fireworks mode n.
1. The mode a machine is sometimes
said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn
operation. 2. There is (or was) a more specific meaning of this
term in the Amiga community. The word fireworks described the
effects of a particularly serious crash which prevented the
video pointer(s) from getting reset at the start of the vertical
blank. This caused the DAC to scroll through the entire contents of
CHIP (video or video+CPU) memory. Since each bit plane would scroll
separately this was quite a spectacular effect.
1. The mode a machine is sometimes
said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn
operation. 2. There is (or was) a more specific meaning of this
term in the Amiga community. The word fireworks described the
effects of a particularly serious crash which prevented the
video pointer(s) from getting reset at the start of the vertical
blank. This caused the DAC to scroll through the entire contents of
CHIP (video or video+CPU) memory. Since each bit plane would scroll
separately this was quite a spectacular effect.
Related:
- fireworks mode: n. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when
it is performing a {crash and burn} operation.
The AI Hackers... - magic cookie n.
[Unix; common] 1. Something passed
between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform
some operation;
a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially... - magic cookie: [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or
programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation;
a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially... - crash and burn vi.,n.
A spectacular crash, in the mode of
the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt"
and many subsequent imitators (compare die horribly).
Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and... - crash and burn: vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the
conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and
many subsequent imitators (compare {die horribly}).
Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and... - mode n.
[common] A general state, usually used with an
adjective describing the state.
Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies... - demo mode: [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order
to finish code in time for a {demo},
usually due yesterday. 2. A mode in which video... - demo mode n.
1. [Sun] The state of being heads down
in order to finish code in time for a demo,
usually due yesterday. 2. A mode in which video... - video toaster n.
Historically, an Amiga running
LightWave and fitted out with a particular line of special
video-display hardware from NewTek -
long a popular platform at special-effects and video...
From the same category:
- grok /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt.
[from the novel
"Stranger in a Strange Land",
by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word... - Evil Empire n.
[from Ronald Reagan's famous
characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM,
now Microsoft. Functionally, the company most hackers... - chemist n.
[Cambridge] Someone who wastes computer time
on number-crunching when you'd far rather the machine were
doing something more productive,
such as working out anagrams of your... - verbage /ver'b*j/ n.
A deliberate misspelling and
mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word
`garbage'.
Compare content-free. More pejorative than `verbiage'... - POM /P-O-M/ n.
Common abbreviation for phase of the moon.
Usage: usually in the phrase `POM-dep flaky...
