screen name n.
A handle sense 1. This term has
been common among users of IRC, MUDs, and commercial on-line
services since the mid-1990s. Hackers recognize the term but
don't generally use it.
A handle sense 1. This term has
been common among users of IRC, MUDs, and commercial on-line
services since the mid-1990s. Hackers recognize the term but
don't generally use it.
Related:
- bot n
[common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from
`robot'] 1.
An IRC or MUD user who is actually a program. On... - warez /weirz/ n.
Widely used in cracker subcultures
to denote cracked version of commercial software,
that is versions from which copy-protection has... - tweeter: [University of Waterloo] n. Syn. {perf}, {chad}
(sense 1).
This term (like {woofer}) has been in use at Waterloo... - tweeter n.
[University of Waterloo] Syn. perf,
chad (sense 1).
This term (like woofer) has been in use at Waterloo... - accumulator n. obs.
1. Archaic term for a register.
On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is... - lamer n.
[prob. originated in skateboarder slang]
1.
Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common... - accumulator: n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it
as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that
the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the
architecture under discussion is quite old.
The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor... - mainframe n.
Term originally referring to the cabinet
containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a
room-filling Stone Age batch machine.
After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs... - nick n.
[IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On
IRC,
every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the...
From the same category:
- religious issues n.
Questions which seemingly cannot be
raised without touching off holy wars,
such as "What is the best operating system (or editor... - 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... - handwave
[poss. from gestures characteristic of stage
magicians] 1.
v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a ... - ed n.
"ed is the standard text editor." Line taken
from original the Unix manual page on ed,
an ancient line-oriented editor that is by now used... - nuke /n[y]ook/ vt.
[common] 1. To intentionally
delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
"On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr...
