provocative maintenance n.
[common ironic mutation of
`preventive maintenance'] Actions performed upon a machine at
regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in
a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by
a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing; such
`maintenance' often induces problems, or otherwise
results in the machine's remaining in an unusable state for
an indeterminate amount of time. See also scratch monkey.
[common ironic mutation of
`preventive maintenance'] Actions performed upon a machine at
regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in
a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by
a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing; such
`maintenance' often induces problems, or otherwise
results in the machine's remaining in an unusable state for
an indeterminate amount of time. See also scratch monkey.
Related:
- provocative maintenance: [common ironic mutation of `preventive
maintenance'] n.
Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled... - PM: /P-M/ 1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To bring down
a machine for inspection or test purposes.
See {provocative maintenance}; see also {scratch... - 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... - bit bucket n.
[very common] 1. The universal data sink
(originally,
the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they... - 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 sinister... - 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... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym... - 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...
From the same category:
- dike vt.
To remove or disable a portion of something,
as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a... - stiffy n.
3.5-inch microfloppies, so called because
their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5.25-inch and the
(now totally obsolete) 8-inch floppy.
Elsewhere this might be called... - sysadmin /sis'ad-min/ n.
Common contraction of `system
admin';
see admin... - pr0n //
[Usenet, IRC] Pornography. Originally this
referred only to Internet porn but since then it has expanded to
refer to just about anything.
The term comes from the warez kiddies... - RL // n.
[MUD community] Real Life. "Firiss laughs
in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing.
Compare meatspace; oppose VR...
