slack n.
1. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to
store useful information. The techspeak equivalent is `internal
fragmentation'. Antonym: hole. 2. In
the theology of the Church of the SubGenius,
a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all
human happiness.
Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the
unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be
said that "Unix has no slack". See ha ha only serious.
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slap on the side n.
(also called a sidecar, or
abbreviated `SOTS'.) A type of external expansion hardware
marketed by computer manufacturers (e.g., Commodore for the Amiga
500/1000 series and IBM for the hideous failure called `PCjr').
Various SOTS boxes provided necessities such as memory, hard
drive controllers, and conventional expansion slots.
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slash n.
Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character. See
ASCII for other synonyms.
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slashdot effect n.
1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said to have happened
when a website being virtually unreachable because too many
people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an
interesting article on the popular Slashdot news service. The term is
quite widely used by /. readers, including variants like "That
site has been slashdotted again!" 2. In a perhaps inevitable
generation, the term is being used to describe any similar effect
from being listed on a popular site. This would better be
described as a flash
crowd.