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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>P.O.D.</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="next" href="packet-over-air.html" title="packet over air"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">P.O.D.</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../P.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="packet-over-air.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="P-O-D-"/><dt xmlns="" id="P-O-D-"><b>P.O.D.</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/P·O·D/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [rare; sometimes &#8216;POD&#8217; without the periods] Acronym for
&#8216;Piece Of Data&#8217; or &#8216;Plain Old Data&#8217; (as opposed to
a code section, or a section containing mixed code and data). The latter
expansion was in use by the C++ standards committee, for which it indicated
a struct or class which only contains data (as in C), distinguished from
one which has a constructor and member functions. There are things which
you can do with a P.O.D. which you can't with a more general class.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../P.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="packet-over-air.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">P </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> packet over air</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PARC</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="param.html" title="param"/><link rel="next" href="parent-message.html" title="parent message"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PARC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="param.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="parent-message.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PARC"/><dt xmlns="" id="PARC"><b>PARC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="../X/XEROX-PARC.html"><i class="glossterm">XEROX PARC</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="param.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="parent-message.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">param </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> parent message</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PBD</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="payware.html" title="payware"/><link rel="next" href="PD.html" title="PD"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PBD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="payware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PD.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PBD"/><dt xmlns="" id="PBD"><b>PBD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/P·B·D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbrev. of &#8216;Programmer Brain Damage&#8217;] Applied to bug
reports revealing places where the program was obviously broken by an
incompetent or short-sighted programmer. Compare
<a href="../U/UBD.html"><i class="glossterm">UBD</i></a>; see also
<a href="../B/brain-damaged.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-damaged</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="payware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PD.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">payware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PD</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PD</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="PBD.html" title="PBD"/><link rel="next" href="PDP-10.html" title="PDP-10"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PBD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PDP-10.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PD"/><dt xmlns="" id="PD"><b>PD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/P·D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Abbreviation for &#8216;public domain&#8217;, applied to
software distributed over <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> and from Internet
archive sites. Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the
legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting reproduction and
use rights to anyone who can <a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a> a copy. See
<a href="../C/copyleft.html"><i class="glossterm">copyleft</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PBD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PDP-10.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PBD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PDP-10</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PDP-10</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="PD.html" title="PD"/><link rel="next" href="PDP-11.html" title="PDP-11"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PDP-10</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PDP-11.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PDP-10"/><dt xmlns="" id="PDP-10"><b>PDP-10</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Programmed Data Processor model 10] The machine that made
<a href="../T/timesharing.html"><i class="glossterm">timesharing</i></a> real. It looms large in hacker folklore
because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing
facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU.
Some aspects of the instruction set (most notably the bit-field
instructions) are still considered unsurpassed. The 10 was eventually
eclipsed by the <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> machines (descendants of the
<a href="PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>) when <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> recognized
that the 10 and <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> product lines were competing
with each other and decided to concentrate its software development effort
on the more profitable <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a>. The machine was finally
dropped from DEC's line in 1983, following the failure of the Jupiter
Project at DEC to build a viable new model. (Some attempts by other
companies to market clones came to nothing; see
<a href="../F/Foonly.html"><i class="glossterm">Foonly</i></a> and <a href="../M/Mars.html"><i class="glossterm">Mars</i></a>.) This event
spelled the doom of <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> and the technical cultures
that had spawned the original Jargon File, but by mid-1991 it had become
something of a badge of honorable old-timerhood among hackers to have cut
one's teeth on a PDP-10. See <a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a>,
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>, <a href="../B/BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a>,
<a href="../D/DDT.html"><i class="glossterm">DDT</i></a>, <a href="../E/EXCH.html"><i class="glossterm">EXCH</i></a>,
<a href="../H/HAKMEM.html"><i class="glossterm">HAKMEM</i></a>, <a href="pop.html"><i class="glossterm">pop</i></a>,
<a href="push.html"><i class="glossterm">push</i></a>. See also <a href="http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/" target="_top">http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PDP-11.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PDP-11</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PDP-11</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="PDP-10.html" title="PDP-10"/><link rel="next" href="PDP-20.html" title="PDP-20"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PDP-11</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PDP-10.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PDP-20.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PDP-11"/><dt xmlns="" id="PDP-11"><b>PDP-11</b></dt></dt><dd><p>Possibly the single most successful minicomputer design in history, a
favorite of hackers for many years, and the first major Unix machine, The
first PDP-11s (the 11/15 and 11/20) shipped in 1970 from
<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>; the last (11/93 and 11/94) in 1990. Along the
way, the 11 gave birth to the <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a>, strongly
influenced the design of microprocessors such as the Motorola 6800 and
Intel 386, and left a permanent imprint on the C language (which has an odd
preference for octal embedded in its syntax because of the way PDP-11
machine instructions were formatted). There is a <a href="http://telnet.hu/hamster/pdp-11/" target="_top">history site</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PDP-10.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PDP-20.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PDP-10 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PDP-20</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PDP-20</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="PDP-11.html" title="PDP-11"/><link rel="next" href="PEBKAC.html" title="PEBKAC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PDP-20</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PDP-11.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PEBKAC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PDP-20"/><dt xmlns="" id="PDP-20"><b>PDP-20</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The most famous computer that never was.
<a href="PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> computers running the
<a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a> operating system were labeled
&#8216;DECsystem-10&#8217; as a way of differentiating them from the
<a href="PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>. Later on, those systems running
<a href="../T/TOPS-20.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-20</i></a> were labeled &#8216;DECSYSTEM-20&#8217; (the
block capitals being the result of a lawsuit brought against DEC by Singer,
which once made a computer called &#8216;system-10&#8217;), but contrary to
popular lore there was never a &#8216;PDP-20&#8217;; the only difference
between a 10 and a 20 was the operating system and the color of the paint.
Most (but not all) machines sold to run TOPS-10 were painted &#8216;Basil
Blue&#8217;, whereas most TOPS-20 machines were painted &#8216;Chinese
Red&#8217; (often mistakenly called orange).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PDP-11.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PEBKAC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PDP-11 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PEBKAC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Used by support people, particularly at call centers and help desks. Not
used with the public. Denotes pilot error as the cause of the crash,
especially stupid errors that even a <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> could
figure out. Very derogatory. Usage: &#8220;<span class="quote">Did you ever figure out why that
guy couldn't print?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Yeah, he kept cancelling the operation
before it could finish. PEBKAC</span>&#8221;. See also <a href="../I/idiot.html"><i class="glossterm">ID10T</i></a>. Compare <a href="pilot-error.html"><i class="glossterm">pilot
error</i></a>, <a href="../U/UBD.html"><i class="glossterm">UBD</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PDP-20.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="peek.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PDP-20 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> peek</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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mythos] Abbreviation for <span class="firstterm">Pimply-Faced
Youth</span>. A <a href="../B/BOFH.html"><i class="glossterm">BOFH</i></a> in training, esp. one
apprenticed to an elder BOFH aged in evil.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pffft.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="phage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pffft </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> phage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Boss</span>&#8221;. From the <a href="../D/Dilbert.html"><i class="glossterm">Dilbert</i></a> character, the
archetypal halfwitted middle-<a href="../M/management.html"><i class="glossterm">management</i></a> type. See
also <a href="pointy-haired.html"><i class="glossterm">pointy-haired</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phase-wrapping.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="phreaker.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">phase-wrapping </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> phreaker</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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for inspection or test purposes. See
<a href="provocative-maintenance.html"><i class="glossterm">provocative maintenance</i></a>; see also
<a href="../S/scratch-monkey.html"><i class="glossterm">scratch monkey</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Abbrev. for
&#8216;Presentation Manager&#8217;, an <a href="../E/elephantine.html"><i class="glossterm">elephantine</i></a>
OS/2 graphical user interface.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plumbing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="point-release.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plumbing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> point release</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>POM</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="polygon-pusher.html" title="polygon pusher"/><link rel="next" href="ponytail.html" title="ponytail"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">POM</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="polygon-pusher.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ponytail.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="POM"/><dt xmlns="" id="POM"><b>POM</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/P·O·M/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common abbreviation for <a href="phase-of-the-moon.html"><i class="glossterm">phase of the moon</i></a>.
Usage: usually in the phrase <span class="firstterm">POM-dependent</span>, which means
<a href="../F/flaky.html"><i class="glossterm">flaky</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="polygon-pusher.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ponytail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">polygon pusher </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ponytail</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Parkinson's Law of Data</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="parity-errors.html" title="parity errors"/><link rel="next" href="parm.html" title="parm"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Parkinson's Law of Data</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parity-errors.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="parm.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data"/><dt xmlns="" id="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data"><b>Parkinson's Law of Data</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> &#8220;<span class="quote">Data expands to fill the space available for storage</span>&#8221;;
buying more memory encourages the use of more memory-intensive techniques.
(The original 1958 Parkinson's Law described the structural tendency of
bureaucracies to make work for themselves.) It has been observed since the
mid-1980s that the memory usage of evolving systems tends to double roughly
once every 18 months. Fortunately, memory density available for constant
dollars also tends to about double once every 18 months (see
<a href="../M/Moores-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Moore's Law</i></a>); unfortunately, the laws of physics
guarantee that the latter cannot continue indefinitely.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parity-errors.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="parm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">parity errors </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> parm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Pascal</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="parse.html" title="parse"/><link rel="next" href="PascalCasing.html" title="PascalCasing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Pascal</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parse.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PascalCasing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Pascal"/><dt xmlns="" id="Pascal"><b>Pascal</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC
6600 around 1967--68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves
in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a
general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a
general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of
languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also
<a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline language</i></a>). The hackish point
of view on Pascal was probably best summed up by a devastating (and, in its
deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of
<a href="../K/K-ampersand-R.html"><i class="glossterm">K&amp;R</i></a> fame) entitled
<i class="citetitle">Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language</i>,
which was turned down by the technical journals but circulated widely via
photocopies. It was eventually published in <i class="citetitle">Comparing and
Assessing Programming Languages</i>, edited by Alan Feuer and
Narain Gehani (Prentice-Hall, 1984). Part of his discussion is worth
repeating here, because its criticisms are still apposite to Pascal itself
after many years of improvement and could also stand as an indictment of
many other bondage-and-discipline languages. (The entire essay is
available at <a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html" target="_top">http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html</a>.)
At the end of a summary of the case against Pascal, Kernighan wrote:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>9. There is no escape</p><p>This last point is perhaps the most important. The language is
inadequate but circumscribed, because there is no way to escape its
limitations. There are no casts to disable the type-checking when necessary.
There is no way to replace the defective run-time environment with a sensible
one, unless one controls the compiler that defines the &#8220;<span class="quote">standard
procedures</span>&#8221;. The language is closed.</p><p>People who use Pascal for serious programming fall into a fatal trap.
Because the language is impotent, it must be extended. But each group extends
Pascal in its own direction, to make it look like whatever language they
really want. Extensions for separate compilation, FORTRAN-like COMMON, string
data types, internal static variables, initialization, octal numbers, bit
operators, etc., all add to the utility of the language for one group but
destroy its portability to others.</p><p>I feel that it is a mistake to use Pascal for anything much beyond its
original target. In its pure form, Pascal is a toy language, suitable for
teaching but not for real programming.</p></blockquote></div><p>Pascal has since been entirely displaced (mainly by
<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>) from the niches it had acquired in serious
applications and systems programming, and from its role as a teaching
language by Java.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parse.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PascalCasing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">parse </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PascalCasing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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as <span class="symbol">ThisIsASampleVariable</span>) (including the first letter of
the identifier) with uppercase. Constrasts with <span class="firstterm">camelCasing</span>, in which the first character of
the identifier is left in lowercase
(<span class="symbol">thisIsASampleVariable</span>), and with the traditional C style
of short all-lower-case names with internal word breaks marked by an
underscore (<span class="symbol">sample_var</span>).</p><p>Where these terms are used, they usually go with advice to use
PascalCasing for public interfaces and camelCasing for private ones. They
may have originated at Microsoft, but are in more general use in ECMA
standards, among Java programmers, and elsewhere.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Pascal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pastie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Pascal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pastie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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reference, implying that the chip is inherently
<a href="../E/evil.html"><i class="glossterm">evil</i></a>. Often used with &#8220;<span class="quote">666 MHz</span>&#8221;; there
is a T-shirt. See <a href="Pentium.html"><i class="glossterm">Pentium</i></a></p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pencil-and-paper.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Pentium.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pencil and paper </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Pentium</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Pentium</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="Pentagram-Pro.html" title="Pentagram Pro"/><link rel="next" href="peon.html" title="peon"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Pentium</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Pentagram-Pro.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="peon.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Pentium"/><dt xmlns="" id="Pentium"><b>Pentium</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The name given to Intel's P5 chip, the successor to the 80486. The
name was chosen because of difficulties Intel had in trademarking a
number. It suggests the number five (implying 586) while (according to
Intel) conveying a meaning of strength &#8220;<span class="quote">like titanium</span>&#8221;. Among
hackers, the plural is frequently &#8216;pentia&#8217;. See also
<a href="Pentagram-Pro.html"><i class="glossterm">Pentagram Pro</i></a>.</p><p>Intel did not stick to this convention when naming its P6 processor
the Pentium Pro; many believe this is due to difficulties in selling a chip
with &#8220;<span class="quote">hex</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">sex</span>&#8221; in its name. Successor chips
have been called <span class="firstterm">Pentium II</span>,
<span class="firstterm">Pentium III</span>, and <span class="firstterm">Pentium IV</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Pentagram-Pro.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="peon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Pentagram Pro </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> peon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall,
author of
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">patch</span>(1)</span>
and
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rn</span>(1)</span>).
Superficially resembles <a href="../A/awk.html"><i class="glossterm">awk</i></a>, but is much hairier,
including many facilities reminiscent of
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sed</span>(1)</span>
and shells and a comprehensive Unix system-call interface. Unix sysadmins,
who are almost always incorrigible hackers, generally consider it one of
the <a href="../L/languages-of-choice.html"><i class="glossterm">languages of choice</i></a>, and it is by far the most
widely used tool for making &#8216;live&#8217; web pages via CGI. Perl has
been described, in a parody of a famous remark about
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lex</span>(1)</span>,
as the <a href="../S/Swiss-Army-chainsaw.html"><i class="glossterm">Swiss-Army chainsaw</i></a> of Unix programming.
Though Perl is very useful, it would be a stretch to describe it as pretty
or <a href="../E/elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a>; people who like clean, spare design
generally prefer <a href="Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a>. See also <a href="../C/Camel-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Camel
Book</i></a>, <a href="../T/TMTOWTDI.html"><i class="glossterm">TMTOWTDI</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="perfect-programmer-syndrome.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="person-of-no-account.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">perfect programmer syndrome </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> person of no account</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of machines by
overrunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks. First revealed in late
1996. The open-source Unix community patched its systems to remove the
vulnerability within days or weeks, the closed-source OS vendors generally
took months. While the difference in response times repeated a pattern
familiar from other security incidents, the accompanying glare of
Web-fueled publicity proved unusually embarrassing to the OS vendors and so
passed into history and myth. The term is now used to refer to any nudge
delivered by network wizards over the network that causes bad things to
happen on the system being nudged. For the full story on the original
exploit, see <a href="http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html" target="_top">http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html</a>. Compare
<a href="../K/kamikaze-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">kamikaze packet</i></a> and 'Chernobyl packet.'</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ping.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ping-storm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ping </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ping storm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Plan 9</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="plain-ASCII.html" title="plain-ASCII"/><link rel="next" href="plan-file.html" title="plan file"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Plan 9</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plain-ASCII.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plan-file.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Plan-9"/><dt xmlns="" id="Plan-9"><b>Plan 9</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>In the late 1980s, researchers at Bell Labs (especially Rob Pike of
Kernighan &amp; Pike fame) got bored with the limitations of UNIX and
decided to reimplement the entire system. The result was called Plan 9 in
&#8220;<span class="quote">the Bell Labs tradition of selecting names that make marketeers
wince.</span>&#8221; The developers also wished to pay homage to the famous film,
&#8220;<span class="quote">Plan 9 From Outer Space</span>&#8221;, considered by some to be the worst
movie ever made. The source is available for download under
open-source terms. The developers and a small fan base hang out at
<tt class="systemitem">comp.os.plan9</tt>, where one can
occasionally hear &#8220;<span class="quote">If you want UNIX, you know where to find
it</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plain-ASCII.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plan-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plain-ASCII </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plan file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PostScript</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="postmaster.html" title="postmaster"/><link rel="next" href="pound-on.html" title="pound on"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PostScript</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="postmaster.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pound-on.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PostScript"/><dt xmlns="" id="PostScript"><b>PostScript</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A page description language, based on work originally done by John
Gaffney at Evans and Sutherland in 1976, evolving through &#8216;JaM&#8217;
(&#8216;John and Martin&#8217;, Martin Newell) at <a href="../X/XEROX-PARC.html"><i class="glossterm">XEROX
PARC</i></a>, and finally implemented in its current form by John
Warnock et al. after he and Chuck Geschke founded Adobe Systems
Incorporated in 1982. PostScript gets its leverage by using a full
programming language, rather than a series of low-level escape sequences,
to describe an image to be printed on a laser printer or other output
device (in this it parallels <a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>, which exploited
a similar insight about editing tasks). It is also noteworthy for
implementing on-the fly rasterization, from Bezier curve descriptions, of
high-quality fonts at low (e.g. 300 dpi) resolution (it was formerly
believed that hand-tuned bitmap fonts were required for this task).
Hackers consider PostScript to be among the most elegant hacks of all time,
and the combination of technical merits and widespread availability has
made PostScript the language of choice for graphical output.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="postmaster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pound-on.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">postmaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pound on</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Postel's Prescription</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="postcardware.html" title="postcardware"/><link rel="next" href="posting.html" title="posting"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Postel's Prescription</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="postcardware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="posting.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Postels-Prescription"/><dt xmlns="" id="Postels-Prescription"><b>Postel's Prescription</b></dt></dt><dd><p>[proposed] Several of the key Internet <a href="../R/RFC.html"><i class="glossterm">RFC</i></a>s,
especially 1122 and 791 contain a piece of advice due to Jon Postel,
which is most often stated as:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you
send.</span>&#8221;</p></blockquote></div><p>That is, a well-engineered implementation of any of the
Internet protocols should be willing to deal with marginal
and imperfectly-formed inputs, but should not assume that the
program on the other end (that is, the program dealing with the
well-engineered implementation's output) will be anything other
than rigid and inflexible, and perhaps even incomplete or downright
buggy.</p><p>This property is valuable because a network of programs adhering
to it will be much more robust in the presence of any uncertainties
in the protocol specifications, or any individual implementor's
failure to understand those specifications perfectly. Though the
policy does tend to accommodate broken implementations it is held
to more important to get the communication flowing than to
immediately (but terminally) diagnose the broken implementations
at the expense of the people trying to use them.</p><p>The principle is a well-known one in the design of programs
that handle Internet wire protocols, especially network
relays and servers, and it is regularly applied by extension
in any situation where two or more separately-implemented
pieces of software are supposed to interoperate even though the
various implementors have never talked to each other and have
absolutely nothing whatsoever in common other than having
all read the same protocol specification. The principle travels
under several different names, including &#8220;<span class="quote">the Internet credo</span>&#8221;,
&#8220;<span class="quote">the IETF maxim</span>&#8221;, &#8220;<span class="quote">the Internet Engineering
Principle</span>&#8221;, and
&#8220;<span class="quote">the liberal/conservative rule</span>&#8221;; the [proposed] term
&#8220;<span class="quote">Postel' Prescription</span>&#8221; is a tribute to its inventor, the first
RFC editor
and (until his untimely death) probably the single most respected
individual in the Internet engineering community.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="postcardware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="posting.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">postcardware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> posting</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Programmer's Cheer</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="program.html" title="program"/><link rel="next" href="programming.html" title="programming"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Programmer's Cheer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="program.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="programming.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Programmers-Cheer"/><dt xmlns="" id="Programmers-Cheer"><b>Programmer's Cheer</b></dt></dt><dd><p> &#8220;<span class="quote">Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down!
Byte! Byte! Byte!</span>&#8221; A joke so old it has hair on it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="program.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="programming.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">program </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> programming</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Purple Book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="punt.html" title="punt"/><link rel="next" href="purple-wire.html" title="purple wire"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Purple Book</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="punt.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="purple-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Purple-Book"/><dt xmlns="" id="Purple-Book"><b>Purple Book</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The <i class="citetitle">System V Interface Definition</i>. The
covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of
off-lavender. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Syn. <a href="../W/Wizard-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Wizard Book</i></a>. Donald Lewine's
<i class="citetitle">POSIX Programmer's Guide</i> (O'Reilly, 1991, ISBN
0-937175-73-0). See also <a href="../B/book-titles.html"><i class="glossterm">book titles</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="punt.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="purple-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">punt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> purple wire</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Python</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="push.html" title="push"/><link rel="next" href="../Q.html" title="Q"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Python</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="push.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../Q.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Python"/><dt xmlns="" id="Python"><b>Python</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/pi:´thon/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In the words of its author, &#8220;<span class="quote">the other scripting
language</span>&#8221; (other than <a href="Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a>, that is).
Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well thought through; it
tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl grubby and exiguous.
Some people revolt at its use of whitespace to define logical structure by
indentation, objecting that this harks back to the horrible old fixed-field
languages of the 1960s. Python's relationship with Perl is rather like the
<a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> community's relationship to
<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> &#8212; it's the smaller party in a (usually
friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its developers is generally
conceded to be rather higher than in the larger community it competes with.
There's a Python resource page at <a href="http://www.python.org" target="_top">http://www.python.org</a>. See also
<a href="../G/Guido.html"><i class="glossterm">Guido</i></a>, <a href="../B/BDFL.html"><i class="glossterm">BDFL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="push.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../Q.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">push </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Q</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>packet over air</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="P-O-D-.html" title="P.O.D."/><link rel="next" href="padded-cell.html" title="padded cell"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">packet over air</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="P-O-D-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="padded-cell.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="packet-over-air"/><dt xmlns="" id="packet-over-air"><b>packet over air</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [common among backbone ISPs] The protocol notionally being used by
Internet data attempting to traverse a physical gap or break in the
network, such as might be caused by a
<a href="../F/fiber-seeking-backhoe.html"><i class="glossterm">fiber-seeking backhoe</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">I see why you're dropping packets. You seem to
have a packet over air problem.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="P-O-D-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="padded-cell.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">P.O.D. </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> padded cell</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>padded cell</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="packet-over-air.html" title="packet over air"/><link rel="next" href="page-in.html" title="page in"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">padded cell</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="packet-over-air.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="page-in.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="padded-cell"/><dt xmlns="" id="padded-cell"><b>padded cell</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Where you put <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s so they can't hurt
anything. A program that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset
of the capabilities of the host system (for example, the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rsh</span>(1)</span>
utility on USG Unix). Note that this is different from an
<a href="../I/iron-box.html"><i class="glossterm">iron box</i></a> because it is overt and not aimed at enforcing security so
much as protecting others (and the luser) from the consequences of the
luser's boundless naivete (see <a href="../N/naive.html"><i class="glossterm">naive</i></a>). Also
<span class="firstterm">padded cell environment</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="packet-over-air.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="page-in.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">packet over air </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> page in</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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out (see <a href="page-out.html"><i class="glossterm">page out</i></a>). Usually confined to the
sarcastic comment: &#8220;<span class="quote">Eric pages in,
<a href="../F/film-at-11.html"><i class="glossterm">film at 11</i></a>!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Syn. <span class="firstterm">swap in</span>; see
<a href="../S/swap.html"><i class="glossterm">swap</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="padded-cell.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="page-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">padded cell </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> page out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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daydreaming or preoccupation. &#8220;<span class="quote">Can you repeat that? I paged out for
a minute.</span>&#8221; See <a href="page-in.html"><i class="glossterm">page in</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../G/glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>, <a href="../T/thinko.html"><i class="glossterm">thinko</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Syn. <span class="firstterm">swap out</span>; see
<a href="../S/swap.html"><i class="glossterm">swap</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="page-in.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pain-in-the-net.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">page in </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pain in the net</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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very slow, low-reliability network. Usenet
<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s sometimes include a &#8220;<span class="quote">Paper-Net:</span>&#8221; header
just before the sender's postal address; common variants of this are
&#8220;<span class="quote">Papernet</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">P-Net</span>&#8221;. Note that the standard
<a href="../N/netiquette.html"><i class="glossterm">netiquette</i></a> guidelines discourage this practice as a
waste of bandwidth, since netters are quite unlikely to casually use postal
addresses. Compare <a href="../V/voice-net.html"><i class="glossterm">voice-net</i></a>,
<a href="../S/snail-mail.html"><i class="glossterm">snail-mail</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pain-in-the-net.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="param.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pain in the net </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> param</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="parm.html"><i class="glossterm">parm</i></a>; compare <a href="../A/arg.html"><i class="glossterm">arg</i></a>,
<a href="../V/var.html"><i class="glossterm">var</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="paper-net.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PARC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">paper-net </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PARC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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usually brought on by having spent all night and most of the next day
hacking. &#8220;<span class="quote">I need to go home and crash; I'm starting to get a lot of
parity errors.</span>&#8221; Derives from a relatively common but nearly always
correctable transient error in memory hardware. It predates RAM; in fact,
this term is reported to have already have been in use in its jargon sense
back in the 1960s when magnetic cores ruled. Parity errors can also
afflict mass storage and serial communication lines; this is more serious
because not always correctable.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parent-message.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">parent message </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Parkinson's Law of Data</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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is an <i class="wordasword">IBMism</i>, and written use is almost unknown
outside IBM shops; spoken <span class="pronunciation">/parm/</span>
is more widely distributed, but the synonym <a href="../A/arg.html"><i class="glossterm">arg</i></a> is
favored among hackers. Compare <a href="../A/arg.html"><i class="glossterm">arg</i></a>,
<a href="../V/var.html"><i class="glossterm">var</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="parse.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Parkinson's Law of Data </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> parse</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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utterance (close to the standard English meaning). &#8220;<span class="quote">That was the one
I saw you.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">I can't parse that.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, to understand or comprehend. &#8220;<span class="quote">It's very
simple; you just kretch the glims and then aos the zotz.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">I
can't parse that.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. &#8220;<span class="quote">I object
to parsing fish</span>&#8221;, means &#8220;<span class="quote">I don't want to get a whole fish, but
a sliced one is okay</span>&#8221;. A <span class="firstterm">parsed
fish</span> has been deboned. There is some controversy over whether
<span class="firstterm">unparsed</span> should mean
&#8216;bony&#8217;, or also mean &#8216;deboned&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Pascal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">parm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Pascal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed
through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where
almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R
key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the
&#961; character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices
formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare
<a href="../T/tits-on-a-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">tits on a keyboard</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PascalCasing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="patch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PascalCasing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> patch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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project. Possession of the patch pumpkin means one has the exclusive
authority to make changes on the project's master source tree. The
implicit assumption is that <span class="firstterm">pumpkin
holder</span> status is temporary and rotates periodically among senior
project members.</p><p>This term comes from the Perl development community, but has been
sighted elsewhere. It derives from a stuffed-toy pumpkin that was passed
around at a development shop years ago as the access control for a shared
backup-tape drive.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="patch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="patch-space.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">patch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> patch space</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically,
the patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is
patched to contain a jump or call to the patch space). The near-universal
use of compilers and interpreters has made this term rare; it is now
primarily historical outside IBM shops. See <a href="patch.html"><i class="glossterm">patch</i></a>
(sense 4), <a href="../Z/zap.html"><i class="glossterm">zap</i></a> (sense 4),
<a href="../H/hook.html"><i class="glossterm">hook</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="patch-pumpkin.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="path.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">patch pumpkin </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> path</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>patch</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="pastie.html" title="pastie"/><link rel="next" href="patch-pumpkin.html" title="patch pumpkin"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">patch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pastie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="patch-pumpkin.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="patch"/><dt xmlns="" id="patch"><b>patch</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A temporary addition to a
piece of code, usually as a <a href="../Q/quick-and-dirty.html"><i class="glossterm">quick-and-dirty</i></a> remedy
to an existing bug or misfeature. A patch may or may not work, and may or
may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program.
Distinguished from a <a href="../D/diff.html"><i class="glossterm">diff</i></a> or
<a href="../M/mod.html"><i class="glossterm">mod</i></a> by the fact that a patch is generated by more
primitive means than the rest of the program; the classical examples are
instructions modified by using the front panel switches, and changes made
directly to the binary executable of a program originally written in an
<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a>. Compare <a href="../O/one-line-fix.html"><i class="glossterm">one-line fix</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To insert a patch into a
piece of code.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. [in the Unix world] <span class="grammar">n.</span> A
<a href="../D/diff.html"><i class="glossterm">diff</i></a> (sense 2). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A set of modifications to binaries to be applied by a patching
program. IBM operating systems often receive updates to the operating
system in the form of absolute hexadecimal patches. If you have modified
your OS, you have to disassemble these back to the source. The patches
might later be corrected by other patches on top of them (patches were said
to &#8220;<span class="quote">grow scar tissue</span>&#8221;). The result was often a convoluted
<a href="patch-space.html"><i class="glossterm">patch space</i></a> and headaches galore.</p></dd><dd><p> 5. [Unix] the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">patch</span>(1)</span>
program, written by Larry Wall, which automatically applies a patch (sense
3) to a set of source code.</p></dd><dd><p>There is a classic story of a <a href="../T/tiger-team.html"><i class="glossterm">tiger team</i></a>
penetrating a secure military computer that illustrates the danger inherent
in binary patches (or, indeed, any patches that you can't &#8212; or don't
&#8212; inspect and examine before installing). They couldn't find any
<a href="../T/trap-door.html"><i class="glossterm">trap door</i></a>s or any way to penetrate security of IBM's
OS, so they made a site visit to an IBM office (remember, these were
official military types who were purportedly on official business), swiped
some IBM stationery, and created a fake patch. The patch was actually the
trapdoor they needed. The patch was distributed at about the right time
for an IBM patch, had official stationery and all accompanying
documentation, and was dutifully installed. The installation manager very
shortly thereafter learned something about proper procedures.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pastie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="patch-pumpkin.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pastie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> patch pumpkin</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines.
Though these are now obsolete as a form of addressing, they still show up
in diagnostics and trace headers occasionally (e.g. in NNTP headers).
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix] A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory
(as opposed to relative to the current directory; the latter is sometimes
called a <span class="firstterm">relative path</span>). This is
also called a <span class="firstterm">pathname</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Unix and MS-DOS/Windows] The <span class="firstterm">search
path</span>, an environment variable specifying the directories in
which the <a href="../S/shell.html"><i class="glossterm">shell</i></a> (COMMAND.COM, under MS-DOS) should
look for commands. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix (for
example, the C preprocessor has a <span class="firstterm">search
path</span> it uses in looking for <b class="command">#include</b> files).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="patch-space.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pathological.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">patch space </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pathological</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pathological</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="path.html" title="path"/><link rel="next" href="payware.html" title="payware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pathological</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="path.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="payware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pathological"/><dt xmlns="" id="pathological"><b>pathological</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly
atypical of normal expected input, esp. one that exposes a weakness or bug
in whatever algorithm one is using. An algorithm that can be broken by
pathological inputs may still be useful if such inputs are very unlikely to
occur in practice. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. When used of test input, implies that it was purposefully
engineered as a worst case. The implication in both senses is that the
data is spectacularly ill-conditioned or that someone had to explicitly set
out to break the algorithm in order to come up with such a crazy example.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Also said of an unlikely collection of circumstances. &#8220;<span class="quote">If
the network is down and comes up halfway through the execution of that
command by root, the system may just crash.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Yes, but that's
a pathological case.</span>&#8221; Often used to dismiss the case from
discussion, with the implication that the consequences are acceptable,
since they will happen so infrequently (if at all) that it doesn't seem
worth going to the extra trouble to handle that case (see sense 1).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="path.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="payware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">path </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> payware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>peek</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="PEBKAC.html" title="PEBKAC"/><link rel="next" href="pencil-and-paper.html" title="pencil and paper"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">peek</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PEBKAC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pencil-and-paper.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="peek"/><dt xmlns="" id="peek"><b>peek</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (and <a href="poke.html"><i class="glossterm">poke</i></a>) The commands in most microcomputer
BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an absolute address; often
extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any
<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> (peek reads memory, poke modifies it). Much
hacking on small, non-MMU micros used to consist of <span class="firstterm">peek</span>ing around memory, more or less at random,
to find the location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and
variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers
circulated. The results of <span class="firstterm">poke</span>s at
these addresses may be highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or
(most likely) total <a href="../L/lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">lossage</i></a> (see
<a href="../K/killer-poke.html"><i class="glossterm">killer poke</i></a>).</p><p>Since a <a href="../R/real-operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">real operating system</i></a> provides useful,
higher-level services for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes
on micros, and real languages tend not to encourage low-level memory
groveling, a question like &#8220;<span class="quote">How do I do a peek in C?</span>&#8221; is
diagnostic of the <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>. (Of course, OS kernels
often have to do exactly this; a real kernel hacker would unhesitatingly,
if unportably, assign an absolute address to a pointer variable and
indirect through it.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PEBKAC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pencil-and-paper.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PEBKAC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pencil and paper</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pencil and paper</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="peek.html" title="peek"/><link rel="next" href="Pentagram-Pro.html" title="Pentagram Pro"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pencil and paper</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="peek.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Pentagram-Pro.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pencil-and-paper"/><dt xmlns="" id="pencil-and-paper"><b>pencil and paper</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by
depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent
developments in paper-based technology include improved
&#8216;write-once&#8217; update devices which use tiny rolling heads
similar to mouse balls to deposit colored pigment. All these devices
require an operator skilled at so-called &#8216;handwriting&#8217;
technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly
forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with,
and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further.
Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and
often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="peek.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Pentagram-Pro.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">peek </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Pentagram Pro</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/wheel.html"><i class="glossterm">wheel</i></a>) privileges on a computer system. &#8220;<span class="quote">I
can't create an account on <span class="emphasis"><em>foovax</em></span> for you; I'm only a
peon there.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Pentium.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="percent-S.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Pentium </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> percent-S</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">printf</span>(3)</span>
library function used to insert an arbitrary string argument] An
unspecified person or object. &#8220;<span class="quote">I was just talking to some percent-s
in administration.</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="../R/random.html"><i class="glossterm">random</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="peon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="perf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">peon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> perf</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="perf.html"><i class="glossterm">perf</i></a> may also refer to the perforations themselves,
rather than the chad they produce when torn (philatelists use it this
way).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="percent-S.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="perfect-programmer-syndrome.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">percent-S </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> perfect programmer syndrome</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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error. Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability but
relatively little experience (especially new graduates; their perceptions
may be distorted by a history of excellent performance at solving
<a href="../T/toy-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">toy problem</i></a>s). &#8220;<span class="quote">Of course my program is
correct, there is no need to test it.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Yes, I can see there
may be a problem here, but <span class="emphasis"><em>I'll</em></span> never type <b class="command">rm -r /</b> while in
<a href="../R/root-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">root mode</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="perf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Perl.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">perf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Perl</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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person with no <a href="../N/network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a>, frequently to
forestall confusion. Most often as part of an introduction: &#8220;<span class="quote">This is
Bill, a person of no account, but he used to be bill@random.com</span>&#8221;.
Compare <a href="../R/return-from-the-dead.html"><i class="glossterm">return from the dead</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Perl.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pessimal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Perl </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pessimal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pessimal</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="person-of-no-account.html" title="person of no account"/><link rel="next" href="pessimizing-compiler.html" title="pessimizing compiler"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pessimal</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="person-of-no-account.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pessimizing-compiler.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pessimal"/><dt xmlns="" id="pessimal"><b>pessimal</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/pes´im·l/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Latin-based antonym for <span class="firstterm">optimal</span>] Maximally bad. &#8220;<span class="quote">This is a
pessimal situation.</span>&#8221; Also <span class="firstterm">pessimize</span> <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To make as bad as possible. These words are
the obvious Latin-based antonyms for <span class="firstterm">optimal</span> and <span class="firstterm">optimize</span>, but for some reason they do not
appear in most English dictionaries, although &#8216;pessimize&#8217; is
listed in the OED.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="person-of-no-account.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pessimizing-compiler.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">person of no account </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pessimizing compiler</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that produces object code that is worse than the straightforward or obvious
hand translation. The implication is that the compiler is actually trying
to optimize the program, but through excessive cleverness is doing the
opposite. A few pessimizing compilers have been written on purpose,
however, as pranks or burlesques.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pessimal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="peta-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pessimal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> peta-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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particularly shock or surprise, disgust or anger. The amplitude of the
reaction can be measured by counting intermediary fs. For example:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
&lt;jrandom&gt; someone stole my hotdog
&lt;fred&gt; pffft
&lt;frodo&gt; Cthulhu stole my hotdog
&lt;joe&gt; pffffffffffffft!
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ways; esp. one that propagates a <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>. See also <a href="../W/worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a>,
<a href="../M/mockingbird.html"><i class="glossterm">mockingbird</i></a>. The analogy, of course, is with phage
viruses in biology.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PFY.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="phase.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PFY </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> phase</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that
reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to
determine. &#8220;<span class="quote">This feature depends on having the channel open in
mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the
moon.</span>&#8221; See also <a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>.</p><p>True story: Once upon a time there was a program bug that really did
depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had
traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an
approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into
a LISP program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line
almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message
would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file
was later read back in the program would <a href="../B/barf.html"><i class="glossterm">barf</i></a>. The
length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the
length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so
the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon!</p><p>The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an
example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the
typesetter &#8216;corrected&#8217; it. This has since been described as
the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.</p><p>However, beware of assumptions. A few years ago, engineers of CERN
(European Center for Nuclear Research) were baffled by some errors in
experiments conducted with the LEP particle accelerator. As the formidable
amount of data generated by such devices is heavily processed by computers
before being seen by humans, many people suggested the software was somehow
sensitive to the phase of the moon. A few desperate engineers discovered
the truth; the error turned out to be the result of a tiny change in the
geometry of the 27km circumference ring, physically caused by the
deformation of the Earth by the passage of the Moon! This story has
entered physics folklore as a Newtonian vengeance on particle physics and
as an example of the relevance of the simplest and oldest physical laws to
the most modern science.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phase.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="phase-wrapping.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">phase </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> phase-wrapping</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle; a
useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no
fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as much as 6
hours per day on a regular basis. &#8220;<span class="quote">What's your phase?</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">I've been getting in about 8PM lately, but I'm going to
<a href="../W/wrap-around.html"><i class="glossterm">wrap around</i></a> to the day schedule by Friday.</span>&#8221; A
person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in
<span class="firstterm">night mode</span>. (The term <span class="firstterm">day mode</span> is also (but less frequently) used,
meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of
altering one's cycle is called <span class="firstterm">changing
phase</span>; <span class="firstterm">phase shifting</span> has
also been recently reported from Caltech.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">change phase the hard way</span>:
To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">change phase the easy way</span>:
To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer
or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is <span class="emphasis"><em>shortening</em></span>
your day or night that is really hard (see
<a href="../W/wrap-around.html"><i class="glossterm">wrap around</i></a>). The &#8216;jet lag&#8217; that afflicts travelers who
cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes:
the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who
suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of
time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag
without traveling.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="phase-of-the-moon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">phage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> phase of the moon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>phreaking</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="phreaker.html" title="phreaker"/><link rel="next" href="pico-.html" title="pico-"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">phreaking</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phreaker.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pico-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="phreaking"/><dt xmlns="" id="phreaking"><b>phreaking</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/freek´ing/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from &#8216;phone phreak&#8217;] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The art and science of <a href="../C/cracking.html"><i class="glossterm">cracking</i></a> the phone
network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially,
but not exclusively, on communications networks) (see
<a href="../C/cracking.html"><i class="glossterm">cracking</i></a>).</p></dd><dd><p>At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers;
there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game
and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo.
There was significant crossover between the hacker community and the
hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own
through such media as the legendary <i class="citetitle">TAP Newsletter</i>.
This ethos began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider dissemination of
the techniques put them in the hands of less responsible phreaks. Around
the same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical
ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to
depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card numbers.
The crimes and punishments of gangs like the &#8216;414 group&#8217; turned
that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just to
keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of
&#8216;blue boxes&#8217; or any of the other paraphernalia of the great
phreaks of yore.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phreaker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pico-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">phreaker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pico-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Smaller than <a href="../N/nano-.html"><i class="glossterm">nano-</i></a>; used in the same rather loose
connotative way as <a href="../N/nano-.html"><i class="glossterm">nano-</i></a> and
<a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>. This usage is not yet common in the way
<a href="../N/nano-.html"><i class="glossterm">nano-</i></a> and <a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a> are, but
should be instantly recognizable to any hacker. See also
<a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>, <a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phreaking.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pig-tail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">phreaking </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pig-tail</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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for converting between one connector type and another. Common pig-tails
are 9-to-25-pin serial-port converters and cables to connect PCMCIA network
cards to an RJ-45 network cable.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pico-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pilot-error.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pico- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pilot error</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare
<a href="../U/UBD.html"><i class="glossterm">UBD</i></a>). &#8220;<span class="quote">Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail
that causes it to generate bogus headers.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">That's not a bug,
that's pilot error. His <b class="command">sendmail.cf</b> is
hosed.</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="PEBKAC.html"><i class="glossterm">PEBKAC</i></a>,
<a href="../U/UBD.html"><i class="glossterm">UBD</i></a>, <a href="../I/idiot.html"><i class="glossterm">ID10T</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pig-tail.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ping.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pig-tail </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ping</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="ping.html"><i class="glossterm">ping</i></a> requests (normally used to check network
conditions) designed to disrupt the normal activity of a system. This act
is sometimes called <span class="firstterm">ping lashing</span> or
<span class="firstterm">ping flood</span>. Compare
<a href="../M/mail-storm.html"><i class="glossterm">mail storm</i></a>, <a href="../B/broadcast-storm.html"><i class="glossterm">broadcast storm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Ping-O--Death.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pink-contract.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Ping O' Death </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pink contract</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ping</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="pilot-error.html" title="pilot error"/><link rel="next" href="Ping-O--Death.html" title="Ping O' Death"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ping</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pilot-error.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Ping-O--Death.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ping"/><dt xmlns="" id="ping"><b>ping</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a
computer to check for the presence and alertness of another. The Unix
command
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ping</span>(8)</span>
can be used to do this manually (note that
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ping</span>(8)</span>'s
author denies the widespread folk etymology that the name was ever intended
as an acronym for &#8216;Packet INternet Groper&#8217;). Occasionally used
as a phone greeting. See <a href="../A/ACK.html"><i class="glossterm">ACK</i></a>, also
<a href="../E/ENQ.html"><i class="glossterm">ENQ</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To verify the presence
of. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To get the attention of.
</p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To send a message to all
members of a <a href="../M/mailing-list.html"><i class="glossterm">mailing list</i></a> requesting an
<a href="../A/ACK.html"><i class="glossterm">ACK</i></a> (in order to verify that everybody's addresses
are reachable). &#8220;<span class="quote">We haven't heard much of anything from Geoff, but
he did respond with an ACK both times I pinged jargon-friends.</span>&#8221;
</p></dd><dd><p> 5. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A quantum packet of
happiness. People who are very happy tend to exude pings; furthermore, one
can intentionally create pings and aim them at a needy party (e.g., a
depressed person). This sense of ping may appear as an exclamation;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Ping!</span>&#8221; (I'm happy; I am emitting a quantum of happiness; I
have been struck by a quantum of happiness). The form
&#8220;<span class="quote">pingfulness</span>&#8221;, which is used to describe people who exude
pings, also occurs. (In the standard abuse of language,
&#8220;<span class="quote">pingfulness</span>&#8221; can also be used as an exclamation, in which
case it's a much stronger exclamation than just &#8220;<span class="quote">ping</span>&#8221;!).
Oppose <a href="../B/blargh.html"><i class="glossterm">blargh</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>The funniest use of &#8216;ping&#8217; to date was <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Jan23.211609.877%40news.cs.indiana.edu" target="_top">
described</a> in January 1991 by Steve Hayman on the Usenet group
<tt class="systemitem">comp.sys.next</tt>. He was trying to
isolate a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT
machine, and got tired of having to run back to his console after each cabling
tweak to see if the ping packets were getting through. So he used the
sound-recording feature on the NeXT, then wrote a script that repeatedly
invoked
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ping</span>(8)</span>,
listened for an echo, and played back the recording on each returned packet.
Result? A program that caused the machine to repeat, over and over,
&#8220;<span class="quote">Ping ... ping ... ping ...</span>&#8221; as long as the
network was up. He turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the
building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no
time.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pilot-error.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Ping-O--Death.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pilot error </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Ping O' Death</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Internet service provider to a spammer exempting the spammer from the usual
terms of service prohibiting spamming. Usually pink contracts come about
because ISPs can charge the spammer a great deal more than they would a
normal client.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ping-storm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pink-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ping storm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pink wire</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/blue-wire.html"><i class="glossterm">blue wire</i></a>, but used in military
applications. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To add a pink wire to a
board.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pink-contract.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pipe.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pink contract </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pipe</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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context, the expansion &#8220;<span class="quote">bit pipe</span>&#8221; is understood. A &#8220;<span class="quote">fat
pipe</span>&#8221; is a line with T1 or higher capacity. A person with a 28.8
modem might be heard to complain &#8220;<span class="quote">I need a bigger
pipe</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pink-wire.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pistol.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pink wire </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pistol</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the foot. &#8220;<span class="quote">Unix <b class="command">rm *</b> makes such a
nice pistol!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pipe.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pixel-sort.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pipe </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pixel sort</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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valuable data in the process of <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>ing it.
Disparagingly used for &#8216;lossy&#8217; methods such as JPEG. The
theory, of course, is that these methods are only used on photographic
images in which minor loss-of-data is not visible to the human eye. The
term <span class="firstterm">pixel sort</span> implies distrust of
this theory. Compare <a href="../B/bogo-sort.html"><i class="glossterm">bogo-sort</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pistol.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pizza-box.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pistol </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pizza box</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the
dimpled pattern that looks like air holes.</p><p>Two-meg single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas,
and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven.
It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was
pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pixel-sort.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plaid-screen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pixel sort </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plaid screen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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kinds of <a href="../M/memory-smash.html"><i class="glossterm">memory smash</i></a>es overwrite the control blocks
or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term &#8220;<span class="quote">salt and
pepper</span>&#8221; may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though
the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as
a <a href="../D/display-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">display hack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pizza-box.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plain-ASCII.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pizza box </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plain-ASCII</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<tt class="filename">.plan</tt> file in a user's home directory is displayed
when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used
to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future
plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and
self-expressive purposes (like a <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>). See
also <a href="../H/Hacking-X-for-Y.html"><i class="glossterm">Hacking X for Y</i></a>.</p><p>A recent innovation in plan files has been the introduction of
&#8220;<span class="quote">scrolling plan files</span>&#8221; which are one-dimensional animations
made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line
feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the
<a href="../F/finger.html"><i class="glossterm">finger</i></a> command will (for security reasons; see
<a href="../L/letterbomb.html"><i class="glossterm">letterbomb</i></a>) not pass the escape character.</p><p>Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some
sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running,
funniest, and most original animations. Various animation characters
include: </p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>Centipede:</td><td>mmmmme</td></tr><tr><td>Lorry/Truck:</td><td>oo-oP</td></tr><tr><td>Andalusian Video Snail:</td><td>_@/</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> and a compiler (ASP) is available on
Usenet for producing them. See also
<a href="../T/twirling-baton.html"><i class="glossterm">twirling baton</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Plan-9.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="platinum-iridium.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Plan 9 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> platinum-iridium</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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measured. Usage: silly. The notion is that one of whatever it is has
actually been cast in platinum-iridium alloy and placed in the vault beside
the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures
near Paris. (From 1889 to 1960, the meter was defined to be the distance
between two scratches in a platinum-iridium bar kept in that same vault
&#8212; this replaced an earlier definition as
<tt class="literal">10<sup>-7</sup></tt> times the distance
between the North Pole and the Equator along a meridian through Paris;
unfortunately, this had been based on an inexact value of the circumference
of the Earth. From 1960 to 1984 it was defined to be 1650763.73
wavelengths of the orange-red line of krypton-86 propagating in a vacuum.
It is now defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum
in the time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. The kilogram is now the
only unit of measure officially defined in terms of a unique artifact. But
this will have to change; in 2003 it was revealed that the reference
kilogram has been shedding mass over time, and is down by 50 micrograms.)
&#8220;<span class="quote">This garbage-collection algorithm has been tested against the
platinum-iridium cons cell in Paris.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../G/golden.html"><i class="glossterm">golden</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plan-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="playpen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plan file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> playpen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/salt-mines.html"><i class="glossterm">salt mines</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="platinum-iridium.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="playte.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">platinum-iridium </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> playte</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/byte.html"><i class="glossterm">byte</i></a>. Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also
<a href="../D/dynner.html"><i class="glossterm">dynner</i></a> and <a href="../C/crumb.html"><i class="glossterm">crumb</i></a>. General
discussion of such terms is under <a href="../N/nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="playpen.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plokta.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">playpen </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plokta</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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attempt to get some response from the system. One might plokta when the
abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if
the system is just sluggish or really hung. Plokta can also be used while
trying to figure out any unknown key sequence for a particular operation.
Someone going into <span class="firstterm">plokta mode</span>
usually places both hands flat on the keyboard and mashes them down, hoping
for some useful response.</p><p>A slightly more directed form of plokta can often be seen in mail
messages or Usenet articles from new users &#8212; the text might end
with</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
^X^C
q
quit
:q
^C
end
x
exit
ZZ
^D
?
help
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incorrect tries piling up at the end of the message....</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="playte.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plonk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">playte </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plonk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>plonk</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="plokta.html" title="plokta"/><link rel="next" href="plug-and-pray.html" title="plug-and-pray"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">plonk</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plokta.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plug-and-pray.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="plonk"/><dt xmlns="" id="plonk"><b>plonk</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">excl.,vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang &#8216;plonk&#8217;
for cheap booze, or &#8216;plonker&#8217; for someone behaving stupidly
(latter is lit. equivalent to Yiddish
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">schmuck</i></span>)] The sound a
<a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a> makes as he falls to the bottom of a
<a href="../K/kill-file.html"><i class="glossterm">kill file</i></a>. While it originated in the
<a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> <tt class="systemitem">talk.bizarre</tt>, this term (usually written
&#8220;<span class="quote">*plonk*</span>&#8221;) is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of
public ridicule.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plokta.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plug-and-pray.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plokta </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plug-and-pray</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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which is claimed to have no need for hardware configuration via jumpers or
DIP switches, and which should work as soon as it is inserted in the PC.
Unfortunately, even the PCI bus is all too often not up to pulling this off
reliably, and people who have to do installation or troubleshoot PCs soon
find themselves longing for the jumpers and switches.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plonk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plugh.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plonk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plugh</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>plugh</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="plug-and-pray.html" title="plug-and-pray"/><link rel="next" href="plumbing.html" title="plumbing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">plugh</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plug-and-pray.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plumbing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="plugh"/><dt xmlns="" id="plugh"><b>plugh</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ploogh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the <a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a> game] See
<a href="../X/xyzzy.html"><i class="glossterm">xyzzy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plug-and-pray.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plumbing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plug-and-pray </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plumbing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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because of the prevalence of <span class="firstterm">pipelines</span> that feed the output of one program
to the input of another. Under Unix, user utilities can often be
implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines
and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell script; this is much less
effort than writing C every time, and the capability is considered one of
Unix's major winning features. A few other OSs such as IBM's VM/CMS
support similar facilities. Esp.: used in the construction <span class="firstterm">hairy plumbing</span> (see
<a href="../H/hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a>). &#8220;<span class="quote">You can kluge together a basic
spell-checker out of
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sort</span>(1)</span>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">comm</span>(1)</span>,
and
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tr</span>(1)</span>
with a little plumbing.</span>&#8221; See also <a href="../T/tee.html"><i class="glossterm">tee</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plugh.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plugh </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the
Macintosh. The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only
suitable for idiots. See <a href="../F/for-the-rest-of-us.html"><i class="glossterm">for the rest of us</i></a>,
<a href="../W/WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>, <a href="../M/Macintrash.html"><i class="glossterm">Macintrash</i></a>,
<a href="../D/drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>. Also <span class="firstterm">point-and-grunt interface</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="point-release.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pointy-hat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">point release </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pointy hat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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intended to fix bugs or do minor cleanups rather than add features. The
term implies that such releases are relatively frequent, and is generally
used with respect to <a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a> projects being
developed in <a href="../B/bazaar.html"><i class="glossterm">bazaar</i></a> mode.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="point-and-drool-interface.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">PM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> point-and-drool interface</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pointy-haired</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="pointy-hat.html" title="pointy hat"/><link rel="next" href="poke.html" title="poke"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pointy-haired</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pointy-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="poke.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pointy-haired"/><dt xmlns="" id="pointy-haired"><b>pointy-haired</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [after the character in the <a href="../D/Dilbert.html"><i class="glossterm">Dilbert</i></a> comic
strip] Describes the extreme form of the property that separates
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s and <a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>s from
hackers. Compare <a href="../B/brain-dead.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-dead</i></a>;
<a href="../D/demented.html"><i class="glossterm">demented</i></a>; see <a href="PHB.html"><i class="glossterm">PHB</i></a>. Always
applied to people, never to ideas. The plural form is often used as a
noun. &#8220;<span class="quote">The pointy-haireds ordered me to use Windows NT, but I set up
a Linux server with Samba instead.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pointy-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="poke.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pointy hat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> poke</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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refers to the wizards of Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's
<i class="citetitle">Discworld</i> series of humorous fantasies; these books
are extremely popular among hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="point-and-drool-interface.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pointy-haired.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">point-and-drool interface </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pointy-haired</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been
registered. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To repeatedly call or check with someone: &#8220;<span class="quote">I keep polling
him, but he's not answering his phone; he must be swapped out.</span>&#8221;
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. To ask. &#8220;<span class="quote">Lunch? I poll for a takeout order
daily.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="poke.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="polygon-pusher.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">poke </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> polygon pusher</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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layout level (which requires drawing <span class="emphasis"><em>lots</em></span> of
multi-colored polygons). Also <span class="firstterm">rectangle
slinger</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="poll.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="POM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">poll </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> POM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ponytail</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="POM.html" title="POM"/><link rel="next" href="pop.html" title="pop"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ponytail</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="POM.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pop.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ponytail"/><dt xmlns="" id="ponytail"><b>ponytail</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A hairstyle in which long hair is held back so as to hang down
like a pony's tail. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A descriptive term for a man having a ponytail hairstyle, or such
character traits as might be associated with having a ponytail, eg:
effeminacy, narcissism, undue concern with fashion etc. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A general term used by hackers for 'creatives': advertising
copywriters, graphic designers, video compositors, users characterised by a
preference for the Macintosh, recreational drug use, and better sex lives
than programmers. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A derogatory term for web designers and other persons
peripherally associated with IT projects, devoid of programming skills and
dismissed as being concerned with visual presentation to the exclusion of
actual technical reality.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="POM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pop.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">POM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pop</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pop</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="ponytail.html" title="ponytail"/><link rel="next" href="poser.html" title="poser"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pop</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ponytail.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="poser.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pop"/><dt xmlns="" id="pop"><b>pop</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/pop/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the operation that removes the top of a stack, and the fact
that procedure return addresses are usually saved on the stack] (also
capitalized &#8216;POP&#8217;) </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To remove something from
a <a href="../S/stack.html"><i class="glossterm">stack</i></a>. If a person says he/she has popped
something from his stack, that means he/she has finally finished working on
it and can now remove it from the list of things hanging overhead. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. When a discussion gets to a level of detail so deep that the main
point of the discussion is being lost, someone will shout
&#8220;<span class="quote">Pop!</span>&#8221;, meaning &#8220;<span class="quote">Get back up to a higher level!</span>&#8221;
The shout is frequently accompanied by an upthrust arm with a finger
pointing to the ceiling. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [all-caps, as &#8216;POP&#8217;] Point of Presence, a bank of
dial-in lines allowing customers to make (local) calls into an ISP. This
is borderline techspeak.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ponytail.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="poser.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ponytail </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> poser</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>; not hacker slang, but used among crackers,
phreaks and <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>. Not as negative as
<a href="../L/lamer.html"><i class="glossterm">lamer</i></a> or <a href="../L/leech.html"><i class="glossterm">leech</i></a>. Probably
derives from a similar usage among punk-rockers and metalheads, putting
down those who &#8220;<span class="quote">talk the talk but don't walk the walk</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pop.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="post.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pop </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> post</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a>. Distinguished in context from <span class="firstterm">mail</span>; one might ask, for example: &#8220;<span class="quote">Are
you going to post the patch or mail it to known users?</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="poser.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="postcardware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">poser </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> postcardware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/freeware.html"><i class="glossterm">freeware</i></a>, in that the author requests only that
satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This
practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are
otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically
related to real estate &#8216;sales&#8217; in which $1 changes hands just
to keep the transaction from being a gift.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="post.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Postels-Prescription.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">post </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Postel's Prescription</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="post.html"><i class="glossterm">post</i></a> can be nouned). Distinguished from a
&#8216;letter&#8217; or ordinary <a href="../E/email.html"><i class="glossterm">email</i></a> message by
the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point. It is not clear
whether messages sent to a small mailing list are postings or email;
perhaps the best dividing line is that if you don't know the names of all
the potential recipients, it is a posting.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Postels-Prescription.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="postmaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Postel's Prescription </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> postmaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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network. Often, but not always, the same as the
<a href="../A/admin.html"><i class="glossterm">admin</i></a>. The Internet standard for electronic mail
(<a href="../R/RFC.html"><i class="glossterm">RFC</i></a>-822) requires each machine to have a
&#8216;postmaster&#8217; address; usually it is aliased to this
person.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="posting.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="PostScript.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">posting </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> PostScript</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="firstterm">cycle</span>) To power off a machine and
then power it on immediately, with the intention of clearing some kind of
<a href="../H/hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a> or <a href="../G/gronk.html"><i class="glossterm">gronk</i></a>ed state. See
also <a href="../B/Big-Red-Switch.html"><i class="glossterm">Big Red Switch</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../V/Vulcan-nerve-pinch.html"><i class="glossterm">Vulcan nerve pinch</i></a>, <a href="../B/bounce.html"><i class="glossterm">bounce</i></a> (sense 4), and
<a href="../B/boot.html"><i class="glossterm">boot</i></a>, and see the
<a href="../koans.html" title="Some AI Koans">Some AI Koans</a> (in Appendix A)
about Tom Knight and the novice.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pound-on.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="power-hit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pound on </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> power hit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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power <a href="../G/glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>. These can cause crashes and even
permanent damage to your machine(s).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="power-cycle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pr0n.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">power cycle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pr0n</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about any
kind. The term comes from the <a href="../W/warez-kiddies.html"><i class="glossterm">warez kiddies</i></a>
tendency to replace letters with numbers. At some point on IRC someone
mistyped, swapping the middle two characters, and the name stuck. It then
propagated over into mainstream hacker usage. New versions of the Mozilla
web browser internally refer to the image library as
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