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lop n. 1. A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cu...
lopsucker /slop'suhk-r/ n. A lowest-priority task that waits around until everything else has `had its fill' of machine resources.
Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the ta...
Slowlaris /slo'-lahr-is/ n. [Usenet; poss. from the variety of sloth called a "slow loris".
lurp vt. To read a large data file entirely into core before working on it.
mart adj. Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide variety of complicated circumstances.
There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; i...
mart terminal n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
The development of w...
mash case vi. To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input.
MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create....
mash the stack n. [C programming] To corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of a local array or other data structure.
Code that smashes the stack can cause a return from the ...
miley n. See emoticon.
moke vi. 1. To crash or blow up, usually spectacularly.
The new version smoked, just like the last one....

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