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• depeditate: /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] vt.
  Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders....
• 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....
• Campbell's First Law of Automotive Repair: If you can get to the faulty part, you won't have the tool to get it off.
• quirrelcide n. [common on Usenet's comp.risks newsgroup.
  ] (alt. `squirrelicide') What all too frequently happens when a squirrel decides to exercise its species's unfortunate penchant for shorting out power lines with their little furry bodies....
• You can tell you're pushing a new frontier when all available tools are inappropriate.
  -- Rule 157 "There's glory in using inappropriate tools....
• miswart /mis-wort/ n. [from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing.
  For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the `transpose characters' command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged....
• boa [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a dinosaur pen.
  Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time....
• boa: [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a {dinosaur pen}.
  Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....