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• leep vi. 1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking system) for service
  o indicate to the scheduler that a process may be deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses....
• ark: [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n.
  1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure
  burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event....
• block: [from process scheduling terminology in OS theory] 1.
  vi. To delay or sit idle while waiting for something....
• 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"....
• ark n. [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] 1.
  A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• film at 11: [MIT: in parody of TV newscasters] 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering.
  {{ITS}} crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in schedule...
• block v. [common; from process scheduling terminology in OS theory] 1.
  vi. To delay or sit idle while waiting for something....
• fried adj. 1. [common] Non-working due to hardware failure
  burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical event....