Barnacle (slang) in the field in order to correct a design or manufacturing defect. The term appears to have originated from the crustacean barnacle which is an animal that attaches itself to rocks, docks, ships, whales, and other objects where it grows. A barnacle in electronics is something added to the manufactured product. Typically a barnacle on a circuit board is very noticeable, much like the mollusc variety on a rock in the sea. While the term was originally used with electronic hardware, it has also migrated into the software industry where is it is used to describe software that is added
Gary Barnacle 3 years or so (until Pete Thoms came in on trombone in 1982). Barnacle collaborated with The Ruts on their first two albums, both on Virgin label, "The Crack", released in September 1979, and "Grin & Bear It", released in October 1980. After the death of their frontman, Malcolm Owen, found dead from a heroin overdose on 14 July 1980 at the age of 26, the band continued as Ruts D.C. (where "D.C." standing for the Latin term "Da Capo", meaning "back to the beginning") in a different musical vein. Barnacle became a stable member of the band and they