washing software n.
The process of recompiling a software distribution (used more
often when the recompilation is occuring from scratch) to pick up
and merge together all of the various changes that have been made
to the source.
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water MIPS n.
(see MIPS, sense 2) Large,
water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor
or yesterday's traditional mainframe type.
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wave a dead chicken v.
To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or
hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless
necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree
of effort has been expended. "I'll wave a dead chicken over the
source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug."
Compare voodoo
programming, rain
dance; see also casting the runes.