diff --git a/docs/jargon-org.txt b/docs/jargon-org.txt index 38fda66..027fbcf 100644 --- a/docs/jargon-org.txt +++ b/docs/jargon-org.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Sunday, 12 February 2017 11:50AM UTC +This file last generated Sunday, 12 February 2017 12:24PM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -7242,7 +7242,9 @@ n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare iron ). 2. Syn. fandango on core. *** 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. +1. 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. + +2. Centralized internet social network system in which all of the user data belongs to one organization and resides within one server or set of servers owned by the organization. Silos typically employ the network effect and user interface antipatterns in order to keep their users trapped within the silo. The opposite of silo computing is decentralised or distributed computing. *** 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. diff --git a/docs/jargon.1.gz b/docs/jargon.1.gz index 74fe209..5149b44 100644 Binary files a/docs/jargon.1.gz and b/docs/jargon.1.gz differ diff --git a/docs/jargon.html b/docs/jargon.html index 1b3d8c3..bf474ef 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.html +++ b/docs/jargon.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Free Documentation License".

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2. Syn. fandango on core.

silo

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- 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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1. 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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2. Centralized internet social network system in which all of the user data belongs to one organization and resides within one server or set of servers owned by the organization. Silos typically employ the network effect and user interface antipatterns in order to keep their users trapped within the silo. The opposite of silo computing is decentralised or distributed computing.

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. diff --git a/entries/silo.txt b/entries/silo.txt index 71fb203..9e81593 100644 --- a/entries/silo.txt +++ b/entries/silo.txt @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ silo -n. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card. So called from +1. 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. - +2. Centralized internet social network system in which all of the user data +belongs to one organization and resides within one server or set of servers +owned by the organization. Silos typically employ the network effect and +user interface antipatterns in order to keep their users trapped within +the silo. The opposite of silo computing is decentralised or distributed +computing.