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Stupids n. Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them
uccinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers....
Sturgeon's Law prov. "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud....
ucking mud adj. [Applied Data Research] (also `pumping mud') Crashed or wedged.
Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network, such as a file server....
ufficiently small adj. Syn. suitably small.
uit n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
uitable win n. See win.
uitably small adj. [perverted from mathematical jargon] An expression used ironically to characterize unquantifiable behavior that differs from expected or required behavior.
For examp...
Sun n. Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally an acronym, Stanford University Network.
Sun started out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanf...
un lounge n. [UK] The room where all the Sun workstations live.
un-stools n. Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day for size, slowness, and misfeatures.
X, however, is larger and (some claim) slowe...

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