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• dogwash: /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field of a very optional software change request, ca.
  1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first"....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• phase: 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• empire n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago.
  A number of multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version implemented for both Unix and VMS...
• hack [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
  2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed....
• ip v. 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD.
  Software that does this is often called a "CD ripper"....
• No Shell escape from "games".
• mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
  An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....