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2. Syn. blow out.
1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreaker s built devices called es that could reproduce these tones, which could be used to commandeer portions of the phone network. (This was not as hard as it may sound; one early phreak acquired the sobriquet Captain Crunch after he proved that he could generate switching tones with a plastic whistle pulled out of a box of Captain Crunch cereal!) There were other colors of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors as well, but the was the original and archetype.
+1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreaker s built devices called es that could reproduce these tones, which could be used to commandeer portions of the phone network. There were other colors of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors as well, but the was the original and archetype.
2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one.
3. n. The character #. Used at XEROX and CMU, among other places. See ASCII.
-4. vt. To squeeze program source into a minimum-size representation that will still compile or execute. The term came into being specifically for a famous program on the BBC micro that ed BASIC source in order to make it run more quickly (it was a wholly interpretive BASIC, so the number of characters mattered). Obfuscated C Contest entries are often ed; see the first example under that entry.
- -5. Pseudonym of John Draper, an early hacker and phreaker. See phreaking.
- -6. Lowest common denominator intensification of labor strategy. A phase of (typically though not exclusively) commercial software development when hackers are threatened by their project managers in order to work additional unpaid hours to meet some arbitrary deadline decided by a suit on a golf course. "I won't be at the hackspace tonight because there's a crunch on at work".
+4. vt. To squeeze program source into a minimum-size representation that will still compile or execute. The term came into being specifically for a famous program on the BBC micro that ed BASIC source in order to make it run more quickly (it was a wholly interpretive BASIC, so the number of characters mattered). Obfuscated C Contest entries are often ed; see the first example under that entry. 7. Lowest common denominator intensification of labor strategy. A phase of (typically though not exclusively) commercial software development when hackers are threatened by their project managers in order to work additional unpaid hours to meet some arbitrary deadline decided by a suit on a golf course. "I won't be at the hackspace tonight because there's a crunch on at work".
/kripee/ , n. A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements cryptographic software or hardware. diff --git a/entries/blue box.txt b/entries/blue box.txt index 954d496..c820e88 100644 --- a/entries/blue box.txt +++ b/entries/blue box.txt @@ -4,12 +4,8 @@ n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreaker s built devices called es that could reproduce these tones, which could be -used to commandeer portions of the phone network. (This was not as hard as -it may sound; one early phreak acquired the sobriquet Captain Crunch after -he proved that he could generate switching tones with a plastic whistle -pulled out of a box of Captain Crunch cereal!) There were other colors of -box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver +used to commandeer portions of the phone network. There were other colors +of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors as well, but the was the original and archetype. 2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one. - diff --git a/entries/crunch.txt b/entries/crunch.txt index ed37406..b1ac645 100644 --- a/entries/crunch.txt +++ b/entries/crunch.txt @@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ compile or execute. The term came into being specifically for a famous program on the BBC micro that ed BASIC source in order to make it run more quickly (it was a wholly interpretive BASIC, so the number of characters mattered). Obfuscated C Contest entries are often ed; see the first example -under that entry. 5. Pseudonym of John Draper, an early hacker and phreaker. -See phreaking. 6. Lowest common denominator intensification of labor +under that entry. 7. Lowest common denominator intensification of labor strategy. A phase of (typically though not exclusively) commercial software development when hackers are threatened by their project managers in order to work additional unpaid hours to meet some arbitrary deadline decided by