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home page n. 1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide Web.
hook n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base ...
hop 1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an im...
hose 1. vt. [common] To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
hosed adj. Same as down. Used primarily by Unix hackers.
Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse....
hot chat n. Sexually explicit one-on-one chat. See teledildonics.
hot spot n. 1. [primarily used by C/Unix programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
if one were to g...
hotlink /hot'link/ n. A hot spot on a World Wide Web page
an area, which, when clicked or selected, chases a URL....
house wizard n. [prob. from ad-agency tradetalk, `house freak'] A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&
D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard...
HP-SUX /H-P suhks/ n.

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