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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RBL</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="raw-mode.html" title="raw mode"/><link rel="next" href="rc-file.html" title="rc file"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RBL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="raw-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rc-file.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RBL"/><dt xmlns="" id="RBL"><b>RBL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/R·B·L/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Abbreviation: &#8220;<span class="quote">Realtime Blackhole List</span>&#8221;. A service that
allows people to blacklist sites for emitting <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>,
and makes the blacklist available in real time to electronic-mail transport
programs that know how to use RBL so they can filter out mail from those
sites. Drastic (and controversial) but effective. There is an <a href="http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/usage.html" target="_top"> RBL home page</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="raw-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rc-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">raw mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rc file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RE</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="rc-file.html" title="rc file"/><link rel="next" href="read-only-user.html" title="read-only user"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RE</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rc-file.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="read-only-user.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RE"/><dt xmlns="" id="RE"><b>RE</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/R·E/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common spoken and written shorthand for
<a href="regexp.html"><i class="glossterm">regexp</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rc-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="read-only-user.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rc file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> read-only user</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>README file</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="read-only-user.html" title="read-only user"/><link rel="next" href="real.html" title="real"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">README file</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="read-only-user.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="real.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="README-file"/><dt xmlns="" id="README-file"><b>README file</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Hacker's-eye introduction traditionally included in the top-level
directory of a Unix source distribution, containing a pointer to more
detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes,
etc. In the Mac and PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in
source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented
material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and
restrictions. When asked, hackers invariably relate the README convention
to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's <i class="citetitle">Alice's Adventures In
Wonderland</i> in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled
&#8220;<span class="quote">Eat Me</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">Drink Me</span>&#8221;.</p><p>The file may be named README, or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or
readme.txt or some other variant. The all-upper-case spellings,
however, are universal among Unix programmers. By ancient tradition,
real source files have all-lowercase names and all-uppercase is
reserved for metadata, comments, and grafitti. This is functional;
because 'A' sorts before 'a' in ASCII, the README will appear in directory
listings before any source file.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="read-only-user.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="real.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">read-only user </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> real</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RFC</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="return-from-the-dead.html" title="return from the dead"/><link rel="next" href="RFE.html" title="RFE"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RFC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="return-from-the-dead.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RFE.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RFC"/><dt xmlns="" id="RFC"><b>RFC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/R·F·C/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Request For Comment] One of a long-es­tab­lished series of
numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by
commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities.
Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the Internet
mail-format standard). The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by
technical experts acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the
Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated through an institution
such as ANSI. For this reason, they remain known as RFCs even once adopted
as standards.</p><p>The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact
standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has important
advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process typical of ANSI
or ISO. Emblematic of some of these advantages is the existence of a
flourishing tradition of &#8216;joke&#8217; RFCs; usually at least one a
year is published, usually on April 1st. Well-known joke RFCs have
included 527 (&#8220;<span class="quote">ARPAWOCKY</span>&#8221;, R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973),
748 (&#8220;<span class="quote">Telnet Randomly-Lose Option</span>&#8221;, Mark R. Crispin; 1 April
1978), and 1149 (&#8220;<span class="quote">A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on
Avian Carriers</span>&#8221;, D. Waitzman, BBN STC; 1 April 1990). The first was
a Lewis Carroll pastiche; the second a parody of the TCP-IP documentation
style, and the third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese,
describing protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by carrier
pigeon (since actually implemented; see Appendix A). See also
<a href="../I/Infinite-Monkey-Theorem.html"><i class="glossterm">Infinite-Monkey Theorem</i></a>.</p><p>The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work &#8212; they
frequently manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in
informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that
often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to
truly worldwide proportions.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="return-from-the-dead.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RFE.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">return from the dead </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RFE</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RFE</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="RFC.html" title="RFC"/><link rel="next" href="Right-Thing.html" title="Right Thing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RFE</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RFC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Right-Thing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RFE"/><dt xmlns="" id="RFE"><b>RFE</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/R·F·E/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] Request For Enhancement (compare
<a href="RFC.html"><i class="glossterm">RFC</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [from &#8216;Radio Free Europe&#8217;, Bellcore and Sun] Radio
Free Ethernet, a system (originated by Peter Langston) for broadcasting
audio among Sun SPARCstations over the ethernet.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RFC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Right-Thing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RFC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Right Thing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RL</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="ripoff.html" title="ripoff"/><link rel="next" href="roach.html" title="roach"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ripoff.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="roach.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RL"/><dt xmlns="" id="RL"><b>RL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MUD community] Real Life. &#8220;<span class="quote">Firiss laughs in RL</span>&#8221; means
that Firiss's player is laughing. Compare
<a href="../M/meatspace.html"><i class="glossterm">meatspace</i></a>; oppose <a href="../V/VR.html"><i class="glossterm">VR</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ripoff.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="roach.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ripoff </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> roach</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RSN</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="rotary-debugger.html" title="rotary debugger"/><link rel="next" href="RTBM.html" title="RTBM"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RSN</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rotary-debugger.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTBM.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RSN"/><dt xmlns="" id="RSN"><b>RSN</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/R·S·N/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="Real-Soon-Now.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Soon Now</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rotary-debugger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTBM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rotary debugger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTBM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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expands to &#8216;Read The Bloody Manual&#8217;. RTBM is often the entire
text of the first reply to a question from a <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>;
the <span class="emphasis"><em>second</em></span> would escalate to
&#8220;<span class="quote">RTFM</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RSN.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTFAQ.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RSN </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTFAQ</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>] Abbrev. for &#8216;Read the FAQ!&#8217;, an
exhortation that the person addressed ought to read the newsgroup's
<a href="../F/FAQ-list.html"><i class="glossterm">FAQ list</i></a> before posting questions.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTBM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTFB.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTBM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTFB</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and
the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyze
the assembler or even the machine code. &#8220;<span class="quote">No source for the buggy
port driver? Aaargh! I <span class="emphasis"><em>hate</em></span> proprietary operating
systems. Time to RTFB.</span>&#8221;</p><p>Of the various RTF? forms, &#8216;RTFB&#8217; is the least pejorative
against anyone asking a question for which RTFB is the answer; the anger
here is directed at the absence of both source <span class="emphasis"><em>and</em></span>
adequate documentation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTFAQ.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTFM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTFAQ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTFM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Used by <a href="../G/guru.html"><i class="glossterm">guru</i></a>s to brush off questions they
consider trivial or annoying. Compare
<a href="../D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html"><i class="glossterm">Don't do that then!</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just
asking out of <a href="randomness.html"><i class="glossterm">randomness</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">No, I can't figure
out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM.</span>&#8221;
Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also
<a href="../F/FM.html"><i class="glossterm">FM</i></a>, <a href="RTFAQ.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFAQ</i></a>,
<a href="RTFB.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFB</i></a>, <a href="RTFS.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFS</i></a>,
<a href="../S/STFW.html"><i class="glossterm">STFW</i></a>, <a href="RTM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTM</i></a>, all of which
mutated from RTFM, and compare <a href="../U/UTSL.html"><i class="glossterm">UTSL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTFB.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTFS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTFB </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTFS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8216;Read The Fucking Source&#8217;. Variant form of
<a href="RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>, used when the problem at hand is not
necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals &#8212; or the
manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be. For even trickier
situations, see <a href="RTFB.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFB</i></a>. Unlike RTFM, the anger
inherent in RTFS is not usually directed at the person asking the question,
but rather at the people who failed to provide adequate documentation.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">imp.</span> &#8216;Read The Fucking
Standard&#8217;; this oath can only be used when the problem area (e.g., a
language or operating system interface) has actually been codified in a
ratified standards document. The existence of these standards documents
(and the technically inappropriate but politically mandated compromises
that they inevitably contain, and the impenetrable
<a href="../L/legalese.html"><i class="glossterm">legalese</i></a> in which they are invariably written, and
the unbelievably tedious bureaucratic process by which they are produced)
can be unnerving to hackers, who are used to a certain amount of ambiguity
in the specifications of the systems they use. (Hackers feel that such
ambiguities are acceptable as long as the <a href="Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right
Thing</i></a> to do is obvious to any thinking observer; sadly, this
casual attitude towards specifications becomes unworkable when a system
becomes popular in the <a href="Real-World.html"><i class="glossterm">Real World</i></a>.) Since a hacker
is likely to feel that a standards document is both unnecessary and
technically deficient, the deprecation inherent in this term may be
directed as much against the standard as against the person who ought to
read it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTFM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTFM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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on many computers including the 6502 and 6800. The variant <span class="firstterm">RETI</span> is found among Z80 hackers. Equivalent to
&#8220;<span class="quote">Now, where was I?</span>&#8221; or used to end a conversational
digression. See <a href="../P/pop.html"><i class="glossterm">pop</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTFS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTFS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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variant of <a href="RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of
1988 (see <a href="../G/Great-Worm.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Worm</i></a>); villain to many, naive hacker
gone wrong to a few. Morris claimed that the worm that brought the
Internet to its knees was a benign experiment that got out of control as
the result of a coding error. After the storm of negative publicity that
followed this blunder, Morris's username on ITS was hacked from RTM to
<a href="RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hackers in the microcomputer world. Refers to what one would like to tell
the <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a> one is forced to explain an extremely
simple application to. Particularly appropriate when the suit failed to
notice the &#8216;Press any key to continue&#8217; prompt, and wishes to
know &#8216;why won't it do anything&#8217;. Also seen as
&#8216;RTFS&#8217; in especially deserving cases.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rubber-hose-cryptanalysis.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rubber-hose cryptanalysis</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Random Number God</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="random.html" title="random"/><link rel="next" href="random-numbers.html" title="random numbers"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Random Number God</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="random.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="random-numbers.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Random-Number-God"/><dt xmlns="" id="Random-Number-God"><b>Random Number God</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [rec.games.roguelike.angband; often abbreviated &#8216;RNG&#8217;]
The malign force which lurks behind the random number generator in
<a href="../A/Angband.html"><i class="glossterm">Angband</i></a> (and by extension elsewhere). A dark god
that demands sacrifices and toys with its victims. &#8220;<span class="quote">I just found a
really great item; I suppose the RNG is about to punish me...</span>&#8221;
Apparently, Angband's random number generator occasionally gets locked in a
repetition, so you get something with a 3% chance happening 8 times in a
row. Improbable, but far too common to be pure chance. Compare
<a href="../S/Shub-Internet.html"><i class="glossterm">Shub-Internet</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="random.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="random-numbers.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">random </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> random numbers</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Quiche</i>] A particular sub-variety of hacker: one possessed of a
flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by
experience. The archetypal <span class="firstterm">Real
Programmer</span> likes to program on the <a href="../B/bare-metal.html"><i class="glossterm">bare
metal</i></a> and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes
for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and
uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps.
Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been tuned into a
state of <a href="../T/tense.html"><i class="glossterm">tense</i></a>ness just short of rupture. Real
Programmers never use comments or write documentation: &#8220;<span class="quote">If it was
hard to write</span>&#8221;, says the Real Programmer, &#8220;<span class="quote">it should be hard
to understand.</span>&#8221; Real Programmers can make machines do things that
were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy
unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish
brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on
junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the
crap out of other programmers &#8212; because someday, somebody else might
have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their
successors generally consider it a <a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a> that
there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and
somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see <a href="../story-of-mel.html" title="The Story of Mel">The Story of Mel'</a> in Appendix A. The term
itself was popularized by a letter to the editor in the July 1983
Datamation titled <i class="citetitle">Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal</i>
by Ed Post, still circulating on Usenet and Internet in on-line
form.</p><p>Typing <i class="citetitle">Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal</i> into
a web search engine should turn up a copy.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="real-operating-system.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Real-Soon-Now.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">real operating system </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Real Soon Now</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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column in <i class="citetitle">BYTE</i>] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real
soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. When one's gods, fates, or other time commitments permit one to
get to it (in other words, don't hold your breath). Often abbreviated RSN.
Compare <a href="../C/copious-free-time.html"><i class="glossterm">copious free time</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Real-Programmer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="real-time.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Real Programmer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> real time</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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in the same sentence as &#8216;FORTRAN&#8217;,
&#8216;<a href="../C/COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">COBOL</i></a>&#8217;, &#8216;RPG&#8217;,
&#8216;<a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a>&#8217;, &#8216;DBASE&#8217;, etc. Places
where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually
uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. The location of non-programmers and activities not related to
programming. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie
and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see
<a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code grinder</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Anywhere outside a university. &#8220;<span class="quote">Poor fellow, he's left MIT
and gone into the Real World.</span>&#8221; Used pejoratively by those not in
residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the
Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. It is also
noteworthy that on the campus of Cambridge University in England, there is
a gaily-painted lamp-post which bears the label &#8216;REALITY
CHECKPOINT&#8217;. It marks the boundary between university and the Real
World; check your notions of reality before passing. This joke is funnier
because the Cambridge &#8216;campus&#8217; is actually coextensive with the
center of Cambridge town. See also <a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and
loathing</i></a>, <a href="../M/mundane.html"><i class="glossterm">mundane</i></a>, and
<a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a>.</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/cobol.png"/><div class="caption"><p>()</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="real-user.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="reality-check.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">real user </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> reality check</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc. Often capitalized, always
emphasized in speech as though capitalized. Use of this term often implies
that in fact reasonable people may disagree. &#8220;<span class="quote">What's the right thing
for LISP to do when it sees
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle"/>(mod a
0)</span>? Should it return <b class="command">a</b>, or give a divide-by-0 error?</span>&#8221; Oppose
<a href="../W/Wrong-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Wrong Thing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RFE.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rip.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RFE </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rip</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like rabbits. Compare
<a href="../W/wabbit.html"><i class="glossterm">wabbit</i></a>, <a href="../F/fork-bomb.html"><i class="glossterm">fork bomb</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../R.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rain-dance.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">R </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rain dance</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the expectation that nothing will be accomplished. This especially applies
to reseating printed circuit boards, reconnecting cables, etc. &#8220;<span class="quote">I
can't boot up the machine. We'll have to wait for Greg to do his rain
dance.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Any arcane sequence of actions performed with computers or
software in order to achieve some goal; the term is usually restricted to
rituals that include both an <a href="../I/incantation.html"><i class="glossterm">incantation</i></a> or two and
physical activity or motion. Compare <a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a>,
<a href="../V/voodoo-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">voodoo programming</i></a>,
<a href="../B/black-art.html"><i class="glossterm">black art</i></a>, <a href="../C/cargo-cult-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">cargo cult programming</i></a>,
<a href="../W/wave-a-dead-chicken.html"><i class="glossterm">wave a dead chicken</i></a>; see also
<a href="../C/casting-the-runes.html"><i class="glossterm">casting the runes</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rabbit-job.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rainbow-series.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rabbit job </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rainbow series</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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color. The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see
<a href="../O/Orange-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Orange Book</i></a>).
These are now available <a href="http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/" target="_top">via the web</a>.
the term has also been commonly applied to the PostScript reference set.
Which books are meant by &#8220;<span class="quote"><span class="emphasis"><em>the</em></span>
rainbow series</span>&#8221; unqualified is thus dependent on one's local
technical culture.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rain-dance.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="random.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rain dance </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> random</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the context is inappropriate for <a href="../N/N.html"><i class="glossterm">N</i></a>, certain numbers
are preferred by hacker tradition (that is, easily recognized as
placeholders). These include the following:</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>17</td><td><p>Long described at MIT as &#8216;the least random number&#8217;; see also
23. This may be Discordian in origin, or it may be related to some in-jokes
about <a href="http://www.vinc17.org/yp17_eng.html" target="_top">17 and &#8220;<span class="quote">yellow
pig</span>&#8221;</a> propagated by the mathematician Michael
Spivak.</p></td></tr><tr><td>23</td><td><p>Sacred number of Eris, Goddess of Discord (along with 17 and 5).</p></td></tr><tr><td>37</td><td><p>The most random two-digit number is 37, When groups of people are polled
to pick a &#8220;<span class="quote">random number between 1 and 100</span>&#8221;, the most commonly
chosen number is 37.</p></td></tr><tr><td>42</td><td><p>The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and
Everything (&#8220;<span class="quote">what is 6 times 9</span>&#8221;, correct in base 13). (This
answer is perhaps not completely fortuitous; in Kabbalism, the true
unspeakable name of God is said to have 42 characters.)
</p></td></tr><tr><td>69</td><td><p>From the sexual act. This one was favored in MIT's ITS culture.</p></td></tr><tr><td>105</td><td><p>69 hex = 105 decimal, and 69 decimal = 105 octal.</p></td></tr><tr><td>666</td><td><p>In Christian mythology, the Number of the Beast.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>For further enlightenment, study the <i class="citetitle">Principia
Discordia</i>, <i class="citetitle">
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>, <i class="citetitle">The Joy of Sex</i>, and
the Christian Bible (Revelation 13:18). See also
<a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a> or consult your pineal gland. See
also <a href="../F/for-values-of.html"><i class="glossterm">for values of</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Random-Number-God.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="randomness.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Random Number God </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> randomness</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">The system's been behaving pretty randomly.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Assorted; undistinguished. &#8220;<span class="quote">Who was at the
conference?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Just a bunch of random business
types.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 3. (pejorative) Frivolous; unproductive; undirected. &#8220;<span class="quote">He's
just a random loser.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Incoherent or inelegant; poorly chosen; not well organized.
&#8220;<span class="quote">The program has a random set of misfeatures.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">That's a
random name for that function.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, all the names were
chosen pretty randomly.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 5. In no particular order, though deterministic. &#8220;<span class="quote">The I/O
channels are in a pool, and when a file is opened one is chosen
randomly.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 6. Arbitrary. &#8220;<span class="quote">It generates a random name for the scratch
file.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 7. Gratuitously wrong, i.e., poorly done and for no good apparent
reason. For example, a program that handles file name defaulting in a
particularly useless way, or an assembler routine that could easily have
been coded using only three registers, but redundantly uses seven for
values with non-overlapping lifetimes, so that no one else can invoke it
without first saving four extra registers. What
<a href="randomness.html"><i class="glossterm">randomness</i></a>!</p></dd><dd><p> 8. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A random hacker; used
particularly of high-school students who soak up computer time and
generally get in the way.</p></dd><dd><p> 9. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Anyone who is not a hacker
(or, sometimes, anyone not known to the hacker speaking); the noun form of
sense 2. &#8220;<span class="quote">I went to the talk, but the audience was full of randoms
asking bogus questions</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><dd><p> 10. <span class="grammar">n.</span> (occasional MIT usage)
One who lives at Random Hall. See also <a href="../J/J--Random.html"><i class="glossterm">J. Random</i></a>,
<a href="../S/some-random-X.html"><i class="glossterm">some random X</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 11. [UK] Conversationally, a non sequitur or something similarly
out-of-the-blue. As in: &#8220;<span class="quote">Stop being so random!</span>&#8221; This sense
equates to &#8216;hatstand&#8217;, taken from the Viz comic character
&#8220;<span class="quote">Roger Irrelevant - He's completely Hatstand.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rainbow-series.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Random-Number-God.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rainbow series </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Random Number God</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the
combination upon which the crock depends for its accidental failure to
malfunction). &#8220;<span class="quote">This hack can output characters 40--57 by putting the
character in the four-bit accumulator field of an XCT and then extracting
six bits &#8212; the low 2 bits of the XCT opcode are the right
thing.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">What randomness!</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of people, synonymous with <span class="firstterm">flakiness</span>. The connotation is that the person
so described is behaving weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for
reasons which are (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are
probably as inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to
pass with time. &#8220;<span class="quote">Maybe he has a real complaint, or maybe it's just
randomness. See if he calls back.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p>Despite the negative connotations of most jargon uses of this term
have, it is worth noting that randomness can actually be a valuable
resource, very useful for applications in cryptography and elsewhere.
Computers are so thoroughly deterministic that they have a hard time
generating high-quality randomness, so hackers have sometimes felt the need
to built special-purpose contraptions for this purpose alone. One
well-known website offers random bits <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/" target="_top"> generated by radioactive
decay</a>. Another derives random bits from <a href="http://lavarnd.org/" target="_top">chaotic systems</a> in analog electronics.
Originally, the latter site got its random bits by doing photometry on lava
lamps. Hackers invariably found this hilarious. If you have to ask why,
you'll never get it.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="random-numbers.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rape.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">random numbers </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rape</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often
used in describing file-system damage. &#8220;<span class="quote">So-and-so was running a
program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master
directory.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To strip a piece of hardware for parts.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. [CMU/Pitt] To mass-copy files from an anonymous ftp site.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Last night I raped Simtel's dskutl directory.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="randomness.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rare-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">randomness </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rare mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Distinguished from <a href="raw-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">raw mode</i></a> and
<a href="../C/cooked-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">cooked mode</i></a>; the phrase &#8220;<span class="quote">a sort of half-cooked (rare?)
mode</span>&#8221; is used in the V7/BSD manuals to describe the mode. Usage:
rare.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rape.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="raster-blaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rape </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> raster blaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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operations (a <a href="../B/blitter.html"><i class="glossterm">blitter</i></a>). Allegedly inspired by
&#8216;Rasta Blasta&#8217;, British slang for the sort of portable stereo
Americans call a &#8216;boom box&#8217; or &#8216;ghetto
blaster&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rare-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="raster-burn.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rare mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> raster burn</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp. graphics monitors. See
<a href="../T/terminal-illness.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal illness</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="raster-blaster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rasterbation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">raster blaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rasterbation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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computer-generated images and effects in movies and graphic art which would
have been better without them. Especially employed as a term of abuse by
Photoshop/GIMP users and graphic artists.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="raster-burn.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rat-belt.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">raster burn </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rat belt</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a
twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs). Small cable ties
are <span class="firstterm">mouse belts</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rasterbation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rat-dance.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rasterbation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rat dance</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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1995] A <a href="../H/hacking-run.html"><i class="glossterm">hacking run</i></a> that produces results which,
while superficially coherent, have little or nothing to do with its
original objectives. There are strong connotations that the coding process
and the objectives themselves were pretty <a href="random.html"><i class="glossterm">random</i></a>.
(In the original comic strip, the Ratbert is invited to dance on Dilbert's
keyboard in order to produce bugs for him to fix, and authors a Web browser
instead.) Compare <a href="../I/Infinite-Monkey-Theorem.html"><i class="glossterm">Infinite-Monkey Theorem</i></a>.</p><p>This term seems to have become widely recognized quite rapidly after
the original strip, a fact which testifies to Dilbert's huge popularity
among hackers. All too many find the perverse incentives and Kafkaesque
atmosphere of Dilbert's mythical workplace reflective of their own
experiences.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rat-belt.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rathole.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rat belt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rathole</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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money or time] A technical subject that is known to be able to absorb
infinite amounts of discussion time without more than an infinitesimal
probability of arrival at a conclusion or consensus. &#8220;<span class="quote">That's a
rathole</span>&#8221; (or just &#8220;<span class="quote">Rathole!</span>&#8221;) is considered a
pre-emptive bid to change the subject. The difference between ratholes and
<a href="religious-issues.html"><i class="glossterm">religious issues</i></a> is that a holy war cannot be
pre-empted in this way. Canonical examples are XML namespaces and
open-source licensing.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rat-dance.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ratio-site.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rat dance </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ratio site</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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upload something before being able to download. There is a ratio, based on
bytes or files count, between the uploads and download. For instance, on a
2:1 site, to download a 4 Mb file, one must first upload at least 2 Mb of
files. The hotter the contents of the server are, the smaller the ratio
is. More often than not, the server refuses uploads because its disk is
full, making it useless for downloading &#8212; or the connection magically
breaks after one has uploaded a large amount of files, just before the
downloading phase begins. See also <a href="../B/banner-site.html"><i class="glossterm">banner site</i></a>,
<a href="../L/leech-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">leech mode</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rathole.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rave.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rathole </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rave</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realizes this is
unlikely.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rave.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ravs.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rave </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ravs</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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little. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the
difficulty. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. To purposely annoy another person verbally. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. To evangelize. See <a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 6. Also used to describe a less negative form of blather, such as
friendly bullshitting. &#8216;Rave&#8217; differs slightly from
<a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a> in that <span class="firstterm">rave</span> implies that it is the persistence or
obliviousness of the person speaking that is annoying, while
<a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a> implies somewhat more strongly that the tone
or content is offensive as well.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ratio-site.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rave-on-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ratio site </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rave on!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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(pan-fried). A Chinese appetizer, known variously in the plural as
dumplings, pot stickers (the literal translation of guo-tie), and (around
Boston) &#8216;Peking Ravioli&#8217;. The term <span class="firstterm">rav</span> is short for &#8216;ravioli&#8217;, and
among hackers always means the Chinese kind rather than the Italian kind.
Both consist of a filling in a pasta shell, but the Chinese kind includes
no cheese, uses a thinner pasta, has a pork-vegetable filling (good ones
include Chinese chives), and is cooked differently, either by steaming or
frying. A rav or dumpling can be cooked any way, but a potsticker is
always the pan-fried kind (so called because it sticks to the frying pot
and has to be scraped off). &#8220;<span class="quote">Let's get hot-and-sour soup and three
orders of ravs.</span>&#8221; See also <a href="../O/oriental-food.html"><i class="glossterm">oriental
food</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rave-on-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="raw-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rave on! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> raw mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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I/O device (or, under <a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a> operating systems that
make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or
interpretation by the operating system. Compare
<a href="rare-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">rare mode</i></a>, <a href="../C/cooked-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">cooked mode</i></a>. This is techspeak
under Unix, jargon elsewhere.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ravs.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RBL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ravs </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RBL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the <a href="../C/CTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">CTSS</i></a> system 1962-63, via the startup script
<tt class="filename">/etc/rc</tt>] Script file containing startup instructions
for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text
file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually
once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time
the system starts up. See also <a href="../D/dot-file.html"><i class="glossterm">dot file</i></a>,
<a href="../P/profile.html"><i class="glossterm">profile</i></a> (sense 1).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RBL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RE.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RBL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RE</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than
writing code or purveying useful information. See
<a href="../T/twink.html"><i class="glossterm">twink</i></a>, <a href="../T/terminal-junkie.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal junkie</i></a>,
<a href="../L/lurker.html"><i class="glossterm">lurker</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RE.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="README-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RE </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> README file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Most frequently used of <span class="firstterm">chip real
estate</span>, the area available for logic on the surface of an
integrated circuit (see also <a href="../N/nanoacre.html"><i class="glossterm">nanoacre</i></a>). May also be
used of floor space in a <a href="../D/dinosaur-pen.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur pen</i></a>, or even space
on a crowded desktop (whether physical or electronic).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="real.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="real-hack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">real </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> real hack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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affectionately; see <a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">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="real-estate.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="real-operating-system.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">real estate </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> real operating system</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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academic community are likely to issue comments like &#8220;<span class="quote">System V? Why
don't you use a <span class="emphasis"><em>real</em></span> operating system?</span>&#8221;, people
from the commercial/industrial Unix sector are known to complain
&#8220;<span class="quote">BSD? Why don't you use a <span class="emphasis"><em>real</em></span> operating
system?</span>&#8221;, and people from IBM object &#8220;<span class="quote">Unix? Why don't you use
a <span class="emphasis"><em>real</em></span> operating system?</span>&#8221; Only
<a href="../M/MS-DOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MS-DOS</i></a> is universally considered unreal. See
<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>, <a href="religious-issues.html"><i class="glossterm">religious issues</i></a>,
<a href="../P/proprietary.html"><i class="glossterm">proprietary</i></a>,
<a href="../G/Get-a-real-computer-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a real computer!</i></a></p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="real-hack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Real-Programmer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">real hack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Real Programmer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some
small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds).
Process control at a chemical plant is the <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a>
example. Such applications often require special operating systems
(because everything else must take a back seat to response time) and
speed-tuned hardware. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">adv.</span> In jargon, refers to
doing something while people are watching or waiting. &#8220;<span class="quote">I asked her
how to find the calling procedure's program counter on the stack and she
came up with an algorithm in real time.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Real-Soon-Now.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="real-user.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Real Soon Now </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> real user</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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money for his computer usage. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose
(a research project, a course, etc.) other than pure exploration. See
<a href="../U/user.html"><i class="glossterm">user</i></a>. Hackers who are also students may also be
real users. &#8220;<span class="quote">I need this fixed so I can do a problem set. I'm not
complaining out of randomness, but as a real user.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="real-time.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Real-World.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">real time </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Real World</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../V/virtual.html"><i class="glossterm">virtual</i></a> in any of its jargon senses.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="README-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="real-estate.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">README file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> real estate</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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equivalent of asking it what <tt class="literal">2 + 2</tt> is and
seeing if you get 4. The software equivalent of a
<a href="../S/smoke-test.html"><i class="glossterm">smoke test</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The act of letting a <a href="real-user.html"><i class="glossterm">real user</i></a> try out
prototype software. Compare <a href="../S/sanity-check.html"><i class="glossterm">sanity check</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Real-World.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="reality-distortion-field.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Real World </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> reality-distortion field</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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like Steve Jobs (the term originated at Apple in the 1980s to describe his
peculiar charisma). Those close to these managers become passionately
committed to possibly insane projects, without regard to the practicality
of their implementation or competitive forces in the marketplace.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reality-check.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="reaper.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">reality check </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> reaper</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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files. A file removed in this way is said to have been <span class="firstterm">reaped</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reality-distortion-field.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="recompile-the-world.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">reality-distortion field </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> recompile the world</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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result of any small but globally visible program change. &#8220;<span class="quote">The
world</span>&#8221; may mean the entirety of some huge program, or may in theory
refer to every program of a certain class in the entire known universe. For
instance, &#8220;<span class="quote">Add one #define to stdio.h, and you have to recompile the
world.</span>&#8221; This means that any minor change to the standard-I/O header
file theoretically mandates recompiling every C program in existence, even
if only to verify that the change didn't screw something else up. In
practice, you may not actually have to recompile the world, but the
implication is that some human cleverness is required to figure out what
parts can be safely left out.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reaper.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rectangle-slinger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">reaper </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rectangle slinger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/tail-recursion.html"><i class="glossterm">tail recursion</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rectangle-slinger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="recursive-acronym.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rectangle slinger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> recursive acronym</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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acronyms/abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other
acronyms/abbreviations. The original of the breed may have been TINT
(&#8220;<span class="quote">TINT Is Not TECO</span>&#8221;). The classic examples were two MIT
editors called EINE (&#8220;<span class="quote">EINE Is Not EMACS</span>&#8221;) and ZWEI
(&#8220;<span class="quote">ZWEI Was EINE Initially</span>&#8221;). More recently, there is a Scheme
compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and
<a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> (q.v., sense 1) stands for &#8220;<span class="quote">GNU's Not
Unix!</span>&#8221; &#8212; and a company with the name Cygnus, which expands to
&#8220;<span class="quote">Cygnus, Your GNU Support</span>&#8221; (though Cygnus people say this is a
<a href="../B/backronym.html"><i class="glossterm">backronym</i></a>). The GNU recursive acronym may have been
patterned on XINU, &#8220;<span class="quote">XINU Is Not Unix</span>&#8221; &#8212; a particularly
nice example because it is a mirror image, a backronym, and a recursive
acronym. See also <a href="../M/mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a>,
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="recursion.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="red-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">recursion </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> red wire</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous
than a hardware guy with a code patch is a <a href="../S/softy.html"><i class="glossterm">softy</i></a>
with a soldering iron.... Compare
<a href="../B/blue-wire.html"><i class="glossterm">blue wire</i></a>, <a href="../Y/yellow-wire.html"><i class="glossterm">yellow wire</i></a>,
<a href="../P/purple-wire.html"><i class="glossterm">purple wire</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="recursive-acronym.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="regexp.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">recursive acronym </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> regexp</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="firstterm">reg-ex</span>)</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Common written and spoken abbreviation for <span class="firstterm">regular expression</span>, one of the wildcard
patterns used, e.g., by Unix utilities such as
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">grep</span>(1)</span>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sed</span>(1)</span>,
and
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">awk</span>(1)</span>.
These use conventions similar to but more elaborate than those described
under <a href="../G/glob.html"><i class="glossterm">glob</i></a>. For purposes of this lexicon, it is
sufficient to note that regexps also allow complemented character sets
using <tt class="literal">^</tt>; thus, one can specify &#8216;any non-alphabetic
character&#8217; with <b class="command">[^A-Za-z]</b>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Name of a well-known PD regexp-handling package in portable C,
written by revered Usenetter Henry Spencer.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="red-wire.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="register-dancing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">red wire </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> register dancing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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general-purpose registers. This is especially a problem for
compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store
temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation.
Some designs with this problem, like the Intel 80x86, do have a handful of
special-purpose registers that can be pressed into service, providing
suitable care is taken to avoid unpleasant side effects on the state of the
processor: while the special-purpose register is being used to hold an
intermediate value, a delicate minuet is required in which the previous
value of the register is saved and then restored just before the official
function (and value) of the special-purpose register is again
needed.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="regexp.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rehi.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">regexp </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rehi</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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people upon returning to an IRC channel after
<a href="../C/channel-hopping.html"><i class="glossterm">channel hopping</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="register-dancing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="reincarnation--cycle-of.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">register dancing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> reincarnation, cycle of</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time.
This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use
wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times
before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel
do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset
axle.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reincarnation--cycle-of.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="relay-rape.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">reincarnation, cycle of </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> relay rape</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reinvent-the-wheel.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="religion-of-CHI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">reinvent the wheel </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> religion of CHI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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religion (see also <a href="../C/Church-of-the-SubGenius.html"><i class="glossterm">Church of the SubGenius</i></a>,
<a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a>). In the mid-70s, the canonical
&#8220;<span class="quote">Introduction to Programming</span>&#8221; courses at CWRU were taught in
Algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108
system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no
doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshiper noted that a digital
clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase &#8220;<span class="quote">It is 11:08;
ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN.</span>&#8221; The last five words were
the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the Algol manual;
note the special pronunciations <span class="pronunciation">/obz/</span> and <span class="pronunciation">/ark´sin/</span> rather than the more common
<span class="pronunciation">/ahbz/</span> and <span class="pronunciation">/ark´si:n/</span>. Using an alarm clock to warn
of 11:08's arrival was <a href="../C/considered-harmful.html"><i class="glossterm">considered harmful</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="relay-rape.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="religious-issues.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">relay rape </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> religious issues</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>, such as &#8220;<span class="quote">What is the best operating
system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news
reader)?</span>&#8221;, &#8220;<span class="quote">What about that Heinlein guy, eh?</span>&#8221;,
&#8220;<span class="quote">What should we add to the new Jargon File?</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>; see also <a href="../T/theology.html"><i class="glossterm">theology</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bigot.html"><i class="glossterm">bigot</i></a>, and compare
<a href="rathole.html"><i class="glossterm">rathole</i></a>.</p><p>This term is a prime example of
<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>. People actually develop the most amazing and
religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the tools are
intangible. The most constructive thing one can do when one stumbles into
the crossfire is mumble <a href="../G/Get-a-life-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a life!</i></a> and leave
&#8212; unless, of course, one's <span class="emphasis"><em>own</em></span> unassailably
rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="religion-of-CHI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="replicator.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">religion of CHI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> replicator</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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living organism, an idea (see <a href="../M/meme.html"><i class="glossterm">meme</i></a>), a program (see
<a href="../Q/quine.html"><i class="glossterm">quine</i></a>, <a href="../W/worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a>,
<a href="../W/wabbit.html"><i class="glossterm">wabbit</i></a>, <a href="../F/fork-bomb.html"><i class="glossterm">fork bomb</i></a>, and
<a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a>), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see
<a href="../L/life.html"><i class="glossterm">life</i></a>, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or
<a href="../N/nanobot.html"><i class="glossterm">nanobot</i></a>. It is even claimed by some that
<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> and <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a> are the symbiotic
halves of an extremely successful replicator; see
<a href="../U/Unix-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix conspiracy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="religious-issues.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="reply.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">religious issues </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> reply</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite
work up enough nerve to describe it as a <a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a>.
Often used (esp. by <a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a> types) to make it
sound as though some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers
all along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a
nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are almost
invariably false).</p><p>Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever choosing a
quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a power
of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you impose a limit of 107 items in a
list, everyone will know it is a random number &#8212; on the other hand, a
limit of 15 or 16 suggests some deep reason (involving 0- or 1-based
indexing in binary) and you will get less <a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a>
for it. Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are always especially
suspect.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reply.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="retcon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">reply </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> retcon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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newsgroup <tt class="systemitem">rec.arts.comics</tt>]
</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The common situation in
pulp fiction (esp. comics or soap operas) where a new story
&#8216;reveals&#8217; things about events in previous stories, usually
leaving the &#8216;facts&#8217; the same (thus preserving continuity) while
completely changing their interpretation. For example, revealing that a
whole season of <i class="citetitle">Dallas</i> was a dream was a retcon.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To write such a story
about a character or fictitious object. &#8220;<span class="quote">Byrne has retconned
Superman's cape so that it is no longer unbreakable.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Marvelman's old adventures were retconned into synthetic
dreams.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Swamp Thing was retconned from a transformed person
into a sentient vegetable.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p>[This term is included because it is a good example of hackish
linguistic innovation in a field completely unrelated to computers. The
word <span class="firstterm">retcon</span> will probably spread
through comics fandom and lose its association with hackerdom within a
couple of years; for the record, it started here. &#8212;ESR]</p><p>[1993 update: some comics fans on the net now claim that retcon was
independently in use in comics fandom before <tt class="systemitem">rec.arts.comics</tt>, and have citations from
around 1981. In lexicography, nothing is ever simple. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="restriction.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RETI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">restriction </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RETI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp. if such
implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written
mostly for <a href="../H/hack-value.html"><i class="glossterm">hack value</i></a>, of more &#8216;serious&#8217;
designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was
the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pnch</span>(6)</span>
or
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bcd</span>(6)</span>
program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80
characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in
<a href="../P/punched-card.html"><i class="glossterm">punched card</i></a> code. Other well-known retrocomputing
hacks have included the programming language
<a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>, a <a href="../J/JCL.html"><i class="glossterm">JCL</i></a>-emulating
shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various
elaborate <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to
keep an old, sourceless <a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a> binary running.</p><p>A tasty selection of retrocomputing programs are made available at
the Retrocomputing Museum, <a href="http://www.catb.org/retro/" target="_top">http://www.catb.org/retro/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RETI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="return-from-the-dead.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RETI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> return from the dead</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../P/person-of-no-account.html"><i class="glossterm">person of no account</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="retrocomputing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RFC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">retrocomputing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RFC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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audio CD. Software that does this is often called a &#8220;<span class="quote">CD
ripper</span>&#8221;. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a program that
they have been compiled/assembled into, or which generates them at
run-time. In the case of older Amiga games this entails searching through
memory shortly after a reboot. This sense has been in use for many years
and probably gave rise to the (now more common) sense 1.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Right-Thing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ripoff.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Right Thing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ripoff</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/toast.html"><i class="glossterm">toast</i></a>ed or <a href="../F/fried.html"><i class="glossterm">fried</i></a>, software
gets roached. Probably derived from '70s and '80s drug slang; marijuana
smokers used &#8216;roach&#8217; to refer to the unsmokable remnant of a
joint, and to &#8216;roach&#8217; a joint was therefore to destroy
it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="robocanceller.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> robocanceller</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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eliminate <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a> by sending appropriate cancel
messages. Robocancellers may use the
<a href="../B/Breidbart-Index.html"><i class="glossterm">Breidbart Index</i></a> as a trigger. Programming them is not a game for
amateurs; see <a href="../A/ARMM.html"><i class="glossterm">ARMM</i></a>. See also
<a href="../D/Dave-the-Resurrector.html"><i class="glossterm">Dave the Resurrector</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="roach.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="robot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">roach </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> robot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a
given environment. One step below <a href="../B/bulletproof.html"><i class="glossterm">bulletproof</i></a>.
Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful
attention to detail. Compare <a href="../S/smart.html"><i class="glossterm">smart</i></a>, oppose
<a href="../B/brittle.html"><i class="glossterm">brittle</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="robot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rococo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">robot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rococo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf
and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design.
Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and
decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe. Alan Perlis said:
&#8220;<span class="quote">Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble.</span>&#8221;
Compare <a href="../C/critical-mass.html"><i class="glossterm">critical mass</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="robust.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rogue.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">robust </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rogue</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD
Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">curses</span>(3)</span>
screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold primarily to
support games, and the development of
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rogue</span>(6)</span>
popularized its use; it has since become one of Unix's most important and
heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega, Larn, Angband, and an
entire subgenre of computer dungeon games (all known as
&#8216;roguelikes&#8217;) all took off from the inspiration provided by
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rogue</span>(6)</span>;
the popular Windows game Diablo, though graphics-intensive, has very
similar play logic. See also <a href="../N/nethack.html"><i class="glossterm">nethack</i></a>,
<a href="../M/moria.html"><i class="glossterm">moria</i></a>, <a href="../A/Angband.html"><i class="glossterm">Angband</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Usenet] <span class="grammar">adj.</span> An
<a href="../I/ISP.html"><i class="glossterm">ISP</i></a> which permits net abuse (usually in the form of
<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>ming) by its customers, or which itself engages
in such activities. Rogue ISPs are sometimes subject to
<a href="../I/IDP.html"><i class="glossterm">IDP</i></a>s or <a href="../U/UDP.html"><i class="glossterm">UDP</i></a>s. Sometimes
deliberately misspelled as &#8220;<span class="quote">rouge</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rococo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="room-temperature-IQ.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rococo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> room-temperature IQ</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Fahrenheit, 22 degrees Celsius). Used in describing the expected
intelligence range of the <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, but
how's this interface going to play with the room-temperature IQ
crowd?</span>&#8221; See <a href="../D/drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>. This is a
much more insulting phrase in countries that use Celsius
thermometers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rogue.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="root.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rogue </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> root</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than
OSes.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="root.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rootkit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">root </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rootkit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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name &#8216;root&#8217;) that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a
Unix system. The term <a href="../A/avatar.html"><i class="glossterm">avatar</i></a> is also used. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The top node of the system directory structure; historically the
home directory of the root user, but probably named after the root of an
(inverted) tree. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. By extension, the privileged system-maintenance login on any OS.
See <a href="root-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">root mode</i></a>, <a href="../G/go-root.html"><i class="glossterm">go root</i></a>, see
also <a href="../W/wheel.html"><i class="glossterm">wheel</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="room-temperature-IQ.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="root-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">room-temperature IQ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> root mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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automated <a href="../C/cracking.html"><i class="glossterm">cracking</i></a> tool. What <a href="../S/script-kiddies.html"><i class="glossterm">script
kiddies</i></a> use. After a cracker has first broken in and gained
root access, he or she will install modified binaries such as a modified
version login with a backdoor, or a version of
<span class="application">ps</span> that will not report the cracker's
processes). This is a rootkit.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="root-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rot13.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">root mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rot13</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13
places forward or back along the alphabet, so that &#8220;<span class="quote">The butler did
it!</span>&#8221; becomes &#8220;<span class="quote">Gur ohgyre qvq vg!</span>&#8221; Most Usenet news
reading and posting programs include a rot13 feature. It is used to
enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open
&#8212; e.g., for posting things that might offend some readers, or
<a href="../S/spoiler.html"><i class="glossterm">spoiler</i></a>s. A major advantage of rot13 over
rot(<tt class="literal">N</tt>) for other <tt class="literal">N</tt> is that it is
self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and decoding. See
also <a href="../S/spoiler-space.html"><i class="glossterm">spoiler space</i></a>, which has partly displaced rot13
since non-Unix-based newsreaders became common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rootkit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rotary-debugger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rootkit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rotary debugger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the
hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and
Garbage. See <a href="../A/ANSI-standard-pizza.html"><i class="glossterm">ANSI standard pizza</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rot13.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RSN.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rot13 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RSN</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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finding someone who has the key and applying a rubber hose vigorously and
repeatedly to the soles of that luckless person's feet until the key is
discovered. Shorthand for any method of coercion: the originator of the
term drily noted that it &#8220;<span class="quote">can take a surprisingly short time and is
quite computationally inexpensive</span>&#8221; relative to other cryptanalysis
methods. Compare <a href="../S/social-engineering.html"><i class="glossterm">social engineering</i></a>,
<a href="../B/brute-force.html"><i class="glossterm">brute force</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rude.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rude</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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because of gratuitously poor (random?) design decisions. Oppose
<a href="../C/cuspy.html"><i class="glossterm">cuspy</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for
its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples:
programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing
programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window
stack.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rubber-hose-cryptanalysis.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="runes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rubber-hose cryptanalysis </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> runes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/black-art.html"><i class="glossterm">black art</i></a> to <a href="../P/parse.html"><i class="glossterm">parse</i></a>: core
dumps, JCL commands, APL, or code in a language you haven't a clue how to
read. Not quite as bad as <a href="../L/line-noise.html"><i class="glossterm">line noise</i></a>, but close.
Compare <a href="../C/casting-the-runes.html"><i class="glossterm">casting the runes</i></a>,
<a href="../G/Great-Runes.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Runes</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics
on an IBM PC). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [borderline techspeak] 16-bit characters from the Unicode
multilingual character set.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rude.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="runic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rude </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> runic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Unix as &#8216;Runix&#8217;; Unix fans return the compliment by expanding
VMS to &#8216;Very Messy Syntax&#8217; or &#8216;Vachement Mauvais
Système&#8217; (French idiom, &#8220;<span class="quote">Hugely Bad
System</span>&#8221;).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="runes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rusty-iron.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">runes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rusty iron</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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this is the inevitable fate of <a href="../W/water-MIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">water MIPS</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="runic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rusty-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">runic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> rusty wire</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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packets are subject to frequent corruption. Most prevalent in reference to
wireless links subject to all the vagaries of RF noise and marginal
propagation conditions. &#8220;<span class="quote">Yes, but how good is your whizbang new
protocol on really rusty wire?</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="rusty-iron.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../S.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">rusty iron </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> S</td></tr></table></div></body></html>