liveware
= L =
locals, the
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.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.