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• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....
• workaround n. 1. A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a bug or misfeature in some system.
  Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by fixe...
• Brief History Of Linux (#17) Terrible calamity IBM chose Microsoft's Quick & Dirty Operating System instead of CP/M for its new line of PCs.
  QDOS (along with the abomination known as EDLIN) had been acquired from a Seattle man, Tim Paterson, for the paltry sum of $...
• Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
  Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group)...
• Brief History Of Linux (#13) Wanted: Eunuchs programmers Everything you know about the creation of the Unix operating system is wrong.
  We have uncovered the truth: Unix was a conspiracy hatched by Ritchie and Thompson to thwart the AT&T monopoly that they worked for....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• workaround: n. 1. A temporary {kluge} used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a {bug} or {misfeature} in some system.
  Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by {fix}e...
• 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....