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• unes: pl.n. 1. Anything that requires {heavy wizardry} or {black art} to {parse}
  core dumps, JCL commands, APL, or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read....
• frogging [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• examining the entrails n. The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....
• one-liner wars: n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language} and {line noise}).
  The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly {hairy} primitive set....
• line noise n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• line noise: n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, {cosmic rays}, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• examining the entrails: n. The process of {grovel}ling through a {core dump} or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....