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pico- pref. [SI: a quantifier meaning * 10^-12] Smaller than nano
used in the same rather loose connotative way as nano- and micro-....
pig-tail [radio hams] A short piece of cable with two connectors on each end for converting between one connector type and another.
Common pig-tails are 9-to-25-pin serial-port converte...
pilot error n. [Sun: from aviation] A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare UBD).
Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail...
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....
Ping O' Death n. A notorious exploit that (when first discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of machines by overunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks.
First revealed...
ping storm n. A form of DoS attack consisting of a flood of ping requests (normally used to check network conditions) designed to disrupt the normal activity of a system.
This act is some...
pink wire n. [from the pink PTFE wire used in military equipment] As blue wire, but used in military applications.
2. vi. To add a pink wire to a board....
pipe n. [common] Idiomatically, one's connection to the Interne
in context, the expansion "bit pipe" is understood....
pistol n. [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
Unix rm * makes such a nice pistol!...
pixel sort n. [Commodore users] Any compression routine which irretrievably loses valuable data in the process of crunching it.
Disparagingly used for `lossy' methods such as JPEG. The th...

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