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.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {pseudosuit}]