The (un)Official Overclockers Slang Thread

[itizme]

Puter = rig

 

[gahdzila]

I've always wondered this, and never had the gall to ask.

WTF (meaning what the fsck ) does "teh" stand for? I've seen it lots of times, and never really quite understood the meaning.

oh...here's a few:

GF==GeForce, a line of video cards by nvidia

FPS==gamer lingo, can mean either "frames per second", or "first person shooter"

 

[WyrmMaster]

teh = typo of the

 

[Toysrme]

RTFM - Read the F'ing manual

DAS - Do a search (just made that up! Let's use it!)

Most important one in the thread

 

[TheFrag]

teh= uber 1337 h4x0r version (sommonly use dby penguin) form of the

 

[Antimatter]

block or wb = water block
od = outer diameter
id = inner diameter

maybe i'll remember some more later

 

[CrystalMethod]

HDD = Hard Disk Drive
KB = KiloBytes, or KeyBoard
AFK = Away From Keyboard
LED = Light Emitting Diode
404 (as in "he's 404.") = has no clue, is lost
Code 18 = the problem is 18" from the monitor
NIC = Network Interface Card, or Network Information Center
Sig = Signature
BTW = By The Way
ATM = At The Moment/Minute
BSOD = Blue Screen Of Death

That's what I can recall off the top of my head.


... oh yeah.

YABA = Yet Another Bloody Acronym

 

[method().man]

AFAIK- as far as I know.
Proc - processor
sticks - as in RAM
linkage? - got a link to the refered subject?

 

[hooziewhatsit]

TWAIN - technology without an interesting name

the best one of all, IMHO

 

[baqai]

FYI = For Your Information
IMO = In My opinion
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
rig=system=machine= computer
gfx = graphics
official idiot and lazy butt = my shameless advertisment of rank request

and finally

RAM = RAM = MEMORY !!!

 

[JigPu]

Grr... Computer froze while making my last post....

Capitlization rules...
Kb - KiloBIT (1024 bits)
KB - KiloBYTE (1024 bytes)
Mb - MegaBIT (1024 Kb)
MB - MegaBYTE (1024 KB)
Etc.

Software
MS - Microsoft
M$ - Microsoft (Usually used in a bad sense)
DOS - Disk Operating System
OS/2 - Operating System II (an IBM OS)
BASH - Bourne Again Shell (think that's right...)
SP1 - Service Pack 1
Win9x - Windows 95/98, sometimes ME also
WinME - Windows Millenium Edition
Win2K - Windows 2000
WinXP - Windows XP

Hardware
USB - Universal Serial Bus
ISA - Industry Standard Archetecture
PCI - Peripheral Connect Interface
Vid Card - Video Card
Modem - MOdulator/DEModulator
HSF - Heatsink Fan OR Heatsink and Fan
HD - Hard Drive (Hard Disk)
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
CD - Compact Disk
DVD - Digital Video Disk / Digital Versitile Disk
FPU - Floating Point Unit
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
Cap - Capasitor
LED - Light Emitting Diode
GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
RAM - Random Access Memory
DRAM - Dynamic RAM
DDR - Double Data Rate
RDRAM - Rambus ???? RAM
Stick of RAM - One memory module
Cache - High speed RAM for temporary storage
LAN - Local Area Network
WAN - Wide Area Network


General Use
POS - Piece Of ****
OMG - Oh My Goodness

Distributed Computing
SETI - Search For Extraterresteral Intellegence - SETI@Home
Folding - Folding@Home

JigPu

 

[gahdzila]

I was about to add a few more...I think JigPu just about covered them all!

distro---distribution (I think?) usually refering to one of the various linux-based operating systems. ie-Red Hat is a linux distro.

 

[Wonko The Sane]

ID 10 T error=idiot error
kci error=keyboard to chair interface error.

 

[s[H]sIkuA]

another stuff i want to ask you all

it is about Selling/Buying stuff on popular website (eg Newegg,Ebay)

DOA = ???
RMA = ???

Here is a few from me

BTW- by the way
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
ASAP - As soon as possible
ATM - At The Moment

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DMA - Direct Memory Access
DDR - Double data ram
SDR - Single Data ram
RD - Rambus Dram
OC - Overclock
F@H - Folding@Home
WTH - What The Heck
GPU - Graphic Processing Unit (DuHh)
VPU - Visual Processing Unit
FSB - Front side bus
SATA -serial ata

 

[Gandalf]

FUBAR = Windows Just kiddin, it really means F'd up beyond all recognition.....

 

[gahdzila]

DOA = ???

dead on arrival
usually seen on ebay. the seller says something along the lines of "not tested, but guaranteed not DOA"...meaning he really doesn't know if the thing works or not, or what it does...but he'll refund your money if the item is completely broken.

RMA = ???

return merchandise authorization
newegg and other retailers require product returns to be authorized by them before returning them. If you get a product that is broken, you have to email newegg, and get them to authorize it before you ship it back to them for a refund. They email you a number or code (called an RMA number) that you have to write on the package when you return it. Often in the forums, people will use this abreviation to mean "returned to seller," ie--"the new CDRW I bought doesn't work, so I RMA'd it."

 

[s[H]sIkuA]

gahdzila thanks!

now i know

 

[Stedeman]

KISS = keep it simple stupid!
PS The Capitalization rules should be posted everywhere its the one error I see the most
b- bit
B - byte
Kb - KiloBIT
KB - KiloBYTE
Mb - MegaBIT
MB - MegaBYTE
thank you "JigPu"

 

[metra]

Its not really an abbreviation, but i want to know. Why does everyone fine the phrase "Your base is belong to us" and "Somebody set us up the bomb" so funny? I think i watched the original video (not sure since so many parodyies have been made - maybe there was never an original video!?) and it doesnt seem too funny. Someone enlighten me.

 

[Christoph]

MS Mouse - an OS where you only need the mouse
BOFH - link
frag(ged) - what you do to people in quake 3 with a rocket launcher. Also, what happens when your files get scattered all over your HDD, diminishing performance (usually called fragmentation)
defrag - what you do when your hdd if fragmented enough that you start to notice (not necessary on more recent filesystems like ext2, ext3, reiserfs and NTFS, among others)
pwn - misspelling of own, meaning: is great (that game pwns!!!), to win against or defeat someone (I pwned j00!!! pwnage!!!!)
j00 - you. Might also mean Jew, but I haven't seen it used that way.