mistweb's definitions

fair game

OK to shoot. Comes from animal hunting - yuk.

Microsoft are such a bunch of wankers that their servers are fair game for hackers and virus writers

by mistweb October 13, 2003

shebang

lot

The whole shebang = The whole lot

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.

Our network has a 10 MHz bandwidth, so it can pass an absolute maximum of ten million bits per second, i.e. it works only up to 10 Mb (ten mega baud)

by mistweb October 13, 2003