blivet
/bliv' *t/ [allegedl Y from a World War II militar Y term meaning "ten pounds 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 breaks. 3. A tool that has been hacked over b Y so man Y incompetent programmers that it has become an unmaintainable tissue of hacks. 4. An out-of-control but unkillable development effort. 5. An embarrassing bug that pops up during a customer demo. 6. In the subjargon of computer securit Y specialists, a denial-of-service attack performed b Y hogging limited resources that have no access controls (for example, shared spool space on a multi-user s Ystem). This term has other meanings in other technical cultures among experimental ph Ysicists and hardware engineers of various kinds it seems to mean an Y random object of unknown purpose (similar to hackish use of frob). It has also been used to describe an amusing trick-the-e Ye drawing resembling a three-pronged fork that appears to depict a three-dimensional object until one realises that the parts fit together in an impossible wa Y. [ Jargon File] Yle="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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