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• monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
  An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
• What is virtual memory? Virtual memory allows you to use more memory than your machine has.
  If something is transparent, it's there, but you can't see i...
• lack n. 1. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information.
  The techspeak equivalent is `internal fragmentation'....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• core: n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• uke /n[y]ook/ vt. [common] 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  "On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....
• uke: /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....