RTM /R-T-M/
[Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual']
1. Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris,
perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm); villain to many, naive ha
claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a
benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding
error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this
blunder, Morris's username on ITS was hacked from RTM to
RTFM.
[Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual']
1. Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris,
perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm); villain to many, naive ha
claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a
benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding
error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this
blunder, Morris's username on ITS was hacked from RTM to
RTFM.
Related:
- RTM: /R-T-M/ [USENET: abbreviation for `Read The Manual']
1.
Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr... - worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The
Shockwave Rider",
via XEROX PARC] n. A program that propagates itself... - worm n.
[from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel
"The Shockwave Rider",
via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself... - security through obscurity
(alt. `security by obscurity')
A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of
coping with security holes -
namely, ignoring them, documenting neither any known... - RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking
Manual'.
1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they consider... - Great Worm n.
The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated
by RTM.
This is a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder... - Great Worm, the: n. The 1988 Internet {worm} perpetrated by
{RTM}.
This is a play on Tolkien (compare {elvish}, {elder... - RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.
[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The
Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by gurus to brush off questions they consider... - RTBM /R-T-B-M/ imp.
[Unix] Commonwealth Hackish variant
of RTFM;
expands to `Read The Bloody Manual'. RTBM is often...
