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| firefighting 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. The act of throwing lots of manpower and late nights at a project, especially to get it out before deadline. See also , ; however, the term "firefighting" connotes that the effort is going into chasing bugs rather than adding features. (1994-12-01) |
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