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• virgin: adj. Unused; pristine; in a known initial state.
  Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again....
• elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form.
  An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain)....
• brain dump n. [common] The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
  Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code....
• brain dump: n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
  Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code....
• hung adj. [from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with locked up, wedged...
• wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• pathological adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• Unix conspiracy n. [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fa
  Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&...