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wave a dead chicken v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. ''I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare voodoo programming, rain dance. |
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weasel n. [Cambridge] A naive user, one who deliberately or accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised. Roughly synonymous with loser. |
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web pointer n. A World Wide Web URL. See also hotlink, which has slightly different connotations. |
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webmaster n. [WWW: from postmaster] The person at a site providing World Wide Web information who is responsible for maintaining the public pages and keeping the Web server running and properly configured. |
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wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may become wedged if it deadlocks with another (but not all instances of wedging are deadlocks). See also gronk, locked up, hosed. 2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. "He's totally wedged he's convinced that he can levitate through meditation." 3. [Unix] Specifically used to describe the state of a TTY left in a losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line discipline in some obscure way. |
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There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is usually thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial inversion; however, it may actually have originated with older 'hot-press' printing technology in which physical type elements were locked into type frames with wedges driven in by mallets. Once this had been done, no changes in the typesetting for that page could be made. |
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wedgie n. [Fairchild] A bug. Prob. related to wedged. |
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wedgitude /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being wedged. |
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weeble /weeb'l/ interj. [Cambridge] Used to denote frustration, usually at amazing stupidity. "I stuck the disk in upside down. Weeble " Compare gurfle. |
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