Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A system operator.
Wiktionary
- n. computing, Internet A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.
- v. intransitive To work as a sysop.
- v. transitive, rare To give someone sysop privileges.
Etymologies
- From the first syllables of system and operator. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But I'm really glad Iread that article which was posted in the WOMEN'SFORUM you got that right - it is still a "women'sforum" with a "sysop" -becauseotherwise I would have totally worn my cheap, unflattering underwear today and thoughtnothing of it.”
“And The Well, because of the way it organized information, boy, that conversation was really to the point, and when it wasn't, you had a human operator called a sysop, who would just kick you off or shut you down or scribble your words.”
“The system operator ( "sysop") was responsible for maintaining the software and the message databases, often leaving his computer on for 24 hours a day to be available for callers.”
The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Telecommunications
“The main thing a bureaucrat can do, which 'sysop' cannot, is '' 'promote users to be sysops' '' (and demote sysops to normal users).”
“That method only works if you are a "sysop" (admin).”
“And it warms the cockles of my heart to hear someone using the phrase "sysop" again.”
“The way to get rid of them is to use the REPORT option on their post and send a note to the sysop.”
“See the previous post with the Email from the sysop who blocked him and specifically says that 1. The sysop had no idea who was behind the bot when he blocked him 2. The sysop had no idea what climate audit was 3. The email to him from Steve McIntyre was "unpleasant" OK Eli is being nice”
“Reto Ruedy did not pull the plug on McIntyre, the sysop did, because McIntyre's robot read the letter was swamping the server, denying service to others.”
“Since it is always good to start at the start, Eli is going to reproduce most of an Email from the sysop who caught McIntyre's web crawler”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sysop’.
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Babble Tech
Go Babble! Words, if you can call them that, from the world of technology and computers. I'll try to make sure each one is represented by a Wordnik example.
cifsiostat, nfsiostat, mpstat, iostat, pidstat, sar, sysstat, cron, fetchmail, zypper, mysqldump, rsync and 102 more...
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sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
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Winters's Words
endogenous, serendipitous, sundry, incongruous, impudent, imperious, zeitgeist, imbroglio, hermeneutic, immutable, genealogical, labile and 37 more...
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