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• dumbass attack /duhm'as *-tak'/ n. [Purdue] Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as root under Unix, e.
  g., typing rm -r * or mkfs on a mounted file system. Compare adger....
• perfect programmer syndrome: n. Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal human error.
  Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability but relatively little experience (especially new graduate...
• adger: /aj'r/ [UCLA] vt. To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort.
  E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project"....
• dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• aw mode: n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under {bogus} systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• c file: /R-C fi:l/ [UNIX: from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n.
  Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....
• ad-hockery: /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• wheel bit: n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
  uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
• GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....