Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!pucc-j!pucc-i!agy From: agy@pucc-i (Roscoe) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Hacker's Guide to the Net Message-ID: <1197@pucc-i> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 14:03:25 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-i.1197 Posted: Mon Nov 11 14:03:25 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:57:49 EST Organization: Somewhere out of mind Lines: 169 Here are some entries from that net wide hit "The Hacker's Guide to the Net" Any comments, and/or additional entries would/will be appreciated. Somewhere, Somehow, Sometimes, Roscoe Rush {harpo,ihnp4,allegra,decvax}!pur-ee!pucc-i!agy {decwrl}purdue!pur-ee!pucc-i!agy !pucc-k!krs !rush ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LD(1) Hacker's Guide LD(1) NAME LD - (abb) Later Days SYNOPSIS LD DESCRIPTION commonly used to abbreviate the phrase 'later days' which is used most often as a fare well, or sign off in electronic communication. (i.e. talk, write, ...) It is interesting to note though that the people found using this phrase most often expect and usually do meet, communicate, and/or offend the party they are speaking with at least once more before the current day is over. This is further highlighted by the fact that those people bidding a fare well for a period of time longer than a day most commonly use the phrase 'goodbye'. -RMR SEE ALSO DL(1), LSD(1), HUNG(1), HANG(1) DL(1) Hacker's Guide DL(1) NAME DL - (abb) Days Later SYNOPSIS DL DESCRIPTION commonly used to abbreviate 'Days later' used most frequently in reponse to LD (see above) The why and hows of this phrase have never been fully or compleatly explained. All though some of the more unusual psychologists of this world and others are of the opinion that those bidded a fare well with LD realize that they will in fact meet the offending party much earlier than the implied length of time and being rather narrow minded and simple they create for themselves the required time elapse, hence the phrase 'Days Later'. -RMR SEE ALSO LD(1), LSD(1), HUNG(1), HANG(1) HANG(1) Hacker's guide HANG(1) NAME hang - to temporaily place a hold on communications - The action of a period of inactivity - Inquiry SYNOPSIS hang hanging DESCRIPTION Used quite frequently to denote the action of inactivity over a period of time. as in "The damn program keeps hanging itself". Of course this is paradoxical as in that the action of inactivity is an activity and therefore can not be considered to be in the inactive state. The explanation for this is simple. The program/device that is in the process of hanging itself is in fact experiencing an acute case a paranoia (for reasons unknown) and refuses to finish its assigned task by creating an infinite loop or pause. Naturally the human element involved in all of this, takes the whole situation quite personally and blames the deranged program/device for everything from his/her's lack of a social life to the communist overthrow of Utah. An alternate meaning of HANG is the temporary suspension of of an ongoing conversation/communication. This makes HANG the equivalent to "I am busy at the moment will you hold?" The Party being Hanged usually responds with HUNG (see HUNG(1)) and then procceeds to reach the point of impatience at a rate exponetial to the amount of time they have currently been hung. At this point the Hung party begins taking the whole situation personally and starts blaming the hanging party for his/her's lack of a social life and the Communist overthrow of Utah. (Note: The editor is not quite sure why the Communist overthrew Utah or exactly when, but believes it to be of some importance as everyone seems to mention it alot. ) A third use of HANG is in the form of an inquiry, i.e. as in "How's it hanging?" The usual reponse is "a little to the Left(right)" or the less common response "Its not". -RMR SEE ALSO LD(1), DL(1), LSD(1), HUNG(1) HUNG(1) Hacker's guide HUNG(1) NAME hung - acknowledgement response to hang (see hang(1)) SYNOPSIS hung DESCRIPTION The most common usage of HUNG is in reponse to HANG (see HANG(1)) An equivalant phrase for this would be "Yes, I understand that you are busy and really couldn't care less, but I will still wait on your sniveling, disgusting self." It has also been observed that some indivivuals become extremely pleased with themselves to use this phrase in the following context; "I'm HUNG". (Note: The editor believes that this might be a sexually related comment, but couldn't be able to say for sure, being one of those individuals who blame HANGING programs/devices for his lack of a Social life and the Communist overthrow of Utah.) Another use of HUNG is in connection with program/devices that are in the process of HANGING themselves (see HANG(1)) the usual usage is "my terminal just hung itself". Current theorists beleive that the paranoia of devices/programs attempting to HANG themselves becomes so acute that they can acutally succeed and that when they do, they receive an almost sadistic pleasure from screwing up their human counterpart/operator as much as is nonhumanly possible. Research into this area of computing has become ever more unpopular and mentally deranging. -RMR SEE ALSO LD(1), DL(1), LSD(1), HANG(1)