blue screen of death

1. An error message that appears on the Microsoft Windows 9.x platform. It may appear because of hardware problems, driver issues, viruses, a problem with Windows, overclocked processor or other reasons.

2. An error message that appears on the Micrsoft Windows NT/2000/XP platform due driver or hardware problems. It is also referred to as a "STOP Error" because the word "STOP" is displayed at the top of the screen. The NT/2000/XP blue screen of death usually provides more detailed information than the Win 9.x blue screen of death.

1. Bad RAM has been known to cause the blue screen of death on Windows 9.x computers.

2. A driver problem may cause Windows NT/2000/XP to display a blue screen of death containing a physical memory dump.

by Gary Destruction June 10, 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

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

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

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

Schizophrenia

Condition commonly mistaken for MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). Schizophrenia like the name suggests means a split, but not a split in personality. Schizophrenia is a split in perception that causes an individual to become detached, isolated and remote from reality and from the rest of society. A person experiencing schizophrenia might see things in a way that he can only understand. He might also experience hallucinations such as hearing voices and seeing things, paranoia, feelings and thoughts of persecution and feeling like he is in another world.

I'm borderline schizophrenic.

by Gary Destruction July 19, 2003

paradox

1. Something or someone that exists or behaves in contradiction to itself or himself
2. Application from the Corel Office Suite

1. He fought a battle that he was ultimately opposed to.
2. Some companies use Corel Paradox for their databases

by Gary Destruction June 19, 2003