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• frednet /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some random and uncommon protocol encountered on a network.
  We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem....
• NetBOLLIX: [from bollix: to bungle] n. {IBM}'s NetBIOS, an extremely {brain-damaged} network protocol that, like {Blue Glue}, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• protocol: n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting
  hackers don't care about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity....
• pain in the net: n. A {flamer}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• orcerer's apprentice mode: [from Friedrich Schiller's "Der Zauberlehrling" via the film "Fantasia"] n.
  A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug....
• Blue Glue: [IBM] n. IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly {losing} and {bletcherous} communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  The official IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes together....
• etrock: /net'rok/ [IBM] n. A {flame}; used esp. on VNET, IBM's internal corporate network.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• BLOB: [acronym, Binary Large OBject] n. Used by database people to refer to any random large block of bits that needs to be stored in a database, such as a picture or sound file.
  The essential point about a BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be interpreted within the database itself....
• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....