mistweb's definitions

Kilo

If we're not taling computers, then it's got a small k and means a thousand of whatever follows, eg 1 km = 1000 m, 1 kg = 1000 g etc.

If we are talking about computers or other binary systems, then it refers to 1024 times, and it gets a capital K, e.g 1 Kb = 1024 b, 4KB = 4096 B etc.

Honest, confusing but true.

by mistweb October 13, 2003

fair game

OK to shoot. Comes from animal hunting - yuk.

Microsoft are such a bunch of wankers that their servers are fair game for hackers and virus writers

by mistweb October 13, 2003

How's your father

Slap 'n' tickle; Bit of the other; casual sexual relations; Origin in World War II, English soldiers in France expected that an old French lady with grey hair, whom their father had bonked during the First World War might come up to them and ask this.

"Took her round the bike shed for a bit of how's-your-father";

"I don't want you two getting up to any how's-your-father while we're out!"

by mistweb October 13, 2003

malarky

Bull shit, see Malarkey

by mistweb October 13, 2003

narrowcast

Like broadcast, but the information is aimed at a specific, limited audience. This is usually only possible on a network like the Internet, not with a radio transmitter.

by mistweb October 13, 2003

BiCapitalization

Some people would say camel case, but actually camels only have humps in the middle likeThis. People are now calling bi-capitalisation PascalCase, cos in the old days we used to use it for names of things in the computer language called Pascal.

The integer variable NumberOfDogs should be set to zero here.

by mistweb October 13, 2003

bandwidth

The width, in Hertz, of the pass-band of any equipment that can process information. Most computer data transfer works at base-band (unlike radio transmitters, which usually operate on some higher wave band) so the bandwidth is usually equal to its baud rate.

Our network has a 10 MHz bandwidth, so it can pass an absolute maximum of ten million bits per second, i.e. it works only up to 10 Mb (ten mega baud)

by mistweb October 13, 2003