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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>T</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="next" href="tail-recursion.html" title="tail recursion"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">T</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../T.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tail-recursion.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="T"/><dt xmlns="" id="T"><b>T</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/T/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [from LISP terminology for ‘true’] Yes. Used in
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reply to a question (particularly one asked using <a href="../p-convention.html" title="The -P Convention">The -P convention</a>). In LISP, the constant T
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means ‘true’, among other things. Some Lisp hackers use
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‘T’ and ‘NIL’ instead of ‘Yes’ and
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‘No’ almost reflexively. This sometimes causes
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misunderstandings. When a waiter or flight attendant asks whether a hacker
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wants coffee, he may absently respond ‘T’, meaning that he
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wants coffee; but of course he will be brought a cup of tea instead.
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Fortunately, most hackers (particularly those who frequent Chinese
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restaurants) like tea at least as well as coffee — so it is not that
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big a problem. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. See <a href="time-T.html"><i class="glossterm">time T</i></a> (also
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<a href="../S/since-time-T-equals-minus-infinity.html"><i class="glossterm">since time T equals minus infinity</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [techspeak] In transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation
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for the noun ‘transaction’. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. [Purdue] Alternate spelling of <a href="tee.html"><i class="glossterm">tee</i></a>.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 5. A dialect of <a href="../L/LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a> developed at
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Yale. (There is an intended allusion to NIL, “<span class="quote">New Implementation of
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Lisp</span>”, another dialect of Lisp developed for the
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<a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a>)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../T.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tail-recursion.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">T </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tail recursion</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TAN</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="talker-system.html" title="talker system"/><link rel="next" href="tanked.html" title="tanked"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TAN</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="talker-system.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tanked.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TAN"/><dt xmlns="" id="TAN"><b>TAN</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet, particularly <tt class="systemitem">rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan</tt>] Abbrev. of
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‘tangent’, as in “<span class="quote">off on a tangent</span>”, and synonym
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for <a href="../O/OT.html"><i class="glossterm">OT</i></a>. A number of hacker-humor synonyms are used
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for TAN in some newsgroups. Instances such as BEIGE, OFF-WHITE,
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BROWNISH-GRAY, and LIGHT BROWN have been observed. It is generally
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understood on newsgroups with this convention that any color descriptor is
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a TAN synonym if (a) used as the first word(s) of the topic of a Usenet
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post, (b) written in ALL CAPS, and (c) followed immediately by a
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colon. Usage: “<span class="quote">OFF-WHITE: 2000 Presidential candidates</span>” on an
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SF newsgroup.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="talker-system.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tanked.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">talker system </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tanked</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TANSTAAFL</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tanked.html" title="tanked"/><link rel="next" href="tape-monkey.html" title="tape monkey"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TANSTAAFL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tanked.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tape-monkey.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TANSTAAFL"/><dt xmlns="" id="TANSTAAFL"><b>TANSTAAFL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tan´stah·fl/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic SF novel <i class="citetitle">The
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Moon is a Harsh Mistress</i>.] “<span class="quote">There Ain't No Such Thing As
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A Free Lunch</span>”, often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect
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of using an unpleasantly <a href="../H/heavyweight.html"><i class="glossterm">heavyweight</i></a> technique, or
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at the poor quality of some piece of software, or at the
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<a href="../S/signal-to-noise-ratio.html"><i class="glossterm">signal-to-noise ratio</i></a> of unmoderated Usenet
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newsgroups. “<span class="quote">What? Don't tell me I have to implement a database
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back end to get my address book program to work!</span>” “<span class="quote">Well,
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TANSTAAFL you know.</span>” This phrase owes some of its popularity to the
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high concentration of science-fiction fans and political libertarians in
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hackerdom (see <a href="../appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker">Appendix B</a> for
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discussion).</p><p>Outside hacker circles the variant TINSTAAFL (“<span class="quote">There is No Such
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Thing...</span>”) is apparently more common, and can be traced back to 1952
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in the writings of ethicist Alvin Hansen. TANSTAAFL may well have arisen
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from it by mutation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tanked.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tape-monkey.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tanked </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tape monkey</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TCB</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tayste.html" title="tayste"/><link rel="next" href="TCP-IP.html" title="TCP/IP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TCB</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tayste.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TCP-IP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TCB"/><dt xmlns="" id="TCB"><b>TCB</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/T·C·B/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM] 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or
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difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect or
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<a href="../S/shotgun-debugging.html"><i class="glossterm">shotgun debugging</i></a>. Compare
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<a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>. Not to be confused with:</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Trusted Computing Base, an ‘official’ jargon term
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from the <a href="../O/Orange-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Orange Book</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tayste.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TCP-IP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tayste </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TCP/IP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TCP/IP</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TCB.html" title="TCB"/><link rel="next" href="TECO.html" title="TECO"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TCP/IP</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TCB.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TECO.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TCP-IP"/><dt xmlns="" id="TCP-IP"><b>TCP/IP</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/T´C·P I´P/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol] The
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wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work, and the only
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one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or retching.
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DECnet, and the ISO 7-layer stack, TCP/IP evolved primarily by actually
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by a vendor or a heavily-politicized standards committee. Consequently, it
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(a) works, (b) actually promotes cheap cross-platform connectivity, and (c)
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annoys the hell out of corporate and governmental empire-builders
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everywhere. Hackers value all three of these properties. See
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<a href="../C/creationism.html"><i class="glossterm">creationism</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] Formerly expanded as “<span class="quote">The Crap Phil
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Is Pushing</span>”. The reference is to Phil Karn, KA9Q, and the context
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running AX.25 and the TCP/IP relays. TCP/IP won.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TCB.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TECO.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TCB </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TECO</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TECO</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TCP-IP.html" title="TCP/IP"/><link rel="next" href="tee.html" title="tee"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TECO</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TCP-IP.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tee.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TECO"/><dt xmlns="" id="TECO"><b>TECO</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tee´koh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,v. obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [originally an acronym for ‘[paper] Tape Editor and
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editor being used! This usage is rare and now primarily historical.</p></dd><dd><p>As an example of TECO's obscurity, here is a TECO program that takes
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J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$<br/>
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character).</p><p>In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted
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<a href="../B/bug.html"><i class="glossterm">bug</i></a>: GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the
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<b class="command">@</b> in front of <b class="command">F^B</b>, which as anyone can see is clearly the
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<a href="../W/write-only-language.html"><i class="glossterm">write-only language</i></a>. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TCP-IP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tee.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TCP/IP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tee</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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dispersal of the backbone cabal.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="timesharing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Tinkerbell-program.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">timesharing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Tinkerbell program</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TINLC</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="Tinkerbell-program.html" title="Tinkerbell program"/><link rel="next" href="tip-of-the-ice-cube.html" title="tip of the ice-cube"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TINLC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Tinkerbell-program.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tip-of-the-ice-cube.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TINLC"/><dt xmlns="" id="TINLC"><b>TINLC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Abbreviation: “<span class="quote">There Is No Lumber Cartel</span>”. See
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<a href="../L/Lumber-Cartel.html"><i class="glossterm">Lumber Cartel</i></a>. TINLC is a takeoff on
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<a href="TINC.html"><i class="glossterm">TINC</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Tinkerbell-program.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tip-of-the-ice-cube.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Tinkerbell program </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tip of the ice-cube</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TLA</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tits-on-a-keyboard.html" title="tits on a keyboard"/><link rel="next" href="TMRC.html" title="TMRC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TLA</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tits-on-a-keyboard.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TMRC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TLA"/><dt xmlns="" id="TLA"><b>TLA</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/T·L·A/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Three-Letter Acronym]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Self-describing abbreviation for a species with which computing
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terminology is infested. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU,
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SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA. People who like this looser usage argue that
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not all TLAs have three letters, just as not all four-letter words have
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four letters. One also hears of ‘ETLA’ (Extended Three-Letter
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Acronym, pronounced <span class="pronunciation">/ee tee el
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ay/</span>) being used to describe four-letter acronyms; the terms
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‘SFLA’ (Stupid Four-Letter Acronym), ‘LFLA’ (Longer
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Four Letter Acronym), and VLFLA (Very Long Five Letter Acronym) have also
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been reported. See also <a href="../Y/YABA.html"><i class="glossterm">YABA</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>The self-effacing phrase “<span class="quote">TDM TLA</span>” (Too Damn
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Many...) is often used to bemoan the plethora of TLAs in use. In
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1989, a random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin
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“<span class="quote">What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the
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90s?</span>” Paul's straight-faced response: “<span class="quote">There are only 17,000
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three-letter acronyms.</span>” (To be exact, there are <tt class="literal">26^3
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= 17,576</tt>.) There is probably some karmic justice in the
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fact that Paul Boutin subsequently became a journalist.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tits-on-a-keyboard.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TMRC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tits on a keyboard </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TMRC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TMRC</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TLA.html" title="TLA"/><link rel="next" href="TMRCie.html" title="TMRCie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TMRC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TLA.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TMRCie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TMRC"/><dt xmlns="" id="TMRC"><b>TMRC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tmerk´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of
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hacker culture. The 1959 <i class="citetitle">Dictionary of the TMRC
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Language</i> compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that
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became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see
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esp. <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>, <a href="../M/mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a>, and
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<a href="../F/frob.html"><i class="glossterm">frob</i></a>).</p><p>By 1962, TMRC's legendary layout was already a marvel of complexity
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and has grown in the years since. All the features described here were
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still present when the old layout was decommissioned in 1998 just before
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the demolition of MIT Building 20, and will almost certainly be retained
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when the old layout is rebuilt (expected in 2003). The control system
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alone featured about 1200 relays. There were <a href="../S/scram-switch.html"><i class="glossterm">scram
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switch</i></a>es located at numerous places around the room that could
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be thwacked if something undesirable was about to occur, such as a train
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going full-bore at an obstruction. Another feature of the system was a
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digital clock on the dispatch board, which was itself something of a wonder
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in those bygone days before cheap LEDs and seven-segment displays. When
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someone hit a scram switch the clock stopped and the display was replaced
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with the word ‘FOO’; at TMRC the scram switches are therefore
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called <span class="firstterm">foo switches</span>.</p><p>Steven Levy, in his book <i class="citetitle">Hackers</i> (see the
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<a href="../pt03.html#bibliography" title="Bibliography">Bibliography</a> in Appendix C), gives a
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stimulating account of those early years. TMRC's Signals and Power
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Committee included many of the early PDP-1 hackers and the people who later
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became the core of the MIT AI Lab staff. Thirty years later that
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connection is still very much alive, and this lexicon accordingly includes
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a number of entries from a recent revision of the TMRC dictionary.</p><p>TMRC has a web page at <a href="http://tmrc-www.mit.edu/" target="_top">http://tmrc-www.mit.edu/</a>. The TMRC
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Dictionary is available there, at <a href="http://tmrc-www.mit.edu/dictionary.html" target="_top">http://tmrc-www.mit.edu/dictionary.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TLA.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TMRCie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TLA </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TMRCie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TMRCie</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TMRC.html" title="TMRC"/><link rel="next" href="TMTOWTDI.html" title="TMTOWTDI"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TMRCie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TMRC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TMTOWTDI.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TMRCie"/><dt xmlns="" id="TMRCie"><b>TMRCie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tmerk´ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT] A denizen of <a href="TMRC.html"><i class="glossterm">TMRC</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TMRC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TMTOWTDI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TMRC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TMTOWTDI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TMTOWTDI</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TMRCie.html" title="TMRCie"/><link rel="next" href="to-a-first-approximation.html" title="to a first approximation"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TMTOWTDI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TMRCie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="to-a-first-approximation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TMTOWTDI"/><dt xmlns="" id="TMTOWTDI"><b>TMTOWTDI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tim·toh'·dee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">abbrev.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> There's More Than One Way To Do It. This abbreviation of the
|
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official motto of <a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a> is frequently used on
|
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newsgroups and mailing lists related to that language.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TMRCie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="to-a-first-approximation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TMRCie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> to a first approximation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TOFU</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toeprint.html" title="toeprint"/><link rel="next" href="toggle.html" title="toggle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TOFU</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toeprint.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toggle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TOFU"/><dt xmlns="" id="TOFU"><b>TOFU</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Text Over, Fullquote Under; see
|
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<a href="top-post.html"><i class="glossterm">top-post</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toeprint.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toggle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toeprint </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toggle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TOPS-10</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="topic-group.html" title="topic group"/><link rel="next" href="TOPS-20.html" title="TOPS-20"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TOPS-10</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="topic-group.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOPS-20.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TOPS-10"/><dt xmlns="" id="TOPS-10"><b>TOPS-10</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tops·ten/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>'s proprietary OS for the fabled
|
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<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> machines, long a favorite of hackers but now
|
||||
long extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A. See also
|
||||
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>, <a href="TOPS-20.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-20</i></a>,
|
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<a href="TWENEX.html"><i class="glossterm">TWENEX</i></a>, <a href="../V/VMS.html"><i class="glossterm">VMS</i></a>,
|
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<a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating system</i></a>. TOPS-10 was sometimes called
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BOTS-10 (from ‘bottoms-ten’) as a comment on the
|
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inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="topic-group.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOPS-20.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">topic group </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TOPS-20</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TOPS-20</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TOPS-10.html" title="TOPS-10"/><link rel="next" href="TOS.html" title="TOS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TOPS-20</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOPS-10.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TOPS-20"/><dt xmlns="" id="TOPS-20"><b>TOPS-20</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tops·twen´tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="TWENEX.html"><i class="glossterm">TWENEX</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOPS-10.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TOPS-10 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TOS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TOS</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TOPS-20.html" title="TOPS-20"/><link rel="next" href="tourist.html" title="tourist"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TOS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOPS-20.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tourist.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TOS"/><dt xmlns="" id="TOS"><b>TOS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the acronym for ‘Terms Of Service’ playing on the
|
||||
verb “<span class="quote">toss</span>”] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The act of terminating an Internet access account because the
|
||||
owner breached the terms of service (e.g. by spamming). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To successfully complain to the ISP for that reason so that they
|
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then close the account.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOPS-20.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tourist.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TOPS-20 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tourist</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TWENEX</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tweak.html" title="tweak"/><link rel="next" href="twiddle.html" title="twiddle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TWENEX</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tweak.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="twiddle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TWENEX"/><dt xmlns="" id="TWENEX"><b>TWENEX</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/twe´neks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The TOPS-20 operating system by <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> —
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the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 — preferred by most PDP-10
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hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not
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<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> or <a href="../W/WAITS.html"><i class="glossterm">WAITS</i></a> partisans).
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TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman's TENEX operating
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system using special paging hardware. By the early 1970s, almost all of
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the systems on the ARPANET ran TENEX. DEC purchased the rights to TENEX
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from BBN and began work to make it their own. The first in-house code name
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for the operating system was VIROS (VIRtual memory Operating System); when
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customers started asking questions, the name was changed to SNARK so DEC
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could truthfully deny that there was any project called VIROS. When the
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name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS;
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this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that <span class="firstterm">krans</span> meant ‘funeral wreath’ in
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Swedish (though some Swedish speakers have since said it means simply
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‘wreath’; this part of the story may be apocryphal).
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Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating system, and it
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was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community, mindful of its
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origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of ‘twenty
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TENEX’), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX
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code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and
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BSD). DEC people cringed when they heard “<span class="quote">TWENEX</span>”, but the
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term caught on nevertheless (the written abbreviation ‘20x’ was
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also used). TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a
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period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of
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partisans as Unix or ITS — but DEC's decision to scrap all the
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internal rivals to the <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> architecture and its
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relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's
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brief day in the sun. DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert
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to <a href="../V/VMS.html"><i class="glossterm">VMS</i></a>, but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the
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TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix. There is a <a href="http://panda.com/tops-20/" target="_top">TOPS-20 home page</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tweak.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="twiddle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tweak </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> twiddle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TeX</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="test.html" title="test"/><link rel="next" href="text.html" title="text"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TeX</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="test.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="text.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TeX"/><dt xmlns="" id="TeX"><b>TeX</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tekh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>An extremely powerful <a href="../M/macro.html"><i class="glossterm">macro</i></a>-based text
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formatter written by Donald E. <a href="../K/Knuth.html"><i class="glossterm">Knuth</i></a>, very popular
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in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix
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<a href="troff.html"><i class="glossterm">troff</i></a>, the other favored formatter, even at many
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Unix installations). TeX fans insist on the correct (guttural)
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pronunciation, and the correct spelling (all caps, squished together, with
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the E depressed below the baseline; the mixed-case ‘TeX’ is
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considered an acceptable kluge on ASCII-only devices). Fans like to
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proliferate names from the word ‘TeX’ — such as TeXnician
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(TeX user), TeXhacker (TeX programmer), TeXmaster (competent TeX
|
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programmer), TeXhax, and TeXnique. See also
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<a href="../C/CrApTeX.html"><i class="glossterm">CrApTeX</i></a>.</p><p>Knuth began TeX because he had become annoyed at the declining
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quality of the typesetting in volumes I--III of his monumental
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<i class="citetitle">Art of Computer Programming</i> (see
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<a href="../K/Knuth.html"><i class="glossterm">Knuth</i></a>, also <a href="../B/bible.html"><i class="glossterm">bible</i></a>). In a
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manifestation of the typical hackish urge to solve the problem at hand once
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and for all, he began to design his own typesetting language. He thought
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he would finish it on his sabbatical in 1978; he was wrong by only about 8
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years. The language was finally frozen around 1985, but volume IV of
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<i class="citetitle">The Art of Computer Programming</i> is not expected to
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appear until 2007. The impact and influence of TeX's design has been such
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that nobody minds this very much. Many grand hackish projects have started
|
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as a bit of <a href="toolsmith.html"><i class="glossterm">toolsmith</i></a>ing on the way to something
|
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else; Knuth's diversion was simply on a grander scale than most.</p><p>TeX has also been a noteworthy example of free, shared, but
|
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high-quality software. Knuth offers a monetary award to anyone who found
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and reported bugs dating from before the 1989 code freeze; as the years
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wore on and the few remaining bugs were fixed (and new ones even harder to
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find), the bribe went up. Though well-written, TeX is so large (and so
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full of cutting edge technique) that it is said to have unearthed at least
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one bug in every Pascal system it has been compiled with.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="test.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="text.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">test </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> text</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>That's not a bug, that's a feature!</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thanks-in-advance.html" title="thanks in advance"/><link rel="next" href="the-literature.html" title="the literature"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">That's not a bug, that's a feature!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thanks-in-advance.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-literature.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-"/><dt xmlns="" id="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-"><b>That's not a bug, that's a feature!</b></dt></dt><dd><p> The <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> first parry in a debate about a
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purported bug. The complainant, if unconvinced, is likely to retort that
|
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the bug is then at best a <a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a>. See also
|
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<a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thanks-in-advance.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-literature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thanks in advance </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> the literature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>This can't happen</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thinko.html" title="thinko"/><link rel="next" href="This-time--for-sure-.html" title="This time, for sure!"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">This can't happen</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thinko.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="This-time--for-sure-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="This-can-t-happen"/><dt xmlns="" id="This-can-t-happen"><b>This can't happen</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Less clipped variant of <a href="../C/can-t-happen.html"><i class="glossterm">can't happen</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thinko.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="This-time--for-sure-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thinko </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> This time, for sure!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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8
original/html/T/This-time--for-sure-.html
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>This time, for sure!</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="This-can-t-happen.html" title="This can't happen"/><link rel="next" href="thrash.html" title="thrash"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">This time, for sure!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="This-can-t-happen.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thrash.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="This-time--for-sure-"/><dt xmlns="" id="This-time--for-sure-"><b>This time, for sure!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">excl.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging
|
||||
sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a
|
||||
UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity
|
||||
imitation of Bullwinkle J. Moose. Also heard: “<span class="quote">Hey, Rocky! Watch me
|
||||
pull a rabbit out of my hat!</span>” The <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a>
|
||||
response is, of course, “<span class="quote">But that trick <span class="emphasis"><em>never</em></span>
|
||||
works!</span>” See <a href="../H/hacker-humor.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker humor</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="This-can-t-happen.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thrash.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">This can't happen </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thrash</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Tinkerbell program</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TINC.html" title="TINC"/><link rel="next" href="TINLC.html" title="TINLC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Tinkerbell program</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TINC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TINLC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Tinkerbell-program"/><dt xmlns="" id="Tinkerbell-program"><b>Tinkerbell program</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Great Britain] A monitoring program used to scan incoming network
|
||||
calls and generate alerts when calls are received from particular sites, or
|
||||
when logins are attempted using certain IDs. Named after ‘Project
|
||||
Tinkerbell’, an experimental phone-tapping program developed by
|
||||
British Telecom in the early 1980s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TINC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TINLC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TINC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TINLC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Trojan horse</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="troglodyte-mode.html" title="troglodyte mode"/><link rel="next" href="troll.html" title="troll"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Trojan horse</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="troglodyte-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="troll.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Trojan-horse"/><dt xmlns="" id="Trojan-horse"><b>Trojan horse</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards] A malicious
|
||||
security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a
|
||||
directory lister, archiver, game, or (in one notorious 1990 case on the
|
||||
Mac) a program to find and destroy viruses! See
|
||||
<a href="../B/back-door.html"><i class="glossterm">back door</i></a>, <a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../W/worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a>, <a href="../P/phage.html"><i class="glossterm">phage</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../M/mockingbird.html"><i class="glossterm">mockingbird</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="troglodyte-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="troll.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">troglodyte mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> troll</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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original/html/T/Troll-O-Meter.html
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Troll-O-Meter</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="troll.html" title="troll"/><link rel="next" href="tron.html" title="tron"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Troll-O-Meter</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="troll.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tron.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Troll-O-Meter"/><dt xmlns="" id="Troll-O-Meter"><b>Troll-O-Meter</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Common Usenet jargon for a notional instrument used to measure the
|
||||
provocation level of a Usenet <a href="troll.html"><i class="glossterm">troll</i></a>. “<span class="quote">Come on,
|
||||
everyone! If the above doesn't set off the Troll-O-Meter, we're going to
|
||||
have to get him to run around with a big blinking sign saying ‘I am a
|
||||
troll, I’m only in it for the controversy and flames', and shooting
|
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random gobs of Jell-O(tm) at us before the point is proven.</span>”
|
||||
Mentions of the Troll-O-Meter are often accompanied by an ASCII picture of
|
||||
an arrow pointing at a numeric scale. Compare
|
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<a href="../B/bogometer.html"><i class="glossterm">bogometer</i></a>,
|
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<a href="../I/Indent-o-Meter.html"><i class="glossterm">Indent-o-Meter</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="troll.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tron.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">troll </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tron</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Turing tar-pit</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="turbo-nerd.html" title="turbo nerd"/><link rel="next" href="turist.html" title="turist"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Turing tar-pit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="turbo-nerd.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="turist.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Turing-tar-pit"/><dt xmlns="" id="Turing-tar-pit"><b>Turing tar-pit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is
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practical. Alan Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by
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showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain
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very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of
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computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that
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differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed
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computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's
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primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom
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exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A
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<span class="firstterm">Turing tar-pit</span> is any computer
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language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's
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theoretically universal — but in practice, the harder you struggle to
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get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare
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<a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline language</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The perennial <a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a> over whether
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language A or B is the “<span class="quote">most powerful</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="turbo-nerd.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="turist.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">turbo nerd </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> turist</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Tux</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="turist.html" title="turist"/><link rel="next" href="tweak.html" title="tweak"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Tux</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="turist.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tweak.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Tux"/><dt xmlns="" id="Tux"><b>Tux</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Tux the Penguin is the official emblem of
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<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>, This eventuated after a logo contest in 1996,
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during which Linus Torvalds endorsed the idea of a penguin logo in a couple
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of famously funny <a href="http://www.sjbaker.org/tux/" target="_top">
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postings</a>. Linus explained that he was once bitten by a killer
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penguin in Australia and has felt a special affinity for the species ever
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since. (Linus has since admitted that he was also thinking of Feathers
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McGraw, the evil-genius penguin jewel thief who appeared in a Wallace &
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Grommit feature cartoon, <i class="citetitle">The Wrong Trousers</i>.)</p><p>Larry Ewing <a href="http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/" target="_top">
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designed</a> the official Tux logo. It has proved a wise choice,
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amenable to hundreds of recognizable variations used as emblems of
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Linux-related projects, products, and user groups. In fact, Tux has spawned
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an entire mythology, of which the <a href="http://www.ao.com/~regan/penguins/tux.html" target="_top"> Gospel According to
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Tux</a> and the mock-epic poem <i class="citetitle">Tuxowolf</i> are
|
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among the best-known examples.</p><p>There is a ‘real’ Tux — a black-footed penguin
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resident at the Bristol Zoo. Several friends of Linux bought a zoo
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sponsorship for Linus as a birthday present in 1996.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="turist.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tweak.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">turist </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tweak</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tail recursion</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="T.html" title="T"/><link rel="next" href="talk-mode.html" title="talk mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tail recursion</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="T.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="talk-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tail-recursion"/><dt xmlns="" id="tail-recursion"><b>tail recursion</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> If you aren't sick of it already, see
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<a href="tail-recursion.html"><i class="glossterm">tail recursion</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="T.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="talk-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">T </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> talk mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>talk mode</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tail-recursion.html" title="tail recursion"/><link rel="next" href="talker-system.html" title="talker system"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">talk mode</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tail-recursion.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="talker-system.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="talk-mode"/><dt xmlns="" id="talk-mode"><b>talk mode</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A feature supported by Unix and some other OSes that allows
|
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two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation. It
|
||||
combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity)
|
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that written language entails. It is difficult to communicate inflection,
|
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though conventions have arisen for some of these (see the section on
|
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writing style in the Prependices for details).</p><p>Talk mode has a special set of jargon words, used to save typing,
|
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which are not used orally. Some of these are identical to (and probably
|
||||
derived from) Morse-code jargon used by ham-radio amateurs since the
|
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1920s.</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>AFAIAC</td><td>as far as I am concerned</td></tr><tr><td>AFAIK</td><td>as far as I know</td></tr><tr><td>BCNU</td><td>be seeing you</td></tr><tr><td>BTW</td><td>by the way</td></tr><tr><td>BYE?</td><td>are you ready to unlink? (this is the standard way to end a
|
||||
talk-mode conversation; the other person types
|
||||
<b class="command">BYE</b>
|
||||
to confirm, or else continues the conversation)</td></tr><tr><td>CUL</td><td>see you later</td></tr><tr><td>ENQ?</td><td>are you busy? (expects <b class="command">ACK</b>
|
||||
or <b class="command">NAK</b> in return)</td></tr><tr><td>FOO?</td><td>are you there? (often used on unexpected links, meaning also
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Sorry if I butted in &ellipsis;</span>” (linker) or
|
||||
“<span class="quote">What's up?</span>” (linkee))</td></tr><tr><td>FWIW</td><td>for what it's worth</td></tr><tr><td>FYI</td><td>for your information</td></tr><tr><td>FYA</td><td>for your amusement</td></tr><tr><td>GA</td><td>go ahead (used when two people have tried to type
|
||||
simultaneously; this cedes the right to type to the other)</td></tr><tr><td>GRMBL</td><td>grumble (expresses disquiet or disagreement)</td></tr><tr><td>HELLOP</td><td>hello? (an instance of the ‘-P’ convention)</td></tr><tr><td>IIRC</td><td>if I recall correctly</td></tr><tr><td>JAM</td><td>just a minute (equivalent to
|
||||
<b class="command">SEC....</b>
|
||||
|
||||
)</td></tr><tr><td>MIN</td><td>same as <b class="command">JAM</b></td></tr><tr><td>NIL</td><td>no (see <a href="../N/NIL.html"><i class="glossterm">NIL</i></a>)</td></tr><tr><td>NP</td><td>no problem</td></tr><tr><td>O</td><td>over to you</td></tr><tr><td>OO</td><td>over and out</td></tr><tr><td>/</td><td>another form of “<span class="quote">over to you</span>”
|
||||
|
||||
(from x/y as “<span class="quote">x over y</span>”)</td></tr><tr><td>\</td><td>lambda (used in discussing LISPy things)</td></tr><tr><td>OBTW</td><td>oh, by the way</td></tr><tr><td>OTOH</td><td>on the other hand</td></tr><tr><td>R U THERE?</td><td>are you there?</td></tr><tr><td>SEC</td><td>wait a second (sometimes written
|
||||
<b class="command">SEC...</b>
|
||||
|
||||
)</td></tr><tr><td>SYN</td><td>Are you busy? (expects ACK, SYN|ACK, or RST in return; this
|
||||
is modeled on the TCP/IP handshake sequence)</td></tr><tr><td>T</td><td>yes (see the main entry for
|
||||
<a href="T.html"><i class="glossterm">T</i></a>)</td></tr><tr><td>TNX</td><td>thanks</td></tr><tr><td>TNX 1.0E6</td><td>thanks a million (humorous)</td></tr><tr><td>TNXE6</td><td>another form of “<span class="quote">thanks a million</span>”</td></tr><tr><td>TTBOMK</td><td>to the best of my knowledge</td></tr><tr><td>WRT</td><td>with regard to, or with respect to.</td></tr><tr><td>WTF</td><td>the universal interrogative particle; WTF knows what it
|
||||
means?</td></tr><tr><td>WTH</td><td>what the hell?</td></tr><tr><td><double newline></td><td>When the typing party has finished, he/she types two newlines
|
||||
to signal that he/she is done; this leaves a blank line between
|
||||
'speeches' in the conversation, making it easier to reread the
|
||||
preceding text.</td></tr><tr><td>YHTBT</td><td>You Had To Be There. Used of a situation which loses
|
||||
significant meaning in the telling, usually because it's difficult
|
||||
to convey tone and timing.</td></tr><tr><td><name>:</td><td>When three or more terminals are linked, it is conventional
|
||||
for each typist to <a href="../P/prepend.html"><i class="glossterm">prepend</i></a>
|
||||
his/her login name or handle and a colon (or a hyphen) to each line
|
||||
to indicate who is typing (some conferencing facilities do this
|
||||
automatically). The login name is often shortened to a unique prefix
|
||||
(possibly a single letter) during a very long conversation.</td></tr><tr><td>/\/\/\</td><td>A giggle or chuckle. On a MUD, this usually means 'earthquake
|
||||
fault'.</td></tr><tr><td><g></td><td>grin</td></tr><tr><td><gd&r></td><td>grinning, ducking, and running</td></tr><tr><td>BBL</td><td>be back later</td></tr><tr><td>BRB</td><td>be right back</td></tr><tr><td>HHOJ</td><td>ha ha only joking</td></tr><tr><td>HHOK</td><td>ha ha only kidding</td></tr><tr><td>HHOS</td><td><a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a></td></tr><tr><td>IMHO</td><td>in my humble opinion (see <a href="../I/IMHO.html"><i class="glossterm">IMHO</i></a>)</td></tr><tr><td>LOL</td><td>laughing out loud</td></tr><tr><td>NHOH</td><td>Never Heard of Him/Her (often used in
|
||||
<a href="../I/initgame.html"><i class="glossterm">initgame</i></a>)</td></tr><tr><td>ROTF</td><td>rolling on the floor</td></tr><tr><td>ROTFL</td><td>rolling on the floor laughing</td></tr><tr><td>AFK</td><td>away from keyboard</td></tr><tr><td>b4</td><td>before</td></tr><tr><td>CU l8tr</td><td>see you later</td></tr><tr><td>MORF</td><td>male or female?</td></tr><tr><td>TTFN</td><td>ta-ta for now</td></tr><tr><td>TTYL</td><td>talk to you later</td></tr><tr><td>OIC</td><td>oh, I see</td></tr><tr><td>rehi</td><td>hello again</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Most of these are not used at universities or in the Unix
|
||||
world, though ROTF and TTFN have gained some currency there and IMHO is
|
||||
common; conversely, most of the people who know these are unfamiliar with
|
||||
FOO?, BCNU, HELLOP, <a href="../N/NIL.html"><i class="glossterm">NIL</i></a>, and
|
||||
<a href="T.html"><i class="glossterm">T</i></a>.</p><p>The <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> community uses a mixture of
|
||||
Usenet/Internet emoticons, a few of the more natural of the old-style
|
||||
talk-mode abbrevs, and some of the ‘social’ list above;
|
||||
specifically, MUD respondents report use of BBL, BRB, LOL, b4, BTW, WTF,
|
||||
TTFN, and WTH. The use of <span class="firstterm">rehi</span> is
|
||||
also common; in fact, mudders are fond of re- compounds and will frequently
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">rehug</span> or <span class="firstterm">rebonk</span> (see <a href="../B/bonk-oif.html"><i class="glossterm">bonk/oif</i></a>)
|
||||
people. The word <span class="firstterm">re</span> by itself is
|
||||
taken as ‘regreet’. In general, though, MUDders express a
|
||||
preference for typing things out in full rather than using abbreviations;
|
||||
this may be due to the relative youth of the MUD cultures, which tend to
|
||||
include many touch typists and to assume high-speed links. The following
|
||||
uses specific to MUDs are reported:</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>CU l8er</td><td>see you later (mutant of <b class="command">CU l8tr</b>)</td></tr><tr><td>FOAD</td><td>fuck off and die (use of this is generally OTT)</td></tr><tr><td>OTT</td><td>over the top (excessive, uncalled for)</td></tr><tr><td>ppl</td><td>abbrev for “<span class="quote">people</span>”</td></tr><tr><td>THX</td><td>thanks (mutant of <b class="command">TNX</b>; clearly this comes in batches of 1138 (the
|
||||
Lucasian K)).</td></tr><tr><td>UOK?</td><td>are you OK?</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Some <a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a>isms (notably the variant spelling
|
||||
<b class="command">d00d</b>) appear to be passing into wider use
|
||||
among some subgroups of MUDders.</p><p>One final note on talk mode style: neophytes, when in talk mode,
|
||||
often seem to think they must produce letter-perfect prose because they are
|
||||
typing rather than speaking. This is not the best approach. It can be
|
||||
very frustrating to wait while your partner pauses to think of a word, or
|
||||
repeatedly makes the same spelling error and backs up to fix it. It is
|
||||
usually best just to leave typographical errors behind and plunge forward,
|
||||
unless severe confusion may result; in that case it is often fastest just
|
||||
to type “<span class="quote">xxx</span>” and start over from before the mistake.</p><p>See also <a href="../H/hakspek.html"><i class="glossterm">hakspek</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../E/emoticon.html"><i class="glossterm">emoticon</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tail-recursion.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="talker-system.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tail recursion </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> talker system</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>talker system</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="talk-mode.html" title="talk mode"/><link rel="next" href="TAN.html" title="TAN"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">talker system</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="talk-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TAN.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="talker-system"/><dt xmlns="" id="talker-system"><b>talker system</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> British hackerism for software that enables real-time chat or
|
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<a href="talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="talk-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TAN.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">talk mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TAN</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tanked</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TAN.html" title="TAN"/><link rel="next" href="TANSTAAFL.html" title="TANSTAAFL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tanked</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TAN.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TANSTAAFL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tanked"/><dt xmlns="" id="tanked"><b>tanked</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Same as <a href="../D/down.html"><i class="glossterm">down</i></a>, used primarily by Unix hackers.
|
||||
See also <a href="../H/hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a>. Popularized as a synonym for
|
||||
‘drunk’ by Steve Dallas in the late lamented <i class="citetitle">Bloom
|
||||
County</i> comic strip.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TAN.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TANSTAAFL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TAN </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TANSTAAFL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tape monkey</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TANSTAAFL.html" title="TANSTAAFL"/><link rel="next" href="tar-and-feather.html" title="tar and feather"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tape monkey</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TANSTAAFL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tar-and-feather.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tape-monkey"/><dt xmlns="" id="tape-monkey"><b>tape monkey</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A junior system administrator, one who might plausibly be assigned
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to do physical swapping of tapes and subsequent storage. When a backup
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needs to be restored, one might holler “<span class="quote">Tape monkey!</span>” (Compare
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<a href="../O/one-banana-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">one-banana problem</i></a>) Also used to dismiss jobs not
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worthy of a highly trained sysadmin's ineffable talents: “<span class="quote">Cable up
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her PC? You must be joking — I'm no tape monkey.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TANSTAAFL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tar-and-feather.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TANSTAAFL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tar and feather</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tar and feather</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tape-monkey.html" title="tape monkey"/><link rel="next" href="tarball.html" title="tarball"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tar and feather</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tape-monkey.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tarball.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tar-and-feather"/><dt xmlns="" id="tar-and-feather"><b>tar and feather</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Unix
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tar</span>(1)</span>]
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To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking
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them together with
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tar</span>(1)</span>
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(the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see
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<a href="../C/compress.html"><i class="glossterm">compress</i></a>). The latter action is dubbed <span class="firstterm">feathering</span> partly for euphony and (if only for
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contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to
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decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance;
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smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily. Compare the
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more common <a href="tarball.html"><i class="glossterm">tarball</i></a>. Earlier, the phrase referred
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to a punishment in which the victims had tar being poured upon them and
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then, whilst the tar was still sticky, having a pillow full of feathers -
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or other material — thrown at them. See <a href="http://www.nwta.com/Spy/spring99/tar.html" target="_top">http://www.nwta.com/Spy/spring99/tar.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tape-monkey.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tarball.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tape monkey </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tarball</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tarball</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tar-and-feather.html" title="tar and feather"/><link rel="next" href="tardegy.html" title="tardegy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tarball</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tar-and-feather.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tardegy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tarball"/><dt xmlns="" id="tarball"><b>tarball</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common; prob. based on the “<span class="quote">tar baby</span>” in the
|
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Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the Unix <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tar</span>(1)</span> utility,
|
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containing myriad related files. “<span class="quote">Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball
|
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of the whole project.</span>” Tarballs have been the standard way to ship
|
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around source-code distributions since the mid-1980s; in retrospect it
|
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seems odd that this term did not enter common usage until the late
|
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1990s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tar-and-feather.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tardegy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tar and feather </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tardegy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tardegy</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tarball.html" title="tarball"/><link rel="next" href="taste.html" title="taste"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tardegy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tarball.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="taste.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tardegy"/><dt xmlns="" id="tardegy"><b>tardegy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">tar´djee</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[deliberate mangling of <span class="firstterm">tragedy</span>] An incident in which someone who
|
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clearly deserves to be selected out of the gene pool on grounds of extreme
|
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stupidity meets with a messy end. Coined on the Darwin list, which is
|
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dedicated to chronicling such incidents; but almost all hackers would
|
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instantly recognize the intention of the term and laugh.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tarball.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="taste.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tarball </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> taste</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>taste</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tardegy.html" title="tardegy"/><link rel="next" href="tayste.html" title="tayste"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">taste</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tardegy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tayste.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="taste"/><dt xmlns="" id="taste"><b>taste</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional
|
||||
to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">tasty</span>, <span class="firstterm">tasteful</span>, <span class="firstterm">tastefulness</span>. “<span class="quote">This feature comes in
|
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<tt class="literal">N</tt> tasty flavors.</span>” Although
|
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<span class="firstterm">tasty</span> and <span class="firstterm">flavorful</span> are essentially synonyms, <span class="firstterm">taste</span> and <a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a> are
|
||||
not. Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program
|
||||
or feature can <span class="emphasis"><em>exhibit</em></span> taste but cannot
|
||||
<span class="emphasis"><em>have</em></span> taste. On the other hand, a feature can have
|
||||
<a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a>. Also, <a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a> has the
|
||||
additional meaning of ‘kind’ or ‘variety’ not
|
||||
shared by <span class="firstterm">taste</span>. The marked sense of
|
||||
<a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a> is more popular than <span class="firstterm">taste</span>, though both are widely used. See also
|
||||
<a href="../E/elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Alt. sp. of <a href="tayste.html"><i class="glossterm">tayste</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tardegy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tayste.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tardegy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tayste</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tayste</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="taste.html" title="taste"/><link rel="next" href="TCB.html" title="TCB"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tayste</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="taste.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TCB.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tayste"/><dt xmlns="" id="tayste"><b>tayste</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tayst/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <span class="grammar">n.</span> Two bits; also as
|
||||
<a href="taste.html"><i class="glossterm">taste</i></a>. Syn. <a href="../C/crumb.html"><i class="glossterm">crumb</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../Q/quarter.html"><i class="glossterm">quarter</i></a>. See <a href="../N/nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="taste.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TCB.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">taste </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TCB</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tee</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TECO.html" title="TECO"/><link rel="next" href="teergrube.html" title="teergrube"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tee</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TECO.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="teergrube.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tee"/><dt xmlns="" id="tee"><b>tee</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. “<span class="quote">Oh,
|
||||
you're sending him the <a href="../B/bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bits</i></a> to that? Slap on a tee
|
||||
for me.</span>” From the Unix command
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tee</span>(1)</span>,
|
||||
itself named after a pipe fitting (see <a href="../P/plumbing.html"><i class="glossterm">plumbing</i></a>).
|
||||
Can also mean ‘save one for me’, as in “<span class="quote">Tee a slice for
|
||||
me!</span>” Also spelled ‘T’.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TECO.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="teergrube.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TECO </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> teergrube</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>teergrube</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tee.html" title="tee"/><link rel="next" href="teledildonics.html" title="teledildonics"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">teergrube</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tee.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="teledildonics.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="teergrube"/><dt xmlns="" id="teergrube"><b>teergrube</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/teer´groob·@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [German for <span class="firstterm">tar pit</span>] A trap
|
||||
set to punish spammers who use an <a href="../A/address-harvester.html"><i class="glossterm">address harvester</i></a>;
|
||||
a mail server deliberately set up to be really, really slow. To activate
|
||||
it, scatter addresses that look like users on the teergrube's host in
|
||||
places where the address harvester will be trolling (one popular way is to
|
||||
embed the fake address in a Usenet sig block next to a human-readable
|
||||
warning not to send mail to it). The address harvester will dutifully
|
||||
collect the address. When the spammer tries to mailbomb it, his mailer
|
||||
will get stuck.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tee.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="teledildonics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tee </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> teledildonics</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>teledildonics</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="teergrube.html" title="teergrube"/><link rel="next" href="ten-finger-interface.html" title="ten-finger interface"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">teledildonics</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="teergrube.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ten-finger-interface.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="teledildonics"/><dt xmlns="" id="teledildonics"><b>teledildonics</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tel`@·dil·do'·niks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Sex in a computer simulated virtual reality, esp. computer-mediated
|
||||
sexual interaction between the <a href="../V/VR.html"><i class="glossterm">VR</i></a> presences of two
|
||||
humans. This practice is not yet possible except in the rather limited
|
||||
form of erotic conversation on <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>s and the like.
|
||||
The term, however, is widely recognized in the VR community as a
|
||||
<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a> projection of things to come.
|
||||
“<span class="quote">When we can sustain a multi-sensory surround good enough for
|
||||
teledildonics, <span class="emphasis"><em>then</em></span> we'll know we're getting
|
||||
somewhere.</span>” See also <a href="../H/hot-chat.html"><i class="glossterm">hot chat</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="teergrube.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ten-finger-interface.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">teergrube </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ten-finger interface</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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for security reasons; refers to the practice of placing two terminals side
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by side and having an operator read from one and type into the
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other.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="teledildonics.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tense.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">teledildonics </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tense</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tense</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="ten-finger-interface.html" title="ten-finger interface"/><link rel="next" href="tentacle.html" title="tentacle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tense</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ten-finger-interface.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tentacle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tense"/><dt xmlns="" id="tense"><b>tense</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often
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got that way because it was highly tuned, but sometimes it was just based
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on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a
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grad-student hacker at CMU: “<span class="quote">This routine is so tense it will bring
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tears to your eyes.</span>” A tense programmer is one who produces tense
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code.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ten-finger-interface.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tentacle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ten-finger interface </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tentacle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tentacle</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tense.html" title="tense"/><link rel="next" href="tenured-graduate-student.html" title="tenured graduate student"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tentacle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tense.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tenured-graduate-student.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tentacle"/><dt xmlns="" id="tentacle"><b>tentacle</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A covert <a href="../P/pseudo.html"><i class="glossterm">pseudo</i></a>, sense 1. An artificial
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identity created in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The
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implication is that a single person may have multiple tentacles. This term
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was originally floated in some paranoid ravings on the cypherpunks list
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(see <a href="../C/cypherpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cypherpunk</i></a>), and adopted in a spirit of irony
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by other, saner members. It has since shown up, used seriously, in the
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documentation for some remailer software, and is now (1994) widely
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recognized on the net. Compare <a href="../A/astroturfing.html"><i class="glossterm">astroturfing</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/sock-puppet.html"><i class="glossterm">sock puppet</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tense.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tenured-graduate-student.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tense </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tenured graduate student</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tenured graduate student</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tentacle.html" title="tentacle"/><link rel="next" href="tera-.html" title="tera-"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tenured graduate student</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tentacle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tera-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tenured-graduate-student"/><dt xmlns="" id="tenured-graduate-student"><b>tenured graduate student</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum
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is 5 or 6): a ‘ten-yeared’ student (get it?). Actually, this
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term may be used of any grad student beginning in his seventh year.
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Students don't really get tenure, of course, the way professors do, but a
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tenth-year graduate student has probably been around the university longer
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than any untenured professor.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tentacle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tera-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tentacle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tera-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tera-</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tenured-graduate-student.html" title="tenured graduate student"/><link rel="next" href="teraflop-club.html" title="teraflop club"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tera-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tenured-graduate-student.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="teraflop-club.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tera-"/><dt xmlns="" id="tera-"><b>tera-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/te´r@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [SI] See <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tenured-graduate-student.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="teraflop-club.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tenured graduate student </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> teraflop club</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>teraflop club</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tera-.html" title="tera-"/><link rel="next" href="terminak.html" title="terminak"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">teraflop club</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tera-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminak.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="teraflop-club"/><dt xmlns="" id="teraflop-club"><b>teraflop club</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/te´r@·flop kluhb/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] A mythical association of people
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who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few
|
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simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.
|
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Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder. Compare
|
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<a href="../K/Knights-of-the-Lambda-Calculus.html"><i class="glossterm">Knights of the Lambda Calculus</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tera-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminak.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tera- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> terminak</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>terminak</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="teraflop-club.html" title="teraflop club"/><link rel="next" href="terminal-brain-death.html" title="terminal brain death"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">terminak</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="teraflop-club.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminal-brain-death.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="terminak"/><dt xmlns="" id="terminak"><b>terminak</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ter´mi·nak`/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Caltech, ca. 1979] Any malfunctioning computer terminal. A common
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failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the ‘L’
|
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key to produce the ‘K’ code instead; complaints about this
|
||||
tended to look like “<span class="quote">Terminak #3 has a bad keyboard. Pkease
|
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fix.</span>” Compare <a href="../D/dread-high-bit-disease.html"><i class="glossterm">dread high-bit disease</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../F/frogging.html"><i class="glossterm">frogging</i></a>; see also
|
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<a href="../S/sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>, <a href="../H/HP-SUX.html"><i class="glossterm">HP-SUX</i></a>,
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||||
<a href="../S/Slowlaris.html"><i class="glossterm">Slowlaris</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="teraflop-club.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminal-brain-death.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">teraflop club </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> terminal brain death</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>terminal brain death</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="terminak.html" title="terminak"/><link rel="next" href="terminal-illness.html" title="terminal illness"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">terminal brain death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminak.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminal-illness.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="terminal-brain-death"/><dt xmlns="" id="terminal-brain-death"><b>terminal brain death</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The extreme form of <a href="terminal-illness.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal illness</i></a> (sense
|
||||
1). What someone who has obviously been hacking continuously for far too
|
||||
long is said to be suffering from.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminak.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminal-illness.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">terminak </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> terminal illness</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>terminal illness</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="terminal-brain-death.html" title="terminal brain death"/><link rel="next" href="terminal-junkie.html" title="terminal junkie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">terminal illness</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminal-brain-death.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminal-junkie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="terminal-illness"/><dt xmlns="" id="terminal-illness"><b>terminal illness</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Syn. <a href="../R/raster-burn.html"><i class="glossterm">raster burn</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The ‘burn-in’ condition your CRT tends to get if you
|
||||
don't have a screen saver.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminal-brain-death.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminal-junkie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">terminal brain death </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> terminal junkie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>terminal junkie</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="terminal-illness.html" title="terminal illness"/><link rel="next" href="test.html" title="test"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">terminal junkie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminal-illness.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="test.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="terminal-junkie"/><dt xmlns="" id="terminal-junkie"><b>terminal junkie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [UK] A <a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a> or early
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<a href="../L/larval-stage.html"><i class="glossterm">larval stage</i></a> hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the
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directory tree and writing <a href="../N/noddy.html"><i class="glossterm">noddy</i></a> programs just to
|
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get a fix of computer time. Variants include <span class="firstterm">terminal jockey</span>, <span class="firstterm">console junkie</span>, and
|
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<a href="../C/console-jockey.html"><i class="glossterm">console jockey</i></a>. The term <span class="firstterm">console
|
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jockey</span> seems to imply more expertise than the other three
|
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(possibly because of the exalted status of the
|
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<a href="../C/console.html"><i class="glossterm">console</i></a> relative to an ordinary terminal). See also
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<a href="twink.html"><i class="glossterm">twink</i></a>, <a href="../R/read-only-user.html"><i class="glossterm">read-only user</i></a>.
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Appropriately, this term was used in the works of William S. Burroughs to
|
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describe a heroin addict with an unlimited supply.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminal-illness.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="test.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">terminal illness </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> test</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>test</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="terminal-junkie.html" title="terminal junkie"/><link rel="next" href="TeX.html" title="TeX"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">test</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminal-junkie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TeX.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="test"/><dt xmlns="" id="test"><b>test</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to get thoroughly
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acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and followup of the results.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Some bored random user trying a couple of the simpler features
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with a developer looking over his or her shoulder, ready to pounce on
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mistakes.</p></dd><dd><p>Judging by the quality of most software, the second definition
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is far more prevalent. See also <a href="../D/demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="terminal-junkie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TeX.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">terminal junkie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TeX</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>text</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TeX.html" title="TeX"/><link rel="next" href="thanks-in-advance.html" title="thanks in advance"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">text</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TeX.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thanks-in-advance.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="text"/><dt xmlns="" id="text"><b>text</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a <span class="firstterm">pure code</span> portion shared between multiple
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instances of a program running in a multitasking OS. Compare
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<a href="../E/English.html"><i class="glossterm">English</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary
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<a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a> or <a href="../E/EBCDIC.html"><i class="glossterm">EBCDIC</i></a>
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representation (see <a href="../F/flat-ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">flat-ASCII</i></a>). “<span class="quote">Those are
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text files; you can review them using the editor.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p> These two contradictory senses confuse hackers, too.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TeX.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thanks-in-advance.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TeX </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thanks in advance</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thanks in advance</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="text.html" title="text"/><link rel="next" href="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-.html" title="That's not a bug, that's a feature!"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thanks in advance</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="text.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thanks-in-advance"/><dt xmlns="" id="thanks-in-advance"><b>thanks in advance</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] Conventional net.politeness ending a posted request for
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information or assistance. Sometimes written ‘advTHANKSance’
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or ‘aTdHvAaNnKcSe’ or abbreviated ‘TIA’. See
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<a href="../N/net--.html"><i class="glossterm">net.-</i></a>, <a href="../N/netiquette.html"><i class="glossterm">netiquette</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="text.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">text </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> That's not a bug, that's a feature!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>the X that can be Y is not the true X</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="the-network.html" title="the network"/><link rel="next" href="theology.html" title="theology"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">the X that can be Y is not the true X</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-network.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="theology.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X"/><dt xmlns="" id="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X"><b>the X that can be Y is not the true X</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Yet another instance of hackerdom's peculiar attraction to mystical
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references — a common humorous way of making exclusive statements
|
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about a class of things. The template is from the <i class="citetitle">Tao te
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Ching</i>: “<span class="quote">The Tao which can be spoken of is not the true
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Tao.</span>” The implication is often that the X is a mystery accessible
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only to the enlightened. See the <a href="trampoline.html"><i class="glossterm">trampoline</i></a> entry
|
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for an example, and compare <a href="../H/has-the-X-nature.html"><i class="glossterm">has the X nature</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-network.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="theology.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">the network </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> theology</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>the literature</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-.html" title="That's not a bug, that's a feature!"/><link rel="next" href="the-network.html" title="the network"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">the literature</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-network.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="the-literature"/><dt xmlns="" id="the-literature"><b>the literature</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Computer-science journals and other publications, vaguely gestured
|
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at to answer a question that the speaker believes is
|
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<a href="trivial.html"><i class="glossterm">trivial</i></a>. Thus, one might answer an annoying
|
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question by saying “<span class="quote">It's in the literature.</span>” Oppose
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<a href="../K/Knuth.html"><i class="glossterm">Knuth</i></a>, which has no connotation of
|
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triviality.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Thats-not-a-bug--thats-a-feature-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-network.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">That's not a bug, that's a feature! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> the network</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>the network</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="the-literature.html" title="the literature"/><link rel="next" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html" title="the X that can be Y is not the true X"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">the network</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-literature.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="the-network"/><dt xmlns="" id="the-network"><b>the network</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Historically, the union of all the major noncommercial, academic,
|
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and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the pre-1990 ARPANET,
|
||||
NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>
|
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‘networks’, plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial
|
||||
timesharing services (such as CompuServe, GEnie and AOL) that gateway to
|
||||
them. A site is generally considered <span class="firstterm">on the
|
||||
network</span> if it can be reached through some combination of
|
||||
Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. See
|
||||
<a href="../I/Internet.html"><i class="glossterm">Internet</i></a>, <a href="../B/bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang path</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../N/network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Following the mass-culture discovery of the Internet in 1994 and
|
||||
subsequent proliferation of cheap TCP/IP connections, “<span class="quote">the
|
||||
network</span>” is increasingly synonymous with the Internet itself (as it
|
||||
was before the second wave of wide-area computer networking began around
|
||||
1980). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and
|
||||
anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel
|
||||
<i class="citetitle">Schrödinger's Cat</i>, to which many hackers have
|
||||
subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of
|
||||
<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>).</p></dd><dd><p>In sense 1, <span class="firstterm">the network</span> is
|
||||
often abbreviated to <span class="firstterm">the net</span>.
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Are you on the net?</span>” is a frequent question when hackers
|
||||
first meet face to face, and “<span class="quote">See you on the net!</span>” is a
|
||||
frequent goodbye.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-literature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">the literature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> the X that can be Y is not the true X</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>theology</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html" title="the X that can be Y is not the true X"/><link rel="next" href="theory.html" title="theory"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">theology</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="theory.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="theology"/><dt xmlns="" id="theology"><b>theology</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to
|
||||
<a href="../R/religious-issues.html"><i class="glossterm">religious issues</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp. those where
|
||||
the resolution is of theoretical interest but is relatively
|
||||
<a href="../M/marginal.html"><i class="glossterm">marginal</i></a> with respect to actual use of a design or
|
||||
system. Used esp. around software issues with a heavy AI or
|
||||
language-design component, such as the smart-data vs. smart-programs
|
||||
dispute in AI.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="theory.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">the X that can be Y is not the true X </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> theory</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>theory</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="theology.html" title="theology"/><link rel="next" href="thinko.html" title="thinko"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">theory</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="theology.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thinko.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="theory"/><dt xmlns="" id="theory"><b>theory</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that is currently
|
||||
being used to inform a behavior. This usage is a generalization and
|
||||
(deliberate) abuse of the technical meaning. “<span class="quote">What's the theory on
|
||||
fixing this TECO loss?</span>” “<span class="quote">What's the theory on dinner
|
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tonight?</span>” (“<span class="quote">Chinatown, I guess.</span>”) “<span class="quote">What's the
|
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current theory on letting lusers on during the day?</span>” “<span class="quote">The
|
||||
theory behind this change is to fix the following well-known
|
||||
screw....</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="theology.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thinko.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">theology </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thinko</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thinko</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="theory.html" title="theory"/><link rel="next" href="This-can-t-happen.html" title="This can't happen"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thinko</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="theory.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="This-can-t-happen.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thinko"/><dt xmlns="" id="thinko"><b>thinko</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/thing´koh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [by analogy with ‘typo’] A momentary, correctable glitch
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in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information
|
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learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness.
|
||||
Syn. <a href="../B/braino.html"><i class="glossterm">braino</i></a>; see also
|
||||
<a href="../B/brain-fart.html"><i class="glossterm">brain fart</i></a>. Compare <a href="../M/mouso.html"><i class="glossterm">mouso</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="theory.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="This-can-t-happen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">theory </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> This can't happen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thrash</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="This-time--for-sure-.html" title="This time, for sure!"/><link rel="next" href="thread.html" title="thread"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thrash</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="This-time--for-sure-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thread.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thrash"/><dt xmlns="" id="thrash"><b>thrash</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
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Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time
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moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful
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computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Someone who keeps changing
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his mind (esp. about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A
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spending enough time on any single task) may also be described as
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thrashing. Compare <a href="../M/multitask.html"><i class="glossterm">multitask</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="This-time--for-sure-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thread.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">This time, for sure! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thread</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thread</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thrash.html" title="thrash"/><link rel="next" href="three-finger-salute.html" title="three-finger salute"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thread</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thrash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="three-finger-salute.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thread"/><dt xmlns="" id="thread"><b>thread</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of <span class="firstterm">topic thread</span>, a more or less continuous chain
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of postings on a single topic. To <span class="firstterm">follow a
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thread</span> is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common
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subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers. The
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better newsreaders can present news in thread order automatically. Not to
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be confused with the techspeak sense of ‘thread’, e.g. a
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lightweight process.</p><p>Interestingly, this is far from a neologism. The OED says:
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“<span class="quote">That which connects the successive points in anything, esp. a
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narrative, train of thought, or the like; the sequence of events or ideas
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continuing throughout the whole course of anything;</span>” Citations are
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given going back to 1642!</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thrash.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="three-finger-salute.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thrash </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> three-finger salute</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>three-finger salute</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thread.html" title="thread"/><link rel="next" href="throwaway-account.html" title="throwaway account"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">three-finger salute</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thread.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="throwaway-account.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="three-finger-salute"/><dt xmlns="" id="three-finger-salute"><b>three-finger salute</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="../V/Vulcan-nerve-pinch.html"><i class="glossterm">Vulcan nerve pinch</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thread.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="throwaway-account.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thread </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> throwaway account</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>throwaway account</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="three-finger-salute.html" title="three-finger salute"/><link rel="next" href="thud.html" title="thud"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">throwaway account</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="three-finger-salute.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thud.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="throwaway-account"/><dt xmlns="" id="throwaway-account"><b>throwaway account</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. An inexpensive Internet account purchased on a legitimate
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<a href="../I/ISP.html"><i class="glossterm">ISP</i></a> for the sole purpose of spewing
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<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for the sole purpose of
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doing something which requires a valid email address but being able to
|
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ignore spam since the user will not look at the account again.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="three-finger-salute.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thud.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">three-finger salute </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thud</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thud</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="throwaway-account.html" title="throwaway account"/><link rel="next" href="thumb.html" title="thumb"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thud</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="throwaway-account.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thumb.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thud"/><dt xmlns="" id="thud"><b>thud</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Yet another <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a> (see
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<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s
|
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the canonical series of these was ‘foo’, ‘bar’,
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‘thud’, ‘blat’.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Rare term for the hash character, ‘#’ (ASCII
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0100011). See <a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a> for other synonyms.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="throwaway-account.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thumb.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">throwaway account </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thumb</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thumb</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thud.html" title="thud"/><link rel="next" href="thundering-herd-problem.html" title="thundering herd problem"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thumb</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thud.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thundering-herd-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thumb"/><dt xmlns="" id="thumb"><b>thumb</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The slider on a window-system scrollbar. So called because moving
|
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it allows you to browse through the contents of a text window in a way
|
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analogous to thumbing through a book.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thud.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thundering-herd-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thud </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thundering herd problem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thundering herd problem</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thumb.html" title="thumb"/><link rel="next" href="thunk.html" title="thunk"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thundering herd problem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thumb.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thunk.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thundering-herd-problem"/><dt xmlns="" id="thundering-herd-problem"><b>thundering herd problem</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Scheduler thrashing. This can happen under Unix when you have a
|
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number of processes that are waiting on a single event. When that event (a
|
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connection to the web server, say) happens, every process which could
|
||||
possibly handle the event is awakened. In the end, only one of those
|
||||
processes will actually be able to do the work, but, in the meantime, all
|
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the others wake up and contend for CPU time before being put back to
|
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sleep. Thus the system thrashes briefly while a herd of processes thunders
|
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through. If this starts to happen many times per second, the performance
|
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impact can be significant.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thumb.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thunk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thumb </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thunk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thunk</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thundering-herd-problem.html" title="thundering herd problem"/><link rel="next" href="tick.html" title="tick"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thunk</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thundering-herd-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tick.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thunk"/><dt xmlns="" id="thunk"><b>thunk</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/thuhnk/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [obs.]“<span class="quote">A piece of coding which provides an
|
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address:</span>”, according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961
|
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as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in
|
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Algol-60 procedure calls. If a procedure is called with an expression in
|
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the place of a formal parameter, the compiler generates a thunk which
|
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computes the expression and leaves the address of the result in some
|
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standard location. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Later generalized into: an expression, frozen together with its
|
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environment, for later evaluation if and when needed (similar to what in
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techspeak is called a <span class="firstterm">closure</span>). The
|
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process of unfreezing these thunks is called <span class="firstterm">forcing</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A <a href="../S/stubroutine.html"><i class="glossterm">stubroutine</i></a>, in an overlay programming
|
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environment, that loads and jumps to the correct overlay. Compare
|
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<a href="trampoline.html"><i class="glossterm">trampoline</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>4. Microsoft and IBM have both defined, in their Intel-based
|
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systems, a “<span class="quote">16-bit environment</span>” (with bletcherous segment
|
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registers and 64K address limits) and a “<span class="quote">32-bit environment</span>”
|
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(with flat addressing and semi-real memory management). The two
|
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environments can both be running on the same computer and OS (thanks to
|
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what is called, in the Microsoft world, WOW which stands for Windows On
|
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Windows). MS and IBM have both decided that the process of getting from 16-
|
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to 32-bit and vice versa is called a “<span class="quote">thunk</span>”; for Windows 95,
|
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there is even a tool THUNK.EXE called a “<span class="quote">thunk compiler</span>”.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 5. A person or activity scheduled in a thunklike manner. “<span class="quote">It
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occurred to me the other day that I am rather accurately modeled by a thunk
|
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— I frequently need to be forced to completion.:</span>” —
|
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paraphrased from a <a href="../P/plan-file.html"><i class="glossterm">plan file</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: There are a couple of onomatopoeic myths circulating
|
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about the origin of this term. The most common is that it is the sound
|
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made by data hitting the stack; another holds that the sound is that of the
|
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data hitting an accumulator. Yet another suggests that it is the sound of
|
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the expression being unfrozen at argument-evaluation time. In fact,
|
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according to the inventors, it was coined after they realized (in the wee
|
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hours after hours of discussion) that the type of an argument in Algol-60
|
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could be figured out in advance with a little compile-time thought,
|
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simplifying the evaluation machinery. In other words, it had
|
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‘already been thought of’; thus it was christened a <span class="firstterm">thunk</span>, which is “<span class="quote">the past tense of
|
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‘think’ at two in the morning</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thundering-herd-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tick.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thundering herd problem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tick</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tick-list features</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tick.html" title="tick"/><link rel="next" href="tickle-a-bug.html" title="tickle a bug"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tick-list features</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tick.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tickle-a-bug.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tick-list-features"/><dt xmlns="" id="tick-list-features"><b>tick-list features</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Acorn Computers] Features in software or hardware that customers
|
||||
insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of
|
||||
thing). The American equivalent would be <span class="firstterm">checklist features</span>, but this jargon sense of
|
||||
the phrase has not been reported.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tick.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tickle-a-bug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tick </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tickle a bug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tick</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thunk.html" title="thunk"/><link rel="next" href="tick-list-features.html" title="tick-list features"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tick</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thunk.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tick-list-features.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tick"/><dt xmlns="" id="tick"><b>tick</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A <a href="../J/jiffy.html"><i class="glossterm">jiffy</i></a> (sense 1). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between
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iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of
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time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is
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the ordering of events. This sort of AI simulation is often pejoratively
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referred to as <span class="firstterm">tick-tick-tick</span>
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simulation, especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long,
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independent chains of causes is <a href="../H/handwave.html"><i class="glossterm">handwave</i></a>d. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. In the FORTH language, a single quote character.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thunk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tick-list-features.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">thunk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tick-list features</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tickle a bug</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tick-list-features.html" title="tick-list features"/><link rel="next" href="tiger-team.html" title="tiger team"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tickle a bug</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tick-list-features.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tiger-team.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tickle-a-bug"/><dt xmlns="" id="tickle-a-bug"><b>tickle a bug</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To cause a normally hidden bug to manifest itself through some known
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series of inputs or operations. “<span class="quote">You can tickle the bug in the
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Paradise VGA card's highlight handling by trying to set bright yellow
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reverse video.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tick-list-features.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tiger-team.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tick-list features </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tiger team</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tiger team</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tickle-a-bug.html" title="tickle a bug"/><link rel="next" href="time-bomb.html" title="time bomb"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tiger team</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tickle-a-bug.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="time-bomb.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tiger-team"/><dt xmlns="" id="tiger-team"><b>tiger team</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [U.S. military jargon] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Originally, a team (of <a href="../S/sneaker.html"><i class="glossterm">sneaker</i></a>s) whose
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purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures. These
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people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e.g., leave
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cardboard signs saying “<span class="quote">bomb</span>” in critical defense
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installations, hand-lettered notes saying “<span class="quote">Your codebooks have been
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stolen</span>” (they usually haven't been) inside safes, etc. After a
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successful penetration, some high-ranking security type shows up the next
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morning for a ‘security review’ and finds the sign, note, etc.,
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and all hell breaks loose. Serious successes of tiger teams sometimes lead
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to early retirement for base commanders and security officers (see the
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<a href="../P/patch.html"><i class="glossterm">patch</i></a> entry for an example). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Recently, and more generally, any official inspection team or
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special <a href="../F/firefighting.html"><i class="glossterm">firefighting</i></a> group called in to look at a
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problem.</p></dd><dd><p>A subset of tiger teams are professional
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<a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>s, testing the security of military computer
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installations by attempting remote attacks via networks or supposedly
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‘secure’ comm channels. Some of their escapades, if
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declassified, would probably rank among the greatest hacks of all times.
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The term has been adopted in commercial computer-security circles in this
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more specific sense.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tickle-a-bug.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="time-bomb.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tickle a bug </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> time bomb</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>time T</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="time-sink.html" title="time sink"/><link rel="next" href="times-or-divided-by.html" title="times-or-divided-by"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">time T</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="time-sink.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="times-or-divided-by.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="time-T"/><dt xmlns="" id="time-T"><b>time T</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ti:m T/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood time, often used in
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conjunction with a later time <tt class="literal">T+1</tt>.
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“<span class="quote">We'll meet on campus at time <tt class="literal">T</tt> or
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at Louie's at time <tt class="literal">T+1</tt></span>” means, in
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the context of going out for dinner: “<span class="quote">We can meet on campus and go to
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Louie's, or we can meet at Louie's itself a bit later.</span>” (Louie's was
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a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto that was a favorite with hackers.) Had
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the number 30 been used instead of the number 1, it would have implied that
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the travel time from campus to Louie's is 30 minutes; whatever time
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<tt class="literal">T</tt> is (and that hasn't been decided on
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yet), you can meet half an hour later at Louie's than you could on campus
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and end up eating at the same time. See also
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<a href="../S/since-time-T-equals-minus-infinity.html"><i class="glossterm">since time T equals minus infinity</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="time-sink.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="times-or-divided-by.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">time sink </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> times-or-divided-by</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>time bomb</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tiger-team.html" title="tiger team"/><link rel="next" href="time-sink.html" title="time sink"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">time bomb</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tiger-team.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="time-sink.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="time-bomb"/><dt xmlns="" id="time-bomb"><b>time bomb</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A subspecies of <a href="../L/logic-bomb.html"><i class="glossterm">logic bomb</i></a> that is triggered
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by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically. There are
|
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numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers in their employers'
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machines, to go off if the programmer is fired or laid off and is not
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present to perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically.</p><p>Interestingly, the only such incident for which we have been pointed
|
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to documentary evidence took place in the Soviet Union in 1986! A
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||||
disgruntled programmer at the Volga Automobile Plant (where the Fiat clones
|
||||
called Ladas were manufactured) planted a time bomb which, a week after
|
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he'd left on vacation, stopped the entire main assembly line for a day.
|
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The case attracted lots of attention in the Soviet Union because it was the
|
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first cracking case to make it to court there. The perpetrator got a
|
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suspended sentence of 3 years in jail and was barred from future work as a
|
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programmer.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tiger-team.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="time-sink.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tiger team </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> time sink</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>time sink</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="time-bomb.html" title="time bomb"/><link rel="next" href="time-T.html" title="time T"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">time sink</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="time-bomb.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="time-T.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="time-sink"/><dt xmlns="" id="time-sink"><b>time sink</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [poss.: by analogy with <span class="firstterm">heat
|
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sink</span> or <span class="firstterm">current sink</span>] A
|
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project that consumes unbounded amounts of time.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="time-bomb.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="time-T.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">time bomb </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> time T</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>times-or-divided-by</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="time-T.html" title="time T"/><link rel="next" href="timesharing.html" title="timesharing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">times-or-divided-by</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="time-T.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="timesharing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="times-or-divided-by"/><dt xmlns="" id="times-or-divided-by"><b>times-or-divided-by</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">quant.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [by analogy with ‘plus-or-minus’] Term occasionally used
|
||||
when describing the uncertainty associated with a scheduling estimate, for
|
||||
either humorous or brutally honest effect. For a software project, the
|
||||
scheduling uncertainty factor is usually at least 2.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="time-T.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="timesharing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">time T </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> timesharing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>timesharing</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="times-or-divided-by.html" title="times-or-divided-by"/><link rel="next" href="TINC.html" title="TINC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">timesharing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="times-or-divided-by.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TINC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="timesharing"/><dt xmlns="" id="timesharing"><b>timesharing</b></dt></dt><dd><p>[now primarily historical] Timesharing is the technique of scheduling
|
||||
a computer's time so that they are shared across multiple tasks and
|
||||
multiple users, with each user having the illusion that his or her
|
||||
computation is going on continuously. John McCarthy, the inventor of
|
||||
<a href="../L/LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a>, first <a href="http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html" target="_top">imagined
|
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this technique</a> in the late 1950s. The first timesharing operating
|
||||
systems, BBN's "Little Hospital" and <a href="../C/CTSS.html"><i class="glossterm">CTSS</i></a>, were
|
||||
deplayed in 1962-63. The early hacker culture of the 1960s and 1970s grew
|
||||
up around the first generation of relatively cheap timesharing computers,
|
||||
notably the <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> 10, 11, and <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> lines. But these
|
||||
were only cheap in a relative sense; though quite a bit less powerful than
|
||||
today's personal computers, they had to be shared by dozens or even
|
||||
hundreds of people each. The early hacker comunities nucleated around
|
||||
places where it was relatively easy to get access to a timesharing
|
||||
account.</p><p>Nowadays, communications bandwidth is usually the most important
|
||||
constraint on what you can do with your computer. Not so back then;
|
||||
timesharing machines were often loaded to capacity, and it was not uncommon
|
||||
for everyone's work to grind to a halt while the machine scheduler
|
||||
thrashed, trying to figure out what to do next. Early hacker slang
|
||||
was replete with terms like <span class="firstterm">cycle
|
||||
crunch</span> and <span class="firstterm">cycle drought</span>
|
||||
for describing the consequences of too few instructions-per-second spread
|
||||
among too many users. As GLS has noted, this sort of problem influenced
|
||||
the tendency of many hackers to work odd schedules.</p><p>One reason this is worth noting here is to make the point that the
|
||||
earliest hacker communities were physical, not distributed via networks;
|
||||
they consisted of hackers who shared a machine and therefore had to deal
|
||||
with many of the same problems with respect to it. A system crash could
|
||||
idle dozens of eager programmers, all sitting in the same terminal room and
|
||||
with little to do but talk with each other until normal operation
|
||||
resumed.</p><p>Timesharing moved from being the luxury of a few large universities
|
||||
runing semi-experimental operating systems to being more generally
|
||||
available about 1975-76. Hackers in search of more cycles and more control
|
||||
over their programming environment began to migrate off timesharing
|
||||
machines and onto what are now called <span class="firstterm">workstations</span> around 1983. It took another ten
|
||||
years, the development of powerful 32-bit personal micros, the
|
||||
<a href="../G/Great-Internet-Explosion.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Internet Explosion</i></a> before the migration was
|
||||
complete. It is no coincidence that the last stages of this migration
|
||||
coincided with the development of the first open-source operating
|
||||
systems.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="times-or-divided-by.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TINC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">times-or-divided-by </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TINC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tip of the ice-cube</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TINLC.html" title="TINLC"/><link rel="next" href="tired-iron.html" title="tired iron"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tip of the ice-cube</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TINLC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tired-iron.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tip-of-the-ice-cube"/><dt xmlns="" id="tip-of-the-ice-cube"><b>tip of the ice-cube</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM] The visible part of something small and insignificant. Used
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as an ironic comment in situations where ‘tip of the iceberg’
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might be appropriate if the subject were at all important.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TINLC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tired-iron.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TINLC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tired iron</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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the state of the art to have been superseded by new products, presumably
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with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck that the old stuff is starting
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to look a bit like a <a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tip-of-the-ice-cube.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tits-on-a-keyboard.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tip of the ice-cube </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tits on a keyboard</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tits on a keyboard</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tired-iron.html" title="tired iron"/><link rel="next" href="TLA.html" title="TLA"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tits on a keyboard</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tired-iron.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TLA.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tits-on-a-keyboard"/><dt xmlns="" id="tits-on-a-keyboard"><b>tits on a keyboard</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Small bumps on certain keycaps to keep touch-typists
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registered. Usually on the <tt class="literal">5</tt> of a numeric keypad, and on
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the <tt class="literal">F</tt> and <tt class="literal">J</tt> of a
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<a href="../Q/QWERTY.html"><i class="glossterm">QWERTY</i></a> keyboard; but older Macs (like pre-PC
|
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electric typewriters) had them on the <tt class="literal">D</tt> and
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<tt class="literal">K</tt> keys (this changed in 1999).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tired-iron.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TLA.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tired iron </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TLA</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>to a first approximation</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TMTOWTDI.html" title="TMTOWTDI"/><link rel="next" href="to-a-zeroth-approximation.html" title="to a zeroth approximation"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">to a first approximation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TMTOWTDI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="to-a-zeroth-approximation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="to-a-first-approximation"/><dt xmlns="" id="to-a-first-approximation"><b>to a first approximation</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] When one is doing certain numerical computations, an
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approximate solution may be computed by any of several heuristic methods,
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then refined to a final value. By using the starting point of a first
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approximation of the answer, one can write an algorithm that converges more
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quickly to the correct result. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In jargon, a preface to any comment that indicates that the
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comment is only approximately true. The remark “<span class="quote">To a first
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approximation, I feel good</span>” might indicate that deeper questioning
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would reveal that not all is perfect (e.g., a nagging cough still remains
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after an illness).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TMTOWTDI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="to-a-zeroth-approximation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TMTOWTDI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> to a zeroth approximation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>to a zeroth approximation</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="to-a-first-approximation.html" title="to a first approximation"/><link rel="next" href="toad.html" title="toad"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">to a zeroth approximation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="to-a-first-approximation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toad.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="to-a-zeroth-approximation"/><dt xmlns="" id="to-a-zeroth-approximation"><b>to a zeroth approximation</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from <span class="firstterm">to a first
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approximation</span>] A
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<i class="wordasword"><span class="emphasis"><em>really</em></span></i> sloppy approximation;
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a wild guess. Compare <a href="../S/social-science-number.html"><i class="glossterm">social science number</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="to-a-first-approximation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toad.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">to a first approximation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toad</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toad</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="to-a-zeroth-approximation.html" title="to a zeroth approximation"/><link rel="next" href="toast.html" title="toast"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toad</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="to-a-zeroth-approximation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toast.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toad"/><dt xmlns="" id="toad"><b>toad</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Notionally, to change a <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> player into a
|
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toad. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To permanently and totally exile a player from the MUD. A very
|
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serious action, which can only be done by a MUD
|
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<a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>; often involves a lot of debate among the
|
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other characters first. See also <a href="../F/frog.html"><i class="glossterm">frog</i></a>,
|
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<a href="../F/FOD.html"><i class="glossterm">FOD</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="to-a-zeroth-approximation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toast.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">to a zeroth approximation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toast</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toast</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toad.html" title="toad"/><link rel="next" href="toaster.html" title="toaster"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toast</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toad.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toast"/><dt xmlns="" id="toast"><b>toast</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span>Any completely inoperable
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system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned: “<span class="quote">Uh,
|
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oh ... I think the serial board is toast.</span>” (This sense went
|
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mainstream around 1993.) </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To cause a system to
|
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crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting.
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Rick just toasted the <a href="../F/firewall-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">firewall machine</i></a>
|
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again.</span>” Compare <a href="../F/fried.html"><i class="glossterm">fried</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toad.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toad </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toaster</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toast.html" title="toast"/><link rel="next" href="toeprint.html" title="toeprint"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toaster</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toast.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toeprint.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toaster"/><dt xmlns="" id="toaster"><b>toaster</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded
|
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microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme
|
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is inappropriate technology (but see
|
||||
<a href="../E/elevator-controller.html"><i class="glossterm">elevator controller</i></a>). “<span class="quote"><a href="../D/DWIM.html"><i class="glossterm">DWIM</i></a> for an
|
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assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster!</span>”
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A very, very dumb computer. “<span class="quote">You could run this program on
|
||||
any dumb toaster.</span>” See <a href="../B/bitty-box.html"><i class="glossterm">bitty box</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../G/Get-a-real-computer-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a real computer!</i></a>, <a href="toy.html"><i class="glossterm">toy</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../B/beige-toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">beige toaster</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A Macintosh, esp. a Mac in the original unitary case. Some hold
|
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that this is implied by sense 2. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A peripheral device. “<span class="quote">I bought my box without toasters,
|
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|
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|
||||
<a href="../W/web-toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">web toaster</i></a>, <a href="../V/video-toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">video toaster</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toast.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toeprint.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toast </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toeprint</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toeprint</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toaster.html" title="toaster"/><link rel="next" href="TOFU.html" title="TOFU"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toeprint</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toaster.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOFU.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toeprint"/><dt xmlns="" id="toeprint"><b>toeprint</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A <a href="../F/footprint.html"><i class="glossterm">footprint</i></a> of especially small size.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toaster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOFU.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TOFU</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toggle</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TOFU.html" title="TOFU"/><link rel="next" href="tool.html" title="tool"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toggle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOFU.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tool.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toggle"/><dt xmlns="" id="toggle"><b>toggle</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To change a <a href="../B/bit.html"><i class="glossterm">bit</i></a> from whatever state it is in
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to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to </p></dd><dd><p> 1. This comes from ‘toggle switches’, such as standard
|
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light switches, though the word <span class="firstterm">toggle</span> actually refers to the mechanism that
|
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keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the
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fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do
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less fun than talking about toggling bits.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOFU.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tool.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TOFU </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tool</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tool</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toggle.html" title="toggle"/><link rel="next" href="toolchain.html" title="toolchain"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tool</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toggle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolchain.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tool"/><dt xmlns="" id="tool"><b>tool</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span>A program used primarily to
|
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create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler
|
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or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose
|
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<a href="../A/app.html"><i class="glossterm">app</i></a>, <a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating system</i></a>; see
|
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also <a href="toolchain.html"><i class="glossterm">toolchain</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix] An application program with a simple,
|
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‘transparent’ (typically text-stream) interface designed
|
||||
specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see
|
||||
<a href="../F/filter.html"><i class="glossterm">filter</i></a>, <a href="../P/plumbing.html"><i class="glossterm">plumbing</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [MIT: general to students there] <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To work; to study (connotes tedium). The
|
||||
TMRC Dictionary defined this as “<span class="quote">to set one's brain to the
|
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grindstone</span>”. See <a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">n.</span> [MIT] A student who
|
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studies too much and hacks too little. (MIT's student humor magazine
|
||||
rejoices in the name <i class="citetitle">Tool and Die</i>.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toggle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolchain.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toggle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toolchain</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toolchain</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tool.html" title="tool"/><link rel="next" href="toolsmith.html" title="toolsmith"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toolchain</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tool.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolsmith.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toolchain"/><dt xmlns="" id="toolchain"><b>toolchain</b></dt></dt><dd><p> A collection of tools used to develop for a particular hardware
|
||||
target, or to work with a particular data format (thus ‘the Crusoe
|
||||
development toolchain’, or the ‘DocBook
|
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toolchain’). Often used in the context of building software on one
|
||||
system which will be installed or run on some other device; in that case
|
||||
the chain of tools usually consists of such items as a particular version
|
||||
of a compiler, libraries, special headers, etc. May also be used of
|
||||
text-formatting, page layout, or multimedia tools which render from some
|
||||
markup to a variety of production formats. Differs from
|
||||
‘toolkit’ in that the former implies a collection of
|
||||
semi-independent tools with complementary functions, while
|
||||
‘toolchain’ implies that each of the parts is a serial stage in
|
||||
a rather tightly bound pipeline. Seems to have become current in early
|
||||
1999 and 2000; now common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tool.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolsmith.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tool </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toolsmith</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toolsmith</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toolchain.html" title="toolchain"/><link rel="next" href="toor.html" title="toor"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toolsmith</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toolchain.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toolsmith"/><dt xmlns="" id="toolsmith"><b>toolsmith</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who
|
||||
specializes in making the <a href="tool.html"><i class="glossterm">tool</i></a>s with which other
|
||||
programmers create applications. Many hackers consider this more fun than
|
||||
applications per se; to understand why, see
|
||||
<a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a>. Jon Bentley, in the
|
||||
“<span class="quote">Bumper-Sticker Computer Science</span>” chapter of his book
|
||||
<i class="citetitle">More Programming Pearls</i>, quotes Dick Sites from
|
||||
<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> as saying “<span class="quote">I'd rather write programs to
|
||||
write programs than write programs</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toolchain.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toolchain </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toor</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toolsmith.html" title="toolsmith"/><link rel="next" href="top-post.html" title="top-post"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toor</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toolsmith.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="top-post.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toor"/><dt xmlns="" id="toor"><b>toor</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The Bourne-Again Super-user. An alternate account with UID of 0,
|
||||
created on Unix machines where the root user has an inconvenient choice of
|
||||
shell. Compare <a href="../A/avatar.html"><i class="glossterm">avatar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toolsmith.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="top-post.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toolsmith </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> top-post</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>top-post</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toor.html" title="toor"/><link rel="next" href="topic-drift.html" title="topic drift"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">top-post</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toor.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="topic-drift.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="top-post"/><dt xmlns="" id="top-post"><b>top-post</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] To put the newly-added portion of an email or Usenet
|
||||
response before the quoted part, as opposed to the more logical sequence of
|
||||
quoted portion first with original following. The problem with this
|
||||
practice is neatly summed up by the following FAQ entry:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
|
||||
A: No.
|
||||
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
|
||||
</pre></td></tr></table><p>This term is generally used pejoratively with the implication that
|
||||
the offending person is a <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>, a Microsoft addict
|
||||
(Microsoft mail tools produce a similar format by default), or simply a
|
||||
common-and-garden-variety idiot.</p><p>One major problem with top-posting is that people who do it all too
|
||||
frequently quote the <span class="emphasis"><em>entire</em></span> parent message rather than
|
||||
trimming it down to those portions relevent to their reply — this
|
||||
makes threads bulky and unnecessarily difficult to read and arouses the
|
||||
righteous ire of experienced Internet residents (this style is called
|
||||
“<span class="quote">TOFU</span>” for “<span class="quote">text over, fullquote under</span>”, or
|
||||
sometimes “<span class="quote">jeopardy-style quoting</span>”). Another problem is that
|
||||
top-posters often word their replies on the assumption that you just read
|
||||
the previous message, even though their perversity has put it further down
|
||||
the page than you have yet read. Oppose
|
||||
<a href="../B/bottom-post.html"><i class="glossterm">bottom-post</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toor.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="topic-drift.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toor </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> topic drift</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
19
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>topic drift</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="top-post.html" title="top-post"/><link rel="next" href="topic-group.html" title="topic group"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">topic drift</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="top-post.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="topic-group.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="topic-drift"/><dt xmlns="" id="topic-drift"><b>topic drift</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other electronic fora to describe the
|
||||
tendency of a <a href="thread.html"><i class="glossterm">thread</i></a> to drift away from the original
|
||||
subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating
|
||||
message), or the results of that tendency. The header in each post can be
|
||||
changed to keep current with the posts, but usually isn't due to
|
||||
forgetfulness or laziness. A single post may often result in several posts
|
||||
each responding to a different point in the original. Some subthreads will
|
||||
actually be in response to some off-the-cuff side comment, possibly
|
||||
degenerating into a <a href="../F/flame-war.html"><i class="glossterm">flame war</i></a>, or just as often
|
||||
evolving into a separate discussion. Hence, discussions aren't really so
|
||||
much threads as they are trees. Except that they don't really have leaves,
|
||||
or multiple branching roots; usually some lines of discussion will just
|
||||
sort of die off after everyone gets tired of them. This could take
|
||||
anywhere from hours to weeks, or even longer.</p><p>The term ‘topic drift’ is often used in gentle reminders
|
||||
that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. “<span class="quote">I think we
|
||||
started with a question about Niven's last book, but we've ended up
|
||||
discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now
|
||||
<span class="emphasis"><em>that's</em></span> topic drift!</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="top-post.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="topic-group.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">top-post </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> topic group</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>topic group</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="topic-drift.html" title="topic drift"/><link rel="next" href="TOPS-10.html" title="TOPS-10"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">topic group</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="topic-drift.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOPS-10.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="topic-group"/><dt xmlns="" id="topic-group"><b>topic group</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="../F/forum.html"><i class="glossterm">forum</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="topic-drift.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOPS-10.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">topic drift </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TOPS-10</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
10
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tourist information</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tourist.html" title="tourist"/><link rel="next" href="touristic.html" title="touristic"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tourist information</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tourist.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="touristic.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tourist-information"/><dt xmlns="" id="tourist-information"><b>tourist information</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful,
|
||||
but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software
|
||||
or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this
|
||||
category depends partly on what the user is looking for at any given time.
|
||||
The ‘bytes free’ information at the bottom of an MS-DOS or
|
||||
Windows <b class="command">dir</b> display is tourist information;
|
||||
so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a Unix
|
||||
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ps</span>(1)</span>
|
||||
display.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tourist.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="touristic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tourist </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> touristic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
13
original/html/T/tourist.html
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tourist</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TOS.html" title="TOS"/><link rel="next" href="tourist-information.html" title="tourist information"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tourist</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tourist-information.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tourist"/><dt xmlns="" id="tourist"><b>tourist</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in
|
||||
over a network from a remote location for <a href="../C/comm-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">comm mode</i></a>,
|
||||
email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below
|
||||
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>. ITS hackers often used to spell this
|
||||
<a href="turist.html"><i class="glossterm">turist</i></a>, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with
|
||||
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> (this usage may also have expressed the ITS
|
||||
culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of tribute to
|
||||
Alan Turing). Compare <a href="twink.html"><i class="glossterm">twink</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="../L/lurker.html"><i class="glossterm">lurker</i></a>, <a href="../R/read-only-user.html"><i class="glossterm">read-only user</i></a>.
|
||||
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [IRC] An <a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a> user who goes from channel to
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channel without saying anything; see
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<a href="../C/channel-hopping.html"><i class="glossterm">channel hopping</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tourist-information.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TOS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tourist information</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>touristic</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tourist-information.html" title="tourist information"/><link rel="next" href="toy.html" title="toy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">touristic</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tourist-information.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="touristic"/><dt xmlns="" id="touristic"><b>touristic</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Having the quality of a <a href="tourist.html"><i class="glossterm">tourist</i></a>. Often used
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as a pejorative, as in ‘losing touristic scum’. Often spelled
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‘turistic’ or ‘turistik’, so that phrase might be
|
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more properly rendered ‘lusing turistic scum’.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tourist-information.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tourist information </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toy language</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toy.html" title="toy"/><link rel="next" href="toy-problem.html" title="toy problem"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toy language</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toy-language"/><dt xmlns="" id="toy-language"><b>toy language</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A language useful for instructional purposes or as a
|
||||
proof-of-concept for some aspect of computer-science theory, but inadequate
|
||||
for general-purpose programming. <a href="../B/Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</i></a>s can
|
||||
result when a toy language is promoted as a general purpose solution for
|
||||
programming (see <a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline language</i></a>);
|
||||
the classic example is <a href="../P/Pascal.html"><i class="glossterm">Pascal</i></a>. Several moderately
|
||||
well-known formalisms for conceptual tasks such as programming Turing
|
||||
machines also qualify as toy languages in a less negative sense. See also
|
||||
<a href="../M/MFTL.html"><i class="glossterm">MFTL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toy problem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toy problem</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toy-language.html" title="toy language"/><link rel="next" href="toy-program.html" title="toy program"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toy problem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy-language.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy-program.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toy-problem"/><dt xmlns="" id="toy-problem"><b>toy problem</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [AI] A deliberately oversimplified case of a challenging problem
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used to investigate, prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem.
|
||||
Sometimes used pejoratively. See also <a href="../G/gedanken.html"><i class="glossterm">gedanken</i></a>,
|
||||
<a href="toy-program.html"><i class="glossterm">toy program</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy-language.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy-program.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toy language </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toy program</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toy program</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toy-problem.html" title="toy problem"/><link rel="next" href="trampoline.html" title="trampoline"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toy program</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="trampoline.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toy-program"/><dt xmlns="" id="toy-program"><b>toy program</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. One that can be readily comprehended; hence, a trivial program
|
||||
(compare <a href="../N/noddy.html"><i class="glossterm">noddy</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. One for which the effort of initial coding dominates the costs
|
||||
through its life cycle. See also <a href="../N/noddy.html"><i class="glossterm">noddy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="trampoline.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toy problem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> trampoline</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
||||
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toy</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="touristic.html" title="touristic"/><link rel="next" href="toy-language.html" title="toy language"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="touristic.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy-language.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toy"/><dt xmlns="" id="toy"><b>toy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A computer system; always used with qualifiers.</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="firstterm">nice toy</span>: One that supports
|
||||
the speaker's hacking style adequately. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">just a toy</span>: A machine that
|
||||
yields insufficient <a href="../C/computron.html"><i class="glossterm">computron</i></a>s for the speaker's
|
||||
preferred uses. This is not condemnatory, as is
|
||||
<a href="../B/bitty-box.html"><i class="glossterm">bitty box</i></a>; toys can at least be fun. It is also strongly conditioned
|
||||
by one's expectations; Cray XMP users sometimes consider the Cray-1 a
|
||||
<span class="firstterm">toy</span>, and certainly all RISC boxes and
|
||||
mainframes are toys by their standards. See also
|
||||
<a href="../G/Get-a-real-computer-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a real computer!</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="touristic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toy-language.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">touristic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toy language</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>trampoline</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toy-program.html" title="toy program"/><link rel="next" href="trap.html" title="trap"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">trampoline</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy-program.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="trap.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="trampoline"/><dt xmlns="" id="trampoline"><b>trampoline</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An incredibly <a href="../H/hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a> technique, found in some
|
||||
<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> and program-overlay implementations (e.g., on
|
||||
the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable
|
||||
(and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between
|
||||
code sections. Under BSD and possibly in other Unixes, trampoline code is
|
||||
used to transfer control from the kernel back to user mode when a signal
|
||||
(which has had a handler installed) is sent to a process. These pieces of
|
||||
<a href="../L/live-data.html"><i class="glossterm">live data</i></a> are called <span class="firstterm">trampolines</span>. Trampolines are notoriously
|
||||
difficult to understand in action; in fact, it is said by those who use
|
||||
this term that the trampoline that doesn't bend your brain is not the true
|
||||
trampoline. See also <a href="../S/snap.html"><i class="glossterm">snap</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toy-program.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="trap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toy program </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> trap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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