sun-stools
= S =
super source quench
sunspots n.
1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did
the program suddenly turn the screen blue?" "Sunspots, I
guess." 2. Also the cause of bit rot -- from the myth that
sunspots will increase cosmic rays, which can flip single bits
in memory. See also phase of the moon.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.