:Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system
that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and
generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other
excursion into {deep space}. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller,
whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also
{go flatline}, {catatonic}. 2. On IBM PCs under DOS, refers
to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in
over an {ill-behaved} application which bypasses the very
interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are
to try to get from the program's current state through a successful
save-and-exit without being able to see what you're doing, or to
re-boot the machine. This isn't (strictly speaking) a
crash.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and
generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other
excursion into {deep space}. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller,
whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also
{go flatline}, {catatonic}. 2. On IBM PCs under DOS, refers
to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in
over an {ill-behaved} application which bypasses the very
interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are
to try to get from the program's current state through a successful
save-and-exit without being able to see what you're doing, or to
re-boot the machine. This isn't (strictly speaking) a
crash.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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