--- jargon-4.4.4.orig 2007-07-14 22:59:02.000000000 +0000 +++ jargon-4.4.4.new 2007-07-14 23:04:18.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,2413 +1,29 @@ -The Jargon Lexicon - - [crunchly-1.png] - - The Crunchly saga begins here. - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-18.) - - The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the - lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the - sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using - the `next cartoon' information in the captions. A few don't have next - pointers; these are vignettes from the 1973 Crunchland tableau spread - that inaugurated the strip. - - Here is a framed version of the glossary. - - Table of Contents - - Glossary - -Glossary - - 0 - - (TM) - /dev/null - /me - 0 - 1TBS - 2 - 404 - 404 compliant - @-party - - A - - abbrev - ABEND - accumulator - ACK - Acme - ad-hockery - address harvester - adger - admin - ADVENT - adware - AFAIK - AFJ - AFK - AI - AI-complete - airplane rule - Alderson loop - aliasing bug - Alice and Bob - All hardware sucks, all software sucks. - all your base are belong to us - alpha geek - alpha particles - alt - alt bit - Aluminum Book - ambimouseterous - Amiga - Amiga Persecution Complex - amp off - amper - and there was much rejoicing - Angband - angle brackets - angry fruit salad - annoybot - annoyware - ANSI standard - ANSI standard pizza - anti-idiotarianism - AOL! - app - Archimedes - arena - arg - ARMM - armor-plated - asbestos - asbestos cork award - asbestos longjohns - ASCII - ASCII art - ASCIIbetical order - astroturfing - atomic - attoparsec - Aunt Tillie - AUP - autobogotiphobia - autoconfiscate - automagically - avatar - awk - - B - - B1FF - B5 - back door - backbone cabal - backbone site - backgammon - background - backreference - backronym - backward combatability - BAD - Bad and Wrong - Bad Thing - bag on the side - bagbiter - bagbiting - baggy pantsing - balloonian variable - bamf - banana problem - bandwidth - bang - bang on - bang path - banner - banner ad - banner site - bar - bare metal - barf - barfmail - barfulation - barfulous - barn - barney - baroque - BASIC - batbelt - batch - bathtub curve - Batman factor - baud - baz - bazaar - bboard - BBS - BCPL - BDFL - beam - beanie key - beep - Befunge - beige toaster - bells and whistles - bells whistles and gongs - benchmark - Berkeley Quality Software - Berzerkeley - beta - BFI - BI - bible - BiCapitalization - biff - big iron - Big Red Switch - Big Room - big win - big-endian - bignum - bigot - bikeshedding - binary four - bit - bit bashing - bit bucket - bit decay - bit rot - bit twiddling - bit-paired keyboard - bitblt - bits - bitty box - bixie - black art - black hat - black hole - black magic - Black Screen of Death - blammo - blargh - blast - blat - bletch - bletcherous - blinkenlights - blit - blitter - blivet - bloatware - BLOB - block - blog - Bloggs Family - blogosphere - blogrolling - blow an EPROM - blow away - blow out - blow past - blow up - BLT - blue box - Blue Glue - blue goo - Blue Screen of Death - blue wire - blurgle - BNF - boa - board - boat anchor - bob - bodge - BOF - BOFH - bogo-sort - bogometer - BogoMIPS - bogon - bogon filter - bogon flux - bogosity - bogotify - bogue out - bogus - Bohr bug - boink - bomb - bondage-and-discipline language - bonk/oif - book titles - boot - Borg - borken - bot - bottom feeder - bottom-post - bottom-up implementation - bounce - bounce message - boustrophedon - box - boxed comments - boxen - boxology - bozotic - brain dump - brain fart - brain-damaged - brain-dead - braino - brainwidth - bread crumbs - break - break-even point - breath-of-life packet - breedle - Breidbart Index - bricktext - bring X to its knees - brittle - broadcast storm - broken - broken arrow - broken-ring network - BrokenWindows - broket - Brooks's Law - brown-paper-bag bug - browser - BRS - brute force - brute force and ignorance - BSD - BSOD - BUAF - BUAG - bubble sort - bucky bits - buffer chuck - buffer overflow - bug - bug-compatible - bug-for-bug compatible - bug-of-the-month club - bulletproof - bullschildt - bump - burble - buried treasure - burn a CD - burn-in period - burst page - busy-wait - buzz - buzzword-compliant - BWQ - by hand - byte - byte sex - bytesexual - Bzzzt! Wrong. - - C - - C - C Programmer's Disease - C&C - C++ - calculator - Camel Book - camelCase - camelCasing - can't happen - cancelbot - Cancelmoose[tm] - candygrammar - canonical - careware - cargo cult programming - cascade - case and paste - case mod - casters-up mode - casting the runes - cat - catatonic - cathedral - cd tilde - CDA - cdr - chad - chad box - chain - chainik - channel - channel hopping - channel op - chanop - char - charityware - chase pointers - chawmp - check - cheerfully - chemist - Chernobyl chicken - Chernobyl packet - chicken head - chickenboner - chiclet keyboard - Chinese Army technique - choad - choke - chomp - chomper - CHOP - Christmas tree - Christmas tree packet - chrome - chug - Church of the SubGenius - CI$ - Cinderella Book - Classic C - clean - click of death - CLM - clobber - clock - clocks - clone - clone-and-hack coding - clover key - clue-by-four - clustergeeking - co-lo - coaster - coaster toaster - COBOL - COBOL fingers - cobweb site - code - code grinder - code monkey - Code of the Geeks - code police - codes - codewalker - coefficient of X - cokebottle - cold boot - COME FROM - comm mode - command key - comment out - Commonwealth Hackish - compact - compiler jock - compo - compress - Compu$erve - computer confetti - computron - con - condition out - condom - confuser - connector conspiracy - cons - considered harmful - console - console jockey - content-free - control-C - control-O - control-Q - control-S - Conway's Law - cookbook - cooked mode - cookie - cookie bear - cookie file - cookie jar - cookie monster - copious free time - copper - copy protection - copybroke - copycenter - copyleft - copyparty - copywronged - core - core cancer - core dump - core leak - Core Wars - cosmic rays - cough and die - courier - cow orker - cowboy - CP/M - CPU Wars - crack - crack root - cracker - cracking - crank - crapplet - CrApTeX - crash - crash and burn - crawling horror - CRC handbook - creationism - creep - creeping elegance - creeping featurism - creeping featuritis - cretin - cretinous - crippleware - critical mass - crlf - crock - cross-post - crossload - crudware - cruft - cruft together - cruftsmanship - crufty - crumb - crunch - cryppie - cthulhic - CTSS - cube - cup holder - cursor dipped in X - cuspy - cut a tape - cybercrud - cyberpunk - cyberspace - cycle - cycle of reincarnation - cycle server - cypherpunk - C|N>K - - D - - daemon - daemon book - dahmum - dancing frog - dangling pointer - dark-side hacker - Datamation - DAU - Dave the Resurrector - day mode - dd - DDT - de-rezz - dead - dead beef attack - dead code - dead-tree version - DEADBEEF - deadlock - deadly embrace - death code - Death Square - Death Star - Death, X of - DEC - DEC Wars - decay - deckle - DED - deep hack mode - deep magic - deep space - defenestration - defined as - deflicted - dehose - Dejagoo - deletia - deliminator - delint - delta - demented - demigod - demo - demo mode - demoeffect - demogroup - demon - demon dialer - demoparty - demoscene - dentro - depeditate - deprecated - derf - deserves to lose - despew - dickless workstation - dictionary flame - diddle - die - die horribly - diff - dike - Dilbert - ding - dink - dinosaur - dinosaur pen - dinosaurs mating - dirtball - dirty power - disclaimer - Discordianism - disemvowel - disk farm - display hack - dispress - Dissociated Press - distribution - distro - disusered - DMZ - do protocol - doc - documentation - dodgy - dogcow - dogfood - dogpile - dogwash - Don't do that then! - dongle - dongle-disk - Doom, X of - doorstop - DoS attack - dot file - double bucky - doubled sig - down - download - DP - DPer - Dr. Fred Mbogo - dragon - Dragon Book - drain - dread high-bit disease - dread questionmark disease - DRECNET - driver - droid - drone - drool-proof paper - drop on the floor - drop-ins - drop-outs - drugged - drum - drunk mouse syndrome - DSW - dub dub dub - Duff's device - dumb terminal - dumbass attack - dumbed down - dump - dumpster diving - dusty deck - DWIM - dynner - - E - - Easter egg - Easter egging - eat flaming death - EBCDIC - ECP - ed - egg - egosurf - eighty-column mind - El Camino Bignum - elder days - elegant - elephantine - elevator controller - elite - ELIZA effect - elvish - EMACS - email - emoticon - EMP - empire - engine - English - enhancement - ENQ - EOD - EOF - EOL - EOU - epoch - epsilon - epsilon squared - era - Eric Conspiracy - Eris - erotics - error 33 - eurodemo - evil - evil and rude - Evil Empire - exa- - examining the entrails - EXCH - excl - EXE - exec - exercise, left as an - Exon - Exploder - exploit - external memory - eye candy - eyeball search - - F - - face time - factor - fairings - fall over - fall through - fan - fandango on core - FAQ - FAQ list - FAQL - faradize - farkled - farm - fascist - fat electrons - fat pipe - fat-finger - faulty - fear and loathing - feature - feature creature - feature creep - feature key - feature shock - featurectomy - feep - feeper - feeping creature - feeping creaturism - feetch feetch - fence - fencepost error - fiber-seeking backhoe - FidoNet - field circus - field servoid - file signature - filk - film at 11 - filter - Finagle's Law - fine - finger - finger trouble - finger-pointing syndrome - finn - firebottle - firefighting - firehose syndrome - firewall code - firewall machine - fireworks mode - firmware - fish - FISH queue - fisking - FITNR - fix - FIXME - flag - flag day - flaky - flamage - flame - flame bait - flame on - flame war - flamer - flap - flarp - flash crowd - flat - flat-ASCII - flat-file - flatten - flavor - flavorful - flippy - flood - flowchart - flower key - flush - flypage - Flyspeck 3 - flytrap - FM - fnord - FOAF - FOD - fold case - followup - fontology - foo - foobar - fool - fool file - Foonly - footprint - for free - for the rest of us - for values of - fora - foreground - fork - fork bomb - forked - Formosa's Law - Fortrash - fortune cookie - forum - fossil - four-color glossies - frag - fragile - Frankenputer - fred - Fred Foobar - frednet - free software - freeware - freeze - fried - frink - friode - fritterware - frob - frobnicate - frobnitz - frog - frogging - front end - frotz - frotzed - frowney - FRS - fry - fscking - FSF - -fu - FUBAR - fuck me harder - FUD - FUD wars - fudge - fudge factor - fuel up - Full Monty - fum - functino - funky - funny money - furrfu - - G - - G - gang bang - Gang of Four - garbage collect - garply - gas - Gates's Law - gawble - GC - GCOS - GECOS - gedanken - geef - geek - geek code - geek out - geekasm - gen - gender mender - General Public Virus - generate - Genius From Mars Technique - gensym - Get a life! - Get a real computer! - GandhiCon - gib - GIFs at 11 - gig - giga- - GIGO - gilley - gillion - ginger - GIPS - GIYF - glark - glass - glass tty - glassfet - glitch - glob - glork - glue - gnarly - GNU - gnubie - GNUMACS - go flatline - go gold - go root - go-faster stripes - GoAT - goat file - gobble - Godwin's Law - Godzillagram - golden - golf-ball printer - gonk - gonkulator - gonzo - Good Thing - google - google juice - gopher - gopher hole - gorets - gorilla arm - gorp - GOSMACS - gotcha - GPL - GPV - gray goo - gray hat - Great Internet Explosion - Great Renaming - Great Runes - Great Worm - great-wall - green bytes - green card - green lightning - green machine - Green's Theorem - greenbar - grep - gribble - grilf - grind - grind crank - gritch - grok - gronk - gronk out - gronked - grovel - grue - grunge - gubbish - Guido - guiltware - gumby - gunch - gunpowder chicken - guru - guru meditation - gweep - - H - - h - ha ha only serious - hack - hack attack - hack mode - hack on - hack together - hack up - hack value - hacked off - hacked up - hacker - hacker ethic - hacker humor - Hackers (the movie) - hacking run - Hacking X for Y - Hackintosh - hackish - hackishness - hackitude - hair - hairball - hairy - HAKMEM - hakspek - Halloween Documents - ham - hammer - hamster - HAND - hand cruft - hand-hacking - hand-roll - handle - handshaking - handwave - hang - Hanlon's Razor - happily - hard boot - hardcoded - hardwarily - hardwired - has the X nature - hash bucket - hash collision - hat - HCF - heads down - heartbeat - heatseeker - heavy metal - heavy wizardry - heavyweight - Hed Rat - heisenbug - hell desk - hello sailor! - hello world - hello, wall! - hex - hexadecimal - hexit - HHOK - HHOS - hidden flag - high bit - high moby - highly - hing - hired gun - hirsute - HLL - hoarding - hog - hole - hollised - holy penguin pee - holy wars - home box - home machine - home page - honey pot - hook - hop - horked - hose - hosed - hot chat - hot spot - hotlink - house wizard - HP-SUX - HTH - huff - hung - hungry puppy - hungus - hyperspace - hysterical reasons - - I - - I didn't change anything! - I see no X here. - IANAL - IBM - ICBM address - ice - ID10T error - idempotent - IDP - If you want X, you know where to find it. - ifdef out - IIRC - ill-behaved - IMHO - Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! - in the extreme - incantation - include - include war - indent style - Indent-o-Meter - index of X - infant mortality - infinite - infinite loop - Infinite-Monkey Theorem - infinity - inflate - Infocom - initgame - insanely great - installfest - INTERCAL - InterCaps - interesting - Internet - Internet Death Penalty - Internet Exploder - Internet Exploiter - interrupt - interrupts locked out - intertwingled - intro - IRC - iron - Iron Age - iron box - ironmonger - ISO standard cup of tea - ISP - ITS - IWBNI - IYFEG - - J - - J. Random - J. Random Hacker - jack in - jaggies - Java - JCL - JEDR - Jeff K. - jello - Jeopardy-style quoting - jibble - jiffy - job security - jock - joe code - joe-job - juggling eggs - juice - jump off into never-never land - jupiter - - K - - K - K&R - k- - kahuna - kamikaze packet - kangaroo code - ken - kernel-of-the-week club - kgbvax - KIBO - kiboze - kibozo - kick - kill file - killer app - killer micro - killer poke - kilo- - kilogoogle - KIPS - KISS Principle - kit - KLB - klone - kludge - kluge - kluge around - kluge up - Knights of the Lambda Calculus - knobs - Knuth - koan - kook - Kool-Aid - kremvax - kyrka - - L - - lag - lamer - LAN party - language lawyer - languages of choice - LART - larval stage - lase - laser chicken - leaf site - leak - leaky heap - leapfrog attack - leech - leech mode - legal - legalese - lenna - LER - LERP - let the smoke out - letterbomb - lexer - life - Life is hard - light pipe - lightweight - like kicking dead whales down the beach - like nailing jelly to a tree - line 666 - line eater, the - line noise - linearithmic - link farm - link rot - link-dead - lint - Lintel - Linus - Linux - lion food - Lions Book - LISP - list-bomb - lithium lick - little-endian - live - live data - Live Free Or Die! - livelock - liveware - lobotomy - locals, the - locked and loaded - locked up - logic bomb - logical - loop through - loose bytes - lord high fixer - lose - lose lose - loser - losing - loss - lossage - lossy - lost in the noise - lost in the underflow - lots of MIPS but no I/O - low-bandwidth - Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology - Lumber Cartel - lunatic fringe - lurker - luser - - M - - M - M$ - macdink - machoflops - Macintoy - Macintrash - macro - macro- - macrology - maggotbox - magic - magic cookie - magic number - magic smoke - mail storm - mailbomb - mailing list - main loop - mainframe - mainsleaze - man page - management - mandelbug - manged - mangle - mangled name - mangler - manularity - marching ants - marbles - marginal - marginally - marketroid - Mars - martian - massage - math-out - Matrix - maximum Maytag mode - McQuary limit - meatspace - meatware - meeces - meg - mega- - megapenny - MEGO - meltdown, network - meme - meme plague - memetics - memory farts - memory leak - memory smash - menuitis - mess-dos - meta - meta bit - metasyntactic variable - MFTL - mickey - mickey mouse program - micro- - MicroDroid - microfortnight - microLenat - microReid - microserf - Microsloth Windows - Microsoft - micros~1 - middle-endian - middle-out implementation - milliLampson - minor detail - MIPS - misbug - misfeature - missile address - MiSTing - miswart - MMF - mobo - moby - mockingbird - mod - mode - mode bit - modulo - mojibake - molly-guard - Mongolian Hordes technique - monkey up - monkey, scratch - monstrosity - monty - Moof - Moore's Law - moria - MOTAS - MOTOS - MOTSS - mouse ahead - mouse belt - mouse droppings - mouse elbow - mouse pusher - mouso - MS-DOS - mu - MUD - muddie - mudhead - muggle - Multics - multitask - mumblage - mumble - munch - munching - munching squares - munchkin - mundane - mung - munge - Murphy's Law - music - mutter - - N - - N - nadger - nagware - nailed to the wall - nailing jelly - naive - naive user - NAK - NANA - nano - nano- - nanoacre - nanobot - nanocomputer - nanofortnight - nanotechnology - narg - nasal demons - nastygram - Nathan Hale - nature - neat hack - neats vs. scruffies - neep-neep - neophilia - nerd - nerd knob - net.- - net.god - net.personality - net.police - netburp - netdead - nethack - netiquette - netlag - netnews - Netscrape - netsplit - netter - network address - network meltdown - New Jersey - New Testament - newbie - newgroup wars - newline - NeWS - newsfroup - newsgroup - nick - nickle - night mode - Nightmare File System - NIL - Ninety-Ninety Rule - nipple mouse - NMI - no-op - noddy - non-optimal solution - nonlinear - nontrivial - not entirely unlike X - not ready for prime time - notwork - NP- - NSA line eater - NSP - nude - nugry - nuke - number-crunching - numbers - NUXI problem - nybble - nyetwork - - O - - Ob- - Obfuscated C Contest - obi-wan error - Objectionable-C - obscure - octal forty - off the trolley - off-by-one error - offline - ogg - -oid - old fart - Old Testament - on the gripping hand - one-banana problem - one-line fix - one-liner wars - ooblick - OP - op - open - open source - open switch - operating system - operator headspace - optical diff - optical grep - optimism - Oracle, the - Orange Book - oriental food - orphan - orphaned i-node - orthogonal - OS - OS/2 - OSS - OT - OTOH - out-of-band - overclock - overflow bit - overrun - overrun screw - owned - - P - - P.O.D. - packet over air - padded cell - page in - page out - pain in the net - paper-net - param - PARC - parent message - parity errors - Parkinson's Law of Data - parm - parse - Pascal - PascalCasing - pastie - patch - patch pumpkin - patch space - path - pathological - payware - PBD - PD - PDP-10 - PDP-11 - PDP-20 - PEBKAC - peek - pencil and paper - Pentagram Pro - Pentium - peon - percent-S - perf - perfect programmer syndrome - Perl - person of no account - pessimal - pessimizing compiler - peta- - pffft - PFY - phage - phase - phase of the moon - phase-wrapping - PHB - phreaker - phreaking - pico- - pig-tail - pilot error - ping - Ping O' Death - ping storm - pink contract - pink wire - pipe - pistol - pixel sort - pizza box - plaid screen - plain-ASCII - Plan 9 - plan file - platinum-iridium - playpen - playte - plokta - plonk - plug-and-pray - plugh - plumbing - PM - point-and-drool interface - pointy hat - pointy-haired - poke - poll - polygon pusher - POM - ponytail - pop - poser - post - postcardware - Postel's Prescription - posting - postmaster - PostScript - pound on - power cycle - power hit - pr0n - precedence lossage - pred - prepend - prestidigitization - pretty pictures - prettyprint - pretzel key - priesthood - prime time - print - printing discussion - priority interrupt - profile - progasm - proggy - proglet - program - Programmer's Cheer - programming - programming fluid - propeller head - propeller key - proprietary - protocol - provocative maintenance - prowler - pseudo - pseudoprime - pseudosuit - psychedelicware - psyton - pubic directory - puff - pumpkin holder - pumpking - punched card - punt - Purple Book - purple wire - push - Python - - Q - - quad - quadruple bucky - quantifiers - quantum bogodynamics - quarter - ques - quick-and-dirty - quine - Quirk objection - quote chapter and verse - quotient - quux - qux - QWERTY - - R - - rabbit job - rain dance - rainbow series - random - Random Number God - random numbers - randomness - rape - rare mode - raster blaster - raster burn - rasterbation - rat belt - rat dance - rathole - ratio site - rave - rave on! - ravs - raw mode - RBL - rc file - RE - read-only user - README file - real - real estate - real hack - real operating system - Real Programmer - Real Soon Now - real time - real user - Real World - reality check - reality-distortion field - reaper - recompile the world - rectangle slinger - recursion - recursive acronym - red wire - regexp - register dancing - rehi - reincarnation, cycle of - reinvent the wheel - relay rape - religion of CHI - religious issues - replicator - reply - restriction - retcon - RETI - retrocomputing - return from the dead - RFC - RFE - Right Thing - rip - ripoff - RL - roach - robocanceller - robot - robust - rococo - rogue - room-temperature IQ - root - root mode - rootkit - rot13 - rotary debugger - RSN - RTBM - RTFAQ - RTFB - RTFM - RTFS - RTI - RTM - RTS - rubber-hose cryptanalysis - rude - runes - runic - rusty iron - rusty wire - - S - - S/N ratio - sacred - saga - sagan - SAIL - salescritter - salt - salt mines - salt substrate - same-day service - samizdat - samurai - sandbender - sandbox - sanity check - Saturday-night special - say - scag - scanno - scary devil monastery - schroedinbug - science-fiction fandom - SCNR - scram switch - scratch - scratch monkey - scream and die - screaming tty - screen - screen name - screen scraping - screw - screwage - scribble - script kiddies - scrog - scrool - scrozzle - scruffies - SCSI - SCSI voodoo - search-and-destroy mode - second-system effect - secondary damage - security through obscurity - SED - See figure 1 - segfault - seggie - segment - segmentation fault - segv - self-reference - selvage - semi - semi-automated - semi-infinite - senior bit - September that never ended - server - SEX - sex changer - shambolic link - shar file - sharchive - Share and enjoy! - shareware - sharing violation - shebang - shelfware - shell - shell out - shift left (or right) logical - shim - shitogram - shotgun debugging - shovelware - showstopper - shriek - Shub-Internet - SIG - sig block - sig quote - sig virus - sigmonster - signal-to-noise ratio - silicon - silly walk - silo - since time T equals minus infinity - sitename - skrog - skulker - slab - slack - slash - slashdot effect - sleep - slim - slop - slopsucker - Slowlaris - slurp - slurp the robot - smart - smart terminal - smash case - smash the stack - smiley - smoke - smoke and mirrors - smoke test - smoking clover - smoot - SMOP - smurf - SNAFU principle - snail - snail-mail - snap - snarf - snarf & barf - snarf down - snark - sneaker - sneakernet - sniff - snippage - SO - social engineering - social science number - sock puppet - sodium substrate - soft boot - softcopy - software bloat - software hoarding - software laser - software rot - softwarily - softy - some random X - sorcerer's apprentice mode - source - source of all good bits - space-cadet keyboard - spaceship operator - SPACEWAR - spaghetti code - spaghetti inheritance - spam - spam bait - spamblock - spamhaus - spamvertize - spangle - spawn - special-case - speed of light - speedometer - spell - spelling flame - spider - spider food - spiffy - spike - spin - Spinning Pizza of Death - spl - splash screen - splat - splat out - splork! - spod - spoiler - spoiler space - sponge - spoof - spool - spool file - sporgery - sport death - spungle - spyware - squirrelcide - stack - stack puke - stale pointer bug - Stanford Bunny - star out - state - stealth manager - steam-powered - steved - STFW - stir-fried random - stomp on - Stone Age - stone knives and bearskins - stoppage - store - STR - strided - stroke - strudel - stubroutine - studly - studlycaps - stunning - stupid-sort - Stupids - Sturgeon's Law - sucking mud - sufficiently small - suit - suitable win - suitably small - Sun - sun lounge - sun-stools - sunspots - super source quench - superloser - superprogrammer - superuser - support - surf - Suzie COBOL - swab - swap - swap space - swapped in - swapped out - Swiss-Army chainsaw - swizzle - sync - syntactic salt - syntactic sugar - sys-frog - sysadmin - sysape - sysop - system - system mangler - systems jock - - T - - T - tail recursion - talk mode - talker system - TAN - tanked - TANSTAAFL - tape monkey - tar and feather - tarball - tardegy - taste - tayste - TCB - TCP/IP - TECO - tee - teergrube - teledildonics - ten-finger interface - tense - tentacle - tenured graduate student - tera- - teraflop club - terminak - terminal brain death - terminal illness - terminal junkie - test - TeX - text - thanks in advance - That's not a bug, that's a feature! - the literature - the network - the X that can be Y is not the true X - theology - theory - thinko - This can't happen - This time, for sure! - thrash - thread - three-finger salute - throwaway account - thud - thumb - thundering herd problem - thunk - tick - tick-list features - tickle a bug - tiger team - time bomb - time sink - time T - times-or-divided-by - timesharing - TINC - Tinkerbell program - TINLC - tip of the ice-cube - tired iron - tits on a keyboard - TLA - TMRC - TMRCie - TMTOWTDI - to a first approximation - to a zeroth approximation - toad - toast - toaster - toeprint - TOFU - toggle - tool - toolchain - toolsmith - toor - top-post - topic drift - topic group - TOPS-10 - TOPS-20 - TOS - tourist - tourist information - touristic - toy - toy language - toy problem - toy program - trampoline - trap - trap door - trash - trawl - tree-killer - treeware - trit - trivial - troff - troglodyte - troglodyte mode - Trojan horse - troll - Troll-O-Meter - tron - troughie - true-hacker - tty - tube - tube time - tunafish - tune - turbo nerd - Turing tar-pit - turist - Tux - tweak - TWENEX - twiddle - twilight zone - twink - twirling baton - two pi - two-to-the-N - - U - - u- - UBD - UBE - ubergeek - UCE - UDP - UN*X - undefined external reference - under the hood - undocumented feature - uninteresting - Unix - Unix brain damage - Unix conspiracy - Unix weenie - unixism - unswizzle - unwind the stack - unwind-protect - up - upload - upstream - upthread - uptime - urchin - URL - Usenet - Usenet Death Penalty - user - user-friendly - user-obsequious - userland - Utah teapot, the - UTSL - UUOC - - V - - V7 - vadding - vanilla - vanity domain - vannevar - vaporware - var - vaston - VAX - VAXen - vaxocentrism - vdiff - veeblefester - velveeta - Venus flytrap - verbage - verbiage - Version 7 - vgrep - vi - video toaster - videotex - virgin - virtual - virtual beer - virtual Friday - virtual reality - virtual shredder - virus - visionary - VMS - voice - voice-net - voodoo programming - VR - Vulcan nerve pinch - vulture capitalist - - W - - w00t - wabbit - WAITS - waldo - walk - walk off the end of - walking drives - wall - wall follower - wall time - wall wart - wallhack - wango - wank - wannabee - war dialer - war-driving - war-chalking - -ware - warez - warez d00dz - warez kiddies - warlording - warm boot - wart - washing machine - washing software - water MIPS - wave a dead chicken - weasel - web pointer - web ring - web toaster - webify - webmaster - wedged - wedgie - wedgitude - weeble - weeds - weenie - Weenix - well-behaved - well-connected - wetware - whack - whack-a-mole - whacker - whales - What's a spline? - wheel - wheel bit - wheel of reincarnation - wheel wars - white hat - whitelist - whizzy - Whorfian mind-lock - wibble - WIBNI - widget - wiggles - wild side - WIMP environment - win - win big - win win - Winchester - windoid - window shopping - Windowsitis - Windoze - winged comments - winkey - winnage - winner - winnitude - Wintel - Wintendo - wired - wirehead - wirewater - wish list - within delta of - within epsilon of - wizard - Wizard Book - wizard hat - wizard mode - wizardly - wok-on-the-wall - womb box - WOMBAT - womble - wonky - workaround - working as designed - worm - wormhole - wound around the axle - wrap around - write-only code - write-only language - write-only memory - Wrong Thing - wugga wugga - wumpus - WYSIAYG - WYSIWYG - - X - - X - XEROX PARC - XOFF - XON - xor - xref - XXX - xyzzy - - Y - - YA- - YABA - YAFIYGI - yak shaving - YAUN - yellow card - yellow wire - Yet Another - YHBT - YKYBHTLW - YMMV - You are not expected to understand this - You know you've been hacking too long when - Your mileage may vary - Yow! - yoyo mode - Yu-Shiang Whole Fish - - Z - - zap - zapped - Zawinski's Law - zbeba - zen - zero - zero-content - Zero-One-Infinity Rule - zeroth - zigamorph - zip - zipperhead - zombie - zorch - Zork - zorkmid - -0 - - (TM) - /dev/null - /me - 0 - 1TBS - 2 - 404 - 404 compliant - @-party + This document (the Jargon File) is in the public domain, to be freely + used, shared, and modified. There are (by intention) no legal + restraints on what you can do with it, but there are traditions about + its proper use to which many hackers are quite strongly attached. + Please extend the courtesy of proper citation when you quote the + File, ideally with a version number, as it will change and grow over + time. (Examples of appropriate citation form: "Jargon File 4.4.4" or + "The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003".) + + The Jargon File is a common heritage of the hacker culture. Over the + years a number of individuals have volunteered considerable time to + maintaining the File and been recognized by the net at large as + editors of it. Editorial responsibilities include: to collate + contributions and suggestions from others; to seek out corroborating + information; to cross-reference related entries; to keep the file in + a consistent format; and to announce and distribute updated versions + periodically. 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We may have additional + information that would be helpful to you and can assist you in + framing your quote to reflect not only the letter of the File but its + spirit as well. :(TM): // @@ -2511,73 +127,6 @@ We are informed, however, that rec.skydiving members have maintained a tradition of formation jumps in the shape of an @. -A - - abbrev - ABEND - accumulator - ACK - Acme - ad-hockery - address harvester - adger - admin - ADVENT - adware - AFAIK - AFJ - AFK - AI - AI-complete - airplane rule - Alderson loop - aliasing bug - Alice and Bob - All hardware sucks, all software sucks. - all your base are belong to us - alpha geek - alpha particles - alt - alt bit - Aluminum Book - ambimouseterous - Amiga - Amiga Persecution Complex - amp off - amper - and there was much rejoicing - Angband - angle brackets - angry fruit salad - annoybot - annoyware - ANSI standard - ANSI standard pizza - anti-idiotarianism - AOL! - app - Archimedes - arena - arg - ARMM - armor-plated - asbestos - asbestos cork award - asbestos longjohns - ASCII - ASCII art - ASCIIbetical order - astroturfing - atomic - attoparsec - Aunt Tillie - AUP - autobogotiphobia - autoconfiscate - automagically - avatar - awk - :abbrev: /@·breevī/, /@·brevī/, n. Common abbreviation for `abbreviation'. @@ -2688,12 +237,6 @@ Also called ad-hackery, ad-hocity (/ad-hos'@-tee/), ad-crockery. See also {ELIZA effect}. - [73-10-31.png] - - This is {ad-hockery} in action. - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 74-08-18) - :address harvester: n. A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic looking @@ -3619,222 +1162,6 @@ 3. vt. To process data using awk(1). -B - - B1FF - B5 - back door - backbone cabal - backbone site - backgammon - background - backreference - backronym - backward combatability - BAD - Bad and Wrong - Bad Thing - bag on the side - bagbiter - bagbiting - baggy pantsing - balloonian variable - bamf - banana problem - bandwidth - bang - bang on - bang path - banner - banner ad - banner site - bar - bare metal - barf - barfmail - barfulation - barfulous - barn - barney - baroque - BASIC - batbelt - batch - bathtub curve - Batman factor - baud - baz - bazaar - bboard - BBS - BCPL - BDFL - beam - beanie key - beep - Befunge - beige toaster - bells and whistles - bells whistles and gongs - benchmark - Berkeley Quality Software - Berzerkeley - beta - BFI - BI - bible - BiCapitalization - biff - big iron - Big Red Switch - Big Room - big win - big-endian - bignum - bigot - bikeshedding - binary four - bit - bit bashing - bit bucket - bit decay - bit rot - bit twiddling - bit-paired keyboard - bitblt - bits - bitty box - bixie - black art - black hat - black hole - black magic - Black Screen of Death - blammo - blargh - blast - blat - bletch - bletcherous - blinkenlights - blit - blitter - blivet - bloatware - BLOB - block - blog - Bloggs Family - blogosphere - blogrolling - blow an EPROM - blow away - blow out - blow past - blow up - BLT - blue box - Blue Glue - blue goo - Blue Screen of Death - blue wire - blurgle - BNF - boa - board - boat anchor - bob - bodge - BOF - BOFH - bogo-sort - bogometer - BogoMIPS - bogon - bogon filter - bogon flux - bogosity - bogotify - bogue out - bogus - Bohr bug - boink - bomb - bondage-and-discipline language - bonk/oif - book titles - boot - Borg - borken - bot - bottom feeder - bottom-post - bottom-up implementation - bounce - bounce message - boustrophedon - box - boxed comments - boxen - boxology - bozotic - brain dump - brain fart - brain-damaged - brain-dead - braino - brainwidth - bread crumbs - break - break-even point - breath-of-life packet - breedle - Breidbart Index - bricktext - bring X to its knees - brittle - broadcast storm - broken - broken arrow - broken-ring network - BrokenWindows - broket - Brooks's Law - brown-paper-bag bug - browser - BRS - brute force - brute force and ignorance - BSD - BSOD - BUAF - BUAG - bubble sort - bucky bits - buffer chuck - buffer overflow - bug - bug-compatible - bug-for-bug compatible - bug-of-the-month club - bulletproof - bullschildt - bump - burble - buried treasure - burn a CD - burn-in period - burst page - busy-wait - buzz - buzzword-compliant - BWQ - by hand - byte - byte sex - bytesexual - Bzzzt! Wrong. - :B1FF: /bif/, BIFF, n. The most famous {pseudo}, and the prototypical {newbie}. Articles from @@ -4390,9 +1717,7 @@ to send sometime" "I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling center." - [crunchly-2.png] - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-03-17:5-8) :bathtub curve: n. @@ -4582,11 +1907,7 @@ whistles, and gongs to signal each other over longer distances than voice can carry. - [73-05-28.png] - Sometimes `trouble' is spelled {bells and whistles}... - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-06-04) :bells whistles and gongs: n. @@ -4951,11 +2272,7 @@ The source for all these meanings, is, historically, the fact that the {chad box} on a paper-tape punch was sometimes called a bit bucket. - [75-10-04.png] - - A literal {bit bucket}. - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-02-14) :bit decay: n. @@ -5378,9 +2695,6 @@ depict a three-dimensional object until one realizes that the parts fit together in an impossible way. - [blivet.png] - - This is a blivet :bloatware: n. @@ -6635,9 +3949,6 @@ term bug was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII. - [bugpic.png] - - The `original bug' Indeed, the use of bug to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather @@ -6713,11 +4024,7 @@ original-computer-bug bug fixed it in an entirely unexpected way, by making the myth true! --ESR] - [73-07-29.png] - - It helps to remember that this dates from 1973. - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-10-31) :bug-compatible: adj. @@ -6929,197 +4236,6 @@ abbreviated "*Bzzzzt*, wrong, but thank you for playing" is also common; capitalization and emphasis of the buzzer sound varies. -C - - C - C Programmer's Disease - C&C - C++ - calculator - Camel Book - camelCase - camelCasing - can't happen - cancelbot - Cancelmoose[tm] - candygrammar - canonical - careware - cargo cult programming - cascade - case and paste - case mod - casters-up mode - casting the runes - cat - catatonic - cathedral - cd tilde - CDA - cdr - chad - chad box - chain - chainik - channel - channel hopping - channel op - chanop - char - charityware - chase pointers - chawmp - check - cheerfully - chemist - Chernobyl chicken - Chernobyl packet - chicken head - chickenboner - chiclet keyboard - Chinese Army technique - choad - choke - chomp - chomper - CHOP - Christmas tree - Christmas tree packet - chrome - chug - Church of the SubGenius - CI$ - Cinderella Book - Classic C - clean - click of death - CLM - clobber - clock - clocks - clone - clone-and-hack coding - clover key - clue-by-four - clustergeeking - co-lo - coaster - coaster toaster - COBOL - COBOL fingers - cobweb site - code - code grinder - code monkey - Code of the Geeks - code police - codes - codewalker - coefficient of X - cokebottle - cold boot - COME FROM - comm mode - command key - comment out - Commonwealth Hackish - compact - compiler jock - compo - compress - Compu$erve - computer confetti - computron - con - condition out - condom - confuser - connector conspiracy - cons - considered harmful - console - console jockey - content-free - control-C - control-O - control-Q - control-S - Conway's Law - cookbook - cooked mode - cookie - cookie bear - cookie file - cookie jar - cookie monster - copious free time - copper - copy protection - copybroke - copycenter - copyleft - copyparty - copywronged - core - core cancer - core dump - core leak - Core Wars - cosmic rays - cough and die - courier - cow orker - cowboy - CP/M - CPU Wars - crack - crack root - cracker - cracking - crank - crapplet - CrApTeX - crash - crash and burn - crawling horror - CRC handbook - creationism - creep - creeping elegance - creeping featurism - creeping featuritis - cretin - cretinous - crippleware - critical mass - crlf - crock - cross-post - crossload - crudware - cruft - cruft together - cruftsmanship - crufty - crumb - crunch - cryppie - cthulhic - CTSS - cube - cup holder - cursor dipped in X - cuspy - cut a tape - cybercrud - cyberpunk - cyberspace - cycle - cycle of reincarnation - cycle server - cypherpunk - C|N>K - :C: n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet. @@ -7141,10 +4257,6 @@ readability and maintainability of assembly language" See also {languages of choice}, {indent style}. - [ansi-c.png] - - The Crunchly on the left sounds a little ANSI. - :C Programmer's Disease: n. The tendency of the undisciplined C programmer to set arbitrary but @@ -7572,11 +4684,7 @@ nobody has proposed any plausible reason that card chaff should be thought of as gravel. None of these etymologies is really plausible. - [74-12-31.png] - - This is one way to be {chad}less. - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 75-10-04) :chad box: n. @@ -8753,12 +5861,6 @@ better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia). See {core}. - [76-07-18.png] - - A {core dump} lands our hero in hot water. - - (This is the last cartoon in the Crunchly saga.) - :core leak: n. Syn. {memory leak}. @@ -9485,141 +6587,6 @@ FAQ on alt.fan.pratchett recognizes variants such as T|N>K = `Tea through Nose to Keyboard' and C|N>S = `Coffee through Nose to Screen'. -D - - daemon - daemon book - dahmum - dancing frog - dangling pointer - dark-side hacker - Datamation - DAU - Dave the Resurrector - day mode - dd - DDT - de-rezz - dead - dead beef attack - dead code - dead-tree version - DEADBEEF - deadlock - deadly embrace - death code - Death Square - Death Star - Death, X of - DEC - DEC Wars - decay - deckle - DED - deep hack mode - deep magic - deep space - defenestration - defined as - deflicted - dehose - Dejagoo - deletia - deliminator - delint - delta - demented - demigod - demo - demo mode - demoeffect - demogroup - demon - demon dialer - demoparty - demoscene - dentro - depeditate - deprecated - derf - deserves to lose - despew - dickless workstation - dictionary flame - diddle - die - die horribly - diff - dike - Dilbert - ding - dink - dinosaur - dinosaur pen - dinosaurs mating - dirtball - dirty power - disclaimer - Discordianism - disemvowel - disk farm - display hack - dispress - Dissociated Press - distribution - distro - disusered - DMZ - do protocol - doc - documentation - dodgy - dogcow - dogfood - dogpile - dogwash - Don't do that then! - dongle - dongle-disk - Doom, X of - doorstop - DoS attack - dot file - double bucky - doubled sig - down - download - DP - DPer - Dr. Fred Mbogo - dragon - Dragon Book - drain - dread high-bit disease - dread questionmark disease - DRECNET - driver - droid - drone - drool-proof paper - drop on the floor - drop-ins - drop-outs - drugged - drum - drunk mouse syndrome - DSW - dub dub dub - Duff's device - dumb terminal - dumbass attack - dumbed down - dump - dumpster diving - dusty deck - DWIM - dynner - :daemon: /dayīmn/, /deeīmn/, n. [from Maxwell's Demon, later incorrectly retronymed as `Disk And @@ -11094,11 +8061,7 @@ the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See {glitch}, {fried}. - [73-05-20.png] - - A really serious case of {drop-outs}. - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-21) :drugged: adj. @@ -11400,9 +8363,6 @@ been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of hostility. "Eat flaming death, {EBCDIC} users!" - [eat-flaming-death.png] - - IPM tells us to {eat flaming death}. :EBCDIC: /ebīs@·dik/, /ebīsee`dik/, /ebīk@·dik/, n. @@ -12073,161 +9033,6 @@ software like {grep} or any other automated search tool. Also called a {vgrep}; compare {vdiff}. -F - - face time - factor - fairings - fall over - fall through - fan - fandango on core - FAQ - FAQ list - FAQL - faradize - farkled - farm - fascist - fat electrons - fat pipe - fat-finger - faulty - fear and loathing - feature - feature creature - feature creep - feature key - feature shock - featurectomy - feep - feeper - feeping creature - feeping creaturism - feetch feetch - fence - fencepost error - fiber-seeking backhoe - FidoNet - field circus - field servoid - file signature - filk - film at 11 - filter - Finagle's Law - fine - finger - finger trouble - finger-pointing syndrome - finn - firebottle - firefighting - firehose syndrome - firewall code - firewall machine - fireworks mode - firmware - fish - FISH queue - fisking - FITNR - fix - FIXME - flag - flag day - flaky - flamage - flame - flame bait - flame on - flame war - flamer - flap - flarp - flash crowd - flat - flat-ASCII - flat-file - flatten - flavor - flavorful - flippy - flood - flowchart - flower key - flush - flypage - Flyspeck 3 - flytrap - FM - fnord - FOAF - FOD - fold case - followup - fontology - foo - foobar - fool - fool file - Foonly - footprint - for free - for the rest of us - for values of - fora - foreground - fork - fork bomb - forked - Formosa's Law - Fortrash - fortune cookie - forum - fossil - four-color glossies - frag - fragile - Frankenputer - fred - Fred Foobar - frednet - free software - freeware - freeze - fried - frink - friode - fritterware - frob - frobnicate - frobnitz - frog - frogging - front end - frotz - frotzed - frowney - FRS - fry - fscking - FSF - -fu - FUBAR - fuck me harder - FUD - FUD wars - fudge - fudge factor - fuel up - Full Monty - fum - functino - funky - funny money - furrfu - :face time: n. [common] Time spent interacting with somebody face-to-face (as opposed @@ -12389,11 +9194,7 @@ checking. Compare {bondage-and-discipline language}, although that term is global rather than local. - [73-05-21.png] - - Fascist security strikes again. - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-28) :fat electrons: n. @@ -13231,11 +10032,8 @@ IBM machines as far back as 1965). Unix/C hackers found the ITS usage confusing, and vice versa. - [crunchly-5678.png] - Crunchly gets {flush}ed. - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-05-01) :flypage: /fli:īpayj/, n. @@ -14161,118 +10959,6 @@ complained that "Sheesh!" as a response to {newbie}s was being overused. See also {FOAF}. -G - - G - gang bang - Gang of Four - garbage collect - garply - gas - Gates's Law - gawble - GC - GCOS - GECOS - gedanken - geef - geek - geek code - geek out - geekasm - gen - gender mender - General Public Virus - generate - Genius From Mars Technique - gensym - Get a life! - Get a real computer! - GandhiCon - gib - GIFs at 11 - gig - giga- - GIGO - gilley - gillion - ginger - GIPS - GIYF - glark - glass - glass tty - glassfet - glitch - glob - glork - glue - gnarly - GNU - gnubie - GNUMACS - go flatline - go gold - go root - go-faster stripes - GoAT - goat file - gobble - Godwin's Law - Godzillagram - golden - golf-ball printer - gonk - gonkulator - gonzo - Good Thing - google - google juice - gopher - gopher hole - gorets - gorilla arm - gorp - GOSMACS - gotcha - GPL - GPV - gray goo - gray hat - Great Internet Explosion - Great Renaming - Great Runes - Great Worm - great-wall - green bytes - green card - green lightning - green machine - Green's Theorem - greenbar - grep - gribble - grilf - grind - grind crank - gritch - grok - gronk - gronk out - gronked - grovel - grue - grunge - gubbish - Guido - guiltware - gumby - gunch - gunpowder chicken - guru - guru meditation - gweep - :G: pref.,suff. 1. [SI] See {quantifiers}. @@ -14764,11 +11450,7 @@ the results can be very wrong and very hard to debug (a glitch is one of many causes of electronic {heisenbug}s). - [73-06-04.png] - - Coping with a hydraulic {glitch}. - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-07-24) :glob: /glob/, not, /glohb/, v.,n. @@ -15534,110 +12216,6 @@ considered derogatory and not used in self-reference; it has since been proudly claimed in much the same way as {geek}. -H - - h - ha ha only serious - hack - hack attack - hack mode - hack on - hack together - hack up - hack value - hacked off - hacked up - hacker - hacker ethic - hacker humor - Hackers (the movie) - hacking run - Hacking X for Y - Hackintosh - hackish - hackishness - hackitude - hair - hairball - hairy - HAKMEM - hakspek - Halloween Documents - ham - hammer - hamster - HAND - hand cruft - hand-hacking - hand-roll - handle - handshaking - handwave - hang - Hanlon's Razor - happily - hard boot - hardcoded - hardwarily - hardwired - has the X nature - hash bucket - hash collision - hat - HCF - heads down - heartbeat - heatseeker - heavy metal - heavy wizardry - heavyweight - Hed Rat - heisenbug - hell desk - hello sailor! - hello world - hello, wall! - hex - hexadecimal - hexit - HHOK - HHOS - hidden flag - high bit - high moby - highly - hing - hired gun - hirsute - HLL - hoarding - hog - hole - hollised - holy penguin pee - holy wars - home box - home machine - home page - honey pot - hook - hop - horked - hose - hosed - hot chat - hot spot - hotlink - house wizard - HP-SUX - HTH - huff - hung - hungry puppy - hungus - hyperspace - hysterical reasons - :h: [from SF fandom] A method of `marking' common words, i.e., calling @@ -15693,12 +12271,14 @@ 7. n. Short for {hacker}. - 8. See {nethack}. 9. [MIT] v. To explore the basements, roof ledges, - and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of - Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at - educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been - found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons - and Dragons and {Zork}. See also {vadding}. + 8. See {nethack}. + + 9. [MIT] v. To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels + of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant + workers and (since this is usually performed at educational + institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be + eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons and + Dragons and {Zork}. See also {vadding}. Constructions on this term abound. They include happy hacking (a farewell), how's hacking? (a friendly greeting among hackers) and @@ -16679,7 +13259,7 @@ Great holy wars of the past have included {ITS} vs.: {Unix}, {Unix} vs.: {VMS}, {BSD} Unix vs.: System V, {C} vs.: {Pascal}, {C} vs.: FORTRAN, etc. In the year 2000, popular favorites of the day are KDE - vs, GNOME, vim vs. elvis, Linux vs. [Free|Net|Open]BSD. Hardy + vs. GNOME, vim vs. elvis, Linux vs. [Free|Net|Open]BSD. Hardy perennials include {EMACS} vs.: {vi}, my personal computer vs.: everyone else's personal computer, ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a @@ -16917,62 +13497,6 @@ in the first place. "All IBM PC video adapters have to support MDA text mode for hysterical reasons." Compare {bug-for-bug compatible}. -I - - I didn't change anything! - I see no X here. - IANAL - IBM - ICBM address - ice - ID10T error - idempotent - IDP - If you want X, you know where to find it. - ifdef out - IIRC - ill-behaved - IMHO - Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! - in the extreme - incantation - include - include war - indent style - Indent-o-Meter - index of X - infant mortality - infinite - infinite loop - Infinite-Monkey Theorem - infinity - inflate - Infocom - initgame - insanely great - installfest - INTERCAL - InterCaps - interesting - Internet - Internet Death Penalty - Internet Exploder - Internet Exploiter - interrupt - interrupts locked out - intertwingled - intro - IRC - iron - Iron Age - iron box - ironmonger - ISO standard cup of tea - ISP - ITS - IWBNI - IYFEG - :I didn't change anything!: interj. An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression @@ -17676,29 +14200,6 @@ a meta-name when telling ethnic jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See {JEDR}. -J - - J. Random - J. Random Hacker - jack in - jaggies - Java - JCL - JEDR - Jeff K. - jello - Jeopardy-style quoting - jibble - jiffy - job security - jock - joe code - joe-job - juggling eggs - juice - jump off into never-never land - jupiter - :J. Random: /J randīm/, n. [common; generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrary; ordinary; any @@ -17911,7 +14412,8 @@ A spam run forged to appear as though it came from an innocent party, who is then generally flooded by the bounces; or, the act of - performing such a run. The original incident is described here. + performing such a run. The original incident is described at + http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Joe%20Job :juggling eggs: vi. @@ -17947,45 +14449,6 @@ preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. Now commonly shortened to jupe. -K - - K - K&R - k- - kahuna - kamikaze packet - kangaroo code - ken - kernel-of-the-week club - kgbvax - KIBO - kiboze - kibozo - kick - kill file - killer app - killer micro - killer poke - kilo- - kilogoogle - KIPS - KISS Principle - kit - KLB - klone - kludge - kluge - kluge around - kluge up - Knights of the Lambda Calculus - knobs - Knuth - koan - kook - Kool-Aid - kremvax - kyrka - :K: /K/, n. [from {kilo-}] A kilobyte. Used both as a spoken word and a written @@ -18435,85 +14898,6 @@ [Swedish] See {feature key}. -L - - lag - lamer - LAN party - language lawyer - languages of choice - LART - larval stage - lase - laser chicken - leaf site - leak - leaky heap - leapfrog attack - leech - leech mode - legal - legalese - lenna - LER - LERP - let the smoke out - letterbomb - lexer - life - Life is hard - light pipe - lightweight - like kicking dead whales down the beach - like nailing jelly to a tree - line 666 - line eater, the - line noise - linearithmic - link farm - link rot - link-dead - lint - Lintel - Linus - Linux - lion food - Lions Book - LISP - list-bomb - lithium lick - little-endian - live - live data - Live Free Or Die! - livelock - liveware - lobotomy - locals, the - locked and loaded - locked up - logic bomb - logical - loop through - loose bytes - lord high fixer - lose - lose lose - loser - losing - loss - lossage - lossy - lost in the noise - lost in the underflow - lots of MIPS but no I/O - low-bandwidth - Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology - Lumber Cartel - lunatic fringe - lurker - luser - :lag: n. [MUD, IRC; very common] When used without qualification this is @@ -18757,10 +15141,6 @@ is a fan page at www.lenna.org, with more details. Compare {Utah teapot} and {Stanford Bunny} - [len_std.jpg] - - Miss Lena Sjööblom - :LER: /L·E·R/ n. @@ -19063,9 +15443,6 @@ unnecessary {crock}s. When the {Right Thing} has already been done once, there is no justification for {bogosity} in newer languages. - [lisp.png] - - We've got your numbers.... :list-bomb: v. @@ -19142,10 +15519,6 @@ logo added. Compaq (half of which was once DEC) continued the practice. - [licenseplate.jpg] - - Armando Stettner's original Unix license plate. - :livelock: /li:vīlok/, n. A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable to finish @@ -19410,137 +15783,6 @@ seen in program comments and on Usenet. Compare {mundane}, {muggle}, {newbie}, {chainik}. -M - - M - M$ - macdink - machoflops - Macintoy - Macintrash - macro - macro- - macrology - maggotbox - magic - magic cookie - magic number - magic smoke - mail storm - mailbomb - mailing list - main loop - mainframe - mainsleaze - man page - management - mandelbug - manged - mangle - mangled name - mangler - manularity - marching ants - marbles - marginal - marginally - marketroid - Mars - martian - massage - math-out - Matrix - maximum Maytag mode - McQuary limit - meatspace - meatware - meeces - meg - mega- - megapenny - MEGO - meltdown, network - meme - meme plague - memetics - memory farts - memory leak - memory smash - menuitis - mess-dos - meta - meta bit - metasyntactic variable - MFTL - mickey - mickey mouse program - micro- - MicroDroid - microfortnight - microLenat - microReid - microserf - Microsloth Windows - Microsoft - micros~1 - middle-endian - middle-out implementation - milliLampson - minor detail - MIPS - misbug - misfeature - missile address - MiSTing - miswart - MMF - mobo - moby - mockingbird - mod - mode - mode bit - modulo - mojibake - molly-guard - Mongolian Hordes technique - monkey up - monkey, scratch - monstrosity - monty - Moof - Moore's Law - moria - MOTAS - MOTOS - MOTSS - mouse ahead - mouse belt - mouse droppings - mouse elbow - mouse pusher - mouso - MS-DOS - mu - MUD - muddie - mudhead - muggle - Multics - multitask - mumblage - mumble - munch - munching - munching squares - munchkin - mundane - mung - munge - Murphy's Law - music - mutter - :M: pref. [SI] See {quantifiers}. @@ -20037,12 +16279,6 @@ fact that it is actually {content-free}. See also {numbers}, {social science number}. - [73-05-18.png] - - A {math-out} approach to history. - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-19) - :Matrix: n. [FidoNet] @@ -21270,86 +17506,6 @@ ordinary mortals. Often used in "mutter an {incantation}". See also {wizard}. -N - - N - nadger - nagware - nailed to the wall - nailing jelly - naive - naive user - NAK - NANA - nano - nano- - nanoacre - nanobot - nanocomputer - nanofortnight - nanotechnology - narg - nasal demons - nastygram - Nathan Hale - nature - neat hack - neats vs. scruffies - neep-neep - neophilia - nerd - nerd knob - net.- - net.god - net.personality - net.police - netburp - netdead - nethack - netiquette - netlag - netnews - Netscrape - netsplit - netter - network address - network meltdown - New Jersey - New Testament - newbie - newgroup wars - newline - NeWS - newsfroup - newsgroup - nick - nickle - night mode - Nightmare File System - NIL - Ninety-Ninety Rule - nipple mouse - NMI - no-op - noddy - non-optimal solution - nonlinear - nontrivial - not entirely unlike X - not ready for prime time - notwork - NP- - NSA line eater - NSP - nude - nugry - nuke - number-crunching - numbers - NUXI problem - nybble - nyetwork - :N: /N/, quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objects: "There were N bugs in @@ -22154,12 +18310,6 @@ esp. if such pictures can be used as screen backgrounds. See also {crunch}. - [74-12-25.png] - - Hydrodynamic {number-crunching}. - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 74-12-29) - :numbers: n. [scientific computation] Output of a computation that may not be @@ -22219,54 +18369,6 @@ [from Russian `nyet' = no] A network, when it is acting {flaky} or is {down}. Compare {notwork}. -O - - Ob- - Obfuscated C Contest - obi-wan error - Objectionable-C - obscure - octal forty - off the trolley - off-by-one error - offline - ogg - -oid - old fart - Old Testament - on the gripping hand - one-banana problem - one-line fix - one-liner wars - ooblick - OP - op - open - open source - open switch - operating system - operator headspace - optical diff - optical grep - optimism - Oracle, the - Orange Book - oriental food - orphan - orphaned i-node - orthogonal - OS - OS/2 - OSS - OT - OTOH - out-of-band - overclock - overflow bit - overrun - overrun screw - owned - :Ob-: /ob/, pref. Obligatory. A piece of {netiquette} acknowledging that the author has @@ -22792,11 +18894,6 @@ make a trip to the Room of Porcelain Fixtures: "I'd better process an internal interrupt before the overflow bit gets set." - [73-07-24.png] - - Crunchly and the {overflow bit}. - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-07-29) :overrun: n. @@ -22847,146 +18944,6 @@ would even receive a point in competition. There are several spelling variants: 0wned, 0wn0r3d, even pwn0r3d. Hackers do not use this sense. -P - - P.O.D. - packet over air - padded cell - page in - page out - pain in the net - paper-net - param - PARC - parent message - parity errors - Parkinson's Law of Data - parm - parse - Pascal - PascalCasing - pastie - patch - patch pumpkin - patch space - path - pathological - payware - PBD - PD - PDP-10 - PDP-11 - PDP-20 - PEBKAC - peek - pencil and paper - Pentagram Pro - Pentium - peon - percent-S - perf - perfect programmer syndrome - Perl - person of no account - pessimal - pessimizing compiler - peta- - pffft - PFY - phage - phase - phase of the moon - phase-wrapping - PHB - phreaker - phreaking - pico- - pig-tail - pilot error - ping - Ping O' Death - ping storm - pink contract - pink wire - pipe - pistol - pixel sort - pizza box - plaid screen - plain-ASCII - Plan 9 - plan file - platinum-iridium - playpen - playte - plokta - plonk - plug-and-pray - plugh - plumbing - PM - point-and-drool interface - pointy hat - pointy-haired - poke - poll - polygon pusher - POM - ponytail - pop - poser - post - postcardware - Postel's Prescription - posting - postmaster - PostScript - pound on - power cycle - power hit - pr0n - precedence lossage - pred - prepend - prestidigitization - pretty pictures - prettyprint - pretzel key - priesthood - prime time - print - printing discussion - priority interrupt - profile - progasm - proggy - proglet - program - Programmer's Cheer - programming - programming fluid - propeller head - propeller key - proprietary - protocol - provocative maintenance - prowler - pseudo - pseudoprime - pseudosuit - psychedelicware - psyton - pubic directory - puff - pumpkin holder - pumpking - punched card - punt - Purple Book - purple wire - push - Python - :P.O.D.: /P·O·D/ [rare; sometimes `POD' without the periods] Acronym for `Piece Of @@ -23505,7 +19462,7 @@ [Usenet; common, originally from the {BOFH} mythos] Abbreviation for Pimply-Faced Youth. A {BOFH} in training, esp. one apprenticed to an elder BOFH aged in evil. - + :phage: n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorized @@ -24562,23 +20519,6 @@ competes with. There's a Python resource page at http://www.python.org. See also {Guido}, {BDFL}. -Q - - quad - quadruple bucky - quantifiers - quantum bogodynamics - quarter - ques - quick-and-dirty - quine - Quirk objection - quote chapter and verse - quotient - quux - qux - QWERTY - :quad: n. 1. Two bits; syn. for {quarter}, {crumb}, {tayste}. @@ -24874,99 +20814,6 @@ about how technical standards get and stay established; see http://www.reasonmag.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.html. -R - - rabbit job - rain dance - rainbow series - random - Random Number God - random numbers - randomness - rape - rare mode - raster blaster - raster burn - rasterbation - rat belt - rat dance - rathole - ratio site - rave - rave on! - ravs - raw mode - RBL - rc file - RE - read-only user - README file - real - real estate - real hack - real operating system - Real Programmer - Real Soon Now - real time - real user - Real World - reality check - reality-distortion field - reaper - recompile the world - rectangle slinger - recursion - recursive acronym - red wire - regexp - register dancing - rehi - reincarnation, cycle of - reinvent the wheel - relay rape - religion of CHI - religious issues - replicator - reply - restriction - retcon - RETI - retrocomputing - return from the dead - RFC - RFE - Right Thing - rip - ripoff - RL - roach - robocanceller - robot - robust - rococo - rogue - room-temperature IQ - root - root mode - rootkit - rot13 - rotary debugger - RSN - RTBM - RTFAQ - RTFB - RTFM - RTFS - RTI - RTM - RTS - rubber-hose cryptanalysis - rude - runes - runic - rusty iron - rusty wire - :rabbit job: n. [Cambridge] A batch job that does little, if any, real work, but @@ -25430,9 +21277,6 @@ the center of Cambridge town. See also {fear and loathing}, {mundane}, and {uninteresting}. - [cobol.png] - - () :reality check: n. @@ -26012,254 +21856,6 @@ and marginal propagation conditions. "Yes, but how good is your whizbang new protocol on really rusty wire?". -S - - S/N ratio - sacred - saga - sagan - SAIL - salescritter - salt - salt mines - salt substrate - same-day service - samizdat - samurai - sandbender - sandbox - sanity check - Saturday-night special - say - scag - scanno - scary devil monastery - schroedinbug - science-fiction fandom - SCNR - scram switch - scratch - scratch monkey - scream and die - screaming tty - screen - screen name - screen scraping - screw - screwage - scribble - script kiddies - scrog - scrool - scrozzle - scruffies - SCSI - SCSI voodoo - search-and-destroy mode - second-system effect - secondary damage - security through obscurity - SED - See figure 1 - segfault - seggie - segment - segmentation fault - segv - self-reference - selvage - semi - semi-automated - semi-infinite - senior bit - September that never ended - server - SEX - sex changer - shambolic link - shar file - sharchive - Share and enjoy! - shareware - sharing violation - shebang - shelfware - shell - shell out - shift left (or right) logical - shim - shitogram - shotgun debugging - shovelware - showstopper - shriek - Shub-Internet - SIG - sig block - sig quote - sig virus - sigmonster - signal-to-noise ratio - silicon - silly walk - silo - since time T equals minus infinity - sitename - skrog - skulker - slab - slack - slash - slashdot effect - sleep - slim - slop - slopsucker - Slowlaris - slurp - slurp the robot - smart - smart terminal - smash case - smash the stack - smiley - smoke - smoke and mirrors - smoke test - smoking clover - smoot - SMOP - smurf - SNAFU principle - snail - snail-mail - snap - snarf - snarf & barf - snarf down - snark - sneaker - sneakernet - sniff - snippage - SO - social engineering - social science number - sock puppet - sodium substrate - soft boot - softcopy - software bloat - software hoarding - software laser - software rot - softwarily - softy - some random X - sorcerer's apprentice mode - source - source of all good bits - space-cadet keyboard - spaceship operator - SPACEWAR - spaghetti code - spaghetti inheritance - spam - spam bait - spamblock - spamhaus - spamvertize - spangle - spawn - special-case - speed of light - speedometer - spell - spelling flame - spider - spider food - spiffy - spike - spin - Spinning Pizza of Death - spl - splash screen - splat - splat out - splork! - spod - spoiler - spoiler space - sponge - spoof - spool - spool file - sporgery - sport death - spungle - spyware - squirrelcide - stack - stack puke - stale pointer bug - Stanford Bunny - star out - state - stealth manager - steam-powered - steved - STFW - stir-fried random - stomp on - Stone Age - stone knives and bearskins - stoppage - store - STR - strided - stroke - strudel - stubroutine - studly - studlycaps - stunning - stupid-sort - Stupids - Sturgeon's Law - sucking mud - sufficiently small - suit - suitable win - suitably small - Sun - sun lounge - sun-stools - sunspots - super source quench - superloser - superprogrammer - superuser - support - surf - Suzie COBOL - swab - swap - swap space - swapped in - swapped out - Swiss-Army chainsaw - swizzle - sync - syntactic salt - syntactic sugar - sys-frog - sysadmin - sysape - sysop - system - system mangler - systems jock - :S/N ratio: //, n. (also s/n ratio, s:n ratio). Syn. {signal-to-noise ratio}. Often @@ -26938,12 +22534,6 @@ that lost the war. See also {LER}. [Not to be confused with sed(1), the Unix stream editor. --ESR] - :See figure 1: - - Metaphorically, "Get stuffed." From the title of a famous parody that - can easily be found with a web search on this phrase; figure 1, in - fact, depicts the digitus impudicus. - :segfault: n.,vi. Syn. {segment}, {segmentation fault}. @@ -28037,13 +23627,6 @@ such a keyboard can require three or four hands to operate. See {bucky bits}, {cokebottle}, {double bucky}, {meta bit}, {quadruple bucky}. - [symbolics-keyboard.jpg] - - Simplified Symbolics version of the space-cadet keyboard - - (Some relatively bad photographs of the earlier, more elaborate - version are available on the Web.). - Note: early versions of this entry incorrectly identified the space-cadet keyboard with the Knight keyboard. Though both were designed by Tom Knight, the latter term was properly applied only to a @@ -28051,12 +23634,6 @@ keyboard (as described under {bucky bits}). The true space-cadet keyboard evolved from the first Knight keyboard. - [73-05-19.png] - - An early {space-cadet keyboard} - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-20) - :spaceship operator: n. The glyph <=>, so-called apparently because in the low-resolution @@ -28638,12 +24215,6 @@ pre-ferrite-{core} machines with drum or CRT mass storage (as opposed to just mercury delay lines and/or relays). See also {Iron Age}. - [76-05-01.png] - - How things weren't in the {Stone Age}. - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-07-18) - 2. More generally, a pejorative for any crufty, ancient piece of hardware or software technology. Note that this is used even by people who were there for the {Stone Age} (sense 1). @@ -29071,138 +24642,6 @@ See {jock}, sense 2. -T - - T - tail recursion - talk mode - talker system - TAN - tanked - TANSTAAFL - tape monkey - tar and feather - tarball - tardegy - taste - tayste - TCB - TCP/IP - TECO - tee - teergrube - teledildonics - ten-finger interface - tense - tentacle - tenured graduate student - tera- - teraflop club - terminak - terminal brain death - terminal illness - terminal junkie - test - TeX - text - thanks in advance - That's not a bug, that's a feature! - the literature - the network - the X that can be Y is not the true X - theology - theory - thinko - This can't happen - This time, for sure! - thrash - thread - three-finger salute - throwaway account - thud - thumb - thundering herd problem - thunk - tick - tick-list features - tickle a bug - tiger team - time bomb - time sink - time T - times-or-divided-by - timesharing - TINC - Tinkerbell program - TINLC - tip of the ice-cube - tired iron - tits on a keyboard - TLA - TMRC - TMRCie - TMTOWTDI - to a first approximation - to a zeroth approximation - toad - toast - toaster - toeprint - TOFU - toggle - tool - toolchain - toolsmith - toor - top-post - topic drift - topic group - TOPS-10 - TOPS-20 - TOS - tourist - tourist information - touristic - toy - toy language - toy problem - toy program - trampoline - trap - trap door - trash - trawl - tree-killer - treeware - trit - trivial - troff - troglodyte - troglodyte mode - Trojan horse - troll - Troll-O-Meter - tron - troughie - true-hacker - tty - tube - tube time - tunafish - tune - turbo nerd - Turing tar-pit - turist - Tux - tweak - TWENEX - twiddle - twilight zone - twink - twirling baton - two pi - two-to-the-N - :T: /T/ 1. [from LISP terminology for `true'] Yes. Used in reply to a question @@ -30916,44 +26355,6 @@ 2-to-the-N things to do before I can go out for lunch" means you probably won't show up. -U - - u- - UBD - UBE - ubergeek - UCE - UDP - UN*X - undefined external reference - under the hood - undocumented feature - uninteresting - Unix - Unix brain damage - Unix conspiracy - Unix weenie - unixism - unswizzle - unwind the stack - unwind-protect - up - upload - upstream - upthread - uptime - urchin - URL - Usenet - Usenet Death Penalty - user - user-friendly - user-obsequious - userland - Utah teapot, the - UTSL - UUOC - :u-: pref. Written shorthand for {micro-}; techspeak when applied to metric @@ -31069,10 +26470,6 @@ conspiracy} for an opposing point of view). See {Version 7}, {BSD}, {Linux}. - [richiethompson.jpg] - - Archetypal hackers ken (left) and dmr (right). - Some people are confused over whether this word is appropriately `UNIX' or `Unix'; both forms are common, and used interchangeably. Dennis Ritchie says that the `UNIX' spelling originally happened in @@ -31382,46 +26779,6 @@ Perl luminary Randal L. Schwartz. There is a web page devoted to this and other similar awards. -V - - V7 - vadding - vanilla - vanity domain - vannevar - vaporware - var - vaston - VAX - VAXen - vaxocentrism - vdiff - veeblefester - velveeta - Venus flytrap - verbage - verbiage - Version 7 - vgrep - vi - video toaster - videotex - virgin - virtual - virtual beer - virtual Friday - virtual reality - virtual shredder - virus - visionary - VMS - voice - voice-net - voodoo programming - VR - Vulcan nerve pinch - vulture capitalist - :V7: /Vīsevīen/, n. See {Version 7}. @@ -31909,118 +27266,6 @@ over their own innovations and most of the money they ought to have made from them. -W - - w00t - wabbit - WAITS - waldo - walk - walk off the end of - walking drives - wall - wall follower - wall time - wall wart - wallhack - wango - wank - wannabee - war dialer - war-driving - war-chalking - -ware - warez - warez d00dz - warez kiddies - warlording - warm boot - wart - washing machine - washing software - water MIPS - wave a dead chicken - weasel - web pointer - web ring - web toaster - webify - webmaster - wedged - wedgie - wedgitude - weeble - weeds - weenie - Weenix - well-behaved - well-connected - wetware - whack - whack-a-mole - whacker - whales - What's a spline? - wheel - wheel bit - wheel of reincarnation - wheel wars - white hat - whitelist - whizzy - Whorfian mind-lock - wibble - WIBNI - widget - wiggles - wild side - WIMP environment - win - win big - win win - Winchester - windoid - window shopping - Windowsitis - Windoze - winged comments - winkey - winnage - winner - winnitude - Wintel - Wintendo - wired - wirehead - wirewater - wish list - within delta of - within epsilon of - wizard - Wizard Book - wizard hat - wizard mode - wizardly - wok-on-the-wall - womb box - WOMBAT - womble - wonky - workaround - working as designed - worm - wormhole - wound around the axle - wrap around - write-only code - write-only language - write-only memory - Wrong Thing - wugga wugga - wumpus - WYSIAYG - WYSIWYG - :w00t: An interjection similar to "Yay!", as in: "w00t!!! I just got a @@ -32377,10 +27622,6 @@ channel cables connecting these were called bit hoses (see {hose}, sense 3). - [76-02-14.png] - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-03-17:2) - 2. [CMU] A machine used exclusively for {washing software}. CMU has clusters of these. @@ -32395,12 +27636,6 @@ (see {MIPS}, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional {mainframe} type. - [74-08-18.png] - - A really unusual kind of {water MIPS}. - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 74-12-25) - :wave a dead chicken: v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware @@ -32838,10 +28073,6 @@ Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line. - [74-12-29.png] - - (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 75-10-04) - :winkey: n. (alt.: winkey face) See {emoticon}. @@ -33212,17 +28443,6 @@ {TECO}. See also {WIMP environment}. [Oddly enough, WYSIWYG made it into the 1986 supplement to the OED, in lower case yet. --ESR] -X - - X - XEROX PARC - XOFF - XON - xor - xref - XXX - xyzzy - :X: /X/, n. 1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in @@ -33318,26 +28538,6 @@ The text can be viewed at Project Gutenberg. -Y - - YA- - YABA - YAFIYGI - yak shaving - YAUN - yellow card - yellow wire - Yet Another - YHBT - YKYBHTLW - YMMV - You are not expected to understand this - You know you've been hacking too long when - Your mileage may vary - Yow! - yoyo mode - Yu-Shiang Whole Fish - :YA-: abbrev. [Yet Another] In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to @@ -33511,25 +28711,6 @@ represents a voiced velar fricative, the sound commonly transcribed "gh" in Arabic or Klingon. -Z - - zap - zapped - Zawinski's Law - zbeba - zen - zero - zero-content - Zero-One-Infinity Rule - zeroth - zigamorph - zip - zipperhead - zombie - zorch - Zork - zorkmid - :zap: 1. n. Spiciness.