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• line noise n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• line noise: n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, {cosmic rays}, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• baud barf: /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp.
  line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection....
• baud barf /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets a terminal (or terminal emulator) when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp.
  line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection....
• BLOB: [acronym, Binary Large OBject] n. Used by database people to refer to any random large block of bits that needs to be stored in a database, such as a picture or sound file.
  The essential point about a BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be interpreted within the database itself....
• frogging [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....