Definitions by cymon

sohcahtoa 

Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid.

Mnemonic device for SOHCAHTOA, referring to the trigonometric method of finding the sine, cosine, and tangent of a right triangle.

During Math quiz day, Johnny remembered SOHCAHTOA. The kid next to him actually did it.

sohcahtoa by cymon May 12, 2007

hub 

A hub (sometimes called a repeater) is a layer 2 networking device, similar to a switch, but not as advanced. Instead of sending a datagram to a specific ethernet address, the hub will simply forward the datagram to every port, except for the one it came from. They are common in small networks, but the massive overhead caused by all the datagrams being sent to every device on the network makes them extremely impractical in large networks. They are becoming less common as time passes on. However, they are immune to looped cabling in the network, but more and more switches are equipped with the Spanning Tree Protocol, which prevents against issues with looped connections. Wiring the network correctly also helps with this.

Hubs are used to expand a network. If you need to add devices, and there aren't enough ports available, time to get a hub or a switch.

hub by cymon January 6, 2007

firefox decoder ring 

The official Firefox website.

I want to get Firefox, but I don't have a Firefox decoder ring.

firefox decoder ring by cymon October 1, 2006

episped 

A person that enjoys epiphone guitars.

Nathan is such an episped

episped by cymon October 1, 2006

core 2 duo 

New processor line developed by Intel Corporation. Based on the P6 and P4 Mobile architectures, it outperforms the AMD competition at a lower price point. It features more effecient instruction decoding, larger cache, a higher FSB, and a higher IPC, all while producing less heat.

Person one: d00d I just got a new Athlon64 5000+ for only 800$
Person two: n00b you should have bought a Core 2 Duo.

core 2 duo by cymon July 23, 2006