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brute force and ignorance n.
BSD /B-S-D/ n.
BSOD /B-S-O-D/ Very commmon abbreviation for Blue Screen of Death. Both spoken and written.
BUAF // n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font -- a special form of ASCII art.
Various programs exist for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-scrip...
BUAG // n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic.
Pejorative term for ugly ASCII art, especially as found in sig blocks....
bubble sort n. Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of orde
thus, list e...
bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n. 1. obs. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set.
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buffer chuck n. Shorter and ruder syn. for buffer overflow.
buffer overflow n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
This problem is commonly exploited by crackers to get arbitrary commands e...
bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....

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