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Devil Book N. See Daemon Book, The Term Preferred By Its Authors.
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Devil Book n.
See daemon book, the term preferred by
its authors.
Related:
Too many authors spoil a book.
daemon book n. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.
3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J....
Devil Book: n. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.
3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J....
book titles:: There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover.
Many of these are described in this lexicon under their own entries....
ainbow series: n. Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover color.
The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see {Orange Book}, {crayola books})...
Weenix: /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {{UNIX}}, derived from {UNIX weenie}.
According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
Weenix /wee'niks/ n. 1. [ITS] A derogatory term for Unix, derived from Unix weenie.
According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n. [from the mythological meaning
later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
Never judge a book by its cover.