Evil Empire n.
[from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist
Soviet Union] Formerly IBM, now Microsoft. Functionally, the company
most hackers love to hate at any given time. Hackers like to see
themselves as romantic rebels against the Evil Empire, and
frequently adopt this role to the point of ascribing rather more
power and malice to the Empire than it actually has. See also
Borg and search for Evil Empire
pages on the Web.
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examining the entrails n.
The process of grovelling through
a core dump or hex image in an
attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system
down. The reference is to divination from the entrails of a
sacrified animal. Compare runes,
incantation, black art, desk
check.