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crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
v., sense 1), esp....
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 monito...
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 th...
cray /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research.
2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The canonical number-crunching machine. The term is a...
cray instability n. 1. A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful machine (see cray).
Generally more subtle than bu...
crayola /kray-oh'l*/ n. A super-mini or -micro computer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price.
Might also be a killer micro....
crayola books n. The rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards (see Orange Book).
Usage: humorous and/or disparaging....
crayon n. 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers.
creationism n.
creep v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably.
In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies....

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