Gary Destruction's definitions

Opteron

A 64-bit processor created by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It is capable of handling 32-bit applications with no compromise in performance.

The AMD(R) Operton(TM) is the latest edition to the growing family of processors from Advanced Micro Devices.

by Gary Destruction September 8, 2003

NT 4 Workstation

See NT

by Gary Destruction July 21, 2003

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

bimbo

1. A very stupid woman; an airhead

That bimbo asked how much a free sample costs!

by Gary Destruction February 19, 2007

uk82

One of three real punk music types

UK82, street punk and 77 are the only real punk.

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

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