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muggle
A non- wizard. Not as disparaging as luser ; implies vague pity rather than
contempt. In the universe of Rowling's enormously (and deservedly) popular
children's series, muggles and wizards inhabit the same modern world, but
each group is ignorant of the commonplaces of the others' existence most
muggles are unaware that wizards exist, and wizards (used to magical ways of
doing everything) are perplexed and fascinated by muggle artifacts. In
retrospect it seems completely inevitable that hackers would adopt this
metaphor, and in hacker usage it readily forms compounds such as
muggle-friendly. Compare luser , mundane , chainik , newbie.
contempt. In the universe of Rowling's popular children's series, muggles
and wizards inhabit the same modern world, but each group is ignorant of
the commonplaces of the others' existence most muggles are unaware that
wizards exist, and wizards (used to magical ways of doing everything) are
perplexed and fascinated by muggle artifacts. In retrospect it seems
completely inevitable that hackers would adopt this metaphor, and in hacker
usage it readily forms compounds such as muggle-friendly. Compare luser,
mundane, chainik, newbie.

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vt.,vi.,n. [from Monty Python's Flying Circus ] 1. To crash a program by
overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data. See also
buffer overflow , overrun screw , smash the stack. 2. To cause a newsgroup
to be flooded with irrelevant or inappropriate messages. You can spam a
newsgroup with as little as one well- (or ill-) planned message (e.g. asking
What do you think of abortion? on soc.women ). This is often done with
cross-post ing (e.g. any message which is cross-posted to alt.rush-limbaugh
and alt.politics.homosexuality will almost inevitably spam both groups).
This overlaps with troll behavior; the latter more specific term has become
more common. 3. To send many identical or nearly-identical messages
to be flooded with irrelevant or inappropriate messages. This overlaps with
troll behavior; the latter more specific term has become more common.
3. To send many identical or nearly-identical messages
separately to a large number of Usenet newsgroups. This is more specifically
called ECP , Excessive Cross-Posting. This is one sure way to infuriate
nearly everyone on the Net. See also velveeta and jello. 4. To bombard a