Brown-paper-bag Bug N. A Bug In A Public Software Release That Is So Embarassing That The Author Notionally Wears A Brown Paper Bag Over His Head For A While So He Won't Be Recognized On The Net.

bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
PBPBPBP Place Backup in Plain Brown Paper Bag, Please [for stealing code]
Unix /yoo'niks/ n. [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multic
very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
oll v.,n. 1. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.
urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flame...
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....
condom n. 1. The protective plastic bag that accompanies 3.
5-inch microfloppy diskettes. Rarely, also used of (paper) disk envelopes....