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(C)ontrol (A)lt (B)ye
Control-ALT-Delete thyself
Control Character: Maxwell Smart, Agent 86.
control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hacke...
Control Data: don't let it control you.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Kerniga
Control of the dissemination of information (or misinformation) is one of the principal sources of political power.
Political power is what the discussion of the Internet is really about, not home-mad...
Control over thought is a long, painful and laborious process.
But I am convinced that, no time, no labor and no pain is too much for the glorious result to be reached....
control-O: vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running.
Generally means that you are not interested in heari...
control-Q: vi. "Resume." From the ASCII DC1 or {XON} character (the pronunciation /X-on/ is therefore also used), used to undo a previous {control-S}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...

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