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	Kludge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In modern computing terminology, a kludge is a method of solving a problem, doing a task, or fixing a system (whether hardware or software) that is inefficient, inelegant, or even unfathomable, but which nevertheless works.
		To kludge around something is to avoid a bug or some difficult condition by building a kludge, perhaps relying on properties of the bug itself to assure proper operation.
		Something might be a kludge if it fails in corner cases, but this is a less common sense as such situations are not expected to come up in general usage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kludge (784 words)

	Introduction to KLUDGE - the laughable object database
		Kludge is also somewhat hierarchical - thus, the space of classes is an n-ary tree, and so is the space of instances.
		Kludge is built around the general object-oriented notion of classes and instances.
		Kludge classes and instances are the node objects of the twin tree.
	sweb.cz /Frantisek.Rysanek/kludge/kludge.html (7038 words)

	Kludgesoft
		`Kludge' in Commonwealth hackish differs in meaning from `kluge' in that it lacks the positive senses; a kludge is something no Commonwealth hacker wants to be associated too closely with.
		Raymond considers "kludge" an incorrect spelling of kluge, a term of the 1940s with the same general meaning and possibly inspired by the Kluge paper feeder, a "fiendishly complex assortment of cams, belts, and linkages...devilishly difficult to repair...but oh, so clever!"
		A kludge originates because another, more elegant or appropriate solution is not currently possible (perhaps because of time constraints).
	www.kludgesoft.com (775 words)

	Questions & Answers: Kludge
		I had expected to be able to give you an exact origin for the term and to be able to say it is one of the very few words for which we know the author, the date and the source.
		It has been described as a fiendishly complicated and clever device, which often broke down and was hard to repair, though it seems in reality to have been a relatively simple mechanism (leading to a suspicion that its complexity has been exaggerated in order to bolster a connection between the device and the word).
		Others have said that the kludge spelling really derives from a Scots word for a toilet, cludgie, and was imported into America during World War Two through borrowing from British armed forces slang.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-klu1.htm (647 words)

	Advice Line by Bob Lewis \| InfoWorld \| The kludge index \| June 19, 2006 07:51 AM \| By Bob Lewis
		It's all well and good to define a kludge as using a band-aid to attach a box to the side of the box that's affixed to the main system with chewing gum and duct tape, but that doesn't do much when the time comes to design a solution to a system problem.
		A Kludge is using the person.birth_date field as the death_date and putting "DIED" in the person.title field.
		A kludge is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone has a different POV and agenda.
	weblog.infoworld.com /lewis/archives/2006/06/the_kludge_inde.html (3463 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This was doomed to fail because it was a kludge." (John C. Dvorak, Boardwatch Magazine, February 2002)
		What we do know is that speakers of American English have agreed to keep it silent, making the vowel pronunciation of "kludge" reflect the pronunciation of German "klug" (\KLOOK\).
		We can also tell you that not everyone agrees with Granholm on the "d" matter: the spelling "kluge" is also popularly used.
	leopard.eb.com /cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Jun.13 (105 words)

	Kludge
		The word "kludge" is, according to Burling, derived from the same root as the German "kludge" (Dutch kloog, Swedish Klag, Danish Klog, Gothic Klaugen, Lettish Kladnis and Sanskrit Veklaunn), originally meaning "smart" or "witty".
		Today "kludge" forms one of the most beloved words in design terminology, and it stands ready for handy application to the work of anyone who gins up 110-wolt circuitry to plug into the 220 VAC source.
		One of the most helpful of atmospheres in which a kludge may arrive at full flower is that of complete, massive, and iron-bound departmentalization.
	neil.franklin.ch /Jokes_and_Fun/Kludge.html (1349 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The meaning of the noun kludge, as I understand it, is a temporary or hastily put together fix, especially one of dubious quality.
		One article found on the Net (author not given) says that the word "appears to have derived from Scots kludge or kludgie for 'a common toilet'..." We at Random House are waiting, for now, to flush out the truth.
		The kludge literature contains further conflicts--over the "correct" spelling ("kluge," the older spelling, vs. "kludge," the one taking over) and particularly about the discrepancy between "kludge," which looks as if it should rhyme with "sludge," and the pronunciation "klooj," which all the computer experts agree on.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19991119 (340 words)

	Input kludge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Input kludge is usually difficult for a programmer to detect in unit test, but very easy for the end user to find.
		Input kludge is an example of an anti-pattern.
		To solve input kludge, one may use production quality algorithms to handle user input to avoid reinventing the wheel.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Input_kludge (177 words)

	kludge - definition by dict.die.net
		At some point during the Second World War, Scottish engineers met Americans and the meaning, spelling and pronunciation of kludge became confused with that of "kluge".
		"I've kludged around it for now, but I'll fix it up properly later." This word appears to have derived from Scots `kludge' or `kludgie' for a common toilet, via British military slang.
		It apparently became confused with U.S. kluge during or after World War II; some Britons from that era use both words in definably different ways, but kluge is now uncommon in Great Britain.
	dict.die.net /kludge (289 words)

	Ignes Fatui FAQ lookup - "kludge" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Kludge" is one of those words that it is hard to determine the origin of.
		It has certainly been around for a while - long enough to make it into most dictionaries.
		A kludge is an unattractive "fix" applied to make a machine or a piece of programming or a design job work (like sticking together a radiator hose with duct tape, instead of putting in a new one - it may not be pretty or elegant, but it keeps the damn thing running).
	www.corvinia.org /ignes/ignfaq/kludge.html (94 words)

	Kludge Magazine
		It is only logical that Kludge would come out of its hiatus by bringing you a review of Radiohead.
		The band just recently finished its U.S. tour and is currently on its way to tour throughout Europe in advance of its 7th LP and in celebration of Yorke's Eraser.
		Kludge writer LA Solinas finally finds some solice in the peculiar Americana sounds of The Mother Hips.
	www.kludgemagazine.com (675 words)

	The Old New Thing : The double-Ctrl+Alt+Del feature is really a kludge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It may already be a kludge, but the fact remains that xcopy won't start without it.
		As I noted in the article, all the bases have to be covered before the double-Ctrl+Alt+Del kludge is removed.
		I always considered a new welcome screen as a kludge.
	blogs.msdn.com /oldnewthing/archive/2005/09/14/466051.aspx (3849 words)

	The Old New Thing : The double-Ctrl+Alt+Del feature is really a kludge (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bryan, I'm sorry, but relying on user switching to get a task to work is already a kludge.
		The purpose of that was to save you the trouble of logging on to check whether you have any new messages.
		The person with admin priv may not be available when someone that needs to use the admin account.
	blogs.msdn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /oldnewthing/archive/2005/09/14/466051.aspx (3852 words)

	kludge - Definitions from Dictionary.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The spelling "kludge" was apparently popularised by the
		spell it "kludge" (compare the pronunciation drift of mung).
		`kludge' is more widely known in British mainstream slang than
	dictionary.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /search?q=kludge (425 words)

	lifekludger » 2005 » October » 18.10.05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I just found out there is a kludge magazine.
		kludge is a geekspeak term for a fundamentally inelegant
		And, by the way, I pronounce it kludge as in fudge, not kludge as in klooj.
	lifekludger.net /2005/10 (1784 words)

	Mailing List Archive: imanXwin kludge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		val: "imanXwin kludge" kludge: In information technology, a kludge (pronounced KLOOdzh) is an awkward or clumsy (but at least temporarily effective) solution to a programming or hardware design or implementation problem.
		kludge connecting to: www.dictionary.com kludge or kluge (klj) n.
		We haven't tracked down the cause yet, but it turns out that by doing a throwaway layout (ie.: layout [text "iamanXwin kludge"]) the problem was solved.
	www.rebol.org /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlMNSJ (648 words)

	Kludge Spot (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		So for the last year I have been staring at this ‘6th annual Chili Cook-Off Winner’ certificate on my wall thinking about what a waste the whole thing was.
		In an effort to further turn my brain in to a goo like mass, I spent some time this weekend in pursuit of digital prowess.
		I not sure if any of these new highway ‘improvements’ will ever appear on a ballot selection but I have to say, if they did, driving would never be the same.
	kludgespot.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888 (3491 words)

	kluge
		Nowadays this term is often encountered in the variant spelling ‘kludge’.
		kludge has an independent history (though this fact was largely unknown to hackers on either side of the Atlantic before a mid-1993 debate in the Usenet group
		It now appears that the British, having forgotten the etymology of their own ‘kludge’ when ‘kluge’ crossed the Atlantic, repaid the U.S. by lobbing the ‘kludge’ orthography in the other direction and confusing their American cousins' spelling!
	www.catb.org /~esr/jargon/html/K/kluge.html (660 words)

	Jefferson Scott - Kludge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He said HAL hadn’t wanted to call 911, but that Kludge woke up Sylvie and the rest and got them to convince HAL it was a real emergency.
		The paramedics thought it was a hoax when they got out there, but then here you came riding the John Deere lawnmower.
		It was Kludge who drove the lawnmower to get you.
	www.jeffersonscott.com /kludge.htm (1491 words)

	Kludge Audio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kludge Audio is located in Williamsburg, Virginia, and provides a variety of location and studio recording services.
		We have a minimalist philosophy, believing that a single microphone pair can best capture the sound of an acoustic performance, and the vast majority of our recordings are made with a single mike pair.
		We welcome any touring performers coming through the Tidewater VA. area to avail themselves of our services.
	www.kludgeaudio.com (271 words)

	kludge - The Jargon File v4.4.7
		Datamation article by Jackson Granholme similarly said: “An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole.
		It apparently became confused with U.S. kluge during or after World War II; some Britons from that era use both words in definably different ways, but
		Also, ‘kludge’ is more widely known in British mainstream slang than ‘kluge’ is in the U.S. Prev
	www.retrologic.com /jargon/K/kludge.html (185 words)

	OKCupid! kludge / 21 / f / gay / Albany, New York, United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We can't reply to every message, but we'll read them all.
		You can browse kludge's pictures, message her, and check your compatibility.
		You can see her full pics after joining.
	www.okcupid.com /profile?u=kludge (596 words)

	kludge - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
		We found no French translation for 'kludge' in our English to French Dictionary.
		Or did you want to translate 'kludge' from French to English?
		Forum discussions with the word(s) 'kludge' in the title:
	www.wordreference.com /enfr/kludge (57 words)

	Kludge Email Server (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		KLUDGE v0.5 EMAIL SERVER - A DETAILED HOWTO
		To subscribe just send a blank message to kludge_list-subscribe@jm-associates.com
		It's nice to be able to run your own mailing list, here's how to set up your own.
	www.jm-associates.com /admin/kludge.html (6009 words)

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