A luser overheard one of the programmers ask another "Do you have a green card?"

At this point the luser turned a delicate shade of olive and rapidly left the room, never to return.

It's not something Joe Luser is going to be able to wrap his head around easily.

For example, The Sysadmin doesn't trust the end luser with a root account password.

Later one of the ITS machines supported 'luser' as a request-for-help command.

"Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers."

If you can think of something (a prospect Mr. Power Luser finds unlikely), there is probably a news group formed around it.

Mr. Power Luser anticipates that your next question might be, "How do I go about meeting people with whom I can correspond?"

Dear Mr. Power Luser: Hey, I'm psyched that America Online now has Internet connections.

In Internet slang, a luser (sometimes expanded to local user; also luzer or luzzer) is a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user.

The irony is that, among hackers, "user" (or "luser") is often a derogatory term, and that "user friendly" is sometimes synonymous with "beneath contempt."

In hackish, the word luser takes on a broad meaning, referring to any normal user (in other words "not a guru"), with the implication the person is also a loser.

Computing slang: a peon is an "unprivileged user"-a person without special privileges on a computer system (compare luser) The other extreme is "superuser" (compare systems administrator).

They express this displeasure by sending electronic mail messages to the newcomers, often using colorful phrases and terms that surprised Mr. Power Luser with their richly evocative earthiness.

From Vienna come Gabriele Senn Galerie and Christine König, the latter with an artist in residence, Constantin Luser, who will work on site through the fair.

A program that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset of the capabilities of the host system (for example, the 'rsh(1)' utility on USG UNIX).

DEAR Mr. Power Luser: I just got an account on America Online so I can explore the Internet and have all sorts of fascinating discussions with people on their bulletin boards.

Created as an experiment by MIT computer scientist and early internet entrepreneur Philip Greenspun, the TCL-based system was named as a pun combination of USENET and luser.

CLUELESS NEWBIE Dear Mr. Newbie: Please forgive Mr. Power Luser while he searches for his Valium.

It has come to Mr. Power Luser's attention recently that the millions of computer users who are now connected to the Internet, and particularly the network known as Usenet, are not at all pleased by the recent arrival of several million new visitors who have not yet been assimilated into the "net" culture.