An Actor's Guide to
Ervin's Techno-babble
(Listed in order of occurrence)
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*ISP*: or I.S.P Internet Service Provider such as American Online; CompuServe; Prodigy.
*The Net*: The World Wide Web--- a computer relay system that allows messages between computers. We talk with phones, why not computers?
*Fandango, dump on core*: really messed up causing massive loss data or otherwise
*UNIX*: an important operating system, developed in 1969.
*SPAM*: junk e-mail
*80 column mind buried 9 edge first*: narrow minded in the extremist sense
*Angry fruit salad*: too many bright colors on the screen
*Beige toaster*: a Macintosh computer
*A dangling pointer*: programming code at a dead end
*Gratuitous inelegance. Inexplicable misfeature*: a bad design; more bad design
*Wave a dead chicken*: the software has crashed--people are panicking, time to call for the witch doctor
*Search and replace*: seek and change words or (anything)
*Beserker wizards can seriously damage your elf*: from an early computer game (MUDS) player gains points only by killing: all magic, fight, & flight are no longer options
*Flarp. Flarp*: incantation when a programmer has failed in a huge way
*Non-optimal solution*: an astoundingly stupid way to do something
*Bang. Shriek*: both are spoken expression of the '!' symbol
*Grep*: grasp from a global scan - visual overview
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