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Wedgie N. [Fairchild] A Bug. Prob. Related To Wedged.
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wedgie n.
[Fairchild] A bug. Prob. related to wedged.
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wedgie: [Fairchild] n. A bug. Prob. related to {wedged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
wedgitude /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being wedged.
bag on the side n. [prob. originally related to a colostomy bag] An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original.
Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated....
Black Screen of Death n. [prob. related to the Floating Head of Death in a famous "Far Side" cartoon.
] A failure mode of Microsloth Windows. On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks up the PC so hard that it requires a cold boot to recover....
arball n. [very common; prob. based on the "tar baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the Unix tar(1) utility, containing myriad related files.
Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball of the whole project....
crool /skrool/ n. [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.
1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation....
crool: /skrool/ [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.
1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] n. The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation....
wedgitude: /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being {wedged}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
bug-for-bug compatible n. Same as bug-compatible, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.