Easter egging

jargon (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt

observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of

replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the

hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this

the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not

love them for it.

Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.

[Jargon File]

(1998-03-18)