The winter solstice occurs around December21 each year and it is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The summer solsticce occurs around June 21st eaach year and it is the longest year in the Northern Hemisphere.
A term of employment law; where an employee is assigned to a new job and his/her position filled by another employee. In St. John, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal used these words: Canada Post's ability to loan employees from one part of the plant to another is subject to a general prohibition against backfilling.
Beast, a Windows-based backdoor Trojan horse. A backdoor is a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication in a product, computer system, cryptosystem or algorithm etc. Backdoors are often used for securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, or obtaining access to plaintext in cryptographic systems. A backdoor may take the form of a hidden part of a program, a separate program (e.g. Back Orifice may subvert the system through a rootkit), or may be a hardware feature.