Geek Speak

[writeco]

Want to understand what the IT geeks are saying? Global Knowledge has
assembled the following aid, Geek Speak Glossary: A Manager's Guide to
IT Terminology.

For a copy, go to the Download Area at http://www.writetechnologyplus.com
(blatant plug) to download the PDF. Unfortunately, given IT's
proclivity for TLA's (three letter acronyms), it is probably already
out of date.

[mylanta]

Joe thanks so much for posting this! Neat website too!

[Guest110]

Thank you ..

[writeco]

Rich M., thanks for the feedback.

[mylanta]

Joe, really nice professional work and I am so glad you thought to post that.
(Gave me a break from the Linux wars anyway!)

[Tortanick]

The "Linux Wars"? you'll have to be more specific.
Linux users vs unsupported hardware, Gnome vs KDE, anti-M$ vs Novell, vi vs emacs.

We have a lot of wars :)

Anyway I'll look at that list, but you're right, given the average Geeks inbuilt ability to work with TLAs I'm sure its allready out of date. But hey, better a TLA than something like CompuPlus Enterprise edition :)

[edit] you must read "Ways to talk to a human" same download page. I just wish they did the UK

[Terry Hanushek]

Joe

Great web site - very professional looking

Very interesting collection of technical terms and acronyms. Unfortunately it will strip away much of the mystique that we have gained through the use of TLAs :)

Thanks for making it available to us.

Terry

[Tortanick]

Nah, not enough people will read it to remove the mystique. Then of course, knowing what we do dosn't mean its not mystical how we know that a sucessfull ping to 192.168.0.1 and a failed ping to 66.102.9.99 means reboot the router.