Wisconsin chrome n.— «He won’t be able to use the blue air baffle, but maybe he can cobble one up out of pasteboard and Wisconsin Chrome (duct tape).» —“Re: Don’t go dissin’ my 90s!” by Tony Ingenoso Usenet: comp.sys...
hardware disease n.— «Cattle can suffer from what’s known as hardware disease if they eat metal that’s left in pastures or finds its way into feed.» —“Metallic debris poses risk to cattle” by Mike Penprase News...
hypervisor n.— «In virtual machine parlance, the hypervisor is the layer of software that sits just “above” the hardware and handles the virtualization process (making one machine look like more than one machine and allowing...
bare metal n.— «Other products, such as Xen and VMware’s ESX Server, run in a hypervisor that sits beneath the guest operating systems and the hardware. Because the software layer sits on the “bare metal,” these are sometimes...
nos n.— «“Nos” or “laughing gas” as it is known, is sold in silver canisters used to whip cream, and had been readily available at dairies and some hardware stores.» —“Gas sniffs killed boy?” by Alice...
PodShanking n.— «PodShanking can be declared a “hack” in the basest sense of that word: as in hackey. This is a jury-rigged, stop-gap solution to a sticky technical problem. Throw more hardware at this problem and you’ll solve...