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  Cruft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cruft is sometimes said to be the software equivalent of dust bunnies.
Cruft may also refer to useless junk or excess materials (including obsolete computer hardware) that build up over time and have no value, including things collected from dumpsters, so dumpster diving is also called "crufting", and things collected from dumpsters are called crufted.
The word "cruft" may also be evocative of the terms "crust" and "fluff", both of which may carry connotations of content that is at once extraneous, superfluous, inflexible, or superannuated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cruft   (462 words)

  
 Charles Cruft 1825-1883   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Cruft organized the 31st Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was appointed the first commander.
Colonel Cruft served under General Lew Wallace at the battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, in February 1862.
At the battle of Nashville in December 1864, Cruft commanded a division of fl troops and detachments from various corps who were unable to rejoin Sherman in his "march to the sea." He continued to serve in East Tennessee and when the War ended, Cruft was in Huntsville, Alabama.
www.indianainthecivilwar.com /hoosier/cruft.htm   (320 words)

  
 Wabash Valley Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Terre Haute native Charles Cruft emerged from the Civil War with the rank of brevet major general personally conferred on him in March 1865 by President Abraham Lincoln.
Cruft and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Cruft, Charles was born Jan. 12, 1826.
On July 16, 1862, after taking part in the siege at Corinth, MS, Cruft was elevated to brigadier general, the highest rank attained by a Vigo County native during the war.
web.indstate.edu /community/vchs/wvp/cruft-charles.htm   (464 words)

  
 State of Decay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A rolling computer gathers "cruft." When you spot a class interface that is no longer used by any client, but that nobody dare delete, that's cruft.
Cruft is the cruel corruption and confusion inevitably wrought by time upon all petty efforts of humankind.
Cruft has soaked into the very fabric of the machine, and it should be disposed of safely at a government-approved facility.
digitalsushi.com /midashi/inet/cruft.timeline.html   (923 words)

  
 Robert Spahr - current work - cruft
Prolefeed Cruft, updated at 2:36, 5:36, 8:36, 11:36 AM & PM Produced by an automated script and a collaboration with the Department of Defense.
I have borrowed the computer hacker term "Cruft" and applied it to my current series of images.
Crufts do not fit well into the museum-gallery complex, raising questions about the commodification of art and artists.
www.robertspahr.com /art/current   (171 words)

  
 Debian -- cruft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Find any cruft built up on your system
cruft is a program to look over your system for anything that shouldn't be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn't.
cruft is still in pre-release; your assistance in improving its accuracy and performance is appreciated.
packages.debian.org /testing/admin/cruft.html   (130 words)

  
 Cruft-Free, Future-Proof URLs | The Daily Dump
Below is a bit of a spiel on what cruft is, followed by the process I went through to decruftify Movable Type.
Cruft can also be what you hear when a New Zealander tries to say "craft".
There is some well-known prior art on Movable Type cruft removal, most notably by Mark Pilgrim and Már Örlygsson.
www.adamboddington.com /blog/2005/05/05/cruft-free-future-proof-urls   (1422 words)

  
 Surviving the Age of Cruft
The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft; the TMRC Dictionary correctly noted that attacking it with a broom only produces more.
That's why I'd like to warn you all of the impending era known as the Age of Cruft and tell you that you must take action now or you too will be destroyed by popup advertisements and/or spinning hourglasses.
MSConfig is a neat little program that has been built into all of the versions of windows since windows 98 and it's basically a wart remover for the soft gooey skin of windows.
zboog.com /cruft.htm   (456 words)

  
 Tononi Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Playing with the harpsichordist Robert Aldwinckle, Benedict Cruft has also given many performances of J.S. Bach's six Sonatas for harpsichord and violin, using an English violin by Edward Heesom from around 1750, which is in baroque set-up with its original neck.
This violin belonged to Benedict's great-grandfather John Cruft, who, as a viola player, was one of the founding members of the London Symphony Orchestra.
John's son Eugene Cruft was one of the best-known double-bass players in Britain for most of the 20th century, and Benedict's father John has had a varied career as an oboist, as manager of the London Symphony Orchestra, and as the Music Director of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
www.tononirecords.com /biography.cfm   (303 words)

  
 Brad Appleton's ACME Blog: SCM Design Smells
I have seen the growth of cruft can start quite early in the life of a repository, due to fatigue or relief once the first sufficient configuration has been defined.
I don't mean cruft; just stuff that has to be there for some other product or variant or release.
Cruft would be anything that is still in the repository, but would never needed in connection with any release that is still being supported.
bradapp.blogspot.com /2005/08/scm-design-smells.html   (1238 words)

  
 Cruft's '98
Cruft’s was named by it’s founder Charles Cruft who held canine exhibitions shortly after leaving college in 1876.
She then asked the Kennel Club to take over the show after the war, the first Cruft’s under Kennel Club control, was held in 1948 at Olympia in London.
It is a qualifying show and your dog or bitch must have placed, at least in the first three in a class, at a Championship show in the U. during the previous year.
www.daneworld.com /crufts98.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Dictionary Definition of "cruft"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
cruft /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from crufty] 1.
Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese;
Cruft Hall at Harvard University which is part of the old
hostingworks.com /support/dict.phtml?*=cruft   (204 words)

  
 Crufts Dog Show - NEC Birmingham UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Held annually at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, the crufts dog show includes breed showing, agility, flyball, obedience, displays and demonstrations of every kind of discipline known to man and dog.
The discover dogs exhibition will be part of the crufts dog show where over 180 breeds can be seen each day and information about the choice, care and training of dogs can be obtained.
The crufts annual canine event is named after its founder Charles Cruft.
www.the-kennel-club.org.uk /crufts/cruftsframe.html   (267 words)

  
 TIP Clean Up Cruft - Gentoo Linux Wiki
This will output all the files and dirs that are considered cruft to your shell and a file called cruft.out.
This will enable you to use the cat command along with rm to delete all of the cruft.
If you remove all files listed in cruft.out without looking through them and taking out the ones you are not absolutely sure are cruft, you are very likely to break your system.
gentoo-wiki.com /TIP_Clean_Up_Cruft   (336 words)

  
 Cruft - Uncyclopedia
Not like the outside jokes which are cold and stupid and have to do with Richard Nixon, or the color Green.
Cruft was formed by the blissful union of Trent Reznor and Rcmurphy, who were collaborating on a series of articles highlighting rap music of the 1950s.
We the people of the United Friends of Cruft, in order to create funnier articles, vow to oppose all those bland non satirical people who may disenfranchise our articles and minor alterations.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Cruft   (406 words)

  
 SocialTwister.com: Cruft Redux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It seems that my recent rant on Cruft has generated some feedback, and surely it is welcome.
And is it really clear what the topic is? I would have to argue that it's far easier to come to the wrong conclusion on a specific topic or keyword's meaning than to come to the right one, that is without context.
But since your domain name and other URL identifiers do not give me context, the term "cruft" could just as well be talking about the dirt you found in between your keyboard's keys.
socialtwister.com /archives/000049.html   (2333 words)

  
 Available Software
cruft package, a replacement for the UNIX crypt utility.
However, the liberalized export policy on encryption now permits posting noncommercial Open Source encryption software on the Net, pending only a reporting requirement by the software author (done!).
cruft package [Linux/UNIX only, 16k] with no legal repercussions, providing you plan to use it for a lawful purpose.
personal.riverusers.com /~thegrendel/software.html   (1351 words)

  
 Joe's Little Piece of the Web - Interesting Documents
In the jargon of hackers, it is called "cruft." An operating system that has many, many layers of it is described as "crufty." Hackers hate to do things twice, but when they see something crufty, their first impulse is to rip it out, throw it away, and start anew.
But if you are a hacker who spends all his time looking at it from that point of view, cruft is fundamentally disgusting, and you can't avoid wanting to go after it with a crowbar.
The other made a ringing denunciation of cruft, and extolled BeOS for its cruft-free qualities, and actually came out and said that in ten or fifteen years, when BeOS had become all crufty like MacOS and Windows 95, it would be time to simply throw it away and create a new OS from scratch.
joesacher.com /documents/commandline.php?Page=ETRE   (3187 words)

  
 Simon Willison: Google cruft
The downside is that it's yet more cruft for the search results page.
But the 'cruft' only appears when you type the title of a movie (or something very close), so it seems fair enough to me. In fact, I think it's very cool that you can get an instant movie rating just by typing the title into Google.
You know, this cruft wouldn't be as bad if it was on the right hand side where all the cruft is supposed to go so we can ignore it.
simon.incutio.com /archive/2005/02/24/cruft   (521 words)

  
 Rands In Repose: Tool Cruft
It's almost 2005 and I can tell you, right this second, most of the keystrokes to format a document in Wordstar.
At their peak, they were the shit and by that I mean they were absolutely essential tools for me to get my job done...
Tool cruft is created because, as software engineers, we love it when a tool just does it's job to perfection.
www.randsinrepose.com /archives/2004/12/21/tool_cruft.html   (895 words)

  
 Boblet: URL cruft, and how to remove it (Coding)
Cruft is used to mean “extra stuff that isn’t necessary”.
Shirley’s article is similar to this one but covers a little more including; more background information, swapping from one URL scheme to another, and redirecting from old URLs to new ones.
This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
oli.boblet.net /2003/12/29/urls   (1267 words)

  
 Tucows Downloads - Cruft 0.2 GPL Software
Cruft is an encryption tool that is a drop-in replacement for the UNIX crypt utility.
Running from the command line, it features automatic recognition of already encrypted files, so there is no need to specify encryption or decryption.
Users who previewed Cruft also previewed these related titles:
www.tucows.com /preview/52534?_mid=000006121   (230 words)

  
 Cruft-Free URLs | Ryan Brill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I've really been digging cruft-free URLs lately, as the just look so much better and are much more user friendly than a non cruft-free URL.
Basically, anything that isn't meaningful in the URL is cruft.
Whether you call it cruft free or Search Engine Friendly is a matter of semantics, but I feel that people will get a better understanding if they have both nomenclatures at their disposal.
www.ryanbrill.com /archives/cruft-free-urls   (1345 words)

  
 Jeffrey C Long - Culture Craftsmanship: Cruft
It helps you minimize annoying distractions that add cruft to your day by causing a modal shift.
It is a word that can be used in many different contexts, but as far as I can disern, it is generally used as an exclamation of sudden frustration or disappointment, much like the words "doh" or "uff da".
I've decided that cruft is the perfect word to describe what I have to clean off of my nose ring twice daily.
www.jeffreyclong.com /musings/2005/12/cruft.html   (358 words)

  
 KC on Exchange and Outlook : Remove extraneous HTML cruft when using Word as your editor
Remove extraneous HTML cruft when using Word as your editor
For the last few versions of Outlook, the setting to enable Word as the e-mail editor has been enabled by default.
Because that is currently the only place I have yet seen where it is possible to give feedback on Outlook/Exchange.
blogs.technet.com /kclemson/archive/2003/12/11/42830.aspx   (514 words)

  
 Cruft at justin.henry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I was walking across the green the other day on my way to a meeting, when it struck me how much art is tucked away around UVM.
One of the things I really enjoy about working here is the little (and sometimes not so little) bursts of activity you see just by walking around campus.
You are currently browsing the justin.henry weblog archives for the 'Cruft' category.
www.uvm.edu /~jhenry/wordpress/category/cruft   (651 words)

  
 Anders Norås' blog : New Year's "Cruft"! Everything must go!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Back in 2002, Doctor Dobb’s Journal columnist Verity Stob wrote an excellent piece about “cruft”, which is the inevitable state of decay that ensues as soon as you start using any operating system.
My laptop has become decrepit - cruft force 8.
The next time you’ll hear from me I’ll be back at cruft force 0 with the SysInternals “Blue Screen of Death” screensaver installed, no more than nine directories under my root and every thing running crisply.
dotnetjunkies.com /WebLog/anoras/archive/2005/01/02/40662.aspx   (463 words)

  
 The Kennel Club UK - Official Site
Please be sure to visit the rest of the site or contact the Kennel Club UK.
Crufts - held at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre the Crufts Dog Show includes breed showing, agility, flyball, obedience, displays and demonstrations of every kind of discipline known to man and dog.
Discover Dogs - The Discover Dogs Exhibition is held at Earls Court and the main features are the main ring programme, dog training and display ring, canine merchandise, the Kennel Club Junior Organisation and the Good Citizen Dog Scheme.
www.the-kennel-club.org.uk /index.asp?newpage=crufts   (248 words)

  
 Cruft - Ursine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
[from hand cruft, pun on ‘hand craft’] To write assembler code for something normally (and better) done by a compiler (see hand-hacking).
Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese; that is, at UW one properly says “a cruft of hackers”.
This page was last modified 08:47, 10 Feb 2005.
ursine.dyndns.org /Cruft   (106 words)

  
 Robert Spahr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This cruft algorithm extracts images from the NYtimes home page once every hour.
The images from this page are then manipulated to generate the three panel overlapping "cruft." Over time the changes or lack of change seen in the crufts reflect the news cycle of the NYtimes.com site.
"Hourly Cruft" was exhibited at the 6th International Salon of Digital Art in Havana, Cuba, June 2004, and Digital Art Gallery 2004 an International Conference on Information Visualisation in London, England and Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization 2004 in Penang, Malaysia in July 2004.
www.robertspahr.com /art/current/images/hourly.html   (106 words)

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