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• pool vi. [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line'
  but is widely thought to be a backronym] To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later....
• daemon: /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n.
  A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n. [from the mythological meaning
  later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• vdiff: /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}.
  The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences....
• y: /T-T-Y/ [UNIX], /tit'ee/ [ITS, but some UNIX people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones] n....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• engine: n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of {front end}.
  Today we have, especially, `print engine': the guts of a laser printer....
• fan: n. Without qualification, indicates a fan of science fiction, especially one who goes to {con}s and tends to hang out with other fans.
  Many hackers are fans, so this term has been imported from fannish slang...