What is a dongle?

[KitchenWitch]

[Misunderestimator]

1. To met, it is one of those things you had to use to connect to the...

network through a PCMCIA card. I suppose it means a lot of things. :)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

2. A thing that sticks into another thing.

[RC]

3. The short adapter cord that goes from a laptop network card to

the network cable.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. It's this.

don·gle (dôn'gəl, dŏng'-)
n.
A hardware device that serves as copy protection for certain software by rendering the software inoperable when the device is not plugged into a printer port.

[short bus president]

5. a way to attach peripherals to yer box.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle

[crispini]

6. It's a hardware security key.

Most companies have gone to software keys now but back in the day you would buy a license to run the software and the license would be encoded on a dongle -- a black box sort of thing, with a chip-- which you'd plug into a port on your computer.

[RevCheesehead]

7. Yeah, KW - my mind went there, too.

:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

11. Glad I am not the only one

My mind lives there :evilgrin:

[indy_azcat]

8. and how does it relate to boon?

:shrug:

[ronnykmarshall]

9. All I know is it makes my co-workers crack up!

I work for a very big bank in California in the tech area. We have a system that require dongle's (and they are made in Israel so I guess they are "cut")and everytime we talk about them in meetings .... we giggle like a bunch of school kids.

[lastknowngood]

10. It is a hardware key used to enable software on computers.

n/t

[tridim]

12. NO SEX THREADS!

;)

[Tom Kitten]

13. past participle form of dingle

as in dingle dangle dongle ...

eg...>"he dongled over the edge..."

[DS1]

14. It's a piece of hardware that's cracked before the software is even

released. AKA, a useless piece of feel-good hardware.