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• UBD /U-B-D/ n. [abbreviation for `User Brain Damage'] An abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part.
  Compare pilot error; oppose PBD; see also brain-damaged....
• PBD: /P-B-D/ [abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage'] n.
  Applied to bug reports revealing places where the program was obviously broken by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer....
• PBD /P-B-D/ n. [abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage'] Applied to bug reports revealing places where the program was obviously broken by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer.
  Compare UBD; see also brain-damaged....
• brain-damaged: 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {{Multics}}] adj.
  Obviously wrong; {cretinous}; {demented}. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
• pilot error: [Sun: from aviation] n. A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare {UBD}).
  Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers....
• IWBNI: // [abbreviation] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare {WIBNI}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] adj.
  Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
• drugged: adj. (also `on drugs') 1. Conspicuously stupid, heading toward {brain-damaged}.
  Often accompanied by a pantomime of toking a joint (but see {Appendix B})....
• brain-damaged, generalization of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Multics, adj
  Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he/she should have known better....