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• disusered adj. [Usenet] Said of a person whose account on a computer has been removed, esp.
  for cause rather than through normal attrition....
• eturn from the dead: v. To regain access to the net after a long absence.
  Compare {person of no account}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• person of no account: [University of California at Santa Cruz] n.
  Used when referring to a person with no {network address}, frequently to forestall confusion....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you decide to stay in school.
  ..just to keep your Internet account!...
• 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'....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• funny money: n. 1. Notional `dollar' units of computing time and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course
  also called `play money' or `purple money' (in implicit opposition to real or `green' money)....
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• amizdat: [Russian, literally "self publishing"] n.
  The process of disseminating documentation via underground channels....