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dogfood n. [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for testing.
dogpile v. [Usenet: prob. fr.
dogwash /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field of a very optional software change request, ca.
1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first".] 1. n. A project of mini...
domainist /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. [Usenet, by pointed analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.
] Someone who judges people by the domain of their email addresse...
Don't do that then! imp. [from an old doctor's office joke about a patient with a trivial complaint] Stock response to a user complaint.
When I type control-S, the whole system comes to a ...
dongle /dong'gl/ n. 1.
dongle-disk /don'gl disk/ n. A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task.
Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others a...
donuts n. obs. A collective noun for any set of memory bits.
This usage is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargo...
doorstop n. Used to describe equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup.
DoS attack // [Usenet; note that it's unrelated to `DOS' as name of an operating system] Abbreviation for Denial-Of-Service attack.
This abbreviation is most often used of attempts to shu...

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