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Home Box N. A Hacker's Personal Machine, Especially One He Or She Owns.
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home box n.
A hacker's personal machine, especially one he
or she owns. "Yeah? Well, my home box runs a full 4.4
BSD, so there!"
Related:
home box: n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns.
Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2 BSD, so there!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
home machine n. 1. Syn. home box. 2. The machine that receives your email.
These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads email at work....
home machine: n. 1. Syn. {home box}. 2. The machine that receives your email.
These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads email at work....
home page n. 1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide Web.
The term `home page' is perhaps a bit misleading because home directories and physical homes in RL are private, but home pages are designed to be very public....
Home Savings and Loan owns my house..
Brodka: Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson? This is detective Don Brodka from Try-N-Save security.
That's right, Don Brodka. Your son Bart has been caught shoplifting....
blue box n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band
one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls....
bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....