Most Common acronyms
IMHO - In My Honest Opinion , or IMHO In My Humble Opinion
FUD - (spreading) Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation
IMO - In My Opinion
IOW - In Other Words
IRL - In Real Life
J/K - Just Kidding (also known as j/k or j.k.)
Newbie - A user on the Internet that is either new to the Internet or new to
a part of the Internet. (for example an Internet newbie, or a chat newbie).
<---- Usually ragged on alot .....lol
Lol - Laugh out Loud as used above
ROTFL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Enjoy Joe,
BTW
Cya L8r
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Brandt <bytemepc@tampabay.rr.com>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002 10:05 AM
Subject: [SLUG] What Do your acronyms mean and HELP!!
>I am a complete newbie to Linux and newsgroups.
>I read things like IMHO and FUD et. al. and I have no idea what these mean.
>Is there a list of slang acronyms and there meanings that I can reference?
>
>Thank You.
>
>Also I am attempting a network install across my lan from a downloaded
>Mandrake 8.2 edition off of Guild FTP in a win98 (which will be deleted
>after the learning curve) partition. I get good connection, the program
>goes into memory, the drives get partitioned and "an error has occurred
>missing basesystem package". and goes into an endless partition loop.
>
>I downloaded the iso's and checked their checksums before extracting them
to
>the C:/Linuxcd directory which I serve ftp from.
>
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