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Usenet Is Distributed Network Anarchy At Its Best---or Worst, Depending On What Is Posted On Any Particular Day.
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Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst,
depending on what is posted on any particular day.
-- David Fiedler
-- in _Byte_
Related:
The worst day fishing is better than the best day working. -- Bumper Sticke
bandwidth n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a compute
person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
bandwidth: n. 1. Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.
Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy is government.
backbone site n.,obs. Formerly, a key Usenet and email site
one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps....
USENET: /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ [from `Users' Network'] n.
A distributed {bboard} (bulletin board) system supported mainly by UNIX machines....
Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
Nightmare File System n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
You must be careful about giving any drink whatsoever to a bore.
A lit-up bore is the worst in the world. -- David Cecil...