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• crawling horror n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site.
  Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity....
• dusty deck: n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with
  or to maintain ({DP} types call this `legacy code', a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent)....
• dusty deck n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with
  or to maintain (DP types call this `legacy code', a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent)....
• WOMBAT /wom'bat/ adj. [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brai
  And Time] Applied to problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved....
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....
• eality check: n. 1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware
  doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4....
• WOMBAT: [Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] adj. Applied to problems which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved.
  Often used in fanciful constructions such as `wrestling with a wombat'....
• monkey up: vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
  Connotes an extremely {crufty} and consciously temporary solution....
• People of earth! We come to you in the spirit of hostility and menace!
  -- The green aliens, `The Monkey's Paw' in "Treehouse of Horror II...