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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>I didn't change anything!</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="next" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html" title="I see no X here."/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">I didn't change anything!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../I.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="I-didn-t-change-anything-"/><dt xmlns="" id="I-didn-t-change-anything-"><b>I didn't change anything!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">interj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression
test. The <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> reply to this assertion is
&#8220;<span class="quote">Then it works just the same as it did before, doesn't it?</span>&#8221;
See also <a href="../O/one-line-fix.html"><i class="glossterm">one-line fix</i></a>. This is also heard from
applications programmers trying to blame an obvious applications problem on
an unrelated systems software change, for example a divide-by-0 fault after
terminals were added to a network. Usually, their statement is found to be
false. Upon close questioning, they will admit some major restructuring of
the program that shouldn't have broken anything, in their opinion, but
which actually <a href="../H/hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a> the code completely.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../I.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">I </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> I see no X here.</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>I for one welcome our new X overlords</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html" title="I see no X here."/><link rel="next" href="IANAL.html" title="IANAL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">I for one welcome our new X overlords</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IANAL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="I-for-one-welcome-our-new-X-overlords"/><dt xmlns="" id="I-for-one-welcome-our-new-X-overlords"><b>I for one welcome our new X overlords</b></dt></dt><dd><p>Variants of this phrase with various values of X came into common use
in 2002-2003, generally used to suggest that whatever party referred to as
the new overlords is deeply evil. In the original
<i class="citetitle">Simpsons</i> episode <a href="http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-146/epid-1381/" target="_top">(#96,
<i class="citetitle">Homer In Space</i>)</a> X = &#8220;<span class="quote">insect</span>&#8221;
and th line is part of a speech in which a smarmy newscaster expresses his
willingness to collaborate with an invading race of giant space
ants.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IANAL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">I see no X here. </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> IANAL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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traditionally favor this slightly marked usage over other possible
equivalents such as &#8220;<span class="quote">There's no X here!</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">X is
missing.</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">Where's the X?</span>&#8221;. This goes back to the
original PDP-10 <a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a>, which would respond in this
wise if you asked it to do something involving an object not present at
your location in the game.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="I-didn-t-change-anything-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="I-for-one-welcome-our-new-X-overlords.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">I didn't change anything! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> I for one welcome our new X overlords</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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precedes legal advice.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="I-for-one-welcome-our-new-X-overlords.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IBM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">I for one welcome our new X overlords </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> IBM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>IBM</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="IANAL.html" title="IANAL"/><link rel="next" href="ICBM-address.html" title="ICBM address"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">IBM</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IANAL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ICBM-address.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="IBM"/><dt xmlns="" id="IBM"><b>IBM</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/I·B·M/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Once upon a time, the computer company most hackers loved to hate;
today, the one they are most puzzled to find themselves liking.</p><p>From hackerdom's beginnings in the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, IBM
was regarded with active loathing. Common expansions of the corporate name
included: Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious Black
Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a
near-<a href="infinite.html"><i class="glossterm">infinite</i></a> number of even less complimentary
expansions (see also <a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>). What
galled hackers about most IBM machines above the PC level wasn't so much
that they were underpowered and overpriced (though that counted against
them), but that the designs were incredibly archaic,
<a href="../C/crufty.html"><i class="glossterm">crufty</i></a>, and <a href="../E/elephantine.html"><i class="glossterm">elephantine</i></a>
... and you couldn't <span class="emphasis"><em>fix</em></span> them &#8212; source
code was locked up tight, and programming tools were expensive, hard to
find, and bletcherous to use once you had found them.</p><p>We didn't know how good we had it back then. In the 1980s IBM had
its own troubles with Microsoft and lost its strategic way, receding from
the hacker community's view. Then, in the 1990s, Microsoft became more
noxious and omnipresent than IBM had ever been.</p><p>In the late 1990s IBM re-invented itself as a services company, began
to release open-source software through its AlphaWorks group, and began
shipping <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> systems and building ties to the
Linux community. To the astonishment of all parties, IBM emerged as a
staunch friend of the hacker community and
<a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a> development, with ironic consequences
noted in the <a href="../F/FUD.html"><i class="glossterm">FUD</i></a> entry.</p><p>This lexicon includes a number of entries attributed to
&#8216;IBM&#8217;; these derive from some rampantly unofficial jargon lists
circulated within IBM's formerly beleaguered hacker underground.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IANAL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ICBM-address.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IANAL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ICBM address</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project, back before
the day of pervasive Internet, included a blank for longitude and latitude,
preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This was actually used for
generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter;
however, it became traditional to refer to this as one's <span class="firstterm">ICBM address</span> or <span class="firstterm">missile address</span>, and some people include it in
their <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a> with that name. (A real missile
address would include target elevation.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IBM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ice.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IBM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ice</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>IDP</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="idempotent.html" title="idempotent"/><link rel="next" href="If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-.html" title="If you want X, you know where to find it."/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">IDP</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="idempotent.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="IDP"/><dt xmlns="" id="IDP"><b>IDP</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/I·D·P/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.,n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] Abbreviation for
<a href="Internet-Death-Penalty.html"><i class="glossterm">Internet Death Penalty</i></a>. Common (probably now more so than the full form), and
frequently verbed. Compare <a href="../U/UDP.html"><i class="glossterm">UDP</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="idempotent.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">idempotent </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> If you want X, you know where to find it.</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Opinion&#8217;] &#8220;<span class="quote">IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as
mistyping something in the wrong case can cause hard-to-detect errors
&#8212; and they look too Pascalish anyhow.</span>&#8221; Also seen in variant
forms such as IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion) and IMAO (In My Arrogant
Opinion).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ill-behaved.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Predicted-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ill-behaved </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>INTERCAL</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="installfest.html" title="installfest"/><link rel="next" href="InterCaps.html" title="InterCaps"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">INTERCAL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="installfest.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="InterCaps.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="INTERCAL"/><dt xmlns="" id="INTERCAL"><b>INTERCAL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/in´t@r·kal/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [said by the authors to stand for <span class="firstterm">Compiler Language With No Pronounceable
Acronym</span>] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James
Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer
languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being
totally unspeakable. An excerpt from the INTERCAL Reference Manual will
make the style of the language clear:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>It is a well-known and oft-demonstrated fact that a person whose work is
incomprehensible is held in high esteem. For example, if one were to state
that the simplest way to store a value of 65536 in a 32-bit INTERCAL variable
is:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
DO :1 &lt;- #0$#256<br/>
</p></div><p>any sensible programmer would say that that was absurd. Since this is
indeed the simplest method, the programmer would be made to look foolish in
front of his boss, who would of course have happened to turn up, as bosses are
wont to do. The effect would be no less devastating for the programmer having
been correct.</p></blockquote></div><p>INTERCAL has many other peculiar features designed to make it even
more unspeakable. The Woods-Lyons implementation was actually used by many
(well, at least several) people at Princeton. The language has been
recently reimplemented as C-INTERCAL and is consequently enjoying an
unprecedented level of unpopularity; there is even an <tt class="systemitem">alt.lang.intercal</tt> newsgroup devoted to the
study and ... appreciation of the language on Usenet.</p><p>Inevitably, INTERCAL has a home page on the Web: <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/" target="_top">http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/</a>. An
extended version, implemented in (what else?) <a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a>
and adding object-oriented features, is rumored to exist. See also
<a href="../B/Befunge.html"><i class="glossterm">Befunge</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="installfest.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="InterCaps.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">installfest </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> InterCaps</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that allows one to converse with others in real time. IRC is structured as
a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from
client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the
<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> and <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> communities
overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have
discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been
adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as
<a href="../E/emoticon.html"><i class="glossterm">emoticon</i></a>s. There is also a vigorous native jargon,
represented in this lexicon by entries marked &#8216;[IRC]&#8217;. 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="intro.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="iron.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">intro </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> iron</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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where the milk is poured into the cup before the tea. Variations are ISO
0, with no sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of sugar; and so on.</p><p>This may derive from the &#8220;<span class="quote">NATO standard</span>&#8221; cup of coffee
and tea (milk and two sugars), military slang going back to the late 1950s
and parodying NATO's relentless bureaucratic drive to standardize parts
across European and U.S. militaries.</p><p>Like many ISO standards, this one has a faintly alien ring in North
America, where hackers generally shun the decadent British practice of
adulterating perfectly good tea with dairy products and prefer instead to
add a wedge of lemon, if anything. If one were feeling extremely silly,
one might hypothesize an analogous <span class="firstterm">ANSI standard
cup of tea</span> and wind up with a political situation distressingly
similar to several that arise in much more serious technical contexts.
(Milk and lemon don't mix very well.)</p></dd><dd><p>[2000 update: There is now, in fact, an ISO standard 3103:
&#8216;Method for preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory
tests.&#8217;, alleged to be equivalent to British Standard BS6008:
<i class="citetitle">How to make a standard cup of tea.</i>
&#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ironmonger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ISP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ironmonger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ISP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that barely existed before 1993. ISPs sell Internet access to the mass
market. While the big nationwide commercial BBSs with Internet access
(like America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, Netcom, etc.) are technically
ISPs, the term is usually reserved for local or regional small providers
(often run by hackers turned entrepreneurs) who resell Internet access
cheaply without themselves being information providers or selling
advertising. Compare <a href="../N/NSP.html"><i class="glossterm">NSP</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ISO-standard-cup-of-tea.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Itanic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ISO standard cup of tea </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Itanic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and
long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS
folklore, and to have been &#8216;an ITS hacker&#8217; qualifies one
instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort. ITS pioneered many
important innovations, including transparent file sharing between machines
and terminal-independent I/O. After about 1982, most actual work was
shifted to newer machines, with the remaining ITS boxes run essentially as
a hobby and service to the hacker community. The shutdown of the lab's
last ITS machine in May 1990 marked the end of an era and sent old-time
hackers into mourning nationwide (see
<a href="../H/high-moby.html"><i class="glossterm">high moby</i></a>). There is an <a href="http://www.its.os.org/" target="_top">ITS home page</a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A mythical image of operating-system perfection worshiped by a
bizarre, fervent retro-cult of old-time hackers and ex-users (see
<a href="../T/troglodyte.html"><i class="glossterm">troglodyte</i></a>, sense 2). ITS worshipers manage somehow
to continue believing that an OS maintained by assembly-language
hand-hacking that supported only monocase 6-character filenames in one
directory per account remains superior to today's state of commercial art
(their venom against <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> is particularly intense).
See also <a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>,
<a href="../W/Weenix.html"><i class="glossterm">Weenix</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Itanic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IWBNI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Itanic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> IWBNI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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Group&#8217;. Used as a meta-name when telling ethnic jokes on the net to
avoid offending anyone. See <a href="../J/JEDR.html"><i class="glossterm">JEDR</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IWBNI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../J.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IWBNI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> J</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>, once responded to demands for features resembling
those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing
&#8220;<span class="quote">If you want PL/I, you know where to find it.</span>&#8221; Ever since,
this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to alter a new
design to mimic some older (and, by implication, inferior and
<a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a>) one. The case X =
<a href="../P/Pascal.html"><i class="glossterm">Pascal</i></a> manifests semi-regularly on Usenet's
<tt class="systemitem">comp.lang.c</tt> newsgroup. Indeed,
the case X = X has been reported in discussions of graphics software (see
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IDP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ifdef-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IDP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ifdef out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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ground in 1980--81, it has grown exponentially, approximately doubling in
size every year. On the other hand, most people feel the
<a href="../S/signal-to-noise-ratio.html"><i class="glossterm">signal-to-noise ratio</i></a> of Usenet has dropped
steadily. These trends led, as far back as mid-1983, to predictions of the
imminent collapse (or death) of the net. Ten years and numerous doublings
later, enough of these gloomy prognostications have been confounded that
the phrase &#8220;<span class="quote">Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!</span>&#8221; has become a
running joke, hauled out any time someone grumbles about the
<a href="../S/S-N-ratio.html"><i class="glossterm">S/N ratio</i></a> or the huge and steadily increasing volume, or the
possible loss of a key node or link, or the potential for lawsuits when
ignoramuses post copyrighted material, etc., etc., etc.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IMHO.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="in-the-extreme.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IMHO </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> in the extreme</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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1993-1994; it used combinations of tabs and spaces to produce an analog
indicator of the amount of indentation an included portion of a reply had
undergone. The full story is at <a href="http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/indent.html" target="_top">http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/indent.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="indent-style.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="index-of-X.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">indent style </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> index of X</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Infinite-Monkey Theorem</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="infinite-loop.html" title="infinite loop"/><link rel="next" href="infinity.html" title="infinity"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Infinite-Monkey Theorem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infinite-loop.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="infinity.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Infinite-Monkey-Theorem"/><dt xmlns="" id="Infinite-Monkey-Theorem"><b>Infinite-Monkey Theorem</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> &#8220;<span class="quote">If you put an <a href="infinite.html"><i class="glossterm">infinite</i></a> number of
monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for
Hamlet.</span>&#8221; (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a
very long period of time.) This theorem asserts nothing about the
intelligence of the one <a href="../R/random.html"><i class="glossterm">random</i></a> monkey that
eventually comes up with the script (and note that the mob will also type
out all the possible <span class="emphasis"><em>incorrect</em></span> versions of Hamlet).
It may be referred to semi-seriously when justifying a <a href="../B/brute-force.html"><i class="glossterm">brute
force</i></a> method; the implication is that, with enough resources
thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes a <a href="../O/one-banana-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">one-banana
problem</i></a>. This argument gets more respect since
<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> justified the <a href="../B/bazaar.html"><i class="glossterm">bazaar</i></a>
mode of development.</p><p>Other hackers maintain that the Infinite-Monkey Theorem cannot be
true &#8212; otherwise Usenet would have reproduced the entire canon of
great literature by now.</p><p>In mid-2002, researchers at Plymouth Univesity in England actually
put a working computer in a cage with six crested macaques. The monkeys
proceeded to bash the machine with a rock, urinate on it, and type the
letter S a lot (later, the letters A, J, L, and M also crept in). The
results were published in a limited-edition book, <i class="citetitle">Notes Towards
The Complete Works of Shakespeare</i>. A researcher reported:
&#8220;<span class="quote">They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when
they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention
there.</span>&#8221; Scattered field reports that there are AOL users this
competent have been greeted with well-deserved skepticism.</p><p>This theorem has been traced to the mathematiciamn Émile
Borel in 1913, and was first popularized by the astronomer Sir Arthur
Eddington. It became part of the idiom of techies via the classic SF short
story <a href="http://www.janda.org/c10/readings/monkeys.htm" target="_top">Inflexible
Logic</a> by Russell Maloney, and many younger hackers know it through
a reference in Douglas Adams's <i class="citetitle">Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy</i>. Some other references have been <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/in/hypnosonic/Parable_of_the_Monkeys.html" target="_top">collected
on the Web</a>.
On 1 April 2000 the usage acquired its own Internet standard, <a href=" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2795.txt" target="_top"> RFC2795</a> (Infinite Monkey
Protocol Suite).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infinite-loop.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="infinity.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">infinite loop </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> infinity</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Infocom</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="inflate.html" title="inflate"/><link rel="next" href="initgame.html" title="initgame"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Infocom</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="inflate.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="initgame.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Infocom"/><dt xmlns="" id="Infocom"><b>Infocom</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A now-legendary games company, active from 1979 to 1989, that
commercialized the MDL parser technology used for
<a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a> to produce a line of text adventure games that
remain favorites among hackers. Infocom's games were intelligent, funny,
witty, erudite, irreverent, challenging, satirical, and most thoroughly
hackish in spirit. The physical game packages from Infocom are now prized
collector's items. After being acquired by Activision in 1989 they did a
few more &#8220;<span class="quote">modern</span>&#8221; (e.g. graphics-intensive) games which were
less successful than reissues of their classics.</p><p>The software, thankfully, is still extant; Infocom games were written
in a kind of P-code (called, actually, <span class="firstterm">z-code</span>) and distributed with a P-code
interpreter core, and not only open-source emulators for that interpreter
but an actual compiler as well have been written to permit the P-code to be
run on platforms the games never originally graced. In fact, new games
written in this P-code are still being written. There is a home page at
<a href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/" target="_top">http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/</a>,
and it is even possible to play these games in your <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/" target="_top">browser</a> if it is
Java-capable.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="inflate.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="initgame.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">inflate </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> initgame</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>-emitting sites &#8212; complete shunning at the
router level of all mail and packets, as well as Usenet messages, from the
offending domain(s). Compare <a href="../U/Usenet-Death-Penalty.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet Death Penalty</i></a>,
with which it is sometimes confused.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Internet.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Internet-Exploder.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Internet </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Internet Exploder</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Internet Exploder</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="Internet-Death-Penalty.html" title="Internet Death Penalty"/><link rel="next" href="Internet-Exploiter.html" title="Internet Exploiter"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Internet Exploder</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Internet-Death-Penalty.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Internet-Exploiter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Internet-Exploder"/><dt xmlns="" id="Internet-Exploder"><b>Internet Exploder</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] Pejorative hackerism for Microsoft's &#8220;<span class="quote">Internet
Explorer</span>&#8221; web browser (also &#8220;<span class="quote">Internet
Exploiter</span>&#8221;). Compare <a href="../H/HP-SUX.html"><i class="glossterm">HP-SUX</i></a>,
<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="../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="Internet-Death-Penalty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Internet-Exploiter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Internet Death Penalty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Internet Exploiter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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overweight Web Browser; more hostile than
<a href="Internet-Exploder.html"><i class="glossterm">Internet Exploder</i></a>. Reflects widespread hostility to Microsoft and a
sense that it is seeking to hijack, monopolize, and corrupt the Internet.
Compare <a href="../E/Exploder.html"><i class="glossterm">Exploder</i></a> and the less pejorative
<a href="../N/Netscrape.html"><i class="glossterm">Netscrape</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Internet-Exploder.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="interrupt.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Internet Exploder </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> interrupt</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Internet</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="interesting.html" title="interesting"/><link rel="next" href="Internet-Death-Penalty.html" title="Internet Death Penalty"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Internet</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="interesting.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Internet-Death-Penalty.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Internet"/><dt xmlns="" id="Internet"><b>Internet</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as
the ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has
been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture
for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and
including nuclear war, this is a myth; in fact, ARPANET was conceived from
the start as a way to get most economical use out of then-scarce
large-computer resources. Robert Herzfeld, who was director of ARPA at
the time, has been at some pains to debunk the
&#8220;<span class="quote">survive-a-nuclear-war</span>&#8221; myth, but it seems unkillable.</p><p>As originally imagined, ARPANET's major use would have been to
support what is now called remote login and more sophisticated forms of
distributed computing, but the infant technology of electronic mail quickly
grew to dominate actual usage. Universities, research labs and defense
contractors early discovered the Internet's potential as a medium of
communication between <span class="emphasis"><em>humans</em></span> and linked up in steadily
increasing numbers, connecting together a quirky mix of academics, techies,
hippies, SF fans, hackers, and anarchists. The roots of this lexicon lie
in those early years.</p><p>Over the next quarter-century the Internet evolved in many ways. The
typical machine/OS combination moved from <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>
<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>s and <a href="../P/PDP-20.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-20</i></a>s, running
<a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a> and <a href="../T/TOPS-20.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-20</i></a>, to
PDP-11s and <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a>en and Suns running
<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>, and in the 1990s to Unix on Intel
microcomputers. The Internet's protocols grew more capable, most notably
in the move from NCP/IP to <a href="../T/TCP-IP.html"><i class="glossterm">TCP/IP</i></a> in 1982 and the
implementation of Domain Name Service in 1983. It was around this time
that people began referring to the collection of interconnected networks
with ARPANET at its core as &#8220;<span class="quote">the Internet</span>&#8221;.</p><p>The ARPANET had a fairly strict set of participation guidelines --
connected institutions had to be involved with a DOD-related research
project. By the mid-80s, many of the organizations clamoring to join
didn't fit this profile. In 1986, the National Science Foundation built
NSFnet to open up access to its five regional supercomputing centers;
NSFnet became the backbone of the Internet, replacing the original ARPANET
pipes (which were formally shut down in 1990). Between 1990 and late 1994
the pieces of NSFnet were sold to major telecommunications companies until
the Internet backbone had gone completely commercial.</p><p>That year, 1994, was also the year the mainstream culture discovered
the Internet. Once again, the <a href="../K/killer-app.html"><i class="glossterm">killer app</i></a> was not
the anticipated one &#8212; rather, what caught the public imagination was
the hypertext and multimedia features of the World Wide Web. Subsequently
the Internet has seen off its only serious challenger (the OSI protocol
stack favored by European telecoms monopolies) and is in the process of
absorbing into itself many of the proprietary networks built during the
second wave of wide-area networking after 1980. By 1996 it had become a
commonplace even in mainstream media to predict that a globally-extended
Internet would become the key unifying communications technology of the
next century. See also <a href="../T/the-network.html"><i class="glossterm">the network</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="interesting.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Internet-Death-Penalty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">interesting </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Internet Death Penalty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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commercial <a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a> technology, when ferrite-core
<a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>s ruled the earth. The Iron Age began,
ironically enough, with the delivery of the first minicomputer (the PDP-1)
and ended with the introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the
Intel 4004) in 1971. See also <a href="../S/Stone-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Stone Age</i></a>; compare
<a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="iron.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="iron-box.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">iron </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> iron box</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that was the Titanic. This term bubbled up in several places on the
Internet in 1999 when it was beginning to become clear that the Itanium was
turning into the most expensive and protracted flop in the history of the
semiconductor industry.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ISP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ITS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ISP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ITS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for &#8216;Intrusion
Countermeasure Electronics&#8217;] Security software (in Gibson's novels,
software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even
literally kill the intruder). Hence, <span class="firstterm">icebreaker</span>: a program designed for cracking
security on a system.</p><p>Neither term is in serious use yet as of late 2003, but many hackers
find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the
future. In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with
&#8216;ICE&#8217;, an acronym for &#8220;<span class="quote">in-circuit
emulator</span>&#8221;.</p><p>In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers
and computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic Experiment)
in 1994. ICE is a consortium to promote uniform international access to
strong cryptography.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ICBM-address.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="idiot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ICBM address </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ID10T error</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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used multiple times. This term is often used with respect to
<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a> header files, which contain common definitions and
declarations to be included by several source files. If a header file is
ever included twice during the same compilation (perhaps due to nested
#include files), compilation errors can result unless the header file has
protected itself against multiple inclusion; a header file so protected is
said to be idempotent. The term can also be used to describe an
initialization subroutine that is arranged to perform some critical action
exactly once, even if the routine is called several times.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="idiot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IDP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ID10T error </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> IDP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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being an idiot</span>&#8221;. Tech-support people passing a problem report to
someone higher up the food chain (and presumably better equipped to deal
with idiots) may ask the user to convey that there seems to be an I-D-ten-T
error. Users never twig.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ice.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="idempotent.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ice </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> idempotent</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IIRC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">If you want X, you know where to find it. </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> IIRC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor
convergence properties.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [obs.] Software that bypasses the defined
<a href="../O/OS.html"><i class="glossterm">OS</i></a> interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard,
and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the
machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other
pieces of software. In the MS-DOS world, there was a folk theorem (nearly
true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance
penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications were
ill-behaved. See also <a href="../B/bare-metal.html"><i class="glossterm">bare metal</i></a>. Oppose
<a href="../W/well-behaved.html"><i class="glossterm">well-behaved</i></a>. See also
<a href="../M/mess-dos.html"><i class="glossterm">mess-dos</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. In modern usage, a program is called ill-behaved if it uses
interfaces to the OS or other programs that are private, undocumented, or
grossly non-portable. Another way to be ill-behaved is to use headers or
files that are theoretically private to another application.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IIRC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IMHO.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IIRC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> IMHO</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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example, <span class="firstterm">obscure in the extreme</span> under
<a href="../O/obscure.html"><i class="glossterm">obscure</i></a>, and compare
<a href="../H/highly.html"><i class="glossterm">highly</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Predicted-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="incantation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> incantation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of passwords or other
explicit security features. Especially used of tricks that are so poorly
documented that they must be learned from a <a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>.
&#8220;<span class="quote">This compiler normally locates initialized data in the data segment,
but if you <a href="../M/mutter.html"><i class="glossterm">mutter</i></a> the right incantation they will be
forced into text space.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="in-the-extreme.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="include.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">in the extreme </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> include</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/thread.html"><i class="glossterm">thread</i></a>, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In
a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to
<a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>s and the urge to start a
<a href="../K/kill-file.html"><i class="glossterm">kill file</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="include.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="indent-style.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">include </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> indent style</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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with attribution to the source) in a reply or followup, for clarifying the
context of one's response. See the discussion of inclusion styles under
<i class="citetitle">Hacker Writing Style</i>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [from <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>] <b class="command">#include
&lt;disclaimer.h&gt;</b> has appeared in
<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s to refer to a notional <span class="firstterm">standard <a href="../D/disclaimer.html"><i class="glossterm">disclaimer</i></a>
file</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="incantation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="include-war.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">incantation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> include war</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a readable fashion. There are four major C indent styles, described below;
all have the aim of making it easier for the reader to visually track the
scope of control constructs. They have been inherited by C++ and Java,
which have C-like syntaxes. The significant variable is the placement of
<tt class="literal">{</tt> and <tt class="literal">}</tt> with respect to the
statement(s) they enclose and to the guard or controlling statement
(<b class="command">if</b>, <b class="command">else</b>,
<b class="command">for</b>, <b class="command">while</b>,
or <b class="command">do</b>) on the block, if any.</p><p><span class="firstterm">K&amp;R style</span> &#8212; Named
after Kernighan &amp; Ritchie, because the examples in <a href="../K/K-ampersand-R.html"><i class="glossterm">K&amp;R</i></a> are formatted this way. Also
called <span class="firstterm">kernel style</span> because the Unix
kernel is written in it, and the &#8216;One True Brace Style&#8217;
(abbrev. 1TBS) by its partisans. In C code, the body is typically indented
by eight spaces (or one tab) per level, as shown here. Four spaces are
occasionally seen in C, but in C++ and Java four tends to be the rule
rather than the exception.</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
if (&lt;cond&gt;) {<br/>
        &lt;body&gt;<br/>
}<br/>
</p></div><p><span class="firstterm">Allman style</span> &#8212; Named for
Eric Allman, a Berkeley hacker who wrote a lot of the BSD utilities in it
(it is sometimes called <span class="firstterm">BSD style</span>).
Resembles normal indent style in Pascal and Algol. It is the only style
other than K&amp;R in widespread use among Java programmers. Basic indent
per level shown here is eight spaces, but four (or sometimes three) spaces
are generally preferred by C++ and Java programmers.</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
if (&lt;cond&gt;)<br/>
{<br/>
        &lt;body&gt;<br/>
}<br/>
</p></div><p><span class="firstterm">Whitesmiths style</span> &#8212;
popularized by the examples that came with Whitesmiths C, an early
commercial C compiler. Basic indent per level shown here is eight spaces,
but four spaces are occasionally seen.</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
if (&lt;cond&gt;)<br/>
        {<br/>
        &lt;body&gt;<br/>
        }<br/>
</p></div><p><span class="firstterm">GNU style</span> &#8212; Used
throughout GNU EMACS and the Free Software Foundation code, and just about
nowhere else. Indents are always four spaces per level, with <b class="command">{</b> and <b class="command">}</b> halfway
between the outer and inner indent levels.</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
if (&lt;cond&gt;)<br/>
  {<br/>
    &lt;body&gt;<br/>
  }<br/>
</p></div><p>Surveys have shown the Allman and Whitesmiths styles to be the most
common, with about equal mind shares. K&amp;R/1TBS used to be nearly
universal, but is now much less common in C (the opening brace tends to get
lost against the right paren of the guard part in an <b class="command">if</b> or <b class="command">while</b>, which
is a <a href="../B/Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</i></a>). Defenders of 1TBS argue that any
putative gain in readability is less important than their style's relative
economy with vertical space, which enables one to see more code on one's
screen at once. The Java Language Specification legislates not only the
capitalization of identifiers, but where nouns, adjectives, and verbs
should be in method, class, interface, and variable names (section
6.8). While the specification stops short of also standardizing on a
bracing style, all source code originating from Sun Laboratories uses the
K&amp;R style. This has set a precedent for Java programmers, which most
follow.</p><p>Doubtless these issues will continue to be the subject of
<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="include-war.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Indent-o-Meter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">include war </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Indent-o-Meter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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large; this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden
hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first
use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical
wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has
accumulated for the machine to start going senile). Up to half of all chip
and wire failures happen within a new system's first few weeks; such
failures are often referred to as <span class="firstterm">infant
mortality</span> problems (or, occasionally, as <span class="firstterm">sudden infant death syndrome</span>). See
<a href="../B/bathtub-curve.html"><i class="glossterm">bathtub curve</i></a>,
<a href="../B/burn-in-period.html"><i class="glossterm">burn-in period</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index-of-X.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="infinite.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">index of X </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> infinite</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/spin.html"><i class="glossterm">spin</i></a>s or <a href="../B/buzz.html"><i class="glossterm">buzz</i></a>es forever and
goes <a href="../C/catatonic.html"><i class="glossterm">catatonic</i></a>). There is a standard joke that has
been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine:
&#8220;<span class="quote">The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2
seconds!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infinite.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Infinite-Monkey-Theorem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">infinite </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Infinite-Monkey Theorem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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very loosely as in: &#8220;<span class="quote">This program produces infinite garbage.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">He is an infinite loser.</span>&#8221; The word most likely to follow
<span class="firstterm">infinite</span>, though, is
<a href="../H/hair.html"><i class="glossterm">hair</i></a>. (It has been pointed out that fractals are an
excellent example of infinite hair.) These uses are abuses of the word's
mathematical meaning. The term <span class="firstterm">semi-infinite</span>, denoting an immoderately large
amount of some resource, is also heard. &#8220;<span class="quote">This compiler is taking a
semi-infinite amount of time to optimize my program.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../S/semi.html"><i class="glossterm">semi</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infant-mortality.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="infinite-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">infant mortality </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> infinite loop</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">minus infinity</span>: The
smallest such value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of
plus infinity. In <tt class="literal">N</tt>-bit twos-complement
arithmetic, infinity is <tt class="literal">2<sup>N-1</sup> -
1</tt> but minus infinity is <tt class="literal">-
(2<sup>N-1</sup>)</tt>, not
<tt class="literal">-(2<sup>N-1</sup> - 1)</tt>.
Note also that this is different from <span class="firstterm">time T
equals minus infinity</span>, which is closer to a mathematician's
usage of infinity.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Infinite-Monkey-Theorem.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="inflate.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Infinite-Monkey Theorem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> inflate</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Internet hackers, used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infinity.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Infocom.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">infinity </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Infocom</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">Botticelli</span>&#8221;, in which one user changes his
<a href="../N/nick.html"><i class="glossterm">nick</i></a> to the initials of a famous person or other
named entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions, with
the one to guess the person getting to be &#8220;<span class="quote">it</span>&#8221; next. As a
courtesy, the one picking the initials starts by providing a 4-letter hint
of the form sex, nationality, life-status, reality-status. For example,
MAAR means &#8220;<span class="quote">Male, American, Alive, Real</span>&#8221; (as opposed to
&#8220;<span class="quote">fictional</span>&#8221;). Initgame can be surprisingly addictive. See
also <a href="../H/hing.html"><i class="glossterm">hing</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>[1996 update: a recognizable version of the initgame has become a
staple of some radio talk shows in the U.S. We had it first! --
ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Infocom.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="insanely-great.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Infocom </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> insanely great</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Something so incredibly <a href="../E/elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a> that it is
imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of
<a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>-natures.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="initgame.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="installfest.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">initgame </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> installfest</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">installation festival</span>&#8221;; Linux user groups frequently run
these. Computer users are invited to bring their machines to have Linux
installed on their machines. The idea is to get them painlessly over the
biggest hump in migrating to Linux, which is initially installing and
configuring it for the user's machine.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="insanely-great.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="INTERCAL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">insanely great </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> INTERCAL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8216;annoying&#8217;, or &#8216;difficult&#8217;, or both. Hackers
relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the
ancient Chinese curse &#8220;<span class="quote">May you live in interesting times</span>&#8221;.
Oppose <a href="../T/trivial.html"><i class="glossterm">trivial</i></a>,
<a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="InterCaps.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Internet.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">InterCaps </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Internet</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts
flow-of-control through an &#8220;<span class="quote">interrupt handler</span>&#8221; routine. See
also <a href="../T/trap.html"><i class="glossterm">trap</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> A request for
attention from a hacker. Often explicitly spoken. &#8220;<span class="quote">Interrupt
&#8212; have you seen Joe recently?</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../P/priority-interrupt.html"><i class="glossterm">priority interrupt</i></a>. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Internet-Exploiter.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="interrupts-locked-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Internet Exploiter </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> interrupts locked out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well
observe &#8220;<span class="quote">She must have interrupts locked out</span>&#8221;. The synonym
<span class="firstterm">interrupts disabled</span> is also common.
Variations abound; &#8220;<span class="quote">to have one's interrupt mask bit set</span>&#8221; and
&#8220;<span class="quote">interrupts masked out</span>&#8221; are also heard. See also
<a href="../S/spl.html"><i class="glossterm">spl</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="interrupt.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="intertwingled.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">interrupt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> intertwingled</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Nelson, prob. a blend of &#8220;<span class="quote">mingled</span>&#8221; and
&#8220;<span class="quote">intertwined</span>&#8221;.] Connected together in a complex way;
specifically, composed of one another's components.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="interrupts-locked-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="intro.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">interrupts locked out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> intro</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/screen.html"><i class="glossterm">screen</i></a> of some production. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A short <a href="../D/demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>, usually showing just one or
two <a href="../S/screen.html"><i class="glossterm">screen</i></a>s. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Small, usually 64k, 40k or 4k <a href="../D/demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>. Sizes
are generally dictated by <a href="../C/compo.html"><i class="glossterm">compo</i></a> rules. See also
<a href="../D/dentro.html"><i class="glossterm">dentro</i></a>, <a href="../D/demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="intertwingled.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IRC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">intertwingled </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> IRC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>iron box</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="Iron-Age.html" title="Iron Age"/><link rel="next" href="ironmonger.html" title="ironmonger"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">iron box</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Iron-Age.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ironmonger.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="iron-box"/><dt xmlns="" id="iron-box"><b>iron box</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a
<a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a> logging in over remote connections long
enough to be traced. May include a modified <a href="../S/shell.html"><i class="glossterm">shell</i></a>
restricting the cracker's movements in unobvious ways, and
&#8216;bait&#8217; files designed to keep him interested and logged on.
See also <a href="../B/back-door.html"><i class="glossterm">back door</i></a>,
<a href="../F/firewall-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">firewall machine</i></a>,
<a href="../V/Venus-flytrap.html"><i class="glossterm">Venus flytrap</i></a>, and Clifford
Stoll's account in <i class="citetitle"> <a href="../pt03.html#Stoll">The Cuckoo's
Egg</a></i> of how he made and used one (see the <a href="../pt03.html#bibliography" title="Bibliography">Bibliography</a> in Appendix C). Compare
<a href="../P/padded-cell.html"><i class="glossterm">padded cell</i></a>, <a href="../H/honey-pot.html"><i class="glossterm">honey pot</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Iron-Age.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ironmonger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Iron Age </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ironmonger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a> class with big metal cabinets housing
relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern
supercomputers). Often in the phrase <a href="../B/big-iron.html"><i class="glossterm">big iron</i></a>.
Oppose <a href="../S/silicon.html"><i class="glossterm">silicon</i></a>. See also
<a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IRC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Iron-Age.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IRC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Iron Age</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/sandbender.html"><i class="glossterm">sandbender</i></a>,
<a href="../P/polygon-pusher.html"><i class="glossterm">polygon pusher</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="iron-box.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ISO-standard-cup-of-tea.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">iron box </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ISO standard cup of tea</td></tr></table></div></body></html>