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bogon
(foldoc) | bogon
/boh'gon/ (By analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but
doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas
Adams's "Vogons")
1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see {quantum
bogodynamics}). For instance, "the Ethernet is emitting
bogons again" means that it is broken or acting in an erratic
or bogus fashion.
2. A query packet sent from a TCP/IP domain resolver to
a root server, having the reply bit set instead of the query
bit.
3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed packet sent on a network.
4. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was
historically the original usage, but has been overtaken by its
derivative senses. See also bogosity; compare psyton,
fat electrons, magic smoke.
The bogon has become the type case for a whole bestiary of
nonce particle names, including the "clutron" or "cluon"
(indivisible particle of cluefulness, obviously the
antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon (elementary particle
of randomness, or sometimes of lameness). These are not so
much live usages in themselves as examples of a live
meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke or
linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious
circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And these
imply nonce particle theories, with all their dignity or lack
thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a
generalisation from "(bogus particle) theories" to "bogus
(particle theories)"!). Perhaps such particles are the
modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard
starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths.
Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the "futon")
yields additional flavour.
[Jargon File]
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bogon
(jargon) | bogon
/boh'gon/, n.
[very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless
reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's ‘Vogons’; see
the Bibliography in Appendix C and note that Arthur Dent actually
mispronounces ‘Vogons’ as ‘Bogons’ at one point]
1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see quantum bogodynamics). For
instance, “the Ethernet is emitting bogons again” means that it is broken
or acting in an erratic or bogus fashion.
2. A query packet sent from a TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server,
having the reply bit set instead of the query bit.
3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed packet sent on a network.
4. By synecdoche, used to refer to any bogus thing, as in “I'd like to go
to lunch with you but I've got to go to the weekly staff bogon”.
5. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was historically
the original usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses 1--4.
See also bogosity, bogus; compare psyton, fat electrons, {magic
smoke}.
The bogon has become the type case for a whole bestiary of nonce particle
names, including the ‘clutron’ or ‘cluon’ (indivisible particle of
cluefulness, obviously the antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon
(elementary particle of randomness, or sometimes of lameness). These are
not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage:
that is, it has become a standard joke or linguistic maneuver to “explain”
otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And
these imply nonce particle theories, with all their dignity or lack thereof
(we might note parenthetically that this is a generalization from “(bogus
particle) theories” to “bogus (particle theories)”!). Perhaps such
particles are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as
standard starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths. Of
course, playing on an existing word (as in the ‘futon’) yields additional
flavor. Compare magic smoke.
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bogon filter
(foldoc) | bogon filter
/boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits
or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons.
"Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the
VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See
also bogosity.
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bogon flux
(foldoc) | bogon flux
/boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity
emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker
starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say
"Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See {quantum
bogodynamics}.
[Jargon File]
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bogon filter
(jargon) | bogon filter
/boh'gon fil'tr/, n.
Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or
emission of bogons. “Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and
the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets.” See also {bogosity
}, bogus.
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bogon flux
(jargon) | bogon flux
/boh'gon fluhks/, n.
A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured
by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a
listener might say “Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising”. See {quantum
bogodynamics}.
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