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Ethernet (n): Something Used To Catch The Etherbunny
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Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny
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internet is needed to catch the etherbunny
If you don't watch it, you're going to catch something.
If you're not careful, you're going to catch something.
DRECNET /drek'net/ n. [from Yiddish/German `dreck', meaning filth] Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community.
So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible....
DRECNET: /drek'net/ [from Yiddish/German `dreck', meaning filth] n.
Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the {VMS} community....
RFE /R-F-E/ n. 1. [techspeak] Request For Enhancement (compare RFC).
2. [from `Radio Free Europe', Bellcore and Sun] Radio Free Ethernet, a system (originated by Peter Langston) for broadcasting audio among Sun SPARCstations over the ethernet....
Sharewear (n.) -- Used clothing.
heartbeat n. 1. The signal emitted by a Level 2 Ethernet transceiver at the end of every packet to show that the collision-detection circuit is still connected.
2. A periodic synchronization signal used by software or hardware, such as a bus clock or a periodic interrupt....