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drop-ins n. [prob. by analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort.
Esp. used when these a...
drop-outs n. 1. A variety of `power glitch' (see glitch)
momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains. 2....
drugged adj. (also `on drugs') 1. Conspicuously stupid, heading toward brain-damaged.
Often accompanied by a pantomime of toking a joint....
drum adj, n. Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices.
Under BSD Unix the disk partition used for swapping is ...
drunk mouse syndrome n. (also `mouse on drugs') A malady exhibited by the mouse pointing device of some computers.
The typical symptom is for the mouse cursor on the screen to move in ra...
dub dub dub [common] Spoken-only shorthand for the "www" (double-u double-u double-u) in many web host names.
Nothing to do with the style of reggae music called `dub'....
Duff's device n.
dumb terminal n. A terminal that is one step above a glass tty, having a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by a smart terminal.
O...
dumbass attack /duhm'as *-tak'/ n. [Purdue] Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as root under Unix, e.
g., typing rm -r * or mkf...
dumbed down adj. Simplified, with a strong connotation of oversimplified.

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