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• burble v. [from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like flame, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent).
  A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm software's fault....
• kit: [USENET; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] n.
  A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard UNIX tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level {README file}....
• barf: /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
  interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon"....
• README file: n. Hacker's-eye introduction traditionally included in the top-level directory of a UNIX source distributio
  containing a pointer to more detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes, etc....
• freeze: v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability.
  Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date....
• can: vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp.
  when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the {{console}}"....
• oll v.,n. 1. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.
  urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flame...
• ource of all good bits: n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained.
  If you need to know about a program, a {guru} might be the source of all good bits....
• hand-roll: [from obs. mainstream slang `hand-rolled' in opposition to `ready-made', referring to cigarettes] v.
  To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process {by hand}...