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Home Machine N. 1. Syn. Home Box. 2. The Machine That Receives Your Email.
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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.
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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 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!...
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 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....
flame [at MIT, orig. from the phrase `flaming asshole'] 1.
vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke....
domainist /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. [Usenet, by pointed analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.
] Someone who judges people by the domain of their email addresse...
mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....
cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....