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Sayings

24/7 - 24 hours per day, 7 day per week
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AFK - Away From Keyboard
ATM - At The Moment
AYSOS - Are you stupid or something
BOFH - Bastard Operator From Hell
BRB - Be Right Back
BIAB - Back In A Bit
DIY - Do It Yourself
FLOSS - Free Libre Open Source Software
FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Repair
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FYI - For Your Information
GMAB - Give Me A Break
GMTA - Great Minds Think Alike
IANA - I Am Not A ...
IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMPE - In My Personal Experience
IRL - In Real Life
IVL - In Virtual Life
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
KISASS - Keep It Simple and Secure, Stupid
LOL - Laugh Out Loud
MTBF - Mean Time Between Failure
NOFI - No OFfense Intended
NW - Name Withheld - Not committing either one's real name or Pseudonym. Compare Anonymity.
OMG - Oh My God
OTOH - On The Other Hand
PEBKAC - Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
RL - Real Life
RTFA - Read The Fucking Article
RTFM - Read The Fucking Manual
SNAFU - Situation Normal - All Fucked Up
SOHO - Small Office, Home Office
STFU - Shut the Fuck Up
WTH - What The Hell
WTF - What The Fuck
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
YMMV - Your Milleage May Vary

Borg - To completely absorb and integrate something, often with callous disregard for the uniqueness of that something.
Brain-Fart - A form of writer's block which prevents a person from forming the right word or remembering their original train of thought.
CamelNotation - Smooshing together a phrase of words and capitalising the first letter of each word. Comes from Wikis that don't allow spaces in page names.
Cruft - lack of maintinence
Dangerous - Dangerous topics are those which are both discourse-wise difficult to discuss and are politically-incorrect-sounding. These topics are often at least bordering on Offensive to one of the listeners/readers.
DOH - Exclamation of frustration.
Fat Pipe - a fast network/internet connection
Flamebait - Inflamatory message, sometimes with controversial ideas which some might find offensive.
Googling - to search for something via Google.
^H - Used for humor, a poor-backspace character, openly illustrating a self-corrected error.
Hacking Around - Semi-constructive play.
Hunam - A detached reference to people in general.
Holy Grail - Best possible scenario.
Lag - Network slow-down
Meatspace - The real world. Opposite of Cyberspace.
Meh - An expression of dismissive unconcern.
Newbie - Someone who is obviously not in the know.
Online / Offline - status concerning availablility

Pro-sumer - Something riding the line between the professional level and regular home user.
Pseudonym - An alias or screen name.
Sharpening The Saw - A form of practice by the repetition of a mostly-mastered skill.
Train Of Thought - A line of thinking with multiple related topics.
woot - An exclamation of joy