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• unspots: n. 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?
  Sunspots, I guess." 2. Also the cause of {bit rot} --- from the myth that sunspots will increase {cosmic rays}, which can flip single bits in memory....
• cosmic rays n. Notionally, the cause of bit rot.
  However, this is a semi-independent usage that may be invoked as a humorous way to handwave away any minor randomness that doesn't seem worth the bother of investigating....
• bit rot: n. Also {bit decay}. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive....
• bit rot n. [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive....
• flag: n. A variable or quantity that can take on one of two value
  a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done....
• egmentation fault: n. [UNIX] 1. An error in which a running program attempts to access memory not allocated to it and {core dump}s with a segmentation violation error.
  2. To lose a train of thought or a line of reasoning....
• infinity: n. 1. The largest value that can be represented in a particular type of variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever).
  2. `minus infinity': The smallest such value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity....
• byte:: /bi:t/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
  on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines....
• bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core dump}, sense 4....