Playboy

A magazine for men. Playboy has excellent nude pictorials and centerfolds.

When I moved in with my girlfriend, she made me get rid of all my Playboy magazines.

by Qbert August 23, 2003

SOCKS

A protocol for handling TCP traffic through a proxy server. It can be used with virtually any TCP application, including Web browsers and FTP clients. It provides a simple firewall because it checks incoming and outgoing packets and hides the IP addresses of client applications.

There are two main versions of SOCKS -- V4 and V5. V5 adds an authentication mechanism for additional security. There are many freeware implementations of both versions. One of the most common V5 implementations is SOCKS5, developed by NEC.

Before I attempted to hack that server, I connected through multipe SOCKS proxies.

by Qbert July 30, 2004

wildflowers

One of Tom Petty's best album to date. "Wildflowers" was released in late 1994, and became an instant hit album. The album contained the songs "You Don't Know How It Feels", "Honey Bee", "You Wreck Me", "It's Good to be King", "Wildflowers", "House in the Woods", and many other great songs.

Some Tom Petty fans feel "Wildflowers" was Tom Pety's last great album.

by Qbert October 22, 2004

GetMem

GetMem() is the Turbo Pascal/Delphi equivalent to C/C++'s malloc() function; which is used for dynamic memory allocation in computer programming.

When the C programmer whipped out malloc(), the Pascal programmer whipped out GetMem() in defense.

by Qbert June 13, 2005

security

Something that is foreign to Microsoft.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has hundreds of security flaws.

by Qbert July 31, 2004

newsgroup

A place where you have to walk on eggshells. In other words, you gotta be careful about what you post to a newsgroup, otherwise, you may end up getting flamed.

I introduced myself to the newsgroup, and ended up getting flamed.

by Qbert July 28, 2004

winmodem

A type of modem that relies on a computer's CPU, software, and the Windows operating system to work. Winmodems are known to be system resource hogs, and usually come with buggy drivers causing system instability.

Though Winmodems are intended to be used with the Windows operating system, there are Linux drivers available. Regardless of what you may read or hear, Winmodems are not real modems.

Controller-based modems are superior to Winmodems because they don't rely on your computer's CPU or operating system to work.

by Qbert February 08, 2005