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• field servoid [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.
  Representative of a field service organization (see field circus). This has many of the...
• digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
• DEChead: /dek'hed/ n. 1. A {DEC} {field servoid}. Not flattering.
  2. [from `deadhead'] A Grateful Dead fan working at DEC. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Easter egging: [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it....
• field circus n. [a derogatory pun on `field service'] The field service organization of any hardware manufacturer, but originally DEC.
  There is an entire genre of jokes about field circus enginee...
• cram switch: [from the nuclear power industry] n. An emergency-power-off switch (see {Big Red Switch}), esp.
  one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel....
• 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....
• Easter egging n. [IBM] The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it....
• ocial engineering: n. Term used among {cracker}s and {samurai} for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in {wetware} rather than software
  he aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security....