Fred Foobar n.
J. Random Hacker's cousin. Any
typical human being, more or less synomous with `someone' except
that Fred Foobar can be backreferenced by name later on. "So
Fred Foobar will enter his phone number into the database, and
it'll be archived with the others. Months later, when Fred
searches..." See also Bloggs Family and Dr. Fred Mbogo
J. Random Hacker's cousin. Any
typical human being, more or less synomous with `someone' except
that Fred Foobar can be backreferenced by name later on. "So
Fred Foobar will enter his phone number into the database, and
it'll be archived with the others. Months later, when Fred
searches..." See also Bloggs Family and Dr. Fred Mbogo
Related:
- Bloggs Family n.
An imaginary family consisting of
Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children.
Used as a standard example in knowledge representation... - Dr. Fred Mbogo /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ n.
[Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a
problem,
esp. an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you... - Mbogo, Dr. Fred: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] n.
The archetypal man you don't want to see about a... - J. Random Hacker /J rand'm hak'r/ n.
[very common] A
mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier;
the archetypal hacker nerd. This term is one of... - fred: n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a
{metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch... - fred n.
1. The personal name most frequently used as a
metasyntactic variable (see foo).
Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch... - Bloggs Family, the: n. An imaginary family consisting of Fred and
Mary Bloggs and their children.
Used as a standard example in knowledge representation... - foobar n.
[very common] Another widely used
metasyntactic variable;
see foo for etymology. Prob originally propagated... - Fritz needs Fred and Fred needs Fritz.
Fritz feeds Fred and Fred feeds Fritz.
Fred feeds Fritz with ritzy Fred food. Fritz feeds...
From the same category:
- undefined external reference excl.
[Unix] A message from
Unix's linker.
Used in speech to flag loose ends or dangling references... - priesthood n. obs.
[TMRC] The select group of system
managers responsible for the operation and maintenance of a batch
operated computer system.
On these computers, a user never had ... - crudware /kruhd'weir/ n.
Pejorative term for the hundreds
of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's
groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
"Yet another set... - dispress vt.
[contraction of `Dissociated Press' due to
eight-character MS-DOS filenames] To apply the Dissociated Press
algorithm to a block of text.
The resultant output is also referred... - terminal illness n.
1. Syn. raster burn. 2.
The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if...
