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You forgot an important one, and one that we don't often say here
(thankfully):
RTFM -- Read The Fine Manual...
Russell
On Sunday 16 June 2002 12:38 pm, you wrote:
> 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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Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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