The meanings of big or strange words and what those stupid letters mean. As with everything to do with this site, the meanings I define and the acronyms I explain are mine. I decide what they mean to me. If they mean something else to you, enjoy your freedom of opinion but feel free to keep it to yourself. I am already perfectly happy with my own. This page will be a WIP (work in progress) since I will add to it as I sprinkle in new terms and other irreverent, esoteric and un-necessary Acronyms. What you will not find here is any cure for run on sentences, the invalid use of punctuation: or any apology for the pathetic grammar used in conjunction with the variable use of past, present and future tenses or the shifting of perspective between first and third person. Enjoy!
Definitions:
An explanation of a term that is exotic or normal but used in an unconventional context with a different meaning.
TLA: Three Letter Acronyms
Used by groups of people who use them often to speed up communication concerning things that have long names that everyone is already in agreement that they understand. AKA, (also know as) lazy peoples short hand.
A
ASAP (IT) As Soon As Possible the exact time that marketing needs whatever IT is working on.
B
BYOB – (General) Bring Your Own Bottle)
BYOD – (IT) Bring Your Own Device a system used by cheap ass companies who don’t want to buy up to date or quality equipment and count on their employees to bring in their own. This often leads to incompatibilities between software and Always security issues.
C
CFI (Automotive) Central Fuel Injection one or multiple injectors that feed a central point which is distributed with air to each of the cylinders.
CYA – Cover Your Ass the art of getting dumb or illegal requirements in writing and responding with a warning and before acting upon them.
D
DNF (Automotive) racing term for Did Not Finish race
E
EFI – (Automotive) Electronic Fuel Injection as opposed to Mechanical Fuel Injection
EOL – End of Life
F
FUBAR – (General) Fu@ked Up Beyond All Recognition an ex military term for a project or situation that has gone off the rails. (IT) a variable name often used in demo code also ‘foo’ and ‘bar’ None of these are appropriate for production code and if they are in it you can guarantee someone “borrowed” code from stack overflow because they didn’t know how to write it themselves.
G
GFGI (IT) Go Fu@king Google It everyone has access to google don’t ask me to do your searches for you.
GIGO – (IT) Garbage In Garbage Out if the data you provide is junk then don’t complain when our output matches it.
GM (Automotive) General Motors manufacture of current divisions Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, Buick and now defunct Geo, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac, Saturn and sold off Hummer, Opel and Holden
H
HD (General) High Definition possibly one of the most over used terms that originally pertained to how much information was being shown by a monitor /TV or screen.
HID (Automotive) Hight Intensity Discharge those really blinding headlight that require a ballast to even turn on. They were quickly replaced by LEDs which are almost as bright but much cheaper.
I
IP (IT) Internet Protocol
IT (IT) Information Technology
J
JATO – (Automotive) Jet Assisted Take Off solid rocket fuel boosters normally strapped to the sides of a cargo plane to assist in overloaded or short runway takeoffs. Fo Automotive applications see Myth Busters
K
L
LS (Automotive) GM engines
M
N
O
P
PDQ (General) Pretty Damn Quick how soon your boss expects you to have things done.
PO – (Automotive) Previous Owner the person most issues with a vehicle are blamed on
Q
QOS – (IT) Quality Of Service agreed level of quality for packets traveling across a TCP/IP network