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• freeze v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability.
  Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date....
• case and paste: [from `cut and paste'] n. 1. The addition of a new {feature} to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes.
  Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using `case' statements....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• link farm: [UNIX] n. A directory tree that contains many links to files in a master directory tree of files.
  Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree --- for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files....
• hotgun debugging: n. The software equivalent of {Easter egging}
  the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence....
• Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
  In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
• kit: [USENET; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] n.
  A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard UNIX tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level {README file}....
• case and paste n. [from `cut and paste'] 1. The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes.
  Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using case statements....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....