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	The Hackers' Dictionary of Computer Jargon - = M - Mf =
		It is common wisdom among hackers that the mainframe architectural tradition is essentially dead (outside of the tiny market for {number-crunching} supercomputers (see {cray})), having been swamped by the recent huge advances in IC technology and low-cost personal computing.
		Unfortunately, the hackers running Systems Concepts were much better at designing machines than at mass producing or selling them; the company allowed itself to be sidetracked by a bout of perfectionism into continually improving the design, and lost credibility as delivery dates continued to slip.
		Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/tech/computers/TheHackersDictionaryofComputerJargon/chap35.html (3887 words)

	Scratch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A scratch is physical damage such as a groove in a physical surface such as a painted or unpainted surface, or the skin
		Scratching, the technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth with your hand while it is playing on a turntable
		Scratch (hacker jargon), in hacker jargon, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary-use purposes
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scratch (301 words)

	Windshield Scratches
		Within hip hop culture, scratching is still of great importance in determining the skill of a DJ, and a number of competitions are held across the globe in which DJs battle one another in displays of great virtuosity.
		Ideally, scratching does not damage a record because the needle stays within the groove and does not move horizontally across the record's surface.
		Theodore developed scratching from DJ Grandmaster Flash, who describes scratching as, "''nothing'' but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it the recorded sound out to the crowd." (Toop, 1991) Kool Herc was also an important early figure.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/97/windshield-scratches.html (903 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		So called because of the size of the cabinet and the 'top-loading' access to the media packs -- and, of course, they were always set on 'spin cycle'.
		The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon.
		The process of recompiling a software distribution (used more often when the recompilation is occurring from scratch) to pick up and merge together all of the various changes that have been made to the source.
	home.att.net /~srschmitt/jargonfile/jargon_file-580.html (251 words)

	Scratch Paint
		Scratching is the technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth with your hand while it is playing on a turntable.
		Scratch is a term used in hacker jargon.
		A scratch is also an action which may either be done in violence or in response to an itch.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/19577-scratch-paint.html (512 words)

	Technology and Pleasure
		The popular image of the computer hacker seems to be part compulsive programmer preferring the company of computers to people, and part criminal mastermind using his or her technical prowess to perpetrate anti-social acts.
		The "original" hackers were computer professionals who, in the mid-sixties, adopted the word "hack" as a synonym for computer work, and particularly for computer work executed with a certain level of craftsmanship.
		One of the things that characterized the early hackers, was their almost wholesale rejection of Taylorist principles and practices, and their continued insistence that computer work was an art and a craft and that quality and excellence in computer work had to be rooted in artistic expression and craftsmanship and not in regulations.
	firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_2/gisle (9531 words)

	Scratch Paint -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique originated by Grand Wizard Theodore, an early hip hop DJ from New York (AMG).
		To keep LFS small and focused, the ''Beyond Linux From Scratch'' book was created which presents instructions on how to further develop the basic Linux system that was created in LFS.
		Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a way to install a working Linux system by building all components of it manually.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/130/scratch-paint.html (1623 words)

	R
		Even as the advent of the microcomputer and other trends fueled a tremendous expansion of hackerdom, the File (and related materials such as the AI Koans in Appendix A) came to be seen as a sort of sacred epic, a hacker-culture Matter of Britain chronicling the heroic exploits of the Knights of the Lab.
		Even hackers who identify with a religious affiliation tend to be relaxed about it, hostile to organized religion in general and all forms of religious bigotry in particular.
		Hacker folklore that pays homage to `wizards' and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.
	www.hoevel.de /zzJargon/R.htm (6784 words)

	Computer Jargon
		This term is one of the oldest in the jargon and no one is sure of its etymology, but it is suggestive that there is a Cruft Hall at Harvard University which is part of the old physics building; it’s said to have been the physics department's radar lab during WWII.
		Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm.
		Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag without traveling.
	www.davidenglish.com /jar.html (4452 words)

	sciforums.com - How to be a hacker ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A hacker is never satisfied with the default settings of a program or of the custom installations, he always has to open the configuration menu and set the options to get the maximum performance, and to make the product work as close as possible to his "way".
		Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
		Besides, these self-acclaimed hackers are almost never bust because of a police operation, (unless they caused a lot of trouble), but because they have the stupid habit of boasting of their actions in chatrooms or even in real life.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?p=180938 (14565 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary - = P =
		Hackers consider PostScript to be among the most elegant hacks of all time, and the combination of technical merits and widespread availability has made PostScript the language of choice for graphical output.
		The hacker backgammon usage stemmed from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
		A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily.
	www.instinct.org /texts/jargon-file/jargon_31.html (7888 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary
		Hacker slang is unusually rich in implications of this kind, of overtones and undertones that illuminate the hackish psyche.
		Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description is "The PL/I of the 1980s").
		Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps.
	www.ccil.org /jargon/jargon.html (18824 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary - = S =
		Hacker tradition deprecates dull, institutional-sounding names in favor of punchy, humorous, and clever coinages (except that it is considered appropriate for the official public gateway machine of an organization to bear the organization's name or acronym).
		Hackers tend to prefer the terms hacker and wizard.
		To hackers, most support people are useless -- because by the time a hacker calls support he or she will usually know the software and the relevant manuals better than the support people (sadly, this is not a joke or exaggeration).
	www.ccil.org /jargon/jargon_34.html (13120 words)

	Jargon 4.2, node: foo
		Early versions of the Jargon File interpreted this change as a post-war bowdlerization, but it it now seems more likely that FUBAR was itself a derivative of `foo' perhaps influenced by German `furchtbar' (terrible) - `foobar' may actually have been the _original_ form.
		Though Robert Crumb (then in his mid-teens) later became one of the most important and influential artists in underground comics, this venture was hardly a success; indeed, the brothers later burned most of the existing copies in disgust.
		Today's hackers would find it difficulty to resist elaborating a joke like that, and it would be hard to believe 1959's were any less susceptible.
	www.science.uva.nl /~mes/jargon/f/foo.html (819 words)

	Free as in Freedom: Chapter 7
		Hackers argued that crashes could be better prevented by overhauling the source code.
		Unfortunately, the number of hackers with the time and inclination to perform this sort of overhaul had dwindled to the point that the system-administrator argument prevailed.
		A few anarchic adherents of the hacker ethic helped propel that ethic into this new marketplace, but for the most part, the marketplace rewarded the programmers speedy enough to write new programs and savvy enough to copyright them as legally protected works.
	www.oreilly.com /openbook/freedom/ch07.html (6163 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary
		As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices.
		Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed.
		Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local 'humane' society.
	home.att.net /~srschmitt/jargonfile/jargon_file-476.html (452 words)

	[No title]
		Hacker challenges; where your asked to bypass the latest security measure implemented into technology which is already, prior to testing, dubbed as the latest in computer protection.
		It's not uncommon for hackers and security analysts to earn wages in excess of six figures, and to earn such wages, you've got to be either very lucky, or very busy.
		Hack at your own discretion, don't be afraid to take part in a hacker challenge, but don't take the word of the manufacturer, when they say it's secure, just because a few passers by a convention typed a few keys on a keyboard.
	web.textfiles.com /ezines/HWA/hwa-hn07.txt (12565 words)

	W
		When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or suit, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all about.
		Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to be hackers and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers.
		Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that thing.
	www.isri.unlv.edu /~slumos/jargon/W.html (6075 words)

	JargonDB › books
		The Jargon File is great by itself, but it also has plenty of references to invaluable resources, born from the quintessence of the hacker community.
		Stephenson's epic, comic cyberpunk novel is deeply knowing about the hacker psychology and its foibles in a way no other author of fiction has ever even approached.
		His imagination, his grasp of the relevant technical details, and his ability to communicate the excitement of hacking and its results are astonishing, delightful, and (so far) unsurpassed.
	www.jargondb.org /books?page=0,4 (598 words)

	cubbi.com: the commented hacker test
		The Hacker Test is old, and many (if not all) jokes are not recognized by the new generation.
		Read the Jargon File entry to learn what happens when this principle is applied to operating systems.
		Hackers were able to force all sorts of devices to play music by making them move their moving elements (printer or drive head) at different speeds and with different timing.
	cubbi.org /serious/hackert.html (6652 words)

	foo
		Early versions of the Jargon File interpreted this change as a post-war bowdlerization, but it it now seems more likely that FUBAR was itself a derivative of `foo' perhaps influenced by German `furchtbar' (terrible) - `foobar' may actually have been the original form.
		Today's hackers would find it difficult to resist elaborating a joke like that, and it is not likely 1959's were any less susceptible.
		This mirror of The Jargon File (but not the Jargon File itself) is maintained by RJL20 - hades@elsewhere.org.
	www.elsewhere.org /jargon/html/entry/foo.html (873 words)

	jargon, node: random (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, a program that handles file name defaulting in a particularly useless way, or an assembler routine that could easily have been coded using only three registers, but redundantly uses seven for values with non-overlapping lifetimes, so that no one else can invoke it without first saving four extra registers.
		/n./ A random hacker; used particularly of high-school students who soak up computer time and generally get in the way.
		Anyone who is not a hacker (or, sometimes, anyone not known to the hacker speaking); the noun form of sense 2.
	www.jargon.net /jargonfile/r/random.html (201 words)

	[No title]
		When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or [14448]suit, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all about.
		Hackers use this especially of lists of email addresses that are explicitly enabled to get past strict anti-spam filters.
		Someone is a [14800]hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that thing.
	www.datacrunch.net /jargon/topw.asp (7856 words)

	Programming with Agents - 3.3 Animacy and Computation - Michael Travers
		Anthropomorphization[9] -- Semantically, one rich source of jargon constructions is the hackish tendency to anthropomorphize hardware and software.
		This isn't done in a naive way; hackers don't personalize their stuff in the sense of feeling empathy with it, nor do they mystically believe that the things they work on every day are 'alive'.
		1973), in which a flboard metaphorically represents a scratch memory and communications medium that can be shared by multiple computational processes.
	xenia.media.mit.edu /~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-3.3.html (5883 words)

	Jargon File Disorder (idea)@Everything2.com
		Jargon File Disorder is a syndrome which affects those who have just discovered the Jargon File.
		Symptoms include obsessive yammering about "hacker" vs. "cracker", Three Letter Acronym Abuse, and gratuitous use of obsolete (and frequently half-understood) slang: If you don't know LISP reasonably well, the sense of CDR will elude you, and there's no shame in admitting it because who the hell writes in LISP any more?
		High-profile JFD sufferers include Eric S. Raymond, which ought to be enough to give anyone pause.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=491967 (177 words)

	[No title]
		Now the human forces spent during the development are important; there are even essential, since the ultimate purpose of a computer, like that of any tool, is to minimize the amount of human efforts required for the completion of ever more advanced tasks.
		Moreover, these tools ar often imperfectly designed, by people for whom such is not the primary calling, who do not have adequate training or culture, who often ignore the state of the art of scientifical research on the topic, and who don't have the resources necessary to track it.
		To avoid paradoxes, this assertion requires a few precautions so as to be rigorously formalized, which precautions are beyond the purpose of this essay; we are preparing a technical report dedicated to this exercise.
	fare.tunes.org /articles/ll99/mpfas.html (7553 words)

	Writers on Writing
		When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
		To scratch your head, and bite your nails.
		We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /hacker/quotes3.htm (1187 words)

	sciforums.com - How to be a hacker ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If your talking about Hacker in the sense, "How do I reverse engineer and redevelop or debug someone elses program?", then your going to need to know what language your going to be using.
		Without hackers they wouldn't be coming up with patches at all, they would be adamantally standing by their EULA and explaining that there operating system doesn't have any (*NATURAL) flaws.
		This proves there is bugs before hackers even look into the OS's code, such bugs can be like Memory Buffer overflows, which all Windows 95/98 users know as that dreaded blue screen.
	www.sciforums.com /printthread.php?t=11812&pp=40 (15941 words)

	PDP-10 in JARGON.TXT
		Many newer hackers tend to be thinking instead of the {PostScript} exchange operator (which is usually written in lowercase).
		Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort.
		The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it {{TWENEX}} (a contraction of `twenty TENEX'), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 UNIX and BSD).
	www.inwap.com /pdp10/jargon.html (4183 words)

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