- You know you've been hacking too long when
The
set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about
themselves.
These include the following: not only do you... - Your mileage may vary cav.
[from the standard disclaimer
attached to EPA mileage ratings by American car manufacturers] 1.
A ritual warning often found in Unix freeware distributions... - Yow! /yow/ interj.
[from "Zippy the Pinhead" comix] A
favored hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
"Yow! Check out what happens when you twiddle the... - yoyo mode n.
The state in which the system is said to be
when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being
down.
Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many... - Yu-Shiang Whole Fish /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs.
The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001)... - zap
1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy.
3. vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food... - zapped adj.
Spicy. This term is used to distinguish
between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is
spicy-hot.
For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken... - zen vt.
To figure out something by meditation or by a
sudden flash of enlightenment.
Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied... - zero vt.
1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of
data,
such as bits or words (esp. in the construction `zero... - zero-content adj.
Syn.
content-free...
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