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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hosed</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hose.html" title="hose"/><link rel="next" href="hot-chat.html" title="hot chat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hosed</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hose.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hot-chat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hosed"/><dt xmlns="" id="hosed"><b>hosed</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Same as <a href="../D/down.html"><i class="glossterm">down</i></a>. Used primarily by Unix
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hackers. Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy
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to reverse. Probably derived from the Canadian slang ‘hoser’
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popularized by the Bob and Doug Mackenzie skits on SCTV, but this usage
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predated SCTV by years in hackerdom (it was certainly already live at CMU
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in the 1970s). See <a href="hose.html"><i class="glossterm">hose</i></a>. It is also widely used of
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people in the mainstream sense of ‘in an extremely unfortunate
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situation’.</p><p>Once upon a time, a Cray that had been experiencing periodic
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difficulties crashed, and it was announced to have been hosed. It was
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discovered that the crash was due to the disconnection of some coolant
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hoses. The problem was corrected, and users were then assured that
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everything was OK because the system had been rehosed. See also
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<a href="../D/dehose.html"><i class="glossterm">dehose</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hose.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hot-chat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hose </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hot chat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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