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• COMPUTER An electronic device designed to make you rip your hair out.
  The principles of a computer are very simple. You give the computer some data as input, it messes, mixes, scrambles and screws up the data until it is nonsensical and unrecognisable, and then it spits it out the other end as output....
• TEST Computer term. The name of every file that you can't think of a proper name for.
  -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA...
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• KEYBOARD Object which takes the brunt of your frustration with a computer.
  This is, oddly, even the case when the physical computer that is sticking its virtual tongue out at you, is many kilometres, or even timezones, away....
• AND NOW A QUICK COMPUTER JOKE " Life's a batch, then you DIR " -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA.
• mall round thing (mechanical term) -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA
• MONASH UNIVERSITY COMPUTER CENTRE - MODEM DIAL-UP SERVICES Users of the Greater Monash University can now access the computer systems via modems 24 hours except when they are out of order.
  All four campuses are equipped with dial-in lines which under normal circumstances should be either engaged or not operational....