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one-line fix n. Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system.
Usually `cured' by another ...
one-liner wars n.
ooblick /oo'blik/ n. [from the Dr. Seuss title "Bartholomew and the Oobleck
op /op/ n. 1. In England and Ireland, common verbal abbreviation for `operator', as in system operator.
Less common in the U.S., where sysop seems to be preferred. 2. [IRC] Someone who i...
open n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' -- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.
To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say: "Open defun ...
open source n. [common; also adj.
open switch n. [IBM: prob. from railroading] An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
operating system n. [techspeak] (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine
optical diff n. See vdiff.
optical grep n. See vgrep.

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