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file signature n. A magic number, sense 3.
filk /filk/ n.,v.
film at 11 [MIT: in parody of TV newscasters] 1.
Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering....
filter n. [very common; orig.
Finagle's Law n. The generalized or `folk' version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will".
One variant f...
fine adj. [WPI] Good, but not good enough to be cuspy.
The word `fine' is used elsewhere, of course, but without the implicit comparison to the higher level implied by cuspy....
finger [WAITS, via BSD Unix] 1. n. A program that displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system.
Typically shows full name, last login ...
finger trouble n. Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard incompetence (this is surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they spend at keyboards).
I keep putting colo...
finger-pointing syndrome n. All-too-frequent result of bugs, esp.
in new or experimental configurations. The hardware vendor points a finger at the software....
finn v. [IRC] To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on IRC.
The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987....

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