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slack
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1.(operating system)slack - Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information.
2.(jargon)slack - In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius, a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness.

Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that "Unix has no slack".

See ha ha only serious.
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Davis also said Schwarzenegger should be cut some slack - particularly for some of the comments he has made.
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But the district needs to bolster its security forces, and no doubt it could do that more easily if the union were to cut some slack on pay scales.
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Trenton Cross, the man who might still be Northridge's starting point guard if he had finished some plays with the game on the line, hopes Grundy is cut some slack.
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