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• helfware /shelf'weir/ n. Software purchased on a whim (by an individual user) or in accordance with policy (by a corporation or government agency)
  but not actually required for any particular use. Therefore, it often ends up on some shelf....
• crew: [MIT] n. A {lose}, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
  This use has become quite widespread outside MIT. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ken: /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX.
  In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken"....
• aive: adj. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
  one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....
• legal: adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp.
  in connection with some set of constraints defined by software....
• boustrophedon: [from a Greek word for turning like an ox while plowing] n.
  An ancient method of writing using alternate left-to-right and right-to-left lines....
• Big Gray Wall: n. What faces a {VMS} user searching for documentation.
  A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multivendor networking, and programming tools....
• death code: n. A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer -- registers, memory, flags, everything -- to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running
  its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction....
• Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
  In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....