Gary Destruction's definitions

operating system

Abbreviated "OS", an operating system is software that provides the user with an interface as well as hardware support and support to run and use applications. Operating systems also accept input and display output by communicating with hardware and interacting with any respective applications or system software that might be using that hardware.

Windows, Windows NT, MacOS, UNIX, Novell Netware, DOS, BSD and BeOS are all examples of operating systems. Linux on the other hand, is a kernel.

by Gary Destruction June 21, 2003

CRC

1. Term that stands for Cyclic Redundancy Check. It's a form of error checking commonly used for Winzip compression and Ultra ATA controllers.

A corrupt zip file will yield a bad CRC when opened.

by Gary Destruction June 23, 2003

TTL

1. Electronics: Transistor to transistor logic
2. Networking: Time to live; the amount of time a record will remain cached.

1. Logic circuits use TTL
2. You might want to change your default TTL 128 if it's not already.

by Gary Destruction June 11, 2003

maroon

1. A color between red and brown
2. A stupid person; a fool

1. She's wearing maroon pants
2. "What a maroon." -- Bugs Bunny

by Gary Destruction June 10, 2003

hal

Acronym for Hardware Abstraction Layer. The HAL is used by NT-based Operating Systems to handle hardware. This prevents the OS from having direct access to hardware.

The HAL is one of the main reaons that NT-based OS's are more stable than Win9.x.

by Gary Destruction November 19, 2003

technodrome

Mobile doomday device and base that supervillains Shredder and Krang used on the Archie cartoon and comic versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Oh no! Shredder and Krang have managed to get the technodrome free from Dimension-X!

by Gary Destruction September 8, 2003

Got me fucked up

What you say when someone screws you over or tries to put you in a bad situation.

The phone company was supposed to turn on my phone today and now they're saying it won't be on until next week. They got me fucked up.

by Gary Destruction April 1, 2004