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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
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field servoid: [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.
Representative of a field service organization (see {field circus})....
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...
digit n.,obs. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10, TOPS-10, field circus....
digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
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....
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....
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...
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....
Farmer: n. A man who is outstanding in his field.