nerd knob

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(idea) by Jargon (2 y) (print)   (I like it!) Thu Jul 19 2001 at 12:42:35
nerd = N = net.-

nerd knob n.

[Cisco] A command in a complex piece of software which is more likely to be used by an extremely experienced user to tweak a setting of one sort or another - a setting which the average user may not even know exists. Nerd knobs tend to be toggles, turning on or off a particular, specific, narrowly defined behavior.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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