with a fictional management blunder that his correspondents didn't
quickly either report to have actually happened or top with a
similar but even more bizarre incident. In 1996 Adams distilled
his insights into the collective psychology of businesses into an
even funnier book, "The Dilbert Principle" (HarperCollins,
ISBN 0-887-30787-6). See also {rat dance}.

:ding: /n.,vi./ 1. Synonym for {feep}. Usage: rare among
hackers, but commoner in the {Real World}. 2. `dinged': What
happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about
something, esp. something trivial. "I was dinged for having a
messy desk."

:dink: /dink/ /adj./ Said of a machine that has the {bitty
box} nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with ---
sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First
heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in
reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32-bit
architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on
that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream `dinky',
which isn't sufficiently pejorative. See {macdink}.

:dinosaur: /n./ 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and
special power. Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in
contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous
quote from the 1988 Unix EXPO, Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled
mainframe in the massive IBM display with a grazing dinosaur "with
a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it". IBM was
not amused. Compare {big iron}; see also {mainframe}.
2. [IBM] A very conservative user; a {zipperhead}.