UUID

A good example of an informationless key is a UUID (essentially a random 128 bit value, guaranteed to be unique) which is typically displayed as hex string.

2008, Marc Brevoort, Growing Better Software:

(computing) Initialism of universally unique identifier.


cycle time

Order cycle time can now be minutes from when the customer starts entering an order to when it is visible to the warehouse.

Production cycle time is not as important as the time spent in transit.

Design cycle time for an all-new state-of-the-art compressor is still years from go-ahead to readiness for manufacture.

(computing, software, computer science) The total elapsed time to complete an operation or set of operations.


deduplication

en-noun

deduplication (countable and uncountable, plural deduplications)

(computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.


maskable

(computing, usually of an interrupt) That can be masked (disabled).


XSL

(computing) Extensible stylesheet language, any of a family of languages in which code can be written to describe how XML files are to be transformed.


autoresponder

Use your email autoresponder and outgoing voicemail message to set expectations about your work hours and communication response times

2024 January 31, Jessica DuLong, “Unsubscribe from everything to start controlling the tech in your life, new book says”, in CNN:

(computing) A computer program that automatically sends a certain message or messages in response to incoming e-mail.


autocompletion

autocompletion (countable and uncountable, plural autocompletions)

autocompletions (plural)
auto-completion (alternative)

(computing) A software feature permitting form fields, etc., to be autocompleted.


subheader

(computing) A header that appears below another header and describes a subsection of its contents.


full disclosure

full disclosure (usually uncountable, plural full disclosures)

(computing) The disclosure of all security flaws in a product.


keyset

(computing, telegraphy) An input device whose few keys can be pressed in many combinations, often simultaneously, to enter different commands or characters.

(computing, databases) A set of keys (unique identifiers) used to distinguish the rows of data being traversed by a cursor.


modifier key

Ctrl, Alt, and Shift are the modifier keys on a typical modern keyboard.

(computing) A key (on a computer keyboard) that may be pressed simultaneously with certain other keys to activate predefined functions.


keycode

(computing) A code that represents a keypress.

näppäinkoodi

computing: code that represents a keypress


course authoring tool

course authoring tool (plural course authoring tools)

Course authoring tools are special-purpose tools for creating e-learning courses

2003, Katherine Horton, E-learning tools and technologies, page 280:

(education, computing, technology) Software designed for creating e-learning courses.


proxyless

(computing, rare) Without the use of a proxy.


teleprogram

The architecture should provide for a reliable communication infrastructure required for the transfer of files (teleprograms, displayable pages...

1983, Ján Gecsei, The architecture of videotex systems:

After having finished composing the text, the teleprogram tells the PI0 to establish the telephone connection to the VTX center and sends the text...

1984, Hugh T Smith, Computer-based message services:

Obviously, appropriate interfaces between the magazine-manager and the teleprograms will have to be made. At this point such systems are not yet implemented...

1985, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, Information services and use:

(computing, dated, rare) Any computer program acquired as telesoftware.


VTX

(computing, dated) Abbreviation of videotex.


DAO

DAO (countable and uncountable, plural DAOs)

(computing) Initialism of disk-at-once, an optical disk recording mode.


metafile

(computing) A file in any format that can store multiple types of data, typically a graphics file format.


hackable

en-adj

hackable (comparative more hackable, superlative most hackable)

more hackable (comparative)
most hackable (superlative)

(computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.


unlogged

an unlogged user


mouseover

mouseovers (plural)
mouse-over (alternative)

(computing) The event of an on-screen pointer being over an on-screen shape.


unformat

en-verb

unformat (third-person singular simple present unformats, present participle unformatting, simple past and past participle unformatted)

unformats (present singular third-person)
unformatting (participle present)
unformatted (participle past)
unformatted (past)

Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

This step releases the button so that it isn't pressed in anymore, and the formatting should disappear. If one click doesn't do the trick, then some of the text probably wasn't formatted. It is now! Click the button again to unformat the text.

1999, Margaret Levine Young, David C. Kay, Kathy Warfel, WordPerfect 9 for Windows For Dummies, page 119:

(computing) To remove or undo a format; to reverse the formatting of a disk.


bug out

bug out (third-person singular simple present bugs out, present participle bugging out, simple past and past participle bugged out)

bugs out (present singular third-person)
bugging out (participle present)
bugged out (participle past)
bugged out (past)

Attested 1950, popularized in the Korean War (1950–53) in such phrases as “bug-out fever” (rout) and “the big bug out” (November/December 1950 retreat) and entered civilian slang by mid 1950s. Likely originated in World War II, perhaps based on 1930s cartoons featuring bugs fleeing an impending foot or boot. Ultimately based on the rapid, disorderly flight of bugs when discovered, particularly their scattering if several are discovered at once, such as under a rock or can. Compare chicken out.

My PC keeps bugging out and rebooting for no reason.

(intransitive, slang, computing) To crash or glitch.


autochanger

(computing) An automatic tape loader, for switching automatically between several computer backup tapes.


web conference

The ABC Company will be hosting a web conference on "Remaining Profitable in a Recession Period".

(computing) A meeting, presentation or other communication hosted via the World Wide Web.

網絡研討會 /网络研讨会

meeting, presentation or communication conducted via the World Wide Web


Hackintosh

(computing, informal) A computer other than a Macintosh that has been configured to run the Macintosh operating system (OS X or macOS).


trustless

A trustless network can run even if none of its nodes trusts another.

In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions.

2019, Peter Kent, Tyler Bain, Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30:

This article draws from the extensive academic discussion on the concepts of “trust” and “confidence” to argue that blockchain technology is not a ‘trustless technology’ but rather a ‘confidence machine’.

2020 August, Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan, Wessel Reijers, “Blockchain as a confidence machine: The problem of trust & challenges of governance”, in Technology in Society, volume 62, →DOI:

If it becomes cheaper to use a TTP to verify the transaction than some cryptographic or other automated mechanism, then the benefit of being “trustless” becomes an illusion.

2021, Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Nat Sakimura, editors, Blockchain Gaps: From Myth to Real Life, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 34:

And the system would be “trustless” — that is, it would not rely on a trusted party, such as a bank or government, to arbitrate transactions.

2022 June 7, Siobhan Roberts, “How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(computing, cryptocurrencies) Which does not need any trust, or a trusted third party.


expansion pack

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

(computing) A module that adds new content to an existing piece of software.


zombie process

en-noun

zombie process (plural zombie processes)

(computing) A child process that has terminated but is still listed in the process table, having not yet been reaped by its parent process.


MRU

The MRU list on the File menu shows the documents you have opened recently.

(computing) Initialism of most recently used.


queuer

(computing) A process, etc. that places data items on a queue.


searchability

searchability (countable and uncountable, plural searchabilities)

(uncountable, computing) The state of being searchable.

(countable, computing) The extent to which, or ease with which something may be searched.


code face

code faces (plural)
codeface (alternative)

[…] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face are even crawling.

1992, Patrick A V Hall, Software reuse and reverse engineering in practice:

Why is it that, everywhere we look in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers, people actually working at the code face (as it were), we encounter this urge to apologize for the current techniques and to seek improvement?

1992, Derek Partridge, Engineering artificial intelligence software:

This was a CIO Magazine poll of senior managers, not a poll of programmers at the codeface. Programmers will get enough deserved blame in the Y2k aftermath; please don't incite undeserved blame.

1999, Barb Knox, “Y2K Optimism: Unjustified in survey”, in comp.software.year-2000 (Usenet):

Documentation is at least one conceptual step away from the code-face, out of date the moment it's written, and difficult to write […]

2003, Robert L Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering:

Code craft starts at the codeface; it's where we love to be. We programmers are never happier than when immersed in an editor, bashing out line after line of perfectly formed and well-executed source code.

2007, Pete Goodliffe, Code craft: the practice of writing excellent code:

(computing, informal) The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).


subcookie

(computing, Internet, rare) A cookie-like piece of data stored with others in a single cookie (so as to circumvent restrictions on the number of cookies a single web site may create).


dreamware

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-dreamware.wav

[…] the author is surprised to find so few imaging projects actually using CD-ROM. He attributes this to the "wait and see" attitude of potential users who are holding out for new "dreamware" products which do not exist yet.

1989, Visual Resources Association, Bulletin:

Independently pursuing his interest in metasoftware, Vinci has defined several basic modules and created some actual models of his dreamware.

1989, Information Access Company, Datamation:

You could create problems for your company if you downplay current products and hype the dreamware that may never become reality.

1999, Jessica Keyes, Internet Management:

(computing, rare) Speculative software or hardware products that may never reach fruition; vapourware.


collaborative client

collaborative client (plural collaborative clients)

(rare, computing) A piece of software that allows a computer to run or link to another application on the Internet.


zeroary

(computing, mathematics, nonstandard) Nullary.


SWF

(file format): SWF originated as an abbreviation for Shockwave Flash. This usage was changed to the backronym Small Web Format to eliminate confusion with a different technology, Shockwave, from which SWF derived. There is no official resolution to the initialism SWF by Adobe.

On the Web, linking to a SWF directly is not a very attractive option. You can’t control the content around the SWF or the title of the page in the browser title area. It’s also difficult to add content that’s friendly to search engines, and it’s impossible to detect a Flash version or provide alternate content for people with special needs. For these reasons, most developers choose to embed their SWFs in an HTML page for their end users.

2008, Chris Allen, Wade Arnold, Aral Balkan, Nicolas Cannasse, John Grden, Moses Gunesch, Marc Hughes, R. Jon MacDonald, Andy Zupko, The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development, Berkeley, Calif.: Friends of Ed, Apress, →ISBN, page 131:

A SWF file, or simply “a SWF,” is an efficient, compressed binary file that can contain graphics, animation, text, bitmaps, sounds, video, and even arbitrary data. […] When compiling AIR apps, an .air file is generated, but even this is a package that contains SWFs for its executable ActionScript code.

2010, Roger Braunstein, ActionScript® 3.0 Bible, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 8:

When you run a SWF using Flash Player on your desktop, it loads and runs the SWF. Well, of course, why wouldn't it? When you run a SWF in a browser, this isn't always the case, though. Sometimes, browsers cache SWFs, meaning that they save a copy locally and then load that copy—rather than the online version—the next time you request it.

2010 December, Michael James Williams, “Introduction”, in Facebook Graph API Development with Flash, Birmingham: Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

(computing) A file encoded in the defunct Adobe Flash file format SWF.


trit

Blend of trinary + digit, formed in analogy to bit from binary digit.

For example, consider storing trits (recall Section 2.6.4), which take values in {0, 1, 2}. If we use 2 bits per value, then an array A[1, n] of trits requires 2n bits.

2016, Gonzalo Navarro, Compact Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

(computing) The ternary equivalent of a bit; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.


service pack

(computing) A collection of software patches or upgrades offered as a single package with an installer.


bitflip

(computing) The switching of a bit's value (from 1 to 0, or vice versa).


scan line

scan lines (plural)
scanline (alternative)

(computing) A single row of pixels in a raster graphics image.


macroprogramming

(computing) The creation of macros and macroinstructions, and the writing of programs using them.


RAD

RAD (countable and uncountable, plural RADs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of rapid application development.


noninterrupt

(computing) That is not an interrupt routine.


interthread

interthread communication


livelock

livelock (countable and uncountable, plural livelocks)

(ca. 1971) live + lock; punning antonym for deadlock.

However, this can lead to livelock—the optimistic analog of indefinite blocking in which methods continuously spin without making any further progress.

2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 193:

A process is considered to be in a state of livelock when thread code is still executing, but two or more threads are in a never-ending cycle with each other and no useful work is being done.

2003, Mark Pearce, Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging, →ISBN, page 439:

(computing) A state resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.


livelock

en-verb

livelock (third-person singular simple present livelocks, present participle livelocking, simple past and past participle livelocked)

livelocks (present singular third-person)
livelocking (participle present)
livelocked (participle past)
livelocked (past)

(computing) To enter a state of livelock.


hash code

hash codes (plural)
hashcode (alternative)

(computing) The code or value generated by a hash function to represent some piece of data.


program counter

en-noun

program counter (plural program counters)

(computing) A register that stores the address of the current (or next) instruction to be carried out by the processor.


race condition

A race condition in writing my guest book file meant that the last person to sign wiped out all previous signatures.

A race condition is usually when multiple processes are accessing data that is shared among them, but the correct outcome depends on the execution order of the processes.

2004, W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff, UNIX Network Programming: The sockets networking API, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 538:

(electronics, computing) A flaw in a system or process whereby the output or result is unexpectedly and critically dependent on the sequence or timing of other events.


race hazard

(electronics, computing) A race condition.


middlebox

(computing, networking, Internet) A device in the Internet that provides transport policy enforcement, such as a firewall.


TCB

trusted computing base
w:Trusted computing base

(computing) Initialism of trusted computing base.


mouseless

(computing) Without the use of a mouse (input device).


multibit

(computing) Contained in more than one bit.


uncook

en-verb

uncook (third-person singular simple present uncooks, present participle uncooking, simple past and past participle uncooked)

uncooks (present singular third-person)
uncooking (participle present)
uncooked (participle past)
uncooked (past)

Hi all! I have developed a freeware utility to uncook MP3's...

1999, y2kilroy, “New Freeware Utility to uncook mp3's!”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet):

If you "uncook" a file that isn't "cooked" you will just mess it up (and I don't know of any way to fix it then) - so uncooking should be used with caution (I'd suggest never over-writing the original file).

2000, Xorys, “Creating audio CD from mp3 files”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet):

(computing, slang, transitive) To repair (an MP3 audio file) that has been damaged ("cooked") by being converted through a text format and having line breaks applied to it.


deskside

(computing) A computer intended to be placed alongside a desk, etc. (contrasted with the smaller desktop models).


uncastable

en-adj

uncastable (comparative more uncastable, superlative most uncastable)

more uncastable (comparative)
most uncastable (superlative)

They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers […]

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:

(computing, programming) That cannot be cast (converted to other data types).


clickstream

“My clickstream data is sensitive information,” she told Mr. Zaneis, “and it belongs to me.”

2007 May 12, Dan Mitchell, quoting Kaliya Hamlin, “Online Ads vs. Privacy”, in New York Times:

Clickstream analytics are usually monitored on an aggregate basis. Server-based clickstream analysis provides valuable insight into visitor behavior. For instance, by learning which paths users most frequently take on a site and which routes lead to sales, you can make changes in content and calls to action[…]

2017, Jan Zimmerman, Deborah Ng, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(computing, marketing) A profile of a user's activity in a web browser or other software, based on what is clicked.


unflag

en-verb

unflag (third-person singular simple present unflags, present participle unflagging, simple past and past participle unflagged)

unflags (present singular third-person)
unflagging (participle present)
unflagged (participle past)
unflagged (past)

A message that has been unflagged will no longer be displayed at the top of your e-mail inbox.

(computing, transitive) To remove a flag from.


demountable

en-adj

demountable (comparative more demountable, superlative most demountable)

more demountable (comparative)
most demountable (superlative)

(computing, of a hard drive, dated) Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.


unbooted

(computing, rare) Not having been booted.


earcon

(computing, broadcasting) A brief, distinctive sound used to represent a specific item or event.


refreshable

(computing, electronics) That can be refreshed (updated).


address bar

This trick is quite practical; since almost everyone keeps the address bar visible, being able to search from it doesn't add any gunk to your browser window […]

2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Matthew MacDonald, Google: the missing manual:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier

(computing, graphical user interface) A bar in a web browser that displays the address (uniform resource identifier) of the page or resource being displayed.


code-behind

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, programming) A technique in object-oriented programming in which the visual and back-end source code are stored in separate files, allowing designers and programmers to work independently. Code-behind is a technique used in Microsoft programming platforms, including ASP.NET and XAML, where the practice is facilitated by separating the visual and code aspects through the use of partial classes.


multiwindow

(computing, graphical user interface) Involving or permitting multiple windows at the same time.


Zip disk

Zip disks (plural)
Zip disc (alternative)

(computing) A disk of the kind that can be read and written by a Zip drive.


autoload

en-verb

autoload (third-person singular simple present autoloads, present participle autoloading, simple past and past participle autoloaded)

autoloads (present singular third-person)
autoloading (participle present)
autoloaded (participle past)
autoloaded (past)

(computing) To load (data or storage media) automatically.


restripe

restripe (third-person singular simple present restripes, present participle restriping, simple past and past participle restriped)

restripes (present singular third-person)
restriping (participle present)
restriped (participle past)
restriped (past)

In most cases, reduced application performance is preferable to the alternative of stopping applications entirely to move or restripe data.

2001, Richard Barker, Paul Massiglia, Storage area network essentials, page 213:

(computing, RAID) To change the manner in which data is laid out across multiple disks.


symbolic link

(computing, in operating systems derived from Unix) A file that contains a reference to another file or directory and serves as a shortcut to it.

simbola ligilo

computing: a file that contains a reference to another file or directory and serves as a shortcut to it


trivial functional dependency

en-noun

trivial functional dependency (plural trivial functional dependencies)

trivial functional dependencies (plural)

functional dependency
functional dependency

(computing, database normalization) A functional dependency of an attribute on a superset of itself.


multiarchitecture

(computing) Involving more than one architecture.


CBR

case-based reasoning
case-based reasoning#English

(computing) Initialism of case-based reasoning.

(computing) Initialism of constant bitrate.


thumb drive

The other gadget that Ethan needs to end the Entity is a "poison pill" – a thumb drive, basically – which has been invented by his pal Luther (Ving Rhames).

2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:

(computing) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.


pen drive

pen drives (plural)
pendrive (alternative)

→ Hungarian: pendrive

→ Portuguese: pen-drive, pen

→ Polish: pendrive

→ Spanish: pendrive

A trademark for flash drives owned by Phison Electronics Corporation (US).

After Peter finished checking the operating system setup, he carefully unscrewed his pen drive and plugged the USB connection into the computer.

2006 April 10, Juliane Viskup, Misdirection, Bloomington: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 92:

So if you find yourself trapped in a pendrive/thumbdrive industry where everyone is basically making the same thing and copying patents whilst dishing out discounts, it's time to move on and separate yourself via a new identity.

2008, Aminuddin Mahmud, “Branding - Mamak Style”, in Aminuddin Mahmud, editor, New Malaysian Essays, 2nd edition, volume 1, Kuala Lumpur: Mata Hari, →ISBN, page 60:

Pen drives have replaced the old floppy disks as the modern way to physically transport files from one computer to another. Yes, you can always email a file or burn it to a CD or DVD disc, but sometimes you just want to carry a copy of a file with you, and pen drives are so easy to use. You simply plug it into the USB port, and Windows treats it as just another storage location.

2009, James Floyd Kelly, “Netbook Hardware Options” (chapter 2), in Windows Netbooks: The Path to Low-Cost Computing, Berkeley, California: Apress, →ISBN, page 24:

‘What the fuck is this?’ Sen examined and almost laughed upon recognizing it. ‘A pendrive! A fucking pendrive! That's what the planter calls a bomb? Is he fucking kidding me?’

2017, Ujjwala Walia, “The Timer Ticks” (chapter 5), in Zahana, Mumbai: BecomeShakespeare, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

“If you don't mind, please give us the details in this pendrive,” I said, looking at his bald head.

2020, Reyhaan, chapter 8, in Secrets of the Lost Queen, Mylapore: Notion Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(computing, chiefly Asia) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive; a flash drive.

Phison Electronics Corporation
en:pen drive


jobname

This command is used to stop (and subsequently to restart) a running task identified by its jobname.

1973, IBM technical disclosure bulletin: Volume 16, Issue 4, page 1093:

The user must use jobnames while performing this analysis; otherwise, this command will fail.

2003, Erdogan Madenci, Ibrahim Guven, Bahattin Kilic, Fatigue Life Prediction of Solder Joints in Electronic Packages with ANSYS, page 149:

(computing) The identifier assigned to a job by an operating system.


intertwingle

en-verb

intertwingle (third-person singular simple present intertwingles, present participle intertwingling, simple past and past participle intertwingled)

intertwingles (present singular third-person)
intertwingling (participle present)
intertwingled (participle past)
intertwingled (past)

/ˌɪntəˈtwɪŋɡl̩/

/ˌɪntəɹˈtwɪŋɡ(ə)l/

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

PIE word
 *h₁én
Probably a blend of intertwine + intermingle. The word has apparently been coined independently several times:
* It was used by the Indian author and translator Manmatha Nath Dutt (1855–1912) in an 1896 work: see the quotation.
* It appears to have been used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda: see the quotation.
* It was used as a noun by the American-British author Henry James (1843–1916) as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters; and also by the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of his nieces, the Ormond sisters. Sargent was referring to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models or their convoluted poses. (The American artist Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961), one of Henry James’ “intertwingles”, was also a friend and model of Sargent’s.)
* The word was used in the urban planning context by Tracy Augur in the 1950s (see the 1954 quotation), and adopted by others including Dennis O’Harrow.
Sense 2 (“of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex way”) was developed from its use in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) by the American philosopher and sociologist Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937): see the quotation.

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But why should things be saved? Everything is deeply intertwingled. We save for knowledge and nostalgia, but what we thought was knowledge often turns to nostalgia, and nostalgia often brings us deeper insights that cut across our lives and very selves.

1974 March, Theodor H[olm] Nelson, “Dream Machines: New Freedoms through Computer Screens—a Minority Report [‘On Writing,’ a Paradigm of the Creative Process]”, in Computer Lib/Dream Machines, South Bend, Ind.: Theodor H. Nelson, published March 1977, →OCLC, page 98, column 2:

Deeply intertwingled hypertext documents offer readers abundant choices, permitting reader and author to work together to dynamically reorganize the document to meet specific needs.

1991 February, Mark Bernstein, “Deeply Intertwingled Hypertext: The Navigation Problem Reconsidered”, in Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, volume 38, number 1, Arlington, Va.: Society for Technical Communication, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, executive summary, page 41:

[A] book on Amazon is far more than the words between its covers. We can learn its cost and publisher; what other books the author has written; what readers think about the book; what other books those readers have bought; and we can keyword search the full text. Data and metadata intertwingle with patterns of purchase and use: […]

2005 September, Peter Morville, “Intertwingled”, in Simon St. Laurent, editor, Ambient Findability, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 84:

This book, like the conference, is called Intertwingled. It’s a word that expresses a philosophical position about cross-connection. I said in Computer Lib, "Everything is deeply intertwingled." I meant that all subjects and issues are intertwined and intermingled. But intertwingled subjects are not what computers usually represent. From the beginning, people have set computers up to be hierarchical. […] Now, it's also a metaphysic to say, "everything is deeply intertwingled," since the sentence cannot be proven true or false. But it is computer science to say that we need to represent cross-connection, and I’m expressing a computer science opinion when I say that intertwingularity is a better form of representation—for everything—than hierarchy.

2015, Theodor Holm Nelson, “What Box?”, in Douglas R. Dechow, Daniele C. Struppa, editors, Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (History of Computing), Cham, Zug, Switzerland; Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg: Springer Open, Springer International Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, part IV (The Last Word), page 134:

[John] Sheridan (2018) argues that the ‘intertwingling’ of records will become commonplace, and records will contextualise each other.

2020, Andrew Prescott, “Community Archives and the Health of the Internet”, in Simon Popple, Andrew Prescott, Daniel H. Mutibwa, editors, Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices (Connected Communities), Bristol; Chicago, Ill.: Policy Press, University of Bristol, →ISBN, part III (Disruptive and Counter Voices: The Community Turn), page 260:

(computing, information science) Of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex way.


unsandboxed

(computing) Not sandboxed; not constrained to a sandbox.


segfault

en-verb

segfault (third-person singular simple present segfaults, present participle segfaulting, simple past and past participle segfaulted)

segfaults (present singular third-person)
segfaulting (participle present)
segfaulted (participle past)
segfaulted (past)

(computing, Unix, intransitive) To cause or experience a segmentation fault.


screen-scraper

(computing) A piece of software that screen-scrapes.


Flash

Your Web site doesn't have to be full of the latest dropdowns, rollovers, superslick graphics, or Flash videos.

2007, Ray Foley, Heather Dismore, Running a Bar for Dummies, page 273:

(computing) A multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.


clickjacking

Blend of click + hijacking, coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen in 2008.

New 0-Day Browser Exploits Clickjacking - yea, this is bad... Jeremiah Grossman & Robert "RSnake" Hansen

2008 September 12, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, “OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference”, in OWASP, archived from the original on 2016-09-13:

Clickjacking, however, evades the need for this cross domain reading, and instead directly places the mouse over the target area to click on the link or form that contains the nonce - thereby bypassing the need for client side cross domain read exploitation.

2008 September 12, Robert Hansen, Jeremiah Grossman, “Clickjacking”, in SecTheory - Internet Security Services Internet Security, archived from the original on 2008-10-29:

(computing, web development) A malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus causing them to execute commands they did not intend.


menuing

Note that dBASE IV includes a number of new menuing options.

1989, Neil Dunlop, dBASE for professionals, with dBASE IV:

Light-bar menuing systems use the arrow keys to highlight the choice […]

Early versions were frequently used as menuing systems for launching MS-DOS programs because programs that required Windows were quite scarce […]

2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition: Using Microsoft Windows Vista:

(computing, graphical user interface) The use of menus in a graphical user interface.


foreslash

From fore- + slash, a retronym, distinguishing slash from backslash; compare forward slash.

Yes, that is a combination of foreslashes and backslashes.

Don't confuse the backslash (\) with the foreslash (/).

...using transitions labelled by their input and output, separated by a foreslash, with x and y standing for any non-identical nucleotides...

1997, Sándor Suhai, Theoretical and computational methods in genome research:

The command set print rat off . switches off the special printing for _/_ so that rational numbers will be printed with spaces around the foreslash sign.

2007, Manuel Clavel, Francisco Durán, Steven Eker, Patrick Lincoln, Narciso Martí-Oliet, All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework:

(typography, computing, rare) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.


autorun

(computing) Any feature that runs a program, etc. automatically.


autorun

autorun (third-person singular simple present autoruns, present participle autorunning, simple past autoran, past participle autorun)

autoruns (present singular third-person)
autorunning (participle present)
autoran (past)
autorun (participle past)

(computing, transitive) To run (a program, etc.) automatically.


legalizer

legalizers (plural)
legaliser (alternative)

(computing) A tool that takes invalid input and creates valid output, such as for chip placement to move digital standard cell gates into legal positions.


hackish

en-adj

hackish (comparative more hackish, superlative most hackish)

more hackish (comparative)
most hackish (superlative)

Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way. We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors. The other two possibilities (news batching and uucp sub-dirs) were considered and will probably be adopted at some point.

1982 November 30, Stuart, “Re: New proposal for handling net traffi - (nf)”, in net.news (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-15, message-ID <bnews.sri-unix.4523>:

A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.

The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.

(computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.

hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor

(computing, informal) Characteristic of hackers.


inverse video

When I type "/F", I get a menu of possible file actions, the first of which is in inverse video.

Text to be deleted is shown in inverse video.

If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers:

(computing, dated) A display technique whereby background and foreground colours are interchanged, typically used for highlighting.


reverse video

For example, underlined reverse video cannot be obtained.

1985, Richard Allen King, The MS-DOS handbook:


minidump

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A small core dump comprising 64 kilobytes of memory (on 32-bit systems) or 128 kilobytes (on 64-bit systems).


bashism

(computing, informal) A shell command specific to the Bash interpreter.


big iron

(computing, slang, humorous, dated) Large, expensive, powerful computers such as mainframes.


twip

Abbreviation of twentieth of a point (referring to a printer's point).

(computing) A unit of measure equal to one twentieth of a point.


invoker

(computing) That which causes a program or subroutine to execute.


dump core

en-verb

dump core (third-person singular simple present dumps core, present participle dumping core, simple past and past participle dumped core)

dumps core (present singular third-person)
dumping core (participle present)
dumped core (participle past)
dumped core (past)

Traditionally, UNIX and UNIX-like systems have dumped core or provided a binary output of their state upon crashing.

2007, Jon Masters, Richard Blum, Professional Linux programming:

(intransitive, computing) To generate a core dump.

Sorry, I dumped core on you.

(slang, computing) To ramble pointlessly at length; especially used in apology

Jack dumped core on how to operate the server before he left on holiday.

(slang, computing) To transfer a large quantity of information or knowledge from one person to another, particularly subjects of a technical nature; to lecture


cpi

characters per inch
characters per inch#English

(computing) The measure of characters that can be stored in each inch of magnetic tape


OLE

(computing) Initialism of Object Linking and Embedding.


datafile

datafiles (plural)
data file (alternative)

(computing) A computer file that stores data for use by an application or system.


scrollback

The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer.

1993 April, InfoWorld, volume 15, number 15:

New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […]

1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4:

The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output.

2005, Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger:

(computing) The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.


tetherless

(Internet, computing) wireless; pertaining to a wireless network


computronium

The process of making computers on ever smaller scales, using physical degrees of freedom and the laws of physics in an ever more efficient manner, can be thought of as a refining process. In this process we are trying to refine and concentrate the computing power inherent in the laws of physics. You might ask, "Can we achieve 100% pure 'Computronium'?"

1992, Norman Margolus, “Fundamental Physical Constraints on the Computational Process”, in BC Crandall, James Lewis, editors, Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 202:

They should be working on uploading and solving the nanoassembly conformational problem instead. Then we could turn all the available dumb matter into computronium and use it for processing our thoughts. Long-term, it's the only way to go.

2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando, Ace Books, Chapter 1, "Lobsters"

To this end, the AI might produce computronium (matter organized in a configuration that is optimal for computation) and use it to implement digital minds in states of euphoria.

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, page 140:

(science fiction, philosophy) A hypothetical material engineered to maximize its use as a computing substrate.


deliminate

deliminate (third-person singular simple present deliminates, present participle deliminating, simple past and past participle deliminated)

deliminates (present singular third-person)
deliminating (participle present)
deliminated (participle past)
deliminated (past)

From French délimiter, from Late Latin delimitare (“to mark out the limits”), from de- + limitare (“to limit, bound”); see limit.


defragger

/diːˈfɹæɡə(ɹ)/


Redmondian

en-adj

Redmondian (comparative more Redmondian, superlative most Redmondian)

more Redmondian (comparative)
most Redmondian (superlative)

From Redmond + -ian, from Redmond, Washington, US, where Microsoft has its headquarters.

In essence, anyone who speaks ill of Linux in any context and under any circumstances is a Redmondian demi-demon or an infidel […]

1999 July, Network World, volume 16, number 29:

With typical Redmondian logic, the company hid Hotmail's address-book importing feature in Outlook Express, where it's called Synchronize Now and doesn't mention Hotmail.

2003, Steve Bass, PC annoyances: how to fix the most annoying things about your personal computer:

.NET innovation is the culmination of the "Redmondian" imagination.

2006, Yogesh Shetty, Samir Jayaswal, Practical .NET for financial markets:

(informal, computing) Of or pertaining to the computing company Microsoft.


character cell

(computing) The imaginary rectangle that delineates the boundaries of a text character.


polyinstantiation

(computing) Instantiation into multiple independent instances.


one-banana problem

en-noun

one-banana problem (plural one-banana problems)

Derived from the idea that trained monkeys can do low-level jobs, working for bananas. It also may come from Sherlock Holmes lore; see three-pipe problem.

It's only a one-banana problem at the most; what's taking them so long?

(computing, slang) A problem that should be easily resolved.


deskew

en-verb

deskew (third-person singular simple present deskews, present participle deskewing, simple past and past participle deskewed)

deskews (present singular third-person)
deskewing (participle present)
deskewed (participle past)
deskewed (past)

(transitive, computing) To rotate a scanned image to compensate for skewing.

kiegyenesít

computing: to rotate a scanned image to compensate for skewing


installfest

(computing) An event where experienced users assist others with installing an operating system on their computers.


SysRq

(computing) Abbreviation of System request.


Scroll Lock

Scroll Locks (plural)
scroll lock (alternative)

(computing) A key on a standard extended keyboard, originally causing the arrow keys to scroll a window rather than moving a cursor, now sometimes used for other purposes.

scroll lock

a key, originally causing the arrow keys to scroll a window rather than moving a cursor


nonprogrammable

Most of the DOS products in our last review of nonprogrammables have not had significant upgrades.

1993, Personal Computer Magazine, page 276:

(computing, rare) A device that cannot be programmed.


nonserver

(computing) Not of or pertaining to a server.


autoconfigure

autoconfigure (third-person singular simple present autoconfigures, present participle autoconfiguring, simple past and past participle autoconfigured)

autoconfigures (present singular third-person)
autoconfiguring (participle present)
autoconfigured (participle past)
autoconfigured (past)


cass

STOCK CONTROL / CASS / DATASOFT / 12.81

1985, Stephen Doyle, GCSE Computer Studies for You, page 214:

Radio Shaft color computer w/printer & cass. drive, several programs, $250.

1988, PC Mag, volume 7, number 7, page 62:

(computing, dated) Abbreviation of cassette.


multitab

Using a multitab home page is easy when you know the secret. Just follow these steps to set up your own multitab home page.

2007, Steve Sinchak, Hacking Windows Vista:

(computing, graphical user interface) Involving multiple tabs.


superscalar

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(computing, of a CPU architecture) Implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor, thereby allowing faster throughput than would otherwise be possible at the same clock speed.


nonfunction

en-noun

nonfunction (countable and uncountable, plural nonfunctions)

(mathematics, computing) Anything that is not a function.


status bar

(computing, graphical user interface) A narrow horizontal information area for text and icons, typically found at the bottom of windows in a graphical user interface.

狀態欄 /状态栏

an information area typically found at the bottom of windows


on-the-fly encryption

(computing) A type of encryption, or its software, which uses virtual drives to encrypt information that is then decrypted in RAM.


screenspace

At this point you should tidy up your screen, resizing the windows and positioning them to make best use of your available screenspace.

2006, Mike Collins, Pro Tools LE and M-powered: the complete guide:

If you have limited screenspace, double-click on the Insert panel to collapse it.

2008, Jeremy Osborn, Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom:

For example, designers can specify the minimum and maximum sizes a widget can have on a small screenspace (eg, the screen of a mobile device)...

2009, Marios C Angelides, Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization:

They deal better with denser networks, offer ample screenspace to display metrics for each edge and can more easily display change over time.

2009, Tom Gross, Jan Gulliksen, Paula Kotzé, Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009:

(computing) The space available on a screen display.


noncharacter

noncharacters (plural)
non-character (alternative)

(computing) That which is not a character (unit of text).

(Unicode) One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use.


nonkeyboard

(computing, music) Not a keyboard, or lacking a keyboard.


pointcut

(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a set of join points specifying when advice should run during execution.


supernet

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(computing, Internet) An IP network formed from two or more networks (or subnets) with a common CIDR routing prefix.


stateful

From state + -ful. In the computing sense it is intended as an opposite for stateless.

CORBA and DCOM are both stateful protocols. A user establishes a connection with the server and that connection remains in place during the entire session.

2001, John Mueller, Special edition using SOAP:

(computing) That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state.

zustandsorientiert

computer: that supports different states


rip box

(computing, media) A high end computer used for "ripping" (decoding) DVDs and converting them into various formats, using ripping and encoding software.


(computing) 8514/Adapter, a video interface card and 4:3 display standard for computers, made obsolete in 1990 by the XGA video standard.


(computing) Alternative spelling of 8514/A.


copypasta

copypasta (countable and uncountable, plural copypastas)

→ Polish: copypasta

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Blend of copy-paste + pasta.
Etymology tree
Middle English copien
English copy
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-pasteblend.
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pastablend.
English copypasta

etymon

Fix copypasta error in previous patch.

2011 February 1, Polytheus, “r288 committed - ChangeLog for system 6.2-rc1, boot 3.0”, in openetna (Usenet):

There are a number of file systems that have copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.

2014 April 7, Taylor R. Campbell, “Vnode API change: add global vnode cache”, in fa.netbsd.tech.kern (Usenet):

Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs. The tutorials never make it clear, and instead encourage copypasta.

2015 June 27, bulk 88, “documentation: do we want perlblurb?”, in perl.perl5.porters (Usenet):

This [bug documentation] is copypasta from the initramfs-tools bug.

2016 April 5, Ben Hutchings, “Bug#820038: Copy signatures into udebs”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet):

Something like 30% of large codebases on "big name" software projects by Google, Adobe, etc. have "copypasta errors" in code of the form like this, a shit-headed way to compare two arrays for reverse equality:
if (array_1[9] == array_2[0] &&
array_1[8] == array_2[1] && […]

2019 February 18, bitrex, “Modern Math”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):

(computing, slang) Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously.

copié-merdé

code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously


memberwise

If a copy constructor is not defined, a memberwise copy is performed. This means that a copy operation is applied to each data member in turn.

1997, Adrian P Robson, The programmer's guide to C++:

(computing, programming) In terms of members (items associated with class instances).


crashable

If you plan to plot data with error bars, you must name them with an. ERR extension. Failure to do so will crash the system, and you will lose your precious work. Providing you don't input Ctrl-Alt-Del, no program should be crashable from the keyboard, especially as the result of such a minor transgression as this.

1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 276:

(computing) That can be crashed (made to malfunction and terminate).


wire speed

(computing) The (maximum) rate at which data can flow through a cable


autodiscovery

(computing) Automatic discovery, as of newsfeeds for a website or changes to the configuration of machines on a network.


VEOS

(computing) Initialism of virtual environment operating shell.


transflective

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display

(electronics, computing) Of a liquid crystal display: that reflects and transmits light.


Unihan

(computing, typography) A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.


freebooting

Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or "freebooting" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.

1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 15, page 30:

Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.

1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices:

Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.

Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!

2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting

(computing) Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.


LMB

(computing) Initialism of left mouse button.


kbps

Hughes says that this particular plan offers speeds of up to 700 kbps, with typical speeds at peak times of 400 to 500; it does not promise 700.

2009 June 7, “Corrections”, in New York Times:

(computing) Initialism of kilobits per second.


cmdlet

For example, the following command will display the cmdlets that can be executed by people who are in the Move Mailboxes role[…]

2010, Ken St. Cyr, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administration Instant Reference, page 491:

Generally, a cmdlet will run much faster than a script of the same functionality.

2011, John Paul Mueller, Professional Windows 7 Development Guide:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A specialized .NET class implementing a particular operation in Windows PowerShell.


newsbot

(computing) Any of various pieces of software designed to harvest articles from newsgroups, or from news websites.


augmented reality

en-noun

augmented reality (countable and uncountable, plural augmented realities)

/ɔːɡˌmɛntɪd ɹiːˈælɪti/

Augmented Reality enhances a user's perception of and interaction with the real world. The virtual objects display information that the user cannot directly detect with his own senses.

1997 August, Ronald T. Azuma, “A Survey of Augmented Reality”, in Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, volume 6, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 355–385:

Microsoft workers are calling on their employer to cancel a $480m contract to provide the US army with augmented reality (AR) headsets, saying they “do not want to become war profiteers”.

2019 February 22, Julia Carrie Wong, “‘We won't be war profiteers’: Microsoft workers protest $480m army contract”, in The Guardian:

(computing) The merging of a view of the real-world environment upon a digital image in real time.


treeware

(computing, slang, humorous) Documentation provided on paper.


magic word

/ˌmædʒɪk ˈwɜːd/

One of the magic words used in the MediaWiki software is __NOTOC__, which hides the table of contents that would normally be on the page.

The header consists of an optional self-execution script, a magic word, a version number, and the word offset of the first instruction, relative to the magic word.

2021, Clinton L. Jeffery, Build Your Own Programming Language, page 273:

(computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.


jailbroken

(computing, of an electronic device) Having undergone jailbreaking.


Unixy

en-adj

Unixy (comparative more Unixy, superlative most Unixy)

more Unixy (comparative)
most Unixy (superlative)

On the other hand, since dotfiles are a Unixy concept, we're not that concerned.

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:

Thing is, all that Unixy stuff is still there; you just can't see it. OS X manages to hide the files from view...

2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:

After all, if you want a listing of your local directory, you could use just plain ls (or any reasonable non-Unixy equivalent).

2008, C Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W Fitzpatrick, Version Control with Subversion:

(computing, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.


dotfile

There is also a dotfile generator, which you can use to create dotfiles for many different programs until you get the hang of it.

2003, James Lee, Brent Ware, Open source Web development with LAMP:

In general, a user-defined environment variable can be an effective design choice when the value changes often enough to make editing a dotfile each time […]

2004, Eric S. Raymond, The art of Unix programming:

(computing, Unix) A file or directory whose name begins with a dot (period or full stop), typically hidden from view and sometimes used to store configuration settings.


varchar

From the data type name, a shortening of variable character.

Be aware that varchars will in general provide slower updates but faster selects. By definition, the amount of storage they use is variable.

1999, David K. Rensin, Andrew M. Fedorchek, William C. Amo, Microsoft SQL Server 7 secrets:

With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes. So a varchar(20) with a 5-character word will take up 7 bytes, with the extra 2 bytes holding a size reference for SQL Server.

2008, Eric Johnson, Joshua Jones, A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server:

(computing, databases) A text field of indeterminate length in a database, as opposed to the traditional fixed-length field.


prebuffer

en-verb

prebuffer (third-person singular simple present prebuffers, present participle prebuffering, simple past and past participle prebuffered)

prebuffers (present singular third-person)
prebuffering (participle present)
prebuffered (participle past)
prebuffered (past)

(computing, transitive) To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback.


form feed

(computing) A control character traditionally used to cause the printer to eject the current page of output and start a new page, more recently equivalent to a carriage return.


AVL

(computing) Initialism of Adelson-Velsky and Landis, name of the three inventors of the data structure called an AVL tree.


autoloader

en:computer hardware or peripheral that loads tapes, disks, etc

(computing) A mechanical device that automatically loads storage media (such as tapes or disks) into the device that can read them.


stiffware

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(computing, rare, derogatory) Software that is inflexible, cannot be customized or upgraded, etc.


Microhoo

If it manages to win over Yahoo, the combined entity (already dubbed Microhoo on the Net) would be another behemoth, not only controlling e-mail and instant messenger (over 90 per cent share), but also standing significantly taller in the fight against Google.

2008 February 18, Sunit Arora, Arindam Mukherjee, “Knock Knock... MS Hoo”, in Outlook, volume 48, number 7, page 53:

Facing the Possibility of Microhoo!

Yahoo's systems are based heavily on Open Source. If Microsoft keeps them that way, it will lose credibility with customers.

2008, Lawrence D'Oliveiro, “Microhoo prognostications”, in nz.comp (Usenet):

MS is desperate to find something new that others might play catchup to, with little success. Their approach has almost always been claim jumping ("A market without competition, isn't."). That is hardly working for them anymore (witness Zune, Microhoo).

2008, Matt, “[News] Ogg is Coming to Hundreds of Millions of PCs!!”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

You made a really, really bad move getting in bed with microhoo, and it will cost you in the end.

2011, unknown author, “Went back to 3.5”, in mozilla.feedback.firefox (Usenet):

(computing, humorous) The company that would be formed by the acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft (the potential result of a merger proposed in the mid-2000s).


BBN

en-noun

BBN (countable and uncountable, plural BBNs)

(computing) Initialism of bulletin board network.


Javalike

en-adj

Javalike (comparative more Javalike, superlative most Javalike)

more Javalike (comparative)
most Javalike (superlative)

In contrast, C# is C++ extended with Javalike features, including automatic memory and object lifetime management...

2000 September 4, Infoworld, volume 22, number 36:

For just-in-time (JIT) compilation for Javalike systems, register allocation is also critical...

2003, Y N Srikant, Priti Shankar, The compiler design handbook: optimizations and machine code generation:

programming language
programming language

(computing) Resembling the Java programming language or some aspect of it.


unicast

In this paper, we describe a model of multicast service we call host groups and propose this model as a way to support multicast in the DARPA Internet environment [14]. We argue that it is feasible to implement this facility as an extension of the existing "unicast" IP datagram model and mechanism.

1985 December 10, S. E. Deering, D. R. Cheriton, “Host Groups: A Multicast Extension to the Internet Protocol”, in Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments number 966, archived from the original on 2001-12-25:

(computing, networking) Being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.


unicast

en-verb

unicast (third-person singular simple present unicasts, present participle unicasting, simple past and past participle unicasted or unicast)

unicasts (present singular third-person)
unicasting (participle present)
unicasted (participle past)
unicasted (past)
unicast (participle past)
unicast (past)

(computing, networking) To transmit in this manner.


subsubroutine

Audio (UK)

Some programming languages even permit a subroutine to contain itself as a subsubroutine; a brain-twisting arrangement.

1962, Robert Mills Gagné, Psychological principles in system development:

...hierarchies of subroutines and subsubroutines were used by the programmers to simplify their own organization, introducing a series of levels of control...

1965, Robert Engel Machol, Wilson P Tanner, Samuel N Alexander, System engineering handbook:

The goal stack mechanism makes it simple to represent hierarchical procedures, where routines call subroutines, which in turn call subsubroutines...

1990, Kurt VanLehn, Mind bugs: the origins of procedural misconceptions:

(computing, rare) A subroutine called from another subroutine.


megaflops

floating point operation
floating point operation

(computing) a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second.


graphician

From graphic + -ian, probably by analogy with musician.

I have a demogroup called Kontio and we need a graphician, who can make 2D and 3D. Our website is not yet online, but it will be someday. Contact me, if you are interested!!

2000, Teemu Lahti, “We need a graphician”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Darkage is desperatly ^([sic]) searching for a graphician!

1998, Lars Sobiraj, “graphician wanted!”, in alt.amiga.demos (Usenet):

(computing, nonstandard, chiefly demoscene) A designer of graphics for computer software.


nonwindowed

As you know, in a nonwindowed program, when the program needs input, it will prompt the user […]

2005, Herbert Schildt, Java: the complete reference:

(computing, graphical user interface) Not windowed: not presented in a graphical window.


multicolumn

The new Web site has a multicolumn layout.

We need to add a multicolumn constraint to the database.

(chiefly computing) Of or pertaining to more than one column.


multijoin

(computing, databases) Of or pertaining to more than one join (intersection of data).


ruleset

Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset.

2020 June 6, Alan Bernal, “Overwatch gets crazy minigames with epic WarioWare-inspired mod”, in Dexerto:

While CDL rulesets are something that will be gradually refined before and throughout the course of the season (not even including the players’ Gentlemen’s Agreements), there’s always a good few things to discuss when the Day 1 ruleset becomes available to peruse.

2021 November 4, Jacob Hale, “CoD Vanguard official CDL ruleset revealed: Day 1 rules”, in Dexerto:


all-in-one

(computing) A desktop computer having all major components, including the display, built into a single unit.


nonstreaming

a nonstreaming audio technology

(computing) Not transmitted by streaming.


laptronica

Blend of laptop + electronica. The term gained a certain degree of currency in the 1990s.

More recently, the notion of using a portable computer on stage became a reality and new forms of music including laptronica, the synthesis of laptop and electronica, were born.

2012, Leigh Landy, Making Music with Sounds, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:

(music, computing) Musical output made with a laptop computer combined with electronic devices, portable enough for live performances.


PHPer

(informal, computing) A user of the PHP programming language.


stdin

standard in (alternative)
standard input (alternative)

(computing) Standard input: a stream mapped to the primary input device, typically a keyboard.


stdout

standard out (alternative)
standard output (alternative)

(computing) Standard output: a stream mapped to the primary output device, typically a screen.


stderr

standard error (alternative)
standard err (alternative)

(computing) Standard error: a stream to which error messages are sent, often the same stream as stdout.


unshare

unshare (third-person singular simple present unshares, present participle unsharing, simple past and past participle unshared)

unshares (present singular third-person)
unsharing (participle present)
unshared (participle past)
unshared (past)

(computing, transitive) To stop sharing (a network resource etc.).


undeletion

en-noun

undeletion (usually uncountable, plural undeletions)

/ˌʌndɪˈliːʃən/

/ˌʌnˈdɪliːʃən/

(computing) Restoration of previously deleted content.


blittable

The lack of ambiguity in how they are marshaled is another characteristic of blittable types. A 32-bit signed integer is marshaled as a 32-bit signed integer. A single byte (8-bit unsigned integer) is marshaled as a byte.

2006, Bruce Bukovics, .NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach:


repro

repro (countable and uncountable, plural repros)

Here's a simple repro that illustrates what I'm seeing...

2014, S, “Memory bloat in Celery worker (with minimal repro)”, in celery-users mailing list:

(informal, computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.


repro

en-verb

repro (third-person singular simple present repros, present participle reproing, simple past and past participle reproed)

repros (present singular third-person)
reproing (participle present)
reproed (participle past)
reproed (past)

We cannot repro the bug in the latest version, so we are marking it as fixed.

(informal, computing) To reproduce (a bug or problem).


keymapping

(computing) A mapping of keys on a keyboard to commands; a key binding.


flying mouse

Compare Russian лету́чая мышь (letúčaja myšʹ, “flying mouse”).

ncog

лету́чая мышь

The system I quoted […] was a full system: 486 PC 8megRAM 140HD, 2 DVI boards, 1 Ascension Bird flying mouse (6D mouse with 3 buttons, used for navigation and interaction), 1 VirtualResearch Headmounted display, 1 Logitech Sonic 6D tracker for headmount, Sense8 software and environment.

1992, Maurice Sharp, “INDUSTRY: VPL's MicroCosm - Clarification from VPL”, in sci.virtual-worlds (Usenet):

My hope is that the system would be as friendly as possible. So, i like ^([sic]) to know how to start looking into possible I/O devices. i.e. flying mouse, voice activated programs, video capture card?...

1993, ala...@cerritos.edu, “Help! PC System Configuration”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware (Usenet):

Oh, and those wacky nonstandard mice — including the infamous 3D flying mouse — they need their own software to do their tricks.

2008, Dan Gookin, Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies, page 165:

(computing) An input device like a mouse that can be lifted from a surface and moved in three dimensions.


nontemporal

nontemporal load, nontemporal store

(computing) Without temporal locality, describing data not expected to be accessed again in the near future


X out

en-verb

X out (third-person singular simple present Xes out or Xs out, present participle Xing out, simple past and past participle Xed out)

Xes out (present singular third-person)
Xs out (present singular third-person)
Xing out (participle present)
Xed out (participle past)
Xed out (past)

When you have selected your desired settings, X out of the window and return to the document.

“There Are Giants in the Sky!” blasted from my computer, causing me to jump in my seat. I began fake coughing and scrambling to x out of the window just as Ms. Stark peeked up from her wire nest.

2016, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Kate Wetherhead, Jack and Louisa - Act 1, page 108:

(computing, informal) To close a window (typically by clicking a button marked with an X symbol).


multibooting

(computing) The use of a multiboot configuration.


UCA

Unicode Collation Algorithm
w:Unicode Collation Algorithm

(computing) Initialism of Unicode Collation Algorithm, an algorithm which defines a customizable method to compare two strings. These comparisons can then be used to collate or sort text in any writing system and language that can be represented with Unicode.


CLDR

(computing, typography) Initialism of Common Locale Data Repository: a project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data in the XML format for use in computer applications.


LDML

(computing) Initialism of Locale Data Markup Language, an XML format for the exchange of structured locale data.


multistream

multistream (third-person singular simple present multistreams, present participle multistreaming, simple past and past participle multistreamed)

multistreams (present singular third-person)
multistreaming (participle present)
multistreamed (participle past)
multistreamed (past)

(computing) To transmit multiple streams simultaneously.


passwordless

The passwordless server was soon hacked.

The system was passwordless because it used biometrics.

(computing) Without a password; not requiring a password.


nonhacker

Regardless of what you did, your nonhacker friends would get on your case constantly about not being able to get through to you on the telephone.

2002, Dan Verton, The hacker diaries: confessions of teenage hackers:

(computing, informal) One who is not a hacker.


previewer

For example, the Macintosh versions of TeX provide a screen previewer as a part of the basic package, whereas the screen previewer for the IBM PC is an extra.

1988, Institute for Scientific Information, “The Scientist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 2, numbers 1-12:

To view a file for which there is no previewer installed, save the file to disk and open it with the appropriate application.

2010, Jim Boyce, Microsoft® Outlook® 2010 Inside Out:

(computing) A program that provides a preview of a document or other work.

pūarokite

a programme that previews documents film and other such material, etc.


nonmemory

(computing) Not of or pertaining to memory (computer storage).


nonprinting

Some nonprinting characters are used to control formatting.

(computing, of a character) Not having a visual representation.


hackerish

en-adj

hackerish (comparative more hackerish, superlative most hackerish)

more hackerish (comparative)
most hackerish (superlative)

...requires users to disclose new and useful information on computer and network security or other hackerish subjects to be admitted to the privileged areas of the system.

1995, Lance Rose, NetLaw: your rights in the online world:

To find a hacker chat room, look for rooms with names like #2600, #phreak, #carding, #cracks, #anarchy, or any other phrase that sounds hackerish.

2006, Wally Wang, Steal this computer book 4.0: what they won't tell you about the Internet:

(computing, informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (malicious user who breaks into computer systems).


nonadministrator

nonadmin

computer user who is not an administrator

(computing) A user who is not an administrator and therefore has limited privileges on the system.


changeset

A changeset can be one specific set of changes to code — say, a bugfix patch — or a grouping of other changesets or groups of revisions.

2006, James Avery, Jim Holmes, Windows developer power tools:

This hook does not have any information about the changesets to be added, because it is run before transmission of those changesets is allowed to begin.

2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide:

Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.

2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git:

(computing) A set of changes, as in source control.


bugfix

This close collaboration usually resulted in quick turnaround times where bugfixes or extensions were concerned.

2003, Robert Baud, Marius Fieschi, The new navigators: from professionals to patients:

The difference is that new commits are restricted: only bugfixes are allowed.

2005, Joseph Feller, Perspectives on free and open source software:

(computing) A patch or change that fixes the unwanted behaviour caused by a bug.


flat file

When the flat file became unmanageable, we switched to a proper database system.

(computing) A data file containing usually one record per line.


feechur

(computing, slang, derogatory, rare) An undesirable or misimplemented feature (software or hardware capability).


frob

en-verb

frob (third-person singular simple present frobs, present participle frobbing, simple past and past participle frobbed)

frobs (present singular third-person)
frobbing (participle present)
frobbed (participle past)
frobbed (past)

Clipping of frobnicate, from frobnitz, coined circa 1958 by David R. Sawyer of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC). Year of origin uncertain, and could be 1958–1981: frob is not listed in the TMRC dictionaries of 1959 or 1960, and is first listed in the Jargon File (1981 edition), so it may date from the 1960s or 1970s. Possibly variant of or influenced by frotsus (“a protruding arm or trunnion”), which is listed in TMRC 1959 and 1960.

I sketched about 30 different versions, then scanned them in and played around until I got it right, then frobbed it with Photoshop.

1995, Wayne Ause, Instant HTML Web Pages, page 29:

(computing, slang, rare, transitive) To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.


homegroup

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A collection of home computers on a network, similar to a workgroup.


CPAN

(computing) Initialism of Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, an Internet-based archive of software modules written in the Perl programming language.


multiserver

In this chapter, we are going to broaden this basic installation out to numerous servers to create a multiserver farm.

2007, James Pyles, Christopher M Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Sharepoint 2007: the definitive guide:

(computing) Involving or pertaining to more than one server.


ECMA

ECMA-262 is managed and evolved by Ecma’s Technical Committee 39 ([…]) (TC39).

2014, Axel Rauschmayer, “Standardization: ECMAScript”, in Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:

(computing, see usage notes) Alternative letter-case form of Ecma (“Ecma International”).


typeahead

(computing) A feature of computer software (and some typewriters) that enables the user to continue typing regardless of program or computer operation, the keystrokes being queued as necessary when the system is busy.


SCN

en-noun

SCN (countable and uncountable, plural SCNs)

(computing) Initialism of server change number.


folderlike

en-adj

folderlike (comparative more folderlike, superlative most folderlike)

more folderlike (comparative)
most folderlike (superlative)

(computing) Resembling or characteristic of a folder (directory on disk).


shovelware

/ˈʃʌvəlwɛə(ɹ)/

Internet vanity broadcasts may be nice for station owner egos or 'WKRP' wannabes without a real transmission tower … But this is essentially audio shovelware, no better than dumping videos or books without interactive elements onto a CD-ROM or the Net.

1997, Robert H. Reid, Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business, New York, N.Y.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 86:

If you're going to buy eBay software, buy eBay software. That is, don't buy a CD with everything else in the world on it. CDs with everything in the world on them are known in the industry as shovelware. […] Anything offered as part of a shovelware package is suspect. If the eBay software seems to get lost in the hyped benefits of the shovelware package, it's probably not worth much.

2007, Joseph T. Sinclair, “Choosing Auction Management Software”, in eBay the Smart Way: Selling, Buying, and Profiting on the Web's #1 Auction Site, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: American Management Association, →ISBN, pages 339 and 340:

(computing, slang, derogatory) A haphazard collection of software assembled in terms of quantity rather than quality.


print out

en-verb

print out (third-person singular simple present prints out, present participle printing out, simple past and past participle printed out)

prints out (present singular third-person)
printing out (participle present)
printed out (participle past)
printed out (past)

(computing) to print (a computer document)


Pg Up

(computing, on a keyboard) page up (used to scroll up in a window)


Pg Dn

(computing, on a keyboard) page down (used to scroll down in a window)


intercloud

(computing) An interconnected set of clouds, in cloud computing.


multidirectory

You can build one for diskette install, for single-directory install, or for a multidirectory install.

1997, Art Scott, Eric Smith, Inside VBScript with ActiveX:

(computing) Of or pertaining to more than one directory (container structure in a file system).


macrolike

en-adj

macrolike (comparative more macrolike, superlative most macrolike)

more macrolike (comparative)
most macrolike (superlative)

(computing) Resembling or characteristic of a macro.


network interface card

en-noun

network interface card (plural network interface cards)

A computer hardware component designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network.


autologin

Use autologin if you don't want to type your password repeatedly.

(computing) A feature that automatically logs in to a system.


RLE

RLE (countable and uncountable, plural RLEs)

run-length encoding
run-length encoding#English

(computing) Initialism of run-length encoding.


bootsplash

You can also choose whether to show the bootsplash screen.

2006, Chris Negus, Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables, page 335:

Although Linux systems traditionally booted in text mode, most distributions now use kernel parameters and interim graphical display mechanisms (bootsplashes such as plymouth) to completely hide text mode as the system is booting.

2014, Brian Ward, How Linux Works, 2nd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know:

(computing) A splash screen displayed at bootup.


plug and play

plug & play (alternative)
plug-'n'-play (alternative)

(computing) A feature allowing new hardware added to a computer to be automatically detected and configured.

εφαρμογή και χρήση

feature that facilitates the discovery of a hardware component automatically


run-length encoding

run-length encoding (countable and uncountable, plural run-length encodings)

(computing) A simple data compression scheme in which sequences of the same item are replaced by one such item and a count (so for example the text BBBBB is stored as a single B with count of 5).


sexp

The fact that lists and sexps can contain nested lists and sexps is important...

1992, Michael A Schoonover, John S Bowie, William Robert Arnold, GNU Emacs: UNIX text editing and programming:

[…] HTML and CSS generation from sexps […]

2005, Peter Seibel, Practical Common Lisp:

symbolic expression
symbolic expression#English

(computing) Abbreviation of symbolic expression.


symbolic expression

symbolic expression (plural symbolic expressions)

(computing) A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.


pageable

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a pageable data source

(computing) Able to be divided into pages, or navigated as pages.


autohide

en-verb

autohide (third-person singular simple present autohides, present participle autohiding, simple past autohid, past participle autohidden)

autohides (present singular third-person)
autohiding (participle present)
autohid (past)
autohidden (participle past)

Restore an autohidden window by hovering over its icon.

(transitive, computing) To hide (a visual element) automatically.


multiselection

(computing, graphical user interface) Multiple selection; the ability to have more than one item selected at the same time.


intercycle

(obsolete, computing) The interval during which the operation of a punched card device was halted to allow time for processing of card contents


unicodification

(computing, informal) Conversion to a format, platform, etc. compatible with Unicode.


OEL

Oracle Enterprise Linux
w:Oracle Enterprise Linux

(computing) Initialism of Oracle Enterprise Linux.


deinitialize

deinitialize (third-person singular simple present deinitializes, present participle deinitializing, simple past and past participle deinitialized)

deinitializes (present singular third-person)
deinitializing (participle present)
deinitialized (participle past)
deinitialized (past)

(transitive, computing) To release any resources that were allocated to (some object or process) as part of initialization.


deinitialization

(computing) The process of deinitializing.


load time

en-noun

load time (countable and uncountable, plural load times)

(computing, often attributive) The point at which a program is put into an executable state.

(computing) The amount of time taken to load something.


noncaching

a noncaching algorithm


gridline

(computing, graphical user interface) A line that forms part of a grid.


smallcap

en-verb

smallcap (third-person singular simple present smallcaps, present participle smallcapping, simple past and past participle smallcapped)

smallcaps (present singular third-person)
smallcapping (participle present)
smallcapped (participle past)
smallcapped (past)

(computing, typography) To set in small caps.


listserver

listservers (plural)
list server (alternative)
list-server (alternative)

EndNote also has a well-established discussion group on a listserver maintained by the company.

1998 July 3, Brian Shmaefsky, “Software: Order at the End”, in Science, volume 281, number 5373, →DOI:

(computing) A server that distributes messages to members of an e-mail list.


CLR

But we can't use function pointers as we would in C++, and not just for the ideological reason that it doesn't enter into the spirit of the brave new pointerless world of the CLR.

2003, Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams, .NET Windows forms in a nutshell, page 18:

Common Language Runtime
Common Language Runtime#English

(computing) Initialism of Common Language Runtime.


transactionality

en-noun

transactionality (countable and uncountable, plural transactionalities)

(countable, computing) The degree to which a database or other system is transactional.


metadynamics

(mathematics, computing, physics, chemistry) An algorithmic method of simulating rare complex systems and for calculating the free energy associated with them


intelligent system

intelligent system (plural intelligent systems)

1992, Ramzan A. Khuwaja, Martha W. Evens, Allen A. Rovick and Joel A. Michael, Knowledge Representation for an Intelligent Tutoring System Based on a Multilevel Causal Model, in Claude Frasson, Gilles Gauthier, Gordon McCalla (editors), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Second International Conference, ITS '92,
Knowledge is central for an intelligent system. A knowledge representation framework, which distinguishes between several generic types of knowledge and structures them in several layers, provides one of the most powerful ways of designing an intelligent system.

This computer program can be considered an intelligent system for the domain of Non-linear Dynamical Systems (NDS) because it uses SC techniques to obtain the "best" mathematical model for a given dynamic system.

2002, Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo, Modelling, Simulation and Control of Non-linear Dynamical Systems:

2007, Adrianna Kosierkiewicz and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, The Statistical Verification of Rough Classification Algorithms in Bruno Apolloni, Robert J. Howlett, L. C. Jain (editors), Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (conference proceedings),
German Tutor [5] is another intelligent system which helps learning foreign languages.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) A computer system that uses techniques derived from artificial intelligence, particularly one in which such techniques are central to the operation or design of the system.


computational intelligence

(computing) A field of study that covers traditional artificial intelligence together with neural networks and fuzzy systems etc.


DND

D&D (alternative)
DnD (alternative)
D'N'D (alternative)

(computing) Initialism of drag and drop.


uniprocessor

(computing) A single processor (CPU) that can work sequentially on a single task at a time.


bitness

bitness (usually uncountable, plural bitnesses)

Execute an API or DLL call of the wrong bitness from within any of these programs and the result is an unrecoverable run-time error.

1995 August, InfoWorld, volume 17, number 30:

Thunking allows parameters to be pushed correctly on the stack, enables a DLL of a different bitness to load in your process, and converts memory addresses...

1995, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft office 95 data access reference:

Since both user mode and kernel mode have the same "bitness," 16-bit and 32-bit stacks do not need to be distinguished.

1997, Stan Mitchell, Inside the Windows 95 file system:

Table 7.1 summarizes the bitness requirements for TSPs under the various versions of TAPI and Windows.

1998, Chris Sells, Windows telephony programming: a developer's guide to TAPI:

(computing) The architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits (binary digits) compose the basic values it can evaluate.


classloader

(computing, Java) A mechanism for dynamically loading classes into a virtual machine.


classloading

(computing, Java) The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.


JAPH

(computing, programming) A program written in Perl that outputs the text Just another Perl hacker, usually programmed in an obfuscated manner so that the output is not obvious until it is run.


bootability

(computing) The state or condition of being bootable.


superpolynomial

en-adj

superpolynomial (comparative more superpolynomial, superlative most superpolynomial)

more superpolynomial (comparative)
most superpolynomial (superlative)

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(computing, mathematics) Describing an algorithm whose execution time is not limited by a polynomial


livelocked

(computing) Unable to proceed because of livelock.


multigrid

We will give a systematic introduction to basic multigrid. Our intention is to give sufficient detail on multigrid for model problems […]

2001, Ulrich Trottenberg et al., Multigrid, Academic Press.:

differential equation
differential equation

(mathematics, computing) A class of techniques for solving algebraic or differential equations that employs a hierarchy of discretizations


multigrid

(mathematics, computing) Relating to or utilising a multigrid method.


quasirandom

(computing) Apparently random, but produced by a non-random algorithm (typically from a given "seed")


D/L

en-verb

D/L (third-person singular simple present D/Ls, present participle D/Ling, simple past and past participle D/Led)

D/Ls (present singular third-person)
D/Ling (participle present)
D/Led (participle past)
D/Led (past)
DL (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)


data binding

(computing) A general technique that binds together two data sources (or two separate representations of the same data) and keeps them synchronized.


parallelizability

(mathematics, computing) The condition of being parallelizable.


binarization

en-noun

binarization (countable and uncountable, plural binarizations)

(computing) Conversion of a tree to one with at most two children per node.


nonpipelined

The 80386 offers both pipelined and nonpipelined bus cycles.

1989, Penn Brumm, Don Brumm, 80386, a programming and design handbook:


nonscrolling

Commands are accessed through buttons in a nonscrolling area above the document.


subchunk

GetData goes down into the data subchunk as well, as can be seen in Listing 14.7.

1996, Michael Morrison, Randy Weems, Windows 95 game developer's guide using the game SDK:

A LIST chunk is another parent chunk that may include several subchunks as well.

1999, Michael D Root, James R Boer, DirectX complete:

(computing) A chunk (block of data) forming part of a larger chunk.


precache

en-verb

precache (third-person singular simple present precaches, present participle precaching, simple past and past participle precached)

precaches (present singular third-person)
precaching (participle present)
precached (participle past)
precached (past)

(transitive, computing) To cache in advance.


metamodel

metamodels (plural)
meta-model (alternative)
meta model (alternative)

(computing) A model of the modelling process itself.


metaservice

(computing) An abstraction of the workflow in a network


statechart

(computing) Any of several UML state machines.


subcycling

(mathematics, computing) An algorithmic technique involving integration with progressively smaller steps


subprocess

subprocess (third-person singular simple present subprocesses, present participle subprocessing, simple past and past participle subprocessed)

subprocesses (present singular third-person)
subprocessing (participle present)
subprocessed (participle past)
subprocessed (past)

(transitive) To process as part of a larger overall process.


crapplet

crapplets (plural)
craplet (alternative)

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


data cube

data cubes (plural)
datacube (alternative)

(computing) A very large three-dimensional array or table

κύβος δεδομένων

computing:very large three-dimensional array or table


save down

save down (third-person singular simple present saves down, present participle saving down, simple past and past participle saved down)

saves down (present singular third-person)
saving down (participle present)
saved down (participle past)
saved down (past)

(computing) To write a computer file to disk.


metaobject

metaobjects (plural)
meta-object (alternative)

(computing) Any entity that manipulates, creates, describes, or implements others


choppable

en-adj

choppable (comparative more choppable, superlative most choppable)

more choppable (comparative)
most choppable (superlative)

Those carrots are easily choppable.

Only choppable paths in your design may be broken up by the router.


deallocation

en-noun

deallocation (countable and uncountable, plural deallocations)

(computing) The release of a portion of storage that had previously been allocated to a specific task.


KLOC

From K (“thousand”) + LOC (“lines of code”).

The formula is based on thousands of lines of source code (kLOC) and incorporates Fagan's recommendations for inspection pace, meeting duration, and frequency:
elapsed time (in days) = 3 × n kLOC
Here n is an estimate of how many thousands of lines of code will be inspected.

1991, Glen W. Russell, Experience with Inspection in Ultralarge-Scale Developments (Bell-Northern Research)

It concludes that defects are found 2 to 4 times faster with inspection than with testing, that defects are typically found at the rate of one defect per man hour invested in inspection, and that inspection finds about 37 defects per kloc if it is done properly.

1993, Terry Shepard in Proceedings of the National Workshop on Software Engineering Education (IBM Canada)

In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count KLOCs, and a KLOC is a thousand line of code.

1996, Steve Ballmer in Triumph of the Nerds II: Riding the Bear (Robert X. Cringely, Paul Sen), about 38 minutes in, relating events around 1989

(computing, programming) Abbreviation of thousand lines of code.


pseudotype

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(computing) Something resembling, or having certain characteristics of, a data type.


autoredirection

autoredirection (usually uncountable, plural autoredirections)

autoredirections (plural)
auto-redirection (alternative)

/ˌɔːtəʊɹiːdɪˈɹɛkʃən/


RAS

(computing) Initialism of remote access service.


datasheet

datasheets (plural)
data sheet (alternative)

(computing, databases) A display of the records in a table, arranged in rows and columns.


deserializer

(computing) An algorithm that deserializes data.


serializer

(computing) A software component that serializes data.


booter

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JavaOS works with a variety of booters.

1999, Tom Saulpaugh, Charles A Mirho, Inside the JavaOS operating system:

If the firmware cannot locate a booter file, you will see a flashing folder icon with a question mark.

2009, Kevin M White, Mac OS X Support Essentials v106:

(computing) A program or process that boots.

To allow full use of the system's limited resources and prevent users from making pirated copies of the game, the first version of Microsoft Flight Simulator was a booter, rather than being run from within DOS.

(computing, video games) A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standardized operating system.

(computing) The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.


biomodelling

(computing, biology) The modelling of biological systems, especially of ecosystems


backpressure

backpressure (countable and uncountable, plural backpressures)

backpressures (plural)
back pressure (alternative)

(computing) The buildup of unprocessed data due to a bottleneck.


escaper

an HTML escaper; a query escaper

(computing) A program or algorithm for escaping text.


FSM

FSM (countable and uncountable, plural FSMs)

finite-state machine
finite-state machine#English

(countable, computing) Initialism of finite-state machine.


MDA

MDA (countable and uncountable, plural MDAs)

(uncountable, computing) Initialism of monochrome display adapter.


MRT

MRT (countable and uncountable, plural MRTs)

malicious (software) removal tool
w:Malicious Software Removal Tool

(computing) Initialism of malicious (software) removal tool.


NER

named-entity recognition
w:named-entity recognition

(computing) Initialism of named-entity recognition.


SDN

(computing) Initialism of Sun Developer Network.


FK

(computing, databases) Initialism of foreign key.


bignum

(computing) A number whose digits of precision are limited only by available memory (as opposed to the usual fixed-point arithmetic).

Then there's the membership fee. A serious bignum.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 198:

(by extension, computing slang) A very large number.


MQ

MQ (countable and uncountable, plural MQs)

(countable, computing) Initialism of message queue.


PID

(computing) Initialism of process identifier.


argumentless

(mathematics, computing, of a function, constructor, etc.) Without arguments.


WF

Windows Workflow Foundation
w:Windows Workflow Foundation

(computing) Initialism of Windows Workflow Foundation.


subword

(computing) A portion of a word (fixed-size group of bits).


subword

Therefore, to implement this packed add operation, it is necessary and sufficient to block the carry propagation across the subword boundaries.

2001, Yu Hen Hu, Programmable Digital Signal Processors: Architecture, page 98:

(computing) Of less than a word (fixed-size group of bits).


seminumerical

Generating random numbers is a seminumerical problem.

(computing, mathematics) Having some aspects that are numerical and others that are not.


policer

a traffic policer; a bandwidth policer

(computing) A software component that enforces a security policy.


MFC

MFC (countable and uncountable, plural MFCs)

(computing) Initialism of multifunction centre, a printer-scanner combination, sometimes with a fax machine included.


MFC

IBM Music Feature Card
w:IBM Music Feature Card

(computing) Initialism of IBM Music Feature Card.


noncoder

Alas the great rush to the seductions of all this new technical possibility effectively drowned most existing agendas in designers' programming culture. For the first time, the majority of computer users were noncoders.

2013, Mario Carpo, The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012, page 186:

The first few chapters are also suitable as an in-depth introduction to bitcoin for noncoders—those trying to understand the inner workings of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

2014, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies, page xi:

(computing) One who is not a coder (computer programmer).


nondefault

In other words, you need to restore datafiles to a nondefault location.

2007, Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, Arup Nanda, RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g: A Problem-Solution Approach:


wyde

From wide, respelled analogously to byte from bite.

We would then take a surrogate pair consisting of two wydes: the first from the high area, the second from the low area.

2007, Yannis Haralambous, Fonts & Encodings, page 64:

(computing) Two-byte unsigned data, mainly used for a Unicode character.


AltGr

(computing) Alternative spelling of Alt Gr.


Alt Gr

Abbreviation of alternate graphic, as originally used to produce box-drawing graphic characters.

(computing) A keyboard key that can be pressed simultaneously with other keys to result in additional characters such as accented letters and currency symbols.


malvertising

(computing) Internet advertising whose real intention is to deliver malware to the viewer's computer.


computing language

computing language (plural computing languages)

(computing) computer language, programming language


strong typing

(computing, programming) A system that places any of various kinds of restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.


backlink

As mentioned, the major downside to using backlinks is that they are tied to a specific NetWare server and not tied to the external reference objects location in the NDS tree.

2002, Jeffrey F. Hughes, Blair W. Thomas, Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks, page 467:

(computing) A reference to an object on another server, allowing it to be updated periodically.

(computing) A link to another page that links to the current one, often in an automatically assembled list of links to all other such pages, allowing for bidirectional navigation.


failback

failback (countable and uncountable, plural failbacks)

(computing) The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).


caret notation

The backspace in caret notation is ^H.

(computing) A notation where each control character is represented by a caret followed by a letter or symbol.