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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>S/N ratio</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="next" href="sacred.html" title="sacred"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">S/N ratio</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../S.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sacred.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="S-N-ratio"/><dt xmlns="" id="S-N-ratio"><b>S/N ratio</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> (also <span class="firstterm">s/n ratio</span>, <span class="firstterm">s:n ratio</span>). Syn.
<a href="signal-to-noise-ratio.html"><i class="glossterm">signal-to-noise ratio</i></a>. Often abbreviated <span class="firstterm">SNR</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../S.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sacred.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">S </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sacred</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SAIL</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sagan.html" title="sagan"/><link rel="next" href="salescritter.html" title="salescritter"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SAIL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sagan.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salescritter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SAIL"/><dt xmlns="" id="SAIL"><b>SAIL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sayl/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/S·A·I·L/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. An important site in
the early development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN, CMU, XEROX PARC,
and the Unix community, one of the major wellsprings of technical
innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the
<a href="../W/WAITS.html"><i class="glossterm">WAITS</i></a> entry for details). The SAIL machines were
shut down in late May 1990, scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster
was officially decommissioned. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language used at SAIL (sense
1). It was an Algol-60 derivative with a coroutining facility and some new
data types intended for building search trees and association lists.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sagan.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salescritter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sagan </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> salescritter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SCNR</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="science-fiction-fandom.html" title="science-fiction fandom"/><link rel="next" href="scram-switch.html" title="scram switch"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SCNR</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="science-fiction-fandom.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scram-switch.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SCNR"/><dt xmlns="" id="SCNR"><b>SCNR</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">abbrev</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Sorry, Could Not Resist. Normally used to semi-apologize
for an obvious wisecrack.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="science-fiction-fandom.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scram-switch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">science-fiction fandom </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scram switch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SCSI voodoo</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="SCSI.html" title="SCSI"/><link rel="next" href="search-and-destroy-mode.html" title="search-and-destroy mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SCSI voodoo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SCSI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="search-and-destroy-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SCSI-voodoo"/><dt xmlns="" id="SCSI-voodoo"><b>SCSI voodoo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/skuz´ee voo´doo/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common among Mac users] <a href="SCSI.html"><i class="glossterm">SCSI</i></a> interface
hardware is notoriously fickle of temperament. Often, the SCSI bus will
fail to work unless the cable order of devices is re-arranged, SCSI
termination is added or removed (sometimes double-termination or
<span class="emphasis"><em>no</em></span> termination will fix the problem), or particular
devices are given particular SCSI IDs. The skills needed to trick the
naturally skittish demons of SCSI into working are collectively known as
SCSI voodoo. Compare <a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a>,
<a href="../D/deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>, <a href="../H/heavy-wizardry.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy wizardry</i></a>,
<a href="../R/rain-dance.html"><i class="glossterm">rain dance</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>,
<a href="../V/voodoo-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">voodoo programming</i></a>.</p><p>While ordinary mortals frequently experience near-terminal
frustration when attempting to configure SCSI device chains, it is said
that a true master of this arcane art can (through rituals involving
chicken blood, ground rhino horn, hairs of a virgin, eye of newt, etc.)
hook up your personal computer with three scanners, a Zip drive, an IDE
hard drive, a home weather station, a Smith-Corona typewriter, and the
neighbor's garage door.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SCSI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="search-and-destroy-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">SCSI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> search-and-destroy mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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system-level interfacing between a computer and intelligent devices.
Typically annotated in literature with &#8216;sexy&#8217; (<span class="pronunciation">/sek´see/</span>), &#8216;sissy&#8217; (<span class="pronunciation">/sis´ee/</span>), and &#8216;scuzzy&#8217;
(<span class="pronunciation">/skuh´zee/</span>) as pronunciation
guides &#8212; the last being the overwhelmingly predominant form, much to
the dismay of the designers and their marketing people. One can usually
assume that a person who pronounces it <span class="pronunciation">/S-C-S-I/</span> is clueless.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scruffies.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="SCSI-voodoo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scruffies </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> SCSI voodoo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SED</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="security-through-obscurity.html" title="security through obscurity"/><link rel="next" href="See-figure-1.html" title="See figure 1"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SED</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="security-through-obscurity.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="See-figure-1.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SED"/><dt xmlns="" id="SED"><b>SED</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/S·E·D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [TMRC, from &#8216;Light-Emitting Diode&#8217;] Smoke-emitting
diode. A <a href="../F/friode.html"><i class="glossterm">friode</i></a> that lost the war. See also
<a href="../L/LER.html"><i class="glossterm">LER</i></a>. [Not to be confused with <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sed</span>(1)</span>, the Unix
stream editor. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="security-through-obscurity.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="See-figure-1.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">security through obscurity </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> See figure 1</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SEX</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="server.html" title="server"/><link rel="next" href="sex-changer.html" title="sex changer"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SEX</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="server.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sex-changer.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SEX"/><dt xmlns="" id="SEX"><b>SEX</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/seks/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Sun Users' Group &amp; elsewhere] <span class="grammar">n.</span> </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae
hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had
been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among
hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of
genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a
<a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a>, but unprotected SEX can propagate a
<a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a>. See also
<a href="../P/pubic-directory.html"><i class="glossterm">pubic directory</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a
machine instruction found in the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> and many
other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf and SuperElf
personal computers had a &#8216;SEt X register&#8217; SEX instruction, but
this seems to have had little folkloric impact. The Data General
instruction set also had <b class="command">SEX</b>.</p><p><a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>'s engineers nearly got a
<a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> assembler that used the <b class="command">SEX</b> mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for
once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last
time this happened, either. The author of <i class="citetitle">The Intel 8086
Primer</i>, who was one of the original designers of the 8086,
noted that there was originally a <b class="command">SEX</b>
instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold
feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was renamed
<b class="command">CBW</b> and <b class="command">CWD</b>
(depending on what was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the
microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight <b class="command">SEX</b> but has logical-or and logical-and instructions
<b class="command">ORL</b> and <b class="command">ANL</b>.</p><p>The Motorola 6809, used in the Radio Shack Color Computer and in
U.K.'s &#8216;Dragon 32&#8217; personal computer, actually had an official
<b class="command">SEX</b> instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II
with which it competed did not. British hackers thought this made perfect
mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some
theoretical level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an
apple.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="server.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sex-changer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">server </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sex changer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Group, in one of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for
Computing Machinery; well-known ones include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest
Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for
Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for
Computer Graphics). Hackers, not surprisingly, like to overextend this
naming convention to less formal associations like SIGBEER (at ACM
conferences) and SIGFOOD (at University of Illinois).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Shub-Internet.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sig-block.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Shub-Internet </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sig block</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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significantly greater than its complexity. Used to refer to a program that
could obviously be written, but is not worth the trouble. Also used
ironically to imply that a difficult problem can be easily solved because a
program can be written to do it; the irony is that it is very clear that
writing such a program will be a great deal of work. &#8220;<span class="quote">It's easy to
enhance a FORTRAN compiler to compile COBOL as well; it's just a
SMOP.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Often used ironically by the intended victim when a suggestion
for a program is made which seems easy to the suggester, but is obviously
(to the victim) a lot of work. Compare
<a href="../M/minor-detail.html"><i class="glossterm">minor detail</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="smoot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="smurf.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">smoot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> smurf</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SNAFU principle</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="smurf.html" title="smurf"/><link rel="next" href="snail.html" title="snail"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SNAFU principle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="smurf.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="snail.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SNAFU-principle"/><dt xmlns="" id="SNAFU-principle"><b>SNAFU principle</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sna´foo prin´si·pl/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from a WWII Army ac­ro­nym for &#8216;Situation Normal, All
Fucked Up&#8217;] &#8220;<span class="quote">True communication is possible only between
equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their
superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.:</span>&#8221; &#8212; a
central tenet of <a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a>, often invoked by
hackers to explain why authoritarian hierarchies screw up so reliably and
systematically. The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive
disconnection of decision-makers from reality. This lightly adapted
version of a fable dating back to the early 1960s illustrates the
phenomenon perfectly:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
In the beginning was the plan,<br/>
       and then the specification;<br/>
And the plan was without form,<br/>
       and the specification was void.<br/>
<br/>
And darkness<br/>
       was on the faces of the implementors thereof;<br/>
And they spake unto their leader,<br/>
       saying:<br/>
&#8220;<span class="quote">It is a crock of shit,<br/>
       and smells as of a sewer.</span>&#8221;<br/>
<br/>
And the leader took pity on them,<br/>
       and spoke to the project leader:<br/>
&#8220;<span class="quote">It is a crock of excrement,<br/>
       and none may abide the odor thereof.</span>&#8221;<br/>
<br/>
And the project leader<br/>
       spake unto his section head, saying:<br/>
&#8220;<span class="quote">It is a container of excrement,<br/>
       and it is very strong, such that none may abide it.</span>&#8221;<br/>
<br/>
The section head then hurried to his department manager,<br/>
       and informed him thus:<br/>
&#8220;<span class="quote">It is a vessel of fertilizer,<br/>
       and none may abide its strength.</span>&#8221;<br/>
<br/>
The department manager carried these words<br/>
      to his general manager,<br/>
and spoke unto him<br/>
      saying:<br/>
&#8220;<span class="quote">It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants,<br/>
      and it is very strong.</span>&#8221;<br/>
<br/>
And so it was that the general manager rejoiced<br/>
      and delivered the good news unto the Vice President.<br/>
&#8220;<span class="quote">It promoteth growth,<br/>
      and it is very powerful.</span>&#8221;<br/>
<br/>
The Vice President rushed to the President's side,<br/>
      and joyously exclaimed:<br/>
&#8220;<span class="quote">This powerful new software product<br/>
      will promote the growth of the company!</span>&#8221;<br/>
<br/>
And the President looked upon the product,<br/>
      and saw that it was very good.<br/>
</p></div><p>After the subsequent and inevitable disaster, the
<a href="suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s protect themselves by saying &#8220;<span class="quote">I was
misinformed!</span>&#8221;, and the implementors are demoted or fired. Compare
<a href="../C/Conways-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Conway's Law</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="smurf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="snail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">smurf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> snail</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SO</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="snippage.html" title="snippage"/><link rel="next" href="social-engineering.html" title="social engineering"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SO</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="snippage.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="social-engineering.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SO"/><dt xmlns="" id="SO"><b>SO</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/S·O/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. (also <span class="firstterm">S.O.</span>) Abbrev. for
Significant Other, almost invariably written abbreviated and pronounced
<span class="pronunciation">/S·O/</span> by hackers. Used to refer
to one's primary relationship, esp. a live-in to whom one is not married.
See <a href="../M/MOTAS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTAS</i></a>, <a href="../M/MOTOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTOS</i></a>,
<a href="../M/MOTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">MOTSS</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [techspeak] The Shift Out control character in ASCII (Control-N,
0001110).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="snippage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="social-engineering.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">snippage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> social engineering</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SPACEWAR</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="spaceship-operator.html" title="spaceship operator"/><link rel="next" href="spaghetti-code.html" title="spaghetti code"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SPACEWAR</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spaceship-operator.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spaghetti-code.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SPACEWAR"/><dt xmlns="" id="SPACEWAR"><b>SPACEWAR</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. &#8220;<span class="quote">Doc</span>&#8221;
Smith's <i class="citetitle">Lensman</i> books, in which two spaceships duel
around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through
hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the PDP-1 at MIT in 1962.
In 1968-69, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in
his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became
<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was
commercialized as one of the first video games; descendants are still
<a href="../F/feep.html"><i class="glossterm">feep</i></a>ing in video arcades everywhere.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spaceship-operator.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spaghetti-code.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">spaceship operator </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> spaghetti code</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>STFW</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="steved.html" title="steved"/><link rel="next" href="stir-fried-random.html" title="stir-fried random"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">STFW</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="steved.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="stir-fried-random.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="STFW"/><dt xmlns="" id="STFW"><b>STFW</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/S·T·F·W/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] Common abbreviation for &#8220;<span class="quote">Search The Fucking
Web</span>&#8221;, a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better
handled by a search engine than a human being. Usage is common and exactly
parallel to both senses of <a href="../R/RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>. A politer
equivalent is <a href="../G/GIYF.html"><i class="glossterm">GIYF</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="steved.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="stir-fried-random.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">steved </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> stir-fried random</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>STR</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="store.html" title="store"/><link rel="next" href="strided.html" title="strided"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">STR</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="store.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="strided.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="STR"/><dt xmlns="" id="STR"><b>STR</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Spot the reference. Used in
<a href="scary-devil-monastery.html"><i class="glossterm">scary devil monastery</i></a> to mark the witticism one just uttered as a quote
from some work of art or literature, the more obscure the better. Those who
know where the reference comes from reply in the form &#8220;<span class="quote">You are
$CHARACTER, and you owe me $ITEM</span>&#8221;, where $CHARACTER is a character
from the story being referenced and $ITEM is something associated with that
character. This acronym is never actually expanded to its proper meaning in
the newsgroup; posters instead use obscure expansions, the most common
being &#8220;<span class="quote">slurp the robot</span>&#8221;, leading to comments like &#8220;<span class="quote">I
pulled my hair out, but couldn't figure out which robot you're
slurping</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="store.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="strided.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">store </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> strided</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Saturday-night special</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sanity-check.html" title="sanity check"/><link rel="next" href="say.html" title="say"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Saturday-night special</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sanity-check.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="say.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Saturday-night-special"/><dt xmlns="" id="Saturday-night-special"><b>Saturday-night special</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from police slang for a cheap handgun] A
<a href="../Q/quick-and-dirty.html"><i class="glossterm">quick-and-dirty</i></a> program or feature kluged together
during off hours, under a deadline, and in response to pressure from a
<a href="salescritter.html"><i class="glossterm">salescritter</i></a>. Such hacks are dangerously
unreliable, but all too often sneak into a production release after
insufficient review.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sanity-check.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="say.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sanity check </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> say</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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famous parody that can easily be found with a web search on this phrase;
figure 1, in fact, depicts the digitus impudicus.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SED.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="segfault.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">SED </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> segfault</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who,
lacking any sense of <a href="../N/netiquette.html"><i class="glossterm">netiquette</i></a>, made a general
nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college,
getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to
learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could
be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users
became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity
to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before,
this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on
newsgroups. Syn. <span class="firstterm">eternal
September</span>. See also <a href="../A/AOL-.html"><i class="glossterm">AOL!</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="senior-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="server.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">senior bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> server</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../R/README-file.html"><i class="glossterm">README file</i></a>s, this phrase indicates allegiance to
the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see
<a href="../H/hacker-ethic.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker ethic</i></a>, sense 1). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The motto of the complaints division of Sirius Cybernetics
Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of incompetent
<a href="suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s) in Douglas Adams's <i class="citetitle">Hitch Hiker's
Guide to the Galaxy</i>. The irony of using this as a cultural
recognition signal appeals to hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sharchive.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shareware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sharchive </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shareware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] The harsh personification of the
Internet: Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of
Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity
formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders
worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good
connections. To no avail &#8212; its purpose is malign and evil, and it is
the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in &#8220;<span class="quote">Freela casts a
tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down.</span>&#8221; (A forged response
often follows along the lines of: &#8220;<span class="quote">Shub-Internet gulps down the tac
nuke and burps happily.</span>&#8221;) Also cursed by users of the Web,
FTP and telnet when the network lags. The dread
name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating
it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath
the Pentagon. Compare <a href="../R/Random-Number-God.html"><i class="glossterm">Random Number God</i></a>.</p><p>[January 1996: It develops that one of the computer administrators in
the basement of the Pentagon read this entry and fell over laughing. As a
result, you too can now poke Shub-Internet by
<a href="../P/ping.html"><i class="glossterm">ping</i></a>ing <tt class="systemitem">shub-internet.ims.disa.mil</tt>. Compare
<a href="../K/kremvax.html"><i class="glossterm">kremvax</i></a>. &#8212;ESR]</p><p>[April 1999: shub-internet.ims.disa.mil is no more, alas. But
Shub-Internet lives, and even has a <a href="http://www.shub-internet.org/" target="_top">home page</a>. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shriek.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="SIG.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shriek </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> SIG</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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loris</span>&#8221;. The variant &#8216;Slowlartus&#8217; is also common, related
to <a href="../L/LART.html"><i class="glossterm">LART</i></a>] Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's
System VR4 version of Unix that came out of the standardization wars of the
early 1990s. So named because especially on older hardware, responsiveness
was much less crisp than under the preceding SunOS. Early releases of
Solaris (that is, Solaris 2, as some <a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>s at
Sun retroactively rechristened SunOS as Solaris 1) were quite buggy, and
Sun was forced by customer demand to support SunOS for quite some
time. Newer versions are acknowledged to be among the best commercial Unix
variants in 1998, but still lose single-processor benchmarks to Sparc
<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>. Compare <a href="../H/HP-SUX.html"><i class="glossterm">HP-SUX</i></a>,
<a href="sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slopsucker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="slurp.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">slopsucker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> slurp</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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versions before 10.2, after which it was replaced by a sort of rainbow
pinwheel thingy. It was analogous to the Microsoft Windows hourglass, but
OS X 10.0's legendary slowness under the Aqua toolkit made this term rather
more evocative. See <a href="../D/Death--X-of.html"><i class="glossterm">Death, X 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="spin.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spl.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">spin </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> spl</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Teapot</i></a>. The model is of a chocolate Easter bunny consisting of
about 5000 polygons. It is small by 2002 standards, but is more
illustrative than the teapot of of techniques such as surface radiance
(e.g. radiosity) and self-reflection. There is a <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bunny/bunny.html" target="_top">history
page</a>. Compare <a href="../L/lenna.html"><i class="glossterm">lenna</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="stale-pointer-bug.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="star-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">stale pointer bug </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> star out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Stone Age</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="stomp-on.html" title="stomp on"/><link rel="next" href="stone-knives-and-bearskins.html" title="stone knives and bearskins"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Stone Age</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="stomp-on.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="stone-knives-and-bearskins.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Stone-Age"/><dt xmlns="" id="Stone-Age"><b>Stone Age</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca. 1943)
to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical
<a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>s. Sometimes used for the entire period up
to 1960--61 (see <a href="../I/Iron-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Iron Age</i></a>); however, it is funnier
and more descriptive to characterize the latter period in terms of a
&#8216;Bronze Age&#8217; era of transistor-logic,
pre-ferrite-<a href="../C/core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a> machines with drum or CRT mass
storage (as opposed to just mercury delay lines and/or relays). See also
<a href="../I/Iron-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Iron Age</i></a>. </p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly76-05-01"/><img src="../graphics/76-05-01.png"/><div class="caption"><p>How things weren't in the <a href="Stone-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Stone Age</i></a>.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../C/core-dump.html#crunchly76-07-18">76-07-18</a>. The previous
cartoon was <a href="../F/flush.html#crunchly-5678">76-03-14:5-8</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, a pejorative for any crufty, ancient piece of
hardware or software technology. Note that this is used even by people who
were there for the <a href="Stone-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Stone Age</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="stomp-on.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="stone-knives-and-bearskins.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">stomp on </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> stone knives and bearskins</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s who employ them; succinctly expresses an
attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other
subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF
story originally published in 1952 but much anthologized since, Mark
Clifton's <i class="citetitle">Star, Bright</i>. In it, a super-genius child
classifies humans into a very few &#8216;Brights&#8217; like herself, a
huge majority of &#8216;Stupids&#8217;, and a minority of
&#8216;Tweens&#8217;, the merely ordinary geniuses.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="stupid-sort.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Sturgeons-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">stupid-sort </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Sturgeon's Law</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said,
&#8220;<span class="quote">Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of
everything is crud.</span>&#8221; Sturgeon himself called this &#8220;<span class="quote">Sturgeon's
Revelation</span>&#8221;, and it first appeared in the March 1958 issue of
<i class="citetitle">Venture Science Fiction</i>; he gave Sturgeon's Law as
&#8220;<span class="quote">Nothing is always absolutely so.</span>&#8221; Oddly, when Sturgeon's
Revelation is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to
&#8216;crap&#8217;. Compare <a href="../H/Hanlons-Razor.html"><i class="glossterm">Hanlon's Razor</i></a>,
<a href="../N/Ninety-Ninety-Rule.html"><i class="glossterm">Ninety-Ninety Rule</i></a>. Though this maxim originated in
SF fandom, most hackers recognize it and are all too aware of its
truth.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Stupids.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sucking-mud.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Stupids </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sucking mud</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started out around 1980 with
some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some software
hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept
married a clever board design based on the Motorola 68000 to
<a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix. Sun went on to lead the workstation
industry through the 1980s, and for years afterwards remained an
engineering-driven company and a good place for hackers to work. Though
Sun drifted away from its techie origins after 1990 and has since made some
strategic moves that disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by
maintaining proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still
considered within the family in much the same way
<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> was in the 1970s and early 1980s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="suitably-small.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sun-lounge.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">suitably small </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sun lounge</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="grammar">n.</span> A coder straight out of training
school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English.
Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid accusations of sexism)
&#8216;Sammy Cobol&#8217; or (in some non-IBM circles) &#8216;Cobol
Charlie&#8217;. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [proposed] Meta-name for any <a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code grinder</i></a>,
analogous to <a href="../J/J--Random-Hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">J. Random Hacker</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="surf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="swab.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">surf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> swab</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Swiss-Army chainsaw</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="swapped-out.html" title="swapped out"/><link rel="next" href="swizzle.html" title="swizzle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Swiss-Army chainsaw</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="swapped-out.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="swizzle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Swiss-Army-chainsaw"/><dt xmlns="" id="Swiss-Army-chainsaw"><b>Swiss-Army chainsaw</b></dt></dt><dd><p> In early Unix days, a well-known technical paper analogized the
lexical analyzer generator <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lex</span>(1)</span> to a Swiss-army knife; this was a comment
on the remarkable variety of more general uses discovered for a program
originally designed as a special-purpose code generator for writing
compilers. Two decades later, well-known hacker Henry Spencer described
the <a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a> scripting language as a &#8220;<span class="quote">Swiss-Army
chainsaw</span>&#8221;, intending to convey his evaluation of the language as
exceedingly powerful but ugly and noisy and prone to belch noxious fumes.
This had two results: (1) Perl fans adopted the epithet as a badge of
pride, and (2) it entered more general usage to describe software that is
highly versatile but distressingly inelegant.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="swapped-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="swizzle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">swapped out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> swizzle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sacred</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="S-N-ratio.html" title="S/N ratio"/><link rel="next" href="saga.html" title="saga"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sacred</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="S-N-ratio.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="saga.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sacred"/><dt xmlns="" id="sacred"><b>sacred</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Reserved for the exclusive use of something (an extension of the
standard meaning). Often means that anyone may look at the sacred object,
but clobbering it will screw whatever it is sacred to. The comment
&#8220;<span class="quote">Register 7 is sacred to the interrupt handler</span>&#8221; appearing in a
program would be interpreted by a hacker to mean that if any
<span class="emphasis"><em>other</em></span> part of the program changes the contents of
register 7, dire consequences are likely to ensue.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="S-N-ratio.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="saga.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">S/N ratio </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> saga</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>saga</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sacred.html" title="sacred"/><link rel="next" href="sagan.html" title="sagan"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">saga</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sacred.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sagan.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="saga"/><dt xmlns="" id="saga"><b>saga</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about
<tt class="literal">N</tt> random broken people.</p><p>Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L.
Steele:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT
for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a
week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at
Stanford, particularly our mutual friend Richard P. Gabriel (RPG).</p><p>RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to
Palo Alto (going <a href="../L/logical.html"><i class="glossterm">logical</i></a> south on route 101,
parallel to <a href="../E/El-Camino-Bignum.html"><i class="glossterm">El Camino Bignum</i></a>). Palo Alto is
adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco.
We ate at The Good Earth, a &#8216;health food&#8217; restaurant, very
popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder.
JONL ordered such a shake &#8212; the waitress claimed the flavor of the
day was &#8220;<span class="quote">lalaberry</span>&#8221;. I still have no idea what that might be,
but it became a running joke. It was the color of raspberry, and JONL said
it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had
in a Mexican restaurant.</p><p>After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice
Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing
flavors. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: &#8220;<span class="quote">If you don't live
near an Uncle Gaylord's &#8212; MOVE!</span>&#8221; Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real
person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print
their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other
non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the
previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in
Berkeley, California, the first time either of us had been on the West
Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time
wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in
Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little
shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The
ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went
absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavor, ginger
honey.</p><p>Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth &#8212; indeed, after every
lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit &#8212; a trip to
Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a
Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times.
Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all
bystanders that &#8220;<span class="quote">Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad!
That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their
otherwise off-taste meat.</span>&#8221; After the third or fourth repetition RPG
and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase
him: &#8220;<span class="quote">Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste
good!</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over
and sat in the sun for a week and put some <span class="emphasis"><em>ginger</em></span> on
it for dinner?!</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Right! With a lalaberry shake!</span>&#8221; And
so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humor, as long as we
kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream.</p><p>Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up
(putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL
and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I
unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had <span class="i">je
ne sais quoi du jour</span>, but RPG and JONL had <span class="i">lapin</span> (rabbit). (Waitress: &#8220;<span class="quote"><span class="i">Oui</span>, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today.</span>&#8221; RPG:
&#8220;<span class="quote">Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any
<span class="emphasis"><em>ginger</em></span>!</span>&#8221;)</p><p>We finished the meal late, about 11PM, which is 2AM Boston time, so
JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle
Gaylord's!</p><p>Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto.
In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead
of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not
mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did
figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and
half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in
Berkeley.</p><p>RPG said &#8220;<span class="quote">Fine!</span>&#8221; and we drove on for a while and talked.
I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When
he awoke, RPG said, &#8220;<span class="quote">Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over
the bridge!</span>&#8221;, referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just
then we came to a sign that said &#8220;<span class="quote">University Avenue</span>&#8221;. I
mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said
&#8220;<span class="quote">Right!</span>&#8221; and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in
front of an Uncle Gaylord's.</p><p>Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy,
and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it
a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had
somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all.</p><p>JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't
caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and
looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said,
&#8220;<span class="quote">This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked
like a barn! But this place looks <span class="emphasis"><em>just like</em></span> the one
back in Palo Alto!</span>&#8221;</p><p>RPG deadpanned, &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, this is the one <span class="emphasis"><em>I</em></span>
always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco,
too. Remember, they're a chain.</span>&#8221;</p><p>JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant
&#8212; he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not
far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a
completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto.</p><p>JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at
the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently
their standard procedure with that flavor, as not too many people like
it.</p><p>JONL said, &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone.</span>&#8221;
The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Some people think it tastes like soap.</span>&#8221; JONL insisted,
&#8220;<span class="quote">Look, I <span class="emphasis"><em>love</em></span> ginger. I eat Chinese food. I
eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back
in Palo Alto. I <span class="emphasis"><em>know</em></span> I like that
flavor!</span>&#8221;</p><p>At the words &#8220;<span class="quote">back in Palo Alto</span>&#8221; the guy behind the
counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught
his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what
was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and
clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel
(&#8220;<span class="quote">makes rotten meat a dish for princes</span>&#8221;) for the forty-third
time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully.</p><p>RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles.
JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c.,
comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a
good old time.</p><p>At length the g.b.t.c.: said, &#8220;<span class="quote">How's the ginger honey?</span>&#8221;
JONL said, &#8220;<span class="quote">Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?</span>&#8221; Now Uncle
Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make
his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c.: got out the recipe, and he and
JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c.: could contain his
curiosity no longer, and asked again, &#8220;<span class="quote">You really like that stuff,
huh?</span>&#8221; JONL said, &#8220;<span class="quote">Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in
Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as
good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!</span>&#8221;</p><p>G.b.t.c.: looked him straight in the eye and said, &#8220;<span class="quote">You're
<span class="emphasis"><em>in</em></span> Palo Alto!</span>&#8221;</p><p>JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit
of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, &#8220;<span class="quote">I've
been hacked!</span>&#8221;</p></blockquote></div><p>[My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative
of the raspberry found out there called an &#8216;ollalieberry&#8217;
&#8212;ESR]</p><p>[Ironic footnote: the <a href="../M/meme.html"><i class="glossterm">meme</i></a> about ginger
vs. rotting meat is an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination
of medieval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears
full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake
case who originated numerous food myths. The truth seems to be that ginger
was used to cover not rot but the extreme salt taste of meat packed in
brine, which was the best method available before refrigeration.
&#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sacred.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sagan.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sacred </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sagan</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sagan</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="saga.html" title="saga"/><link rel="next" href="SAIL.html" title="SAIL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sagan</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="saga.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="SAIL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sagan"/><dt xmlns="" id="sagan"><b>sagan</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/say´gn/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Carl Sagan's TV series <i class="citetitle">Cosmos</i>; think
&#8220;<span class="quote">billions and billions</span>&#8221;] A large quantity of anything.
&#8220;<span class="quote">There's a sagan different ways to tweak EMACS.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">The
U.S. Government spends sagans on bombs and welfare &#8212; hard to say
which is more destructive.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="saga.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="SAIL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">saga </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> SAIL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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following joke:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a<br/>
   computer salesman?<br/>
A. The used-car dealer knows he's lying.  [Some versions add:<br/>
   ...and probably knows how to drive.]<br/>
</p></div><p>This reflects the widespread hacker belief that salescritters are
self-selected for stupidity (after all, if they had brains and the
inclination to use them, they'd be in programming). The terms <span class="firstterm">salesthing</span> and <span class="firstterm">salesdroid</span> are also common. Compare
<a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>, <a href="suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>,
<a href="../D/droid.html"><i class="glossterm">droid</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SAIL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salt.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">SAIL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> salt</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hours on grungy projects, with some hope of seeing the end of the tunnel in
<tt class="literal">N</tt> years. Noted for their absence of
sunshine. Compare <a href="../P/playpen.html"><i class="glossterm">playpen</i></a>,
<a href="sandbox.html"><i class="glossterm">sandbox</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="salt.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salt-substrate.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">salt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> salt substrate</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier
for sodium chloride. Also <span class="firstterm">sodium
substrate</span>. From the technical term <span class="firstterm">chip substrate</span>, used to refer to the silicon on
the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are
deposited.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="salt-mines.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="same-day-service.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">salt mines </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> same-day service</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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would be undesirable; a data <a href="../F/frob.html"><i class="glossterm">frob</i></a> (sense 1). For
example, the Unix <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">crypt</span>(3)</span> man page mentions that &#8220;<span class="quote">the salt string is
used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different
ways.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="salescritter.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salt-mines.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">salescritter </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> salt mines</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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respect to <a href="../M/MS-DOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MS-DOS</i></a> and Windows system calls (which
ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such
response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that
are not <a href="../W/well-behaved.html"><i class="glossterm">well-behaved</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="salt-substrate.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="samizdat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">salt substrate </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> samizdat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>samizdat</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="same-day-service.html" title="same-day service"/><link rel="next" href="samurai.html" title="samurai"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">samizdat</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="same-day-service.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="samurai.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="samizdat"/><dt xmlns="" id="samizdat"><b>samizdat</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sahm·iz·daht/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Russian, literally &#8220;<span class="quote">self publishing</span>&#8221;] The process of
disseminating documentation via underground channels. Originally referred
to underground duplication and distribution of banned books in the Soviet
Union; now refers by obvious extension to any less-than-official
promulgation of textual material, esp. rare, obsolete, or
never-formally-published computer documentation. Samizdat is obviously
much easier when one has access to high-bandwidth networks and high-quality
laser printers. Note that samizdat is properly used only with respect to
documents which contain needed information (see also
<a href="../H/hacker-ethic.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker ethic</i></a>) but which are for some reason otherwise unavailable, but
<span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> in the context of documents which are available
through normal channels, for which unauthorized duplication would be
unethical copyright violation. See <a href="../L/Lions-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Lions Book</i></a> for a
historical example.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="same-day-service.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="samurai.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">same-day service </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> samurai</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and
First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an
electronic locksmith. In 1991, mainstream media reported the existence of
a loose-knit culture of samurai that meets electronically on BBS systems,
mostly bright teenagers with personal micros; they have modeled themselves
explicitly on the historical samurai of Japan and on the &#8220;<span class="quote">net
cowboys</span>&#8221; of William Gibson's <a href="../C/cyberpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberpunk</i></a>
novels. Those interviewed claim to adhere to a rigid ethic of loyalty to
their employers and to disdain the vandalism and theft practiced by
criminal crackers as beneath them and contrary to the hacker ethic; some
quote Miyamoto Musashi's <i class="citetitle">Book of Five Rings</i>, a
classic of historical samurai doctrine, in support of these principles.
See also <a href="sneaker.html"><i class="glossterm">sneaker</i></a>, <a href="Stupids.html"><i class="glossterm">Stupids</i></a>,
<a href="social-engineering.html"><i class="glossterm">social engineering</i></a>, <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>,
<a href="../H/hacker-ethic.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker ethic</i></a>, and
<a href="../D/dark-side-hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">dark-side hacker</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="samizdat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sandbender.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">samizdat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sandbender</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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computer companies (where hackers in commercial environments are likely to
be found). Half-derisive, but reflects the truth that research is a form
of creative play. Compare <a href="../P/playpen.html"><i class="glossterm">playpen</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Syn. <a href="../L/link-farm.html"><i class="glossterm">link farm</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A controlled environment within which potentially dangerous
programs are run. Used esp. in reference to Java implementations. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A checked-out copy of a source tree, on which one may safely
perform builds without interfereing with others.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sandbender.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sanity-check.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sandbender </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sanity check</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is
to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g., if a piece of
scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving
unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or
the coding of the formula, as a <span class="firstterm">sanity
check</span>, before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure
manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare
<a href="../R/reality-check.html"><i class="glossterm">reality check</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the
program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or
state). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Conversationally, saying &#8220;<span class="quote">sanity check</span>&#8221; means you
are requesting a check of your assumptions. &#8220;<span class="quote">Wait a minute, sanity
check, are we talking about the same Kevin here?</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sandbox.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Saturday-night-special.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sandbox </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Saturday-night special</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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have to say <b class="command">ls -l</b>.</span>&#8221; Tends to imply a
<a href="../N/newline.html"><i class="glossterm">newline</i></a>-terminated command (a
&#8216;sentence&#8217;). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A computer may also be said to &#8216;say&#8217; things to you,
even if it doesn't have a speech synthesizer, by displaying them on a
terminal in response to your commands. Hackers find it odd that this usage
confuses <a href="../M/mundane.html"><i class="glossterm">mundane</i></a>s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Saturday-night-special.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scag.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Saturday-night special </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scag</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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or by causing media damage. &#8220;<span class="quote">That last power hit scagged the system
disk.</span>&#8221; Compare <a href="scrog.html"><i class="glossterm">scrog</i></a>,
<a href="../R/roach.html"><i class="glossterm">roach</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="say.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scanno.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">say </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scanno</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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typo or <a href="../T/thinko.html"><i class="glossterm">thinko</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scag.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scary-devil-monastery.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scag </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scary devil monastery</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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with characters that rather justify the reference.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scanno.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="schroedinbug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scanno </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> schroedinbug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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physics] A design or implementation bug in a program that doesn't manifest
until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices
that it never should have worked, at which point the program promptly stops
working for everybody until fixed. Though (like
<a href="../B/bit-rot.html"><i class="glossterm">bit rot</i></a>) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have
harbored latent schroedinbugs for years. Compare
<a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>, <a href="../B/Bohr-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">Bohr bug</i></a>,
<a href="../M/mandelbug.html"><i class="glossterm">mandelbug</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scary-devil-monastery.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="science-fiction-fandom.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scary devil monastery </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> science-fiction fandom</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hackerdom; most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go
to &#8216;cons&#8217; (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected
activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism. Some hacker
jargon originated in SF fandom; see <a href="../D/defenestration.html"><i class="glossterm">defenestration</i></a>,
<a href="../G/great-wall.html"><i class="glossterm">great-wall</i></a>, <a href="../C/cyberpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberpunk</i></a>,
<a href="../H/h.html"><i class="glossterm">h</i></a>, <a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>,
<a href="../I/IMHO.html"><i class="glossterm">IMHO</i></a>, <a href="../M/mundane.html"><i class="glossterm">mundane</i></a>,
<a href="../N/neep-neep.html"><i class="glossterm">neep-neep</i></a>, <a href="../R/Real-Soon-Now.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Soon Now</i></a>.
Additionally, the jargon terms <a href="../C/cowboy.html"><i class="glossterm">cowboy</i></a>,
<a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a>, <a href="../D/de-rezz.html"><i class="glossterm">de-rezz</i></a>,
<a href="../G/go-flatline.html"><i class="glossterm">go flatline</i></a>, <a href="../I/ice.html"><i class="glossterm">ice</i></a>,
<a href="../P/phage.html"><i class="glossterm">phage</i></a>, <a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a>,
<a href="../W/wetware.html"><i class="glossterm">wetware</i></a>, <a href="../W/wirehead.html"><i class="glossterm">wirehead</i></a>, and
<a href="../W/worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a> originated in SF stories.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="schroedinbug.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="SCNR.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">schroedinbug </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> SCNR</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/Big-Red-Switch.html"><i class="glossterm">Big Red Switch</i></a>), esp. one positioned to be easily
hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span>
something you <a href="../F/frob.html"><i class="glossterm">frob</i></a> lightly; these often initiate
expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a
<a href="../D/dinosaur-pen.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur pen</i></a> for use in case of electrical fire or
in case some luckless <a href="../F/field-servoid.html"><i class="glossterm">field servoid</i></a> should put 120
volts across himself while <a href="../E/Easter-egging.html"><i class="glossterm">Easter egging</i></a>. (See also
<a href="../M/molly-guard.html"><i class="glossterm">molly-guard</i></a>, <a href="../T/TMRC.html"><i class="glossterm">TMRC</i></a>.)</p><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">Scram</span>&#8221; was in origin a backronym for &#8220;<span class="quote">Safety Cut
Rope Axe Man</span>&#8221; coined by Enrico Fermi himself. The story goes that
in the earliest nuclear power experiments the engineers recognized the
possibility that the reactor wouldn't behave exactly as predicted by their
mathematical models. Accordingly, they made sure that they had mechanisms
in place that would rapidly drop the control rods back into the reactor.
One mechanism took the form of &#8216;scram technicians&#8217;. These
individuals stood next to the ropes or cables that raised and lowered the
control rods. Equipped with axes or cable-cutters, these technicians stood
ready for the (literal) &#8216;scram&#8217; command. If necessary, they
would cut the cables, and gravity would expeditiously return the control
rods to the reactor, thereby averting yet another kind of <a href="../C/core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core
dump</i></a>.</p><p>Modern reactor control rods are held in place with claw-like devices,
held closed by current. SCRAM switches are circuit breakers that
immediately open the circuit to the rod arms, resulting in the rapid
insertion and subsequent bottoming of the control rods.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SCNR.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scratch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">SCNR </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scratch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="scratch-monkey.html"><i class="glossterm">scratch monkey</i></a></span>&#8221;, a proverb used to advise
caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to
any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a
replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get
trashed.</p><p>This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey,
star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel
was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent
years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to
study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel
suffered an untimely demise one day when a <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>
<a href="../F/field-circus.html"><i class="glossterm">field circus</i></a> engineer troubleshooting a crash on the
program's <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> inadvertently interfered with some
custom hardware that was wired to Mabel.</p><p>It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate
customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC
troubleshooter called up the <a href="../F/field-circus.html"><i class="glossterm">field circus</i></a> manager
responsible and asked him sweetly, &#8220;<span class="quote">Can you swim?</span>&#8221; Not all the
consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in
question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless
<a href="../D/droid.html"><i class="glossterm">droid</i></a>s at the local &#8216;humane&#8217; society.
The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. [The
actual incident occured in 1979 or 1980. There is a version of this story,
complete with reported dialogue between one of the project people and DEC
field service, that has been circulating on Internet since 1986. It is
hilarious and mythic, but gets some facts wrong. For example, it reports
the machine as a <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> and alleges that Mabel's demise occurred when DEC
<a href="../P/PM.html"><i class="glossterm">PM</i></a>ed the machine. Earlier versions of this entry
were based on that story; this one has been corrected from an interview
with the hapless sysop. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scratch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scream-and-die.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scratch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scream and die</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary-use purposes; one
that can be <a href="scribble.html"><i class="glossterm">scribble</i></a>d on without loss. Usually in
the combining forms <span class="firstterm">scratch memory</span>,
<span class="firstterm">scratch register</span>, <span class="firstterm">scratch disk</span>, <span class="firstterm">scratch tape</span>, <span class="firstterm">scratch volume</span>. See also
<a href="scratch-monkey.html"><i class="glossterm">scratch monkey</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [primarily IBM, also Commodore] <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To delete (as in a file).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scram-switch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scratch-monkey.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scram switch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scratch monkey</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scratch-monkey.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="screaming-tty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scratch monkey </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> screaming tty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is
either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still
enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck
can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously
degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving
&#8220;<span class="quote">characters</span>&#8221; are treated as userid/password pairs and tested
as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be
computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so
although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all
can be substantial.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scream-and-die.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="screen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scream and die </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> screen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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commercial on-line services since the mid-1990s. Hackers recognize the term
but don't generally use it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="screen.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="screen-scraping.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">screen </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> screen scraping</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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contents of some display that is not actually intended for data transport
or inspection by programs. Around 1980 this term referred to tricks like
reading the display memory of a smart terminal through its auxiliary
port. Nowadays it often refers to parsing the HTML in generated web pages
with programs designed to mine out particular patterns of content. In
either guise screen-scraping is an ugly, ad-hoc, last-resort technique that
is very likely to break on even minor changes to the format of the data
being snooped.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="screen-name.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="screw.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">screen name </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> screw</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../D/demoeffect.html"><i class="glossterm">demoeffect</i></a> or one screenful of them. Probably comes
from old Sierra-style adventures or shoot-em-ups where one travels from one
place to another one screenful at a time.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="screaming-tty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="screen-name.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">screaming tty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> screen name</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
This use has become quite widespread outside MIT.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="screen-scraping.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="screwage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">screen scraping </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> screwage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere
bug.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="screw.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scribble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">screw </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scribble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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destructive way. &#8220;<span class="quote">Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went
berserk and scribbled on the i-node table.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">It was working
fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core.</span>&#8221;
Synonymous with <a href="../T/trash.html"><i class="glossterm">trash</i></a>; compare
<a href="../M/mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a>, which conveys a bit more intention, and
<a href="../M/mangle.html"><i class="glossterm">mangle</i></a>, which is more violent and final.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="screwage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="script-kiddies.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">screwage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> script kiddies</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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script kiddies do mischief with scripts and <a href="../R/rootkit.html"><i class="glossterm">rootkit</i></a>s
written by others, often without understanding the
<a href="../E/exploit.html"><i class="glossterm">exploit</i></a> they are using. Used of people with limited
technical expertise using easy-to-operate, pre-configured, and/or automated
tools to conduct disruptive activities against networked systems. Since
most of these tools are fairly well-known by the security community, the
adverse impact of such actions is usually minimal.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. People who cannot program, but who create tacky HTML pages by
copying JavaScript routines from other tacky HTML pages. More generally, a
script kiddie writes (or more likely cuts and pastes) code without either
having or desiring to have a mental model of what the code does; someone
who thinks of code as magical incantations and asks only &#8220;<span class="quote">what do I
need to type to make this happen?</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scribble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scrog.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scribble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scrog</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">The list header got scrogged.</span>&#8221; Also reported as <span class="firstterm">skrog</span>, and ascribed to the comic strip
<i class="citetitle">The Wizard of Id</i>. Compare
<a href="scag.html"><i class="glossterm">scag</i></a>; possibly the two are related. Equivalent to
<a href="scribble.html"><i class="glossterm">scribble</i></a> or <a href="../M/mangle.html"><i class="glossterm">mangle</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="script-kiddies.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scrool.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">script kiddies </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scrool</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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prob.: originated as a typo for &#8216;scroll&#8217;] The log of old
messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with
the conversation. It was originally called the <span class="firstterm">scrool monster</span>, because an early version of the
roundtable software had a bug where it would dump all 8K of scrool on a
user's terminal.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scrog.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scrozzle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scrog </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scrozzle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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corrupts the running program or vital data. &#8220;<span class="quote">The damn compiler
scrozzled itself again!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scrool.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scruffies.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scrool </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scruffies</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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editor, so called because an incautiously chosen match pattern can cause
<a href="../I/infinite.html"><i class="glossterm">infinite</i></a> damage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SCSI-voodoo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="second-system-effect.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">SCSI voodoo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> second-system effect</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>second-system effect</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="search-and-destroy-mode.html" title="search-and-destroy mode"/><link rel="next" href="secondary-damage.html" title="secondary damage"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">second-system effect</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="search-and-destroy-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="secondary-damage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="second-system-effect"/><dt xmlns="" id="second-system-effect"><b>second-system effect</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (sometimes, more euphoniously, <span class="firstterm">second-system syndrome</span>) When one is designing
the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there
is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an
<a href="../E/elephantine.html"><i class="glossterm">elephantine</i></a> feature-laden monstrosity. The term was
first used by Fred Brooks in his classic <i class="citetitle">The Mythical Man-Month:
Essays on Software Engineering</i> (Addison-Wesley, 1975; ISBN
0-201-00650-2). It described the jump from a set of nice, simple operating
systems on the IBM 70xx series to OS/360 on the 360 series. A similar
effect can also happen in an evolving system; see
<a href="../B/Brookss-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Brooks's Law</i></a>, <a href="../C/creeping-elegance.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping elegance</i></a>,
<a href="../C/creeping-featurism.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping featurism</i></a>. See also
<a href="../M/Multics.html"><i class="glossterm">Multics</i></a>, <a href="../O/OS-2.html"><i class="glossterm">OS/2</i></a>,
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>, <a href="software-bloat.html"><i class="glossterm">software bloat</i></a>.</p><p>This version of the jargon lexicon has been described (with
altogether too much truth for comfort) as an example of second-system
effect run amok on jargon-1....</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="search-and-destroy-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="secondary-damage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">search-and-destroy mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> secondary damage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the immediate cause may be that a pointer has been trashed due to a
previous <a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a>. However, this fandango
may have been due to an <span class="emphasis"><em>earlier</em></span> fandango, so no amount
of analysis will reveal (directly) how the damage occurred. &#8220;<span class="quote">The
data structure was clobbered, but it was secondary damage.</span>&#8221; By
extension, the corruption resulting from <tt class="literal">N</tt> cascaded
fandangoes on core is &#8216;<tt class="literal">N</tt>th-level damage&#8217;.
There is at least one case on record in which 17 hours of
<a href="../G/grovel.html"><i class="glossterm">grovel</i></a>ling with <b class="command">adb</b>
actually dug up the underlying bug behind an instance of seventh-level
damage! The hacker who accomplished this near-superhuman feat was
presented with an award by his fellows.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="second-system-effect.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="security-through-obscurity.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">second-system effect </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> security through obscurity</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with
security holes &#8212; namely, ignoring them, documenting neither any known
holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will
find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't
exploit them. This &#8220;<span class="quote">strategy</span>&#8221; never works for long and
occasionally sets the world up for debacles like the
<a href="../R/RTM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTM</i></a> worm of 1988 (see
<a href="../G/Great-Worm.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Worm</i></a>), but once the brief moments of panic created by such
events subside most vendors are all too willing to turn over and go back to
sleep. After all, actually fixing the bugs would siphon off the resources
needed to implement the next user-interface frill on marketing's wish list
&#8212; and besides, if they started fixing security bugs customers might
begin to <span class="emphasis"><em>expect</em></span> it and imagine that their warranties
of merchantability gave them some sort of <span class="emphasis"><em>right</em></span> to a
system with fewer holes in it than a shotgunned Swiss cheese, and
<span class="emphasis"><em>then</em></span> where would we be?</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: There are conflicting stories about the origin of
this term. It has been claimed that it was first used in the Usenet
newsgroup <tt class="systemitem">comp.sys.apollo</tt> during
a campaign to get HP/Apollo to fix security problems in its
Unix-<a href="../C/clone.html"><i class="glossterm">clone</i></a> Aegis/DomainOS (they didn't change a
thing). <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> fans, on the other hand, say it was
coined years earlier in opposition to the incredibly paranoid
<a href="../M/Multics.html"><i class="glossterm">Multics</i></a> people down the hall, for whom security was
everything. In the ITS culture it referred to (1) the fact that by the
time a tourist figured out how to make trouble he'd generally gotten over
the urge to make it, because he felt part of the community; and (2)
(self-mockingly) the poor coverage of the documentation and obscurity of
many commands. One instance of <span class="emphasis"><em>deliberate</em></span> security
through obscurity is recorded; the command to allow patching the running
ITS system (escape escape control-R) echoed as $$^D. If you actually typed
alt alt ^D, that set a flag that would prevent patching the system even if
you later got it right.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="secondary-damage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="SED.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">secondary damage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> SED</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="segmentation-fault.html"><i class="glossterm">segmentation fault</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="See-figure-1.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="seggie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">See figure 1 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> seggie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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reported from Britain.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="segfault.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="segment.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">segfault </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> segment</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun
&#8216;segment&#8217; than like mainstream <span class="grammar">v.</span> segment; this is because it is actually a noun
shorthand that has been verbed.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="seggie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="segmentation-fault.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">seggie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> segmentation fault</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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access memory not allocated to it and <a href="../C/core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core dump</i></a>s
with a segmentation violation error. This is often caused by improper
usage of pointers in the source code, dereferencing a null pointer, or (in
C) inadvertently using a non-pointer variable as a pointer. The classic
example is:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
   int i;<br/>
   scanf (&quot;%d&quot;, i);  /* should have used &amp;i */<br/>
</p></div></dd><dd><p> 2. To lose a train of thought or a line of reasoning. Also uttered
as an exclamation at the point of befuddlement.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="segment.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="segv.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">segment </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> segv</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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(actually, in this case, &#8216;segmentation violation&#8217;).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="segmentation-fault.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="self-reference.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">segmentation fault </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> self-reference</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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automated; it still requires a smidge of clueful human interaction.
Semi-automated programs usually come with written-out operator instructions
that are worth their weight in gold &#8212; without them, very nasty things can
happen. At USGS semi-automated programs are often referred to as
&#8220;<span class="quote">semi-automated weapons</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="semi.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="semi-infinite.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">semi </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> semi-infinite</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8216;semicolon&#8217;, when speaking. &#8220;<span class="quote">Commands to
<a href="../G/grind.html"><i class="glossterm">grind</i></a> are prefixed by semi-semi-star</span>&#8221; means
that the prefix is <tt class="literal">;;*</tt>, not 1/4 of a star. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A prefix used with words such as &#8216;immediately&#8217; as a
qualifier. &#8220;<span class="quote">When is the system coming up?</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Semi-immediately.</span>&#8221; (That is, maybe not for an hour.)
&#8220;<span class="quote">We did consider that possibility semi-seriously.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../I/infinite.html"><i class="glossterm">infinite</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="selvage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="semi-automated.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">selvage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> semi-automated</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on
which the requestor/client runs. A particularly common term on the
Internet, which is rife with <span class="firstterm">web
servers</span>, <span class="firstterm">name servers</span>,
<span class="firstterm">domain servers</span>, &#8216;news
servers&#8217;, <span class="firstterm">finger servers</span>, and
the like.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="September-that-never-ended.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="SEX.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">September that never ended </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> SEX</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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nothing at all, or results in your ending up in some completely unexpected
part of the filesystem....</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sex-changer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shar-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sex changer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shar file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/flatten.html"><i class="glossterm">flatten</i></a>ed representation of a set of one or more
files, with the unique property that it can be unflattened (the original
files restored) by feeding it through a standard Unix shell; thus, a
sharchive can be distributed to anyone running Unix, and no special
unpacking software is required. Sharchives are also intriguing in that
they are typically created by shell scripts; the script that produces
sharchives is thus a script which produces self-unpacking scripts, which
may themselves contain scripts. Sharchives are also commonly referred to as
&#8216;shar files&#8217; after the name of the most common program for
generating them.</p><p>The downsides of sharchives are that they
are an ideal venue for <a href="../T/Trojan-horse.html"><i class="glossterm">Trojan horse</i></a> attacks and
that, for recipients not running Unix, no simple un-sharchiving program is
possible; sharchives can and do make use of arbitrarily-powerful shell
features. For these reasons, this technique has largely fallen out
of use since the mid-1990s. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shar-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Share-and-enjoy-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shar file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Share and enjoy!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or
in an announcement made by the software itself. Such payment may or may
not buy additional support or functionality. See also
<a href="../C/careware.html"><i class="glossterm">careware</i></a>, <a href="../C/charityware.html"><i class="glossterm">charityware</i></a>,
<a href="../C/crippleware.html"><i class="glossterm">crippleware</i></a>, <a href="../F/FRS.html"><i class="glossterm">FRS</i></a>,
<a href="../G/guiltware.html"><i class="glossterm">guiltware</i></a>, <a href="../P/postcardware.html"><i class="glossterm">postcardware</i></a>, and
<a href="../W/suffix-ware.html"><i class="glossterm">-ware</i></a>; compare
<a href="../P/payware.html"><i class="glossterm">payware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Share-and-enjoy-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sharing-violation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Share and enjoy! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sharing violation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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response to receiving information, typically of an excessively personal
nature, that you were probably happier not knowing. &#8220;<span class="quote">You know those
little noises that Pat makes in bed?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Whoa! Sharing
violation!</span>&#8221; In contrast to the original file error, which indicated
that you were <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> being given data that you
<span class="emphasis"><em>did</em></span> want.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shareware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shebang.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shareware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shebang</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sequence &#8220;<span class="quote">#!</span>&#8221; that frequently begins executable shell scripts
under Unix. Probably derived from &#8220;<span class="quote">shell bang</span>&#8221; under the
influence of American slang &#8220;<span class="quote">the whole shebang</span>&#8221; (everything,
the works).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sharing-violation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shelfware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sharing violation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shelfware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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accordance with policy (by a corporation or government agency), but not
actually required for any particular use. Therefore, it often ends up on
some shelf.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shebang.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shell.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shebang </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shell</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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within a program (e.g., a mailer or editor). &#8220;<span class="quote">Bang foo runs foo in a
subshell, while bang alone shells out.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shell.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shift-left-or-right-logical.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shell </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shift left (or right) logical</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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via Unix] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an
operating system; so called because it is the part of the operating system
that interfaces with the outside world.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, any interface program that mediates access to a
special resource or <a href="server.html"><i class="glossterm">server</i></a> for convenience,
efficiency, or security reasons; for this meaning, the usage is usually
<span class="firstterm">a shell around</span> whatever. This sort
of program is also called a <span class="firstterm">wrapper</span>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. A skeleton program, created by hand or by another program (like,
say, a parser generator), which provides the necessary
<a href="../I/incantation.html"><i class="glossterm">incantation</i></a>s to set up some task and the control
flow to drive it (the term <a href="../D/driver.html"><i class="glossterm">driver</i></a> is sometimes used
synonymously). The user is meant to fill in whatever code is needed to get
real work done. This usage is common in the AI and Microsoft Windows
worlds, and confuses Unix hackers.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: Apparently, the original Multics shell (sense 1) was
so called because it was a shell (sense 3); it ran user programs not by
starting up separate processes, but by dynamically linking the programs
into its own code, calling them as subroutines, and then dynamically
de-linking them on return. The VMS command interpreter still does
something very like this.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shelfware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shell-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shelfware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shell out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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left (right). To move out of the way. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. imper. &#8220;<span class="quote">Get out of my seat! You can shift to that empty
one to the left (right).</span>&#8221; Often used without the <span class="firstterm">logical</span>, or as <span class="firstterm">left
shift</span> instead of <span class="firstterm">shift
left</span>. Sometimes heard as LSH <span class="pronunciation">/lish/</span>, from the
<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> instruction set. See
<a href="../P/Programmers-Cheer.html"><i class="glossterm">Programmer's Cheer</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shell-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shim.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shell out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shim</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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memory alignment or other addressing property. For example, the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>
Unix linker, in split I&amp;D (instructions and data) mode, inserts a
two-byte shim at location 0 in data space so that no data object will have
an address of 0 (and be confused with the C null pointer). See also
<a href="../L/loose-bytes.html"><i class="glossterm">loose bytes</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A type of small transparent image inserted into HTML documents by
certain WYSIWYG HTML editors, used to set the spacing of elements meant to
have a fixed positioning within a TABLE or DIVision. Hackers who work on
the HTML code of such pages afterwards invariably curse these for their
crocky dependence on the particular spacing of original image file, the
editor that generated them, and the version of the browser used to view
them. Worse, they are a poorly designed <a href="../K/kludge.html"><i class="glossterm">kludge</i></a> which
the advent of Cascading Style Sheets makes wholly unnecessary; Any fool can
plainly see that use of borders, layers and positioned elements is the
Right Thing (or would be if adequate support for CSS were more
common).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shift-left-or-right-logical.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shitogram.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shift left (or right) logical </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shitogram</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../N/nastygram.html"><i class="glossterm">nastygram</i></a>, <a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shim.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shotgun-debugging.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shim </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shotgun debugging</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug
will be perturbed out of existence. This almost never works, and usually
introduces more bugs.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shitogram.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shovelware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shitogram </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shovelware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended
to carry, but not integrated with the distribution. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A slipshod compilation of software dumped onto a CD-ROM without
much care for organization or even usability.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shotgun-debugging.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="showstopper.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shotgun debugging </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> showstopper</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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effectively unusable; one that absolutely has to be fixed before
development can go on. Opposite in connotation from its original
theatrical use, which refers to something stunningly
<span class="emphasis"><em>good</em></span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="shovelware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="shriek.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">shovelware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> shriek</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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common use among APL fans and mathematicians, especially category
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sig block</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="SIG.html" title="SIG"/><link rel="next" href="sig-quote.html" title="sig quote"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sig block</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SIG.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sig-quote.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sig-block"/><dt xmlns="" id="sig-block"><b>sig block</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sig blok/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Internet and Usenet; often written &#8216;.sig&#8217; there] Short
for &#8216;signature&#8217;, used specifically to refer to the electronic
signature block that most Unix mail- and news-posting software will
<a href="../A/automagically.html"><i class="glossterm">automagically</i></a> append to outgoing mail and news. The
composition of one's sig can be quite an art form, including an ASCII logo,
one's choice of witty sayings (see <a href="sig-quote.html"><i class="glossterm">sig quote</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fool-file.html"><i class="glossterm">fool file</i></a>), or even source code for small programs
about which the author wishes to make a statement; but many consider large
sigs a waste of <a href="../B/bandwidth.html"><i class="glossterm">bandwidth</i></a>, and it has been observed
that the size of one's sig block is usually inversely proportional to one's
longevity and level of prestige on the net. See also
<a href="../D/doubled-sig.html"><i class="glossterm">doubled sig</i></a>, <a href="../M/McQuary-limit.html"><i class="glossterm">McQuary limit</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="SIG.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sig-quote.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">SIG </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sig quote</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sig quote</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sig-block.html" title="sig block"/><link rel="next" href="sig-virus.html" title="sig virus"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sig quote</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sig-block.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sig-virus.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sig-quote"/><dt xmlns="" id="sig-quote"><b>sig quote</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sig kwoht/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] A maxim, quote, proverb, joke, or slogan embedded in one's
<a href="sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a> and intended to convey something of one's
philosophical stance, pet peeves, or sense of humor. &#8220;<span class="quote">Calm down,
it's only ones and zeroes.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sig-block.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sig-virus.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sig block </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sig virus</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sig virus</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sig-quote.html" title="sig quote"/><link rel="next" href="sigmonster.html" title="sigmonster"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sig virus</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sig-quote.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sigmonster.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sig-virus"/><dt xmlns="" id="sig-virus"><b>sig virus</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A parasitic <a href="../M/meme.html"><i class="glossterm">meme</i></a> embedded in a <a href="sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig
block</i></a>. There was a <a href="../M/meme-plague.html"><i class="glossterm">meme plague</i></a> or fad
for these on Usenet in late 1991. Most were equivalents of &#8220;<span class="quote">I am a
.sig virus. Please reproduce me in your .sig block.</span>&#8221;. Of course,
the .sig virus's memetic hook is the giggle value of going along with the
gag; this, however, was a self-limiting phenomenon as more and more people
picked up on the idea. There were creative variants on it; some people
stuck &#8216;sig virus antibody&#8217; texts in their sigs, and there was
at least one instance of a sig virus eater.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sig-quote.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sigmonster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sig quote </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sigmonster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sigmonster</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sig-virus.html" title="sig virus"/><link rel="next" href="signal-to-noise-ratio.html" title="signal-to-noise ratio"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sigmonster</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sig-virus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="signal-to-noise-ratio.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sigmonster"/><dt xmlns="" id="sigmonster"><b>sigmonster</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] A beast that randomly chooses one of a selection of
signatures for appending to mail and news messages. The creature is most
often mentioned directly when it has been in particularly good form and
selected a signature appropriate to the topic being discussed; the
construction &#8220;<span class="quote">P.S.: good sigmonster, have a cookie</span>&#8221; is not
uncommon. While the are sigmonster programs floating around on the net,
most hackers who keep one use a silly little Perl or Python script that
they threw together in the middle of the night under the influence of far
too much caffeine.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sig-virus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="signal-to-noise-ratio.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sig virus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> signal-to-noise ratio</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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