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forum n. [Usenet, GEnie, CI$; pl.
fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
Example: the retentio...
four-color glossies n. 1. Literature created by marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally content-free.
Fo...
frag n.,v. [from Vietnam-era U.S. military slang via the games Doom and Quake] 1.
To kill another player's avatar in a multiuser game....
fragile adj. Syn brittle.
fred n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a metasyntactic variable (see foo).
Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard....
Fred Foobar n. J. Random Hacker's cousin. Any typical human being, more or less synomous with `someone' except that Fred Foobar can be backreferenced by name later on.
So Fred Foobar wi...
frednet /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some random and uncommon protocol encountered on a network.
We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem....
free software n. As defined by Richard M. Stallman and used by the Free Software movement, this means software that gives users enough freedom to be used by the free software community.
S...
freeware n. [common] Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, Usenet, or other electronic media.
At one...

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