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• 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....
• core: n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• brain dump: n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
  Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code....
• core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• examining the entrails: n. The process of {grovel}ling through a {core dump} or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....
• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• chase pointers: 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure.
  Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common data type....
• bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core dump}, sense 4....
• brain dump n. [common] The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
  Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code....