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Virtual Beer N. Praise Or Thanks. Used Universally In The Linux Community.
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virtual beer n.
Praise or thanks. Used universally in
the Linux community. Originally this term signified cash, after a
famous incident in which some some Britishers who wanted to buy
Linus a beer and sent him money to Finland to do so.
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The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
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bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
finn v. [IRC] To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on IRC.
The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987....
DWIM /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.
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ping: [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob.
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Beer was made so ugly women get some too.
brown-paper-bag bug n. A bug in a public software release that is so embarassing that the author notionally wears a brown paper bag over his head for a while so he won't be recognized on the net.
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