silo n.
The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card. So
called from DEC terminology used on DH
and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11, presumably because it
was a storage space for fungible stuff that went in at the top
and came out at the bottom.
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Silver Book n.
Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report",
so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed
Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See
book titles, Pascal.
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since time T equals minus infinity adv.
A long time ago; for as long as anyone can remember; at the
time that some particular frob was first designed. Usually the
word `time' is omitted. See also time
T; contrast epoch.
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sitename /si:t'naym/ n.
[Unix/Internet] The unique electronic name of a computer
system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, Usenet, or other forms
of electronic information interchange. The folklore interest of
sitenames stems from the creativity and humor they often display.
Interpreting a sitename is not unlike interpreting a vanity
license plate; one has to mentally unpack it, allowing for
mono-case and length restrictions and the lack of whitespace.
Hacker tradition deprecates dull, institutional-sounding names in
favor of punchy, humorous, and clever coinages (except that it is
considered appropriate for the official public gateway machine of
an organization to bear the organization's name or acronym).
Mythological references, cartoon characters, animal names, and
allusions to SF or fantasy literature are probably the most
popular sources for sitenames (in roughly descending order). The
obligatory comment when discussing these is Harris's Lament: "All
the good ones are taken!" See also network address.
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skrog v.
Syn. scrog.
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skulker n.
Syn. prowler.
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slab [Apple]
1. n. A continuous horizontal line of pixels, all with the
same color. 2. vi. To paint a slab on an output device. Apple's
QuickDraw, like most other professional-level graphics systems,
renders polygons and lines not with Bresenham's algorithm, but by
calculating `slab points' for each scan line on the screen in
succession, and then slabbing in the actual image pixels.