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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>LAN party</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lamer.html" title="lamer"/><link rel="next" href="language-lawyer.html" title="language lawyer"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">LAN party</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lamer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="language-lawyer.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="LAN-party"/><dt xmlns="" id="LAN-party"><b>LAN party</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/lan par´tee/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An event to which several users bring their boxes and hook them up
to a common LAN (Local Area Network), often for the purpose of playing
multiplayer computer games, especially action games such as Quake or Unreal
Tournament. This is also a good venue for people to show-off their fancy
new hardware. Such events can get pretty large, several hundred people
attend the annual QuakeCon in Texas. The theoretical rationale behind LAN
parties is that playing over the Internet often introduces too much lag in
the playing experience &#8212; but just as important is the special quality of
trash-talking each other across the room while playing, and the instinctive
social ritual of consuming vast amounts of food and drink together.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lamer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="language-lawyer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lamer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> language lawyer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>LART</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="languages-of-choice.html" title="languages of choice"/><link rel="next" href="larval-stage.html" title="larval stage"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">LART</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="languages-of-choice.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="larval-stage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="LART"/><dt xmlns="" id="LART"><b>LART</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> In the collective mythos
of <a href="../S/scary-devil-monastery.html"><i class="glossterm">scary devil monastery</i></a>, this is an essential item
in the toolkit of every <a href="../B/BOFH.html"><i class="glossterm">BOFH</i></a>. The LART classic is a
2x4 or other large billet of wood usable as a club, to be applied upside
the head of spammers and other people who cause sysadmins more grief than
just naturally goes with the job. Perennial debates rage on <tt class="systemitem">alt.sysadmin.recovery</tt> over what constitutes
the truly effective LART; knobkerries, automatic weapons,
flamethrowers, and tactical nukes all have their partisans. Compare
<a href="../C/clue-by-four.html"><i class="glossterm">clue-by-four</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To use a LART. Some would
add &#8220;<span class="quote">in malice</span>&#8221;, but some sysadmins do prefer to gently lart
their users as a first (and sometimes final) warning. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. interj. Calling for one's LART, much as a surgeon might call
&#8220;<span class="quote">Scalpel!</span>&#8221;. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. interj. [rare] Used in <a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>s as a
rebuke. &#8220;<span class="quote">LART! LART! LART!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="languages-of-choice.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="larval-stage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">languages of choice </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> larval stage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>LER</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lenna.html" title="lenna"/><link rel="next" href="LERP.html" title="LERP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">LER</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lenna.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LERP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="LER"/><dt xmlns="" id="LER"><b>LER</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/L·E·R/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <span class="grammar">n.</span> </p></dd><dd><p> 1. [TMRC, from &#8216;Light-Emitting Diode&#8217;] A light-emitting
resistor (that is, one in the process of burning up). Ohm's law was
broken. See also <a href="../S/SED.html"><i class="glossterm">SED</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An incandescent light bulb (the filament emits light because it's
resistively heated).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lenna.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LERP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lenna </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> LERP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>LERP</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="LER.html" title="LER"/><link rel="next" href="let-the-smoke-out.html" title="let the smoke out"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">LERP</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="LER.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="let-the-smoke-out.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="LERP"/><dt xmlns="" id="LERP"><b>LERP</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/lerp/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.,n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Quasi-acronym for Linear Interpolation, used as a verb or noun for
the operation. &#8220;<span class="quote">Bresenham's algorithm lerps incrementally between the
two endpoints of the line.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="LER.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="let-the-smoke-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">LER </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> let the smoke out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>LISP</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="Lions-Book.html" title="Lions Book"/><link rel="next" href="list-bomb.html" title="list-bomb"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">LISP</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lions-Book.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="list-bomb.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="LISP"/><dt xmlns="" id="LISP"><b>LISP</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from &#8216;LISt Processing language&#8217;, but mythically from
&#8216;Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses&#8217;] AI's mother
tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and
trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data
and vice-versa. Invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s, it is
actually older than any other <a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> still in use
except FORTRAN. Accordingly, it has undergone considerable adaptive
radiation over the years; modern variants are quite different in detail
from the original LISP 1.5. The dominant HLL among hackers until the early
1980s, LISP has since shared the throne with <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>. Its
partisans claim it is the only language that is truly beautiful. See
<a href="languages-of-choice.html"><i class="glossterm">languages of choice</i></a>.</p><p>All LISP functions and programs are expressions that return values;
this, together with the high memory utilization of LISPs, gave rise to Alan
Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that
&#8220;<span class="quote">LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of
nothing</span>&#8221;.</p><p>One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example
that most newer languages, such as <a href="../C/COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">COBOL</i></a> and
Ada, are full of unnecessary
<a href="../C/crock.html"><i class="glossterm">crock</i></a>s. When the <a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right Thing</i></a>
has already been done once, there is no justification for
<a href="../B/bogosity.html"><i class="glossterm">bogosity</i></a> in newer languages.</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/lisp.png"/><div class="caption"><p>We've got your numbers....</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lions-Book.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="list-bomb.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Lions Book </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> list-bomb</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">While your suggestion may have some merit, I will behave as though I
hadn't heard it.</span>&#8221; (2) &#8220;<span class="quote">While your suggestion has obvious
merit, equally obvious circumstances prevent it from being seriously
considered.</span>&#8221; The charm of the phrase lies precisely in this subtle
but important ambiguity.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="life.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="light-pipe.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">life </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> light pipe</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Lintel</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lint.html" title="lint"/><link rel="next" href="Linus.html" title="Linus"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Lintel</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lint.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Linus.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Lintel"/><dt xmlns="" id="Lintel"><b>Lintel</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The emerging <a href="Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>/Intel alliance. This term
began to be used in early 1999 after it became clear that the
<a href="../W/Wintel.html"><i class="glossterm">Wintel</i></a> alliance was under increasing strain and
Intel started taking stakes in Linux companies.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lint.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Linus.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lint </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Linus</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Linus</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="Lintel.html" title="Lintel"/><link rel="next" href="Linux.html" title="Linux"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Linus</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lintel.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Linux.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Linus"/><dt xmlns="" id="Linus"><b>Linus</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/leen´us/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/lin´us/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/li:´nus/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Linus Torvalds, the author of <a href="Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>. Nobody
in the hacker culture has been as readily recognized by first name alone
since <a href="../K/ken.html"><i class="glossterm">ken</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lintel.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Linux.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Lintel </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Linux</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Linux</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="Linus.html" title="Linus"/><link rel="next" href="lion-food.html" title="lion food"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Linux</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Linus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lion-food.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Linux"/><dt xmlns="" id="Linux"><b>Linux</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/lee´nuhks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/li´nuks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/li:´nuhks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends
starting about 1991. The pronunciation <span class="pronunciation">/li´nuhks/</span> is preferred because the
name &#8216;Linus&#8217; has an <span class="pronunciation">/ee/</span> sound in Swedish (Linus's family is
part of Finland's 6% ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English
short <span class="pronunciation">/i/</span> to be closer to
<span class="pronunciation">/ee/</span> than English long <span class="pronunciation">/i:/</span>. This may be the most remarkable
hacker project in history &#8212; an entire clone of Unix for 386, 486 and
Pentium micros, distributed for free with sources over the net (ports to
Alpha and Sparc and many other machines are also in use).</p><p>Linux is what <a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> aimed to be, and it relies
on the GNU toolset. But the Free Software Foundation didn't produce the
kernel to go with that toolset until 1999, which was too late. Other,
similar efforts like FreeBSD and NetBSD have been technically successful
but never caught fire the way Linux has; as this is written in 2003, Linux
has effectively swallowed all proprietary Unixes except Solaris and is
seriously challenging Microsoft. It has already captured 41% of the
Internet-server market and over 25% of general business servers.</p><p>An earlier version of this entry opined &#8220;<span class="quote">The secret of Linux's
success seems to be that Linus worked much harder early on to keep the
development process open and recruit other hackers, creating a snowball
effect.</span>&#8221; Truer than we knew. See
<a href="../B/bazaar.html"><i class="glossterm">bazaar</i></a>.</p><p>(Some people object that the name &#8216;Linux&#8217; should be used
to refer only to the kernel, not the entire operating system. This claim
is a proxy for an underlying territorial dispute; people who insist on the
term <span class="firstterm">GNU/Linux</span> want the
<a href="../F/FSF.html"><i class="glossterm">FSF</i></a> to get most of the credit for Linux because RMS
and friends wrote many of its user-level tools. Neither this theory nor
the term <span class="firstterm">GNU/Linux</span> has gained more
than minority acceptance).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Linus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lion-food.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Linus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lion food</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Lions Book</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lion-food.html" title="lion food"/><link rel="next" href="LISP.html" title="LISP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Lions Book</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lion-food.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LISP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Lions-Book"/><dt xmlns="" id="Lions-Book"><b>Lions Book</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <i class="citetitle">Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6</i>,
by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained (1) the entire source
listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and (2) a commentary on the source
discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the
University of New South Wales beginning 1976--77, and were, for years
after, the <span class="emphasis"><em>only</em></span> detailed kernel documentation
available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to
maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions Book was only
supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees. In spite of
this, it soon spread by <a href="../S/samizdat.html"><i class="glossterm">samizdat</i></a> to a good many of
the early Unix hackers.</p><p>[1996 update: The Lions book lives again! It was put back in print as
ISBN 1-57398-013-7 from Peer-To-Peer Communications, with forewords by
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. In a neat bit of reflexivity, the page
before the contents quotes this entry.]</p><p>[1998 update: John Lions's death was an occasion of general mourning
in the hacker community.]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lion-food.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LISP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lion food </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> LISP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Live Free Or Die!</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="live-data.html" title="live data"/><link rel="next" href="livelock.html" title="livelock"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Live Free Or Die!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="live-data.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="livelock.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Live-Free-Or-Die-"/><dt xmlns="" id="Live-Free-Or-Die-"><b>Live Free Or Die!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's
automobile license plates.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A slogan associated with Unix in the romantic days when Unix
aficionados saw themselves as a tiny, beleaguered underground tilting
against the windmills of industry. The &#8220;<span class="quote">free</span>&#8221; referred
specifically to freedom from the <a href="../F/fascist.html"><i class="glossterm">fascist</i></a> design
philosophies and crufty misfeatures common on competing operating systems.
Armando Stettner, one of the early Unix developers, used to give out fake
license plates bearing this motto under a large Unix, all in New Hampshire
colors of green and white. These are now valued collector's items. In
1994 <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> put an inferior imitation of these in
circulation with a red corporate logo added. Compaq (half of which was
once DEC) continued the practice.</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/licenseplate.jpg"/><div class="caption"><p>Armando Stettner's original Unix license plate.</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="live-data.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="livelock.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">live data </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> livelock</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="low-bandwidth.html" title="low-bandwidth"/><link rel="next" href="Lumber-Cartel.html" title="Lumber Cartel"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="low-bandwidth.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Lumber-Cartel.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology"/><dt xmlns="" id="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology"><b>Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> &#8220;<span class="quote">There is <span class="emphasis"><em>always</em></span> one more
bug.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="low-bandwidth.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Lumber-Cartel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">low-bandwidth </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Lumber Cartel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Lumber Cartel</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html" title="Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology"/><link rel="next" href="lunatic-fringe.html" title="lunatic fringe"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Lumber Cartel</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lunatic-fringe.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Lumber-Cartel"/><dt xmlns="" id="Lumber-Cartel"><b>Lumber Cartel</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A mythical conspiracy accused by <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>-spewers
of funding anti-spam activism in order to force the direct-mail promotions
industry back onto paper. Hackers, predictably, responded by forming a
&#8220;<span class="quote">Lumber Cartel</span>&#8221; spoofing this paranoid theory; the web page is
<a href="http://come.to/the.lumber.cartel/" target="_top">http://come.to/the.lumber.cartel/</a>. Members
often include the tag TINLC (&#8220;<span class="quote">There Is No Lumber Cartel</span>&#8221;) in
their postings; see <a href="../T/TINC.html"><i class="glossterm">TINC</i></a>,
<a href="../B/backbone-cabal.html"><i class="glossterm">backbone cabal</i></a> and <a href="../N/NANA.html"><i class="glossterm">NANA</i></a> for explanation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lunatic-fringe.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lunatic fringe</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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synonymous with <a href="../N/netlag.html"><i class="glossterm">netlag</i></a>. Curiously, people will
often complain &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm really lagged</span>&#8221; when in fact it is their
server or network connection that is lagging.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../L.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lamer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">L </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lamer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>lamer</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lag.html" title="lag"/><link rel="next" href="LAN-party.html" title="LAN party"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">lamer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lag.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LAN-party.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="lamer"/><dt xmlns="" id="lamer"><b>lamer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [originally among Amiga fans] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Synonym for <a href="luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>, not used much by
hackers but common among <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, crackers, and
<a href="../P/phreaker.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaker</i></a>s. A person who downloads much, but who
never uploads. (Also known as <span class="firstterm">leecher</span>). Oppose <a href="../E/elite.html"><i class="glossterm">elite</i></a>.
Has the same connotations of self-conscious elitism that use of
<a href="luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> does among hackers. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Someone who tries to crack a BBS. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Someone who annoys the sysop or other BBS users &#8212; for instance,
by posting lots of silly messages, uploading virus-ridden software,
frequently dropping carrier, etc.</p><p>Crackers also use it to refer to cracker
<a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>s. In phreak culture, a lamer is one who
scams codes off others rather than doing cracks or really understanding the
fundamental concepts. In <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a> culture, where
the ability to wave around cracked commercial software within days of (or
before) release to the commercial market is much esteemed, the lamer might
try to upload garbage or shareware or something incredibly old (old in this
context is read as a few years to anything older than 3 days).
&#8216;Lamer&#8217; is also much used in the IRC world in a similar sense
to the above.</p></dd><dd><p>This term seems to have originated in the Commodore-64 scene in the
mid 1980s. It was popularized among Amiga crackers of the mid-1980s by
&#8216;Lamer Exterminator&#8217;, the most famous and feared Amiga virus
ever, which gradually corrupted non-write-protected floppy disks with bad
sectors. The bad sectors, when looked at, were overwritten with repetitions
of the string &#8220;<span class="quote">LAMER!</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lag.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LAN-party.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lag </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> LAN party</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and
features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer
programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability
to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-plus-page manual
that together imply the answer to your question &#8220;<span class="quote">if only you had
thought to look there</span>&#8221;. Compare <a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>,
<a href="legal.html"><i class="glossterm">legal</i></a>, <a href="legalese.html"><i class="glossterm">legalese</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="LAN-party.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="languages-of-choice.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">LAN party </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> languages of choice</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../P/Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a>, <a href="../J/Java.html"><i class="glossterm">Java</i></a> and
<a href="LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a> &#8212; the dominant languages in open-source
development. This list has changed over time, but slowly. Java bumped C++
off of it, and Python appears to be recruiting people who would otherwise
gravitate to LISP (which used to be much more important than it is now).
Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential
communities.</p><p>The <a href="../R/Real-Programmer.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Programmer</i></a>s who loved FORTRAN and
assembler have pretty much all retired or died since 1990. Assembler is
generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but
<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> implementation, <a href="../G/glue.html"><i class="glossterm">glue</i></a>, and
a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs.
FORTRAN occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming.</p><p>Most hackers tend to frown on languages like
<a href="../P/Pascal.html"><i class="glossterm">Pascal</i></a> and Ada, which don't
give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see
<a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline language</i></a>), and to regard
everything even remotely connected with <a href="../C/COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">COBOL</i></a> or
other traditional <a href="../D/DP.html"><i class="glossterm">DP</i></a> languages as a total
and unmitigated <a href="loss.html"><i class="glossterm">loss</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="language-lawyer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LART.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">language lawyer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> LART</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms
include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour
<a href="../H/hacking-run.html"><i class="glossterm">hacking run</i></a> in a given week; neglect of all other activities including
usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of
advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent
median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more
&#8216;normal&#8217; life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce
really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also
<a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>. A less protracted and intense version of
larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is
learning a new <a href="../O/OS.html"><i class="glossterm">OS</i></a> or programming language.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="LART.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lase.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">LART </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lase</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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lase that sucker and see if all those graphics-macro calls did the right
things.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="larval-stage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="laser-chicken.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">larval stage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> laser chicken</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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peanuts, and hot red peppers in a spicy pepper-oil sauce. Many hackers
call it <span class="firstterm">laser chicken</span> for two
reasons: It can <a href="../Z/zap.html"><i class="glossterm">zap</i></a> you just like a laser, and the
sauce has a red color reminiscent of some laser beams. The dish has also
been called <span class="firstterm">gunpowder chicken</span>.</p><p>In a variation on this theme, it is reported that some Australian
hackers have redesignated the common dish &#8216;lemon chicken&#8217; as
<span class="firstterm">Chernobyl Chicken</span>. The name is
derived from the color of the sauce, which is considered bright enough to
glow in the dark (as, mythically, do some of the inhabitants of
Chernobyl).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lase.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leaf-site.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lase </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leaf site</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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merely originated and read Usenet news or mail, and did not relay any
third-party traffic. It was often uttered in a critical tone; when the
ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high,
the network tended to develop bottlenecks. Compare
<a href="../B/backbone-site.html"><i class="glossterm">backbone site</i></a>. Now that traffic
patterns depend more on the distribution of routers than of host machines
this term has largely fallen out of use.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="laser-chicken.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leak.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">laser chicken </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leak</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are
finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual
exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.
<a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a> has its own entry;
one might also refer, to, say, a <span class="firstterm">window handle
leak</span> in a window system.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leaf-site.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leaky-heap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leaf site </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leaky heap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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host (e.g., downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping
TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting
through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker
procedure).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leaky-heap.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leech.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leaky heap </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leech</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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access</span>&#8221; or (simply &#8220;<span class="quote">leech</span>&#8221; as in &#8220;<span class="quote">You get
leech</span>&#8221;) is the access mode on a FTP site where one can download as
many files as one wants, without having to upload. Leech mode is often
promised on banner sites, but rarely obtained. See
<a href="../R/ratio-site.html"><i class="glossterm">ratio site</i></a>, <a href="../B/banner-site.html"><i class="glossterm">banner site</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leech.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="legal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leech </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> legal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, one who consumes knowledge without
generating new software, cracks, or techniques. BBS culture specifically
defines a leech as someone who downloads files with few or no uploads in
return, and who does not contribute to the message section. Cracker
culture extends this definition to someone (a <a href="lamer.html"><i class="glossterm">lamer</i></a>,
usually) who constantly presses informed sources for information and/or
assistance, but has nothing to contribute. See
<a href="../T/troughie.html"><i class="glossterm">troughie</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> [common, Toronto area]
v. To download a file across any kind of internet link. &#8220;<span class="quote">Hop on IRC
later so I can leech some MP3s from you.</span>&#8221; Used to describe
activities ranging from FTP, to IRC DCC-send, to ICQ file requests, to
Napster searches (but never to downloading email with file attachments; the
implication is that the download is the result of a browse or search of
some sort of file server). Seems to be a holdover from the early 1990s
when Toronto had a very active BBS and warez scene. Synonymous with
<a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a> (sense 2), and contrast
<a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a> (sense 4).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leapfrog-attack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leech-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leapfrog attack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leech mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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rules&#8217;, esp. in connection with some set of constraints defined by
software. &#8220;<span class="quote">The older =+ alternate for += is no longer legal syntax
in ANSI C.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">This parser processes each line of legal input
the moment it sees the trailing linefeed.</span>&#8221; Hackers often model their
work as a sort of game played with the environment in which the objective
is to maneuver through the thicket of &#8216;natural laws&#8217; to achieve
a desired objective. Their use of <span class="firstterm">legal</span> is flavored as much by this game-playing
sense as by the more conventional one having to do with courts and lawyers.
Compare <a href="language-lawyer.html"><i class="glossterm">language lawyer</i></a>,
<a href="legalese.html"><i class="glossterm">legalese</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leech-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="legalese.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leech mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> legalese</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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specification, or interface standard; text that seems designed to obfuscate
and requires a <a href="language-lawyer.html"><i class="glossterm">language lawyer</i></a> to
<a href="../P/parse.html"><i class="glossterm">parse</i></a> it. Though hackers are not afraid of high
information density and complexity in language (indeed, they rather enjoy
both), they share a deep and abiding loathing for legalese; they associate
it with deception, <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s, and situations in which
hackers generally get the short end of the stick.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="legal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lenna.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">legal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lenna</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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image processing community. The image was originally cropped from the
November 1972 issue of <i class="citetitle">Playboy Magazine</i>, which
anglicized the model's name with a double n. It has interesting properties
&#8212; complex feathers, shadows, smooth (but not flat) surfaces &#8212;
that are pertinent in demonstrating various processing algorithms for image
compression, filtering, dithering, texture mapping, image recognition, and
so on. After a quarter century of remaining completely unaware that she
had become an icon, a gray-haired but still winsome Lenna finally met her
fans at a computer graphics conference in 1997. There is a fan page at
<a href="http://www.lenna.org" target="_top">www.lenna.org</a>, with more
details. Compare <a href="../U/Utah-teapot.html"><i class="glossterm">Utah teapot</i></a>
and <a href="../S/Stanford-Bunny.html"><i class="glossterm">Stanford Bunny</i></a></p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/len_std.jpg"/><div class="caption"><p>Miss Lena Sjööblom</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="legalese.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LER.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">legalese </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> LER</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>let the smoke out</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="LERP.html" title="LERP"/><link rel="next" href="letterbomb.html" title="letterbomb"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">let the smoke out</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="LERP.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="letterbomb.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="let-the-smoke-out"/><dt xmlns="" id="let-the-smoke-out"><b>let the smoke out</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To fry hardware (see <a href="../F/fried.html"><i class="glossterm">fried</i></a>). See
<a href="../M/magic-smoke.html"><i class="glossterm">magic smoke</i></a> for a discussion of the underlying
mythology.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="LERP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="letterbomb.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">LERP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> letterbomb</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>letterbomb</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="let-the-smoke-out.html" title="let the smoke out"/><link rel="next" href="lexer.html" title="lexer"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">letterbomb</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="let-the-smoke-out.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lexer.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="letterbomb"/><dt xmlns="" id="letterbomb"><b>letterbomb</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A piece of
<a href="../E/email.html"><i class="glossterm">email</i></a> containing <a href="live-data.html"><i class="glossterm">live data</i></a>
intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal. It
used to be possible, for example, to send letterbombs that would lock up
some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that
the user must cycle power (see <a href="../C/cycle.html"><i class="glossterm">cycle</i></a>, sense 3) to
unwedge them. Under Unix, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its
contents interpreted as a shell command to the mailer. The results of this
could range from silly to tragic; fortunately it has been some years since
any of the standard Unix/Internet mail software was vulnerable to such an
attack (though, as the Melissa virus attack demonstrated in early 1999,
Microsoft systems can have serious problems). See also
<a href="../T/Trojan-horse.html"><i class="glossterm">Trojan horse</i></a>; compare <a href="../N/nastygram.html"><i class="glossterm">nastygram</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Loosely, a <a href="../M/mailbomb.html"><i class="glossterm">mailbomb</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="let-the-smoke-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lexer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">let the smoke out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lexer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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analyzer</span>, the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a
language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces). &#8220;<span class="quote">Some C
lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like <b class="command">=-</b>.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="letterbomb.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="life.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">letterbomb </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> life</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>life</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lexer.html" title="lexer"/><link rel="next" href="Life-is-hard.html" title="Life is hard"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">life</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lexer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Life-is-hard.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="life"/><dt xmlns="" id="life"><b>life</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway
and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner
(<i class="citetitle">Scientific American</i>, October 1970); the
game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it
could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by
hand. Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it,
and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the
mathematical analysis of this game (most notably Bill Gosper at
MIT, who even implemented life in <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>!).
When a hacker mentions &#8216;life&#8217;, he is much more likely
to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, or the
human state of existence. Many web resources are
available starting from the <a href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Life/Cellular_Automata/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life/" target="_top">Open
Directory page of Life</a>. The <a href="http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/lex_home.htm" target="_top">Life
Lexicon</a> is a good indicator of what makes the game so fascinating.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="glider"/><img src="../graphics/glider.png"/><div class="caption"><p>A glider, possibly the best known of the quasi-organic
phenomena in the Game of Life.</p></div></div></dd><dd><p> 2. The opposite of <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>. As in
&#8220;<span class="quote"><a href="../G/Get-a-life-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a life!</i></a></span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lexer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Life-is-hard.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lexer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Life is hard</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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combining forms such as <span class="firstterm">lightweight
process</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="light-pipe.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="like-kicking-dead-whales-down-the-beach.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">light pipe </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> like kicking dead whales down the beach</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>like kicking dead whales down the beach</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lightweight.html" title="lightweight"/><link rel="next" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html" title="like nailing jelly to a tree"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">like kicking dead whales down the beach</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lightweight.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="like-kicking-dead-whales-down-the-beach"/><dt xmlns="" id="like-kicking-dead-whales-down-the-beach"><b>like kicking dead whales down the beach</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First
popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done
under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, you
<span class="emphasis"><em>could</em></span> write a C compiler in COBOL, but it would be
like kicking dead whales down the beach.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lightweight.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lightweight </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> like nailing jelly to a tree</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in
the problem domain. &#8220;<span class="quote">Trying to display the &#8216;prettiest&#8217;
arrangement of nodes and arcs that diagrams a given graph is like nailing
jelly to a tree, because nobody's sure what &#8216;prettiest&#8217; means
algorithmically.</span>&#8221;</p><p>Hacker use of this term may recall mainstream slang originated early
in the 20th century by President Theodore Roosevelt. There is a legend
that, weary of inconclusive talks with Colombia over the right to dig a
canal through its then-province Panama, he remarked, &#8220;<span class="quote">Negotiating
with those pirates is like trying to nail currant jelly to the
wall.</span>&#8221; Roosevelt's government subsequently encouraged the
anti-Colombian insurgency that created the nation of Panama.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="like-kicking-dead-whales-down-the-beach.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="line-666.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">like kicking dead whales down the beach </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> line 666</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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fails for obscure reasons, implying either that
<span class="emphasis"><em>somebody</em></span> is out to get it (when you are the
programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not).
&#8220;<span class="quote">It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666
when I run it.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">What happens is that whenever a large batch
comes through, mmdf dies on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit
hardcoded a buffer size.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="line-eater--the.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">like nailing jelly to a tree </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> line eater, the</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug
was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab.
This bug was quickly personified as a mythical creature called the
<span class="firstterm">line eater</span>, and postings often
included a dummy line of <span class="firstterm">line eater
food</span>. Ironically, line eater &#8216;food&#8217; not beginning
with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but
if there <span class="emphasis"><em>was</em></span> a space or tab before it, then the line
eater would eat the food <span class="emphasis"><em>and</em></span> the beginning of the text
it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of <span class="firstterm">sacrificing to the line eater</span> continued for
some time after the bug had been <a href="../N/nailed-to-the-wall.html"><i class="glossterm">nailed to the wall</i></a>,
and is still humorously referred to. The bug itself was still occasionally
reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways as late as 1991.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. See <a href="../N/NSA-line-eater.html"><i class="glossterm">NSA line eater</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="line-666.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="line-noise.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">line 666 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> line noise</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection. Line noise
may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other
circuits, electrical storms, <a href="../C/cosmic-rays.html"><i class="glossterm">cosmic rays</i></a>, or
(notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the
results of line noise in sense 1. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but
employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like line noise in senses 1 or 2.
Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is
<a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>; it is often claimed that &#8220;<span class="quote">TECO's input
syntax is indistinguishable from line noise.</span>&#8221; Other
non-<a href="../W/WYSIWYG.html"><i class="glossterm">WYSIWYG</i></a> editors, such as Multics <b class="command">qed</b> and Unix <b class="command">ed</b>, in
the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately
obfuscated languages such as <a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="line-eater--the.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="linearithmic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">line eater, the </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> linearithmic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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N)</tt>. Coined as a portmanteau of &#8216;linear&#8217; and
&#8216;logarithmic&#8217; in <i class="citetitle">Algorithms In C</i> by
Robert Sedgewick (Addison-Wesley 1990, ISBN 0-201-51425-7).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="line-noise.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="link-farm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">line noise </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> link farm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> without leaving it properly. The player is then
commonly left as a statue in the game, and is only removed after a certain
period of time (an hour on most MUDs). Used on <a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a>
as well, although it is inappropriate in that context. Compare
<a href="../N/netdead.html"><i class="glossterm">netdead</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="link-rot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lint.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">link rot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lint</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is
maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree &#8212;
for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object
files. &#8220;<span class="quote">Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and
FROBOZZ-4 link farms.</span>&#8221; Link farms may also be used to get around
restrictions on the number of <b class="command">-I</b>
(include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they
can also get completely out of hand, becoming the filesystem equivalent of
<a href="../S/spaghetti-code.html"><i class="glossterm">spaghetti code</i></a>. See also
<a href="../F/farm.html"><i class="glossterm">farm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="linearithmic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="link-rot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">linearithmic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> link rot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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change or die. Compare <a href="../B/bit-rot.html"><i class="glossterm">bit rot</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="link-farm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="link-dead.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">link farm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> link-dead</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lint</span>(1)</span>,
named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To examine a program
closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp. if in C,
esp. if via use of automated analysis tools, most esp. if the Unix
utility
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lint</span>(1)</span>
is used. This term used to be restricted to use of
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lint</span>(1)</span>
itself, but (judging by references on Usenet) it has become a shorthand for
any exhaustive review process at some non-Unix shops, even in languages
other than C. Also as <span class="grammar">v.</span>
<a href="../D/delint.html"><i class="glossterm">delint</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Excess verbiage in a
document, as in &#8220;<span class="quote">This draft has too much lint</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="link-dead.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Lintel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">link-dead </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Lintel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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administrative drones in general). From an old joke about two lions who,
escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet
after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other
overweight. The thin one says: &#8220;<span class="quote">How did you manage? I ate a human
just once and they turned out a small army to chase me &#8212; guns, nets,
it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects,
even grass.</span>&#8221; The fat one replies: &#8220;<span class="quote">Well,
<span class="emphasis"><em>I</em></span> hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day. And
nobody even noticed!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Linux.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Lions-Book.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Linux </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Lions Book</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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causing the victim to become a subscriber to many mailing lists. This is a
self-defeating tactic; it merely forces mailing list servers to require
confirmation by return message for every subscription.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="LISP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lithium-lick.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">LISP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lithium lick</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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from their esteemed founder are said to have &#8216;lithium lick&#8217;
when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervor and repeat the most recent
catch phrases in normal conversation &#8212; for example, &#8220;<span class="quote">It just
works, right out of the box!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="list-bomb.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="little-endian.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">list-bomb </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> little-endian</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is
stored &#8216;little-end-first&#8217;). The <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>
and <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> families of computers and Intel
microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are
little-endian. See <a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a>,
<a href="../M/middle-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">middle-endian</i></a>, <a href="../N/NUXI-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">NUXI problem</i></a>.
The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than
bytes; most often, bits within a byte.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lithium-lick.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="live.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lithium lick </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> live</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One
use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals
have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can
be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it
with a security-breaking <a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a> that is triggered the
next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some
well-known bugs in <a href="../V/vi.html"><i class="glossterm">vi</i></a> that allow certain texts to
send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply
viewed.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. In C code, data that includes pointers to function
<a href="../H/hook.html"><i class="glossterm">hook</i></a>s (executable code). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. An object, such as a <a href="../T/trampoline.html"><i class="glossterm">trampoline</i></a>, that is
constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as
code.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="live.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Live-Free-Or-Die-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">live </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Live Free Or Die!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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real-world data or a program working with it. For example, the response to
&#8220;<span class="quote">I think the record deleter is finished</span>&#8221; might be &#8220;<span class="quote">Is it
live yet?</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">Have you tried it out on live data?</span>&#8221;
This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile
and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more
appropriate response might be: &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, make sure it works perfectly
before we throw live data at it.</span>&#8221; The implication here is that
record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire
record-deleter running amok live would probably cause great harm.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="little-endian.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="live-data.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">little-endian </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> live data</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it to do after
they have been serviced but before it can clear its queue. Differs from
<a href="../D/deadlock.html"><i class="glossterm">deadlock</i></a> in that the process is not blocked or
waiting for anything, but has a virtually infinite amount of work to do and
can never catch up.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Live-Free-Or-Die-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="liveware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Live Free Or Die! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> liveware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Cambridge] Vermin. &#8220;<span class="quote">Waiter, there's some liveware in my
salad...</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="livelock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lobotomy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">livelock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lobotomy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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have undergone. At IBM and elsewhere this term is used by both hackers and
low-level management; the latter doubtless intend it as a joke. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The act of removing the processor from a microcomputer in order
to replace or upgrade it. Some very cheap <a href="../C/clone.html"><i class="glossterm">clone</i></a>
systems are sold in <span class="firstterm">lobotomized</span> form
&#8212; everything but the brain.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="liveware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="locals--the.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">liveware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> locals, the</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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reaches via public Internet connections). The marked thing about this
usage is how little it has to do with real-space distance. &#8220;<span class="quote">I have to
do some tweaking on this mail utility before releasing it to the
locals.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lobotomy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="locked-and-loaded.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lobotomy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> locked and loaded</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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prepared for firing] Said of a removable disk volume properly prepared for
use &#8212; that is, locked into the drive and with the heads loaded.
Ironically, because their heads are &#8216;loaded&#8217; whenever the power
is up, this description is never used of <a href="../W/Winchester.html"><i class="glossterm">Winchester</i></a>
drives (which are named after a rifle).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="locals--the.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="locked-up.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">locals, the </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> locked up</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="locked-and-loaded.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="logic-bomb.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">locked and loaded </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> logic bomb</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever
specified conditions are met. Compare
<a href="../B/back-door.html"><i class="glossterm">back door</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="locked-up.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="logical.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">locked up </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> logical</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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device</span>, wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary
&#8216;logical&#8217; name] Having the role of. If a person (say, Les
Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced,
the replacement would for a while be known as the <span class="firstterm">logical</span> Les Earnest. (This does not imply any
judgment on the replacement.) Compare
<a href="../V/virtual.html"><i class="glossterm">virtual</i></a>.</p><p>At Stanford, &#8216;logical&#8217; compass directions denote a
coordinate system relative to El Camino Real, in which &#8216;logical
north&#8217; is always toward San Francisco and &#8216;logical south&#8217;
is always toward San Jose--in spite of the fact that El Camino Real runs
physical north/south near San Francisco, physical east/west near San Jose,
and along a curve everywhere in between. (The best rule of thumb here is
that, by definition, El Camino Real always runs logical
north-south.)</p><p>In giving directions, one might say: &#8220;<span class="quote">To get to Rincon Tarasco
restaurant, get onto <a href="../E/El-Camino-Bignum.html"><i class="glossterm">El Camino Bignum</i></a> going logical
north.</span>&#8221; Using the word &#8216;logical&#8217; helps to prevent the
recipient from worrying about that the fact that the sun is setting almost
directly in front of him. The concept is reinforced by North American
highways which are almost, but not quite, consistently labeled with logical
rather than physical directions. A similar situation exists at MIT: Route
128 (famous for the electronics industry that grew up along it) wraps
roughly 3 quarters around Boston at a radius of 10 miles, terminating near
the coastline at each end. It would be most precise to describe the two
directions along this highway as &#8216;clockwise&#8217; and
&#8216;counterclockwise&#8217;, but the road signs all say
&#8220;<span class="quote">north</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">south</span>&#8221;, respectively. A hacker
might describe these directions as <span class="firstterm">logical
north</span> and <span class="firstterm">logical south</span>,
to indicate that they are conventional directions not corresponding to the
usual denotation for those words.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="logic-bomb.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="loop-through.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">logic bomb </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> loop through</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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got to loop through my paper mail.</span>&#8221; Derives from the
computer-language notion of an iterative loop; compare <span class="firstterm">cdr down</span> (under <a href="../C/cdr.html"><i class="glossterm">cdr</i></a>),
which is less common among C and Unix programmers. ITS hackers used to say
<span class="firstterm">IRP over</span> after an obscure pseudo-op
in the MIDAS PDP-10 assembler (the same IRP op can nowadays be found in
Microsoft's assembler).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="logical.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="loose-bytes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">logical </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> loose bytes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/shim.html"><i class="glossterm">shim</i></a>s many compilers insert between members of a
record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the
machine architecture.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="loop-through.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lord-high-fixer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">loop through </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lord high fixer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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executioner&#8217;] The person in an organization who knows the most about
some aspect of a system. See <a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="loose-bytes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lose.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">loose bytes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lose</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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accidentally deleted all my files!</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Lose,
lose.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lose.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="loser.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lose </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> loser</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>lose</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lord-high-fixer.html" title="lord high fixer"/><link rel="next" href="lose-lose.html" title="lose lose"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">lose</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lord-high-fixer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lose-lose.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="lose"/><dt xmlns="" id="lose"><b>lose</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [very common] To fail. A program loses when it encounters an
exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed to
ignorant). See also <a href="../D/deserves-to-lose.html"><i class="glossterm">deserves to lose</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Refers to something that
is <a href="losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a>, especially in the phrases &#8220;<span class="quote">That's a
lose!</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">What a lose!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lord-high-fixer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lose-lose.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lord high fixer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lose lose</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>loser</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lose-lose.html" title="lose lose"/><link rel="next" href="losing.html" title="losing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">loser</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lose-lose.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="losing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="loser"/><dt xmlns="" id="loser"><b>loser</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person.
Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally.)
Someone who knows not and knows not that he knows not. Emphatic forms are
<span class="firstterm">real loser</span>, <span class="firstterm">total loser</span>, and <span class="firstterm">complete loser</span> (but not **<span class="firstterm">moby loser</span>, which would be a contradiction in
terms). See <a href="luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lose-lose.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="losing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lose lose </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> losing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">lossage</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">The compiler is losing badly when I
try to use templates.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="loser.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="loss.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">loser </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> loss</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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is losing. Emphatic forms include <span class="firstterm">moby
loss</span>, and <span class="firstterm">total loss</span>,
<span class="firstterm">complete loss</span>. Common interjections
are &#8220;<span class="quote">What a loss!</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">What a moby loss!</span>&#8221; Note
that <span class="firstterm">moby loss</span> is OK even though
**<span class="firstterm">moby loser</span> is not used; applied to
an abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to a
person it implies substance and has positive connotations. Compare
<a href="lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">lossage</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="losing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lossage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">losing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lossage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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collective noun. &#8220;<span class="quote">What a loss!</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">What
lossage!</span>&#8221; are nearly synonymous. The former is slightly more
particular to the speaker's present circumstances; the latter implies a
continuing <a href="lose.html"><i class="glossterm">lose</i></a> of which the speaker is currently a
victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a loss, but
bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="loss.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lossy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">loss </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lossy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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This usage is analogical to the same term applied to data compression and
analysis. &#8220;<span class="quote">He's very lossy.</span>&#8221; means that you can't rely on him
to accurately remember recent experiences or conversations, or requests.
Not to be confused with a &#8216;loser&#8217;, which is a person who is in
a continual state of lossiness, as in sense 2 (see below). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Said of an attitude or a situation, this indicates a general
downturn in emotions, lack of success in attempted endeavors, etc. Eg,
&#8220;<span class="quote">I'm having a lossy day today.</span>&#8221; means that the speaker has
&#8216;lost&#8217; or is &#8216;losing&#8217; in all of their activities,
and that this is causing some increase in negative emotions.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lossage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lost-in-the-noise.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lossage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lost in the noise</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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from signal processing, where signals of very small amplitude cannot be
separated from low-intensity noise in the system. Though popular among
hackers, it is not confined to hackerdom; physicists, engineers,
astronomers, and statisticians all use it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lossy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lost-in-the-underflow.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lossy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lost in the underflow</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the limits of accuracy or measurement. This is a reference to <span class="firstterm">floating underflow</span>, a condition that can occur
when a floating-point arithmetic processor tries to handle quantities
smaller than its limit of magnitude. It is also a pun on
&#8216;undertow&#8217; (a kind of fast, cold current that sometimes runs
just offshore and can be dangerous to swimmers). &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, sure, photon
pressure from the stadium lights alters the path of a thrown baseball, but
that effect gets lost in the underflow.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>, <a href="../E/epsilon-squared.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon squared</i></a>; see
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seem to communicate with human beings effectively. Technically it
describes a machine that has lots of processing power but is bottlenecked
on input-output (in 1991, the IBM Rios, a.k.a. RS/6000, was a notorious
example).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lost-in-the-underflow.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="low-bandwidth.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lost in the underflow </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> low-bandwidth</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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not <a href="../C/content-free.html"><i class="glossterm">content-free</i></a>, was not terribly informative.
&#8220;<span class="quote">That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an
audience of <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s!</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../Z/zero-content.html"><i class="glossterm">zero-content</i></a>, <a href="../B/bandwidth.html"><i class="glossterm">bandwidth</i></a>,
<a href="../M/math-out.html"><i class="glossterm">math-out</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lots-of-MIPS-but-no-I-O.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lots of MIPS but no I/O </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of software. Compare <a href="../H/heatseeker.html"><i class="glossterm">heatseeker</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lumber-Cartel.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lurker.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Lumber Cartel </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lurker</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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who posts occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's
postings regularly. This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually
used reflexively: &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, I'm just lurking.</span>&#8221; Often used in
<span class="firstterm">the lurkers</span>, the hypothetical
audience for the group's <a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a>-emitting regulars.
When a lurker speaks up for the first time, this is called <span class="firstterm">delurking</span>.</p><p>The creator of the popular science-fiction TV series
<i class="citetitle">Babylon 5</i> has ties to SF fandom and the hacker
culture. In that series, the use of the term &#8216;lurker&#8217; for a
homeless or displaced person is a conscious reference to the jargon
term.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lunatic-fringe.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="luser.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lunatic fringe </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> luser</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a>. (<a href="luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> and
<a href="loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a> are pronounced identically.) This word was
coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a
terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it
printed out some status information, including how many people were already
using the computer; it might print &#8220;<span class="quote">14 users</span>&#8221;, for example.
Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print
&#8220;<span class="quote">14 losers</span>&#8221; instead. There ensued a great controversy, as
some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their
faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers
struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the
others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it
would say &#8220;<span class="quote">users</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">losers</span>&#8221;. Finally, someone
tried the compromise &#8220;<span class="quote">lusers</span>&#8221;, and it stuck. Later one of the
ITS machines supported <b class="command">luser</b> as a
request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a
museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term <span class="firstterm">luser</span> is often seen in program comments and on
Usenet. Compare <a href="../M/mundane.html"><i class="glossterm">mundane</i></a>,
<a href="../M/muggle.html"><i class="glossterm">muggle</i></a>, <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>,
<a href="../C/chainik.html"><i class="glossterm">chainik</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lurker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../M.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lurker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> M</td></tr></table></div></body></html>