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bodysurf code n. A program or segment of code written quickly in the heat of inspiration without the benefit of formal design or deep thought.
Like its namesake sport, the result is too o...
BOF /B-O-F/ or /bof/ n. 1.
BOFH // n. [common] Acronym, Bastard Operator From Hell.
A system administrator with absolutely no tolerance for lusers....
bogo-sort /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic bad algorithm).
Bogo-sort is equivale...
bogometer /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring bogosity.
Compare the Troll-O-Meter and the `wankometer' described in the wank entry; see also bogus....
BogoMIPS The number of million times a second a processor can do absolutely nothing.
bogon /boh'gon/ n. [very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's `Vogons'
ee the Bibliography in Appendi...
bogon filter /boh'gon fil'tr/ n. Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons.
Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and th...
bogon flux /boh'gon fluhks/ n. A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogomete
as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener mi...
bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogu...

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