abreviations - computer terms

The Good, The Bad, And Down Right Stupid

[caine]

anything and everything to do with computers ONLY!reg EXP! of course.

TCP - transmission control protocol

go on!

[digitalghost]

TWAIN- Technology Without An Interesting Name

[Shakil]

LAN - you dont even want to know what that means in Punjabi or Urdu :)

Shak

[caine]

DHCP - Dind't happen consecutive problems

[deejay]

HTML - Hopelessly Tweaking My Language

DHTML - Didn't Help Tweaking My Language

[caine]

MSN - managing secret networks

[jamsy]

an old one of worthy note

GPF (general protection fault) - Gates Pension Fund

[jamsy]

ASP - Another Special Project

CFM - Confusingly Funny Markup

FTP - Forgot The Password

Really stupid one:

Reboot - Really! everytime brain overrides old task

[Mike12345]

IE - Internet exploder

Can anyone make a legitimate sentce entirly out of well known abbreviations?

[bcc1234]

PEBCAK - problem exists between chair and keyboard

[georgeek]

PENTIUM - Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics.

or

MICROSOFT - Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers.

The old ones are the best :)

[dcheney]

LISP = Lots of Insepid Stupid Parentheses

[victor]

TLA -- Three letter abbreviation (eg TCP, CSS)

ETLA -- Extended three letter abbreviation (eg HTML, RTFM)

TTLA -- Truncated three letter abbreviation (eg IP, IE)

TLAX -- Three letter abbreviation expanded (eg Cascading Style Sheet)

[richardb]

Fill in the blanks...

AOL - a***-h**** o* l***

Rich

[austtr]

RTBS

read the bloody screen

(not widely used - even less widely practised)

[copongcopong]

Microsoft = FreeBSD = Free BLUE SCREEN of DEATH