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Crapplet

A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet.

"I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!"

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Blamestorming
A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

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Treeware
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

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GOOD job
A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.

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Graybar Land

The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen).

"That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour."

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Egosurfing
Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one's own name.

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Ohnosecond
That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you've just made a terrible error.

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Generica
Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in "we were so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was".

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Chips and Salsa

Chips = hardware, salsa = software.

"First we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."

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Dead Tree Edition
The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.

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