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• aw mode n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under bogus operating systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• cooked mode: [UNIX, by opposition with {raw mode}] n.
  The normal character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• cooked mode n. [Unix, by opposition from raw mode] The normal character-input mode
  with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• are mode: [UNIX] adj. CBREAK mode (character-by-character with interrupts enabled).
  Distinguished from {raw mode} and {cooked mode}...
• wizard mode: [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....
• are mode adj. [Unix] CBREAK mode (character-by-character with interrupts enabled).
  Distinguished from raw mode and cooked mode; the phrase "a sort of half-cooked (rare?...
• wheel bit: n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
  uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
• wizard mode n. [from rogue] A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....
• Easter egging: [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it....