Name some tech terms that your non-tech friends would not know?

[Thunderwind]

What are some tech terms that your non-tech friends or family would not know what the meaning was? Like:

All your bases belong to us

Fragged

MOBO

Router (friend thought I was talking about a wood router. I told him that I sold a card out of a router for $200! He says"you mean a bit?" )



That is all I can think of right now.

[crazyman]

front side bus

overclocked

[jaeger]

The following are interchangable:

Monitor
Tower
Hard drive
Modem
CPU
Computer

The following draw blank stares:

CAS
cache
GPU
PSU
PCI
AGP
FDD
HDD

Bah, that list is depressing.

One they all understand:

F**king hell! <- jaeger after a chesegrater incident

[Wayward Clam]

LRF Support

PEBKAC

[Cobra X]

teh die!!!11
STFU you stupid n00b! (new employees at the office hate it when I answer their questions with that one)
0WN3D

[Major Kong]

SCSI
GUI
DDR
RAMBUS
AGP
WYSIWYG
Hot Swapable

[FatalException0E]

OK, anybody know what half a byte is called?
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a nybble

[Platypus]

mickey - unit of mouse movement

As already said:

nybble - half byte

then comes:

byte - 8 bits
word - 2 bytes
doubleword - 4 bytes
paragraph - 16 bytes

EDIT: forgot quadrupleword (& it's the best one)

[MacGyver]

I used the term mobo while talking to our company head tech and he didn't know what it meant. This guy is not a noob, either, he has his own domain and server farm in his basement!
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Hey, "noob" is another tech term

[silencio]

Here's a term my non-tech friends keep failing to understand "don't open the freekin attachments!"

[King Grover]

ummmm..... how 'bout

left click,
rename,
AMD,
dvd burner(they think all DVD drives are burners)
please wait while your computer _blank_. (what does wait mean?)
teh gay.

[PuterGeekGirl]

any key

[crazyman]

dongle

[+Daemon+]

ehhe funny thing is we have a thing liek this on our intranet, so like if we start to talk geek the users can go online and search for it in out geek word library to see what it means lol

here are 5 examples


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graphics display terminal - A computer terminal used to view and manipulate graphic information. It can also be used for graphic selection (e.g., identifying a feature on the display), digitizing and editing.

G3 - G3 is the marketing name used by Apple Computer for the 750 microprocessor that is used in Apple's popular iMac and in its Power Macintosh personal computers. Like other PowerPC microprocessors, the G3 uses reduced instruction-set computing (RISC). The G3 and other PowerPC processors were developed jointly by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. Developed at IBM, RISC is based on studies showing that the simpler computer instructions are the ones most frequently performed. Traditionally, processors have been designed to accommodate the more complex instructions as well. RISC performs the more complex instructions using combinations of simple instructions. The timing for the processor can then be based on simpler and faster operations, enabling the microprocessor to perform more instructions for a given clock speed. Typically, the PowerPC can perform one instruction for each clock cycle. The PowerPC architecture handles 32-bit instructions. The G3 (or 750) has an L1 and L2 cache controller built into it and comes in versions with a clock speed up to 266 MHz in the iMac and up to 400 MHz version in the Power Macintosh series. The G3 operates with low power consumption requirements. A 500 MHz version is planned.

Cycle Time - Cycle time is the time, usually measured in nanoseconds, between the start of one random access memory (RAM) access to the time when the next access can be started. Access time is sometimes used as a synonym (although IBM deprecates it). Cycle time consists of latency (the overhead of finding the right place for the memory access and preparing to access it) and transfer time. Cycle time should not be confused with processor clock cycles or clock speed, which have to do with the number of cycles per second (in megahertz or MHz) to which a processor is paced.

CPU - [Central Processing Unit] is an older term for processor and microprocessor, the central unit in a computer containing the logic circuitry that performs the instructions of a computer's programs

Chipset - A chipset is a group of microchips designed to work and sold as a unit in performing one or more related functions. A typical chipset is the Intel 430HX PCIset for the Pentium microprocessor, a two-chip set that provides a Peripheral Component Interconnect bus controller and is designed for a business computer that "optimizes CPU, PCI and ISA transactions for faster, smoother multimedia performance in video conferencing, playback, and capture applications." This chipset includes support for the Universal Serial Bus (USB).

[Archangel42069]

Originally posted by crazyman
dongle

Huhuhhhhuhuhhhhuhuh....dude, you said "DONGLE"!!!! HHUHUHHHuuuuhuhHUHUHHUHhuuhuh.

VGA
BGA
FCPGA
CMOS
BIOS
AMR
CMR
ISA
EISA
EULA
NIC
ATX
PCI
SLIP/PPP
TCP/IP
A/S/HDSL (know what it is, don't know what it means)
Linux
Unix
BeOS
Firewall
ICS
AGP
Netstat
Nbtstat
Nslookup
Memmaker
Mem
A HREF
and many, many more.....