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Hardwarily /hard-weir'*-lee/ Adv. In A Way Pertaining To Hardware.
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hardwarily /hard-weir'*-lee/ adv.
In a way pertaining to
hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective
`hardwary' is not traditionally used, though it has
recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
Related:
hardwarily: /hard-weir'*-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to hardware.
The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective `hardwary' is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U....
oftwarily /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software.
The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective **`softwary' is not used....
oftwarily: /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software.
"The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective **`softwary' is *not* used....
phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
phase: 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
maximum Maytag mode n. What a washing machine or, by extension, any disk drive is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load.
If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives....
happily adv. Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environme
either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care....
alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....