tarball n.
[very common; prob. based on the "tar
baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the
Unix tar(1) utility, containing myriad related files. "Here, I'll
just ftp you a tarball of the whole project." Tarballs have been
the standard way to ship around source-code distributions since the
mid-1980s; in retrospect it seems odd that this term did not enter
common usage until the late 1990s.
[very common; prob. based on the "tar
baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the
Unix tar(1) utility, containing myriad related files. "Here, I'll
just ftp you a tarball of the whole project." Tarballs have been
the standard way to ship around source-code distributions since the
mid-1980s; in retrospect it seems odd that this term did not enter
common usage until the late 1990s.
Related:
- tar and feather vi.
[from Unix tar(1)] To create a
transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them
together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see compress).
The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly... - magic number n.
[Unix/C; common] 1. In source code,
some non-obvious constant whose value is significant... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything,
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - tar and feather: [from UNIX `tar(1)'] vt. To create a
transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them
together with `tar(1)' (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see {compress}).
The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly... - back door n.
[common] A hole in the security of a
system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
The motivation for such holes is not always sinister... - diff /dif/ n.
1. A change listing, especially giving
differences between (and additions to) source code or documents
(the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
"Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare... - diff: /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving
differences between (and additions to) source code or documents
(the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
"Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare... - mainframe n.
Term originally referring to the cabinet
containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a
room-filling Stone Age batch machine.
After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs... - delta n.
1. [techspeak] A quantitative change, especially a
small or incremental one (this use is general in physics and
engineering).
"I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What ...
From the same category:
- netburp n.
[IRC] When netlag gets really bad, and
delays between servers exceed a certain threshhold,
the IRC network effectively becomes partitioned... - Core Wars n.
A game between `assembler' programs in
a machine or machine simulator,
where the objective is to kill your opponent's program... - memetics /me-met'iks/ n.
[from meme] The study of
memes.
As of early 1999, this is still an extremely informal... - XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n.
The famed Palo Alto
Research Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into ... - fragile adj.
Syn brittle...
