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WAFL

(Write Anywhere File Layout) A high-performance journaling file system used in Network Appliance's NAS and caching devices. It natively supports RAID implementations and allows for expansion on the fly. Using a clever system of pointers to disk clusters that take up a small amount of extra disk space, WAFL enables up to 31 snapshots of the disk to be scheduled in order to roll back to previous versions of the data. See Network Appliance.
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dome

1. A curved roof structure spanning an area; often spherical in shape.
2. A square prefabricated pan form; used in two-way joist (waffle) concrete floor construction.
3. A vault substantially hemispherical in shape, but sometimes slightly pointed or bulbous; a ceiling of similar form. also see geodesic dome and saucer dome.
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During the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry was branded as a waffler, and not only did the label stick, it became the buzzword of the presidential campaign.
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There's also Kerry the Waffler. The most popular persona so far seems to be Killjoy Kerry, as depicted in jokes about his long face and dour demeanor.
Now here's one which is broken on a weekly basis by the sort of waffler who feels every second of silence deprives the audience of another pearl of wisdom.
A waffler of note, "he rowed to his object with muffled oars," according to John Randolph.
During his first term, for example, he earned the nickname "William the Waffler" for his administration's supposed inconsistency in linking rhetoric with policy on human rights violations in China, refugee problems in Cuba and Haiti, and in haphazardly getting the United States involved in the long-running, tragic conflict in Bosnia.(4) Thus, trying to discern Clinton's image of the world has been the cause of much debate and academic focus, particularly since, as the first "baby boomer" president, Clinton has very little "in common with the life experiences and shared worldview of the generation of Cold War leaders" who preceded him.(5)
WAFFLER: A Constraint-Directed Approach to Intelligent Agent Design.
Its author is a gifted Belgian waffler, creatively uncomfortable in two nationalities.
The CyberTimes, by contrast, is a far more accessible forum, with threads carrying headlines you're not likely to see in the "Times proper, like: "Dole - Waffler Without a Spine!"
And, of course, they'll brand him an inveterate waffler. "Bill Clinton," says Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican National Committee, "shares with the hummingbird the incredible ability to turn 180 degrees in a split second."
A sidebar with the head "So what's wrong with Ross?" described him as a liar, cheat, hypocrite, and waffler.
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