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pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
pamblock /spam'blok/ n. [poss. by analogy to sunblock] Text inserted in an email address to render it invalid and thus useless to spammers.
For example, the address `jrandom@hacker.org'...
pamhaus spam'hows n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider that permits or even encourages spam mailings from its systems.
The plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page dev...
pamvertize v. To advertise using spam. Pejorative.
pangle n. [UK] The singular of bells and whistles. See also spungle
pawn n.,vi. 1. [techspeak] In UNIX parlance, to create a child process from within a process.
Technically this is a `fork'...
pecial-case vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in a program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing.
This would be used for processing of mode ...
peedometer n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes).
The pattern is shifted left every N times the operating sy...
pell n. Syn. incantation.
pelling flame n.

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