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	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