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* Glossary
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@ -3750,6 +3750,9 @@ n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used with
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*** enhancement
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n. Common marketroid -speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to be a feature.
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*** epic rant
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See "rant". A rant of especially long duration and/or obliviousness.
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*** epoch
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n. [Unix: prob.: from astronomical timekeeping] The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970; under VMS, it's 00:00:00 of November 17, 1858 (base date of the U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's the midnight beginning January 1 1904. System time is measured in seconds or ticks past the epoch. Weird problems may ensue when the clock wraps around (see wrap around ), which is not necessarily a rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a signed 32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years. The 1-tick-per-second clock of Unix is good only until January 18, 2038, assuming at least some software continues to consider it signed and that word lengths don't increase by then. See also wall time. Microsoft Windows, on the other hand, has an epoch problem every 49.7 days but this is seldom noticed as Windows is almost incapable of staying up continuously for that long.
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3. Of people, synonymous with flakiness. The connotation is that the person so described is behaving weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for reasons which are (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are probably as inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to pass with time. Maybe he has a real complaint, or maybe it's just randomness. See if he calls back. Despite the negative connotations of most jargon uses of this term have, it is worth noting that randomness can actually be a valuable resource, very useful for applications in cryptography and elsewhere. Computers are so thoroughly deterministic that they have a hard time generating high-quality randomness, so hackers have sometimes felt the need to built special-purpose contraptions for this purpose alone. One well-known website offers random bits generated by radioactive decay. Another derives random bits from chaotic systems in analog electronics. Originally, the latter site got its random bits by doing photometry on lava lamps. Hackers invariably found this hilarious. If you have to ask why, you'll never get it.
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*** rant
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1. To persist in discussing a specific subject.
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2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very little.
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3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the difficulty.
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4. To purposely annoy another person verbally.
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5. To evangelize. See flame.
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6. Also used to describe a less negative form of blather, such as friendly bullshitting. Ranting differs slightly from flaming in that to rant implies that it is the persistence or obliviousness of the person speaking that is annoying, while flame implies somewhat more strongly that the tone or content is offensive as well.
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*** rape
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1. To screw someone or something, violently; in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used in describing file-system damage. So-and-so was running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory.
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An FTP site storing pirated files where one must first upload something before being able to download. There is a ratio, based on bytes or files count, between the uploads and download. For instance, on a 2:1 site, to download a 4 Mb file, one must first upload at least 2 Mb of files. The hotter the contents of the server are, the smaller the ratio is. More often than not, the server refuses uploads because its disk is full, making it useless for downloading or the connection magically breaks after one has uploaded a large amount of files, just before the downloading phase begins. See also banner site , leech mode.
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*** rave
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1. To persist in discussing a specific subject.
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2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very little.
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3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the difficulty.
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4. To purposely annoy another person verbally.
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5. To evangelize. See flame.
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6. Also used to describe a less negative form of blather, such as friendly bullshitting. Rave differs slightly from flame in that rave implies that it is the persistence or obliviousness of the person speaking that is annoying, while flame implies somewhat more strongly that the tone or content is offensive as well.
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*** rave on!
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imp. Sarcastic invitation to continue a rave , often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realizes this is unlikely.
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See "rant".
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*** ravs
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/ravz/ , Chinese ravs , n. [primarily MIT/Boston usage] Jiao-zi (steamed or boiled) or Guo-tie (pan-fried). A Chinese appetizer, known variously in the plural as dumplings, pot stickers (the literal translation of guo-tie), and (around Boston) Peking Ravioli. The term rav is short for ravioli , and among hackers always means the Chinese kind rather than the Italian kind. Both consist of a filling in a pasta shell, but the Chinese kind includes no cheese, uses a thinner pasta, has a pork-vegetable filling (good ones include Chinese chives), and is cooked differently, either by steaming or frying. A rav or dumpling can be cooked any way, but a potsticker is always the pan-fried kind (so called because it sticks to the frying pot and has to be scraped off). Let's get hot-and-sour soup and three orders of ravs. See also oriental food.
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<H2>Generated</H2>
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<H2>Glossary</H2>
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<p>
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n. Common marketroid -speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to be a feature.
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</p>
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<H4>epic rant</H4>
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See "rant". A rant of especially long duration and/or obliviousness.
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</p>
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<H4>epoch</H4>
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<p>
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n. [Unix: prob.: from astronomical timekeeping] The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970; under VMS, it's 00:00:00 of November 17, 1858 (base date of the U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's the midnight beginning January 1 1904. System time is measured in seconds or ticks past the epoch. Weird problems may ensue when the clock wraps around (see wrap around ), which is not necessarily a rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a signed 32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years. The 1-tick-per-second clock of Unix is good only until January 18, 2038, assuming at least some software continues to consider it signed and that word lengths don't increase by then. See also wall time. Microsoft Windows, on the other hand, has an epoch problem every 49.7 days but this is seldom noticed as Windows is almost incapable of staying up continuously for that long.
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<p>2. A hack or crock that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the combination upon which the crock depends for its accidental failure to malfunction). This hack can output characters 40--57 by putting the character in the four-bit accumulator field of an XCT and then extracting six bits the low 2 bits of the XCT opcode are the right thing. What randomness! </p>
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<p>3. Of people, synonymous with flakiness. The connotation is that the person so described is behaving weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for reasons which are (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are probably as inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to pass with time. Maybe he has a real complaint, or maybe it's just randomness. See if he calls back. Despite the negative connotations of most jargon uses of this term have, it is worth noting that randomness can actually be a valuable resource, very useful for applications in cryptography and elsewhere. Computers are so thoroughly deterministic that they have a hard time generating high-quality randomness, so hackers have sometimes felt the need to built special-purpose contraptions for this purpose alone. One well-known website offers random bits generated by radioactive decay. Another derives random bits from chaotic systems in analog electronics. Originally, the latter site got its random bits by doing photometry on lava lamps. Hackers invariably found this hilarious. If you have to ask why, you'll never get it.</p>
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<H4>rant</H4>
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<p>1. To persist in discussing a specific subject. </p>
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<p>2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very little. </p>
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<p>3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the difficulty. </p>
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<p>4. To purposely annoy another person verbally. </p>
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<p>5. To evangelize. See flame. </p>
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<p>6. Also used to describe a less negative form of blather, such as friendly bullshitting. Ranting differs slightly from flaming in that to rant implies that it is the persistence or obliviousness of the person speaking that is annoying, while flame implies somewhat more strongly that the tone or content is offensive as well.</p>
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<H4>rape</H4>
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<p>1. To screw someone or something, violently; in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used in describing file-system damage. So-and-so was running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory. </p>
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An FTP site storing pirated files where one must first upload something before being able to download. There is a ratio, based on bytes or files count, between the uploads and download. For instance, on a 2:1 site, to download a 4 Mb file, one must first upload at least 2 Mb of files. The hotter the contents of the server are, the smaller the ratio is. More often than not, the server refuses uploads because its disk is full, making it useless for downloading or the connection magically breaks after one has uploaded a large amount of files, just before the downloading phase begins. See also banner site , leech mode.
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</p>
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<H4>rave</H4>
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<p>1. To persist in discussing a specific subject. </p>
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<p>2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very little. </p>
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<p>3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the difficulty. </p>
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<p>4. To purposely annoy another person verbally. </p>
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<p>5. To evangelize. See flame. </p>
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<p>6. Also used to describe a less negative form of blather, such as friendly bullshitting. Rave differs slightly from flame in that rave implies that it is the persistence or obliviousness of the person speaking that is annoying, while flame implies somewhat more strongly that the tone or content is offensive as well.</p>
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<H4>rave on!</H4>
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<p>
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imp. Sarcastic invitation to continue a rave , often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realizes this is unlikely.
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See "rant".
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<H4>ravs</H4>
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