book titles
There is a tradition in hackerdom of
informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with
the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous
feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this lexicon
under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book
Camel Book, Cinderella Book,
Yellow Book, and bible; see also
There is a tradition in hackerdom of
informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with
the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous
feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this lexicon
under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book
Camel Book, Cinderella Book,
Yellow Book, and bible; see also
Related:
- book titles:: There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally
tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the
dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous
feature of the cover.
Many of these are described in this lexicon under... - Aluminum Book n.
[MIT] "Common LISP: The Language",
by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition... - Purple Book: n. 1. The "System V Interface Definition".
The covers of the first editions were an amazingly... - Red Book n.
1. Informal name for one of the four
standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language
Reference Manual",
Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985; QA76.73.P67P67... - Red Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard
references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference
Manual",
Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985; QA76.73.P67P67... - Cinderella Book [CMU] n.
"Introduction to Automata
Theory,
Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey... - Cinderella Book: [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory,
Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey... - rainbow series: n. Any of several series of technical manuals
distinguished by cover color.
The original rainbow series was the NCSC security... - Aluminum Book: [MIT] n. "Common LISP: The Language",
by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition...
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- priority interrupt n.
[from the hardware term] Describes
any stimulus compelling enough to yank one right out of hack mode.
Classically used to des SO for immediate sex, but... - emoticon /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n.
[common] An ASCII glyph
used to indicate an emotional state in email or news.
Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons... - ventilator card n.
Syn.
lace card... - spamhaus spam'hows n.
Pejorative term for an
internet service provider that permits or even encourages spam
mailings from its systems.
The plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page... - hotlink /hot'link/ n.
A hot spot on a World Wide Web
page;
an area, which, when clicked or selected, chases a...
