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firefighting
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An
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opposite of hacking. Been hacking your new newsreader? No, a power glitch
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hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires. 2. The act
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of throwing lots of manpower and late nights at a project, esp. to get it
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out before deadline. See also gang bang , Mongolian Hordes technique ;
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however, the term firefighting connotes that the effort is going into
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chasing bugs rather than adding features.
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