by VAKI5 May 08, 2005
"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
magic cookie, whaaaaaaaaatttt???.......
by VAKI5 January 23, 2005
by VAKI5 August 17, 2003
Also known as corriculum, is the name of a "language" consisting of English written with the digits of a calculator. You type in a number and then turn the calculator upside down to see the word. In order to make use of all ten digits, I persuaded the Anglo-Saxon letter eth (ð) to return from retirement to stand in for 'TH'. For instance:
SHIBBOLETH (SHIBBOLEð) 937088145
Here are the 10 letters of Oðblgshezi:
I 1
Z 2
E 3
H (h) 4
S 5
G 6
L 7
B 8
TH (ð) 9
O 0
SHIBBOLETH (SHIBBOLEð) 937088145
Here are the 10 letters of Oðblgshezi:
I 1
Z 2
E 3
H (h) 4
S 5
G 6
L 7
B 8
TH (ð) 9
O 0
by VAKI5 May 11, 2005
by VAKI5 May 09, 2005