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• off the trolley adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually crash or abort.
  See glitch, bug, wedged. This term is much older than computing, and is (uncommon) slang elsewhere....
• 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....
• whizzy: [Sun] adj. (alt. `wizzy') Describes a {cuspy} program
  one that is feature-rich and well presented. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}....
• oddy: /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] adj.
  1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point....
• onlinear: adj. [scientific computation] 1. Behaving in an erratic and unpredictable fashio
  unstable. When used to describe the behavior of a machine or program, it suggests that said machine or program is being forced to run far outside of design specifications....
• 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)....
• drop-outs: n. 1. A variety of `power glitch' (see {glitch})
  momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains. 2....