plonk
= P =
plugh
plug-and-pray adj.,vi.
Parody of the techspeak term
`plug-and-play', describing a PC peripheral card which is claimed
to have no need for hardware configuration via jumpers or DIP
switches, and which should work as soon as it is inserted in the
PC. Unfortunately, even the PCI bus is all too often not up to
pulling this off reliably, and people who have to do installation
or troubleshoot PCs soon find themselves longing for the jumpers
and switches.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.