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• erminal illness n. 1. Syn. raster burn. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
• aster burn: n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
  graphics monitors. See {terminal illness}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• burn-in period: n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with {marginal} components before they get out the doo
  he theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the {bathtub curve} (see {infant mortality})....
• demo mode: [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a {demo}, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....
• aster burn n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
  graphics monitors. See terminal illness....
• ay: vt. 1. To type to a terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, you have to say `ls -l'.
  Tends to imply a {newline}-terminated command (a `sentence')....
• 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}....
• erminal brain death: n. The extreme form of {terminal illness} (sense 1).
  What someone who has obviously been hacking continuously for far too long is said to be suffering from....