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• casting the runes n. What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else
  esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J....
• examining the entrails: n. The process of {grovel}ling through a {core dump} or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....
• power cycle: vt. (also, `cycle power' or just `cycle') To power off a machine and then power it on immediately, with the intention of clearing some kind of {hung} or {gronk}ed state.
  Syn. {120 reset}; see also {Big Red Switch}. Compare {Vulcan nerve pinch}, {bounce} (sense 4), and {boot}, and see the AI Koan in "{A Selection of AI Koans}" (in {Appendix A}) about Tom Knight and the novice....
• examining the entrails n. The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....
• guru meditation: n. Amiga equivalent of `panic' in UNIX (sometimes just called a `guru' or `guru event').
  When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX....
• chase pointers: 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure.
  Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common data type....
• padded cell: n. Where you put {luser}s so they can't hurt anything.
  A program that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset of the capabilities of the host system (for example, the `rsh(1)' utility on USG UNIX)....
• has the X nature: [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
  ] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
• mu /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
  . Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her....