BUoD/ID10T was: Re: Solaris/x86 rant

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 12:31:14 EDT 2007


On 6/27/07, Shawn K. O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:
> > > > > > BUoD ...
> > > > >   "PICNIC" (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer).
> > > >  "PEBCAK" (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard).
> > and NBK = Nut Behind Keyboard
> My favorite is still to tell people that they have a DEU problem.
> (Defective End User)

  There's also (from the Jargon File) UBD and PBD -- User Brain Damage
and Programmer Brain Damage.  When I was working a help desk at a
software developer, I used these in case notes to indicate user error
vs legit bugs in the software....

-- Ben


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