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• lashdot effect n. 1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said to have happened when a website being virtually unreachable because too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an interesting article on the popular Slashdot news service.
  The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including variants like "That site has been slashdotted again!...
• 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....
• It's not RFC-822 compliant.
• NOTICE LinuxForecast.com has issued a Slashdot Effect Watch for your domain effective for the next 48 hours.
  Forecast models indicate that Taco Boy is planning on posting an article about your "Penguin Porn" site....
• velveeta n. [Usenet: by analogy with spam] Also knows as ECP
  a message that is excessively cross-posted, as opposed to spam which is too frequently posted....
• ewgroup wars /n[y]oo'groop worz/ n. [Usenet] The salvos of dueling newgroup and rmgroup messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• Berkeley Quality Software adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• ogue 1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems.
  The original BSD curses(3) screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold primarily to support games, and the development of rogue(6) popularized its use...
• Linux Dominates Academic Research A recent survey of colleges and high school reveals that Linux, Open Source Software, and Microsoft are favorite topics for research projects.
  Internet Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research papers....