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• clue-by-four [Usenet: portmanteau, clue + two-by-four] The notional stick with which one whacks an aggressively clueless person.
  This term derives from a western American folk saying about training a mule "First, you got to hit him with a two-by-four....
• Slowlaris /slo'-lahr-is/ n. [Usenet; poss. from the variety of sloth called a "slow loris".
  The variant `Slowlartus' is also common, related to LART] Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's System VR4 version of UNIX that came out of the standardization wars of the early 1990s....
• World Domination, One CPU Cycle At A Time Forget about searching for alien signals or prime numbers.
  The real distributed computing application is "Domination@World", a program to advocate Linux and Apache to every website in the world that uses Windows and IIS....
• hog n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....
• Perl /perl/ n. [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
• mumble interj. 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out.
  Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion....
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
• bob n. At Demon Internet, all tech support personal are called "Bob".
  (Female support personnel have an option on "Bobette")....