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• clock 1. n 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or other digital circuit through its paces.
  This has nothing to do with the time of day, although the software counter that keeps track of the latter may be derived from the former....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• 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'....
• Increased Electricity Consumption Blamed on Linux WASHINGTON, D.
  C. -- The US Department of Energy claims Linux is partially responsible for the increased demand for electricity during the past year....
• power hit n. A spike or drop-out in the electricity supplying your machine
  a power glitch. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to your machine(s)....
• COMPUTER An electronic device designed to make you rip your hair out.
  The principles of a computer are very simple. You give the computer some data as input, it messes, mixes, scrambles and screws up the data until it is nonsensical and unrecognisable, and then it spits it out the other end as output....
• Milk and dairy products are rich in vitamin D and calcium, substances essential for building and maintaining bones.
  Many people therefore believe that a diet rich in dairy products can help prevent osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones weaken significantly with age and that is linked to both environmental and genetic factors....
• glitch /glich/ [very common; from German `glitschig' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....