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speech that ended "Get a life!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992. |
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Get a real computer! imp. Typical hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that (a) is single-tasking, (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space smaller than 16 megabytes. This is as of early 1996; note that the threshold for 'real computer' rises with time. See bitty box and toy. |
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GFR /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from 'Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). Often generalized to pieces of data below file level. "I used to have his phone number, but I guess I GFRed it." See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff. |
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GIFs at 11 [Fidonet] Fidonet alternative to film at 11, especially in echoes (Fidonet topic areas) where uuencoded GIFs are permitted. Other formats, especially JPEG and MPEG, may be referenced instead. |
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gig /jig/ or /gig/ n. [SI] See quantifiers. |
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giga- /ji'ga/ or /gi'ga/ pref. [SI] See quantifiers. |
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GIGO /g 'goh/ [acronym] 1. 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. Garbage In, Gospel Out: this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in 'computerized' data. |
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gilley n. [Usenet] The unit of analogical bogosity. According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was "the act of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of 1000 machines for a day with the killing of one person". The milligilley has been found to suffice for most normal conversational exchanges. |
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gillion /gil'y n/ or /jil'yn/ n. [formed from giga- by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] 109. Same as an American billion or a British mil- |
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