SNTP

Simple Network Time Protocol
w:Simple Network Time Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Simple Network Time Protocol.


accounting machine

en-noun

accounting machine (plural accounting machines)

Near-synonyms: adding machine, tabulator

(accounting, computing, dated) A business machine, generally a combined calculator and printer, that tabulates, adds, subtracts, and totals.


ASCIIfy

en-verb

ASCIIfy (third-person singular simple present ASCIIfies, present participle ASCIIfying, simple past and past participle ASCIIfied)

ASCIIfies (present singular third-person)
ASCIIfying (participle present)
ASCIIfied (participle past)
ASCIIfied (past)
asciify (alternative)

(transitive, computing) To convert into ASCII or, more generally, into 7-bit data.


uncollapse

uncollapse (third-person singular simple present uncollapses, present participle uncollapsing, simple past and past participle uncollapsed)

uncollapses (present singular third-person)
uncollapsing (participle present)
uncollapsed (participle past)
uncollapsed (past)

Thus, you can insert a 1-pixel block spacer between blocks to uncollapse their margins (and add one extra pixel of space).

2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 275:

(chiefly computing) To expand (something previously collapsed).


autoscaling

The autoscaling feature changes the x and y axis of your graph to fit the available data.


pizza box

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Compact "pizza box" personal computers with integrated components are more desirable since they occupy less precious and scarce desktop real estate.

1991 March 12, William F. Zachmann, “A Case of Computer Design”, in PC Magazine:

(computing) A wide, flat, square style of computer chassis, similar in shape to a pizza delivery box.


COLA

(acronym) comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system)


echomail

While the advantages of echomail are obvious, there are a few disadvantages.

1991, Martha E. Williams, 12th National Online Meeting: proceedings — 1991: New York, May 7-9, 1991 (Infotoday):

This system has become quite efficient; a message entered in any of the hundreds of echomail conference areas carried on the backbone propagates around the world in less than 24 hours.

1991, Philip L. Becker, Introduction to PC communications:

It maintains a number of echomail areas, including 40 recently added that cover areas rainging from animal rights to robotics.

1997, Joseph C. Tardiff, Mary Alampi, Information Industry Directory, 1998: Descriptive listings:

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(computing) Messages transmitted between bulletin board systems and presented on discussion forums.


HSF

(computing) Initialism of High Sierra Format, the early logical file system used for CD-ROMs.


HSF

en-noun

HSF (countable and uncountable, plural HSFs)

(computing) Initialism of heat sink and fan.


pencentric

en-adj

pencentric (comparative more pencentric, superlative most pencentric)

more pencentric (comparative)
most pencentric (superlative)

The application is fully pencentric and allows users to write into the spreadsheet's cells[…]

1991 October 14, InfoWorld, volume 13, number 41, page 17:

All pen applications can be categorized as either pencentric or pen-enabled.

1992, Data processing digest: Volumes 38-39:

(computing) Wholly or primarily operated by means of a pen or stylus.


peopleware

The cost of peopleware and software has risen dramatically over the past years, while the cost of hardware has decreased.

1984 May 28, Computerworld, volume 18, number 22, page 29:

The primary objective is to define a group of peopleware activities, which are normally missing from traditional software process models, to take into account the capabilities of the people who play roles in the software process.

2005, Silvia T. Acuña, A Software Process Model Handbook for Incorporating People's Capabilities, page 18:

(computing) People, regarded as a resource; human resources.


agentspace

en-noun

agentspace (countable and uncountable, plural agentspaces)

From agent + space; compare cyberspace, gopherspace.

(computing) The conceptual space within which software agents operate and interact.


broket

Electronic addresses, logins, and passwords are shown enclosed in brokets such as: . The brokets are not part of the addresses.

1999, Gary Allen, Resource guide for food writers, page 3:

(computing, informal) An angle bracket: either of the symbols < and > when used as an enclosing pair.


bannerware

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I use Crystal FTP, top quality FTP CLient^([sic]), bannerware, but that isn't much of a problem.

2000, Stuart Low, “Nothing much Cute about THIS!”, in alt.www.webmaster (Usenet):

KiwiWord 2000 is not adware or bannerware, you will find no banners etc.

2001, James M Sandbrook, “ANN: Group Mail Free version 3.2.026”, in alt.comp.shareware (Usenet):

(computing) software that contains banner advertising for other software by the same maker


AppleScript

(computing) A script written in this language.


service-oriented architecture

service-oriented architecture (plural service-oriented architectures)

software architectural
software architecture

(computing, architecture) A software architectural concept that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users.


search-oriented architecture

search-oriented architecture (plural search-oriented architectures)

(computing, architecture, rare) A software-architectural approach that is focused on a search engine.


outcrack

en-verb

outcrack (third-person singular simple present outcracks, present participle outcracking, simple past and past participle outcracked)

outcracks (present singular third-person)
outcracking (participle present)
outcracked (participle past)
outcracked (past)

I can outcrack her, and on most things outhack her, but she writes better […]

(transitive, computing) To surpass in cracking (security systems etc.).


thread pool

(computing) A pool of threads of execution created to perform a number of tasks.


batch queue

(computing) A system software data structure maintained by job scheduler software.


job scheduler

/ˈdʒɒb ʃɛdjələ/

(computing) A software application that is in charge of unattended background executions known for historical reasons as batch processing.


batch processing

en-noun

batch processing (usually uncountable, plural batch processings)

(computing) the execution of a series of programs on a computer, called jobs, without manual intervention


replicated worker

replicated worker (plural replicated workers)

(computing) Any of a number of identical tasks in a thread pool pattern.


command pattern

command pattern (plural command patterns)

behavioural design pattern
behavioural pattern

(computing) A behavioural design pattern, in which an object is used to represent and encapsulate all the information needed to call a method at a later time.


introspective sort

introspective sort (plural introspective sorts)

(computing) A sorting algorithm that begins with quicksort and switches to heapsort when the recursion depth exceeds a level based on (the logarithm of) the number of elements being sorted.


bus mastering

(computing) A feature supported by many bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate transactions.


VSAM

Virtual Storage Access Method
w:Virtual Storage Access Method

(computing) Initialism of Virtual Storage Access Method.


ISAM

Indexed Sequential Access Method
w:Indexed Sequential Access Method

(computing) Initialism of Indexed Sequential Access Method.


digital footprint

digital footprint (plural digital footprints)

On the other hand, a positive digital footprint can enhance a person's reputation.

2012, Nicholas Croce, Enhancing Your Academic Digital Footprint, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 6:

A person's digital footprint is essentially a digital first impression. As I mention in Chapter 1, a child's digital footprint includes all information related to that child posted online.

2013, Amy Lupold Bair, Raising Digital Families For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

What you most likely found through researching your digital footprint before you branded yourself is that you are a very creative individual who used a vast number of new media tools and technologies […]

2015, James Cohen, Thomas Kenny, Producing New and Digital Media […] , CRC Press, →ISBN, page 239:

(telecommunications) Digital evidence of a person's activities and interactions with others on the Internet, TV, mobile devices, etc.

дигитална следа

digital evidence of a person's activities on the Internet


DBaaS

(databases, computing) Acronym of database as a service.


e-governance

From e- + governance or e-govern + -ance.

The use of computer technology in governance.


e-education

Education assisted by computer technology.

網絡教育 /网络教育

education assisted by computer technology


RDC

Remote Desktop Connection
w:Remote Desktop Connection

(computing) Initialism of Remote Desktop Connection.


CPRM

w:Content Protection for Recordable Media

(computing) Initialism of Content Protection for Recordable Media.


commentable

en-adj

commentable (comparative more commentable, superlative most commentable)

more commentable (comparative)
most commentable (superlative)

From that moment on, any class in our system can have comments attached to it (which would make it commentable), without needing to alter the database schema or the Comment model itself.

(computing) Capable of being marked with a comment.


cross-process

(computing) Across more than one process; crossing a process boundary.


renice

en-verb

renice (third-person singular simple present renices, present participle renicing, simple past and past participle reniced)

renices (present singular third-person)
renicing (participle present)
reniced (participle past)
reniced (past)

From re- + nice. See nice (“to run a process with a specified priority”).

(transitive, computing, Unix) To change (usually to lower) the priority of a process that is already running.


w-shingling

w denotes the number of tokens in each shingle in the set.

natural language processing
natural language processing

(computing) In natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.


LPT

en-noun

LPT (countable and uncountable, plural LPTs)


shelveset

From shelve + set. The term was introduced in Team Foundation Server, a source-control package introduced by Microsoft in the mid-2000s.

A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants.

2016, Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack, page 114:

(computing) A kind of changeset containing changes that have been temporarily set aside.


multibus

(computing) Involving or relating to more than one bus (electrical conductor or interface).


busable

en-adj

busable (comparative more busable, superlative most busable)

more busable (comparative)
most busable (superlative)
bussable (alternative)

The mainframe system offers busable signal routing, remote power supply and an optional remote fader box.

(computing, informal) capable of being used with a bus (electrical conductor or interface)


gray out

en-verb

gray out (third-person singular simple present grays out, present participle graying out, simple past and past participle grayed out)

grays out (present singular third-person)
graying out (participle present)
grayed out (participle past)
grayed out (past)
grey out (alternative)

(computing, of a UI element) To make (a visual element) gray or lighter in color to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable.


hijackware

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(computing) Malicious software that commandeers other software, especially a web browser, so as to affect its behaviour.


honeytoken

From honey + token, modelled on honeypot, coined in 2003 by Augusto Paes de Barros.

(computing) A kind of honeypot that is not a computer system, such as a fake e-mail address used to track whether a mailing list has been stolen.


autocorrect

en-noun

autocorrect (countable and uncountable, plural autocorrects)

Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility.

2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times:

(computing) A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.


screen of death

screen of death (plural screens of death)

(computing, informal) A screen or a message indicating an unrecoverable error.


onion routing

By analogy with the many layers of an onion.

(computing) A technique for anonymous communication over a computer network, the messages being repeatedly encrypted and sent through nodes called onion routers, each of which performs only one stage of the decryption.


hardcoded

(computing) Having values that are constants rather than variables.


prefetcher

(computing) A system or process that prefetches data.


elt

(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of element.


ACM

(computing) Initialism of abstract control model.


cabalize

en-verb

cabalize (third-person singular simple present cabalizes, present participle cabalizing, simple past and past participle cabalized)

cabalizes (present singular third-person)
cabalizing (participle present)
cabalized (participle past)
cabalized (past)

From cabala + -ize. Compare French cabaliser.

The scaffolded site is built as a fully cabalized Haskell package.

2012, Michael Snoyman, Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod, page 154:

To use stack to build our toy project we cabalized previously, we need to create a stack.yaml file for it.

2016, Samuli Thomasson, Haskell High Performance Programming, page 100:

This documentation can be generated for any cabalized project with the following simple command: $ cabal haddock

2021, Vitaly Bragilevsky, Haskell in Depth, page 277:

(computing, transitive) To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command.


junction point

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.


reparse point

(computing, Microsoft Windows) An extension to an NTFS object that determines how it will be treated by the operating system.


JFIF

(computing) Acronym of JPEG File Interchange Format.


incrementor

Following each execution of the body, the incrementor expressions are evaluated to give them a chance to update variables[…]

2005, Pat Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, page 95:

(computing) That which increments; a computer programming instruction that increments a value.


syncword

(computing, rare) A short marker used to synchronize a transmission by indicating the end of the header information and the start of the data.


kilobaud

(computing) one thousand baud; symbol kBd


cross join

(computing, databases) A join that returns a Cartesian product.


nonmulticast

(computing, networking) Not using multicast.


IoC

inversion of control
inversion of control#English

(computing) Initialism of inversion of control.


PoEAA

(computing) Initialism of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.


chain-of-responsibility pattern

en-noun

chain-of-responsibility pattern (plural chain-of-responsibility patterns)

(computing) A behavioural design pattern that consists of a source of command objects and a series of processing objects.


elif

elif (countable and uncountable, plural elifs)

(computing) A conditional statement in computer code that runs after an "if" statement.


quickstart

If you have already created the controller using the quickstart at the beginning of the chapter[…]

2010, Josh Juneau, Jim Baker, Leo Soto, The Definitive Guide to Jython, page 336:

There are a large number of individual quickstarts, each of which illustrates one or more JBoss ESB features.

2011, Len DiMaggio, Kevin Conner, Magesh Kumar B, Tom Cunningham, JBoss ESB Beginner's Guide:

(computing) A guide or manual intended to get a user rapidly acquainted with a program or system.


TTL

TTL (countable and uncountable, plural TTLs)

(computing, networking) Initialism of time to live.


autowrap

en-verb

autowrap (third-person singular simple present autowraps, present participle autowrapping, simple past and past participle autowrapped)

autowraps (present singular third-person)
autowrapping (participle present)
autowrapped (participle past)
autowrapped (past)

The segmentation into paragraphs allows autoflowing and autowrapping of lines inside of paragraphs[…]

1996, Roland Wagner, Helmut Thoma, Database and Expert Systems Applications: 7th International Computer Science Symposium, page 892:

For a historical database, you may wish to have the log autowrap which allows the log to overwrite itself, whereas you would not want the log for a database that tracks important information to autowrap.

2003, Rick Sawtell, Joseph L. Jorden, Lance Mortensen, McSa/MCSE/MCDBA: SQL Server 2000 Administration Study Guide, page 56:

If the text has been autowrapped for you by MindManager, drag the edge to the right to unwrap it if you desire a long, single-line box.

2012, Ruven Gotz, Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture, page 25:

(computing, ergative) To wrap (e.g. text) automatically.


autowrap

(computing) An automatic wrapping feature.


base station

Used from mobile network operators' (MNOs) usual base stations, these waves work well in open country, which gives passengers a decent service. But DfT's report says that MNO base stations are not optimised for railways.

2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Wireless coverage leaves us hanging on our telephones”, in RAIL, number 965, page 42:

(computing, networking) A radio receiver/transmitter that serves as the hub of the local wireless network, and may also be the gateway between a wired network and the wireless network.


pointing stick

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(computing) An isometric joystick used as a pointing device.


metaproperty

The metaproperties allow you to extract more information (such as relative position and namespace information) about XML nodes than is visible in the textual representation.

2002, Rahul Sharma, Microsoft SQL Server 2000: A Guide to Enhancements and New Features:

(computing, philosophy) A property of a property.


LE LL

Low Energy Link Layer
w:Low Energy Link Layer

(computing, communication) Initialism of Low Energy Link Layer.


BLE

Using BLE, a merchant or other provider can define more targeted "micro-locations" to trigger an alert, in some cases requiring that you be in the presence of an iBeacon in order to validate a Passbook entry.

2013 June 19, Daniel Eran Dilger, “Inside iOS 7: iBeacons enhance apps' location awareness via Bluetooth LE”, in Apple Insider:

Bluetooth Low Energy
w:Bluetooth Low Energy

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Bluetooth Low Energy.


unpivot

unpivot (third-person singular simple present unpivots, present participle unpivoting, simple past and past participle unpivoted)

unpivots (present singular third-person)
unpivoting (participle present)
unpivoted (participle past)
unpivoted (past)

Unpivoting a cross tab reconstructs a table in a relational format from a cross-tab data source.

2005, Rick Dobson, Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications, page 243:

(transitive, computing, databases) To convert columns into rows, so as to undo a pivot operation.


AEAP

(computing, rare) Initialism of as early as possible.


metaprotocol

(computing) A protocol that dictates the form of other protocols.


subsetting

(mathematics, computing) The production of a subset.


subsetted

(mathematics, computing) Produced or manipulated by subsetting


AET

(computing) Initialism of application enrollment token.


TDP

en-noun

TDP (countable and uncountable, plural TDPs)

thermal design power
thermal design power#English

(computing) Initialism of thermal design power.


YP

YP (countable and uncountable, plural YPs)

Yellow Pages
w:Network Information Service

(computing) Initialism of Yellow Pages, a network protocol invented by Sun Microsystems.


FP

FP (countable and uncountable, plural FPs)

(computing) Initialism of floating point.


JRMP

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Remote Method Protocol.


e-discovery

(computing, law) Discovery in civil litigation which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format.


computer system

computer system (plural computer systems)

(computing) A system for computing that includes the physical computing unit itself and its peripherals.

(computing) Any system based around computer technology, such as a software package.


ODP

Open Distributed Processing
w:Open Distributed Processing

(computing) Initialism of Open Distributed Processing.

OpenDocument Presentation
w:OpenDocument Presentation

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Presentation.

Oracle Data Provider
Oracle Data Provider#English

(computing) Initialism of Oracle Data Provider.


appender

For this appender, you specify the appender and layout as discussed and also specify the File parameter for the appender so that the appender knows which file to place the log data in.

2006, Rob Harrop, John Carnell, edited by Kunal Mittal, Pro Apache Struts with Ajax, page 332:

(computing) A software component that appends data to a computer file.


environment variable

environment variable (plural environment variables)

(computing) A variable used to configure the operating system environment.


EIS

enterprise information system
w:enterprise information system

(computing) Initialism of enterprise information system.


enterprise application integration

enterprise application integration (plural enterprise application integrations)

enterprise application integrations (plural)

(computing) The use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.


WS-BPEL

w:Web Services Business Process Execution Language

(computing) Initialism of Web Services Business Process Execution Language.


Tab

(computing) A key on a computer keyboard that typically inserts a tab or moves the input focus.


technote

In these cases, the WebSphere Appliance Management Center development or technical support team might choose to create a technote on the IBM Support website. A technote describes an issue with the product, including symptoms […]

2013, Earl Ashley, Fernando Ewald, Dr. Chris Poole, IBM WebSphere Appliance Management Center for WebSphere Appliances:

(computing, rare) A technical note (short technical notice).


pseudovariable

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(computing) A named value that acts like a variable but is not a true variable.


OS X

Ellipsis of Mac OS X; from OS (“operating system”) + X (“ten”, Roman numeral), as a successor to Mac OS 9.

(computing, trademark) Former name of macOS; itself formerly known as Mac OS X.


spindown

spindown (countable and uncountable, plural spindowns)

(computing, astronomy) A reduction in spin speed (of a hard disk, pulsar etc)


biocompiler

So what's the connection? Probably the best place to start is to walk down the hall and ask the world's foremost expert on biocompilers, who is currently playing with an eight-year-old child […]

1996, Pierre Ouellette, The Deus Machine, page 369:

(biology, computing) The analogue of a compiler in synthetic biology.


decrementer

(computing) Any device or circuit that carries out a decrementation operation


incrementer

(computing) Any device or circuit that carries out an incrementation operation


exponentiator

(computing) Any device or circuit that carries out an exponentiation operation.


honeynet

From honey + net. See net (“computer network”).

(computing) An entire computer network that serves as a honeypot, or trap for potential attackers.


hexit

Blend of hexadecimal + digit. Compare bit (“binary digit”).

There are sixteen hexits: the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F.


kiloflop

floating point operation
floating point operation

(computing) A unit of computing power equal to 1,000 floating point operations per second


on-prem

on-prem resources

A maintenance window for an on-prem system can look like a service problem from the hosting provider. Security can be difficult in this scenario, especially for multi-tenant arrangements, but there are models that work for this.

2012, Thomas Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, page 301:

(computing, of software) Installed and run on computers on the premises of the organisation that uses it, and not elsewhere (such as in a server farm or in the cloud).


unpersist

en-verb

unpersist (third-person singular simple present unpersists, present participle unpersisting, simple past and past participle unpersisted)

unpersists (present singular third-person)
unpersisting (participle present)
unpersisted (participle past)
unpersisted (past)

(transitive, computing) To remove from permanent storage; to make temporary again.


UEFI

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
w:Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

(computing) Initialism of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface: a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.


reproable

a reproable bug

(computing, informal) Capable of being reproduced.


wide area network

en-noun

wide area network (plural wide area networks)

wide area networks (plural)
wide-area network (alternative)

/ˈwʌɪdˌɛːrɪəˌnɛtwəːk/

(computing) A computer network that covers a large geographic area.


local area network

local area network (plural local area networks)

/ˈləʊklˌɛːɹɪəˌnɛtwəːk/

A local area network connects all of the computers in our office.

(computing) An interconnection of computers that are in relatively close proximity to each other, such as within a building.

(computing) A network on which all devices communicate using OSI model device layer addressing.


CMP

CMP (countable and uncountable, plural CMPs)

(uncountable, computing, Java programming language) Initialism of container-managed persistence.


JNLP

Java Network Launching Protocol
w:Java Network Launching Protocol

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Network Launching Protocol.


autocoded

(dated, computing) Written in an autocode


autocode

They assist in selling, planning and installing; provide program testing and service bureau and programming facilities for business and industrial problems; prepare sub-routine libraries, compilers and mathematical autocodes[…]

1962 June 14, New Scientist, volume 14, number 291, page 607:

(dated, computing) Any of several early assembly languages.


dememorization

(computing) A process, within an algorithm, that removes any dependency upon a previous (especially an initial) value or state


JFC

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Foundation Classes.


IFC

Internet Foundation Classes
w:Internet Foundation Classes

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Internet Foundation Classes.


domain logic

domain logic (usually uncountable, plural domain logics)

(computing) A more general business logic that might run in an organization that is not a business.


presentation logic

(computing) The logic that is concerned with the style or manner in which domain and business objects are displayed to users of the software.


bubble memory

bubble memory (countable and uncountable, plural bubble memories)

From being a type of computer memory that uses magnetic bubbles (magnetic domains) to store binary digits (bits).

A year ago bubble memory was a hot topic of conversation. Promoters of the bubble school boasted that this new form of storage would eventually replace mini-floppy and Winchester-disk storage because it was cheaper, faster and more reliable.

1982 July 12, Paul Freiberger, “Bubble memory is no longer the stuff of dreams”, in InfoWorld, page 27:

(computing, historical) A type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data.

NVRAM

non-volatile random access memory; erasable memory


scancode

scancodes (plural)
scan code (alternative)

(computing) A numeric code transmitted by a computer keyboard to indicate which keys are currently being pressed.


scientific computing

(computing, sciences) The use of computing to solve scientific and engineering problems, especially by means of simulation, or the construction of mathematical models of physical, chemical or biological processes


rubberbanding

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From rubber band + -ing, referring to the fact that when two objects are connected by an elastic band then the movement of one is constrained by the other.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A technique in which one point or object moves while attached to another point or object, as when dragging out a new shape in a drawing program.


canonicalise

en-verb

canonicalise (third-person singular simple present canonicalises, present participle canonicalising, simple past and past participle canonicalised)

canonicalises (present singular third-person)
canonicalising (participle present)
canonicalised (participle past)
canonicalised (past)

(transitive, computing, UK) Alternative form of canonicalize.


bound property

en-noun

bound property (plural bound properties)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, object-oriented programming) A property of an object that transmits notification of any changes to an adapter or event handler.


exception handler

exception handler (plural exception handlers)

(computing) A method or subroutine that handles an exception.


event handler

(computing) A method or subroutine that handles an event.


eWorld

eworld (alternative)
e-world (alternative)

(computing) Cyberspace and its penetration into the nonvirtual world.


eWorld

(computing) eWorld, a defunct online service operated by Apple Inc.


ACF

(computing, object-oriented programming) Initialism of Advanced Component Framework, a C++ component framework providing a scalable architecture for very complex applications.


escape key

(computing) A key on a computer keyboard that can be used to cancel an operation.


subcontrol

Because all the subcontrols are packaged in a single control, we can also include code which links them together.

1996, Stephen Jakab, Instant Visual Basic 5 ActiveX Control Creation, page 10:

(chiefly computing, graphical user interface) A control making up part of a larger control.


draggability

For any drag to work, there needs to be a way to indicate draggability. In the prior examples the only indication that something was draggable was the cursor change on mouse hover.

2009, Bill Scott, Theresa Neil, Designing Web Interfaces, page 203:

(computing, graphical user interface) The property of being draggable.


SCTP

Stream Control Transmission Protocol
w:Stream Control Transmission Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Stream Control Transmission Protocol.


NSIS

Network Store Interface Service
w:Network Store Interface Service

(computing) Initialism of Network Store Interface Service, a Microsoft Windows service.

Next Steps in Signaling
w:Next Steps in Signaling

(computing) Initialism of Next Steps in Signaling, an Internet Engineering Task Force working group.

Next Steps in Signaling

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
w:Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

(computing) Initialism of Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, a script-driven Windows installation system.


gibibit

(computing) Strictly, 2³⁰ (1024³, or 1,073,741,824) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) mebibits, as opposed to a gigabit.


backtab

backtab (usually uncountable, plural backtabs)

From back + tab, analogous to backspace.

(computing, uncountable) A software-defined key combination to do the reverse of pressing the Tab key, usually Shift+Tab.

(computing, countable) An instance of pressing this key combination.


backtab

en-verb

backtab (third-person singular simple present backtabs, present participle backtabbing, simple past and past participle backtabbed)

backtabs (present singular third-person)
backtabbing (participle present)
backtabbed (participle past)
backtabbed (past)
Backtab (alternative)

(computing, intransitive) To press this key combination.


EOR

en-noun

EOR (countable and uncountable, plural EORs)

(computing) Abbreviation of exclusive or; XOR.

(computing) Initialism of end of record.


uncurry

en-verb

uncurry (third-person singular simple present uncurries, present participle uncurrying, simple past and past participle uncurried)

uncurries (present singular third-person)
uncurrying (participle present)
uncurried (participle past)
uncurried (past)

(computing) To reverse the operation of currying.


scale out

scale out (third-person singular simple present scales out, present participle scaling out, simple past and past participle scaled out)

scales out (present singular third-person)
scaling out (participle present)
scaled out (participle past)
scaled out (past)

(computing) To scale up (a system) by adding more servers or nodes.


COLAtard

COLAtards (plural)
colatard (alternative)

(Internet slang, derogatory) A participant in comp.os.linux.advocacy, a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system.


gunzip

gunzip (third-person singular simple present gunzips, present participle gunzipping, simple past and past participle gunzipped)

gunzips (present singular third-person)
gunzipping (participle present)
gunzipped (participle past)
gunzipped (past)

From the name of the software program, originally short for GNU unzip.

(transitive, computing) To decompress using the gzip program.


authorable

One of the goals of the project was to design a computerized tutor with a completely authorable interface such that an instructor could change or add lessons without having to learn or know any programming[…]

1993, Dallin Oaks, Andrew Bay, Proceedings of the Deseret Language and Linguistics Society 1993, page 32:

WinHelp enables you to add authorable buttons to a Help file. Authorable buttons run macros, so you can use one to do anything a macro can.

1998, Dwayne Gifford, Access 97 Unleashed, page 585:


floptical

Blend of floppy (“floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device”) + optical.

blend

1993 June 21, advertisement, InfoWorld, page 12,
Floptical technology is a practical and affordable way to increase your storage capacity— without giving up the convenience of diskettes.

Optical technology appears in many forms of devices, starting from CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) disks, to floptical disk (optical floppy disks) to very high capacity (up to 20 GB) optical disks.

2004, S. Sadagopan, Management Information Systems, page 62:

Alternatives to tape and CD-R include floptical disks, Bernoulli boxes, and other removable drives.

2006, Vicki Stanfield, Roderick W. Smith, Linux System Administration, page 270:

(computing, data storage) Using a combination of magnetic and optical technology.


traceroute

From trace + route, the name of a diagnostic tool for this purpose.

(computing) The route taken by packets over an IP network.


traceroute

en-verb

traceroute (third-person singular simple present traceroutes, present participle tracerouting, simple past and past participle tracerouted)

traceroutes (present singular third-person)
tracerouting (participle present)
tracerouted (participle past)
tracerouted (past)

(computing) To measure the route taken by packets over an IP network and any delays in transit.


subinterface

(telecommunications, computing, networking) A division of one physical interface into multiple logical interfaces.


wire frame

(computing) Alternative form of wireframe.


service design package

en-noun

service design package (plural service design packages)

(computing) A document, used in the design of an IT project, that specifies the requirements from the viewpoint of the client and defines how these are actually fulfilled from a technical and organizational point of view


pickleable

(computing) Capable of being pickled; serializable.


barfmail

From barf (“of a system: to fail”) + mail.

(computing, slang) electronic mail automatically sent in reply to a sender whose original message cannot be delivered


unhash

en-verb

unhash (third-person singular simple present unhashes, present participle unhashing, simple past and past participle unhashed)

unhashes (present singular third-person)
unhashing (participle present)
unhashed (participle past)
unhashed (past)

(transitive, computing) To decode (something previously hashed).


unparent

unparent (third-person singular simple present unparents, present participle unparenting, simple past and past participle unparented)

unparents (present singular third-person)
unparenting (participle present)
unparented (participle past)
unparented (past)

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To detach (an object) from its parent object.


unmap

unmap (third-person singular simple present unmaps, present participle unmapping, simple past and past participle unmapped)

unmaps (present singular third-person)
unmapping (participle present)
unmapped (participle past)
unmapped (past)

to unmap a network drive

(transitive, computing) To remove the mapping of (a device, etc.).


unshadow

unshadow (third-person singular simple present unshadows, present participle unshadowing, simple past and past participle unshadowed)

unshadows (present singular third-person)
unshadowing (participle present)
unshadowed (participle past)
unshadowed (past)

(transitive, computing) To combine (a password file) with its corresponding "shadow file" in order to facilitate cracking of the passwords.


ungrab

ungrab (third-person singular simple present ungrabs, present participle ungrabbing, simple past and past participle ungrabbed)

ungrabs (present singular third-person)
ungrabbing (participle present)
ungrabbed (participle past)
ungrabbed (past)

This keycode maps to the specific key you want to ungrab.

1989, Adrian Nye, Xlib reference manual for version 11 of the X Window System, page 482:

To ungrab the pointer, use XUngrabPointer.

1990, James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman, Xlib: C Language X Interface (X Version 11, Release 4), page 115:

(transitive, computing) To release (a device) that was previously captured for exclusive use.


pseudoprotocol

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudoprotocol.wav

The javascript URL actually is a pseudoprotocol, not usually included in discussions of URLs.

2002, Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy, HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide:

(computing) Something that can be accessed in the manner of a protocol but is not in fact a protocol.


embrace the penguin

embrace the penguin (third-person singular simple present embraces the penguin, present participle embracing the penguin, simple past and past participle embraced the penguin)

embraces the penguin (present singular third-person)
embracing the penguin (participle present)
embraced the penguin (participle past)
embraced the penguin (past)

A reference to Linux's official mascot, Tux the penguin.

Good idea to embrace the penguin and let go of the Bill.

1999 October 23, Rohana Rezel, “Re: Thinking Linux”, in alt.linux (Usenet), message-ID <38121C6F.864D48E2@stud.umist.ac.uk>:

I have tried gnome on a 440Mhz Ultra10 and a dual 450Mhz Ultra60, and if a P5-200 […] will run it any better I'll throw all of my Suns away tomorrow and embrace the penguin.

2002 September 23, tucansam <tucansam@whodis.org>, “Re: Sun Linux desktops”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), message-ID <an8u3q$ep5$3@reader1.panix.com>:

Patina is smart enough to know better... it's way past time for her to turn from the dark side and embrace the Penguin.

2004 January 8, Peter B. Steiger, “Fastrack, 12/25/03”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), message-ID <pan.2004.01.08.16.18.08.865547@bresnan.net>:

Linux continues to look spiffier and spiffier. That's good news whether you're ready to embrace the penguin, or just like Microsoft getting a little motivation to improve its own software […]

2004 November 29, Chris Keall, “Meet the parents”, in New Zealand PC World:

2005 February 14, Anand Parthasarathy, “Smart phones embrace the Penguin”, in The Hindu, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2010-03-18:

2012, “Hood River's libraries embrace the penguin: public computers now running on Linux”, in Hood River County Library District:

(computing, slang) To switch one's operating system to Linux.


(computing) Alternative spelling of zero-day.


DRPM

(computing) Initialism of Delta RPM Package Manager.


bytesexual

(computing, slang) Capable of operating in either big-endian or little-endian mode.


Windows

From windows, in reference to the user-interface display elements.


multiprogramming

(computing) The allocation of computing resources to more than one concurrent application, job, or user.


Linux

en-proper noun

Linux (countable and uncountable, plural Linuxes or (slang) Linuxen)

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Λῖνος (Lînos)bor.
Latin Linusbor.
English Linusblend.
English Multics
Ancient Greek εὐνή (eunḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *hékʰō
Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō)
Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos)bor.
Latin eunūchusder.
Middle English eunuk
English eunuchinflu.
English Unixblend.
English Linux
Blend of Linus + Unix, from the name of its creator Linus Torvalds.

etymon

(computing, strictly) The Unix-like open-source computer operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991.


cruftware

(computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written software code, especially that which accumulates over time.


quasimode

(computing, graphical user interface) A mode that remains activated only through some constant action on the part of the user, such as holding down a certain key on the keyboard.


PLOKTA

(computing, humorous) Initialism of press lots of keys to abort.


prepaging

(computing) The loading of memory pages before they are needed, so as to avoid page faults.


strided

Although you can think of these specialized functions as wrappers around cudaMemcpy, they are well-optimized to transfer both strided and unstrided data.

2014, John Cheng, Max Grossman, Ty McKercher, Professional CUDA C Programming, page 342:

Ranges support a number of operators including intersection ([]), counting (#), striding (by), and setting the alignment of a strided range (align).

2015, Pavan Balaji, Programming Models for Parallel Computing, page 141:

(computing) Arranged sequentially in memory so as to be accessed by moving in fixed increments larger than one.


MacIntel

MacIntels (plural)
Macintel (alternative)

There is no doubt that a MacIntel machine could supplant the Wintel platform. And most likely, the entire hungry Linux community could port all the x86 Linux code to the MacIntel OS within weeks, creating a huge flood of good products.

2003 April 7, John C. Dvorak, “How the MacIntel Will Change the Market”, in PC Magazine:

The ADC participants also received MacIntel computers for testing and development.

2005 August 12, Mark Baard, “Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs”, in Wired:

(computing, informal) A Macintosh computer with an Intel CPU.


JTA

Java Transaction API
w:Java Transaction API

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Transaction API.


Unix weenie

(computing, slang, derogatory) A Unix system manager.

(computing, slang, derogatory) A person enamored of Unix.


uncommit

en-verb

uncommit (third-person singular simple present uncommits, present participle uncommitting, simple past and past participle uncommitted)

uncommits (present singular third-person)
uncommitting (participle present)
uncommitted (participle past)
uncommitted (past)

to uncommit a transaction

(transitive, computing) To undo a change that had been applied.


bitcoin

Bitcoin (alternative)
BitCoin (alternative)

[ˈb̥ɪt̚ˌkɔɪ̯n]

[ˈb̥ɪʔˌkɔɪ̯n]

From bit (“binary digit”) + coin, coined by Satoshi Nakamoto, believed to be a pseudonym for one or more people, in the domain name bitcoin.org registered on 18 August 2008; and in the title of the white paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, a link to which was posted on the cryptography mailing list metzdowd.com on 31 October 2008: see the quotation.

We do not accept bitcoin at this store.

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [title] […] What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party. […] In this paper, we propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server to generate computational proof of the chronological order of transactions.

2008 October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto [pseudonym], “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, in Bitcoin.org, archived from the original on 2025-01-04:

[A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.

2011 December, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-01-02:

[Bitcoins] do not depend on the state banks, but are created through mining. Mining is also called as hashing. It is a process of solving complex math problems using those computers which run bitcoin software.

2014, Dale Blake, “Getting and Selling Bitcoins”, in Bitcoin Guide for Beginners: Bitcoin Trading and Mining Made Easy, La Vergne, Tenn.: Mihails Konoplovs, →ISBN:

Other e-commerce sites that accept bitcoin are: Bitcoinshop.us which offers products like watches and air conditioners and ships to people within the United States; […] Travel booking websites also start to accept bitcoin sales on flights, hotel bookings to at least 200,000 hotels and railway Amtrak through their platforms.

2015, Scott Green, “Bitcoin Growth and Trends”, in Bitcoin: The Ultimate A–Z of Profitable Bitcoin Trading & Mining Guide Exposed! (The Blokehead Series), Milan: Scott Green, →ISBN:

Individual bitcoin users are not the only driving force in terms of securing the bitcoin network. Over the past few years, dedicated bitcoin nodes have been added to the network with the sole purpose of receiving and broadcasting new bitcoin transactions to other users and nodes on the network.

2016, Prypto [pseudonym], “Bitcoin Security”, in Bitcoin for Dummies (For Dummies), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part III (Using Bitcoin in Business), page 137:

Find a friend who has bitcoin and buy some from him or her directly. Many bitcoin users start this way. This method is the least complicated. One way to meet people with bitcoin is to attend a local bitcoin meetup listed at Meetup.com (https://meetup.com).

2017 June, Andreas M[arkos] Antonopoulos, “Introduction”, in Tim McGovern, editor, Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 11:

(uncountable, computing, finance) A decentralized cryptocurrency using blockchain technology.


bitcoin

[ˈb̥ɪt̚ˌkɔɪ̯n]

[ˈb̥ɪʔˌkɔɪ̯n]

This item costs one bitcoin.

The value of fiat money is determined by legal means (legal tender laws). In other words, fiat money is anything the government says in money. For instance, if the government says an IOU or a bitcoin is money, then it is money. The major currencies of the contemporary world are fiat money.

2008 November, Alex Marchand, “What is Money?”, in Dissolving Dollars: Exposing the Debt-based Insanity behind Modern Money, [S.l.]: 451° Publishing, published April 2015, →ISBN, page 12:

Users willing to devote CPU power to running a special piece of software would be called miners and would form a network to maintain the block chain collectively. […] The first miner to solve each puzzle would be awarded 50 new bitcoins, and the associated block of transactions would be added to the chain. […] [Satoshi] Nakamoto himself mined the first 50 bitcoins—which came to be called the genesis block—on January 3, 2009.

Each time you succeed in creating a hash, you are rewarded with 25 bitcoins, the block chain is updated and all the users on the network are notified. This serves as an incentive to keep mining the bitcoins and keep the bitcoin transactions working.

2013, Elda Watulo, John Davidson, “Making a Hash of It”, in How to Make Money Online With Digital Currency Bitcoins (Entrepreneur Book Series; 8), [S.l.]: JD-Biz Publishing, →ISBN:

They buy bitcoins at a lower price then sell them at a higher value.

2014, Kinsley Wallace, “How to Invest and Trade Bitcoins”, in Bitcoins: How to Invest, Buy and Sell: A Guide to Using the Bitcoin, [United States]: Speedy Publishing, →ISBN:

But consider that a significant amount of bitcoin is also being held by investors. Those investors do not plan to sell their bitcoin for some time because they are speculating that due to its utility as MoIP, demand will continue to rise and so too will its value. Currently, roughly 5.5 million bitcoin, or US$5.5 billion worth at the price of US$1,000 per coin, is held by the top 1,000 addresses recorded in Bitcoin's blockchain.

2017, Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar, Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and beyond, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 177:

(countable, computing, finance) A unit of the bitcoin (proper noun sense 1) cryptocurrency.

բիթքոին

decentralized cryptocurrency using blockchain technology; unit of the cryptocurrency


intrapacket

(computing, networking) Within a packet of data.


interpacket

(computing, networking) Between packets of data.


pseudonamespace

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudonamespace.wav

Prepending text to function names can act as a pseudonamespace.

(computing, rare) A false namespace achieved by other means.


double dispatch

en-noun

double dispatch (plural double dispatches)

(computing) A mechanism that dispatches a function call to different concrete functions depending on the runtime types of two objects involved.


single dispatch

single dispatch (plural single dispatches)

(computing) A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is chosen solely on the type of the instance calling the method.


dynamic dispatch

dynamic dispatch (countable and uncountable, plural dynamic dispatches)

(computing) A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is assigned during runtime, as it cannot be assigned during compile time.


static dispatch

static dispatch (plural static dispatches)

(computing) A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is assigned during compile time.


directory service

directory service (plural directory services)

(computing) The software system that stores, organizes and provides access to information in a map between names and values.


RUSH

programming language
programming language

(computing) A dialect of the programming language PL/I.


patchset

(computing, programming) A set of software patches.


subtag

(computing) A tag that is secondary or subordinate to another tag.


subtag

en-verb

subtag (third-person singular simple present subtags, present participle subtagging, simple past and past participle subtagged)

subtags (present singular third-person)
subtagging (participle present)
subtagged (participle past)
subtagged (past)

Audio tracks were tagged by artist, and then subtagged by title and genre.

(computing, transitive) To apply a secondary or subordinate tag to.


pluginization

(computing) The act or process of designing a system so that it can be extended with plug-ins.


diskette drive

floppy diskette drive
floppy diskette drive


autorelease

(computing) automatic release (of previously allocated resources)


JAX-RS

(computing, Internet) Abbreviation of Java API for RESTful Web Services.


autodecrement

autodecrement (third-person singular simple present autodecrements, present participle autodecrementing, simple past and past participle autodecremented)

autodecrements (present singular third-person)
autodecrementing (participle present)
autodecremented (participle past)
autodecremented (past)
auto-decrement (alternative)


autodecrement

autodecrements (plural)
auto-decrement (alternative)


windowable

(computing, rare) Capable of being displayed in a window.


autoflow

autoflow (third-person singular simple present autoflows, present participle autoflowing, simple past and past participle autoflowed)

autoflows (present singular third-person)
autoflowing (participle present)
autoflowed (participle past)
autoflowed (past)

(transitive, computing) To flow (text) automatically.


DaaS

(computing) Acronym of data as a service.

(computing) Acronym of desktop as a service.

(computing) Acronym of device as a service.


SaaS

software as a service
w:software as a service

(computing) Acronym of software as a service.

hamakargčʻayin cragrayin apahovum, orpes caṙayutʻyun

համակարգչային ծրագրային ապահովում՝ որպես ծառայություն


navigation mesh

en-noun

navigation mesh (plural navigation meshes)

We used a navigation mesh to describe the paths that can be followed by computer-controlled characters in our video game.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) A data structure used in artificial intelligence applications to aid agents in pathfinding through large spaces. It is a collection of two-dimensional convex polygons.


transcompiler

(computing) A translating compiler that takes the source code of a programming language as its input and outputs the source code into either another programming language or an older version of the same language.


nearline

(computing) Having a level of availability somewhere between online and offline, typically using removable media.


LEAP

w:Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol.

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Eucalyptus cloud, AppScale cloud computing framework, and Python programming language.


XSD

XML Schema Definition
w:XML Schema Definition

(computing, Internet) Initialism of XML Schema Definition.


destage

en-verb

destage (third-person singular simple present destages, present participle destaging, simple past and past participle destaged)

destages (present singular third-person)
destaging (participle present)
destaged (participle past)
destaged (past)

A root item of data is located, and then a working set of data is collected by identifying additional data in the cache that will be destaged to locations in the storage device adjacent to the root item of data.

(computing) To asynchronously write new or updated data from a cache or nonvolatile storage to a direct access storage device.


ODA

Open Data-Center Alliance
w:Open Data Center Alliance

(computing) Initialism of Open Data-Center Alliance.

Open Design Alliance
w:Open Design Alliance

(computing) Initialism of Open Design Alliance.

Open Document Architecture
w:Open Document Architecture

(computing) Initialism of Open Document Architecture.


CXF

(computing, Internet, initialism) Apache Celtix and XFire project names, which is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework.


ROLAP

Relational Online Analytical Processing
w:ROLAP

(computing) Acronym of Relational Online Analytical Processing.


MOLAP

(computing) Acronym of Multidimensional Online Analytical Processing.


HOLAP

/eɪt͡ʃ əʊ ɛl eɪ piː/

Hybrid Online Analytical Processing
w:HOLAP

(computing) Acronym of Hybrid Online Analytical Processing.


binary system

Quantum cryptography is one of the first applications of quantum physics, which is expected to replace today's binary system of computing, in which data is represented in series of ones and zeros.

2004 January 28, Jennifer L. Schenker, “A quantum leap in codes for secure transmissions”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-04-10:

(mathematics, computing) A numeric system with a base of 2, using only the numerals 0 and 1.

二進制 /二进制

math, computing: numeric system with base 2


snapin

snap + in, suggesting a component that clicks into place.

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A software plug-in.


unpublish

unpublish (third-person singular simple present unpublishes, present participle unpublishing, simple past and past participle unpublished)

unpublishes (present singular third-person)
unpublishing (participle present)
unpublished (participle past)
unpublished (past)

To unpublish a calendar: 1. In the Applications folder, double-click the iCal icon to open the application. The main iCal window opens; in the Calendars section on the left, published calendars have a small mark to the right of their names […]

Burns' political sentiments were already clearly delineated in 'A Dream' and no amount of etiquette could unpublish that poem.

2011, Patrick Scott Hogg, Robert Burns: The Patriot Bard:

Yes. We have a strict policy on unpublishing: We don’t.

2013 January 16, Margaret Sullivan, “Make No Mistake, but if You Do, Here’s How to Correct It”, in The New York Times:

You unpublish a category to hide it from display on the front end of the website.

2013, Ric Shreves, Joomla! Bible, page 342:

(transitive, chiefly computing) To remove (something previously published) from circulation; to retract.


disklabel

(computing) A record on a hard disk or other storage device, holding information about the location of the partitions on the disk.


graphics tablet

en-noun

graphics tablet (plural graphics tablets)

(computing) An input device that enables a user to draw images by hand, as if with a pencil, and import them into a computer system.


MID

(computing) Initialism of mobile information device.


netmask

(computing) The routing prefix of a network address.


classful

Classful routing protocols do not carry subnet masks; classless routing protocols do.

2002, Ravi Malhotra, IP Routing, page 101:

(computing, Internet) Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.

(computing) Of or relating to the presence and employment of classes in a programming language.


writethrough

writethrough (countable and uncountable, plural writethroughs)

(computing) An operation in which data written to a cache is then immediately copied to permanent storage, ensuring that cache and storage are always in agreement.


stylable

en-adj

stylable (comparative more stylable, superlative most stylable)

more stylable (comparative)
most stylable (superlative)
styleable (alternative)

The following sets whether the text is editable (can be changed), selectable (can be selected for copying), or stylable (can use multiple fonts, styles, or sizes).

1993, Neil Rhodes, Julie McKeehan, Symantec C++ programming for the Macintosh, page 535:

Newer versions of IE from 9 onward recognize these newer HTML elements natively and don't require the script to make them stylable.

2012, Craig Cook, Jason Garber, Foundation HTML5 with CSS3, page 339:

(computing) Capable of being formatted with styles.


XACML

(computing) Initialism of eXtensible Access Control Markup Language.


netboot

Non-Intel architectures have historically included netboot capabilities that Red Hat Linux supports.

2003, Sobell, A practical guide to Red Hat Linux eight, page 392:

Several PXE-based netboot systems exist[…]

2006, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Linux Administration Handbook, page 226:

(computing) The booting of a system from a network.


boot storm

(computing) The situation where many users attempt to boot their computers at the same time, causing excessive demand on the network.


screenlet

(computing) A visual widget or small application that can be placed on the desktop.


unminimize

en-verb

unminimize (third-person singular simple present unminimizes, present participle unminimizing, simple past and past participle unminimized)

unminimizes (present singular third-person)
unminimizing (participle present)
unminimized (participle past)
unminimized (past)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To restore (a window) from a minimized state.


unmaximize

unmaximize (third-person singular simple present unmaximizes, present participle unmaximizing, simple past and past participle unmaximized)

unmaximizes (present singular third-person)
unmaximizing (participle present)
unmaximized (participle past)
unmaximized (past)

To maximize or unmaximize a window, click the button in the upper right corner. On Windows, you can minimize, maximize, or close a window by clicking one of the three buttons located in the upper right corner of each window.

2003, Kim English, Community Geography: GIS in Action, page 278:

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To restore (a window) from a maximized state.


coprocess

(computing) A process that explicitly yields control to other processes or to the operating system.


meta key

(computing) A special key on some kinds of keyboard, used to activate keyboard shortcuts.


creational pattern

en-noun

creational pattern (plural creational patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that standardizes the mechanisms of object creation.


structural pattern

structural pattern (plural structural patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that makes it easier to create relationships between entities.


pseudoblock

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A pseudoblock surrounding the whole source program can be initialized before actual translation with the entries for standard functions and variables, so that these don't have to be treated separately.

1971, David Gries, Compiler construction for digital computers, page 229:

(computing, programming) A construct that resembles a block of source code but is not a true block.


IOSAPIC

(computing) Input/Output Streamlined Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.


pseudoselector

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But some elements are not necessarily found in the document markup, such as which links have been visited or the first line of a paragraph. To apply style to these instances in a document, CSS provides several pseudoselectors.

2009, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference:

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.


cheeseware

Perhaps most important, it has removed us even further from the "gee whiz!" mind-set that dominated our first reactions to computing--a frame of mind that made us so appreciative of the wondrous complexity of those putty-colored boxes that we became vulnerable to the half-baked, the beta, and even the well-marketed cheeseware.

2000 September 1, “The New Computers in School”, in Strategic Finance:

Many of the games they stock now are already in the mini-boxes, new titles not just cheeseware.

2002 January 3, John Capriotti, “Re: Walmart: Games in DVD cases??”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):

To run the AOL cheeseware on more than one machine at once (why, FFS, I have no idea) you need more "screen names" whatever they may be.

2005 August 9, Phil Thompson, “Re: AOL Broadband”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):

(computing, slang, derogatory) Exceptionally low-quality software.


mix-in

(computing, programming) Alternative form of mixin.


Hollerith card

Named after American inventor Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), who patented machine-readable punch card devices in 1889.


wedgitude

I managed to get into the system, remove the wedgitude and booted^([sic]) properly.

1994, E M Richards, “Thanks”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet):

There's very little way to keep random obnoxious users, who *think* they know a lot about Macs, from reconfiguring the systems into a state of supreme wedgitude.

1996, Karl A. Krueger, “Call to Support Multiple Users”, in comp.sys.be (Usenet):

Sorry I can't give more detail, I don't remember exactly what I did, either the path to wedgitude or the escape route.

2001, Stephen J. Turnbull, “No such file or directory ????”, in mailing.comp.coda-list (Usenet):

(computing, slang, rare) A state of being stuck or wedged.


VAXocentrism

There's nothing that says that array elements in FORTRAN - or, for that matter, C - have to be contiguous. Thinking that that must be true as a matter of Natural Law is purest VAXocentrism.

1991, Jay Maynard, “Segmented Architectures ( formerly Re: 48-bit computers)”, in comp.arch (Usenet):

i've long insisted that everyone here at NPRI *always* redefine that psect to be readonly under VAX/VMS . . . our code gets ported to other platforms, and it would be definite vaxocentrism to assume that literal strings are writable.

1993, David P. Murphy, “modifying a literal string in C code”, in vmsnet.alpha (Usenet):

(computing, slang, rare) The incorrect assumption that certain behaviours and memory storage conventions of the VAX (a computer system of the 1970s) are applicable on all computer architectures.


flashable

(computing) Capable of being flashed (having its memory rewritten).


brogrammer

At Santa Monica (Calif.)-based Gravity, engineering director Jim Plush is referred to as the “resident brogrammer” and has affixed his computer monitor to a treadmill so he can exercise two to three hours a day while programming.

2012 March 1, Douglas MacMillan, “The Rise of the 'Brogrammer'”, in Bloomberg Businessweek:

It started with the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Then came geek chic. Now, "brogrammers" — computer programmers with frat house sensibilities — are hitting the scene.

2012 April 12, Haya El Nasser, “Geek chic: 'Brogrammer?' Now, that's hot”, in USA Today:

Experts have pointed to Silicon Valley's "brogrammer" culture and a lack of female role models as contributing to the problem — but women are managing to make huge contributions to the field anyway.

2013 May 29, Dana Liebelson, “5 women busting through the tech industry's glass ceiling”, in The Week:

(slang) A male programmer who acts like and has the interests of a frat boy, defying stereotypical conceptions of programmers as shy and nerdy.


absolute assembler

en-noun

absolute assembler (plural absolute assemblers)

(computing) An assembler that generates code that uses only absolute addresses.


absolute code

(computing) Code which uses only absolute addresses.


absolute instruction

absolute instruction (plural absolute instructions)

(computing) An assembly language instruction that uses only absolute addresses.


absolute loader

absolute loader (plural absolute loaders)

(computing) A loader that places absolute code into main memory beginning with the initial address assigned by the assembler. No address manipulation is performed.


netlag

Unknown thinking, typing, and netlag times make it impossible to tell [whether a participant in online chat is fully attentive].

2002, Lori Kendall (quoting "henri"), Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online (page 26)

If our test script is deployed live on a faraway web server, with netlag we could fairly easily click the button twice before the response came back[…]

2011, Jonathan Hayward, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery:

(computing) The delay arising from communication between networked computers.


netdead

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To end your use of the client you can use either this command or possibly ctrl-C. This will leave netdead all of your characters with processes still running.

1996, Joe Pantuso, The Complete Internet Gamer, page 309:

(computing) Synonym of link-dead (“in a frozen state due to sudden disconnection”).


About box

So called because traditionally accessed through a menu item labelled Help > About this program or similar.

(computing) A window displaying information about an application, such as its version number and copyright or other licence.

névjegy

a window displaying information about an application


spin up

en-verb

spin up (third-person singular simple present spins up, present participle spinning up, simple past and past participle spun up)

spins up (present singular third-person)
spinning up (participle present)
spun up (participle past)
spun up (past)

Plated hard disk surfaces are actually harder and more scratch resistant than read-write heads are. The hard magnetic medium effectively protects itself from head crashes caused by contaminants and the drive's spinning up or down.

1987, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers, volume 6, page 222:

The hard drive spun up. The gray screen flickered. The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.

2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf, page 28:

(computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place.

Near-synonyms: spool up; gin up

We spun up a virtual server in the cloud to handle the additional load.

(computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.


spinup

en-noun

spinup (countable and uncountable, plural spinups)

(computing) The process of a disk drive spinning up.


Beowulf cluster

Beowulf cluster (plural Beowulf clusters)

So called because Beowulf is described as having þrittiges / manna mægencræft on his mundgripe (“Thirty men’s strength in his hand-grip”), approximately reflecting the number of nodes in the cluster.

One day, all of your bank and credit card transactions may be processed by Beowulf clusters.

1999, Rajkumar Buyya, High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and systems, page 641:

2001, A. Grado, et al., The BEOWFI Project: Reducing WFI Data with a Beowulf Cluster, IAU Commission 9 Working Group on Sky Surveys, The New Era of Wide Field Astronomy: Proceedings of a Conference, page 304,
With the use of a beowulf cluster the time to process the large amount of data available for the BEOWFI project will be reduced, and the project will also demonstrate the effectiveness of using beowulf clusters in wide field imaging astronomy.

To this end, a Beowulf cluster is constructed, configured, and tested using 15 similar computers and 1 newer, faster server using the MPI.

2009, Lawrence A. Tomei, Information Communication Technologies for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Developments, page number not shown:

(computing) A cluster of standard personal computers linked by a local area network, usually on the order of 10 nodes.


portmapper

(computing) A software service that maps programs to the ports they will use to communicate over a network.


digital watermark

digital watermark (plural digital watermarks)

(computing) Auxiliary data embedded in a datafile for subsequent identification and verification of the file.


ITS

issue tracking system
issue tracking system#English

(computing) Initialism of issue tracking system.


issue tracking system

issue tracking system (plural issue tracking systems)

(computing) A software program that manages and maintains a list of issues.


incident ticket system

incident ticket system (plural incident ticket systems)

(computing) Synonym of issue tracking system.


support ticket system

support ticket system (plural support ticket systems)


trouble ticket system

trouble ticket system (plural trouble ticket systems)


case-based reasoning

(computing) The process of solving new problems based on the known solutions of similar problems encountered in the past.


data controller

data controller (plural data controllers)

(dated, computing) A clerk who scheduled batch jobs on a mainframe computer, and who distributed printed output


deobfuscator

(computing) A software program that attempts to undo the work of an obfuscator, restoring readable source code.


FTBFS

(computing) Initialism of fails to build from source: said of a computer program that cannot be built from its source code due to errors.


re-sizable

en-adj

re-sizable (comparative more re-sizable, superlative most re-sizable)

more re-sizable (comparative)
most re-sizable (superlative)

(computing, formal) Alternative form of resizable.


resizeable

resizeable (comparative more resizeable, superlative most resizeable)

more resizeable (comparative)
most resizeable (superlative)

(computing, UK) Alternative form of resizable.


re-sizeable

re-sizeable (comparative more re-sizeable, superlative most re-sizeable)

more re-sizeable (comparative)
most re-sizeable (superlative)

(computing, formal, UK) Alternative form of resizable.


laptop hobo

Real laptop hobos you'll find in the windows of coffee shops up the street that offer free WiFi and unprotected electrical outlets.

2011 September 30, Stephen Quinn, “Hobo with a laptop”, in Globe and Mail:

Starbucks started the war on laptop hobos (you know who you are, essay/screenplay/blog writers) who camp for the free Wi-Fi, nurse a single coffee for hours and take up valuable real estate.

2012 January 8, Denise Ryan, “‘Laptop hobos’ face crackdown”, in Vancouver Sun:

The "laptop hobo" phenomenon — patrons buying one coffee and spending ensuing hours browsing the Web — is a growing issue with food and beverage operations.

2013 July 5, Steve Raabe, “Colorado coffee shops putting limits on power, Wi-Fi use”, in Denver Post:

(informal) A heavy user of freely available Wi-Fi and/or power outlets at coffee shops.


subdocument

(computing, wordprocessing) A document making up part of a larger document.


polyhierarchy

(computing) A hierarchical relationship (tree) in which at least one child has more than one parent

poligerarchia

computing: relationship in which at least one child has more than one parent


filespace

Thus although people routinely email other people worldwide, they are more cautious about sending queries to remote databases. Instead they prefer to browse around directories on remote sites and then transfer whole files to their own filespace for deeper investigation.

1996, Ian Wand, Robin Milner, Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science, page 121:

That password allows anyone who knows it to get into the complete system. I could now delete all the hospital files if I wanted. Or I could go poking around in other people's filespace to see what is of interest.

2001, Cynthia Lucy Dale, The Devil's DNA, page 55:

(computing) The space where files are stored.


pseudolanguage

en-noun

pseudolanguage (countable and uncountable, plural pseudolanguages)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudolanguage.wav

State what will be printed by the following code fragment written in a pseudolanguage permitting reference parameters (assume Y and J are passed by reference).

2010, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini, Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms, page 194:

(computing, countable) A means of describing an algorithm in human terms, without the use of a true programming language.


virtual desktop

virtual desktop (plural virtual desktops)

(computing, graphical user interface) A desktop (visual workspace) offering more space than the physical screen would usually allow, controlled either by scrolling or by switching between screenfuls.


semigraphical

(computing) Of or relating to semigraphics.


security system

security system (plural security systems)

(computing) A similar software system that prevents unauthorised access.


georedundant

(computing) Operating at more than one geographical location, as a form of redundancy in case one site fails.


softload

en-verb

softload (third-person singular simple present softloads, present participle softloading, simple past and past participle softloaded)

softloads (present singular third-person)
softloading (participle present)
softloaded (participle past)
softloaded (past)

(computing, transitive) To load from a software source rather than from ROM.


suberror

(computing) A specific error belonging to a general class of errors.


MIDlet

From MID + -let; compare applet, servlet.

(computing, Java programming language) An application that uses the Mobile Information Device Profile of the Connected Limited Device Configuration for the embedded Java environment.


crapplication

By contrast, I've never seen a Windows machine perform well after being on for more than about 5 or 6 days straight; if it doesn't outright crash, it loses all of its memory and has to be restarted, PLUS it is susceptible to the same hardware lockups, power failures and crapplications as Linux is.

1999, William Wueppelmann, “How to downgrade to Windows 95?? Win 98 HATES my guts.”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):

Most people don't realize how many background crapplications they have running thanks to the different stuff that they have installed.

2002, n3kkb0, “Rocksim and WindowsXP”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):

(computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality application.


scorefile

(computing, Internet) A file containing criteria for assigning a score to each email message received, for purposes of filtering out spam, etc.


RCW

Runtime Callable Wrapper
w:Runtime Callable Wrapper

(computing) Initialism of Runtime Callable Wrapper.


triple fault

(computing) An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to handle a double fault, typically resulting in immediate rebooting.


triple fault

triple fault (third-person singular simple present triple faults, present participle triple faulting, simple past and past participle triple faulted)

triple faults (present singular third-person)
triple faulting (participle present)
triple faulted (participle past)
triple faulted (past)
triple-fault (alternative)

(computing) To cause a triple fault to happen.


Verlet list

(computing) A data structure in molecular dynamics simulations that can efficiently maintain a list of all particles within a given cut-off distance of each other.


hand-code

hand-code (third-person singular simple present hand-codes, present participle hand-coding, simple past and past participle hand-coded)

hand-codes (present singular third-person)
hand-coding (participle present)
hand-coded (participle past)
hand-coded (past)

(computing) To develop (software, web pages, etc.) by writing source code or markup directly, without the use of tools allowing higher-level representations.


network printer

en-noun

network printer (plural network printers)

(computing) A printer that receives its print jobs through a print server, as opposed to processing print jobs directly.


print server

(computing) A server that processes print jobs and sends them to one or more printers.


ODD

ODD (countable and uncountable, plural ODDs)

optical disc drive
optical disc drive#English

(computing) Initialism of optical disc drive.


signedness

(computing) The state or condition of being signed.


helldesk

(computing, slang, derogatory) help desk


NAID

(computing) network array of inexpensive disks


cross assembler

cross assembler (plural cross assemblers)

(computing) An assembler that generates code for a platform other than the one it runs on.


quickselect

(computing) A sorting algorithm related to quicksort, but with limited recursion.


ENOTUITS

Mimics the form of C error codes: for example, on Linux, a library call may return the error code ENOMEM to indicate that it has run out of memory. TUITS comes from round tuit.

ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed

2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list

(computing, humorous) A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being discussed).


shellbag

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A set of registry keys that store details about a viewed folder, such as its size, position, and icon.


cloudification

(computing) The conversion and/or migration of data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing


upcasing

"The upcasing of the string 'foo' to be all upper case letters resulted in 'FOO'."

(computing) The act of converting all letters to be uppercase.


DSVPS

(computing) Abbreviation of direct server VPS.


VWP

(computing, NetBeans) Initialism of Visual Web Pack.


SLI

service level indicator
w:service level indicator

(computing) Initialism of service level indicator.


WASAPI

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Windows Audio Session API.


DR

information technology
information technology

(information technology) Initialism of disaster recovery.


keylock

We complained in our review of the PC AT that the problem with the keylock is that when you power up with the keylock on, you cannot continue until you unlock the system.

1986, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 10, page 49:

The keylock on the front of some more advanced PCs may be locked in the off position, grounding out the keyboard-to-motherboard circuit. Turn the key to the on position.

2007, Corey Sandler, Fix Your Own PC, page 6:

(computing, historical) A physical lock on the case of a computer, preventing use of the keyboard until unlocked.


geo-blocking

From geo- + blocking or geo-block + -ing.

(computing, Internet) The use of geolocation software to deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries.


subregister

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary register (area for number storage).


Winkey

(computing) Abbreviation of Windows key.


cronjob

From cron + job. From cron, name of the system program that handles these tasks; from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

(computing) An automated task that runs at specific intervals.


HKLM

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Abbreviation of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: part of the registry containing settings specific to the local computer.


subview

(computing, graphical user interface) A secondary or subsidiary view.


propositionalization

(computing) The transformation of a relational dataset into a propositional one.


backoff

backoff (countable and uncountable, plural backoffs)

a backoff strategy to avoid collisions

(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.


batchable

(computing) Capable of being run as a batch (a set of data processed at one time).


blockchain

From block + chain, from earlier “block chain”. In the 2008 Bitcoin paper block and chain are used separately; the concept is referred to as “chain of hash-based proof-of-work” or “chain of digital signatures”.

By the way, mobile wallets differ from most software wallets in that they don't download the entire Bitcoin blockchain with every transaction. (Many software wallets do, interestingly.) Because the blockchain is a file several gigabytes in size, this would eat up a ton of mobile bandwidth and probably cause your mobile provider to either enact overage charges or just plain cancel your account. In addition, your mobile phone probably doesn't have enough onboard storage to host the entire […]

2014, Michael R. Miller, The Ultimate Guide to Bitcoin, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 93:

[…] blockchain is arguably the most important innovation introduced by Bitcoin. It is the missing link that makes distributed peer-to-peer digital currencies possible. The blockchain is in essence a distributed database holding all the Bitcoin transactions since the beginning (January 3, 2009) and a method to secure this database. The blockchain keeps a secure list of all the transactions. However, there are relevant questions, such as whether a particular transaction output is spendable, that […]

2014, Pedro Franco, Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 95:

A shared record of past transactions in a distributed network, typically used for cryptocurrency.


defunctionalization

defunctionalization (countable and uncountable, plural defunctionalizations)

higher-order function
higher-order function

(computing, programming) A compile-time transformation which eliminates higher-order functions, replacing them by a single first-order apply function.


defunctionalize

en-verb

defunctionalize (third-person singular simple present defunctionalizes, present participle defunctionalizing, simple past and past participle defunctionalized)

defunctionalizes (present singular third-person)
defunctionalizing (participle present)
defunctionalized (participle past)
defunctionalized (past)

(computing, programming) To subject to defunctionalization.


ISCII

(computing) Indian Script Code for Information Interchange


nettop

Blend of net + desktop; compare netbook.

(computing) A small, inexpensive, low-power desktop computer.


autofit

autofit (third-person singular simple present autofits, present participle autofitting, simple past and past participle autofitted)

autofits (present singular third-person)
autofitting (participle present)
autofitted (participle past)
autofitted (past)

Another option is to autofit the row's height (or the column's width) to match its content. Autofitting eliminates empty space by matching the row height or column width to its tallest or longest cell entry.

2010, Ann Shaffer, Patrick Carey, Kathleen T. Finnegan, New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 2010, First Course, page 17:

In the following example, when you right-click a cell in column E, the current date and time are entered into that cell, and column E's width is autofitted[…]

2013, Tom Urtis, Excel VBA 24-Hour Trainer, page 117:

(transitive, computing) To fit automatically by resizing.


read-write

a read-write head in a disk drive

a read-write lock, request, or variable

(computing) Supporting both read and write operations.

讀寫 /读写

supporting both read and write operations


J. Random

J. Random User

J. Random Hacker

(computing, slang) An unspecified person; any old person (followed by a generic role).


pentop

From pen + top; compare desktop, laptop.

(computing) An electronic pen-like device intended as an educational computer for use with attachable cartridges and special digital paper.


photostream

(computing) A gallery or slideshow displaying a series of images from the Internet.


green thread

(computing) A thread of execution that is scheduled by a virtual machine, not natively by the underlying operating system.


unarc

unarc (third-person singular simple present unarcs, present participle unarcing, simple past and past participle unarced)

unarcs (present singular third-person)
unarcing (participle present)
unarced (participle past)
unarced (past)

I unarced it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83.

1988, Forth Dimensions, volume 10, page 18:

The individual files compressed within the archive file SUPPLIER on drive B are unarced and placed in the subdirectory […]

1988, Don Berliner, Managing Your Hard Disk, page 496:

Windows setup entails unarcing files into system subdirectory […]

1991, InfoWorld, volume 13, numbers 9-17, page 390:

MegaD also provides an easy method for arcing or unarcing files using various compression programs.

Early in the semester, students also had to learn how to ftp files from a remote site and unarc them using PKXARC.

2005, Kirk St. Amant, Pavel Zemliansky, Internet-based Workplace Communications:

(computing, transitive) To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in ARC (file format).


vector image

(computing) An image file where the image’s elements (such as lines, circles and subimages) are stored as individual objects, as opposed to a raster or bitmap which stores the image’s pixels.


GML

Game Maker Language
w:Game Maker Language

(computing) Initialism of Game Maker Language.

Generalized Markup Language
w:Generalized Markup Language

(computing) Initialism of Generalized Markup Language.

Generative Modelling Language
w:Generative Modelling Language

(computing) Initialism of Generative Modelling Language.

Geography Markup Language
w:Geography Markup Language

(computing) Initialism of Geography Markup Language.

Graph Modelling Language
w:Graph Modelling Language

(computing) Initialism of Graph Modelling Language.


box-drawing character

en-noun

box-drawing character (plural box-drawing characters)

(computing, typography) A text character used for creating geometric frames and boxes.


terabaud

By using a large array of emitters and detectors operating at high modulation frequencies, data transmission in the terabaud region could be realized.

1994, Semiconductor Silicon, volume 7, page 488:


autoflush

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If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.

2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715:

With autoflush off, you can easily start generating content, have your code throw it away halfway through, and then issue a redirect.

2002, Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams, Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason:

(computing, programming) Automatic flushing of a buffer.


autoflush

en-verb

autoflush (third-person singular simple present autoflushes, present participle autoflushing, simple past and past participle autoflushed)

autoflushes (present singular third-person)
autoflushing (participle present)
autoflushed (participle past)
autoflushed (past)

(transitive, computing, programming) To flush (a buffer) automatically.


kernelize

kernelize (third-person singular simple present kernelizes, present participle kernelizing, simple past and past participle kernelized)

kernelizes (present singular third-person)
kernelizing (participle present)
kernelized (participle past)
kernelized (past)

(computing) To produce, or to undergo kernelization


byte order mark

en-noun

byte order mark (plural byte order marks)

byte order marks (plural)
byte-order mark (alternative)

tavujärjestysmerkki

character indicating endianness of a string of text

(computing) A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.

(especially) The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.


zombied

A process that is unable to continue executing and cannot exit the system is zombied. A zombied process does not use any system resources but it still maintains an entry in the process table.

2004, Cameron Hughes, Tracey Hughes, Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++, page 46:

In this manner, the victim may be able to discover the one or many zombied systems that are causing the DoS attack but probably won't be able to track down the actual attacker.

2011, James M. Stewart, CompTIA Security+ Review Guide: Exam SY0-301, page 133:

(computing) In a zombie state (said either of a zombie process or of a computer covertly controlled by malware).


firehose cursor

firehose cursor (plural firehose cursors)

(computing, databases, dated) A cursor that permits fast enumeration of rows but can only move forward.


brontobyte

From bronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.

We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.

2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider:

In a world awash in brontobytes of data, cutting your data requirements in half can dramatically reduce the demands that data management is placing upon your business.

2014, Christopher Surdak, Data Crush […] , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 174:

(informal, computing) 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.


cokebottle

From Coke + bottle, possibly from a nickname for the ! character, thought to resemble an upturned bottle.

MINCE has a million commands; Control-meta-CokeBottle probably means something.

...the task at hand with few, if any, religious debates over the virtues of modelessness or the sins of meta-cokebottle-shift.

1985, Peter S. Langston, "The Influence of the UNIX Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games", EUUGN, Vol. 5, No. 6, page 34 (reprinted in AUUGN Jul 1985, Vol. 6, No. 2, page 54) https://books.google.com/books?id=5xyk_PXaloAC&pg=PA54

1990-11-28, Jamie Zawinski, "Re: Do people still use Explorers?", comp.sys.ti.explorer,
If input was event-based instead of character based, then under X you could easily have seperate keybindings for left-shift-cokebottle and right-shift-cokebottle...

Nowadays many younger hackers can touch-type, so space-cadet-style quadruple-bucky-meta-cokebottle commands are less popular than formerly; […]

1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, O'Reilly Media,, →ISBN, page 408:

Now type x-underscore-asterisk-coke bottle!

2015, Alex Feinman, We Were Gods (Omnibus Edition), →ISBN, page 235:

(computing, slang) An unusual character, or one that is difficult to type.


Condela

Short for connection definition language.

(computing) A procedural, parallel language for defining neural networks.


copywronged

Play on words, from copyrighted and wrong.

(informal, computing) Having copy protection that is broken or inoperable.


endif

endifs (plural)
end-if (alternative)
end if (alternative)

(computing) A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an if statement, especially one containing multiple if ... then ... else statements.


supercompilation

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(computing) A technique, involving multiple metacompilations, that seeks to optimize a program.


datalink

(computing) The protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent network nodes in a wide area network or between nodes on the same local area network segment.


PUA

potentially unwanted application
w:potentially unwanted application

(computing) Initialism of potentially unwanted application.

(computing) Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).


subrequest

(computing, Internet) A secondary or subsidiary request.


in-app

in-app purchases

In-app updates also only work for Release configuration builds, not Debug builds.

2018, Jim Bennett, Xamarin in Action […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(computing) Done or featured in an application.


WinRT

(computing) Abbreviation of Windows Runtime.


subcache

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary cache.


marchitecture

(computing) A non-technical depiction of the architecture of a system, service, product line, or organization that has been simplified or made more conceptual for use in marketing communications.

(computing) An unfinished architecture that only exists as a figment of marketing.

(computing) An architecture whose design is dictated by marketing considerations.


enqueuer

(computing) A process or component that adds items to a queue.


dequeuer

(computing) A process or component that removes items from a queue.


memory hole

memory holes (plural)
memory-hole (alternative)

From memory + hole. Sense 1 (“figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up”) is a transferred use of the physical slots which the English writer George Orwell (1903–1950) refers to in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), into which censored documents for destruction are dropped.

A memory hole provides performance improvement by reserving certain parts of memory for use by ISA cards. […] The memory hole is usually disabled because there are few ISA cards today that need to be mapped. If you have an ISA card that refuses to function properly in a PC with more than 16MB of RAM, you should enable the memory hole.

1997, Stephen J. Bigelow, “System Questions”, in PC Hardware FAT FAQs: Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining, and Repairing, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, pages 11–12:

We won't touch high ISA memory (the so-called memory hole in the 14 MB to 16 MB physical address range), because that kind of I/O memory is extremely rare nowadays and is not supported by the majority of modern motherboards or by the kernel.

2001 June, Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet, “Hardware Management”, in Andy Oram, editor, Linux Device Drivers, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, →ISBN, page 245:

A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.

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The use of new and delete, along with the scope related creation and deletion of objects, provide safer and more consistent management of the available memory pool. […] It also resolves common problems with passing incorrect pointers to free, or obtaining memory using malloc and then forgetting to free it (causing a memory hole). This typically occurs when a subroutine allocates some memory via malloc, and during some processing a premature return taken that does not free the allocated memory.

1992 September 9, Andrew McRae, “C++ in an Embedded Environment”, in AUUG 1992 Conference & Exhibition: Maintaining Control in an Open World: World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 8–11 September 1992: Conference Proceedings, Kensington, N.S.W.: AUUG, →ISBN, paragraph 5.5, page 5:

When Lighttpd finishes, it calls mod_helloworld_free to release the memory held by plugin_data. Beware that not freeing the plugin_data creates a memory hole.

2008, Andre Bogus, “Writing Lighttpd Modules”, in Lighttpd: Installing, Compiling, Configuring, Optimizing, and Securing this Lighting-fast Web Server, Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing, →ISBN:

(rare) Synonym of memory leak (“any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable”).


SAX

(computing, Internet) Acronym of Simple API for XML.


sidecar file

(computing) An accompanying file that stores data, such as metadata, which is not supported by the source file format.


subconversation

(chiefly computing) A conversation making up part of a larger conversation.


HVD

(computing) Initialism of hosted virtual desktop.


preallocation

preallocation (countable and uncountable, plural preallocations)


bonding protocol

bonding protocol (plural bonding protocols)

(computing) link aggregation, especially in Linux


subaddress

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary part of an address.


RTSP

(computing) Real Time Streaming Protocol: a network protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers.