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ip v. 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD.
Software that does this is often called a "CD ripper"....
ipoff n. Synonym for chad, sense 1.
RL // n. [MUD community] Real Life. "Firiss laughs in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing.
Compare meatspace; oppose VR....
oach vt. [Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached....
obocanceller /roh-boh-kan'sel-*r/ A program that monitors Usenet feeds, attempting to detect and elimnate spam by sending appropriate cancel messages .
Robocancellers may use the Breidba...
obot n. See bot.
obust adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment.
One step below bulle...
ococo adj. Terminally baroque.
ogue 1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems.
The original BSD curses(3) screen-handl...
oom-temperature IQ quant. [IBM] 80 or below (nominal room temperature is 72 degrees Fahrenheit, 22 degrees Celsius).
Used in describing the expected intelligence range of the luser. "We...

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