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Note that most of the sites in the com and edu domains are in the U.S. or Canada. |
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sites in the U.S. outside the functional domains |
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sites in the ex-Soviet Union (see kremvax). |
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sites in the United Kingdom |
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Within the us domain, there are subdomains for the fifty states, each generally with a name identical to the state's postal abbreviation. Within the uk domain, there is an ac subdomain for academic sites and a co domain for commercial ones. Other top-level domains may be divided up in similar ways. |
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interrupt 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine. See also trap. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Often explicitly spoken. "Interrupthave you seen Joe recently?" See priority interrupt. 3. Under MS-DOS, nearly synonymous with 'system call', because the OS and BIOS routines are both called using the INT instruction (see interrupt list, the) and because programmers so often have to bypass the OS (going directly to a BIOS interrupt) to get reasonable performance. |
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interrupt list, the n. [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown ralf@cs.cmu.edu. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length. |
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interrupts locked out adj. When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym interrupts disabled is also common. Variations abound; "to have one's interrupt mask bit set" and "interrupts masked out'' are also heard. See also spl. |
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IRC /I-R-C/ n. [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time. IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions |
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