0 120 reset 1TBS 2 4.2 abbrev ABEND accumulator ACK Acme acolyte Ada adger ad-hockery admin ADVENT AFAIK AFJ AI AI-complete AIDS AIDX AI koans airplane rule aliasing bug all-elbows alpha particles alt alt bit altmode Aluminum Book amoeba amper amp off angle brackets angry fruit salad annoybot ANSI AOS app arena arg ARMM armor-plated asbestos asbestos cork award asbestos longjohns ASCII ASCII art ASCIIbetical order atomic attoparsec autobogotiphobia automagically avatar awk B1FF backbone cabal backbone site back door backgammon background backspace and overstrike backward combatability BAD Bad Thing bagbiter bagbiting bag on the side balloonian variable bamf banana label banana problem bandwidth bang bang on bang path banner bar bare metal barf barfmail barfulation barfulous barney baroque BASIC batch bathtub curve baud baud barf baz bboard BBS beam beanie key beep \begin @Begin beige toaster bells and whistles bells, whistles, and gongs benchmark Berkeley Quality Software berklix Berzerkeley beta BFI bible BiCapitalization biff big-endian Big Gray Wall big iron bignum bigot Big Red Switch Big Room, the big win bit bit bang bit bashing bitblt bit bucket bit decay BITNET bit-paired keyboard bit rot bits bit twiddling bitty box bixie black art black hole black magic Black Screen of Death Black Thursday blammo blargh blast blat bletch bletcherous blink blinkenlights blit blitter blivet BLOB block block transfer computations Bloggs Family, the blow an EPROM blow away blow out blow past blow up BLT Blue Book blue box Blue Glue blue goo blue wire blurgle BNF boa board boat anchor bodysurf code BOF BOFH bogometer 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 bottom feeder bottom-up implementation bounce bounce message boustrophedon box boxed comments boxen boxology bozotic BQS brain-damaged brain-dead brain dump brain fart braino branch to Fishkill bread crumbs break break-even point breath-of-life packet breedle bring X to its knees brittle broadcast storm brochureware broken broken arrow BrokenWindows broket Brooks's Law browser BRS brute force brute force and ignorance BSD BUAF BUAG bubble sort bucky bits buffer chuck buffer overflow bug bug-compatible bug-for-bug compatible buglix bug-of-the-month club bulletproof bum bump burble buried treasure burn-in period burst page busy-wait buzz BWQ by hand byte bytesexual bzzzt, wrong C C++ calculator Camel Book can candygrammar canonical can't happen card walloper careware cargo cult programming cascade case and paste casters-up mode casting the runes cat catatonic CDA cdr cd tilde chad chad box chain channel channel hopping channel op chanop char charityware chase pointers chawmp check chemist Chernobyl chicken Chernobyl packet chicken head chiclet keyboard chine nual 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 clocks clone clone-and-hack coding clover key clustergeeking COBOL COBOL fingers code grinder Code of the Geeks code police codes codewalker coefficient of X cokebottle cold boot COME FROM command key comment out comm mode Commonwealth Hackish compact compiler jock compress Compu$erve computer confetti computer geek 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 copyleft copy protection copywronged core core cancer core dump core leak Core Wars corge cosmic rays cough and die cowboy CP/M C Programmer's Disease CPU Wars cracker cracking crack root crank 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 cross-post crudware cruft cruftsmanship cruft together crufty crumb crunch cruncha cruncha cruncha cryppie CTSS CTY cube cubing 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 dangling pointer dark-side hacker Datamation DAU day mode D. C. Power Lab dd DDT dead DEADBEEF dead code dead link deadlock deadly embrace death code Death Square Death Star dec DEC decay DEChead deckle DEC Wars DED deep hack mode deep magic deep space defenestration defined as dehose delint delta demented demigod demo demo mode demon demon dialer depeditate deprecated de-rezz derf deserves to lose desk check despew Devil Book /dev/null dickless workstation dictionary flame diddle die die horribly diff digit dike Dilbert ding dink dinosaur dinosaur pen dinosaurs mating dirtball dirty power disclaimer Discordianism disk farm display hack Dissociated Press distribution disusered doc documentation dodgy dogcow dogpile dogwash domainist dongle dongle-disk Don't do that, then! donuts doorstop do protocol dot file double bucky double DECkers doubled sig down download DP DPB DPer dragon Dragon Book drain dread high-bit disease DRECNET driver droid drool-proof paper drop-ins drop on the floor drop-outs drugged drum drunk mouse syndrome 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 eighty-column mind El Camino Bignum elder days elegant elephantine elevator controller elite ELIZA effect elvish EMACS email emoticon empire engine English enhancement ENQ EOF EOL EOU epoch epsilon epsilon squared era, the Eric Conspiracy Eris erotics error 33 evil evil and rude exa- examining the entrails EXCH excl EXE exec exercise, left as an Exon external memory eyeball search eye candy face time factor fall over fall through fan fandango on core FAQ FAQL FAQ list faradize farkled farming fascist fat electrons faulty fd leak fear and loathing feature feature creature featurectomy feature key feature shock feep feeper feeping creature feeping creaturism feetch feetch fence fencepost error fepped out 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 firmy fish FISH queue FITNR fix FIXME flag flag day flaky flamage flame flame bait flame on flamer flame war flap flarp 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, the Foonly footprint fora foreground for free fork bomb forked for the rest of us Fortrash fortune cookie forum for values of fossil four-color glossies fragile fred frednet freeware freeze fried frink friode fritterware frob frobnicate frobnitz frog frogging front end frotz frotzed frowney FRS fry FSF FTP FUBAR fuck me harder FUD fudge fudge factor FUD wars fuel up Full Monty, the fum funky funny money furrfu fuzzball G gabriel gag gang bang garbage collect garply gas gaseous gawble GC GCOS GECOS gedanken geef 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 GIFs at 11 gig giga- GIGO gilley gillion GIPS glark glass glassfet glass tty glitch glob glork glue gnarly GNU GNUMACS gobble Godwin's Law Godzillagram go-faster stripes go flatline golden golf-ball printer gonk gonkulator gonzo Good Thing gopher gopher hole gorets gorilla arm go root gorp GOSMACS Gosperism gotcha GPL GPV grault gray goo Great Renaming Great Runes great-wall Great Worm, the Green Book green bytes green card green lightning green machine Green's Theorem grep grilf grind grind crank gripenet gritch grok gronk gronked gronk out grovel grunge gubbish guiltware gumby gun gunch gurfle guru guru meditation gweep h hack hack attack hacked off hacked up hacker hacker ethic hacker humor 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 hammer hamster 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 heisenbug Helen Keller mode 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 wars home box home machine home page hook hop hose hosed hot chat hotlink hot spot house wizard HP-SUX huff humma hung hungry puppy hungus hyperspace hysterical reasons IBM IBM discount ICBM address ice idempotent I didn't change anything! ifdef out If you want X, you know where to find it. ill-behaved IMHO Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! inc incantation include include war indent style index infant mortality infinite infinite loop Infinite-Monkey Theorem infinity inflate Infocom initgame insanely great INTERCAL interesting Internet Internet address interrupt interrupt list, the interrupts locked out in the extreme IRC iron Iron Age iron box ironmonger I see no X here. ISP ITS IWBNI IYFEG jack in jaggies JCL JEDR JFCL jiffy job security jock joe code jolix J. Random J. Random Hacker JR[LN] JRST juggling eggs jump off into never-never land jupiter k- K kahuna kamikaze packet kangaroo code ken kgbvax KIBO kiboze kibozo kick killer app killer micro killer poke kill file kilo- KIPS KISS Principle kit klone kludge kluge kluge around kluge up Knights of the Lambda Calculus Knuth K&R kremvax kyrka lace card lamer language lawyer languages of choice larval stage lase laser chicken Lasherism laundromat LDB leaf site leak leaky heap leapfrog attack leech 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 lint Linux lion food Lions Book LISP list-bomb literature, the 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 lost in the noise lost in the underflow lots of MIPS but no I/O low-bandwidth LPT Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology lunatic fringe lurker luser 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 management mandelbug manged mangle mangler manularity marbles marginal Marginal Hacks marginally marketroid Mars martian massage math-out Matrix maximum Maytag mode Mbogo, Dr. Fred 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 Microsloth Windows microtape middle-endian milliLampson minifloppies MIPS misbug misfeature Missed'em-five missile address miswart moby mockingbird mod mode mode bit modulo molly-guard Mongolian Hordes technique monkey, scratch monkey up monstrosity monty Moof Moore's Law moose call moria MOTAS MOTOS MOTSS mouse ahead mouse around mouse belt mouse droppings mouse elbow mouso MS-DOS mu MUD muddie mudhead 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 nano nano- nanoacre nanobot nanocomputer nanofortnight nanotechnology nasal demons nastygram Nathan Hale nature neat hack neats vs. scruffies neep-neep neophilia nerd net.- NetBOLLIX netburp netdead net.god nethack netiquette netlag netnews net.personality net.police netrock netsplit netter network address network meltdown network, the newbie newgroup wars New Jersey newline news NeWS newsfroup newsgroup New Testament nick nickle Nightmare File System night mode NIL Ninety-Ninety Rule NMI noddy node NOMEX underwear Nominal Semidestructor nonlinear non-optimal solution nontrivial no-op not ready for prime time notwork NP- nroff NSA line eater NSP nude 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 ooblick op open Open DeathTrap open switch operating system optical diff optical grep optimism Orange Book oriental food orphan orphaned i-node orthogonal OS OS/2 OSU OTOH out-of-band overflow bit overflow pdl overrun overrun screw padded cell page in page out pain in the net Pangloss parity paper-net param PARC parent message parity errors Parkinson's Law of Data parm parse @-party Pascal pastie patch patch space path pathological payware PBD PC-ism PD pdl PDP-10 PDP-20 peek pencil and paper peon percent-S perf perfect programmer syndrome Perl person of no account pessimal pessimizing compiler peta- PETSCII phage phase phase of the moon phase-wrapping phreaker phreaking pico- pig, run like a pilot error ping Pink-Shirt Book PIP pistol pixel sort pizza, ANSI standard pizza box plaid screen plain-ASCII plan file platinum-iridium playpen playte plingnet plokta plonk plugh plumbing PM P-mail pnambic pod P.O.D. point-and-drool interface poke poll polygon pusher POM pop POPJ poser post postcardware posting postmaster PostScript pound on power cycle power hit PPN precedence lossage prepend prestidigitization pretty pictures prettyprint pretzel key priesthood prime time printing discussion priority interrupt profile progasm 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 punched card punt Purple Book purple wire push 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 numbers rape rare mode raster blaster raster burn rat belt rat dance rave rave on! ravs raw mode rc file RE README file read-only user real real estate real hack reality check real operating system Real Programmer Real Soon Now real time real user Real World reaper rectangle slinger recursion recursive acronym Red Book red wire regexp register dancing reincarnation, cycle of reinvent the wheel religion of CHI religious issues replicator reply restriction retcon RETI retrocomputing return from the dead RFC RFE rib site rice box Right Thing RL roach robot robust rococo rogue room-temperature IQ root root mode rot13 rotary debugger round tape RSN RTBM RTFAQ RTFB RTFM RTFS RTI RTM RTS 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 schroedinbug science-fiction fandom scram switch scratch scratch monkey scream and die screaming tty screw screwage scribble scrog scrool scrozzle scruffies SCSI ScumOS search-and-destroy mode secondary damage second-system effect security through obscurity SED segfault seggie segment segmentation fault segv self-reference selvage semi semi-infinite senior bit server SEX sex changer shambolic link sharchive Share and enjoy! shareware shar file shelfware shell shell out shift left (or right) logical shim shitogram short card shotgun debugging shovelware showstopper shriek Shub-Internet sidecar SIG sig block 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 sleep slim slop slopsucker slurp smart smart terminal smash case smash the stack smiley smoke smoke and mirrors smoke test smoking clover SMOP smurf SNAFU principle snail snail-mail snap snarf snarf & barf snarf down snark sneaker sneakernet sniff snivitz 'Snooze S/N ratio SO social engineering social science number sodium substrate soft boot softcopy software bloat software hoarding software laser software rot softwarily softy some random X sorcerer's apprentice mode SOS source of all good bits space-cadet keyboard spaceship operator SPACEWAR spaghetti code spaghetti inheritance spam special-case speedometer spell spelling flame spiffy spike spin spl splash screen splat spod spoiler sponge spool spool file square tape squirrelcide stack stack puke stale pointer bug star out state stealth manager steam-powered stiffy stir-fried random stomp on Stone Age stone knives and bearskins stoppage store strided stroke strudel stubroutine studly studlycaps stunning Stupids stupid-sort Sturgeon's Law sucking mud sufficiently small suit suitable win suitably small sun lounge sunspots sun-stools superloser superprogrammer super source quench superuser support surf Suzie COBOL swab swap swapped in swapped out swap space swizzle sync syntactic salt syntactic sugar sysadmin sysape sys-frog sysop system system mangler systems jock SysVile T tail recursion talker system talk mode tall card tanked TANSTAAFL tar and feather taste tayste TCB TCP/IP tea, ISO standard cup of TechRef TECO tee teledildonics Telerat TELNET 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! 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 thud thumb thunk tick tickle a bug tick-list features tiger team time bomb time sink times-or-divided-by time T Tinkerbell program tip of the ice-cube tired iron tits on a keyboard TLA (TM) TMRC TMRCie toad to a first approximation toast toaster to a zeroth approximation toeprint toggle tool toolsmith topic drift topic group TOPS-10 TOPS-20 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 tron true-hacker tty tube tube time tunafish tune turbo nerd Turing tar-pit turist tweak tweeter TWENEX twiddle twilight zone twink twirling baton twonkie two pi two-to-the-N u- UBD 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 upthread urchin URL Usenet user user-friendly user-obsequious USG Unix UTSL UUCPNET V7 vadding vanilla vannevar vaporware var VAX VAXectomy VAXen vaxherd vaxism vaxocentrism vdiff veeblefester ventilator card Venus flytrap verbage verbiage Version 7 vgrep vi videotex virgin virtual virtual Friday virtual reality virtual shredder virus visionary VMS voice voice-net voodoo programming VR Vulcan nerve pinch vulture capitalist wabbit WAITS waldo walk walking drives walk off the end of wall wall follower wallpaper wall time wango wank wannabee war dialer -ware warez warez d00dz warlording warm boot wart washing machine washing software water MIPS wave a dead chicken weasel webmaster web pointer wedged wedgie wedgitude weeble weeds weenie Weenix well-behaved well-connected wetware whack whacker whales whalesong What's a spline? wheel wheel bit wheel wars White Book whizzy wibble WIBNI widget wiggles WIMP environment win win big Winchester windoid window shopping Windoze winged comments winkey winnage winner winnitude win win wired wirehead wirewater wish list within delta of within epsilon of wizard Wizard Book wizardly wizard mode wok-on-the-wall WOMBAT womb box 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 YAUN Yellow Book yellow wire Yet Another 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 zen zero zero-content Zero-One-Infinity Rule zeroth zigamorph zip zipperhead zombie zorch Zork zorkmid