120 reset 2 abbrev abend accumulator ACK Ada adger ad-hockery admin ADVENT AIDS AI koans airplane rule aliasing bug all-elbows ALT alt bit Aluminum Book amoeba amp off angle brackets AOS app arc arc wars arena arg armor-plated asbestos asbestos cork award asbestos longjohns ASCII attoparsec autobogotiphobia automagically awk backbone cabal backbone site back door backgammon background backspace and overstrike backward combatability BAD Bad Thing bagbiter bamf banana label banana problem bandwidth bang bang path banner bar bare metal barf barfulation barfulous baroque BartleMUD batch bathtub curve baud baud barf baz bboard BBS beam beep \begin @Begin beige toaster bells and whistles bells, whistles, and gongs benchmark Berkeley Quality Software berklix berserking Berzerkeley beta BFI bible BiCapitalization biff big-endian Big Grey Wall big iron bignum bigot Big Red Switch big win bit bit bang bit bashing bitblt bit bucket bit decay bit-paired keyboard bit rot bits bitty box bixie black art black hole blast blazer bletch bletcherous blinkenlights blit blitter blivet block block transfer computations blow an EPROM blow away blow out blow past blow up BLT Blue Book Blue Glue blue goo BNF boa board boat anchor bogometer bogon bogon filter bogosity bogo-sort bogotify bogue out bogus Bohr bug boink bomb bondage-and-discipline language bonk/oif book titles boot bottom-up implementation bounce bounce message box boxed comments boxen boxology BQS brain-damaged brain-dead brain dump braino branch to Fishkill brand brand brand break breakage breath-of-life packet bring X to its knees brittle broadcast storm broken broket Brooks's Law BRS brute force brute force and ignorance BSD bubble sort bucky bits buffer overflow bug bug-compatible bug-for-bug compatible buglix bulletproof bum bump burble burn-in period busy-wait buzz BWQ by hand byte bytesexual C calculator can canonical card card walloper cargo-cult programming case and paste casters-up mode casting the runes cat catatonic cdr chad chad box chain char chase pointers chemist Chernobyl packet chiclet keyboard Chinese Army technique choke chomp chomper Christmas tree Christmas tree packet chrome chug Church of the Sub-Genius CI$ Cinderella Book Classic C clean CLM clobber clocks clone clustergeeking COBOL COBOL fingers code grinder code police codewalker coefficient of x cokebottle COME FROM command key comment out comm mode Commonwealth Hackish compact compress computer confetti computer geek computron condition out condom connector conspiracy cons considered harmful console console jockey content-free Conway's Law cookie cookie file cookie monster copper copybroke copyleft copy protection copywronged core core dump core leak Core Wars corge cosmic rays cough and die cowboy CP/M CPU Wars cracker crank crash crash and burn crawling horror cray cray instability crayola crayon creationism 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 daemon dangling pointer Datamation day mode D. C. Power Lab dd DDT dead code deadlock deadly embrace death star DEChead deckle DEC Wars deep hack mode deep magic deep space defenestration defined as dehose delint delta demented demigod demo demo mode demon depeditate deprecated de-rezz deserves to lose desk check /dev/null devo dickless workstation diddle diff digit dike ding dink dinosaur dinosaur pen dinosaurs mating dirty power Discordianism disk farm display hack Dissociated Press distribution doco documentation dodgy dogcow 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 drool-proof paper drop-ins drop on the floor drop-outs drugged drunk mouse syndrome dumbass attack dump dup killer dup loop dusty deck DWIM dynner earthquake Easter egg Easter egging eat flaming death EBCDIC echo eighty-column mind El Camino Bignum elegant elephantine elevator controller EMACS email emoticon empire engine English enhancement ENQ EOF EOL EOU epoch epsilon epsilon squared era, the Eric Conspiracy Eris erotics essentials evil exa- examining the entrails EXCH excl EXE exec exercise, left as an eyeball search fab face time fall over fall through fandango on core FAQ list farming fascist FAtt faulty fd leak fear and loathing feature feature creature featurectomy 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 filk film at 11 filter fine finger finger-pointing syndrome firebottle firefighting firewall code firewall machine fireworks mode fish FISH queue fix flag flag day flaky flamage flame flame bait flame on flamer flame war flap flarp flat flat-ASCII flat-file flatten flavor flavorful flippy flowchart flush flytrap FOAF FOD fold case followup foo foobar fool footprint foreground for free forked for the rest of us Fortrash fortune cookie fossil four-color glossies fred frednet freeware freeze FReq fried fritterware frob frobnicate frobnitz frog front end frotz frotzed fry FTP fuck me harder FUD fudge fudge factor FUD wars fuel up fuggly funky funny money fuzzball gabriel gag gang bang garbage collect garply gas gaseous GC GCOS GECOS gedanken geek out gen gender mender General Public Virus generate gensym Get a life! Get a real computer! GFR gig giga- GIGO gillion GIPS glark glass glassfet glass tty glitch glob glork glue gnarly GNU GNUMACS gobble go flatline golden golf-ball printer gonk gonkulator gonzo Good Thing gorilla arm gorp GOSMACS Gosperism gotcha GPL GPV grault gray goo Great Renaming Great Runes great-wall Green Book green bytes green card green lightning green machine grep grind grind crank gritch grok gronk grovel grunge gubbish guiltware gumby gun gurfle guru h hack hack-and-slay hack attack hacked off hacked up hacker hacking run Hacking X for Y hackish hackishness hackitude hack mode hack on hack together hack up hack value ha ha only serious hair hairy HAKMEM hakspek hamster hand-hacking handshaking handwave hang Hanlon's Razor hardcoded hardwarily hardwired hash bucket hash collision has the X nature HCF heads down heartbeat heavy metal heavyweight heavy wizardry heisenbug Helen Keller mode hello sailor! hello wall! hello, world hex hexadecimal hexit hidden flag high bit highly high moby hirsute HLL hobbit hog holy wars home box hook hop hose hosed hot spot house wizard HP-SUX huff humma Humor, Hacker humungous hung hungry puppy hungus hyperspace i14y i18n IBM IBM discount ice I didn't change anything! ill-behaved IMHO incantation include include war indent style infant mortality infinite infinity insanely great INTERCAL interesting Internet address interrupt interrupt list, the interrupts locked out in the extreme iron Iron Age iron box ironmonger ITS IWBNI IYFEG jaggies JCL JEDR JFCL jiffy job security jock joe code J. Random J. Random Hacker JR[LN] jump off into never-never land K kahuna kamikaze packet ken kgbvax killer micro killer poke kill file kilo- KIPS KISS Principle kit kluge kluge around kluge up Knights of the Lambda Calculus Knuth K&R kremvax lace card language lawyer languages of choice larval stage lase laser chicken laundromat LDB leaf site leak leaky heap legal legalese LERP let the smoke out lexer life light pipe like kicking dead whales down the beach like nailing jelly to a tree line eater, the line starve link farm lint lion food LISP literature, the little-endian Live Free Or Die! livelock liveware lobotomy locked and loaded locked up logical logic bomb loop through 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 lunatic fringe lurker luser M macdink machoflops Macintrash macro macro- macrology macrotape maggotbox magic magic cookie magic number magic smoke mailing list mainframe main loop management manged mangle mangler mango marginal Marginal Hacks marginally marketroid martian massage math-out Matrix Mbogo, Dr. Fred meatware meg mega- megapenny MEGO meltdown, network meme meme plague memetics memory leak menuitis mess-dos meta meta bit MFTL mickey micro- microfloppies microfortnight microLenat microReid microtape middle-endian milliLampson minifloppies MIPS misbug misfeature Missed'em-five miswart moby mod mode mode bit modulo molly-guard Mongolian Hordes technique monkey up monstrosity Moof Moore's Law moria MOTAS MOTOS MOTSS mouse ahead mouse around mouse belt mouse droppings mouse elbow mouso MS-DOS MUD mudhead multician Multics multitask mumblage mumble munch munching squares munchkin mundane mung Murphy's Law Music mutter N nailed to the wall nailing jelly naive naive user NAK nano- nanoacre nanobot nanocomputer nanofortnight nanotechnology nastygram Nathan Hale nature neat hack neep-neep neophilia net.- net.god nethack netiquette netnews net.police netrock network address network meltdown network, the newbie newgrp wars New Jersey newline NeWS newsfroup newsgroup New Testament nickle Nightmare File System night mode NIL NMI noddy NOMEX underwear nonlinear non-optimal solution nontrivial no-op notwork NP- NSA line eater nuke null device number-crunching numbers NUXI problem nybble nyetwork Ob- Obfuscated C Contest obscure octal forty off-by-one error offline off the trolley old fart Old Testament ONE BELL SYSTEM (IT WORKS) one-line fix one-liner wars ooblick open open switch operating system Orange Book Oriental Food orphan orthogonal OS OS/2 out-of-band overflow bit overrun overrun screw padded cell page in page out pain in the net paper-net param parent message parity errors Parkinson's Law of Data parm parse @-party Pascal patch path pathological payware PBD PC-ism PD pdl PDP-10 peek pencil and paper peon percent-s perf perfect programmer syndrome Perl pessimal pessimizing compiler peta- PETSCII phase phase of the moon phreaking pico- pig, run like a ping Pink-Shirt Book PIP pipeline pistol pizza, ANSI standard pizza box plain-ASCII plan file platinum-iridium playpen playte plingnet plonk plugh plumbing PM pod P.O.D. poke poll polygon pusher POM pop posing post posting postmaster power cycle PPN precedence lossage prepend pretty pictures prettyprint prime time priority interrupt profile program Programmer's Cheer programming propeller head proprietary protocol provocative maintenance prowler pseudo pseudoprime pseudosuit psychedelicware pubic directory puff punched card punt Purple Book push quad quadruple bucky quantum bogodynamics quarter ques quick and dirty quux qux QWERTY rain dance random randomness random numbers rape rare raster blaster raster burn rat belt rave rave on! ravs raw mode RE README file read-only user 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 acronyms Red Book regexp reincarnation, cycle of reinvent the wheel religious issues replicator reply restriction retcon retrocomputing RFC RFE rib site rice box Right Thing RL roach robust rococo rogue room-temperature IQ root rot13 rotary debugger RSN RTFAQ RTFM RTI RTM rude runes runic rusty iron rusty memory sacred saga sagan SAIL salescritter salt mines salt substrate same-day-service sandbender sandbox sanity check say Science-Fiction Fandom scram switch scratch scratch monkey screw screwage scribble scrog scrozzle SCSI search-and-destroy mode secondary damage second-system effect security through obscurity segfault seggie segment segmentation fault segv self-reference selvage semi senior bit server SEX sex changer shareware shelfware shell shell out shift left (or right) logical shitogram short card shotgun debugging showstopper shriek sidecar sig block signal-to-noise ratio sig quote silicon silicon foundry silly walk silo Silver Book since time T equals minus infinity sitename skulker slap on the side sleep slim slop slopsucker slurp smart smart terminal smash case smash the stack smiley smoke test smoking clover SMOP SNAFU principle snail-mail snarf snarf & barf snark sneakernet sniff snivitz 'Snooze s/n ratio SO social science number softcopy software bloat software rot softwarily softy some random X sorcerer's apprentice mode SOS source of all good bits space-cadet keyboard SPACEWAR spaghetti code spaghetti inheritance spam special-case spell spiffy spin spin-lock spl splat spooge spool stack stack puke stale pointer bug state stiffy stir-fried random stomp on Stone Age stoppage stubroutine studlycaps stunning subshell sucking mud suit suitable win sunspots sun-stools superprogrammer support Suzie COBOL swab swap swapped swap space swizzle sync syntactic sugar sys-frog sysop system system mangler T tail recursion talker system talk mode tall card tanked tar and feather taste tayste TCB tea, ISO standard cup of TechRef TECO tee Telerat TELNET ten-finger interface tense tenured graduate student tera- teraflop club terminak terminal brain death terminal illness terminal junkie terpri test TeX text thanks in advance theology theory thinko This time, for sure! thrash thread three-finger salute thunk tick tickle a bug tick-list features time sink time T tinycrud tip of the ice-cube tired iron tits on a keyboard TLA (tm) toast toaster toeprint toggle tool toolsmith TOPS-10 TOPS-20 toto tourist touristic tourist information toy toy language toy problem toy program trampoline trap trap door trash tree-killer trit trivial troglodyte troglodyte mode Trojan horse true-hacker tty tube tube time tunafish tune turbo nerd turist tweak TWENEX twiddle twink twonkie two pi two-to-the-n UBD undefined external reference under the hood undocumented feature uninteresting UNIX UNIX conspiracy unixism UNIX weenie unwind-protect unwind the stack UN*X up upload upthread urchin Usenet user user-friendly user-obsequious USG UNIX UUCPNET vadding vanilla vannevar vaporware var VAX VAXectomy VAXen vaxism vaxocentrism vdiff veeblefester Venus flytrap verbage verbiage Version 7 vgrep vi videotex virgin virtual virtual Friday virtual reality virus visionary VMS voice-net voodoo programming vulcan nerve pinch vulture capitalist wabbit WAITS waldo walk walking drives wall wall follower wallpaper wall time wango wank wannabee -ware wart washing machine water MIPS wave a dead chicken weasel wedged wedgitude weeble weeds weenie Weenix well-behaved well-connected wetware what wheel wheel wars White Book whizzy WIBNI widget wiggles WIMP environment win win big Winchester winged comments winnage winner winnitude win win wired wirehead wish list wizard Wizard Book wizardly wizard mode WOMBAT wonky workaround working as designed worm wound around the axle wrap around write-only code write-only language write-only memory Wrong Thing wugga wugga WYSIWYG X xor xref XXX xyzzy YA- YABA YAUN Yellow Book Yet Another 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 zeroth zigamorph zip zipperhead zombie Zork