despew /d*-spyoo'/ v.
[Usenet] To automatically generate a large amount of garbage
to the net, esp. from an automated posting program gone wild. See
ARMM.
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Devil Book n.
See daemon book, the term
preferred by its authors.
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/dev/null /dev-nuhl/ n.
[from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional
`black hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or
referred to. A controversial posting, for example, might end
"Kudos to rasputin@kremlin.org, flames to /dev/null". See bit bucket.
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dickless workstation n.
Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation', a
class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines
designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk
server. These combine all the disadvantages of time-sharing with
all the disadvantages of distributed personal computers;
typically, they cannot even boot
themselves without help (in the form of some kind of breath-of-life packet) from
the server.