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• user, n: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot.
  -- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top" [I always thought "computer professional" was the phrase hackers used when they meant "idiot....
• USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot.
  -- Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top...
• USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot.
  -- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top...
• oot: [UNIX] n. 1. The {superuser} account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a UNIX system.
  The term {avatar} is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure (home directory of the root user)....
• virtual adj. [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob.
  from the term `virtual image' in optics] 1. Common alternative to logical...
• virtual: [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob.
  from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1....
• blivet /bliv'*t/ n. [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] 1.
  An intractable problem. 2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks....
• blivet: /bliv'*t/ [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] n.
  1. An intractable problem. 2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks....
• oot n. [Unix] 1. The superuser account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system.
  The term avatar is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure...