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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WAITS</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wabbit.html" title="wabbit"/><link rel="next" href="waldo.html" title="waldo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WAITS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wabbit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="waldo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WAITS"/><dt xmlns="" id="WAITS"><b>WAITS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wayts/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The mutant cousin of <a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a> used on a
handful of systems at <a href="../S/SAIL.html"><i class="glossterm">SAIL</i></a> up to 1990. There was
never an &#8216;official&#8217; expansion of WAITS (the name itself having
been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently
glossed as &#8216;West-coast Alternative to ITS&#8217;. Though WAITS was
less visible than ITS, there was frequent exchange of people and ideas
between the two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted
enormous indirect influence. The early screen modes of
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>, for example, were directly inspired by
WAITS's &#8216;E&#8217; editor &#8212; one of a family of editors that were
the first to do &#8216;real-time editing&#8217;, in which the editing
commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point of
insertion/overwriting. The modern style of multi-region windowing is said
to have originated there, and WAITS alumni at XEROX PARC and elsewhere
played major roles in the developments that led to the XEROX Star, the
Macintosh, and the Sun workstations. Also invented there were
<a href="../B/bucky-bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bucky bits</i></a> &#8212; thus, the ALT key on every IBM PC
is a WAITS legacy. One WAITS feature very notable in pre-Web days was a
news-wire interface that allowed WAITS hackers to read, store, and filter
AP and UPI dispatches from their terminals; the system also featured a
still-unusual level of support for what is now called <span class="firstterm">multimedia</span> computing, allowing analog audio and
video signals to be switched to programming terminals.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wabbit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="waldo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wabbit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> waldo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WIBNI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wibble.html" title="wibble"/><link rel="next" href="widget.html" title="widget"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WIBNI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wibble.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="widget.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WIBNI"/><dt xmlns="" id="WIBNI"><b>WIBNI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Bell Labs: Wouldn't It Be Nice If] What most requirements documents
and specifications consist entirely of. Compare
<a href="../I/IWBNI.html"><i class="glossterm">IWBNI</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wibble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="widget.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wibble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> widget</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WIMP environment</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wild-side.html" title="wild side"/><link rel="next" href="win.html" title="win"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WIMP environment</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wild-side.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="win.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WIMP-environment"/><dt xmlns="" id="WIMP-environment"><b>WIMP environment</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym: &#8216;Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device (or Pull-down
menu)&#8217;] A graphical-user-interface environment such as
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> or the Macintosh interface, esp. as described by a
hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior flexibility
and extensibility. However, it is also used without negative connotations;
one must pay attention to voice tone and other signals to interpret
correctly. See <a href="../M/menuitis.html"><i class="glossterm">menuitis</i></a>,
<a href="../U/user-obsequious.html"><i class="glossterm">user-obsequious</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wild-side.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="win.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wild side </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> win</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WOMBAT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="womb-box.html" title="womb box"/><link rel="next" href="womble.html" title="womble"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WOMBAT</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="womb-box.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="womble.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WOMBAT"/><dt xmlns="" id="WOMBAT"><b>WOMBAT</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wom´bat/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems
which are both profoundly <a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a> in
themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved.
Often used in fanciful constructions such as <span class="firstterm">wrestling with a wombat</span>. See also
<a href="../C/crawling-horror.html"><i class="glossterm">crawling horror</i></a>, <a href="../S/SMOP.html"><i class="glossterm">SMOP</i></a>. Also
note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in
<a href="../C/Commonwealth-Hackish.html"><i class="glossterm">Commonwealth Hackish</i></a>.</p><p>Users of the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> database program
DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as their notional mascot; the program's help
file responded to &#8220;<span class="quote">HELP WOMBAT</span>&#8221; with factual information about
Real World wombats.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="womb-box.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="womble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">womb box </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> womble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WYSIAYG</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wumpus.html" title="wumpus"/><link rel="next" href="WYSIWYG.html" title="WYSIWYG"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WYSIAYG</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wumpus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WYSIWYG.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WYSIAYG"/><dt xmlns="" id="WYSIAYG"><b>WYSIAYG</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wiz´ee·ayg/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Describes a user interface under which &#8220;<span class="quote">What You See Is
<span class="emphasis"><em>All</em></span> You Get</span>&#8221;; an unhappy variant of
<a href="WYSIWYG.html"><i class="glossterm">WYSIWYG</i></a>. Visual,
&#8216;point-and-shoot&#8217;-style interfaces tend to have easy initial
learning curves, but also to lack depth; they often frustrate advanced
users who would be better served by a command-style interface. When this
happens, the frustrated user has a WYSIAYG problem. This term is most
often used of editors, word processors, and document formatting programs.
WYSIWYG &#8216;desktop publishing&#8217; programs, for example, are a clear
win for creating small documents with lots of fonts and graphics in them,
especially things like newsletters and presentation slides. When
typesetting book-length manuscripts, on the other hand, scale changes the
nature of the task; one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations, and the
increased power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like
<a href="../T/TeX.html"><i class="glossterm">TeX</i></a> or Unix's <a href="../T/troff.html"><i class="glossterm">troff</i></a> becomes
not just desirable but a necessity. Compare
<a href="../Y/YAFIYGI.html"><i class="glossterm">YAFIYGI</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wumpus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WYSIWYG.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wumpus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WYSIWYG</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WYSIWYG</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="WYSIAYG.html" title="WYSIAYG"/><link rel="next" href="../X.html" title="X"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WYSIWYG</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="WYSIAYG.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../X.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WYSIWYG"/><dt xmlns="" id="WYSIWYG"><b>WYSIWYG</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wiz´ee·wig/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wiss´ee·wig/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Traced to Flip Wilson's &#8220;<span class="quote">Geraldine</span>&#8221; character c.1970]
Describes a user interface under which &#8220;<span class="quote">What You See Is What You
Get</span>&#8221;, as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands that
do not result in immediate visual feedback. True WYSIWYG in environments
supporting multiple fonts or graphics is a rarely-attained ideal; there are
variants of this term to express real-world manifestations including
WYSIAWYG (What You See Is <span class="emphasis"><em>Almost</em></span> What You Get) and
WYSIMOLWYG (What You See Is More or Less What You Get). All these can be
mildly derogatory, as they are often used to refer to dumbed-down
<a href="../U/user-friendly.html"><i class="glossterm">user-friendly</i></a> interfaces targeted at
non-programmers; a hacker has no fear of obscure commands (compare
<a href="WYSIAYG.html"><i class="glossterm">WYSIAYG</i></a>). On the other hand,
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> was one of the very first WYSIWYG editors,
replacing (actually, at first overlaying) the extremely obscure,
command-based <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>. See also
<a href="WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>. [Oddly enough, WYSIWYG made it into the 1986
supplement to the OED, in lower case yet. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="WYSIAYG.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../X.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">WYSIAYG </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> X</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Weenix</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="weenie.html" title="weenie"/><link rel="next" href="well-behaved.html" title="well-behaved"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Weenix</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="weenie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="well-behaved.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Weenix"/><dt xmlns="" id="Weenix"><b>Weenix</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wee´niks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [ITS] A derogatory term for <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>, derived
from <a href="../U/Unix-weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix weenie</i></a>. According to one noted ex-ITSer,
it is &#8220;<span class="quote">the operating system preferred by Unix Weenies: typified by
poor modularity, poor reliability, hard file deletion, no file version
numbers, case sensitivity everywhere, and users who believe that these are
all advantages</span>&#8221;. (Some ITS fans behave as though they believe Unix
stole a future that rightfully belonged to them. See
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>, sense 2.) </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Brown University] A Unix-like OS developed for tutorial purposes
at Brown University. See <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs167/weenix.html" target="_top">http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs167/weenix.html</a>.
Named independently of the ITS usage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="weenie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="well-behaved.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">weenie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> well-behaved</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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term that I've heard for a year and a half, and I feel I should know, but
don't. My curiosity has finally overcome my guilt.</span>&#8221; The PARC
lexicon adds &#8220;<span class="quote">Moral: don't hesitate to ask questions, even if they
seem obvious.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whales.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">whales </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wheel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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in unavoidable ways by the capacities of the operating system or hardware
they have to work with. Sometimes they are restricted in avoidable ways by
mental habits a developer has picked up from a particular language or
environment (perhaps a now-obsolete one) and never discarded. When a
design develops complications that are the result of a mental habit that is
no longer adaptive, the developer has succumbed to Whorfian mind-lock. The
design itself has been &#8216;whorfed&#8217;.</p><p>For example, some Unix designs are whorfed by the assumption that
directory searches are linear and expensive for large directories;
therefore directories must be kept small. Another common way to succumb to
Whorfian mind-lock is to do serial processing with a small working set
rather than slurping an entire file or data structure into memory; the
hidden assumption here is that not much core is available and virtual
memory works poorly if at all. Detecting Whorfian mind-lock is important,
because it tends to introduce unnecessary complexity and bugs.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whizzy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wibble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">whizzy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wibble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion.
There is a legend that the name arose because the original 1973 engineering
prototype for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
volumes; 30--30 became &#8216;Winchester&#8217; when somebody noticed the
similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter,
the first 30 referred to caliber and the second to the grain weight of the
charge). (It is sometimes incorrectly claimed that Winchester was the
laboratory in which the technology was developed.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="win-win.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="windoid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">win win </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> windoid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Windowsitis</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="window-shopping.html" title="window shopping"/><link rel="next" href="Windoze.html" title="Windoze"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Windowsitis</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="window-shopping.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Windoze.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Windowsitis"/><dt xmlns="" id="Windowsitis"><b>Windowsitis</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. As a disease of people: the tendency of inexperienced (or
Windows-experienced) Web developers have to use backslashes in URLs, rather
than the correct forward slashes.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. As a disease of programs: to be a rigid, clunky, bug-prone
monstrosity, all glossy surface with a hollow interior.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="window-shopping.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Windoze.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">window shopping </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Windoze</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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desktop computing in the 1990s. After 1999 it began to break up under
pressure from <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>; see
<a href="../L/Lintel.html"><i class="glossterm">Lintel</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="winnitude.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Wintendo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">winnitude </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Wintendo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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system kept primarily for the purpose of viewing multimedia and playing
games. The implication is that the speaker uses a Linux or *BSD box for
everything else.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Wintel.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wired.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Wintel </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wired</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Wizard Book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wizard.html" title="wizard"/><link rel="next" href="wizard-hat.html" title="wizard hat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Wizard Book</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wizard.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wizard-hat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Wizard-Book"/><dt xmlns="" id="Wizard-Book"><b>Wizard Book</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <i class="citetitle">Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs</i> (Hal Abelson, Jerry Sussman and Julie Sussman; MIT
Press, 1984, 1996; ISBN 0-262-01153-0), an excellent computer science text
used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on
the jacket. One of the <a href="../B/bible.html"><i class="glossterm">bible</i></a>s of the LISP/Scheme
world. Also, less commonly, known as the
<a href="../P/Purple-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Purple Book</i></a>. Now available on the <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/" target="_top">http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/</a></p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wizard.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wizard-hat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wizard </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wizard hat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if
capitalized. The opposite of the <a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right Thing</i></a>; more
generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where &#8216;the
good is the enemy of the best&#8217;, the merely good &#8212; although good
&#8212; is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. &#8220;<span class="quote">In C, the default is for
module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within
the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="write-only-memory.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wugga-wugga.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">write-only memory </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wugga wugga</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>-ware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="war-chalking.html" title="war-chalking"/><link rel="next" href="warez.html" title="warez"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">-ware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="war-chalking.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warez.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="suffix-ware"/><dt xmlns="" id="suffix-ware"><b>-ware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">suff.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from &#8216;software&#8217;] Commonly used to form jargon terms for
classes of software. For examples, see <a href="../A/annoyware.html"><i class="glossterm">annoyware</i></a>,
<a href="../C/careware.html"><i class="glossterm">careware</i></a>, <a href="../C/crippleware.html"><i class="glossterm">crippleware</i></a>,
<a href="../C/crudware.html"><i class="glossterm">crudware</i></a>, <a href="../F/freeware.html"><i class="glossterm">freeware</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fritterware.html"><i class="glossterm">fritterware</i></a>, <a href="../G/guiltware.html"><i class="glossterm">guiltware</i></a>,
<a href="../L/liveware.html"><i class="glossterm">liveware</i></a>, <a href="../M/meatware.html"><i class="glossterm">meatware</i></a>,
<a href="../P/payware.html"><i class="glossterm">payware</i></a>, <a href="../P/psychedelicware.html"><i class="glossterm">psychedelicware</i></a>,
<a href="../S/shareware.html"><i class="glossterm">shareware</i></a>, <a href="../S/shelfware.html"><i class="glossterm">shelfware</i></a>,
<a href="../V/vaporware.html"><i class="glossterm">vaporware</i></a>, <a href="wetware.html"><i class="glossterm">wetware</i></a>,
<a href="../S/spyware.html"><i class="glossterm">spyware</i></a>, <a href="../A/adware.html"><i class="glossterm">adware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="war-chalking.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warez.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">war-chalking </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> warez</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>w00t</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="next" href="wabbit.html" title="wabbit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">w00t</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../W.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wabbit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="w00t"/><dt xmlns="" id="w00t"><b>w00t</b></dt></dt><dd><p>An interjection similar to &#8220;<span class="quote">Yay!</span>&#8221;, as in: &#8220;<span class="quote">w00t!!!
I just got a raise!</span>&#8221; Often used for small victories the speaker dies
not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. Some claim this is a
bastardization of &#8220;<span class="quote">root</span>&#8221;, the highest level of access to a
system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak
equivalent of &#8220;<span class="quote">root</span>&#8221;, and said as an exclamation upon gaining
root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game
as an abbreviation of &#8220;<span class="quote">wonderful loot</span>&#8221;. Still other claim it
on originated on IRC as the &#8220;<span class="quote">Ewok victory cheer</span>&#8221;] Adj.
<span class="firstterm">w00table</span> has the sense of
&#8220;<span class="quote">cool</span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class="quote">nifty</span>&#8221;. This is one of the few
leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among
hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../W.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wabbit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">W </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wabbit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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wascawwy wabbit!</span>&#8221;] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and
elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by inspiration)
from a hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the
University of Washington Computer Center. The program would make two
copies of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the
system.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication
but is not a <a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a> or <a href="worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a>.
See <a href="../F/fork-bomb.html"><i class="glossterm">fork bomb</i></a> and <a href="../R/rabbit-job.html"><i class="glossterm">rabbit job</i></a>,
see also <a href="../C/cookie-monster.html"><i class="glossterm">cookie monster</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="w00t.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WAITS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">w00t </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WAITS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>waldo</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="WAITS.html" title="WAITS"/><link rel="next" href="walk.html" title="walk"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">waldo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="WAITS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="walk.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="waldo"/><dt xmlns="" id="waldo"><b>waldo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wol´doh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [From Robert A. Heinlein's story <i class="citetitle">Waldo</i>]
</p></dd><dd><p> 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human
limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s
they were named after the invention described by Heinlein in the story,
which he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more generic term <span class="firstterm">telefactoring</span>, this technology is of intense
interest to NASA for tasks like space station maintenance. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students), this is
used instead of <a href="../F/foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">foobar</i></a> as a metasyntactic variable
and general nonsense word. See <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>, <a href="../F/foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">foobar</i></a>,
<a href="../Q/quux.html"><i class="glossterm">quux</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="WAITS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="walk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">WAITS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> walk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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through it &#8212; a good way to land in trouble. Often the result of an
<a href="../O/off-by-one-error.html"><i class="glossterm">off-by-one error</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../C/clobber.html"><i class="glossterm">clobber</i></a>, <a href="../R/roach.html"><i class="glossterm">roach</i></a>,
<a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the stack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="walk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="walking-drives.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">walk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> walking drives</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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data structure in <a href="../C/core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>. See also
<a href="../C/codewalker.html"><i class="glossterm">codewalker</i></a>, <a href="../S/silly-walk.html"><i class="glossterm">silly walk</i></a>,
<a href="../C/clobber.html"><i class="glossterm">clobber</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="waldo.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="walk-off-the-end-of.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">waldo </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> walk off the end of</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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when they were huge, clunky <a href="washing-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">washing machine</i></a>s. Those
old <a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a> parts carried terrific angular
momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn bearings and
stick-slip interactions with the floor could cause them to
&#8216;walk&#8217; across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a
couple of millimeters at a time. There is a legend about a drive that
walked over to the only door to the computer room and jammed it shut; the
staff had to cut a hole in the wall in order to get at it! Walking could
also be induced by certain patterns of drive access (a fast seek across the
whole width of the disk, followed by a slow seek in the other direction).
Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing
patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive
races.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="walk-off-the-end-of.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wall.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">walk off the end of </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wall</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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native stupidity by efficiently following some simple procedure shown to
have been effective in the past. Used of an algorithm, this is not
necessarily pejorative; it recalls &#8216;Harvey Wallbanger&#8217;, the
winning robot in an early AI contest (named, of course, after the
cocktail). Harvey successfully solved mazes by keeping a
&#8216;finger&#8217; on one wall and running till it came out the other
end. This was inelegant, but it was mathematically guaranteed to work on
simply-connected mazes &#8212; and, in fact, Harvey outperformed more
sophisticated robots that tried to &#8216;learn&#8217; each maze by
building an internal representation of it. Used of humans, the term
<span class="emphasis"><em>is</em></span> pejorative and implies an uncreative, bureaucratic,
by-the-book mentality. See also <a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code grinder</i></a>;
compare <a href="../D/droid.html"><i class="glossterm">droid</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wall.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wall-time.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wall </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wall time</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of
<a href="../T/tick.html"><i class="glossterm">tick</i></a>s required to execute it (on a timesharing
system these always differ, as no one program gets all the ticks, and on
multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor
time than real time).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wall-follower.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wall-wart.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wall follower </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wall wart</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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directly into a wall outlet; called a &#8216;wart&#8217; because when
installed on a power strip it tends to block up at least one more socket
than it uses. These are frequently associated with modems and other small
electronic devices which would become unacceptably bulky or hot if they had
power supplies on board (there are other reasons as well having to do with
the cost of UL certification).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wall-time.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wallhack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wall time </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wallhack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8220;<span class="quote">Wall??</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A request for further explication. Compare
<a href="../O/octal-forty.html"><i class="glossterm">octal forty</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Unix, from &#8216;write all&#8217;] <span class="grammar">v.</span> To send a message to everyone currently logged
in, esp. with the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">wall</span>(8)</span>
utility.</p><p>It is said that sense 1 came from the idiom &#8216;like talking to a
blank wall&#8217;. It was originally used in situations where, after you
had carefully answered a question, the questioner stared at you blankly,
clearly having understood nothing that was explained. You would then throw
out a &#8220;<span class="quote">Hello, wall?</span>&#8221; to elicit some sort of response from the
questioner. Later, confused questioners began voicing &#8220;<span class="quote">Wall?</span>&#8221;
themselves.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="walking-drives.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wall-follower.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">walking drives </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wall follower</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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shooters like Quake, in which the walls in the simulated maze or dungeon
are rendered transparent to the cheater. This gives the cheater normally
hidden information about the whereabouts of other players. Beyond gaming,
a wallhack is the paradigm case of a whole class of security problems that
stem from the fact that a server cannot trust client software, and server
authors must assume that all computation farmed out to a client is exposed
to and can be interfered with by the user.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wall-wart.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wango.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wall wart </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wango</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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system during some unspecified operation. Often used in combination with
<a href="../M/mumble.html"><i class="glossterm">mumble</i></a>. For example: &#8220;<span class="quote">You start with the
&#8216;.o&#8217; file, run it through this postprocessor that does
mumble-wango &#8212; and it comes out a snazzy object-oriented
executable.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wallhack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wank.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wallhack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wank</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wank</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wango.html" title="wango"/><link rel="next" href="wannabee.html" title="wannabee"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wank</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wango.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wannabee.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wank"/><dt xmlns="" id="wank"><b>wank</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wangk/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,v.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Columbia University: prob.: by mutation from Commonwealth slang
<span class="grammar">v.</span> <span class="firstterm">wank</span>, to masturbate] Used much as
<a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a> is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever
technique or person or the result of such cleverness. May describe
(negatively) the act of hacking for hacking's sake (&#8220;<span class="quote">Quit wanking,
let's go get supper!</span>&#8221;) or (more positively) a
<a href="wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>. Adj. <span class="firstterm">wanky</span> describes something particularly clever
(a person, program, or algorithm). Conversations can also get wanky when
there are too many wanks involved. This excess wankiness is signalled by
an overload of the <span class="firstterm">wankometer</span>
(compare <a href="../B/bogometer.html"><i class="glossterm">bogometer</i></a>). When the wankometer overloads,
the conversation's subject must be changed, or all non-wanks will leave.
Compare <span class="firstterm">neep-neeping</span> (under
<a href="../N/neep-neep.html"><i class="glossterm">neep-neep</i></a>). Usage: U.S. only. In Britain and the
Commonwealth this word is <span class="emphasis"><em>extremely</em></span> rude and is best
avoided unless one intends to give offense. Adjectival <span class="firstterm">wanky</span> is less offensive and simply means
&#8216;stupid&#8217; or &#8216;broken&#8217; (this is mainstream in Great
Britain). </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wango.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wannabee.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wango </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wannabee</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wannabee</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wank.html" title="wank"/><link rel="next" href="war-dialer.html" title="war dialer"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wannabee</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wank.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="war-dialer.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wannabee"/><dt xmlns="" id="wannabee"><b>wannabee</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/won'@·bee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (also, more plausibly, spelled <span class="firstterm">wannabe</span>) [from a term recently used to describe
Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; prob.: originally
from biker slang] A would-be <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>. The
connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and exposure
of the subject. Used of a person who is in or might be entering
<a href="../L/larval-stage.html"><i class="glossterm">larval stage</i></a>, it is semi-approving; such wannabees
can be annoying but most hackers remember that they, too, were once such
creatures. When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer,
or <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>, it is derogatory, implying that said person
is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally,
have a prayer of understanding what it is all about. Overuse of terms from
this lexicon is often an indication of the <a href="wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>
nature. Compare <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different
flavor now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years ago. When the people
who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in <a href="../L/larval-stage.html"><i class="glossterm">larval
stage</i></a>, the process of becoming a hacker was largely unconscious
and unaffected by models known in popular culture &#8212; communities
formed spontaneously around people who, <span class="emphasis"><em>as
individuals</em></span>, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly things, and
what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure, skill-focused desire to
become similarly wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever;
society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included
the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is
that some people semi-consciously set out to <span class="emphasis"><em>be
hackers</em></span> and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image
of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually
become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly
articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them
mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this
one.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wank.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="war-dialer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wank </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> war dialer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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since been reinterpreted as an acronym for &#8220;<span class="quote">wireless access
revolution</span>&#8221;] The practice of using chalk marks similar to hobo signs
to indicate the nearby presence of a wireless Internet access point, a boon
to strolling hackers with laptops. The concept was first floated in early
2002 and was instantly seized upon with cries of glee by hackers all over
the portions of the world urbanized enough to have sidewalks and access
points. The process rather recalls the explosive spread of heraldry in the
medieval Europe of the 1120s. There is a site that <a href="http://www.warchalking.org/" target="_top">explains the symbology</a>;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="war-driving.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="suffix-ware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">war-driving </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> -ware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>war dialer</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wannabee.html" title="wannabee"/><link rel="next" href="war-driving.html" title="war-driving"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">war dialer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wannabee.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="war-driving.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="war-dialer"/><dt xmlns="" id="war-dialer"><b>war dialer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [originally from &#8216;wargames dialer&#8217;, a reference to the
movie <i class="citetitle">War Games</i>] A cracking tool, a program that
calls a given list or range of phone numbers and records those which answer
with handshake tones (and so might be entry points to computer or
telecommunications systems). Some of these programs have become quite
sophisticated, and can now detect modem, fax, or PBX tones and log each one
separately. The war dialer is one of the most important tools in the
<a href="../P/phreaker.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaker</i></a>'s kit. These programs evolved from early
<a href="../D/demon-dialer.html"><i class="glossterm">demon dialer</i></a>s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wannabee.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="war-driving.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wannabee </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> war-driving</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<span class="firstterm">wardriving</span>] Driving around looking
for unsecured wireless Internet access points to connect to. More at the
<a href="http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/WarDriving" target="_top"> War Driving
home page</a>. Compare <a href="war-chalking.html"><i class="glossterm">war-chalking</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="war-dialer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="war-chalking.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">war dialer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> war-chalking</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>warez d00dz</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="warez.html" title="warez"/><link rel="next" href="warez-kiddies.html" title="warez kiddies"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">warez d00dz</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warez.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warez-kiddies.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="warez-d00dz"/><dt xmlns="" id="warez-d00dz"><b>warez d00dz</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/weirz doodz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A substantial subculture of <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>s refer to
themselves as <span class="firstterm">warez d00dz</span>; there is
evidently some connection with <a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a> here. As
&#8216;Ozone Pilot&#8217;, one former warez d00d, wrote:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
Warez d00dz get illegal copies of copyrighted software. If
it has copy protection on it, they break the protection so
the software can be copied. Then they distribute it around
the world via several gateways. Warez d00dz form badass
group names like RAZOR and the like. They put up boards
that distribute the latest ware, or pirate program. The
whole point of the Warez sub-culture is to get the pirate
program released and distributed before any other group. I
know, I know. But don't ask, and it won't hurt as much.
This is how they prove their poweress [sic]. It gives them
the right to say, &#8220;<span class="quote">I released King's Quest IVXIX before you
so obviously my testicles are larger.</span>&#8221; Again don't ask...
</p></blockquote></div><p>The studly thing to do if one is a warez d00d, it appears, is emit
<span class="firstterm">0-day warez</span>, that is copies of
commercial software copied and cracked on the same day as its retail
release. Warez d00ds also hoard software in a big way, collecting untold
megabytes of arcade-style games, pornographic JPGs, and applications
they'll never use onto their hard disks. As Ozone Pilot acutely
observes:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>[BELONG] is the only word you will need
to know. Warez d00dz want to belong. They have been shunned by everyone,
and thus turn to cyberspace for acceptance. That is why they always start
groups like TGW, FLT, USA and the like. Structure makes them happy. [...]
Warez d00dz will never have a handle like &#8220;<span class="quote">Pink Daisy</span>&#8221; because
warez d00dz are insecure. Only someone who is very secure with a good dose
of self-esteem can stand up to the cries of fag and girlie-man. More
likely you will find warez d00dz with handles like: Doctor Death, Deranged
Lunatic, Hellraiser, Mad Prince, Dreamdevil, The Unknown, Renegade Chemist,
Terminator, and Twin Turbo. They like to sound badass when they can hide
behind their terminals. More likely, if you were given a sample of 100
people, the person whose handle is Hellraiser is the last person you'd
associate with the name.</p></blockquote></div><p>The contrast with Internet hackers is stark and instructive. See
<a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>, <a href="wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>,
<a href="../H/handle.html"><i class="glossterm">handle</i></a>, <a href="../E/elite.html"><i class="glossterm">elite</i></a>,
<a href="../C/courier.html"><i class="glossterm">courier</i></a>, <a href="../L/leech.html"><i class="glossterm">leech</i></a>; compare
<a href="weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">weenie</i></a>, <a href="../S/spod.html"><i class="glossterm">spod</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warez.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warez-kiddies.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">warez </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> warez kiddies</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>; refers to the fact that most warez d00dz are around the
age of puberty. Compare <a href="../S/script-kiddies.html"><i class="glossterm">script kiddies</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warez-d00dz.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warlording.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">warez d00dz </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> warlording</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which
copy-protection has been stripped. Hackers recognize this term but don't
use it themselves. See <a href="warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>,
<a href="../C/courier.html"><i class="glossterm">courier</i></a>, <a href="../L/leech.html"><i class="glossterm">leech</i></a>,
<a href="../E/elite.html"><i class="glossterm">elite</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="suffix-ware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warez-d00dz.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">-ware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> warez d00dz</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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bloated, ugly, or derivative <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>. Common
grounds for warlording include the presence of a signature rendered in a
<a href="../B/BUAF.html"><i class="glossterm">BUAF</i></a>, over-used or cliched <a href="../S/sig-quote.html"><i class="glossterm">sig
quote</i></a>s, ugly <a href="../A/ASCII-art.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII art</i></a>, or simply
excessive size. The original &#8216;Warlord&#8217; was a
<a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a>-like <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a> c.1991 who
featured in his sig a particularly large and obnoxious ASCII graphic
resembling the sword of Conan the Barbarian in the 1981 John Milius movie;
the group name <tt class="systemitem">alt.fan.warlord</tt>
was sarcasm, and the characteristic mode of warlording is devastatingly
sarcastic praise. See also <a href="../M/McQuary-limit.html"><i class="glossterm">McQuary limit</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warez-kiddies.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warm-boot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">warez kiddies </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> warm boot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wart</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="warm-boot.html" title="warm boot"/><link rel="next" href="washing-machine.html" title="washing machine"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wart</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warm-boot.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="washing-machine.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wart"/><dt xmlns="" id="wart"><b>wart</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A small, <a href="../C/crock.html"><i class="glossterm">crock</i></a>y
<a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> that sticks out of an otherwise
<a href="../C/clean.html"><i class="glossterm">clean</i></a> design. Something conspicuous for localized
ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For
example, in some versions of
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">csh</span>(1)</span>,
single quotes literalize every character inside them except
<tt class="literal">!</tt>. In ANSI C, the <tt class="literal">??</tt> syntax used for
obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also
<a href="../M/miswart.html"><i class="glossterm">miswart</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warm-boot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="washing-machine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">warm boot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> washing machine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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called because of the size of the cabinet and the &#8216;top-loading&#8217;
access to the media packs &#8212; and, of course, they were always set on
&#8216;spin cycle&#8217;. The washing-machine idiom transcends language
barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also
<a href="walking-drives.html"><i class="glossterm">walking drives</i></a>. The thick channel cables connecting
these were called <span class="firstterm">bit hoses</span> (see
<a href="../H/hose.html"><i class="glossterm">hose</i></a>, sense 3). </p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly76-02-14"/><img src="../graphics/76-02-14.png"/><div class="caption"><p/><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../B/batch.html#crunchly-2">76-02-20:2</a>. The previous
cartoon was <a href="../B/bit-bucket.html#crunchly75-10-04">75-10-04</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><dd><p> 2. [CMU] A machine used exclusively for
<a href="washing-software.html"><i class="glossterm">washing software</i></a>. CMU has clusters of these.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wart.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="washing-software.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wart </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> washing software</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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when the recompilation is occuring from scratch) to pick up and merge
together all of the various changes that have been made to the
source.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="washing-machine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="water-MIPS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">washing machine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> water MIPS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's
traditional <a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a> type.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly74-08-18"/><img src="../graphics/74-08-18.png"/><div class="caption"><p>A really unusual kind of <a href="water-MIPS.html"><i class="glossterm">water MIPS</i></a>.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../N/number-crunching.html#crunchly74-12-25">74-12-25</a>. The previous
cartoon was <a href="../A/ad-hockery.html#crunchly73-10-31">73-10-31</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="washing-software.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wave-a-dead-chicken.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">washing software </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wave a dead chicken</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others
are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended.
&#8220;<span class="quote">I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think
we've run into an OS bug.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../V/voodoo-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">voodoo programming</i></a>, <a href="../R/rain-dance.html"><i class="glossterm">rain dance</i></a>; see also
<a href="../C/casting-the-runes.html"><i class="glossterm">casting the runes</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="water-MIPS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="weasel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">water MIPS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> weasel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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things that are stupid or ill-advised. Roughly synonymous with
<a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wave-a-dead-chicken.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="web-pointer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wave a dead chicken </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> web pointer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../H/hotlink.html"><i class="glossterm">hotlink</i></a>, which has slightly different
connotations.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="weasel.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="web-ring.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">weasel </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> web ring</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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sharing a common interest or theme. Usually such cliques have the topology
of a ring, in order to make it easy for visitors to navigate through all of
them.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="web-pointer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="web-toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">web pointer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> web toaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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any other external peripherals, pre-configured to be controlled through an
Ethernet port and function as a WWW server. Products of this kind (for
example the Cobalt Qube) are often about the size of a toaster. See
<a href="../T/toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">toaster</i></a>; compare
<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="web-ring.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="webify.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">web ring </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> webify</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Frequently used for papers (&#8220;<span class="quote">Why don't you webify all your
publications?</span>&#8221;) or for demos (&#8220;<span class="quote">They webified their 6.866 final
project</span>&#8221;). This term seems to have been (rather logically)
independently invented multiple times in the early 1990s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="web-toaster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="webmaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">web toaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> webmaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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providing World Wide Web information who is responsible for maintaining the
public pages and keeping the Web server running and properly
configured.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="webify.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wedged.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">webify </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wedged</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become
totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do
something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few
things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may become
wedged if it <a href="../D/deadlock.html"><i class="glossterm">deadlock</i></a>s with another (but not all
instances of wedging are deadlocks). See also
<a href="../G/gronk.html"><i class="glossterm">gronk</i></a>, <a href="../L/locked-up.html"><i class="glossterm">locked up</i></a>,
<a href="../H/hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a>, <a href="../H/hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a> (wedged is more
severe than <a href="../H/hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. &#8220;<span class="quote">He's
totally wedged &#8212; he's convinced that he can levitate through
meditation.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Unix] Specifically used to describe the state of a TTY left in a
losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed
with the line discipline in some obscure way.</p></dd><dd><p>There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is usually
thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial inversion;
however, it may actually have originated with older &#8216;hot-press&#8217;
printing technology in which physical type elements were locked into type
frames with wedges driven in by mallets. Once this had been done, no
changes in the typesetting for that page could be made.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="webmaster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wedgie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">webmaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wedgie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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stupidity. &#8220;<span class="quote">I stuck the disk in upside down.</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Weeble....</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wedgitude.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="weeds.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wedgitude </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> weeds</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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possible relevance or practical application. Comes from &#8216;off in the
weeds&#8217;. Used in phrases like &#8220;<span class="quote">lexical analysis for microcode
is serious weeds....</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. At CDC/ETA before its demise, the phrase <span class="firstterm">go off in the weeds</span> was equivalent mainstream
hackerdom's <a href="../J/jump-off-into-never-never-land.html"><i class="glossterm">jump off into never-never land</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="weeble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="weenie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">weeble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> weenie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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version of <a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a> that infests many
<a href="../B/BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> systems. The typical weenie is a teenage boy
with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose
<a href="../H/handle.html"><i class="glossterm">handle</i></a> derived from fantasy or heavy-metal rock
lyrics. Among sysops, <span class="firstterm">the weenie
problem</span> refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden
<a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a> weenies tend to spew all over a
newly-discovered BBS. Compare <a href="../S/spod.html"><i class="glossterm">spod</i></a>,
<a href="../G/geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>, <a href="../T/terminal-junkie.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal junkie</i></a>,
<a href="warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [among hackers] When used with a qualifier (for example, as in
<a href="../U/Unix-weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix weenie</i></a>, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be
either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice,
and whether or not it is applied by a person who considers him or herself
to be the same sort of weenie. Implies that the weenie has put a major
investment of time, effort, and concentration into the area indicated;
whether this is good or bad depends on the hearer's judgment of how the
speaker feels about that area. See also <a href="../B/bigot.html"><i class="glossterm">bigot</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The semicolon character, <tt class="literal">;</tt> (ASCII
0111011).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="weeds.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Weenix.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">weeds </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Weenix</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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effects. Esp.: said of software having an interface spec sufficiently
simple and well-defined that it can be used as a
<a href="../T/tool.html"><i class="glossterm">tool</i></a> by other software. See
<a href="../C/cat.html"><i class="glossterm">cat</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Said of an algorithm that doesn't <a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>
or <a href="../B/blow-up.html"><i class="glossterm">blow up</i></a>, even when given
<a href="../P/pathological.html"><i class="glossterm">pathological</i></a> input. Implies that the stability of
the algorithm is intrinsic, which makes this somewhat different from
<a href="../B/bulletproof.html"><i class="glossterm">bulletproof</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Weenix.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="well-connected.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Weenix </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> well-connected</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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links with the network and/or that it relays a large fraction of available
<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> newsgroups. <span class="firstterm">Well-known</span> can be almost synonymous, but also
implies that the site's name is familiar to many (due perhaps to an archive
service or active Usenet users).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="well-behaved.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wetware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">well-behaved </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wetware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wetware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="well-connected.html" title="well-connected"/><link rel="next" href="whack.html" title="whack"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wetware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="well-connected.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whack.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wetware"/><dt xmlns="" id="wetware"><b>wetware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wet´weir/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [prob.: from the novels of Rudy Rucker] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or
software. &#8220;<span class="quote">Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary
registers.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to
a computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software. See
<a href="../L/liveware.html"><i class="glossterm">liveware</i></a>, <a href="../M/meatware.html"><i class="glossterm">meatware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="well-connected.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">well-connected </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> whack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>whack-a-mole</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="whack.html" title="whack"/><link rel="next" href="whacker.html" title="whacker"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">whack-a-mole</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whack.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whacker.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="whack-a-mole"/><dt xmlns="" id="whack-a-mole"><b>whack-a-mole</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the carnival game which involves quickly and repeatedly
hitting the heads of mechanical moles with a mallet as they pop up from
their holes.] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The practice of repeatedly causing spammers'
<a href="../T/throwaway-account.html"><i class="glossterm">throwaway account</i></a>s and drop boxes to be terminated.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. After sense 1 became established in the mid-1990s the term passed
into more generalized use, and now is commonly found in such combinations
as <span class="firstterm">whack-a-mole windows</span>; the
obnoxious pop-up advertisement windows spawned in flocks when you surf to
sites like Angelfire or Lycos.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whacker.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">whack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> whacker</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>whack</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wetware.html" title="wetware"/><link rel="next" href="whack-a-mole.html" title="whack-a-mole"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">whack</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wetware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whack-a-mole.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="whack"/><dt xmlns="" id="whack"><b>whack</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of
<a href="../N/NeWS.html"><i class="glossterm">NeWS</i></a>, <a href="../G/GOSMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">GOSMACS</i></a> and Java), to
&#8220;<span class="quote">...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works.</span>&#8221;
(See <a href="whacker.html"><i class="glossterm">whacker</i></a>.) It is actually possible to do this
in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you
are very good at <a href="../G/glark.html"><i class="glossterm">glark</i></a>ing things from context. As a
trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all <b class="command">stderr</b> writes to <b class="command">stdout</b> writes in a piece of C filter code which
remains otherwise mysterious.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wetware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whack-a-mole.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wetware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> whack-a-mole</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>whacker</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="whack-a-mole.html" title="whack-a-mole"/><link rel="next" href="whales.html" title="whales"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">whacker</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whack-a-mole.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whales.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="whacker"/><dt xmlns="" id="whacker"><b>whacker</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [University of Maryland: from <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A person, similar to a <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>, who enjoys
exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their
capabilities. Whereas a hacker tends to produce great hacks, a whacker
only ends up whacking the system or program in question. Whackers are
often quite egotistical and eager to claim <a href="wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>
status, regardless of the views of their peers. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A person who is good at programming quickly, though rather poorly
and ineptly.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whack-a-mole.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whales.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">whack-a-mole </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> whales</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/like-kicking-dead-whales-down-the-beach.html"><i class="glossterm">like kicking dead whales down the beach</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whacker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Whats-a-spline.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">whacker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> What's a spline?</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wheel bit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wheel.html" title="wheel"/><link rel="next" href="wheel-of-reincarnation.html" title="wheel of reincarnation"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wheel bit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wheel.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel-of-reincarnation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wheel-bit"/><dt xmlns="" id="wheel-bit"><b>wheel bit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted
operation on a timesharing system, such as read or write any file on the
system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the
running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and
user accounts. The term was invented on the TENEX operating system, and
carried over to TOPS-20, XEROX-IFS, and others. The state of being in a
privileged logon is sometimes called <span class="firstterm">wheel
mode</span>. This term entered the Unix culture from TWENEX in the
mid-1980s and has been gaining popularity there (esp. at university
sites). See also <a href="../R/root.html"><i class="glossterm">root</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wheel.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel-of-reincarnation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wheel </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wheel of reincarnation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wheel of reincarnation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wheel-bit.html" title="wheel bit"/><link rel="next" href="wheel-wars.html" title="wheel wars"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wheel of reincarnation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wheel-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel-wars.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wheel-of-reincarnation"/><dt xmlns="" id="wheel-of-reincarnation"><b>wheel of reincarnation</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [coined in a paper by T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland <i class="citetitle">On
the Design of Display Processors</i>, Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6,
June 1968)] Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a
computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral
hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power
as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support
two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back
into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.</p><p>Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in
graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and
floating-point processors. Also known as <span class="firstterm">the
Wheel of Life</span>, <span class="firstterm">the Wheel of
Samsara</span>, and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist
theological idea. See also <a href="../B/blitter.html"><i class="glossterm">blitter</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wheel-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel-wars.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wheel bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wheel wars</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/larval-stage.html"><i class="glossterm">larval stage</i></a> during which student hackers hassle each other by
attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other's files,
and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser
users.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wheel-of-reincarnation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="white-hat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wheel of reincarnation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> white hat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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who has an active <a href="wheel-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">wheel bit</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">We need to find
a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives.</span>&#8221; (See
<a href="wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>, sense 1.) The traditional name of security
group zero in <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> (to which the major
system-internal users like <a href="../R/root.html"><i class="glossterm">root</i></a> belong) is
&#8216;wheel&#8217;. Some vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying
Unix so that only members of group &#8216;wheel&#8217; can
<a href="../G/go-root.html"><i class="glossterm">go root</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Whats-a-spline.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">What's a spline? </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wheel bit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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list of people who are banned, it's an explicit list of people who are to
be admitted. Hackers use this especially of lists of email addresses that
are explicitly enabled to get past strict anti-spam filters.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="white-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="whizzy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">white hat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> whizzy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a <a href="../C/cuspy.html"><i class="glossterm">cuspy</i></a> program; one that is feature-rich and well
presented.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="whitelist.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Whorfian-mind-lock.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">whitelist </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Whorfian mind-lock</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Irrelevant</i> strip in <i class="citetitle">VIZ</i> comics, spread
via <i class="citetitle">Your Sinclair magazine in the 1980s and early
1990s</i>] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.,v.</span> Commonly used to
describe chatter, content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless
contributions to threads in newsgroups. &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, rspence is wibbling
again</span>&#8221;. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. One of the preferred
<a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>s in the UK, forming a series with <b class="command">wobble</b>, <b class="command">wubble</b>, and
<b class="command">flob</b> (attributed to the hilarious
historical comedy <i class="citetitle">Blackadder</i>). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A pronunciation of the letters &#8220;<span class="quote">www</span>&#8221;, as seen in
URLs; i.e., www.<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>.com may be pronounced
&#8220;<span class="quote">wibble dot foo dot com</span>&#8221; (compare
<a href="../D/dub-dub-dub.html"><i class="glossterm">dub dub dub</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Whorfian-mind-lock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WIBNI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Whorfian mind-lock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WIBNI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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examples (especially database tutorials). Legend has it that the original
widgets were holders for buggy whips. &#8220;<span class="quote">But suppose the parts list
for a widget has 52 entries....</span>&#8221;</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [poss.: evoking &#8216;window gadget&#8217;] A user interface
object in <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> graphical user interfaces.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="WIBNI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wiggles.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">WIBNI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wiggles</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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by finite difference and similar methods, wiggles are sawtooth
(up-down-up-down) oscillations at the shortest wavelength representable on
the grid. If an algorithm is unstable, this is often the most unstable
waveform, so it grows to dominate the solution. Alternatively, stable
(though inaccurate) wiggles can be generated near a discontinuity by a
Gibbs phenomenon.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="widget.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wild-side.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">widget </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wild side</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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there was a 2-for-1 sale.</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../B/big-win.html"><i class="glossterm">big win</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="win.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="win-win.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">win </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> win win</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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wins if no unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it is
sufficiently <a href="../R/robust.html"><i class="glossterm">robust</i></a> to take exceptions in
stride.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Success, or a specific
instance thereof. A pleasing outcome. &#8220;<span class="quote">So it turned out I could use
a <a href="../L/lexer.html"><i class="glossterm">lexer</i></a> generator instead of hand-coding my own
pattern recognizer. What a win!</span>&#8221; Emphatic forms: <span class="firstterm">moby win</span>, <span class="firstterm">super
win</span>, <span class="firstterm">hyper-win</span> (often used
interjectively as a reply). For some reason <span class="firstterm">suitable win</span> is also common at MIT, usually in
reference to a satisfactory solution to a problem. Oppose
<a href="../L/lose.html"><i class="glossterm">lose</i></a>; see also <a href="../B/big-win.html"><i class="glossterm">big win</i></a>, which
isn't quite just an intensification of <span class="firstterm">win</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="WIMP-environment.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="win-big.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">WIMP environment </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> win big</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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(smaller or missing title bar, zoom box, etc.) than a standard
window.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Winchester.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="window-shopping.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Winchester </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> window shopping</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>s like <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> or the Macintosh,
extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been
productive working time. &#8220;<span class="quote">I spent the afternoon window shopping
until I found the coolest shade of green for my active window borders
&#8212; now they perfectly match my medium slate blue background.</span>&#8221;
Serious window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors, creating
new and different icons and background patterns for all to see. Also:
<span class="firstterm">window dressing</span>, the act of applying
new fonts, colors, etc. See <a href="../F/fritterware.html"><i class="glossterm">fritterware</i></a>, compare
<a href="../M/macdink.html"><i class="glossterm">macdink</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="windoid.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Windowsitis.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">windoid </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Windowsitis</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/boxed-comments.html"><i class="glossterm">boxed comments</i></a>. In C, for example:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
d = sqrt(x*x + y*y);  /* distance from origin */<br/>
</p></div><p>Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that
line.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly74-12-29"/><img src="../graphics/74-12-29.png"/><div class="caption"><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../B/bit-bucket.html#crunchly75-10-04">75-10-04</a>. The previous
cartoon was <a href="../N/number-crunching.html#crunchly74-12-25">74-12-25</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Windoze.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="winkey.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Windoze </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> winkey</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<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="winged-comments.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="winnage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">winged comments </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> winnage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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

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situation, program, programmer, or person. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">real winner</span>: Often
sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under
<a href="../U/user.html"><i class="glossterm">user</i></a>). &#8220;<span class="quote">He's a real winner &#8212; never
reports a bug till he can duplicate it and send in an
example.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="winnage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="winnitude.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">winnage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> winnitude</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="winnage.html"><i class="glossterm">winnage</i></a>, which is the result of winning).
&#8220;<span class="quote">Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now the LISP interpreter
runs twice as fast as it used to.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">That's really great! Boy,
what winnitude!</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Yup. I'll probably get a half-hour's winnage
on the next run of my program.</span>&#8221; Perhaps curiously, the obvious
antonym &#8216;lossitude&#8217; is rare.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="winner.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Wintel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">winner </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Wintel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on
communications hardware.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. An expert in local-area networks. A wirehead can be a network
software wizard too, but will always have the ability to deal with network
hardware, down to the smallest component. Wireheads are known for their
ability to lash up an Ethernet terminator from spare resistors, for
example.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wired.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wirewater.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wired </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wirewater</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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mainstream slang adjective &#8216;wired&#8217; (stimulated, up,
hyperactive) with &#8216;firewater&#8217;; however, it refers to
caffeinacious rather than alcoholic beverages.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wirehead.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wish-list.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wirehead </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wish list</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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for a long time, usually because the person responsible for the code is too
busy or can't think of a clean way to do it. &#8220;<span class="quote">OK, I'll add automatic
filename completion to the wish list for the new interface.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../T/tick-list-features.html"><i class="glossterm">tick-list features</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wirewater.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="within-delta-of.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wirewater </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> within delta of</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hat</span>] Notional headgear worn by whoever is the
<a href="wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a> in a particular context. The implication is
that it's a transferable role. &#8220;<span class="quote">Talk to Alice, she's wearing the
TCP/IP wizard hat while Bob is on vacation.</span>&#8221; This metaphor is
sufficiently live that one may actually see hackers miming the act of
putting on, taking off, or transferring a phantom hat. See also
<a href="../P/pointy-hat.html"><i class="glossterm">pointy hat</i></a>, compare
<a href="../P/patch-pumpkin.html"><i class="glossterm">patch pumpkin</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Wizard-Book.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wizard-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Wizard Book </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wizard mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike
privileges. Generally not used for operating systems themselves (<span class="firstterm">root mode</span> or <span class="firstterm">wheel
mode</span> would be used instead). This term is often used with
respect to games that have editable state.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wizard-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wizardly.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wizard hat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wizardly</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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or hardware works (that is, who <a href="../G/grok.html"><i class="glossterm">grok</i></a>s it); esp.
someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a
<a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a> if he or she has general hacking ability, but
is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific
detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for
something given the time to study it. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The term &#8216;wizard&#8217; is also used intransitively of
someone who has extremely high-level hacking or problem-solving
ability.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary
people; one who has <a href="wheel.html"><i class="glossterm">wheel</i></a> privileges on a system.
</p></dd><dd><p> 4. A Unix expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is
well enough established that &#8216;Unix Wizard&#8217; is a recognized job
title at some corporations and to most headhunters.</p></dd><dd><p> See <a href="../G/guru.html"><i class="glossterm">guru</i></a>,
<a href="../L/lord-high-fixer.html"><i class="glossterm">lord high fixer</i></a>. See also <a href="../D/deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>,
<a href="../H/heavy-wizardry.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy wizardry</i></a>, <a href="../I/incantation.html"><i class="glossterm">incantation</i></a>,
<a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a>, <a href="../M/mutter.html"><i class="glossterm">mutter</i></a>,
<a href="../R/rain-dance.html"><i class="glossterm">rain dance</i></a>,
<a href="../V/voodoo-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">voodoo programming</i></a>, <a href="wave-a-dead-chicken.html"><i class="glossterm">wave a dead chicken</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="within-epsilon-of.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Wizard-Book.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">within epsilon of </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Wizard Book</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wizard-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wok-on-the-wall.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wizard mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wok-on-the-wall</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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circuits, from the obvious resemblance between a microwave dish and the
Chinese culinary utensil.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wizardly.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="womb-box.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wizardly </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> womb box</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix;
mundanely called a <span class="firstterm">flight case</span>. Used
for delicate test equipment, electronics, and musical instruments.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wok-on-the-wall.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WOMBAT.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wok-on-the-wall </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WOMBAT</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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great difficulty in communicating their requirements and/or in using the
resulting software. Extreme case of <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>. An
especially senior or high-ranking womble is referred to as Great-Uncle
Bulgaria. Compare <a href="../A/Aunt-Tillie.html"><i class="glossterm">Aunt Tillie</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="WOMBAT.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wonky.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">WOMBAT </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wonky</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/broken.html"><i class="glossterm">broken</i></a>. Specifically connotes a malfunction that
produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse.
&#8220;<span class="quote">That was the day the printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's
listings came out in Tengwar.</span>&#8221; Also in <span class="firstterm">wonked out</span>. See <a href="../F/funky.html"><i class="glossterm">funky</i></a>,
<a href="../D/demented.html"><i class="glossterm">demented</i></a>, <a href="../B/bozotic.html"><i class="glossterm">bozotic</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="womble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="workaround.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">womble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> workaround</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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otherwise avoid a <a href="../B/bug.html"><i class="glossterm">bug</i></a> or
<a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a> in some system. Theoretically,
workarounds are always replaced by <a href="../F/fix.html"><i class="glossterm">fix</i></a>es; in
practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds for long
periods of time. &#8220;<span class="quote">The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I
fixed it to interpret them as spaces.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">That's not a fix,
that's a workaround!</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do what some
currently non-working feature should do. Hypothetical example:
&#8220;<span class="quote">Using META-F7 <a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>es the 4.43 build of
Weemax, but as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then SHIFT-F5, and delete
the remaining <a href="../C/cruft.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft</i></a> by hand.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wonky.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="working-as-designed.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wonky </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> working as designed</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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but misdesigned.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's
utility.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Unfortunately also used as a bogus reason for not accepting a
criticism or suggestion. At <a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a>, this sense is used
in official documents! See <a href="../B/BAD.html"><i class="glossterm">BAD</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="workaround.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="worm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">workaround </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> worm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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