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Clustergeeking: /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ [CMU] N. Spending More Time At A Computer Cluster Doing CS Homework Than Most People Spend Breathing.
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:clustergeeking: /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ [CMU] n. Spending more time
at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend
breathing.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
clustergeeking /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ n. [CMU] Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
ube time: n. Time spent at a terminal or console. More inclusive than hacking time
commonly used in discussions of what parts of one's environment one uses most heavily....
avatar: [CMU, Tektronix] n. Syn. {root}, {superuser}.
There are quite a few UNIX machines on which the name of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'....
erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....
ano: /nan'oh/ [CMU: from `nanosecond'] n. A brief period of time.
Be with you in a nano" means you really will be free shortly, i....
multitask: n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see {thrash}).
The term `multiplex', from communications technology (meaning to handle more than one channel at the same time), is used similarly....
film at 11: [MIT: in parody of TV newscasters] 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering.
{{ITS}} crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in schedule...
creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
milliLampson: /mil'*-lamp`sn/ n. A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL.
Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000....