happily adv.
Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of
some important fact about its environment, either because it has
been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The
sense of `happy' here is not that of elation, but rather that of
blissful ignorance. "The program continues to run, happily
unaware that its output is going to /dev/null." Also used to
suggest that a program or device would really rather be doing
something destructive, and is being given an opportunity to do
so. "If you enter an O here instead of a zero, the program will
happily erase all your data." Neverheless, use of this term
implies a basically benign attitude towards the program: It
didn't mean any harm, it was just eager to do its job. We'd like
to be angry at it but we shouldn't, we should try to understand
it instead. The adjective "cheerfully" is often used in exactly
the same way.
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haque /hak/ n.
[Usenet] Variant spelling of hack,
used only for the noun form and connoting an elegant hack. that is a hack in sense 2.
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hard boot n.
See boot.