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Linus /leen'us'/ or /lin'us'/, not /li:'nus/ Linus Torvalds, the author of Linux.
Nobody in the hacker culture has been as readily recognized by first name alone since Ken (Thompson)....
Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
lion food n. [IBM] Middle management or HQ staff (or, by extension, administrative drones in general).
From an old joke about two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase th...
Lions Book n. "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions.
LISP n.
list-bomb v. To mailbomb someone by forging messages causing the victim to become a subscriber to many mailing lists.
This is a self-defeating tactic; it merely forces mailing list serve...
lithium lick n. [NeXT] Steve Jobs.
little-endian adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first').
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live /li:v/ adj.,adv. [common] Opposite of `test'.
Refers to actual real-world data or a program working with it....
live data n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it.
One use of such hacks is to break secu...

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