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• humb n. The slider on a window-system scrollbar.
  So called because moving it allows you to browse through the contents of a text window in a way analogous to thumbing through a book....
• interrupt: 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• fontology: [XEROX PARC] n. The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.
  g., for window systems and typesetting software)....
• 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....
• Wizard Book: n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984
  ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT....
• pubic directory: [NYU] (also `pube directory' /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) n.
  The `pub' (public) directory on a machine that allows {FTP} access....
• elvish: n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells".
  Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general)....
• Devil Book: n. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.
  3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J....
• leak: n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished
  o they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in....