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Lamer (269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dictionary, March 2014. The Jargon File Definition of lame - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Definition of Lamer - Jargon File - Origination of term lamer

Quantum bogodynamics (355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(or sinks) (taxpayers and computers), Bogosity potential fields. The Jargon File Glossary describes the theory as follows: Here is a representative QBD

Feature creep (1,501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

creaturism". The Jargon File. Ver. 4.4.7. Retrieved June 20, 2017. Raymond, Eric S.; et al. (December 29, 2003). "feeping creature". The Jargon File. Ver. 4.4

Heisenbug (1,405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

executions likely to expose Heisenbugs Memory debugger "The Jargon File: heisenbug". "The Jargon File: Mandelbug". Catb.org. Retrieved 2013-09-05. Raymond,

Slashdot effect (1,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the original on May 15, 2005. Eric S. Raymond. "slashdot effect". The Jargon File, version 4.4.8. Retrieved 21 May 2012. Wilhelm, Alex (17 January 2012)

RTFM (600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 2 December 2013. "RTFS". The Jargon File – version 4.4.7. Retrieved 8 March 2017. "RTFB". The Jargon File – version 4.4.7. Retrieved 8 March 2017

Cruft (652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of URI change? / URIs don't change: people change them. "crufty". The Jargon File, version 4.4.7. Look up cruft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In

WYSIWYG (2,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

MIT Press. p. 497. ISBN 0-262-68092-0. Eric S. Raymond (ed.). "The Jargon File 4.4.7: YAFIYGI". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved

Pink contract (93 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that the contract enables spamming. "Pink Contract Definition". The Jargon File, version 4.4.7. "Pink Contract". SpamCop. Archived from the original

List of humorous units of measurement (4,747 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the 7th decimal place was a typo by the MAD typesetters. "sagan". Jargon File. P.M. Gresshoff (2004). "Book Reviews: Plant Signal Transduction". Annals

Jamie Zawinski (1,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of UNIX Programming, p.313 Raymond, Eric S. (2003-12-29). "The Jargon File". Jargon File Text Archive. Retrieved 2023-05-01. Zawinski, Jamie [@jwz] (2020-11-24)

Command key (1,880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Command keys. Jargon File entry on feature key Jargon File entry on pretzel key Andy Hertzfeld's story at Folklore

Second-system effect (230 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sophomore slump Unix philosophy Raymond, Eric. "Second-system effect". The Jargon File. Retrieved June 24, 2013. This article is based on material taken from

Magic cookie (483 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

authentication method used by the X Window System. Raymond, Eric. "Cookie". The Jargon File. Retrieved 2022-01-04. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement

Eric Allman (656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-08-20. "Indent style". The Jargon File. Retrieved 2007-08-20. "Star Trek: The original computer game". The Register

File comparison (773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distance – Computer science metric of string similarity "diff", The Jargon File Heckel, Paul (1978), "A Technique for Isolating Differences Between Files"

News.admin.net-abuse.email (1,593 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

maint: postscript (link) Andrew Nellis (1998-09-14). "The Net Abuse Jargon File". Archived from the original on 2006-08-06. Brian S. McWilliams (2004)

Bit bucket (696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-02-27. Look up bit bucket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bit Bucket entry from The Jargon File (version 4.4.7)

Wirth's law (669 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2005-04-19. Retrieved 2017-08-17. Gates' law, from the Jargon Lexicon, in the Jargon File (version 4.4.7). Orion, Egan (March 21, 2003). "WinTel trips on Linux

Chad (paper) (729 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

related to Chads. Snopes – Origin of 'Chad' Word Detective on chad BBC News on chad Macmillan English Dictionary on chad Jargon file entry Papercutting Art

Appeal to fear (554 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 9783110871104, retrieved 2022-02-22 Raymond, Eric S. "FUD". The Jargon File. Martijn Boermans. "ISSUU - Fear Appeals and Persuasion by Martijn Boermans"

Null device (721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Structure and Files". The Open Group. Retrieved 2012-11-29. "bit bucket". Jargon File. Retrieved 2013-12-27. Thompson, K.; Ritchie, D. M. (November 1973).

Bucky bit (283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. pp. 408–409. ISBN 1-56592-152-6. The Jargon File. Xinware Corporation. 2007. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-897454-66-4. "Space Cadet

Thundering herd problem (334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

global synchronization Cache stampede "Thundering Herd Problem". The Jargon File (version 4.4.7). Retrieved 9 July 2019. "Does the Thundering Herd Problem

Eternal September (904 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tragedy of the commons Eric Raymond. "September that never ended". The Jargon File (version 4.4.7). Archived from the original on September 14, 2008. Grossman

Backslash (2,192 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

( ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ). Macquarie Dictionary (3rd edition) Raymond, Eric S. "ASCII". The Jargon File. Archived from the original on 2019-01-18. Retrieved 2007-07-28. Bulletin

Time sink (622 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

MMODesigner.com, 31 May 2010. Slashdot: "EverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game", 27 December 2002. The Jargon File - time sink Wiki: "Timesink"

Interrobang (1,375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

September 15, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2013. Gleckler, Arthur. "The Jargon File". Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved December 7

Localhost (1,376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Obsolete. Obsoletes RFC 2373. Obsoleted by RFC 4291. Raymond, Eric S. "The Jargon File". "MySQL :: MySQL 5.5 Reference Manual :: 4.1 Overview of MySQL Programs"

TOPS-20 (1,144 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Development of TOPS-20". "ITS reference manual" (PDF). "TWENEX". The Jargon File. "What does UUO mean in Software?". abbreviations.com. The 10/50 was

Gzip (1,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2010. "tarball, The Jargon File, version 4.4.7". Catb.org. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017

Backdoor (computing) (4,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

trap doors: 52 Wheeler (2009): Section 2: Background and related work Jargon File entry for "backdoor" describes Thompson compiler hack Sophos labs on

Bamf (454 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

named after Professor X. Pickles – A Bamf who lived in Beast's van. "jargon file entry on Bamf". Catb.org. Retrieved October 8, 2010. Silva, Logan (February

Superuser (1,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2019. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7) Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine, catb.org

Biff (Unix) (441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Know? Archived 13 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine Eric Cooper What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? UNIXguide.net Jargon File: biff

Geek Code (794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved April 9, 2004. "geek code". The Jargon File (version 4.4.7). Archived from the original on August 14, 2018. Retrieved

Shell (computing) (2,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

surface of modern operating systems. Raymond, Eric S. (ed.). "shell". The Jargon File. "Operating system shells". AIX 6.1 Information Center. IBM Corp. Retrieved

Security through obscurity (1,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Houston Law Review. 42. SSRN 842228. "security through obscurity". The Jargon File. Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2010-01-29. "Despite

Modifier key (1,089 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Japanese). Archived from the original on 2002-02-15. Retrieved 2011-11-30. "At home modifier – Home". Retrieved 2015-04-14. Bucky bits in the Jargon file

Elapsed real time (328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

time as it passes for the user of the simulation tool. "Wall time". The Jargon File. Retrieved June 10, 2011. "NS-3 Manual". "OMNeT++ Manual". Archived from

Gotcha (programming) (289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

compilers, however.[citation needed] Usability Gotcha definition at The Jargon File "VOID EXP21-C. Place constants on the left of equality comparisons" Stephen

Film at 11 (647 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Origins of 8 Nearly Obsolete Phrases, mental floss "film at 11". The Jargon File, version 4.4.7. 29 Dec 2003. Retrieved 3 September 2024. v t e v t e

Plug compatible (1,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Part 2" (PDF). July 1980. pp. 750–796. "bug-for-bug compatible". The Jargon File. Eric S. Raymond. Same as bug-compatible, with the additional implication

TENEX (operating system) (1,723 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Time-sharing system evolution Some text in this article was taken from The Jargon File entry on "TWENEX", which is in the public domain. Strollo, Theodore R

ROT13 (2,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 0-471-11709-9. Raymond, Eric S., ed. (29 December 2003). "ROT13". The Jargon File, 4.4.7. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 19 September

TYPSET and RUNOFF (1,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

14 November 2008. Raymond, Eric S. (ed.). "The Jargon Lexicon". The Jargon File. 4.4.7. ROFF which was in turn modeled after the Multics and CTSS program

Metasyntactic variable (1,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

LeMan Dergisi 1376. Sayı (in Turkish). Lm Basin Yayin Ltd.şti. "The Jargon File - metasyntactic variable". www.catb.org/. Mongan, John; Kindler, Noah;

Software protection dongle (1,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

p. 148 US Patent 4,168,396 Pournelle, Jerry (July 1988). "Dr. Pournelle vs. The Virus". BYTE. pp. 197–207. Retrieved 2025-04-12. Jargon File: dongle

1947 in science (1,850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Inc. "July 29, 1947". Britannica. Retrieved 4 July 2010. "bug:n". The Jargon File. Retrieved 2012-01-20. "Log Book With Computer Bug". National Museum

Martian packet (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Linux 5.2 - Kernel: Martian Source Messages". Retrieved 2022-07-02. "Jargon File: martian". Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 2010-12-25

Plokta (252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jane. "Doctor Who's Paul Cornell Tells io9 Why Darkness Is Overrated" io9 Sep 8 2008 Plokta online Definition of plokta in the Jargon File v t e v t e

Vertical bar (2,920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(allowing switching to and from ASCII). Raymond, Eric S. "ASCII". The Jargon File. Archived from the original on Oct 30, 2023. Weisstein, Eric W. "Single

Comparison (1,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 5, line 19. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter I. "diff", The Jargon File

Syntactic sugar (1,956 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sussman 1996, Chapter 1, footnote 11. Perlis 1982, Epigram #3. "The Jargon File - syntactic salt". 2003-06-12. Archived from the original on 2003-06-12

Loopback (1,135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Feedback Loop device Virtual network interface Raymond, Eric S. "The Jargon File". Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2004-06-23. This

The Story of Mel (1,201 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Librazette. Librascope Inc. Raymond, Eric S., ed. (1992-07-01). "The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 (jargon2910.ascii.gz)" (GZ). line 20505

Owning the libs (2,036 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

program of deregulation and tax cuts at the policy level. "owned". The Jargon File, version 4.4.8. Eric S. Raymond. October 1, 2004. Archived from the original

FidoNet (7,569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accounts. In the interviews, Baker says this took place in May. The Jargon File puts it at 38,000 at its peak. The exact number can be determined by

Non-Internet email address (501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Microsoft Support Knowledge Base. Retrieved 2007-01-15. "bang path", The Jargon File ...item@group@organisation...", 18 Sep 1995, p55, Network World "Banyan

Permissive software license (2,535 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fortune(6) database. Retrieved 2020-06-08. Raymond, Eric S. "copycenter". The Jargon File. Stallman, Richard (2016-02-08). "License Compatibility and Relicensing"

BogoMips (1,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Internet in the early 1990s, untraceable origin. Raymond, Eric S. "Hackers Jargon File". Van Dorst, Wim (2 March 2006). "BogoMips Mini-Howto" (V38 ed.). Retrieved

Background process (1,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2010. Retrieved 21 June 2013. Eric S. Raymond (1 October 2004). The Jargon File, version 4.4.8, "daemon". Archived from the original on 3 November 2010

Slashed zero (1,847 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cit., New York: Dover Publications, 1993, ISBN 0-486-67766-4. "0", The Jargon File, Eric S Raymond. Underground Zerø Album Cover Underground Zerø Band Logo

Mu (negative) (1,941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ISBN 978-0-465-02656-2.. Raymond, Eric S. "mu". The New Hackers' Dictionary (Jargon File). "class Mu". docs.raku.org. Day, Stacey B. (1997). Man and Mu: The Cradle

Buzzword compliant (482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

product) Buzzword bingo Golden hammer Power word "Buzzword-compliant in the Jargon File". Eric S. Raymond. Retrieved 2010-08-28. "Definition of buzzword compliant"

Usenet (8,839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 1-85233-532-7, ISBN 978-1-85233-532-8 The jargon file v4.4.7 Archived January 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Jargon File Archive. Chapter 3 - The Social Forces

Munged password (269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISSN 2395-602X. Li, Wanda; Zeng, Jianping. "Leet Usage and Its Effect on Password Security" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-05-02. Jargon File entry for munge

Error 33 (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Datasegment Online Dictionary[permanent dead link] Eric S Raymond's Online Jargon File Gunther, Neil (2008). "Web 2.0 Meets Error 33". Kay, Alan (2004). "The

Pointing stick (1,868 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2014-01-26. Eric S. Raymond, Guy L. Steele Jr.; et al. "nipple mouse". Jargon File. Retrieved 2011-07-08. Based on The New Hacker's Dictionary. MIT Press

Proprietary software (4,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or commercial software. Eric S. Raymond (2003-12-29). "Proprietary, Jargon File". Retrieved 2009-06-12. Proprietary software should be distinguished

Shebang (Unix) (3,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

bytes are in big-endian order?". Unicode. Retrieved 10 November 2023. "Jargon File entry for shebang". Catb.org. Retrieved 16 June 2010. Wall, Larry. "Perl

Ed Nather (826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

original on August 11, 2012. Raymond, Eric S., ed. (July 1, 1992). "The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 (jargon2910.ascii.gz)". line 20505. Archived

Diff (4,467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Raymond (ed.), "diff" Archived 2014-01-31 at the Wayback Machine, The Jargon File, version 4.4.7 IEEE Computer Society; The Open Group (26 September 2008)

Patch (computing) (4,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Software Updates Endanger Everyone". american civil liberties union. The Jargon File entry for patch A detailed masters dissertation dealing with security

Demoscene (3,730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

playback in Dolby Surround Sound. Raymond, Eric S. "display hacks". The Jargon File. Archived from the original on 8 October 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018

Regular expression (8,860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aycock 2003, p. 98. Raymond, Eric S. citing Dennis Ritchie (2003). "Jargon File 4.4.7: grep". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2009-02-17

TeX (6,210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

TUGboat 7 (1986), 101. Reprinted as chapter 6 of Digital Typography. "The Jargon File—TeX". Retrieved 23 July 2016. "The Communications of the TeX Users Group"

Von Neumann architecture (4,246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0252727337. MFTL (My Favorite Toy Language) entry Jargon File 4.4.7, retrieved July 11, 2008. Turing, Alan M. (1936), "On Computable

Stranger in a Strange Land (4,388 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

May 8, 2017. Raymond, Eric S., ed. (December 29, 2003). "grok". The Jargon File. 4.4.7. Archived from the original on December 20, 2017. "Grok". Oxford

Interrupt (5,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

registers. Known as shoulder taps on some IBM operating systems. "The Jargon File, version 4.4.7". 2003-10-27. Retrieved 20 January 2022. Jonathan Corbet;

Units of information (3,243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Theory of Communication. Nybble at dictionary reference.com; sourced from Jargon File 4.2.0, accessed 2007-08-12 Beebe, Nelson H. F. (2017-08-22). "Chapter

Hexspeak (962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[permanent dead link] "J2T File Format". "J2L File Format". "DEADBEEF". Jargon File. Retrieved 2009-10-01. "Bug Check 0xDEADDEAD: MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH

HTTP cookie (10,943 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 19 October 2017. Raymond, Eric (ed.). "magic cookie". The Jargon File (version 4.4.7). Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved

The Smiley Company (2,286 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

com. Archived from the original on 2021-05-01. Retrieved 2017-08-10. "Jargon file, version 2.6.1, February 12, 1991". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27

Halt and Catch Fire (computing) (2,677 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

intentional built-in self-test feature on a Motorola microprocessor. "Jargon File entry for the HCF assembly mnemonic". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20

Posting style (5,197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

quote responsibly". loftninjas.org. 14 August 2008. "top-post" in The Jargon File (version 4.4.7) Quoting Style—How to use quote using interleaved quoting

Lisp (programming language) (10,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Turing Award lecture). "A Look at Clojure and the Lisp Resurgence". "The Jargon File - Lisp". Retrieved 2006-10-13. Sebesta, Robert W. (2012). ""2.4 Functional

1947 (10,865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Referendum, 1947". Banglapedia. Retrieved November 20, 2016. "bug:n". The Jargon File. Retrieved January 20, 2012. "Log Book With Computer Bug". National Museum

Gender of connectors and fasteners (4,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Connectors with EDACON Hermaphroditic Contact Mating Design". Archived from the original on 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2008-09-30. Jargon File: gender mender

BIFF (Usenet) (1,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

parodied and the parodying. Kibo, another famous Internet pseudonym The Jargon File – a reference for early internet esoterica, latterly maintained and preserved

Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (7,068 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

September 11, 2006. Raymond, Eric; et al. "The Meaning of 'Hack'". The Jargon File (version 4.4.7). Retrieved May 3, 2011. Williams, Sam. "Hack, Hackers

Kaomoji (1,278 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

doi:10.4324/9780429491757-4. ISBN 978-0-429-49175-7. S2CID 241778181. "Jargon file, version 2.6.1, February 12, 1991". Retrieved March 14, 2013. "KawaiiFace