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• ape vt. 1. To screw someone or something, violently
  in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably....
• uke: /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....
• File Request: [FidoNet] 1. n. The {FidoNet} equivalent of {FTP}, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and {snarf}s one or more files.
  Often abbreviated `FReq'; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet....
• FTP: /F-T-P/, *not* /fit'ip/ 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on the Internet.
  2. vt. To {beam} a file using the File Transfer Protocol....
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• dot file: [UNIX] n. A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on UNIX
  files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)....
• uke /n[y]ook/ vt. [common] 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  "On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....
• profile: n. 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior.
  Used to avoid {hardcoded} choices (see also {dot file}, {rc file})....
• zap: 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3.
  vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy....