FIREFIGHTING
\fˈa͡ɪ͡əfa͡ɪtɪŋ], \fˈaɪəfaɪtɪŋ], \f_ˈaɪə_f_aɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of FIREFIGHTING
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The short term fix for a problem instead of addressing it and solving it in a more long term fashion.
By Henry Campbell Black
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1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operationalproblems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your newnewsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and Ispent the whole afternoon fighting fires."2. The act of throwing lots of manpower and late nights at aproject, especially to get it out before deadline. See alsogang bang, Mongolian Hordes technique; however, the term"firefighting" connotes that the effort is going into chasingbugs rather than adding features.
By Denis Howe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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