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A disheveled adventurer stares back at you.
A dish fit for the gods. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act ii, Sc. 1
A dish full of all kinds of flowers: You can't guess this riddle in two hours. (Honey)
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
-- Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992...
A distributed system is one that stops you from getting any work done when a machine you've never even heard of crashes.
-- Leslie Lamport (Attributed)...
A District of Columbia ordinance makes it unlawful for small boys to throw stones, at any time, at any place.
A diva who specializes in risque arias is an off-coloratura soprano ...
Adjusting finances and making budgets won't help when you're broke.
admin: /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer.
Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' ...
Administration maintains the status quo. -- Thomas L. Marti

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