abbrev ABEND accumulator ACK Acme acolyte ad-hockery Ada address harvester adger admin ADVENT AFAIK AFJ AFK AI AI-complete AI koans AIDS AIDX airplane rule Alderson loop aliasing bug Alice and Bob all your base are belong to us all-elbows alpha geek alpha particles alt alt bit Aluminum Book ambimouseterous Amiga Amiga Persecution Complex amoeba amp off amper Angband angle brackets angry fruit salad annoybot annoyware ANSI ANSI standard ANSI standard pizza AOL! app arena arg ARMM armor-plated asbestos asbestos cork award asbestos longjohns ASCII ASCII art ASCIIbetical order astroturfing atomic attoparsec AUP autobogotiphobia autoconfiscate automagically avatar awk B5 back door backbone cabal backbone site backgammon background backreference backronym backspace and overstrike backward combatability BAD Bad and Wrong Bad Thing bag on the side bagbiter bagbiting baggy pantsing balloonian variable bamf banana label 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 baud barf baz bazaar bboard BBS BCPL beam beanie key beep Befunge beige toaster bells and whistles bells whistles and gongs benchmark Berkeley Quality Software berklix Berzerkeley beta BFI bible BiCapitalization B1FF BI biff Big Gray Wall big iron Big Red Switch Big Room big win big-endian bignum bigot binary four bit bit bang bit bashing bit bucket bit decay bit rot bit twiddling bit-paired keyboard bitblt BITNET bits bitty box bixen bixie black art black hat black hole black magic Black Screen of Death Black Thursday blammo blargh blast blat bletch bletcherous blink blinkenlights blit blitter blivet bloatware BLOB block Bloggs Family blow an EPROM blow away blow out blow past blow up BLT Blue Book blue box Blue Glue blue goo Blue Screen of Death blue wire blurgle BNF boa board boat anchor bob 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-up implementation bounce bounce message boustrophedon box boxed comments boxen boxology bozotic BQS brain dump brain fart brain-damaged brain-dead braino brainwidth bread crumbs break break-even point breath-of-life packet breedle Breidbart Index bring X to its knees brittle broadcast storm brochureware 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 buglix bulletproof bullschildt bum 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 Programmer's Disease C&C C++ calculator Camel Book can can't happen cancelbot Cancelmoose[tm] candygrammar canonical card walloper careware cargo cult programming cascade case and paste casters-up mode casting the runes cat catatonic cathedral cd tilde CDA cdr chad chad box chain channel channel hopping channel op chanop char charityware chase pointers chawmp check cheerfully chemist Chernobyl chicken Chernobyl packet chicken head chiclet keyboard Chinese Army technique choad choke chomp chomper CHOP Christmas tree Christmas tree packet chrome chug Church of the SubGenius Cinderella Book CI$ Classic C clean 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 corge 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 cray cray instability crayola crayola books crayon 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 CTSS cube cubing cup holder cursor dipped in X cuspy cut a tape cybercrud cyberpunk cyberspace cycle cycle crunch cycle drought cycle of reincarnation cycle server cypherpunk C|N>K D. C. Power Lab 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 link dead-tree version DEADBEEF deadlock deadly embrace death code Death Square Death Star DEC DEC Wars decay deckle DED deep hack mode deep magic deep space defenestration defined as deflicted dehose deletia deliminator delint delta demented demigod demo demo mode demoeffect demogroup demon demon dialer demoparty demoscene dentro depeditate deprecated derf deserves to lose desk check despew Devil Book 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 domainist Don't do that then! dongle dongle-disk donuts 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 dup killer dup loop dusty deck DWIM dynner earthquake Easter egg Easter egging eat flaming death EBCDIC echo ECP ed 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 EOF EOL EOU epoch epsilon epsilon squared era the 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 face time factor fairings fall over fall through fan fandango on core FAQ FAQ list FAQL faradize farkled farming fascist fat electrons fat-finger faulty fd leak 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 Fight-o-net File Attach File Request 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 firmy fish FISH queue 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 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 FTP -fu FUBAR fuck me harder FUD FUD wars fudge fudge factor fuel up Full Monty fum functino funky funny money furrfu fuzzball G g-file gabriel gag gang bang Gang of Four garbage collect garply gas Gates's Law gawble GC GCOS GECOS gedanken geef geek geek code geek out gen gender mender General Public Virus generate Genius From Mars Technique gensym Get a life! Get a real computer! GFR gib GIFs at 11 gig giga- GIGO gilley gillion ginger GIPS glark glass glass tty glassfet glitch glob glork glue gnarly GNU gnubie GNUMACS go flatline go gold go root go-faster stripes GoAT gobble Godwin's Law Godzillagram golden golf-ball printer gonk gonkulator gonzo Good Thing google gopher gopher hole gorets gorilla arm gorp GOSMACS Gosperism gotcha GPL GPV grault gray goo gray hat Great Renaming Great Runes Great Worm great-wall Green Book green bytes green card green lightning green machine Green's Theorem greenbar grep gribble grilf grind grind crank gripenet gritch grok gronk gronk out gronked grovel grue grunge gubbish Guido guiltware gumby gun gunch gunpowder chicken gurfle guru guru meditation gweep 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 hammer hamster HAND hand cruft hand-hacking hand-roll handle handshaking handwave hang Hanlon's Razor happily haque 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 Helen Keller mode hello sailor! hello wall! hello world hex hexadecimal hexit HHOK HHOS hidden flag high bit high moby highly hing hired gun hirsute HLL hoarding hobbit hog hole hollised holy wars home box home machine home page honey pot hook hop hose hosed hot chat hot spot hotlink house wizard HP-SUX HTH huff humma hung hungry puppy hungus hyperspace hysterical reasons I didn't change anything! I see no X here. IANAL IBM IBM discount 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 inc 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 address Internet Death Penalty Internet Exploder Internet Exploiter interrupt interrupt list interrupts locked out intertwingled intro IRC iron Iron Age iron box ironmonger ISO standard cup of tea ISP ITS IWBNI IYFEG J. Random J. Random Hacker jack in jaggies Java JCL JEDR Jeff K. jello jiffy job security jock joe code jolix juggling eggs jump off into never-never land jupiter 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- KIPS KISS Principle kit KLB klone kludge kluge kluge around kluge up Knights of the Lambda Calculus knobs Knuth koan kook Kool Aid to drink the kremvax kyrka lace card lag lamer LAN party language lawyer languages of choice LART larval stage lase laser chicken lasherism LDB leaf site leak leaky heap leapfrog attack leech leech mode legal legalese LER LERP let the smoke out letterbomb lexer lexiphage 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 line starve 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 lost in the noise lost in the underflow lots of MIPS but no I/O low-bandwidth LPT Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology Lumber Cartel lunatic fringe lurker luser M M$ macdink machinable machoflops Macintoy Macintrash macro macro- macrology macrotape maggotbox magic magic cookie magic number magic smoke mail storm mailbomb mailing list main loop mainframe management mandelbug manged mangle mangled name mangler manularity 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 microfloppies microfortnight microLenat microReid microserf Microsloth Windows Microsoft micros~1 middle-endian middle-out implementation milliLampson minifloppies minor detail MIPS misbug misfeature missile address miswart MMF mobo moby mockingbird mod mode mode bit modulo 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 mouso MS-DOS mu MUD muddie mudhead muggle multician Multics multitask mumblage mumble munch munching munching squares munchkin mundane mung munge Murphy's Law music mutter N nadger nagware nailed to the wall nailing jelly naive naive user NAK NANA nano nano- nanoacre nanobot nanocomputer nanofortnight nanotechnology 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 netrock 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 node Nominal Semidestructor non-optimal solution nonlinear nontrivial not entirely unlike X not ready for prime time notwork NP- nroff NSA line eater NSP nude nugry nuke number-crunching numbers NUXI problem nybble nyetwork 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 open open source open switch operating system optical diff optical grep optimism Oracle the Orange Book oriental food orphan orphaned i-node orthogonal OS OS/2 OSS OSU OT OTOH out-of-band overclock overflow bit overflow pdl overrun overrun screw P-mail 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 pastie patch patch pumpkin patch space path pathological payware PBD PC-ism PD PDL PDP-10 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- PETSCII PFY phage phase phase of the moon phase-wrapping PHB phreaker phreaking pico- pig-tail pilot error ping Ping O' Death ping storm pink wire pipe pistol pixel sort pizza box plaid screen plain-ASCII plan file platinum-iridium playpen playte plokta plonk plug-and-pray plugh plumbing PM pod point-and-drool interface pointy hat pointy-haired poke poll polygon pusher POM pop POPJ poser post postcardware posting postmaster PostScript pound on power cycle power hit PPN pr0n precedence lossage 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 quad quadruple bucky quantifiers quantum bogodynamics quarter ques quick-and-dirty quine quote chapter and verse quotient quux qux QWERTY 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 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 Book 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 rib site rice box Right Thing rip ripoff RL roach robocanceller robot robust rococo rogue room-temperature IQ root root mode rot13 rotary debugger round tape RSN RTBM RTFAQ RTFB RTFM RTFS RTI RTM RTS rude runes runic rusty iron rusty memory rusty wire 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 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 ScumOS 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 short card shotgun debugging shovelware showstopper shriek Shub-Internet sidecar SIG sig block sig quote sig virus signal-to-noise ratio silicon silly walk silo Silver Book since time T equals minus infinity sitename skrog skulker slab slack slap on the side slash slashdot effect sleep slim slop slopsucker Slowlaris slurp 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 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 SOS 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 speedometer spell spelling flame spider spider food spiffy spike spin spl splash screen splat splat out spod spoiler spoiler space sponge spoof spool spool file sporgery spungle square tape squirrelcide stack stack puke stale pointer bug star out state stealth manager steam-powered steved STFW stiffy stir-fried random stomp on Stone Age stone knives and bearskins stoppage store 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 systems jock system mangler T tail recursion talk mode talker system tall card tanked TANSTAAFL tape monkey tar and feather tarball tardegy taste tayste TCB TCP/IP TECO tee teergrube teledildonics Telerat ten-finger interface tense tentacle tenured graduate student tera- teraflop club terminak terminal brain death terminal illness terminal junkie terpri 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 TINC Tinkerbell program TINLC tip of the ice-cube tired iron tits on a keyboard TLA (TM) TMRC TMRCie TMTOWTDI to a first approximation to a zeroth approximation toad toast toaster toeprint toggle tool toolchain toolsmith toor topic drift topic group TOPS-10 TOPS-20 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 true-hacker tty tube tube time tunafish tune turbo nerd Turing tar-pit turist Tux tweak tweeter TWENEX twiddle twilight zone twink twirling baton two pi two-to-the-N u- UBD UBE 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 urchin URL Usenet Usenet Death Penalty user user-friendly user-obsequious userland UTSL UUCPNET UUOC V7 vadding vanilla vanity domain vannevar vaporware var vaston VAX VAXectomy VAXen vaxherd vaxism vaxocentrism vdiff veeblefester velveeta ventilator card 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 W2K bug wabbit WAITS waldo walk walk off the end of walking drives wall wall follower wall time wall wart wallpaper wango wank wannabee war dialer -ware warez warez d00dz warez kiddies warlording warm boot wart washing machine washing software water MIPS wave a dead chicken weasel web pointer web toaster webify webmaster web ring 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 Book white hat whitelist whizzy wibble WIBNI widget wiggles wild side WIMP environment win win big win win Winchester windoid window shopping Windoze winged comments winkey winnage winner winnitude Wintel 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 woofer 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 XEROX PARC XOFF XON xor xref XXX xyzzy YA- YABA YAFIYGI YAUN Yellow Book 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 zap zapped Zawinski's Law zbeba zen zero zero-content Zero-One-Infinity Rule zeroth zigamorph zip zipperhead zombie zorch Zork zorkmid