Favorite Computer Terms or Jargon

[hard candy]

Being exposed to some heavy slang earlier today got me thinking- what's my favorite computer slang (I know, I've got too much time on my hands) and I thought there would be some other terms I could use to freshen up my vocabulary.

My favorites:

UBD- user brain damage, used when we wanted to signal the user was clueless. "Your computer is suffering from UBD"
stack- things to do in the future "that paper is on stack"
bogo-sort-I think this meant a really bad algorithm or process "That program uses bogo-sort and takes forever" (I may be wrong on this one)
plokta (I think it stood for "press lots of keys to abort"-to get mad and press all the keys when the computer is locked up (especially useful on Windows boxes). "Word froze up and I did the plokta so now I have to write the &%$#$% paper over."

Post yours and let me increase my vocabulary, thanks. Would that be helping Higher or lower education?):confused:

[elderdays]

counting crows fan?

Have you checked out the jargon lexicon? It's at http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TheJargonLexicon.html

My favorite of all time is just plain old RTFM (before somebody makes a fool of themself it means 'read the @#^*@#! manual'). It can speak volumes and there are many times on this site that I wish some people would actually do it.

w00t! can say a lot too. w00t!

[glussier]

I don't think you get "stack" right. Stack is more like a data structure.

One we see often here in the forums, is RTFM Read the fine manual, but we all know that it means Read the ****en manual

Edite for: Lol, I was a little too slow for the RTFM part. :)

[hlrguy]

Computer network, telphony, etc. You certify that the problem is not with your equipment or that your software/hardware is doing the right thing, you tell them 'The trouble is leaving here fine'.

hlrguy

[roamingnomad]

"Power surge the primary drivers"- one I made up, it means unplugging and plugging it in again...

Ack, there was one from BOFH, can't remember it now...

[bs_texas]

WTF??

For instance, you're happily frabilating your gongkulator and then, while you RTFM, you come across, "...and if you like, you can digimulate the brazenflommer." Of course, at that point, anybody would go, "If I like?!?! WTF?!?!"

(Note insert your own big words and you still come up with WTF?)

:D

[YorkshireYank]

My personla favorite when dealing with people who really should undergo some kind of licensing program before buying a computer is the "id10t" error - sure it looks obvious when you read it but people tend to take a minute or 2 thinking about it before understanding what it means...

[Gertrude]

calling someone a "a**hat" is always nice.

[joelc]

It's old now, but I still like TLA.

[evulish]

Somehow I don't think 'a**hat' is computer jargon :P

My personal favorite is the LART. Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. Included in this can be a BFG. My LART is an old AB switch. I swear the makers of it put a 1" lead lining around the inside of the full steel case. I guess they didn't want superman to steal their switch idea. *shrug* It can be used two ways:
1) Just connect the input port and hold the end of it to swing the switch.
2) Connect all three cables. Hold one cable, and whip the rest of them. Parallel ports leave mean scars.

My favorite lamer acronym is omgwtfroflmfao. kekeke larrr.

[kshim5]

Bogomips :D

[bwkaz]

Bogo-sort is sorting an array by doing the following:

(1) Randomly permute the elements of the array. This is the equivalent of throwing a deck of cards up into the air and then picking the cards up in whatever order seems approprate at the time (random).

(2) Test if the array is sorted. If not, repeat until it is.

Although, since the "test if the array is sorted" part only takes time proportional to the size of the array (and not the size squared, or something), then if the Many Worlds theory of quantum dynamics is correct, it's possible to sort in linear time. You do the random permutation using a quantum effect (which creates a pair of universes for each card-flip, one with them flipped, and one without), then test (in parallel) each universe's array. If it's not sorted, destroy the universe. :D

[hard candy]

(2) Test if the array is sorted. If not, repeat until it is.

And wouldn't that bog down whatever program is running and you could say, " The darn bogo-sort is making this process run until next year!".

[mrBen]

PEBKAC errors are my favourite. (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by hard candy
And wouldn't that bog down whatever program is running and you could say, " The darn bogo-sort is making this process run until next year!". Err ... yes... that's why it's bogo-sort, as in "bogus", it really doesn't work very well (running time is probabilistically infinite). Nobody in their right mind would ever use it (which of course doesn't stop a lot of people that aren't in their right mind, but we'll just sort of ignore them for the moment... ;)).

:p

[bs_texas]

probabilistically infinite



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