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

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

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


multijoin

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


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.


microtransaction

Microtransactions have created controversy among video game fans. Some people believe that games with microtransactions can be addictive. Players keep buying new items. Little by little, the charges add up.

2020, Josh Gregory, Apex Legends: Microtransactions, Cherry Lake, page 6

The problem with consumers is that they are often quick to label any microtransaction as P2W, which muddies the discussion of ethical game design.

2022, Joshua Bycer, Game Design Deep Dive: Free-to-Play, CRC Press, page 5

(economics, video games) A transaction for a very small amount of money (a micropayment).


all-in-one

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


modchip

Installing a new hard drive would require a modchip that can reprogram or bypass the hard drive lock.

2003, Andrew Huang, Hacking the Xbox: an introduction to reverse engineering

The goal of this hack is to install a modchip into your Xbox.

2004, Joe Grand, Frank Thornton, Albert Yarusso, Game console hacking: have fun while voiding your warranty

Sony argued that the access code reader was a 'technological protection measure' and that the 'modchip' was a 'circumvention device'.

2006, Dennis Campbell, The Internet: Laws and Regulatory Regimes

A computer chip or similar hardware device used to modify the behaviour of a games console.


nonstreaming

a nonstreaming audio technology

(computing) Not transmitted by streaming.


backreference

The third part of the regular expression, \1, is the backreference and tells ColdFusion to refer back to the first subexpression[…]

2003, Rob Brooks-Bilson, Programming ColdFusion MX

Path traversal occurs when directory backreferences are used in a path to gain access to the parent folder of a subfolder.

(regular expressions) An item in a regular expression equivalent to the text matched by an earlier pattern in the expression.


backreference

en-verb

backreference (third-person singular simple present backreferences, present participle backreferencing, simple past and past participle backreferenced)

backreferences (present singular third-person)
backreferencing (participle present)
backreferenced (participle past)
backreferenced (past)

By wrapping it in parentheses, the attributes can be reused by backreferencing this part of the pattern[…]

2009, Larry Ullman, Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide, page 237

It doesn't change what the part matches, so /\d+/ and /(\d+)/ will still match as many digits as possible, but in the latter case they will be remembered in a special variable to be backreferenced later.

2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Programming Perl, page 46

(regular expressions, transitive) To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).


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, page 16

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


stderr

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


stdout

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


stdin

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


PHPer

programming language
programming language

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


sandbox game

This was the ultimate sandbox game. By providing a simple, yet rich simulation, it gave the user the tools with which to create his own fun.

2004, Tracy Fullerton, Christopher Swain, Steven Hoffman, Game design workshop: designing, prototyping, and playtesting games

In contrast, a sandbox game such as Civilization operates more like a hobby […]

2007, Katie Salen, The ecology of games: connecting youth, games, and learning

[…] the sequel to the military-themed sandbox game known as Mercenaries […]

(video games, roleplaying games) A game with no linear storyline or specific goal, the player deriving amusement from a range of open-ended interactions or situations.


Big Blue

From the size of the company and the colour of its logo.


greylist

(Internet) A technique for blocking spam (junk e-mail) by temporarily rejecting mail from unknown senders. A legitimate sender is likely to try sending again after a delay.


screenie

Screenies: these boys spent very large amounts of time in front of a screen of some sort — 10 per cent of boys spend over seven hours every day in front of a screen — but had low levels of physical activity and sleep.

2012, Phillip T. Slee, Marilyn Campbell, Barbara Spears, Child, Adolescent and Family Development, Cambridge University Press, page 377

The study found three clusters of boys: 'sporties', 'screenies' and 'autonomes' (the last group spending a lot of time in self-starting pursuits, either by themselves or with peers).

2013, Tony Ward, Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals, Routledge

(informal) Someone who spends a lot of time in front of a (television or computer) screen.


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.


respec

en-verb

respec (third-person singular simple present respecs, present participle respeccing, simple past and past participle respecced)

respecs (present singular third-person)
respeccing (participle present)
respecced (participle past)
respecced (past)

Last night I paid 5 gold to the trainer to respec as a shadow priest.

(video games, slang) To reallocate the distribution of skill points on a character's skill tree, changing their specialization.


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


keymapping

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


Fortranlike

en-adj

Fortranlike (comparative more Fortranlike, superlative most Fortranlike)

more Fortranlike (comparative)
most Fortranlike (superlative)

A wide variety of variable transformations can be accomplished in SPSS by means of simplified Fortranlike statements constructed by the user.

1975, Norman H Nie, SPSS: statistical package for the social sciences

Other design languages also use Fortranlike statements and can be used with FORTRAN routines.

1986, Michael F Hordeski, CAD/CAM techniques

They solve problems on explicit state space form, x = f(t,x), if the user defines a Fortranlike procedure which calculates f(t,x).

1992, Mohammad Jamshidi, Charles J Herget, Recent advances in computer-aided control systems engineering

(computer languages) Resembling or characteristic of Fortran.


repro

en-noun

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).


dot matrix printer

en-noun

dot matrix printer (plural dot matrix printers)

(computer hardware) A type of printer that prints characters using an array of small wires that produce an array of dots when striking the paper.


antimalware

(computer security) Designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system.

haittaohjelmien torjuntaohjelma

designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system


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 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.


normal form

(databases) Any of various forms of a relational database providing criteria for determining a table's degree of vulnerability to logical inconsistencies and anomalies.

normaalimuoto

databases: form of a relational database


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.)


cyberlocker

These services offered free online cyberlockers with a capacity of twenty-five CDs...

2006, Patrick Burkart, Tom McCourt, Digital music wars: ownership and control of the celestial jukebox

He talks about "cyberlockers" – online digital storage – which he acknowledges have perfectly legal uses, but which he says are also used by people to share files illegally.

2009 November 20, Charles Arthur, “Why are cyberlockers suddenly such a problem, Lord Mandelson?”, in The Guardian

(Internet) An Internet resource for the storage of personal digital files.


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.


z-fighting

/ˈziː.fʌɪ.ɾɪŋ/

(computer graphics) A phenomenon in three-dimensional rendering where two or more primitives have similar values in the z-buffer, causing flickering as one is displayed varyingly behind or in front of the other.


cursorless

(databases) Without a cursor or cursors.


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.


passwordless

The passwordless server was soon hacked.

The system was passwordless because it used biometrics.

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


previewer

pūarokite

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

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.


nonmemory

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


wallhacker

(video games) A player who uses wallhacks.


wallhack

He was so good, I figured I could learn something by watching it. I couldn't understand why I couldn't get anything at all from the demo, until I discovered he was using the wallhack.

2002 July 28, Hedgehog, “Cheating bastard - was Re: Wallhack”, in alt.games.quake3 (Usenet), message-ID <3D44478B.DA7AB89@KIspamLLpernc.com>

Wallhacks expose everyone on a map so cheaters get a huge advantage of knowing when you’re about to push a point or turn a corner.

2020 May 6, Tom Warren, “The world’s biggest PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers”, in The Verge

(video games) A patch enabling a player to cheat by modifying the properties of walls, as by making them transparent or nonsolid.


wallhack

wallhack (third-person singular simple present wallhacks, present participle wallhacking, simple past and past participle wallhacked)

wallhacks (present singular third-person)
wallhacking (participle present)
wallhacked (participle past)
wallhacked (past)

im like damn this guy is good.. then the next round... I noticed he wallhacked me... started shooting me before he came around and I was silent walking...

2002 March 18, Marcus Leach, “MafiaTech - Why must they cheat? (funny story and video)”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet), message-ID <1tzl8.39041$Q9.9349739@twister.kc.rr.com>

Got wallhacked in PVP (first world problem)
Oh no, HD-DVD (first world problem)

2010 April 6, “First World Problem”, in MC Frontalot (music), Zero Day


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).


tagholder

Some co.uk domains, including mine, now display a "Trading as..." line. Does this perhaps indicate that the reg-type field is set, and is set to something other than IND? What are the possible values for the field? My tagholder doesn't show it in the control panel as yet.

2002, Philomena, “Nominet WHOIS”, in alt.internet.providers.uk (Usenet)

Now, if they weren't members and tagholders, each of those domains would be costing them around GBP70. I'll leave you to do the maths on that one.

2002, Adam D. Barratt, “AceInternet”, in alt.internet.providers.uk (Usenet)

(Internet, historical) Formerly, any domain registrar serving the .uk top-level domain.


noneven

(graph theory) Of a digraph, having no cycles of even weight


Lisplike

Lisplike (comparative more Lisplike, superlative most Lisplike)

more Lisplike (comparative)
most Lisplike (superlative)

(programming) Resembling or characteristic of the programming language Lisp.


tilebased

(computer graphics) Having a visual representation consisting of a usually rectangular grid of tiles.


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.


speedrunner

(video games) A player who performs speedruns.


SPARQL

(computer languages, Internet) SPARQL protocol and RDF query language (a recursive acronym), a semantic Web technology.


retweet

en-verb

retweet (third-person singular simple present retweets, present participle retweeting, simple past and past participle retweeted)

retweets (present singular third-person)
retweeting (participle present)
retweeted (participle past)
retweeted (past)

Because your messages will be relevant to them, they are much more likely to retweet your messages and recommend that other people follow you on Twitter.

2009, Geert Conard, Friends with Benefits, Networking in a New Economy

(Twitter) To repost or forward another user's message on the microblogging social networking website Twitter.


retweet

You know it's an iPhone or iPad app, but those new to you, who came via a retweet or Twitter search, may not know which platform your app supports.

2011, Dave Wooldridge, Michael Schneider, The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development, page 339

According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]

2013, Daxton Stewart, Social Media and the Law, page 42

The sheer density of information and misinformation at the End, encapsulated in news articles and message-board theories and clickbait traps that had propagated hysterically through retweets and shares, had effectively rendered us more ignorant, more helpless, more innocent in our stupidity.

(Twitter) A message reposted or forwarded in this way.


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

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.

Hand me that frob there, will you?

(MIT, slang) Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.


frob

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)

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.

Why don't you go get lunch? I need to frob with this thing for about 30 minutes and then we'll be good to go.

(Silicon Valley, slang) To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.

(programming, Linux, Gnu C) To transform and obscure in a trivial fashion with memfrob(3).


CPAN

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


homegroup

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


anycast

From any + -cast, from broadcast. Compare unicast, multicast.

(networking) A network addressing and routing scheme whereby data is routed to the nearest or best destination as viewed by the routing topology.


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.


LM

(graphical user interface) Abbreviation of layout manager.

However, from the perspective of work on language technology, it is far from clear that all of the effort being put into using large LMs to ‘beat’ tasks designed to test natural language understanding, and all of the effort to create new such tasks, once the existing ones have been bulldozed by the LMs, brings us any closer to long-term goals of general language understanding systems.

2021 March 3, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Virtual Event Canada: ACM, →DOI, pages 610–623

(machine learning) Initialism of language model.


pie menu

(computing, graphical user interface) A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu.


double jump

double jump (third-person singular simple present double jumps, present participle double jumping, simple past and past participle double jumped)

double jumps (present singular third-person)
double jumping (participle present)
double jumped (participle past)
double jumped (past)

The rocket pack upgrade lets you double jump.

(video games) To execute a second jump while still in midair from the first jump.


double jump

A well-timed double jump will let you skip this obstacle entirely.

(video games) A second jump executed while still in midair from the first jump.


chatlog

(Internet) A log of an online chat between users or between a user and one or more chatbots.


goroutine

From Go (“programming language”) + routine, to rhyme with coroutine.

Exercise 14.8: Starting from the Fibonacci-program in Listing 6.10, make a solution which isolates the calculation of the Fibonacci-terms in a goroutine, which sends these results on a channel. Close the channel when finished.

2012, Ivo Balbaert, The Way to Go, page 406

(programming) A lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.


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.


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., page 45

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


tight loop

(programming) A loop which contains few instructions and iterates many times.

(programming) Such a loop which heavily uses I/O or processing resources, failing to adequately share them with other programs running in the operating system.


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).


connectionless

(networking) Without the use of a constant connection; sending and receiving data arbitrarily as needed, usually with less reliability than if a connection were held open.


Caesar cipher

From its supposed use by Julius Caesar to communicate with his generals.

A simple form of encryption in which each letter in the plaintext is shifted through the alphabet a number of positions (for example A→D, B→E, C→F, etc.).


critical section

en-noun

critical section (plural critical sections)

The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section.

2011, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Shaz Qadeer, Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference

(programming) A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.


storage medium

(computer hardware) Any hardware (such as disks or tape) used to store data


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, 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, 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 Dn

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


Pg Up

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


banner blindness

Coined by Jan Panero Benway and David M. Lane for their 1998 paper Banner Blindness: The Irony of Attention Grabbing on the World Wide Web

While consumers learned to develop "banner blindness" when performing keyword queries on search engines,[…]

2004, Catherine Seda, Search engine advertising: buying your way to the top to increase sales

A tendency to ignore banner ads and similar-looking banners on websites.

bannerisokeus

desensitization to attention-attracting means

nevospriimčivostʹ k reklamnym obʺjavlenijam

невосприимчивость к рекламным объявлениям


intercloud

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


macrolike

en-adj

macrolike (comparative more macrolike, superlative most macrolike)

more macrolike (comparative)
most macrolike (superlative)

(computing) Resembling or characteristic of a macro.


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).


permalink

(Internet) A permanent (unchanging) link to an individual blog entry or news item on the World Wide Web.


permalink

en-verb

permalink (third-person singular simple present permalinks, present participle permalinking, simple past and past participle permalinked)

permalinks (present singular third-person)
permalinking (participle present)
permalinked (participle past)
permalinked (past)

(Internet, transitive) To create a permalink to.


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.


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).


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

(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


hyperparameter

The ideal learning algorithm just takes a dataset and outputs a function, without requiring hand tuning of hyperparameters.

2016, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, chapter 11, in Deep Learning, MIT Press, page 420

“Model behaviour is not determined by architecture, hyperparameters, or optimizer choices,” he said, referring to the technical difficulties of training a language model. “It’s determined by your dataset, nothing else. […]”

2024 May 4, Alex Hern, Dan Milmo, quoting James Betker, “Danger and opportunity for news industry as AI woos it for vital human-written copy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(machine learning) A parameter whose value is set before the learning process begins.


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.


palette window

(graphical user interface) A window often with miniaturized graphical user interface widgets housing a collection of related tools/commands for a particular task. The contemporary behavior is for the window to be a floating palette, floating over the main document window.


fighting game

(video games) A video game of a type based around interpersonal combat, often in a tournament setting, in which characters fight until their HP is depleted or the round timer expires.


palette swap

en-verb

palette swap (third-person singular simple present palette swaps, present participle palette swapping, simple past and past participle palette swapped)

palette swaps (present singular third-person)
palette swapping (participle present)
palette swapped (participle past)
palette swapped (past)

While there's a decent variety of enemy types in the game, those same enemies also tend to get palette swapped as the game progresses.

(computer graphics, video games) To change the color palette used to render a palettized image.


palette swap

Nintendo's Luigi character started out as a palette swap of Mario.

(computer graphics, video games) An image that is the same as another but rendered with a different colour palette.


pageable

a pageable data source

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

(computer science, of computer memory) Able to be paged in and paged out.


arboricity

en-noun

arboricity (countable and uncountable, plural arboricities)

(graph theory) The minimum number of forests into which the edges of an undirected graph may be partitioned.


multiselection

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


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.


triplestore

(databases) A database designed for the storage and retrieval of RDF (Resource Description Framework) metadata in the form of triples.


unicodification

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


intercycle

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


multihop

(networking) Proceeding in multiple hops


OEL

Oracle Enterprise Linux
w:Oracle Enterprise Linux

(computing) Initialism of Oracle Enterprise Linux.


ray casting

First used in a 1982 paper by Scott Roth.

(computer graphics) The calculation of intersections between a ray and a surface.


deinitialization

(computing) The process of deinitializing.


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.


RAII

With RAII, the closing action cannot be skipped or bypassed, even if the function exits the scope prematurely with an early return or by throwing an exception.

2019, Fedor G. Pikus, Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, page 469

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming#English

(programming) Initialism of Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (a popular design pattern in object-oriented programming that ties resources to the lifespan of associated objects to prevent resource leakage.)

CADRe

Constructor Acquires, Destructor Releases


tweetup

A meeting in person organised on the social networking web site Twitter.


noncaching

a noncaching algorithm


gridline

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


snapline

(graphical user interface) A guideline shown while adding an item to a user interface to help align it with other items.


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.


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

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.


antihole

(graph theory) Clipping of graph antihole.


preselection

en-noun

preselection (countable and uncountable, plural preselections)

In compos which are potentially crammed like the music compos, preselection is a necessary evil. [...] 15-16 songs [...] are thus chosen to be played to the audience.

Every entry will be released [...], unless it was preselected/disqualified, or the competition was canceled.

2012, Demodays demoparty, General Rules (All Compos)

(demoscene) The process of a jury selecting entries to be shown in a competition when there are too many entries for the audience or schedule. The term preselection is often used with the opposite meaning in demoscene context, i.e. selecting entries not to be shown.


whiteboarding

(Internet) A collaborative discussion over the Internet in which participants can write and draw on a shared space resembling a whiteboard.


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

transactionality (countable and uncountable, plural transactionalities)

(uncountable, computing) The condition of being transactional

(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


fwd

en-verb

fwd (third-person singular simple present fwds, present participle fwding, simple past and past participle fwded)

fwds (present singular third-person)
fwding (participle present)
fwded (participle past)
fwded (past)


multiqubit

en-adj

multiqubit (comparative more multiqubit, superlative most multiqubit)

more multiqubit (comparative)
most multiqubit (superlative)

(quantum computing) Involving multiple qubits


intelligent system

en-noun

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.


pingback

(Internet) A message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger.


mystery meat navigation

Reportedly coined in 1998 by Web designer Vincent Flanders.

(informal, derogatory, Internet) A system of navigation on a website in which the user cannot immediately determine the target of any hyperlink but has to interact with it in some way (such as hovering with the mouse).


DND

(computing) Initialism of drag and drop.


uniprocessor

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


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.


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.


reblog

en-verb

reblog (third-person singular simple present reblogs, present participle reblogging, simple past and past participle reblogged)

reblogs (present singular third-person)
reblogging (participle present)
reblogged (participle past)
reblogged (past)

(transitive, Internet) To blog something previously posted on another blog, in particular to share a post on a microblogging platform.

rebloggen

to blog something previously posted on another blog


reblog

My controversial post got thousands of reblogs within a week.

(Internet) The reposting of something previously posted on another blog.


multicasting

en-noun

multicasting (countable and uncountable, plural multicastings)

Unlike broadcasting, multicasting allows each host to choose whether it wants to accept multicast packets.

2009, Robert Rümmler, Alexander Daniel Gluhak, Hamid Aghvami, Multicast in Third-Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Mechanisms and Performance, John Wiley & Sons, page 14

(networking) The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.


superpolynomial

en-adj

superpolynomial (comparative more superpolynomial, superlative most superpolynomial)

more superpolynomial (comparative)
most superpolynomial (superlative)

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


portscan

en-verb

portscan (third-person singular simple present portscans, present participle portscanning, simple past and past participle portscanned)

portscans (present singular third-person)
portscanning (participle present)
portscanned (participle past)
portscanned (past)

(networking, transitive) To scan (a network host) in order to detect open ports.


portscan

(networking) The scanning of a network host in order to detect open ports.


unfavorite

unfavorite (third-person singular simple present unfavorites, present participle unfavoriting, simple past and past participle unfavorited)

unfavorites (present singular third-person)
unfavoriting (participle present)
unfavorited (participle past)
unfavorited (past)

How do I unfavorite a tweet?

(Internet, transitive) To remove from one’s list of favorites.


squit

squit (third-person singular simple present squits, present participle squitting, simple past and past participle squitted)

squits (present singular third-person)
squitting (participle present)
squitted (participle past)
squitted (past)

[…] these problems solved themselves atfter some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.

1994, Bernhard Lorenz, “ChanOp for Irc Opers”, in alt.irc (Usenet)

Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.

1996, Jesse, “A warning to all irc users”, in alt.irc (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.


livelocked

(computing) Unable to proceed because of livelock.


web application

en-noun

web application (plural web applications)

(software) A software application that is accessed via a web browser, often over a network but sometimes offline.


biconnected

(graph theory) Describing a connected graph from which two vertices must be removed for it to become disconnected.


multicollision

a multicollision attack

(cryptography) Involving multiple hash collisions.


quasirandom

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


offlist

I am interested in the following dedicated/co-location services. Please send me an offlist quote for a leased or purchased server with the following points detailed.

2001, Bruce Lewin, “Dedicated/Co-Location Windows Server (Please reply offlist!)”, in alt.internet.providers.uk (Usenet)

Perhaps some of that can be attributed to all the offlist chatter (of which I am not a part at all).

2007, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Living on Cybermind: categories, communication, and control

(Internet) Not on a mailing list or newsgroup.


offlist

If you are interested, please reply offlist.


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.


data binding

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


D/L

en-verb

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

L (canonical)
Ls (present singular third-person)
Ling (participle present)
Led (participle past)
Led (past)


parallelizability

(mathematics, computing) The condition of being parallelizable.


ratioed

(neologism, Twitter) Having significantly more replies than retweets or likes, indicating general dislike by the public.

(neologism, Twitter) Having received a reply that garnered more likes than the original tweet.


squbit

(quantum computing) A semiconducting qubit (as proposed for use in quantum computers)


multihopping

(networking) The transmission of data from multiple nodes of a mobile phone network to an individual mobile device simultaneously


binarization

en-noun

binarization (countable and uncountable, plural binarizations)

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


databased

As the players sit around the playing table, the casino is able to get database images and then use the technology to set off an alert when a face scan of a known cheater matches that of a databased image.

2004, Howard Safir, Ellis Whitman, Security: Policing Your Homeland, Your State, Your City, New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books, page unknown

Now, the Bug Closet has one of the largest completely databased collections in the world. Shawn Kelly, the collection manager, said the collection currently contains more than 500,000 specimens that have been pinned, labeled and archived.

2016 June 8, Joshua Lim, “UCF's Bug Closet: One of the largest databased collections in the world”, in Orlando Sentinel

Familial DNA database searching is one of them. It is based on near matches between a crime stain and a databased person, who could be a near relative of the true perpetrator (Maguire, McCallum, Storey, & Whitaker, 2014).

2021, Nina Amelung, Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado, Modes of Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe, Singapore: Palgrave Pivot, page 62


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.


viewport

Dragging the scroll-bar changes which part of the picture is visible within the viewport.

(computer graphics) A typically rectangular region representing the range or area currently visible (within a window, screen, etc.).


viewport

en-verb

viewport (third-person singular simple present viewports, present participle viewporting, simple past and past participle viewported)

viewports (present singular third-person)
viewporting (participle present)
viewported (participle past)
viewported (past)

Some general ideas on clipping, viewporting, and windowing can be found in Rogers and Adams.

1979, Tutorial: Computer Graphics, page 80

Viewporting is an operation that takes the portion of the picture that has been mapped into the square region delimited by -1,+1,-1,+1 and further maps it into a rectangular subregion of the screen (a viewport).

1980, MTS, the Michigan Terminal System, volume 17, page 42

The main thing I want you to take away from this chapter is knowing where to start and creating a very simple viewported web site using nothing more than an extra <meta> tag and simple HTML.

2012, Scott Preston, Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS

(transitive, computer graphics) To clip (an image or region) so that it fits in a viewport.


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

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.


metaservice

(computing) An abstraction of the workflow in a network


metamodel

(computing) A model of the modelling process itself.


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.


URN

uniform resource name
uniform resource name#English

(Internet) Initialism of uniform resource name.


crapplet

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


data cube

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

κύβος δεδομένων

computing:very large three-dimensional array or table


ransomware

The amount of money generated by ransomware schemes would appear to be quite small given their lack of popularity and the asking price in ransom notes […]

2008, Markus Jakobsson, Zulfikar Ramzan, Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses, page 375

Garmin has been forced to shut down its call centres, website and some other online services after a ransomware attack encrypted the smartwatch maker’s internal network and some production systems.

2020 July 24, Mark Sweney, “Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack”, in The Guardian

Last March, Trenitalia, the Italian state-owned railway, suffered a major ransomware attack on its ticketing system, which disrupted sales at stations as well as passenger information screens.

2023 March 22, Christian Wolmar, “Cybersecurity concerns highlight a range of potential risks”, in RAIL, number 979, page 33

(computer security) Malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom, usually requiring or claiming to require payment to restore access.

[I]n some situations, the source code of COTS may be escrowed and released under a free software or open source license when the original developer (or supplier) no longer continues to develop that software or if stipulated fundraising conditions are met. This model is referred to as the ransom model of software publishing and the software is known as ransomware.

2013, Mano Paul, Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CSSLP CBK, Second Edition, page 622

(computer security, derogatory) Software that is released as open source only in exchange for payment.


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

(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.


CYLOR

Initialism of consult your local Orthodox rabbi.

(Judaism, Internet) Used to encourage the addressee to rely upon his rabbi's, rather than others', answers to questions of religious import.

RTFM

encouraging appeal to a specific better source


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

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


linkrot

From link (“hyperlink”) + rot (“process of becoming rotten”).

compound

(Internet) The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.


subgame

There was a subgame that was very well-recieved in the previous Paper Mario RPG [Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door], where you would play through this side-scrolling stage as a gigantic Bowser.

2007, Nintendo Power, volumes 214-216, page 78

(video games) A minor or incidental game within a larger video game; a minigame.


autoredirection

en-noun

autoredirection (usually uncountable, plural autoredirections)

/ˌɔːtəʊɹiːdɪˈɹɛkʃən/


RAS

(computing) Initialism of remote access service.


MSIE

Microsoft Internet Explorer
w:en:Microsoft Internet Explorer

(Internet) Initialism of Microsoft Internet Explorer, a web browser


deserializer

(computing) An algorithm that deserializes data.


serializer

(computing) A software component that serializes data.


datasheet

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


invitro

This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you. […] And keep an eye out for the DA official party invitro, to be released in a month or two's time.

1996, John Bus, “Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party!”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)

since when should all invitations be executables? :P
anyway, the sf2k invitro should be looked at as a demo, just like the VIP2 invitro, for instance

2001, Egbert Teeselink, “Ready to use Demosystem libraries (was: Re: DemoGL v1.3 Final released)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(demoscene) An intro that provides details of a forthcoming demoparty to which viewers are invited.


cracktro

When browsing the HVSC, I often encounter some songs which I never heard the name of, but which I know from those famous cracktros from Ikari, Hotline etc.

2002, Blackspawn, “Favourite cracktro tunes”, in alt.c64 (Usenet)

Some of his modules were later also used by crackers and demogroups. Bamiga Sector One, for example, used his module titled Blueberry for the cracktro of Carrier Command.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

(demoscene) An intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.


cybersafety

The cybersafety course taught children to be wary of strangers online.


prewarmed

en-adj

prewarmed (comparative more prewarmed, superlative most prewarmed)

more prewarmed (comparative)
most prewarmed (superlative)

(computer graphics, of a particle system) Initialized with the illusion of prior activity.


votesheet

If you have already voted in other diskmags (like Parrot or Imphobia), we will ofcourse accept those votesheets.

1995, root, “VOTE for DASKMIG”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Now, when I check my votesheet, I can see that all the votes have been saved, so I don't find this system stupid at all...

2003, Euphoric, “Minigame voting deadline is today !!!”, in comp.sys.oric (Usenet)

(chiefly demoscene) A form to be filled in by voters to indicate their preference among various choices in various categories.


megademo

I asked him to look at an Amiga "megademo" I was working on at the time. When he later saw the demo, he was so impressed he hired me on the spot […]

2003, Ernest Adams, Break into the game industry: how to get a job making video games

Twenty years after the release of the Atari ST, the atari demoscene proudly announces the release of the '20 years' megademo.

2005, Kevin Savetz, “ST>Atari ST 20 years megademo released”, in comp.sys.atari.announce (Usenet)

(demoscene) A large, long-running demo (audiovisual presentation), sometimes one that multiloads.


booter

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.

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


biomodelling

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


heightmap

(computer graphics) A two-dimensional raster image used to store surface elevations that can later be applied to a three-dimensional object.


demomaker

There are not so much programmers as demomakers now.

1998, Vit Hotarek, “Is anyone actually programming?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

The second problem is how to make an own font-set and make it work on the demomaker.

1992, SHARIF NASAR, “Demomaker - do someone have an info file or something ?”, in alt.sources.amiga (Usenet)

(demoscene) A multimedia authoring program used to create demos.


colormap

(computer graphics) A lookup table specifying the colors to be used in rendering a palettized image.


texturizer

(computer graphics) A program or process that applies a visual texture.


metaball

Metaballs often have properties that define the way two metaballs will interact upon an encounter.

2002, Lynn Pocock, Judson Rosebush, The computer animator's technical handbook, page 24

(computer graphics, demoscene) An n-dimensional object with an organic appearance, characterised by the ability to meld into others when in close proximity.


musicdisk

From music + disk; they were originally distributed on floppy disk.

ok that's it for this week. Next week I'll get more and better designed musicdisks than this week. If you have a remark or suggestion for this list, don't hesitate but mail me directly.

1993, Frans Bouma, “Demolist 3/5 - 7/5”, in bit.listserv.i-amiga (Usenet)

The NoName musicdisk, arranged by five musicians — Oxbow, Vegard, Laxical and Daddy Freddy — was the first chiptune musicdisk ever.

(demoscene) A collection of music tracks composed on a computer and packaged with custom-written player software.


Perlin noise

(computer graphics) Random-looking visual noise generated by a function, widely used in computer graphics to simulate effects such as fire and clouds.


hypertexture

The cost is high for this function, as it uses noise() many times to calculate the hypertexture.

2000, Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz, Ronen Barzel, Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, page 417

In 1989, Perlin and Hoffert presented hypertexture, a modeling technique where an ordinary surface is thickened into a region of space with some density.

2002, Marc Olano, John Hart, Wolfgang Heidrich, Real-Time Shading, page 86

The volume density functions that I use for gases are, in reality, hypertexture functions.

2009, Rick Parent, David S. Ebert, David Gould, Computer Animation Complete: All-in-One, page 218

Then, for each type of hypertexture, I construct a different "application" code, describing a particular hypertexture.

2014, David S. Ebert, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, page 203

(computer graphics) A realistic simulated surface texture produced by adding small distortions across the surface of an object.


hypertexture

en-verb

hypertexture (third-person singular simple present hypertextures, present participle hypertexturing, simple past and past participle hypertextured)

hypertextures (present singular third-person)
hypertexturing (participle present)
hypertextured (participle past)
hypertextured (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To apply a hypertexture to.


backpressure

en-noun

backpressure (countable and uncountable, plural backpressures)

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


localhost

(networking) The computer being used locally, contrasted with remote computers elsewhere on a network.


glenzing

Possibly related to Swedish glänsa (“shine, glitter”).

This tutorial describes glenzing, fast polygons, fixed point mathematics, and assembly code.

1996, Joe Gradecki, The Game Developer's Guide to Online Resources

Stippling is nothing but a poor man's transparency. But we can do more to simulate transparency effects, whether it's a shadow, light, or fog-of-war. The technique we will be using is called glenzing, and it allows us to really mix colors as if we were painting a partially transparent object.

2004, Daniel Sánchez-Crespo Dalmau, Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming, page 344

(computer graphics) A technique for simulating translucency by storing extra colour values in the palette that represent the combined colours of intersecting objects in a scene.


BCPL

Programming Language
programming language#English

(programming) Initialism of Basic Combined Programming Language: a programming language of the 1960s intended for writing compilers and on which the later language C was based.


copyparty

Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.

2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193

DreamHack began in 1994, in the basement of a nearby elementary school, as a small, local subvariant of what was then called a ‘‘copyparty’’ — pre-broadband occasions to share software or demonstrate flashy off-label uses of early home computers.

2015 July 16, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in New York Times

In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]

2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games

(demoscene) An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial releases), a forerunner of the demoparty.


namevoting

there is always namevoting at a party. just dont enter a compo if you don't like that.

1999, eggbird, “However..”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

how bad is the rest of the releases from evoke2000 democompo, because the haujobb demo was the overall winner! or is this again a true example of namevoting? How could such a demo win a democompo?

2000, Frans Bouma, “Whoa, the namevoters were busy this weekend!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(demoscene) Voting for an entry in a demoscene competition because of its author or demogroup rather than its actual merits.


asher

Initialism of alt.suicide.holiday + -er.

ANYONE who first stumbles upon ash is bound to want to SAVE these desperately unhappy people. If you think Daisy was the first or last person trying to knock sense into the ashers, you are wrong. And from my observations, Anyone with only good intentions, (say trying to give ashers a spiritual outlook) is visciously attacked by ash.

1998, im__naked, “everybody`s got 2 cents RIGHT?”, in alt.support.grief (Usenet)

I can't remember how this thread started to be honest, but if someone said that suicide won't affect others, I agree with you about that. In fact I think all ASHers would agree that a suicide is not an isolated event that won't make ripples in the life of others.

1998, Marc, “MESSAGE TO JENNY M.”, in alt.angst (Usenet)

Ashers offer such good arguments. Like: "You're dumb."

2001, John T. Kennedy, “Libertarians, Suicide, & the "Social Contract [TROLL]”, in alt.test (Usenet)

Some ashers dislike and ridicule online forums like asd, that provide a more traditional forms of support, as useless and requiring insincere displays of affection. This view is quite subjective. The support on asd suits those who read it, and not ashers.

2007, slunky, “Is it true that you can't commit suicide with pills?”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet)

A member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the topics of suicide and depression.


Hypertext Markup Language

A set of tags and rules used in developing hypertext documents to be presented on web browsers, allowing incorporation of text, graphics, sound, video and hyperlinks.


IDN

internationalized domain name
w:internationalized domain name

(Internet) Initialism of internationalized domain name.


NER

named-entity recognition
w:named-entity recognition

(computing) Initialism of named-entity recognition.


SOM

self-organizing map
self-organizing map#English

(machine learning) Initialism of self-organizing map.


SVN

(software) Abbreviation of Subversion (Apache Subversion, a version-management tool)


SDN

(computing) Initialism of Sun Developer Network.


ASM

ASM (countable and uncountable, plural ASMs)

Hi all! You have available another cool minidemo (or intro, as you prefer), with the usual ASM sources.

1993, Javier Arevalo Baeza, “New intro from VangeliSTeam”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

assembly language
assembly language#English

(computer languages) Abbreviation of assembly language.

(software) Initialism of abstract state machine.


PNG

Portable Network Graphics
Portable Network Graphics#English

(file format) Initialism of Portable Network Graphics.

(specifically, VTuber fandom slang) A spritesheet, in PNG format, containing all sprites used for a VTuber's avatar.

file format; VTuber fandom slang; VTuber fandom slang


trackmo

(demoscene) A demo that is loaded directly from the physical tracks of a floppy disk instead of loading through the file system.

(demoscene) A demo whose visual effects follow a set timeline synchronized with a continuous soundtrack, much like a music video.


SWE

software engineering
software engineering#English

(software) Initialism of software engineering.


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)

message-driven architecture
message-driven architecture#English

(software, design) Initialism of message-driven architecture.

model-driven architecture
model-driven architecture#English

(software, design) Initialism of model-driven architecture.

(uncountable, computing) Initialism of monochrome display adapter.

mail delivery agent
w:mail delivery agent

(countable, software, e-mail) Initialism of mail delivery agent.


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.


FK

(computing, databases) Initialism of foreign key.


FO

first-order logic
first-order logic#English

(logic, computer science) Initialism of first-order logic.


MRT

MRT (countable and uncountable, plural MRTs)

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

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


escaper

an HTML escaper; a query escaper

(computing) A program or algorithm for escaping text.


MQ

MQ (countable and uncountable, plural MQs)

(countable, computing) Initialism of message queue.


PID

(computing) Initialism of process identifier.


cyberdisinhibition

The Internet undermines the quality of human interaction, allowing destructive emotional impulses freer rein under specific circumstances. The reason is a neural fluke that results in cyberdisinhibition of brain systems that keep our more unruly urges in check. […¶] Communication via the Internet can mislead the brain’s social systems. The key mechanisms are in the prefrontal cortex. […¶] In order for this regulatory mechanism to operate well, you depend on real-time, ongoing feedback from the other person. The Internet has no means of allowing such real-time feedback (other than with rarely used two-way audio/visual streams). […] This results in disinhibition: impulse unleashed. [¶…T]his disinhibition becomes far more likely when people feel strong negative emotions. What fails to be inihibited are the impulses those emotions generate. [¶] This phenomenon has been recognized since the earliest days of the Internet…as ‘flaming’: the tendency to send abrasive, angry, or otherwise emotionally ‘off’ cybermessages.

2006, John Brockman [ed.], Daniel Goleman [contrib.], “Cyberdisinhibition”, in What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, pages 74–76

(psychology, Internet) Disinhibition when using interactive online media due to the anonymity or lack of social feedback inherent in the medium.


wiki markup

A lightweight markup language used to format and structure pages in wikis.


argumentless

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


hatelisting

A *hatelisting*? Good heavens... She looks cute... I don't know why anyone is jealous, she has to be "a human hosepipe" each time she kisses Harry... But then, they'll probably change the story line for the movie which is *so* annoying...

2004, bubblybabs, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Actors Finalized (Spoilers)”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet)

(Internet) A website listing the submitted names of people who hate a particular celebrity, film, or other topic.


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).


WF

Windows Workflow Foundation
w:Windows Workflow Foundation

(computing) Initialism of Windows Workflow Foundation.

(video games) Initialism of Weapons Factory.


staker

Coordinate term: miner

A staker earns a part or the entirety of the transaction fees upon transaction validation. The number of transaction validations allowed for a staker is directly proportional to the amount and duration of their assets on stake.

2020, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Ali Dehghantanha, Reza M. Parizi, editors, Blockchain Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy, Springer Nature, page 208

(cryptocurrencies) One who participates in proof of stake.


TAP

(software) Initialism of The Ada Project.


think aloud protocol

think aloud protocol (plural think aloud protocols)

[I]n analysing the think-aloud protocols produced by novice and expert translators while they performed translation tasks, I was working under the implicit assumption that by having subjects verbalize what they were thinking while translating, it would be possible to identify cognitive strategies as if they were fixed routines.

2000, Don Kiraly, A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education, St. Jerome Publishing, p. 1-2

[M]uch research has employed concurrent verbalisation, or think-aloud protocols (TAPs).

2003, Fabio Alves, Triangulating Translation, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 124

[S]tudents might be interested in examining Think-Aloud Protocol (TAP) techniques and uses of the translator's verbalised self-commentary.

2005, Francesca Bartrina, edited by Martha Tennent, Training For The New Millennium, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 181

[T]here are general or global strategies whose effects may not show up as decision points marked by pauses as opposed to more local strategies that show up in think-aloud protocols as the translator verbalizes the options he or she is considering.

2008, Candace Séguinot, edited by John Kearns, Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 5

A data-gathering method used in a variety of research areas in people are asked to verbalise their thought processes as they do a specific task, and this is recorded for further analysis.


seminumerical

Generating random numbers is a seminumerical problem.

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


spamlike

en-adj

spamlike (comparative more spamlike, superlative most spamlike)

more spamlike (comparative)
most spamlike (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of spam (junk electronic mail).


policer

a traffic policer; a bandwidth policer

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


website aggregator

en-noun

website aggregator (plural website aggregators)

(Internet) A website that consolidates information from a multitude of other websites (often by means of newsfeeds), allowing users to view all of the information in one place.


MFC

MFC (countable and uncountable, plural MFCs)

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


MFC

Microsoft Foundation Classes
w:Microsoft Foundation Classes

(programming) Initialism of Microsoft Foundation Classes.

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).


scrolltext

scrolltext (countable and uncountable, plural scrolltexts)

His music is as mainstream as it could ever be (listen to Bruno - now that's a musician!) and his poor ego really shone through in the scrolltexts in "crystal sym.".

1992, Mats Anders Knip, “Phenomena egos??”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)

For scrolltexts, real classic to start with is "Why didn't you greet us then?", which you can always follow up with "Are you lot too good to be seen greeting us?".

1994, PB_email, “PB Online <106>”, in alt.cyberpunk.movement (Usenet)

There were *many* C=64 demos in which one could control the speed of the scrolltext using the joystick, which I think is a great feature, especially if the author of the scrolltext had nothing to say.

2001, Tijs van Bakel, “Interactivity in demos (Was: Next generation Demosystems)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(demoscene) Text displayed in an animated scrolling message, common in early demos.


eurodemo

There are THOUSANDS of Eurodemos out there, from various groups, spanning several years.

1993, Clayton Donley, “3DO or Jaguar”, in rec.games.video.misc (Usenet)

i think you noncoders have got the wrong idea about eurodemos. most eurodemos are, i think, coded by coders to impress other coders. that is, while a noncoder just thinks a routine looks like shit a coder will be impressed if he haven't got a clue of how to make one like it himself.

1993, Joakim Grundwall, “A1200 specific demos”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)

Maybe someone else can help with this part. Maybe there are some converters on some PC eurodemo sites, since they tend to go into weird low color modes for some demos.

1995, Shadow Weaver, “Newbie Question”, in comp.graphics.raytracing (Usenet)


blockworthy

en-adj

blockworthy (comparative more blockworthy, superlative most blockworthy)

more blockworthy (comparative)
most blockworthy (superlative)


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


shd

U shd cum2my party

(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of should.


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.


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.


AltGr

(computing) Alternative spelling of Alt Gr


malvertising

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


lightmap

(computer graphics) A precomputed data structure that stores the brightnesses of surfaces in a video game, etc.


computing language

en-noun

computing language (plural computing languages)

programming language
programming language

(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.


keystream

(cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.


linkback

(Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.


security principal

security principal (plural security principals)

(computer security) An entity capable of being authenticated by a computer system or network.


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).


Mickeysoft

Blend of Mickey Mouse (suggesting inferior quality) and Microsoft.


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.


backlink

(Internet) A hyperlink to a webpage from an external website.

zpětný odkaz

computing: a hyperlink to a webpage from an external website.

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.


backlink

en-verb

backlink (third-person singular simple present backlinks, present participle backlinking, simple past and past participle backlinked)

backlinks (present singular third-person)
backlinking (participle present)
backlinked (participle past)
backlinked (past)


refback

(Internet) The use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about web pages or proxy servers bringing traffic to a web page.


num lock

(computing) Alternative spelling of Num Lock


Windross

Blend of Windows + dross, suggesting an inferior product.

Like Danny, I made the difficult decision to take a close look at Windross at Xmas96. The OS is a monster it's true; but IMHO it also brings alternative ways of achieving your objectives which are, as I have tried to show, not available in the Acorn environment. Recent threads on Acorn v Windross in schools don't seem to focus on this?

1998 June 10, Martin Birchall, “Sad”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet)

The Windross user experience is awful. I migrated to the Mac, and while it's amazing to have inDesign, XPress, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. right there, Mac OS 8/9's GUI was nothing on RISC OS and it's difficult to describe in any meaningful way Mac OS X's GUI is better than Windows - especially as the responsiveness remains poor.

2003 January 4, David, “Comments about Windross OS”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet)

I copy the file to a plain Jane Lexar thumb drive, then move the drive to Windoze. Windross does it's usual popup game: "Yay! Look at me! I found something! Yay! It's a USB device! Yay! I'm setting it up now! Yay! Look at me!!"

2012 November 17, Sinister Midget, “Windwoes Dimwittery”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

(computing, slang, derogatory) Microsoft Windows.


Page Down

(computing) A keyboard key that when pressed scrolls down to the next page of content.

sivu alas

a key that scrolls down to the next page of content


Page Up

(computing) A keyboard key that when pressed scrolls up to the previous page of content.

sivu ylös

a key that scrolls down to the previous page of content


Windoze

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."

1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 85

I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize the public through computer publications and large newspapers.

1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet)

My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1

2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118


wildcarding

(computing) The use of wildcard characters for partial matching.


subquadratic

(computing) Describing an algorithm that runs in greater than linear, but less than quadratic time.


scroll lock

(computing) Alternative spelling of Scroll Lock


software escrow

(computing) The holding of software source code by a third party in order to protect customers against the future insolvency of the software supplier


character user interface

en-noun

character user interface (plural character user interfaces)

command line interface
command line interface


supernode

Supernode (circuit)
Supernode (networking)

(computing) Any peer-to-peer network node that also serves as a proxy server.


splash page

There was a terrible animated logo on the splash page.

(Internet) A simple introductory webpage shown to the visitor before proceeding to the main page.


subtransaction

(databases) A transaction making up part of a larger transaction.


shadebob

From shade + bob. See bob (“blitter object, type of hardware sprite”).

If I made a shadebob routine, which ran 60Hz on PentiumIII 550Mhz on 320x200x8bit mode, would you be impressed?

1999, JT Liimatta, “The Party compo rules.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Even on older hardware, the dithering is perfect. The effect is convincing. You can press your face up against the screen and see no edges, you can see wonderful curves and strange shapes out of shadebobs that are probably unintentional.

2007, milkfilk@gmail.com, “Why are shadebobs and 2d alpha blends so convincing?”, in comp.graphics.api.opengl (Usenet)

(demoscene, computer graphics) A type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that it blends with others but can be easily removed again by decrementing the colour value at each pixel.


savefile

(computing) A file containing saved data.


linearithmic

/ˌlɪni.əˈɹɪðmɪk/

(computer science, of a procedure) Taking up to time proportional to n log(n) to run on inputs of size n.


subarray

(programming) A contiguous subset of an array.


octoword

(computing) A numerical value of eight times the magnitude of a word, 128 bits on a 16-bit architecture.


crimeware

Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials […]

2007, Harold F Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook, Volume 2

(computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.


bitemporal

(databases) Keeping track of two timelines


overstrike

overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

/ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/

/əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/

(computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)


load up

en-verb

load up (third-person singular simple present loads up, present participle loading up, simple past and past participle loaded up)

loads up (present singular third-person)
loading up (participle present)
loaded up (participle past)
loaded up (past)

The game loaded up and he instantly grabbed the game controller.

2014, Nathan K. Battles, The Transcendent, page 29

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To load (software) fully into memory.


sparsifier

(graph theory) A graph that is a sparse version of another.


system pull

Literally meaning “pulled from an already assembled system”.

(computing) A new computer part that has been removed from an unused, previously assembled system.

(computing) A new computer part that has not been unpacked, but is excess inventory from an end-of-lifed system configuration.


bicluster

(mathematics, computing) A subset of rows or columns of a matrix produced by biclustering


biclustering

(mathematics, computing) The simultaneous clustering of the rows and columns of a matrix


unpark

unpark (third-person singular simple present unparks, present participle unparking, simple past and past participle unparked)

unparks (present singular third-person)
unparking (participle present)
unparked (participle past)
unparked (past)

to unpark the head of a disk drive

(computing, transitive) To release from the fixed position adopted when not in use.


flow control

(networking) The management of the data transmission rate between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from outrunning a slow receiver.

vuonohjaus

process of managing the rate of data transmission


Tetris effect

From Tetris + effect, since players of the video game may find themselves thinking about fitting shapes together in the real world. The earliest known use of the term is in Jeffrey Goldsmith's article "This is Your Brain on Tetris", published in Wired in May 1994.

The effect of seeing hallucinatory images of a repetitive activity done earlier.


black chamber

(historical, cryptography, informal) A government or royal court's cryptanalyst department.


scumware

(computing, informal, derogatory) malware


three-finger salute

en-noun

three-finger salute (plural three-finger salutes)

THE THREE-FINGER SALUTE … to suddenly find that your keyboard is frozen or to watching the screen fill up with garbage. You may not even be aware of the two different types of crashes, the soft crash (recoverable by the three-finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del) or the hard crash (big red switch and count to 5 slowly).

1986, February 25, Charles Petzold, PC Magazine, volume 5, number 4, article "Operating in a New Environment"

(computing, humorous) Control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.


retained mode

(computer graphics) A mode in which the application updates a set of graphical objects which are stored and displayed by the graphics library, contrasting with immediate mode.


immediate mode

(computer graphics) A mode in which the application is directly responsible for rendering graphics to the display, contrasting with retained mode.


hackery

From hack + -ery, in sense 1 related to hack (“a bad writer”).

All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.

2012, Seymour Bosworth, M. E. Kabay, Eric Whyne, Computer Security Handbook, page 57

(slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).


sublogarithmic

(computing) Describing an algorithm that may be completed in less than logarithmic time


containership

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) The conceptual containment of one object inside another.


VU meter

The ECC Syncro Demo is a demonstration of text scrolling in the GS border area, as well as having VU meters in the border area. Similar to FTA's X-mas demo.

1991, Kenrick J. Mock, “demos on tybalt?”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any source code that showed how to read the values to construct a VU meter from a tracker replay routine.

1991, Cybernetworx, “VU meters”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet)

(computing, chiefly demoscene) Any animated graphical representation of the volume of sound or music (often subdivided across channels).


lexical analysis

lexical analysis (countable and uncountable, plural lexical analyses)

While it's often not difficult to identify tokens while parsing, having a separate stage for lexical analysis simplifies the structure of your compiler.

(computer science) The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing.


GMTA

great minds think alike
great minds think alike#English

(Internet, humorous) Initialism of great minds think alike.


subwindow

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A window making up part of a larger composite window.


droppable

(graphical user interface) A component onto which the user can drag other items; a drop target.


name server

(Internet) A program or server that maps human-readable names to computer addresses, especially as part of the Domain Name System.


exascale

(physics, computing) Used as a metric to signify 10¹⁸


eigenface

(mathematics, computing) One of a set of eigenvectors used in face-recognition systems.


white label

US, 20th century. Originally used for musical vinyl records whose labels had been torn off or covered with a white label by competing DJs to conceal which records they were using.

(computing) An unbranded product: a brand name product which has had a white label applied to remove branding so that it can be resold for cheaper without undercutting the value of the brand.


composability

(computing) The condition of being modular in a variety of ways.


NRO

Number Resource Organization
w:Number Resource Organization

(Internet) Initialism of Number Resource Organization.


DDoS

(Internet, cybersecurity) Alternative spelling of DDOS


DDoS

en-verb

DDoS (third-person singular simple present DDoSes, present participle DDoSing, simple past and past participle DDoSed)

DDoSes (present singular third-person)
DDoSing (participle present)
DDoSed (participle past)
DDoSed (past)

Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information.[…]”

On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.

2003, Stephen Northcutt, Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems, New Riders, page 9

The system got DDoSed (knocked out of commission by many distributed denial of service attacks), many lawsuits were threatened, and at one point power was even mysteriously lost to the facility, bringing the list down for days (and causing many network interruptions in the process).

2005, Jonathan A. Zdziarski, “Historical Approaches to Fighting Spam”, in Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification, No Starch Press, part I (An Introduction to Spam Filtering), page 29

(Internet, cybersecurity, transitive) Alternative spelling of DDOS


XAML

w:Extensible Application Markup Language

(computing, Microsoft) Initialism of Extensible Application Markup Language.


autovector

(computing) An interrupt vector representing a priority level, from which the processor determines the actual target address.