The following are what you might get if you applied standard computer terminology to people.
TERM |
HUMAN TRANSLATION |
|---|---|
| Warm Booting a Human | sleeping |
| Cold Booting a Human | murder |
| Sector error on his hard drive | brain damage |
| DOS error of the mind | insanity |
| monotasking individual | mundanes (accountants, bankers, etc.) |
| multitasking individual | scientists, Sci Fi fans, housewives |
| bandwidth | intelligence (low bandwidth = low intelligence, high bandwidth = high intelligence) |
| System Crash | physical breakdown |
| "OS crash" or "Guru'd" | mental breakdown |
| he's got a programing glitch | something wrong or off about his personality or mind |
| to PING someone | to make contact with someone |
| General Protection Fault | Forgot the condom; condom broke |
| He was hit with the Blue Screen of Death | the funeral is Saturday |
| one's GUI | one's outward personality traits |
| drop to Shell | speak plainly, tell it like it is |
| How's your command line prompt? | (sorry, can't give the translation with the kids looking over your shoulder) |