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• copper n. Conventional electron-carrying network cable with a core conductor of copper -- or aluminum!
  Opposed to light pipe or, say, a short-range m...
• light pipe: n. Fiber optic cable. Oppose {copper}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• light pipe n. Fiber optic cable. Oppose copper.
• hamster: n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster {happily} spinning its exercise wheel....
• at belt: n. A cable tie, esp. the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs).
  Small cable ties are `mouse belts'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• core: n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• hambolic link: /sham-bol'ik link/ n. A UNIX symbolic link
  particularly when it confuses you, points to nothing at all, or results in your ending up in some completely unexpected part of the filesystem....
• locals, the: pl.n. The users on one's local network (as opposed, say, to people one reaches via public Internet or UUCP connects).
  The marked thing about this usage is how little it has to do with real-space distance....
• P-mail: n. Physical mail, as opposed to {email}. Synonymous with {snail-mail}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...