plingnet /pling'net/ n.
Syn. UUCPNET. Also see
Commonwealth Hackish, which uses `pling' for bang (as
in bang path).
Syn. UUCPNET. Also see
Commonwealth Hackish, which uses `pling' for bang (as
in bang path).
Related:
- plingnet: /pling'net/ n. Syn. {UUCPNET}. Also see
{{Commonwealth Hackish}},
which uses `pling' for {bang} (as in {bang path})... - hammer vt.
Commonwealth hackish syn.
for bang on... - Commonwealth Hackish n.
Hacker jargon as spoken in
English outside the U.S.
esp. in the British Commonwealth. It is reported... - hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}.
The AI Hackers... - UUCPNET: n. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the
world's connected UNIX machines (and others running some clone of
the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) software).
Any machine reachable only via a {bang path} is... - hop
1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series
required to get a file from point A to point B on a
store-and-forward network.
On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet)... - hop: 1. n. One file transmission in a series required to get a
file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
On such networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet})... - UUCPNET n. obs.
The store-and-forward network consisting of all
the world's connected Unix machines (and others running some clone
of the UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) software).
Any machine reachable only via a bang path is on... - ASCII /as'kee/ n.
[originally an acronym (American
Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely
conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day
computers.
The standard version uses 7 bits for each character...
From the same category:
- GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/
1. [acronym: `GNU's Not
Unix!',
see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development... - cascade n.
1. A huge volume of spurious error-message
output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery.
Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as... - stomp on vt.
To inadvertently overwrite something
important,
usually automatically. "All the work I did this ... - arg /arg/ n.
Abbreviation for `argument' (to a
function),
used so often as to have become a new word (like ... - VAX /vaks/ n.
1. [from Virtual Address eXtension] The
most successful minicomputer design in industry history,
possibly excepting its immediate ancestor, the PDP...
