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PILOT ERROR

Specialty Definition: PILOT ERROR

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Computing

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." Compare PEBKAC, UBD. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PILOT ERROR

Specialty definitions using "PILOT ERROR": PEBKAC. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PILOT ERROR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pilot error

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PILOT ERROR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-o-o-p-r-r-r-t"

-2 letters: portlier.

-3 letters: loopier, pierrot, poitrel, politer, preriot, rootier, trooper.

-4 letters: loiter, looper, looter, oolite, oriole, petrol, piolet, polite, poorer, porter, pretor, protei, replot, report, retool, rioter, rooter, ropier, terror, toiler, tooler, torero, torpor, triple.

-5 letters: error, lirot, liter, litre, looie, loper, oiler, oorie, oriel, orlop, peril, pilot, plier, poler, polio, poori, prier, prior, prole.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-o-o-p-r-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: reportorial.

 

+3 letters: proprietorial, reportorially.

 

+5 letters: retroperitoneal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PILOT ERROR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 49 4C 4F 54      45 52 52 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001001 01001100 01001111 01010100 00100000 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#73 &#76 &#79 &#84 &#32 &#69 &#82 &#82 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0049 004C 004F 0054      0045 0052 0052 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504346495423952524952

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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