average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just
plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity
(these are collectively known as {power hit}s).

:disclaimer: /n./ [Usenet] Statement ritually appended to many
Usenet postings (sometimes automatically, by the posting software)
reiterating the fact (which should be obvious, but is easily
forgotten) that the article reflects its author's opinions and not
necessarily those of the organization running the machine through
which the article entered the network.

:Discordianism: /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ /n./ The veneration of
{Eris}, a.k.a. Discordia; widely popular among hackers.
Discordianism was popularized by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
Wilson's novel "{Illuminatus!}" as a sort of
self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners -- it should on no account
be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes.
Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from
"Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of
Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with
an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long
warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a
malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati.
See {Religion} in Appendix B, {Church of the
SubGenius}, and {ha ha only serious}.

:disk farm: /n./ (also {laundromat}) A large room or rooms
filled with disk drives (esp. {washing machine}s).

:display hack: /n./ A program with the same approximate purpose