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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>G</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="next" href="gang-bang.html" title="gang bang"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">G</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../G.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gang-bang.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="G"/><dt xmlns="" id="G"><b>G</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.,suff.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [SI] See <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. The letter G has special significance in the hacker community,
largely thanks to the GNU project and the GPL.</p><p>Many <a href="../F/free-software.html"><i class="glossterm">free software</i></a> projects have names that
names that begin with G. The GNU project gave many of its projects names
that were acronyms beginning with the word &#8220;<span class="quote">GNU</span>&#8221;, such as
&#8220;<span class="quote">GNU C Compiler</span>&#8221; (gcc) and &#8220;<span class="quote">GNU Debugger</span>&#8221; (gdb),
and this launched a tradition. Just as many Java developers will begin
their projects with J, many free software developers will begin theirs with
G. It is often the case that a program with a G-prefixed name is licensed
under the GNU GPL.</p><p>For example, someone may write a free Enterprise Engineering Kludge
package (EEK technology is all the rage in the technical journals) and name
it &#8220;<span class="quote">geek</span>&#8221; to imply that it is a GPL'd EEK package.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../G.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gang-bang.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">G </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gang bang</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GC</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gawble.html" title="gawble"/><link rel="next" href="GCOS.html" title="GCOS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gawble.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GCOS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GC"/><dt xmlns="" id="GC"><b>GC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/G·C/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from LISP terminology; <span class="firstterm">Garbage
Collect</span>]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To clean up and throw
away useless things. &#8220;<span class="quote">I think I'll GC the top of my desk
today.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To recycle, reclaim, or
put to another use. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">n.</span> An instantiation of the
garbage collector process.</p></dd><dd><p><span class="firstterm">Garbage collection</span> is
computer-science techspeak for a particular class of strategies for
dynamically but transparently reallocating computer memory (i.e., without
requiring explicit allocation and deallocation by higher-level software).
One such strategy involves periodically scanning all the data in memory and
determining what is no longer accessible; useless data items are then
discarded so that the memory they occupy can be recycled and used for
another purpose. Implementations of the LISP language usually use garbage
collection.</p><p>In jargon, the full phrase is sometimes heard but the
<a href="../A/abbrev.html"><i class="glossterm">abbrev</i></a> GC is more frequently used because it is
shorter. Note that there is an ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved
by context: &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm going to garbage-collect my desk</span>&#8221; usually
means to clean out the drawers, but it could also mean to throw away or
recycle the desk itself.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gawble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GCOS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gawble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GCOS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GCOS</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="GC.html" title="GC"/><link rel="next" href="GECOS.html" title="GECOS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GCOS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GECOS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GCOS"/><dt xmlns="" id="GCOS"><b>GCOS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/jee´kohs/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A <a href="../Q/quick-and-dirty.html"><i class="glossterm">quick-and-dirty</i></a>
<a href="../C/clone.html"><i class="glossterm">clone</i></a> of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around
1970; originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating
System). Later kluged to support primitive timesharing and transaction
processing. After the buyout of GE's computer division by Honeywell, the
name was changed to General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS). Other
OS groups at Honeywell began referring to it as &#8216;God's Chosen
Operating System&#8217;, allegedly in reaction to the GCOS crowd's
uninformed and snotty attitude about the superiority of their product. All
this might be of zero interest, except for two facts: (1) The GCOS people
won the political war, and this led in the orphaning and eventual death of
Honeywell <a href="../M/Multics.html"><i class="glossterm">Multics</i></a>, and (2) GECOS/GCOS left one
permanent mark on Unix. Some early Unix systems at Bell Labs used GCOS
machines for print spooling and various other services; the field added to
<tt class="filename">/etc/passwd</tt> to carry GCOS ID information was called
the <span class="firstterm">GECOS field</span> and survives today as
the <b class="command">pw_gecos</b> member used for the user's
full name and other human-ID information. GCOS later played a major role
in keeping Honeywell a dismal also-ran in the mainframe market, and was
itself mostly ditched for Unix in the late 1980s when Honeywell began to
retire its aging <a href="../B/big-iron.html"><i class="glossterm">big iron</i></a> designs.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GECOS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GECOS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GIFs at 11</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gib.html" title="gib"/><link rel="next" href="gig.html" title="gig"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GIFs at 11</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gib.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gig.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GIFs-at-11"/><dt xmlns="" id="GIFs-at-11"><b>GIFs at 11</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [Fidonet] Fidonet alternative to <a href="../F/film-at-11.html"><i class="glossterm">film at 11</i></a>,
especially in echoes (Fidonet topic areas) where uuencoded GIFs are
permitted. Other formats, especially JPEG and MPEG, may be referenced
instead.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gib.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gig.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gib </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gig</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GIGO</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="giga-.html" title="giga-"/><link rel="next" href="gilley.html" title="gilley"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GIGO</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="giga-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gilley.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GIGO"/><dt xmlns="" id="GIGO"><b>GIGO</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/gi:´goh/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. &#8216;Garbage In, Garbage Out&#8217; &#8212; usually said in
response to <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s who complain that a program
didn't &#8220;<span class="quote">do the right thing</span>&#8221; when given imperfect input or
otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures
in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">Garbage In, Gospel Out</span>:
this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human
beings have to put excessive trust in &#8216;computerized&#8217;
data.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="giga-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gilley.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">giga- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gilley</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GIPS</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="ginger.html" title="ginger"/><link rel="next" href="GIYF.html" title="GIYF"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GIPS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ginger.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GIYF.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GIPS"/><dt xmlns="" id="GIPS"><b>GIPS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/gips/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/jips/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [analogy with <a href="../M/MIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">MIPS</i></a>] Giga-Instructions per
Second (also possibly &#8216;Gillions of Instructions per Second&#8217;;
see <a href="gillion.html"><i class="glossterm">gillion</i></a>).
Compare <a href="../K/KIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">KIPS</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ginger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GIYF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ginger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GIYF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that you have just asked a question of human beings that would have been
better directed to a search engine. See also
<a href="../S/STFW.html"><i class="glossterm">STFW</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GIPS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glark.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GIPS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> glark</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GNU</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gnarly.html" title="gnarly"/><link rel="next" href="gnubie.html" title="gnubie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GNU</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gnarly.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gnubie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GNU"/><dt xmlns="" id="GNU"><b>GNU</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/gnoo/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/noo/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [acronym: &#8216;GNU&#8217;s Not Unix!', see <a href="../R/recursive-acronym.html"><i class="glossterm">recursive
acronym</i></a>] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free
Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman. GNU EMACS and the GNU C
compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in
hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to
proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and
all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is &#8220;<span class="quote">Help
stamp out software hoarding!</span>&#8221; Though this remains controversial
(because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and
sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have
nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software
for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur.
The GNU project has a web page at <a href="http://www.gnu.org/" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/</a>. See
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>, <a href="../C/copyleft.html"><i class="glossterm">copyleft</i></a>,
<a href="General-Public-Virus.html"><i class="glossterm">General Public Virus</i></a>, <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore <tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:gnu@toad.com">gnu@toad.com</a>&gt;</tt>},
founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gnarly.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gnubie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gnarly </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gnubie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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name for the <a href="GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> project's flagship tool,
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>. <span class="firstterm">StallMACS</span>, referring to Richard Stallman, is
less common but also heard. Used esp. in contrast with
<a href="GOSMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">GOSMACS</i></a> and X Emacs.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gnubie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="go-flatline.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gnubie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> go flatline</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>-in-C implementation, predating but now largely
eclipsed by <a href="GNUMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">GNUMACS</i></a>. Originally freeware; a
commercial version was modestly popular as &#8216;UniPress EMACS&#8217;
during the 1980s. The author, James Gosling, went on to invent
<a href="../N/NeWS.html"><i class="glossterm">NeWS</i></a> and the programming language Java; the latter
earned him <a href="../D/demigod.html"><i class="glossterm">demigod</i></a> status.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gorp.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gotcha.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gorp </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gotcha</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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use; see <a href="../C/copyleft.html"><i class="glossterm">copyleft</i></a>, <a href="General-Public-Virus.html"><i class="glossterm">General Public
Virus</i></a>. Often mis-expanded as &#8216;GNU Public
License&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gotcha.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GPV.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gotcha </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GPV</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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widespread use.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GPL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gray-goo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GPL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gray goo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> who has equipped his desktop computer with a
hypersensitive &#8220;<span class="quote">software firewall</span>&#8221; or host intrusion detection
program, and who gives its alerts absolute credence. ISP tech support and
abuse desks dread hearing from such persons, who insist that every packet
of abnormal traffic the software detects is &#8220;<span class="quote">a hacker</span>&#8221; (sic)
and, occasionally, threatening lawsuits or prosecution. GWFs have been
known to assert that they are being attacked from 127.0.0.1, and that their
ISP is criminally negligent for failing to block these attacks.
&#8220;<span class="quote">GWF</span>&#8221; is used similarly to <a href="../I/idiot.html"><i class="glossterm">ID10T error</i></a>
and <a href="../P/PEBKAC.html"><i class="glossterm">PEBKAC</i></a> to flag trouble tickets opened by such
users.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gweep.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../H.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gweep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> H</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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establishment resistence to a winning strategy of nonviolent activism, that
partisans of <a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a> and especially
<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> have embraced as almost an explanatory framework
for the behaviors they observe while trying to get corporations and other
large institutions to take new ways of doing things seriously:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win.
</p></blockquote></div><p>In hacker usage this quote has miscegenated with the U.S military's
<a href="http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/defcon.htm" target="_top">DefCon</a>
terminology describing &#8216;defense conditions&#8217; or degrees of war
alert. At GandhiCon One, you're being ignored. At GandhiCon Two,
opponents are laughing at you and dismissing the idea that you could ever
be a threat. At GandhiCon Three, they're fighting you on the merits and/or
attempting to discredit you. At GandhiCon Four, you're winning and they
are arguing to save face or stave off complete collapse of their
position.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Get-a-real-computer-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gib.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Get a real computer! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gib</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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[prob. a play on the &#8216;Gang Of Four&#8217; who briefly ran Communist
China after the death of Mao] Describes either the authors or the book
<i class="citetitle">Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented
Software</i> published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley (ISBN
0-201-63361-2). The authors forming the Gang Of Four are Erich Gamma,
Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. They are also sometimes
referred to as &#8216;Gamma et. al.&#8217; The authors state at <a href="http://www.hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html" target="_top">http://www.hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html</a>
&#8220;<span class="quote">Why are we ... called this? Who knows. Somehow the name just
stuck.</span>&#8221; The term is also used to describe any of the design patterns
that are used in the book, referring to the patterns within it as
&#8216;Gang Of Four Patterns.&#8217;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gang-bang.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="garbage-collect.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gang bang </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> garbage collect</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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oft-cited law is an ironic comment on the tendency of software bloat to
outpace the every-18-month doubling in hardware capacity per dollar
predicted by <a href="../M/Moores-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Moore's Law</i></a>. The reference is to Bill
Gates; Microsoft is widely considered among the worst if not the worst of
the perpetrators of bloat.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gas.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gawble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gas </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gawble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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project <a href="../C/copyleft.html"><i class="glossterm">copyleft</i></a> or General Public License (GPL),
which requires that any tools or <a href="../A/app.html"><i class="glossterm">app</i></a>s incorporating
copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same anti-proprietary
terms as GNU stuff. Thus it is alleged that the copyleft
&#8216;infects&#8217; software generated with GNU tools, which may in turn
infect other software that reuses any of its code. The Free Software
Foundation's official position is that copyright law limits the scope of
the GPL to &#8220;<span class="quote">programs textually incorporating significant amounts of
GNU code</span>&#8221;, and that the &#8216;infection&#8217; is not passed on to
third parties unless actual GNU source is transmitted. Nevertheless,
widespread suspicion that the <a href="../C/copyleft.html"><i class="glossterm">copyleft</i></a> language is
&#8216;boobytrapped&#8217; has caused many developers to avoid using GNU
tools and the GPL. Changes in the language of the version 2.0 GPL did not
eliminate this problem.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gender-mender.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="generate.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gender mender </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> generate</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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approach and come up with a totally unexpected new algorithm. An attack on
a problem from an offbeat angle that no one has ever thought of before, but
that in retrospect makes total sense. Compare <a href="grok.html"><i class="glossterm">grok</i></a>,
<a href="../Z/zen.html"><i class="glossterm">zen</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="generate.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gensym.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">generate </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gensym</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see
<a href="geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>). Often heard on
<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, esp. as a way of suggesting that the target
is taking some obscure issue of <a href="../T/theology.html"><i class="glossterm">theology</i></a> too
seriously. This exhortation was popularized by William Shatner on a 1987
<i class="citetitle">Saturday Night Live</i> episode in a speech that ended
&#8220;<span class="quote">Get a <span class="emphasis"><em>life</em></span>!</span>&#8221;, but it can be traced back
at least to &#8216;Valley Girl&#8217; slang in 1983. It was certainly in
wide use among hackers for years before achieving mainstream currency via
the sitcom <i class="citetitle">Get A Life</i> in 1990.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gensym.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Get-a-real-computer-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gensym </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Get a real computer!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done
on a system that (a) was single-tasking, (b) had no hard disk, or (c) had
an address space smaller than 16 megabytes. In 2003 anything less powerful
than a 500MHz Pentium with a multi-gigabyte hard disk would probably be
similarly written off. The threshold for &#8216;real computer&#8217; rises
with time. See <a href="../B/bitty-box.html"><i class="glossterm">bitty box</i></a> and
<a href="../T/toy.html"><i class="glossterm">toy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Get-a-life-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GandhiCon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Get a life! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GandhiCon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<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="go-faster-stripes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="goat-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">go-faster stripes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> goat file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Godwin'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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gobble.html" title="gobble"/><link rel="next" href="Godzillagram.html" title="Godzillagram"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Godwin's Law</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gobble.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Godzillagram.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Godwins-Law"/><dt xmlns="" id="Godwins-Law"><b>Godwin's Law</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] &#8220;<span class="quote">As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability
of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.</span>&#8221; There is
a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and
whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in
progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an
upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a
widely- recognized codicil that any <span class="emphasis"><em>intentional</em></span>
triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects
will be unsuccessful. Godwin himself has <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html" target="_top">discussed
the subject</a>. See also <a href="../F/Formosas-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Formosa'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="gobble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Godzillagram.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gobble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Godzillagram</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Godzillagram</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="Godwins-Law.html" title="Godwin's Law"/><link rel="next" href="golden.html" title="golden"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Godzillagram</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Godwins-Law.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="golden.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Godzillagram"/><dt xmlns="" id="Godzillagram"><b>Godzillagram</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/god·zil'@·gram/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Japan's national hero] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine
in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP
address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough
to attempt to implement this case!</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,535
octets. Compare <a href="../S/super-source-quench.html"><i class="glossterm">super source quench</i></a>,
<a href="../C/Christmas-tree-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">Christmas tree packet</i></a>,
<a href="../M/martian.html"><i class="glossterm">martian</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Godwins-Law.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="golden.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Godwin's Law </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> golden</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Good Thing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gonzo.html" title="gonzo"/><link rel="next" href="google.html" title="google"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Good Thing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gonzo.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="google.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Good-Thing"/><dt xmlns="" id="Good-Thing"><b>Good Thing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the
1930 Sellar &amp; Yeatman parody of British history <i class="citetitle">1066 And All
That</i>, but well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.]
</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice:
&#8220;<span class="quote">A language that manages dynamic memory automatically for you is a
Good Thing.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may
save considerable grief later: &#8220;<span class="quote">Removing the self-modifying code from
that shared library would be a Good Thing.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in &#8220;<span class="quote">YACC is a
Good Thing</span>&#8221;, specifically connotes that the thing has drastically
reduced a programmer's work load. Oppose
<a href="../B/Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gonzo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="google.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gonzo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> google</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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time comparatives; before the Great Internet Explosion and after it were
very different worlds from a hacker's point of view. Before it, Internet
access was expensive and available only to an elite few through
universities, research laboratories, and well-heeled corporations; after
it, everybody's mother had access.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gray-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Renaming.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gray hat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Great Renaming</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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non-local groups on the <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> had their names
changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Used esp. in discussing the history of newsgroup names. &#8220;<span class="quote">The oldest
sources group is <tt class="systemitem">comp.sources.misc</tt>; before the Great Renaming,
it was <tt class="systemitem">net.sources</tt>.</span>&#8221; There
is a <a href="http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/rename.html" target="_top"> Great
Renaming FAQ</a> on the Web.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Internet-Explosion.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Runes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Great Internet Explosion </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Great Runes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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systems still emit these. See also <a href="../R/runes.html"><i class="glossterm">runes</i></a>,
<a href="../S/smash-case.html"><i class="glossterm">smash case</i></a>, <a href="../F/fold-case.html"><i class="glossterm">fold case</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>There is a widespread legend (repeated by earlier versions of this
entry, though tagged as folklore) that the uppercase-only support of
various old character codes and I/O equipment was chosen by a religious
person in a position of power at the Teletype Company because supporting
both upper and lower cases was too expensive and supporting lower case only
would have made it impossible to spell &#8216;God&#8217; correctly. Not
true; the upper-case interpretation of teleprinter codes was well
established by 1870, long before Teletype was even founded.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Renaming.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Worm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Great Renaming </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Great Worm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../R/RTM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTM</i></a>. This is a play on Tolkien (compare
<a href="../E/elvish.html"><i class="glossterm">elvish</i></a>, <a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>). In the
fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful
enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung)
were known as &#8220;<span class="quote">the Great Worms</span>&#8221;. This usage expresses the
connotation that the RTM crack was a sort of devastating watershed event in
hacker history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the
Internet than anything before or since.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Runes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="great-wall.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Great Runes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> great-wall</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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one person who has not heard the story. A refinement of the theorem states
that there will be <span class="emphasis"><em>exactly</em></span> one person (if there were
more than one, it wouldn't be as bad to re-tell the story). [The name of
this theorem is a play on a fundamental theorem in
calculus. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="green-machine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="greenbar.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">green machine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> greenbar</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../P/Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a>). Note that Guido answers to English
<span class="pronunciation">/gwee´do/</span> but in Dutch it's
<span class="pronunciation">/khwee´do/</span>. Mythically,
Guido's most important attribute besides Python itself is Guido's time
machine, a device he is reputed to possess because of the unnerving
frequency with which user requests for new features have been met with the
response &#8220;<span class="quote">I just implemented that last night...</span>&#8221;. See
<a href="../B/BDFL.html"><i class="glossterm">BDFL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gubbish.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="guiltware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gubbish </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> guiltware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend
assembler port mentioned in Steven Levy's <i class="citetitle">Hackers</i>),
and large numbers of loosely-coupled programmers operating in
<a href="../B/bazaar.html"><i class="glossterm">bazaar</i></a> mode can do very useful work when they're not
on a deadline, most are perpetrated by large companies trying to meet
unrealistic deadlines; the inevitable result is enormous buggy masses of
code entirely lacking in <a href="../O/orthogonal.html"><i class="glossterm">orthogonal</i></a>ity. When
market-driven managers make a list of all the features the competition has
and assign one programmer to implement each, the probability of maintaining
a coherent (or even functional) design goes to
<a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>. See also
<a href="../F/firefighting.html"><i class="glossterm">firefighting</i></a>,
<a href="../M/Mongolian-Hordes-technique.html"><i class="glossterm">Mongolian Hordes technique</i></a>, <a href="../C/Conways-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Conway'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="G.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Gang-of-Four.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">G </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Gang of Four</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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See <a href="GC.html"><i class="glossterm">GC</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Gang-of-Four.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="garply.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Gang of Four </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> garply</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>); once popular among SAIL hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="garbage-collect.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gas.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">garbage collect </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gas</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hatred, implying that gas should be dispensed in generous quantities,
thereby exterminating the source of irritation. &#8220;<span class="quote">Some loser just
reloaded the system for no reason! Gas!</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> A suggestion that
someone or something ought to be flushed out of mercy. &#8220;<span class="quote">The system's
getting <a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a> every few minutes. Gas!</span>&#8221;
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To
<a href="../F/flush.html"><i class="glossterm">flush</i></a> (sense 1). &#8220;<span class="quote">You should gas that old
crufty software.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. [IBM] <span class="grammar">n.</span> Dead space in
nonsequentially organized files that was occupied by data that has since
been deleted; the compression operation that removes it is called <span class="firstterm">degassing</span> (by analogy, perhaps, with the use of
the same term in vacuum technology). </p></dd><dd><p> 5. [IBM] <span class="grammar">n.</span> Empty space on a
disk that has been clandestinely allocated against future need.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="garply.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Gatess-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">garply </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Gates's Law</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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untested.</p></dd><dd><p>&#8216;Gedanken&#8217; is a German word for &#8216;thought&#8217;. A
thought experiment is one you carry out in your head. In physics, the term
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">gedanken experiment</i></span> is used to refer to an
experiment that is impractical to carry out, but useful to consider because
it can be reasoned about theoretically. (A classic gedanken experiment of
relativity theory involves thinking about a man in an elevator accelerating
through space.) Gedanken experiments are very useful in physics, but must
be used with care. It's too easy to idealize away some important aspect of
the real world in constructing the &#8216;apparatus&#8217;.</p><p>Among hackers, accordingly, the word has a pejorative connotation.
It is typically used of a project, especially one in artificial
intelligence research, that is written up in grand detail (typically as a
Ph.D. thesis) without ever being implemented to any great extent. Such a
project is usually perpetrated by people who aren't very good hackers or
find programming distasteful or are just in a hurry. A <span class="firstterm">gedanken thesis</span> is usually marked by an obvious
lack of intuition about what is programmable and what is not, and about
what does and does not constitute a clear specification of an algorithm.
See also <a href="../A/AI-complete.html"><i class="glossterm">AI-complete</i></a>,
<a href="../D/DWIM.html"><i class="glossterm">DWIM</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GECOS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="geef.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GECOS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> geef</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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used in <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s to broadcast the interests,
skills, and aspirations of the poster. Features a G at the left margin
followed by numerous letter codes, often suffixed with plusses or minuses.
Because many net users are involved in computer science, the most common
prefix is &#8216;GCS&#8217;. To see a copy of the current code, browse
<a href="http://www.geekcode.com/" target="_top">http://www.geekcode.com/</a>.
Here is a sample geek code (that of Robert Hayden, the code's inventor)
from that page:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----<br/>
Version: 3.1<br/>
GED/J d-- s:++&gt;: a- C++(++++)$ ULUO++ P+&gt;+++ L++ !E---- W+(---) N+++<br/>
o+ K+++ w+(---) O- M+$&gt;++ V-- PS++(+++)&gt;$ PE++(+)&gt;$ Y++ PGP++ t- 5+++<br/>
X++ R+++&gt;$ tv+ b+ DI+++ D+++ G+++++&gt;$ e++$&gt;++++ h r-- y+**<br/>
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------<br/>
</p></div><p>The geek code originated in 1993; it was inspired (according to the
inventor) by previous &#8220;<span class="quote">bear</span>&#8221;, &#8220;<span class="quote">smurf</span>&#8221; and
&#8220;<span class="quote">twink</span>&#8221; style-and-sexual-preference codes from lesbian and gay
<a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a>s. It has in turn spawned imitators; there
is now even a &#8220;<span class="quote">Saturn geek code</span>&#8221; for owners of the Saturn car.
See also <a href="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="geek.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="geek-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">geek </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> geek out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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context, for example at parties held near computer equipment. Especially
used when you need to do or say something highly technical and don't have
time to explain: &#8220;<span class="quote">Pardon me while I geek out for a moment.</span>&#8221;
See <a href="geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>; see also
<a href="../P/propeller-head.html"><i class="glossterm">propeller head</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="geek-code.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="geekasm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">geek code </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> geekasm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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who pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not
mainstream social acceptance. Geeks usually have a strong case of
<a href="../N/neophilia.html"><i class="glossterm">neophilia</i></a>. Most geeks are adept with computers and
treat <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a> as a term of respect, but not all are
hackers themselves &#8212; and some who <span class="emphasis"><em>are</em></span> in fact
hackers normally call themselves geeks anyway, because they (quite
properly) regard &#8216;hacker&#8217; as a label that should be bestowed by
others rather than self-assumed.</p><p>One <a href="http://www.darkwater.com/omni/geek.html" target="_top">
description</a> accurately if a little breathlessly enumerates
&#8220;<span class="quote">gamers, ravers, science fiction fans, punks, perverts, programmers,
nerds, subgenii, and trekkies. These are people who did not go to their
high school proms, and many would be offended by the suggestion that they
should have even wanted to.</span>&#8221;</p><p>Originally, a <span class="firstterm">geek</span> was a
carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens. (In early 20th-century
Scotland a &#8216;geek&#8217; was an immature coley, a type of fish.)
Before about 1990 usage of this term was rather negative. Earlier versions
of this lexicon defined a <span class="firstterm">computer
geek</span> as one who eats (computer) bugs for a living &#8212; an
asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a
cheese grater. This is often still the way geeks are regarded by
non-geeks, but as the mainstream culture becomes more dependent on
technology and technical skill mainstream attitudes have tended to shift
towards grudging respect. Correspondingly, there are now &#8216;geek
pride&#8217; festivals (the implied reference to &#8216;gay pride&#8217; is
not accidental).</p><p>See also <a href="../P/propeller-head.html"><i class="glossterm">propeller head</i></a>,
<a href="../C/clustergeeking.html"><i class="glossterm">clustergeeking</i></a>, <a href="geek-out.html"><i class="glossterm">geek out</i></a>,
<a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>, <a href="../T/terminal-junkie.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal junkie</i></a>,
<a href="../S/spod.html"><i class="glossterm">spod</i></a>, <a href="../W/weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">weenie</i></a>,
<a href="geek-code.html"><i class="glossterm">geek code</i></a>, <a href="../A/alpha-geek.html"><i class="glossterm">alpha 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="geef.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="geek-code.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">geef </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> geek code</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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American Frontiers</i> (week of May 21st 2002) by MIT professor
Alex Slocum: &#8220;<span class="quote">When they build a machine, if they do the calculations
right, the machine works and you get this intense ... uhh ... just like a
geekasm, from knowing that what you created in your mind and on the
computer is actually doing what you told it to do</span>&#8221;. Unsurprisingly,
this usage went live on the Web almost instantly. Every hacker knows this
feeling. Compare earlier <a href="../P/progasm.html"><i class="glossterm">progasm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="geek-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">geek out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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spoken and written contexts.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="geekasm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gender-mender.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">geekasm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gender mender</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some
<a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a> didn't understand the RS232C specification and
the distinction between DTE and DCE. Used esp. for RS-232C parts in
either the original D-25 or the IBM PC's bogus D-9 format. Also called
<span class="firstterm">gender bender</span>, <span class="firstterm">gender blender</span>, <span class="firstterm">sex
changer</span>, and even <span class="firstterm">homosexual
adapter;</span> however, there appears to be some confusion as to
whether a <span class="firstterm">male homosexual adapter</span> has
pins on both sides (is doubly male) or sockets on both sides (connects two
males).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gen.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="General-Public-Virus.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gen </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> General Public Virus</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>generate</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="General-Public-Virus.html" title="General Public Virus"/><link rel="next" href="Genius-From-Mars-Technique.html" title="Genius From Mars Technique"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">generate</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="General-Public-Virus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Genius-From-Mars-Technique.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="generate"/><dt xmlns="" id="generate"><b>generate</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To produce something according to an algorithm or program or set of
rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect of the execution of an
algorithm or program. The opposite of <a href="../P/parse.html"><i class="glossterm">parse</i></a>. This
term retains its mechanistic connotations (though often humorously) when
used of human behavior. &#8220;<span class="quote">The guy is rational most of the time, but
mention nuclear energy around him and he'll generate
<a href="../I/infinite.html"><i class="glossterm">infinite</i></a> flamage.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="General-Public-Virus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Genius-From-Mars-Technique.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">General Public Virus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Genius From Mars Technique</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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symbol</span>]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To invent a new name for
something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in
conflict with one already in use. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The resulting name. The
canonical form of a gensym is &#8216;Gnnnn&#8217; where nnnn represents a
number; any LISP hacker would recognize G0093 (for example) as a gensym.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. A freshly generated data structure with a gensymmed name.
Gensymmed names are useful for storing or uniquely identifying crufties
(see <a href="../C/cruft.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Genius-From-Mars-Technique.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Get-a-life-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Genius From Mars Technique </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Get a life!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/frag.html"><i class="glossterm">frag</i></a>, but much more violent and final.
&#8220;<span class="quote">There's no trace left. You definitely gibbed that
bug</span>&#8221;. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. n. Remnants after total obliteration.</p></dd><dd><p>Originated first by id software in the game Quake. It's short for
giblets (thus pronounced &#8220;<span class="quote">jib</span>&#8221;), and referred to the bloody
remains of slain opponents. Eventually the word was verbed, and leaked
into general usage afterward.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GandhiCon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GIFs-at-11.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GandhiCon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GIFs at 11</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was &#8220;<span class="quote">the act
of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of 1000 machines for a day
with the killing of one person</span>&#8221;. The milligilley has been found to
suffice for most normal conversational exchanges.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GIGO.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gillion.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GIGO </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gillion</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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mega/million and tera/trillion] <tt class="literal">10^9</tt>. Same as an
American billion or a British <span class="firstterm">milliard</span>. How one pronounces this depends on
whether one speaks <a href="giga-.html"><i class="glossterm">giga-</i></a> with a hard or soft
&#8216;g&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gilley.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ginger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gilley </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ginger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from
context.</span>&#8221; Interestingly, the word was originally
&#8216;glork&#8217;; the context was &#8220;<span class="quote">This gubblick contains many
nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked
[sic] from context</span>&#8221; (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in
his <i class="citetitle">Metamagical Themas</i> column in the January 1981
<i class="citetitle">Scientific American</i>). It is conjectured that hacker
usage mutated the verb to &#8216;glark&#8217; because
<a href="glork.html"><i class="glossterm">glork</i></a> was already an established jargon term (some
hackers do report using the original term). Compare
<a href="grok.html"><i class="glossterm">grok</i></a>, <a href="../Z/zen.html"><i class="glossterm">zen</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GIYF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glass.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GIYF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> glass</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>glass tty</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="glass.html" title="glass"/><link rel="next" href="glassfet.html" title="glassfet"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">glass tty</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glass.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glassfet.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="glass-tty"/><dt xmlns="" id="glass-tty"><b>glass tty</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/glas T·T·Y/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/glas ti´tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [obs.] A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of
hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other
printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a
printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display
terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early
&#8216;dumb&#8217; version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control).
See <a href="../T/tube.html"><i class="glossterm">tube</i></a>, <a href="../T/tty.html"><i class="glossterm">tty</i></a>; compare
<a href="../D/dumb-terminal.html"><i class="glossterm">dumb terminal</i></a>. See <i class="citetitle"> <a href="../tv-typewriters.html" title="TV Typewriters: A Tale of Hackish Ingenuity">TV Typewriters</a></i> (Appendix A) for
an interesting true story about a glass tty.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glass.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glassfet.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glass </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> glassfet</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Transistor</span>] Syn. <a href="../F/firebottle.html"><i class="glossterm">firebottle</i></a>, a humorous
way to refer to a vacuum tube.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glass-tty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glitch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glass tty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> glitch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Yiddish &#8216;glitshen&#8217;, to slide or skid] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A sudden interruption in
electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes
recoverable. An interruption in electric service is specifically called a
<span class="firstterm">power glitch</span> (also
<a href="../P/power-hit.html"><i class="glossterm">power hit</i></a>), of grave concern because it usually crashes all the
computers. In jargon, though, a hacker who got to the middle of a sentence
and then forgot how he or she intended to complete it might say,
&#8220;<span class="quote">Sorry, I just glitched</span>&#8221;. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To commit a glitch. See
<a href="gritch.html"><i class="glossterm">gritch</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> [Stanford] To scroll a
display screen, esp. several lines at a time.
<a href="../W/WAITS.html"><i class="glossterm">WAITS</i></a> terminals used to do this in order to avoid
continuous scrolling, which is distracting to the eye. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. obs. Same as <a href="../M/magic-cookie.html"><i class="glossterm">magic cookie</i></a>, sense
2.</p></dd><dd><p>All these uses of <span class="firstterm">glitch</span> derive
from the specific technical meaning the term has in the electronic hardware
world, where it is now techspeak. A glitch can occur when the inputs of a
circuit change, and the outputs change to some
<a href="../R/random.html"><i class="glossterm">random</i></a> value for some very brief time before they
settle down to the correct value. If another circuit inspects the output
at just the wrong time, reading the random value, the results can be very
wrong and very hard to debug (a glitch is one of many causes of electronic
<a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>s).</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-06-04"/><img src="../graphics/73-06-04.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Coping with a hydraulic <a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../O/overflow-bit.html#crunchly73-07-24">73-07-24</a>. The previous one is
<a href="../B/bells-and-whistles.html#crunchly73-05-28">73-05-28</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glassfet.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glob.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glassfet </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> glob</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the act of so doing (the action is also called <span class="firstterm">globbing</span>). The Unix conventions for filename
wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some
of them in written English, especially in email or news on technical
topics. Those commonly encountered include the following:</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>*</td><td>wildcard for any string (see also <a href="../U/UN-asterisk-X.html"><i class="glossterm">UN*X</i></a>)
</td></tr><tr><td>?</td><td>wildcard for any single character (generally read this way only at the
beginning or in the middle of a word)
</td></tr><tr><td>[]</td><td>delimits a wildcard matching any of the enclosed characters
</td></tr><tr><td>{}</td><td>alternation of comma-separated alternatives; thus, &#8216;foo{baz,qux}&#8217;
would be read as &#8216;foobaz&#8217; or &#8216;fooqux&#8217;</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Some examples: &#8220;<span class="quote">He said his name was [KC]arl</span>&#8221; (expresses
ambiguity). &#8220;<span class="quote">I don't read talk.politics.*</span>&#8221; (any of the
talk.politics subgroups on <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>). Other examples
are given under the entry for <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>. Note that glob
patterns are similar, but not identical, to those used in
<a href="../R/regexp.html"><i class="glossterm">regexp</i></a>s.</p><p>Historical note: The jargon usage derives from <b class="command">glob</b>, the name of a subprogram that expanded
wildcards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glitch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glork.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glitch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> glork</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the
results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just
crashed.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Used as a name for just about anything. See
<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> Similar to
<a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>, but usually used reflexively. &#8220;<span class="quote">My
program just glorked itself.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Syn. for <a href="glark.html"><i class="glossterm">glark</i></a>, which see.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glob.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glue.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glob </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> glue</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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component blocks. For example, <a href="../B/Blue-Glue.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Glue</i></a> is IBM's
SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large
VLSI's or circuit blocks <span class="firstterm">glue
logic</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glork.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gnarly.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glork </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gnarly</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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(sense 1). &#8220;<span class="quote"><a href="../Y/Yow-.html"><i class="glossterm">Yow!</i></a> &#8212; the tuned assembler
implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!</span>&#8221; From a similar but less
specific usage in surfer slang.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glue.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GNU.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glue </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GNU</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who is new to the
Linux/open-source/free-software world.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GNU.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GNUMACS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GNU </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GNUMACS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of UK.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="go-root.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GoAT.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">go root </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GoAT</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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brain-death] (also adjectival <span class="firstterm">flatlined</span>). </p></dd><dd><p> 1. To <a href="../D/die.html"><i class="glossterm">die</i></a>, terminate, or fail, esp.
irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human
death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes
about. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing
controlled shutdown. &#8220;<span class="quote">You can suffer file damage if you shut down
Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees
is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GNUMACS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="go-gold.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GNUMACS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> go gold</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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in order to perform a privileged operation. This use is deprecated in
Australia, where <span class="grammar">v.</span> &#8216;root&#8217;
is a synonym for &#8220;<span class="quote">fuck</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="go-gold.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="go-faster-stripes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">go gold </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> go-faster stripes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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executable that carries a sample of the virus, isolated so it can be
studied. Not common among hackers, since the Unix systems most use
basically don't get viruses.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GoAT.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gobble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GoAT </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gobble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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spy gobbles characters out of a <a href="../T/tty.html"><i class="glossterm">tty</i></a> output
buffer.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 2. To obtain, usu.: used with &#8216;down&#8217;. &#8220;<span class="quote">I guess
I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="goat-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Godwins-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">goat file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Godwin's Law</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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describe a magnetic medium (e.g., <span class="firstterm">golden
disk</span>, <span class="firstterm">golden tape</span>),
describes one containing a tested, up-to-spec, ready-to-ship software
version. Compare <a href="../P/platinum-iridium.html"><i class="glossterm">platinum-iridium</i></a>. One may also
&#8220;<span class="quote">go gold</span>&#8221;, which is the act of releasing a golden version.
The gold color of many CDROMs is a coincidence; this term was well
established a decade before CDROM distribution become common in the
mid-1990s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Godzillagram.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="golf-ball-printer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Godzillagram </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> golf-ball printer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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based on the IBM Selectric typewriter. The <span class="firstterm">golf
ball</span> was a little spherical frob bearing reversed embossed
images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude;
one could change the font by swapping in a different golf ball. The print
element spun and jerked alarmingly in action and when in motion was
sometimes described as an <span class="firstterm">infuriated golf
ball</span>. This was the technology that enabled APL to use a
non-EBCDIC, non-ASCII, and in fact completely non-standard character set.
This put it 10 years ahead of its time &#8212; where it stayed, firmly
rooted, for the next 20, until character displays gave way to programmable
bit-mapped devices with the flexibility to support other character
sets.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="golden.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gonk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">golden </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gonk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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prevaricate or to embellish the truth beyond any reasonable recognition.
In German the term is (mythically) <span class="firstterm">gonken</span>; in Spanish the verb becomes <span class="firstterm">gonkar</span>. &#8220;<span class="quote">You're gonking me. That story
you just told me is a bunch of gonk.</span>&#8221; In German, for example,
&#8220;<span class="quote">Du gonkst mich</span>&#8221; (You're pulling my leg). See also
<a href="gonkulator.html"><i class="glossterm">gonkulator</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [British] To grab some sleep at an odd time; compare
<a href="gronk-out.html"><i class="glossterm">gronk out</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="golf-ball-printer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gonkulator.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">golf-ball printer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gonkulator</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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series] A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful
purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favorite piece of computer
hardware. See <a href="gonk.html"><i class="glossterm">gonk</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gonk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gonzo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gonk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gonzo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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panache. (Thompson's original sense.) </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More loosely: Overwhelming; outrageous; over the top; very large,
esp. used of collections of source code, source files, or individual
functions. Has some of the connotations of <a href="../M/moby.html"><i class="glossterm">moby</i></a> and
<a href="../H/hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a>, but without the implication of obscurity or
complexity.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gonkulator.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Good-Thing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gonkulator </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Good Thing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Google.com. In common usage, a web page or web site with high placement in
the results of a particular search on Google or frequent placement in the
results of a various searches is said to have &#8220;<span class="quote">a lot of google
juice</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">good google juice</span>&#8221;. Also used to compare
web pages or web sites, for example &#8220;<span class="quote">CrackMonkey has more google
juice than KPMG</span>&#8221;. See also <a href="../J/juice.html"><i class="glossterm">juice</i></a>,
<a href="../K/kilogoogle.html"><i class="glossterm">kilogoogle</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="google.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gopher.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">google </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gopher</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>google</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="Good-Thing.html" title="Good Thing"/><link rel="next" href="google-juice.html" title="google juice"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">google</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Good-Thing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="google-juice.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="google"/><dt xmlns="" id="google"><b>google</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_top">http://www.google.com</a>. Google is
highly esteemed among hackers for its significance ranking system, which is
so uncannily effective that many hackers consider it to have rendered other
search engines effectively irrelevant. The name &#8216;google&#8217; has
additional flavor for hackers because most know that it was copied from a
mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, famously first uttered as
&#8216;googol&#8217; by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Good-Thing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="google-juice.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Good Thing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> google juice</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/wormhole.html"><i class="glossterm">wormhole</i></a> (sense 2), from which this term was coined.
A gopher hole links two amateur packet relays through some non-ham radio
medium.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gopher.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gorets.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gopher </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gorets</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing
interface to a tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents,
runnable programs, or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the
net.</p><p>Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed
at the University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a
sports team). Others claim the word derives from American slang <span class="firstterm">gofer</span> (from &#8220;<span class="quote">go for</span>&#8221;, dialectal
&#8220;<span class="quote">go fer</span>&#8221;), one whose job is to run and fetch things. Finally,
observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling through
the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the developers.
Probably all three things were true, but with the first two coming first
and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor and impetus to
the project as it developed out of its concept stage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="google-juice.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gopher-hole.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">google juice </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gopher hole</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Usenet newsgroup <tt class="systemitem">alt.gorets</tt>,
which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in
the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no
definition is ever final. [A correspondent from the former Soviet Union
informs me that <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">gorets</i></span> is Russian for
&#8216;mountain dweller&#8217;. Another from France informs me that
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">goret</i></span> is archaic French for a young pig
&#8212;ESR] Compare <a href="../F/frink.html"><i class="glossterm">frink</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gopher-hole.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gorilla-arm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gopher hole </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gorilla arm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the
designers of all those <a href="../S/spiffy.html"><i class="glossterm">spiffy</i></a> touch-menu systems
failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of
their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections,
the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized &#8212; the operator
looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one
afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to
human-factors designers; &#8220;<span class="quote">Remember the gorilla arm!</span>&#8221; is
shorthand for &#8220;<span class="quote">How is this going to fly in <span class="emphasis"><em>real</em></span>
use?</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gorets.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gorp.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gorets </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gorp</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Peanuts] Another <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>, like
<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> and <a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gorilla-arm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GOSMACS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gorilla arm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GOSMACS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes
because it is both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected
and/or unreasonable in its outcome. For example, a classic gotcha in
<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a> is the fact that <b class="command">if (a=b)
{code;</b>} is syntactically valid and sometimes even correct. It
puts the value of <b class="command">b</b> into <b class="command">a</b> and then executes <b class="command">code</b> if <b class="command">a</b> is
non-zero. What the programmer probably meant was <b class="command">if
(a==b) {code;</b>}, which executes <b class="command">code</b> if <b class="command">a</b> and
<b class="command">b</b> are equal.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GOSMACS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GPL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GOSMACS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GPL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of sub-micron-sized self-replicating robots programmed to make copies of
themselves out of whatever is available. The image that goes with the term
is one of the entire biosphere of Earth being eventually converted to robot
goo. This is the simplest of the <a href="../N/nanotechnology.html"><i class="glossterm">nanotechnology</i></a>
disaster scenarios, easily refuted by arguments from energy requirements
and elemental abundances. Compare <a href="../B/blue-goo.html"><i class="glossterm">blue goo</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GPV.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gray-hat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GPV </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gray hat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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one where food is served family-style and shared. There is a common
heuristic about the amount of food to order, expressed as &#8220;<span class="quote">Get
<tt class="literal">N - 1</tt> entrees</span>&#8221;; the value of
<tt class="literal">N</tt>, which is the number of people in the
group, can be inferred from context (see <a href="../N/N.html"><i class="glossterm">N</i></a>). See
<a href="../O/oriental-food.html"><i class="glossterm">oriental food</i></a>, <a href="../R/ravs.html"><i class="glossterm">ravs</i></a>,
<a href="../S/stir-fried-random.html"><i class="glossterm">stir-fried random</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Worm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="green-bytes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Great Worm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> green bytes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate
description file or record. The term comes from an IBM user's group
meeting (ca. 1962) at which these two approaches were being debated and the
diagram of the file on the blackboard had the <span class="firstterm">green bytes</span> drawn in green. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format.
&#8220;<span class="quote">A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the
packing method for the image.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../O/out-of-band.html"><i class="glossterm">out-of-band</i></a>, <a href="../Z/zigamorph.html"><i class="glossterm">zigamorph</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fence.html"><i class="glossterm">fence</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="great-wall.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="green-card.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">great-wall </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> green card</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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card] A summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green and
not a card. Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of
assembly language. &#8220;<span class="quote">I'll go get my green card so I can check the
addressing mode for that instruction.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p>The original green card became a yellow card when the System/370 was
introduced, and later a yellow booklet. An anecdote from IBM refers to a
scene that took place in a programmers' terminal room at Yorktown in 1978.
A <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> overheard one of the programmers ask another
&#8220;<span class="quote">Do you have a green card?</span>&#8221; The other grunted and passed the
first a thick yellow booklet. At this point the luser turned a delicate
shade of olive and rapidly left the room, never to return.</p><p>In fall 2000 it was reported from Electronic Data Systems that the
green card for 370 machines has been a blue-green booklet since
1989.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="green-bytes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="green-lightning.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">green bytes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> green lightning</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug
was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would
let the user know that &#8216;something is happening&#8217;. That, it
certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM color graphics displays
were actually <span class="emphasis"><em>programmed</em></span> to produce green lightning!
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit
rationalization or marketing. &#8220;<span class="quote">Motorola calls the CISC cruft in the
88000 architecture &#8216;compatibility logic&#8217;, but I call it green
lightning</span>&#8221;. See also <a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> (sense
6).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="green-card.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="green-machine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">green card </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> green machine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand
mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth).
Comes from the olive-drab &#8216;uniform&#8217; paint used for military
equipment.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="green-lightning.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Greens-Theorem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">green lightning </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Green's Theorem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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and white bars on it, especially used in old-style line printers. This
slang almost certainly dates way back to mainframe days.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Greens-Theorem.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Green's Theorem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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where <span class="i">re</span> stands for a regular expression, to
Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing
matches to it, via <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">grep</span>(1)</span>]
To rapidly scan a file or set of files looking for a particular string or
pattern (when browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of
<span class="firstterm">grepping around</span>). By extension, to
look for something by pattern. &#8220;<span class="quote">Grep the bulletin board for the
system backup schedule, would you?</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../V/vgrep.html"><i class="glossterm">vgrep</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>[It has been alleged that the source is from the title of a paper
&#8220;<span class="quote">A General Regular Expression Parser</span>&#8221;, but dmr confirms the
g/re/p etymology --ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="greenbar.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gribble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">greenbar </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gribble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a data stream are displayed as gribble. Dumping a binary file to the screen
is an excellent source of gribble, and (if the bell/speaker is active)
headaches.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="grep.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grilf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">grep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grilf</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/filk.html"><i class="glossterm">filk</i></a>, a typo reincarnated as a new word. Seems to
have originated sometime in 1990 on <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>. [A
friend tells me there was a Lloyd Biggle SF novel <i class="citetitle">Watchers Of
The Dark</i>, in which alien species after species goes insane and
begins to chant &#8220;<span class="quote">Grilf! Grilf!</span>&#8221;. A human detective
eventually determines that the word means &#8220;<span class="quote">Liar!</span>&#8221; I hope this
has nothing to do with the popularity of the Usenet
term. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gribble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grind.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gribble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grind</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer
to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but
merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See
<a href="grind.html"><i class="glossterm">grind</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank
&#8212; the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the
great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as &#8216;The Rice
Institute Computer&#8217; (TRIC) and later as &#8216;The Rice University
Computer&#8217; (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when
debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was
rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that
repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to
&#8216;crank&#8217; through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step
for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers
using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking. See <a href="http://www.cs.rice.edu/History/R1/" target="_top">http://www.cs.rice.edu/History/R1/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="grind.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gritch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">grind </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gritch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments
in distinct fonts (if available), etc. This usage was associated with the
MacLISP community and is now rare; <a href="../P/prettyprint.html"><i class="glossterm">prettyprint</i></a> was
and is the generic term for such operations. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix] To generate the formatted version of a document from the
<a href="../T/troff.html"><i class="glossterm">troff</i></a>, <a href="../T/TeX.html"><i class="glossterm">TeX</i></a>, or Scribe source.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. [common] To run seemingly interminably, esp. (but not
necessarily) if performing some tedious and inherently useless task.
Similar to <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a> or <a href="grovel.html"><i class="glossterm">grovel</i></a>.
Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible
to grind a disk, network, etc. See also <a href="../H/hog.html"><i class="glossterm">hog</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 4. To make the whole system slow. &#8220;<span class="quote">Troff really grinds a
<a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 5. <span class="firstterm">grind grind</span> <span class="grammar">excl.</span> Roughly, &#8220;<span class="quote">Isn't the machine slow
today!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="grilf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grind-crank.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">grilf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grind crank</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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by a <a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To complain. Often
verb-doubled: &#8220;<span class="quote">Gritch gritch</span>&#8221;. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A synonym for <a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a> (as verb or
noun).</p></dd><dd><p>Interestingly, this word seems to have a separate history from
<a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>, with which it is often confused. Back in
the early 1960s, when &#8216;glitch&#8217; was strictly a hardware-tech's
term of art, the Burton House dorm at M.I.T. maintained a &#8220;<span class="quote">Gritch
Book</span>&#8221;, a blank volume, into which the residents hand-wrote
complaints, suggestions, and witticisms. Previous years' volumes of this
tradition were maintained, dating back to antiquity. The word
&#8220;<span class="quote">gritch</span>&#8221; was described as a portmanteau of
&#8220;<span class="quote">gripe</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">bitch</span>&#8221;. Thus, sense 3 above is at
least historically incorrect.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="grind-crank.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grok.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">grind crank </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grok</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Land</i>, by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning
literally &#8216;to drink&#8217; and metaphorically &#8216;to be one
with&#8217;] The emphatic form is <span class="firstterm">grok in
fullness</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 1. To understand. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. When
you claim to &#8216;grok&#8217; some knowledge or technique, you are
asserting that you have not merely learned it in a detached instrumental
way but that it has become part of you, part of your identity. For
example, to say that you &#8220;<span class="quote">know</span>&#8221; <a href="../L/LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a> is
simply to assert that you can code in it if necessary &#8212; but to say
you &#8220;<span class="quote">grok</span>&#8221; LISP is to claim that you have deeply entered the
world-view and spirit of the language, with the implication that it has
transformed your view of programming. Contrast <a href="../Z/zen.html"><i class="glossterm">zen</i></a>,
which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief
flash. See also <a href="glark.html"><i class="glossterm">glark</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Almost all C compilers grok the <b class="command">void</b>
type these days.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gritch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gronk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gritch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gronk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">I guess I'll gronk out now; see you all tomorrow.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gronk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gronked.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gronk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gronked</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<i class="citetitle">B.C.:</i> but the word apparently predates that] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More
severe than &#8216;to <a href="../F/frob.html"><i class="glossterm">frob</i></a>&#8217; (sense 2).
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular,
the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go &#8220;<span class="quote">grink,
gronk</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="grok.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gronk-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">grok </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gronk out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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system down.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly)
sick. &#8220;<span class="quote">I've been chasing that bug for 17 hours now and I am
thoroughly gronked!</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="../B/broken.html"><i class="glossterm">broken</i></a>, which
means about the same as <a href="gronk.html"><i class="glossterm">gronk</i></a> used of hardware, but
connotes depression or mental/emotional problems in people.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gronk-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grovel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gronk out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grovel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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transitively with &#8216;over&#8217; or &#8216;through&#8217;. &#8220;<span class="quote">The
file scavenger has been groveling through the /usr directories for 10
minutes now.</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="grind.html"><i class="glossterm">grind</i></a> and
<a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>. Emphatic form: <span class="firstterm">grovel obscenely</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To examine minutely or in complete detail. &#8220;<span class="quote">The compiler
grovels over the entire source program before beginning to translate
it.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">I grovelled through all the documentation, but I still
couldn't find the command I wanted.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gronked.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grue.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gronked </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grue</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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