Boots (song) - Computing

Computing

• Bootstrapping, any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, finance, etc.
• Booting, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when electrical power is switched on (e.g., power-on self-test and starting an operating system)
• the /boot/ directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
• boot, an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
• boot, an alternative name for the Ping-Pong virus
• boot, or booting, to eject someone from a chat room
• Boot Camp (software), a program on Mac OS X v10.5 used to run Windows XP/Vista
• Twitter Bootstrap, a free collection of tools for creating websites and web applications