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user n. 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end.
Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user. 2. A programmer who will believe anyth...
user-friendly adj. Programmer-hostile.
user-obsequious adj. Emphatic form of user-friendly.
Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable....
USG Unix /U-S-G yoo'niks/ n. Refers to AT&T Unix commercial versions after Version 7, especially System III and System V releases 1, 2, and 3.
So called because during most of the lif...
UTSL // n. [Unix] On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!
in "Star Wars") -- analogous to RTFS (sense 1), but more polite. This is a...
UUCPNET n. obs. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected Unix machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) software).
Any machine reac...
V7 /V'sev'en/ n. See Version 7.
vadding /vad'ing/ n. [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.
vanilla adj. [from the default flavor of ice cream in the U.
S.] Ordinary flavor, standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract!...
vanity domain n. [common; from `vanity plate' as in car license plate] An Internet domain, particularly in the .
com or .org top-level domains, apparently created for no reason other than b...

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