From c1257f533941353707a18f342ab4c05ac403aadb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:54:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Remove spaces --- entries/B1FF.txt | 5 ++--- entries/B5.txt | 3 +-- entries/BCPL.txt | 3 +-- entries/BDFL.txt | 3 +-- entries/BFI.txt | 3 +-- entries/BNF.txt | 9 ++++----- entries/BSD.txt | 2 +- entries/BUAF.txt | 5 ++--- entries/BUAG.txt | 7 +++---- entries/Bad Thing.txt | 3 +-- entries/Bad and Wrong.txt | 7 +++---- entries/Berkeley Quality Software.txt | 3 +-- entries/Berzerkeley.txt | 3 +-- entries/BiCapitalization.txt | 7 +++---- entries/Big Red Switch.txt | 3 +-- entries/Black Screen of Death.txt | 3 +-- entries/Blue Screen of Death.txt | 3 +-- entries/Bohr bug.txt | 5 ++--- entries/Borg.txt | 5 ++--- entries/Brooks's Law.txt | 3 +-- entries/Bzzzt! Wrong..txt | 3 +-- entries/C++.txt | 2 +- entries/CDA.txt | 2 +- entries/CI$.txt | 3 +-- entries/COBOL fingers.txt | 3 +-- entries/COBOL.txt | 2 +- entries/COME FROM.txt | 5 ++--- entries/CP-M.txt | 3 +-- entries/CPU Wars.txt | 3 +-- entries/CRC handbook.txt | 3 +-- entries/CTSS.txt | 3 +-- entries/Camel Book.txt | 2 +- entries/Cancelmoose[tm].txt | 3 +-- entries/Chernobyl packet.txt | 3 +-- 34 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-) diff --git a/entries/B1FF.txt b/entries/B1FF.txt index 40f4360..a5ae9d9 100644 --- a/entries/B1FF.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/B5.txt b/entries/B5.txt index 012d553..4929c47 100644 --- a/entries/B5.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/BCPL.txt b/entries/BCPL.txt index 045d442..dff5b83 100644 --- a/entries/BCPL.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/BDFL.txt b/entries/BDFL.txt index 68423ed..1ea64f0 100644 --- a/entries/BDFL.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/BFI.txt b/entries/BFI.txt index 7dbdc03..b0294e9 100644 --- a/entries/BFI.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/BNF.txt b/entries/BNF.txt index 9b260ff..b9ab98b 100644 --- a/entries/BNF.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/BSD.txt b/entries/BSD.txt index 129c0ef..38d43b3 100644 --- a/entries/BSD.txt +++ b/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, diff --git a/entries/BUAF.txt b/entries/BUAF.txt index b0691d5..a494808 100644 --- a/entries/BUAF.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/BUAG.txt b/entries/BUAG.txt index f3496a7..167eb19 100644 --- a/entries/BUAG.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Bad Thing.txt b/entries/Bad Thing.txt index fa6243c..14a153b 100644 --- a/entries/Bad Thing.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Bad and Wrong.txt b/entries/Bad and Wrong.txt index e15132d..c723252 100644 --- a/entries/Bad and Wrong.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Berkeley Quality Software.txt b/entries/Berkeley Quality Software.txt index aeefa15..929426a 100644 --- a/entries/Berkeley Quality Software.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Berzerkeley.txt b/entries/Berzerkeley.txt index b2edc61..a8907ab 100644 --- a/entries/Berzerkeley.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/BiCapitalization.txt b/entries/BiCapitalization.txt index 3e0dcb3..41bf533 100644 --- a/entries/BiCapitalization.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Big Red Switch.txt b/entries/Big Red Switch.txt index b40ade2..7849fde 100644 --- a/entries/Big Red Switch.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Black Screen of Death.txt b/entries/Black Screen of Death.txt index 548d887..ab4714d 100644 --- a/entries/Black Screen of Death.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Blue Screen of Death.txt b/entries/Blue Screen of Death.txt index 461a492..8b3a61d 100644 --- a/entries/Blue Screen of Death.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Bohr bug.txt b/entries/Bohr bug.txt index 3445df3..964cab6 100644 --- a/entries/Bohr bug.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Borg.txt b/entries/Borg.txt index ce55863..05776dd 100644 --- a/entries/Borg.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Brooks's Law.txt b/entries/Brooks's Law.txt index 3c548da..533de56 100644 --- a/entries/Brooks's Law.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Bzzzt! Wrong..txt b/entries/Bzzzt! Wrong..txt index d48c50e..b346973 100644 --- a/entries/Bzzzt! Wrong..txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/C++.txt b/entries/C++.txt index 1c6647d..a74aaf6 100644 --- a/entries/C++.txt +++ b/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 diff --git a/entries/CDA.txt b/entries/CDA.txt index 0217348..e4d6f4d 100644 --- a/entries/CDA.txt +++ b/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, diff --git a/entries/CI$.txt b/entries/CI$.txt index 8ef75fa..416aa55 100644 --- a/entries/CI$.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/COBOL fingers.txt b/entries/COBOL fingers.txt index d0e212d..98c9939 100644 --- a/entries/COBOL fingers.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/COBOL.txt b/entries/COBOL.txt index cd0b0ed..9db970a 100644 --- a/entries/COBOL.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/COME FROM.txt b/entries/COME FROM.txt index 7f66eb0..2055e82 100644 --- a/entries/COME FROM.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/CP-M.txt b/entries/CP-M.txt index 5075d53..1cf0f76 100644 --- a/entries/CP-M.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/CPU Wars.txt b/entries/CPU Wars.txt index 72a9d9b..8d69f6c 100644 --- a/entries/CPU Wars.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/CRC handbook.txt b/entries/CRC handbook.txt index d7ad42e..726c9c1 100644 --- a/entries/CRC handbook.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/CTSS.txt b/entries/CTSS.txt index fe06a89..4401af0 100644 --- a/entries/CTSS.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Camel Book.txt b/entries/Camel Book.txt index dc4ada0..f1c86de 100644 --- a/entries/Camel Book.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Cancelmoose[tm].txt b/entries/Cancelmoose[tm].txt index 2c71590..3e82451 100644 --- a/entries/Cancelmoose[tm].txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Chernobyl packet.txt b/entries/Chernobyl packet.txt index 79d8e1a..7692250 100644 --- a/entries/Chernobyl packet.txt +++ b/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. -