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• ource of all good bits n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained.
  If you need to know about a program, a guru might be the source of all good bits....
• bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core dump}, sense 4....
• guru n. [Unix] An expert. Implies not only wizard skill but also a history of being a knowledge resource for others.
  Less often, used (with a qualifier) for other experts on other systems, as in `VMS guru'....
• guru: n. [UNIX] An expert. Implies not only {wizard} skill but also a history of being a knowledge resource for others.
  Less often, used (with a qualifier) for other experts on other systems, as in `VMS guru'....
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....
• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
  -- John Quincy Adams All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated through this Book...
• We demand source because we've been burned too much by its lack, not because we have this desire to add custom hacks to our kernels or utilities.
  Believe me, we'd all like to run stock systems, straight off the vendor distribution tape...
• coefficient of X n. Hackish speech makes heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors.
  Four particularly important ones involve the terms `coefficient', `factor', `index of X', and `quotient'....
• andomness n. 1. An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance.
  2. A hack or crock that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the combination upon which the crock depends for its accidental failure to malfunction)....