Berzerkeley /b*r-zer'klee/ n.
[from `berserk', via
the name of a now-deceased record label; poss. originated by famed
columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp.
to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers.
See software bloat, Missed'em-five,
Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported
from as far back as the 1960s.
[from `berserk', via
the name of a now-deceased record label; poss. originated by famed
columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp.
to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers.
See software bloat, Missed'em-five,
Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported
from as far back as the 1960s.
Related:
- Berzerkeley: /b*r-zer'klee/ [from `berserk', via the name of a
now-deceased record label] n.
Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp. to refer... - Missed'em-five: n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX,
generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood... - BSD /B-S-D/ n.
[abbreviation for `Berkeley Software
Distribution'] a family of Unix versions for the DEC
VAX and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at
Berzerkeley starting around 1980,
incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking... - 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... - BOF: /B-O-F/ or /bof/ n. Abbreviation for the phrase "Birds
Of a Feather" (flocking together),
an informal discussion group and/or bull session... - Missed'em-five n.
Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V
Unix,
generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood.... - 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... - BOF /B-O-F/ or /bof/ n.
1. [common] Abbreviation
for the phrase "Birds Of a Feather" (flocking together),
an informal discussion group and/or bull session... - BSD: /B-S-D/ n. [abbreviation for `Berkeley System Distribution'] a
family of {{UNIX}} versions for the {DEC} {VAX} and PDP-11
developed by Bill Joy and others at {Berzerkeley} starting
around 1980,
incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking...
From the same category:
- weasel n.
[Cambridge] A naive user, one who deliberately or
accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised.
Roughly synonymous with loser... - stomp on vt.
To inadvertently overwrite something
important,
usually automatically. "All the work I did this ... - zero vt.
1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of
data,
such as bits or words (esp. in the construction `zero... - LER /L-E-R/
n. 1. [TMRC, from `Light-Emitting Diode']
A light-emitting resistor (that is,
one in the process of burning up). Ohm's law was... - candygrammar n.
A programming-language grammar that is
mostly syntactic sugar;
the term is also a play on `candygram'. COBOL,...
