:console: n. 1. The operator’s station of a {mainframe}. In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys. Under UNIX and other modern timesharing OSes, such privileges are guarded by passwords instead, and the console is just the {tty} the …
:condition out: vt. To prevent a section of code from being compiled by surrounding it with a conditional-compilation directive whose condition is always false. The {canonical} examples are `#if 0′ (or `#ifdef notdef’, though some find this {bletcherous}) and `#endif’ in C.
:dot.sig: n. This is your online signature, which you can tack onto the end of all your online appearances. A dot.sig is usually made up of thought-provoking quotes and ascii graphics. While somebody has to finger you to get your dot.plan, everybody is forced to see your dot.sig every time …
:dot.plan: n. This is a file in your home directory within UNIX that people can read when they <> you. Your dot.plan file (actually it’s just .plan) is where you put your advertisements for yourself. A typical dot.plan might start with a motto or a fave quote, such as, “In …
:deck: n. What cyberpunks in NEUROMANCER typed on and jacked in through…like a keyboard with phonejacks that plug into YOU.
:Cypherpunk: n. A guerrilla in the war for privacy and lots more encryption.
:Cyberpunk: n. 1. A citizen of cyberspace. 2. A citizen of cyberspace who wears mirrorshades indoors, at night.
The Night before ChristmasTis the night before Christmas,I thought with a frown.I was stuck at the office. The network was down.The routers were hung in the closet. all crashed.Their tables had holes in their data, all trashed. Remote distribution, it seems, just for fun,had erased DLLs Windows needed to run,on …
:Aquanet White: n. This is the most intense hairspray on the planet, for that BIG hair. Since you’re being so attentive, here’s a bonus goth haiku: Sun! Hide white skin, run– Burning, cloaked, I run… day sky!… Must… find… Aquanet
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