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Lord High Fixer N. [primarily British, From Gilbert &
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lord high fixer n.
[primarily British, from Gilbert &
Sullivan's `lord high executioner'] The person in an organization
who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
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lord high fixer: [primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's `lord high executioner'] n.
The person in an organization who knows the most about some aspect of a system....
wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
wizard n. 1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it)
esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
mudhead n. Commonly used to refer to a MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.
Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc....
I have taken the liberty, ma'am, of drawing up a list of suitable candidates.
Good-oh. Let's hear it. Ahem. List..for the Post.....
Commonwealth Hackish n. Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.
S., esp. in the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like `char' and `soc', etc....
WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware work
omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency....
dump n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....