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02-04-2010 10:15
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Scylla Rhiadra
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02-04-2010 10:19
Ohhhhhhh! So THAT'S what it meant!!
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02-04-2010 10:24
From: Scylla Rhiadra Ohhhhhhh!
So THAT'S what it meant!! Yup! May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb ... 
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Amaranthim Talon
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02-04-2010 11:00
How about.... 
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Seven Okelli
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02-04-2010 11:01
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Seven Okelli
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02-04-2010 11:31
This is the Cruft Laboratory at Harvard University. This is where certain species of high-frequency, low density cruft was discovered by bombarding abandoned textile mines with a mixture of borax and AM radio signals.  (It really *is* the Cruft Laboratory.) |
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Imogen Saltair
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02-04-2010 11:54
From Wiki...
Cruft (occasionally kruft) is computing jargon for "code, data, or software of poor quality". The term may also refer to debris that accumulates on computer equipment. It has been generalized to mean any accumulation of obsolete, redundant, irrelevant, or unnecessary information, especially code. An alternative usage is becoming more generalized to refer to any unneeded or unwanted computer hardware or obsolete equipment.
Etymology
The origin of the term is uncertain, but it may be derived from Harvard University Cruft Laboratory, which was the Harvard Physics Department's radar lab during World War II. As late as the early 1990s, unused technical equipment could be seen stacked in front of Cruft Hall's windows. According to students, if the place filled with useless machinery is called Cruft Hall, the machinery itself must be cruft. This image of "discarded technical clutter" quickly migrated from hardware to software. Cruft may also be a play on the old typeface form of the letter "s", rendering "crust" as "cruſt".
Another possible origin is that the word evokes the words crust, fluff and scruffy.The latter word is the source of similar words in Jamaican English such as cruff, meaning scurfy, coarse or uncouth.
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