[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

[Eduardo Bernal]

> List:
> 
> 1) abend   --> never used or heard, means abnormal end of execution, I believe
> 2) bletch  --> heard infrequently, means poorly working or designed
> 3) blinkenlights  --> seen on signs in computer rooms, means the lights on the machines
> 4) DAU  --> never used or heard, I don't know what this means
> 5) DRECNET --> never used or heard, derogatory term for DECNet
> 6) gedanken --> used in my physics class, a "gedanken" experiement is a thought experiment, one performed only in your head
> 7) glitch --> used frequently, means a mistake or small problem, usually inconvenient but remmediable
> 8) gonk --> used only in "gonkulator", a machine that Col. Hogan and his madcap team of resitance fighters used to dupe their idiot Vermacht guards.
> 9) kluge --> used frequently, means a quick and/or dirty repair or solution to a problem, that works, perhaps suboptimally, but perhaps elegantly, too
> 10) paper money --> How is this German? Perhaps a reference to the original Reichmark, which the Weimar Republic reduced to more paper than money?

HTH. HAND.
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