Sayings

See also: Philosophies

This is means to be the launching point to various other pages which discuss various acronyms and sayings.

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Acronyms

  • 24/7 – 24 hours per day, 7 day per week
  • AFAIK – As Far As I Know
  • AFK – Away From Keyboard
  • ATM – At The Moment
  • AYSOS – Are you stupid or something
  • BOFH – Bastard Operator From Hell
  • BRB – Be Right Back
  • BIAB – Back In A Bit
  • DIY – Do It Yourself
  • FLOSS – Free Libre Open Source Software
  • FUBAR – Fucked Up Beyond All Repair
  • FUD – Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
  • FYI – For Your Information
  • GMAB – Give Me A Break
  • GMTA – Great Minds Think Alike
  • IANA – I Am Not A …
  • IIRC – If I Recall Correctly
  • IMO – In My Opinion
  • IMHO – In My Humble Opinion
  • IMPE – In My Personal Experience
  • IRL – In Real Life
  • IVL – In Virtual Life
  • KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid
  • LOL – Laugh Out Loud
  • MTBF – Mean Time Between Failure
  • NOFI – No OFfense Intended
  • NW – Name Withheld – Not committing either one’s real name or Pseudonym. Compare Anonymity.
  • OMG – Oh My God
  • OTOH – On The Other Hand
  • PEBKAC – Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
  • RL – Real Life
  • RTFA – Read The Fucking Article
  • RTFM – Read The Fucking Manual
  • SNAFU – Situation Normal – All Fucked Up
  • SOHO – Small Office, Home Office
  • STFU – Shut the Fuck Up
  • WTH – What The Hell
  • WTF – What The Fuck
  • WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
  • YMMV – Your Milleage May Vary

Sayings and Concepts

  • Borg – To completely absorb and integrate something, often with callous disregard for the uniqueness of that something.
  • Brain-Fart – A form of writer’s block which prevents a person from forming the right word or remembering their original train of thought.
  • CamelNotation – Smooshing together a phrase of words and capitalising the first letter of each word. Comes from Wikis that don’t allow spaces in page names.
  • Cruft – lack of maintinence
  • DangerousDangerous topics are those which are both discourse-wise difficult to discuss and are politically-incorrect-sounding. These topics are often at least bordering on Offensive to one of the listeners/readers.
  • DOH – Exclamation of frustration.
  • Fat Pipe – a fast network/internet connection
  • Flamebait – Inflamatory message, sometimes with controversial ideas which some might find offensive.
  • Googling – to search for something via Google.
  • ^H – Used for humor, a poor-backspace character, openly illustrating a self-corrected error.
  • Hacking Around – Semi-constructive play.
  • Hunam – A detached reference to people in general.
  • Holy Grail – Best possible scenario.
  • Lag – Network slow-down
  • Meatspace – The real world. Opposite of Cyberspace.
  • Meh – An expression of dismissive unconcern.
  • Newbie – Someone who is obviously not in the know.
  • Online / Offline – status concerning availablility
  • Pro-sumer – Something riding the line between the professional level and regular home user.
  • Pseudonym – An alias or screen name.
  • Sharpening The Saw – A form of practice by the repetition of a mostly-mastered skill.
  • Train Of Thought – A line of thinking with multiple related topics.
  • woot – An exclamation of joy

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