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cycle drought n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.
cycle of reincarnation n. See wheel of reincarnation.
cycle server n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for running large compute-, disk-, or memory-intensive jobs (more formally called a `compute server').
Implies that interactive ta...
cypherpunk n.
C|N>K n. [Usenet] Coffee through Nose to Keyboard
hat is, "I laughed so hard I snarfed my coffee onto my keyboard....
D. C. Power Lab n. The former site of SAIL.
daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n.
daemon book n. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.
3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J....
dahmum /dah'mum/ n. [Usenet] The material of which protracted flame wars, especially those about operating systems, is composed.
Homeomorphic to spam. The term `dahmum' is derived from...
dancing frog n. [Vancouver area] A problem that occurs on a computer that will not reappear while anyone else is watching.
From the classic Warner Brothers cartoon "One Froggy Evening", f...

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