what is your favorite acronym?

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tremblane@reddit

FNAR: For No Apparent Reason

TLA: Three Letter Acronym ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym

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SM_DEV@reddit

That is t used to be the case. As one of the very first, way, way back in 1994, I can assure you the test was thorough and difficult…. Along with CNE, MCN and BNE

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sgt_Berbatov@reddit

TITSUP - Total Inability To Support Usual Performance
PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer

Car ones:
LOTUS - Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious
FIAT - Fix It Again Tomorrow

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BokehJunkie@reddit

“I know what's wrong with it. It's a Ford. You know what they say Ford stands for, don't ya? It stands for 'Fix it again, Tony'.”

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SM_DEV@reddit

I have a couple of favs…

TANSTAAFL = There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

TBSSTSNC = Too Bad, So Sad, Tough Sh*t, Next Case

FYATHYRIO = F*ck You And The Horse You Rode In On

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ProperEye8285@reddit

TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
PEBKAC Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
DEU Defective End_User

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KingKnux@reddit

You can add option 3 onto some realistic looking Microsoft HEX error

0x80085135_DEU

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LeaveMickeyOutOfThis@reddit

RTFM - Read the f…… manual

PEBKAC - Problem exists between keyboard and chair

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-4675636B20796F75-@reddit

In the same vein - I liked to refer to them as "Layer 8 Issues"

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narcissisadmin@reddit

I'm picturing Dave Chappelle as Tiger Woods saying "fo shizzle" hahahaha

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Atlas-and-Pbody@reddit

PICNIC - problem in chair not in computer

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alpha417@reddit

BOHICA - easy one.

CHAOS - this one is a little harder

CHEVROLET - :)

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whippy_grep@reddit

I’m working on a memory from 40+ years ago, but my assembly language class in college was taught with MANIAC (Merely ANother Idiotic ACronym).

BOB - Bubba On a Backhoe (for fiber cut outages).

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DiscoSimulacrum@reddit

I like Common Access Card (CAC). as in "pull out your CAC" or "dont show your CAC in public"

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Sunsparc@reddit

Two of my friends work in government and she started talking about how his CAC had broken that day. Um, excuse me?

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narcissisadmin@reddit

I read that in Ben Affleck's Good Will Hunting voice.

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ITGuy402@reddit

This makes me laugh. In Vietnamese CAC spells penis

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ApplicationHour@reddit

I feel like everyone has missed the ultimate acronym and my personal favorite - TLA

Three Letter Acronym.

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ZMD87412274150354@reddit

The nix world has some bangers, my personal favorite being fsck (File system ChecK)

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plumbumplumbumbum@reddit

ORACLE

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

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fcknwayshegoes@reddit

As someone who has dealt with Peoplesoft, I appreciate this.

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fluffy_warthog10@reddit

We're painstakingly setting up a reporting replica environment (and a UAT copy), and building out reporting frontends and bridge servers, specifically to avoid using Peoplesoft.

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AbleSailor@reddit

Silent Thought Facilitates Understanding (STFU)

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Hefty-Amoeba5707@reddit

I like how we create acronym for the word, yet say the whole word after it anyway lol

NIC card → Network Interface Card card GUI interface → Graphical User Interface interface LCD display → Liquid Crystal Display display SSD drive → Solid State Drive drive

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Nexzus_@reddit

Older:

TWAIN: Technology Without an Interesting Name

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

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StCasimirPulaski@reddit

TWAIN like the scanner drivers? Or is that a joke acronym?

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geekender@reddit

For records, the acronyms above are humorous satire or just uninformed.

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)

The definnition above for TWAIN is a bacronym. The official website notes that "the word TWAIN is from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" — '...and never the twain shall meet...' — reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers.

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New-Seesaw1719@reddit

I read TWAIN was a reference to Mark Twain

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Commercial_Growth343@reddit

I feel obligated to mention PNG and GNU as well known recursive acronyms

PNG = PNG is Not GIF (unofficial meaning apparently)
GNU = GNU is Not Unix

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Bagel-luigi@reddit

Despite not even being a user or an admin, I'm quite fond of the Joint Asset Management and Engineering Solutions system, or as they call it James

There are many James's in my family

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stufforstuff@reddit

FUBAR

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TheGoodspeed15@reddit

I used to work for a company whose name was abbreviated as SNAHC.

Most phones autocorrect this to snatch

It was pretty cool

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New-Seesaw1719@reddit

afaik: as far as I know

iirc: if I remember correctly

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s3phir0th115@reddit

Mine is the same as yours, I remember finding it so comical that it's also referenced in official Red Hat documentation. It doesn't get much more official than that.

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3dickdog@reddit (OP)

Yes the first time I was reading the doc, I was wondering how someone managed to sneak that in. Sort of that dark Linux Sysadmin humor.

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Cyberhwk@reddit

FM - F*cking Magic

When you have zero clue what the hell fixed it.

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rthonpm@reddit

DFU: Dumb Fucking User.

99% of all problems are a DFU to device interface issue.

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ofnuts@reddit

GNU: GNU's Not Unix

An early computer recording tech nearly missed being sold as "Square Holes In Tape".

A product I was working for was going to be called TEWAT. Fortunately when we tried to register the name a lady in the IP department was a British national so we were made aware of the problem. Too bad for that Corporate Unique New Tech.

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