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ontrivial adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing power.
ot ready for prime time adj. Usable, but only just so
ot very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device....
otwork /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting flaky or is down.
Compare nyetwork. S have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca....
NP- /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty
he connotation is often `more so than it should be' This is generalized from the compute...
off /N'rof/ n. [Unix, from "new roff" (see troff)] A companion program to the Unix typesetter troff, accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals and line printers.
NSA line eater n. The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the U.
S. Government's spooks. Most hackers used to think it was mythical but be...
NSP /N-S-P/ n.
ude adj. Said of machines delivered without an operating system (compare bare metal).
ugry /n[y]oo'gree/ [Usenet, 'newbie' + '-gry'] `.
. A newbie who posts a FAQ in the rec....
uke /n[y]ook/ vt. [common] 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
"On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr filesystem." Neve...

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