WhatIs

/sher-wer/

n. 

Freeware (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself. Such payment may or may not buy additional support or functionality.

See guiltware, crippleware.

/seks chānj-ər/

n. Syn. gender mender.

/seks/

[Sun Users' Group & elsewhere]

n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus.

See also pubic directory.

/sər-vər/

n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with name servers, domain servers, news servers, finger servers and the like.

/sē-nyər bit/

[IBM]

n. Syn. meta bit.

/se-mī in-fə-nət/

n. See infinite.

/se-mī/

1. n. Abbreviation for 'semicolon', when speaking.

"Commands to grind are prefixed by semi-semi-star" means that the prefix is ';;*', not 1/4 of a star.

2. A prefix used with words such as 'immediately' as a qualifier.

"When is the system coming up?"

"Semi-immediately." (That is, maybe not for an hour.)

"We did consider that possibility semi-seriously."

See also infinite.

/sel-vij/

[from sewing]

n. See chad (sense 1).

/self-re-fərn(t)s/

n. See self-reference.

/seg'vē/

n.,vi. Yet another synonym for segmentation fault (actually, in this case, 'segmentation violation').