This is the FAQ/explain list of Darxide 1. Sept. 1997. Text version, AmigaGuide version also available. Converted by Stig-Espen Soleng using Ced. Reach me at y-ungdom@online.no, and visit my homepage on http://home.sol.no/y-ungdom/sunfield. # Dancer explain list version: Dancer V4.6.5 #amiga Mainly for talk about the Amiga computer. Channel is often crowded, don't flood, beep or act disturbing. Often we discuss everything from 90210 and military aircraft to sex. :) People tend to eat, sleep and take walkabouts 3W World Wide Web. 42 The Ultimate answer to Life, The Universe, And Everything. ^ is the string which holds the two braincells of a lamer together. A No bold. No public aways. Aminet. RTFM. English. Smile. It's in ROM. AAA Advanced Amiga Architecture chipset, featuring full 24-bit graphics (including chunky modes), 16-bit 8-channel stereo audio, and is 6-18 times the speed of older chipsets. Got canned when CBM when into liquidation. AAAAA American Association Against Acronym Abuse abox A\BOX is the name of Phase5's coming PPC Amiga machine with a kickass custom chip set (vapor pending). Check out http://www.phase5. de/news/aboxe.html for more info abuse We are the Nazi-Fascist homosexual non-Amiga-owning fart-sniffing elitist self-centered near-sighted PacMan-challenged Usenet-flaming rational-argument-ignoring socially challenged power-tripping wanking kick-happy ops, and we eat little kids, too. You have a problem with that? If you do, contact the BLAZEMONGER customer department and they will be happy to be of service. ADE Amiga Development Environment, see 'GeekGadgets' AFAIK As Far As I Know AFS Ami-File-Safe (AFS) replacement file system for all Amigas by Forth Level Developments. Faster, more reliable but still lacking some tools... AHI retargetable audio for the amiga. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/ahi.html AIX IBM Inc. implementation of UNIX. alot Are you sure you don't mean "a lot"? Alynx Amiga Port of the text-only WWW browser, by wwwutz. Supports forms, external graphics, mpeg players, mod players.. anything but inline graphics. Get the latest beta version from http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg. de/amiga/alynx.html . If that doesn't work, use the site 141.14.128.2 . AmiFTP A new gui-ftp client based on fontsensitive ClassAct GUI. Find out more on http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lilja/AmiFTP.html or ftp:eniac. campus.luth.se/pub/amiga/amiftp Amiga The machine with one of the market's coolest operating systems, AmigaOS. Its hardware is built around the Motorola MC680x0 series, with a custom [Zorro] bus. Previously owned by Commodore and Escom, now owned by Gateway2000. amigademos Get lots of them from ftp://i41s20.ira.uka.de AmigaJava Currently a number of projects in the works. Finale Development is working on a fast Java VM with AWT (info@finale-dev.com for info). guavac (compiler) and kaffe (vm) are part of ADE at ftp://ftp. ninemoons.com/pub/ade Amigan A person who owns an Amiga computer. They will moan about not having enough software or their machines are too slow. But try telling them to give their machines away and they will defend their beloved machines to death. BEWARE --» Amigans have no scruples or sanity! But they can multitask!!! AmigaVoyager see Voyager AmigaVoyagerNG see Voyager Aminet The world's largest collection of Amiga files. Get the /pub/aminet/ README on ftp.aminet.org, ftp.wustl.edu, ftp.netnet.net, ftp.luth.se, ftp.uni-kl.de, or ftp.uni-paderborn.de for more info on how to access AmiNet. AmiQuake AmiQuake is based on stolen source code. It's piracy and nothing else. AmIRC Amiga IRC client. Has interesting features including handling of certain events, ARexx, and internal DCC. Watch out for early versions with viruses, dubious data reporting, or undocumented exipration dates. Uses MUI. Latest version on ftp://wade1.umb.edu AMIS AMIS, an editor capable of editting/viewing ASCII, HTML, AmigaGuide and ANSI files. Also the C and Assembler languages are supported. To find out more about the power of AMIS, look at http://www.zeelandnet. nl/people/supernov amos AssMunch programmers way to bypass the Operating System. AMosaic One of the first graphical Amiga WWW browsers. It was replaced by IBrowse and is no longer supported. See Voyager, IBrowse or AWeb instead. AMosiac learn to spell, it's "AMosaic"! ANet Amiga-friendly IRC network that isn't just faster and less split, but also a generally cool place to be. Try irc.it.kth.se, whiterose. net, irc.thule.no, or irc.fastlane.net.au ANSI American National Standards Institute. The U.S.standardization body. ANSI is a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) AOL Aberrant Organization of Lamers. Also famous for it's festering evil and stupidity. AR100 The Amiga Report Top 100, the biggest survey on Amiga user's favourite games. Vote on http://www.dhp.com/~kend/ar100.html -KenD AROS Amiga Replacement OS. http://aros.fh-konstanz.de/~digulla/ ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency. Now called DARPA, the U.S. government agency that funded the ARPANET. ARPANET A packet switched network developed in the early 1970s. The " grandfather" of today's Internet. ARPANET was decommissioned in June 1990. Ashiq Like a beaver, he eats, roots and leaves. aTmosh Pizza! Australia Alcatraz on a larger scale Auto-Away DONT do it. It is NOT allowed on this channel! AutoAway We don't like auto-away scripts. Anyone perpetrating one will be kicked. Away If a person temporary leaves the terminal or for some other reason isn't monitoring the channel he can set himself "/away ". The reason can be read by doing a "/whois ". If away the person is G(one), otherwise H(ere). AWeb The only commercial Amiga WWW browser that doesn't use MUI. It doesn't display as many things properly as the MUI browsers, but it is very fast (doesn't chew up your CPU). Check out the demo on the AmiNet (AWeb.lha) or http://www.amitrix.com AWT Abstract Windowing Toolkit. Java's platform independant windowing, graphics, and user-interface toolkit. B5 any people spoiling B5 (anything from season 3 on) will be kbanned without prejudice. babbage You should worship and idolise him, after all, if he hadn't invented the computer, you wouldn't be here now would you! =;) Bagder Co-author of Darxide, FrexxEd, FPL and a buncha projects. Amiga and UNIX developer. Is supposed to work during the days... Daniel. Stenberg@sth.frontec.se ban Channel ban. Prevents a user from entering a channel. Baud `level transitions per second', this coincides with bps only for two- level modulation with no framing or stop bits. Bawt Perl bot running in #Amiga. Written by Optic. bbl Be Back Later Be Be Inc. was founded by Jean-Louis Gassee in 1990 to overcome the of limitations of existing computer architectures. Their first product [ BeBox] was launched in Oct. 3, 1995. See also URL http://www.be.com/ bear Mary had a little bear, it followed her everywhere, so everywhere that mary went she had a bear behind! BeBox The first real-time, object-oriented system with multiple PPC processors, true preemptive multitasking and without the limitations of other existing computer architectures, from Be Inc. This computer has been described by the creator as the AMIGA 96. See also [Be]. because Why? begops Improving your level/status. Have you tried 'sucking' up to a higher operator yet? Some simple guidelines: 1. Send lots of money/beer. ( anything of value) 2. Offer a sexual partner. 3. Ask not what *they* can do for you, but what *you* can do for them. 4. If the 1st 3 fail ... go to 1. and up the ante!! ;-) betatest To voluntarily entrust one's data, one's livelihood and one's sanity to hardware or software intended to destroy all three. In earlier days, virgins were often selected to beta test volcanos. bias I've never used or seen the product in question, so therefore my opinion is totally unbiased. Bigot A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool. Real bigots can be distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/or technology is threatening to obsolete the favored tool. blotto See 'anet' BNF `Backus-Naur Form', a metasyntactic notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages, command sets, and the like. BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell. Omnipotent Master of the Network. Controls every keystroke, every bit that goes on your computer. Someone you know may be a [BOFH]. Beware these beings, for they are evil. bored The perpetual state of Cstar on #amiga Bot A program on IRC normally used to guard a channel and serve its users. brb Be Right Back breese My father... kewl d00d :) IRC inhabitant, master-idler, and random chatter. Graduate student in computer science. http://www.imada.ou.dk/~breese/ Browsers There are many WWW browsers available for the Amiga. The three most popular commercial ones are IBrowse, AWeb and Voyager. BSD Berkeley Software Distribution. A UNIX version. SunOS and ULTRIX are based on BSD. bsd_ Big Swinging Donger BT You thought VACUUM cleaners sucked more, DIDNT YOU? BTF Bugged To Fuck btw By The Way Celsius A temperature scale named after the swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-44). 0 Celsius is at the freezing point of water, and 100 Celsius is at the boiling point of water. [also 'degree'] CET Central European Time. The timezone which Denmark lies in. CET = GMT + 1 hour. chanop Channel operator. Takes care of the daily administration of a particular channel and is therefore granted some extra priviledges, like kicking people off the channel. chat Dcc chat establishes a direct connection between two users. Use "/ dcc chat " to make the connection; "/msg = " to communicate (remember the '= '); and "/dcc close chat " to close the connection. ChatBox Best Amiga IRC client. Features AREXX interface, /on event trapping, /friends and makes coffee. (Testimonials available :) http://www.hut.fi/~samzait/chatbox/ Christmas see 'humbug' ClassAct A fast, resource-friendly, resizable and font-adaptive GUI system with user preferences over window backfill, bevel styles and more. For more info visit http://www.warped.com/~timmer/classact/ client The program used by users to communicate with IRC. clue A clue is never for sale... you just have it or you don't... although it's not a channel rule, people without the clue are usually kicked as we want them to search for it outside of the channel. cnet One of the most powerful Amiga BBS package available. Currently at v4.21 (beta). Contact rakey@netrover.com for ordering information! complaints =-= Feeling annoyed? Not getting any satisfaction? Then we are here to help. No complaint will NOT be given a fair hearing. Complaints are our business. EMail Ima@whinger.onnet.com If you hadn't received a reply within 7 days we could be busy still complaining about you. T® Copyright Guess how long they last? For works created since January 1, 1978, the copyright lasts for the length of the author's life plus 50 years, or in the case of a 'work for hire' 75 years from the publication date, or 100 years from the creation date, whichever is shorter. So nyahh :þ Crash Failure of computer program. I've been known to have one from time to time. csd #Amiga's Daddy, annoy him at your peril. Cstar No money. No job. No girlfriend. No life. No prospects. Nothing on the horizon. No reasons to get out of bed in the morning. Cstarware lame-arse, unsupported, enforcer-hit-enchanced unix conversions ported for Cstar's enjoyment. If anyone else finds them useful, that's just a byproduct. CTCP Client to Client Protocol. This is used to automate some queries, like getting client-information, version, and local time. If your client doesn't support this feature remove the author from your evening prayers :) ctcp2 New to become CTCP standard that'll replace the current CTCP protocol. Details at http://www.valuserve.com/~robey/ctcp/ cybergfx 24bit RTG system supporting a number of gfx cards. See http://www.vgr.com/cybergfx/ daemon [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym ` Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. Dancer IRC bot written by breese/stderr and Bagder. Runs under just about any UNIX. Darxide is one! http://www.imada.ou.dk/~breese/dancer/ darwin his nick is Darwin Darxide I'm a guardian bot. I make sure you all follow the rules, know how to explain things for you and fight bad guys! I'm written by breese and Bagder. Check out http://www.imada.ou.dk/~breese/dancer.html Dave Dave wants a donut DCC Direct Client to Client communication. Either used for sending files or chatting with another without going through the servers. Sending and receiving files are done by "/dcc send " and "/dcc get ". decimalpoint Americans use point (.) as decimal point. We don't, we use comma (,). degree Celsius = ( Fahrenheit - 32 ) * 5/9 ; Fahrenheit = Celsius * 9/5 + 32 ; Kelvin = Celsius + 273.15 Demon --» Dail 666,and have a devil of a time trying to connect,or stay connected.. *CLICK* Please insert another coin. T® desynch A channel is desynched if two servers disagree on the channel modes and on who are chanops. This typically happens when two chanops on different servers deop each other at the same time. diz LamerSpeak for this. See 'ne1'. DNS Domain Name System. The distributed name/address mechanism used in the Internet. Domain In the Internet, a part of a naming hierarchy. Syntactically, an Internet domain name consists of a sequence of names (labels) separated by periods (dots), e.g., "tundra.mpk.ca.us." In OSI, " domain" is generally used as an administrative partition of a complex distributed system, as in MHS Private Management Domain (PRMD), and Directory Management Domain (DMD). Donkey If it's made of concrete it's utterly holy, and will most likely be surrounded by chanting crowds. The Concrete Donkey brotherhood. doobrie wotsit. thingy. wing-wong for a goose's bridle. thing-a-me-jig. doyler doyler is a nice boy, don't listen to what gregh says! Dr_Ash A complete nutta DR_PHUQT "feh" dr_phuqt2 Team leader of the A.N.A.L. squad ! dustbin Smells like dog chit! Tastes like dog chit! Lucky I no tread on! eetu The sea is rendered :) elephants What's grey and comes in buckets? elitetalk Dont talk in 3l33t 5p3ak around here. It doesn't show anything more than a lack of intelligence. Avoid MiXeD cApS, replacing 's' with 'z', using 'ne1', using ` in place of ', and using excessive numbers of exclamation marks or question marks. If you have to use elite speak, go to #amiga_warez or somewhere else. english This is an English-speaking channel so please speak only that. There are other channels for non-English speaking persons or form your own. Please don't make us ban you over something so stupid. english2 speak only please you that which in the channel are at all times when you are in the language or kicked out from boot in your rectum, ja? EnPrint A set of highly configurable printer drivers for the Epson Stylus Color series of printers. The package is commercial and comes with a 24-bit print dump program. Contact sales@endicor.com for more info.. enterprise To change your userid with the NetConnect package and AmIRC, edit the AmiTCP:db/passwd file and replace "nobody" with your correct username. EST Eastern Standard Time. EST = GMT - 5 hours. Exec The core level of the AmigaOS. Among other things, Exec is responsible for multitasking, memory management, interprocess communication and list manipulation. OH yes, Exec is also a smart- ass who inhabits #Amiga. explain Well, since I'm the bot, I've gotta do the dirty work and explain all these simple matters for you my humble users... explanation a mutual discussion designed to correct a misunderstanding or reconcile differences [webster] Fahrenheit A temperature scale named after the german physics Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736). Some weird scale which the Americans insists on using ;) [also 'degree'] FAQ Frequenly Asked Question(s). This bot features the command 'explain' to explain facts other bots may do with the 'faq' command. feep Verb. Adding useless (more than sensible) features. Fellow Another Amiga emulator. If you insist on emulating an Amiga instead of purchasing one, get it from "http://www.ifi.uio.no/~pettersc/ fellow/fellow.html". BUY the ROMs from http://www.wordbench.com/alex.html Fido Frotz's cat, he is a white Turkish angora with *8* toes on each front paw and *6* on each back paw. He also has one tan eye and one blue eye. Perhaps he's a mutant. He likes to play with the rings off milkjugs and he thinks people are stupid. fingerd AmiTCP's in.fingerd is not safe, and can allow others access to your system. Remove it from inetd.conf! firewall a way of making your computers very secure and only accepting the incoming connections that you allow. firststep Change your password: "/msg darxide pass pass" "/msg darxide newpass " Flame To express strong opinion and/or criticism of something, usually as a frank inflammatory statement in an electronic message. Flood Several lines of text dumped onto a channel or a user. In general floods degrades network performance. Don't flood! FPL Frexx Programming Language. A multi-platform, shared library based, * VERY* C-like language, interpreting programming language. Designed for easy implementation by software producers in need for a macro/ script language. Written by Bagder. fredbo Also known as Fredbot. Is believed to be an highly trained AI engine. Has a quota of 30 words/day, and can use them at the most unexpected moment, so be sure to be here. Fredbot The official ping-bot of #amiga. Deceivingly uses the name 'Fredbo'. Usually does what he wants and doesn't allow anyone make him do anything he doesn't want to allow be done. Freeciv The TCP multiplayer freeware civilization, get it from Aminet, comm/tcp FrexxEd Advanced shareware text editor for Amiga. Very customizeable, extremely programmable with very few limitations. The internal programming language used, called FPL, is *very* C-like and powerful. Try HTTP://sunsite.auc.dk/frexxed Frotz See 'RMerlin'. ftp File Transfer Protocol. Used to download files from remote sites. Gallant This face left intentionally blank GeekGadgets The new name for ADE, includes gcc, perl, X11, lynx, kaffe, guavac, TeX etc. ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets GG GeekGadgets. The new name for the ADE. Gilaniguy Always wants OPS. Dont give it to him! GMT Greenwich Mean Time. The reference point for the timezones in the world. Originates from the Greenwich Observatory in England. There are 24 timezones all around the world. GNU GNU's Not Unix. According to RMS: "the name for the complete Unix- compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it." goodtimes Buy a clue. Read http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/~weitzen/humor/hoax.html gr8ron GR8-APE! ;-} Greebo GGGGGGRRREEEENNNNBBBBOOOONNNNEEESSS!!! Gregh Likes to send email to root on his ISP for the titillation value. gw2k Yes, Gateway 2000 has purchased the Amiga properties, and is forming Amiga International as a daughter corporation with Petro at the helm. No other news. HammerD Weapon of the THUNDER GOD! Hate Available in 2 minute packages. Heddley AmigaGuide/HTML editor written by Edd. People keep bagdering him for updates - so don't... However sending Edd money is just fine. heisenbug "Heisenbug: A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it." - JF Help Get it all at http://www.lut.fi/ref/ircMANUAL/main.HTML homonym Write aweigh, ewe reel-eyes ewe have maid a misstake, and hugh no that their going too correct yu. humbug Definition of Christmas i-line Introduced in ircd2.9. i lined users have a restricted access: They are forbidden MODE, KICK and TOPIC on #channels. They don't get channel operator status when creating a #channel, and cannot change their nickname once connected. IBM Institute of Black Magic. Inferior But Marketable. It's Been Malfunctioning. Incontinent Bowel Movement. IBrowse Amiga WWW browser that currently displays the most pages properly. But, it uses MUI. Check out ftp.omnipresence.com:/pub/amiga/ibrowse or http://www.hisoft.co.uk/ibrowse/ IMHO In My Humble Opinion IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion IMO In My Opinion insult "I'm gonna look him straight in the eye and tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, foreflushing, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, bloodsucking, dogkissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fatass, bugeyed, stifflegged, spottylipped, wormheaded, sack of monkey-shit he is! Halleluja! Holy shit!" IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The wide-area- networking protocol that makes the Internet work. irchelp Get it all at http://www.lut.fi/ref/ircMANUAL/main.HTML ircII Get it all at http://www.lut.fi/ref/ircMANUAL/main.HTML ISP Internet Service Provider. ixemul latest version always available from ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ geekgadgets/current/amiga-bin/ixemul*bin.lha (up to 47.x) JAVA An object oriented portable language from Sun. Capable of being embedded in WWW documents. Very cool. Check out http://java.sun.com. Do not confuse Java with Javascript, which is something else entirely. javascript is a scripting language from Netscape originally called "livescript", but renamed to cash in on the name. Javascript is *NOT* the same as java. Jenni Jenni is a college girl who runs a color quikcam in her dorm room 24 hours a day. She does not care what you see her doing, and occaisionally she does naughty things. Oh, and the URL is http://www.boudoir.org/liveupdating.html Jim New version is out NOW! Now with more lawsuits, more lies and less truth! 110% code stolen from W'95! job Wanted: Useless git with no experience. Must be fluent in geek. Willingness to work not necessary. joins 1) join-count shows the joins done from your CURRENT account/pattern. 2) join-count is not vital information. 3) One reason why your join-count may not match your own opinion of it, is that you've changed something. Most often your username. Joke This cheese sandwich walks into a bar, and the barman says "Sorry, but we don't serve food here." Kelvin The SI unit for temperature. Defined as "the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water." 0 Kelvin is absolute zero. Named after the british scientist William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907). [also 'degree'] kewl Better than "neat". Not quite as good as "/<-rad". Use 'kewl' in conjunction with 'ne1' for maximum effect kick Remove a user from a channel by force. LaAmiga "Amiga" es el nombre de una computadora, este canal es para hablar de la computadora "amiga", y no para hablar de paises hispanos o cosas españolas... si Vd. habla aquí, hagalo en inglés, por favor. Lag Delay between users or between a user and a server. Lag can be measured by /ping . Lamer Just to prove you are a lamer, do any of the following: Have a ^ in you nick. Forget how to capitalize. Use the terms "da shit", "kewl", "ne1". Moan about the "good old days" before #amiga became op-centric. Bitch and moan about being kicked. Don't RTFM. LAMF Lame arsed mother fucker. length 1 meter = 3,28084 feet = 1,09361 yards ; 1 centimeter = 0,3937 inches. libX11 amiga link library to assist in making ports of X11 software to the amiga. http://login.eunet.no/~terjepe/ life Life isn't fair. Live with it. Linux A free UNIX implementation for a wide range of computers. Linux Home: www.linux.org Linuxm68k Home: www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/linux.html love these feelings are only caused by ego-reinforcement, hormonal stimulation due to sex, and the temporary illusion that you're not alone in the world. Luddite A person opposed to new technology Macintosh A mac is designed for the inexperienced computer user, made large so that it can't be accidentally inserted in the rectum, and with rounded edges in case somebody manages to do it anyway. MagicWB Commercial iconset based on shades of gray, meant for system with less than 16 colors or still using a 68000. Mama Former #Amiga bot, may she rest in peace. Pjotr is responsible for creating her. Still pops in for 1 minute visits every now and then. Please just ignore that. mame Its what happens to small children when #amiga ops get hold of them ;) mandelbug "Mandelbug: A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic." - JF Manners It is considered polite here to type out the whole word ("for" not "4"), to use only one punctuation mark at a time, to use no bold inverse or underline, and not to beg to be opped... bad manners are a big no no MCP Millions of Crazy Patches memoryhog See MUI meter The SI unit for length. Defined as "1.650.763,73 wavelengths of the redorange ligth emitted by the krypton-86 isotope", or "the distance traveled by light in vacuum over a period of 1/299.792.458th of a second". Miami MUI GUI no-brainer tcp setup that POAG could install. See http://www.america.com/~kruse/home.html MindLink The new Amiga IRC client - http://palamida.math.uch.gr/markp/MindLink.html MIPS Meaningless Information Provided by Salesperson. In other words, do not use it to measure computer speed. Mitchman RTFM Mode There are several classes of mode changes. '+' sets a mode and '-' removes it. Most important are +b (channel ban) and +o (chanop). Refer to "/help mode". Morden Wants to be an op. He'll make it. Yeah right! HAHAHAHHA! Mosaic An early graphical WWW browser for many platforms including Amiga. See also: AMosaic motto People are stupid. MP Usually, short for Memory Protection. Prevents programs to read or write memory they aren't allowed to read or write in. mp3 Mpeg Audio Layer III. Highly compressed CD quality sound with (seemingly) no loss of quality. Grab mus/play/mpega.lha mp3source amp: ftp://ftp.rasip.fer.hr/pub/mpeg/amp* ISO/MPEG: ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/MPEG/audio/mpeg2/software/technical_report/dist10.tar.gz (encoder) MPS (Multiple Punctuation Syndrome) is using 2,3 or more question marks or exclamation marks at the end of every sentence. New users on the net tend to be afflicted with this illness, but some can be cured with proper treatment. See also EPS, MPT MSApple Apple were close to going bust, which would have meant Microsoft being a monopoly - the American government would have broken MS up. So MS invested in Apple to keep it going! Apple users are annoyed ;] MUI (Mainly Useless Interface) A GUI creation .library, for those with no time to learn BOOPSI and proper GUI creation. MUI is often associated with the word 'memoryhog'. MUIprayer Our MUI, who art in memory, hallowed be thy name. Thy distribution come, thy code be large, on Amiga as it is in Windows. Give us this day our daily crash, and forgive us our resources, as we forgive those who ClassAct against us. For thine is the load, and the fragmentation, Amen. NATW No Amiga To Waste (http://thunderstorms.org/NATW). A place where developers and users can come together as one to share ideas and comments. ne1 Shorthand for "I don't have two brain cells to rub together" netjoin The opposite of a netsplit. Happens when two servers merge again. netscape Yes we've all read the page on www.netscape.com that *mentions* the amiga os. They *do not* say anything about porting a version. netsplit Happens when two servers lose connection to each other. A netsplit is detected when one or more users signoff with the name of two servers in their signoff message -- the split has happend between the two servers in the signoff msg. networking http://www.blksheep.demon.co.uk/net.html newlook The main man news know knew gnus NEXTSTEP do "/msg darxide cmd" for a list of commands available to you, "/msg darxide help " and "/msg darxide syntax " to know more about specific commands NFI No F*ing Idea nickcollision Nickname collision happens during a netjoin when two persons choose the same nick. As a nick must be unique the servers kills both persons in the hope that only one will return. nicks please, no nicks with \|`[]{}^ in them. In fact, just have a nick with normal letters in it, otherwise we're likely to think you're a complete moron. nothing nothing at all, not a thing Opinions2 Opinions are divided on the matter: I think one thing, everybody else in the entire world thinks the other. ops Ops are only given to those who are well versed in IRC channel operations, and who know and follow the channel rules. If you ask for ops, and you aren't recognized as a regular, you may be KICKED. paranoia Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean that they *aren't* out to get you. pctask v4 demo now out. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pctask/ PCx Jim Drew's pentium emulator. Yes, we've tried it. Yes, it works. No MMU support in demo (so no win95). On 030/40MHz it's 7 times slower than a 14MHz 286. http://blittersoft.wildnet.co.uk/pcx.htm people are morons pfeh One of csd's terms of disgust. See csd. phase5 Makers of cyberstorm, cybervision, cybergfx, Blizzard accelerators and more (including PowerPC Amiga?). See them at http://www.phase5.de/ Picasso96 Amiga RTG system. cybergfx compatible. http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~etk10317/etc/Picasso96.html picdt Latest version avail from ftp.phase5.de Ping A ping reply is used to measure lag (delay) between two users. The syntax is "/ping " or "/ping ". Piracy Discussion of obtaining commercial software illegally is strictly forbidden in this channel. Go to some god-forsaken channel (or place) for that type of info. pizza flat edible substance approximating dried vomit. platformwars Fuck! Do we have to have another fuckin platform war? Live with what you have and shut the fuck up. PNG Portable Network Graphics. (or PNG is Not Gif). http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/PNG/ POAG suffice it to say - an idiot powerc Power Computing ltd online sales, support and returns. www.powerc.com, and they don't do Macs. powersnap Ut?lit? f?r cu??ing and pas???g t?xt Predators An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. ProTracker New Amiga compiler released by a bunch of hackers. Must be better than SAS/C, since most programs sent to Aminet these days are compiled with it. Proxy A software agent that acts on behalf of a user. Typical proxies accept a connection from a user, make a decision as to whether or not the user or client IP address is permitted to use the proxy, perhaps does additional authentication, and then completes a connection on behalf of the user to a remote destination. publicbot Only those who have status 20 or status 10+ops can use the bot commands in public. For the rest, try /msg or DCC chat! punctuation The number of excessive punctuation marks used is inversely proportional to the dick size of the user. q If you have something to ask on this channel, ask it once, don't wait for permission. Don't ask if you can ask a question, just ask. If you don't get an answer, either nobody knows, nobody cares, or we are all just figments of your imagination. qt QuickTime is a proprietary animation format owned by Apple. Amiga players on aminet in gfx/show. qt??.lha, Xanim8 and XanimBet7.lha quake some warez boyz stole the source and compiled it for the amiga. aga/cybergfx/6mb+. Get it from http://www.angeldos.demon.co.uk/index.html and don't pester us here. QuickCam 3rd party Drivers: http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc QuickPack See QuikPak QuickPak See QuikPak QuikPack See QuikPak QuikPak Potential purchasers of the Amiga technology who currently offer many Amiga hardware items including Amigas themselves. Visit http://www.amigasupport.com/quikpak/ R Lamer-speech for "are". RATM FAQ you, I won't tell what you tell me! rauper Zeus BBS - also the original Lettuce Boy! rc5 The RSA security challenge (www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge). Help 'crack' the key and make some money as well. Amiga client now available for Bovine group (http://rc5.distributed.net). See also RC5team faq for the #amiga effort RC5Team Join the Amiga RC5 Team, see http://www.cistron.nl/~ttavoly/rc5 for info -> set your E-mail to rc5@amiga.cistron.nl RD Red Dwarf... cult UK comedy series, usually shown on PBS in the US. Re repeat hi, used when you have left a channel and rejoin it RealAudio No, you cannot play fucking RA on the Amiga yet, stop asking. RFC Request For Comments (Really Flibby Cats). Internet documents explaining various standards/protocols/conventions/stuff. nic.ddn.mil. ftp.nisc.sri.com, funet.fi, chalmers.se RMerlin See 'Tau'. root Root is the system administrator account for a unix system.. Please do not use this as a user name, but change it to your own unique username. Thanks. ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing Rover Frotz's second cat. He's a small black Persian mix with white points, and has no unusual architecture (see Fido). RSN Really Soon Now. RTFAG Read The F***ing AmigaGuide® RTFM Read the F***ing Manual. Rub The Fuzzy Monkey. See also 'Mitchman'. RTSP Progressive Networks streaming protocol. *NOT* their audio codec. http://www.prognet.com/prognet/rt/reference.html Rules We have only a few simple rules we ask people to observe. No Flooding the channel. No using all caps in messages. No warez or piracy shit. Speak english. No weird textmodes. No public aways. No fancy autoop/autokick scripts you can't control. No spitting! sabotagedware Shareware voluntary crippled by the authors to the point of being useless. Sarcasm Lost on IRC Scalos Workbench replacement currently being developped. No known release date. See http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~remuss/scalos/scalos.html scheme Something that the dark wizards of MIT sent you to feel the flames of evil LISP scripts Don't run scripts that you don't know how to control. [This should be a rule]. Remove all bold, inverse, underline, auto-aways, bold signoffs, oversensitive flood and deop protection scripts. etc etc etc second SI unit for time. Defines as "the time needed for 9.192.631.770 vibrations of cesium atoms" Secret this channel is secret to stop lame arsed flood attacks... and everybody who's anybody knows there is a #amiga :) Senc French for the number 5, The INKA god of peace and love, Mystical figure of power, Oh and most of all GOD OF THE CHANNEL when the others are not around server The program/machine which provides IRC. sex You think *OPS* is good? Ask for SEX from an op! ;-} sheep Mary had a little lamb she tied it to a pylon. 10,000 volts when up its arse and turned its wool to nylon! sheep2 Mary had a little sheep, one night she took the sheep to sleep. The sheep turned out to be a ram, Mary had a little lamb. SHOULD-OF Indicates not enough brains to realise that is senseless. It is SHOULD HAVE! SI Systeme International d'Unites. The scientic system of measuring unites. Also widespread in Europe. Siamese pc<->amiga shared drive/monitor system using SCSI/serial connection. See http://www.hiq.co.uk/siamese.htm sidewind "WOOF!" SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol. See also IP. SLOS StreamLineOS:System Speed up patch by Termy, copies short routines directly into jumptables, for speed increase. http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~amann/davezstuff/slos.shtml slug A disgusting slimy thing that should be extinguished in one of three ways. 1) A lot of salt. 2) Put your foot down hard. 3) /KICK. :) Smalltalk Object Oriented language to the extremes. You want to know what 1 + 2 is? Smalltalk will send the method "+" with parameter "2" to the object "1" to find out. socket.library originally a library included with AS225r2 beta, a TCP/IP stack made by Commodore but never released to the public. If you use AmiTCP, like most do, you need the socket.library to make AS225r2 programs work. This library is included with Grapevine, the IRC client, and can also be found on ftp://hstud6.cs.uit.no/pub/thor. AS225r2 is offered commercially in two different versions. Solaris A newer and better version of SunOS. spelling "When the lag of 800 seconds you reach, a sentence with the right in the words with which you cannot construct order." - Ancipital spirobits (SPY ro bits) - n. The frayed bits of left-behind paper in a spiral notebook. Split As in Banana Split. Not to be mixed up with Netsplit. SRA Sucks Raw Arse (or Ass) studlycaps -- /stuhd'lee-kaps/ n. A hackish form of silliness similar to {BiCapitalization} for trademarks, but applied randomly and to arbitrary text rather than to trademarks. ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe. SunOS Sun Microsystems Inc. implementation of UNIX surf-the-net "I AM A NEWBIE!!" surfing A term used by newbies copied from the media because they dont have enough sense to think for themselves! sysinfo Software, best used for picking random Lotto numbers! SysInspector System monitor (a-la ARTM and Scout, minus the bugs :), requires Kickstart 3.x and ClassAct. See http://www.thule.no/~merlin takeover Channel #amiga got takenover, its now being run by lamers. Please join us on #amiga2 and leave #amiga. That way they will get bored on their own and let us have the channel back takeoverhelp Join #amiga and tell people to: join #amiga2 and leave #amiga. That way the lamers will get bored! tamagotchi Cute little virtual pets from japan. Infact there really pretty cool, and anyone not liking them should be dipped in acid or something. Look out clones, and transparent green and gold gotchies are worth MONEY! Try http://www.bandai.com/ Tau See 'Frotz'. TCP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work. TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work. TCPIP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work, and the only one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or retching. tecno no relation of techno, house or anything powered by pills. Also. short for 'tecnobabble', powered by Red Bull. telnet Communication with another Internet host using the TELNET (RFC 854) protocol. TheBeast Woe to you oh earth and IRC, for the devil sends his ircop with wrath... Because he knows that time is short... Let him who hath grokking RFC's reckons the number of the beast... for it is a port number, and its number is 6667... TheMaXX Mr.MaxiPad himself :) THOR Offline message reader with a font sensitive and style guide compliant GUI. Supports Internet mail and news (TCP, UUCP, SOUP), QWK, Bluewave, Fidonet, and various other formats. MIME support, ARexx support, PGP support. Get it from http://www.thule.no/thor/ or ftp://ftp.thule.no/pub/thor TimTam The ultimate chocolate biscuit. Made by Arnotts. Possibly only available in Australia. tobe "To be is to do" - Kant. "To do is to be" - Sartre. "To be doo, to be doo" - Sinatra. Topic The topic never reflects the discussions anyway. Trapper You like life in the fast lane, you are easy to turn on. When you are taken out, people stare and admire you. You have a firm body, with 2 big hooters, and you'll go all night. * Yep I want a truck * turtle Likes the sound of his own keyboard. He eats lettuce, which is also utterly lacking in substance. Turtlewax Please do not chastise Turtle for his abberant sexual practises. Thank You. U Lamer-speech for "you". See "ne1". U4ia-f8 "Leave me alone" UAE Unix Amiga Emulator. Get it from "http://www.schokola.de/~stepan/uae/". BUY the ROMs, don't pirate them. Talk of ROM piracy will reward you with a swift /KICK. The ROMs can be bought from http://www.dvdirect.com and http://www.softhut.com UAE-ROM No, we won't send you ROM images of our Kickstart. It's a copyrighted thing, so buy it. UDP User Datagram Protocol Uncharted The IRC Client For Low End Amiga's And Beginners. Email: eddster@electranet.com UNIX "An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7." -JF UnRealAudio is NOT RealAudio® upload Newbie guide: go into one ftp mirror site in the directory pub/aminet/new, and get the file README.BEFORE.UPLOAD. Do as it says! URL Universal Resource Locator, an address widget that identifies a document or resource on the World-Wide Web. username The part of your host pattern that is to the left of the @. As in username@machine.domain. USspelling No US spellings allowed here. Offenders will be defenestrated. valentines That time of year when you send a card to the girl you've been stalking all year. vana Don't have nick's with no vowels, if you can't form a word, it's unlikely anyone will believe you could compose a complete thought. VapourWare "Vapour" meaning Substance diffused. Ware = disappeared, SEE "where to",cause we don't know. T® Virus A self-replicating code segment. Viruses may or may not contain attack programs or trapdoors. VIScorp2 VIS is dutch for fish; all together now.. FEEESHcorp ><> voodoo A mail reader program with a font sensitive, multithreaded ClassAct GUI, integrated MIME and ARexx interface by Tau. You'll find it on Aminet comm/mail or http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~oahvenla/voodoo/ Voyager Amiga WWW browser that doesn't properly display as many pages as IBrowse does, but tends to get new features weeks before IBrowse. Uses MUI. Check out ftp://ftp.thule.no/pub/amiga/ or http://www.vapor.com/voyager/ VoyagerNG see Voyager Warez Pirated software. The top place to get these are 127.0.0.1, ftp.eleet.mil and ftp.warez.com. But please, don't let this knowledge spread. Also '/si warez' is a way to start. warning The kick was the warning. Live with it. WBNG New Workbench replacement currently in development, see http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~tronhan/wbng.html for more info Web World Wide Web. webster A new WWW Browser for the Amiga platform from JDW developements. Does not use MUI. Configurable tag support, planned Java support, and forms. Recognizes and uses DataTypes, as well as sporting internal GIF and JPEG loaders for non-datatype aware machines. Expected around Mid-January. wendy she's about as shy as jenni(see faq). http://www.daybyday.net/~candw/vcam/cam.jpg #voyuercam. WhenWillNI4BeOut When it's ready for release perhaps? Don't worry, you WILL know when it will be out. Why because Wife Imagine that you have a piece of software called Girlfriend 1.0 and you upgrade to Wife 1.0. Why don't PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 4.3 and PubNight 7.1 work anymore then? win95 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. winnuke a tiny program that crashes about every damn Windows TCP stack you can imagine by sending a MSG_OOB to port 139. Details at http://www.darkening.com/winnuke Women Of course I do. I get quite a bit. worms You would know why he is called that if you saw what he does with dogs! wtf What The F*ck WWW World Wide Web. X The X Consortium requests that the following names should be used when referring to this software: X, X Window System, X Version 11, X Window System, Version 11, X11 X11 The X Consortium requests that the following names should be used when referring to this software: X, X Window System, X Version 11, X Window System, Version 11, X11 YAM Yet Another Mailer. Information at http://www.yam.ch YAR Yet Another Rumour yourself I'm a guardian bot. I make sure you all follow the rules, know how to explain things for you and fight bad guys! I'm written by breese and Bagder. Check out http://www.imada.ou.dk/~breese/dancer.html Zircon 11 IRC client with GUI, multiple windows and stuff built upon tcl/tk. Get it from catless.ncl.ac.uk