Fast SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data at rates up to 10 MB per second on an 8-bit SCSI cable.


FastWide SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data up to 20 megabytes/s on a 16-bit bus.


Narrow SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data up to 10 megabytes/s on a 16-bit bus.


Ultra SCSI

(computing) A version of SCSI that uses an 8-bit bus and supports data rates of up to 20 megabytes/s.


Wide SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI-2 interface which uses a 16-bit bus and supports transfer rates up to 20 megabytes/second.


WideUltra SCSI

(computing) A cross between the Ultra SCSI and Wide SCSI interfaces which uses a 16-bit bus.


IOT

(computing) Initialism of index-organized table, a type of database's table where the data is stored in a B-tree index structure.

index-organized table

(computing) Initialism of input-output transfer, instructions for computers as in the PDP-8.

interoperability testing
w:Interoperability testing

(computing) Initialism of interoperability testing, a process of testing to determine the interoperability of a software product.


unstage

en-verb

unstage (third-person singular simple present unstages, present participle unstaging, simple past and past participle unstaged)

unstages (present singular third-person)
unstaging (participle present)
unstaged (participle past)
unstaged (past)

(computing, transitive) To move (a file) out of the staging area (where files are kept in preparation to be committed and deployed).


flotating point

The drawback is that it's kinda slow; a high bailout value (required to get the range) forces one to use the flotating point algorithm.

1991 June 25, David M. Read, “3D M sets in Fractint: the *real* solution”, in alt.fractals (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:

MATHLIB has a problem if e.g. Sin() or, for what it seems, any other MATHLIB function is called repeatedly in a loop. In such cases a register is trashed (the one used for the loop variable) and the loop is terminated prematurely. However, if MATHLIB functions are called one at a time in the middle of the code it all works fine, and even after an huge amount of flotating point calculations (and I mean hours worth of it) the final results are identical to the Xtd DOS program's (also the speed is nearly identical).

1995 September 7, Bengt-Inge DalenbŠck, “TopSpeed-Borland-Windows-DLLs”, in comp.lang.modula2 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:

This makes Java (even with a native compiler) essentially useless for any flotating point applicatations, numerics, games, etc etc etc. Of course, this was last time I checked. Sun might have seen the light since then.

2000 September 2, Ian McCulloch, “Performance in comparison to Java”, in comp.lang.c++.moderated (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:

(nonstandard and non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of floating point.


spamproof

en-adj

spamproof (comparative more spamproof, superlative most spamproof)

more spamproof (comparative)
most spamproof (superlative)

(computing) Resistant to spamming (the bulk sending of unsolicited messages).


mouse jiggler

This triage process may include taking photographs of screens, using mouse jigglers to prevent password-protected screensavers from activating, or running memory-dumping tools.

2016, Bruce Nikkel, Practical Forensic Imaging, page 102:

(computing) A program that simulates periodic mouse movements to prevent the machine entering into a standby state.


camera roll

Named after the traditional roll of film.

(computing, mobile telephony) The collection of images and videos taken on a smartphone.


port triggering

en-noun

port triggering (usually uncountable, plural port triggerings)

(computing, networking) A configuration option on a NAT-enabled router that controls communication between internal and external host machines on an IP network.


subuser

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary user.


subsecret

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary secret.


subroot

Well-designed CAs will create a trust hierarchy, which consists of a root with a number of subroots, to further enhance protection of the private key.

2003, Kapil Raina, PKI Security Solutions for the Enterprise, page 30:

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary root.


datasource

datasources (plural)
data source (alternative)

(computing) A source of data; typically a database


unkeyworded

Find all texts that contain this unkeyworded entry.

1990, Michael L. Kleper, The Illustrated Handbook of Desktop Publishing and Typesetting, page 103:

Space Saver's function is to mark all unused, unfavorited, or unkeyworded video in an Event as rejects, all in one fell swoop.

2009, David Pogue, Aaron Miller, iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, page 109:

(computing, rare) Without a keyword assigned to it.


software crisis

(computing, dated) The difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of problems.


software state

(computing) Data or information that is changed or manipulated throughout the runtime of a program.


Y/N

y/n (alternative)
YN (alternative uncommon)

PROCEED? [Y/N]


unfsckable

en-adj

unfsckable (comparative more unfsckable, superlative most unfsckable)

more unfsckable (comparative)
most unfsckable (superlative)

I was peacefully running a fairly stock black slab with 3.0 (no kernel servers, in particular) when my external 1.2GB drive flamed out sort of like Mark described, only more so: scores of media errors and bad sectors, crashes, kernel panics, etc. This built up gradually over about 5 days until my system was totally unbootable, unfsckable, and unusable.

1994 January 17, Deborah Howland, “3.2 crashes”, in comp.sys.next.bugs (Usenet):

I'm a fan of SCSI hard drives, and I like to set up ext3 with an external journal, ie.^([sic]) on a different physical drive, which speeds things up a bit, though at the cost of making your data twice as vulnerable to hard drive failures (if the journal drive dies you're likely to end up with an unfsckable mess on the data drive).

2003 October 8, Pigeon, “How to kill X?”, in linux.debian.user (Usenet):

Linux file system hopelessly corrupted and unfsckable. Despaired of losing all the data accumulated since the last CD backup, but then remembered an old Knoppix CD in the drawer. It detected all the partitions on the hdd, plus my USB stick, enabling a retrieve of my precious data.

2006 April 26, BrianM, “Knoppix is Kneat”, in nz.comp (Usenet):

(computing, of a filesystem) Unable to be repaired with fsck; highly corrupt.


snoopware

If the snoopware was installed after the firewall, check the firewall's configuration screen. The software will probably have been added to the firewall's list of applications that are given permission to connect to the outside world.

2002, PC Mag, volume 21, number 13, page 103:

(computing, informal) Software covertly installed on a computer in order to monitor the user's activity or to steal confidential data.


load factor

(computing) The proportion of the buckets in a hash table which contain entries.


stubify

en-verb

stubify (third-person singular simple present stubifies, present participle stubifying, simple past and past participle stubified)

stubifies (present singular third-person)
stubifying (participle present)
stubified (participle past)
stubified (past)
stubbify (alternative rare)

(transitive, computing) To make something use stubs (placeholder procedures).


.ovl

en-noun

.ovl (countable and uncountable, plural .ovls or .ovl's or .ovl)

.ovls (plural)
.ovl's (plural)
.ovl (plural)

(computing) An overlay file. From the extension for an overlay file. A file used in memory limited systems to overwrite portions of program execution space (code and data) to enable other operations; such as found in 8-/10-/12-/16-bit systems.


metachannel

Bayeux contains three types of channels: metachannels, service, and normal channels. Metachannels are created by the Bayeux server. Metachannels give information about events, such as handshake errors, connection, disconnection, and reconnection.

2010, Oswald Campesato, Kevin Nilson, Web 2.0 Fundamentals, page 572:

The cipher_ID and digest_ID are the OpenSSL cipher and digest types—Blowfish and SHA1 by default—that this node will use for the data channel and also to encrypt the metachannel.

2015, Jon C. Snader, VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec, pages 8–25:

(computing) A transmission channel used for event notifications rather than actual data.


MUFFIN

en-verb

MUFFIN (third-person singular simple present MUFFINs, present participle MUFFINing, simple past and past participle MUFFINed)

MUFFINs (present singular third-person)
MUFFINing (participle present)
MUFFINed (participle past)
MUFFINed (past)
Muffin (alternative)
muffin (alternative)

After the MUFFIN program written by Rich Williams at Apple, supposed to be an acronym of move utility for files in NewDOS.

acronym

Remember, MUFFINing a diskette won't harm your 13 sector diskette, and you can always boot 13 sector diskettes using BASICS.

1980, Apple II, the DOS Manual: Disk Operating System:

This presents no problem other than, of course, any 13 sector CCA files having to be MUFFINed to 16 sectors.

1981, The Book of Apple Computer Software, The Book Company, page 93:

This does not apply to normal programs; they can be MUFFINed over and used with no trouble.

1981 May, John Sharp, “DOS Differences”, in HARDCORE - The Journal of the British Apple Systems User Group, volume 1, number 3, page 17:

The software is supplied in DOS 3.2.1 format, and I had no problem in MUFFINing it to DOS 3.3 format.

Must be MUFFINed to a DOS 3.3 disk before use.

It will run on a 48K APPLE 11+, after BRUNning Integer Basic-Disk from WAP Library disk 14 (which should be MUFFINed over to the DOS 3.3. disk on which this One-Oven program, as well as MUFFIN from your Master disk, have also been saved).

1982 November, George V. Kinal, “"One Oven Muffin" Updated”, in Washington Apple Pi, volume 4, number 11, page 44:

And LexiCom 2.0 requires no disk swapping or MUFFINing—it will work equally well with any version of Apple DOS.[…]Files may be MUFFINed to a 16 sector disk $29.95 from your local dealer or: Nibble, Dept P

Because the system’s disk is unprotected (praise the provider!), the programs can be converted (MUFFINed) to DOS 3.3 after INITing a target disk with the HELLO boot program.

1983, Jeffrey Stanton, Robert P. Wells, Sandra Rochowansky, editors, The Addison-Wesley Book of Apple Computer Software 1983, The Book Company, →ISBN, page 175:

(computing, transitive) To transfer files between 13-sector and 16-sector Apple II diskettes, as with MUFFIN (Move Utility For Files In NewDOS.)


precopy

en-verb

precopy (third-person singular simple present precopies, present participle precopying, simple past and past participle precopied)

precopies (present singular third-person)
precopying (participle present)
precopied (participle past)
precopied (past)

However, in a true cloud computing environment, you don't know which other physical server the VM will be moved to, and therefore you don't know where to precopy the data.

2015, James Bond, The Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT, page 75:

(transitive, computing) To copy in advance.


briefcase computer

en-noun

briefcase computer (plural briefcase computers)


clock rate

clock rate (countable and uncountable, plural clock rates)

clock rates (plural)
clockrate (alternative)


clock cycle

(computing) The time between two adjacent pulses of the oscillator that regulates the tempo of the computer processor.


clock signal

(computing) A signal that oscillates between a high and a low state and is used like a metronome to coordinate actions of digital circuits.

takto

signal that oscillates between high and low state


multimaster

The multimaster model makes the replica and partition terminology much harder to distinguish, […]

2003, Brian Arkills, LDAP Directories Explained: An Introduction and Analysis, page 143:

SPI supports both multimaster and multislave environments.

2009, Jean J. Labrosse, Jack Ganssle, Robert Oshana, Embedded Software, page 447:

(computing) Relating to more than one master.


multislave

(computing) Relating to more than one slave.


KLV

KLV (countable and uncountable, plural KLVs)

(computing) Abbreviation of key-length-value encoding.


tech debt

tech debt (countable and uncountable, plural tech debts)


Xorg

(computing) Alternative form of X.Org, the standard implementation of X11.


trustlet

(computing, cryptography) A trusted process or application in certain types of secure system.


prechart

A careful examination of the issue of violating an LSC before its prechart completes raises the following question: why not try to violate all precharts as soon as possible, thus minimizing the set of constraints imposed on the execution.

2012, David Harel, Rami Marelly, Come, Let’s Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSCs and the Play-Engine, page 153:

(computing) Part of a chart that must be traversed with a successful outcome in order for the main chart to have a successful outcome.


devlog

French: devlog

(Internet, computing) A diary (or blog, vlog, etc.) that updates the audience on the development progress of something, usually a video game, website, or app.


passwordable

(computing) Able to be protected with a password.


anticaricature

A number of experiments have looked at anticaricatures, that is interpolations of the individual face towards the average, and even antifaces, which extrapolate the original face onto the other side of the mean (Blanz et al. 2000).

2005, John G. Clement, Murray K. Marks, Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction, page 293:

(computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.


antiface

(computing) In facial recognition systems, a face having opposite properties to a given face.


Linmodem

Blend of Linux + modem, modelled on Winmodem.

(computing) A softmodem designed to work with Linux operating systems.


PoE

Power over Ethernet
w:Power over Ethernet

(computing) Initialism of Power over Ethernet.


data swamp

(computing, informal) A poorly managed data lake.


long filename

long filenames (plural)
long file name (alternative)

(computing, chiefly Microsoft Windows) A filename where the filename itself, the file extension, or both, are longer than that possible with an 8.3 filename.


short filename

short filenames (plural)
short file name (alternative)

(computing, chiefly MS/PC-DOS and Microsoft Windows) An 8.3 filename.


SFN

(computing) Initialism of short filename.


Conway's law

Named after computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967.

named-after

Recognizing Conway's Law¶ In the last several years, Mel Conway's 1967 paper “How Do Committees Invent?” has become an almost required topic in presentations about microservices as well as APIs in general.

2021, Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra, Mike Amundsen, Continuous API Management, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

(computing) An adage that states that organizations design computer systems that mirror their own communication structure.


EaaS

en-noun

EaaS (countable and uncountable, plural EaaS's or EaaSes)

(computing) Initialism of environments-as-a-service.

(computing) Initialism of enterprise-as-a-service.


unadvertisement

unadvertisement (countable and uncountable, plural unadvertisements)

When a publisher disconnects from Broker 1, Broker 1 sends an unadvertisement message for any advertisements it has received from the publisher. Note that these unadvertisements may induce unsubscriptions to be propagated in the reverse direction of the unadvertisement propagation […]

2010, Laurence T. Yang, Mobile Intelligence, page 79:

(computing, countable, uncountable) The withdrawal of an earlier notification.


BYOC

BYOC is easy to perform and, unfortunately, is convenient for employees. An employee just needs to enroll in a free Software as a Service (SaaS) offer to use it immediately.

2016, Eric Diehl, Ten Laws for Security, Springer, →ISBN, page 177:

(cloud computing) Initialism of bring your own cloud.

We can use bring your own container (BYOC) if the package or software we need is not included in a supported framework.

2021, Chris Fregly, Antje Barth, Data Science on AWS, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:

(computing) Initialism of bring your own container.


main menu

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

My computer's so slow, it takes two minutes just to load the main menu.

(computing, video games) A list of principal options, usually presented to the user immediately upon the launch of a computer program or video game.


password salting

password salting (countable and uncountable, plural password saltings)

(computing) A technique employed to protect passwords stored in a database by attaching a string of 32 or more characters and then hashing them.


superserver

(computing) A server that controls or manages other servers.


subserver

(computing) A server that is subordinate to, or controlled by, another server.


Alt-F4 (countable and uncountable, plural Alt-F4s)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A keyboard shortcut in Windows that completely closes the application or a focused window.


email storm

Microsoft is rolling out a new reply-all protection feature for Office 365 and Exchange Online. It’s designed to prevent email storms, when hundreds or thousands of people start replying to an email thread after someone forgot to BCC everyone or a distribution list was misconfigured.

2020 May 10, Tom Warren, “Microsoft now blocks reply-all email storms to end our inbox nightmares”, in The Verge:

(computing) A sudden spike in emails within an email list, usually caused by thousands of individuals sending reply all emails within a short period of time.


fusking

Less than two months before the Hogan piece, a Gawker writer who would later become the site's editor writes a piece condemning the rise of “fusking”—the practice of stealing photos from online accounts and posting them.


interapplication

There are two parties to an interapplication communication: the application that initiates the message, and the application that receives it.

2006, Matt Neuburg, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide:

(computing) Between software applications.


multicloud

a multicloud architecture

(computing) Of or relating to more than one cloud, in the context of cloud computing.


search as you type

SAYT (alternative)
search-as-you-type (alternative)

(computing) An autocomplete feature when used to search for something.


diehard test

random number generator
random number generator

(computing) Any of a collection of statistical tests for gauging the randomness of a random number generator.


(computing) Initialism of disk-to-tape: a method of data backup where information is copied from a disk (usually the hard disk of a computer) to a magnetic tape.


DMer

You might soft-launch a new partner in an Instagram Story, or in the background in the fourth pic in a carousel, but a cute couple shot front and center on the main feed informs your most dedicated DMers that the club is closed to new members until further notice.

2021 January 14, Alex Zaragoza, “Bow Down to Lori Harvey, the Queen of Dating”, in Vice:

(informal, computing) A person who sends a direct message (DM).


low-code

First used in a report by Forrester published on June 9, 2014 (see quotation).

Some firms are turning to new, "low-code" application platforms that accelerate app delivery by dramatically reducing the amount of hand-coding required.

2014 June 9, Clay Richardson, John Rymer, “New Development Platforms Emerge For Customer-Facing Applications”, in Forrester:

Whereas no-code software aims at creating software applications entirely without writing any code in a programming language, low-code development takes a slightly relaxed perspective and is directed towards simplifying software development with less coding effort.

2021, Business Modeling and Software Design, page 345:

(computing) (of a development environment) Primarily involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.

Low-code applications can hence accumulate high complexity, bugs and other forms technical debt just as badly or even worse than traditional applications. However, the languages created for low-code platforms commonly lack features that would assist in their understanding and maintenance, such as the ability or organize them into files and modules, or even to add detailed comments attached to individual code elements.

2021, Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, page 205:

(computing) (of an application) Programmed using a low-code development environment.


low-code

However, the distinction between no-code and low-code is not always evident, and this extends to the low-code and no-code platforms themselves. Many technology product analysts regard no-code to be a subset of the low-code market because even the most powerful platforms need some amount of coding throughout the application development and deployment process.

2022 September 21, Giulia Interesse, “The Low-Code/No-Code Industry in China: Opportunities for Foreign Investors”, in China Briefing:

(computing) The practice of developing applications via a low-code development environment.


undownload

en-verb

undownload (third-person singular simple present undownloads, present participle undownloading, simple past and past participle undownloaded)

undownloads (present singular third-person)
undownloading (participle present)
undownloaded (participle past)
undownloaded (past)

(computing, transitive, informal) To remove (something previously downloaded) from the device to which it was downloaded.


no-code

Some of Databricks biggest investors, including Google, Amazon and Salesforce, have been pushing into the low-code/no-code space in recent years, technology which enables non-coders to develop enterprise apps across business functions, also referred to as the rise of the "citizen developer."

2021 October 6, Eric Rosenbaum, “$38 billion software start-up Databricks makes acquisition to leave code behind”, in CNBC:

Just as clickable icons have replaced obscure programming commands on home computers, new no-code platforms replace programming languages with simple and familiar web interfaces.

2022 March 15, Craig S. Smith, “'No-Code' Brings the Power of A.I. to the Masses”, in The New York Times:

(computing) (of a development environment) Involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.

A no-code platform creates opportunities that expand what a traditional API program can deliver, and a no-code program that draws from a strong API program can make more digital assets available for innovation.

2020 September 8, Amit Zavery, “The Future Of Business Innovation Is Not Based On Coding Alone”, in Forbes:

(computing) (of an application) Programmed using a no-code development environment.


no-code

No-code is exactly what it sounds like: powerful websites or apps built without writing any code.

2022 September 14, Dave Lee, “The tools to be a good citizen of the internet”, in Financial Times:

(computing) The practice of developing applications by means of a no-code development environment.


homelab

Building a homelab can be a fun way to entertain yourself while learning new concepts and experimenting with new technologies. Thanks to the popularity of single-board computers (SBCs), led by the Raspberry Pi, it is easier than ever to build a multi-computer lab right from the comfort of your home.

2020 May 11, Julian Horsey, “Raspberry Pi homelab and private cloud project”, in Geeky Gadgets:

In the case of this device, with its specifications, deploying it on a basic homelab environment where there isn’t a ton of traffic going on, the M90n IoT performs very well.

2022 January 18, Conner Crull, “Budget pfSense Router for Homelab”, in StorageReview:

A Cybersecurity Homelab is a small-scale environment meant to simulate different components of a business network.

2022 May 26, “Why Building a Cybersecurity Homelab will Help Your Career Big Time?”, in Analytics Insight:

(computing) A server set up in one's home for the purpose of testing various configurations of hardware, operating systems, etc.


hardlink

(computing) Alternative form of hard link.


softlink

(computing) Alternative form of soft link.


white screen of death

en-noun

white screen of death (plural white screens of death)

(computing, informal) An error or issue occurring in Apple operating systems and other technologies that causes the computer or device to cease working and display only a white screen.


fatal system error

fatal system error (plural fatal system errors)

In subroutine INIT, division by zero and subsequent fatal system error will result if all stations are in tracking mode.

1990, Defense Technical Information Center, SYNC2 Program Assessment Report, page 2.23:

Fixes an issue where a system crash, or fatal system error, occurs on a 32-bit Windows operating system.

2015, Oracle, Oracle® VM Paravirtual Drivers Release 3.2.3 Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows, page 5:

(computing) An error that occurs when an operating system halts, because it has reached a condition where it can no longer operate safely.


buffer underrun

buffer underrun (plural buffer underruns)

One problem with on-the-fly copying is that you risk buffer underrun, which occurs when the CD or DVD drive doing the burning doesn't receive a continuous stream of data.

2004, Wally Wang, The Book of Nero 6 Ultra Edition: CD and DVD Burning Made Easy, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 18:

(computing) A state occurring when a buffer used to communicate between two devices or processes is fed with data at a lower speed than the data is being read from it.


server computer

server computer (plural server computers)

(computing, networking) Synonym of server.


sortkey

Output conversion routines may be applied to sortkey items before they are sorted.

1973, Generalized Data Base Management Systems, page 257:

Sortkeys are made by picking out delimiting characters and special signs.

1975, Network, Library and Information Science Division of the World Information Systems Exchange, page 15:

In data-processing terminology, descriptors by which a file is ordered are called sortkeys. (Likewise, descriptors used in searching are called search keys.) A library catalog may be arranged by sortkey 1: author, and sortkey 2: title.

1985, Dagobert Soergel, Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems (Library and Information Science Series), Academic Press, →ISBN, page 200:

(computing) A key (field or value) by which data items are sorted.


Thunderbolt

By analogy with the speed and power of a thunderbolt.

(computing, trademark) a computer interface standard for connecting devices, combining PCI Express, DisplayPort and DC power in one connector.


Thunderbolt chassis

Thunderbolt chassis (plural Thunderbolt chassis)

(computing) An electronics chassis, physically external to a host system, that provides a way to connect PCI Express cards to that host using the Thunderbolt interface.


workgrouping

When your requirements extend to high-bandwidth applications like full-motion video and workgrouping, LANNEV's LANswitch responds with an ATM-ready 1.28 Gbps backplane, providing high-bandwidth on demand over standard 10BaseT networks

1993, Network World, volume 10, number 44, page 5:

Workgrouping with other Microsoft operating systems

2001, Ed Tittel, James M. Stewart, Windows 2000 Networking For Dummies, page 69:


petahash

(computing, cryptocurrencies) 10¹⁵ hashes.


pull request

(computing) A request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.


pull request

en-verb

pull request (third-person singular simple present pull requests, present participle pull requesting, simple past and past participle pull requested)

pull requests (present singular third-person)
pull requesting (participle present)
pull requested (participle past)
pull requested (past)

The GitHub Archive records any user activity (forking, pull requesting, commenting) on the social coding site GitHub. We queried the GitHub Archive for users who had specified a company name (non-empty string) in their GitHub profile[…]

2014 June 30, Giovanni Cantone, Michele Marchesi, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 15th International Conference, XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2014, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 114:

We denote the estimated interests of a developer given a repository that he or she forked, watched, committed or pull-requested in GitHub as I(r). Similarly, we denote the estimated interests of a developer given a question that he[…]

2017 August 31, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra Mashhadi, Taha Yasseri, Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, →ISBN, page 247:

GitHub Data Analysis and Its Recommender Systems In this subsection the authors present some related research works ... have studied different user behaviors on GitHub like forking, watching, commenting on issues, pull-requesting and[…]

2018 February 2, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Optimizing Contemporary Application and Processes in Open Source Software, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 89:

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To submit a pull request.


support ticket

Take the number of visitors who submitted a support ticket and divide that by the number of visitors who started the support ticket submission process.

2007, Pedro Sostre, Jennifer LeClaire, Web Analytics for Dummies, Wiley, page 187:

They said they got a response on the support ticket, but weren’t issued any refunds.

2022 October 7, Cristina Alexander, “Overwatch 2 text chat bug can make nonrefundable skin purchases”, in Digital Trends:

(computing) A computerized request for assistance with a particular issue.


trouble ticket

Trouble tickets should never be deleted, even when they are closed or resolved.

2016, Carneiro and Schmelmer, Microservices From Day One, Apress, page 231:


macheps

(computing) Abbreviation of machine epsilon.


machine epsilon

en-noun

machine epsilon (plural machine epsilons)

(computing) An upper bound on the relative approximation error due to rounding in floating-point arithmetic, denoted by the symbol ε.


block device

The network block device is a block device offered by Linux. It behaves as a normal block device that can be formatted with any block-based file system and mounted for use.

2016, Joel Reardon, Secure Data Deletion, Springer, →ISBN, page 137:

(computing, Unix) An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.


virusproof

en-adj

virusproof (comparative more virusproof, superlative most virusproof)

more virusproof (comparative)
most virusproof (superlative)
virus-proof (alternative)

People want to be able to install their favorite software on their computer, but they want their computer to be virusproof. Well, the easiest way to make a computer virusproof is to not allow new executable programs to be installed on that system.

2004, Marcus J. Ranum, The Myth of Homeland Security, Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 191:

(computing) Resistant to computer viruses.


betaish

betaish (comparative more betaish, superlative most betaish)

more betaish (comparative)
most betaish (superlative)

VB6 projects can be migrated to VB .NET, but there's no way to automagically port onwards to C#. There was a betaish tool that converted C# code to VB .NET, but I'm not sure if it was ever officially released.

2002 October 22, Mickey Williams, “Re: .NET Alpha/Beta Code Generator”, in microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp (Usenet):

(computing, informal) Resembling or characteristic of a beta version.


automoderate

en-verb

automoderate (third-person singular simple present automoderates, present participle automoderating, simple past and past participle automoderated)

automoderates (present singular third-person)
automoderating (participle present)
automoderated (participle past)
automoderated (past)

(computing) To automatically moderate (a discussion forum, etc.).


automoderation

(computing) Automatic moderation of a discussion forum, etc.


misrelay

In [6], [7], the author proposed a simple mechanism to detect the link withholding and misrelay launched by MPR nodes based on overhearing of traffic generated by one-hop neighbors.

2010, Vinu V Das, R. Vijayakumar, Narayan C. Debnath, Information Processing and Management, page 430:

In colluding misrelay attacks, multiple attackers work in collusion to modify or drop routing packets to disrupt routing operation in a MANET.

2012, MS Ali, PM Jawandhiya, “Security aware routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks”, in Kamaljit I. Lakhtaria, editor, Technological Advancements and Applications in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Research Trends:

A study by Kannhavong et al. (2007) shows the impact of a colluding misrelay attack on a mobile node network using OLSR as the routing algorithm.

2018, Khaleel Ahmad, Nur Izura Udzir, Ganesh Chandra Deka, Opportunistic Networks, page 206:

(computing) The modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.


digital storage

(computing) The recording or storing of information (data) in a digital, machine-readable medium.


digital dark age

en-noun

digital dark age (plural digital dark ages)

information technology
information technology

(information technology) The lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or inaccessible as technologies evolve and data decays.


hypocrite commit

hypocrite commit (plural hypocrite commits)

Coined by Qiushi Wu and Kangjie Lu at the University of Minnesota in 2021.

We then systematically study hypocrite commits, including identifying immature vulnerabilities and potential vulnerability-introducing minor patches. We also identify multiple factors that can increase the stealthiness of hypocrite commits and render the patch-review process less effective.

2021, Qiushi Wu, Kangjie Lu, “On the feasibility of stealthily introducing vulnerabilities in open-source software via hypocrite commits”, in Proc. Oakland:

(computing) A commit (code patch submission) that appears benign but introduces a security vulnerability.


hardsub

en-verb

hardsub (third-person singular simple present hardsubs, present participle hardsubbing, simple past and past participle hardsubbed)

hardsubs (present singular third-person)
hardsubbing (participle present)
hardsubbed (participle past)
hardsubbed (past)
hard sub (alternative)
hard-sub (alternative)

(computing) To transcribe or overlay hardsubs (onto a video).


DPV

Design Performance Viewer
Design Performance Viewer#English

(computing) Initialism of Design Performance Viewer.


multithreadable

(computing) Suitable for multithreading.


UCB

(computing) Synonym of BSD (“Berkeley System Distribution”).


backwrap

en-noun

backwrap (countable and uncountable, plural backwraps)

(computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.


backwrap

en-verb

backwrap (third-person singular simple present backwraps, present participle backwrapping, simple past and past participle backwrapped)

backwraps (present singular third-person)
backwrapping (participle present)
backwrapped (participle past)
backwrapped (past)

Backwrapping words occurs when enough text is deleted to permit one or more words to be formatted into the shortened line.

1983, The Seybold Report on Professional Computing, page 19:

(computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.


octocore

(computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of eight cores.


spring-loaded mode

en-noun

spring-loaded mode (plural spring-loaded modes)

(computing) A type of mode in a user interface that is kept in place only through some constant action on the part of the user.


dock connector

(computing, computer hardware) A connector used to attach a mobile electronic device simultaneously to multiple external resources.


webfont

The second approach is to use fonts that were designed for computer use like TTF and include them in the game as a webfont.

2017, Travis Faas, An Introduction to HTML5 Game Development with Phaser.js, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 237:

A webfont is a font that's not pre-installed on the user's computer when browsing a website, but instead the webfont reference is coded in the backend and is downloaded when the user opens the website in a browser.

2017, Marli Ritter, Cara Winterbottom, UX for the Web, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:

(computing, Internet) A font designed for or used on the Internet.


CSSer

(computing, informal) A person who writes CSS (cascading style sheets) markup.


puppetize

en-verb

puppetize (third-person singular simple present puppetizes, present participle puppetizing, simple past and past participle puppetized)

puppetizes (present singular third-person)
puppetizing (participle present)
puppetized (participle past)
puppetized (past)

(transitive, computing) To configure (a system) using the Puppet software configuration management tool.


ronnabyte

The current times are characterized by a proliferation of data in a number of fields. We see continuous production, with the units of large amounts of data moving from exabytes to zettabytes. So much so that the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has recently introduced new metrics of ronnabytes (10²⁷) and queccabytes (10³⁰) to account for the global growth in data storage requirements.

2020, Ali R. Hurson, editor, Advances in Computers, volume 119, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 122:

(computing) One octillion (10²⁷) bytes. SI symbol: RB.


APFS

(computing) Initialism of Apple File System.


manularity

(computing, slang, rare) labor-intensiveness, especially in contrast to automation.


task manager

(computing) A system monitor program used to provide information about the processes and applications running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer.

gerenciador de tarefas

a system monitor program used to provide information about the processes and applications running on a computer


ASCIIbetically

The elements of the array are ordered ASCIIbetically.

Perl’s built-in sorting behavior is as though the elements were compared ASCIIbetically with the cmp operator: […]

1998, Joseph N. Hall, Randal L. Schwartz, Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl, Addison Wesley, →ISBN, page 44:

Then, the Help Compiler ASCIIbetically sorts each group according to its number (which can actually be any alphanumeric string, but for sanity’s sake you should stick to 4-digit numbers, incremented by tens, like 0010, 0020, etc.).

2003, Sean M[ichael] Burke, RTF Pocket Guide, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 96:

If you need to sort text ASCIIbetically, then you should seriously consider running your files through a script that enforces pure printable-ASCII content.

2016, Jules J. Berman, Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 57:

(computing, informal) In an ASCIIbetical way.


long integer

long integers (plural)
long int (alternative)

(computing) An integer with a width (in bits) that is at least equal to that of a standard integer on the same machine (usually 32 or 64 bits).


outpage

outpage (third-person singular simple present outpages, present participle outpaging, simple past and past participle outpaged)

outpages (present singular third-person)
outpaging (participle present)
outpaged (participle past)
outpaged (past)

To reduce this contention, which reduces inpaging and outpaging of the data, copy bits are provided for each page in the cache. This bit, when on, indicates that the data could reside in each storage controller's cache.

1981, International Business Machines Corporation, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, page 1725:

Because a real-time process might idle for a considerable time waiting for an external event, a conventional operating system would outswap or outpage the process.

1983, Mini-Micro Systems, volume 16, page 255:

(transitive, computing) Synonym of page out.


outswap

outswap (third-person singular simple present outswaps, present participle outswapping, simple past and past participle outswapped)

outswaps (present singular third-person)
outswapping (participle present)
outswapped (participle past)
outswapped (past)

(transitive, computing) Synonym of swap out.


keeb

Just finished building my first keeb; how does it look?

He decided it was time to slip into something bit more ergonomic and settled on building an Iris — a small split keeb with an ortholinear (non-staggered) key arrangement.

2020 July 23, Kristina Panos, “Ergo Keyboard Build Issue Becomes Crystal Clear”, in Hackaday, archived from the original on 2022-10-25:

And now that I’m into mechanical keyboards, including customizing them, I’ve had to craft a cleaning routine to ensure every keeb in my vicinity is always ready for its closeup.

2021 August 6, Florence Ion, “It's Time to Clean Your Disgusting Mechanical Keyboard”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

The key benefit of a smaller keeb is that your mouse and WSAD hands are closer together, and switching the numpad to the left means you still get to use the extra buttons and the extra desktop real estate for your gaming rodent.

2022 April 19, Dave James, “Mountain Everest 60 gaming keyboard review”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 2023-01-02:

The keeb has been knocked down to very near its lowest price yet, with it running you £63.99 at the moment, providing a 20 percent discount on the £79.99 list price, and for it, you're getting a rather capable keyboard, it must be said.

2022 September 13, Reece Bithrey, “Nab a popular 60% mechanical keyboard for under £65 on Amazon right now”, in Eurogamer, archived from the original on 2022-09-13:

(computing, slang) Clipping of keyboard.


hard return

(computing) The type of newline that represents the semantic concept of a paragraph break (as opposed to the type that represents merely a line break in word wrap); sometimes represented visually with the pilcrow character (¶).


soft return

(computing) The type of newline that represents either a natural line break resulting from word wrap, or one specifically inserted inside a paragraph (not between paragraphs); sometimes represented visually with a bent-arrow character (↲).

rivinvaihto

line break in general, but contrasting with kappaleenvaihto (“paragraph break, hard return”)


symbol table

This central repository, called a symbol table, becomes an integral part of the compiler's IR. The symbol table localizes information derived from potentially distant parts of the source code. It makes such information easily and efficiently available, and it simplifies the design and implementation of any code that must refer to information about variables derived earlier in compilation.

2004, Keith D. Cooper, Linda Torczon, Engineering a Compiler, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 239:

(computing) A data structure where symbols (identifiers) are associated with information relating to their declaration or appearance in the source code.


ferrite core

(computing) A magnetic core made of ferrite.


ICV

en-noun

ICV (countable and uncountable, plural ICVs)

(computing) Abbreviation of integrity check value.


dylib

Compiler flags of particular interest in Mac OS X are related to the peculiarities of building shared code, for example, the compiler flag –dynamiclib, which is used to build Mach-O dylibs.

2005, Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman, Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 199:

(computing, Apple) Syllabic abbreviation of dynamic library.


blorphing

(computing) The smooth transformation of one image into another using digital tweening.


interforest

(computing) Between forests (groups of domains).


intraforest

(computing) Within a single forest (group of domains).


parallel computing

Some of the most impressive applications of massively parallel computing have been in the context of wide-area distributed platforms.

2003, Ananth Grama, Vipin Kumar, Anshul Gupta, George Karypis, Introduction to Parallel Computing, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 4:

A type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.


keystring

(computing) Any string of characters that has key (high) importance, such as a keyword or a keyphrase, but not necessarily a word in all senses of that term (as for example a phone number, an alphanumeric or numeric sequence, or string of symbols).


nilable

(computing) Able to be set to nil, or no value.


system unit

(computing) The main unit of a desktop computer, consisting of the chassis and hardware.


AUR

Arch User Repository
w:Arch User Repository

(computing) Initialism of Arch User Repository.


backlinker

If this process gets held up (which it sometimes does for a number of reasons) the backlinker process will automatically resolve the problem when it runs (within 13 hours).

2001, Mark Foust, NetWare Administration: NetWare 4.0-6.0, page 353:

(computing) A program or process that maintains backlinks (references to objects on another server).


pirateware

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

Viruses may creep into your system if you download files from a bulletin board or communications service or if you install freeware, shareware, pirateware, or some other type of alternative software.

1992, Peter Norton, Judi N. Fernandez, Ruth Ashley, Peter Norton's Advanced DOS 5 Guide, page 270:


left shift

left shifts (plural)
left-shift (alternative)

(computing) A bit shift to the left, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the left.

(computing) The left shift operator; often given as << or <<<.


left shift

en-verb

left shift (third-person singular simple present left shifts, present participle left shifting, simple past and past participle left shifted)

left shifts (present singular third-person)
left shifting (participle present)
left shifted (participle past)
left shifted (past)
left-shift (alternative)

(computing) To perform a left shift bitwise operation.


right shift

right shifts (plural)
right-shift (alternative)

(computing) A bit shift to the right, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the right.

(computing) The right shift operator; often given as >> or >>>


right shift

right shift (third-person singular simple present right shifts, present participle right shifting, simple past and past participle right shifted)

right shifts (present singular third-person)
right shifting (participle present)
right shifted (participle past)
right shifted (past)
right-shift (alternative)

(computing) To perform a right shift bitwise operation.


bootflash

(computing) A flash memory used at bootstrap time for a device, commonly containing a bootloader and simple configuration information.


uncode

uncode (third-person singular simple present uncodes, present participle uncoding, simple past and past participle uncoded)

uncodes (present singular third-person)
uncoding (participle present)
uncoded (participle past)
uncoded (past)

To uncode a data fragment, it is necessary to select it.

2022, Peter A. Stevens, Qualitative Data Analysis: Key Approaches:

(computing, transitive) To remove the code or coding from.


round-trippable

(computing) Able to be exported and later reimported without loss of fidelity.


bitfilter

(computing) A specified subset of a sequence of bits.


autobackup

en-noun

autobackup (countable and uncountable, plural autobackups)


frobnicate

en-verb

frobnicate (third-person singular simple present frobnicates, present participle frobnicating, simple past and past participle frobnicated)

frobnicates (present singular third-person)
frobnicating (participle present)
frobnicated (participle past)
frobnicated (past)

(computing, slang, rare, transitive) Synonym of frob (“manipulate in some ill-defined way; tweak”).


last known good

(computing) The most recent configuration that works properly, used to roll back changes that might later prove problematic.


device file

(computing) An interface to a device driver that appears in a file system, allowing an application program to interact with a device by using its device driver via standard input/output system calls.


subwiki

These subwikis provide a convenient way to organize lots of tests, as well as to allow for separate software projects to be managed by the same FitNesse system.

2005, Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham, Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests:

(computing, rare) A wiki forming part of a larger wiki.


charstring

Clipping of character string. By surface analysis, char + string.


bitrotten

en-adj

bitrotten (comparative more bitrotten, superlative most bitrotten)

more bitrotten (comparative)
most bitrotten (superlative)


HPU

hogel processing unit
hogel processing unit#English

(computing) Abbreviation of hogel processing unit.


VPU

video processing unit
video processing unit#English

(computing, video) Initialism of video processing unit.


artificial bee colony

en-noun

artificial bee colony (plural artificial bee colonies)

Proposed by Turkish computer scientist Derviş Karaboğa in 2005.

(computing) A metaheuristic-based optimization algorithm inspired by the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bee swarms.


BLAS

Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
w:Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

(computing) Acronym of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms.


powerwash

(computing, computer hardware) The process of resetting a Chromebook or any other ChromeOS device to its factory settings, by deleting all data from the unit.


powerwash

en-verb

powerwash (third-person singular simple present powerwashes, present participle powerwashing, simple past and past participle powerwashed)

powerwashes (present singular third-person)
powerwashing (participle present)
powerwashed (participle past)
powerwashed (past)

(computing, computer hardware, transitive) To perform a powerwash.


instantially

Have you tried using perform_now just for the sake of testing? It's equivalent to perform_later, but instead of enqueuing, it runs instantially.

2021 October 12, João Fernandes, “Rails test job and raise errors if any”, in Stack Overflow, retrieved 2023-04-27:

(computing) Happening when instances arise, rather than being enqueued.

en:when instances arise, rather than later


hackfolk

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 on the Island of the Manahattoes, Lisp NYC will gather to eat and drink. And the NYLUG Hackfolk will gather to first Squeak, then eat and drink.

2010 April 5, Jay Sulzberger, Corresponding Secretary LXNY, “NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 April 2010 Lisp NYC Meet and NYLUG Hack Meet”, in gnu-misc-discuss (Usenet):

(informal) People who habitually tinker with computers.


appification

While appification makes the former Web-based tools and apps more accessible, and improves users' quality of life, […]

2015, Barbara Guzzetti, Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media, page 417:

Our focus is on investigating the architecture-level decisions that are specific to the appification process.

2015, Danny Weyns, Raffaela Mirandola, Ivica Crnkovic, Software Architecture: 9th European Conference, ECSA 2015, page 38:

Tubi TV exemplifies an app's effort to step into this long, complicated global evolution of mobile television (Goggin 2012), and as such, it is emblematic of why the appification of television […]

2018, Jeremy W. Morris, Sarah Murray, Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps, page 243:

(computing) The conversion of traditional programs, websites, etc. into small, self-contained apps targeting mobile devices.


backportability

with backportability in mind

(computing) The quality of being backportable.


backportable

backportable to older releases


IIR

IIR filter

infinite impulse response
infinite impulse response#English

(computing) Initialism of infinite impulse response.


cloud-native

Therefore, at its most basic form, cloud native means to embrace cloud computing services to design the solution; however, that only covers part of what is required to become cloud native.

2018, Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz, Cloud Native Architectures […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:

Automation: Cloud-native applications and their life cycles should be automated as much as possible.

2018, Onur Yılmaz, Cloud-Native Continuous Integration and Delivery […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 11:

(computing, of a technology or architecture) Able to take full advantage of running on public, private, or hybrid cloud computing environments.


WDL

We describe the main automated and manual steps taken before, during and after assembly. A combined set of workflow description language (WDL) formatted assembly workflows is available from Dockstore that captures each of the steps for filtering adapter-contained reads and running Hifiasm[.]

2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI:

(computing) Initialism of workflow description language.


CADD

computer-aided design
computer-aided design#English

(computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design and drafting.


orphan off

orphan off (third-person singular simple present orphans off, present participle orphaning off, simple past and past participle orphaned off)

orphans off (present singular third-person)
orphaning off (participle present)
orphaned off (participle past)
orphaned off (past)

(transitive, computing) To remove all links to (something), leaving it an orphan; to render a technical item (website, function, etc.) useless by removing references that call on it.


clusterer

(computing) That which divides data etc. into clusters.


non-stack

a non-stack developer

a non-stack framework

(computing) not skilled at, or relating to, multiple software layers such as operating system and user interface.


hexatrigesimal

en-noun

hexatrigesimal (countable and uncountable, plural hexatrigesimals)

From hexa- + tri- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for hexadecimal for more information.

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base thirty-six, using the digits 0–9 and A–Z.

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexatridecimal system.


hexavigesimal

hexavigesimal (countable and uncountable, plural hexavigesimals)

From hexa- + vigesimal; see the Wikipedia article Hexadecimal for more information.

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base twenty-six, using the digits 0–9 and A–P (or A-Z without numerals).

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexavigesimal system.


DTLS

Datagram Transport Layer Security
w:Datagram Transport Layer Security

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Datagram Transport Layer Security.


quadravigesimal

quadravigesimal (countable and uncountable, plural quadravigesimals)

/ˌkwɒdˈɹɑvaɪd͡ʒɛsɪməl/

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base twenty-four, using the digits 0–9 and A–N (or Greek α-ω without numerals).

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the quadravigesimal system.


hybrid sleep

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A variant of sleep mode in which current data is retained both in memory (allowing fast resumption, as if from hibernation) and on disk (to protect from data loss in the event of a power cut).


code position

The ISO 8859 character codes use the obvious encoding: each code position is represented as one octet.

2006, Jukka K. Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 126:


US-ASCII

Here, we see that the source encoding has fallen back to US-ASCII because none was explicitly set.

2009, Gregory T. Brown, Ruby Best Practices, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 189:

(computing, formal, retronym) Synonym of ASCII, especially to differentiate it from 8-bit extended ASCII.


PIF

program information file
w:program information file

(computing, historical) Initialism of program information file, a file defining how a DOS program should be run under a multitasking environment.


Unicodify

en-verb

Unicodify (third-person singular simple present Unicodifies, present participle Unicodifying, simple past and past participle Unicodified)

Unicodifies (present singular third-person)
Unicodifying (participle present)
Unicodified (participle past)
Unicodified (past)
unicodify (alternative)

I think now that people have had time to "Unicodify" their applications with 5.8.x, starting to collect the tricks required and found useful would not be a bad idea.

2004 January 3, Jarkko Hietaniemi, “Re: Keeping byte-wise processing as an option”, in perl.unicode (Usenet):

(transitive, computing) To make (something) compatible with Unicode.


matmul

(computing, informal) Syllabic abbreviation of matrix multiplication.


modified Harvard architecture

en-noun

modified Harvard architecture (countable and uncountable, plural modified Harvard architectures)

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A variation of the Harvard computer architecture, allowing the contents of the instruction memory to be accessed as data.


extended reality

extended reality (countable and uncountable, plural extended realities)

“XR” has been used to describe some sort of visual extension of reality for decades. It has referred to cross reality, and also, extended reality. Wearable computing researcher and inventor Steve Mann has used the phrase “mediated reality” in the past; more recently he has proposed the term “*R”, with an asterisk, to signal all mediated realities. In a white paper published last April, Mann notes that photographer Charles Wyckoff filed a patent for an “XR” film back in the 1960’s, “which allowed people to see nuclear explosions and other phenomena beyond the range of normal human vision.”

2019 January 5, Lauren Goode, “Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About 'XR'”, in Wired:

Apple could also vault to the forefront of the XR market — a term for extended reality, similar to virtual reality, Mr. Fieldhack said.

2023 June 5, Kellen Browning, quoting Jeff Fieldhack, “Apple Debuts Its Next Big Product, a Virtual Reality Headset”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Still more are selling headsets for “extended reality” (XR), a name that seems to indicate nothing more than a desire to avoid choosing between AR and VR.

2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:

The technologies augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR).


usernamed

A few weeks ago a reader usernamed Sparling made his entrance into the newsgroup with a post: Duncan could kick Conner's a**!!!. He made some people laugh, some people angry and certainly got noticed. Since then he's settled down quite a bit.

1996 June 5, Jeri Jo Thomas, “Methos could easily kick Sparling's”, in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet):

To make use of the home directory shares, your Windows usernames and passwords must match up with their counterparts on the Linux server. For instance, to use the root user share, you must have a root user with the same password on your Windows computer. (If you create a usernamed root on your Windows computer, it will have no special privileges.)

1999, Paul G. Sery, Eric Harper, Red Hat® Linux® 6 in Small Business, Foster City, CA: M&T Books, →ISBN, page 187:

(computing) Having a (specified) username.


Zeddy

From zed + -y, from the pronunciation of the first letter of the name.

This was never released by Software Project and with it being developed late in the machine's commercial life, not many Zeddy users knew about it, but it was uncovered thanks to the powers of the Internet.

2021, Darren Randle, Popular Retro (volume 2, issue 1, page 8)

(computing, slang) The Sinclair ZX81, an early British home computer.


soft real-time

(computing) Being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.


copy-paster

Yes, so why bother? Making things difficult for copy-pasters is just lame. If I want your image I will get it regardless of what crappy code you write.

2003 October 8, ...JAG, “Re: Website question”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):

Eich’s purpose in creating JavaScript was to give Web developers— not known for their technical prowess — an easy way to add bits of interactivity to pages. The idea was to copy scripts from other pages and tweak them a bit. In this respect he succeeded admirably: many JavaScript developers (including myself) started out as copy-pasters.

2007, Peter-Paul Koch, ppk on JavaScript, Berkeley, CA: New Riders, →ISBN, page 17:


VFS

virtual file system
w:virtual file system

(computing) Initialism of virtual file system.


DLQ

(computing) Initialism of dead letter queue.


BPE

BPE (countable and uncountable, plural BPEs)

(computing) Initialism of byte pair encoding.


junk email

junk email (countable and uncountable, plural junk emails)

(computing) Junk mail taking the form of email.


backprime

backprimes (plural)
back prime (alternative)

From back + prime (“the ⟨′⟩ symbol”), compare backslash.

The echo and sed commands appear within backprimes (`) that indicate command substitution: The result of executing the commands within the backprimes replaces the backprimes and everything between them.

1997, Mark G. Sobell, “The TC Shell”, in A Practical Guide to Linux, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 440:

Since deformation manifests itself as a change in the metric characteristics of continuum, in the theory of finite deformations, it is then necessary to compare the referential ‵g_(ασ) and the convective g_(ασ) metrics. We systematically employ Latin indices in order to refer to spatial components of geometrical objects, whereas Greek indices to point on convective components (only a few instances can be found in the present study) or referential components (additionally, root symbol is sometimes supplied by backprime).

2023, Yuri N. Radayev, “Two-Point Rotations in Geometry of Finite Deformations”, in Holm Altenbach, Suren Manuk Mkhitaryan, Vahram Hakobyan, Avetik Varazdat Sahakyan, editors, Solid Mechanics, Theory of Elasticity and Creep (Advanced Structured Materials), Cham: Springer, →ISBN, page 276:

(typography, computing) The ⟨‵⟩ or ⟨`⟩ symbol; a reversed prime.


IPW

IPW (countable and uncountable, plural IPWs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of incremental packet writing.


insn

(computing) Abbreviation of instruction.


homeserver

The disruption has caused hours of ongoing downtime, in which Matrix.org said the organization had run into issues "rebuilding production from scratch." Websites, databases, synapse, LBs, and media repositories were all impacted. Modular.im homeservers, however, are unscathed.

2019 April 12, Charlie Osborne, “Matrix.org hack forces servers offline, encrypted chat history lost”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 2023-03-31:

That figure is therefore the total number of addressable users visible to the matrix.org homeserver, but doesn't include servers or users not viewable on the public network or those that don't report usage stats.

2022 July 15, Richard Speed, “60 million in the Matrix as users seek decentralized messaging”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

The first two attacks provide a simple confidentiality break by exploiting the homeserver's control over the users and devices that are permitted to join a private room.

2022 September 28, Dan Goodin, “Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix's end-to-end encryption have been patched”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2023-05-27:

(computing) A server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol.


unbuffer

en-verb

unbuffer (third-person singular simple present unbuffers, present participle unbuffering, simple past and past participle unbuffered)

unbuffers (present singular third-person)
unbuffering (participle present)
unbuffered (participle past)
unbuffered (past)

2003, Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet, Practical mod_perl
We set $|=1 to unbuffer the STDERR stream, so we can immediately see the debug output generated by the program.

(computing, transitive) To release or flush from a buffer.


decloud

decloud (third-person singular simple present declouds, present participle declouding, simple past and past participle declouded)

declouds (present singular third-person)
declouding (participle present)
declouded (participle past)
declouded (past)

(computing) To transfer data off of the cloud and onto local storage.


glass teletype

(computing, slang, dated) A rudimentary videoterminal.


SSPL

Server Side Public License
w:Server Side Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of Server Side Public License.


SNARG

2018, Dan Boneh, Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, David J. Wu, Quasi-Optimal SNARGs via Linear Multi-Prover Interactive Proofs, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Vincent Rijmen (editors), Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2018: 37th Annual International Conference on Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, LNCS 10822, page 224,
A SNARG is publicly verifiable if anyone can verify the proofs, and it is designated-verifier if only the holder of a secret verification state (generated along with the CRS) can verify proofs.

However, SNARGs and SNARKs (blockchain implementations of SNARGs) rely on pre-quantum assumptions and are not post-quantum secure. Hence, lattice-based SNARGs are proposed (Boneh et al., 2017).

2020, Melanie Swan, Renato P Dos Santos, Frank Witte, Quantum Computing, World Scientific, page 172:

2021, Yael Taumann Kalai, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Rachel Yun Zhang, Somewhere Statistical Soundness, Post-Quantum Security, and SNARGs, Kobbi Nissim, Brent Waters (editors), Theory of Cryptography: 19th International Conference, TCC 2021, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, LNCS 13042, page 355,
In this section, we construct SNARGs for languages with a (computational) non-signaling mathsf PCP, assuming the existence of a SNARG for mathsf BatchNP.

(computing, cryptography) Acronym of succinct non-interactive argument.


SNARK

2019, Anca Nitulescu, Lattice-Based Zero-Knowledge SNARGs for Arithmetic Circuits, Peter Schwabe, Nicolas Thériault (editors), Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2019: 6th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 11774, page 223,
SNARG vs. SNARK. If we replace the computational soundness with computational Knowledge Soundness we obtain what we call a SNARK, a succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge.

2020, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Takahiro Matsuda, Takashi Yamakawa, NIZK from SNARG, Rafael Pass, Krzysztof Pietrzak (editors), Theory of Cryptography: 18th International Conference, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, LNCS 12550, page 568,
Actually, what is often used in blockchains is a SNARK [4], which is a stronger variant of a SNARG that satisfies extractability.

2023, Matteo Campanelli, Chaya Ganesh, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh, Janno Siim, Impossibilities in Succinct Arguments: Black-Box Extraction and More, Nadia El Mrabet, Luca De Feo, Sylvain Duquesne (editors), Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2023: 14th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 14064, page 467,
Whether we can build SNARKs with black-box extraction in the standard model is an elusive problem. […] In particular, we show that a SNARG can be lifted to a SNARK with the features above for the class of languages FewP (roughly, NP with polynomial many witnesses).

succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge#English

(computing, cryptography) Acronym of succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge.


KIPS

(computing) Abbreviation of thousand instructions per second.


multiwrite

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(computing) Involving more than one write operation.


orthodox file manager

en-noun

orthodox file manager (plural orthodox file managers)

(computing) A file manager program with a traditional textbased user interface.


cache stampede

(computing) A cascading failure that may occur when massively parallel systems with caching mechanisms come under very high load, leading to multiple threads of execution attempting to perform the same operation simultaneously.


registration wall

registration wall (plural registration walls)

This can be a good way to generate leads, but keep in mind that putting up a registration wall will likely reduce the amount of SEO traffic you can drive to that guide.

Dr. Rakesh D, Dr. Manoj Kumara N V, Dr. Darshan S, Marketing Management (page 164)

(computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions to users who have registered by creating an account.


IMGUI

graphical user interface
graphical user interface#English

(computing) Initialism of immediate mode graphical user interface.


prepender

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


pajeetware

pajeetware (usually uncountable, plural pajeetwares)

From pajeet (“a contemptuous term for an Indian person”) + -ware.

suf

I still use process lasso. Windows scheduler pajeetware shenanigans, no thanks!

2019 September 13, u/CuddlyKitty1488, “Did Project Lasso become completely obsolete with latest Windows 1903 scheduler revision and Ryzen 3000?”, in Reddit, r/Amd, archived from the original on 2023-09-28:

Twitter is peak pajeetware, it's so slow...

2023 May 26, @AVerySaneMan, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-28:

Please post the code (lainchan), i want to see Microsoft pajeetware and make fun of it

2023 May 28, @felIowNwords, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-28:

(4chan slang, computing, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Software created by Indians, regarded as poor-quality.


quettabyte

quettabytes (plural)
queccabyte (alternative)

(computing) One nonillion (10³⁰) bytes. SI symbol: QB.


ronnabit

(computing) One octillion (10²⁷) bits. SI symbol: Rb.


quettabit

Given the scales on which technology has operated in the first quarter of the 21st century, from lasers that flash for just a few attoseconds to the total amount of digital data in the world pushing past 160 zettabytes, it feels as if we may have let things lie for too long. I don't know if the future will have quettabit computer networks or rontometer-scale wormholes, but I'm pretty sure the large and small of it will be hella weird.

2023 January 10, Adam Rogers, “Move over, megatons”, in Business Insider:

(computing) One nonillion (10³⁰) bits. SI symbol: Qb.


LWP

en-noun

LWP (countable and uncountable, plural LWPs)

(countable) (computing) Initialism of lightweight process.


megacharacter

The eighth column presents the capacity of one entire storage unit, in megabytes (or megacharacters); sometimes the unit is the same as the module, as in the case of the IBM 2311 disk pack, and sometimes it is an aggregate of modules, as in the case of the IBM 2314, or the RCA mass storage.

1969, David Lefkowitz, File Structures for Online Systems, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C., page 203:

400 megabytes, probably has 200 to 300 megacharacters. At .003 megacharacters per page ( 3000 characters per page) this is 66,000 to 100,000 pages to print out before the end of the year, or 133 to 200 reams of paper to print by the end of the year.

1999 January 22, Material Fellow, “The Y2k Survival CD!”, in oc.forsale (Usenet):

There's raw speed and then there's raw speed. Do you want to display, say, a megacharacter/second?

2005 June 8, Andrew Dalke, “Fast text display?”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):

(computing, rare) One million characters.


pathfind

en-verb

pathfind (third-person singular simple present pathfinds, present participle pathfinding, simple past and past participle pathfound)

pathfinds (present singular third-person)
pathfinding (participle present)
pathfound (participle past)
pathfound (past)

Back-formation from pathfinding, equivalent to path + find.

If the warden has a targetable entity, is not investigating any disturbances, and is otherwise idle, it pathfinds toward the closest entity, prioritizing players over mobs.

2023 October 20 (last accessed), “Warden”, in Minecraft Wiki:

Has a sense of smell. It can detect and pathfind toward the general location of a player or mob through a "smelling" action.

2024 December 11 (last accessed), “Java Edition Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1”, in Minecraft Wiki:

If a villager cannot pathfind to its claimed site, both the site block and villager emit anger particles.

2024 December 11 (last accessed), “Villager”, in Minecraft Wiki:

(computing, intransitive) To find the best route between two points.


multiversioned

(computing) Having or involving more than one version.


multiversioning

(computing) The presence of, or support for, more than one version.


HHD

en-noun

HHD (countable and uncountable, plural HHDs)

hybrid hard drive
hybrid hard drive#English

(computing) Initialism of hybrid hard drive.


writebehind

writebehind (countable and uncountable, plural writebehinds)

(computing) The operation of initially writing data to a cache and later copying it to permanent storage.


ABNF

Backus-Naur form
Backus-Naur form#English

(computing) Initialism of augmented Backus-Naur form.


netname

A UNC (universal naming convention) name consists of a server name and a netname, which together identify a resource in the domain.

1994, Barry Nance, Client/server LAN Programming, page 43:

If a sharepoint is accessed by using the UNC \\server1\WordFiles, for example, the netname is WordFiles.

2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, page 58:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) The part of a UNC (Uniform Naming Convention) path that identifies a particular resource on a given server.


canned benchmark

canned benchmark (plural canned benchmarks)

(computing, video games) A computer program designed for the sole purpose of benchmarking the hardware it's being run on.


CCaaS

(computing) Acronym of call center as a service.


expansion card

(computing) A circuit board that connects to the motherboard of a computer in order to allow additional capabilities.


autogrowth

(computing) Automatic growth (of a storage quota).


EUPL

European Union Public License
w:European Union Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of European Union Public License.


LZMA

Based on the LZ77 and LZ78 algorithms devised by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv.

LZMA is the main (as well as the default) algorithm used in the popular 7z (or 7-Zip) compression software [7z 06]. Both 7z and LZMA are the creations of Igor Pavlov.

2007, David Salomon, Data Compression: The Complete Reference, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 241:

Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm
w:Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm

(computing) Initialism of Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm.


LZSS

(computing) Initialism of Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski.


LZS

(computing) Initialism of Lempel–Ziv–Stac.


gateware

(computing) Logic implemented in configurable digital logic gates.


LFS

LFS (countable and uncountable, plural LFSs)

(computing) Initialism of local file system.

(computing, Git) Initialism of large file storage.


LFS

(computing) Initialism of Linux From Scratch.


silicon lottery

silicon lottery (plural silicon lotteries)

(computing, computer hardware) The uncertainty surrounding microprocessors' overclocking potential, which is typically unknown to a consumer (so that, by chance, some get products that prove able to overclock better than others).


emoji ZWJ sequence

emoji ZWJ sequence (plural emoji ZWJ sequences)

When an emoji zwj^([sic]) sequence is sent to a system that does not have a corresponding single glyph, the ZWJ characters would be ignored and a fallback sequence of separate emoji would be displayed.

2016 November 14, Rob Reed, “Everything You Need To Know About Emoji”, in Smashing Magazine:

(computing) A combination of emoji and control characters to display a particular emoji on supported operating systems.


emoji sequence

These characters are used in emoji sequences but normally do not appear on emoji keyboards as separate choices, such as keycap base characters or Regional_Indicator characters.

2023 September 5, Mark Davis, Ned Holbrook, Unicode Emoji (Unicode Technical Standard), 25 edition, number 51, Unicode Consortium, Emoji Characters:

(computing) A combination of characters that display a particular emoji.


AVD

Azure Virtual Desktop
w:Azure Virtual Desktop

(computing) Initialism of Azure Virtual Desktop.


(computing) A single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages.


nstd

(logistics, furniture, computing) Abbreviation of nested.


zombie computer

zombie computer (plural zombie computers)

zombie + computer. First use appears c. 1999. See cite below.

The danger is manifested in this version because the hackers are gaining control of as many as thousands of vulnerable zombie computers in order to magnify and direct their full-scale assault against a single victim from all directions.

1999, Brian Fonseca, “"Denial-of-service attacks employ zombie PCs to hit networks"”, in Infoworld Daily News:

(computing, networking) A computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker via a computer virus, computer worm, or Trojan horse program and can be used to perform malicious tasks under the remote direction of the hacker.


zombie network

(computing, networking) A network or collection of compromised computers or hosts that are connected to the Internet.


zombie software

(computing, software) A program or application which has been maintained beyond its expiration date or end-of-life status.


zombie program

(computing, software, uncommon) Any computer program that has been revived or reinstalled by an operating system and is very difficult to uninstall.


locale-aware

(computing, programming) The automatic detection of a user's language and country settings, thereby supplying the corresponding content at the same URLs.


GFM

(computing) Initialism of GitHub-flavored markdown.


geop-

Unknown, possibly from Korean 겁 (geop), referring to a very long period of time.

(computing, informal, nonstandard) Synonym of quetta-.


dual-ported

Having two ports; (in particular, computing) allowing multiple reads or writes to occur at the same time.


COLD

(computing) Acronym of computer output to laser disc.


EFK

(computing) Initialism of Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana.


emoji flag sequence

emoji flag sequence (plural emoji flag sequences)

Different vendors such as Apple and Google will then be expected to support it alongside other flags (though notably, Microsoft has historically never supported any emoji flag sequences).

2022 April 4, Keith Broni, “Propose A New Emoji, But No More Flags”, in Emojipedia:

Unicode Technical Standard
w:Unicode Technical Standard

(computing) An emoji sequence consisting of two regional indicator characters that display a particular country or territory's national flag.


downgrade dance

downgrade dance (plural downgrade dances)

(computing) A form of attack in which the malicious client negotiates with the server so as to establish a connection using an older, vulnerable version of the protocol.


robibyte

(computing) Strictly, 2⁹⁰ (1024⁹, 1,237,940,039,285,380,274,899,124,224) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) yobibytes, as opposed to a ronnabyte.


quebibyte

quebibytes (plural)
qubibyte (alternative)

(computing) Strictly, 2¹⁰⁰ (1024¹⁰, 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) robibytes, as opposed to a quettabyte.


relayout

en-verb

relayout (third-person singular simple present relayouts, present participle relayouting, simple past and past participle relayouted)

relayouts (present singular third-person)
relayouting (participle present)
relayouted (participle past)
relayouted (past)

The procedure for relayouting of facilities within an existing plan is to: (i) carefully identify the goals to be accomplished; (ii) conduct work-simplification survey to identify flaws in the present layout […]

1976, H. H. Jamaluddin, Industrial Diagnosis of Some Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers in the Philippines: A Systems Approach, page 133:

Global relayouting is synchronous, i.e., the JavaScript execution of the client is blocked.

2021, Wanda Baltzer, Theresa Hradilak, Lara Pfennigschmidt, An individual-centered approach to visualize people’s opinions and demographic information, page 177:

(computing or non-native speakers' English) To arrange or lay out again or differently.


superproperty

Just as a classes can be specialized with subclass relationships, properties can be specialized with subproperties. The “rdfs:subPropertyOf” property is used to specify a specialization relationship between properties. The described property is a subproperty of the indicated superproperty.

2005, Lee W. Lacy, Owl: Representing Information Using the Web Ontology Language, Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 120:

(computing) A higher-level property in a hierarchy of properties.


FinOps

FinOps demands you acknowledge that the old ways of managing infrastructure aren't just ineffective; they create situations where runaway cloud costs can threaten the business.

2023, J.R. Storment, Mike Fuller, Cloud FinOps, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

(cloud computing) A cloud financial management practice.


ELK

Of course, ELK doesn't come without operational burden.

2017, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley, Dan Mackin, UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:

(computing) Acronym of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.


EUEM

Measuring site health from the end user's point of view is the discipline of EUEM, which is the logical complement to web analytics.

2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring: Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 56:

(computing) Initialism of end-user experience management.


UEM

(computing) Initialism of user experience management.


You may find observability documentation, tools, and courses by searching for o11y, which we pronounce “ollie.”

[2023, Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami, Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 57:

(computing) Abbreviation of observability.


RUM

RUM may involve sniffing the network connection, adding JavaScript to pages, installing agents on end user machines, or some combination thereof.

2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring: Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 354:

real user monitoring
w:real user monitoring

(computing) Initialism of real user monitoring.


MELT

Another way to describe APM suites is that they are the monitoring technology that makes MELT data collection possible and useful for SREs.

2023, Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami, Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 73:

(computing) Acronym of metrics, events, logs, and traces.


OGNL

(computing) Initialism of Object-Graph Navigation Language.


multirepo

(computing) Of or relating to more than one source control repository.


NSAPI

(computing) Initialism of Netscape Server Application Programming Interface.


prepass

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If you're trying to render an image of 800 × 600 pixels and you do the prepass with just 200 × 150 pixels, then you'll see fewer details there and you can't place the sampling points as exactly.

2002, Arndt von Koenigsmarck, Maxon Cinema 4D 7: A Workshop for 2D/3D Graphics Pros, page 277:

(computing) A prior pass of an algorithm or process, sometimes as an optimization to handle simpler cases.


CELP

code-excited linear prediction
w:Code-excited linear prediction

(computing) Initialism of code-excited linear prediction.


WMS

Windows Media Services
w:Windows Media Services

(computing) Initialism of Windows Media Services.

Windows MultiPoint Server
w:Windows MultiPoint Server

(computing) Initialism of Windows MultiPoint Server.


computer illiteracy

From computer + illiteracy, probably modelled after computer literacy.

Computer illiteracy is likely to be a problem for the society of tomorrow; plain illiteracy […] is a problem of today's society.

1993, Scott R. Tilley, “Computer Businesses”, in How to Make Money with Your Home Computer:

(computing) The inability to use a personal computer.


search-engine

search-engine (third-person singular simple present search-engines, present participle search-engining, simple past and past participle search-engined)

search-engines (present singular third-person)
search-engining (participle present)
search-engined (participle past)
search-engined (past)
search engine (alternative)

(computing, Internet, transitive) To look up on a search engine.

(computing, Internet, intransitive) To use a search engine; to look things up on a search engine.


DCom

(computing) Initialism of Doctor of Commerce, a doctoral degree awarded by universities in the Commonwealth.


endianless

Note that the byte is endianless; that is, whether it is big-endian or little-endian, the MSB (most significant bit) is bit #7 and the LSB (least significant bit) is bit #0.

2005, James C. Leiterman, 32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture (Wordware Applications Library), Plano, Texas: Wordware Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 530:

Shift the original value right by one! Note "M" and "L" denote most and least significant bits in big or little endian and 8 bit is endianless.

2003, James C. Leiterman, Vector Game Math Processors (Wordware Game Math Library), Plano, Texas: Wordware Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 530:

Functions to read and write IFF / RIFF files. They are endianless and support 64 bit chunks.

2018 May 10, Alessandro Pedretti, Angelica Mazzolari, Giulio Vistoli, “WarpEngine, a Flexible Platform for Distributed Computing Implemented in the VEGA Program and Specially Targeted for Virtual Screening Studies”, in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, volume 58, number 6, American Chemical Society, →DOI, retrieved 2023-12-12, Supporting Material, Table S1:

2015 August 22, Victor Stinner, “7.4 Byte order marks (BOM)”, in Programming with Unicode Documentation, Release 2011, archived from the original on 2023-12-12, page 22:


AMQP

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
w:Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol.


sudoed

(computing, of a program) Ran using sudo.


VTL

(computing) Initialism of virtual trust level.

(computing, historical) Initialism of virtual tape library.


corpus manager

(computing, linguistics) A sophisticated tool for analyzing multilingual corpora.


intervalize

intervalize (third-person singular simple present intervalizes, present participle intervalizing, simple past and past participle intervalized)

intervalizes (present singular third-person)
intervalizing (participle present)
intervalized (participle past)
intervalized (past)

The conventional Hopfield neural network with time delay is intervalized to consider the bounded effect of deviation of network parameters and perturbations yielding a novel interval dynamic Hopfield neural network (IDHNN) model.

1998 September, Xiaofeng Liao, Juebang Yu, “Robust Stability for Interval Hopfield Neural Networks with Time Delay”, in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, volume 9, number 5, →DOI, page 1042:

(computing) To cause to occur at regular time intervals.


TOML

TOML is a configuration file format that is easy for humans to read. It supports both comments and multiline strings.

2021, Adam Woodbeck, Network Programming with Go: Code Secure and Reliable Network Services from Scratch, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 225:

(computing, file format) Acronym of Tom's Obvious Minimal Language.


flowmap

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Flowmaps have a hierarchical structure in which some functional units correspond to activities (atomic operations) and others correspond to more detailed flowmaps.

1994, Reid Alan Baldwin, A Discipline Independent Framework for Engineering Design, page 101:

Flowmaps can be exponentially large if there are many alternatives. In the NELSIS system, the flow plan is fixed.

1995, Sea Hawon Choi, Design Methodology in High Level Synthesis (page 67)

[…] a "flowmap" that amounts to a perceptual analysis of the Sokoban level. The flowmap is a concise data structure that contains a graph of all possible pushes (under the assumption that all other barrels are deleted), […]

2007, Ben Goertzel, Pei Wang, Advances in Artificial General Intelligence, page 66:

(computing) A kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.


EDF

(computing) Initialism of earliest deadline first.


rackware

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Rackware, economically-packaged shareware and low-cost retail software that is generally hung on display racks, was pioneered by SoftKey and other companies a decade ago. But the marketing practice has become ubiquitous only in the last year or so. Now just about every airport, department store, and computer retailer carries at least one rack. Most rackware falls into entertainment and educational categories, but that too is changing as major apps begin to appear.

1993, PC Mag, volume 12, number 15, page 30:

Contact database features hundreds of addresses for bulletin boards and rackware

1994, Steve Hudgik, Make Money Selling Your Shareware:

Another advantage of rackware publishing is ownership.

1994, Game Developer, volume 1, page 53:

(computing) Low-cost software sold in shops, generally hung on display racks.


APNS

On the device side, APNS must validate the connection is with a genuine device.

2015, Lauren Collins, Scott R. Ellis, Mobile Devices: Tools and Technologies, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 87:

Apple Push Notification service
w:Apple Push Notification service

(computing) Initialism of Apple Push Notification service.


transput

From trans- + put, modeled on input and output.

Another basic goal was to separate the responsibility for uniform and correct synchronization and protection from that for efficient representation and transput.

1978 May 10, Guy Almes, George Robertson, “An extensible file system for hydra”, in ICSE '78: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Software engineering, IEEE Press, →DOI:

(computing, obsolete) Synonym of input/output.


boat anchor

Suggesting that it would only be useful as a weight to be thrown overboard to moor a vessel.

(slang, radio, computing) A cumbersome, useless piece of equipment.


gRPC

remote procedure call
remote procedure call

(computing) a cross-platform open-source high-performance remote procedure call framework.


Dhrystone

(computing) A microprocessor benchmark measuring primarily fixed-point arithmetic performance.


Dhrystone

While the average Dhrystones per task decline rapidly after five, the total number of Dhrystones increases until the number of tasks […]

Because a VAX 11/70 could execute 1,757 loops through the Dhrystone benchmark in 1 second, 1,757 loops became 1 Dhrystone.

2001, Arnold S. Berger, Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools, and Techniques, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 27:

(computing) A measure of the Dhrystone benchmark, calibrated to some reference architecture.


book type

(computing) A field of four bits at the beginning of a DVD indicating the physical format of the disc.


zombie client

(computing, networking) Computer software that takes directions from a remote computer and uses the infected computer to perform malicious tasks as directed.


version number

(computing) A unique number or set of numbers assigned to a specific version of software, firmware, file, etc.


zombie path

(computing) A path that is no longer valid or accessible because the target has been moved or deleted.


zombie user

(computing) A logged in or registered user that should no longer exist but has not been fully deleted from the system.


zombie system

Once a trojan acquires control of a remote system, the malicious user can act through the "zombie" system and the source of his or her mischief will be identified as coming from the compromised system, as opposed to his or her own.

2003, Jason Albanese, Wes Sonnenreich, Network Security Illustrated, page 393:

It is a free, open source tool that can tell a zombie system flooding packets to stop flooding.

2007, Pranav Pareek, Hacking-- the Untold Story -, page 115:

Sure, the hacker will lose a useful resource (probably in the form of a remote bot or zombie system that he took over previously) , but he will be one step closer to his ultimate goal.

2008, Richard Miniter, Leah Wilson, Jack Bauer for President: Terrorism and Politics in 24, page 63:

Performance issues could be security incidents—for example, if you notice that a system is running very slowly, it could be infected by a virus, or a hacker could be using it as a zombie system to do other processing.

2021, Glen E. Clarke, Daniel Lachance, CompTIA Security+ Certification Bundle, page 766:


predictive texting

(computing) The composition of messages using predictive text.


automoderator

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Purely utilitarian considerations determined whether Usenet’s equivalent to IRC’s channel protection bots – the robo-moderators and automoderators and modbots – succeeded or failed.

1997, Andrew Leonard, Bots: The Origin of New Species, San Francisco, Calif.: HardWired, →ISBN, page 175:

These codes determine which newsgroups the automoderator places your message in.

1999, Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm, Genealogy Online For Dummies®, 2nd edition, Foster City, Calif.: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN, page 56:

Digital agents, 10% of the references, were non-human agents, typically a bot, that undermined/challenged the work of the conspiracy theorists and/or the conspiracy theory itself. The discussion about non-human agents appeared mostly in the Reddit dataset. This conversation referred to automoderators or bots designed to automate various moderation tasks for which no human judgment is needed – such as deleting comments – and whose decisions can be overridden by human mods.

2022, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, “‘Go ahead and “debunk” truth by calling it a conspiracy theory’: The discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces”, in Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi, Angela Zottola, editors, Conspiracy Theory Discourses (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture; 98), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 92:

(computing) A bot that automatically moderates (a discussion forum, etc.).


off-prem

Companies and organizations are increasingly shifting their computer infrastructure resources from on-premises (on-prem) to off-premises (off-prem) cloud service models.

2017, “Private Cloud Security”, in John R. Vacca, editor, Computer and Information Security Handbook, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 931:

(computing) Located outside the premises of an organization, typically in the cloud.


audio mining

(computing, linguistics) A technique that involves automatically analyzing and searching the content of an audio signal, often for speech recognition.


stubbify

stubbify (third-person singular simple present stubbifies, present participle stubbifying, simple past and past participle stubbified)

stubbifies (present singular third-person)
stubbifying (participle present)
stubbified (participle past)
stubbified (past)

(transitive, computing) To make (something) use stubs (placeholder procedures).


LAA

en-noun

LAA (countable and uncountable, plural LAAs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of large address awareness.


word time

(computing) The amount of time required to transfer a machine word between different memory units.

(computing) The amount of time that passes between the reading of the first bits of consecutive words.


memory unit

(computing) A component of a computer system used to store data, instructions and information.


machine word

(computing) A unit of information of a standard number of characters, appropriate for a fixed wordlength computer.


task-specific

domain-specific language
domain-specific language

(computing) Referring to domain-specific languages that are designed around supporting specific user tasks.


man-in-the-middle attack

man-in-the-middle attack (plural man-in-the-middle attacks)

Man-in-the-middle attacks clandestinely place something (such as a piece of software or a rouge router) between a server and the user about which neither the server's administrators nor the user is aware.

2014, Emmett Dulaney, Security, page 324:

In the general man-in-the-middle attack, the role of E in a tag access operation is to fake and forward data.

2016, Ho-won Kim, Dooho Choi, Information Security Applications, page 70:

It had taken Robert Lemoine barely twenty minutes to execute the man-in-the-middle attack.

2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 76:

(computing, security) A security attack in which someone intercepts the communication between a device and the server it is connected to, simulating the device to the server and simulating the server to the device.


bit time

network interface card
network interface card

(computing, networking) The amount of time it takes for one bit to be ejected from a network interface card operating at a predefined standard speed.


near real-time

(computing) Referring to a data-processing system that is somewhat slower than real-time.


quiesce time

(computing) The amount of time required to render a computer system inactive, or the amount of time between periods of inactivity.


de-archive

en-verb

de-archive (third-person singular simple present de-archives, present participle de-archiving, simple past and past participle de-archived)

de-archives (present singular third-person)
de-archiving (participle present)
de-archived (participle past)
de-archived (past)

(transitive, computing) To render a file that has been archived available for editing.