rib site n.
[by analogy with backbone site] A machine
that has an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site and
serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party
traffic in email and Usenet news. Compare leaf site,
backbone site.
[by analogy with backbone site] A machine
that has an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site and
serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party
traffic in email and Usenet news. Compare leaf site,
backbone site.
Related:
- rib site n.
[by analogy with backbone site] A machine
that has an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site and
serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party
traffic in email and Usenet news.
Compare leaf site, backbone site... - backbone site: n. A key USENET and email site; one that processes
a large amount of third-party traffic,
especially if it is the home site of any of the... - leaf site: n. A machine that merely originates and reads USENET
news or mail,
and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often... - leaf site n.,obs.
Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term
was used of a machine that merely originated and read Usenet news
or mail,
and did not relay any third-party traffic. It was... - backbone site n.,obs.
Formerly, a key Usenet and email
site,
one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic... - backbone cabal: n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed
through the {Great Renaming} and reined in the chaos of {USENET}
during most of the 1980s.
The cabal {mailing list} disbanded in late 1988... - admin /ad-min'/ n.
Short for `administrator'; very
commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person
in charge on a computer.
Common constructions on this include `sysadmin'... - FastLst US
Support/Distribution/Registration... - cobweb site n.
A World Wide Web Site that hasn't been updated so...
From the same category:
- warez d00dz /weirz doodz/ n.
A substantial subculture of
crackers refer to themselves as `warez d00dz';
there is evidently some connection with B1FF here... - chiclet keyboard n.
A keyboard with a small, flat
rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like
pieces of chewing gum.
(Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of ... - Internet Exploder
[very common] Pejorative hackerism for
Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" web browser (also "Internet
Exploiter").
Compare HP-SUX, AIDX, buglix Macintrash, Telerat, ScumOS... - mode bit n.
[common] A flag, usually in hardware,
that selects between two (usually quite different)... - Python /pi:'thon/
In the words of its author, "the other
scripting language" (other than Perl,
that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant...
