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Live Free Or Die! imp. 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's automobile license plates.
2. A slogan associated with Unix in the romantic days when Unix aficio...
livelock /li:v'lok/ n.
liveware /li:v'weir/ n. 1. Synonym for wetware. Less common.
2. [Cambridge] Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad......
lobotomy n. 1. What a hacker subjected to formal management training is said to have undergone.
At IBM and elsewhere this term is used by both hackers and low-level management; the latter ...
locals, the pl.n. The users on one's local network (as opposed, say, to people one reaches via public Internet or UUCP connects).
The marked thing about this usage is how little it has to...
locked and loaded adj.,obs.
locked up adj. Syn. for hung, wedged.
logic bomb n. Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or OS that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met.
C...
logical adj. [from the technical term `logical device', wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary `logical' name] Having the role of.
If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL)...
loop through vt. To process each element of a list of things.
Hold on, I've got to loop through my paper mail....

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