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?" :D:D:D:D )
That is all I can think of right now.
front side bus
overclocked
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
LRF Support
PEBKAC
teh die!!!11
STFU you stupid n00b! (new employees at the office hate it when I answer their questions with that one)
0WN3D
SCSI
GUI
DDR
RAMBUS
AGP
WYSIWYG
Hot Swapable
OK, anybody know what half a byte is called?
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a nybble :D
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)
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 :D
Here's a term my non-tech friends keep failing to understand "don't open the freekin attachments!"
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.
any key
dongle :D
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).
Huhuhhhhuhuhhhhuhuh....dude, you said "DONGLE"!!!! HHUHUHHHuuuuhuhHUHUHHUHhuuhuh.Quote:
Originally posted by crazyman
dongle :D
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.....
F+F - Fdisk and format (usually with windows reload)
breadboard - Pull an MB for testing
Xcopy - We used to Xcopy32 most of our backups, but now we call just about any hard disk backup we do an Xcopy
:D
my favorite is to go home to the wife after I've just accomplished something really important at work writing a series of script jobs to perform a function in a couple of minutes that normally would take days for a person to do. I try to explain what I'd done and even in plain english, non technical terms I know that she has no idea what I'm talking about.
I put a specification for a dvdrom drive I wanted on my christmas list
IDE DVDROM 16x with OEM DVD Player.
Apparently that was too many acronyms for a person to feel comfortable about walking into a computer shop and asking for one :(
You know I used to do that and get blank stares. My wife is a dance teacher at a high school, and now when I talk tech she starts spouting dance terms, then yells now you know how I feel!!Quote:
my favorite is to go home to the wife after I've just accomplished something really important at work writing a series of script jobs to perform a function in a couple of minutes that normally would take days for a person to do. I try to explain what I'd done and even in plain english, non technical terms I know that she has no idea what I'm talking about.
How many young techs know what the acronym "DOS" actually stands for?
bounce the server
a i-d 10 t error (it takes a while)
Disk Operating System. But then, I'm not that young - 22yrs old as of Oct 14. I was using Win 3.11 and DOS 6.22 when my parents bought their first computer. The first one I bought was an AST 386/20 with a whole meg of RAM...Quote:
Originally posted by Ya_know
How many young techs know what the acronym "DOS" actually stands for?
sure they do, because they all saw the TNT original movie "The Pirates Of Silicone Valley"Quote:
Originally posted by Ya_know
How many young techs know what the acronym "DOS" actually stands for?
hehe ditto..Quote:
Originally posted by Archangel42069
Disk Operating System. But then, I'm not that young - 22yrs old as of Oct 14. I was using Win 3.11 and DOS 6.22 when my parents bought their first computer. The first one I bought was an AST 386/20 with a whole meg of RAM...
im 21...
age five I had a blast dialing up on BBS's :)
oh and downloading bad things and getting virus lol
The owner of the company I used to work for had a funny memoir from college.....Quote:
Originally posted by Ya_know
How many young techs know what the acronym "DOS" actually stands for?
A Mexican student asked him if he'd ever used Microsoft 2
:confused: :D
Oh, thought of another one
:flames:BOFH:flames:
or "TOS"Quote:
Originally posted by Ya_know
How many young techs know what the acronym "DOS" actually stands for?
even "EOS" ?
hardware "driver" my users find it hard to grasp what a driver is
registry
Domain hosting
ssl
css
Javascrpt
hyperlinks
pci Modems blowing up in thunder storms
pcmcia
Lan
usb headers
usb pinouts
usb cable maximum length
printhead
cat 5 cable
vpn tunnelling
remote assistance
Printers not working due to cartridges empty
Many, many , many a term draws a blank from my users.
The worse was trying to explain how adsl works on a different data level than the phone line so they both can be connected at the same time, as well as ICS using two dialup modems, two connections, two isp accounts, three systems and three email addresses.. Took me three days before he fianlly said "Now I get it" I got drunk that night.
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Originally posted by Archangel42069
Disk Operating System. But then, I'm not that young - 22yrs old as of Oct 14. I was using Win 3.11 and DOS 6.22 when my parents bought their first computer. The first one I bought was an AST 386/20 with a whole meg of RAM...
My first P.C. was a 286-10 with EGA and dos 3.3 and a 40meg miniscribe hard drive and 640k ram.(a smokin machine for the time):)
I never cared for Dos 6. Dos 5 was teh best.
dos 4.x sucked!!!