gnubie /noo'bee/ n.
Written-only variant of newbie in
common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone
who is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.
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GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ n.
[contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for
the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS. Used esp. in contrast with
GOSMACS.
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go flatline v.
[from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon
brain-death] (also adjectival `flatlined'). 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In
hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being
considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes
about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing
controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down
Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a
video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a
bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.