Abbreviation

BI

Common written abbreviation for {Breidbart Index}.

# 5/20/2009 09:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

PFY

[Usenet; common, originally from the {BOFH} mythos] Abbreviation for Pimply-Faced Youth. A {BOFH} in training, esp. one apprenticed to an elder BOFH aged in evil.

TAN

[Usenet, particularly rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan] Abbrev. of `tangent', as in "off on a tangent", and synonym for {OT}. A number of hacker-humor synonyms are used for TAN in some newsgroups. Instances such as BEIGE, OFF-WHITE, BROWNISH-GRAY, and LIGHT BROWN have been observed. It is generally understood on newsgroups with this convention that any color descriptor is a TAN synonym if (a) used as the first word(s) of the topic of a Usenet post, (b) written in ALL CAPS, and (c) followed immediately by a colon. Usage: "OFF-WHITE: 2000 Presidential candidates" on an SF newsgroup.

Marcadores: Abbreviation, Newsgroups, Usenet

# 5/19/2009 05:31:00 PM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

fuck me harder

Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by the imp of the perverse). Often theatrically elaborated: "Aiighhh! Fuck me with a piledriver and 16 feet of curare-tipped wrought-iron fence and no lubricants!" The phrase is sometimes heard abbreviated FMH in polite company.

[This entry is an extreme example of the hackish habit of coining elaborate and evocative terms for lossage. Here we see a quite self-conscious parody of mainstream expletives that has become a running gag in part of the hacker culture; it illustrates the hackish tendency to turn any situation, even one of extreme frustration, into an intellectual game (the point being, in this case, to creatively produce a long-winded description of the most anatomically absurd mental image possible -- the short forms implicitly allude to all the ridiculous long forms ever spoken). Scatological language is actually relatively uncommon among hackers, and there was some controversy over whether this entry ought to be included at all. As it reflects a live usage recognizably peculiar to the hacker culture, we feel it is in the hackish spirit of truthfulness and opposition to all forms of censorship to record it here. --ESR & GLS]

Marcadores: Abbreviation, Games, Languages, Software

# 5/18/2009 10:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

milliLampson

A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the {PDP-11}) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.

Marcadores: Abbreviation, Computer

# 5/17/2009 06:31:00 PM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

Blue Screen of Death

[common] This term is closely related to the older {Black Screen of Death} but much more common (many non-hackers have picked it up). Due to the extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows, misbehaving applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes crashes itself spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death, sometimes decorated with hex error codes, is what you get when this happens. (Commonly abbreviated {BSOD}.) The following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest, seems to have predated popular use of the term:

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death No one hears your screams.

Marcadores: Abbreviation, Code, Common, Microsoft

# 5/16/2009 04:31:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

PHB

[Usenet; common; rarely spoken] Abbreviation, "Pointy-Haired Boss". From the {Dilbert} character, the archetypal halfwitted middle-{management} type. See also {pointy-haired}.

Marcadores: Abbreviation, Common, Newsgroups, Usenet

# 5/15/2009 04:31:00 PM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

channel op

[IRC] Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular {IRC} channel; commonly abbreviated chanop or CHOP or just op (as of 2000 these short forms have almost crowded out the parent usage). These privileges include the right to {kick} users, to change various status bits, and to make others into CHOPs.

Marcadores: Abbreviation

# 5/14/2009 11:31:00 PM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

OP

Image by Marc_Smith via Flickr

OP

[Usenet; common] Abbreviation for "original poster", the originator of a particular thread.