UNIX WEENIE

  

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UNIX WEENIE

Specialty Definition: UNIX WEENIE

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Unix weenie n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs. "This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have been written by a real Unix weenie." 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of Unix. Often appearing in the context "stupid Unix weenie". See Weenix, Unix conspiracy. See also weenie. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: UNIX WEENIE

Specialty definitions using "UNIX WEENIE": Weenix. (references)

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Anagrams: UNIX WEENIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-i-n-n-u-w-x"

-4 letters: weenie, wienie.

-5 letters: ennui, exine, newie, nixie.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNIX WEENIE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 49 58      57 45 45 4E 49 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000101 01001110 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#73 &#88 &#32 &#87 &#69 &#69 &#78 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0049 0058      0057 0045 0045 004E 0049 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

554843582573939484339

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