bare metal n.— «Other products, such as Xen and VMware’s ESX Server, run in a hypervisor that sits beneath the guest operating systems and the hardware. Because the software layer sits on the “bare metal,” these are sometimes...
acronym creep n.— «Acronym Creep—a condition known to beset the Canadian Chinese Christian Community (CCCC) and United Nations (UN) staff. Akin to what’s known in software developing parlance as “feature creep”, acronym creep...
PodShanking n.— «PodShanking can be declared a “hack” in the basest sense of that word: as in hackey. This is a jury-rigged, stop-gap solution to a sticky technical problem. Throw more hardware at this problem and you’ll solve...
mojibake n.— «Mojibake is a word to describe unintelligible gibberish displayed on a screen or printed on a paper when a software fails to handle encodings or fonts in the data stream. Mojibake is spelled in Japanese as...
woo-hoo n.— «Teenage Sims don’t ordinarily hook up in the game, but one download installs a sudden interest, among younger Sim-folk, in sex (or “woo-hoo” as it’s called in the parlance of the Sims community).» —“Racy...
PITAware n.— «I propose that a new term be coined: “PITAWare.” PainInTheAssWare—defined as any software or application that gets installed on one’s PC without ones permission to advertise, spy, or overtake which, in the end...