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The Standard German Word For Committee Is 'Ausschuss' Which, Perhaps By More Than Coincidence, Also Means 'rubbish'.
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The standard German word for committee is 'Ausschuss' which, perhaps by
more than coincidence, also means 'rubbish'.
-- R. V. Jones
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bletcherous /blech'*-r*s/ adj. Disgusting in design or functio
esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people....
bletcherous: /blech'*-r*s/ adj. Disgusting in design or functio
esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people....
moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
dike vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
RFC /R-F-C/ n. [Request For Comment] One of a long-established series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities.
Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the Internet mail-format standard)....
KLUGE (kloodj) alt. KLUDGE [from the German kluge, clever] n.
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The Sanskrit word for war means "desire for more cows.
ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....