hoarding n.
See software
hoarding.
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hobbit n.
1. [rare] The High Order BIT of a byte; same as the meta bit or high bit. 2.
The non-ITS name of vad@ai.mit.edu (*Hobbit*), master of lasers.
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hog n.,vt.
1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to
eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those
which noticeably degrade interactive response. Not used
of programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that
are merely painfully slow themselves. More often than not
encountered in qualified forms, e.g., `memory hog', `core hog',
`hog the processor', `hog the disk'. "A controller that never
gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer
expires." 2. Also said of people who use more than their
fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that
10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk
is or how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up
one filesystem, they typically find some other new one to infect,
claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project
to complete.