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/gips/ , /jips/ , n. [analogy with MIPS ] Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly Gillions of Instructions per Second ; see gillion ). Compare KIPS.
*** GIYF
n. Abbrev: Google Is Your Friend. Used to suggest, gently and politely, that you have just asked a question of human beings that would have been better directed to a search engine. See also STFW.
n. Abbrev: Google Is Your Friend. For about a decade Google became synonymous with web search and this phrase was commonly used to direct people with a question to Google's site. That was a much more innocent time. These days Google is no longer likely to be associated with friendliness, especially by hackers. See also STFW.
*** GNU
1. [acronym: GNUs Not Unix!', see recursive acronym ] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is Help stamp out software hoarding! Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http://www.gnu.org/. See EMACS , copyleft , General Public Virus , Linux.
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/mi:krohsloth` windohz/ , n. (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze, WinDOS}. Hackerism(s) for Microsoft Windows. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Also just called Windoze , with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See Black Screen of Death and Blue Screen of Death ; compare X , sun-stools.
*** Microsoft
The new Evil Empire (the old one was IBM ). The basic complaints are, as formerly with IBM, that (a) their system designs are horrible botches, (b) we can't get source to fix them, and (c) they throw their weight around a lot. See also Halloween Documents.
The old Evil Empire (the one before that was IBM). The new one is Google. The basic complaints were, as formerly with IBM, that (a) their system designs are horrible botches, (b) we can't get source to fix them, and (c) they throw their weight around a lot. (d) They use lock-in tactics and antipatterns to make it hard for users to leave their systems. (e) They often claim to "love open source" while simultaneously keeping their main products closed. (f) Windows is increasingly a remotely managed operating system where the user is not really in control of what's happening.
*** Miscellaneous
Hackers are more likely to have cats than dogs (in fact, it is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature). Many drive incredibly decrepit heaps and forget to wash them; richer ones drive spiffy Porsches and RX-7s and then forget to have them washed. Almost all hackers have terribly bad handwriting, and often fall into the habit of block-printing everything like junior draftsmen. Prev Up Next Weaknesses of the Hacker Personality Home AppendixC.
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n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. Doc Smith's Lensman books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the PDP-1 at MIT in 1962. In 1968-69, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialized as one of the first video games; descendants are still feep ing in video arcades everywhere.
*** STFW
imp. , /STFW/ [Usenet] Common abbreviation for Search The Fucking Web , a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better handled by a search engine than a human being. Usage is common and exactly parallel to both senses of RTFM. A politer equivalent is GIYF.
imp. , /STFW/ [Usenet] Common abbreviation for Search The Fucking Web, a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better handled by a search engine than a human being. Usage is common and exactly parallel to both senses of RTFM. A politer equivalent is GIYF.
*** STR
Spot the reference. Used in scary devil monastery to mark the witticism one just uttered as a quote from some work of art or literature, the more obscure the better. Those who know where the reference comes from reply in the form You are $CHARACTER, and you owe me $ITEM , where $CHARACTER is a character from the story being referenced and $ITEM is something associated with that character. This acronym is never actually expanded to its proper meaning in the newsgroup; posters instead use obscure expansions, the most common being slurp the robot , leading to comments like I pulled my hair out, but couldn't figure out which robot you're slurping.
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2. More loosely: Overwhelming; outrageous; over the top; very large, esp. used of collections of source code, source files, or individual functions. Has some of the connotations of moby and hairy , but without the implication of obscurity or complexity.
*** google
v. [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, http://www.google.com. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many hackers consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively irrelevant. The name google has additional flavor for hackers because most know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, famously first uttered as googol by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew.
Originally a web search company. Megacorporation with a surveillance capitalist business model. Provides material support for drone wars and internet censorship in China. Approves of gentrification. Google are the new evil empire, replacing Microsoft as the number one source of concentrated evil within corporate computing. Hackers generally avoid Google products, particularly due to their extensive privacy issues and proprietary nature. It's common to hear hackers describe themselves as being "degoogled" or in the process if "degoogling" (i.e. removing themselves from participation in Google systems). In its early history in the 2000s Google was loved by hackers, and even hired some Free Software people. Over time though the company engaged increasingly in practices which were antithetical to hacker ethics.
*** google juice
n. A hypothetical substance which attracts the index bots of Google.com. In common usage, a web page or web site with high placement in the results of a particular search on Google or frequent placement in the results of a various searches is said to have a lot of google juice or good google juice. Also used to compare web pages or web sites, for example CrackMonkey has more google juice than KPMG. See also juice , kilogoogle.
n. A hypothetical substance which attracts the index bots of Google. In common usage, a web page or web site with high placement in the results of a particular search on Google or frequent placement in the results of a various searches is said to have a lot of google juice. See also juice, google.
*** googler
A software engineer who works at Google. Overpaid. Possibly overtly sexist. Likely to be a suit and talk like suits. Probably deficient in hacker ethics. Syn for a failed hacker who went to the dark side.
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vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs , means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic 1975 first-contact SF novel The Mote in God's Eye , by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. It is possible that this was intended as tribute to a less colorful use of the same image in Robert Heinlein's influential 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. See also hack mode and on the gripping hand.
*** juice
n. The weight of a given node in some sort of graph (like a web of trust or a relevance-weighted search query). This appears to have been generalized from google juice , but may derive from black urban slang for power or a respect. Example: I signed your key, but I really don't have the juice to be authoritative.
n. The weight of a given node in some sort of graph (like a web of trust or a relevance-weighted search query). This appears to have been generalized from google juice, but may also derive from black urban slang for power or a respect or from "drinking the kool aid" (having bought into some belief or system). Example: I signed your key, but I really don't have the juice to be authoritative.
*** jump off into never-never land
v. [from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan ] An unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results. Compare hyperspace.
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*** kilo-
pref. [SI] See quantifiers.
*** kilogoogle
n. The standard unit of measurement for Web search hits: a thousand Google matches. There are about a kilogoogle and a half sites with that band's name on it. Compare google juice.
*** kit
n. [Usenet; poss.: fr.: DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file. The more general term distribution may imply that special tools or more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.
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Short for Not A Real Gentleman , i.e. one who excessively talks shop out of hours.
*** nasal demons
n. Recognized shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to nasal demons , which quickly became established. The original post is web-accessible at http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en selm=10195%40ksr.com.
n. Recognized shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to nasal demons, which quickly became established.
*** nastygram
1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a letterbomb ) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.

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<H4>GIYF</H4>
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n. Abbrev: Google Is Your Friend. Used to suggest, gently and politely, that you have just asked a question of human beings that would have been better directed to a search engine. See also STFW.
n. Abbrev: Google Is Your Friend. For about a decade Google became synonymous with web search and this phrase was commonly used to direct people with a question to Google's site. That was a much more innocent time. These days Google is no longer likely to be associated with friendliness, especially by hackers. See also STFW.
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<H4>GNU</H4>
<p>1. [acronym: GNUs Not Unix!', see recursive acronym ] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is Help stamp out software hoarding! Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http://www.gnu.org/. See EMACS , copyleft , General Public Virus , Linux. </p>
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<H4>Microsoft</H4>
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The new Evil Empire (the old one was IBM ). The basic complaints are, as formerly with IBM, that (a) their system designs are horrible botches, (b) we can't get source to fix them, and (c) they throw their weight around a lot. See also Halloween Documents.
The old Evil Empire (the one before that was IBM). The new one is Google. The basic complaints were, as formerly with IBM, that (a) their system designs are horrible botches, (b) we can't get source to fix them, and (c) they throw their weight around a lot. (d) They use lock-in tactics and antipatterns to make it hard for users to leave their systems. (e) They often claim to "love open source" while simultaneously keeping their main products closed. (f) Windows is increasingly a remotely managed operating system where the user is not really in control of what's happening.
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<H4>Miscellaneous</H4>
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<H4>STFW</H4>
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imp. , /STFW/ [Usenet] Common abbreviation for Search The Fucking Web , a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better handled by a search engine than a human being. Usage is common and exactly parallel to both senses of RTFM. A politer equivalent is GIYF.
imp. , /STFW/ [Usenet] Common abbreviation for Search The Fucking Web, a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better handled by a search engine than a human being. Usage is common and exactly parallel to both senses of RTFM. A politer equivalent is GIYF.
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<H4>STR</H4>
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<p>2. More loosely: Overwhelming; outrageous; over the top; very large, esp. used of collections of source code, source files, or individual functions. Has some of the connotations of moby and hairy , but without the implication of obscurity or complexity.</p>
<H4>google</H4>
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v. [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, http://www.google.com. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many hackers consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively irrelevant. The name google has additional flavor for hackers because most know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, famously first uttered as googol by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew.
Originally a web search company. Megacorporation with a surveillance capitalist business model. Provides material support for drone wars and internet censorship in China. Approves of gentrification. Google are the new evil empire, replacing Microsoft as the number one source of concentrated evil within corporate computing. Hackers generally avoid Google products, particularly due to their extensive privacy issues and proprietary nature. It's common to hear hackers describe themselves as being "degoogled" or in the process if "degoogling" (i.e. removing themselves from participation in Google systems). In its early history in the 2000s Google was loved by hackers, and even hired some Free Software people. Over time though the company engaged increasingly in practices which were antithetical to hacker ethics.
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<H4>google juice</H4>
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n. A hypothetical substance which attracts the index bots of Google.com. In common usage, a web page or web site with high placement in the results of a particular search on Google or frequent placement in the results of a various searches is said to have a lot of google juice or good google juice. Also used to compare web pages or web sites, for example CrackMonkey has more google juice than KPMG. See also juice , kilogoogle.
n. A hypothetical substance which attracts the index bots of Google. In common usage, a web page or web site with high placement in the results of a particular search on Google or frequent placement in the results of a various searches is said to have a lot of google juice. See also juice, google.
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<H4>googler</H4>
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<H4>juice</H4>
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n. The weight of a given node in some sort of graph (like a web of trust or a relevance-weighted search query). This appears to have been generalized from google juice , but may derive from black urban slang for power or a respect. Example: I signed your key, but I really don't have the juice to be authoritative.
n. The weight of a given node in some sort of graph (like a web of trust or a relevance-weighted search query). This appears to have been generalized from google juice, but may also derive from black urban slang for power or a respect or from "drinking the kool aid" (having bought into some belief or system). Example: I signed your key, but I really don't have the juice to be authoritative.
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<H4>jump off into never-never land</H4>
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pref. [SI] See quantifiers.
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<H4>kilogoogle</H4>
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n. The standard unit of measurement for Web search hits: a thousand Google matches. There are about a kilogoogle and a half sites with that band's name on it. Compare google juice.
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<H4>kit</H4>
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n. [Usenet; poss.: fr.: DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file. The more general term distribution may imply that special tools or more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.
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<H4>nasal demons</H4>
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n. Recognized shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to nasal demons , which quickly became established. The original post is web-accessible at http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en selm=10195%40ksr.com.
n. Recognized shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to nasal demons, which quickly became established.
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<H4>nastygram</H4>
<p>1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a letterbomb ) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things. </p>