From 7613da5f2e4e5f35d4e0676ae4d357228c79783b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:45:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Remove spaces --- entries/-dev-null.txt | 3 +-- entries/-me.txt | 3 +-- entries/-oid.txt | 2 +- entries/-ware.txt | 7 +++---- entries/404 compliant.txt | 3 +-- entries/ACK.txt | 5 ++--- entries/ADVENT.txt | 3 +-- entries/AI.txt | 3 +-- entries/ANSI standard.txt | 3 +-- entries/ARMM.txt | 3 +-- entries/ASCII art.txt | 2 +- entries/ASCII.txt | 11 +++++------ entries/Acme.txt | 3 +-- entries/Aluminum Book.txt | 3 +-- entries/Amiga Persecution Complex.txt | 4 ++-- entries/Angband.txt | 3 +-- entries/Anthropomorphization.txt | 9 ++++----- entries/Archimedes.txt | 9 ++++----- entries/FUBAR.txt | 3 +-- 19 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/entries/-dev-null.txt b/entries/-dev-null.txt index 4dfe059..41682ca 100644 --- a/entries/-dev-null.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/-me.txt b/entries/-me.txt index 5865c74..8e308f1 100644 --- a/entries/-me.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/-oid.txt b/entries/-oid.txt index 6bff80f..b636b80 100644 --- a/entries/-oid.txt +++ b/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 diff --git a/entries/-ware.txt b/entries/-ware.txt index 562bebc..9b01d19 100644 --- a/entries/-ware.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/404 compliant.txt b/entries/404 compliant.txt index c401ea4..8f0a03e 100644 --- a/entries/404 compliant.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/ACK.txt b/entries/ACK.txt index 67f9392..d13600c 100644 --- a/entries/ACK.txt +++ b/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 ). diff --git a/entries/ADVENT.txt b/entries/ADVENT.txt index 16c65c8..17c1f7a 100644 --- a/entries/ADVENT.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/AI.txt b/entries/AI.txt index 6207b54..03aac84 100644 --- a/entries/AI.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/ANSI standard.txt b/entries/ANSI standard.txt index dbeb2a3..fb8fe12 100644 --- a/entries/ANSI standard.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/ARMM.txt b/entries/ARMM.txt index bf463c0..7455745 100644 --- a/entries/ARMM.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/ASCII art.txt b/entries/ASCII art.txt index d9f3f87..ef6b684 100644 --- a/entries/ASCII art.txt +++ b/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 diff --git a/entries/ASCII.txt b/entries/ASCII.txt index d29d2c1..afa52c5 100644 --- a/entries/ASCII.txt +++ b/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]. - diff --git a/entries/Acme.txt b/entries/Acme.txt index ab8b59b..60cc93c 100644 --- a/entries/Acme.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Aluminum Book.txt b/entries/Aluminum Book.txt index f957b57..da6bcd4 100644 --- a/entries/Aluminum Book.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Amiga Persecution Complex.txt b/entries/Amiga Persecution Complex.txt index 5d4005d..0354a15 100644 --- a/entries/Amiga Persecution Complex.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/Angband.txt b/entries/Angband.txt index c8a99c5..ea9d65d 100644 --- a/entries/Angband.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Anthropomorphization.txt b/entries/Anthropomorphization.txt index 9691575..6fc1bc5 100644 --- a/entries/Anthropomorphization.txt +++ b/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. - diff --git a/entries/Archimedes.txt b/entries/Archimedes.txt index 5ad693e..3b82465 100644 --- a/entries/Archimedes.txt +++ b/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. diff --git a/entries/FUBAR.txt b/entries/FUBAR.txt index 02c5d27..40bf5e3 100644 --- a/entries/FUBAR.txt +++ b/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. -