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• A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
  -- Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992...
• dink /dink/ adj. Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature
  a machine too small to be worth bothering wi sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on....
• dink: /dink/ adj. Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature
  a machine too small to be worth bothering with --- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on....
• Cursor: What you become when your system crashes.
• Once there was a little nerd who loved to read your mail
  And then yank back the i-access times to get hackers off his tail, And once as he finished reading from the secretary's spool, He wrote a rude rejection to her boyfriend (how uncool!...
• back door n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
  The motivation for such holes is not always siniste...
• Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it.