VAKI5's definitions
"Hackers inside", Unix
1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g., on non-Unix OSes with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of ftell(3) may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to fseek(3), but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase `it hands you a magic cookie' means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later.
2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g., inverse video or underlining) or performing other control functions (see also cookie). Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally a `turd'; compare mouse droppings). S
1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g., on non-Unix OSes with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of ftell(3) may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to fseek(3), but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase `it hands you a magic cookie' means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later.
2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g., inverse video or underlining) or performing other control functions (see also cookie). Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally a `turd'; compare mouse droppings). S
by VAKI5 January 23, 2005
Get the magic cookiemug. Involving active participation.
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions.
Someone who has hands-on experience of something has done or used it rather than just read or learned about it.
"Hands-on investor" is an investor who has a large stake in a corporation and takes an active role in its management.
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions.
Someone who has hands-on experience of something has done or used it rather than just read or learned about it.
"Hands-on investor" is an investor who has a large stake in a corporation and takes an active role in its management.
1.) I'm a 'hands-on' kind of manager so I don't stay in my office with the door always closed.
2.) Many employers consider hands-on experience to be as useful as academic qualifications.
3.) She's very much a hands-on manager.
2.) Many employers consider hands-on experience to be as useful as academic qualifications.
3.) She's very much a hands-on manager.
by VAKI5 May 18, 2005
Get the hands-onmug. by VAKI5 May 9, 2005
Get the bum rapmug. BLACK GANGSTER DISCIPLE - A Chicago based street gang, founded in the late 60, early 70s many experts feel that they are the for-runner to the Crips. Although the BGD's often wear blue, it's not mandatory. The major way to tell members of this gang is by the way they wear their caps with the brim cocked to the right.
by VAKI5 September 25, 2003
Get the BGDmug. by VAKI5 September 14, 2003
Get the bolosmug. 
In trouble; in a very uncomfortable situation.
'Hot seat' is American prison slang for the electric chair (a method of execution). The phrase 'in the hot seat' has come to refer to any kind of bad situation.
'Hot seat' is American prison slang for the electric chair (a method of execution). The phrase 'in the hot seat' has come to refer to any kind of bad situation.
1) The analysts who promoted the dot-bomb stocks are now in the hot seat with the SEC.
2) Andrew was really in the hot seat after his girlfriend caught him lying to her.
2) Andrew was really in the hot seat after his girlfriend caught him lying to her.
by VAKI5 May 14, 2005
Get the in the hot seatmug.