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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FAQ list</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FAQ.html" title="FAQ"/><link rel="next" href="FAQL.html" title="FAQL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FAQ list</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FAQ-list"/><dt xmlns="" id="FAQ-list"><b>FAQ list</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/F·A·Q list/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fak list/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; Usenet] Syn <a href="FAQ.html"><i class="glossterm">FAQ</i></a>, sense 2.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FAQ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FAQL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FAQ</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fandango-on-core.html" title="fandango on core"/><link rel="next" href="FAQ-list.html" title="FAQ list"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FAQ</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fandango-on-core.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-list.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FAQ"/><dt xmlns="" id="FAQ"><b>FAQ</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/F·A·Q/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fak/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A Frequently Asked Question. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to
high-volume newsgroups in an attempt to forestall such questions. Some
people prefer the term &#8216;FAQ list&#8217; or &#8216;FAQL&#8217;
<span class="pronunciation">/fa´kl/</span>, reserving
&#8216;FAQ&#8217; for sense 1.</p></dd><dd><p>This lexicon itself serves as a good example of a collection of one
kind of lore, although it is far too big for a regular FAQ posting.
Examples: &#8220;<span class="quote">What is the proper type of NULL?</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">What's
that funny name for the <tt class="literal">#</tt> character?</span>&#8221; are both
Frequently Asked Questions. Several FAQs refer readers to the Jargon
File.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fandango-on-core.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-list.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fandango on core </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FAQ list</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FAQL</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-list.html" title="FAQ list"/><link rel="next" href="faradize.html" title="faradize"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FAQL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-list.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="faradize.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FAQL"/><dt xmlns="" id="FAQL"><b>FAQL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fa´kl/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="FAQ-list.html"><i class="glossterm">FAQ list</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-list.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="faradize.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FAQ list </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> faradize</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FISH queue</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fish.html" title="fish"/><link rel="next" href="fisking.html" title="fisking"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FISH queue</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fish.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fisking.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FISH-queue"/><dt xmlns="" id="FISH-queue"><b>FISH queue</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym, by analogy with FIFO (First In, First Out)] &#8216;First
In, Still Here&#8217;. A joking way of pointing out that processing of a
particular sequence of events or requests has stopped dead. Also <span class="firstterm">FISH mode</span> and <span class="firstterm">FISHnet</span>; the latter may be applied to any
network that is running really slowly or exhibiting extreme
flakiness.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fish.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fisking.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fish </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fisking</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FITNR</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fisking.html" title="fisking"/><link rel="next" href="fix.html" title="fix"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FITNR</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fisking.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fix.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FITNR"/><dt xmlns="" id="FITNR"><b>FITNR</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Thinking Machines, Inc.] Fixed In The Next Release. A written-only
notation attached to bug reports. Often wishful thinking.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fisking.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fix.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fisking </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fix</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that needs work. The point of doing so is that a <b class="command">grep</b> or a similar pattern-matching tool can find all
such places quickly.</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
/* FIXME: note this is common in <a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> code. */<br/>
</p></div><p>Compare <a href="../X/XXX.html"><i class="glossterm">XXX</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fix.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flag.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fix </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flag</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FM</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="flytrap.html" title="flytrap"/><link rel="next" href="fnord.html" title="fnord"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FM</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flytrap.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fnord.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FM"/><dt xmlns="" id="FM"><b>FM</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/F·M/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] <span class="emphasis"><em>Not</em></span> &#8216;Frequency
Modulation&#8217; but rather an abbreviation for &#8216;Fucking
Manual&#8217;, the back-formation from <a href="../R/RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>. Used to
refer to the manual itself in the <a href="../R/RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">Have
you seen the Networking FM lately?</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Abbreviation for &#8220;<span class="quote">Fucking Magic</span>&#8221;, used in the sense
of <a href="../B/black-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">black magic</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flytrap.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fnord.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flytrap </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fnord</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FOAF</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fnord.html" title="fnord"/><link rel="next" href="FOD.html" title="FOD"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FOAF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fnord.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FOD.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FOAF"/><dt xmlns="" id="FOAF"><b>FOAF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; common] Acronym for &#8216;Friend Of A Friend&#8217;. The
source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This term was not
originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban
folklore), but is much better recognized on Usenet and elsewhere than in
mainstream English.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fnord.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FOD.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fnord </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FOD</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FOD</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FOAF.html" title="FOAF"/><link rel="next" href="fold-case.html" title="fold case"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FOD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FOAF.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fold-case.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FOD"/><dt xmlns="" id="FOD"><b>FOD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fod/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Abbreviation for &#8216;Finger of Death&#8217;, originally a
spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and
with no regard for other people. From <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>s where
the wizard command &#8216;FOD &lt;player&gt;&#8217; results in the
immediate and total death of &lt;player&gt;, usually as punishment for
obnoxious behavior. This usage migrated to other circumstances, such as
&#8220;<span class="quote">I'm going to fod the process that is burning all the
cycles.</span>&#8221;</p><p>In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g., what happens when
a jet engine sucks up a rock on the runway or a bird in flight. Finger of
Death is a distressingly apt description of what this generally does to the
engine.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FOAF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fold-case.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FOAF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fold case</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FRS</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="frowney.html" title="frowney"/><link rel="next" href="fry.html" title="fry"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FRS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="frowney.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fry.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FRS"/><dt xmlns="" id="FRS"><b>FRS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [obs.] Abbreviation for &#8220;<span class="quote">Freely Redistributable
Software</span>&#8221; which entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after
years of low-level confusion over what exactly to call software written to
be passed around and shared (contending terms including
<a href="freeware.html"><i class="glossterm">freeware</i></a>, <a href="../S/shareware.html"><i class="glossterm">shareware</i></a>, and
<span class="firstterm">sourceware</span> were never universally
felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons). The first formal
conference on freely redistributable software was held in Cambridge,
Massachussetts, in February 1996 (sponsored by the Free Software
Foundation). The conference organizers used the FRS abbreviation heavily in
its calls for papers and other literature during 1995. The term was in
steady though not common use until 1998 and the invention of
<a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a>, after which it became swiftly
obsolete.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="frowney.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fry.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">frowney </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fry</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FSF</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fscking.html" title="fscking"/><link rel="next" href="suffix-fu.html" title="-fu"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FSF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fscking.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="suffix-fu.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FSF"/><dt xmlns="" id="FSF"><b>FSF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/F·S·F/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">abbrev.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common abbreviation (both spoken and written) for the name of the
Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit educational association formed to
support the <a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> project.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fscking.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="suffix-fu.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fscking </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> -fu</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s; see <a href="foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">foobar</i></a>, and
<a href="foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> for a fuller etymology.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="suffix-fu.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fuck-me-harder.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">-fu </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fuck me harder</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FUD wars</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FUD.html" title="FUD"/><link rel="next" href="fudge.html" title="fudge"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FUD wars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FUD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fudge.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FUD-wars"/><dt xmlns="" id="FUD-wars"><b>FUD wars</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fuhd worz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1, [from <a href="FUD.html"><i class="glossterm">FUD</i></a>] Historically, political
posturing engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed
to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect
their own shares. The Unix International vs.: OSF conflict about Unix
standards was one outstanding example; Microsoft vs. Netscape vs. W3C about
HTML standards is another.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Since about 2000 the FUD wars have a different character; the
battle over open standards has been partly replaced and partly subsumed by
the argument between closed- and <a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a>
proponents. Nowadays, accordingly, the term is most likely to be used of
anti-open-source propaganda emitted by Microsoft. Compare
<a href="../A/astroturfing.html"><i class="glossterm">astroturfing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FUD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fudge.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FUD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fudge</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FUD</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fuck-me-harder.html" title="fuck me harder"/><link rel="next" href="FUD-wars.html" title="FUD wars"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FUD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fuck-me-harder.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FUD-wars.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FUD"/><dt xmlns="" id="FUD"><b>FUD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fuhd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company:
&#8220;<span class="quote">FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people
instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering
[Amdahl] products.</span>&#8221; The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go
with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit
coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would
happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the
future of competitors' equipment or software. See
<a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a>. After 1990 the term FUD was associated
increasingly frequently with <a href="../M/Microsoft.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsoft</i></a>, and has
become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a
competitive weapon.</p></dd><dd><p>[In 2003, SCO sued IBM in an action which, among other things,
alleged SCO's proprietary control of <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>. The SCO
suit rapidly became infamous for the number and magnitude of falsehoods
alleged in SCO's filings. In October 2003, SCO's lawyers filed a <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031024191141102" target="_top">memorandum</a>
in which they actually had the temerity to link to the web version of
<span class="emphasis"><em>this entry</em></span> in furtherance of their claims. Whilst we
appreciate the compliment of being treated as an authority, we can return
it only by observing that SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves
compared to which IBM at its historic worst looked positively
angelic. Any judge or law clerk reading this should surf through to
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/sco.html" target="_top">my collected resources</a> on this
topic for the appalling details.&#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fuck-me-harder.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FUD-wars.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fuck me harder </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FUD wars</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FidoNet</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fiber-seeking-backhoe.html" title="fiber-seeking backhoe"/><link rel="next" href="field-circus.html" title="field circus"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FidoNet</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fiber-seeking-backhoe.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="field-circus.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FidoNet"/><dt xmlns="" id="FidoNet"><b>FidoNet</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A worldwide hobbyist network of personal computers which exchanges
mail, discussion groups, and files. Founded in 1984 and originally
consisting only of IBM PCs and compatibles, FidoNet now includes such
diverse machines as Apple ][s, Ataris, Amigas, and Unix systems. For years
FidoNet actually grew faster than Usenet, but the advent of cheap Internet
access probably means its days are numbered. FidoNet's site count has
dropped from 38K nodes in 1996 through 15K nodes in 2001 to 10K nodes in
late 2003, and most of those are probably single-user machines rather than
the thriving BBSes of yore.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fiber-seeking-backhoe.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="field-circus.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fiber-seeking backhoe </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> field circus</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Finagle's Law</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="filter.html" title="filter"/><link rel="next" href="fine.html" title="fine"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Finagle's Law</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filter.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fine.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Finagles-Law"/><dt xmlns="" id="Finagles-Law"><b>Finagle's Law</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The generalized or &#8216;folk&#8217; version of
<a href="../M/Murphys-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Murphy's Law</i></a>, fully named &#8220;<span class="quote">Finagle's Law of Dynamic
Negatives</span>&#8221; and usually rendered &#8220;<span class="quote">Anything that can go wrong,
will</span>&#8221;. May have been first published by Francis P. Chisholm in his
1963 essay <i class="citetitle">The Chisholm Effect</i>, later reprinted in
the classic anthology <i class="citetitle">A Stress Analysis Of A Strapless Evening
Gown: And Other Essays For A Scientific Eye</i> (Robert Baker ed,
Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-852608-7).</p><p>The label &#8216;Finagle's Law&#8217; was popularized by SF author
Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid
miners; this &#8216;Belter&#8217; culture professed a religion and/or
running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad
prophet Murphy. Some technical and scientific cultures (e.g.,
paleontologists) know it under the name <span class="firstterm">Sod's
Law</span>; this usage may be more common in Great Britain. One
variant favored among hackers is &#8220;<span class="quote">The perversity of the Universe
tends towards a maximum</span>&#8221;; Niven specifically referred to this as
O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law. See also
<a href="../H/Hanlons-Razor.html"><i class="glossterm">Hanlon's Razor</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filter.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">filter </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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analogy with names like <span class="firstterm">Helvetica 10</span>
for 10-point Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck
3.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flypage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flytrap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flypage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flytrap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory along with a new operating system. (The name itself came from
FOO NLI, an error message emitted by a PDP-10 assembler at SAIL meaning
&#8220;<span class="quote">FOO is Not a Legal Identifier</span>&#8221;. The intention was to
leapfrog from the old <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> timesharing system SAIL
was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time
was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the
new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC
and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the
principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colorful
personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's
shoulder and was a regular companion.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the
F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to
create the graphics in the movie <i class="citetitle">TRON</i>. The F-1 was
the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort
drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned towards
building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately,
these ran not the popular <a href="../T/TOPS-20.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-20</i></a> but a TENEX
variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the
machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes
requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site
personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's
legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help
matters. By the time DEC's &#8220;<span class="quote">Jupiter Project</span>&#8221; followon to the
PDP-10 was cancelled in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was
eclipsed by the <a href="../M/Mars.html"><i class="glossterm">Mars</i></a>, and the company never quite
recovered. See the <a href="../M/Mars.html"><i class="glossterm">Mars</i></a> entry for the continuation
and moral of this story.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fool-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="footprint.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fool file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> footprint</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to it.</span>&#8221; That is, flaming someone with an obvious mental problem
can't make it any better. Most often cited on <a href="news:alt.usenet.kooks" target="_top">alt.usenet.kooks</a> as a reason
<span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> to issue a Kook-of the-Month Award; often cited as
a companion to <a href="../G/Godwins-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Godwin's Law</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="forked.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Fortrash.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">forked </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Fortrash</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control
constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Formosas-Law.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fortune-cookie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Formosa's Law </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fortune cookie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Frankenputer</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fragile.html" title="fragile"/><link rel="next" href="fred.html" title="fred"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Frankenputer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fragile.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fred.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Frankenputer"/><dt xmlns="" id="Frankenputer"><b>Frankenputer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A mostly-working computer thrown together from the spare parts of
several machines out of which the <a href="../M/magic-smoke.html"><i class="glossterm">magic smoke</i></a> had
been let. Most shops have a closet full of nonworking machines. When a
new machine is needed immediately (for testing, for example) and there is
no time (or budget) to requisition a new box, someone (often an intern) is
tasked with building a Frankenputer. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Also used in referring to a machine that once was a name-brand
computer, but has been upgraded long beyond its useful life, to the point
at which the nameplate violates truth-in-advertising laws (e.g., a Pentium
III-class machine inexplicably living in a case marked &#8220;<span class="quote">Gateway
486/66</span>&#8221;). </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fragile.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fred.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fragile </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fred</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Fred Foobar</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fred.html" title="fred"/><link rel="next" href="frednet.html" title="frednet"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Fred Foobar</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fred.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="frednet.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Fred-Foobar"/><dt xmlns="" id="Fred-Foobar"><b>Fred Foobar</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <a href="../J/J--Random-Hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">J. Random Hacker</i></a>'s cousin. Any typical human
being, more or less synonymous with &#8216;someone&#8217; except that Fred
Foobar can be <a href="../B/backreference.html"><i class="glossterm">backreference</i></a>d by name later on.
&#8220;<span class="quote">So Fred Foobar will enter his phone number into the database, and
it'll be archived with the others. Months later, when Fred
searches...</span>&#8221; See also <a href="../B/Bloggs-Family.html"><i class="glossterm">Bloggs Family</i></a> and
<a href="../D/Dr--Fred-Mbogo.html"><i class="glossterm">Dr. Fred Mbogo</i></a></p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fred.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="frednet.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fred </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> frednet</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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opposed to via electronic links). &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, yeah, I spent some face time
with him at the last Usenix.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../F.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="factor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">F </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> factor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fairings</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="factor.html" title="factor"/><link rel="next" href="fall-over.html" title="fall over"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fairings</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="factor.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fall-over.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fairings"/><dt xmlns="" id="fairings"><b>fairings</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fer´ingz/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [FreeBSD; orig. a typo for <span class="firstterm">fairness</span>] A term thrown out in discussion
whenever a completely and transparently nonsensical argument in one's
favor(?) seems called for, e,g. at the end of a really long thread for
which the outcome is no longer even cared about since everyone is now so
sick of it; or in rebuttal to another nonsensical argument (&#8220;<span class="quote">Change
the loader to look for /kernel.pl? What about fairings?</span>&#8221;)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="factor.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fall-over.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">factor </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fall over</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/lose.html"><i class="glossterm">lose</i></a>. &#8216;Fall over hard&#8217; equates to
<a href="../C/crash-and-burn.html"><i class="glossterm">crash and burn</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fairings.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fall-through.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fairings </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fall through</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="firstterm">fall-through</span>) </p></dd><dd><p> 1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e., by having fulfilled its exit
condition rather than via a break or exception condition that exits from
the middle of it. This usage appears to be <span class="emphasis"><em>really</em></span>
old, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To fail a test that would have passed control to a subroutine or
some other distant portion of code. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. In C, &#8216;fall-through&#8217; occurs when the flow of
execution in a switch statement reaches a <b class="command">case</b> label other than by jumping there from the
switch header, passing a point where one would normally expect to find a
<b class="command">break</b>. A trivial example:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
switch (color)<br/>
{<br/>
case GREEN:<br/>
   do_green();<br/>
   break;<br/>
case PINK:<br/>
   do_pink();<br/>
   /* FALL THROUGH */<br/>
case RED:<br/>
   do_red();<br/>
   break;<br/>
default:<br/>
   do_blue();<br/>
   break;<br/>
}<br/>
</p></div><p>The variant spelling <tt class="filename">/* FALL THRU */</tt> is also
common.</p><p>The effect of the above code is to
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">do_green</span>()</span>
when color is <b class="command">GREEN</b>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">do_red</span>()</span>
when color is <b class="command">RED</b>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">do_blue</span>()</span>
on any other color other than <b class="command">PINK</b>, and
(and this is the important part)
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">do_pink</span>()</span>
<span class="emphasis"><em>and then</em></span>
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">do_red</span>()</span>
when color is <b class="command">PINK</b>. Fall-through is
<a href="../C/considered-harmful.html"><i class="glossterm">considered harmful</i></a> by some, though there are
contexts (such as the coding of state machines) in which it is natural; it
is generally considered good practice to include a comment highlighting the
fall-through where one would normally expect a break. See also
<a href="../D/Duffs-device.html"><i class="glossterm">Duff's device</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fall-over.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fan.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fall over </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fan</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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especially one who goes to <a href="../C/con_.html"><i class="glossterm">con</i></a>s and tends to hang
out with other fans. Many hackers are fans, so this term has been imported
from fannish slang; however, unlike much fannish slang it is recognized by
most non-fannish hackers. Among SF fans the plural is correctly <span class="firstterm">fen</span>, but this usage is not automatic to
hackers. &#8220;<span class="quote">Laura reads the stuff occasionally but isn't really a
fan.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fall-through.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fandango-on-core.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fall through </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fandango on core</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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runs out of bounds, causing a <a href="../C/core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core dump</i></a>, or corrupts
the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">malloc</span>(3)</span>
<a href="../A/arena.html"><i class="glossterm">arena</i></a> in such a way as to cause mysterious failures
later on, is sometimes said to have &#8216;done a fandango on core&#8217;.
On low-end personal machines without an MMU (or Windows boxes, which have
an MMU but use it incompetently), this can corrupt the OS itself, causing
massive lossage. Other frenetic dances, such as the cha-cha or the watusi,
may be substituted. See <a href="../A/aliasing-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">aliasing bug</i></a>,
<a href="../P/precedence-lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">precedence lossage</i></a>, <a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the
stack</i></a>, <a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a>, <a href="../M/memory-smash.html"><i class="glossterm">memory
smash</i></a>, <a href="../O/overrun-screw.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun screw</i></a>,
<a href="../C/core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fan.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fan </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FAQ</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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trend, or to continue adding current to such a trend. Telling one user
about a new octo-tetris game you compiled would be a faradizing act &#8212;
in two weeks you might find your entire department playing the faradic
game.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="farkled.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FAQL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> farkled</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Syn. <a href="../H/hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a>. Poss. owes something to Yiddish
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">farblondjet</i></span> and/or the &#8216;Farkle
Family&#8217; skits on <i class="citetitle">Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In</i>,
a popular comedy show of the late 1960s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="faradize.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="farm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">faradize </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> farm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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machines running load-balancing software, dedicated to a single task.
Historically the term <span class="firstterm">server farm</span>,
used especially for a group of web servers, seems to have been coined by
analogy with earlier <a href="../D/disk-farm.html"><i class="glossterm">disk farm</i></a> in the early 1990s;
generalization began with <span class="firstterm">render farm</span>
for a group of machines dedicated to rendering computer animations (this
term appears to have been popularized by publicity about the pioneering
&#8220;<span class="quote">Linux render farm</span>&#8221; used to produce the movie
<i class="citetitle">Titanic</i>). By 2001 other combinations such as
&#8220;<span class="quote">compile farm</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">compute farm</span>&#8221; were
increasingly common, and arguably borderline techspeak. More jargon uses
seem likely to arise (and be absorbed into techspeak over time) as new uses
are discovered for networked machine clusters. Compare
<a href="../L/link-farm.html"><i class="glossterm">link farm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="farkled.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fascist.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">farkled </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fascist</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is
that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work
done. The variant <span class="firstterm">fascistic</span> seems to
have been preferred at MIT, poss. by analogy with <span class="firstterm">touristic</span> (see <a href="../T/tourist.html"><i class="glossterm">tourist</i></a>
or under the influence of German/Yiddish <span class="firstterm">faschistisch</span>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In the design of languages and other software tools, <span class="firstterm">the fascist alternative</span> is the most restrictive
and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication is
that this may be desirable in order to simplify the implementation or
provide tighter error checking. Compare <a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline
language</i></a>, although that term is global rather than
local.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-05-21"/><img src="../graphics/73-05-21.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Fascist security strikes again.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../B/bells-and-whistles.html#crunchly73-05-28">73-05-28</a>. The previous one is
<a href="../D/drop-outs.html#crunchly73-05-20">73-05-20</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="farm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fat-electrons.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">farm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fat electrons</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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glitches. Your typical electric utility draws its line current out of the
big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo.
When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean
them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the <span class="emphasis"><em>bottom</em></span>
of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get
not ordinary or &#8216;thin&#8217; electrons, but the fat'n'sloppy
electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator.
These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a
sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck.
This is what causes computer glitches. [Fascinating. Obviously, fat
electrons must gain mass by <a href="../B/bogon.html"><i class="glossterm">bogon</i></a> absorption
&#8212;ESR] Compare <a href="../B/bogon.html"><i class="glossterm">bogon</i></a>, <a href="../M/magic-smoke.html"><i class="glossterm">magic
smoke</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fascist.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fat-pipe.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fascist </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fat pipe</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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resulting manglification of a configuration file does something useless,
damaging, or wildly unexpected. &#8220;<span class="quote">NSI fat-fingered their DNS zone file
and took half the net down again.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically bad
results.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fat-pipe.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="faulty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fat pipe </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> faulty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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currency in the mid-1990s, a T-1 (at 1.5 Mbits/second) was considered a fat
pipe, but the standard has risen. Now it suggests multiple T3s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fat-electrons.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fat-finger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fat electrons </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fat-finger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/bletcherous.html"><i class="glossterm">bletcherous</i></a>, <a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a>, q.v.,
but the connotation is much milder.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fat-finger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fear-and-loathing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fat-finger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fear and loathing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally
<a href="../B/brain-damaged.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-damaged</i></a> but ubiquitous &#8212; Intel 8086s, or
<a href="../C/COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">COBOL</i></a>, or <a href="../E/EBCDIC.html"><i class="glossterm">EBCDIC</i></a>, or any
<a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a> machine bigger than a workstation. &#8220;<span class="quote">Ack!
They want PCs to be able to talk to the AI machine. Fear and loathing
time!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="faulty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">faulty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at
the expense of coherence, concision, or <a href="../T/taste.html"><i class="glossterm">taste</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces otherwise rational
programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also
<a href="feeping-creaturism.html"><i class="glossterm">feeping creaturism</i></a>, <a href="../C/creeping-featurism.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping featurism</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature-creep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feature creep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>feature creep</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="feature-creature.html" title="feature creature"/><link rel="next" href="feature-key.html" title="feature key"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">feature creep</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-creature.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature-key.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="feature-creep"/><dt xmlns="" id="feature-creep"><b>feature creep</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] The result of <a href="../C/creeping-featurism.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping featurism</i></a>, as
in &#8220;<span class="quote">Emacs has a bad case of feature creep</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-creature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature-key.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feature creature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feature key</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>feature key</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="feature-creep.html" title="feature creep"/><link rel="next" href="feature-shock.html" title="feature shock"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">feature key</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-creep.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature-shock.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="feature-key"/><dt xmlns="" id="feature-key"><b>feature key</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] The Macintosh key with the cloverleaf graphic on its
keytop; sometimes referred to as <span class="firstterm">flower</span>, <span class="firstterm">pretzel</span>, <span class="firstterm">clover</span>, <span class="firstterm">propeller</span>, <span class="firstterm">beanie</span> (an apparent reference to the major
feature of a propeller beanie), <a href="../S/splat.html"><i class="glossterm">splat</i></a>, <span class="firstterm">open-apple</span> or (officially, in Mac
documentation) the <span class="firstterm">command key</span>. In
French, the term <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">papillon</i></span> (butterfly) has
been reported. The proliferation of terms for this creature may illustrate
one subtle peril of iconic interfaces.</p><p>Many people have been mystified by the cloverleaf-like symbol that
appears on the feature key. Its oldest name is &#8216;cross of St.
Hannes&#8217;, but it occurs in pre-Christian Viking art as a decorative
motif. Throughout Scandinavia today the road agencies use it to mark sites
of historical interest. Apple picked up the symbol from an early Mac
developer who happened to be Swedish. Apple documentation gives the
translation &#8220;<span class="quote">interesting feature</span>&#8221;!</p><p>There is some dispute as to the proper (Swedish) name of this symbol.
It technically stands for the word
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">sevärdhet</i></span> (thing worth seeing); many of
these are old churches. Some Swedes report as an idiom for the sign the
word <span class="firstterm">kyrka</span>, cognate to English
&#8216;church&#8217; and pronounced (roughly) <span class="pronunciation">/chur´ka/</span> in modern Swedish. Others
say this is nonsense. Other idioms reported for the sign are
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">runa</i></span> (rune) or <span class="firstterm">runsten</span> <span class="pronunciation">/roon´stn/</span> (runestone), derived from
the fact that many of the interesting features are Viking rune-stones. The
term <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">fornminne</i></span> <span class="pronunciation">/foorn´min'@/</span> (relic of
antiquity, ancient monument) is also reported, especially among those who
think that the Mac itself is a relic of antiquity.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-creep.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature-shock.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feature creep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feature shock</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>feature shock</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="feature-key.html" title="feature key"/><link rel="next" href="featurectomy.html" title="featurectomy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">feature shock</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-key.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="featurectomy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="feature-shock"/><dt xmlns="" id="feature-shock"><b>feature shock</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Alvin Toffler's book title <i class="citetitle">Future
Shock</i>] A user's (or programmer's!) confusion when confronted
with a package that has too many features and poor introductory
material.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-key.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="featurectomy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feature key </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> featurectomy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>feature</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fear-and-loathing.html" title="fear and loathing"/><link rel="next" href="feature-creature.html" title="feature creature"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">feature</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fear-and-loathing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature-creature.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="feature"/><dt xmlns="" id="feature"><b>feature</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program). Whether
it was intended or not is immaterial.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [common] An intended property or behavior (as of a program).
Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a
<a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A surprising property or behavior; in particular, one that is
purposely inconsistent because it works better that way &#8212; such an
inconsistency is therefore a <a href="feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> and not a
<a href="../B/bug.html"><i class="glossterm">bug</i></a>. This kind of feature is sometimes called a
<a href="../M/miswart.html"><i class="glossterm">miswart</i></a>; see that entry for a classic example.
</p></dd><dd><p> 4. A property or behavior that is gratuitous or unnecessary, though
perhaps also impressive or cute. For example, one feature of Common LISP's
<b class="command">format</b> function is the ability to print
numbers in two different Roman-numeral formats (see
<a href="../B/bells-whistles-and-gongs.html"><i class="glossterm">bells whistles and gongs</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 5. A property or behavior that was put in to help someone else but
that happens to be in your way. </p></dd><dd><p> 6. [common] A bug that has been documented. To call something a
feature sometimes means the author of the program did not consider the
particular case, and that the program responded in a way that was
unexpected but not strictly incorrect. A standard joke is that a bug can
be turned into a <a href="feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> simply by documenting it
(then theoretically no one can complain about it because it's in the
manual), or even by simply declaring it to be good. &#8220;<span class="quote">That's not a
bug, that's a feature!</span>&#8221; is a common catchphrase. See also
<a href="feetch-feetch.html"><i class="glossterm">feetch feetch</i></a>,
<a href="../C/creeping-featurism.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping featurism</i></a>, <a href="../W/wart.html"><i class="glossterm">wart</i></a>,
<a href="../G/green-lightning.html"><i class="glossterm">green lightning</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>The relationship among bugs, features, misfeatures, warts, and
miswarts might be clarified by the following hypothetical exchange between
two hackers on an airliner:</p><p>A: &#8220;<span class="quote">This seat doesn't recline.</span>&#8221;</p><p>B: &#8220;<span class="quote">That's not a bug, that's a feature. There is an emergency
exit door built around the window behind you, and the route has to be kept
clear.</span>&#8221;</p><p>A: &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh. Then it's a misfeature; they should have increased the
spacing between rows here.</span>&#8221;</p><p>B: &#8220;<span class="quote">Yes. But if they'd increased spacing in only one section
it would have been a wart &#8212; they would've had to make
nonstandard-length ceiling panels to fit over the displaced
seats.</span>&#8221;</p><p>A: &#8220;<span class="quote">A miswart, actually. If they increased spacing throughout
they'd lose several rows and a chunk out of the profit margin. So unequal
spacing would actually be the Right Thing.</span>&#8221;</p><p>B: &#8220;<span class="quote">Indeed.</span>&#8221;</p><p><span class="firstterm">Undocumented feature</span> is a
common, allegedly humorous euphemism for a <a href="../B/bug.html"><i class="glossterm">bug</i></a>.
There's a related joke that is sometimes referred to as the
&#8220;<span class="quote">one-question geek test</span>&#8221;. You say to someone &#8220;<span class="quote">I saw a
Volkswagen Beetle today with a vanity license plate that read
FEATURE</span>&#8221;. If he/she laughs, he/she is a
<a href="../G/geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fear-and-loathing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feature-creature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fear and loathing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feature creature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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in two flavors, the <span class="firstterm">righteous</span> and the
<span class="firstterm">reluctant</span>. Righteous featurectomies
are performed because the remover believes the program would be more
elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better
way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as
removing a <a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a>.) Reluctant featurectomies
are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or
execution speed.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-shock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feature shock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>feep</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="featurectomy.html" title="featurectomy"/><link rel="next" href="feeper.html" title="feeper"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">feep</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="featurectomy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feeper.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="feep"/><dt xmlns="" id="feep"><b>feep</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/feep/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The soft electronic
&#8216;bell&#8217; sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep
(in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer
<a href="../B/beep.html"><i class="glossterm">beep</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To cause the display to
make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not feep; they have
mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: <a href="../B/beep.html"><i class="glossterm">beep</i></a>,
&#8216;bleep&#8217;, or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff
MacNelly, in his comic strip <i class="citetitle">Shoe</i>, uses the word
&#8216;eep&#8217; for sounds made by computer terminals and video games;
this is perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term
&#8216;breedle&#8217; was sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal
bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the musical
equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation,
imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five
seconds). The &#8216;feeper&#8217; on a VT-52 has been compared to the
sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also
<a href="../D/ding.html"><i class="glossterm">ding</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="featurectomy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feeper.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">featurectomy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feeper</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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some kind) that makes the <a href="feep.html"><i class="glossterm">feep</i></a> sound.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feep.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feeping-creature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feeping creature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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feature; a bit of <a href="../C/chrome.html"><i class="glossterm">chrome</i></a> that, in the speaker's
judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feeper.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feeping-creaturism.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feeper </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feeping creaturism</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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featurism</i></a>, meant to imply that the system or program in
question has become a misshapen creature of hacks. This term isn't really
well defined, but it sounds so neat that most hackers have said or heard
it. It is probably reinforced by an image of terminals prowling about in
the dark making their customary noises.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feeping-creature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feetch-feetch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feeping creature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feetch feetch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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might respond: &#8220;<span class="quote">Feetch, feetch!</span>&#8221; The meaning of this depends
critically on vocal inflection. With enthusiasm, it means something like
&#8220;<span class="quote">Boy, that's great! What a great hack!</span>&#8221; Grudgingly or with
obvious doubt, it means &#8220;<span class="quote">I don't know; it sounds like just one more
unnecessary and complicated thing</span>&#8221;. With a tone of resignation, it
means, &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, I'd rather keep it simple, but I suppose it has to be
done</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feeping-creaturism.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fence.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feeping creaturism </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fence</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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(<a href="../O/out-of-band.html"><i class="glossterm">out-of-band</i></a>) characters (or other data items), used
to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the
computer-science literature calls this a <span class="firstterm">sentinel</span>). The NUL (ASCII 0000000) character
that terminates strings in C is a fence. Hex FF is also (though slightly
less frequently) used this way. See <a href="../Z/zigamorph.html"><i class="glossterm">zigamorph</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. An extra data value inserted in an array or other data structure
in order to allow some normal test on the array's contents also to function
as a termination test. For example, a highly optimized routine for finding
a value in an array might artificially place a copy of the value to be
searched for after the last slot of the array, thus allowing the main
search loop to search for the value without having to check at each pass
whether the end of the array had been reached. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [among users of optimizing compilers] Any technique, usually
exploiting knowledge about the compiler, that blocks certain optimizations.
Used when explicit mechanisms are not available or are overkill. Typically
a hack: &#8220;<span class="quote">I call a dummy procedure there to force a flush of the
optimizer's register-coloring info</span>&#8221; can be expressed by the shorter
&#8220;<span class="quote">That's a fence procedure</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feetch-feetch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fencepost-error.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feetch feetch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fencepost error</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the
following problem: &#8220;<span class="quote">If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10
feet apart, how many posts do you need?</span>&#8221; (Either 9 or 11 is a better
answer than the obvious 10.) For example, suppose you have a long list or
array of items, and want to process items
<tt class="literal">m</tt> through
<tt class="literal">n</tt>; how many items are there? The obvious
answer is <tt class="literal">n - m</tt>, but that is off by one;
the right answer is <tt class="literal">n - m + 1</tt>. A program
that used the &#8216;obvious&#8217; formula would have a fencepost error in
it. See also <a href="../Z/zeroth.html"><i class="glossterm">zeroth</i></a> and
<a href="../O/off-by-one-error.html"><i class="glossterm">off-by-one error</i></a>, and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost
errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one
error where <tt class="literal">N</tt> people try to sit in
<tt class="literal">N - 1</tt> chairs, but it's not a fencepost
error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces
between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one
should count one or both ends of a row. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [rare] An error induced by unexpected regularities in input
values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically
efficient binary tree or hash table implementation. (The error here
involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviors of an
algorithm.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fence.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fiber-seeking-backhoe.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fence </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fiber-seeking backhoe</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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disruptive machines which routinely cut critical backbone links, creating
Internet outages and <a href="../P/packet-over-air.html"><i class="glossterm">packet over air</i></a>
problems.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fencepost-error.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FidoNet.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fencepost error </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FidoNet</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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organization of any hardware manufacturer, but originally
<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>. There is an entire genre of jokes about field
circus engineers:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer<br/>
   with a flat tire?<br/>
A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.<br/>
<br/>
Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer<br/>
   who is out of gas?<br/>
A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.<br/>
<br/>
Q: How can you tell it's <span class="emphasis"><em>your</em></span> field circus engineer?<br/>
A: The spare is flat, too.<br/>
</p></div><p>[See <a href="../E/Easter-egging.html"><i class="glossterm">Easter egging</i></a> for additional insight on
these jokes.]</p><p>There is also the &#8216;Field Circus Cheer&#8217; (from the old
<a href="../P/plan-file.html"><i class="glossterm">plan file</i></a> for DEC on MIT-AI):</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
Maynard! Maynard!<br/>
Don't mess with us!<br/>
We're mean and we're tough!<br/>
If you get us confused<br/>
We'll screw up your stuff.<br/>
</p></div><p>(DEC's service HQ, still extant under the HP regime, is located
in Maynard, Massachusetts.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FidoNet.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="field-servoid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FidoNet </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> field servoid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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organization (see <a href="field-circus.html"><i class="glossterm">field circus</i></a>). This has many of
the implications of <a href="../D/droid.html"><i class="glossterm">droid</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="field-circus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="file-signature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">field circus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> file signature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a new word] Originally, a popular or folk song with lyrics revised or
completely new lyrics and/or music, intended for humorous effect when read,
and/or to be sung late at night at SF conventions. More recently
(especially since the late 1980s), filk has come to include a great deal of
originally-composed music on SFnal or fantasy themes and a range of moods
wider than simple parody or humor. Worthy of mention here because there is
a flourishing subgenre of filks called <span class="firstterm">computer
filks</span>, written by hackers and often containing rather
sophisticated technical humor. See <a href="../D/double-bucky.html"><i class="glossterm">double bucky</i></a> for
an example. Compare <a href="../G/grilf.html"><i class="glossterm">grilf</i></a>,
<a href="../H/hing.html"><i class="glossterm">hing</i></a>, <a href="../P/pr0n.html"><i class="glossterm">pr0n</i></a>, and
<a href="../N/newsfroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsfroup</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="file-signature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="film-at-11.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">file signature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> film at 11</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering.
&#8220;<span class="quote"><a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> crashes; film at 11.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Bug
found in scheduler; film at 11.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional
information will be available at some future time,
<span class="emphasis"><em>without</em></span> the implication of anything particularly
ordinary about the referenced event. For example, &#8220;<span class="quote">The mail file
server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory.
Film at 11.</span>&#8221; would indicate that a major failure had occurred but
that the people working on it have no additional information about it as
yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is
liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend
time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to
which will appear on the normal &#8220;<span class="quote">11:00 news</span>&#8221;, if people will
just be patient.</p></dd><dd><p>The variant &#8220;<span class="quote">MPEGs at 11</span>&#8221; has recently been cited (MPEG
is a digital-video format.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="filter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">filk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> filter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some
well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error
conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a <span class="firstterm">pipeline</span> (see <a href="../P/plumbing.html"><i class="glossterm">plumbing</i></a>).
Compare <a href="../S/sponge.html"><i class="glossterm">sponge</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="film-at-11.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Finagles-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">film at 11 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Finagle's Law</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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The word <span class="firstterm">fine</span> is used elsewhere, of
course, but without the implicit comparison to the higher level implied by
<a href="../C/cuspy.html"><i class="glossterm">cuspy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Finagles-Law.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="finger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Finagle's Law </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> finger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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configurations. The hardware vendor points a finger at the software. The
software vendor points a finger at the hardware. All the poor users get is
the finger.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="finger-trouble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="finn.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">finger trouble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> finn</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they spend at
keyboards). &#8220;<span class="quote">I keep putting colons at the end of statements instead
of semicolons</span>&#8221;, &#8220;<span class="quote">Finger trouble again, eh?</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="finger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="finger-pointing-syndrome.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">finger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> finger-pointing syndrome</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a
remote system. Typically shows full name, last login time, idle time,
terminal line, and terminal location (where applicable). May also display
a <a href="../P/plan-file.html"><i class="glossterm">plan file</i></a> left by the user (see also
<a href="../H/Hacking-X-for-Y.html"><i class="glossterm">Hacking X for Y</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To apply finger to a
username. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> By extension, to check a
human's current state by any means. &#8220;<span class="quote">Foodp?</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">T!</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">OK, finger Lisa and see if she's idle.</span>&#8221;
</p></dd><dd><p> 4. Any picture (composed of ASCII characters) depicting &#8216;the
finger&#8217;, see <a href="../S/See-figure-1.html"><i class="glossterm">See figure 1</i></a>. Originally a
humorous component of one's plan file to deter the curious fingerer (sense
2), it has entered the arsenal of some
<a href="flamer.html"><i class="glossterm">flamer</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="fine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="finger-trouble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> finger trouble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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spent on <a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a>. The term derives from the fact that
IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987. There may be some influence
from the &#8216;Finn&#8217; character in William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk
novel <i class="citetitle">Count Zero</i>, who at one point says to another
(much younger) character &#8220;<span class="quote">I have a pair of shoes older than you are,
so shut up!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="finger-pointing-syndrome.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="firebottle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">finger-pointing syndrome </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> firebottle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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in function to a FET but constructed out of glass, metal, and vacuum.
Characterized by high cost, low density, low reliability, high-temperature
operation, and high power dissipation. Sometimes mistakenly called a
<span class="firstterm">tube</span> in the U.S. or a <span class="firstterm">valve</span> in England; another hackish term is
<a href="../G/glassfet.html"><i class="glossterm">glassfet</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="finn.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="firefighting.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">finn </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> firefighting</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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An opposite of hacking. &#8220;<span class="quote">Been hacking your new newsreader?</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon
fighting fires.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The act of throwing lots of manpower and late nights at a
project, esp. to get it out before deadline. See also
<a href="../G/gang-bang.html"><i class="glossterm">gang bang</i></a>, <a href="../M/Mongolian-Hordes-technique.html"><i class="glossterm">Mongolian Hordes technique</i></a>;
however, the term <span class="firstterm">firefighting</span>
connotes that the effort is going into chasing bugs rather than adding
features.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firebottle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="firehose-syndrome.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firebottle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> firehose syndrome</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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firehose can be a good way to rip your lips off. On computer networks, the
absence or failure of flow control mechanisms can lead to situations in
which the sending system sprays a massive flood of packets at an
unfortunate receiving system, more than it can handle. Compare
<a href="../O/overrun.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun</i></a>,
<a href="../B/buffer-overflow.html"><i class="glossterm">buffer overflow</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firefighting.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="firewall-code.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firefighting </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> firewall code</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able
to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the
construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but
also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about
those corners of a system where they can burn themselves.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a
<a href="../C/can-t-happen.html"><i class="glossterm">can't happen</i></a> error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug
twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have
arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firehose-syndrome.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="firewall-machine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firehose syndrome </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> firewall machine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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used to service outside network connections and dial-in lines. The idea is
to protect a cluster of more loosely administered machines hidden behind it
from <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>s. The typical firewall is an
inexpensive micro-based Unix box kept clean of critical data, with a bunch
of modems and public network ports on it but just one carefully watched
connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may
include threat monitoring, callback, and even a complete
<a href="../I/iron-box.html"><i class="glossterm">iron box</i></a> keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns.
Syn. <a href="flytrap.html"><i class="glossterm">flytrap</i></a>, <a href="../V/Venus-flytrap.html"><i class="glossterm">Venus flytrap</i></a>.
See also <a href="../W/wild-side.html"><i class="glossterm">wild side</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>[When first coined in the mid-1980s this term was pure jargon. Now
(1999) it is techspeak, and has been retained only as an example of uptake
&#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firewall-code.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fireworks-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firewall code </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fireworks mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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performing a <a href="../C/crash-and-burn.html"><i class="glossterm">crash and burn</i></a> operation. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. There is (or was) a more specific meaning of this term in the
Amiga community. The word fireworks described the effects of a particularly
serious crash which prevented the video pointer(s) from getting reset at
the start of the vertical blank. This caused the DAC to scroll through the
entire contents of CHIP (video or video+CPU) memory. Since each bit plane
would scroll separately this was quite a spectacular effect.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firewall-machine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="firmware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firewall machine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> firmware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hardware, but at least doesn't have to be loaded from a disk like regular
software. Hacker usage differs from straight techspeak in that hackers
don't normally apply it to stuff that you can't possibly get at, such as
the program that runs a pocket calculator. Instead, it implies that the
firmware could be changed, even if doing so would mean opening a box and
plugging in a new chip. A computer's BIOS is the classic example, although
nowadays there is firmware in disk controllers, modems, video cards and
even CD-ROM drives.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fireworks-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fish.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fireworks mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fish</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>. Derived originally from the Monty Python skit
in the middle of <i class="citetitle">The Meaning of Life</i> entitled
<i class="citetitle">Find the Fish</i>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A pun for <span class="firstterm">microfiche</span>. A
microfiche file cabinet may be referred to as a <span class="firstterm">fish tank</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firmware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FISH-queue.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firmware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FISH queue</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fisking</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FISH-queue.html" title="FISH queue"/><link rel="next" href="FITNR.html" title="FITNR"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fisking</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FISH-queue.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FITNR.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fisking"/><dt xmlns="" id="fisking"><b>fisking</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[blogosphere; very common] A point-by-point refutation of a
<a href="../B/blog.html"><i class="glossterm">blog</i></a> entry or (especially) news story. A really
stylish fisking is witty, logical, sarcastic and ruthlessly factual;
flaming or handwaving is considered poor form. Named after Robert Fisk, a
British journalist who was a frequent (and deserving) early target of such
treatment. See also <a href="../M/MiSTing.html"><i class="glossterm">MiSTing</i></a>,
<a href="../A/anti-idiotarianism.html"><i class="glossterm">anti-idiotarianism</i></a></p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FISH-queue.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FITNR.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FISH queue </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> FITNR</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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backward-compatible, and which is costly to make and costly
to reverse. &#8220;<span class="quote">Can we install that without causing a
flag day for all users?</span>&#8221; This term has nothing to do
with the use of the word <a href="flag.html"><i class="glossterm">flag</i></a> to mean
a variable that has two values. It came into use when a
change was made to the definition of the ASCII character set
during the development of <a href="../M/Multics.html"><i class="glossterm">Multics</i></a>.
The change was scheduled for Flag Day (a U.S. holiday),
June 14, 1966.</p><p>The change altered the Multics definition of ASCII from the
short-lived 1965 version of the ASCII code to the 1967 version (in draft at
the time); this moved code points for braces, vertical bar, and
circumflex. See also <a href="../B/backward-combatability.html"><i class="glossterm">backward combatability</i></a>. The
<a href="../G/Great-Renaming.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Renaming</i></a> was a flag day. </p></dd><dd><p>[Most of the changes were made to files stored on
<a href="../C/CTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">CTSS</i></a>, the system used to support
Multics development before it became self-hosting.]
</p><p>[As it happens, the first installation of a
commercially-produced computer, a Univac I, took place on
Flag Day of 1951 &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flag.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flaky.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flag </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flaky</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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values; a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two
outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done.
&#8220;<span class="quote">This flag controls whether to clear the screen before printing the
message.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">The program status word contains several flag
bits.</span>&#8221; Used of humans analogously to <a href="../B/bit.html"><i class="glossterm">bit</i></a>.
See also <a href="../H/hidden-flag.html"><i class="glossterm">hidden flag</i></a>,
<a href="../M/mode-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">mode bit</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FIXME.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flag-day.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FIXME </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flag day</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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frequent <a href="../L/lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">lossage</i></a>. This use is of course related to
the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy,
or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of &#8212;
enough that you are tempted to try to use it &#8212; but fails frequently
enough that the odds in favor of finishing what you start are low.
Commonwealth hackish prefers <a href="../D/dodgy.html"><i class="glossterm">dodgy</i></a> or
<a href="../W/wonky.html"><i class="glossterm">wonky</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flag-day.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flamage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flag day </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flamage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> or other electronic
<a href="fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a>. Often in the phrase <span class="firstterm">the usual flamage</span>. <span class="firstterm">Flaming</span> is the act itself; <span class="firstterm">flamage</span> the content; a <span class="firstterm">flame</span> is a single flaming message. See
<a href="flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>, also <a href="../D/dahmum.html"><i class="glossterm">dahmum</i></a>. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flaky.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flame.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flaky </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flame</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="flame-war.html"><i class="glossterm">flame war</i></a>, or one that invites flames in reply. See also
<a href="../T/troll.html"><i class="glossterm">troll</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flame.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flame-on.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flame </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flame on</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to Marvel Comics's Human Torch is no longer widely recognized. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To continue to flame. See <a href="../R/rave.html"><i class="glossterm">rave</i></a>,
<a href="../B/burble.html"><i class="glossterm">burble</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flame-bait.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flame-war.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flame bait </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flame war</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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acrimonious dispute, especially when conducted on a public electronic forum
such as <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flame-on.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flamer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flame on </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flamer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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asshole</span>]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To post an email message
intended to insult and provoke.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To speak incessantly
and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently
ridiculous attitude.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> Either of senses 1 or 2,
directed with hostility at a particular person or people. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">n.</span> An instance of flaming.
When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the
participants &#8220;<span class="quote">Now you're just flaming</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">Stop all that
flamage!</span>&#8221; to try to get them to cool down (so to speak).</p></dd><dd><p>The term may have been independently invented at several different
places. It has been reported from MIT, Carleton College and RPI (among
many other places) from as far back as 1969, and from the University of
Virginia in the early 1960s.</p><p>It is possible that the hackish sense of &#8216;flame&#8217; is much
older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker
in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced
computing device of the day. In Chaucer's <i class="citetitle">Troilus and
Cressida</i>, Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of
a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that
it's called &#8220;<span class="quote">the fleminge of wrecches.</span>&#8221; This phrase seems to
have been intended in context as &#8220;<span class="quote">that which puts the wretches to
flight</span>&#8221; but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as
&#8220;<span class="quote">the flaming of wretches</span>&#8221; would be today. One suspects that
Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flamage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flame-bait.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flamage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flame bait</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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esp. of obnoxious <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> personalities.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flame-war.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flame war </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk
was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap
device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the
disk. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. Modern cartridge
tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could
well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly
misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an
old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure
modes.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flamer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flarp.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flamer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flarp</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a> (see <a href="foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>). Among those who use
it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word
<span class="firstterm">flarp</span> somewhere will not work. The
legend is discreetly silent on the reliability of programs which
<span class="emphasis"><em>do</em></span> contain the magic word.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flap.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flash-crowd.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flap </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flash crowd</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>flash crowd</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="flarp.html" title="flarp"/><link rel="next" href="flat.html" title="flat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">flash crowd</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flarp.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="flash-crowd"/><dt xmlns="" id="flash-crowd"><b>flash crowd</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story <i class="citetitle">Flash Crowd</i>
predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds
materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories.
Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to
describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a
certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may
also be called <a href="../S/slashdot-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">slashdot effect</i></a>). It has been
pointed out that the effect was anticipated years earlier in Alfred Bester's
1956 <i class="citetitle">The Stars My Destination</i>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flarp.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flarp </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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characters and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that is, has no
embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter markup language, or
output device, and no <a href="../M/meta.html"><i class="glossterm">meta</i></a>-characters).
Syn. <a href="../P/plain-ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">plain-ASCII</i></a>. Compare
<a href="flat-file.html"><i class="glossterm">flat-file</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flat-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flat-file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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or tree or network structure as a single file from which the structure
could implicitly be rebuilt, esp. one in <a href="flat-ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">flat-ASCII</i></a>
form. See also <a href="../S/sharchive.html"><i class="glossterm">sharchive</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flat-ASCII.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flatten.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flat-ASCII </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flatten</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/bitty-box.html"><i class="glossterm">bitty box</i></a> has only a flat filesystem, not a
hierarchical one.</span>&#8221; The verb form is <a href="flatten.html"><i class="glossterm">flatten</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Said of a memory architecture (like that of the
<a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> or 680x0) that is one big linear address space
(typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding
to a unique core address), as opposed to a <span class="firstterm">segmented</span> architecture (like that of the 80x86)
in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair (segmented
designs are generally considered <a href="../C/cretinous.html"><i class="glossterm">cretinous</i></a>).</p></dd><dd><p>Note that sense 1 (at least with respect to filesystems) is usually
used pejoratively, while sense 2 is a
<a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good 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="flash-crowd.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flat-ASCII.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flash crowd </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flat-ASCII</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also
tends to imply mapping to <a href="flat-ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">flat-ASCII</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">This
code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent
<a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> form.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flat-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flavor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flat-file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flavor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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flavors.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and
small green ones.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Linux is a flavor of Unix</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../V/vanilla.html"><i class="glossterm">vanilla</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The attribute that causes something to be
<a href="flavorful.html"><i class="glossterm">flavorful</i></a>. Usually used in the phrase &#8220;<span class="quote">yields
additional flavor</span>&#8221;. &#8220;<span class="quote">This convention yields additional flavor
by allowing one to print text either right-side-up or upside-down.</span>&#8221;
See <a href="../V/vanilla.html"><i class="glossterm">vanilla</i></a>. This usage was certainly reinforced by
the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks (the
constituents of, e.g., protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange,
charm, top, bottom) and three colors (red, blue, green) &#8212; however,
hackish use of <span class="firstterm">flavor</span> at MIT predated
QCD.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The term for <span class="firstterm">class</span> (in the
object-oriented sense) in the LISP Machine Flavors system. Though the
Flavors design has been superseded (notably by the Common LISP CLOS
facility), the term <span class="firstterm">flavor</span> is still
used as a general synonym for <span class="firstterm">class</span>
by some LISP hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flatten.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flavorful.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flatten </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flavorful</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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pleasing. See <a href="../R/random.html"><i class="glossterm">random</i></a> and
<a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a> for antonyms. See also the entries for
<a href="../T/taste.html"><i class="glossterm">taste</i></a> and <a href="../E/elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flavor.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flippy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flavor </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flippy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of a second write-notch, so called because it must be flipped over for the
second side to be accessible. No longer common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flavorful.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flood.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flavorful </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flood</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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traffic; especially used of IP, TCP/IP, UDP, or ICMP denial-of-service
attacks. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To dump large amounts of text onto an <a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a>
channel. This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the
other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation. Also used in a
similar sense on Usenet.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Usenet] To post an unusually large number or volume of files on
a related topic.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flippy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flowchart.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flippy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flowchart</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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employing arrows and <span class="firstterm">speech balloons</span>
of various shapes. Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely
silly, and associate them with <a href="../C/COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">COBOL</i></a> programmers,
<a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code grinder</i></a>s, and other lower forms of life. This
attitude follows from the observations that flowcharts (at least from a
hacker's point of view) are no easier to read than code, are less precise,
and tend to fall out of sync with the code (so that they either obfuscate
it rather than explaining it, or require extra maintenance effort that
doesn't improve the code).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flood.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flower-key.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flood </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flower key</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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operation. &#8220;<span class="quote">All that nonsense has been flushed.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fflush</span>(3)</span>
call. This is <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> an abort or deletion as in sense 1,
but a demand for early completion! </p></dd><dd><p> 3. To leave at the end of a day's work (as opposed to leaving for a
meal). &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm going to flush now.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Time to
flush.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. To exclude someone from an activity, or to ignore a
person.</p></dd><dd><p>&#8216;Flush&#8217; was standard ITS terminology for aborting an
output operation; one spoke of the text that would have been printed, but
was not, as having been flushed. It is speculated that this term arose
from a vivid image of flushing unwanted characters by hosing down the
internal output buffer, washing the characters away before they could be
printed. The Unix/C usage, on the other hand, was propagated by the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fflush</span>(3)</span>
call in C's standard I/O library (though it is reported to have been in use
among BLISS programmers at <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> and on Honeywell and
IBM machines as far back as 1965). Unix/C hackers found the ITS usage
confusing, and vice versa.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly-5678"/><img src="../graphics/crunchly-5678.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Crunchly gets <a href="flush.html"><i class="glossterm">flush</i></a>ed.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../S/Stone-Age.html#crunchly76-05-01">76-05-01</a>. The previous
cartoon was <a href="../B/batch.html#crunchly-2">76-02-20:2</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="flower-key.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flypage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flower key </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flypage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/banner.html"><i class="glossterm">banner</i></a>, sense 1.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flush.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Flyspeck-3.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flush </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Flyspeck 3</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fnord</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FM.html" title="FM"/><link rel="next" href="FOAF.html" title="FOAF"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fnord</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FM.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FOAF.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fnord"/><dt xmlns="" id="fnord"><b>fnord</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the <i class="citetitle">Illuminatus Trilogy</i>] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A word used in email and news postings to tag utterances as
surrealist mind-play or humor, esp. in connection with
<a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a> and elaborate conspiracy theories.
&#8220;<span class="quote">I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with
Hitler. (Fnord.)</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Where can I fnord get the Principia
Discordia from?</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>, commonly used by
hackers with ties to <a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a> or the
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