:pilot error: [Sun: from aviation] n. A user's misconfiguration or
misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results
(compare {UBD}). "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that
causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's
pilot error. His `sendmail.cf' is hosed."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results
(compare {UBD}). "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that
causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's
pilot error. His `sendmail.cf' is hosed."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- pilot error n.
[Sun: from aviation] A user's
misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software,
producing apparently buglike results (compare UBD)... - UBD: /U-B-D/ [abbreviation for `User Brain Damage'] An
abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to
utter cluelessness on the user's part.
Compare {pilot error}; oppose {PBD}; see also {brain... - UBD /U-B-D/ n.
[abbreviation for `User Brain Damage']
An abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to
utter cluelessness on the user's part.
Compare pilot error; oppose PBD; see also brain... - sorcerer's apprentice mode: [from Friedrich Schiller's "Der
Zauberlehrling" via the film "Fantasia"] n.
A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances... - PBD: /P-B-D/ [abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage'] n.
Applied to bug reports revealing places where the... - screw: [MIT] n. A {lose}, usually in software. Especially used for
user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
This use has become quite widespread outside MIT... - 0359 Have you ever found a sendmail bug?
0360 ... Was it a security hole?
from THE HACKER... - mandelbug: /man'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n.
A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and... - stale pointer bug: n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp.
among microcomputer hackers. -- The AI Hackers...
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Homeless, and Blacks for Limbaugh. And they're meeting... - Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
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Hymn on Christ's Nativity, Line... - In this fool's paradise he drank delight.
-- George Crabbe (1754-1832)
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The Borough, Letter xii,... - One does not dip water with a
knife... - It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
Mick...
