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• oglodyte n. [Commodore] 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle.
  The term `gnoll' (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported....
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....
• gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To {hack}, usually at night.
  At WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the {PDP-10} or, later, the DEC-20....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....
• home machine: n. 1. Syn. {home box}. 2. The machine that receives your email.
  These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads email at work....
• flame [at MIT, orig. from the phrase `flaming asshole'] 1.
  vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke....
• TLA: /T-L-A/ [Three-Letter Acronym] n. 1. Self-describing abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is infested.
  2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA....
• WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware work
  omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency....