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PostScript n.
pound on vt. Syn. bang on.
power cycle vt. (also, `cycle power' or just `cycle') To power off a machine and then power it on immediately, with the intention of clearing some kind of hung or gronked state.
Syn. 120...
power hit n. A spike or drop-out in the electricity supplying your machine
a power glitch. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to your machine(s)....
PPN /P-P-N/, /pip'n/ n. obs. [from `Project-Programmer Number'] A user-ID under TOPS-10 and its various mutant progeny at SAIL, BBN, CompuServe, and elsewhere.
Old-time hackers from the P...
pr0n // [Usenet, IRC] Pornography. Originally this referred only to Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about anything.
The term comes from the warez kiddies tende...
precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ n. [C programmers] Coding error in an expression due to unexpected grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler.
Used esp. of certai...
prepend /pree`pend'/ vt. [by analogy with `append'] To prefix.
prestidigitization /pres`t*-di`j*-ti:-zay'sh*n/ n. 1.
The act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand....
pretty pictures n. [scientific computation] The next step up from numbers.

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