Posted in Tech Speak, business speak on May 21st, 2008
“‘Dry Martini?’ Sweet”, I thought to myself-”maybe there’s a new day dawning, where tech-speak enters a more user-friendly, accessible and dare I say, hip, age? ‘Dry Martini’ is the name of a virtual private network? Cool. So regular people can understand and maybe even want to get one? Nice! It’s about time. Sound knowledgeable and […]
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Posted in Tech Speak on May 19th, 2008
Definition: Who the hell knows?
After a rough round of penetration testing, IT has left me feeling like I need to sanitize my user input. Check out the excerpt below from an IT email.
Thank Gawd for IT, though. If it wasn’t for their emails and conference calls, I would never be motivated to write new blog […]
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Posted in Acronym Soup, Tech Speak, slang on May 6th, 2008
For What It’s Worth
For the love of jeebus, can we come up with any more acronyms? It took me one second longer to type out “For what its worth” than it did to type out FWIW. It took way longer to Google FWIW. One guess which department sent an email with this gem. If you […]
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Posted in Tech Speak on May 2nd, 2008
Today is a sad day. This is what’s become of literature originally designed to inform and instruct:
In this case, the PBEB-A encapsulates S-VID 100 traffic by adding a B-DA value of PBEB-D, a B-SA value of PBEB-A, a B-VID value of 4001 (primary or purple tunnel), and the I-SID value of 10000. This MAC header […]
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Posted in Tech Speak on May 1st, 2008
I just received my 10am meeting reminder and pissed my pants when I read the title of the meeting, “DR Filer Capabilties Level Setting”. What the F? How dare you? I feel violated for having to attend in the first place. However, I am impressed with his jargtastic capabilities.
UPDATE NOW THAT THE MEETING IS DONE:
So […]
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Posted in Tech Speak, business speak on Apr 24th, 2008
If you are going to use jargon, at least be creative about it like this guy.
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Posted in Tech Speak on Apr 23rd, 2008
“The Big IP is very powerful.” - Our IT Security Department.
Apparently there is a magical entity that lives somewhere between the first and second floor of our building. It’s name I hear is “the Big IP,” and it is unstoppable. Few knew that the Nazi’s searched endlessly for the Big IP during the […]
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