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• The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.
• The system will be down for 10 days for preventative maintenance.
• 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 a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing...
• 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....
• priesthood n. obs. [TMRC] The select group of system managers responsible for the operation and maintenance of a batch operated computer system.
  On these computers, a user never had direct access to a computer, but had to submit his/her data and programs to a priest for execution....
• ystem mangler n. Humorous synonym for `system manager', poss.
  from the fact that one major IBM OS had a root account called SYSMANGR....
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
  -- Martin Luther King, Jr....
• in a shy, nervous tone] Hi everybody. Is everybody.
  .. good? -- Homer is about to begin his number, "Homerpalooza...
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