:memory farts: n. The flatulent sounds that some DOS box BIOSes
(most notably AMI's) make when checking memory on bootup.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
(most notably AMI's) make when checking memory on bootup.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- memory farts n.
The flatulent sounds that some DOS box BIOSes (most... - leaky heap: [Cambridge] n. An {arena} with a {memory leak}.
The AI Hackers... - core: n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of
ferrite-core memory;
now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM... - arena: [UNIX] n. The area of memory attached to a process by
`brk(2)' and `sbrk(2)' and used by `malloc(3)' as
dynamic storage.
So named from a `malloc: corrupt arena' message... - plaid screen: [XEROX PARC] n. A `special effect' that occurs
when certain kinds of {memory smash}es overwrite the control
blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display.
The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different... - mouse droppings: [MS-DOS] n. Pixels (usually single) that are not
properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a
particular location on the screen,
producing the appearance that the mouse pointer... - external memory: n. A memo pad or written notes. "Hold on while
I write that to external memory".
The analogy is with store or DRAM versus nonvolatile... - EXE: /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable
binary file.
Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and ... - killer poke: n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine
via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) into a memory-mapped
control register;
used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on...
From the same category:
- The problem with graduate students, in general,
is that they have to sleep every few days... - This sentance has threee
errors... - My mind isn't ALWAYS in the gutter-
sometimes it comes out to feed... - It's not a dungeon-
it's a fortified underground defense installation... - Fairy elves,
Whose midnight revels by a forest side
Or fountain some belated peasant sees,
Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress...
