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• oglodyte: [Commodore] n. 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle.
  The term `Gnoll' (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported....
• flame [at MIT, orig. from the phrase `flaming asshole'] 1.
  vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke....
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....
• TLA /T-L-A/ n. [Three-Letter Acronym] 1. Self-describing abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is infested.
  2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA....
• hacker ethic n. 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good
  and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open-source and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible....
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To {hack}, usually at night.
  At WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the {PDP-10} or, later, the DEC-20....