jargon from FOLDOC

jargon entries

-oid	-ware	120 reset
8N1	abbrev	ABEND
ACME	acronym	ad-hockery
AI-complete	AIDS	aliasing
all-elbows	AMD	amp off
asbestos	ASCIIbetical order	atomic
aubergine	autoconfiscate	automagically
autopilot code	awk	background
backronym	backward compatibility	Bad Thing
balanced computing	banana label	bang on
baroque	base memory	baud barf
baz	beam	bear paw
bells and whistles	Betamaxed	Big Gray Wall
big iron	Big Red Switch	Big Room
big win	bit bucket	bit rot
black box	black magic	bleam
bloatware	blow away	blowing your buffer
blow out	blue dot syndrome	bogotify
Bohr bug	borf	brain fart
brittle	brochureware	brute force and ignorance
burn-in period	bytesexual	Byzantine
bzzzt, wrong	canonical	canonicity
card walloper	Career Limiting Move	casting the runes
catatonic	chad	chemist
Chip Jewelry	choke	chomp
Christmas tree	chrome	chug
classic	clean	clobber
clone	clustergeeking	COBOL fingers
cobwebsite	code grinder	codes
Commonwealth Hackish	compact	compatible
computer confetti	computer geek	computer sex
Computer Software Configuration Item	computron	condom
configuraholic	configuration item	content-free
cookie	copious free time	core cancer
core dump	cough and die	cracker
crack root	crash and burn	crawling horror
creeping featurism	creeping featuritis	Crispy Critters
cruft	cruft together	crumb
crunch	cruncha cruncha cruncha	cubing
cursor dipped in X	cyberchondriac	cybercrud
cyberrhea	cyberspace	cyber-squatting
cyclebabble	cycle crunch	cycle server
dark-side hacker	data	dead tree
deboursification	de-rezz	diddle
die	die horribly	digerati
Dilberted	disk farm	disusered
DOA	doco	domainist
Dooced	double DECkers	download
downsizing	down-time	Draft Once ReUse Many
drain	drool-proof paper	dumbed down
dynner	easter egg	Easter egging
egosurfing	ELIZA effect	end-to-end solution
engine	epsilon squared	EXCH
eyeball search	face time	face-to-face
fandango on core	farkled	farming
fascist	fear-driven development	feature
feature shock	fepped out	field servoid
film at 11	fine adjuster	finn
firehose syndrome	flag day	flame on
flamer	flame war	flap
FM	foo	foobar
fool file	footprint	forked
form function	for values of	forward compatibility
fried	frotzed	fsck
FUD	fum	furrfu
futz	Get a real computer!	glue
gnarly	gobble	go-faster stripes
gonk	gotcha	granularity
graybar land	green bytes	gubbish
gun	hack	hackathon
hack attack	hacked off	hacked up
hacker	hacking run	Hackintosh
hackish	hackishness	hackitude
hack mode	hack together	hack up
hakspek	hand cruft	hand hack
handle	hand-roll	haque
hard-coded	hardcopy	hard-wired
heatseeker	heisenbug	hello, sailor!
hexit	hit	hog
home box	hop	hosed
hungus	ICE	icebreaker
information island	information overload	information technology
interface	Internaut	Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
IRL	IT	it's a feature
jargon	Jargon File	JBOPS
job security	joe	J. Random
J. Random Hacker	Just a Bunch Of Disks	keyboard plaque
kicking dead whales down the beach	kit	kludge
kluge	kluge around	lamer
Lasherism	laundromat	learning curve
legacy system	life	light-weight
like nailing jelly to a tree	line 666	logon
lose	loser	losing
loss	lossage	lost in the underflow
lurking	luser	Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool
magic bullet	magic number	mandelbug
mango	marbles	marginal
meatspace	meeces	memory dump
memory farts	memory smash	mickey mouse program
Microserf	moby	mod
Mongolian Hordes technique	mouse arrest	mouse droppings
mouse elbow	mouso	MPG
multician	mumble mode	mundane
My Favourite Toy Language	N	nadger
nagware	nanofortnight	neats vs. scruffies
netdead	network, the	newbie
newline	number crunching	Object Value
octet	off-line	off-line world
one-banana problem	on-line	orthogonal
overflow pdl	penis war	peon
percussive maintenance	phreaking	physical
pilot error	pipe	playte
plokta	plug and play	pnambic
prepend	priority interrupt	programming fluid
pron	propeller head	protoduction
pseudo	pumpkin	purple wire
quick-and-dirty	quiesce time	qux
raster blaster	ravioli code	read-only user
real estate	Real Soon Now	red wire
reinvent the wheel	retronym	return from the dead
rice box	roach	rococo
round tape	RTFB	RTFM
RTFS	runic	rusty iron
sacred	saga	sagan
sandbox	Saturday-night special	schrödinbug
scram switch	screw	Search The Fucking Web
shelfware	shim	silicon
Siliwood	slack	slashdot effect
slim	slop	smash the stack
smurf	sneck	snivitz
social engineering	software bloat	Software Developers Kit
solution	some random X	source of all good bits
spam	specification	spike
spin	squirt the bird	stand-alone
state	stiffy	Stone Age
store	studlycaps	suicideware
suitably small	sun lounge	SWAG
system operator	tanked	tar and feather
TCB	technology	text-based
thanks in advance	thicket	thinko
three-letter acronym	thumb	times-or-divided-by
tits on a keyboard	TLAs	toast
toaster	to a zeroth approximation	tool
tourist	transparent	tree-killer
treeware	troglodyte	troglodyte mode
tron	Trouble Came Back	tube
tune	turn-key	twiddle
uninteresting	Unixism	Unix weenie
up	upgradability	user
user base	user-obsequious	user-unctuous
vannevar	vaporware	VAXectomy
veeblefester	veeblefetzer	verbage
verbiage	vertical application	vgrep
virtual	voodoo programming	voxel
Vulcan death grip	Vulcan nerve pinch	walking drives
warlording	water MIPS	wave a dead chicken
weasel	Web 2.0	wetware
What You Get Is What You Never Thought You Had	What You See Is All You Get	What You See Is What You Get
When It's Done	widget	win
window shopping	wintel	wirehead
wirewater	wish list	woofer
workaround	working as designed	wrats nest
write-only memory	Wrong Thing	yank
Yet Another	Your mileage may vary	yoyo mode
zap	zen	zeroth
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