0 1TBS 2 404 404 compliant 4.2 abbrev ABEND accumulator ACK Acme acolyte Ada address harvester adger ad-hockery admin ADVENT AFAIK AFJ AFK AI AI-complete AIDS AIDX AI koans airplane rule Alderson loop aliasing bug Alice and Bob all-elbows all your base are belong to us alpha geek alpha particles alt alt bit Aluminum Book ambimouseterous Amiga Amiga Persecution Complex amoeba amper amp off Angband angle brackets angry fruit salad annoybot annoyware ANSI ANSI standard ANSI standard pizza AOL! app Archimedes arena arg ARMM armor-plated asbestos asbestos cork award asbestos longjohns ASCII ASCII art ASCIIbetical order astroturfing atomic attoparsec Aunt Tillie AUP autobogotiphobia autoconfiscate automagically avatar awk B1FF B5 backbone cabal backbone site back door backgammon background backreference backronym backspace and overstrike backward combatability BAD Bad and Wrong Bad Thing bagbiter bagbiting baggy pantsing bag on the side balloonian variable bamf banana label banana problem bandwidth bang bang on bang path banner banner ad banner site bar bare metal barf barfmail barfulation barfulous barn barney baroque BASIC batbelt batch bathtub curve Batman factor baud baud barf baz bazaar bboard BBS BCPL BDFL beam beanie key beep Befunge beige toaster bells and whistles bells whistles and gongs benchmark Berkeley Quality Software berklix Berzerkeley beta BFI BI bible BiCapitalization biff big-endian Big Gray Wall big iron bignum bigot Big Red Switch Big Room big win binary four bit bit bang bit bashing bitblt bit bucket bit decay BITNET bit-paired keyboard bit rot bits bit twiddling bitty box bixen bixie black art black hat black hole black magic Black Screen of Death blammo blargh blast blat bletch bletcherous blink blinkenlights blit blitter blivet bloatware BLOB block blog Bloggs Family blogrolling blow an EPROM blow away blow out blow past blow up BLT Blue Book blue box Blue Glue blue goo Blue Screen of Death blue wire blurgle BNF boa board boat anchor bob bodge BOF BOFH bogometer BogoMIPS bogon bogon filter bogon flux bogosity bogo-sort bogotify bogue out bogus Bohr bug boink bomb bondage-and-discipline language bonk/oif book titles boot Borg borken bot bottom feeder bottom-post bottom-up implementation bounce bounce message boustrophedon box boxed comments boxen boxology bozotic BQS brain-damaged brain-dead brain dump brain fart braino brainwidth bread crumbs break break-even point breath-of-life packet breedle Breidbart Index bricktext bring X to its knees brittle broadcast storm brochureware broken broken arrow broken-ring network BrokenWindows broket Brooks's Law brown-paper-bag bug browser BRS brute force brute force and ignorance BSD BSOD BUAF BUAG bubble sort bucky bits buffer chuck buffer overflow bug bug-compatible bug-for-bug compatible buglix bug-of-the-month club bulletproof bullschildt bump burble buried treasure burn a CD burn-in period burst page busy-wait buzz buzzword-compliant BWQ by hand byte byte sex bytesexual Bzzzt! Wrong. C C++ calculator Camel Book can cancelbot Cancelmoose[tm] candygrammar canonical can't happen card walloper careware cargo cult programming cascade case and paste casters-up mode casting the runes cat catatonic cathedral C&C CDA cdr cd tilde chad chad box chain chainik channel channel hopping channel op chanop char charityware chase pointers chawmp check cheerfully chemist Chernobyl chicken Chernobyl packet chickenboner chicken head chiclet keyboard Chinese Army technique choad choke chomp chomper CHOP Christmas tree Christmas tree packet chrome chug Church of the SubGenius CI$ Cinderella Book Classic C clean CLM clobber clock clocks clone clone-and-hack coding clover key clue-by-four clustergeeking C|N>K coaster coaster toaster COBOL COBOL fingers cobweb site code code grinder code monkey Code of the Geeks code police codes codewalker coefficient of X cokebottle cold boot co-lo COME FROM command key comment out comm mode Commonwealth Hackish compact compiler jock compo compress Compu$erve computer confetti computron con condition out condom confuser connector conspiracy cons considered harmful console console jockey content-free control-C control-O control-Q control-S Conway's Law cookbook cooked mode cookie cookie bear cookie file cookie jar cookie monster copious free time copper copybroke copycenter copyleft copyparty copy protection copywronged core core cancer core dump core leak Core Wars corge cosmic rays cough and die courier cowboy cow orker CP/M C Programmer's Disease CPU Wars crack cracker cracking crack root crank crapplet CrApTeX crash crash and burn crawling horror cray cray instability crayola crayola books crayon creationism creep creeping elegance creeping featurism creeping featuritis cretin cretinous crippleware critical mass crlf crock crossload cross-post crudware cruft cruftsmanship cruft together crufty crumb crunch cryppie CTSS cube cubing cup holder cursor dipped in X cuspy cut a tape cybercrud cyberpunk cyberspace cycle cycle crunch cycle drought cycle of reincarnation cycle server cypherpunk daemon daemon book dahmum dancing frog dangling pointer dark-side hacker Datamation DAU Dave the Resurrector day mode D. C. Power Lab dd DDT dead DEADBEEF dead beef attack dead code dead link deadlock deadly embrace dead-tree version death code Death Square Death Star Death, X of DEC decay deckle DEC Wars DED deep hack mode deep magic deep space defenestration defined as deflicted dehose deletia deliminator delint delta demented demigod demo demoeffect demogroup demo mode demon demon dialer demoparty demoscene dentro depeditate deprecated de-rezz derf deserves to lose desk check despew Devil Book /dev/null dickless workstation dictionary flame diddle die die horribly diff dike Dilbert ding dink dinosaur dinosaur pen dinosaurs mating dirtball dirty power disclaimer Discordianism disemvowel disk farm display hack dispress Dissociated Press distribution distro disusered DMZ doc documentation dodgy dogcow dogfood dogpile dogwash domainist dongle dongle-disk Don't do that then! donuts Doom, X of doorstop do protocol DoS attack dot file double bucky doubled sig down download DP DPer dragon Dragon Book drain dread high-bit disease Dread Questionmark Disease DRECNET Dr. Fred Mbogo driver droid drone drool-proof paper drop-ins drop on the floor drop-outs drugged drum drunk mouse syndrome DSW dub dub dub Duff's device dumbass attack dumbed down dumb terminal dump dumpster diving dup killer dup loop dusty deck DWIM dynner earthquake Easter egg Easter egging eat flaming death EBCDIC echo ECP ed egosurf eighty-column mind El Camino Bignum elder days elegant elephantine elevator controller elite ELIZA effect elvish EMACS email emoticon EMP empire engine English enhancement ENQ EOF EOL EOU epoch epsilon epsilon squared era Eric Conspiracy Eris erotics error 33 eurodemo evil evil and rude Evil Empire exa- examining the entrails EXCH excl EXE exec exercise, left as an Exon Exploder exploit external memory eyeball search eye candy face time factor fairings fall over fall through fan fandango on core FAQ FAQL FAQ list faradize farkled farm farming fascist fat electrons fat-finger fat pipe faulty fd leak fear and loathing feature feature creature feature creep featurectomy feature key feature shock feep feeper feeping creature feeping creaturism feetch feetch fence fencepost error fiber-seeking backhoe FidoNet field circus field servoid Fight-o-net File Attach File Request file signature filk film at 11 filter Finagle's Law fine finger finger-pointing syndrome finger trouble finn firebottle firefighting firehose syndrome firewall code firewall machine fireworks mode firmware firmy fish FISH queue FITNR fix FIXME flag flag day flaky flamage flame flame bait flame on flamer flame war flap flarp flash crowd flat flat-ASCII flat-file flatten flavor flavorful flippy flood flowchart flower key flush flypage Flyspeck 3 flytrap FM fnord FOAF FOD fold case followup fontology foo foobar fool fool file Foonly footprint fora foreground for free fork fork bomb forked for the rest of us Fortrash fortune cookie forum for values of fossil four-color glossies frag fragile Frankenputer fred Fred Foobar frednet free software freeware freeze fried frink friode fritterware frob frobnicate frobnitz frog frogging front end frotz frotzed frowney FRS fry fscking FSF FTP -fu FUBAR fuck me harder FUD fudge fudge factor FUD wars fuel up Full Monty fum functino funky funny money furrfu fuzzball G gabriel gag gang bang Gang of Four garbage collect garply gas Gates's Law gawble GC GCOS GECOS gedanken geef geek geekasm geek code geek out gen gender mender General Public Virus generate Genius From Mars Technique gensym Get a life! Get a real computer! g-file GFR gib GIFs at 11 gig giga- GIGO gilley gillion ginger GIPS glark glass glassfet glass tty glitch glob glork glue gnarly GNU gnubie GNUMACS GoAT goat file gobble Godwin's Law Godzillagram go-faster stripes go flatline go gold golden golf-ball printer gonk gonkulator gonzo Good Thing google google juice gopher gopher hole gorets gorilla arm go root gorp GOSMACS Gosperism gotcha GPL GPV grault gray goo gray hat Great Internet Explosion Great Renaming Great Runes great-wall Great Worm greenbar Green Book green bytes green card green lightning green machine Green's Theorem grep gribble grilf grind grind crank gripenet gritch grok gronk gronked gronk out grovel grue grunge gubbish Guido guiltware gumby gun gunch gunpowder chicken gurfle guru guru meditation gweep h hack hack attack hacked off hacked up hacker hacker ethic hacker humor Hackers (the movie) hacking run Hacking X for Y Hackintosh hackish hackishness hackitude hack mode hack on hack together hack up hack value ha ha only serious hair hairball hairy HAKMEM hakspek Halloween Documents hammer hamster HAND hand cruft hand-hacking handle hand-roll handshaking handwave hang Hanlon's Razor happily haque hard boot hardcoded hardwarily hardwired hash bucket hash collision has the X nature hat HCF heads down heartbeat heatseeker heavy metal heavyweight heavy wizardry Hed Rat heisenbug Helen Keller mode hell desk hello sailor! hello, wall! hello world hex hexadecimal hexit HHOK HHOS hidden flag high bit highly high moby hing hired gun hirsute HLL hoarding hobbit hog hole hollised holy penguin pee holy wars home box home machine home page honey pot hook hop horked hose hosed hot chat hotlink hot spot house wizard HP-SUX HTH huff humma hung hungry puppy hungus hyperspace hysterical reasons IANAL IBM IBM discount ICBM address ice ID10T error idempotent I didn't change anything! IDP ifdef out If you want X, you know where to find it. IIRC ill-behaved IMHO Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! inc incantation include include war Indent-o-Meter indent style index of X infant mortality infinite infinite loop Infinite-Monkey Theorem infinity inflate Infocom initgame insanely great installfest INTERCAL InterCaps interesting Internet Internet Death Penalty Internet Exploder Internet Exploiter interrupt interrupts locked out intertwingled in the extreme intro IRC iron Iron Age iron box ironmonger I see no X here. ISO standard cup of tea ISP ITS IWBNI IYFEG jack in jaggies Java JCL JEDR Jeff K. jello Jeopardy-style quoting jibble jiffy job security jock joe code jolix J. Random J. Random Hacker juggling eggs juice jump off into never-never land jupiter k- K kahuna kamikaze packet kangaroo code ken kernel-of-the-week club kgbvax KIBO kiboze kibozo kick killer app killer micro killer poke kill file kilo- KIPS KISS Principle kit KLB klone kludge kluge kluge around kluge up Knights of the Lambda Calculus knobs Knuth koan kook Kool-Aid, to drink the K&R kremvax kyrka lace card lag lamer language lawyer languages of choice LAN party LART larval stage lase laser chicken lasherism LDB leaf site leak leaky heap leapfrog attack leech leech mode legal legalese LER LERP letterbomb let the smoke out lexer lexiphage life Life is hard light pipe lightweight like kicking dead whales down the beach like nailing jelly to a tree line 666 linearithmic line eater, the line noise line starve link-dead link farm link rot lint Lintel Linus Linux lion food Lions Book LISP list-bomb lithium lick little-endian live live data Live Free Or Die! livelock liveware lobotomy locals, the locked and loaded locked up logical logic bomb loop through loose bytes lord high fixer lose lose lose loser losing loss lossage lossy lost in the noise lost in the underflow lots of MIPS but no I/O low-bandwidth LPT Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology Lumber Cartel lunatic fringe lurker luser M M$ macdink machinable machoflops Macintoy Macintrash macro macro- macrology macrotape maggotbox magic magic cookie magic number magic smoke mailbomb mailing list mail storm mainframe main loop mainsleaze management mandelbug manged mangle mangled name mangler manularity marbles marginal marginally marketroid Mars martian massage math-out Matrix maximum Maytag mode McQuary limit /me meatspace meatware meeces meg mega- megapenny MEGO meltdown, network meme meme plague memetics memory farts memory leak memory smash menuitis mess-dos meta meta bit metasyntactic variable MFTL mickey mickey mouse program micro- MicroDroid microfloppies microfortnight microLenat microReid micros~1 microserf Microsloth Windows Microsoft middle-endian middle-out implementation milliLampson minifloppies minor detail MIPS misbug misfeature missile address miswart MMF mobo moby mockingbird mod mode mode bit modulo mojibake molly-guard Mongolian Hordes technique monkey, scratch monkey up monstrosity monty Moof Moore's Law moria MOTAS MOTOS MOTSS mouse ahead mouse belt mouse droppings mouse elbow mouse pusher mouso MS-DOS mu MUD muddie mudhead muggle multician Multics multitask mumblage mumble munch munching munching squares munchkin mundane mung munge Murphy's Law music mutter N nadger nagware nailed to the wall nailing jelly naive naive user NAK NANA nano nano- nanoacre nanobot nanocomputer nanofortnight nanotechnology narg nasal demons nastygram Nathan Hale nature neat hack neats vs. scruffies neep-neep neophilia nerd nerd knob net.- netburp netdead net.god nethack netiquette netlag netnews net.personality net.police netrock Netscrape netsplit netter network address network meltdown newbie newgroup wars New Jersey newline NeWS newsfroup newsgroup New Testament nick nickle Nightmare File System night mode NIL Ninety-Ninety Rule nipple mouse NMI noddy node Nominal Semidestructor nonlinear non-optimal solution nontrivial no-op not entirely unlike X not ready for prime time notwork NP- nroff NSA line eater NSP nude nugry nuke number-crunching numbers NUXI problem nybble nyetwork Ob- Obfuscated C Contest obi-wan error Objectionable-C obscure octal forty off-by-one error offline off the trolley ogg -oid old fart Old Testament one-banana problem one-line fix one-liner wars on the gripping hand ooblick op OP open open source open switch operating system optical diff optical grep optimism Oracle, the Orange Book oriental food orphan orphaned i-node orthogonal OS OS/2 OSS OSU OT OTOH out-of-band overclock overflow bit overflow pdl overrun overrun screw owned packet over air padded cell page in page out pain in the net paper-net param PARC parent message parity errors Parkinson's Law of Data parm parse @-party Pascal pastie patch patch pumpkin patch space path pathological payware PBD PC-ism PD pdl PDP-10 PDP-20 PEBKAC peek pencil and paper Pentagram Pro Pentium peon percent-S perf perfect programmer syndrome Perl person of no account pessimal pessimizing compiler peta- PETSCII PFY phage phase phase of the moon phase-wrapping PHB phreaker phreaking pico- pig-tail pilot error ping Ping O' Death ping storm pink contract pink wire pipe pistol pixel sort pizza box plaid screen plain-ASCII plan file platinum-iridium playpen playte plokta plonk plug-and-pray plugh plumbing PM P-mail pod P.O.D. point-and-drool interface pointy-haired pointy hat poke poll polygon pusher POM ponytail pop poser post postcardware posting postmaster PostScript pound on power cycle power hit PPN pr0n precedence lossage pred prepend prestidigitization pretty pictures prettyprint pretzel key priesthood prime time print printing discussion priority interrupt profile progasm proggy proglet program Programmer's Cheer programming programming fluid propeller head propeller key proprietary protocol provocative maintenance prowler pseudo pseudoprime pseudosuit psychedelicware psyton pubic directory puff pumpking pumpkin holder punched card punt Purple Book purple wire push Python quad quadruple bucky quantifiers quantum bogodynamics quarter ques quick-and-dirty quine quote chapter and verse quotient quux qux QWERTY rabbit job rainbow series rain dance random randomness Random Number God random numbers rape rare mode rasterbation raster blaster raster burn rat belt rat dance rathole ratio site rave rave on! ravs raw mode RBL rc file RE README file read-only user real real estate real hack reality check reality-distortion field real operating system Real Programmer Real Soon Now real time real user Real World reaper recompile the world rectangle slinger recursion recursive acronym Red Book red wire regexp register dancing rehi reincarnation, cycle of reinvent the wheel relay rape religion of CHI religious issues replicator reply restriction retcon RETI retrocomputing return from the dead RFC RFE rib site rice box Right Thing rip ripoff RL roach robocanceller robot robust rococo rogue room-temperature IQ root root mode rot13 rotary debugger round tape RSN RTBM RTFAQ RTFB RTFM RTFS RTI RTM RTS rubber-hose cryptanalysis rude runes runic rusty iron rusty memory rusty wire sacred saga sagan SAIL salescritter salt salt mines salt substrate same-day service samizdat samurai sandbender sandbox sanity check Saturday-night special say scag scanno scary devil monastery schroedinbug science-fiction fandom SCNR scram switch scratch scratch monkey scream and die screaming tty screen screen name screen scraping screw screwage scribble script kiddies scrog scrool scrozzle scruffies SCSI SCSI voodoo ScumOS search-and-destroy mode secondary damage second-system effect security through obscurity SED See figure 1 segfault seggie segment segmentation fault segv self-reference selvage semi semi-automated semi-infinite senior bit September that never ended server SEX sex changer shambolic link sharchive Share and enjoy! shareware shar file sharing violation shebang shelfware shell shell out shift left (or right) logical shim shitogram short card shotgun debugging shovelware showstopper shriek Shub-Internet sidecar SIG sig block sigmonster signal-to-noise ratio sig quote sig virus silicon silly walk silo Silver Book since time T equals minus infinity sitename skrog skulker slab slack slap on the side slash slashdot effect sleep slim slop slopsucker Slowlaris slurp slurp the robot smart smart terminal smash case smash the stack smiley smoke smoke and mirrors smoke test smoking clover smoot SMOP smurf SNAFU principle snail snail-mail snap snarf snarf & barf snarf down snark sneaker sneakernet sniff S/N ratio SO social engineering social science number sock puppet sodium substrate soft boot softcopy software bloat software hoarding software laser software rot softwarily softy some random X sorcerer's apprentice mode SOS source source of all good bits space-cadet keyboard spaceship operator SPACEWAR spaghetti code spaghetti inheritance spam spam bait spamblock spamhaus spamvertize spangle spawn special-case speedometer spell spelling flame spider spider food spiffy spike spin Spinning Pizza of Death spl splash screen splat splat out splork! spod spoiler spoiler space sponge spoof spool spool file sporgery sport death spungle spyware square tape squirrelcide stack stack puke stale pointer bug star out state stealth manager steam-powered steved STFW stiffy stir-fried random stomp on Stone Age stone knives and bearskins stoppage store STR strided stroke strudel stubroutine studly studlycaps stunning Stupids stupid-sort Sturgeon's Law sucking mud sufficiently small suit suitable win suitably small Sun sun lounge sunspots sun-stools superloser superprogrammer super source quench superuser support surf Suzie COBOL swab swap swapped in swapped out swap space Swiss-Army chainsaw swizzle sync syntactic salt syntactic sugar sysadmin sysape sys-frog sysop system system mangler systems jock T tail recursion talker system talk mode tall card TAN tanked TANSTAAFL tape monkey tar and feather tarball tardegy taste tayste TCB TCP/IP TECO tee teergrube teledildonics Telerat ten-finger interface tense tentacle tenured graduate student tera- teraflop club terminak terminal brain death terminal illness terminal junkie terpri test TeX text thanks in advance That's not a bug, that's a feature! the literature the network theology theory the X that can be Y is not the true X thinko This can't happen This time, for sure! thrash thread three-finger salute throwaway account thud thumb thundering herd problem thunk tick tickle a bug tick-list features tiger team time bomb time sink times-or-divided-by time T TINC Tinkerbell program TINLC tip of the ice-cube tired iron tits on a keyboard TLA (TM) TMRC TMRCie TMTOWTDI toad to a first approximation toast toaster to a zeroth approximation toeprint TOFU toggle tool toolchain toolsmith toor topic drift topic group top-post TOPS-10 TOPS-20 TOS tourist touristic tourist information toy toy language toy problem toy program trampoline trap trap door trash trawl tree-killer treeware trit trivial troff troglodyte troglodyte mode Trojan horse troll Troll-O-Meter tron troughie true-hacker tty tube tube time tunafish tune turbo nerd Turing tar-pit turist Tux tweak tweeter TWENEX twiddle twilight zone twink twirling baton two pi two-to-the-N u- UBD UBE ubergeek UCE UDP undefined external reference under the hood undocumented feature uninteresting Unix Unix brain damage Unix conspiracy unixism Unix weenie unswizzle unwind-protect unwind the stack UN*X up upload upstream upthread uptime urchin URL Usenet Usenet Death Penalty user user-friendly userland user-obsequious UTSL UUCPNET UUOC V7 vadding vanilla vanity domain vannevar vaporware var vaston VAX VAXectomy VAXen vaxherd vaxism vaxocentrism vdiff veeblefester velveeta ventilator card Venus flytrap verbage verbiage Version 7 vgrep vi videotex video toaster virgin virtual virtual beer virtual Friday virtual reality virtual shredder virus visionary VMS voice voice-net voodoo programming VR Vulcan nerve pinch vulture capitalist w00t W2K bug wabbit WAITS waldo walk walking drives walk off the end of wall wall follower wallhack wall time wall wart wango wank wannabee war dialer war driving -ware warez warez d00dz warez kiddies warlording warm boot wart washing machine washing software water MIPS wave a dead chicken weasel webify webmaster web pointer web ring web toaster wedged wedgie wedgitude weeble weeds weenie Weenix well-behaved well-connected wetware whack whack-a-mole whacker whales What's a spline? wheel wheel bit wheel of reincarnation wheel wars White Book white hat whitelist whizzy wibble WIBNI widget wiggles wild side WIMP environment win win big Winchester windoid window shopping Windoze winged comments winkey winnage winner winnitude Wintel Wintendo win win wired wirehead wirewater wish list within delta of within epsilon of wizard Wizard Book wizard hat wizardly wizard mode wok-on-the-wall WOMBAT womb box womble wonky woofer workaround working as designed worm wormhole wound around the axle wrap around write-only code write-only language write-only memory Wrong Thing wugga wugga wumpus WYSIAYG WYSIWYG X XEROX PARC XOFF XON xor xref XXX xyzzy YA- YABA YAFIYGI yak shaving YAUN Yellow Book yellow card yellow wire Yet Another YHBT YKYBHTLW YMMV You are not expected to understand this You know you've been hacking too long when Your mileage may vary Yow! yoyo mode Yu-Shiang Whole Fish zap zapped Zawinski's Law zbeba zen zero zero-content Zero-One-Infinity Rule zeroth zigamorph zip zipperhead zombie zorch Zork zorkmid