pilot error n.
[Sun: from aviation] A user's
misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing
apparently buglike results (compare UBD). "Joe Luser
reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus
headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His
sendmail.cf is hosed."
[Sun: from aviation] A user's
misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing
apparently buglike results (compare UBD). "Joe Luser
reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus
headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His
sendmail.cf is hosed."
Related:
- pilot error n.
[Sun: from aviation] A user's
misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software,
producing apparently buglike results (compare UBD)... - UBD /U-B-D/ n.
[abbreviation for `User Brain Damage']
An abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to
utter cluelessness on the user's part.
Compare pilot error; oppose PBD; see also brain... - UBD: /U-B-D/ [abbreviation for `User Brain Damage'] An
abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to
utter cluelessness on the user's part.
Compare {pilot error}; oppose {PBD}; see also {brain... - 0359 Have you ever found a sendmail bug?
0360 ... Was it a security hole?
from THE HACKER... - bug-of-the-month club n.
[from "book-of-the-month
club",
a time-honored mail-order-marketing technique in the... - sorcerer's apprentice mode: [from Friedrich Schiller's "Der
Zauberlehrling" via the film "Fantasia"] n.
A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances... - sorcerer's apprentice mode n.
[from Goethe's "Der
Zauberlehrling" via Paul Dukas's "L'apprenti sorcier" the film
"Fantasia"] A bug in a protocol where,
under some circumstances, the receipt of a message... - PBD /P-B-D/ n.
[abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage']
Applied to bug reports revealing places where the program was
obviously broken by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer.
Compare UBD; see also brain-damaged... - RBG
Random Bug...
From the same category:
- slack n.
1. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually
used to store useful information.
The techspeak equivalent is `internal fragmentation'... - gritch /grich/
[MIT] 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a
glitch).
2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled: "Gritch ... - USG Unix /U-S-G yoo'niks/ n.
Refers to AT&T Unix
commercial versions after Version 7,
especially System III and System V releases 1, 2... - intro n.
[demoscene] Introductory screen of some
production.
2. A short demo, usually showing just one or two ... - system n.
1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
2. The entire computer system, including input/output...
