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line 666 [from Christian eschatological myth] n.
line eater, the n. obs. [Usenet] 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text.
The bug was triggered by having th...
line noise n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
Line noise may be induced by poor connections, i...
line starve [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the ...
linearithmic adj. Of an algorithm, having running time that is O(N log N).
link farm n. [Unix] A directory tree that contains many links to files in a master directory tree of files.
Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies o...
link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die.
Compare bit rot....
link-dead adj. [MUD] The state a player is in when they kill their connection to a MUD without leaving it properly.
The player is then commonly left as a statue in the game, and is only re...
lint [from Unix's lint(1), named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
Lintel n. The emerging Linux/Intel alliance.

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