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• provocative maintenance: [common ironic mutation of `preventive maintenance'] n.
  Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state....
• PM: /P-M/ 1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes.
  See {provocative maintenance}; see also {scratch monkey}....
• PM /P-M/ 1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes.
  See provocative maintenance; see also scratch monk 2....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• back door n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
  The motivation for such holes is not always siniste...
• The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.
• WEAR-OUT BITS n. A hypothetical (and sought after) mechanism by which software houses could charge for software preventive maintenance, and thus make a fortune.
  The idea is that some instructions in the machine would become softwarily unreliable after N executions....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• postmaster n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
  Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail (RFC-822) requires each machine to have a `postmaster' addre...