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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>EBCDIC</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="eat-flaming-death.html" title="eat flaming death"/><link rel="next" href="ECP.html" title="ECP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">EBCDIC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eat-flaming-death.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ECP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="EBCDIC"/><dt xmlns="" id="EBCDIC"><b>EBCDIC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eb´s@·dik/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eb´see`dik/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eb´k@·dik/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An
alleged character set used on IBM <a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>s. It
exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such
delights as non-contiguous letter sequences and the absence of several
ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages
(exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of
EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from
<a href="../P/punched-card.html"><i class="glossterm">punched card</i></a> code in the early 1960s and promulgated it as a
customer-control tactic (see <a href="../C/connector-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">connector conspiracy</i></a>),
spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be
an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants
and how to convert between them is still internally classified top-secret,
burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very <span class="emphasis"><em>name</em></span>
of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest
<a href="evil.html"><i class="glossterm">evil</i></a>. See also
<a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eat-flaming-death.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ECP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">eat flaming death </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ECP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../V/velveeta.html"><i class="glossterm">velveeta</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EBCDIC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ed.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EBCDIC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ed</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ELIZA effect</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="elite.html" title="elite"/><link rel="next" href="elvish.html" title="elvish"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ELIZA effect</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elite.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elvish.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ELIZA-effect"/><dt xmlns="" id="ELIZA-effect"><b>ELIZA effect</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@·li:´z@ @·fekt´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [AI community] The tendency of humans to attach associations to
terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the
symbol <tt class="literal">+</tt> that makes it well-suited to indicate addition;
it's just that people associate it with addition. Using
<tt class="literal">+</tt> or &#8216;plus&#8217; to mean addition in a computer
language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect.</p><p>This term comes from the famous ELIZA program by Joseph Weizenbaum,
which simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist by re­phrasing many of the
patient's statements as questions and posing them to the patient. It
worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into
canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many
anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with
ELIZA. All this was due to people's tendency to attach to words meanings
which the computer never put there. The ELIZA effect is a
<a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a> when writing a programming language, but it can blind you
to serious shortcomings when analyzing an Artificial Intelligence system.
Compare <a href="../A/ad-hockery.html"><i class="glossterm">ad-hockery</i></a>; see also
<a href="../A/AI-complete.html"><i class="glossterm">AI-complete</i></a>. Sources for a clone of the original
Eliza are available at <a href="ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/pub/AI-ATTIC/Programs/Classic/Eliza/Eliza.c" target="_top">ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/pub/AI_ATTIC/Programs/Classic/Eliza/Eliza.c</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elite.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elvish.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">elite </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> elvish</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>EMACS</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="elvish.html" title="elvish"/><link rel="next" href="email.html" title="email"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">EMACS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elvish.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="email.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="EMACS"/><dt xmlns="" id="EMACS"><b>EMACS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ee´maks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a
programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was
originally written by Richard Stallman in <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a> under
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> at the MIT AI lab; AI Memo 554 described it as
&#8220;<span class="quote">an advanced, self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time
display editor</span>&#8221;. It has since been reimplemented any number of
times, by various hackers, and versions exist that run under most major
operating systems. Perhaps the most widely used version, also written by
Stallman and now called &#8220;<span class="quote"><a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> EMACS</span>&#8221; or
<a href="../G/GNUMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">GNUMACS</i></a>, runs principally under Unix. (Its close
relative XEmacs is the second most popular version.) It includes
facilities to run compilation subprocesses and send and receive mail or
news; many hackers spend up to 80% of their <a href="../T/tube-time.html"><i class="glossterm">tube
time</i></a> inside it. Other variants include
<a href="../G/GOSMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">GOSMACS</i></a>, CCA EMACS, UniPress EMACS, Montgomery
EMACS, jove, epsilon, and MicroEMACS. (Though we use the original all-caps
spelling here, it is nowadays very commonly &#8216;Emacs&#8217;.) Some
EMACS versions running under window managers iconify as an overflowing
kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one feature the editor does not (yet)
include. Indeed, some hackers find EMACS too
<a href="../H/heavyweight.html"><i class="glossterm">heavyweight</i></a> and <a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a> for
their taste, and expand the name as &#8216;Escape Meta Alt Control
Shift&#8217; to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with
<a href="../B/bucky-bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bucky bits</i></a>. Other spoof expansions include
&#8216;Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping&#8217; (from when that was a
lot of <a href="../C/core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>), &#8216;Eventually
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">malloc</span>()</span>s
All Computer Storage&#8217;, and &#8216;EMACS Makes A Computer Slow&#8217;
(see <a href="../R/recursive-acronym.html"><i class="glossterm">recursive acronym</i></a>). See also
<a href="../V/vi.html"><i class="glossterm">vi</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elvish.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="email.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">elvish </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> email</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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for querying someone's availability. After opening a
<a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a> connection to someone apparently in heavy hack mode, one
might type <b class="command">SYN SYN ENQ?</b> (the SYNs
representing notional synchronization bytes), and expect a return of
<a href="../A/ACK.html"><i class="glossterm">ACK</i></a> or <a href="../N/NAK.html"><i class="glossterm">NAK</i></a> depending on
whether or not the person felt interruptible. Compare
<a href="../P/ping.html"><i class="glossterm">ping</i></a>, <a href="../F/finger.html"><i class="glossterm">finger</i></a>, and the usage
of <b class="command">FOO?</b> listed under
<a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk 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="enhancement.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EOD.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">enhancement </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EOD</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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believes he has stated his case and will not respond to further arguments
or attacks.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ENQ.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EOF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ENQ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EOF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other
environments) when end of file has been reached. This value is usually
<tt class="constant">-1</tt> under C libraries postdating V6 Unix, but was
originally <tt class="constant">0</tt>. DOS hackers think EOF is ^Z, and a few
Amiga hackers think it's ^\. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix] The keyboard character (usually control-D, the ASCII EOT
(End Of Transmission) character) that is mapped by the terminal driver into
an end-of-file condition. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Used by extension in non-computer contexts when a human is doing
something that can be modeled as a sequential read and can't go further.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Yeah, I looked for a list of 360 mnemonics to post as a joke, but I
hit EOF pretty fast; all the library had was a <a href="../J/JCL.html"><i class="glossterm">JCL</i></a>
manual.</span>&#8221; See also <a href="EOL.html"><i class="glossterm">EOL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EOD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EOL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EOD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EOL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal. Now rare, but widely recognized
and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry under
<a href="../B/BNF.html"><i class="glossterm">BNF</i></a>. See also <a href="EOF.html"><i class="glossterm">EOF</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EOF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EOU.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EOF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EOU</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>EOU</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="EOL.html" title="EOL"/><link rel="next" href="epoch.html" title="epoch"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">EOU</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EOL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="epoch.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="EOU"/><dt xmlns="" id="EOU"><b>EOU</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/E·O·U/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control character (End Of User)
that would make an ASR-33 Teletype explode on receipt. This construction
parodies the numerous obscure delimiter and control characters left in
ASCII from the days when it was associated more with wire-service teletypes
than computers (e.g., FS, GS, RS, US, EM, SUB, ETX, and esp. EOT). It is
worth remembering that ASR-33s were big, noisy mechanical beasts with a lot
of clattering parts; the notion that one might explode was nowhere near as
ridiculous as it might seem to someone sitting in front of a
<a href="../T/tube.html"><i class="glossterm">tube</i></a> or flatscreen today.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EOL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="epoch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EOL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> epoch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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point to two people sitting down and say &#8220;<span class="quote">Exch!</span>&#8221;, you are
asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the
name of a PDP-10 instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and
a memory location. Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the
<a href="../P/PostScript.html"><i class="glossterm">PostScript</i></a> exchange operator (which is usually
written in lowercase).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="examining-the-entrails.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="excl.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">examining the entrails </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> excl</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension .EXE to mark such files. This usage is
also occasionally found among Unix programmers even though Unix executables
don't have any required suffix.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="excl.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="exec.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">excl </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> exec</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Easter egg</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="next" href="Easter-egging.html" title="Easter egging"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Easter egg</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../E.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Easter-egging.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Easter-egg"/><dt xmlns="" id="Easter-egg"><b>Easter egg</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the U.S. and
many parts of Europe] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke,
intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on
a PC, the BIOS ROM) in response to some undocumented set of commands or
keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One
well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to
respond to the command <b class="command">make love</b> with
<b class="command">not war?</b>. Many personal computers have
much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers'
names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case)
graphics images of the entire development team.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../E.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Easter-egging.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">E </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Easter egging</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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random in hopes that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the
normal operating mode of <a href="../F/field-circus.html"><i class="glossterm">field circus</i></a> techs and do
not love them for it. See also the jokes under
<a href="../F/field-circus.html"><i class="glossterm">field circus</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../S/shotgun-debugging.html"><i class="glossterm">shotgun debugging</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Easter-egg.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="eat-flaming-death.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Easter egg </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> eat flaming death</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>El Camino Bignum</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="eighty-column-mind.html" title="eighty-column mind"/><link rel="next" href="elder-days.html" title="elder days"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">El Camino Bignum</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eighty-column-mind.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elder-days.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="El-Camino-Bignum"/><dt xmlns="" id="El-Camino-Bignum"><b>El Camino Bignum</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/el´ k@·mee´noh big´nuhm/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The road mundanely called El Camino Real, running along San
Francisco peninsula. It originally extended all the way down to Mexico
City; many portions of the old road are still intact. Navigation on the
San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which
defines <a href="../L/logical.html"><i class="glossterm">logical</i></a> north and south even though it isn't
really north-south in many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford
University and so is familiar to hackers.</p><p>The Spanish word &#8216;real&#8217; (which has two syllables:
<span class="pronunciation">/ray·ahl´/</span>) means
&#8216;royal&#8217;; El Camino Real is &#8216;the royal road&#8217;. In
the FORTRAN language, a <span class="firstterm">real</span> quantity
is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a <span class="firstterm">double precision</span> quantity is a larger
floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits
(other languages have similar <span class="firstterm">real</span>
types).</p><p>When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a
long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on &#8216;real&#8217;, he
started calling it &#8216;El Camino Double Precision&#8217; &#8212; but
when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he
renamed it &#8216;El Camino Bignum&#8217;, and that name has stuck. (See
<a href="../B/bignum.html"><i class="glossterm">bignum</i></a>.)</p><p>[GLS has since let slip that the unnamed hacker in this story was in
fact himself &#8212;ESR]</p><p>In the early 1990s, the synonym <span class="firstterm">El Camino
Virtual</span> was been reported as an alternate at IBM and Amdahl
sites in the Valley.</p><p>Mathematically literate hackers in the Valley have also been heard
to refer to some major cross-street intersecting El Camino Real as
&#8220;<span class="quote">El Camino Imaginary</span>&#8221;. One popular theory is that the
intersection is located near Moffett Field &#8212; where they keep all
those complex planes.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eighty-column-mind.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elder-days.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">eighty-column mind </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> elder days</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or
executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term
is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming
language is at least as readable as English. Usage: mostly by old-time
hackers, though recognizable in context. Today the preferred shorthand is
simply <a href="../S/source.html"><i class="glossterm">source</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The official name of the database language used by the old Pick
Operating System, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with
delusions of grandeur. The name permitted
<a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>s to say &#8220;<span class="quote">Yes, and you can program
our computers in English!</span>&#8221; to ignorant <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s
without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="engine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="enhancement.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">engine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> enhancement</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous <tt class="systemitem">talk.bizarre</tt> posting ca. 1987; this was
doubtless influenced by the numerous &#8216;Eric&#8217; jokes in the Monty
Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed
Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for
unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include
Eric Allman (he of the &#8216;Allman style&#8217; described under
<a href="../I/indent-style.html"><i class="glossterm">indent style</i></a>) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP);
your editor has heard from more than a hundred others by email, and the
organization line &#8216;Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories&#8217; now
emanates regularly from more than one site. See the Eric Conspiracy Web
Page at <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/" target="_top">http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/</a> for full
details.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="era.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Eris.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">era </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Eris</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by that
name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was
reinvented as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in
1959 by the adherents of <a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a> and has since
been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several &#8216;fringe&#8217;
cultures, including hackerdom. See <a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a>,
<a href="../C/Church-of-the-SubGenius.html"><i class="glossterm">Church of the SubGenius</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Eric-Conspiracy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="erotics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Eric Conspiracy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> erotics</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Soviet Union] Formerly <a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a>, now
<a href="../M/Microsoft.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsoft</i></a>. Functionally, the company most hackers
love to hate at any given time. Hackers like to see themselves as romantic
rebels against the Evil Empire, and frequently adopt this role to the point
of ascribing rather more power and malice to the Empire than it actually
has. See also <a href="../B/Borg.html"><i class="glossterm">Borg</i></a> and search for &#8216;Evil
Empire&#8217; pages on the Web.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="evil-and-rude.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="exa-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">evil and rude </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> exa-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Exon</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="exercise--left-as-an.html" title="exercise, left as an"/><link rel="next" href="Exploder.html" title="Exploder"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Exon</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="exercise--left-as-an.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Exploder.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Exon"/><dt xmlns="" id="Exon"><b>Exon</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eks´on/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">excl.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A generic obscenity that quickly entered wide use on the Internet
and Usenet after the passage of the Communications Decency Act. From the
last name of Senator James Exon (Democrat-Nebraska), primary author of the
<a href="../C/CDA.html"><i class="glossterm">CDA</i></a>. This usage outlasted the CDA itself, which was
quashed a little over a year later by one of the most acerbic
pro-free-speech opinions ever uttered by the Supreme Court. The campaign
against it was led by an alliance of hackers and civil libertarians, and
was the first effective political mobilization of the hacker
culture. Use of Exon's name as an expletive outlived the CDA controversy
itself.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="exercise--left-as-an.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Exploder.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">exercise, left as an </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Exploder</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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web-interface component of Windows 95 and WinNT 4. Our spies report that
most of the heavy guns at MS came from a Unix background and use command
line utilities; even they are scornful of the over-gingerbreaded
<a href="../W/WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>s that they have been called upon to
create.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Exon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="exploit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Exon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> exploit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/CPU-Wars.html"><i class="glossterm">CPU Wars</i></a> comic; supposedly derived from a famously
turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran &#8220;<span class="quote">Eat
flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!</span>&#8221; or something of the sort
(however, it is also reported that on the Firesign Theatre's 1975 album
<i class="citetitle">In The Next World, You're On Your Own</i> a character
won the right to scream &#8220;<span class="quote">Eat flaming death, fascist media
pigs</span>&#8221; in the middle of Oscar night on a game show; this may have
been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of
hostility. &#8220;<span class="quote">Eat flaming death, <a href="EBCDIC.html"><i class="glossterm">EBCDIC</i></a>
users!</span>&#8221;</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/eat-flaming-death.png"/><div class="caption"><p>IPM tells us to <a href="eat-flaming-death.html"><i class="glossterm">eat flaming death</i></a>.</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Easter-egging.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EBCDIC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Easter egging </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EBCDIC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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original <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> manual page on ed, an ancient
line-oriented editor that is by now used only by a few
<a href="../R/Real-Programmer.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Programmer</i></a>s, and even then only for batch operations. The
original line is sometimes uttered near the beginning of an emacs vs. vi
holy war on <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, with the (vain) hope to quench
the discussion before it really takes off. Often followed by a standard
text describing the many virtues of ed (such as the small memory
<a href="../F/footprint.html"><i class="glossterm">footprint</i></a> on a Timex Sinclair, and the consistent
(because nearly non-existent) user interface).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ECP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="egg.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ECP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> egg</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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string attacks. Typically, an egg written in assembly and designed to
enable remote access or escalate privileges from an ordinary user account
to administrator level when it hatches. Also known as <span class="firstterm">shellcode</span>. </p><p>The name comes from a particular buffer-overflow exploit that was
co-written by a cracker named eggplant. The variable name
&#8216;egg&#8217; was used to store the payload. The usage
spread from people who saw and analyzed the code.
</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ed.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="egosurf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ed </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> egosurf</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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connected to long-established SF-fan slang <span class="firstterm">egoscan</span>, to search for one's name in a
fanzine.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="egg.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="eighty-column-mind.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">egg </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> eighty-column mind</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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transition from <a href="../P/punched-card.html"><i class="glossterm">punched card</i></a> to tape was traumatic
(nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these
people, including (according to an old joke) the founder of IBM, will be
buried &#8216;face down, 9-edge first&#8217; (the 9-edge being the bottom
of the card). This directive is inscribed on IBM's 1402 and 1622 card
readers and is referenced in a famous bit of doggerel called <i class="citetitle">The
Last Bug</i>, the climactic lines of which are as follows:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
   He died at the console<br/>
   Of hunger and thirst.<br/>
   Next day he was buried,<br/>
   Face down, 9-edge first.<br/>
</p></div><p>The eighty-column mind was thought by most hackers to dominate IBM's
customer base and its thinking. This only began to change in the mid-1990s
when IBM began to reinvent itself after the triumph of the
<a href="../K/killer-micro.html"><i class="glossterm">killer micro</i></a>. See <a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>,
<a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code grinder</i></a>. A copy of <i class="citetitle">The Last Bug</i> lives
on the the GNU site at <a href="http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/last.bug.html" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/last.bug.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="egosurf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="El-Camino-Bignum.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">egosurf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> El Camino Bignum</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>, <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>,
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather
consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic <i class="citetitle">The
Lord of the Rings</i>. Compare <a href="../I/Iron-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Iron Age</i></a>;
see also <a href="elvish.html"><i class="glossterm">elvish</i></a> and
<a href="../G/Great-Worm.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Worm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="El-Camino-Bignum.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elegant.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">El Camino Bignum </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> elegant</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than
&#8216;clever&#8217;, &#8216;winning&#8217;, or even
<a href="../C/cuspy.html"><i class="glossterm">cuspy</i></a>.</p><p>The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry, probably best known for his classic children's book
<i class="citetitle">The Little Prince</i>, was also an aircraft designer.
He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said
&#8220;<span class="quote">A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take
away.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elder-days.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elephantine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">elder days </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> elephantine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../H/hog.html"><i class="glossterm">hog</i></a>s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on
<a href="../B/brute-force-and-ignorance.html"><i class="glossterm">brute force and ignorance</i></a>) and exceedingly
<a href="../H/hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a> in source form. An elephantine program may be
functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke about being in bed
with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a
pachyderm, difficult to maintain). In extreme cases, hackers have been
known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive proboscatory mime at
the mention of the offending program. Usage: semi-humorous. Compare
&#8216;has the elephant nature&#8217; and the somewhat more pejorative
<a href="../M/monstrosity.html"><i class="glossterm">monstrosity</i></a>. See also
<a href="../S/second-system-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">second-system effect</i></a> and <a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elegant.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elevator-controller.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">elegant </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> elevator controller</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">toaster</i></a> (which superseded it). During one period
(1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization
committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid,
memory-limited computation environment. &#8220;<span class="quote">You can't require
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">printf</span>(3)</span>
to be part of the default runtime library &#8212; what if you're targeting
an elevator controller?</span>&#8221; Elevator controllers became important
rhetorical weapons on both sides of several
<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elephantine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elite.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">elephantine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> elite</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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general positive adjective. This term is not actually native hacker slang;
it is used primarily by crackers and <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>,
for which reason hackers use it only with heavy irony. The term used to
refer to the folks allowed in to the &#8220;<span class="quote">hidden</span>&#8221; or
&#8220;<span class="quote">privileged</span>&#8221; sections of BBSes in the early 1980s (which,
typically, contained pirated software). Frequently, early boards would only
let you post, or even see, a certain subset of the sections (or
&#8216;boards&#8217;) on a BBS. Those who got to the frequently legendary
&#8216;triple super secret&#8217; boards were elite. Misspellings of this
term in warez d00dz style abound; the forms <span class="firstterm">l337</span> <span class="firstterm">eleet</span>, and <span class="firstterm">31337</span> (among others) have been sighted.</p><p>A true hacker would be more likely to use
&#8216;wizardly&#8217;. Oppose <a href="../L/lamer.html"><i class="glossterm">lamer</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elevator-controller.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ELIZA-effect.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">elevator controller </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ELIZA effect</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the <i class="citetitle">Book of
Kells</i>. Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in
<i class="citetitle">The Lord of The Rings</i> as an orthography for his
fictional &#8216;elvish&#8217; languages, this system (which is both
visually and phonetically <a href="elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a>) has long
fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in
general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window
systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo
items. See also <a href="elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a
graphics device. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The typeface mundanely called &#8216;Böcklin&#8217;, an
art-Noveau display font.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ELIZA-effect.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EMACS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ELIZA effect </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EMACS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over
common-carrier lines. Contrast <a href="../S/snail-mail.html"><i class="glossterm">snail-mail</i></a>,
<a href="../P/paper-net.html"><i class="glossterm">paper-net</i></a>, <a href="../V/voice-net.html"><i class="glossterm">voice-net</i></a>. See
<a href="../N/network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To send electronic
mail.</p></dd><dd><p>Oddly enough, the word <span class="firstterm">emailed</span>
is actually listed in the OED; it means &#8220;<span class="quote">embossed (with a raised
pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or open work</span>&#8221;. A use from 1480
is given. The word is probably derived from French <span class="firstterm">émaillé</span> (enameled) and related to
Old French <span class="firstterm">emmailleüre</span>
(network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French,
&#8216;email&#8217; is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in
a furnace; an &#8216;emailleur&#8217; (no final e) is a craftsman who makes
email (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them
in a furnace).</p><p>There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet
traffic up to 1995, &#8216;email&#8217; predominates, &#8216;e-mail&#8217;
runs a not-too-distant second, and &#8216;E-mail&#8217; and
&#8216;Email&#8217; are a distant third and fourth.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EMACS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="emoticon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EMACS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> emoticon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>emoticon</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="email.html" title="email"/><link rel="next" href="EMP.html" title="EMP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">emoticon</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="email.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EMP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="emoticon"/><dt xmlns="" id="emoticon"><b>emoticon</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ee·moh´ti·kon/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email
or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some
other explicit humor indication) are virtually required under certain
circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums such as Usenet;
the lack of verbal and visual cues can otherwise cause what were intended
to be humorous, sarcastic, ironic, or otherwise non-100%-serious comments
to be badly misinterpreted (not always even by
<a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>s), resulting in arguments and
<a href="../F/flame-war.html"><i class="glossterm">flame war</i></a>s.</p><p>Hundreds of emoticons have been proposed, but only a few are in
common use. These include: </p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>:-)</td><td>&#8216;smiley face&#8217; (for humor,
laughter, friendliness, occasionally sarcasm)</td></tr><tr><td>:-(</td><td>&#8216;frowney face&#8217; (for sadness,
anger, or upset)</td></tr><tr><td>;-)</td><td>&#8216;half-smiley&#8217; (
<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>); also known as <span class="firstterm">semi-smiley</span> or <span class="firstterm">winkey face</span>.</td></tr><tr><td>:-/</td><td>&#8216;wry face&#8217;</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> (These may become more comprehensible if you
tilt your head sideways, to the left.) The first two listed are by far the
most frequently encountered. Hyphenless forms of them are common on
CompuServe, GEnie, and BIX; see also <a href="../B/bixie.html"><i class="glossterm">bixie</i></a>. On
<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, <span class="firstterm">smiley</span>
is often used as a generic term synonymous with
<a href="emoticon.html"><i class="glossterm">emoticon</i></a>, as well as specifically for the happy-face
emoticon.</p></dd><dd><p>The invention of the original smiley and frowney emoticons is
generally credited to Scott Fahlman at CMU in 1982. He later wrote:
&#8220;<span class="quote">I wish I had saved the original post, or at least recorded the date
for posterity, but I had no idea that I was starting something that would
soon pollute all the world's communication channels.</span>&#8221; In September
2002 the original post <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html" target="_top"> was
recovered</a>.</p><p>There is a rival claim by one Kevin McKenzie, who seems to have
proposed the smiley on the MsgGroup mailing list, April 12 1979. It seems
likely these two inventions were independent. Users of the PLATO
educational system <a href=" http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html" target="_top">
report</a> using emoticons composed from overlaid dot-matrix graphics
in the 1970s.</p><p>Note for the <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>: Overuse of the smiley is
a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign
that you've gone over the line.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="email.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EMP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">email </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EMP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>empire</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="EMP.html" title="EMP"/><link rel="next" href="engine.html" title="engine"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">empire</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EMP.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="engine.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="empire"/><dt xmlns="" id="empire"><b>empire</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written
by Peter Langston many years ago. A number of multi-player variants of
varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version
implemented for both Unix and VMS; the latter is even available as
MS-DOS/Windows freeware. All are notoriously addictive. Of various
commercial derivatives the best known is probably &#8220;<span class="quote">Empire
Deluxe</span>&#8221; on PCs and Amigas.</p><p>Modern empire is a real-time wargame played over the internet by up
to 120 players. Typical games last from 24 hours (blitz) to a couple of
months (long term). The amount of sleep you can get while playing is a
function of the rate at which updates occur and the number of co-rulers of
your country. Empire server software is available for Unix-like machines,
and clients for Unix and other platforms. A comprehensive history of the
game is available at <a href="http://www.wolfpackempire.com/infopages/History.html" target="_top">http://www.empire.cx/infopages/History.html</a>.
The Empire resource site is at <a href="http://www.empire.cx/" target="_top">http://www.empire.cx/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EMP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="engine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EMP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> engine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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used without some kind of <a href="../F/front-end.html"><i class="glossterm">front end</i></a>. Today we have,
especially, <span class="firstterm">print engine</span>: the guts of
a laser printer. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a lot
of noisy crunching, such as a <span class="firstterm">database
engine</span>.</p></dd><dd><p>The hacker senses of <span class="firstterm">engine</span> are
actually close to its original, pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill,
clever device, or instrument (the word is cognate to
&#8216;ingenuity&#8217;). This sense had not been completely eclipsed by
the modern connotation of power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbage's
time, which explains why he named the stored-program computer that he
designed in 1844 the <span class="firstterm">Analytical
Engine</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="empire.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="English.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">empire </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> English</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/fix.html"><i class="glossterm">fix</i></a>. This abuse of language is a popular and
time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker
being ironic would instead call the fix a <a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a>
&#8212; or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to be a
feature.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="English.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ENQ.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">English </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ENQ</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values.
Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970; under
VMS, it's 00:00:00 of November 17, 1858 (base date of the U.S. Naval
Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's the midnight beginning
January 1 1904. System time is measured in seconds or
<a href="../T/tick.html"><i class="glossterm">tick</i></a>s past the epoch. Weird problems may ensue when
the clock wraps around (see <a href="../W/wrap-around.html"><i class="glossterm">wrap around</i></a>), which is
not necessarily a rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a
signed 32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years. The
1-tick-per-second clock of Unix is good only until January 18, 2038,
assuming at least some software continues to consider it signed and that
word lengths don't increase by then. See also
<a href="../W/wall-time.html"><i class="glossterm">wall time</i></a>. Microsoft Windows, on the other hand, has an epoch
problem every 49.7 days &#8212; but this is seldom noticed as Windows is almost
incapable of staying up continuously for that long.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EOU.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="epsilon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EOU </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> epsilon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal;
completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars,
the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is
<a href="epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to
connect them is epsilon squared. Compare
<a href="../L/lost-in-the-underflow.html"><i class="glossterm">lost in the underflow</i></a>, <a href="../L/lost-in-the-noise.html"><i class="glossterm">lost in the noise</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="epsilon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="era.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">epsilon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> era</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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anything. &#8220;<span class="quote">The cost is epsilon.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Very small, negligible;
less than <a href="../M/marginal.html"><i class="glossterm">marginal</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">We can get this feature
for epsilon cost.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">within epsilon of</span>: close
enough to be indistinguishable for all practical purposes, even closer than
being <span class="firstterm">within delta of</span>. &#8220;<span class="quote">That's
not what I asked for, but it's within epsilon of what I wanted.</span>&#8221;
Alternatively, it may mean not close enough, but very little is required to
get it there: &#8220;<span class="quote">My program is within epsilon of
working.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="epoch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="epsilon-squared.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">epoch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> epsilon squared</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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words almost synonymous, but <span class="firstterm">era</span> more
often connotes a span of time rather than a point in time, whereas the
reverse is true for <a href="epoch.html"><i class="glossterm">epoch</i></a>. The
<a href="epoch.html"><i class="glossterm">epoch</i></a> usage is recommended.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="epsilon-squared.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Eric-Conspiracy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">epsilon squared </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Eric Conspiracy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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electronics. Often used by hackers in Helsinki, maybe because good
electronics excites them and makes them warm.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Eris.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="error-33.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Eris </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> error 33</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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another. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Allowing your own research effort to be placed on the critical
path of some other project (be it a research effort or not).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="erotics.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="eurodemo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">erotics </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> eurodemo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice
rather than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is
<span class="i">evil</span> because it's a competent implementation
of a bad design; it's <span class="i">rude</span> because it's
gratuitously incompatible with Unix in places where compatibility would
have been as easy and effective to do; but it's <span class="i">evil and
rude</span> because the incompatibilities are apparently there not to
fix design bugs in Unix but rather to lock hapless customers and developers
into the Microsoft way. Hackish <span class="i">evil and
rude</span> is close to the mainstream sense of
&#8216;evil&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="evil.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Evil-Empire.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">evil </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Evil Empire</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of
dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the
<a href="../C/cretinous.html"><i class="glossterm">cretinous</i></a>/<a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a>/<a href="../B/brain-damaged.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-damaged</i></a>
series, <span class="firstterm">evil</span> does not imply
incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria
fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This usage is more an esthetic
and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense.
&#8220;<span class="quote">We thought about adding a <a href="../B/Blue-Glue.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Glue</i></a> interface
but decided it was too evil to deal with.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote"><a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a> is neat, but it can be pretty evil if
you're prone to typos.</span>&#8221; Often pronounced with the first syllable
lengthened, as <span class="pronunciation">/eeee'vil/</span>.
Compare <a href="evil-and-rude.html"><i class="glossterm">evil and rude</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eurodemo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="evil-and-rude.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">eurodemo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> evil and rude</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core dump</i></a> or hex image in an attempt to discover the
bug that brought a program or system down. The reference is to divination
from the entrails of a sacrificed animal. Compare
<a href="../R/runes.html"><i class="glossterm">runes</i></a>, <a href="../I/incantation.html"><i class="glossterm">incantation</i></a>,
<a href="../B/black-art.html"><i class="glossterm">black art</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="exa-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EXCH.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">exa- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EXCH</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/bang.html"><i class="glossterm">bang</i></a>, <a href="../S/shriek.html"><i class="glossterm">shriek</i></a>,
<a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EXCH.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EXE.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EXCH </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EXE</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>exec</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="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="EXE.html" title="EXE"/><link rel="next" href="exercise--left-as-an.html" title="exercise, left as an"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">exec</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EXE.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="exercise--left-as-an.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="exec"/><dt xmlns="" id="exec"><b>exec</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eg·zek´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eks´ek/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [Unix: from <span class="firstterm">execute</span>]
Synonym for <a href="../C/chain.html"><i class="glossterm">chain</i></a>, derives from the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">exec</span>(2)</span>
call. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [from <span class="firstterm">executive</span>] obs. The
command interpreter for an <a href="../O/OS.html"><i class="glossterm">OS</i></a> (see
<a href="../S/shell.html"><i class="glossterm">shell</i></a>); term esp. used around mainframes, and
prob.: derived from UNIVAC's archaic EXEC 2 and EXEC 8 operating systems.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. At IBM and VM/CMS shops, the equivalent of a shell command file
(among VM/CMS users).</p></dd><dd><p>The mainstream &#8216;exec&#8217; as an abbreviation for (human)
executive is <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> used. To a hacker, an
&#8216;exec&#8217; is always a program, never a person.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EXE.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="exercise--left-as-an.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EXE </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> exercise, left as an</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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mind a <a href="../H/handwave.html"><i class="glossterm">handwave</i></a>, or to avoid one entirely. The
complete phrase is: &#8220;<span class="quote">The proof [or &#8216;the rest&#8217;] is left as
an exercise for the reader.</span>&#8221; This comment <span class="emphasis"><em>has</em></span>
occasionally been attached to unsolved research problems by authors
possessed of either an evil sense of humor or a vast faith in the
capabilities of their audiences.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="exec.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Exon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">exec </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Exon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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security or otherwise attacking an Internet host over the network. The
<a href="../P/Ping-O--Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Ping O' Death</i></a> is a famous exploit. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More grammatically, a program that exploits an exploit in sense
1.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Exploder.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="external-memory.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Exploder </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> external memory</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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while I write that to external memory</span>&#8221;. The analogy is with store
or DRAM versus nonvolatile disk storage on computers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="exploit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="eye-candy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">exploit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> eye candy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sort that's presented to <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s to keep them
distracted while the program performs necessary background tasks.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Give 'em some eye candy while the back-end
<a href="../S/slurp.html"><i class="glossterm">slurp</i></a>s that <a href="../B/BLOB.html"><i class="glossterm">BLOB</i></a> into
core.</span>&#8221; Reported as mainstream usage among players of graphics-heavy
computer games. We're also told this term is mainstream slang for soft
pornography, but that sense does not appear to be live among
hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="external-memory.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="eyeball-search.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">external memory </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> eyeball search</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching
software like <a href="../G/grep.html"><i class="glossterm">grep</i></a> or any other automated search
tool. Also called a <a href="../V/vgrep.html"><i class="glossterm">vgrep</i></a>; compare
<a href="../V/vdiff.html"><i class="glossterm">vdiff</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eye-candy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../F.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">eye candy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> F</td></tr></table></div></body></html>