Jargon File

Jargon File

Home › Fortune Cookies › Jargon File

front end n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end').
2. What you're talking to when you ha...
frotz /frots/ 1. n. See frobnitz. 2. `mumble frotz': An interjection of mildest disgust.
frotzed /frotst/ adj. down because of hardware problems.
Compare fried....
frowney n. (alt. `frowney face') See emoticon.
FRS // n.,obs.
fry 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
fscking /fus'-king/ or /eff'-seek-ing/ adj. [Usene
FSF /F-S-F/ abbrev. Common abbreviation (both spoken and written) for the name of the Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit educational association formed to support the GNU project.
FTP /F-T-P/, not /fit'ip/ 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on the Internet.
2. vt. To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol. 3....
FUBAR n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX.
A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the sui...

< previous

80

81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
227
next >