- 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... - BOFH // n.
[common] Acronym, Bastard Operator From
Hell.
A system administrator with absolutely no tolerance... - bogo-sort /boh`goh-sort'/ n.
(var. `stupid-sort')
The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to
bubble sort,
which is merely the generic bad algorithm). Bogo... - bogometer /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n.
A notional instrument
for measuring bogosity.
Compare the Troll-O-Meter and the `wankometer' described... - BogoMIPS
The number of million times a second a
processor can do absolutely nothing.
The Linux OS measures BogoMIPS at startup in order... - bogon /boh'gon/ n.
[very common; by analogy with
proton/electron/neutron,
but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity... - bogon filter /boh'gon fil'tr/ n.
Any device, software or
hardware,
that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission... - bogon flux /boh'gon fluhks/ n.
A measure of a supposed
field of bogosity emitted by a speaker,
measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to... - bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n.
1. [orig. CMU, now very
common] The degree to which something is bogus.
Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar... - bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt.
To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as...
