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glitch /glich/ [very common; from German `glitschig' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program func...
glob /glob/, not /glohb/ v.,n. [Unix; common] To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing').
The Unix conventions for fi...
glork /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
2...
glue n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks.
gnarly /nar'lee/ adj. Both obscure and hairy (sense 1).
Yow! -- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!...
GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!
', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
gnubie /noo'bee/ n. Written-only variant of newbie in common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.
GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ n. [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS.
Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS....
go flatline v. [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] (also adjectival `flatlined').
1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance...
go root vi. [Unix; common] To temporarily enter root mode in order to perform a privileged operation.
This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. `root' is a synonym for "fuck"....

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