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anked adj. Same as down, used primarily by Unix hackers.
See also hosed. Popularized as a synonym for `drunk' by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip....
TANSTAAFL /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the...
ape monkey n. A junior system administrator, one who might plausibly be assigned to do physical swapping of tapes and subsequent storage.
When a backup needs to be restored, one might ho...
ar and feather vi.
arball n. [very common; prob. based on the "tar baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the Unix tar(1) utility, containing myriad related files.
Here, I'll just f...
ardegy n. [deliberate mangling of `tragedy'] An incident in which someone who clearly deserves to be selected out of the gene pool on grounds of extreme stupidity meets with a messy end.
aste [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it.
Also `tasty', `tasteful', `ta...
ayste /tayst/ n. Two bits; also as taste. Syn. crumb, quarter. See nybble.
TCB /T-C-B/ n. [IBM] 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect or shotgun debugging.
Compare heisenbug. Not to be c...
TCP/IP /T'C-P I'P/ n. 1.

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