:provocative maintenance: [common ironic mutation of `preventive
maintenance'] n. Actions performed upon a machine at regularly
scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable
state. So called because it is all too often performed by a
{field servoid} who doesn't know what he is doing; such
`maintenance' often *induces* problems, or otherwise
results in the machine's remaining in an *un*usable state for
an indeterminate amount of time. See also {scratch monkey}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
maintenance'] n. Actions performed upon a machine at regularly
scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable
state. So called because it is all too often performed by a
{field servoid} who doesn't know what he is doing; such
`maintenance' often *induces* problems, or otherwise
results in the machine's remaining in an *un*usable state for
an indeterminate amount of time. See also {scratch monkey}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- provocative maintenance n.
[common ironic mutation of
`preventive maintenance'] Actions performed upon a machine at
regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in
a usable state.
So called because it is all too often performed by... - PM: /P-M/ 1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To bring down
a machine for inspection or test purposes.
See {provocative maintenance}; see also {scratch... - PM /P-M/
1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To
bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes.
See provocative maintenance; see also scratch monk... - bit bucket n.
[very common] 1. The universal data sink
(originally,
the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they... - postmaster: n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site
connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
Often, but not always, the same as the {admin}.... - infant mortality: n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the
electronics industry at large;
this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the... - back door n.
[common] A hole in the security of a
system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
The motivation for such holes is not always sinister... - The system will be down for 10 days for preventive
maintenance... - Hackers do it during PM.
[Preventive...
From the same category:
- Kirk: "Permission to come aboard, Captain."
Spock: "Welcome,
Admiral. I think you know my training crew. Certainly... - Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless
of how others use them.
Writing Rule... - Share some with me,
you guys are being too shellfish... - If you seek enlightenment diligently enough,
someone will sell it to you... - Woody: Hey, Mr. Peterson, what's up?
Norm: The warranty on my liver.
Cheers, Breaking In Is Hard to Do Sam: What can I...
