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| ACQUISITION SOFTWARE | Anyone Can Quickly Understand Its Significance... It Trawls Information On Networks Searching Only For The Worthwhile And Relevant Essays |
Angela Brett |
| ADS | Anticompetitiveness Doesn't Sell |
ADS = Active Directory Service (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| AMIGA | Archaic Machine, It's Gone Away. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett |
| AMIGA (2) | Another Machine Is Gone Away |
Don't see too many Amigas any more... |
| AMSTRAD | Antiquated Machine Starts Trouble... Requires Another Diskdrive. |
Angela Brett, after a lady in her writing class who'd been using the same Amstrad for 10 years found that it needed a new diskdrive because it hadn't been cleaned. |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | A Rabbit Teasing In Front Impels Canines In Abortive Laps; In New Technology, Endpoint/Endeavour Likewise Lacks In Genuine Ending. No Conquest's Enough! |
Angela Brett, because once something (such as handwriting recognition or chess-playing computers) which would have been considered artificial intelligence becomes commonplace, it is no longer really considered to be AI. AI is redefined to be something ever more complicated so that we can never actually say we've succeeded in creating it. This reminds me of racing dogs chasing after a rabbit which they can never catch. |
| BE | Bankrupt Enterprise |
Angela Brett Commerce:Companies |
| BETA | Begin Experimental Testing Activities |
TMcCO'G |
| BETA (2) | Before Exposing The Artefact |
TMcCO'G |
| BETA (3) | Because Every Test's Affirmative |
Sean Lamb |
| BIOS | Boots In One Second |
Angela Brett (BIOS actually stands for Basic Input Output System) |
| BOS | Bat Outta Shell |
BOS = Base Operating System (IBM). The kernel of AIX and the programs that consist of a base install are included in the BOS. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| BRYCE | Build, Render - You've Created Environment! |
Angela Brett (Bryce is a 3D landscaping and animation application... see http://corel.com) |
| BSD | Best System Design |
Sean Lamb (BSD = Berkeley Software Distribution; a flavor of UNIX written by UC Berkeley that is the basis for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD among others) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| BUG (2) | Bitten User Grumbles |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Insects |
| BUG (3) | Bad Unexpected Glitch |
Angela Brett |
| BUG (4) | Bytes Unfortunately Garbled |
Angela Brett |
| BUGS | Blight 'Usually Good' Software |
Angela Brett |
| BUGS (2) | Blame Users' Genuine Stupidity |
Angela Brett -- a few of the programmers where I work are coming up with self-deprecating phrases to put on T-shirts to give out at the company Christmas party. One of the T-shirt slogans is, 'Of course it crashes if you do that!' |
| BYTE | Bitwise, You Take Eight. |
Angela Brett |
| CAD (2) | Can't Actually Draw |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (CAD usually stands for Computer Aided Design) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| CNE | Can't Network Everything |
CNE's real definition is Certified Netware Engineer Re-expansions of existing acronyms Education:Qualifications |
| CNE (2) | Certification Nullifies Education |
CNE's real definition is Certified Netware Engineer Re-expansions of existing acronyms Education:Qualifications |
| COMPUTER | Crashes Or Mangles Programs Until Technician Emolument Received |
Rico Leffanta |
| COMPUTER (2) | Can't Operate Machine. Participating Usually Terrifies Eventual Recruit |
Jan Morgan |
| COMPUTER (3) | Complex Outrageous Machine Practically Using Things, Especially Remarkable |
Jacek Dobrzyniecki |
| COMPUTER PRESENTATION | Can Only Make Printouts Using This Expensive Rubbish? Projection's Really Easy, Shouldn't Everyone Nowadays Throw Away Transparencies? Ink's Old News! |
Angela Brett Communication:Presentations |
| COMPUTERS (2) | Convey Others' Messages! Produce Useful Tips! Electronically Run Securely! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| COMPUTER SUPPORT | Chap On My Phone Usually Tries Enabling Repair. Some Unusual 'Puter Problems Often Require Technicians |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CRASH (2) | Computer-Related Accident... Software Hiccup. |
Angela Brett |
| CRASH (3) | Computer Routine Activating Suicidal Hysterics |
Rico Leffanta |
| DEN | Doesn't Even Network |
DEN = Directory-Enabled Networking (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| DESKTOP SUPPORT | Doesn't Everyone Seek Knowledge To Operate Personal Systems? Users Persistently Perplex Our Resourceful Technology |
Sean Lamb |
| DOORS | Decently Organized Operating & Running Systems! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who asks "Why use windoze when you can use doors?" |
| DRM (2) | Doesn't Record Media |
DRM = Digital Rights Management (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Entertainment |
| DRM (3) | Doesn't Really Matter |
Sean Lamb (DRM = Digital Rights Management {Microsoft}; but file sharing will continue after this "feature" is introduced) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING | Ever Lost Electronic Credit To Robots Of Nasty Internet Criminals? Don't Allow Their Attacks, Prompt Routine Of Checking Every Site's Security If Negotiating Greenback. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| ENCRYPTION | Each New Code Requires Your Powers To Interpret Others' Notes. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| ENHANCING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP | Every Nerd Hampers After New Computer. If Network Geek's Busy Using Some Incredibly Neat Equipment, She Should Respect Employer, Laughing At Technical Idiocy Only Near Somewhere He Isn't Present. |
Angela Brett, who is sure she'd be in a consistently better mood if she could use a PowerMac G5 at work. People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| !ERROR! ?MESSAGE? | Evaluation Required! Read Old Recondite Manuals! Exhaust Sentience Spirit! !Apathy! !Generally! !Ensues! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| EULA | Extremely Unappealing License Agreement |
EULA = End User License Agreement (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| EXCEPT THAT ONE! | Explicit Xclusion Communicated Excitedly: Pressing That Toggle Has Adverse Thrust. One Never Engages! |
Gavin Lambert, when Angela reminded him to expand anything in capitals -- his email signature is 'Press any key - EXCEPT THAT ONE!!!' |
| FEAR AND LOATHING | FOLDOC Explains Acronym; Really, All Now Do Loathe "Other" Architecture That Honestly Is Not Good |
Rob Rix, inspired by the FOLDOC entry at http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=fear |
| FILE | For Indicating Length - EOF. |
Angela Brett |
| FLECK | Fewer Lines Equals Conserved Kilobytes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GEEK | Gathers Esoteric, Encyclopaedic Knowledge |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEK (2) | Greatly Enjoys Enhancing Kernels |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKS (2) | Generally Exhibit Exceptional Keyboard Skills |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| GEEKS (3) | God's Electronic - Every Kilobyte's Sacred |
Angela Brett Religion People & Relationships |
| GEEKY | Go Electronic - Everyone Knows You |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKY (2) | Generally Everything Elicits Keyboard Yearnings |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKY (3) | Gigabit/ Exabit Ethernet Kindling Yottabytes |
Angela Brett |
| GET A DANG PDA | Greatly Expand Technological Abilities; Disregard Ancient Newtons' Greatness, Palms Do Admirably. |
Jeff Anonymous, after MISSING MOBILE PHONE - MY LIFE'S RUINED, explaining: Then it'll be harder to lose your phone book. With all due respect to the Newton, I seem to recall you having a USB Mac and I understand adapters can be a bit messy, especially with OS X. My Palm Tungsten C is pretty good; a bit pricey, but they make ones that are more economical, without Wi-Fi and whatnot. Communication |
| GIGABYTES | Gosh, Information Galore! And Building Yearly... Terabytes Emerging Soon. |
Angela Brett |
| GNU | Good News, Usually |
Steve Keate (GNU actually stands for 'Gnu's Not Unix' and is a project by the free software foundation to make a free alternative to Unix.) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| GNU (2) | Gates Now Unhappy |
Steve Keate Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| GRAPHICS | Globally Recognised Artwork Perhaps Had Initial Computer Sketch |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature |
| GUICIDE | Graphical User Interface Crashed... Instant Disaster Ensued! |
Angela Brett, pondering whether deinstalling a GUI (Graphical User Interface) would be committing 'guicide' Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| GUICIDE AFTERMATH | Great, Unintuitive Incoherent Commands Involved During Everyday Actions. For This, Everything Requires Mindpower - All Too Hard! |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| HELPDESK | "Hello... Eh? Lifeless PC? Depress Electricity Switch."-- Knowall |
Angela Brett |
| HEWLETT-PACKARD | Have Employed Wozniak - Looked Encouragingly Toward The Prototype Apple, Couldn't Know About Resulting Disadvantage. |
Angela Brett, since Steve Wozniak was working at Hewlett-Packard when he designed the Apple I, but luckily HP weren't interested in selling computers at that time so they didn't claim it as their own. Commerce:Companies |
| IBM | Incredibly Bad Machine |
Gavin Shapiro Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| IBM (2) | I Broke Mine |
Steve Keate Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| ICON | It's Clicked On Needlessly |
Apronymous Anonymous |
| IDOC | Individuals Dependent On Computers |
Stan Cheney, explaining: We are starting a new organization or movement called "Individuals Dependent On Computers" or IDOC (pronounced: "Idiocy") |
| IF ONLY YOU'D KEPT THE CONTACT DETAILS ON YOUR MAC AND USED ISYNC TO COPY THEM TO THE PHONE. | It's Fortunate On New Links You Yuppies Only Use Desktop's Keyboard Entering People's Telephones To Have Everywhere -- Clie Or Nokia, They All Can Take Down (Electronically) Telephone/ Address Information. Lost Something? Only Need Your Other (Unaffected) Repository, Make A Copy And No Data's Unavailable. Synchronising Every Day Is Superfluous, Your Numerous Contacts' Telephones Only Change Once Per Year (That's Horrible Estimate, Maybe Their Own Treasured Handhelds Escaped!) Personal Humble Opinion: Not Essential. |
Angela Brett (who has been without a mobile phone for the past few years and hasn't missed it) in response to MISSING MOBILE PHONE - MY LIFE'S RUINED. An alternative to 'Clie Or Nokia' would be 'Cellphone or Notebook'. Communication |
| INFORMATICS | I Need Find Out / Research - Maybe Automatically - Topics In Computer System |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science |
| INFORMATION SYSTEMS | Incomsequential Notational Fumblings, Often Recording Methodologies Attached To Inflow Of Notions - Supposedly You'll See The Exercise Means Something. |
Angela Brett, who so far thinks that information systems analysis is a load of rubbish, but understands that some people feel the same way about mathematics. |
| INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | It's New-Fangled Organisation - Relaying Messages Across The Internet... Only Now They Electronically Can Have Nookie! Online Lovers Often Gull You. |
Angela Brett |
| INTEL | Invest Nothing, They'll Eventually Lose. |
Angela Brett, after Steve said that he wouldn't invest any money in Intel because he doesn't think they innovate any more. Commerce:Companies |
| IOMEGA | I Own Marvellous External Gigabyte Accessory. |
Angela Brett Commerce:Companies |
| IOMEGA (2) | Input/ Output, My Electronic Gargantuan Accesses. |
Jeff Anonymous Commerce:Companies |
| IS | Implies Status |
Edwin Hermann, referring to the usual meaning of IS, Information Systems. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| IT (2) | Ivory Tower |
Rico Leffanta (referring to information technology, of course) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| JPEG | Juxtapositioned Pixels Emulate Graphics |
Sean Lamb (JPEG = Joint Photographic Experts Group) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| JUST TOO BUSY | Joyful Users Should Try To Openly Operate Battery Utilisation System. Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, complaining about Angela's sister, who is JUST TOO BUSY to change her clock batteries and therefore her emails come through as though they'd been sent several days beforehand. Assorted Phrases |
| KILOBYTES | Keyboard Informs Logicboard Of Blurb You Type - Easily Stored! |
Angela Brett |
| KUWAIT (2) | Keeps Up With Advances In Technology |
Angela Brett, who works for a dental software company which is expanding into Kuwait. Places:Countries |
| KUWAIT (3) | Keeps Up With Acology Information Technology |
Angela Brett (see KUWAIT (2)) Places:Countries |
| LOCKUP | Lets Our Computer Keep Unreal Pauses |
Rico Leffanta |
| MAINFRAME | Machine Adds Immense Numbers For Researchers - Absorbs Much Electricity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MATLAB | Mathematical Algorithms Take Little Actual Brainpower. |
Angela Brett (MATLAB is a mathematics software package) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications |
| NAPSTER | Nasty American Pop-System Took Extreme Revenge |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music |
| NCR | Not Completely Reliable |
Tiny Lee (NCR usually stands for National Cash Register) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| NEC | Not Enough Components |
Tiny Lee (NEC usually stands for Nippon Equipment Corporation) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| NETWORK GEEK | Need Equipment To Work Out Route Kilobytes Go? Employ Exchange Kid/Kit |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| OCR | 'Ow Computers Read |
Angela Brett (OCR usually stands for Optical Character Recognition) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| OCR (2) | Our Computer 'Reads' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see OCR) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| OFFICE | Obfuscated File Format Is Common Everywhere |
Sean Lamb (even though the data format of MS-Office documents is exceptionally hidden, they have become a de-facto standard) |
| ONLINE SUPPORT | Oh No! Latest Instrument Not Effectively Serving Us? Please, People Online, Resolve This! |
Robert Anonymous |
| PALM DATABASE | Perhaps... Angela Likes Mobile Data, And The Acronyms Belong At Sides Everywhere! |
Angela Brett, when someone searched for Palm Database on the Acronyms website. Perhaps the searcher was wondering if the acronyms were available in some kind of database format for Palm OS handheld computers. They aren't, but if I knew how to I wouldn't mind making them available that way. |
| PALM DATABASE (2) | Portable And Little, My Digital Assistant's The Absolute Best - Although Somewhat Expensive |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PARSER | Programmed Algorithm Reading Sentences, Expressions, Runes |
Gavin Lambert |
| PASSWORD | Pick Alphanumeric Symbols, Sans Words Of Reputable Dictionaries. |
Angela Brett |
| PASSWORD (3) | Private And Secret Spelling Which Operator Requires -- Damn |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PASTE | Pictures And Simple Text Entered |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PDA | Pointer Directs Actions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (PDA usually stands for Personal Digital Assistant) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| PROMPT | Print Request On Monitor - Please Type! |
Angela Brett |
| PUFFIN | Power Users Find Files In Networks |
Sean Lamb (Puffin is Google's code word for their new desktop file search utility) Names:Code Names |
| REAL TIME ACQUISITION SOFTWARE | Retrieves (Electronically) A Library. The Information Must Enter A Conduit Quickly, Use Ideal-Speed Internet To Integrate Our Nous So Our Fellow Thinkers Will Always Research Efficiently |
Angela Brett |
| REAL TIME INTEGRATED SOFTWARE | Render Everything As 'Live' Then (If My Ethernet Is Not Too Erratic) Get Reactions As Things Emerge. Don't Sit Otiosely, Forced To Wait As Report's Edited |
Angela Brett |
| REFERENCE MANUAL | Regularly Encountered Features Explained Reliably, Errors Newbies Can Expect. Many Additional Notes Using Accessible Language |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature |
| SETI AT HOME | Supercomputers Everywhere Try Isolating Alien Technology's Hallmark - Obfuscated Mathematical Equations? |
Angela Brett Science:Astronomy |
| SETUP | Something Easy To Understand, Please! |
Angela Brett |
| SHAREWARE (2) | Some Hardworking Authors Rightly Earned Whatever Amount Registration Entails. |
Angela Brett |
| SIMIAN SIM | Seems Intelligent Monkey Is Acronymising - Not Some Irish Mastermind! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela mentioned, "It's so obvious that even a poorly programmed monkey simulator running on Windows 95 could have thought of it" as a possible interpretation of her compliment of another of Tony's acronyms. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| SISADMIN | Server Installer Shares Author's DNA, Mitochondrially Identical Network |
Angela Brett -- A sisadmin is a sister who is also a sysadmin (which is a common abbreviation for system administrator.) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| SOFTWARE | Something Often Found To Worry A Rookie Enthusiast |
Angela Brett |
| SOFTWARE (3) | Someone Offered 'Free Trial'. Worm Already Resident, Encoded. |
Roger Williams |
| SPARC | Sun's Particularly Amazing Research Creation |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett |
| STATE OF THE ART | Spending The Amount That's Expected, One Finds They Have Encompassed All Recent Technologies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Phrases Science:Electronics |
| STUFFED | Standard Technical User Fully Frank Error Description |
Dave Parlett, explaining the technical term in the phrase, 'your PC is stuffed.' |
| SWITCH ON | Start With Installation - Then Check Handy Onscreen Notes. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| THINK (2) | To Hate IBM's Not Known |
Sean Lamb (IBM's slogan in the early 1980s was "THINK"; now that they're pouring money and development into Linux, they're the good guys again) |
| THE SIMS | Try Humorous Experiments. Simulated Individuals Manufacture Statistics. |
Sean Lamb |
| THANKS! | This Has Angela Nearly Kissing Steve! |
Angela Brett, when Steve Wozniak bought her an iBook to replace her lost PowerBook 1400cs (see RANSOM) |
| UNIX | University Networks Interoperate Xceptionally |
Sean Lamb (who learned to use UNIX in a university setting) |
| USB (2) | Useful, Since Bondi |
Angela Brett, since there were hardly any USB peripherals available until Apple introduced the bondi blue iMac, which had a USB port. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| VIRUS | Violates Information, Ruthlessly Uses Space |
Angela Brett |
| VOCODERS | Voice Of Computer's Often Deliberately Extra Robotic Sounding |
Angela Brett (thinking of the Macintalk voices Votron, Trinoids and Zarvox in particular) |
| WORM (2) | Will Often Replicate Maliciously |
Sean Lamb (who has spent way too much time tweaking email server filters lately) |