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• angry fruit salad n. A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colors.
  (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colors found in canned fruit salad....
• point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
  The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• misfeature: /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved.
  Since it results from a deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• jack in: v. To log on to a machine or connect to a network or {BBS}, esp.
  for purposes of entering a {virtual reality} simulation such as a {MUD} or {IRC} (leaving is "jacking out")....
• NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym
  he `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken in window systems, an elegant {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun Microsystems....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you have been hacking X and the colors of your tv don't look right so you think maybe you should use a different Visual.
• Macintrash: /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface.
  The term {maggotbox} has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina....