Anybody know what a bit bucket really is really?

[Cane Pole]

I mean besides me and Shoer.

[Slab]

Lol, ehh, I prolly should not have used that term. What do you think it means? Computer term, equestrian term, hmmm?

[popperonahead]

Bit bucket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Slab]

"The bit bucket is jargon for that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go.

The term was generalized into any place where useless bits go including the trash can or rubbish bin"

That's a good description (I copied from Wikipedia). lol

[Cane Pole]

The bit bucket was a trash can used to catch bits of paper from paper punches during paper tape reader days. (recycle bin)

Bit bucket is also used too heat or cool horse bits by adding cool or warm water.

Now you know.

I know a lot of nothings.

[J_ROW]

Cane Pole
You have got to be the most knowledgeable guy about nothing that I have never seen.

[thudpucker]

In the early days of programming, (Tubes and Early Transistorized main frames) there were Error messages that went into a series of shift registers. A stack of errors.
The Software was supposed to look at those errors and do something with them.
However....if the error got too far down in the stack before the interrupt was sent to the processor, it just got moved further down as more errors were added in on the top.
FIFO if you please.
The "Bit Bucket" was that imaginary place where the First error contents went when the dropped out of the bottom of the Stack.

[horseshoer]

The bit buckit is fast disappearing in the equestrian world. Most horse people today wouldnt know what one is. They're better known in the northern states because their #1 use is just as a container for warm water to warm up bits before bridling a horse. You cold mouth a horse a few times and that sucker will show you how lockjaw goes. You need the jaws of life to pry their teeth apart to get the bit in their mouth. My ol lady used to do the same thing when I was gittin her readied to ride. Stubborn girl, she tried kickin & biting, but I hit her a cpl good licks with my spurs and beat her with my riding crop, followed by hoarse whispering.

[olduckhunter]

The bit buckit is fast disappearing in the equestrian world. Most horse people today wouldnt know what one is. They're better known in the northern states because their #1 use is just as a container for warm water to warm up bits before bridling a horse. You cold mouth a horse a few times and that sucker will show you how lockjaw goes. You need the jaws of life to pry their teeth apart to get the bit in their mouth. My ol lady used to do the same thing when I was gittin her readied to ride. Stubborn girl, she tried kickin & biting, but I hit her a cpl good licks with my spurs and beat her with my riding crop, followed by hoarse whispering.

did she look like she'd been rode hard and put up wet?



old

[horseshoer]

[QUOTE=olduckhunter;1195975]did she look like she'd been rode hard and put up wet?



Not sure, she had her back to me. Really no way of knowing, I had my eyes squeezed shut tight & was thinkin of someone else.