Navigation Random Term corge /korj/ [originally, the name of a cat] n. Yet another
{metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated
by the {GOSMACS} documentation. See... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION
Miscellaneous Hacker Terms
dinosaur pen n. A traditional {mainframe} computer room complete with
raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air
conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire...FULL DEFINITION restriction n. A {bug} or design error that limits a program's
capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can
quite work up enough nerve...FULL DEFINITION garbage collect vi. (also `garbage collection', n.) See {GC}. fuck me harder excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious
misbehavior, esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which
seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by...FULL DEFINITION Open DeathTrap n. Abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz
Operation's `Open DeskTop' product, a Motif-based graphical
interface over their UNIX. The funniest part is that...FULL DEFINITION live data n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes
over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such
as viewing it....FULL DEFINITION pizza, ANSI standard /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni
and mushroom pizza. Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered
by CMU hackers during some period leading up to...FULL DEFINITION core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core
memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also
still...FULL DEFINITION
