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YAUN: /yawn/ [Acronym For `Yet Another UNIX Nerd'] N.
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:YAUN: /yawn/ [Acronym for `Yet Another UNIX Nerd'] n. Reported
from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer
users' group) as a good-natured punning insult aimed at UNIX
zealots.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
YAUN /yawn/ n. [Acronym for `Yet Another Unix Nerd'] Reported from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer users' group) as a good-natured punning insult aimed at Unix zealots.
Yet Another: adj. [From UNIX's `yacc(1)', `Yet Another Compiler-Compiler', a LALR parser generator] 1.
Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is....
eggie: /seg'ee/ [UNIX] n. Shorthand for {segmentation fault} reported from Britain.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Yet Another adj. [From Unix's yacc(1), `Yet Another Compiler-Compiler', a LALR parser generator] 1.
Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is....
console:: n. 1. The operator's station of a {mainframe}.
In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys....
YA-: [Yet Another] abbrev. In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to {Yet Another}, following the precedent set by UNIX `yacc(1)' (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler).
See {YABA}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Weenix: /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {{UNIX}}, derived from {UNIX weenie}.
According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
padded cell: n. Where you put {luser}s so they can't hurt anything.
A program that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset of the capabilities of the host system (for example, the `rsh(1)' utility on USG UNIX)....
off:: /N'rof/ [UNIX, from "new roff" (see {{troff}})] n.
A companion program to the UNIX typesetter {{troff}}, accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals and line printers....