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• aster burn n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
  graphics monitors. See terminal illness....
• erminal illness: n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• blitter: /blit'r/ n. A special-purpose chip or hardware system built to perform {blit} operations, esp.
  used for fast implementation of bit-mapped graphics....
• oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....
• crash and burn: vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare {die horribly}).
  Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators....
• erminal illness n. 1. Syn. raster burn. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
• erminal brain death: n. The extreme form of {terminal illness} (sense 1).
  What someone who has obviously been hacking continuously for far too long is said to be suffering from....
• dusty deck: n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with
  or to maintain ({DP} types call this `legacy code', a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent)....
• flamage: /flay'm*j/ n. Flaming verbiage, esp. high-noise, low-signal postings to {USENET} or other electronic {fora}.
  Often in the phrase `the usual flamage'. `Flaming' is the act itself...