chemist n.
[Cambridge] Someone who wastes computer time on number-crunching when you'd far
rather the machine were doing something more productive, such as
working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or
running life patterns. May or may not
refer to someone who actually studies chemistry.
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Chernobyl chicken n.
See laser chicken.
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Chernobyl packet /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ n.
A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, in memory of the
April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical
scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a
gateway with both source and destination Ether and IP address set
as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being
gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
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chicken head n.
[Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which
strongly resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the
logo was always called `chicken lips'). Rendered in ASCII as
`C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see amoeba), Commodore's machines were notoriously
crocky little bitty boxes (see
also PETSCII), albeit people have
written multitasking Unix-like operating systems with TCP/IP
networking for them. Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip
K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis
for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that
title), in which a `chickenhead' is a mutant with below-average
intelligence.
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chiclet keyboard n.
A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped
rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of chewing gum.
(Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does
in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards.) Used esp. to
describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously
liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable
and laptop products got launched using them. Customers rejected
the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often
seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
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Chinese Army technique n.
Syn. Mongolian
Hordes technique.