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• einvent the wheel v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time.
  This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right....
• I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel
  I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occassionally....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• Lisa: And now it's time for the Innocence Report with Homer Simpson.
  [holds sign: "Innocence Report"] Homer: Hello....
• chomp: vi. To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of which more was bitten off than one can.
  Probably related to gnashing of teeth. See {bagbiter}....
• punt: [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football
  Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] v. 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying....
• oot mode: n. Syn. with {wizard mode} or `wheel mode'.
  Like these, it is often generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than OSes....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• cycle of reincarnation: [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca.
  1970] n. Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again....