Bounce V. 1. [common; Perhaps By Analogy To A Bouncing Check] An Electronic Mail Message That Is Undeliverable And Returns An Error Notification To The Sender Is Said To `bounce'.

Bounce V. 1. [common; Perhaps By Analogy To A Bouncing Check] An Electronic Mail Message That Is Undeliverable And Returns An Error Notification To The Sender Is Said To `bounce'.

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bounce v.

1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing
check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns
an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See
also bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The
now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford
AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From
5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the
computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the
cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune
loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of
known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.
from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by
Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the
"Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink. 4. To casually
reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported
primarily among VMS and Unix users. 5. [VM/CMS
programmers] Automatic warm-start of a machine after an
error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times
during the night" 6. [IBM] To power cycle a peripheral in
order to reset it.

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bounce: v. 1. [perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball....
boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
bounce message: [UNIX] n. Notification message returned to sender by a site unable to relay {email} to the intended {{Internet address}} recipient or the next link in a {bang path} (see {bounce}
ense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled username or a {down} relay site....
cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
astygram: /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a {letterbomb}) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.
2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a {net.god}, pursuant to a violation of {netiquette} or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem....
astygram /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.
2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a net.god, pursuant to a violation of netiquette or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem....
bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....