Speedboat effect

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@@ -2482,6 +2482,12 @@ adj. (also borked ) Common deliberate typo for broken.
 
 3. Term used, though less commonly, for a web spider. The file for controlling spider behavior on your site is officially the Robots Exclusion File and its URL is http:// somehost /robots.txt ) Note that bots in all senses were robots when the terms first appeared in the early 1990s, but the shortened form is now habitual.
 
+*** botmaster
+Someone who remotely controls one or more botnets (a set of exploited computer systems) via the internet, typically via a simple interface such as IRC chat. They may then rent out the ability to conduct various nefarious activities, such as DDoS attacks, on the black market. Botmasters can also be government agencies conducting various kinds of cyberwarfare or astroturfing propaganda campaigns in a thin attempt to legitimize their authority and influence the popular psyche.
+
+*** botnet
+A network of internet connected systems which have been taken over using security exploits or laughably dreadful password policies. Often older systems which have not received security updates or which are no longer supported by the OEM become easy recruits to one or more botnet. Hackers or government agencies who have remote control over the exploited machines are known as botmasters. Botnets may be used to carry out DDoS attacks or a motley assortment of nefarious activities.
+
 *** bottom feeder
 1. An Internet user that leeches off ISPs the sort you can never provide good enough services for, always complains about the price, no matter how low it may be, and will bolt off to another service the moment there is even the slimmest price difference. While most bottom feeders infest free or almost free services such as AOL, MSN, and Hotmail, too many flock to whomever happens to be the cheapest regional ISP at the time. Bottom feeders are often the classic problem user, known for unleashing spam, flamage, and other breaches of netiquette. 
 
@@ -5371,6 +5377,9 @@ adj. [MUD] The state a player is in when they kill their connection to a MUD wit
 
 2. n. Excess verbiage in a document, as in This draft has too much lint.
 
+*** linux speedboat effect
+Refers to the problem of getting your patches into the Linux kernel at the right time, otherwise maintainers may have little interest and it becomes increasingly difficult to forward port to mainline. "Even when vendors actually release the corresponding source code and don't drop in binary blobs, due to the phenomenon I call 'the Linux speedboat', if they've forked an old kernel and done things their way, and if someone doesn't get on the case immediately, there's the unenviable task of forward-porting that code to whatever it is that the Linux kernel developers happen to like today. If the vendor didn't manage to throw their code aboard the speedboat at the right time, everyone is left floating in the wake." -- Paul Boddie
+
 *** lion food
 n. [IBM] Middle management or HQ staff (or, by extension, administrative drones in general). From an old joke about two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass. The fat one replies: Well, I hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day.
 

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 <p>2. An AI-controlled player in a computer game (especially a first-person shooter such as Quake) which, unlike ordinary monsters, operates like a human-controlled player, with access to a player's weapons and abilities. An example can be found at http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/. </p>
 
 <p>3. Term used, though less commonly, for a web spider. The file for controlling spider behavior on your site is officially the Robots Exclusion File and its URL is http:// somehost /robots.txt ) Note that bots in all senses were robots when the terms first appeared in the early 1990s, but the shortened form is now habitual.</p>
+        <H4>botmaster</H4>
+        <p>
+        Someone who remotely controls one or more botnets (a set of exploited computer systems) via the internet, typically via a simple interface such as IRC chat. They may then rent out the ability to conduct various nefarious activities, such as DDoS attacks, on the black market. Botmasters can also be government agencies conducting various kinds of cyberwarfare or astroturfing propaganda campaigns in a thin attempt to legitimize their authority and influence the popular psyche.
+        </p>
+        <H4>botnet</H4>
+        <p>
+        A network of internet connected systems which have been taken over using security exploits or laughably dreadful password policies. Often older systems which have not received security updates or which are no longer supported by the OEM become easy recruits to one or more botnet. Hackers or government agencies who have remote control over the exploited machines are known as botmasters. Botnets may be used to carry out DDoS attacks or a motley assortment of nefarious activities.
+        </p>
         <H4>bottom feeder</H4>
         <p>1. An Internet user that leeches off ISPs the sort you can never provide good enough services for, always complains about the price, no matter how low it may be, and will bolt off to another service the moment there is even the slimmest price difference. While most bottom feeders infest free or almost free services such as AOL, MSN, and Hotmail, too many flock to whomever happens to be the cheapest regional ISP at the time. Bottom feeders are often the classic problem user, known for unleashing spam, flamage, and other breaches of netiquette. </p>
 
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         <p>1. vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp. if in C, esp. if via use of automated analysis tools, most esp. if the Unix utility lint (1) is used. This term used to be restricted to use of lint (1) itself, but (judging by references on Usenet) it has become a shorthand for any exhaustive review process at some non-Unix shops, even in languages other than C. Also as v. delint. </p>
 
 <p>2. n. Excess verbiage in a document, as in This draft has too much lint.</p>
+        <H4>linux speedboat effect</H4>
+        <p>
+        Refers to the problem of getting your patches into the Linux kernel at the right time, otherwise maintainers may have little interest and it becomes increasingly difficult to forward port to mainline. "Even when vendors actually release the corresponding source code and don't drop in binary blobs, due to the phenomenon I call 'the Linux speedboat', if they've forked an old kernel and done things their way, and if someone doesn't get on the case immediately, there's the unenviable task of forward-porting that code to whatever it is that the Linux kernel developers happen to like today. If the vendor didn't manage to throw their code aboard the speedboat at the right time, everyone is left floating in the wake." -- Paul Boddie
+        </p>
         <H4>lion food</H4>
         <p>
         n. [IBM] Middle management or HQ staff (or, by extension, administrative drones in general). From an old joke about two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass. The fat one replies: Well, I hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day.

entries/linux_speedboat_effect.txt

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+linux speedboat effect
+
+Refers to the problem of getting your patches into the Linux kernel at the
+right time, otherwise maintainers may have little interest and it becomes
+increasingly difficult to forward port to mainline.
+
+  "Even when vendors actually release the corresponding source code and
+  don't drop in binary blobs, due to the phenomenon I call 'the Linux
+  speedboat', if they've forked an old kernel and done things their way, and if
+  someone doesn't get on the case immediately, there's the unenviable task of
+  forward-porting that code to whatever it is that the Linux kernel developers
+  happen to like today. If the vendor didn't manage to throw their code aboard
+  the speedboat at the right time, everyone is left floating in the wake."
+
+  -- Paul Boddie