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• mouse ahead vi. Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.
  To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input....
• for the rest of us: [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the rest of us"] adj.
  1. Used to describe a {spiffy} product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe {spiffy} but very overpriced products....
• point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
  The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....
• WIMP environment: n. [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment such as {X} or the Macintosh interface, esp.
  as described by a hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior flexibility and extensibility....
• bagbiter: /bag'bi:t-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner.
  This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters!...
• luser: /loo'zr/ n. A {user}; esp. one who is also a {loser}.
  ({luser} and {loser} are pronounced identically....
• program: n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3....
• mickey mouse program: n. North American equivalent of a {noddy} (that is, trivial) program.
  Doesn't necessarily have the belittling connotations of mainstream slang "Oh, that's just mickey mouse stuff!...
• Macintrash: /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface.
  The term {maggotbox} has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina....