biff is a mail notification system for Unix. When a new mail message is delivered, the program biff alerts the recipient so they can read it immediately...

cartoon strip biff (Unix), a UNIX mail notification program. BIFF, also B1FF or B1ff, a pseudonym used on Usenet and Internet BIFF, the Binary Interchange...

that shows a mailbox with its flag raised whenever the user has new e-mail. It is included in almost every X Window System. biff (Unix) Manual page v t e...

needed] Or, named after Bon. biff – named after a dog known by the developers at Berkeley, who – according to the UNIX manual page – died on 15 August...

systems don't support unix_sequencenumber() and unix_bootnumber(). Rn, where n is (in hexadecimal) the output of the operating system's unix_cryptorandomnumber()...

system processes that provide widely used types of network services. On Unix-like operating systems, a process must execute with superuser privileges...

director Robert Zemeckis. In the original story line for Back to the Future 2, Biff would have gone to 1967 and George McFly would be teaching at Berkeley. Sandy...