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This time, for sure! excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.
g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). Fo...
hrash vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
hread n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
To `follow a thread' is to read a series of Use...
hree-finger salute n. Syn. Vulcan nerve pinch.
hrowaway account n. 1. An inexpensive Internet account purchased on a legitimate ISP for the the sole purpose of spewing spam.
2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for the sole pu...
hud n. 1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo).
It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....
humb n. The slider on a window-system scrollbar.
So called because moving it allows you to browse through the contents of a text window in a way analogous to thumbing through a book....
hundering herd problem Scheduler thrashing. This can happen under Unix when you have a number of processes that are waiting on a single event.
When that event (a connection to the web se...
hunk /thuhnk/ n. 1. [obs.]"A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P.
ick n. 1. A jiffy (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism.
In AI applications, this amount of time is often le...

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