Definitions by mistweb
How's your father
Slap 'n' tickle; Bit of the other; casual sexual relations; Origin in World War II, English soldiers in France expected that an old French lady with grey hair, whom their father had bonked during the First World War might come up to them and ask this.
"Took her round the bike shed for a bit of how's-your-father";
"I don't want you two getting up to any how's-your-father while we're out!"
"I don't want you two getting up to any how's-your-father while we're out!"
How's your father by mistweb October 13, 2003
baud
bits per second; rate of information transfer, hence 'baud-rate'; see Information theory; also kilo-baud (kb)- thousands of baud, mega-baud (Mb) - millions of baud.
bit
Binary digIT - the least amount of information there is, i.e. yes or no, true or false, on or off. Eight bits make a byte
BiCapitalization
Some people would say camel case, but actually camels only have humps in the middle likeThis. People are now calling bi-capitalisation PascalCase, cos in the old days we used to use it for names of things in the computer language called Pascal.
BiCapitalization by mistweb October 13, 2003
bandwidth
The width, in Hertz, of the pass-band of any equipment that can process information. Most computer data transfer works at base-band (unlike radio transmitters, which usually operate on some higher wave band) so the bandwidth is usually equal to its baud rate.