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dot file [Unix] n.
double bucky adj. Using both the CTRL and META keys.
The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F....
doubled sig [Usenet] n. A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message.
An article or message with a doubled sig can be cau...
down 1. adj. Not operating.
download vt. 1. [techspeak] To transfer data or (esp.
) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a mainframe) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....
DP /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a suit.
See DPer. 2. Common abbrev fo...
DPB /d*-pib'/ vt. [from the PDP-10 instruction set] To plop something down in the middle.
Usage: silly. "DPB yourself into that couch there....
DPer /dee-pee-er/ n. Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that suits use this term self-referentially.
Computers process data, not people! See DP....
Dr. Fred Mbogo /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ n. [Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, esp.
an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?...
dragon n. [MIT] A program similar to a daemon, except that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks.
A typical example would be an ac...

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