random jargon terms

source

admin — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:41:37 +0000

source n.

[very common] In reference to software, source is invariably shorthand for ‘source code’, the preferred human-readable and human-modifiable form of the program. This is as opposed to object code, the derived binary executable form of a program. This shorthand readily takes derivative forms; one may speak of “the sources of a system” or of “having source”.

ham

admin — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:44:14 +0000

ham

The opposite of spam, sense 3; that is, incoming mail that the user actually wants to see.

google

admin — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:12:27 +0000

google v.

[common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, http://www.google.com. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many hackers consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively irrelevant. The name ‘google’ has additional flavor for hackers because most know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, famously first uttered as ‘googol’ by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew.

go gold

admin — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:09:00 +0000

go gold v.

[common] See golden.

AUP

admin — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:38:08 +0000

AUP /A·U·P/

Abbreviation, “Acceptable Use Policy”. The policy of a given ISP which sets out what the ISP considers to be (un)acceptable uses of its Internet resources.