weeble /weeb'l/ interj.
[Cambridge] Used to denote frustration, usually at amazing
stupidity. "I stuck the disk in upside down."
"Weeble...." Compare gurfle.
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weeds n.
1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no
possible relevance or practical application. Comes from `off in
the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode
is serious weeds...." 2. At CDC/ETA before its
demise, the phrase `go off in the weeds' was equivalent to IBM's
branch to Fishkill
and mainstream hackerdom's jump off into
never-never land.
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weenie n.
1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less
amusing version of B1FF that infests
many BBS systems. The typical weenie is
a teenage boy with poor social skills travelling under a
grandiose handle derived from
fantasy or heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among sysops, `the weenie
problem' refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden
flamage weenies tend to spew all
over a newly-discovered BBS. Compare spod, computer
geek, terminal
junkie, warez d00dz.
2. [Among hackers] When used with a qualifier (for example, as in
Unix weenie, VMS weenie, IBM
weenie) this can be either an insult or a term of praise,
depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or not it is
applied by a person who considers him or herself to be the same
sort of weenie. Implies that the weenie has put a major
investment of time, effort, and concentration into the area
indicated; whether this is good or bad depends on the hearer's
judgment of how the speaker feels about that area. See also bigot. 3. The semicolon character,
; (ASCII 0111011).
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Weenix /wee'niks/ n.
1. [ITS] A derogatory term for Unix, derived from Unix weenie. According to one noted
ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenies:
typified by poor modularity, poor reliability, hard file
deletion, no file version numbers, case sensitivity everywhere,
and users who believe that these are all advantages". (Some ITS
fans behave as though they believe Unix stole a future that
rightfully belonged to them. See ITS,
sense 2.) 2. [Brown University] A Unix-like OS developed for
tutorial purposes at Brown University. See http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs167/weenix.html.
Named independently of the ITS usage.