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• catatonic adj. Describes a condition of suspended animation in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no response.
  If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed)....
• 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....
• 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...
• hang v. 1. [very common] To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
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  #6 What to do... if a starship, equipped with an FTL hyperdrive lands in your backyard?...
• Lisa: [spraying the Christmas tree] Mom, this fake snow is making me dizzy.
  Marge: We're almost finished. There's just a little bit of green left....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....