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• Get a life!: imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to whom it is directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see {computer geek}).
  Often heard on {USENET}, esp. as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of {theology} too seriously....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Get a life! -- Saturday Night Live
• computer geek n. 1. One who eats (computer) bugs for a living.
  One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hacke...
• TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early '60s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also foobar).
  It seems likely that `kluge' came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects that had been located in Cambridge (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, in which TMRC is also located) during the war....
• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....