The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).
Data Base Administrator, DBA
This is the guy who controls the database and stops you doing anything even half-way useful with it. This is a very territorial position and best allocated to a really pedantic control freak. Within months [...]

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The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).
Wormhole Router
A router that bends the space-time continuum and sends your information packets through a parallel universe before delivering them. (Yes, there is such a thing as a wormhole router. Google it.)
Interface
This is a place within a [...]

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The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).
Binary
A method of counting using only 1s and 0s to represent the numbers. It’s quite workable, but it starts getting complicated if you have to count higher than one.
Data Warehouse
A large database into which you can pour [...]

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The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).
Special Characters
These are characters that never appear on keyboards for the obvious reason that they have no useful function. For example, the utterly useless characters h and f are special characters. So is D. I hope you’re impressed. [...]

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The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).
Autoformat
A word processor command that orders the word processing software to irretrievably trash the current document in a way that cannot be reversed by the “Undo” command. It has no other function.
Recycle Bin
The recycle bin (or [...]

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