livelock /li:v'lok/ n.
A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable
to finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it
to do after they have been serviced but before it can clear its
queue. Differs from deadlock in
that the process is not blocked or waiting for anything, but has
a virtually infinite amount of work to do and can never catch
up.
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liveware /li:v'weir/ n.
1. Synonym for wetware. Less
common. 2. [Cambridge] Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in
my salad..."
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lobotomy n.
1. What a hacker subjected to formal management training is
said to have undergone. At IBM and elsewhere this term is used by
both hackers and low-level management; the latter doubtless
intend it as a joke. 2. The act of removing the processor from a
microcomputer in order to replace or upgrade it. Some very cheap
clone systems are sold in
`lobotomized' form -- everything but the brain.