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• bandwidth n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a compute
  person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....
• ignal-to-noise ratio [from analog electronics] n. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning.
  `Signal' refers to useful information conveyed by some communications medium, and `noise' to anything else on that medium....
• low-bandwidth: [from communication theory] adj. Used to indicate a talk that, although not {content-free}, was not terribly informative.
  That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of {suit}s!...
• paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
  USENET {sig block}s sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...
• low-bandwidth adj. [from communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative.
  That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!...
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• eakernet: /snee'ker-net/ n. Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape
  disks, or some other media from one machine to another....
• 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....