catatonic adj.
Describes a condition of suspended animation
in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no
response. If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the
computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you
type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer
is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed).
"There I was in the middle of a winning game of nethack and
it went catatonic on me! Aaargh!" Compare buzz.
Describes a condition of suspended animation
in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no
response. If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the
computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you
type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer
is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed).
"There I was in the middle of a winning game of nethack and
it went catatonic on me! Aaargh!" Compare buzz.
Related:
- catatonic adj.
Describes a condition of suspended animation
in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no
response.
If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the ... - wedged adj.
1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding
without help.
This is different from having crashed. If the system... - wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without
help.
This is different from having crashed. If the system... - hung adj.
[from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to
wedged,
but more common at Unix/C sites. Not generally used... - hang v.
1. [very common] To wait for an event that will
never occur.
"The system is hanging because it can't read from ... - hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
"The system is hanging because it can't read from... - FORTUNE'S GUIDE TO DEALING WITH REAL-LIFE SCIENCE FICTION:
#6 What to do... if a starship, equipped with an... - Lisa: [spraying the Christmas tree] Mom, this fake snow is making me
dizzy.
Marge: We're almost finished. There's just a little... - cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker
wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a
"cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many...
From the same category:
- candygrammar n.
A programming-language grammar that is
mostly syntactic sugar;
the term is also a play on `candygram'. COBOL,... - HP-SUX /H-P suhks/ n.
Unflattering hackerism for
HP-UX,
Hewlett-Packard's Unix port, which features some truly... - rotary debugger n.
[Commodore] Essential equipment for
those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions.
Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes... - demented adj.
Yet another term of disgust used to
describe a malfunctioning program.
The connotation in this case is that the program... - middle-endian adj.
Not big-endian or
little-endian.
Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or...
