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ar out v. [University of York, England] To replace a user's encrypted password in /etc/passwd with a single asterisk.
Under Unix this is not a legal encryption of any password; hence the...
ate n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?
It's winning away....
ealth manager n.
eam-powered adj. Old-fashioned or underpowered
archaic....
STFW imp. /S-T-F-W/ [Usenet] Commmon abbreviation for "Search The Fucking Web", a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better handled by a search engine than a human being.
U...
iffy n. 3.5-inch microfloppies, so called because their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5.
25-inch and the (now totally obsolete) 8-inch floppy. Elsewhere this might be called a...
ir-fried random n. (alt. `stir-fried mumble') Term used for the best dish of many of those hackers who can cook.
Consists of random fresh veggies and meat wokked with random spices. Tasty...
omp on vt. To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically.
All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script....
Stone Age n.,adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca.
1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs....
one knives and bearskins n.

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