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• gilley n. [Usenet] The unit of analogical bogosity.
  According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was "the act of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of 1000 machines for a day with the killing of one person"....
• flush: v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [UNIX/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call....
• miswart: /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n.
  A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart} but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}....
• Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
  In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
• flush v. 1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an fflush(3) call....
• mickey: n. The resolution unit of mouse movement. It has been suggested that the `disney' will become a benchmark unit for animation graphics performance.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• microLenat: /mi:`-kroh-len'-*t/ n. The unit of {bogosity}, written uL
  he consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday use....
• disusered: adj. [USENET] Said of a person whose account on a computer has been removed, esp.
  for cause rather than through normal attrition....
• phase: 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....