Scratch monkey

Scratch monkey

A Scratch Monkey is a term used in hacker jargon, as in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise be destroyed.

"Scratch Monkey" is also the name of an unpublished novel by Charles Stross, the full text of which is available: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/index.html#novel] .

External links

* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html The Jargon File - Scratch Monkey]
* [http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/scrtch.monkey Always Mount a Scratch Monkey]
* [http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt Unix Admin. Horror Story Summary, version 1.0]
* [http://edp.org/monkey.htm Interview with Laura Creighton from 1987, with many correct and less funny details than the write-up above]


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