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CRUNCH! "What're You Doing, Worf!?" "Studying Data-Compression!
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CRUNCH! "What're you doing, Worf!?" "Studying Data-Compression!"
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PKWARE: "The Data Compression Experts" (tm)
compress: [UNIX] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to {crunch}ing of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by James A.
Woods et al. and widely circulated via {USENET}...
compress [Unix] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to crunching of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by Joseph M.
Orost et al. and widely circulated via Usenet; use of crunch itself in this sense is rare among Unix hackers....
I guess you guys got BIG MUSCLES from doing too much STUDYING! -- Zippy the Pinhead
For the away team, Data, you, Mr. Worf and Ensign Expendable
Duras: "What is *that* doing here?" "He has claimed the right of vengence.
Duras: "You have no *rights* here, traitor." Worf...
What happened to all the people? War? Disease? A dissatisfied customer?
-- Troi, Worf, Data, and Geordi, "Arsenal of Freedom", stardate 41798.2...
buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed....
Who is France's data compression hero? -- Joan of ARC.
.. And Great Britain's? -- Jack the Zipper....