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• bring X to its knees v. [common] To present a machine, operating system, piece of software, or algorithm with a load so extreme or pathological that it grinds to a halt.
  To bring a MicroVAX to its knees, try twenty users running vi -- or four running EMACS....
• Bill Gates says no matter how much more power we can supply, he'll develop some really exciting software that will bring the machine to its knees.
  -- Intel VP David House, In _EE_Times_, 16 October 1989...
• disclaimer: n. [USENET] n. Statement ritually appended to many USENET postings (sometimes automatically
  by the posting software) reiterating the fact (which should be obvious, but is easily forgotten) that the article reflects its author's opinions and not necessarily those of the organization running the machine through which the article entered the network....
• Bring Windows to it's knees: Start an application.
• gun: [ITS: from the `:GUN' command] vt. To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer, not career).
  Some idiot left a background process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it....
• control-O: vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running.
  Generally means that you are not interested in hearing anything more from that person, at least on that topic...
• operating system:: [techspeak] n. (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine, of course
  hat which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications....
• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
• buglix: /buhg'liks/ n. Pejorative term referring to {DEC}'s ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions.
  Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom....