Mac Stack

A physical vertical grouping of Mac Mini computers and peripherals. So named because some peripherals for the Mac Mini are designed to stack above or below the Mini and the shapes of the cases suggest vertical arrangements for convenience and good use of space.

Joe has a G4 Mini, Intel Mini, a FireWire hub, KVM, and a 250GB hard drive in a Mac Stack.

by esmith512 October 06, 2007

Beachball of Death

The Mac OS pointer icon of a colorful spinning wheel indicating the program currently under the mouse pointer is no longer responding. Called the beachball of death if the program never recovers or causes the operating system to become so busy (usually due to insufficient memory) that nothing else responds.

I ran a new shareware program, but killed it after I got the beachball of death.

by esmith512 January 08, 2008

chivalry

The act of a self-deluded sucker. Self-destructive self-sacrifice in favor of those seeking to exploit or destroy the practioner. Self-debasement to those seeking exploitive profit and lack of due recriprocation. Often stupidly misconstrued by those practicing as honorable or altuistic.

Many travesties of justice, self-destruction, and the concealment and promotion of evil have come from the chivalry of fools.

by esmith512 January 21, 2008

FrankenMac

A usually fully functional almost-Apple Macintosh computer rebuilt from various dead-Mac pull-out and commodity PC parts to avoid Apple's high prices for similar Apple-sourced but functionally identical parts. A cousin somewhat to the Hackintosh.

Jim got a bunch of Apple and non-Apple parts from some dead Macs, PCs, and his own workbench and cobbled together a little FrankenMac. Not quite as pretty but it works fine.

by esmith512 October 06, 2007

Bushzarro

A word widely coined in journalistic circles to describe the mutually opposite words and actions over time, redefinition of various terms into their opposites, and generally confusingly self-contradictory behavior of the Bush Administration. Derived from Bizarro and Bizarroworld.

In Bushzarro world, up is down, white is black, mass murder is democracy, truthiness is lies, left is right, and right is wrong.

by esmith512 January 17, 2008