found at various places in this lexicon is related).

:console:: /n./ 1. The operator's station of a {mainframe}.
In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike
powers to anyone with fingers on its keys. Under Unix and other
modern timesharing OSes, such privileges are guarded by passwords
instead, and the console is just the {tty} the system was booted
from. Some of the mystique remains, however, and it is traditional
for sysadmins to post urgent messages to all users from the console
(on Unix, /dev/console). 2. On microcomputer Unix boxes, the main
screen and keyboard (as opposed to character-only terminals talking
to a serial port). Typically only the console can do real graphics
or run {X}. See also {CTY}.

:console jockey: /n./ See {terminal junkie}.

:content-free: /adj./ [by analogy with techspeak
`context-free'] Used of a message that adds nothing to the
recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes applied
to {flamage}, it more usually connotes derision for
communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centered
on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps
most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and
other professional manipulators. "Content-free? Uh... that's
anything printed on glossy paper." (See also {four-color
glossies}.) "He gave a talk on the implications of electronic
networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was
content-free."

:control-C: /vi./ 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the