LMJargon

  1. n. Any member in the WinPrint product family, _e.g., the WinPrinter 800, 1200, WinJet 300, 360xls, 800, 1200, etc.
  2. The entire WinPrint family.

  1. n. A WinPrinter, but without a LM supplied print engine. It included a special connector that you could plug into your HP LaserJet.

  1. interj. 1. How to pronounce a screenful of foofoo characters after a bad frack. Usually followed by a trip to the coffee machine or restroom.
  2. Nebulous greeting. Origin: An alien character in a Muppets sketch.

  1. n. pl. Non-ASCII screen characters: the IBM-PC extended ASCII line segments, Greek alphabet, foreign letters, playing card symbols, smiley faces, arrows, boxes, math symbols and so on. Somewhat pejorative in that they often appear during a frack. See meepzorp. Known in Japanese as “mojibake” (文字化け).

  1. v. To break or crash, as in software, usually a bad bug requiring a deslugger. My program just fracked and my screen is full of garbage foofoo characters. See also meepzorp.

  1. v. To halt. To completely stop running, or run in such a tight loop that nothing else can be accomplished. 10 GOTO 10 is an equivalent.

  1. v. To restart a computer after a hang or frack, using the physical power switch on the side when no other means of restarting the machine is working. When this is necessary, the computer is said to be winning.

  1. v. Enjoying correct code; beating the computer. Chiefly asked by a mangler in a question such as, Are we winning?
  2. Having fun inflicting various degrees of frustration and torture upon a software engine. See Ctrl-Alt-Power.

  1. n. See Harold.

  1. n. The tarry, sticky, molten mass found at the bottom of the stainless steel coffee pot after having been left on over the weekend which, because of its volume, has not had a chance to harden into igneous java.