sucking mud adj.
[Applied Data Research] (also
`pumping mud') Crashed or wedged. Usually said of a machine
that provides some service to a network, such as a file server.
This Dallas regionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield
lament, "Shut 'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as
a query. "We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready
to suck mud?"
[Applied Data Research] (also
`pumping mud') Crashed or wedged. Usually said of a machine
that provides some service to a network, such as a file server.
This Dallas regionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield
lament, "Shut 'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as
a query. "We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready
to suck mud?"
Related:
- sucking mud: [Applied Data Research] adj. (also `pumping
mud') Crashed or {wedged}.
Usually said of a machine that provides some service... - Shut 'er down Scotty,
the warp drives are sucking mud... - STACK UNDERFLOW: Better shut her down, Scotty.
She's suckin' mud again... - lag n.
[MUD, IRC; very common] When used without
qualification this is synomous with netlag.
Curiously, people will often complain "I'm really... - jack in v.
To log on to a machine or connect to a network
or BBS,
esp. for purposes of entering a virtual reality ... - jack in: v. To log on to a machine or connect to a network or
{BBS},
esp. for purposes of entering a {virtual reality} ... - bamf /bamf/
1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"]
interj.
Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting... - No mud can soil us but the mud we
throw... - toad vt. [MUD]
1. Notionally, to change a MUD player into
a toad.
2. To permanently and totally exile a player from the...
From the same category:
- FOD /fod/ v.
[Abbreviation for `Finger of Death',
originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate... - sun-stools n.
Unflattering hackerism for SunTools,
a pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day... - compiler jock n.
See jock (sense 2)... - epoch n.
[Unix: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] The
time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and
timestamp values.
Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00... - obscure adj.
Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning,
to imply total incomprehensibility. "The reason for...
