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• macdink /mak'dink/ vt. [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior] To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file.
  Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them....
• dink: /dink/ adj. Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature
  a machine too small to be worth bothering with --- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on....
• window shopping: [US Geological Survey] n. Among users of {WIMP environment}s like {X} or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
  This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
• fritterware: n. An excess of capability that serves no productive end.
  The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see {macdink})...
• zap: 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3.
  vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy....
• WYSIAYG: /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is *All* You Ge
  an unhappy variant of {WYSIWYG}. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...
• GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
• PIP: /pip/ [Peripheral Interchange Program] vt.,obs.
  To copy; from the program PIP on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, TOPS-10, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operation you might want to do)....
• fencepost error: n. 1. A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops.
  From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?...