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• Datamation /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers assume all suits read.
  Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in `Datamation?...
• INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n. [said by the authors to stand for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972.
  INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one...
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• I need more space." "Well, why not move to Texas?" "No, on my account, stupid.
  Stupid? Uh-oh.." -- BOFH (If you don't know, find out)...
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• LART // Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. 1. n.
  In the collective mythos of scary devil monastery, this is an essential item in the toolkit of every BOFH....
• GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!
  ', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....