Atlas48/JargonFile
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Original files version 4.4.7

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Bob Mottram
2014-03-27 18:54:56 +00:00
parent c632ed8d67
commit cb847ea893
2578 changed files with 26300 additions and 0 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

2
original/html/M/M.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>M</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="next" href="MS.html" title="M$"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">M</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../M.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="M"/><dt xmlns="" id="M"><b>M</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [SI] See <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../M.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">M </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> M$</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

12
original/html/M/MEGO.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MEGO</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="megapenny.html" title="megapenny"/><link rel="next" href="meltdown--network.html" title="meltdown, network"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MEGO</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="megapenny.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meltdown--network.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MEGO"/><dt xmlns="" id="MEGO"><b>MEGO</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/me´goh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mee´goh/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [&#8220;<span class="quote">My Eyes Glaze Over</span>&#8221;, often &#8220;<span class="quote">Mine Eyes Glazeth
(sic) Over</span>&#8221;, attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also
<span class="firstterm">MEGO factor</span>.</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A
<a href="../H/handwave.html"><i class="glossterm">handwave</i></a> intended to confuse the listener and
hopefully induce agreement because the listener does not want to admit to
not understanding what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior
management by engineers and contains a high proportion of
<a href="../T/TLA.html"><i class="glossterm">TLA</i></a>s.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Among non-hackers, often refers not to behavior that causes the
eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be
triggered by the mere threat of excessive technical detail as effectively
as by an actual excess of it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="megapenny.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meltdown--network.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">megapenny </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meltdown, network</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

33
original/html/M/MFTL.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MFTL</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="metasyntactic-variable.html" title="metasyntactic variable"/><link rel="next" href="mickey.html" title="mickey"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MFTL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="metasyntactic-variable.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mickey.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MFTL"/><dt xmlns="" id="MFTL"><b>MFTL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/M·F·T·L/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbreviation: &#8216;My Favorite Toy Language&#8217;]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Describes a talk on a
programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF),
sometimes even talks about semantics (e.g., type systems), but rarely, if
ever, has any content (see <a href="../C/content-free.html"><i class="glossterm">content-free</i></a>). More
broadly applied to talks &#8212; even when the topic is not a programming
language &#8212; in which the subject matter is gone into in unnecessary
and meticulous detail at the sacrifice of any conceptual content.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Well, it was a typical MFTL talk</span>&#8221;. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Describes a language about
which the developers are passionate (often to the point of proselytic zeal)
but no one else cares about. Applied to the language by those outside the
originating group. &#8220;<span class="quote">He cornered me about type resolution in his
MFTL.</span>&#8221;</p><p>The first great goal in the mind of the designer of an MFTL is
usually to write a compiler for it, then bootstrap the design away from
contamination by lesser languages by writing a compiler for it in itself.
Thus, the standard put-down question at an MFTL talk is &#8220;<span class="quote">Has it been
used for anything besides its own compiler?</span>&#8221; On the other hand, a
(compiled) language that cannot even be used to write its own compiler is
beneath contempt. (The qualification has become necessary because of the
increasing popularity of interpreted languages like
<a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a> and <a href="../P/Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a>.) See
<a href="../B/break-even-point.html"><i class="glossterm">break-even point</i></a>. (On a related note, Doug McIlroy
once proposed a test of the generality and utility of a language and the
operating system under which it is compiled: &#8220;<span class="quote">Is the output of a
FORTRAN program acceptable as input to the FORTRAN compiler?</span>&#8221; In
other words, can you write programs that write programs? (See
<a href="../T/toolsmith.html"><i class="glossterm">toolsmith</i></a>.) Alarming numbers of (language, OS)
pairs fail this test, particularly when the language is FORTRAN;
aficionados are quick to point out that <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> (even
using FORTRAN) passes it handily. That the test could ever be failed is
only surprising to those who have had the good fortune to have worked only
under modern systems which lack OS-supported and -imposed &#8220;<span class="quote">file
types</span>&#8221;.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="metasyntactic-variable.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mickey.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">metasyntactic variable </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mickey</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

18
original/html/M/MIPS.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MIPS</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="minor-detail.html" title="minor detail"/><link rel="next" href="misbug.html" title="misbug"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MIPS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="minor-detail.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="misbug.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MIPS"/><dt xmlns="" id="MIPS"><b>MIPS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mips/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbreviation] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A measure of computing speed; formally, &#8216;Million
Instructions Per Second&#8217; (that's
<tt class="literal">10<sup>6</sup></tt> per second, not
<tt class="literal">2<sup>20</sup></tt>!); often rendered by
hackers as &#8216;Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed&#8217; or in
other unflattering ways, such as &#8216;Meaningless Information Provided by
Salesmen&#8217;. This joke expresses an attitude nearly universal among
hackers about the value of most <a href="../B/benchmark.html"><i class="glossterm">benchmark</i></a> claims,
said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and
<a href="marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>s (see also
<a href="../B/BogoMIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">BogoMIPS</i></a>). The singular is sometimes &#8216;1
MIP&#8217; even though this is clearly etymologically wrong. See also
<a href="../K/KIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">KIPS</i></a> and <a href="../G/GIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">GIPS</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Computers, especially large computers, considered abstractly as
sources of <a href="../C/computron.html"><i class="glossterm">computron</i></a>s. &#8220;<span class="quote">This is just a
workstation; the heavy MIPS are hidden in the basement.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The corporate name of a particular RISC-chip company,
later acquired by SGI.</p></dd><dd><p> 4. Acronym for &#8216;Meaningless Information per Second&#8217; (a
joke, prob.: from sense 1).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="minor-detail.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="misbug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">minor detail </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> misbug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

8
original/html/M/MMF.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MMF</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="miswart.html" title="miswart"/><link rel="next" href="mobo.html" title="mobo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MMF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="miswart.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mobo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MMF"/><dt xmlns="" id="MMF"><b>MMF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; common] Abbreviation: &#8220;<span class="quote">Make Money Fast</span>&#8221;.
Refers to any kind of scheme which promises participants large profits with
little or no risk or effort. Typically, it is a some kind of multi-level
marketing operation which involves recruiting more members, or an illegal
pyramid scam. The term is also used to refer to any kind of spam which
promotes this. For more information, see the <a href="http://www.stopspam.org/usenet/mmf/" target="_top"> Make Money Fast Myth
Page</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="miswart.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mobo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">miswart </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mobo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

5
original/html/M/MOTAS.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MOTAS</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="moria.html" title="moria"/><link rel="next" href="MOTOS.html" title="MOTOS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MOTAS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="moria.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MOTOS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MOTAS"/><dt xmlns="" id="MOTAS"><b>MOTAS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/moh·tahz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet: Member Of The Appropriate Sex, after
<a href="MOTOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTOS</i></a> and <a href="MOTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTSS</i></a>] A potential
or (less often) actual sex partner. See also
<a href="../S/SO.html"><i class="glossterm">SO</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="moria.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MOTOS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">moria </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MOTOS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/MOTOS.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MOTOS</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MOTAS.html" title="MOTAS"/><link rel="next" href="MOTSS.html" title="MOTSS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MOTOS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MOTAS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MOTSS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MOTOS"/><dt xmlns="" id="MOTOS"><b>MOTOS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/moh·tohs/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym from the 1970 U.S. census forms via Usenet: Member Of The
Opposite Sex] A potential or (less often) actual sex partner. See
<a href="MOTAS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTAS</i></a>, <a href="MOTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTSS</i></a>,
<a href="../S/SO.html"><i class="glossterm">SO</i></a>. Less common than MOTSS or
<a href="MOTAS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTAS</i></a>, which has largely displaced it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MOTAS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MOTSS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MOTAS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MOTSS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/MOTSS.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MOTSS</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MOTOS.html" title="MOTOS"/><link rel="next" href="mouse-ahead.html" title="mouse ahead"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MOTSS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MOTOS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mouse-ahead.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MOTSS"/><dt xmlns="" id="MOTSS"><b>MOTSS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mots/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/M·O·T·S·S/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the 1970 U.S. census forms via Usenet] Member Of The Same Sex,
esp. one considered as a possible sexual partner. The gay-issues newsgroup
on Usenet is called <tt class="systemitem">soc.motss</tt>.
See <a href="MOTOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTOS</i></a> and <a href="MOTAS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTAS</i></a>, which
derive from it. See also <a href="../S/SO.html"><i class="glossterm">SO</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MOTOS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mouse-ahead.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MOTOS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mouse ahead</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

23
original/html/M/MS-DOS.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MS-DOS</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mouso.html" title="mouso"/><link rel="next" href="mu.html" title="mu"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MS-DOS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mouso.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mu.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MS-DOS"/><dt xmlns="" id="MS-DOS"><b>MS-DOS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/M·S·dos/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A <a href="../C/clone.html"><i class="glossterm">clone</i></a> of
<a href="../C/CP-M.html"><i class="glossterm">CP/M</i></a> for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by
hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Products, who called the original
QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and is said to have regretted it
ever since. Microsoft licensed QDOS in order to have something to demo for
IBM on time, and the rest is history. Numerous features, including vaguely
Unix-like but rather broken support for subdirectories, I/O redirection,
and pipelines, were hacked into Microsoft's 2.0 and subsequent versions; as
a result, there are two or more incompatible versions of many system calls,
and MS-DOS programmers can never agree on basic things like what character
to use as an option switch or whether to be case-sensitive. The resulting
appalling mess is now the highest-unit-volume OS in history. Often known
simply as DOS, which annoys people familiar with other similarly
abbreviated operating systems (the name goes back to the mid-1960s, when it
was attached to IBM's first disk operating system for the 360). The name
further annoys those who know what the term
<a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating system</i></a> does (or ought to) connote; DOS is more properly a set
of relatively simple interrupt services. Some people like to pronounce DOS
like &#8220;<span class="quote">dose</span>&#8221;, as in &#8220;<span class="quote">I don't work on dose, man!</span>&#8221;,
or to compare it to a dose of brain-damaging drugs (a slogan button in wide
circulation among hackers exhorts: &#8220;<span class="quote">MS-DOS: Just say No!</span>&#8221;).
See <a href="mess-dos.html"><i class="glossterm">mess-dos</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mouso.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mu.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mouso </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mu</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

3
original/html/M/MS.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>M$</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="M.html" title="M"/><link rel="next" href="macdink.html" title="macdink"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">M$</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="M.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macdink.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MS"/><dt xmlns="" id="MS"><b>M$</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Common net abbreviation for Microsoft, everybody's least favorite
monopoly.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="M.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macdink.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">M </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> macdink</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

46
original/html/M/MUD.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MUD</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mu.html" title="mu"/><link rel="next" href="muddie.html" title="muddie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MUD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mu.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="muddie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MUD"/><dt xmlns="" id="MUD"><b>MUD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/muhd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.: Multi-User Dimension] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A class of <a href="../V/virtual-reality.html"><i class="glossterm">virtual reality</i></a> experiments
accessible via the Internet. These are real-time chat forums with
structure; they have multiple &#8216;locations&#8217; like an adventure
game, and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic, a simple economic
system, and the capability for characters to build more structure onto the
database that represents the existing world. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To play a MUD. The
acronym MUD is often lowercased and/or verbed; thus, one may speak of
<span class="firstterm">going mudding</span>, etc.</p></dd><dd><p>Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU-
form) derive from a hack by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the
University of Essex's DEC-10 in the early 1980s; descendants of that game
still exist today and are sometimes generically called
<span class="emphasis"><em>BartleMUD</em></span>s. There is a widespread myth (repeated,
unfortunately, by earlier versions of this lexicon) that the name MUD was
trademarked to the commercial MUD run by Bartle on British Telecom (the
motto: &#8220;<span class="quote">You haven't <span class="emphasis"><em>lived</em></span> 'til you've
<span class="emphasis"><em>died</em></span> on MUD!</span>&#8221;); however, this is false &#8212;
Richard Bartle explicitly placed &#8216;MUD&#8217; in the public domain in
1985. BT was upset at this, as they had already printed trademark claims
on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth.</p><p>Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the
MUD concept, spawning several new MUDs (VAXMUD, AberMUD, LPMUD). Many of
these had associated bulletin-board systems for social interaction.
Because these had an image as &#8216;research&#8217; they often survived
administrative hostility to BBSs in general. This, together with the fact
that Usenet feeds were often spotty and difficult to get in the U.K., made
the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there.</p><p>AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and
quickly gained popularity in the U.S.; they became nuclei for large hacker
communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom (some observers
see parallels with the growth of Usenet in the early 1980s). The second
wave of MUDs (TinyMUD and variants) tended to emphasize social interaction,
puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed to combat and
competition (in writing, these social MUDs are sometimes referred to as
&#8216;MU*&#8217;, with &#8216;MUD&#8217; implicitly reserved for the more
game-oriented ones). By 1991, over 50% of MUD sites were of a third major
variety, LPMUD, which synthesizes the combat/puzzle aspects of AberMUD and
older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. In 1996 the cutting edge
of the technology is Pavel Curtis's MOO, even more extensible using a
built-in object-oriented language. The trend toward greater
programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue.</p><p>The state of the art in MUD design is still moving very rapidly, with
new simulation designs appearing (seemingly) every month. Around 1991
there was an unsuccessful movement to deprecate the term
<a href="MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding
variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being
explored. It survived. See also <a href="../B/bonk-oif.html"><i class="glossterm">bonk/oif</i></a>,
<a href="../F/FOD.html"><i class="glossterm">FOD</i></a>, <a href="../L/link-dead.html"><i class="glossterm">link-dead</i></a>,
<a href="mudhead.html"><i class="glossterm">mudhead</i></a>, <a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mu.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="muddie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mu </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> muddie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

3
original/html/M/Macintoy.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Macintoy</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="machoflops.html" title="machoflops"/><link rel="next" href="Macintrash.html" title="Macintrash"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Macintoy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="machoflops.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Macintrash.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Macintoy"/><dt xmlns="" id="Macintoy"><b>Macintoy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mak´in·toy/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The Apple Macintosh, considered as a <a href="../T/toy.html"><i class="glossterm">toy</i></a>.
Less pejorative than <a href="Macintrash.html"><i class="glossterm">Macintrash</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="machoflops.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Macintrash.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">machoflops </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Macintrash</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/Macintrash.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Macintrash</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="Macintoy.html" title="Macintoy"/><link rel="next" href="macro.html" title="macro"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Macintrash</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Macintoy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macro.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Macintrash"/><dt xmlns="" id="Macintrash"><b>Macintrash</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mak´in·trash`/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate
being kept away from the <span class="emphasis"><em>real computer</em></span> by the
interface. The term <a href="maggotbox.html"><i class="glossterm">maggotbox</i></a> has been reported in
regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Compare
<a href="Macintoy.html"><i class="glossterm">Macintoy</i></a>. See also
<a href="../B/beige-toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">beige toaster</i></a>, <a href="../W/WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>,
<a href="../P/point-and-drool-interface.html"><i class="glossterm">point-and-drool interface</i></a>,
<a href="../D/drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>, <a href="../U/user-friendly.html"><i class="glossterm">user-friendly</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Macintoy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macro.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Macintoy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> macro</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

31
original/html/M/Mars.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Mars</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="marketroid.html" title="marketroid"/><link rel="next" href="martian.html" title="martian"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Mars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marketroid.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="martian.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Mars"/><dt xmlns="" id="Mars"><b>Mars</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10-compatible computers built by
Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group): the multi-processor SC-30M, the small
uniprocessor SC-25, and the never-built superprocessor SC-40. These
machines were marvels of engineering design; although not much slower than
the unique <a href="../F/Foonly.html"><i class="glossterm">Foonly</i></a> F-1, they were physically smaller
and consumed less power than the much slower <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>
KS10 or Foonly F-2, F-3, or F-4 machines. They were also completely
compatible with the DEC KL10, and ran all KL10 binaries (including the
operating system) with no modifications at about 2--3 times faster than a
KL10.</p><p>When DEC cancelled the Jupiter project in 1983 (their followup to the
PDP-10), Systems Concepts should have made a bundle selling their machine
into shops with a lot of software investment in PDP-10s, and in fact their
spring 1984 announcement generated a great deal of excitement in the PDP-10
world. TOPS-10 was running on the Mars by the summer of 1984, and TOPS-20
by early fall. Unfortunately, the hackers running Systems Concepts were
much better at designing machines than at mass producing or selling them;
the company allowed itself to be sidetracked by a bout of perfectionism
into continually improving the design, and lost credibility as delivery
dates continued to slip. They also overpriced the product ridiculously;
they believed they were competing with the KL10 and
<a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> 8600 and failed to reckon with the likes of Sun
Microsystems and other hungry startups building workstations with power
comparable to the KL10 at a fraction of the price. By the time SC shipped
the first SC-30M to Stanford in late 1985, most customers had already made
the traumatic decision to abandon the PDP-10, usually for VMS or Unix
boxes. Most of the Mars computers built ended up being purchased by
CompuServe.</p><p>This tale and the related saga of <a href="../F/Foonly.html"><i class="glossterm">Foonly</i></a> hold
a lesson for hackers: if you want to play in the
<a href="../R/Real-World.html"><i class="glossterm">Real World</i></a>, you need to learn Real World moves.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marketroid.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="martian.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">marketroid </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> martian</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/Matrix.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Matrix</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="math-out.html" title="math-out"/><link rel="next" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html" title="maximum Maytag mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Matrix</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="math-out.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Matrix"/><dt xmlns="" id="Matrix"><b>Matrix</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [FidoNet] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call
<a href="../F/FidoNet.html"><i class="glossterm">FidoNet</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Fanciful term for a <a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a> expected to
emerge from current networking experiments (see
<a href="../T/the-network.html"><i class="glossterm">the network</i></a>). The name of the rather good 1999
<a href="../C/cypherpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cypherpunk</i></a> movie <i class="citetitle">The Matrix</i>
played on this sense, which however had been established for years before.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The totality of present-day computer networks (popularized in
this sense by John Quarterman; rare outside academic literature).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="math-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">math-out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> maximum Maytag mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

12
original/html/M/McQuary-limit.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>McQuary limit</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html" title="maximum Maytag mode"/><link rel="next" href="meatspace.html" title="meatspace"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">McQuary limit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meatspace.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="McQuary-limit"/><dt xmlns="" id="McQuary-limit"><b>McQuary limit</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the name of the founder of <tt class="systemitem">alt.fan.warlord</tt>; see
<a href="../W/warlording.html"><i class="glossterm">warlording</i></a>.] 4 lines of at most 80 characters each,
sometimes still cited on Usenet as the maximum acceptable size of a
<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>. Before the great bandwidth explosion of
the early 1990s, long sigs actually cost people running Usenet servers
significant amounts of money. Nowadays social pressure against long sigs
is intended to avoid waste of human attention rather than machine
bandwidth. Accordingly, the McQuary limit should be considered a rule of
thumb rather than a hard limit; it's best to avoid sigs that are large,
repetitive, and distracting. See also
<a href="../W/warlording.html"><i class="glossterm">warlording</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meatspace.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">maximum Maytag mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meatspace</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/MiSTing.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MiSTing</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="missile-address.html" title="missile address"/><link rel="next" href="miswart.html" title="miswart"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MiSTing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="missile-address.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="miswart.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MiSTing"/><dt xmlns="" id="MiSTing"><b>MiSTing</b></dt></dt><dd><p>[blogosphere] A variant of <a href="../F/fisking.html"><i class="glossterm">fisking</i></a> patterned
on the protocol of Mystery Science Theater 3000, In a MiSTing, the satire
is spoken through characters purporting to be the MST3K robots or other
suitably bizarre characters, such as the Roman emperors Augustus and
Caligula.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="missile-address.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="miswart.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">missile address </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> miswart</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/MicroDroid.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MicroDroid</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="micro-.html" title="micro-"/><link rel="next" href="microfortnight.html" title="microfortnight"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MicroDroid</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="micro-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microfortnight.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MicroDroid"/><dt xmlns="" id="MicroDroid"><b>MicroDroid</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] A Microsoft employee, esp. one who posts to various
operating-system advocacy newsgroups. MicroDroids post follow-ups to any
messages critical of Microsoft's operating systems, and often end up
sounding like visiting fundamentalist missionaries. See also
<a href="../A/astroturfing.html"><i class="glossterm">astroturfing</i></a>; compare
<a href="microserf.html"><i class="glossterm">microserf</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="micro-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microfortnight.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">micro- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> microfortnight</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

11
original/html/M/Microsloth-Windows.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Microsloth Windows</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="microserf.html" title="microserf"/><link rel="next" href="Microsoft.html" title="Microsoft"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Microsloth Windows</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microserf.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Microsoft.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Microsloth-Windows"/><dt xmlns="" id="Microsloth-Windows"><b>Microsloth Windows</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mi:´kroh·sloth` win´dohz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze,
WinDOS}. Hackerism(s) for &#8216;Microsoft Windows&#8217;. A thirty-two
bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit
operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was
written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Also
just called <span class="firstterm">Windoze</span>, with the
implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the
latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See
<a href="../B/Black-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Black Screen of Death</i></a> and <a href="../B/Blue-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Screen of Death</i></a>; compare
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>, <a href="../S/sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microserf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Microsoft.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">microserf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Microsoft</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/Microsoft.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Microsoft</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="Microsloth-Windows.html" title="Microsloth Windows"/><link rel="next" href="micros-tilde-1.html" title="micros~1"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Microsoft</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Microsloth-Windows.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="micros-tilde-1.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Microsoft"/><dt xmlns="" id="Microsoft"><b>Microsoft</b></dt></dt><dd><p> The new <a href="../E/Evil-Empire.html"><i class="glossterm">Evil Empire</i></a> (the old one was
<a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a>). The basic complaints are, as formerly with
IBM, that (a) their system designs are horrible botches, (b) we can't get
<a href="../S/source.html"><i class="glossterm">source</i></a> to fix them, and (c) they throw their weight
around a lot. See also <a href="../H/Halloween-Documents.html"><i class="glossterm">Halloween Documents</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Microsloth-Windows.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="micros-tilde-1.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Microsloth Windows </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> micros~1</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/Mongolian-Hordes-technique.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Mongolian Hordes technique</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="molly-guard.html" title="molly-guard"/><link rel="next" href="monkey-up.html" title="monkey up"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Mongolian Hordes technique</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="molly-guard.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="monkey-up.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Mongolian-Hordes-technique"/><dt xmlns="" id="Mongolian-Hordes-technique"><b>Mongolian Hordes technique</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression <span class="firstterm">Mongolian clusterfuck</span> for a public orgy]
Development by <a href="../G/gang-bang.html"><i class="glossterm">gang bang</i></a>. Implies that large
numbers of inexperienced programmers are being put on a job better
performed by a few skilled ones (but see <a href="../B/bazaar.html"><i class="glossterm">bazaar</i></a>).
Also called <span class="firstterm">Chinese Army technique</span>;
see also <a href="../B/Brookss-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Brooks's Law</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="molly-guard.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="monkey-up.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">molly-guard </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> monkey up</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

14
original/html/M/Moof.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Moof</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="monty.html" title="monty"/><link rel="next" href="Moores-Law.html" title="Moore's Law"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Moof</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="monty.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Moores-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Moof"/><dt xmlns="" id="Moof"><b>Moof</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/moof/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Macintosh users] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The call of a
semi-legendary creature, properly called the <a href="../D/dogcow.html"><i class="glossterm">dogcow</i></a>.
(Some previous versions of this entry claimed, incorrectly, that Moof was
the name of the <span class="emphasis"><em>creature</em></span>.) </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Used to flag software
that's a hack, something untested and on the edge. On one Apple CD-ROM,
certain folders such as &#8220;<span class="quote">Tools &amp; Apps (Moof!)</span>&#8221; and
&#8220;<span class="quote">Development Platforms (Moof!)</span>&#8221;, are so marked to indicate
that they contain software not fully tested or sanctioned by the powers
that be. When you open these folders you cross the boundary into
hackerland. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">v.</span> On the Microsoft Network,
the term &#8216;moof&#8217; has gained popularity as a verb meaning
&#8216;to be suddenly disconnected by the system&#8217;. One might say
&#8220;<span class="quote">I got moofed</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="monty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Moores-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">monty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Moore's Law</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

20
original/html/M/Moores-Law.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Moore's Law</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="Moof.html" title="Moof"/><link rel="next" href="moria.html" title="moria"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Moore's Law</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Moof.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="moria.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Moores-Law"/><dt xmlns="" id="Moores-Law"><b>Moore's Law</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/morz law/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>Any one of several similar folk theorems that fit computing capacity
or cost to a 2<sup>t</sup> exponential curve, with doubling
time close to a year. The most common fits component density to such a
curve (previous versions of this entry gave that form). Another variant
asserts that the dollar cost of constant computing power decreases on the
same curve. The original Moore's Law, first uttered in 1965 by
semiconductor engineer Gordon Moore (who co-founded Intel four years
later), spoke of the number of components on the lowest-cost silicon
integrated circuits &#8212; but Moore's own formulation varied somewhat
over the years, and reconstructing the meaning of the terminology he used
in the original turns out to be fraught with difficulties. Further
variants were spawned by Intel's PR department and various
journalists.</p><p>It has been <a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/tuomi/index.html" target="_top">shown</a>
that none of the variants of Moore's Law actually fit the data very well
(the price curves within DRAM generations perhaps come closest).
Nevertheless, Moore's Law is constantly invoked to set up expectations
about the next generation of computing technology. See also
<a href="../P/Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html"><i class="glossterm">Parkinson's Law of Data</i></a> and <a href="../G/Gatess-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Gates's
Law</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Moof.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="moria.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Moof </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> moria</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

28
original/html/M/Multics.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Multics</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="muggle.html" title="muggle"/><link rel="next" href="multitask.html" title="multitask"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Multics</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="muggle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="multitask.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Multics"/><dt xmlns="" id="Multics"><b>Multics</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/muhl´tiks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from &#8220;<span class="quote">MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service</span>&#8221;]
An early timesharing <a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating system</i></a> co-designed
by a consortium including MIT, GE, and Bell Laboratories as a successor to
<a href="../C/CTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">CTSS</i></a>. The design was first presented in 1965,
planned for operation in 1967, first operational in 1969, and took several
more years to achieve respectable performance and stability.</p><p>Multics was very innovative for its time &#8212; among other things,
it provided a hierarchical file system with access control on individual
files and introduced the idea of treating all devices uniformly as special
files. It was also the first OS to run on a symmetric multiprocessor, and
the only general-purpose system to be awarded a B2 security rating by the
NSA (see <a href="../O/Orange-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Orange Book</i></a>).</p><p>Bell Labs left the development effort in 1969 after judging that
<a href="../S/second-system-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">second-system effect</i></a> had bloated Multics to the
point of practical unusability. Honeywell commercialized Multics in 1972
after buying out GE's computer group, but it was never very successful: at
its peak in the 1980s, there were between 75 and 100 Multics sites, each a
multi-million dollar mainframe.</p><p>One of the former Multics developers from Bell Labs was Ken Thompson,
and <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> deliberately carried through and extended
many of Multics' design ideas; indeed, Thompson described the very name
&#8216;Unix&#8217; as &#8220;<span class="quote">a weak pun on Multics</span>&#8221;. For this and
other reasons, aspects of the Multics design remain a topic of occasional
debate among hackers. See also <a href="../B/brain-damaged.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-damaged</i></a> and
<a href="../G/GCOS.html"><i class="glossterm">GCOS</i></a>.</p><p>MIT ended its development association with Multics in 1977.
Honeywell sold its computer business to Bull in the mid 80s, and
development on Multics was stopped in 1988. Four Multics sites were known
to be still in use as late as 1998, but the last one (a Canadian military
site) was decommissioned in November 2000. There is a Multics page at
<a href="http://www.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/tvv/multics.html" target="_top">http://www.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/tvv/multics.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="muggle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="multitask.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">muggle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> multitask</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

26
original/html/M/Murphys-Law.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Murphy's Law</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="munge.html" title="munge"/><link rel="next" href="music.html" title="music"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Murphy's Law</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="munge.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="music.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Murphys-Law"/><dt xmlns="" id="Murphys-Law"><b>Murphy's Law</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The correct, <span class="emphasis"><em>original</em></span> Murphy's Law reads:
&#8220;<span class="quote">If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways
can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.</span>&#8221; This is a
principle of defensive design, cited here because it is usually given in
mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design for
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s. For example, you don't make a two-pin plug
symmetrical and then label it &#8220;<span class="quote">THIS WAY UP</span>&#8221;; if it matters
which way it is plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical (see also
the anecdote under <a href="magic-smoke.html"><i class="glossterm">magic smoke</i></a>).</p><p>Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of McDonnell-Douglas's test
engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air
Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981).
One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different
parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be
glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 in a
replacement set the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form
of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp)
mis-quoted (apparently in the more general form &#8220;<span class="quote">Whatever can go
wrong, <span class="emphasis"><em>will</em></span> go wrong)</span>&#8221; at a news conference a
few days later.</p><p>Within months &#8216;Murphy's Law&#8217; had spread to various
technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many
years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination,
changing as they went. Most of these are variants on &#8220;<span class="quote">Anything that
can go wrong, will</span>&#8221;; this is more correctly referred to as
<a href="../F/Finagles-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Finagle's Law</i></a>. The memetic drift apparent in these
mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself!</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="munge.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="music.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">munge </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> music</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

8
original/html/M/macdink.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>macdink</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MS.html" title="M$"/><link rel="next" href="machoflops.html" title="machoflops"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">macdink</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="machoflops.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="macdink"/><dt xmlns="" id="macdink"><b>macdink</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mak´dink/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior]
To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or
file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without
them. &#8220;<span class="quote">When I left at 11PM last night, he was still macdinking the
slides for his presentation.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../F/fritterware.html"><i class="glossterm">fritterware</i></a>,
<a href="../W/window-shopping.html"><i class="glossterm">window shopping</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="machoflops.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">M$ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> machoflops</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/machoflops.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>machoflops</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="macdink.html" title="macdink"/><link rel="next" href="Macintoy.html" title="Macintoy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">machoflops</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macdink.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Macintoy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="machoflops"/><dt xmlns="" id="machoflops"><b>machoflops</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mach´oh·flops/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [pun on <span class="firstterm">megaflops</span>, a coinage
for &#8216;millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second&#8217;] Refers
to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer
manufacturers. Real applications are lucky to get half the quoted
speed. See <a href="../Y/Your-mileage-may-vary.html"><i class="glossterm">Your mileage may vary</i></a>,
<a href="../B/benchmark.html"><i class="glossterm">benchmark</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macdink.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Macintoy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">macdink </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Macintoy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

5
original/html/M/macro-.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>macro-</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="macro.html" title="macro"/><link rel="next" href="macrology.html" title="macrology"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">macro-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macro.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macrology.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="macro-"/><dt xmlns="" id="macro-"><b>macro-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Large. Opposite of <a href="micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>. In the
mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people)
this competes with the prefix <a href="mega-.html"><i class="glossterm">mega-</i></a>, but hackers
tend to restrict the latter to quantification.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macro.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macrology.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">macro </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> macrology</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

21
original/html/M/macro.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>macro</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="Macintrash.html" title="Macintrash"/><link rel="next" href="macro-.html" title="macro-"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">macro</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Macintrash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macro-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="macro"/><dt xmlns="" id="macro"><b>macro</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mak´roh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [techspeak] A name (possibly followed by a formal
<a href="../A/arg.html"><i class="glossterm">arg</i></a> list) that is equated to a text or symbolic
expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of
actual arguments) by a macro expander. This definition can be found in any
technical dictionary; what those won't tell you is how the hackish
connotations of the term have changed over time.</p><p>The term <span class="firstterm">macro</span> originated in
early assemblers, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and
information-hiding device. During the early 1970s, macro assemblers became
ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as
<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a>s, only to fall from favor as improving compiler
technology marginalized assembler programming (see
<a href="../L/languages-of-choice.html"><i class="glossterm">languages of choice</i></a>). Nowadays the term is most often used in connection
with the C preprocessor, LISP, or one of several special-purpose languages
built around a macro-expansion facility (such as TeX or Unix's [nt]roff
suite).</p><p>Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective <span class="firstterm">macros</span> is now sometimes used for code in any
special-purpose application control language (whether or not the language
is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such
as the <span class="firstterm">keyboard macros</span> supported in
some text editors (and PC TSR or Macintosh INIT/CDEV keyboard
enhancers).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Macintrash.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="macro-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Macintrash </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> macro-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/macrology.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>macrology</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="macro-.html" title="macro-"/><link rel="next" href="maggotbox.html" title="maggotbox"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">macrology</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macro-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="maggotbox.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="macrology"/><dt xmlns="" id="macrology"><b>macrology</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mak·rol'@·jee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.g., as part of a large
system written in <a href="../L/LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a>, <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>,
or (less commonly) assembler. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The art and science involved in comprehending a macrology in
sense 1. Sometimes studying the macrology of a system is not unlike
archeology, ecology, or <a href="../T/theology.html"><i class="glossterm">theology</i></a>, hence the
sound-alike construction. See also <a href="../B/boxology.html"><i class="glossterm">boxology</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macro-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="maggotbox.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">macro- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> maggotbox</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

3
original/html/M/maggotbox.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>maggotbox</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="macrology.html" title="macrology"/><link rel="next" href="magic.html" title="magic"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">maggotbox</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macrology.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="maggotbox"/><dt xmlns="" id="maggotbox"><b>maggotbox</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mag'@t·boks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="Macintrash.html"><i class="glossterm">Macintrash</i></a>. This is even more
derogatory.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="macrology.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">macrology </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> magic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

17
original/html/M/magic-cookie.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>magic cookie</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="magic.html" title="magic"/><link rel="next" href="magic-number.html" title="magic number"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">magic cookie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic-number.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="magic-cookie"/><dt xmlns="" id="magic-cookie"><b>magic cookie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix; common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the
receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque
identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data
encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g., on
non-Unix OSes with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ftell</span>(3)</span>
may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fseek</span>(3)</span>,
but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase <span class="firstterm">it hands you a magic cookie</span> means it returns a
result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the
same or some other program later. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g., inverse
video or underlining) or performing other control functions (see also
<a href="../C/cookie.html"><i class="glossterm">cookie</i></a>). Some older terminals would leave a blank
on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also
called a <a href="../G/glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a> (or occasionally a <span class="firstterm">turd</span>; compare
<a href="mouse-droppings.html"><i class="glossterm">mouse droppings</i></a>). See also <a href="../C/cookie.html"><i class="glossterm">cookie</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic-number.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">magic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> magic number</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

33
original/html/M/magic-number.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>magic number</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="magic-cookie.html" title="magic cookie"/><link rel="next" href="magic-smoke.html" title="magic smoke"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">magic number</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic-cookie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic-smoke.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="magic-number"/><dt xmlns="" id="magic-number"><b>magic number</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix/C; common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. In source code, some non-obvious constant whose value is
significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted
inconspicuously in-line (<a href="../H/hardcoded.html"><i class="glossterm">hardcoded</i></a>), rather than
expanded in by a symbol set by a commented <b class="command">#define</b>. Magic numbers in this sense are bad style.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A number that encodes critical information used in an algorithm
in some opaque way. The classic examples of these are the numbers used in
hash or CRC functions, or the coefficients in a linear congruential
generator for pseudo-random numbers. This sense actually predates and was
ancestral to the more common sense</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Special data located at the beginning of a binary data file to
indicate its type to a utility. Under Unix, the system and various
applications programs (especially the linker) distinguish between types of
executable file by looking for a magic number. Once upon a time, these
magic numbers were <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> branch instructions that
skipped over header data to the start of executable code; 0407, for
example, was octal for &#8216;branch 16 bytes relative&#8217;. Many other
kinds of files now have magic numbers somewhere; some magic numbers are, in
fact, strings, like the <tt class="literal">!&lt;arch&gt;</tt> at the beginning
of a Unix archive file or the <tt class="literal">%!</tt> leading PostScript
files. Nowadays only a <a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a> knows the spells to
create magic numbers. How do you choose a fresh magic number of your own?
Simple &#8212; you pick one at random. See? It's magic! </p></dd><dd><p> 4. An input that leads to a computational boundary condition, where
algorithm behavior becomes discontinuous. Numeric overflows (particularly
with signed data types) and run-time errors (divide by zero, stack
overflows) are indications of magic numbers. The Y2K scare was probably
the most notorious magic number non-incident.</p></dd><dd><p><span class="emphasis"><em>The</em></span> magic number, on the other hand, is
<tt class="literal">7±2</tt>. See <i class="citetitle">The magical
number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing
information</i> by George Miller, in the <i class="citetitle">Psychological
Review</i> 63:81-97 (1956). This classic paper established the
number of distinct items (such as numeric digits) that humans can hold in
short-term memory. Among other things, this strongly influenced the
interface design of the phone system.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic-cookie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic-smoke.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">magic cookie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> magic smoke</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

18
original/html/M/magic-smoke.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>magic smoke</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="magic-number.html" title="magic number"/><link rel="next" href="mail-storm.html" title="mail storm"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">magic smoke</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic-number.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mail-storm.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="magic-smoke"/><dt xmlns="" id="magic-smoke"><b>magic smoke</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A substance trapped inside IC packages that enables them to function
(also called <span class="firstterm">blue smoke</span>; this is
similar to the archaic <span class="firstterm">phlogiston</span>
hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what
happens when a chip burns up &#8212; the magic smoke gets let out, so it
doesn't work any more. See <a href="../S/smoke-test.html"><i class="glossterm">smoke test</i></a>,
<a href="../L/let-the-smoke-out.html"><i class="glossterm">let the smoke out</i></a>.</p><p>Usenetter Jay Maynard tells the following story: &#8220;<span class="quote">Once, while
hacking on a dedicated Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and
plugging them in the system, then seeing what happened. One time, I
plugged one in backwards. I only discovered that
<span class="emphasis"><em>after</em></span> I realized that Intel didn't put power-on lights
under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs &#8212; the die was
glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it,
filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still
in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let
out.</span>&#8221; Compare the original phrasing of
<a href="Murphys-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Murphy's Law</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic-number.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mail-storm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">magic number </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mail storm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

21
original/html/M/magic.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>magic</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="maggotbox.html" title="maggotbox"/><link rel="next" href="magic-cookie.html" title="magic cookie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">magic</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="maggotbox.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic-cookie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="magic"/><dt xmlns="" id="magic"><b>magic</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> As yet unexplained, or
too complicated to explain; compare <a href="../A/automagically.html"><i class="glossterm">automagically</i></a>
and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: &#8220;<span class="quote">Any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from magic.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">TTY echoing is
controlled by a large number of magic bits.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">This routine
magically computes the parity of an 8-bit byte in three
instructions.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Characteristic of
something that works although no one really understands why (this is
especially called <a href="../B/black-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">black magic</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">n.</span> [Stanford] A feature not
generally publicized that allows something otherwise impossible, or a
feature formerly in that category but now unveiled. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The ultimate goal of all
engineering &amp; development, elegance in the extreme; from the first
corollary to Clarke's Third Law: &#8220;<span class="quote">Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><dd><p>Parodies playing on these senses of the term abound; some have made
their way into serious documentation, as when a MAGIC directive was
described in the Control Card Reference for GCOS c.1978. For more about
hackish &#8216;magic&#8217;, see <a href="../appendixa.html" title="Appendix A. Hacker Folklore">Appendix
A</a>. Compare <a href="../B/black-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">black magic</i></a>,
<a href="../W/wizardly.html"><i class="glossterm">wizardly</i></a>, <a href="../D/deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>,
<a href="../H/heavy-wizardry.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy wizardry</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="maggotbox.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="magic-cookie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">maggotbox </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> magic cookie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/mail-storm.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mail storm</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="magic-smoke.html" title="magic smoke"/><link rel="next" href="mailbomb.html" title="mailbomb"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mail storm</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic-smoke.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mailbomb.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mail-storm"/><dt xmlns="" id="mail-storm"><b>mail storm</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from <a href="../B/broadcast-storm.html"><i class="glossterm">broadcast storm</i></a>, influenced by
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">maelstrom</i></span>] What often happens when a machine
with an Internet connection and active users re-connects after extended
downtime &#8212; a flood of incoming mail that brings the machine to its
knees. See also <a href="../H/hairball.html"><i class="glossterm">hairball</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="magic-smoke.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mailbomb.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">magic smoke </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mailbomb</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

13
original/html/M/mailbomb.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mailbomb</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mail-storm.html" title="mail storm"/><link rel="next" href="mailing-list.html" title="mailing list"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mailbomb</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mail-storm.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mailing-list.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mailbomb"/><dt xmlns="" id="mailbomb"><b>mailbomb</b></dt></dt><dd><p> (also <span class="firstterm">mail bomb</span>) [Usenet] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To send, or urge others to
send, massive amounts of <a href="../E/email.html"><i class="glossterm">email</i></a> to a single system or
person, esp. with intent to crash or <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a> the
recipient's system. Sometimes done in retaliation for a perceived serious
offense. Mailbombing is itself widely regarded as a serious offense
&#8212; it can disrupt email traffic or other facilities for innocent users
on the victim's system, and in extreme cases, even at upstream sites.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> An automatic procedure
with a similar effect. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The mail sent. Compare
<a href="../L/letterbomb.html"><i class="glossterm">letterbomb</i></a>, <a href="../N/nastygram.html"><i class="glossterm">nastygram</i></a>,
<a href="../B/BLOB.html"><i class="glossterm">BLOB</i></a> (sense 2),
<a href="../L/list-bomb.html"><i class="glossterm">list-bomb</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mail-storm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mailing-list.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mail storm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mailing list</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

27
original/html/M/mailing-list.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mailing list</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mailbomb.html" title="mailbomb"/><link rel="next" href="main-loop.html" title="main loop"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mailing list</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mailbomb.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="main-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mailing-list"/><dt xmlns="" id="mailing-list"><b>mailing list</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (often shortened in context to <span class="firstterm">list</span>)</p></dd><dd><p> 1. An <a href="../E/email.html"><i class="glossterm">email</i></a> address that is an alias (or
<a href="macro.html"><i class="glossterm">macro</i></a>, though that word is never used in this
connection) for many other email addresses. Some mailing lists are simple
<span class="firstterm">reflectors</span>, redirecting mail sent to
them to the list of recipients. Others are filtered by humans or programs
of varying degrees of sophistication; lists filtered by humans are said to
be <span class="firstterm">moderated</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The people who receive your email when you send it to such an
address.</p></dd><dd><p>Mailing lists are one of the primary forms of hacker interaction,
along with <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>. They predate Usenet, having
originated with the first UUCP and ARPANET connections. They are often
used for private information-sharing on topics that would be too
specialized for or inappropriate to public Usenet groups. Though some of
these maintain almost purely technical content (such as the Internet
Engineering Task Force mailing list), others (like the
&#8216;sf-lovers&#8217; list maintained for many years by Saul Jaffe) are
recreational, and many are purely social. Perhaps the most infamous of the
social lists was the eccentric <tt class="systemitem">bandykin</tt> distribution; its latter-day progeny,
<tt class="systemitem">lectroids</tt> and <tt class="systemitem">tanstaafl</tt>, still include a number of the
oddest and most interesting people in hackerdom.</p><p>Mailing lists are easy to create and (unlike Usenet) don't tie up a
significant amount of machine resources (until they get very large, at
which point they can become interesting torture tests for mail software).
Thus, they are often created temporarily by working groups, the members of
which can then collaborate on a project without ever needing to meet
face-to-face. Much of the material in this lexicon was criticized and
polished on just such a mailing list (called &#8216;jargon-friends&#8217;),
which included all the co-authors of Steele-1983.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mailbomb.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="main-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mailbomb </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> main loop</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

4
original/html/M/main-loop.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>main loop</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mailing-list.html" title="mailing list"/><link rel="next" href="mainframe.html" title="mainframe"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">main loop</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mailing-list.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mainframe.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="main-loop"/><dt xmlns="" id="main-loop"><b>main loop</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven
program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's
input. See also <a href="../D/driver.html"><i class="glossterm">driver</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mailing-list.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mainframe.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mailing list </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mainframe</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

26
original/html/M/mainframe.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mainframe</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="main-loop.html" title="main loop"/><link rel="next" href="mainsleaze.html" title="mainsleaze"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mainframe</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="main-loop.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mainsleaze.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mainframe"/><dt xmlns="" id="mainframe"><b>mainframe</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central
processor unit or &#8216;main frame&#8217; of a room-filling
<a href="../S/Stone-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Stone Age</i></a> batch machine. After the emergence of
smaller <span class="firstterm">minicomputer</span> designs in the
early 1970s, the traditional <a href="../B/big-iron.html"><i class="glossterm">big iron</i></a> machines were
described as &#8216;mainframe computers&#8217; and eventually just as
mainframes. The term carries the connotation of a machine designed for
batch rather than interactive use, though possibly with an interactive
timesharing operating system retrofitted onto it; it is especially used of
machines built by IBM, Unisys, and the other great
<a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>s surviving from computing's
<a href="../S/Stone-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Stone Age</i></a>.</p><p>It has been common wisdom among hackers since the late 1980s that the
mainframe architectural tradition is essentially dead (outside of the tiny
market for <a href="../N/number-crunching.html"><i class="glossterm">number-crunching</i></a> supercomputers having
been swamped by the recent huge advances in IC technology and low-cost
personal computing. The wave of failures, takeovers, and mergers among
traditional mainframe makers in the early 1990s bore this out. The biggest
mainframer of all, IBM, was compelled to re-invent itself as a huge
systems-consulting house. (See <a href="../D/dinosaurs-mating.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaurs mating</i></a> and
<a href="../K/killer-micro.html"><i class="glossterm">killer micro</i></a>).</p><p>However, in yet another instance of the
<a href="../C/cycle-of-reincarnation.html"><i class="glossterm">cycle of reincarnation</i></a>, the port of Linux to the IBM S/390 architecture
in 1999 &#8212; assisted by IBM &#8212; produced a resurgence of interest in mainframe
computing as a way of providing huge quantities of easily maintainable,
reliable virtual Linux servers, saving IBM's mainframe division from almost
certain extinction.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="main-loop.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mainsleaze.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">main loop </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mainsleaze</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/mainsleaze.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mainsleaze</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mainframe.html" title="mainframe"/><link rel="next" href="malware.html" title="malware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mainsleaze</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mainframe.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="malware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mainsleaze"/><dt xmlns="" id="mainsleaze"><b>mainsleaze</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>1. Spam emitted by a reputable, mainstream company (as opposed to
fly-by-night Viagra oeddlers and the like). Sometime this happens in
honest ignorance, but the reputation danage can take years to live
down.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Occasionally used for a big-time spammer, with its own
<a href="../F/fat-pipe.html"><i class="glossterm">fat pipe</i></a>, their own mailservers, and a
<a href="../P/pink-contract.html"><i class="glossterm">pink contract</i></a>. Almost impossible to get shut down.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mainframe.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="malware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mainframe </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> malware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

5
original/html/M/malware.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>malware</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mainsleaze.html" title="mainsleaze"/><link rel="next" href="man-page.html" title="man page"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">malware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mainsleaze.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="man-page.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="malware"/><dt xmlns="" id="malware"><b>malware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[Common] Malicious software. Software intended to cause consequences
the unwitting user would not choose; especially used of
<a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a> or <a href="../T/Trojan-horse.html"><i class="glossterm">Trojan horse</i></a>
software.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mainsleaze.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="man-page.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mainsleaze </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> man page</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

20
original/html/M/man-page.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>man page</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="malware.html" title="malware"/><link rel="next" href="management.html" title="management"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">man page</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="malware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="management.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="man-page"/><dt xmlns="" id="man-page"><b>man page</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>A page from the Unix Programmer's Manual,
documenting one of Unix's many commands, system calls,
library subroutines, device driver interfaces, file formats,
games, macro packages, or maintenance utilities.
By extension, the term &#8220;<span class="quote">man page</span>&#8221; may be used to refer to
documentation of any kind, under any system, though it is most likely to be
confined to short on-line references.</p><p>As mentioned in <a href="../conventions.html" title="Chapter 11. Other Lexicon Conventions">Chapter 11, <i>Other Lexicon Conventions</i></a>, there is a
standard syntax for referring to man page entries: the phrase
&#8220;<span class="quote">foo(n)</span>&#8221; refers to the page for &#8220;<span class="quote">foo</span>&#8221; in chapter
n of the manual, where chapter 1 is user commands, chapter 2 is system
calls, etc.</p><p>The man page format is beloved, or berated, for having the same sort
of pithy utility as the rest of Unix. Man pages tend to be written as very
compact, concise descriptions which are complete but not forgiving of the
lazy or careless reader. Their stylized format does a good job of
summarizing the essentials: invocation syntax, options, basic
functionality. While such a concise reference is perfect for the
do-one-thing-and-do-it-well tools which are favored by the Unix philosophy,
it admittedly breaks down when applied to a command which is itself a major
subsystem.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="malware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="management.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">malware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> management</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/management.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>management</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="man-page.html" title="man page"/><link rel="next" href="mandelbug.html" title="mandelbug"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">management</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="man-page.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mandelbug.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="management"/><dt xmlns="" id="management"><b>management</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance
from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>). Spoken derisively, as in
&#8220;<span class="quote"><span class="emphasis"><em>Management</em></span> decided that ...</span>&#8221;.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's
minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed
&#8216;The Mgt&#8217;; this derives from the
<i class="citetitle">Illuminatus</i> novels (see the <a href="../pt03.html#bibliography" title="Bibliography">Bibliography</a> in Appendix C).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="man-page.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mandelbug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">man page </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mandelbug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/mandelbug.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mandelbug</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="management.html" title="management"/><link rel="next" href="manged.html" title="manged"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mandelbug</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="management.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="manged.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mandelbug"/><dt xmlns="" id="mandelbug"><b>mandelbug</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/man´del·buhg/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose underlying causes are so
complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even
non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a
<a href="../B/Bohr-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">Bohr bug</i></a>, rather than a
<a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>. See also
<a href="../S/schroedinbug.html"><i class="glossterm">schroedinbug</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="management.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="manged.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">management </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> manged</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/manged.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>manged</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mandelbug.html" title="mandelbug"/><link rel="next" href="mangle.html" title="mangle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">manged</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mandelbug.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mangle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="manged"/><dt xmlns="" id="manged"><b>manged</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mahnjd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [probably from the French &#8216;manger&#8217; or Italian
&#8216;mangiare&#8217;, to eat; perhaps influenced by English
&#8216;mange&#8217;, &#8216;mangy&#8217;] <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Refers to anything that is mangled or
damaged, usually beyond repair. &#8220;<span class="quote">The disk was manged after the
electrical storm.</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mandelbug.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mangle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mandelbug </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mangle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/mangle.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mangle</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="manged.html" title="manged"/><link rel="next" href="mangled-name.html" title="mangled name"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mangle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="manged.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mangled-name.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mangle"/><dt xmlns="" id="mangle"><b>mangle</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Used similarly to <a href="mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a> or
<a href="../S/scribble.html"><i class="glossterm">scribble</i></a>, but more violent in its connotations;
something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally
trashed. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To produce the <a href="mangled-name.html"><i class="glossterm">mangled name</i></a> corresponding
to a C++ declaration.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="manged.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mangled-name.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">manged </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mangled name</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

10
original/html/M/mangled-name.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mangled name</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mangle.html" title="mangle"/><link rel="next" href="mangler.html" title="mangler"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mangled name</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mangle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mangler.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mangled-name"/><dt xmlns="" id="mangled-name"><b>mangled name</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A name, appearing in a C++ object file, that is a coded
representation of the object declaration as it appears in the
source. Mangled names are used because C++ allows multiple objects to have
the same name, as long as they are distinguishable in some other way, such
as by having different parameter types. Thus, the internal name must have
that additional information embedded in it, using the limited character set
allowed by most linkers. For instance, one popular compiler encodes the
standard library function declaration &#8220;<span class="quote">memchr(const
void*,int,unsigned int)</span>&#8221; as &#8220;<span class="quote">@memchr$qpxviui</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mangle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mangler.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mangle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mangler</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

4
original/html/M/mangler.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mangler</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mangled-name.html" title="mangled name"/><link rel="next" href="manularity.html" title="manularity"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mangler</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mangled-name.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="manularity.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mangler"/><dt xmlns="" id="mangler"><b>mangler</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [DEC] A manager. Compare <a href="management.html"><i class="glossterm">management</i></a>. Note
that <a href="../S/system-mangler.html"><i class="glossterm">system mangler</i></a> is somewhat different in
connotation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mangled-name.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="manularity.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mangled name </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> manularity</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

11
original/html/M/manularity.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>manularity</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mangler.html" title="mangler"/><link rel="next" href="marching-ants.html" title="marching ants"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">manularity</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mangler.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marching-ants.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="manularity"/><dt xmlns="" id="manularity"><b>manularity</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/man`yoo·la´ri·tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [prob. fr. techspeak <span class="firstterm">manual</span> +
<span class="firstterm">granularity</span>] A notional measure of
the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that
automation is supposed to eliminate. &#8220;<span class="quote">Composing English on paper has
much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising
stage.</span>&#8221; Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive
methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to
do a computing task <a href="../B/by-hand.html"><i class="glossterm">by hand</i></a> will inevitably seize
the opportunity to build another tool (see
<a href="../T/toolsmith.html"><i class="glossterm">toolsmith</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mangler.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marching-ants.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mangler </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> marching ants</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

8
original/html/M/marbles.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>marbles</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="marching-ants.html" title="marching ants"/><link rel="next" href="marginal.html" title="marginal"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">marbles</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marching-ants.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marginal.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="marbles"/><dt xmlns="" id="marbles"><b>marbles</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pl.n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from mainstream &#8220;<span class="quote">lost all his/her marbles</span>&#8221;] The
minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or
abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the
machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to
allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch.
&#8220;<span class="quote">This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile
<a href="../H/hello-world.html"><i class="glossterm">hello world</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="marching-ants.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marginal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">marching ants </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> marginal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

4
original/html/M/marching-ants.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>marching ants</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="manularity.html" title="manularity"/><link rel="next" href="marbles.html" title="marbles"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">marching ants</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="manularity.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marbles.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="marching-ants"/><dt xmlns="" id="marching-ants"><b>marching ants</b></dt></dt><dd><p>The animated dotted-line marquee that indicates a rectangle or item
select in Adobe Photoshop, the GIMP, and other similar image-editing
programs.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="manularity.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marbles.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">manularity </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> marbles</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/marginal.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>marginal</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="marbles.html" title="marbles"/><link rel="next" href="marginally.html" title="marginally"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">marginal</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marbles.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marginally.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="marginal"/><dt xmlns="" id="marginal"><b>marginal</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] An extremely small change. &#8220;<span class="quote">A marginal
increase in <a href="../C/core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a> can decrease
<a href="../G/GC.html"><i class="glossterm">GC</i></a> time drastically.</span>&#8221; In everyday terms, this
means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare
place to put some of the junk while you sort through it. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Of little merit. &#8220;<span class="quote">This proposed new feature seems rather
marginal to me.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of extremely small probability of <a href="../W/win.html"><i class="glossterm">win</i></a>ning.
&#8220;<span class="quote">The power supply was rather marginal anyway; no wonder it
fried.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marbles.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marginally.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">marbles </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> marginally</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

3
original/html/M/marginally.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>marginally</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="marginal.html" title="marginal"/><link rel="next" href="marketroid.html" title="marketroid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">marginally</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marginal.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marketroid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="marginally"/><dt xmlns="" id="marginally"><b>marginally</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adv.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Slightly. &#8220;<span class="quote">The ravs here are only marginally better than at
Small Eating Place.</span>&#8221; See <a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marginal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marketroid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">marginal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> marketroid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/marketroid.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>marketroid</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="marginally.html" title="marginally"/><link rel="next" href="Mars.html" title="Mars"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">marketroid</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marginally.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Mars.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="marketroid"/><dt xmlns="" id="marketroid"><b>marketroid</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mar´k@·troyd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> alt.: <span class="firstterm">marketing slime</span>,
<span class="firstterm">marketeer</span>, <span class="firstterm">mar­ket­ing droid</span>, <span class="firstterm">marketdroid</span>. A member of a company's marketing
department, esp. one who promises users that the next version of a product
will have features that are not actually scheduled for inclusion, are
extremely difficult to implement, and/or are in violation of the laws of
physics; and/or one who describes existing features (and misfeatures) in
ebullient, buzzword-laden adspeak. Derogatory. Compare
<a href="../D/droid.html"><i class="glossterm">droid</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="marginally.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Mars.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">marginally </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Mars</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/martian.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>martian</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="Mars.html" title="Mars"/><link rel="next" href="massage.html" title="massage"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">martian</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Mars.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="massage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="martian"/><dt xmlns="" id="martian"><b>martian</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test
loopback interface [127.0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled
with a source address that is clearly not of this earth. &#8220;<span class="quote">The domain
server is getting lots of packets from Mars. Does that gateway have a
martian filter?</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../C/Christmas-tree-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">Christmas tree packet</i></a>, <a href="../G/Godzillagram.html"><i class="glossterm">Godzillagram</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Mars.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="massage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Mars </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> massage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/massage.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>massage</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="martian.html" title="martian"/><link rel="next" href="math-out.html" title="math-out"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">massage</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="martian.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="math-out.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="massage"/><dt xmlns="" id="massage"><b>massage</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Vague term used to describe &#8216;smooth&#8217;
transformations of a data set into a different form, esp. transformations
that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than
<a href="munch.html"><i class="glossterm">munch</i></a> or <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">He
wrote a program that massages X bitmap files into GIF format.</span>&#8221;
Compare <a href="../S/slurp.html"><i class="glossterm">slurp</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="martian.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="math-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">martian </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> math-out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/math-out.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>math-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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="massage.html" title="massage"/><link rel="next" href="Matrix.html" title="Matrix"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">math-out</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="massage.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Matrix.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="math-out"/><dt xmlns="" id="math-out"><b>math-out</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [poss. from &#8216;white-out&#8217; (the blizzard variety)] A paper
or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as
to be incomprehensible. This may be a device for concealing the fact that
it is actually <a href="../C/content-free.html"><i class="glossterm">content-free</i></a>. See also
<a href="../N/numbers.html"><i class="glossterm">numbers</i></a>, <a href="../S/social-science-number.html"><i class="glossterm">social science
number</i></a>.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-05-18"/><img src="../graphics/73-05-18.png"/><div class="caption"><p>A <a href="math-out.html"><i class="glossterm">math-out</i></a> approach to history.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html#crunchly73-05-19">73-05-19</a>. The previous one is
the <a href="../lexicon.html#crunchly-1">frontispiece</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="massage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Matrix.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">massage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Matrix</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/maximum-Maytag-mode.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>maximum Maytag mode</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="Matrix.html" title="Matrix"/><link rel="next" href="McQuary-limit.html" title="McQuary limit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">maximum Maytag mode</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Matrix.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="McQuary-limit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="maximum-Maytag-mode"/><dt xmlns="" id="maximum-Maytag-mode"><b>maximum Maytag mode</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> What a <a href="../W/washing-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">washing machine</i></a> or, by extension, any
disk drive is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an
old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time,
can lead to disks becoming <a href="../W/walking-drives.html"><i class="glossterm">walking drives</i></a>. In 1999
it's been some years since hard disks were large enough to do this, but the
same phenomenon has recently been reported with 24X CD-ROM drives. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Matrix.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="McQuary-limit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Matrix </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> McQuary limit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/meatspace.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meatspace</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="McQuary-limit.html" title="McQuary limit"/><link rel="next" href="meatware.html" title="meatware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meatspace</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="McQuary-limit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meatware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meatspace"/><dt xmlns="" id="meatspace"><b>meatspace</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/meet´spays/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The physical world, where the meat lives &#8212; as opposed to
<a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a>. Hackers are actually more willing to
use this term than &#8216;cyberspace&#8217;, because it's not speculative
&#8212; we already have a running meatspace implementation (the universe).
Compare <a href="../R/RL.html"><i class="glossterm">RL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="McQuary-limit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meatware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">McQuary limit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meatware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

2
original/html/M/meatware.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meatware</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meatspace.html" title="meatspace"/><link rel="next" href="meeces.html" title="meeces"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meatware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meatspace.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meeces.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meatware"/><dt xmlns="" id="meatware"><b>meatware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Synonym for <a href="../W/wetware.html"><i class="glossterm">wetware</i></a>. Less common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meatspace.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meeces.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meatspace </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meeces</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/meeces.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meeces</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meatware.html" title="meatware"/><link rel="next" href="meg.html" title="meg"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meeces</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meatware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meg.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meeces"/><dt xmlns="" id="meeces"><b>meeces</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mees'@z/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [TMRC] Occasional furry visitors who are not
<a href="../U/urchin.html"><i class="glossterm">urchin</i></a>s. [That is, mice. This may no longer be in
live use; it clearly derives from the refrain of the early-1960s cartoon
character Mr. Jinks: &#8220;<span class="quote">I hate meeces to
<span class="emphasis"><em>pieces</em></span>!</span>&#8221; &#8212; ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meatware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meg.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meatware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meg</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

2
original/html/M/meg.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meg</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meeces.html" title="meeces"/><link rel="next" href="mega-.html" title="mega-"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meg</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meeces.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mega-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meg"/><dt xmlns="" id="meg"><b>meg</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/meg/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meeces.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mega-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meeces </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mega-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

2
original/html/M/mega-.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mega-</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meg.html" title="meg"/><link rel="next" href="megapenny.html" title="megapenny"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mega-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meg.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="megapenny.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mega-"/><dt xmlns="" id="mega-"><b>mega-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/me´g@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [SI] See <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meg.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="megapenny.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meg </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> megapenny</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

5
original/html/M/megapenny.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>megapenny</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mega-.html" title="mega-"/><link rel="next" href="MEGO.html" title="MEGO"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">megapenny</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mega-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MEGO.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="megapenny"/><dt xmlns="" id="megapenny"><b>megapenny</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/meg'@·pen`ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> $10,000 (1 cent *
<tt class="literal">10<sup>6</sup></tt>). Used
semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance
figures.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mega-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MEGO.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mega- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MEGO</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

2
original/html/M/meltdown--network.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meltdown, network</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MEGO.html" title="MEGO"/><link rel="next" href="meme.html" title="meme"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meltdown, network</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MEGO.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meme.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meltdown--network"/><dt xmlns="" id="meltdown--network"><b>meltdown, network</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../N/network-meltdown.html"><i class="glossterm">network meltdown</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MEGO.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meme.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MEGO </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meme</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/meme-plague.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meme plague</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meme.html" title="meme"/><link rel="next" href="memetics.html" title="memetics"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meme plague</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meme.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memetics.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meme-plague"/><dt xmlns="" id="meme-plague"><b>meme plague</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The spread of a successful but pernicious
<a href="meme.html"><i class="glossterm">meme</i></a>, esp. one that parasitizes the victims into
giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's
religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given point by
the historical fact that &#8216;joiner&#8217; ideologies like Naziism or
various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like
cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir
populations.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meme.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memetics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meme </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> memetics</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

13
original/html/M/meme.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meme</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meltdown--network.html" title="meltdown, network"/><link rel="next" href="meme-plague.html" title="meme plague"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meme</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meltdown--network.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meme-plague.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meme"/><dt xmlns="" id="meme"><b>meme</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/meem/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [coined by analogy with &#8216;gene&#8217;, by Richard Dawkins] An
idea considered as a <a href="../R/replicator.html"><i class="glossterm">replicator</i></a>, esp. with the
connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as
viruses do. Used esp. in the phrase <span class="firstterm">meme
complex</span> denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form
an organized belief system, such as a religion. This lexicon is an
(epidemiological) vector of the &#8216;hacker subculture&#8217; meme
complex; each entry might be considered a meme. However, <span class="firstterm">meme</span> is often misused to mean <span class="firstterm">meme complex</span>. Use of the term connotes
acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and
language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas
has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits.
Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meltdown--network.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meme-plague.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meltdown, network </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meme plague</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/memetics.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>memetics</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meme-plague.html" title="meme plague"/><link rel="next" href="memory-farts.html" title="memory farts"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">memetics</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meme-plague.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memory-farts.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="memetics"/><dt xmlns="" id="memetics"><b>memetics</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/me·met´iks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from <a href="meme.html"><i class="glossterm">meme</i></a>] The study of memes. As of early
2003, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though
the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by
H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation
among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new
information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meme-plague.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memory-farts.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meme plague </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> memory farts</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

3
original/html/M/memory-farts.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>memory farts</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="memetics.html" title="memetics"/><link rel="next" href="memory-leak.html" title="memory leak"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">memory farts</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memetics.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memory-leak.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="memory-farts"/><dt xmlns="" id="memory-farts"><b>memory farts</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The flatulent sounds that some DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's)
make when checking memory on bootup.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memetics.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memory-leak.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">memetics </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> memory leak</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

14
original/html/M/memory-leak.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>memory leak</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="memory-farts.html" title="memory farts"/><link rel="next" href="memory-smash.html" title="memory smash"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">memory leak</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-farts.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memory-smash.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="memory-leak"/><dt xmlns="" id="memory-leak"><b>memory leak</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes
it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to
memory exhaustion. Also (esp. at CMU) called
<a href="../C/core-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">core leak</i></a>. These problems were severe on older machines with small,
fixed-size address spaces, and special &#8220;<span class="quote">leak detection</span>&#8221; tools
were commonly written to root them out. With the advent of virtual memory,
it is unfortunately easier to be sloppy about wasting a bit of memory
(although when you run out of memory on a VM machine, it means you've got a
<span class="emphasis"><em>real</em></span> leak!). See <a href="../A/aliasing-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">aliasing bug</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a>,
<a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the stack</i></a>, <a href="../P/precedence-lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">precedence lossage</i></a>,
<a href="../O/overrun-screw.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun screw</i></a>, <a href="../L/leaky-heap.html"><i class="glossterm">leaky heap</i></a>,
<a href="../L/leak.html"><i class="glossterm">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="memory-farts.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="memory-smash.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">memory farts </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> memory smash</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

7
original/html/M/memory-smash.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>memory smash</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="memory-leak.html" title="memory leak"/><link rel="next" href="menuitis.html" title="menuitis"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">memory smash</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-leak.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="menuitis.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="memory-smash"/><dt xmlns="" id="memory-smash"><b>memory smash</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [XEROX PARC] Writing through a pointer that doesn't point to what
you think it does. This occasionally reduces your memory to a rubble of
bits. Note that this is subtly different from (and more general than)
related terms such as a <a href="memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a> or
<a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a> because it doesn't imply an
allocation error or overrun condition.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-leak.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="menuitis.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">memory leak </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> menuitis</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/menuitis.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>menuitis</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="memory-smash.html" title="memory smash"/><link rel="next" href="mess-dos.html" title="mess-dos"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">menuitis</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-smash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mess-dos.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="menuitis"/><dt xmlns="" id="menuitis"><b>menuitis</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/men`yoo·i:´tis/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively
simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely
irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or
language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a
special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See
<a href="../U/user-obsequious.html"><i class="glossterm">user-obsequious</i></a>,
<a href="../D/drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>, <a href="../W/WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>,
<a href="../F/for-the-rest-of-us.html"><i class="glossterm">for the rest of us</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-smash.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mess-dos.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">memory smash </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mess-dos</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

10
original/html/M/mess-dos.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mess-dos</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="menuitis.html" title="menuitis"/><link rel="next" href="meta.html" title="meta"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mess-dos</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="menuitis.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meta.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mess-dos"/><dt xmlns="" id="mess-dos"><b>mess-dos</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mes·dos/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [semi-obsolescent now that DOS is] Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often
followed by the ritual banishing &#8220;<span class="quote">Just say No!</span>&#8221; See
<a href="MS-DOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MS-DOS</i></a>. Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers)
loathed MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application
size, its nasty primitive interface, and its ties to IBMness and
Microsoftness (see <a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>). Also
<span class="firstterm">mess-loss</span>, <span class="firstterm">messy-dos</span>, <span class="firstterm">mess-dog</span>, <span class="firstterm">mess-dross</span>, <span class="firstterm">mush-dos</span>, and various combinations thereof. In
Ireland and the U.K. it is even sometimes called &#8216;Domestos&#8217;
after a brand of toilet cleanser.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="menuitis.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meta.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">menuitis </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meta</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

11
original/html/M/meta-bit.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meta bit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meta.html" title="meta"/><link rel="next" href="metasyntactic-variable.html" title="metasyntactic variable"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meta bit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meta.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="metasyntactic-variable.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meta-bit"/><dt xmlns="" id="meta-bit"><b>meta bit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values
128--255. Also called <a href="../H/high-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">high bit</i></a>,
<a href="../A/alt-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">alt bit</i></a>. Some terminals and consoles (see
<a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet keyboard</i></a>) have a META shift key. Others (including,
<span class="emphasis"><em>mirabile dictu</em></span>, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines)
have an ALT key. See also <a href="../B/bucky-bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bucky bits</i></a>.</p><p>Historical note: although in modern usage shaped by a universe of
8-bit bytes the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were
different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT
and Stanford keyboards (see <a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet keyboard</i></a>)
generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meta.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="metasyntactic-variable.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meta </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> metasyntactic variable</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/meta.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>meta</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mess-dos.html" title="mess-dos"/><link rel="next" href="meta-bit.html" title="meta bit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">meta</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mess-dos.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meta-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="meta"/><dt xmlns="" id="meta"><b>meta</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/me´t@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/may´t@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mee´t@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from analytic philosophy] One level of description up. A
metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe syntax,
and meta-language is language used to describe language. This is difficult
to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on deliberate confusion
between meta-levels. See <a href="../H/hacker-humor.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker humor</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mess-dos.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meta-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mess-dos </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meta bit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

54
original/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>metasyntactic variable</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="meta-bit.html" title="meta bit"/><link rel="next" href="MFTL.html" title="MFTL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">metasyntactic variable</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meta-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MFTL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="metasyntactic-variable"/><dt xmlns="" id="metasyntactic-variable"><b>metasyntactic variable</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing
is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under
discussion. The word <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> is the
<a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> example. To avoid confusion, hackers
never (well, hardly ever) use &#8216;foo&#8217; or other words like it as
permanent names for anything. In filenames, a common convention is that
any filename beginning with a metasyntactic-variable name is a
<a href="../S/scratch.html"><i class="glossterm">scratch</i></a> file that may be deleted at any time.</p><p>Metasyntactic variables are so called because (1) they are variables
in the metalanguage used to talk about programs etc; (2) they are variables
whose values are often variables (as in usages like &#8220;<span class="quote">the value of
f(foo,bar) is the sum of foo and bar</span>&#8221;). However, it has been
plausibly suggested that the real reason for the term &#8220;<span class="quote">metasyntactic
variable</span>&#8221; is that it sounds good. To some extent, the list of one's
preferred metasyntactic variables is a cultural signature. They occur both
in series (used for related groups of variables or objects) and as
singletons. Here are a few common signatures:</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td><a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>,
<a href="../B/baz.html"><i class="glossterm">baz</i></a>,
<a href="../Q/quux.html"><i class="glossterm">quux</i></a>,
quuux, quuuux...:
</td><td>MIT/Stanford usage, now found everywhere (thanks largely to
early versions of this lexicon!). At MIT (but not at Stanford),
<a href="../B/baz.html"><i class="glossterm">baz</i></a> dropped out of use for a while in the
1970s and '80s. A common recent mutation of this sequence inserts
<a href="../Q/qux.html"><i class="glossterm">qux</i></a>before <a href="../Q/quux.html"><i class="glossterm">quux</i></a>.</td></tr><tr><td>bazola, ztesch:</td><td>Stanford (from mid-'70s on).</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>, thud, grunt:</td><td>This series was popular at CMU. Other CMU-associated variables
include <a href="../G/gorp.html"><i class="glossterm">gorp</i></a>.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>, <a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>, bletch:
</td><td>Waterloo University. We are informed that the CS club at
Waterloo formerly had a sign on its door reading
&#8220;<span class="quote">Ye Olde Foo Bar and Grill</span>&#8221;; this led to an attempt
to establish &#8220;<span class="quote">grill</span>&#8221; as the third metasyntactic variable,
but it never caught on.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>, fum:</td><td>This series is reported to be common at XEROX PARC.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../F/fred.html"><i class="glossterm">fred</i></a>, jim, sheila,
<a href="../B/barney.html"><i class="glossterm">barney</i></a>:</td><td>See the entry for
<a href="../F/fred.html"><i class="glossterm">fred</i></a>. These tend to be Britishisms.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../F/flarp.html"><i class="glossterm">flarp</i></a>:</td><td>Popular at Rutgers University and among
<a href="../G/GOSMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">GOSMACS</i></a> hackers.</td></tr><tr><td>zxc, spqr, wombat:</td><td>Cambridge University (England).</td></tr><tr><td>shme</td><td>Berkeley, GeoWorks, Ingres. Pronounced
<span class="pronunciation">/shme/</span> with a short
<span class="pronunciation">/e/</span>.</td></tr><tr><td>foo, bar, baz, bongo</td><td>Yale, late 1970s.</td></tr><tr><td>spam, eggs</td><td><a href="../P/Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a> programmers.</td></tr><tr><td>snork</td><td>Brown University, early 1970s.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>, <a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>, zot
</td><td>Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.</td></tr><tr><td>blarg, <a href="../W/wibble.html"><i class="glossterm">wibble</i></a></td><td>New Zealand.</td></tr><tr><td>toto, titi, tata, tutu</td><td>France.</td></tr><tr><td>pippo, pluto, paperino</td><td>Italy. Pippo <span class="pronunciation">/pee´po/</span>
and Paperino
<span class="pronunciation">/pa·per·ee'·no/</span>
are the Italian names for Goofy and Donald Duck.</td></tr><tr><td>aap, noot, mies</td><td>The Netherlands. These are the first words a child used to
learn to spell on a Dutch spelling board.</td></tr><tr><td>oogle, foogle, boogle; zork, gork, bork</td><td>These two series (which may be continued with other initial
consonents) are reportedly common in England, and said to go back to
Lewis Carroll.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> Of all these,
only <span class="firstterm">foo</span> and <span class="firstterm">bar</span> are universal (and
<a href="../B/baz.html"><i class="glossterm">baz</i></a> nearly so). The compounds
<a href="../F/foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">foobar</i></a> and <span class="firstterm">foobaz</span> also enjoy very wide currency. Some
jargon terms are also used as metasyntactic names;
<a href="../B/barf.html"><i class="glossterm">barf</i></a> and <a href="mumble.html"><i class="glossterm">mumble</i></a>, for example.
See also <a href="../C/Commonwealth-Hackish.html"><i class="glossterm">Commonwealth Hackish</i></a> for discussion of
numerous metasyntactic variables found in Great Britain and the
Commonwealth.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="meta-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MFTL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">meta bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MFTL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

5
original/html/M/mickey-mouse-program.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mickey mouse program</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mickey.html" title="mickey"/><link rel="next" href="micro-.html" title="micro-"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mickey mouse program</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mickey.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="micro-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mickey-mouse-program"/><dt xmlns="" id="mickey-mouse-program"><b>mickey mouse program</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> North American equivalent of a <a href="../N/noddy.html"><i class="glossterm">noddy</i></a> (that
is, trivial) program. Doesn't necessarily have the belittling connotations
of mainstream slang &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, that's just mickey mouse stuff!</span>&#8221;;
sometimes trivial programs can be very useful.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mickey.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="micro-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mickey </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> micro-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

4
original/html/M/mickey.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mickey</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MFTL.html" title="MFTL"/><link rel="next" href="mickey-mouse-program.html" title="mickey mouse program"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mickey</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MFTL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mickey-mouse-program.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mickey"/><dt xmlns="" id="mickey"><b>mickey</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The resolution unit of mouse movement. It has been suggested that
the <span class="firstterm">disney</span> will become a benchmark
unit for animation graphics performance.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MFTL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mickey-mouse-program.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MFTL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mickey mouse program</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

19
original/html/M/micro-.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>micro-</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mickey-mouse-program.html" title="mickey mouse program"/><link rel="next" href="MicroDroid.html" title="MicroDroid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">micro-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mickey-mouse-program.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MicroDroid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="micro-"/><dt xmlns="" id="micro-"><b>micro-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Very small; this is the root of its use as a quantifier prefix.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication by
<tt class="literal">10<sup>-6</sup></tt> (see
<a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>). Neither of these uses is peculiar to
hackers, but hackers tend to fling them both around rather more freely than
is countenanced in standard English. It is recorded, for example, that one
CS professor used to characterize the standard length of his lectures as a
microcentury &#8212; that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also
<a href="../A/attoparsec.html"><i class="glossterm">attoparsec</i></a>, <a href="../N/nanoacre.html"><i class="glossterm">nanoacre</i></a>, and
especially <a href="microfortnight.html"><i class="glossterm">microfortnight</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Personal or human-scale &#8212; that is, capable of being
maintained or comprehended or manipulated by one human being. This sense
is generalized from <span class="firstterm">microcomputer</span>,
and is esp. used in contrast with <span class="firstterm">macro-</span> (the corresponding Greek prefix meaning
&#8216;large&#8217;). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Local as opposed to global (or <a href="macro-.html"><i class="glossterm">macro-</i></a>).
Thus a hacker might say that buying a smaller car to reduce pollution only
solves a microproblem; the macroproblem of getting to work might be better
solved by using mass transit, moving to within walking distance, or (best
of all) telecommuting.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mickey-mouse-program.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MicroDroid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mickey mouse program </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MicroDroid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

13
original/html/M/microLenat.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>microLenat</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="microfortnight.html" title="microfortnight"/><link rel="next" href="microReid.html" title="microReid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">microLenat</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microfortnight.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microReid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="microLenat"/><dt xmlns="" id="microLenat"><b>microLenat</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mi:`·kroh·len'·@t/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The unit of <a href="../B/bogosity.html"><i class="glossterm">bogosity</i></a>. Abbreviated µL
or mL in ASCII Consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for
everyday use. The microLenat, originally invented by David Jefferson, was
promulgated as an attack against noted computer scientist Doug Lenat by a
<a href="../T/tenured-graduate-student.html"><i class="glossterm">tenured graduate student</i></a> at CMU. Doug had failed
the student on an important exam because the student gave only &#8220;<span class="quote">AI is
bogus</span>&#8221; as his answer to the questions. The slur is generally
considered unmerited, but it has become a running gag nevertheless. Some
of Doug's friends argue that <span class="emphasis"><em>of course</em></span> a microLenat is
bogus, since it is only one millionth of a Lenat. Others have suggested
that the unit should be redesignated after the grad student, as the
microReid.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microfortnight.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microReid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">microfortnight </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> microReid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

2
original/html/M/microReid.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>microReid</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="microLenat.html" title="microLenat"/><link rel="next" href="microserf.html" title="microserf"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">microReid</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microLenat.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microserf.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="microReid"/><dt xmlns="" id="microReid"><b>microReid</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mi:´kroh·reed/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="microLenat.html"><i class="glossterm">microLenat</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microLenat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microserf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">microLenat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> microserf</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

10
original/html/M/microfortnight.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>microfortnight</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MicroDroid.html" title="MicroDroid"/><link rel="next" href="microLenat.html" title="microLenat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">microfortnight</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MicroDroid.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microLenat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="microfortnight"/><dt xmlns="" id="microfortnight"><b>microfortnight</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the
Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is
1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 9 imperial gallons; the mass unit of the
system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a
lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one
of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator
to set the correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current
value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights!</p><p>Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and
<a href="../N/nanofortnight.html"><i class="glossterm">nanofortnight</i></a> have also been reported.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MicroDroid.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="microLenat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MicroDroid </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> microLenat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

9
original/html/M/micros-tilde-1.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>micros~1</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="Microsoft.html" title="Microsoft"/><link rel="next" href="middle-endian.html" title="middle-endian"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">micros~1</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Microsoft.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="middle-endian.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="micros-tilde-1"/><dt xmlns="" id="micros-tilde-1"><b>micros~1</b></dt></dt><dd><p> An abbreviation of the full name <a href="Microsoft.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsoft</i></a>
resembling the rather <a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a> way Windows 9x's VFAT
filesystem truncates long file names to fit in the MS-DOS 8+3 scheme (the
real filename is stored elsewhere). If other files start with the same
prefix, they'll be called micros~2 and so on, causing lots of problems with
backups and other routine system-administration problems. During the US
Antitrust trial against Microsoft the names Micros~1 and Micros~2 were
suggested for the two companies that would exist after a break-up.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Microsoft.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="middle-endian.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Microsoft </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> middle-endian</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/microserf.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>microserf</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="microReid.html" title="microReid"/><link rel="next" href="Microsloth-Windows.html" title="Microsloth Windows"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">microserf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microReid.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Microsloth-Windows.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="microserf"/><dt xmlns="" id="microserf"><b>microserf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mi:´kro·s@rf/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [popularized, though not originated, by Douglas Coupland's book
<i class="citetitle">Microserfs</i>] A programmer at
<a href="Microsoft.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsoft</i></a>, especially a low-level coder with little
chance of fame or fortune. Compare
<a href="MicroDroid.html"><i class="glossterm">MicroDroid</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microReid.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Microsloth-Windows.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">microReid </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Microsloth Windows</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

8
original/html/M/middle-endian.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>middle-endian</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="micros-tilde-1.html" title="micros~1"/><link rel="next" href="middle-out-implementation.html" title="middle-out implementation"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">middle-endian</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="micros-tilde-1.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="middle-endian"/><dt xmlns="" id="middle-endian"><b>middle-endian</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Not <a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a> or
<a href="../L/little-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">little-endian</i></a>. Used of perverse byte orders such as
3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of
minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See
<a href="../N/NUXI-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">NUXI problem</i></a>. Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American
mm/dd/yy style of writing dates (Europeans write little-endian dd/mm/yy,
and Japanese use big-endian yy/mm/dd for Western dates).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="micros-tilde-1.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">micros~1 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> middle-out implementation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

2
original/html/M/middle-out-implementation.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>middle-out implementation</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="middle-endian.html" title="middle-endian"/><link rel="next" href="milliLampson.html" title="milliLampson"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">middle-out implementation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="middle-endian.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="milliLampson.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="middle-out-implementation"/><dt xmlns="" id="middle-out-implementation"><b>middle-out implementation</b></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../B/bottom-up-implementation.html"><i class="glossterm">bottom-up implementation</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="middle-endian.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="milliLampson.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">middle-endian </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> milliLampson</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

10
original/html/M/milliLampson.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>milliLampson</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="middle-out-implementation.html" title="middle-out implementation"/><link rel="next" href="minor-detail.html" title="minor detail"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">milliLampson</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="minor-detail.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="milliLampson"/><dt xmlns="" id="milliLampson"><b>milliLampson</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mil'@·lamp`sn/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200
milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems
implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people
speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely
disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them
in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer
of the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only
talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as
his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="minor-detail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">middle-out implementation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> minor detail</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

5
original/html/M/minor-detail.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>minor detail</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="milliLampson.html" title="milliLampson"/><link rel="next" href="MIPS.html" title="MIPS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">minor detail</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="milliLampson.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MIPS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="minor-detail"/><dt xmlns="" id="minor-detail"><b>minor detail</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Often used in an ironic sense about brokenness or problems that
while apparently major, are in principle solvable. &#8220;<span class="quote">It works &#8212; the
fact that it crashes the system right after is a minor detail.</span>&#8221;
Compare <a href="../S/SMOP.html"><i class="glossterm">SMOP</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="milliLampson.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MIPS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">milliLampson </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MIPS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/misbug.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>misbug</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MIPS.html" title="MIPS"/><link rel="next" href="misfeature.html" title="misfeature"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">misbug</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MIPS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="misfeature.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="misbug"/><dt xmlns="" id="misbug"><b>misbug</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mis·buhg/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT; rare (like its referent)] An unintended property of a program
that turns out to be useful; something that should have been a
<a href="../B/bug.html"><i class="glossterm">bug</i></a> but turns out to be a
<a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../G/green-lightning.html"><i class="glossterm">green lightning</i></a>. See <a href="miswart.html"><i class="glossterm">miswart</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MIPS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="misfeature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MIPS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> misfeature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

19
original/html/M/misfeature.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>misfeature</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="misbug.html" title="misbug"/><link rel="next" href="missile-address.html" title="missile address"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">misfeature</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="misbug.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="missile-address.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="misfeature"/><dt xmlns="" id="misfeature"><b>misfeature</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mis·fee´chr/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mis´fee`chr/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>
[common] A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is
not adequate for a new situation that has evolved. Since it results from a
deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug.
Nor is it a simple unforeseen side effect; the term implies that the
feature in question was carefully planned, but its long-term consequences
were not accurately or adequately predicted (which is quite different from
not having thought ahead at all). A misfeature can be a particularly
stubborn problem to resolve, because fixing it usually involves a
substantial philosophical change to the structure of the system
involved.</p><p>Many misfeatures (especially in user-interface design) arise because
the designers/implementors mistake their personal tastes for laws of
nature. Often a former feature becomes a misfeature because trade-offs
were made whose parameters subsequently change (possibly only in the
judgment of the implementors). &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, yeah, it is kind of a
misfeature that file names are limited to six characters, but the original
implementors wanted to save directory space and we're stuck with it for
now.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="misbug.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="missile-address.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">misbug </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> missile address</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

2
original/html/M/missile-address.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>missile address</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="misfeature.html" title="misfeature"/><link rel="next" href="MiSTing.html" title="MiSTing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">missile address</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="misfeature.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MiSTing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="missile-address"/><dt xmlns="" id="missile-address"><b>missile address</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../I/ICBM-address.html"><i class="glossterm">ICBM address</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="misfeature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MiSTing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">misfeature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MiSTing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

13
original/html/M/miswart.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>miswart</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MiSTing.html" title="MiSTing"/><link rel="next" href="MMF.html" title="MMF"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">miswart</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MiSTing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MMF.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="miswart"/><dt xmlns="" id="miswart"><b>miswart</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mis·wort/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from <a href="../W/wart.html"><i class="glossterm">wart</i></a> by analogy with
<a href="misbug.html"><i class="glossterm">misbug</i></a>] A <a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> that
superficially appears to be a <a href="../W/wart.html"><i class="glossterm">wart</i></a> but has been
determined to be the <a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right Thing</i></a>. For example, in
some versions of the <a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> text editor, the
&#8216;transpose characters&#8217; command exchanges the character under
the cursor with the one before it on the screen,
<span class="emphasis"><em>except</em></span> when the cursor is at the end of a line, in
which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this
behavior is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been
found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This
feature is a miswart.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MiSTing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="MMF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MiSTing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> MMF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

3
original/html/M/mobo.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mobo</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="MMF.html" title="MMF"/><link rel="next" href="moby.html" title="moby"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mobo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MMF.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="moby.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mobo"/><dt xmlns="" id="mobo"><b>mobo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/moh´bo/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Written and (rarely) spoken contraction of
&#8220;<span class="quote">motherboard</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="MMF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="moby.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">MMF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> moby</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

47
original/html/M/moby.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>moby</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mobo.html" title="mobo"/><link rel="next" href="mockingbird.html" title="mockingbird"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">moby</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mobo.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mockingbird.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="moby"/><dt xmlns="" id="moby"><b>moby</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/moh´bee/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's <i class="citetitle">Moby Dick</i> (some say from
&#8216;Moby Pickle&#8217;). Now common.] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Large, immense, complex,
impressive. &#8220;<span class="quote">A Saturn V rocket is a truly moby frob.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Some MIT undergrads pulled off a moby hack at the Harvard-Yale
game.</span>&#8221; (See <a href="../appendixa.html" title="Appendix A. Hacker Folklore">Appendix A</a> for
discussion.)</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> obs. The maximum address
space of a machine (see below). For a 680[234]0 or
<a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> or most modern 32-bit architectures, it is
4,294,967,296 8-bit bytes (4 gigabytes). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually
used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent
hacker. &#8220;<span class="quote">Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for
the Mac going?</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> In backgammon, doubles
on the dice, as in <span class="firstterm">moby sixes</span>,
<span class="firstterm">moby ones</span>, etc. Compare this with
<a href="../B/bignum.html"><i class="glossterm">bignum</i></a> (sense 3): double sixes are both bignums and
moby sixes, but moby ones are not bignums (the use of <span class="firstterm">moby</span> to describe double ones is sarcastic).
Standard emphatic forms: <span class="firstterm">Moby foo</span>,
<span class="firstterm">moby win</span>, <span class="firstterm">moby loss</span>. <span class="firstterm">Foby
moo</span>: a spoonerism due to Richard Greenblatt. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. The largest available unit of something which is available in
discrete increments. Thus, ordering a &#8220;<span class="quote">moby Coke</span>&#8221; at the
local fast-food joint is not just a request for a large Coke, it's an
explicit request for the largest size they sell.</p></dd><dd><p>This term entered hackerdom with the Fabritek 256K memory added to
the MIT AI PDP-6 machine, which was considered unimaginably huge when it
was installed in the 1960s (at a time when a more typical memory size for a
timesharing system was 72 kilobytes). Thus, a moby is classically 256K
36-bit words, the size of a PDP-6 or PDP-10 moby. Back when address
registers were narrow the term was more generally useful, because when a
computer had virtual memory mapping, it might actually have more physical
memory attached to it than any one program could access directly. One
could then say &#8220;<span class="quote">This computer has 6 mobies</span>&#8221; meaning that the
ratio of physical memory to address space is 6, without having to say
specifically how much memory there actually is. That in turn implied that
the computer could timeshare six &#8216;full-sized&#8217; programs without
having to swap programs between memory and disk.</p><p>Nowadays the low cost of processor logic means that address spaces
are usually larger than the most physical memory you can cram onto a
machine, so most systems have much <span class="emphasis"><em>less</em></span> than one
theoretical &#8216;native&#8217; moby of <a href="../C/core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>.
Also, more modern memory-management techniques (esp. paging) make the
&#8216;moby count&#8217; less significant. However, there is one series of
widely-used chips for which the term could stand to be revived &#8212; the
Intel 8088 and 80286 with their incredibly
<a href="../B/brain-damaged.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-damaged</i></a> segmented-memory designs. On these, a
<span class="firstterm">moby</span> would be the 1-megabyte address
span of a segment/offset pair (by coincidence, a PDP-10 moby was exactly 1
megabyte of 9-bit bytes).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mobo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mockingbird.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mobo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mockingbird</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

5
original/html/M/mockingbird.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mockingbird</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="moby.html" title="moby"/><link rel="next" href="mod.html" title="mod"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mockingbird</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="moby.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mod.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mockingbird"/><dt xmlns="" id="mockingbird"><b>mockingbird</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Software that intercepts communications (especially login
transactions) between users and hosts and provides system-like responses to
the users while saving their responses (especially account IDs and
passwords). A special case of <a href="../T/Trojan-horse.html"><i class="glossterm">Trojan horse</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="moby.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mod.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">moby </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mod</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

8
original/html/M/mod.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mod</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mockingbird.html" title="mockingbird"/><link rel="next" href="mode.html" title="mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mod</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mockingbird.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mod"/><dt xmlns="" id="mod"><b>mod</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.,n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Short for &#8216;modify&#8217; or &#8216;modification&#8217;.
Very commonly used &#8212; in fact the full terms are considered markers
that one is being formal. The plural &#8216;mods&#8217; is used esp. with
reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardware or software,
most esp. with respect to <a href="../P/patch.html"><i class="glossterm">patch</i></a> sets or a
<a href="../D/diff.html"><i class="glossterm">diff</i></a>. See also <a href="../C/case-mod.html"><i class="glossterm">case mod</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Short for <a href="modulo.html"><i class="glossterm">modulo</i></a> but used
<span class="emphasis"><em>only</em></span> for its techspeak sense.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mockingbird.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mockingbird </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

8
original/html/M/mode-bit.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mode bit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mode.html" title="mode"/><link rel="next" href="modulo.html" title="modulo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mode bit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mode.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="modulo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mode-bit"/><dt xmlns="" id="mode-bit"><b>mode bit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] A <a href="../F/flag.html"><i class="glossterm">flag</i></a>, usually in hardware, that
selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The
connotations are different from <a href="../F/flag.html"><i class="glossterm">flag</i></a> bit in that
mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom
explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary
program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the
Program Status Word of the IBM 360.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="modulo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> modulo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

27
original/html/M/mode.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mode</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mod.html" title="mod"/><link rel="next" href="mode-bit.html" title="mode bit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mode</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mod.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mode-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mode"/><dt xmlns="" id="mode"><b>mode</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing
the state. Use of the word &#8216;mode&#8217; rather than
&#8216;state&#8217; implies that the state is extended over time, and
probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being
carried out. &#8220;<span class="quote">No time to hack; I'm in thesis mode.</span>&#8221; In its
jargon sense, &#8216;mode&#8217; is most often attributed to people, though
it is sometimes applied to programs and inanimate objects. In particular,
see <a href="../H/hack-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">hack mode</i></a>, <a href="../D/day-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">day mode</i></a>,
<a href="../N/night-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">night mode</i></a>, <a href="../D/demo-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">demo mode</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fireworks-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">fireworks mode</i></a>, and
<a href="../Y/yoyo-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">yoyo mode</i></a>; also <a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>.</p><p>One also often hears the verbs <span class="firstterm">enable</span> and <span class="firstterm">disable</span> used in connection with jargon modes.
Thus, for example, a sillier way of saying &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm going to
crash</span>&#8221; is &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm going to enable crash mode now</span>&#8221;. One
might also hear a request to &#8220;<span class="quote">disable flame mode,
please</span>&#8221;.</p><p>In a usage much closer to techspeak, a mode is a special state that
certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain
functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document in
the Unix editor <b class="command">vi</b>, one must type the
&#8220;<span class="quote">i</span>&#8221; key, which invokes the &#8220;<span class="quote">Insert</span>&#8221; command. The
effect of this command is to put vi into &#8220;<span class="quote">insert mode</span>&#8221;, in
which typing the &#8220;<span class="quote">i</span>&#8221; key has a quite different effect (to wit,
it inserts an &#8220;<span class="quote">i</span>&#8221; into the document). One must then hit
another special key, &#8220;<span class="quote">ESC</span>&#8221;, in order to leave &#8220;<span class="quote">insert
mode</span>&#8221;. Nowadays, modeful interfaces are generally considered
<a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a> but survive in quite a few widely used tools
built in less enlightened times.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mod.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mode-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mod </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mode bit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

6
original/html/M/modulo.html Normal file
View File

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>modulo</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mode-bit.html" title="mode bit"/><link rel="next" href="mojibake.html" title="mojibake"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">modulo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mode-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mojibake.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="modulo"/><dt xmlns="" id="modulo"><b>modulo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mod´yu·loh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prep.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Except for. An overgeneralization of mathematical terminology; one
can consider saying that 4 equals 22 except for the 9s (<tt class="literal">4 =
22</tt> mod 9). &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, LISP seems to work okay now,
modulo that <a href="../G/GC.html"><i class="glossterm">GC</i></a> bug.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">I feel fine today
modulo a slight headache.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mode-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mojibake.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mode bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mojibake</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

Some files were not shown because too many files have changed in this diff Show More