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Ding N.,vi. 1. Synonym For Feep. Usage: Rare Among Hackers, But Commoner In The Real World.
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ding n.,vi.
1. Synonym for feep. Usage: rare among
hackers, but commoner in the Real World. 2. `dinged': What
happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about
something, esp. something trivial. "I was dinged for having a
messy desk."
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ding n.,vi. 1. Synonym for feep. Usage: rare among hackers, but commoner in the Real World.
2. `dinged': What happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about something, esp....
feep: /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52)
a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer {beep})....
feep /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52)
a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep)....
bum: 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
ale pointer bug: n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp.
among microcomputer hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
lamer n. [prob. originated in skateboarder slang] 1.
Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common among warez d00dz, crackers, and phreakers....