Toxic Custard Computing

Dictionary of Computing

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
... Backspace - The most used key on the keyboard
... Linuxitus - An odd ailment, now known to cause irrational hatred of Microsoft.
... RAM - What you do when the plug won't quite fit into the socket.

Melissa: One among thousands - The number of times I've had the Good Times virus warning and its clones arrive in my e-mail - not to mention legends of stolen kidneys, bloody Craig Shergold and the cards - is alarmingly huge.
Viva the Revolution! I think... - I get the feeling that this whole computer revolution thing has gone a bit too far. What proved this to me above all others things was this: an glossy advertisement for Intel processors. On the back of "Family Circle" magazine.
Save your screen - Somewhere in one of the back rooms at Microsoft, there's probably a little group that writes screen savers. Half a dozen hippie programmers with Visual Arts degrees, expertise in OpenGL programming and a mandate from Microsoft management to make Windows look hip.
Techheads versus Users - The Users might be tempted to call Techheads geeks and nerds, but they know that it's those very geeks and nerds that they will have to scream to for help if they run into trouble.
Beware the beta - The result was that once I had installed the beta, the computer wouldn't boot any more. This can be a slightly minor interruption to its normal operation...