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Blue Glue n. [IBM] IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly losing and bletcherous communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better.
Th...
blue goo n.
Blue Screen of Death n. [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 a...
blue wire n. [IBM] Patch wires (esp. 30 AWG gauge) added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems.
Blue wire is not necessarily blue, the term describe...
blurgle /bler'gl/ n. [UK] Spoken metasyntactic variable, to indicate some text that is obvious from c which is already known.
If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled...
BNF /B-N-F/ n. 1.
boa [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a dinosaur pen.
board n. 1. In-context synonym for bboard; sometimes used even for Usenet newsgroups (but see usage note under bboard, sense 1).
2. An electronic circuit board....
boat anchor n. [common; from ham radio] 1. Like doorstop but more severe
implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless....
bob n. At Demon Internet, all tech support personal are called "Bob".
(Female support personnel have an option on "Bobette")....

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