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entries/-dev-null.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /dev/null
 
-/devnuhl/ , n. [from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional
+/devnuhl/, n. [from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional
 black hole in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to. A
 controversial posting, for example, might end Kudos to rasputin@kremlin.org,
 flames to /dev/null. See bit bucket.
-

entries/-me.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /me
 
 // [IRC; common] Under most IRC, /me is the pose command; if you are logged
-on as Foonly and type /me laughs , others watching the channel will see *
+on as Foonly and type /me laughs, others watching the channel will see *
 Joe Foonly laughs. This usage has been carried over to mail and news, where
 the reader is expected to perform the same expansion in his or her head.
-

entries/-oid.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream
 English. For example, He's a nerdoid means that he superficially resembles a
 nerd but can't make the grade; a modemoid might be a 300-baud box (Real
 Modems run at 28.8 or up); a computeroid might be any bitty box. The word
-keyboid could be used to describe a chiclet keyboard , but would have to be
+keyboid could be used to describe a chiclet keyboard, but would have to be
 written; spoken, it would confuse the listener as to the speaker's city of
 origin. 2. More specifically, an indicator for resembling an android which
 in the past has been confined to science-fiction fans and hackers. It too

entries/-ware.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 -ware
 
 suff. [from software ] Commonly used to form jargon terms for classes of
-software. For examples, see annoyware , careware , crippleware , crudware ,
-freeware , fritterware , guiltware , liveware , meatware , payware ,
-psychedelicware , shareware , shelfware , vaporware , wetware , spyware ,
+software. For examples, see annoyware, careware, crippleware, crudware,
+freeware, fritterware, guiltware, liveware, meatware, payware,
+psychedelicware, shareware, shelfware, vaporware, wetware, spyware,
 adware.
-

entries/404 compliant.txt

@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@
 adj. The status of a website which has been completely removed, usually by
 the administrators of the hosting site as a result of net abuse by the
 website operators. The term is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the standard
-301 compliant Murkowski Bill disclaimer used by spammers. See also: spam ,
+301 compliant Murkowski Bill disclaimer used by spammers. See also: spam,
 spamvertize.
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entries/ACK.txt

@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ following exclamation point. 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell
 them you understand their point (see NAK ). Thus, for example, you might cut
 off an overly long explanation with Ack. Ack. Ack. I get it now. 4. An
 affirmative. Think we ought to ditch that damn NT server for a Linux box?
-ACK! There is also a usage ACK? (from sense 1) meaning Are you there? ,
+ACK! There is also a usage ACK? (from sense 1) meaning Are you there?,
 often used in email when earlier mail has produced no reply, or during a
 lull in talk mode to see if the person has gone away (the standard humorous
-response is of course NAK , i.e., I'm not here ).
-
+response is of course NAK, i.e., I'm not here ).

entries/ADVENT.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game
 by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the authors of
 INTERCAL. ) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but
 the TOPS-10 operating system permitted only six-letter filenames in
-uppercase. See also vadding , Zork , and Infocom. Figure1.Screen shot of the
+uppercase. See also vadding, Zork, and Infocom. Figure1.Screen shot of the
 original ADVENT game Orange River Chamber You are in a splendid chamber
 thirty feet high. The walls are frozen rivers of orange stone. An awkward
 canyon and a good passage exit from east and west sidesof the chamber. A
@@ -32,4 +32,3 @@ a secondary entrance. ADVENT sources are available for FTP at
 ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z. You can
 also play it as a Java applet. There is a good page of resources at the
 Colossal Cave Adventure Page.
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entries/AI.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 AI
 
-/AI/ , n. Abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence , so common that the full
+/AI/ , n. Abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence, so common that the full
 form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.
-

entries/ANSI standard.txt

@@ -7,6 +7,5 @@ ANSI standard shaking of a laser printer cartridge to get extra life from
 it, or the ANSI standard word tripling in names of usenet alt groups. This
 usage derives from the American National Standards Institute. ANSI, along
 with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C
-programming language (see K R , Classic C ), and promulgates many other
+programming language (see K R , Classic C), and promulgates many other
 important software standards.
-

entries/ARMM.txt

@@ -19,5 +19,4 @@ history (also establishing the term despew ), and it has since been widely
 cited as a cautionary example of the havoc the combination of good
 intentions and incompetence can wreak on a network. The Usenet thread on the
 subject is archived here. Compare Great Worm ; sorcerer's apprentice mode.
-See also software laser , network meltdown.
-
+See also software laser, network meltdown.

entries/ASCII art.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ASCII art
 
 n. The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly |
-, - , / , \ , and + ). Also known as character graphics or ASCII graphics ;
+, - , / , \ , and + ). Also known as character graphics or ASCII graphics;
 see also boxology. The next step beyond static tableaux in
 ASCII art is ASCII animation. There are not many large examples of this;
 perhaps the best known is the ASCII animation of the original Star Wars

entries/ASCII.txt

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ less flexible about spelling than humans; thus, hackers need to be very
 precise when talking about characters, and have developed a considerable
 amount of verbal shorthand for them. Every character has one or more names
 some formal, some concise, some silly. Common jargon names for ASCII
-characters are collected here. See also individual entries for bang , excl ,
+characters are collected here. See also individual entries for bang, excl,
 open , ques , semi , shriek , splat , twiddle , and Yu-Shiang Whole Fish.
 This list derives from revision 2.3 of the Usenet ASCII pronunciation guide.
 Single characters are listed in ASCII order; character pairs are sorted in
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka;  [spark-spot]; soldier, control.
 Common: double quote; quote. Rare: literal mark;  double-glitch; snakebite;
 quotation marks ; dieresis ;  dirk; [rabbit-ears]; double prime. # Common:
 number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; crunch ; hex; [mesh]. Rare:
-grid; crosshatch; octothorpe;  flash; square , pig-pen; tictactoe;
+grid; crosshatch; octothorpe;  flash; square, pig-pen; tictactoe;
 scratchmark;  thud; thump; splat. $ Common: dollar; dollar sign. Rare:
 currency symbol;  buck; cash; bling; string (from BASIC); escape (when used
 as the echo of  ASCII ESC); ding; cache; [big money]. % Common: percent;
@@ -42,13 +42,12 @@ apostrophe. Rare: prime;  glitch; tick; irk; pop; [spark]; closing single
 quotation  mark ; acute accent. ( ) Common: l/r paren; l/r parenthesis;
 left/right;  open/close; paren/thesis; o/c paren;  o/c parenthesis; l/r
 parenthesis; l/r  banana. Rare: so/already; lparen/rparen; opening/closing
-parenthesis ; o/c round bracket, l/r round  bracket, [wax/wane]; 
+parenthesis ; o/c round bracket, l/r round  bracket, [wax/wane];
 parenthisey/unparenthisey;  l/r ear. * Common: star; [ splat ]; asterisk.
 Rare: wildcard; gear; dingle; mult; spider;  aster; times; twinkle; glob
-(see glob ); Nathan Hale. + Common: plus ; add. Rare: cross; 
-[intersection]. , Common: comma. Rare: cedilla ; [tail]. - Common: dash;
+(see glob ); Nathan Hale. + Common: plus ; add. Rare: cross;
+[intersection]., Common: comma. Rare: cedilla; [tail]. - Common: dash;
 hyphen ; minus. Rare: [worm];  option; dak; bithorpe.. Common: dot; point;
 period ; decimal point.  Rare: radix point; full stop; [spot]. / Common:
 slash; stroke; slant ; forward slash. Rare:  diagonal; solidus; over; slak;
 virgule; [slat].
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entries/Acme.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson (two cartoonists who specialized in
 elaborate contraptions) shop. The name has been humorously expanded as A (or
 American) Company Making Everything. (In fact, Acme was a real brand sold
 from Sears Roebuck catalogs in the early 1900s.) Describing some X as an
-Acme X either means This is insanely great , or, more likely, This looks
+Acme X either means This is insanely great, or, more likely, This looks
 insanely great on paper, but in practice it's really easy to shoot yourself
 in the foot with it. Compare pistol. This term, specially cherished by
 American hackers and explained here for the benefit of our overseas
@@ -19,4 +19,3 @@ in large wooden crates labeled prominently with the Acme name which,
 probably not by coincidence, was the trade name of a peg bar system for
 superimposing animation cels used by cartoonists since forever. Acme devices
 invariably malfunctioned in improbable and violent ways.
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entries/Aluminum Book.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Aluminum Book
 
-n. [MIT] Common LISP: The Language , by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press,
+n. [MIT] Common LISP: The Language, by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press,
 first edition 1984, second edition 1990). Note that due to a technical
 screwup some printings of the second edition are actually of a color the
 author describes succinctly as yucky green. See also book titles.
-

entries/Amiga Persecution Complex.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Amiga Persecution Complex
 
-n. The disorder suffered by a particularly egregious variety of bigot ,
+n. The disorder suffered by a particularly egregious variety of bigot,
 those who believe that the marginality of their preferred machine is the
 result of some kind of industry-wide conspiracy (for without a conspiracy of
 some kind, the eminent superiority of their beloved shining jewel of a
 platform would obviously win over all, market pressures be damned!) Those
 afflicted are prone to engaging in flame wars and calling for boycotts and
 mailbombings. Amiga Persecution Complex is by no means limited to Amiga
-users; NeXT, NeWS , OS/2 , Macintosh, LISP , and GNU users are also common
+users; NeXT, NeWS, OS/2, Macintosh, LISP, and GNU users are also common
 victims. Linux users used to display symptoms very frequently before Linux
 started winning; some still do. See also newbie, troll, holy wars.

entries/Angband.txt

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ Type ? for help 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, random error
 messages including An error has occurred because an error of type 42 has
 occurred and Windows 95 uninstalled successfully will be displayed. Zangband
 also allows the player to kill Santa Claus (who has some really good stuff,
-but also has a lot of friends), Bull Gates , and Barney the Dinosaur (but be
+but also has a lot of friends), Bull Gates, and Barney the Dinosaur (but be
 watchful; Barney has a nasty case of halitosis). There is an official
 angband home page at http://thangorodrim.angband.org/ and a zangband one at
 http://www.zangband.org/. See also Random Number God.
-

entries/Anthropomorphization.txt

@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ human machine can have intentions, it is therefore easy for them to ascribe
 consciousness and intention to other complex patterned systems such as
 computers. If consciousness is mechanical, it is neither more or less absurd
 to say that  The program wants to go into an infinite loop  than it is to
-say that  I want to go eat some chocolate   and even defensible to say that 
+say that  I want to go eat some chocolate   and even defensible to say that
 The stone, once dropped, wants to move towards the center of the earth .
 This viewpoint has respectable company in academic philosophy. Daniel
-Dennett organizes explanations of behavior using three stances: the 
+Dennett organizes explanations of behavior using three stances: the
 physical stance  (thing-to-be-explained as a physical object), the  design
-stance  (thing-to-be-explained as an artifact), and the  intentional stance 
+stance  (thing-to-be-explained as an artifact), and the  intentional stance
 (thing-to-be-explained as an agent with desires and intentions). Which
 stances are appropriate is a matter not of abstract truth but of utility.
 Hackers typically view simple programs from the design stance, but more
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ got confused is really saying that he (or she) was confused about exactly
 what he wanted the computer to do, the code naturally incorporated this
 confusion, and the code expressed the programmer's confusion when executed
 by crashing or otherwise misbehaving. Note that by displacing from  I got
-confused  to  It got confused , the programmer is not avoiding
+confused  to  It got confused, the programmer is not avoiding
 responsibility, but rather getting some analytical distance in order to be
 able to consider the bug dispassionately. It has also been suggested that
 anthropomorphizing complex systems is actually an expression of humility, a
@@ -68,4 +68,3 @@ way of acknowleging that simple rules we do understand (or that we invented)
 can lead to emergent behavioral complexities that we don't completely
 understand. All three explanations accurately model hacker psychology, and
 should be considered complementary rather than competing.
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entries/Archimedes.txt

@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ Archimedes
 The world's first RISC microcomputer, available only in the British
 Commonwealth and europe. Built in 1987 in Great Britain by Acorn Computers,
 it was legendary for its use of the ARM-2 microprocessor as a CPU. Many a
-novice hacker in the Commonwealth first learnt his or her skills on the  ,
-since it was specifically designed for use in schools and educational
-institutions. Owners of  machines are often still treated with awe and
-reverence. Familiarly, archi.
-
+novice hacker in the Commonwealth first learnt his or her skills on the
+Archimedes, since it was specifically designed for use in schools and
+educational institutions. Owners of  machines are often still treated
+with awe and reverence. Familiarly, archi.

entries/FUBAR.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 FUBAR
 
 n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX. A good example of how jargon
-can occasionally be snuck past the suit s; see foobar , and foo for a fuller
+can occasionally be snuck past the suit s; see foobar, and foo for a fuller
 etymology.
-