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gnarly /nar'lee/ adj. Both obscure and hairy (sense 1). "Yow! the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. |
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GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: 'GNU's Not Unix!', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is "Help stamp out software hoarding!" Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. See EMACS, copyleft, General Public Virus, Linux. 2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore gnu@toad.com, founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy. |
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GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ n. [contraction of 'GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS. Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS. |
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go flatline v. [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] (also adjectival flatlined). 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen. |
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go root vi. [Unix] To temporarily enter root mode in order to perform a privileged operation. This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. 'root' refers to animal sex. |
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go-faster stripes n. [UK] Syn. chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK. |
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gobble vt. 1. To consume, usu. used with 'up'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer." 2. To obtain, usu. used with 'down'. |
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