cubing vi.
[parallel with `tubing'] 1. Hacking on an IPSC (Intel Personal
SuperComputer) hypercube. "Louella's gone cubing
again!!" 2. Hacking Rubik's Cube or related puzzles,
either physically or mathematically. 3. An indescribable form of
self-torture (see sense 1 or 2).
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cup holder n.
The tray of a CD-ROM drive, or by extension the CD drive
itself. So called because of a common tech support legend about
the idiot who called to complain that the cup holder on his
computer broke. A joke program was once distributed around the
net called "cupholder.exe", which when run simply extended the CD
drive tray. The humor of this was of course lost on people whose
drive had a slot or a caddy instead.
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cursor dipped in X n.
There are a couple of metaphors in English of the form `pen
dipped in X' (perhaps the most common values of X are `acid',
`bile', and `vitriol'). These map over neatly to this hackish
usage (the cursor being what moves, leaving letters behind, when
one is composing on-line). "Talk about a nastygram! He must've had his cursor dipped
in acid when he wrote that one!"