boxen /bok'sn/ pl.n.
[very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase `Unix boxen',
used to describe commodity Unix
hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are
interchangeable.
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boxology /bok-sol'*-jee/ n.
Syn. ASCII art. This term
implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings.
"His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
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bozotic /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ adj.
[from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald
McDonald] Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is,
clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. Compare
wonky, demented. Note that the noun `bozo' occurs in
slang, but the mainstream adjectival form would be `bozo-like' or
(in New England) `bozoish'.
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BQS /B-Q-S/ adj.
Syn. Berkeley
Quality Software.
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brain dump n.
[common] The act of telling someone everything one knows about
a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is
going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually
analogous to an operating system core
dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a
brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at
HackerCorp." See core dump
(sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as `TOI' (transfer of
information).