data mart n.— «He did away with 85 official data centers, plus another 400 unofficial locations that were found to harbor servers, totalling about 700 “data marts” as he called them. By using more powerful machines and...
backscatter n.— «Backscatter occurs when a spammer spoofs a legitimate e-mail address to send an unsolicited message to large distribution lists, causing the e-mail server to flood an unsuspecting e-mail address owner’s mailbox with...
We’ve been a little quiet because we didn’t want to start making the fire before the logs were stacked, but the news can now be told: A Way with Words is alive! That’s right: the show will continue, new episodes are already in...
cover n.— «Many restaurants serve twice as many “covers” (that’s diners in kitchen parlance) as they do in a normal shift. That puts an amazing strain on everyone—reservationists, prep cooks, chefs, bartenders, servers—even...
bandwidth rape n.— «Turner also saw his computer server suddenly flooded with Internet data traffic at about 100 times the normal rate—a major concern, because he is billed for all data that flows into and out of the server. In what’s...
autograt n.— «The only way to fairly and legally deal with autograt is to make it truly automatic and not up to a server’s discretion. If a server chooses to grat green people and not purple people, or short people and not tall people...