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Frednet /fred'net/ N. Used To Refer To Some Random And Uncommon Protocol Encountered On A Network.
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frednet /fred'net/ n.
Used to refer to some random
and uncommon protocol encountered on a network. "We're
implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem."
Related:
frednet: /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some {random} and uncommon protocol encountered on a network.
We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem....
Bloggs Family n. An imaginary family consisting of Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children.
Used as a standard example in knowledge representation to show the difference between extensional and intensional objects....
protocol n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting
hackers don't care about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity....
protocol: n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting
hackers don't care about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity....
eakernet /snee'ker-net/ n. Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape
disks, or some other media from one machine to another....
NetBOLLIX n. [from bollix: to bungle, or Britsish `bollocks'] IBM's NetBIOS
an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better....
NetBOLLIX: [from bollix: to bungle] n. {IBM}'s NetBIOS, an extremely {brain-damaged} network protocol that, like {Blue Glue}, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Blue Glue n. [IBM] IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly losing and bletcherous communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better.
The official IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes together....
Blue Glue: [IBM] n. IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly {losing} and {bletcherous} communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better.
The official IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes together....