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unspots n. 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?
Sunspots, I guess." 2. Also the cause of bit rot -- from the myth that sunspots will...
uper source quench n. A special packet designed to shut up an Internet host.
uperloser n.
uperprogrammer n. A prolific programmer; one who can code exceedingly well and quickly.
Not all hackers are superprogrammers, but many are....
uperuser n. [Unix] Syn. root, avatar. This usage has spread to non-Unix environme
he superuser is any account with all wheel bits on. A more specific term than wheel....
upport n. After-sale handholding; something many software vendors promise but few deliver.
urf v. [from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp.
if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is ...
Suzie COBOL /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM: prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n.
wab /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the dd(1) option conv=swab (see dd)] 1.
vt. To solve the NUXI problem big-endian, little-endian, ...
wap vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in').
Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `vi...

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