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• power hit n. A spike or drop-out in the electricity supplying your machine
  a power glitch. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to your machine(s)....
• dirty power: n. Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers.
  Spikes, {drop-outs}, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as {power hit}s)....
• drop-outs: n. 1. A variety of `power glitch' (see {glitch})
  momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains. 2....
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• 120 reset: /wuhn-twen'tee ree'set/ [from 120 volts, U.
  S. wall voltage] n. To cycle power on a machine in order to reset or unjam it....
• firefighting: n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems.
  An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?...
• home machine: n. 1. Syn. {home box}. 2. The machine that receives your email.
  These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads email at work....
• cag: vt. To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.
  That last power hit scagged the system disk." Compare {scrog}, {roach}....
• fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure
  burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event....