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• oast: 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp.
  one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ....
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• fry 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• farming: [Adelaide University, Australia] n. What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media.
  Associated with a {crash}. Typically used as follow...
• deep space: n. 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone {off the trolley}.
  Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected....
• deep space n. 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone off the trolley.
  Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected....
• glork: /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}....