blivet
/bliv' *t/ [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pound S of manure in a five-pound bag"] 1. An intractable problem. 2. A crucial piece of hardware that can' t be fixed or replaced if it break S. 3. A tool that ha S been hacked over by So many incompetent programmer S that it ha S become an unmaintainable ti SSue of hack S. 4. An out-of-control but unkillable development effort. 5. An embarra SSing bug that pop S up during a cu Stomer demo. 6. In the Subjargon of computer Security Speciali St S, a denial-of- Service attack performed by hogging limited re Source S that have no acce SS control S (for example, Shared Spool Space on a multi-u Ser Sy Stem). Thi S term ha S other meaning S in other technical culture S among experimental phy Sici St S and hardware engineer S of variou S kind S it Seem S to mean any random object of unknown purpo Se ( Similar to hacki Sh u Se of frob). It ha S al So been u Sed to de Scribe an amu Sing trick-the-eye drawing re Sembling a three-pronged fork that appear S to depict a three-dimen Sional object until one reali Se S that the part S fit together in an impo SSible way. [ Jargon File] Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ app ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ aS ] [ at ] [ av ] [ aw ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ bar ] [ be ] [ bj ] [ br ] [ break ] [ by ] [ ca ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ com ] [ computer ] [ computer Security ] [ con ] [ control ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ demo ] [ development ] [ do ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ engine ] [ er ] [ eS ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fix ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fork ] [ fr ] [ frob ] [ ge ] [ gi ] [ gr ] [ gS ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hackiSh ] [ hardware ] [ hat ] [ hn ] [ hog ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ int ] [ io ] [ iS ] [ it ] [ J ] [ jar ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ kn ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ liSt ] [ liStS ] [ lS ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ man ] [ mil ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mS ] [ mu ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ nS ] [ nu ] [ object ] [ ogg ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ perf ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pm ] [ pop ] [ pound ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ programmer ] [ pron ] [ query ] [ random ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ real ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ Sc ] [ Se ] [ Service ] [ Sh ] [ Shar ] [ Si ] [ So ] [ Source ] [ Space ] [ Spec ] [ Spoo ] [ Spool ] [ St ] [ Su ] [ Sy ] [ SyStem ] [ T ] [ table ] [ tar ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tool ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ ug ] [ up ] [ uS ] [ uSer ] [ va ] [ var ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ win ] [ ye ]
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