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• fireworks mode: n. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a {crash and burn} operation.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• magic cookie n. [Unix; common] 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operatio
  a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way....
• magic cookie: [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operatio
  a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way....
• crash and burn vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare die horribly).
  Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators....
• crash and burn: vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare {die horribly}).
  Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators....
• mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state.
  Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out....
• demo mode: [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a {demo}, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• demo mode n. 1. [Sun] The state of being heads down in order to finish code in time for a demo, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• video toaster n. Historically, an Amiga running LightWave and fitted out with a particular line of special video-display hardware from NewTek - long a popular platform at special-effects and video production houses.
  More generally, any computer system designed specifically for video production and manipulation....