snuffkin's definitions

Jon Irenicus

The villian starred in Baldur's Gate 2. Employs his vampire sister, Bodhi.

"You dare to attack me here? Do you even know whom you face?"
"You will suffer! You will all suffer!"

by Snuffkin March 27, 2005

asp

Server technology developed by Microsoft that might be more welcomed in the open-source community alongside PHP if it were not tied down to IIS, a webserver also developed by Microsoft requiring Windows and with a less than desirable security history.

The latest release of ASP integrates with Microsoft's .NET technology.

I might consider ASP if it were more supported on Apache.

by Snuffkin February 4, 2005

Internet explorer

A browser, that, while at first sight might appear open to spyware, will be just as resiliant as alternatives such as Mozilla if you take the time to secure it correctly.

As a stubborn IE user, I have not recieved one piece of spyware on this machine yet.

by Snuffkin February 4, 2005

mirc

Once very popular IRC client, but is now more often dumped in preference of HydraIRC or xchat, both of which are available for Windows.

mIRC is the stereotypical tool of choice for the n00b IRC user.

n00b: huh
n00b: you cant get in mirc without mIRC

by Snuffkin February 4, 2005

.NET

Technology that at a quick glance would appear to be heavily taken from Java. It boasts, however, the ability to compile one program from source written in multiple languages (the primary choices being C#, Visual Basic and C++).

The fact that .NET is tightly bound to Windows somewhat lessens the practicality of .NET when compared to Java.

Like Java has Java Servlet Pages, .NET employs ASP.NET as it's server technology, which might be more attractive were it not tied down to both Windows and IIS, which has a less than desirable security history, when compared to Apache.

I have to download 23MB just to run 'Hello, World'?

by Snuffkin February 4, 2005

Apache

A popular, free, and open-source webserver with massive supporting community and used by the vast majority of websites in the world.

Much more desirable when compared to IIS, due to it's vastly better security history and better dependability.

That website is down. Oh, wait, it's running on IIS.

by Snuffkin February 4, 2005

barney

Brainwashing device for small children, torture device for everyone else.

I would rather perform some painful act to myself than have to watch "Barney".

by Snuffkin March 27, 2005