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18 July 2008

• (diff) (hist) . . N Lossage‎; 16:14 . . (+528) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} lossage: /los'@j/, n. [very common] The result of a bug or malfunction. This is a mass or collective noun. “What a loss!” and “What [[...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N ZX Spectrum‎; 15:53 . . (+682) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} Sinclair's first personal computer with a color display. The Spectrum used the Zilog Z80 processor like its predecessors the ZX-80 and ZX-81. It was o...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N BOTS-10‎; 15:46 . . (+21) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (Redirecting to TOPS-10)
• (diff) (hist) . . N TOPS-10‎; 15:46 . . (+432) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} TOPS-10: /tops ten/, n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now long extinct. A fountain of [[hacker fo...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Macbeth‎; 15:40 . . (+31) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (Redirecting to The Scottish Play)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Programming‎; 15:40 . . (+480) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} programming: n. # The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file). “Bloody instructio...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Windows‎; 15:34 . . (+99) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} See Microsoft Windows, Windows NT. (1997-11-23) Category:Operating System)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Character‎; 15:31 . . (+117) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} An atom in a character repertoire. Compare with glyph. (1998-10-18) Category:Character)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Compiler‎; 15:27 . . (+1,117) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} A program that converts another program from some source language (or programming language) to machine language (object code). Some compilers output [[...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N MS-DOS‎; 15:09 . . (+66) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (Redirecting to Microsoft Disk Operating System)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Terminal‎; 15:06 . . (+649) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} # <hardware> An electronic or electromechanical device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and displaying data received. Early termina...)
• (diff) (hist) . . Internet‎; 15:00 . . (+12) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Network, the‎; 15:00 . . (+25) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (Redirecting to The network)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Network‎; 14:59 . . (+816) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} Hardware and software data communication systems. The OSI seven layer model attempts to provide a way of partitioning any computer network into indepen...)
• (diff) (hist) . . Internet‎; 14:54 . . (-86) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Internet‎; 14:54 . . (+2,436) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: =small "i" internet= (Note: not capitalised) Any set of networks interconnected with routers. The Internet is the biggest example of an internet. (1996-09-17) [[Categor...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Programmer‎; 14:28 . . (+397) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} (Or "computer programmer", "developer") Someone who writes or debugs computer programs, for a living or for fun. "Analyst/developer" is a common equivalent [[job ti...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N IBM‎; 14:24 . . (+45) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (Redirecting to International Business Machines)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Hardware‎; 14:21 . . (+732) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} The physical, touchable, material parts of a computer or other system. The term is used to distinguish these fixed parts of a system from the more changable software o...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Computer‎; 14:15 . . (+1,039) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{FOLDOC}} <computer> A machine that can be programmed to manipulate symbols. Computers can perform complex and repetitive procedures quickly, precisely and reliably and ...)
• (diff) (hist) . . IML‎; 14:12 . . (0) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . N IML‎; 14:11 . . (+46) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{foldoc}} See Initial Microprogram Load.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N IMHO‎; 14:11 . . (+418) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} IMHO: //, abbrev. [from SF fandom via Usenet; abbreviation for ‘In My Humble Opinion’] “IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as mistyping...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Sexual Habits (Jargon File)‎; 12:01 . . (+471) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{JargonFile}} Hackerdom easily tolerates a much wider range of sexual and lifestyle variation than the mainstream culture. It includes a relatively large gay and bisexual con...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Geographical Distribution (Jargon File)‎; 11:57 . . (+643) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{JargonFile}} In the United States, hackerdom revolves on a Bay Area-to-Boston axis; about half of the hard core seems to live within a hundred miles of Cambridge ([[...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Religion (Jargon File)‎; 11:54 . . (+1,020) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{JargonFile}} Agnostic. Atheist. Non-observant Jewish. Neo-pagan. Very commonly, three or more of these are combined in the same person. Conventional faith-holding [[Chri...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Gender and Ethnicity (Jargon File)‎; 11:51 . . (+1,397) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{JargonFile}} Hackerdom is still predominantly male. However, the percentage of women is clearly higher than the low-single-digit range typical for technical professions, and fem...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Politics (Jargon File)‎; 11:47 . . (+624) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{JargonFile}} Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism). There is a strong...)
• (diff) (hist) . . Food (Jargon File)‎; 11:44 . . (-1) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Food (Jargon File)‎; 11:43 . . (+959) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon File}} Ethnic. Spicy. Oriental, esp. Chinese and most esp. Szechuan, Hunan, and Mandarin (hackers consider Cantonese vaguely déclassé). Hackers prefer t...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Yow!‎; 11:34 . . (+246) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} Yow!: /yow/, interj. [from “Zippy the Pinhead” comix] A favored hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. “Yow! Check out what happens when you [[...)
• (diff) (hist) . . YMMV‎; 11:28 . . (+2) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . N YMMV‎; 11:28 . . (+116) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} YMMV: //, cav. Abbreviation for Your mileage may vary common on Usenet. Category:YMMV)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Yellow card‎; 11:17 . . (+53) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} yellow card: n. See green card.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Xref‎; 11:14 . . (+97) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} xref: /X ref/, v.,n. Hackish standard abbreviation for cross-reference.)
• (diff) (hist) . . m XOFF‎; 11:09 . . (-5) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . XON‎; 11:09 . . (+76) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . XOFF‎; 11:08 . . (+82) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Wugga wugga‎; 11:06 . . (+175) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} wugga wugga: /wuh g@ wuh g@/, n. Imaginary sound that a computer program makes as it labors with a tedious or difficult task. See grind (sense 4).)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Write-only code‎; 11:06 . . (+243) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} write-only code: n. [ a play on read-only memory ] Code so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by anyone but its [[autho...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Wound around the axle‎; 11:05 . . (+110) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} wound around the axle: adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Wok-on-the-wall‎; 04:06 . . (+219) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} wok-on-the-wall: n. A small microwave dish antenna used for cross-campus private network circuits, from the obvious resemblance between a microwave dish an...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Wizardly‎; 04:04 . . (+146) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} wizardly: adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Within delta of‎; 04:03 . . (+54) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} within delta of: adj. See delta.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Wirewater‎; 03:58 . . (+246) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} wirewater: n. Syn. programming fluid. This melds the mainstream slang adjective ‘wired’ (stimulated, up, hyperactive) with ‘firewater’; however, i...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Wired‎; 03:57 . . (+45) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} wired: n. See hardwired.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Wintel‎; 03:54 . . (+218) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} Wintel: n. Microsoft Windows plus Intel — the tacit alliance that dominated desktop computing in the 1990s. After 1999 it began to break up under pressure f...)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Winnage‎; 03:51 . . (+120) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} winnage: /win'@j/, n. The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something is winning.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Winkey‎; 03:48 . . (+70) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Jargon}} winkey: n. (alt.: winkey face) See emoticon.)
• (diff) (hist) . . N Losedoze‎; 03:46 . . (+21) . . Cerebrate (Talk | contribs) (Redirecting to Windoze)