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• upload /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one.
  A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a download (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry)....
• download: vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp.
  a {mainframe}) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....
• download vt. 1. [techspeak] To transfer data or (esp.
  ) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a mainframe) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....
• cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• NP-: /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty
  he connotation is often `more so than it should be' (NP-complete problems all seem to be very hard, but so far no one has found a good a priori reason that they should be....
• aw mode: n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under {bogus} systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• visionary: n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
  (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• egexp: /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....