Sayings

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

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
Dangerous – Dangerous 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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