deflicted

deflicted


   [portmanteau of "defective" and "afflicted"; common among PC repair
   technicians, and probably originated among hardware techs outside the
   hacker community proper] Term used of hardware that is broken due to
   poor design or shoddy manufacturing or (especially) both; less
   frequently used of software and rarely of people. This term is
   normally employed in a tone of weary contempt by technicians who have
   seen the specific failure in the trouble report before and are
   cynically confident they'll see it again. Ultimately this may derive
   from Frank Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe, on which the Fur Trapper
   infamously rubs his deflicted eyes...