- ACK /ak/ interj.
1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic
for 0000110] Acknowledge.
Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream... - Acme n.
The canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate,
and non-functional gadgetry - where Rube Goldberg and... - acolyte n. obs.
[TMRC] An OSU privileged enough to submit data and... - ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n.
[Purdue] 1. Gratuitous
assumptions made inside certain programs,
esp. expert systems, which lead to the appearance... - Ada n.
A Pascal-descended language that has been made
mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the
Pentagon.
Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, ... - address harvester n.
A robot that searches web pages
and/or filters netnews traffic looking for valid email addresses.
Some address harvesters are benign, used only for compiling... - adger /aj'r/ vt.
[UCLA mutant of nadger,
poss.
also from the middle name of an infamous tenured graduate... - admin /ad-min'/ n.
Short for `administrator'; very
commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person
in charge on a computer.
Common constructions on this include ... - ADVENT /ad'vent/ n.
The prototypical computer
adventure game,
first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in... - AFAIK // n.
[Usenet] Abbrev.
for "As Far As I Know"...
