm">war dialer</i></a> for its contemporary progeny.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demoparty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demoparty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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especially in the <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> world, where the latter
spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [MIT; now probably obsolete] A portion of a program that is not
invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to
occur. See <a href="daemon.html"><i class="glossterm">daemon</i></a>. The distinction is that demons
are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs
running on an operating system.</p></dd><dd><p>Demons in sense 2 are particularly common in AI programs. For
example, a knowledge-manipulation program might implement inference rules
as demons. Whenever a new piece of knowledge was added, various demons
would activate (which demons depends on the particular piece of data) and
would create additional pieces of knowledge by applying their respective
inference rules to the original piece. These new pieces could in turn
activate more demons as the inferences filtered down through chains of
logic. Meanwhile, the main program could continue with whatever its
primary task was.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demogroup.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demon-dialer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demogroup </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demon dialer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/copyparty.html"><i class="glossterm">copyparty</i></a>, with emphasis shifted away from software
piracy and towards <a href="../C/compo.html"><i class="glossterm">compo</i></a>s. Smaller demoparties, for
100 persons or less, are held quite often, sometimes even once a month, and
usually last for one to two days. On the other end of the scale, huge demo
parties are held once a year (and four of these have grown very large and
occur annually &#8212; Assembly in Finland, The Party in Denmark, The Gathering
in Norway, and NAID somewhere in north America). These parties usually last
for three to five days, have room for 3000-5000 people, and have a party
network with connection to the internet.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demon-dialer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demoscene.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demon dialer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demoscene</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Demoscene folklore
recounts that when old-time <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a> cracked some
piece of software they often added an advertisement in the beginning,
usually containing colorful <a href="display-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">display hack</i></a>s with
greetings to other cracking groups. The demoscene was born among people
who decided building these display hacks is more interesting than hacking
&#8212; or anyway safer. Around 1990 there began to be very serious police
pressure on cracking groups, including raids with SWAT teams crashing into
bedrooms to confiscate computers. Whether in response to this or for
esthetic reasons, crackers of that period began to build self-contained
display hacks of considerable elaboration and beauty (within the culture
such a hack is called a <a href="demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>). As more of these
<a href="demogroup.html"><i class="glossterm">demogroup</i></a>s emerged, they started to have
<a href="../C/compo.html"><i class="glossterm">compo</i></a>s at copying parties (see
<a href="../C/copyparty.html"><i class="glossterm">copyparty</i></a>), which later evolved to standalone events
(see <a href="demoparty.html"><i class="glossterm">demoparty</i></a>). The demoscene has retained some
traits from the <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, including their style
of handles and group names and some of their jargon.</p><p>Traditionally demos were written in assembly language, with lots of
smart tricks, self-modifying code, undocumented op-codes and the like.
Some time around 1995, people started coding demos in C, and a couple of
years after that, they also started using Java.</p><p>Ten years on (in 1998-1999), the demoscene is changing as its
original platforms (C64, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari ST, IBM PC under DOS) die
out and activity shifts towards Windows, Linux, and the Internet. While
deeply underground in the past, demoscene is trying to get into the
mainstream as accepted art form, and one symptom of this is the
commercialization of bigger demoparties. Older demosceners frown at this,
but the majority think it's a good direction. Many demosceners end up
working in the computer game industry. Demoscene resource pages are
available at <a href="http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/" target="_top">http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/</a>
and <a href="http://www.scene.org/" target="_top">http://www.scene.org/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demoparty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dentro.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demoparty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dentro</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a> (sense 4) and
<a href="../I/intro.html"><i class="glossterm">intro</i></a>. Other name mixings include intmo, dentmo
etc. and are used usually when the authors are not quite sure whether the
program is a <a href="demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a> or an
<a href="../I/intro.html"><i class="glossterm">intro</i></a>. Special-purpose coinages like wedtro (some
member of a group got married), invtro (invitation intro) etc. have also
been sighted.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demoscene.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="depeditate.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demoscene </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> depeditate</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>depeditate</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dentro.html" title="dentro"/><link rel="next" href="deprecated.html" title="deprecated"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">depeditate</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dentro.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deprecated.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="depeditate"/><dt xmlns="" id="depeditate"><b>depeditate</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dee·ped'@·tayt/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [by (faulty) analogy with <span class="firstterm">decapitate</span>] Humorously, to cut off the feet of.
When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement
of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off
letter descenders. Such letters are said to have been depeditated.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dentro.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deprecated.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dentro </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deprecated</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the process of being phased out, usually in favor of a specified
replacement. Deprecated features can, unfortunately, linger on for many
years. This term appears with distressing frequency in standards documents
when the committees writing the documents realize that large amounts of
extant (and presumably happily working) code depend on the feature(s) that
have passed out of favor. See also
<a href="dusty-deck.html"><i class="glossterm">dusty deck</i></a>.</p><p>[Usage note: don't confuse this word with &#8216;depreciated&#8217;,
or the verb form &#8216;deprecate&#8217; with &#8216;depreciate&#8217;.
They are different words; see any dictionary for discussion.]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="depeditate.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="derf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">depeditate </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> derf</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>derf</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="deprecated.html" title="deprecated"/><link rel="next" href="deserves-to-lose.html" title="deserves to lose"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">derf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deprecated.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deserves-to-lose.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="derf"/><dt xmlns="" id="derf"><b>derf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/derf/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [PLATO] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">v.</span> The act of exploiting a
terminal which someone else has absentmindedly left logged on, to use that
person's account, especially to post articles intended to make an ass of
the victim you're impersonating. It has been alleged that the term
originated as a reversal of the name of the gentleman who most usually left
himself vulnerable to it, who also happened to be the head of the
department that handled PLATO at the University of Delaware. Compare
<a href="../B/baggy-pantsing.html"><i class="glossterm">baggy pantsing</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The victim of an act of
derfing, sense 1. The most typical posting from a derfed account read
&#8220;<span class="quote">I am a derf.</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deprecated.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deserves-to-lose.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deprecated </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> deserves to lose</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/Wrong-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Wrong Thing</i></a>; humorously, if one uses a feature known to be
<a href="../M/marginal.html"><i class="glossterm">marginal</i></a>. What is meant is that one deserves the
consequences of one's <a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a> actions. &#8220;<span class="quote">Boy,
anyone who tries to use <a href="../M/mess-dos.html"><i class="glossterm">mess-dos</i></a> deserves to
<a href="../L/lose.html"><i class="glossterm">lose</i></a>!</span>&#8221; (<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> fans used
to say the same thing of <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>; many still do.) See
also <a href="../S/screw.html"><i class="glossterm">screw</i></a>, <a href="../C/chomp.html"><i class="glossterm">chomp</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bagbiter.html"><i class="glossterm">bagbiter</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="derf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="despew.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">derf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> despew</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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net, esp. from an automated posting program gone wild. See
<a href="../A/ARMM.html"><i class="glossterm">ARMM</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deserves-to-lose.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dickless-workstation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deserves to lose </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dickless workstation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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workstation&#8217;, a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other
machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk
server. These combine all the disadvantages of timesharing with all the
disadvantages of distributed personal computers; typically, they cannot
even <a href="../B/boot.html"><i class="glossterm">boot</i></a> themselves without help (in the form of
some kind of <a href="../B/breath-of-life-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">breath-of-life packet</i></a>) from the
server.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="despew.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dictionary-flame.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">despew </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dictionary flame</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or
smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer
argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare
<a href="../S/spelling-flame.html"><i class="glossterm">spelling flame</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dickless-workstation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="diddle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dickless workstation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> diddle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a not-particularly-serious manner. &#8220;<span class="quote">I diddled a copy of
<a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a> so it didn't double-space all the
time.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem
goes away.</span>&#8221; See <a href="../T/tweak.html"><i class="glossterm">tweak</i></a> and
<a href="../T/twiddle.html"><i class="glossterm">twiddle</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The action or result of
diddling.</p></dd><dd><p>See also <a href="../T/tweak.html"><i class="glossterm">tweak</i></a>,
<a href="../T/twiddle.html"><i class="glossterm">twiddle</i></a>, <a href="../F/frob.html"><i class="glossterm">frob</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dictionary-flame.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="die.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dictionary flame </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> die</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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and the preferred emphatic form of <a href="die.html"><i class="glossterm">die</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">The
converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="die.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="diff.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">die </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> diff</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>, which is used primarily of hardware, this
verb is used of both hardware and software. See also
<a href="../G/go-flatline.html"><i class="glossterm">go flatline</i></a>, <a href="../C/casters-up-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">casters-up 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="diddle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="die-horribly.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">diddle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> die horribly</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the
plural <span class="firstterm">diffs</span>). &#8220;<span class="quote">Send me your
diffs for the Jargon File!</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="../V/vdiff.html"><i class="glossterm">vdiff</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Specifically, such a listing produced by the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">diff</span>(1)</span>
command, esp. when used as specification input to the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">patch</span>(1)</span>
utility (which can actually perform the modifications; see
<a href="../P/patch.html"><i class="glossterm">patch</i></a>). This is a common method of distributing
patches and source updates in the Unix/C world. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To compare (whether or not
by use of automated tools on machine-readable files); see also
<a href="../V/vdiff.html"><i class="glossterm">vdiff</i></a>, <a href="../M/mod.html"><i class="glossterm">mod</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="die-horribly.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dike.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">die horribly </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dike</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dike</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="diff.html" title="diff"/><link rel="next" href="Dilbert.html" title="Dilbert"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dike</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="diff.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Dilbert.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dike"/><dt xmlns="" id="dike"><b>dike</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a
computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is &#8220;<span class="quote">When
in doubt, dike it out</span>&#8221;. (The implication is that it is usually more
effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by
increasing it.) The word &#8216;dikes&#8217; is widely used to mean
&#8216;diagonal cutters&#8217;, a kind of wire cutter. To &#8216;dike
something out&#8217; means to use such cutters to remove something. Indeed,
the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as &#8220;<span class="quote">to attack with
dikes</span>&#8221;. Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to
informational objects such as sections of code.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="diff.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Dilbert.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">diff </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Dilbert</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hackers, but more common in the <a href="../R/Real-World.html"><i class="glossterm">Real World</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">dinged</span>: What happens when
someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about something, esp.
something trivial. &#8220;<span class="quote">I was dinged for having a messy
desk.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Dilbert.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dink.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Dilbert </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dink</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with &#8212; sometimes
the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT
hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system,
then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines.
&#8220;<span class="quote">GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine.</span>&#8221; Probably
derived from mainstream &#8216;dinky&#8217;, which isn't sufficiently
pejorative. See <a href="../M/macdink.html"><i class="glossterm">macdink</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ding.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dinosaur.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ding </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dinosaur</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air
conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See
<a href="../B/boa.html"><i class="glossterm">boa</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dinosaur.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dinosaurs-mating.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dinosaur </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dinosaurs mating</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer
microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1998 Unix EXPO,
Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive IBM display
with a grazing dinosaur &#8220;<span class="quote">with a truck outside pumping its bodily
fluids through it</span>&#8221;. IBM was not amused. Compare
<a href="../B/big-iron.html"><i class="glossterm">big iron</i></a>; see also <a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [IBM] A very conservative user; a
<a href="../Z/zipperhead.html"><i class="glossterm">zipperhead</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dink.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dinosaur-pen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dink </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dinosaur pen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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merger or buyout occurs; originally reflected a perception by hackers that
these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the
<a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a> industry. In the mainframe industry's
glory days of the 1960s, it was &#8216;IBM and the Seven Dwarfs&#8217;:
Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac.
RCA and GE sold out early, and it was &#8216;IBM and the Bunch&#8217;
(Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while.
Honeywell was bought out by Bull; Burroughs merged with Univac to form
Unisys (in 1984 &#8212; this was when the phrase <span class="firstterm">dinosaurs mating</span> was coined); and in 1991
AT&amp;T absorbed NCR (but spat it back out a few years later). Control
Data still exists but is no longer in the mainframe business. In similar
wave of dinosaur-matings as the PC business began to consolidate after
1995, Digital Equipment was bought by Compaq which was bought by
Hewlett-Packard. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem
inevitable.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dinosaur-pen.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dirtball.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dinosaur pen </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dirtball</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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or even the minor leagues. For example, &#8220;<span class="quote">Xerox is not a dirtball
company</span>&#8221;.</p><p>[Outsiders often observe in the PARC culture an institutional
arrogance which usage of this term exemplifies. The brilliance and scope
of PARC's contributions to computer science have been such that this
superior attitude is not much resented. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dinosaurs-mating.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dirty-power.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dinosaurs mating </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dirty power</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of computers. Spikes, <a href="drop-outs.html"><i class="glossterm">drop-outs</i></a>, average voltage
significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all
cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively
known as <a href="../P/power-hit.html"><i class="glossterm">power hit</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="dirtball.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="disclaimer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dirtball </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> disclaimer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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(sometimes automatically, by the posting software) reiterating the fact
(which should be obvious, but is easily forgotten) that the article
reflects its author's opinions and not necessarily those of the
organization running the machine through which the article entered the
network.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dirty-power.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Discordianism.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dirty power </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Discordianism</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/splat-out.html"><i class="glossterm">splat out</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Discordianism.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="disk-farm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Discordianism </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> disk farm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/washing-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">washing machine</i></a>s). This term was well established
by 1990, and generalized by about ten years later; see
<a href="../F/farm.html"><i class="glossterm">farm</i></a>. It has become less common as disk strange
densities reached livels where terabytes of storage can easily be fit in a
single rack.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disemvowel.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="display-hack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">disemvowel </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> display hack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include
<a href="../M/munching-squares.html"><i class="glossterm">munching squares</i></a>, <a href="../S/smoking-clover.html"><i class="glossterm">smoking clover</i></a>, the BSD Unix
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rain</span>(6)</span>
program,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">worms</span>(6)</span>
on miscellaneous Unixes, and the <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">kaleid</span>(1)</span>
program. Display hacks can also be implemented by creating text files
containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video
terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree
with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The
<a href="../H/hack-value.html"><i class="glossterm">hack value</i></a> of a display hack is proportional to the
esthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided
by the size of the code.
Syn. <a href="../P/psychedelicware.html"><i class="glossterm">psychedelicware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disk-farm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dispress.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">disk farm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dispress</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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eight-character MS-DOS filenames] To apply the <a href="Dissociated-Press.html"><i class="glossterm">Dissociated
Press</i></a> algorithm to a block of text. The resultant output is
also referred to as a 'dispression'.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="display-hack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Dissociated-Press.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">display hack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Dissociated Press</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../K/kit.html"><i class="glossterm">kit</i></a>. Since about 1996 unqualified use of this term
often implies &#8216;<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> distribution&#8217;. The
short form <a href="distro.html"><i class="glossterm">distro</i></a> is often used for this sense.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups
(but not <a href="../B/BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> <a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a>); any
topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. An information-space domain (usually loosely correlated with
geography) to which propagation of a Usenet message is restricted; a
much-underutilized feature.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Dissociated-Press.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="distro.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Dissociated Press </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> distro</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>disusered</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="distro.html" title="distro"/><link rel="next" href="DMZ.html" title="DMZ"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">disusered</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="distro.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DMZ.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="disusered"/><dt xmlns="" id="disusered"><b>disusered</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] Said of a person whose account on a computer has been
removed, esp. for cause rather than through normal attrition. &#8220;<span class="quote">He
got disusered when they found out he'd been cracking through the school's
Internet access.</span>&#8221; The verbal form <span class="firstterm">disuser</span> is live but less common. Both usages
probably derive from the DISUSER account status flag on VMS; setting it
disables the account. Compare <a href="../S/star-out.html"><i class="glossterm">star out</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="distro.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DMZ.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">distro </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DMZ</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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somebody or something that follows a clearly defined procedure. For
example, &#8220;<span class="quote">Let's do protocol with the check</span>&#8221; at a restaurant
means to ask for the check, calculate the tip and everybody's share,
collect money from everybody, generate change as necessary, and pay the
bill. See <a href="../P/protocol.html"><i class="glossterm">protocol</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DMZ.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="doc.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DMZ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> doc</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Often used in the plural <span class="firstterm">docs</span> and in
the construction <span class="firstterm">doc file</span> (i.e.,
documentation available on-line).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="do-protocol.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="documentation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">do protocol </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> documentation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see
also <a href="../T/tree-killer.html"><i class="glossterm">tree-killer</i></a>). Hackers seldom read paper
documentation and (too) often resist writing it; they prefer theirs to be
terse and on-line. A common comment on this predilection is &#8220;<span class="quote">You
can't <a href="../G/grep.html"><i class="glossterm">grep</i></a> dead trees</span>&#8221;. See
<a href="drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>, <a href="../V/verbiage.html"><i class="glossterm">verbiage</i></a>,
<a href="../T/treeware.html"><i class="glossterm">treeware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="doc.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dodgy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">doc </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dodgy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dodgy</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="documentation.html" title="documentation"/><link rel="next" href="dogcow.html" title="dogcow"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dodgy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="documentation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogcow.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dodgy"/><dt xmlns="" id="dodgy"><b>dodgy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. with <a href="../F/flaky.html"><i class="glossterm">flaky</i></a>. Preferred outside the
U.S.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="documentation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogcow.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">documentation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dogcow</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dogcow</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dodgy.html" title="dodgy"/><link rel="next" href="dogfood.html" title="dogfood"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dogcow</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dodgy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogfood.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dogcow"/><dt xmlns="" id="dogcow"><b>dogcow</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dog´kow/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../M/Moof.html"><i class="glossterm">Moof</i></a>. The dogcow is a semi-legendary
creature that lurks in the depths of the Macintosh Technical Notes
Hypercard stack V3.1. The full story of the dogcow is told in technical
note #31 (the particular dogcow illustrated is properly named
&#8216;Clarus&#8217;). Option-shift-click will cause it to emit a
characteristic &#8220;<span class="quote">Moof!</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">!fooM</span>&#8221; sound.
<span class="emphasis"><em>Getting</em></span> to tech note 31 is the hard part; to discover
how to do that, one must needs examine the stack script with a hackerly
eye. Clue: <a href="../R/rot13.html"><i class="glossterm">rot13</i></a> is involved. A dogcow also
appears if you choose &#8216;Page Setup...&#8217; with a LaserWriter
selected and click on the &#8216;Options&#8217; button. It also lurks in
other Mac printer drivers, notably those for the now-discontinued Style
Writers. See <a href="http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/dogcow/tn31.html" target="_top">http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/dogcow/tn31.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dodgy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogfood.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dodgy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dogfood</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dogfood</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dogcow.html" title="dogcow"/><link rel="next" href="dogpile.html" title="dogpile"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dogfood</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogcow.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogpile.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dogfood"/><dt xmlns="" id="dogfood"><b>dogfood</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for testing.
&#8220;<span class="quote">To eat one's own dogfood</span>&#8221; (from which the slang noun derives)
means to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday
development environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and
Netscape). The practice is normal in the Linux community and elsewhere, but
the term &#8216;dogfood&#8217; is seldom used as open-source betas tend to
be quite tasty and nourishing. The idea is that developers who are using
their own software will quickly learn what's missing or broken. Dogfood is
typically not even of <a href="../B/beta.html"><i class="glossterm">beta</i></a> quality.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogcow.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogpile.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dogcow </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dogpile</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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