Related:

• yoyo mode n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down.
  Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits....
• YOYO MODE n. State in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down.
  -- From the AI Hackers' Dictionary...
• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• hack mode n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
  2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic)....
• bottom-up implementation n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'.
  It has been received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of action in increasing detail until you get to actual code....
• casters-up mode n. [IBM, prob. fr. slang belly up] Yet another synonym for `broken' or `down'.
  Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is `down' may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is `casters up' is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it)....
• casters-up mode: [IBM, prob. fr. slang belly up] n.
  Yet another synonym for `broken' or `down'. Usually connotes a major failure....
• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....