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console jockey n. See terminal junkie.
content-free adj. [by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge.
Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it mo...
control-C vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD Unix hacke...
control-O vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running.
Generally means that you are not interested in h...
control-Q vi. "Resume." From the ASCII DC1 or XON character (the pronunciation /X-on/ is therefore also used), used to undo a previous control-S.
control-S vi. "Stop talking for a second." From the ASCII DC3 or XOFF character (the pronunciation /X-of/ is therefore also used).
Control-S differs from control-O in that the person i...
Conway's Law prov. The rule that the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congrue
commonly stated as "If you have four groups working on a comp...
cookbook n. [from amateur electronics and radio] A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs.
One current example is the "PostScript Langu...
cooked mode n.
cookie n. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs.
I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie....

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