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[Usenet] Variant spelling of hack, used only for the noun form and connoting an elegant hack.

hardwarily /hard-weir'*-lee/ /adv./

In a way pertaining to hardware. E.g.:"The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective `hardwary' is not traditionally used.

HLL /H-L-L/ /n./ [High-Level Language] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech. Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found. VHLL stands for `Very-High-Level Language' and is used to describe Standard English that the speaker happens to like; Prolog and

Backus's FP are often called VHLLs. `MLL' stands for `Medium-Level Language' and is sometimes used half-jokingly to describe C, alluding to its `structured-assembler' image.

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IBM /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near- infinite number of even less complimentary expansions, including `International Business Machines'. These abbreviations illustrate the considerable antipathy most hackers have long felt toward the `industry leader'. What galls hackers about most IBM machines above the PC level isn't so much that they are underpowered and overpriced (though that does count against them), but that the designs are incredibly archaic and one can't fix them -- source code is locked up tight, and programming tools are expensive, hard to find.

IBM discount /n./ A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced.

INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ /n./ [`Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable.

Internet /n./ The mother of all networks, that absorbed into itself many of the proprietary networks built during the second wave of wide-area networking after 1980. It is now a commonplace even in mainstream media to predict that a globally-extended Internet will become the key unifying communications technology of the next century

Internet address /n./ [techspeak] An absolute network address of the form [email protected], where foo is a user name, bar is a sitename, and baz is a `domain' name, possibly including periods itself.

2. More loosely, any network address reachable through Internet; this includes bang path addresses and some internal corporate and government networks.ITS /I-T-S/ /n./ 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort. ITS pioneered many important innovations, including transparent file sharing between machines and terminal-independent I/O.

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k- /pref./ Extremely. Not commonly used among hackers, but quite common among crackers and warez d00dz in compounds such as `k-kool' /K'kool'/, `k-rad' /K'rad'/, and `k-awesome' /K'aw`sm/. Also used to intensify negatives; thus, `k-evil', `k-lame', `k-screwed', and `k-annoying'.

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lamer /n./ [prob. originated in skateboarder slang] Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common among warez d00dz, crackers, and phreakers. A lamer is one who scams codes off others rather than doing cracks or really understanding the fundamental concepts.

Ant. elite.

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marketroid /mar'k*-troyd/ /n./ alt. `marketing slime', `marketeer', `marketing droid', `marketdroid'. A member of a company's marketing department, esp. one who promises users that the next version of a product will have features that are not actually scheduled for inclusion, are extremely difficult to implement, and/or are in violation of the laws of physics.

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