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copious free time n. [Apple; orig. fr. the intro to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier"] 1. [used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question] A mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." 2. [Archly] Time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time." |
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copper n. Conventional electron-carrying network cable with a core conductor of copper or aluminum! Opposed to light pipe or, say, a short-range microwave link. |
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copy protection n. A class of methods for preventing incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it. Considered silly. |
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copybroke /kop'ee-brohk/ adj. 1. [play on 'copyright'] Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been 'broken'; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled. Syn. copywronged. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the anti-piracy check. See also copy protection. |
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copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n. [play on 'copyright'] 1. The copyright notice ('General Public License') carried by GNU EMACS and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also General Public Virus). 2. By extension, any copyright notice intended to achieve similar aims. |
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copywronged /kop'ee-rongd/ adj. [play on 'copyright'] Syn. for copybroke. |
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core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms are quite current; in core, for example, means 'in memory' (as opposed to 'on disk'), and both core dump and the core image or core file produced by one are terms in favor. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store. |
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core cancer n. A process that exhibits a slow but inexorable resource leak like a cancer, it kills by crowding out productive tissue. |
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