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TERMINAL JUNKIE

Specialty Definition: TERMINAL JUNKIE

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Computing

Terminal junkie n. [UK] A wannabee or early larval stage hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of computer time. Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and console jockey. The term `console jockey' seems to imply more expertise than the other three (possibly because of the exalted status of the {console relative to an ordinary terminal). See also twink, read-only user. Appropriately, this term was used in the works of William S. Burroughs to describe a heroin addict with an unlimited supply. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: TERMINAL JUNKIE

Specialty definitions using "TERMINAL JUNKIE": console jockeyfweepread-only user. (references)

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Anagrams: TERMINAL JUNKIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-j-k-l-m-n-n-r-t-u"

-3 letters: interleukin.

-4 letters: innumerate, untimelier.

-5 letters: alinement, eliminate, interline, interlink, intermale, inurement, lineament, luminaire, miniature, retinulae, triennial, triennium, unilinear, unmanlier, uraninite.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TERMINAL JUNKIE


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

54 45 52 4D 49 4E 41 4C      4A 55 4E 4B 49 45

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

    

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

01010100 01000101 01010010 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01001100 00100000 01001010 01010101 01001110 01001011 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#69 &#82 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#74 &#85 &#78 &#75 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0045 0052 004D 0049 004E 0041 004C      004A 0055 004E 004B 0049 0045

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

54395247434835462445548454339

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