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• ig virus: n. A parasitic {meme} embedded in a {sig block}.
  There was a {meme plague} or fad for these on USENET in late 1991....
• I am the sig! which George McQuary probably would not approve of because the lines exceed the number of most terminals (24) still used on most computer monitors.
• Quote #337 .sigs are the bumper stickers of the information superhighway.
• When writing a text, it will always be N+1 words long, where N is the line break.
  -- Yoshi's 81 Characters Per Line Law...
• overrun n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• overrun: n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a {silo} can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• ig block /sig blok/ n. [Unix; often written `.sig' there] Short for `signature'
  used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most Unix mail- and news-posting software will automagically append to outgoing mail and news....
• ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
  Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
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