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estriction n. A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a feature.
Ofte...
etcon /ret'kon/ [short for `retroactive continuity', from the Usenet newsgroup rec.
arts.comics] 1. n. The common situation in pulp fiction (esp....
RETI v. Syn. RTI
etrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
esp. if such impl...
eturn from the dead v. To regain access to the net after a long absence.
Compare person of no account....
RFC /R-F-C/ n.
RFE /R-F-E/ n. 1. [techspeak] Request For Enhancement (compare RFC).
ib site n.
ice box n. [from ham radio slang] Any Asian-made commodity computer, esp.
an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards....
Right Thing n. That which is compellingly the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc.
Often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized. Use of this term of...

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