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• ouristic adj. Having the quality of a tourist. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum'.
  Often spelled `turistic' or `turistik', so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum'....
• urist: /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of {tourist}, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic'.
  Poss. influenced by {luser} and `Turing'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eal: adj. Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to {virtual} in any of its jargon senses.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• wound around the axle: adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• fascist: adj. 1. Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies.
  The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done....
• bagbiting: adj. Having the quality of a {bagbiter}.
  This bagbiting system won't let me compute the factorial of a negative number....
• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• brittle: adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself.
  Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli...
• boxen: /bok'sn/ [by analogy with {VAXen}] pl.n. Fanciful plural of {box} often encountered in the phrase `UNIX boxen', used to describe commodity {{UNIX}} hardware.
  The connotation is that any two UNIX boxen are interchangeable. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...