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rain dance
1. Any ceremonial action taken to correct a hardware problem,
with the expectation that nothing will be accomplished. This
especially applies to reseating printed circuit boards,
reconnecting cables, etc. "I can't boot up the machine.
We'll have to wait for Greg to do his rain dance."
2. Any arcane sequence of actions performed with computers or
software in order to achieve some goal; the term is usually
restricted to rituals that include both an incantation or
two and physical activity or motion.
Compare magic, voodoo programming, black art, cargo
cult programming, wave a dead chicken.
[Jargon File]
(1995-02-09)
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RAID « RAIL « rainbow series « rain dance » RAISE » RAL » RAM
This article was derived from the Free Online Dictionary of Computers and is available under ther terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
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