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
base memory	baud barf	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	zxnrbl