Definitions by Snuffkin

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".

barney by Snuffkin March 27, 2005

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!"

Jon Irenicus by Snuffkin March 27, 2005

planeshift 

Rediculously buggy (in terms of crashiness, not just innocent server bugs) online game which is free to play. The price is undoubtably right, and it has potential if only it could become stable.

The client has crashed. Would you like to save a diagnostic file?

planeshift by Snuffkin February 5, 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.

Internet explorer 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

mirc by Snuffkin February 4, 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.

asp 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'?

.NET by Snuffkin February 4, 2005