--- a/static/wtf.txt Wed May 02 00:00:09 2007 +0200
+++ b/static/wtf.txt Wed May 02 13:50:07 2007 +0200
@@ -153,10 +153,10 @@
AF Address Family (sockets)
AFADS Automatic Force Adjustment Data System
AF Adventures in Fantasy
-AFAICR as far as I can recall
+AFAICR As Far As I Can Recall
AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK As Far As I Know
-AFAIR as far as I recall
+AFAIR As Far As I Recall
AF Air Force
AFATDS Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
AF Audio Frequency
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@
AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive (unix)
AJ Astronomical Journal
AKA Also Known As
-AKA Also Known As
AK Alaska
ALA American Library Association
ALA Automobile Legal Association
@@ -307,6 +306,7 @@
AOSS Auxilliary Operator Service System
AOW Asia and Oceania Workshop
APA All Points Addressable
+AP Access Point
AP Accounts Payable, "A/P"
AP Additional Premium
AP Age Play
@@ -372,8 +372,6 @@
ASA Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
ASAIGAC As Soon As I Get A Chance
AS Anglo-Saxon
-ASAP as soon as possible
-ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASB Alt.Sex.Bondage
ASC Accredited Standards Committee
@@ -865,6 +863,7 @@
CC C Compiler
CCC Computer Control Center
CCC Concourse Computer Center [MIT]
+CCC Customer Call Center
CC Center Conductor
CC Central Control
CCCI Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
@@ -959,7 +958,7 @@
CENTO CENtral Treaty Organization
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CERMET Ceramic Metal Element
-CERN organisation (formerly Conseil) Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaires
+CERN organisation (formerly Conseil) Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CET Central European Time
CEV Controlled Environment Vault
@@ -1060,8 +1059,8 @@
CLOS Common Lisp Object System
CLRC Circuit Layout Record Card
CLR Combined Line and Recording
-CLS connectionless server
-CLTP Connectionless Transport Protocol
+CLS ConnectionLess Server
+CLTP ConnectionLess Transport Protocol
CLU Chartered Life Underwriter
CLUT Color LookUp Table
CLV Constant Linear Velocity
@@ -1080,7 +1079,6 @@
CMDS Centralized Message Data System
CMH Port Columbus OH
CMI Champaign-Urbana IL
-CMIIW correct me if I'm wrong
CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
CMIS Common Management Information Service
@@ -1722,7 +1720,6 @@
DSN Digital Signal (level) N
DSO Digital Storage Oscilloscope
DSO Distinguished Service Order
-D&S or D/s Dominance and Submission
DSP Decessit Sine Prole (died without issue)
DSP Defense Support Program (USAF/NRO)
DSP Digital Signal Processor; Digital Signal Processing
@@ -1786,15 +1783,12 @@
DWB Documenter's WorkBench
DW Dead Weight
DWI Driving While Intoxicated
-DWIM do what I mean
DWIM Do What I Mean
DX Distance (as in long distance radio communication)
DXT Data eXtractT facility
E911 Enhanced 911
EAA Experimental Aircraft Association
EADAS Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System
-EADASNM Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System/Network Management, "EADAS/NM"
-EADASS Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System
EAEO Equal Access End Office
EAFB Edwards Air Force Base
EARN European Academic Research Network
@@ -1876,7 +1870,7 @@
EFRAP Electronic Feeder Route Analysis Program
EFS Error Free Seconds
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
-EG evil grin
+EG Evil Grin
EG Exempli Gratia, "e.g." (for example)
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
EGREP Extended GREP
@@ -1932,7 +1926,7 @@
EMS Element Management System
EMS Element Management System, part of AT&T's UNMA
EMS Expanded Memory Specification
-EMSG email message
+EMSG Email message
EMT Emergency Medical Technician
EMU ElectroMagnetic Unit
EMU Extravehicular Mobility Unit [Space]
@@ -2092,7 +2086,6 @@
FAI Federation Aeronautique International
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization [U.S. Government]
FAQ Frequently Asked Question(s)
-FAQ Frequently-Asked Question(s)
FAQL Frequently-Asked Questions List
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation
FAR Federal Aviation Regulations (U.S.)
@@ -2277,7 +2270,7 @@
FRU Field Replacable Unit
FSCM Federal Supply Code for Manufactures
FSDO Flight Standards District Office
-FSDO for some definition of
+FSDO For Some Definition Of
FSE Field Service Engineer
FSF Free Software Foundation
FS Field Service
@@ -2313,26 +2306,19 @@
FTW For The Win
FTZ FernmeldeTechnisches Zentralamt
FTZ Free Trade Zone
-FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
-FUBAR F'ed Up Beyond All Repair (or Recognition)
-FUBAR fucked up beyond all recognition
-FUD fear, uncertainty and doubt
+FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
FUS Full-Use Standard
-FV folio verso, "fv" (on the back of the page)
+FV Folio Verso, "fv" (on the back of the page)
FWD Front Wheel Drive
FW Fringeworthy
FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum
-FWIW for what it's worth
FWIW For What It's Worth
-FWIW For What It's Worth...
-FX Foriegn eXchange [telephony]
-FX special effects
+FX Foreign eXchange [telephony]
+FX Effects (special/sound)
FYA For Your Action
FY Fiscal Year
-FYI for your information
-FYI For Your Information
FYI For Your Information
FYS For Your Signature
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
@@ -2601,7 +2587,6 @@
HOMO Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital
HOTOL HOrizontal Take-Off and Landing
HOW Home Owners Warranty
-HPD High Performance Division (Sun group)
HPFS High Performance File System (OS/2)
HPGE High Purity Germanium
HPGL Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
@@ -2634,8 +2619,8 @@
HST Hawaiian Standard Time
HST High Speed Technology
HST Hubble Space Telescope
-HTH hope this helps
-HTH Hope This Helps / Hand To Hand [combat]
+HTH Hope This Helps
+HTH Hand To Hand [combat]
HT High Tension (as in electric power transmission)
HT Horizontal Tab
HTK Hits To Kill
@@ -2667,7 +2652,6 @@
IAH Houston (Intercontinental) TX
IA Inspection Authorization
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
-IANAL I am not a lawyer
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IAP Internet Access Provider
IAPPP International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry
@@ -2747,7 +2731,7 @@
IEN Internet Experiment Notebook (precedes RFCs)
IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
-IETGFTP it's easier to get forgiveness than permission
+IETGFTP It's Easier To Get Forgiveness Than Permission
IFB Invitation For Bids
IFC International Finance Corporation
IFC International Freighting Corporation
@@ -2769,7 +2753,7 @@
IHP Indicated HorsePower
IHS Integrated Hospital Support
IIA Information Industry Association
-IIANM if I am not mistaken
+IIANM If I Am Not Mistaken
IIE Institute of Industrial Engineers
IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation
IIL Integrated Injection Logic
@@ -2786,20 +2770,17 @@
IMAP Interactive Mail Access Protocol
IMAS Integrated Mass Announcement System
IMC Instrument Meteorological Contitions
-IMCO in my considered opinion
+IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMD Industry Marketing Development
IME In My Experience
IMF International Monetary Fund
-IMHO in my humble opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
-IMHO In My Humble Opinion [net jargon]
IM Installation & Maintenance, "I&M"
IM Instant Message
IM Interface Module
IMM Input Message Manual
IMNERHO In My Never Even Remotely Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
-IMO in my opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMPACT Inventory Management Program and Control Technique
IMP Interface Message Processor [ARPANET/MILNET] (replaced by PSN)
@@ -2836,12 +2817,10 @@
INTELSAT INternational TELecommunications SATellite consortium
INWATS INward Wide Area Telephone Service [telephony]
IOCC International Overseas Completion Center
-IOC Input/Output Computer (Aptec)
IOC Input/Output Controller
IOC International Operating Center [telephony, US]
IOD Identified Outward Dialing
IO Input/Output, "I/O"
-IO Input/Output (sometimes I/O)
IO Inward Operator
IONL Internal Organization of the Network Layer
IOOF International Order of Odd Fellows
@@ -2850,8 +2829,6 @@
IOTA International Occultation Timing Association
IOT InterOffice Trunk
IOU I Owe you (U)
-IOW in other words
-IOW In Other Words
IOW In Other Words
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPCE InterProcess Communication Environment
@@ -2903,7 +2880,7 @@
IR Information Resource
IR InfraRed
IR Internetwork Router
-IRL in real life
+IRL In Real Life
IRM Information Resources Management
IRM Intelligent Repeater Module
IRMS Information Resources Management Service
@@ -2957,9 +2934,7 @@
ISSN Integrated Special Services Network
ISSN International Standard Serial Number
IST Initial System Test
-ISTM it seems to me
ISTM It Seems To Me
-ISTR I seem to recall
ISTR I Seem To Recall
ISUP Integrated Services User Part
ISV Independent Software Vendor
@@ -3038,7 +3013,7 @@
JIT Just In Time
JK Just Kidding / JoKe
JLE Japanese Language Enveronment
-JMO just my opinion
+JMO Just My Opinion
JMS John Milton Society
JMX Jumbogroup MultipleX
JOAT Jack Of All Trades
@@ -3094,7 +3069,7 @@
K Kilobit
KLIPS thousands of Logical Inferences Per Second
KLOC thousands of Lines Of Code
-KNF kernel normal form
+KNF Kernel Normal Form
KO Knock Out
KOWC Key Word Out of Context
KP Key Pulse [telephony]
@@ -3122,7 +3097,6 @@
L3 Lagrange Point #3 (?? 35,000 Miles below moon) [Space]
L4 Lagrange Point #4 240,000 mile Earth orbit [Space]
L5 Lagrange Point #5 240,000 mile Earth orbit [Space]
-L8R later
L8R Later
LAB Labor
LAC Loop Assignment Center
@@ -3264,7 +3238,7 @@
LM Lunar Module (a.k.a. LEM) (Apollo spacecraft)
LMMS Local Message Metering System
LMOS Line Maintenance Operations System [telephony, AT&T]
-LMSO laughing my socks off
+LMSO Laughing My Socks Off
LN2 Liquid N2 (Nitrogen)
LNG Liquified Natural Gas
LOA Lands of Adventure
@@ -3460,7 +3434,6 @@
MDC Meridian Digital Centrex
MD Doctor of Medicine
MDDS Media Documentation Distribution Set
-MDEC MAINDEC maintenance on DEC diagnostic paper tapes
MDE Modular Design Environment
MDF Main Distribution Frame [telephony]
MDI Medium Dependent Interface
@@ -3488,7 +3461,6 @@
M.E. myalgic encephalomyelitis
MERP Middle-Earth Role Playing
MERS Most Economic Route Selection
-META not an acronym; see www.mindspring.com/~frites/m.htm
MET Mid European Time
MET Multibutton Electronic Telephone
MeV Million Electron Volts
@@ -3578,7 +3550,6 @@
M Miniatures
MMJ Modified Modular Jack
MM Maryknoll Missioners
-MMM see 3M
MMOC Minicomputer Maintenance Operations Center
MMP Modified Modular Plug
MMS Main Memory Status
@@ -3917,7 +3888,7 @@
NEXRAD NEXt generation weather RADar
NEXT Near-End cross-Talk
NFC National Football Conference
-NFC no fucking clue
+NFC No Fucking Clue
NFFE National Federation of Federal Employees
NFI no fucking idea
NFL National Football League
@@ -3942,7 +3913,6 @@
NIC Network Interface Card
NIFTP (a file transfer network in the UK)
NIH National Institutes of Health
-NIH not invented here
NIH Not Invented Here
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
@@ -4768,8 +4738,8 @@
QA Quality Assurance
QAS Quasi-Associated Signaling
QBE Query By Example
-QBP queen's bishop's pawn (chess)
-QB queen's bishop (chess)
+QBP Queen's Bishop's Pawn (chess)
+QB Queen's Bishop (chess)
QCPE Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange
QC Quality Control
QC Queen's Counsel
@@ -4954,7 +4924,6 @@
RLIN Research Libraries Information Network [run by RLG (q.v.)]
RLL Run Length Limited
RLOGIN Remote Login, "rlogin"
-RL real life
RL Real Life (sometimes written as r/l)
RLT Remote Line Test
RMA Return Materials Authorization
@@ -5056,7 +5025,6 @@
RSLE Remote Subscriber Line Equipment
RSLM Remote Subscriber Line Module
RSM Remote Switching Module
-RSN real soon now
RSN Real Soon Now
RS Recommended Standard
RS Recording Secretary
@@ -5064,6 +5032,7 @@
RS Right Side
RS RISC System
RS Royal Society
+RSS Really Simple Syndication
RSS Remote Switching System
RSTSE Resource System Time Sharing/Enhanced, "RSTS/E"
RSTS Resource System Time Sharing
@@ -5074,11 +5043,9 @@
RTAC Regional Technical Assistance Center [telephony]
RTA Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTC Right To Copy
-RTFB read the fine book
-RTFMP read the fine man page
-RTFM Read the F*g Manual!
-RTFM read the fine manual
-RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
+RTFB Read The Fine Book
+RTFMP Read The Fine Man Page
+RTFM Read The Fine/F***ing Manual
RTF Read This First
RTF Rich Text Format
RTFS Read The Fine Source
@@ -5218,6 +5185,7 @@
SCPC Signal Channel Per Carrier
SCPD Supplementary Central Pulse Distributor
SCPI Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation
+SCP Secure CoPy (from the SSH suite)
SCP Signal Control Point
SCP Signal Conversion Point
SCP Sunlink Communications Processor
@@ -5410,20 +5378,20 @@
SMI Sun Microsystems Inc.
SMIT System Management Interface Tool
SMK Software Migration Kit
-SMLSFB so many losers, so few bullets
+SMLSFB So Many Losers, So Few Bullets
SMM Solar Maximum Mission
SMOC Small Matter Of Commitment
SMOF Secret Master Of Fandom
SMOH Since Major OverHaul
-SMOP simple matter of programming
-SMOP Small Matter Of Programming
+SMOP Simple/Small Matter Of Programming
SMO Santa Monica CA
SMP Symmetric MultiProcessing
SMPTE Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMR Service Marketing Representative
SMSA Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
SM Service Mark
-SM, S&M Sado-Masochism, Sex Magick
+SM Sado-Masochism
+SM Sex Magick
SMS Service Management System
SM Switching Module
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
@@ -5431,13 +5399,12 @@
SNADS SNA Distribution Services
SNADS Systems Network Architecture Distribution Service
SNAFU Situation Normal -- All Fouled/F***ed Up
-SNAFU situation normal, all fucked up
SNAP Shipboard Non-tactical Automated data Processing program
SNAP SubNetwork Access Protocol
SNAP System and Network Administration Program
SNA Santa Ana (Orange County) CA
SNA Systems Network Architecture [IBM]
-SNCF Societe National des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)
+SNCF Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)
SNERT snot-nosed egotistical rude teenager
SNET Southern New England Telephone
SNF Server-Natural Format
@@ -5474,8 +5441,6 @@
SOR Sales Order Request
SO Sales Order
SO Seller's Option
-SO significant other
-SO Significant Other
SO Significant Other
SO Space Opera
SOS Save Our Souls (International standard distress call, Morse ...---...)
@@ -5546,7 +5511,7 @@
SRI Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International)
SRM Solid Rocket Motor
SRO Standing Room Only
-SRP source routing protocol, an IBM specification
+SRP Source Routing Protocol, an IBM specification
SR Sales Representative
SRS Service Repair System
SR Street Regal (KDX)
@@ -5557,8 +5522,6 @@
SSAS Station Signaling and Announcement Subsystem
SSBAM Single-SideBand Amplitude Modulation
SSBBW Super-Sized Big Beautiful Woman
-SSBF or SSBBF Soc.Subculture.Bondage-BDSM.Femdom
-SSB or SSBB Soc.Subculture.Bondage-BDSM (I prefer just SSB, myself)
SSB Single SideBand
SSCP Subsystem Services Control Point
SSCP System Services Control Point
@@ -5638,7 +5601,7 @@
STP Shielded Twisted Pair
STP Signal Transfer Point
STP Software Through Pictures
-STP spanning tree protocol, an IEEE 802.1 routing specification
+STP Spanning Tree Protocol, an IEEE 802.1 routing specification
STP Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP)
STRPG Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game
STR Spot The Reference
@@ -5678,8 +5641,8 @@
SVS Switched Voice Service
SVVS System V Validation Suite
SVVS System V Verification Suite
-SWAG silly, wild-assed guess
-SWAHBI silly, wild-assed hare-brained idea
+SWAG Silly, Wild-Assed Guess
+SWAHBI Silly, Wild-Assed Hare-Brained Idea
SWAN Sun Wide Area Network
SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
SWB SouthWestern Bell
@@ -5696,10 +5659,10 @@
SYMPL SYsteMs Programming Language
SYN SYNchronizing segment
SYSGEN SYStem GENeration
-T1 1.544Mbps [telephony], one of the basic signalling systems 24x64Kb
+T1 T-carrier 1 (digital transmission line, 1.544 Mbps, 24 voice channels), one of the basic signalling systems 24x64Kb [telephony]
T1FE T1 carrier Front End
T1OS T1 carrier OutState, "T1/OS"
-T3 44.736 Mbps (eq 28 T1 channels) [Telephony]
+T3 T-carrier 3 (eq 28 T1 channels, 44.736 Mbps, 672 voice channels) [Telephony]
TAB Tape Assembly Bonding
TAB Technical Assistance Board
TACCS Tactical Army Combat service support Computer System
@@ -5859,7 +5822,7 @@
TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly [movie 2001]
TMDF Trunk Main Distributing Frame
TMIS Telecommunications Management Information System
-TMI too much information
+TMI Too Much Information
TMJ Temporal-Mandibular-Joint (affects opening mouth)
TMMS Telephone Message Management System
TMO Telephone Money Order
@@ -6004,6 +5967,7 @@
TT Trunk Type
TT Tunnels & Trolls, "T&T"
T tun(s), "t."
+T2 T-carrier 2 (digital transmission line, 6.312 Mbps, 96 voice channels) [Telephony]
TTU Tennessee Technological University
T2YL Talk To You Later
T2UL Talk To You Later
@@ -6016,7 +5980,6 @@
TUNIS Toronto UNIversity System
TUR Traffic Usage Recording
TUR Trunk Utilization Report
-TV also stands for TransVestite
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
TV TeleVision
TVTWM Tom's Virtual TWM
@@ -6065,7 +6028,7 @@
UCSD University of California at San Diego
UCSF University of California at San Francisco
UC University of CA
-UC upper case, "u.c."
+UC Upper Case, "u.c."
UDB Unified DataBase
UDF User Defined Function
UDMH Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine
@@ -6434,9 +6397,8 @@
WS Work Sampling
WS Work Station
WSW West-SouthWest
-WTF What The Fuck
-WTF {what,where,who,why} The Fuck
-WTH {what,where,who,why} The Hell
+WTF {What,where,who,why} The Fuck
+WTH {What,where,who,why} The Hell
WTR Western Test Range
WUPPE Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package)
WU Washington University
@@ -6481,6 +6443,7 @@
XLFD X Logical Font Description
XMI eXtended Memory Interconnect (DEC)
XMM X-ray Multi Mirror
+XMPP eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XMS eXtended Memory Specification
XMS eXtended Multiprocessor operating System
XMTR transMiTteR (the X is for trans)
@@ -6507,12 +6470,13 @@
YAFIYGI You Asked For It, You Got It
YA Yet Another
YB YearBook
-YHBT you have been trolled
-YHL you have lost
+YGM You Got Mail
+YHBT You Have Been Trolled
+YHL You Have Lost
YKINMK Your Kink Is Not My Kink
YKINOK Your Kink Is Not Okay
YKIOK,IJNMK Your Kink is OK, It's Just Not My Kink
-YKWIM you know what I mean
+YKWIM You Know What I Mean
YMBJ You Must Be Joking
YMCA Young Mens Christian Association
YMHA Young Mens Hebrew Association
@@ -6530,8 +6494,8 @@
YWCA Young Womens Christian Association
YWHA Young Womens Hebrew Association
YW You're Welcome
-Y year, "y."
-Y yen
+Y Year, "y."
+Y Yen
Y yttrium
YY Year
ZBB Zero Base Budgeting