brown-paper-bag bug n.
A bug in a public software
release that is so embarassing that the author notionally wears
a brown paper bag over his head for a while so he won't be
recognized on the net. Entered popular usage after the early-1999
release of the first Linux 2.2, which had one. The phrase was used
in Linus Torvalds's apology posting.
A bug in a public software
release that is so embarassing that the author notionally wears
a brown paper bag over his head for a while so he won't be
recognized on the net. Entered popular usage after the early-1999
release of the first Linux 2.2, which had one. The phrase was used
in Linus Torvalds's apology posting.
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An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
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[In the authors' words, "A weak pun
on Multics";
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Used humorously as a random parameter
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Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent... - Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/
n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and... - troll v.,n.
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later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor... - condom n.
1. The protective plastic bag that accompanies
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Rarely, also used of (paper) disk envelopes. Unlike...
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[IRC, MUD] A condition that occurs when the
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enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact,
causing messages... - fireworks mode n.
1. The mode a machine is sometimes
said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn
operation.
2. There is (or was) a more specific meaning of this... - buried treasure n.
A surprising piece of code found in some
program.
While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty... - ICBM address n.
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used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project,
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Except for. An
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