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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>N</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="next" href="nadger.html" title="nadger"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">N</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../N.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nadger.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="N"/><dt xmlns="" id="N"><b>N</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/N/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">quant.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A large and indeterminate number of objects: &#8220;<span class="quote">There were
<tt class="literal">N</tt> bugs in that crock!</span>&#8221; Also used in
its original sense of a variable name: &#8220;<span class="quote">This crock has
<tt class="literal">N</tt> bugs, as
<tt class="literal">N</tt> goes to infinity.</span>&#8221; (The true
number of bugs is always at least <tt class="literal">N + 1</tt>;
see <a href="../L/Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html"><i class="glossterm">Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology</i></a>.)
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A variable whose value is inherited from the current context.
For example, when a meal is being ordered at a restaurant,
<tt class="literal">N</tt> may be understood to mean however many
people there are at the table. From the remark &#8220;<span class="quote">We'd like to order
<tt class="literal">N</tt> wonton soups and a family dinner for
<tt class="literal">N - 1</tt></span>&#8221; you can deduce that one
person at the table wants to eat only soup, even though you don't know how
many people there are (see <a href="../G/great-wall.html"><i class="glossterm">great-wall</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <tt class="literal">Nth</tt>: <span class="grammar">adj.</span> The ordinal counterpart of
<tt class="literal">N</tt>, senses 1 and 2.</p></dd><dd><p> 4. &#8220;<span class="quote">Now for the <tt class="literal">N</tt>th and last
time...</span>&#8221; In the specific context
&#8220;<span class="quote"><tt class="literal">N</tt>th-year grad student</span>&#8221;,
<tt class="literal">N</tt> is generally assumed to be at least 4,
and is usually 5 or more (see
<a href="../T/tenured-graduate-student.html"><i class="glossterm">tenured graduate student</i></a>). See also <a href="../R/random-numbers.html"><i class="glossterm">random numbers</i></a>,
<a href="../T/two-to-the-N.html"><i class="glossterm">two-to-the-N</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../N.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nadger.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">N </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nadger</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NAK</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="naive-user.html" title="naive user"/><link rel="next" href="NANA.html" title="NANA"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NAK</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="naive-user.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NANA.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NAK"/><dt xmlns="" id="NAK"><b>NAK</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nak/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">interj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0010101]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. On-line joke answer to <a href="../A/ACK.html"><i class="glossterm">ACK</i></a>?: &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm
not here.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. On-line answer to a request for chat: &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm not
available.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell them you don't
understand their point or that they have suddenly stopped making sense.
See <a href="../A/ACK.html"><i class="glossterm">ACK</i></a>, sense </p></dd><dd><p> 3. &#8220;<span class="quote">And then, after we recode the project in
COBOL....</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Nak, Nak, Nak! I thought I heard you say
COBOL!</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A negative answer. &#8220;<span class="quote">OK if I boot the server?</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">NAK!</span>&#8221; </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="naive-user.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NANA.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">naive user </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NANA</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NANA</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="NAK.html" title="NAK"/><link rel="next" href="nano.html" title="nano"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NANA</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NAK.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nano.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NANA"/><dt xmlns="" id="NANA"><b>NANA</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] The newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.*, devoted to fighting
<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a> and network abuse. Each individual newsgroup is
often referred to by adding a letter to NANA. For example, NANAU would
refer to <tt class="systemitem">news.admin.net-abuse.usenet</tt>.</p><p>When spam began to be a serious problem around 1995, and a loose
network of anti-spammers formed to combat it, spammers immediately accused
them of being the <a href="../B/backbone-cabal.html"><i class="glossterm">backbone cabal</i></a>, or the Cabal
reborn. Though this was not true, spam-fighters ironically accepted the
label and the tag line &#8220;<span class="quote">There is No Cabal</span>&#8221; reappeared (later,
and now commonly, abbreviated to &#8220;<span class="quote">TINC</span>&#8221;). Nowadays &#8220;<span class="quote">the
Cabal</span>&#8221; is generally understood to refer to the NANA regulars.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NAK.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nano.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NAK </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nano</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NIL</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="Nightmare-File-System.html" title="Nightmare File System"/><link rel="next" href="Ninety-Ninety-Rule.html" title="Ninety-Ninety Rule"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NIL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Nightmare-File-System.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Ninety-Ninety-Rule.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NIL"/><dt xmlns="" id="NIL"><b>NIL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nil/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the
&#8216;-P&#8217; convention. Most hackers assume this derives simply from
LISP terminology for &#8216;false&#8217; (see also
<a href="../T/T.html"><i class="glossterm">T</i></a>), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established
among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP. The historical
connection between early hackerdom and the ham radio world was strong
enough that this may have been an influence.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Nightmare-File-System.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Ninety-Ninety-Rule.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Nightmare File System </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Ninety-Ninety Rule</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NMI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="nipple-mouse.html" title="nipple mouse"/><link rel="next" href="no-op.html" title="no-op"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NMI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nipple-mouse.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="no-op.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NMI"/><dt xmlns="" id="NMI"><b>NMI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/N·M·I/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Non-Maskable Interrupt. An IRQ 7 on the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> or 680[01234]0; the
NMI line on an 80[1234]86. In contrast with a
<a href="../P/priority-interrupt.html"><i class="glossterm">priority interrupt</i></a> (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely),
an NMI is <span class="emphasis"><em>never</em></span> ignored. Except, that is, on
<a href="../C/clone.html"><i class="glossterm">clone</i></a> boxes, where NMI is often ignored on the
motherboard because flaky hardware can generate many spurious ones.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nipple-mouse.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="no-op.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nipple mouse </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> no-op</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NP-</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="notwork.html" title="notwork"/><link rel="next" href="NSA-line-eater.html" title="NSA line eater"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NP-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="notwork.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NSA-line-eater.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NP-"/><dt xmlns="" id="NP-"><b>NP-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/N·P/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality
of difficulty; the connotation is often &#8216;more so than it should
be&#8217;. This is generalized from the computer-science terms <span class="firstterm">NP-hard</span> and <span class="firstterm">NP-complete</span>; NP-complete problems all seem to
be very hard, but so far no one has found a proof that they are. NP is the
set of Nondeterministic-Polynomial problems, those that can be completed
by a nondeterministic Turing machine in an amount of time that is a
polynomial function of the size of the input; a solution for one
NP-complete problem would solve all the others. &#8220;<span class="quote">Coding a BitBlt
implementation to perform correctly in every case is
NP-annoying.</span>&#8221;</p><p>Note, however, that strictly speaking this usage is misleading; there
are plenty of easy problems in class NP. NP-complete problems are hard not
because they are in class NP, but because they are the hardest problems in
class NP.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="notwork.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NSA-line-eater.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">notwork </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NSA line eater</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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be reading the net for the U.S. Government's spooks. Most hackers used to
think it was mythical but believed in acting as though existed just in
case. Since the mid-1990s it has gradually become known that the NSA
actually does this, quite illegally, through its Echelon program.</p><p>The standard countermeasure is to put loaded phrases like
&#8216;KGB&#8217;, &#8216;Uzi&#8217;, &#8216;nuclear materials&#8217;,
&#8216;Palestine&#8217;, &#8216;cocaine&#8217;, and
&#8216;assassination&#8217; in their <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s in a
(probably futile) attempt to confuse and overload the creature. The
<a href="../G/GNU.html"><i class="glossterm">GNU</i></a> version of <a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> actually
has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage
into your edited text.</p><p>As far back as the 1970s there was a mainstream variant of this myth
involving a &#8216;Trunk Line Monitor&#8217;, which supposedly used speech
recognition to extract words from telephone trunks. This is much harder
than noticing keywords in email, and most of the people who originally
propagated it had no idea of then-current technology or the storage,
signal-processing, or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the
basis of mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire 50
high-school students and just let them listen in.</p><p>Twenty years and several orders of technological magnitude later,
however, there are clear indications that the NSA has actually deployed
such filtering (again, very much against U.S. law). In 2000, the FBI wants
to get into this act with its &#8216;Carnivore&#8217; surveillance
system.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NP-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NSP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NP- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NSP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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of the big national or regional companies that maintains a portion of the
Internet backbone and resells connectivity to <a href="../I/ISP.html"><i class="glossterm">ISP</i></a>s.
In 1996, major NSPs include ANS, MCI, UUNET, and Sprint. An Internet
wholesaler.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NSA-line-eater.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nude.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NSA line eater </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nude</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NUXI problem</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="numbers.html" title="numbers"/><link rel="next" href="nybble.html" title="nybble"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NUXI problem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="numbers.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nybble.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NUXI-problem"/><dt xmlns="" id="NUXI-problem"><b>NUXI problem</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nuk´see pro´bl@m/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Refers to the problem of transferring data between machines with
differing byte-order. The string &#8220;<span class="quote">UNIX</span>&#8221; might look like
&#8220;<span class="quote">NUXI</span>&#8221; on a machine with a different <span class="firstterm">byte sex</span> (e.g., when transferring data from a
<a href="../L/little-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">little-endian</i></a> to a
<a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a>, or vice-versa). See also
<a href="../M/middle-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">middle-endian</i></a>, <a href="../S/swab.html"><i class="glossterm">swab</i></a>, and
<a href="../B/bytesexual.html"><i class="glossterm">bytesexual</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="numbers.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nybble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">numbers </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nybble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a>). Oh, you want an etymology? Notionally,
from &#8220;<span class="quote">I regret that I have only one asterisk for my country!</span>&#8221;,
a misquote of the famous remark uttered by Nathan Hale just before he was
hanged. Hale was a (failed) spy for the rebels in the American War of
Independence.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nastygram.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nastygram </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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taken in window systems, an elegant <a href="../P/PostScript.html"><i class="glossterm">PostScript</i></a>-based
environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> if it hadn't been
<a href="../P/proprietary.html"><i class="glossterm">proprietary</i></a> to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson
here that too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Many hackers
insist on the two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing
NeWS from Usenet news (the <a href="netnews.html"><i class="glossterm">netnews</i></a> software).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newline.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newsfroup.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newline </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> newsfroup</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Fornicator</span>, also <span class="firstterm">Nutscrape</span>] Standard name-of-insult for Netscape
Navigator/Communicator, Netscape's overweight Web browser. Compare
<a href="../I/Internet-Exploiter.html"><i class="glossterm">Internet Exploiter</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netnews.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netsplit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">netnews </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> netsplit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>New Jersey</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="network-meltdown.html" title="network meltdown"/><link rel="next" href="New-Testament.html" title="New Testament"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">New Jersey</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="network-meltdown.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="New-Testament.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="New-Jersey"/><dt xmlns="" id="New-Jersey"><b>New Jersey</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] Brain-dam­aged or of poor
design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as
C, C++, and Unix (which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New
Jersey). &#8220;<span class="quote">This compiler bites the bag, but what can you expect from
a compiler designed in New Jersey?</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../B/Berkeley-Quality-Software.html"><i class="glossterm">Berkeley Quality Software</i></a>. See also
<a href="../U/Unix-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix conspiracy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="network-meltdown.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="New-Testament.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">network meltdown </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> New Testament</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Programming Language</i> (Prentice-Hall, 1988; ISBN 0-13-110362-8),
describing ANSI Standard C. See <a href="../K/K-ampersand-R.html"><i class="glossterm">K&amp;R</i></a>; this version is also called
&#8216;K&amp;R2&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="New-Jersey.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newbie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">New Jersey </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> newbie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when
one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up. Some machine tries to
access the down one, and (getting no response) repeats indefinitely. This
causes it to appear dead to some messages (what is actually happening is
that it is locked up in what should have been a brief excursion to a higher
<a href="../S/spl.html"><i class="glossterm">spl</i></a> level). Then another machine tries to reach
either the down machine or the pseudo-down machine, and itself becomes
pseudo-down. The first machine to discover the down one is now trying both
to access the down one and to respond to the pseudo-down one, so it is even
harder to reach. This situation snowballs very quickly, and soon the
entire network of machines is frozen &#8212; worst of all, the user can't
even abort the file access that started the problem! Many of NFS's
problems are excused by partisans as being an inevitable result of its
statelessness, which is held to be a great feature (critics, of course,
call it a great <a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a>). (ITS partisans are apt
to cite this as proof of Unix's alleged bogosity; ITS had a working
NFS-like shared file system with none of these problems in the early
1970s.) See also <a href="../B/broadcast-storm.html"><i class="glossterm">broadcast storm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="night-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NIL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">night mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NIL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90%
of the development time.</span>&#8221; Attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs,
and popularized by Jon Bentley's September 1985 <i class="citetitle">Bumper-Sticker
Computer Science</i> column in <i class="citetitle">Communications of the
ACM</i>. It was there called the &#8220;<span class="quote">Rule of
Credibility</span>&#8221;, a name which seems not to have stuck. Other maxims in
the same vein include the law attributed to the early British computer
scientist Douglas Hartree: &#8220;<span class="quote">The time from now until the completion of
the project tends to become constant.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NIL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nipple-mouse.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NIL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nipple mouse</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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British <span class="firstterm">bollixed</span>] Of software or
hardware (not people), to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally
so that it conforms better to some format. For instance, string printing
routines on 8-bit processors often take the string text from the
instruction stream, thus a print call looks like <b class="command">jsr
print:&quot;Hello world&quot;</b>. The print routine has to <span class="firstterm">nadger</span> the saved instruction pointer so that
the processor doesn't try to execute the text as instructions when the
subroutine returns. See <a href="../A/adger.html"><i class="glossterm">adger</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="N.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nagware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">N </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nagware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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displays a large screen at the beginning or end reminding you to register,
typically requiring some sort of keystroke to continue so that you can't
use the software in batch mode. Compare <a href="../A/annoyware.html"><i class="glossterm">annoyware</i></a>,
<a href="../C/crippleware.html"><i class="glossterm">crippleware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nadger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nailed-to-the-wall.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nadger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nailed to the wall</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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and even heroic, effort.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nagware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nailing-jelly.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nagware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nailing jelly</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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ignorant mainly owing to inexperience. When this is applied to someone who
<span class="emphasis"><em>has</em></span> experience, there is a definite implication of
stupidity.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="naive.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NAK.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">naive </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NAK</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than
the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs
aren't &#8216;really good&#8217; in the appropriate sense). This trait is
completely unrelated to general maturity or competence, or even competence
at any other specific program. It is a sad commentary on the primitive
state of computing that the natural opposite of this term is often claimed
to be <span class="firstterm">experienced user</span> but is really
more like <span class="firstterm">cynical user</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Said of an algorithm that doesn't take advantage of some superior
but advanced technique, e.g., the <a href="../B/bubble-sort.html"><i class="glossterm">bubble sort</i></a>. It
may imply naivete on the part of the programmer, although there are
situations where a naive algorithm is preferred, because it is more
important to keep the code comprehensible than to go for maximum
performance. &#8220;<span class="quote">I know the linear search is naive, but in this case the
list typically only has half a dozen items.</span>&#8221; Compare
<a href="../B/brute-force.html"><i class="glossterm">brute force</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nailing-jelly.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="naive-user.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nailing jelly </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> naive user</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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meaning <tt class="literal">×
10<sup>-9</sup></tt>] Smaller than
<a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>, and used in the same rather loose and
connotative way. Thus, one has <a href="nanotechnology.html"><i class="glossterm">nanotechnology</i></a>
(coined by hacker K. Eric Drexler) by analogy with <span class="firstterm">microtechnology</span>; and a few machine
architectures have a <span class="firstterm">nanocode</span> level
below <span class="firstterm">microcode</span>. Tom Duff at Bell
Labs has also pointed out that &#8220;<span class="quote">Pi seconds is a nanocentury</span>&#8221;.
See also <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>, <a href="../P/pico-.html"><i class="glossterm">pico-</i></a>,
<a href="nanoacre.html"><i class="glossterm">nanoacre</i></a>, <a href="nanobot.html"><i class="glossterm">nanobot</i></a>,
<a href="nanocomputer.html"><i class="glossterm">nanocomputer</i></a>,
<a href="nanofortnight.html"><i class="glossterm">nanofortnight</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nano.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nanoacre.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nano </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nanoacre</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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period of time. &#8220;<span class="quote">Be with you in a nano</span>&#8221; means you really will
be free shortly, i.e., implies what mainstream people mean by &#8220;<span class="quote">in a
jiffy</span>&#8221; (whereas the hackish use of &#8216;jiffy&#8217; is quite
different &#8212; see <a href="../J/jiffy.html"><i class="glossterm">jiffy</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NANA.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nano-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NANA </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nano-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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gets its giggle value from the fact that VLSI nanoacres have costs in the
same range as real acres once one figures in design and fabrication-setup
costs.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nano-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nanobot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nano- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nanobot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="nanotechnology.html"><i class="glossterm">nanotechnology</i></a>. As yet, only used informally (and
speculatively!). Also called a <span class="firstterm">nanoagent</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nanoacre.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nanocomputer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nanoacre </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nanocomputer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods
for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a
<a href="nanobot.html"><i class="glossterm">nanobot</i></a> would be a nanocomputer.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nanobot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nanofortnight.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nanobot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nanofortnight</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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10<sup>-9</sup></tt>, or about 1.2 msec. This
unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See
<a href="../M/microfortnight.html"><i class="glossterm">microfortnight</i></a>, <a href="../A/attoparsec.html"><i class="glossterm">attoparsec</i></a>,
and <a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nanocomputer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nanotechnology.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nanocomputer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nanotechnology</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate
atom. The first unequivocal nanofabrication experiments took place in
1990, for example with the deposition of individual xenon atoms on a nickel
substrate to spell the logo of a certain very large computer company.
Nanotechnology has been a hot topic in the hacker subculture ever since the
term was coined by K. Eric Drexler in his book <i class="citetitle">Engines of
Creation</i> (Anchor/Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-19973-2), where he
predicted that nanotechnology could give rise to replicating assemblers,
permitting an exponential growth of productivity and personal wealth
(there's an authorized transcription at <a href="http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html" target="_top">http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html</a>).
See also <a href="../B/blue-goo.html"><i class="glossterm">blue goo</i></a>, <a href="../G/gray-goo.html"><i class="glossterm">gray goo</i></a>,
<a href="nanobot.html"><i class="glossterm">nanobot</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nanofortnight.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="narg.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nanofortnight </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> narg</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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who excessively talks shop out of hours.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nanotechnology.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nasal-demons.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nanotechnology </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nasal demons</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on
that group in early 1992, a regular remarked &#8220;<span class="quote">When the compiler
encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons
fly out of your nose</span>&#8221; (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
&#8220;<span class="quote">nasal demons</span>&#8221;, which quickly became established. The
original post is web-accessible at <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&amp;selm=10195%40ksr.com" target="_top">http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&amp;selm=10195%40ksr.com</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="narg.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nastygram.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">narg </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nastygram</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../L/letterbomb.html"><i class="glossterm">letterbomb</i></a>) that takes advantage of misfeatures or
security holes on the target system to do untoward things. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a <a href="net-god.html"><i class="glossterm">net.god</i></a>,
pursuant to a violation of <a href="netiquette.html"><i class="glossterm">netiquette</i></a> or a complaint
about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem. Compare
<a href="../S/shitogram.html"><i class="glossterm">shitogram</i></a>, <a href="../M/mailbomb.html"><i class="glossterm">mailbomb</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer.
&#8220;<span class="quote">What'd Corporate say in today's nastygram?</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a
<a href="../D/daemon.html"><i class="glossterm">daemon</i></a>; in particular, a
<a href="../B/bounce-message.html"><i class="glossterm">bounce message</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nasal-demons.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Nathan-Hale.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nasal demons </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Nathan Hale</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose
Bowl card display switch (see <a href="../appendixa.html" title="Appendix A. Hacker Folklore">Appendix A</a>
for discussion). See also <a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="neats-vs--scruffies.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> neats vs. scruffies</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a> in AI research. This conflict tangles together two
separate issues. One is the relationship between human reasoning and AI;
&#8216;neats&#8217; tend to try to build systems that &#8216;reason&#8217;
in some way identifiably similar to the way humans report themselves as
doing, while &#8216;scruffies&#8217; profess not to care whether an
algorithm resembles human reasoning in the least as long as it works. More
importantly, neats tend to believe that logic is king, while scruffies
favor looser, more ad-hoc methods driven by empirical knowledge. To a
neat, scruffy methods appear promiscuous, successful only by accident, and
not productive of insights about how intelligence actually works; to a
scruffy, neat methods appear to be hung up on formalism and irrelevant to
the hard-to-capture &#8216;common sense&#8217; of living
intelligences.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="neat-hack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="neep-neep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">neat hack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> neep-neep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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originated at Caltech in the 1970s] One who is fascinated by computers.
Less specific than <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>, as it need not imply more
skill than is required to play games on a PC. The derived noun <span class="firstterm">neeping</span> applies specifically to the long
conversations about computers that tend to develop in the corners at most
SF-convention parties (the term <span class="firstterm">neepery</span> is also in wide use). Fandom has a
related proverb to the effect that &#8220;<span class="quote">Hacking is a conversational black
hole!</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="neats-vs--scruffies.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="neophilia.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">neats vs. scruffies </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> neophilia</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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most hackers, SF fans, and members of several other connected leading-edge
subcultures, including the pro-technology &#8216;Whole Earth&#8217; wing of
the ecology movement, space activists, many members of Mensa, and the
Discordian/neo-pagan underground (see <a href="../G/geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>). All
these groups overlap heavily and (where evidence is available) seem to
share characteristic hacker tropisms for science fiction,
<a href="../M/music.html"><i class="glossterm">music</i></a>, and <a href="../O/oriental-food.html"><i class="glossterm">oriental food</i></a>.
The opposite tendency is <span class="firstterm">neophobia</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="neep-neep.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nerd.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">neep-neep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nerd</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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likely to be used by an extremely experienced user to tweak a setting of
one sort or another - a setting which the average user may not even know
exists. Nerd knobs tend to be toggles, turning on or off a particular,
specific, narrowly defined behavior. Special case of
<a href="../K/knobs.html"><i class="glossterm">knobs</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nerd.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="net--.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nerd </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> net.-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to
sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and
doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games.
Compare <a href="../G/geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>The word itself appears to derive from the lines &#8220;<span class="quote">And then,
just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a
Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!</span>&#8221; in the
Dr. Seuss book <i class="citetitle">If I Ran the Zoo</i> (1950). (The
spellings &#8216;nurd&#8217; and &#8216;gnurd&#8217; also used to be
current at MIT, where &#8216;nurd&#8217; is reported from as far back as
1957; however, <a href="../K/knurd.html"><i class="glossterm">knurd</i></a> appears to have a separate
etymology.) How it developed its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1
seems to have entered mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports
that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly &#8220;<span class="quote">annoying misfit</span>&#8221;
without the connotation of intelligence.</p><p>Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later,
and some actually wear &#8220;<span class="quote">Nerd Pride</span>&#8221; buttons, only half as a
joke. At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket
protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="neophilia.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nerd-knob.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">neophilia </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nerd knob</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>net.-</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="nerd-knob.html" title="nerd knob"/><link rel="next" href="net-god.html" title="net.god"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">net.-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nerd-knob.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="net-god.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="net--"/><dt xmlns="" id="net--"><b>net.-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/net dot/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] Prefix used to describe people and events related to
Usenet. From the time before the <a href="../G/Great-Renaming.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Renaming</i></a>,
when most non-local newsgroups had names beginning &#8220;<span class="quote">net.</span>&#8221;.
Includes <a href="net-god.html"><i class="glossterm">net.god</i></a>s, <span class="firstterm">net.goddesses</span> (various charismatic net.women
with circles of on-line admirers), <span class="firstterm">net.lurkers</span> (see
<a href="../L/lurker.html"><i class="glossterm">lurker</i></a>), <span class="firstterm">net.person</span>, <span class="firstterm">net.parties</span> (a synonym for
<a href="../B/boink.html"><i class="glossterm">boink</i></a>, sense 2), and many similar constructs. See
also <a href="net-police.html"><i class="glossterm">net.police</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nerd-knob.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="net-god.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nerd knob </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> net.god</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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following conditions: has been visible on Usenet for more than 5 years, ran
one of the original backbone sites, moderated an important newsgroup, wrote
news software, or knows Gene, Mark, Rick, Mel, Henry, Chuq, and Greg
personally. See <a href="../D/demigod.html"><i class="glossterm">demigod</i></a>. Net.goddesses such as
Rissa or the Slime Sisters have (so far) been distinguished more by
personality than by authority.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="net--.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="net-personality.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">net.- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> net.personality</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>net.personality</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="net-god.html" title="net.god"/><link rel="next" href="net-police.html" title="net.police"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">net.personality</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="net-god.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="net-police.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="net-personality"/><dt xmlns="" id="net-personality"><b>net.personality</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/net per`sn·al'·@·tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Someone who has made a name for him or herself on
<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, through either longevity or
attention-getting posts, but doesn't meet the other requirements of
<a href="net-god.html"><i class="glossterm">net.god</i></a>hood.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="net-god.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="net-police.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">net.god </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> net.police</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>net.police</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="net-personality.html" title="net.personality"/><link rel="next" href="netburp.html" title="netburp"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">net.police</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="net-personality.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netburp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="net-police"/><dt xmlns="" id="net-police"><b>net.police</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/net·p@·lees'/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (var.: <span class="firstterm">net.cops</span>) Those Usenet
readers who feel it is their responsibility to pounce on and
<a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a> any posting which they regard as offensive or
in violation of their understanding of <a href="netiquette.html"><i class="glossterm">netiquette</i></a>.
Generally used sarcastically or pejoratively. Also spelled &#8216;net
police&#8217;. See also <a href="net--.html"><i class="glossterm">net.-</i></a>,
<a href="../C/code-police.html"><i class="glossterm">code police</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="net-personality.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netburp.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">net.personality </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> netburp</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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between servers exceed a certain threshold, the <a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a>
network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large
numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing
back on again when things get better. An instance of this is called a
<span class="firstterm">netburp</span> (or, sometimes,
<a href="netsplit.html"><i class="glossterm">netsplit</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="net-police.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netdead.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">net.police </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> netdead</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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perhaps during a <a href="netburp.html"><i class="glossterm">netburp</i></a>, and doesn't sign back on
until later. In the interim, he is &#8220;<span class="quote">dead to the net</span>&#8221;.
Compare <a href="../L/link-dead.html"><i class="glossterm">link-dead</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netburp.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nethack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">netburp </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nethack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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more elaborate, distributed in C source over <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>
and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is
probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The
earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced
by Andries Brouwer, were simply called &#8216;hack&#8217;. The name
changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally
organized by Mike Stephenson. There is now an official site at <a href="http://www.nethack.org/" target="_top">http://www.nethack.org/</a>. See also
<a href="../M/moria.html"><i class="glossterm">moria</i></a>, <a href="../R/rogue.html"><i class="glossterm">rogue</i></a>,
<a href="../A/Angband.html"><i class="glossterm">Angband</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netdead.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netiquette.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">netdead </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> netiquette</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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etiquette] The conventions of politeness recognized on
<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, such as avoidance of cross-posting to
inappropriate groups and refraining from commercial pluggery outside the
<tt class="systemitem">biz</tt> groups.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nethack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netlag.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nethack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> netlag</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a> network or on a <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>
become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish
contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of
up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream
&#8220;<span class="quote">jet lag</span>&#8221;, a condition which hackers tend not to be much
bothered by.) Often shortened to just &#8216;lag&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netiquette.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netnews.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">netiquette </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> netnews</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. The content of Usenet. &#8220;<span class="quote">I read netnews right after my mail
most mornings.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netlag.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Netscrape.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">netlag </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Netscrape</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. More specifically, a <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> regular. Most
often found in the plural. &#8220;<span class="quote">If you post <span class="emphasis"><em>that</em></span> in
a technical group, you're going to be flamed by angry netters for the rest
of time!</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netsplit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="network-address.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">netsplit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> network address</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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hackers, means an address on &#8216;the&#8217; network (see
<a href="../T/the-network.html"><i class="glossterm">the network</i></a>; this used to include <a href="../B/bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang path</i></a>
addresses but now always implies an Internet address). Net addresses are
often used in email text as a more concise substitute for personal names;
indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names
without ever learning each others' &#8216;legal&#8217; monikers. Display
of a network address (e.g. on business cards) used to function as an
important hacker identification signal, like lodge pins among Masons or
tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans. In the day of pervasive
Internet this is less true, but you can still be fairly sure that anyone
with a network address handwritten on his or her convention badge is a
hacker.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netter.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="network-meltdown.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">netter </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> network meltdown</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/thrash.html"><i class="glossterm">thrash</i></a>ing. This may be induced by a
<a href="../C/Chernobyl-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">Chernobyl packet</i></a>. See also
<a href="../B/broadcast-storm.html"><i class="glossterm">broadcast storm</i></a>, <a href="../K/kamikaze-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">kamikaze packet</i></a>.</p><p>Network meltdown is often a result of network designs that are
optimized for a steady state of moderate load and don't cope well with the
very jagged, bursty usage patterns of the real world. One amusing instance
of this is triggered by the popular and very bloody shoot-'em-up game
<i class="citetitle">Doom</i> on the PC. When used in multiplayer
mode over a network, the game uses broadcast packets to inform other
machines when bullets are fired. This causes problems with weapons like
the chain gun which fire rapidly &#8212; it can blast the network into a
meltdown state just as easily as it shreds opposing monsters.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="network-address.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="New-Jersey.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">network address </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> New Jersey</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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variant of &#8216;new boy&#8217;] A Usenet neophyte. This term surfaced in
the <a href="newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> <tt class="systemitem">talk.bizarre</tt> but is now in wide use (the
combination &#8220;<span class="quote">clueless newbie</span>&#8221; is especially common). Criteria
for being considered a newbie vary wildly; a person can be called a newbie
in one newsgroup while remaining a respected regular in another. The label
<span class="firstterm">newbie</span> is sometimes applied as a
serious insult to a person who has been around Usenet for a long time but
who carefully hides all evidence of having a clue. See
<a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a>; see also <a href="../G/gnubie.html"><i class="glossterm">gnubie</i></a>.
Compare <a href="../C/chainik.html"><i class="glossterm">chainik</i></a>,
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="New-Testament.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newgroup-wars.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">New Testament </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> newgroup wars</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over
whether a <a href="newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> should be created net-wide, or
(even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These
usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the
group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times,
especially in the completely anarchic <tt class="systemitem">alt</tt> hierarchy, the names of newsgroups
themselves become a form of comment or humor; e.g., the group <tt class="systemitem">alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork</tt> which
originated as a birthday joke for a Muppets fan, or any number of
specialized abuse groups named after particularly notorious
<a href="../F/flamer.html"><i class="glossterm">flamer</i></a>s, e.g., <tt class="systemitem">alt.weemba</tt>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newbie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newline.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newbie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> newline</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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used under <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> as a text line terminator. Though
the term <span class="firstterm">newline</span> appears in ASCII
standards, it never caught on in the general computing world before Unix.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, any magic character, character sequence, or
operation (like Pascal's writeln procedure) required to terminate a text
record or separate lines. See <a href="../C/crlf.html"><i class="glossterm">crlf</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newgroup-wars.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NeWS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newgroup wars </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NeWS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's talk.bizarre, and
other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare <a href="../H/hing.html"><i class="glossterm">hing</i></a>,
<a href="../G/grilf.html"><i class="glossterm">grilf</i></a>, <a href="../P/pr0n.html"><i class="glossterm">pr0n</i></a> and
<a href="../F/filk.html"><i class="glossterm">filk</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NeWS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newsgroup.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NeWS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> newsgroup</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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topic groups or <a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a>. Usenet groups can be
<span class="firstterm">unmoderated</span> (anyone can post) or
<span class="firstterm">moderated</span> (submissions are
automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts
the results). Some newsgroups have parallel
<a href="../M/mailing-list.html"><i class="glossterm">mailing list</i></a>s for Internet people with no netnews access, with postings
to the group automatically propagated to the list and vice versa. Some
moderated groups (especially those which are actually gatewayed Internet
mailing lists) are distributed as <span class="firstterm">digests</span>, with groups of postings periodically
collected into a single large posting with an index.</p><p>Among the best-known are <tt class="systemitem">comp.lang.c</tt> (the C-language forum),
<tt class="systemitem">comp.arch</tt> (on computer
architectures), <tt class="systemitem">comp.unix.wizards</tt>
(for Unix wizards), <tt class="systemitem">rec.arts.sf.written</tt> and siblings (for
science-fiction fans), and <tt class="systemitem">talk.politics.misc</tt> (miscellaneous political
discussions and <a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newsfroup.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nick.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newsfroup </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nick</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a>, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes
the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful.
Compare <a href="../H/handle.html"><i class="glossterm">handle</i></a>,
<a href="../S/screen-name.html"><i class="glossterm">screen name</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newsgroup.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nickle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newsgroup </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nickle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a> + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for
Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with
16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See also
<a href="../D/deckle.html"><i class="glossterm">deckle</i></a>, and <a href="nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a> for names
of other bit units.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nick.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="night-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nick </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> night mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Common term for the pointing device used on IBM ThinkPads and a few other
laptop computers. The device, which sits between the &#8216;g&#8217; and
&#8216;h&#8217; keys on the keyboard, indeed resembles a rubber nipple
intended to be tweaked by a forefinger. Many hackers consider these
superior to the glide pads found on most laptops, which are harder to
control precisely.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Ninety-Ninety-Rule.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NMI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Ninety-Ninety Rule </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NMI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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operation] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A machine instruction that does nothing (sometimes used in
assembler-level programming as filler for data or patch areas, or to
overwrite code to be removed in binaries). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A person who contributes nothing to a project, or has nothing
going on upstairs, or both. As in &#8220;<span class="quote">He's a no-op.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Any operation or sequence of operations with no effect, such as
circling the block without finding a parking space, or putting money into a
vending machine and having it fall immediately into the coin-return box, or
asking someone for help and being told to go away. &#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, well, that
was a no-op.</span>&#8221; Hot-and-sour soup (see
<a href="../G/great-wall.html"><i class="glossterm">great-wall</i></a>) that is insufficiently either is
<span class="firstterm">no-op soup</span>; so is wonton soup if
everybody else is having hot-and-sour.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NMI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="noddy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NMI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> noddy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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are often written by people learning a new language or system. The
archetypal noddy program is <a href="../H/hello-world.html"><i class="glossterm">hello world</i></a>. Noddy code
may be used to demonstrate a feature or bug of a compiler. May be used of
real hardware or software to imply that it isn't worth using. &#8220;<span class="quote">This
editor's a bit noddy.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A program that is more or less instant to produce. In this use,
the term does not necessarily connote uselessness, but describes a
<a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a> sufficiently trivial that it can be written and
debugged while carrying on (and during the space of) a normal conversation.
&#8220;<span class="quote">I'll just throw together a noddy <a href="../A/awk.html"><i class="glossterm">awk</i></a> script
to dump all the first fields.</span>&#8221; In North America this might be called
a <a href="../M/mickey-mouse-program.html"><i class="glossterm">mickey mouse program</i></a>. See
<a href="../T/toy-program.html"><i class="glossterm">toy program</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="no-op.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="non-optimal-solution.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">no-op </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> non-optimal solution</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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astoundingly stupid way to do something. This term is generally used in
deadpan sarcasm, as its impact is greatest when the person speaking looks
completely serious. Compare <a href="../S/stunning.html"><i class="glossterm">stunning</i></a>. See also
<a href="../B/Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="noddy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nonlinear.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">noddy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nonlinear</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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used to describe the behavior of a machine or program, it suggests that
said machine or program is being forced to run far outside of design
specifications. This behavior may be induced by unreasonable inputs, or
may be triggered when a more mundane bug sends the computation far off from
its expected course. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. When describing the behavior of a person, suggests a tantrum or a
<a href="../F/flame.html"><i class="glossterm">flame</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">When you talk to Bob, don't mention
the drug problem or he'll go nonlinear for hours.</span>&#8221; In this context,
<span class="firstterm">go nonlinear</span> connotes &#8216;blow up
out of proportion&#8217; (proportion connotes linearity).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="non-optimal-solution.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nontrivial.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">non-optimal solution </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nontrivial</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or
impractical, or even entirely unsolvable (&#8220;<span class="quote">Proving P=NP is
nontrivial</span>&#8221;). The preferred emphatic form is <span class="firstterm">decidedly nontrivial</span>. See
<a href="../T/trivial.html"><i class="glossterm">trivial</i></a>, <a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a>,
<a href="../I/interesting.html"><i class="glossterm">interesting</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nonlinear.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="not-entirely-unlike-X.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nonlinear </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> not entirely unlike X</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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X, except for one feature which the speaker clearly regards as
insignificant. &#8220;<span class="quote">That is not entirely unlike cool...at least
it's small.</span>&#8221; Comes directly from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
scene in which the food synthesizer on the starship <span class="emphasis"><em>Heart of
Gold</em></span> dispenses something &#8220;<span class="quote">almost, but not quite, entirely
unlike tea</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nontrivial.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="not-ready-for-prime-time.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nontrivial </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> not ready for prime time</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Said of a program or device. Often connotes that the thing will be made
more solid <a href="../R/Real-Soon-Now.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Soon Now</i></a>. This term comes from the
ensemble name of the original cast of <i class="citetitle">Saturday Night
Live</i>, the &#8220;<span class="quote">Not Ready for Prime Time Players</span>&#8221;. It
has extra flavor for hackers because of the special (though now
semi-obsolescent) meaning of <a href="../P/prime-time.html"><i class="glossterm">prime time</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../B/beta.html"><i class="glossterm">beta</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="not-entirely-unlike-X.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="notwork.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">not entirely unlike X </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> notwork</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../D/down.html"><i class="glossterm">down</i></a>. Compare <a href="nyetwork.html"><i class="glossterm">nyetwork</i></a>.
Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness
on IBM's VNET corporate network ca. 1988; but there are independent reports
of the term from elsewhere.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="not-ready-for-prime-time.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NP-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">not ready for prime time </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NP-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../B/bare-metal.html"><i class="glossterm">bare metal</i></a>). &#8220;<span class="quote">We ordered 50 systems, but they
all arrived nude, so we had to spend an extra weekend with the installation
disks.</span>&#8221; This usage is a recent innovation reflecting the fact that
most IBM-PC clones are now delivered with an operating system pre-installed
at the factory. Other kinds of hardware are still normally delivered
without OS, so this term is particular to PC support groups.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NSP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nugry.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NSP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nugry</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/FAQ.html"><i class="glossterm">FAQ</i></a> in the rec.puzzles newsgroup, especially if it
is a variant of the notorious trick question: &#8220;<span class="quote">Think of words ending
in &#8216;gry&#8217;. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are three
words in the English language. What is the third word?</span>&#8221; In the
newsgroup, the canonical answer is of course &#8216;nugry&#8217;
itself. Plural is <span class="firstterm">nusgry</span> <span class="pronunciation">/n[y]oos´gree/</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Having the qualities of
a nugry.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nude.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nuke.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nude </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nuke</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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or storage volume. &#8220;<span class="quote">On Unix, <b class="command">rm -r
/usr</b> will nuke everything in the usr filesystem.</span>&#8221; Never
used for accidental deletion; contrast <a href="../B/blow-away.html"><i class="glossterm">blow away</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Syn. for <a href="../D/dike.html"><i class="glossterm">dike</i></a>, applied to smaller things
such as files, features, or code sections. Often used to express a final
verdict. &#8220;<span class="quote">What do you want me to do with that 80-meg session
file?</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Nuke it.</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Used of processes as well as files; nuke is a frequent verbal
alias for <b class="command">kill -9</b> on Unix. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. On IBM PCs, a bug that results in
<a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a> can trash the operating system, including the FAT (the
in-core copy of the disk block chaining information). This can utterly
scramble attached disks, which are then said to have been <span class="firstterm">nuked</span>. This term is also used of analogous
lossages on Macintoshes and other micros without memory protection.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nugry.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="number-crunching.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nugry </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> number-crunching</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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extensive use of floating-point numbers. The only thing
<a href="../F/Fortrash.html"><i class="glossterm">Fortrash</i></a> is good for. This term is in widespread
informal use outside hackerdom and even in mainstream slang, but has
additional hackish connotations: namely, that the computations are mindless
and involve massive use of <a href="../B/brute-force.html"><i class="glossterm">brute force</i></a>. This is not
always <a href="../E/evil.html"><i class="glossterm">evil</i></a>, esp. if it involves ray tracing or
fractals or some other use that makes
<a href="../P/pretty-pictures.html"><i class="glossterm">pretty pictures</i></a>, esp. if such pictures can be used as screen
backgrounds. See also <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly74-12-25"/><img src="../graphics/74-12-25.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Hydrodynamic <a href="number-crunching.html"><i class="glossterm">number-crunching</i></a>.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
<a href="../W/winged-comments.html#crunchly74-12-29">74-12-29</a>. The previous
cartoon was <a href="../W/water-MIPS.html#crunchly74-08-18">74-08-18</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nuke.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="numbers.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nuke </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> numbers</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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significant results but at least indicate that the program is running. May
be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc. <span class="firstterm">Making numbers</span> means running a program because
output &#8212; any output, not necessarily meaningful output &#8212; is
needed as a demonstration of progress. See
<a href="../P/pretty-pictures.html"><i class="glossterm">pretty pictures</i></a>, <a href="../M/math-out.html"><i class="glossterm">math-out</i></a>,
<a href="../S/social-science-number.html"><i class="glossterm">social science number</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="number-crunching.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NUXI-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">number-crunching </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NUXI problem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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&#8594; &#8216;byte&#8217;] Four bits; one <a href="../H/hex.html"><i class="glossterm">hex</i></a> digit;
a half-byte. Though &#8216;byte&#8217; is now techspeak, this useful
relative is still jargon. Compare <a href="../B/byte.html"><i class="glossterm">byte</i></a>; see also
<a href="../B/bit.html"><i class="glossterm">bit</i></a>. The more mundane spelling &#8220;<span class="quote">nibble</span>&#8221;
is also commonly used. Apparently the &#8216;nybble&#8217; spelling is
uncommon in Commonwealth Hackish, as British orthography would suggest the
pronunciation <span class="pronunciation">/ni:´bl/</span>.</p><p>Following &#8216;bit&#8217;, &#8216;byte&#8217; and
&#8216;nybble&#8217; there have been quite a few analogical attempts to
construct unambiguous terms for bit blocks of other sizes. All of these
are strictly jargon, not techspeak, and not very common jargon at that
(most hackers would recognize them in context but not use them
spontaneously). We collect them here for reference together with the
ambiguous techspeak terms &#8216;word&#8217;, &#8216;half-word&#8217;,
&#8216;double word&#8217;, and &#8216;quad&#8217; or <span class="firstterm">quad word</span>; some (indicated) have substantial
information separate entries.</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>2 bits:</td><td><a href="../C/crumb.html"><i class="glossterm">crumb</i></a>, <a href="../Q/quad.html"><i class="glossterm">quad</i></a>, <a href="../Q/quarter.html"><i class="glossterm">quarter</i></a>, tayste, tydbit, morsel</td></tr><tr><td>4 bits:</td><td>nybble</td></tr><tr><td>5 bits:</td><td><a href="nickle.html"><i class="glossterm">nickle</i></a></td></tr><tr><td>10 bits:</td><td><a href="../D/deckle.html"><i class="glossterm">deckle</i></a></td></tr><tr><td>16 bits:</td><td>playte, <a href="../C/chawmp.html"><i class="glossterm">chawmp</i></a> (on a 32-bit machine), word (on a 16-bit machine),
half-word (on a 32-bit machine).</td></tr><tr><td>18 bits:</td><td><a href="../C/chawmp.html"><i class="glossterm">chawmp</i></a> (on a 36-bit machine), half-word (on a 36-bit machine)</td></tr><tr><td>32 bits:</td><td>dynner, <a href="../G/gawble.html"><i class="glossterm">gawble</i></a> (on a 32-bit machine), word (on a 32-bit machine),
longword (on a 16-bit machine).</td></tr><tr><td>36 bits:</td><td>word (on a 36-bit machine)</td></tr><tr><td>48 bits:</td><td><a href="../G/gawble.html"><i class="glossterm">gawble</i></a> (under circumstances that remain obscure)</td></tr><tr><td>64 bits:</td><td>double word (on a 32-bit machine)
quad (on a 16-bit machine)</td></tr><tr><td>128 bits:</td><td>quad (on a 32-bit machine)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>The fundamental motivation for most of these jargon terms (aside from
the normal hackerly enjoyment of punning wordplay) is the extreme ambiguity
of the term <span class="firstterm">word</span> and its
derivatives.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NUXI-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nyetwork.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NUXI problem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nyetwork</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/flaky.html"><i class="glossterm">flaky</i></a> or is <a href="../D/down.html"><i class="glossterm">down</i></a>. Compare
<a href="notwork.html"><i class="glossterm">notwork</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nybble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../O.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nybble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> O</td></tr></table></div></body></html>