bounce v.
1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing
check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns
an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See
also bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The
now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford
AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From
5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the
computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the
cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune
loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of
known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.
from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by
Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the
"Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink. 4. To casually
reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported
primarily among VMS and Unix users. 5. [VM/CMS
programmers] Automatic warm-start of a machine after an
error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times
during the night" 6. [IBM] To power cycle a peripheral in
order to reset it.
1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing
check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns
an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See
also bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The
now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford
AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From
5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the
computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the
cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune
loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of
known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.
from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by
Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the
"Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink. 4. To casually
reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported
primarily among VMS and Unix users. 5. [VM/CMS
programmers] Automatic warm-start of a machine after an
error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times
during the night" 6. [IBM] To power cycle a peripheral in
order to reset it.
Related:
- bounce: v. 1. [perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An
electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error
notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play... - boot v.,n.
[techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To
load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into... - bounce message: [UNIX] n. Notification message returned to sender
by a site unable to relay {email} to the intended {{Internet
address}} recipient or the next link in a {bang path} (see
{bounce},
sense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or ... - cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker
wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a
"cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many... - cycle
1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every
hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as
a "cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many... - nastygram: /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of
email (the latter is also called a {letterbomb}) that takes
advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to
do untoward things.
2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a {net.god}, pursuant... - nastygram /nas'tee-gram/ n.
1. A protocol packet or item
of email (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes
advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to
do untoward things.
2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a net.god, pursuant... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so... - ping
[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP...
