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firefighting

   operational problems.  An opposite of hacking.  "Been hacking your
   new newsreader?"  "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent
   the whole afternoon fighting fires."  2. The act of throwing lots
   of manpower and late nights at a project, esp. to get it out
   before deadline.  See also gang bang, Mongolian Hordes
   technique; however, the term `firefighting' connotes that the
   effort is going into chasing bugs rather than adding features.