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Aster Burn N. Eyestrain Brought On By Too Many Hours Of Looking At Low-res, Poorly Tuned, Or Glare-ridden Monitors, Esp.
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raster burn n.
Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of
looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
graphics monitors. See terminal illness.
Related:
aster burn: n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
graphics monitors. See {terminal illness}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
erminal illness n. 1. Syn. raster burn. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
erminal illness: n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
SMILEY @l@ too many hours at terminal
oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....
oglodyte mode n. [Rice University] Programming with the lights turned off
unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see raster burn)....
crash and burn vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare die horribly).
Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators....
crash and burn: vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare {die horribly}).
Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators....
blitter: /blit'r/ n. A special-purpose chip or hardware system built to perform {blit} operations, esp.
used for fast implementation of bit-mapped graphics....