dispress vt.
[contraction of `Dissociated Press' due to
eight-character MS-DOS filenames] To apply the Dissociated Press
algorithm to a block of text. The resultant output is also referred to
as a 'dispression'.
[contraction of `Dissociated Press' due to
eight-character MS-DOS filenames] To apply the Dissociated Press
algorithm to a block of text. The resultant output is also referred to
as a 'dispression'.
Related:
- Dissociated Press n.
[play on `Associated Press';
perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1950 Bugs... - banana problem: n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I
know how to spell `banana',
but I don't know when to stop"]. Not knowing where... - DP: /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because,
according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately... - Character doesn't matter
(The... - HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n.
MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
A legendary collection of neat mathematical and... - dahmum /dah'mum/ n.
[Usenet] The material of which
protracted flame wars,
especially those about operating systems, is composed... - pseudo /soo'doh/ n.
[Usenet: truncation of `pseudonym']
1.
An electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human... - banana problem n.
[from the story of the little girl who
said "I know how to spell `banana',
but I don't know when to stop"]. Not knowing where... - zip vt.
[primarily MS-DOS] To create a compressed archive
from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible
archiver.
Its use is spreading now that portable implementations...
From the same category:
- lurker n.
One of the `silent majority' in a electronic
forum;
one who posts occasionally or not at all but is known... - netiquette /net'ee-ket/ or /net'i-ket/ n.
[portmanteau,
network + etiquette] The conventions of politeness... - AOL! n.
[Usenet] Common synonym for "Me, too!"
alluding to the legendary propensity of America Online users to
utter contentless "Me,
too!" postings. The number of exclamation points... - Helen Keller mode n.
1. State of a hardware or software
system that is deaf,
dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating... - lase /layz/ vt.
To print a given document via a laser
printer.
"OK, let's lase that sucker and see if all those ...
