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• erotics: /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n.
  English-language university slang for electronics....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• iron: n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers).
  Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose {silicon}....
• Robot, n: University administrator.
• person of no account: [University of California at Santa Cruz] n.
  Used when referring to a person with no {network address}, frequently to forestall confusion....
• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....
• TCP/IP Slang Glossary, #1: Gong, n: Medieval term for privvy, or what pased for them in that era.
  Today used whimsically to describe the aftermath of a bogon attack....
• ignal-to-noise ratio [from analog electronics] n. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning.
  `Signal' refers to useful information conveyed by some communications medium, and `noise' to anything else on that medium....
• eye candy /i:' kand`ee/ n. [from mainstream slang "ear candy"] A display of some sort that's presented to lusers to keep them distracted while the program performs necessary background tasks.
  Give 'em some eye candy while the back-end slurps that BLOB into core....