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• Unix weenie n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
  The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs....
• In order to learn, one must change one's mind. -- Orson Scott Card
• UNIX weenie: [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
  The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs....
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....
• MEMOIR A book written by someone who has fallen out of the limelight and is struggling to get back in.
  Generally hardback and costs at least $25. Generally a work of fiction by the author, claiming how great he/she was/is....
• But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me.
  My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost....
• It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together.
  They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life....