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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>HAKMEM</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hairy.html" title="hairy"/><link rel="next" href="hakspek.html" title="hakspek"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">HAKMEM</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hairy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hakspek.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="HAKMEM"/><dt xmlns="" id="HAKMEM"><b>HAKMEM</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/hak´mem/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat
mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and
elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is &#8220;<span class="quote">HAKMEM</span>&#8221;, which
is a 6-letterism for &#8216;hacks memo&#8217;.) Some of them are very
useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but
most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a
sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased:</p><p>Item 41 (Gene Salamin): There are exactly 23,000 prime numbers less
than
<tt class="literal">2<sup>18</sup></tt>.</p><p>Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel): The most <span class="emphasis"><em>probable</em></span>
suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which
is the most <span class="emphasis"><em>evenly</em></span> distributed. This is because the
world likes to have unequal numbers: a thermodynamic effect saying things
will not be in the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest
disordered energy.</p><p>Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel): Count the magic squares of order 5 (that
is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all
rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number). There are about
320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and
reflection.</p><p>Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language
is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of
2. If the result loops with period <tt class="literal">= 1</tt>
with sign <tt class="literal">+</tt>, you are on a sign-magnitude
machine. If the result loops with period <tt class="literal">=
1</tt> at <tt class="literal">-1</tt>, you are on a
twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1,
including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the
result loops with period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your
machine isn't binary &#8212; the pattern should tell you the base. If you
run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic
overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying
to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is
machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more
precisely, algebra: Let <tt class="literal">X =</tt> the sum of
many powers of 2 = ...111111 (base 2). Now add
<tt class="literal">X</tt> to itself: <tt class="literal">X + X
=</tt> ...111110. Thus, <tt class="literal">2X = X -
1</tt>, so <tt class="literal">X = -1</tt>. Therefore
algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement.</p><p>Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson): 21963283741 is the only
number such that if you represent it on the <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>
as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two
representations are identical.</p><p>Item 176 (Gosper): The &#8220;<span class="quote">banana phenomenon</span>&#8221; was
encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters
typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the text,
taking the letter following that occurrence, typing it out, and iterating.
This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The
program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the
phrase, &#8220;<span class="quote">the <tt class="literal">N</tt>th occurrence
of.</span>&#8221; In one sense, there are five 00's in 0000000000; in another,
there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only
the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's
Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to
find overlapped instances would be useful, although it would require
backing up <tt class="literal">N</tt> &#8722; 1 characters before
seeking the next <tt class="literal">N</tt>-character
string.</p><p>Note: This last item refers to a
<a href="../D/Dissociated-Press.html"><i class="glossterm">Dissociated Press</i></a> implementation. See also
<a href="../B/banana-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">banana problem</i></a>.</p><p>HAKMEM also contains some rather more complicated mathematical and
technical items, but these examples show some of its fun flavor.</p><p>An HTML transcription of the entire document is available at <a href="http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html" target="_top">http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hairy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hakspek.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hairy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hakspek</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to close a <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> posting, but also used to
informally close emails; often preceded by
<a href="HTH.html"><i class="glossterm">HTH</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hamster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hand-cruft.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hamster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hand cruft</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>HCF</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hat.html" title="hat"/><link rel="next" href="heads-down.html" title="heads down"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">HCF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hat.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heads-down.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="HCF"/><dt xmlns="" id="HCF"><b>HCF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/H·C·F/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Mnemonic for &#8216;Halt and Catch Fire&#8217;, any of several
undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive
side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known
architectures going as far back as the IBM 360. The MC6800 microprocessor
was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This
instruction caused the processor to <a href="../T/toggle.html"><i class="glossterm">toggle</i></a> a subset
of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could
actually cause lines to burn up. Compare
<a href="../K/killer-poke.html"><i class="glossterm">killer poke</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heads-down.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> heads down</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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email and news rather than speech. Rarely, the variants &#8216;VHLL&#8217;
and &#8216;MLL&#8217; are found. VHLL stands for &#8216;Very-High-Level
Language&#8217; and is used to describe a <a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline
language</i></a> that the speaker happens to like; Prolog and Backus's
FP are often called VHLLs. &#8216;MLL&#8217; stands for
&#8216;Medium-Level Language&#8217; and is sometimes used half-jokingly to
describe <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>, alluding to its
&#8216;structured-assembler&#8217; image. See also <a href="../L/languages-of-choice.html"><i class="glossterm">languages of
choice</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hirsute.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hoarding.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hirsute </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hoarding</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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features some truly unique bogosities in the filesystem internals and
elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often
referred to as &#8216;hockey-pux&#8217; inside HP, and one respondent
claims that the proper pronunciation is <span class="pronunciation">/H·P
ukkkhhhh/</span> as though one were about to spit. Another such
alternate spelling and pronunciation is &#8220;<span class="quote">H-PUX</span>&#8221; <span class="pronunciation">/H-puhks/</span>. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the
former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard
to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if
for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym.
See <a href="../S/sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>,
<a href="../S/Slowlaris.html"><i class="glossterm">Slowlaris</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="house-wizard.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HTH.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">house wizard </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> HTH</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a response to a technical question). Often used just before
<a href="HAND.html"><i class="glossterm">HAND</i></a>. See also <a href="../Y/YHBT.html"><i class="glossterm">YHBT</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HP-SUX.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="huff.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">HP-SUX </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> huff</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<i class="citetitle">Crackers</i>, because cracking is what the movie was
about. It's understandable that they didn't however; titles redolent of
snack food are probably a tough sell in Hollywood.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacker-humor.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacking-run.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hacker humor </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacking run</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record)
was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On
display, two of these fields were always combined into a project
description of the form &#8220;<span class="quote">Hacking X for Y</span>&#8221; (e.g.,
&#8220;<span class="quote">Hacking perceptrons for Minsky</span>&#8221;). This form of description
became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with
more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix
<a href="../P/plan-file.html"><i class="glossterm">plan file</i></a>s).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacking-run.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hackintosh.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hacking run </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Hackintosh</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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(also called a &#8216;Mac XL&#8217;). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to
different models in the line.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Hacking-X-for-Y.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hackish.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Hacking X for Y </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hackish</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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late 1998 that confirmed everybody's paranoia about the current
<a href="../E/Evil-Empire.html"><i class="glossterm">Evil Empire</i></a>. <a href="http://www.opensource.org/halloween/" target="_top"> These documents</a> praised
the technical excellence of <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> and outlined a
counterstrategy of attempting to lock in customers by
&#8220;<span class="quote">de-commoditizing</span>&#8221; Internet protocols and services. They were
extensively cited on the Internet and in the press and proved so
embarrassing that Microsoft PR barely said a word in public for six months
afterwards.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hakspek.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ham.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hakspek </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ham</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Occam's Razor, that reads &#8220;<span class="quote">Never attribute to malice that which can
be adequately explained by stupidity.</span>&#8221; Quoted here because it seems
to be a particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in
<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s, <a href="../F/fortune-cookie.html"><i class="glossterm">fortune cookie</i></a> files and the
login banners of BBS systems and commercial networks. This probably
reflects the hacker's daily experience of environments created by
well-intentioned but short-sighted people. Compare
<a href="../S/Sturgeons-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Sturgeon's Law</i></a>, <a href="../N/Ninety-Ninety-Rule.html"><i class="glossterm">Ninety-Ninety Rule</i></a>.</p><p>At <a href="http://www.statusq.org/2001/11/26.html" target="_top">http://www.statusq.org/2001/11/26.html</a>
it is claimed that Hanlon's Razor was coined by one Robert J. Hanlon of
Scranton, PA. However, a curiously similar remark (&#8220;<span class="quote">You have
attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from
stupidity.</span>&#8221;) appears in <i class="citetitle">Logic of Empire</i>, a
classic 1941 SF story by Robert A. Heinlein, who calls the error it
indicates the &#8216;devil theory&#8217; of sociology. Similar epigrams
have been attributed to William James and (on dubious evidence) Napoleon
Bonaparte.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hang.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="happily.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hang </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> happily</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> distribution. Compare
<a href="../M/Macintrash.html"><i class="glossterm">Macintrash</i></a>.
<a href="../S/sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>, <a href="HP-SUX.html"><i class="glossterm">HP-SUX</i></a>,
<a href="../S/Slowlaris.html"><i class="glossterm">Slowlaris</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heavyweight.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heisenbug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heavyweight </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> heisenbug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>h</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="next" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html" title="ha ha only serious"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">h</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../H.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="h"/><dt xmlns="" id="h"><b>h</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from SF fandom] A method of &#8216;marking&#8217; common words,
i.e., calling attention to the fact that they are being used in a
nonstandard, ironic, or humorous way. Originated in the fannish
catchphrase &#8220;<span class="quote">Bheer is the One True Ghod!</span>&#8221; from decades ago.
H-infix marking of &#8216;Ghod&#8217; and other words spread into the 1960s
counterculture via underground comix, and into early hackerdom either from
the counterculture or from SF fandom (the three overlapped heavily at the
time). More recently, the h infix has become an expected feature of
benchmark names (Dhrystone, Rhealstone, etc.); this is probably patterning
on the original Whetstone (the name of a laboratory) but influenced by the
fannish/counterculture h infix.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../H.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">H </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ha ha only serious</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Kidding&#8217;] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly
captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to
parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and
perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that
are constructed on in-joke and self-parody. This lexicon contains many
examples of ha-ha-only-serious in both form and content. Indeed, the
entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by
hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a
person as an outsider, a <a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>, or in
<a href="../L/larval-stage.html"><i class="glossterm">larval stage</i></a>. For further enlightenment on this
subject, consult any Zen master. See also
<a href="hacker-humor.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker humor</i></a>, and <a href="../K/koan.html"><i class="glossterm">koan</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="h.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">h </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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McDonald's fast-food chain; the variant <span class="firstterm">big hack
attack</span> is reported] Nearly synonymous with
<a href="hacking-run.html"><i class="glossterm">hacking run</i></a>, though the latter more strongly implies an
all-nighter.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hack mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is
part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates
strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned
during <a href="../L/larval-stage.html"><i class="glossterm">larval stage</i></a>. Sometimes amplified as
<span class="firstterm">deep hack mode</span>.</p><p>Being yanked out of hack mode (see
<a href="../P/priority-interrupt.html"><i class="glossterm">priority interrupt</i></a>) may be experienced as a physical shock, and the
sensation of being in hack mode is more than a little habituating. The
intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation
for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted
out of positions where they can code. See also
<a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a> (sense 3).</p><p>Some aspects of hacker etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer
unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone
appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without
turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One
may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before
further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is
reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you
might be in <a href="hack-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">hack mode</i></a> with a lot of delicate
<a href="../S/state.html"><i class="glossterm">state</i></a> (sense 2) in your head, and you dare not
<a href="../S/swap.html"><i class="glossterm">swap</i></a> that context out until you have reached a good
point to pause. See also <a href="../J/juggling-eggs.html"><i class="glossterm">juggling eggs</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-attack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack-on.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack attack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hack on</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed
to something one might <a href="hack-up.html"><i class="glossterm">hack up</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack-together.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hack together</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="firstterm">kluge together</span> or
<a href="../C/cruft-together.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft together</i></a>, this does not necessarily have negative
connotations.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-on.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack-up.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack on </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hack up</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack). Contrast this with
<a href="hack-on.html"><i class="glossterm">hack on</i></a>. To <span class="firstterm">hack up
on</span> implies a <a href="../Q/quick-and-dirty.html"><i class="glossterm">quick-and-dirty</i></a> modification
to an existing system. Contrast <a href="hacked-up.html"><i class="glossterm">hacked up</i></a>; compare
<a href="../K/kluge-up.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge up</i></a>, <a href="../M/monkey-up.html"><i class="glossterm">monkey up</i></a>,
<a href="../C/cruft-together.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft together</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-together.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack-value.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack together </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hack value</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hack value</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hack-up.html" title="hack up"/><link rel="next" href="hacked-off.html" title="hacked off"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hack value</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-up.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacked-off.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hack-value"/><dt xmlns="" id="hack-value"><b>hack value</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort
toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal
is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing
Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See
<a href="../D/display-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">display hack</i></a> for one method of computing hack value,
but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong
once said when asked to explain jazz: &#8220;<span class="quote">Man, if you gotta ask you'll
never know.</span>&#8221; (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of
rhythm: &#8220;<span class="quote">Lady, if you got to ask, you ain't got it.</span>&#8221;)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-up.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacked-off.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack up </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacked off</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hack</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html" title="ha ha only serious"/><link rel="next" href="hack-attack.html" title="hack attack"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hack</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack-attack.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hack"/><dt xmlns="" id="hack"><b>hack</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Originally, a quick job
that produces what is needed, but not well. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> An incredibly good, and
perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is
needed. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To bear emotionally or
physically. &#8220;<span class="quote">I can't hack this heat!</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To work on something
(typically a program). In an immediate sense: &#8220;<span class="quote">What are you
doing?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm hacking TECO.</span>&#8221; In a general
(time-extended) sense: &#8220;<span class="quote">What do you do around here?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">I
hack TECO.</span>&#8221; More generally, &#8220;<span class="quote">I hack <span class="firstterm">foo</span></span>&#8221; is roughly equivalent to
&#8220;<span class="quote"><span class="firstterm">foo</span> is my major interest (or
project)</span>&#8221;. &#8220;<span class="quote">I hack solid-state physics.</span>&#8221; See
<a href="Hacking-X-for-Y.html"><i class="glossterm">Hacking X for Y</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To pull a prank on. See
sense 2 and <a href="hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a> (sense 5). </p></dd><dd><p> 6. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To interact with a
computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Whatcha up to?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, just hacking.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 7. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Short for
<a href="hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 8. See <a href="../N/nethack.html"><i class="glossterm">nethack</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 9. [MIT] <span class="grammar">v.</span> To explore the
basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional
building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is
usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This
activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games
such as Dungeons and Dragons and <a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a>. See also
<a href="../V/vadding.html"><i class="glossterm">vadding</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Constructions on this term abound. They include <span class="firstterm">happy hacking</span> (a farewell), <span class="firstterm">how's hacking?</span> (a friendly greeting among
hackers) and <span class="firstterm">hack, hack</span> (a fairly
content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell).
For more on this totipotent term see <i class="citetitle">
<a href="../meaning-of-hack.html" title="The Meaning of &#8216;Hack&#8217;">The Meaning of Hack</a></i>. See also <a href="../N/neat-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">neat hack</i></a>,
<a href="../R/real-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">real hack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hack-attack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ha ha only serious </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hack attack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to
suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimized by
crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly
criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home
directory called &#8216;worm&#8217;, &#8216;lockpick&#8217;, or
&#8216;goroot&#8217; would probably be an effective (as well as
impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at
you.</p><p>It has been pointed out that there is precedent for this usage in
U.S. Navy slang, in which officers under discipline are sometimes said to
be &#8220;<span class="quote">in hack</span>&#8221; and one may speak of &#8220;<span class="quote">hacking off the
C.O.</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-value.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacked-up.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack value </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacked up</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare
<a href="../C/critical-mass.html"><i class="glossterm">critical mass</i></a>). Not all programs that are hacked become <span class="firstterm">hacked up</span>; if modifications are done with some
eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge
better for the experience. Contrast <a href="hack-up.html"><i class="glossterm">hack up</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacked-off.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacker.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hacked off </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacker</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by
writing open-source code and facilitating access to information and to
computing resources wherever possible. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is
ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach
of confidentiality.</p></dd><dd><p>Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no
means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the
hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away
open-source software. A few go further and assert that
<span class="emphasis"><em>all</em></span> information should be free and
<span class="emphasis"><em>any</em></span> proprietary control of it is bad; this is the
philosophy behind the <a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> project.</p><p>Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of
cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the
belief that &#8216;ethical&#8217; cracking excludes destruction at least
moderates the behavior of people who see themselves as &#8216;benign&#8217;
crackers (see also <a href="../S/samurai.html"><i class="glossterm">samurai</i></a>, <a href="../G/gray-hat.html"><i class="glossterm">gray
hat</i></a>). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of
hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the
sysop, preferably by email from a <a href="../S/superuser.html"><i class="glossterm">superuser</i></a> account,
exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged &#8212; acting as
an unpaid (and unsolicited) <a href="../T/tiger-team.html"><i class="glossterm">tiger team</i></a>.</p><p>The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic
is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks,
software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers.
Huge cooperative networks such as <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>,
<a href="../F/FidoNet.html"><i class="glossterm">FidoNet</i></a> and the Internet itself can function without
central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a
sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible
asset.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacker-humor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hacker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacker humor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hackers, having the following marked characteristics:</p><p>1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humor
having to do with confusion of metalevels (see
<a href="../M/meta.html"><i class="glossterm">meta</i></a>). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red
index card in front of him/her with &#8220;<span class="quote">GREEN</span>&#8221; written on it, or
vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time).</p><p>2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such
as specifications (see <a href="../W/write-only-memory.html"><i class="glossterm">write-only memory</i></a>), standards
documents, language descriptions (see <a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>), and
even entire scientific theories (see
<a href="../Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html"><i class="glossterm">quantum bogodynamics</i></a>, <a href="../C/computron.html"><i class="glossterm">computron</i></a>).</p><p>3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre,
ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises.</p><p>4. Fascination with puns and wordplay.</p><p>5. A fondness for apparently mindless humor with subversive currents
of intelligence in it &#8212; for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky
&amp; Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty
Python's Flying Circus. Humor that combines this trait with elements of
high camp and slapstick is especially favored.</p><p>6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in
Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See
<a href="has-the-X-nature.html"><i class="glossterm">has the X nature</i></a>, <a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a>,
<a href="../Z/zen.html"><i class="glossterm">zen</i></a>, <a href="ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>,
<a href="../K/koan.html"><i class="glossterm">koan</i></a>.</p><p>See also <a href="../F/filk.html"><i class="glossterm">filk</i></a>,
<a href="../R/retrocomputing.html"><i class="glossterm">retrocomputing</i></a>, and the Portrait of J. Random
Hacker in <a href="../appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker">Appendix B</a>. If you have an
itchy feeling that all six of these traits are really aspects of one thing
that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and
(b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though
in a less marked form) throughout <a href="../S/science-fiction-fandom.html"><i class="glossterm">science-fiction fandom</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacker-ethic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hackers-the-movie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hacker ethic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Hackers (the movie)</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer
to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the <i class="citetitle">Internet
Users' Glossary</i>, usefully amplifies this as: A person who
delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a
system, computers and computer networks in particular.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who
enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A person capable of appreciating
<a href="hack-value.html"><i class="glossterm">hack value</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does
work using it or on it; as in &#8216;a Unix hacker&#8217;. (Definitions 1
through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) </p></dd><dd><p> 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy
hacker, for example. </p></dd><dd><p> 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively
overcoming or circumventing limitations. </p></dd><dd><p> 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive
information by poking around. Hence <span class="firstterm">password
hacker</span>, <span class="firstterm">network hacker</span>.
The correct term for this sense is <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>The term &#8216;hacker&#8217; also tends to connote membership in the
global community defined by the net (see
<a href="../T/the-network.html"><i class="glossterm">the network</i></a>. For discussion of some of the basics of this culture,
see the <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html" target="_top"> How
To Become A Hacker</a> FAQ. It also implies that the person described
is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic (see
<a href="hacker-ethic.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker ethic</i></a>).</p><p>It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe
oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a
meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly
welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying
yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll
quickly be labeled <a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a>). See also
<a href="../G/geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>, <a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>.</p><p>This term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by
the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the MIT AI Lab. We have a report
that it was used in a sense close to this entry's by teenage radio hams and
electronics tinkerers in the mid-1950s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacked-up.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacker-ethic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hacked up </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacker ethic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one
longer than 12 hours. May cause you to <span class="firstterm">change
phase the hard way</span> (see <a href="../P/phase.html"><i class="glossterm">phase</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Hackers-the-movie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hacking-X-for-Y.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Hackers (the movie) </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Hacking X for Y</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/true-hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">true-hacker</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Hackintosh.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hackishness.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Hackintosh </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hackishness</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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

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that make something hairy. &#8220;<span class="quote">Decoding <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>
commands requires a certain amount of hair.</span>&#8221; Often seen in the
phrase <span class="firstterm">infinite hair</span>, which connotes
extreme complexity. Also in <span class="firstterm">hairiferous</span> (tending to promote hair growth):
&#8220;<span class="quote">GNUMACS elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing
modes.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right.</span>&#8221; (or
just: &#8220;<span class="quote">Hair squared!</span>&#8221;)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hackitude.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hairball.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hackitude </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hairball</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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network is failing to forward when it should. Often used in the phrase
&#8220;<span class="quote">Fido coughed up a hairball today</span>&#8221;, meaning that the stuck
messages have just come unstuck, producing a flood of mail where there had
previously been drought. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An unmanageably huge mass of source code. &#8220;<span class="quote">JWZ thought the
Mozilla effort bogged down because the code was a huge hairball.</span>&#8221;
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Any large amount of garbage coming out suddenly. &#8220;<span class="quote">Sendmail
is coughing up a hairball, so expect some slowness accessing the
Internet.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hair.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hairy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hair </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hairy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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incredibly hairy.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Incomprehensible. &#8220;<span class="quote"><a href="../D/DWIM.html"><i class="glossterm">DWIM</i></a> is
incredibly hairy.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or
incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context: &#8220;<span class="quote">He knows this
hairy lawyer who says there's nothing to worry about.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="hirsute.html"><i class="glossterm">hirsute</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>There is a theorem in simplicial homology theory which states that
any continuous tangent field on a 2-sphere is null at least in a point.
Mathematically literate hackers tend to associate the term
&#8216;hairy&#8217; with the informal version of this theorem; &#8220;<span class="quote">You
can't comb a hairy ball smooth.</span>&#8221; (Previous versions of this entry
associating the above informal statement with the Brouwer fixed-point
theorem were incorrect.)</p><p>The adjective &#8216;long-haired&#8217; is well-attested to have been
in slang use among scientists and engineers during the early 1950s; it was
equivalent to modern <span class="firstterm">hairy</span> senses 1
and 2, and was very likely ancestral to the hackish use. In fact the noun
&#8216;long-hair&#8217; was at the time used to describe a person
satisfying sense 3. Both senses probably passed out of use when long hair
was adopted as a signature trait by the 1960s counterculture, leaving
hackish <span class="firstterm">hairy</span> as a sort of stunted
mutant relic.</p><p>In British mainstream use, &#8220;<span class="quote">hairy</span>&#8221; means
&#8220;<span class="quote">dangerous</span>&#8221;, and consequently, in British programming terms,
&#8220;<span class="quote">hairy</span>&#8221; may be used to denote complicated and/or
incomprehensible code, but only if that complexity or incomprehesiveness is
also considered dangerous.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hairball.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HAKMEM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hairball </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> HAKMEM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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bulletin boards and <a href="../T/talker-system.html"><i class="glossterm">talker system</i></a>s. Syllables and
whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ASCII characters the names
of which are phonetically similar or equivalent, while multiple letters are
usually dropped. Hence, &#8216;for&#8217; becomes &#8216;4&#8217;;
&#8216;two&#8217;, &#8216;too&#8217;, and &#8216;to&#8217; become
&#8216;2&#8217;; &#8216;ck&#8217; becomes &#8216;k&#8217;. &#8220;<span class="quote">Before I
see you tomorrow</span>&#8221; becomes &#8220;<span class="quote">b4 i c u 2moro</span>&#8221;. First
appeared in London about 1986, and was probably caused by the slowness of
available talker systems, which operated on archaic machines with outdated
operating systems and no standard methods of communication.</p><p>Hakspek almost disappeared after the great bandwidth explosion of the
early 1990s, as fast Internet links wiped out the old-style talker systems.
However, it has enjoyed a revival in another medium &#8212; the Short Message
Service (SMS) associated with GSM cellphones. SMS sends are limited to a
maximum of 160 characters, and typing on a cellphone keypad is difficult
and slow anyway. There are now even published paper dictionaries for SMS
users to help them do hakspek-to-English and vice-versa.</p><p>See also <a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HAKMEM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Halloween-Documents.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">HAKMEM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Halloween Documents</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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incoming mail that the user actually wants to see.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Halloween-Documents.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hammer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Halloween Documents </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hammer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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one thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster
<a href="happily.html"><i class="glossterm">happily</i></a> spinning its exercise wheel.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A tailless mouse; that is, one with an infrared link to a
receiver on the machine, as opposed to the conventional cable.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. [UK] Any item of hardware made by Amstrad, a company famous for
its cheap plastic PC-almost-compatibles.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hammer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HAND.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hammer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> HAND</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sense 3.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HAND.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hand-hacking.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">HAND </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hand-hacking</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="hot-spot.html"><i class="glossterm">hot spot</i></a>s from an <a href="HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> into hand-tuned
assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating
better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See
<a href="../T/tune.html"><i class="glossterm">tune</i></a>, <a href="../B/by-hand.html"><i class="glossterm">by hand</i></a>; syn. with
<span class="grammar">v.</span> <a href="../C/cruft.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [common] More generally, manual construction or patching of data
sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and
interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or
modified by humans.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hand-cruft.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hand-roll.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hand cruft </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hand-roll</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a normally automated software installation or configuration process
<a href="../B/by-hand.html"><i class="glossterm">by hand</i></a>; implies that the normal process failed due
to bugs in the configurator or was defeated by something exceptional in the
local environment. &#8220;<span class="quote">The worst thing about being a gateway between
four different nets is having to hand-roll a new sendmail configuration
every time any of them upgrades.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hand-hacking.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="handle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hand-hacking </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> handle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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guerre</i></span> intended to conceal the user's true identity.
Network and BBS handles function as the same sort of simultaneous
concealment and display one finds on Citizen's Band radio, from which the
term was adopted. Use of grandiose handles is characteristic of
<a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>s,
<a href="../W/weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">weenie</i></a>s, <a href="../S/spod.html"><i class="glossterm">spod</i></a>s, and other
lower forms of network life; true hackers travel on their own reputations
rather than invented legendry. Compare <a href="../N/nick.html"><i class="glossterm">nick</i></a>,
<a href="../S/screen-name.html"><i class="glossterm">screen name</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A <a href="../M/magic-cookie.html"><i class="glossterm">magic cookie</i></a>, often in the form of a
numeric index into some array somewhere, through which you can manipulate
an object like a file or window. The form <span class="firstterm">file
handle</span> is especially common. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Mac] A pointer to a pointer to dynamically-allocated memory; the
extra level of indirection allows on-the-fly memory compaction (to cut down
on fragmentation) or aging out of unused resources, with minimal impact on
the (possibly multiple) parts of the larger program containing references
to the allocated memory. Compare <a href="../S/snap.html"><i class="glossterm">snap</i></a> (to snap a
handle would defeat its purpose); see also
<a href="../A/aliasing-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">aliasing bug</i></a>, <a href="../D/dangling-pointer.html"><i class="glossterm">dangling pointer</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hand-roll.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="handshaking.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hand-roll </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> handshaking</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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keep two machines or programs in synchronization as they
<a href="../D/do-protocol.html"><i class="glossterm">do protocol</i></a>. Often applied to human activity; thus, a hacker
might watch two people in conversation nodding their heads to indicate that
they have heard each others' points and say &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, they're
handshaking!</span>&#8221;. See also <a href="../P/protocol.html"><i class="glossterm">protocol</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="handle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="handwave.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">handle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> handwave</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point
with blatantly faulty logic. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The act of handwaving.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Boy, what a handwave!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p>If someone starts a sentence with &#8220;<span class="quote">Clearly...</span>&#8221; or
&#8220;<span class="quote">Obviously...</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">It is self-evident
that...</span>&#8221;, it is a good bet he is about to handwave
(alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a
paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The
theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment,
the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you
have said is <a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a>. Failing that, if a listener
does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your
hand.</p><p>The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up,
palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the
elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave);
alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the
hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone
can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported
assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation,
far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is
faulty.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="handshaking.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hang.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">handshaking </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hang</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed
drive</span>&#8221;. See <a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>,
<a href="hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To wait for some event to occur; to hang around until something
happens. &#8220;<span class="quote">The program displays a menu and then hangs until you type
a character.</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="../B/block.html"><i class="glossterm">block</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. To attach a peripheral device, esp. in the construction
&#8216;hang off&#8217;: &#8220;<span class="quote">We're going to hang another tape drive off
the file server.</span>&#8221; Implies a device attached with cables, rather than
something that is strictly inside the machine's chassis.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="handwave.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hanlons-Razor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">handwave </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Hanlon's Razor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled
into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of
&#8216;happy&#8217; here is not that of elation, but rather that of
blissful ignorance. &#8220;<span class="quote">The program continues to run, happily unaware
that its output is going to /dev/null.</span>&#8221; Also used to suggest that a
program or device would really rather be doing something destructive, and
is being given an opportunity to do so. &#8220;<span class="quote">If you enter an O here
instead of a zero, the program will happily erase all your data.</span>&#8221;
Nevertheless, use of this term implies a basically benign attitude towards
the program: It didn't mean any harm, it was just eager to do its job. We'd
like to be angry at it but we shouldn't, we should try to understand it
instead. The adjective &#8220;<span class="quote">cheerfully</span>&#8221; is often used in exactly
the same way.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Hanlons-Razor.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hard-boot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Hanlon's Razor </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hard boot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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cannot be easily modified, as opposed to data in some
<a href="../P/profile.html"><i class="glossterm">profile</i></a>, resource (see
<a href="../D/de-rezz.html"><i class="glossterm">de-rezz</i></a> sense 2), or environment variable that a
<a href="../U/user.html"><i class="glossterm">user</i></a> or hacker can easily modify. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In C, this is esp. applied to use of a literal instead of a
<b class="command">#define</b> macro (see
<a href="../M/magic-number.html"><i class="glossterm">magic number</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hard-boot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hardwarily.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hard boot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hardwarily</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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unreliable.</span>&#8221; The adjective &#8216;hardwary&#8217; is
<span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> traditionally used, though it has recently been
reported from the U.K. See <a href="../S/softwarily.html"><i class="glossterm">softwarily</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hardcoded.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hardwired.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hardcoded </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hardwired</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sense of customizable to one's particular needs or tastes.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hardwarily.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="has-the-X-nature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hardwarily </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> has the X nature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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X have the Buddha-nature?</span>&#8221;] <span class="grammar">adj.</span>
Common hacker construction for &#8216;is an X&#8217;, used for humorous
emphasis. &#8220;<span class="quote">Anyone who can't even use a program with on-screen help
embedded in it truly has the <a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a> nature!</span>&#8221;
See also <a href="../T/the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html"><i class="glossterm">the X that can be Y is not the true X</i></a>. See
also <a href="../M/mu.html"><i class="glossterm">mu</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hardwired.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hash-bucket.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hardwired </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hash bucket</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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data items for sorting or lookup purposes. When you look up a name in the
phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first
letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections.
This term is used as techspeak with respect to code that uses actual hash
functions; in jargon, it is used for human associative memory as well.
Thus, two things &#8216;in the same hash bucket&#8217; are more difficult
to discriminate, and may be confused. &#8220;<span class="quote">If you hash English words
only by length, you get too many common grammar words in the first couple
of hash buckets.</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="hash-collision.html"><i class="glossterm">hash
collision</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="has-the-X-nature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hash-collision.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">has the X nature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hash collision</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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clash</span>) When used of people, signifies a confusion in associative
memory or imagination, especially a persistent one (see
<a href="../T/thinko.html"><i class="glossterm">thinko</i></a>). True story: One of us [ESR] was once on
the phone with a friend about to move out to Berkeley. When asked what he
expected Berkeley to be like, the friend replied: &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, I have this
mental picture of naked women throwing Molotov cocktails, but I think
that's just a collision in my hash tables.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="hash-bucket.html"><i class="glossterm">hash bucket</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hash-bucket.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hash bucket </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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1011110) character. See <a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a> for other
synonyms.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hash-collision.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HCF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hash collision </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> HCF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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outside the focus area is missed. See also
<a href="hack-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">hack mode</i></a> and <a href="../L/larval-stage.html"><i class="glossterm">larval stage</i></a>, although this
mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HCF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heartbeat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">HCF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> heartbeat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of every packet to show that the collision-detection circuit is still
connected. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A periodic synchronization signal used by software or hardware,
such as a bus clock or a periodic interrupt. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The &#8216;natural&#8217; oscillation frequency of a computer's
clock crystal, before frequency division down to the machine's clock rate.
</p></dd><dd><p> 4. A signal emitted at regular intervals by software to demonstrate
that it is still alive. Sometimes hardware is designed to reboot the
machine if it stops hearing a heartbeat. See also
<a href="../B/breath-of-life-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">breath-of-life packet</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heads-down.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heatseeker.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heads down </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> heatseeker</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of
the <a href="../L/lunatic-fringe.html"><i class="glossterm">lunatic fringe</i></a>). A 1993 example of a heatseeker
was someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3.0, went out and bought
Windows 3.1 (which offers no worthwhile benefits unless you have a 386).
If all customers were heatseekers, vast amounts of money could be made by
just fixing some of the bugs in each release (n) and selling it to them as
release (n+1). Microsoft in fact seems to have mastered this
technique.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heartbeat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heavy-metal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heartbeat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> heavy metal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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experience of a particular operating system or language or complex
application interface. Distinguished from
<a href="../D/deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>, which trades more on arcane
<span class="emphasis"><em>theoretical</em></span> knowledge. Writing device drivers is
heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> (sense 2)
without a toolkit. Esp.: found in source-code comments of the form
&#8220;<span class="quote">Heavy wizardry begins here</span>&#8221;. Compare
<a href="../V/voodoo-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">voodoo programming</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heavy-metal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heavyweight.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heavy metal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> heavyweight</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication
protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which
maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the
expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and
startup time. <a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> is a heavyweight editor;
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> is an <span class="emphasis"><em>extremely</em></span> heavyweight
window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is
another's <a href="../E/elephantine.html"><i class="glossterm">elephantine</i></a> and a third's
<a href="../M/monstrosity.html"><i class="glossterm">monstrosity</i></a>. Oppose <span class="firstterm">lightweight</span>. Usage: now borders on techspeak,
especially in the compound <span class="firstterm">heavyweight
process</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heavy-wizardry.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hed-Rat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heavy wizardry </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Hed Rat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or
isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a
debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment significantly
enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of
uninitialized memory, behaves quite differently.) Antonym of
<a href="../B/Bohr-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">Bohr bug</i></a>; see also <a href="../M/mandelbug.html"><i class="glossterm">mandelbug</i></a>,
<a href="../S/schroedinbug.html"><i class="glossterm">schroedinbug</i></a>. In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs
result from uninitialized auto variables,
<a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a> phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the
malloc <a href="../A/arena.html"><i class="glossterm">arena</i></a>) or errors that
<a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the stack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Hed-Rat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hell-desk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Hed Rat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hell desk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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people who have to answer phones at one.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heisenbug.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hello-sailor-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heisenbug </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hello sailor!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="hello-world.html"><i class="glossterm">hello world</i></a>; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with
the game <a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a> (which also included &#8220;<span class="quote">hello,
aviator</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">hello, implementor</span>&#8221;). Originally from
the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of
course. The standard response is &#8220;<span class="quote">Nothing happens here.</span>&#8221;; of
all the Zork/Dungeon games, only in Infocom's Zork 3 is &#8220;<span class="quote">Hello,
Sailor</span>&#8221; actually useful (excluding the unique situation where
_knowing_ this fact is important in Dungeon...).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hell-desk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hello-world.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hell desk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hello world</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message (a
representative sample in various languages can be found at <a href="http://www.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/" target="_top">http://www.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/</a>).
Traditionally, the first program a C coder is supposed to write in a new
environment is one that just prints &#8220;<span class="quote">hello, world</span>&#8221; to standard
output (and indeed it is the first example program in <a href="../K/K-ampersand-R.html"><i class="glossterm">K&amp;R</i></a>). Environments that generate
an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a
<a href="hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a> compiler-linker invocation to generate it are
considered to <a href="../L/lose.html"><i class="glossterm">lose</i></a> (see <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>).
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Greeting uttered by a hacker making an entrance or requesting
information from anyone present. &#8220;<span class="quote">Hello, world! Is the LAN back up
yet?</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hello-sailor-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hello--wall-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hello sailor! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hello, wall!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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2). Neither usage has anything to do with <a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a> or
<a href="../B/black-art.html"><i class="glossterm">black art</i></a>, though the pun is appreciated and
occasionally used by hackers. True story: As a joke, some hackers once
offered some surplus ICs for sale to be worn as protective amulets against
hostile magic. The chips were, of course, hex inverters.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hello--wall-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hexadecimal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hello, wall! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hexadecimal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.</p></dd><dd><p>Actually, neither term is etymologically pure. If we take <span class="firstterm">binary</span> to be paradigmatic, the most
etymologically correct term for base 10, for example, is
&#8216;denary&#8217;, which comes from &#8216;deni&#8217; (ten at a time,
ten each), a Latin <span class="firstterm">distributive</span>
number; the corresponding term for base-16 would be something like
&#8216;sendenary&#8217;. &#8220;<span class="quote">Decimal</span>&#8221; comes from the combining
root of <span class="firstterm">decem</span>, Latin for 10. If wish
to create a truly analogous word for base 16, we should start with
<span class="firstterm">sedecim</span>, Latin for 16. Ergo,
<span class="firstterm">sedecimal</span> is the word that would have
been created by a Latin scholar. The &#8216;sexa-&#8217; prefix is Latin
but incorrect in this context, and
<i class="wordasword">&#8216;hexa-</i>&#8217; is Greek. The word <span class="firstterm">octal</span> is similarly incorrect; a correct form
would be &#8216;octaval&#8217; (to go with decimal), or
&#8216;octonary&#8217; (to go with binary). If anyone ever implements a
base-3 computer, computer scientists will be faced with the unprecedented
dilemma of a choice between two <span class="emphasis"><em>correct</em></span> forms; both
<span class="firstterm">ternary</span> and <span class="firstterm">trinary</span> have a claim to this throne.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hex.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hexit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hex </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hexit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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claim that there are only <span class="emphasis"><em>ten</em></span> digits, dammit;
sixteen-fingered human beings are rather rare, despite what some keyboard
designs might seem to imply (see
<a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet keyboard</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hexadecimal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HHOK.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hexadecimal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> HHOK</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit
input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the
programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of
the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can
make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common
wherever programs are hacked on in a hurry.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HHOS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="high-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">HHOS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> high bit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>high bit</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hidden-flag.html" title="hidden flag"/><link rel="next" href="high-moby.html" title="high moby"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">high bit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hidden-flag.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="high-moby.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="high-bit"/><dt xmlns="" id="high-bit"><b>high bit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from <span class="firstterm">high-order bit</span>] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The most significant bit in a byte. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [common] By extension, the most significant part of something
other than a data byte: &#8220;<span class="quote">Spare me the whole
<a href="../S/saga.html"><i class="glossterm">saga</i></a>, just give me the high bit.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../M/meta-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">meta bit</i></a>,
<a href="../D/dread-high-bit-disease.html"><i class="glossterm">dread high-bit disease</i></a>, and compare the mainstream
slang <span class="firstterm">bottom line</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hidden-flag.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="high-moby.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hidden flag </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> high moby</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has
been generalized in a way that has outlasted the
<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C.
Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted
in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's
last <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> machines, the one on the upper floor was
dubbed the &#8216;high moby&#8217; and the other the &#8216;low
moby&#8217;. All parties involved <a href="../G/grok.html"><i class="glossterm">grok</i></a>ked this
instantly. See <a href="../M/moby.html"><i class="glossterm">moby</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="high-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="highly.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">high bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> highly</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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understatement. As in: <span class="firstterm">highly
nonoptimal</span>, the worst possible way to do something; <span class="firstterm">highly nontrivial</span>, either impossible or
requiring a major research project; <span class="firstterm">highly
nonlinear</span>, completely erratic and unpredictable; <span class="firstterm">highly nontechnical</span>, drivel written for
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s, oversimplified to the point of being
misleading or incorrect (compare <a href="../D/drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>).
In other computing cultures, postfixing of
<a href="../I/in-the-extreme.html"><i class="glossterm">in the extreme</i></a> might be preferred.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="high-moby.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">high moby </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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intentional use among players of <a href="../I/initgame.html"><i class="glossterm">initgame</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../N/newsfroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsfroup</i></a>, <a href="../F/filk.html"><i class="glossterm">filk</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="highly.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hired-gun.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">highly </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hired gun</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the connotations of this term suggested by innumerable spaghetti Westerns
are intentional.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hirsute.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hirsute</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which
noticeably degrade interactive response. <span class="emphasis"><em>Not</em></span> used of
programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely
painfully slow themselves. More often than not encountered in qualified
forms, e.g., <span class="firstterm">memory hog</span>, <span class="firstterm">core hog</span>, <span class="firstterm">hog the
processor</span>, <span class="firstterm">hog the disk</span>.
&#8220;<span class="quote">A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the
bus-hog timer expires.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Also said of <span class="emphasis"><em>people</em></span> who use more than their
fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many
people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they
typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that
they have an important new project to complete.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hoarding.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hole.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hoarding </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hole</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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not actually present. For example, some Unix filesystems can store large
files with holes so that unused regions of the file are never actually
stored on disk. (In techspeak, these are referred to as
&#8216;sparse&#8217; files.) As another example, the region of memory in
IBM PCs reserved for memory-mapped I/O devices which may not actually be
present is called &#8216;the I/O hole&#8217;, since memory-management
systems must skip over this area when filling user requests for
memory.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hog.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hollised.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hog </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hollised</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hollised is to have been ordered by one's employer not to post any even
remotely job-related material to Usenet (or, by extension, to other
Internet media). The original and most notorious case of this involved one
Ken Hollis, a Lockheed employee and space-program enthusiast who posted
publicly available material on access to Space Shuttle launches to
<tt class="systemitem">sci.space</tt>. He was gagged under
threat of being fired in 1994 at the behest of NASA public-relations
officers. The result was, of course, a huge publicity black eye for NASA.
Nevertheless several other NASA contractor employees were subsequently
hollised for similar activities. Use of this term carries the strong
connotation that the persons doing the gagging are bureaucratic idiots
blinded to their own best interests by territorial reflexes.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hole.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="holy-penguin-pee.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hole </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> holy penguin pee</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/Linus.html"><i class="glossterm">Linus</i></a> onto other people's contributions. With this
ritual, he blesses them, officially making them part of the kernel. First
used in November 1998 just after Linus had handed the maintenance of the
stable kernel over to Alan Cox.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hollised.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="holy-wars.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hollised </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> holy wars</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="grammar">n.</span> <a href="../F/flame-war.html"><i class="glossterm">flame war</i></a>s
over <a href="../R/religious-issues.html"><i class="glossterm">religious issues</i></a>. The paper by Danny Cohen
that popularized the terms <a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a> and
<a href="../L/little-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">little-endian</i></a> in connection with the
LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled <i class="citetitle">On Holy Wars and a
Plea for Peace</i>.</p><p>Great holy wars of the past have included <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>
vs.: <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>, <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> vs.:
<a href="../V/VMS.html"><i class="glossterm">VMS</i></a>, <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix vs.: System V,
<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a> vs.: <a href="../P/Pascal.html"><i class="glossterm">Pascal</i></a>,
<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a> vs.: FORTRAN, etc. In the year 2003, popular
favorites of the day are KDE vs, GNOME, vim vs. elvis, Linux
vs. [Free|Net|Open]BSD. Hardy perennials include
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> vs.: <a href="../V/vi.html"><i class="glossterm">vi</i></a>, my personal
computer vs.: everyone else's personal computer, ad nauseam. The
characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes
is that in a holy war most of the participants spend their time trying to
pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective
technical evaluations. This happens precisely because in a true holy war,
the actual substantive differences between the sides are relatively minor.
See also <a href="../T/theology.html"><i class="glossterm">theology</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="holy-penguin-pee.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="home-box.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">holy penguin pee </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> home box</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">Yeah? Well, <span class="emphasis"><em>my</em></span> home box runs a full 4.4 BSD,
so there!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="holy-wars.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="home-machine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">holy wars </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> home machine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but
reads email at work.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="home-box.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="home-page.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">home box </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> home page</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8216;home page&#8217; is perhaps a bit misleading because home
directories and physical homes in <a href="../R/RL.html"><i class="glossterm">RL</i></a> are private,
but home pages are designed to be very public. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, a WWW repository for information and links related
to a project or organization. Compare
<a href="home-box.html"><i class="glossterm">home box</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="home-machine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="honey-pot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">home machine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> honey pot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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they can be observed in action. It is usually well isolated from the rest
of the network, but has extensive logging (usually network layer, on a
different machine). Different from an <a href="../I/iron-box.html"><i class="glossterm">iron box</i></a> in
that its purpose is to attract, not merely observe. Sometimes, it is also
a defensive network security tactic &#8212; you set up an easy-to-crack box so
that your real servers don't get messed with. The concept was presented in
Cheswick &amp; Bellovin's book <i class="citetitle">Firewalls and Internet
Security</i>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A mail server that acts as an open relay when a single message is
attempted to send through it, but discards or diverts for examination
messages that are detected to be part of a spam run.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="home-page.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hook.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">home page </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hook</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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additions or changes by a user. For example, a simple program that prints
numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version
would let a variable determine what base to use; setting the variable to 5
would make the program print numbers in base 5. The variable is a simple
hook. An even more flexible program might examine the variable and treat a
value of 16 or less as the base to use, but treat any other number as the
address of a user-supplied routine for printing a number. This is a
<a href="hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a> but powerful hook; one can then write a
routine to print numbers as Roman numerals, say, or as Hebrew characters,
and plug it into the program through the hook. Often the difference
between a good program and a superb one is that the latter has useful hooks
in judiciously chosen places. Both may do the original job about equally
well, but the one with the hooks is much more flexible for future expansion
of capabilities (<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>, for example, is
<span class="emphasis"><em>all</em></span> hooks). The term <span class="firstterm">user
exit</span> is synonymous but much more formal and less hackish.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="honey-pot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hop.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">honey pot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hop</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on
a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including
the old UUCP network and and <a href="../F/FidoNet.html"><i class="glossterm">FidoNet</i></a>), an
important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path
between them, which can be more significant than their geographical
separation. See <a href="../B/bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang path</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> [rare] To log in to a
remote machine, esp. via rlogin or telnet. &#8220;<span class="quote">I'll hop over to foovax
to FTP that.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hook.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="horked.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hook </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> horked</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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There is an entertaining web page of <a href="http://www.syddware.com/hork.html" target="_top">related definitions</a>, few of
which seem to be in live use but many of which would be in the recognition
vocabulary of anyone familiar with the adjective.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hop.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hose.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hop </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hose</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hose</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="horked.html" title="horked"/><link rel="next" href="hosed.html" title="hosed"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hose</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="horked.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hosed.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hose"/><dt xmlns="" id="hose"><b>hose</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> [common] To make
non-functional or greatly degraded in performance. &#8220;<span class="quote">That big
ray-tracing program really hoses the system.</span>&#8221; See
<a href="hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A narrow channel through
which data flows under pressure. Generally denotes data paths that
represent performance bottlenecks. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Cabling, especially thick
Ethernet cable. This is sometimes called <span class="firstterm">bit
hose</span> or <span class="firstterm">hosery</span> (play on
&#8216;hosiery&#8217;) or &#8216;etherhose&#8217;. See also
<a href="../W/washing-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">washing machine</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="horked.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hosed.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">horked </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hosed</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hosed</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hose.html" title="hose"/><link rel="next" href="hot-chat.html" title="hot chat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hosed</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hose.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hot-chat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hosed"/><dt xmlns="" id="hosed"><b>hosed</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Same as <a href="../D/down.html"><i class="glossterm">down</i></a>. Used primarily by Unix
hackers. Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy
to reverse. Probably derived from the Canadian slang &#8216;hoser&#8217;
popularized by the Bob and Doug Mackenzie skits on SCTV, but this usage
predated SCTV by years in hackerdom (it was certainly already live at CMU
in the 1970s). See <a href="hose.html"><i class="glossterm">hose</i></a>. It is also widely used of
people in the mainstream sense of &#8216;in an extremely unfortunate
situation&#8217;.</p><p>Once upon a time, a Cray that had been experiencing periodic
difficulties crashed, and it was announced to have been hosed. It was
discovered that the crash was due to the disconnection of some coolant
hoses. The problem was corrected, and users were then assured that
everything was OK because the system had been rehosed. See also
<a href="../D/dehose.html"><i class="glossterm">dehose</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hose.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hot-chat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hose </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hot chat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/teledildonics.html"><i class="glossterm">teledildonics</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hosed.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hot-spot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hosed </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hot spot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90%
of the execution time; if one were to graph instruction visits versus code
addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of
low-level noise. Such spikes are called <span class="firstterm">hot
spots</span> and are good candidates for heavy optimization or
<a href="hand-hacking.html"><i class="glossterm">hand-hacking</i></a>. The term is especially used of tight
loops and recursions in the code's central algorithm, as opposed to (say)
initial set-up costs or large but infrequent I/O operations. See
<a href="../T/tune.html"><i class="glossterm">tune</i></a>, <a href="hand-hacking.html"><i class="glossterm">hand-hacking</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The active location of a cursor on a bit-map display. &#8220;<span class="quote">Put
the mouse's hot spot on the &#8216;ON&#8217; widget and click the left
button.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A screen region that is sensitive to mouse gestures, which
trigger some action. World Wide Web pages now provide the
<a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> examples; WWW browsers present hypertext
links as hot spots which, when clicked on, point the browser at another
document (these are specifically called
<a href="hotlink.html"><i class="glossterm">hotlink</i></a>s).</p></dd><dd><p> 4. In a massively parallel computer with shared memory, the one
location that all 10,000 processors are trying to read or write at once
(perhaps because they are all doing a <a href="../B/busy-wait.html"><i class="glossterm">busy-wait</i></a> on
the same lock). </p></dd><dd><p> 5. More generally, any place in a hardware design that turns into a
performance bottleneck due to resource contention.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hot-chat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hotlink.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hot chat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hotlink</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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which, when clicked or selected, chases a URL. Also spelled &#8216;hot
link&#8217;. Use of this term focuses on the link's role as an immediate
part of your display, as opposed to the timeless sense of logical
connection suggested by <a href="../W/web-pointer.html"><i class="glossterm">web pointer</i></a>. Your screen
shows hotlinks but your document has web pointers, not (in normal usage)
the other way around.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hot-spot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="house-wizard.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hot spot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> house wizard</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&amp;D, or systems position at a
commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of
all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a
suit. Used esp. of Unix wizards. The term <span class="firstterm">house guru</span> is equivalent.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hotlink.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HP-SUX.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hotlink </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> HP-SUX</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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such methods have been called &#8216;HUFF&#8217; or some variant thereof.
Oppose <a href="../P/puff.html"><i class="glossterm">puff</i></a>. Compare <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>,
<a href="../C/compress.html"><i class="glossterm">compress</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HTH.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hung.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">HTH </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hung</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>, but more common at Unix/C sites. Not
generally used of people. Syn. with <a href="../L/locked-up.html"><i class="glossterm">locked up</i></a>,
<a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>; compare <a href="hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a>. See
also <a href="hang.html"><i class="glossterm">hang</i></a>. A hung state is distinguished from
<a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>ed or <a href="../D/down.html"><i class="glossterm">down</i></a>, where the
program or system is also unusable but because it is not running rather
than because it is waiting for something. However, the recovery from both
situations is often the same. It is also distinguished from the similar
but more drastic state <a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a> &#8212; hung software can
be woken up with easy things like interrupt keys, but wedged will need a
kill -9 or even reboot.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="huff.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hungry-puppy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">huff </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hungry puppy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hungus</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hungry-puppy.html" title="hungry puppy"/><link rel="next" href="hyperspace.html" title="hyperspace"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hungus</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hungry-puppy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hyperspace.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hungus"/><dt xmlns="" id="hungus"><b>hungus</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/huhng´g@s/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [perhaps related to slang &#8216;humongous&#8217;] Large, unwieldy,
usually unmanageable. &#8220;<span class="quote">TCP is a hungus piece of code.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">This is a hungus set of modifications.</span>&#8221; The
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Zork</i> included two monsters called hunguses.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hungry-puppy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hyperspace.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hungry puppy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hyperspace</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hyperspace</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hungus.html" title="hungus"/><link rel="next" href="hysterical-reasons.html" title="hysterical reasons"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hyperspace</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hungus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hysterical-reasons.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hyperspace"/><dt xmlns="" id="hyperspace"><b>hyperspace</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/hi:´per·spays/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A memory location that is <span class="emphasis"><em>far</em></span> away from where
the program counter should be pointing, especially a place that is
inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Another core dump &#8212; looks like the program jumped off to
hyperspace somehow.</span>&#8221; (Compare
<a href="../J/jump-off-into-never-never-land.html"><i class="glossterm">jump off into never-never land</i></a>.) This usage is from the SF notion of a spaceship jumping
<span class="firstterm">into hyperspace</span>, that is, taking a
shortcut through higher-dimensional space &#8212; in other words, bypassing
this universe. The variant <span class="firstterm">east
hyperspace</span> is recorded among CMU and Bliss hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hungus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hysterical-reasons.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hungus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hysterical reasons</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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