jolix /joh'liks/ n.,adj.
386BSD, the freeware port of the BSD Net/2 release to the
Intel i386 architecture by Bill Jolitz, Lynne Greer Jolitz, and
friends. Used to differentiate from BSDI's port based on the same
source tape, which used to be called BSD/386 and is now BSD/OS.
See BSD.
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juggling eggs vi.
Keeping a lot of state in your
head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm
juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in
the program's being scrambled. In the classic 1975 first-contact
SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We
juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode and on the gripping hand.
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jump off into never-never land v.
[from J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"] Same as branch to Fishkill, but more
common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers
that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'. Compare hyperspace.
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jupiter vt.
[IRC] To kill an IRC bot or user and then take its place by adopting
its nick so that it cannot reconnect.
Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the
robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a
nick claimed by another user. Now commonly shortened to
`jupe'.