Aufklärung heute
"Papa, wie bin ich auf die Welt gekommen?" "Na gut mein Sohn, irgendwann hätten wir dieses Gespräch führen müssen: Der Papa hat die Mama in einem 'chatroom' kennengelernt. Später haben…
Web Industry Terminology
Dilberted To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. "I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs…
C Song (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Gesungen zur Musik : Is this the real world? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a LAN-slide No ESC to reality. open(2) your files, Look after your while()s in C;…
Write in C (Let it be)
Gesungen zu : When I find my code in tons of trouble, Friends and colleagues come to me, Speaking words of wisdom: "Write in C." As the deadline fast approaches,…
Smilies
:-) Your basic smilie. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or joking statement since we can’t hear voice inflection over Unix.
Note: A lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smilies.
The Computer Expert’s Glossary
ADA Something you need to know the name of to be an Expert in Computing. Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA awareness." Bug An elusive creature…
Proper Care of Floppie Disks
Never leave diskettes in the disk drive, as data can leak out of the disk and corrode the inner mechanics of the drive. Diskettes should be rolled up and stored…
Computer Sex
Micro was a real-time operator and dedicated multi-user. His broad-band protocol made it easy for him to interface with numerous input/output devices, even if it meant time-sharing. One evening he…