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Jargon File
- bit decay n.
See bit rot. People with a physics
background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with
particle decay.
See also computron, quantum...
- bit rot n.
[common] Also bit decay.
Hypothetical
disease the existence of which has...
- bit twiddling n.
[very common] 1. (pejorative) An
exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of
time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement,
often
with the...
- bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt.
`bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout...
- bitblt /bit'blit/ n.
[from BLT, q.v.]
1.
[common] Any of a family of closely related algorithms...
- BITNET /bit'net/ n., obs.
[acronym: Because It's Time
NETwork] Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see
the network) -
until AOL happened. The BITNET hosts were a
collection...
- bits pl.n.
1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits
about file formats." ("I need to know about file formats.")
Compare core dump,
sense 4. 2. Machine-readable
representation of...
- bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n.
1. A computer sufficiently
small,
primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute...
- bixen pl.n.
Users of BIX (the BIX Information eXchange,
formerly the Byte Information eXchange). Parallels...
- bixie /bik'see/ n.
Variant emoticons used on BIX
(the BIX Information eXchange).
The most common (smiley)
bixie is <@_@>, representing...
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