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entries/B1FF.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 B1FF
 
-/bif/ , BIFF , n. The most famous pseudo , and the prototypical newbie.
+/bif/ , BIFF , n. The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie.
 Articles from B1FF feature all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with
 bangs, typos, cute misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ KL DOOD AN
 HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!!!), use (and often
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ to come from a variety of sites. However, BITNET seems to be the most
 frequent origin. The theory that B1FF is a denizen of BITNET is supported by
 B1FF's (unfortunately invalid) electronic mail address: B1FF@BIT.NET. [1993:
 Now It Can Be Told! My spies inform me that B1FF was originally created by
-Joe Talmadge jat@cup.hp.com , also the author of the infamous and
+Joe Talmadge jat@cup.hp.com, also the author of the infamous and
 much-plagiarized Flamer's Bible. The BIFF filter he wrote was later passed
 to Richard Sexton, who posted BIFFisms much more widely. Versions have since
 been posted for the amusement of the net at large. See also Jeff K.
-

entries/B5.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 B5
 
-// [common] Abbreviation for Babylon 5 , a science-fiction TV series as
+// [common] Abbreviation for Babylon 5, a science-fiction TV series as
 revered among hackers as was the original Star Trek.
-

entries/BCPL.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 BCPL
 
-// , n. [abbreviation, Basic Combined Programming Language ) A programming
+// , n. [abbreviation, Basic Combined Programming Language) A programming
 language developed by Martin Richards in Cambridge in 1967. It is remarkable
 for its rich syntax, small size of compiler (it can be run in 16k) and
 extreme portability. It reached break-even point at a very early stage, and
@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ having lost count. It has only one data type (a machine word) which can be
 used as an integer, a character, a floating point number, a pointer, or
 almost anything else, depending on context. BCPL was a precursor of C, which
 inherited some of its features.
-

entries/BDFL.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 BDFL
 
-Benevolent Dictator For Life. Guido , considered in his role as the project
+Benevolent Dictator For Life. Guido, considered in his role as the project
 leader of Python. People who are feeling temporarily cheesed off by one of
 his decisions sometimes leave off the B. The mental image that goes with
 this, of a cigar-chomping caudillo in gold braid and sunglasses, is
 extremely funny to anyone who has ever met Guido in person.
-

entries/BFI.txt

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 BFI
 
 /BFI/ , n. See brute force and ignorance. Also encountered in the variants
-BFMI , brute force and massive ignorance and BFBI brute force and bloody
+BFMI, brute force and massive ignorance and BFBI brute force and bloody
 ignorance. In some parts of the U.S. this abbreviation was probably
 reinforced by a company called Browning-Ferris Industries in the
 waste-management business; a large BFI logo in white-on-blue could be seen
 on the sides of garbage trucks.
-

entries/BNF.txt

@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ metasyntactic notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages,
 command sets, and the like. Widely used for language descriptions but seldom
 documented anywhere, so that it must usually be learned by osmosis from
 other hackers. Consider this BNF for a U.S. postal address:  postal-address
-::= name-part  street-address  zip-part  personal-part ::= name | initial . 
-name-part ::= personal-part  last-name [ jr-part ] EOL | personal-part 
+::= name-part  street-address  zip-part  personal-part ::= name | initial .
+name-part ::= personal-part  last-name [ jr-part ] EOL | personal-part
 name-part  street-address ::=[ apt ] house-num  street-name  EOL  zip-part
-::= town-name  ,  state-code  ZIP-code  EOL This translates into English as:
+::= town-name,  state-code  ZIP-code  EOL This translates into English as:
 A postal-address consists of a name-part, followed by a street-address part,
 followed by a zip-code part. A personal-part consists of either a first name
 or an initial followed by a dot. A name-part consists of either: a
@@ -26,9 +26,8 @@ unspecified. These are presumed to be obvious from context or detailed
 somewhere nearby. See also parse. 2. Any of a number of variants and
 extensions of BNF proper, possibly containing some or all of the regexp
 wildcards such as * or +. In fact the example above isn't the pure form
-invented for the Algol-60 report; it uses [] , which was introduced a few
+invented for the Algol-60 report; it uses [], which was introduced a few
 years later in IBM's PL/I definition but is now universally recognized. 3.
 In science-fiction fandom , a Big-Name Fan (someone famous or notorious).
 Years ago a fan started handing out black-on-green BNF buttons at SF
 conventions; this confused the hacker contingent terribly.
-

entries/BSD.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 BSD
 
-/BSD/ , n. [abbreviation for Berkeley Software Distribution ] a family of
+/BSD/ , n. [abbreviation for Berkeley Software Distribution] a family of
 Unix versions for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at
 Berzerkeley starting around 1977, incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP
 networking enhancements, and many other features. The BSD versions (4.1,

entries/BUAF.txt

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 BUAF
 
-// , n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord ] Big Ugly ASCII Font a special
+// , n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font a special
 form of ASCII art. Various programs exist for rendering text strings into
 block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and six
 character cells on a side; this is smaller than the letters generated by
 older banner (sense 2) programs. These are sometimes used to render one's
-name in a sig block , and are critically referred to as BUAF s. See
+name in a sig block, and are critically referred to as BUAF s. See
 warlording.
-

entries/BUAG.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 BUAG
 
-// , n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord ] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic.
-Pejorative term for ugly ASCII art , especially as found in sig block s. For
+// , n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic.
+Pejorative term for ugly ASCII art, especially as found in sig blocks. For
 some reason, mutations of the head of Bart Simpson are particularly common
-in the least imaginative sig block s. See warlording.
-
+in the least imaginative sig blocks. See warlording.

entries/Bad Thing.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Bad Thing
 
 n. [very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the 1930
-Sellar Yeatman parody of British history 1066 And All That , but
+Sellar Yeatman parody of British history 1066 And All That, but
 well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.] Something that can't
 possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always
 capitalized, as in Replacing all of the DSL links with bicycle couriers
@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@ come from the book referenced in the  etymology, which discusses rulers who
 were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream
 idiom on the British side of the pond. It is very common among American
 hackers, but not in mainstream usage in the U.S. Compare Bad and Wrong.
-

entries/Bad and Wrong.txt

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms entered common use at Durham
 c.1994 and may have been imported from elsewhere; they are also in use at
 Oxford, and the emphatic form Evil and Bad and Wrong (abbreviated EBW) is
 reported from there. There are standard abbreviations: they start with B R,
-a typo for Bad and Wrong. Consequently, B W is actually Bad and Right , G R
-= Good and Wrong , and G W = Good and Right. Compare evil and rude , Good
-Thing , Bad Thing.
-
+a typo for Bad and Wrong. Consequently, B W is actually Bad and Right, G R
+= Good and Wrong , and G W = Good and Right. Compare evil and rude, Good
+Thing, Bad Thing.

entries/Berkeley Quality Software.txt

@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@ night to solve some unique problem. It usually has nonexistent, incomplete,
 or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and
 core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it. This term was frequently
 applied to early versions of the dbx (1) debugger. See also Berzerkeley.
-Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berklee/ , not /barklee/
+Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berklee/, not /barklee/
 as in British Received Pronunciation.
-

entries/Berzerkeley.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Berzerkeley
 /b@rzerklee/ , n. [from berserk , via the name of a now-deceased record
 label; poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of
 Berkeley used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix
-hackers. See software bloat , Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of
+hackers. See software bloat, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of
 this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC
 Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
-

entries/BiCapitalization.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 BiCapitalization
 
-n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as PostScript ,
-NeXT, NeWS , VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter) that have been
+n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as PostScript,
+NeXT, NeWS, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter) that have been
 raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization. Too
 many marketroid types think this sort of thing is really cute, even the
-2,317th time they do it. Compare studlycaps , InterCaps.
-
+2,317th time they do it. Compare studlycaps, InterCaps.

entries/Big Red Switch.txt

@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main
 power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into
 place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling
 them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard ). Compare power
-cycle , three-finger salute ; see also scram switch.
-
+cycle, three-finger salute; see also scram switch.

entries/Black Screen of Death.txt

@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@ Black Screen of Death
 A failure mode of Microsloth Windows. On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a
 networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks up the
 PC so hard that it requires a cold boot to recover. This unhappy phenomenon
-is known as The Black Screen of Death. See also Blue Screen of Death , which
+is known as The Black Screen of Death. See also Blue Screen of Death, which
 has become rather more common.
-

entries/Blue Screen of Death.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows, misbehaving
 applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes crashes itself
 spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death, sometimes decorated with hex error
 codes, is what you get when this happens. (Commonly abbreviated BSOD. ) The
-following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest , seems to have predated
+following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest, seems to have predated
 popular use of the term: WindowsNTcrashed. IamtheBlueScreenofDeath
 Noonehearsyourscreams.
-

entries/Bohr bug.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Bohr bug
 
-/bohr buhg/ , n. [from quantum physics] A repeatable bug ; one that
+/bohr buhg/ , n. [from quantum physics] A repeatable bug; one that
 manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of
-conditions. Antonym of heisenbug ; see also mandelbug , schroedinbug.
-
+conditions. Antonym of heisenbug; see also mandelbug, schroedinbug.

entries/Borg.txt

@@ -3,16 +3,15 @@ Borg
 n. In Star Trek: The Next Generation the Borg is a species of cyborg that
 ruthlessly seeks to incorporate all sentient life into itself; their slogan
 is You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. In hacker parlance, the
-Borg is usually Microsoft , which is thought to be trying just as ruthlessly
+Borg is usually Microsoft, which is thought to be trying just as ruthlessly
 to assimilate all computers and the entire Internet to itself (there is a
 widely circulated image of Bill Gates as a Borg). Being forced to use
 Windows or NT is often referred to as being Borged. Interestingly, the
 Halloween Documents reveal that this jargon is live within Microsoft itself.
-See also Evil Empire , Internet Exploiter. Other companies, notably Intel
+See also Evil Empire, Internet Exploiter. Other companies, notably Intel
 and UUNet, have also occasionally been equated to the Borg. In IETF circles,
 where direct pressure from Microsoft is not a daily reality, the Borg is
 sometimes Cisco. This usage commemorates their tendency to pay any price to
 hire talent away from their competitors. In fact, at the Spring 1997 IETF, a
 large number of ex-Cisco employees, all former members of Routing Geeks,
 showed up with t-shirts printed with Recovering Borg.
-

entries/Brooks's Law.txt

@@ -11,5 +11,4 @@ book on software engineering. The myth in question has been most tersely
 expressed as Programmer time is fungible and Brooks established conclusively
 that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice (though it's not the
 whole story; see bazaar ); too often, management still does. See also
-creationism , second-system effect , optimism.
-
+creationism, second-system effect, optimism.

entries/Bzzzt! Wrong..txt

@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ Bzzzt! Wrong.
 
 /bzt rong/ , excl. [common; Usenet/Internet; punctuation varies] From a
 Robin Williams routine in the movie Dead Poets Society spoofing radio or TV
-quiz programs, such as Truth or Consequences , where an incorrect answer
+quiz programs, such as Truth or Consequences, where an incorrect answer
 earns one a blast from the buzzer and condolences from the interlocutor. A
 way of expressing mock-rude disagreement, usually immediately following an
 included quote from another poster. The less abbreviated *Bzzzzt*, wrong,
 but thank you for playing is also common; capitalization and emphasis of the
 buzzer sound varies.
-

entries/C++.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 C++
 
 /C'pluhspluhs/ , n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as a
-successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice , although many hackers
+successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice, although many hackers
 still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending
 on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect. Almost anything
 that can be done in any language can be done in C++, but it requires a

entries/CDA.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 CDA
 
-/CDA/ The Communications Decency Act , passed as section 502 of a major
+/CDA/ The Communications Decency Act, passed as section 502 of a major
 telecommunications reform bill on February 8th, 1996 ( Black Thursday ). The
 CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send a communication which is
 obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse,

entries/CI$.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 CI$
 
-// , n. Hackerism for CIS , CompuServe Information Service. The dollar sign
+// , n. Hackerism for CIS, CompuServe Information Service. The dollar sign
 refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges. Often used in sig block s
 just before a CompuServe address. Syn. Compu$erve.
-

entries/COBOL fingers.txt

@@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ COBOL fingers
 
 /kohbol finggrz/ , n. Reported from Sweden, a (hypothetical) disease one
 might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond
-all reason (see candygrammar ); thus it is alleged that programming too much
+all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much
 in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
-

entries/COBOL.txt

@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ without ritual expressions of disgust or horror. One popular one is Edsger
 W. Dijkstra's famous observation that The use of COBOL cripples the mind;
 its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. (from
 Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective ) See also fear and
-loathing , software rot.
+loathing, software rot.

entries/COME FROM.txt

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if
 the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be
 transferred to the statement following the COME FROM. COME FROM was first
 proposed in R. Lawrence Clark's A Linguistic Contribution to GOTO-less
-programming , which appeared in a 1973 Datamation issue (and was reprinted
+programming, which appeared in a 1973 Datamation issue (and was reprinted
 in the April 1984 issue of Communications of the ACM ). This parodied the
 then-raging structured programming holy wars (see considered harmful ).
 Mythically, some variants are the assigned COME FROM and the computed COME
@@ -31,6 +31,5 @@ promised to anyone so deranged as to use it in production code. More
 horrible things had already been perpetrated in production languages,
 however; doubters need only contemplate the ALTER verb in COBOL. COME FROM
 was supported under its own name for the first time 15 years later, in
-C-INTERCAL (see INTERCAL , retrocomputing ); knowledgeable observers are
+C-INTERCAL (see INTERCAL, retrocomputing ); knowledgeable observers are
 still reeling from the shock.
-

entries/CP-M.txt

@@ -10,6 +10,5 @@ enjoying the perfect flying weather in his private plane (another variant
 has it that Gary's wife was much more interested in packing her suitcases
 for an upcoming vacation than in clinching a deal with IBM). Many of CP/M's
 features and conventions strongly resemble those of early DEC operating
-systems such as TOPS-10 , OS/8, RSTS, and RSX-11. See MS-DOS , operating
+systems such as TOPS-10, OS/8, RSTS, and RSX-11. See MS-DOS, operating
 system.
-

entries/CPU Wars.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 CPU Wars
 
-/CPU worz/ , n. A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the
+/CPU worz/, n. A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the
 attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines)
 to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered
 Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to
@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@ letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's
 Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (at that time one of the few islands
 of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the
 IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
-

entries/CRC handbook.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ CRC handbook
 
 Any of the editions of the Chemical Rubber Company Handbook of Chemistry and
 Physics ; there are other CRC handbooks, such as the CRC Standard
-Mathematical Tables and Formulae , but the  is the chemistry and physics
+Mathematical Tables and Formulae, but the is the chemistry and physics
 reference. It is massive tome full of mathematical tables, physical
 constants of thousands of alloys and chemical compounds, dielectric
 strengths, vapor pressure, resistivity, and the like. Hackers have
@@ -12,4 +12,3 @@ and would feel vaguely bereft if they couldn't look up the magnetic
 susceptibility of potassium permanganate at a moment's notice. On hackers'
 bookshelves, the  is rather likely to keep company with an unabridged Oxford
 English Dictionary and a good atlas.
-

entries/CTSS.txt

@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ CTSS
 
 /CTSS/ , n. Compatible Time-Sharing System. An early (1963) experiment in
 the design of interactive timesharing operating systems, ancestral to
-Multics , Unix , and ITS. The name ITS (Incompatible Time-sharing System)
+Multics, Unix, and ITS. The name ITS (Incompatible Time-sharing System)
 was a hack on CTSS, meant both as a joke and to express some basic
 differences in philosophy about the way I/O services should be presented to
 user programs.
-

entries/Camel Book.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Camel Book
 
-n. Universally recognized nickname for the book Programming Perl , by Larry
+n. Universally recognized nickname for the book Programming Perl, by Larry
 Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates 1991.
 The definitive reference on Perl.

entries/Cancelmoose[tm].txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Cancelmoose[tm]
 
 /kanselmoos/ [Usenet] The archetype and model of all good spam -fighters.
 Once upon a time, the 'Moose would send out spam-cancels and then post
-notice anonymously to news.admin.policy , news.admin.misc , and
+notice anonymously to news.admin.policy, news.admin.misc, and
 alt.current-events.net-abuse. The 'Moose stepped to the fore on its own
 initiative, at a time (mid-1994) when spam-cancels were irregular and
 disorganized, and behaved altogether admirably fair, even-handed, and quick
@@ -15,4 +15,3 @@ http://www.cm.org/. ) By early 1995, others had stepped into the spam-cancel
 business, and appeared to be comporting themselves well, after the 'Moose's
 manner. The 'Moose has now gotten out of the business, and is more
 interested in ending spam (and cancels) entirely.
-

entries/Chernobyl packet.txt

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 Chernobyl packet
 
 /chernohb@l pak'@t/ , n. A network packet that induces a broadcast storm
-and/or network meltdown , in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at
+and/or network meltdown, in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at
 Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram
 that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ether and IP
 address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being
 gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
-