pico- pref.
[SI: a quantifier meaning * 10^-12] Smaller than nano-; used in the same rather loose connotative
way as nano- and micro-. This
usage is not yet common in the way nano- and micro-
are, but should be instantly recognizable to any hacker. See also
quantifiers, micro-.
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pig-tail
[radio hams] A short piece of cable with two connectors on
each end for converting between one connector type and another.
Common pig-tails are 9-to-25-pin serial-port converters and
cables to connect PCMCIA network cards to an RJ-45 network
cable.
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pilot error n.
[Sun: from aviation] A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a
piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare
UBD). "Joe Luser reported a bug in
sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a
bug, that's pilot error. His sendmail.cf is
hosed."