Definitions from The Devil’s IT Dictionary, presented in threes – in no apparent order. As time passes new entries will be added, assuming I can think of some more.
Here are the links:
- Accountancy, Standard, Steering Committee
- Document Management System, Kilobyte, Distributed Processing
- Archiving, Disclaimer, Failover
- Office Automation, Extreme Programming, Linux
- Open Source, Heretic, MP3
- CISC, Encapsulation, War Room
- Agent, Benchmark, Workflow
- Integrity, 90 Percent Solution, Content Management
- Identity Management, Password, Software Pirate
- Booting, Battery, Handshake
- Phishing, Plug-and-Play, Commit
- Domain, Broadband, RSI
- Help Subsystem, Hypertext, Audit Trail
- Server Farm, Podcasting, Buzzword
- Blogging, Help Desk, Knowledge Management
- Error Message, SQL, Sequel
- Fixed Disk, Portability, Optimizer
- Syncpoint, Intelligent Design, Multiplexer
- Some computer languages
- Firmware, Icon, Mobilepsy
- Bit, CASE, Trigger
- Artifical Intelligence, Programming, Wiki, Wikipedia
- Decision Table, Formal Method, TPILB
- Terminal Emulation, Drag And Drop, Information Engineering
- Critical Success Factor, OCR, Software Patch
- Cursor, (To) Google, Pokémon
- Documentation, Open Source, JCL
- Word Processor, Future-Proof, Grammar Checker
- Autoformat, Recycle Bin, JINI
- Special Characters, Carrier, IT Security Products
- Binary, Data Warehouse, Structured Programming
- Wormhole Router, Interface, RAID
- DBA, Deadline, Demon (Or Daemon)
- Impact Analysis, Athiest, Home Computer
- BTSOOM, Encapsulation, Normalisation (Normal Forms)
- IT Analyst, Magic Quadrant, Escape Key
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