Bot=A program on IRC normally used to guard a channel and serve its users.
chanop=Channel operator. Takes care of the daily administration of a particular channel and is therefore granted some extra priviledges, like kicking people off the channel.
ban=Channel ban. Prevents a user from entering a channel.
kick=Remove a user from a channel by force.
Mode=There are several classes of mode changes. '+' sets a mode and '-' removes it. Most important are +b (channel ban) and +o (chanop). Refer to "/help mode".
Topic=The topic never reflects the discussions anyway.
Away=If a person temporary leaves the terminal or for some other reason isn't monitoring the channel he can set himself "/away <reason>". The reason can be read by doing a "/whois <nick>". If away the person is G(one), otherwise H(ere).
Ping=A ping reply is used to measure lag (delay) between two users. The syntax is "/ping <nick>" or "/ping <channel>".
CTCP=Client to Client Protocol. This is used to automate some queries, like getting client-information, version, and local time. If your client doesn't support this feature remove the author from your evening prayers :)
DCC=Direct Client to Client communication. Either used for sending files or chatting with another without going through the servers. Sending and receiving files are done by "/dcc send <nick> <file>" and "/dcc get <nick>".
chat=Dcc chat establishes a direct connection between to users. Use "/dcc chat <nick>" to make the connection; "/msg =<nick> <whatever>" to communicate (remember the '='); and "/dcc close chat <nick>" to close the connection.
Lag=Delay between users or between a user and a server. Lag can be measured by /ping <nick>.
Flood=Several lines of text dumped onto a channel or a user. In general floods degrades network performance. Don't flood!
netsplit=Happens when two servers loose connection to each other. A netsplit is detected when one or more users signoff with the name of two servers in their signoff message -- the split has happend between the two servers in the signoff msg.
netjoin=The opposite of a netsplit. Happens when two servers merge again.
nickcollision=Nickname collision happens during a netjoin when two persons choose the same nick. As a nick must be unique the servers kills both persons in the hope that only one will return.
desynch=A channel is desynched if two servers disagree on the channel modes and on who are chanops. This typically happens when two chanops on different servers deop each other at the same time.
client=The program used by users to communicate with IRC.
server=The program/machine which provides IRC.
ftp=File Transfer Protocol. Used to download files from remote sites.
telnet=Communication with another Internet host using the TELNET (RFC 854) protocol.
UNIX="An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7." -JF
Linux=A free UNIX implementation for a wide range of computers.
AIX=IBM Inc. implementation of UNIX.
BSD=Berkeley Software Distribution. A UNIX version. SunOS and ULTRIX are based on BSD.
SunOS=Sun Microsystems Inc. implementation of UNIX
Solaris=A newer and better version of SunOS.
TCP/IP,TCP,IP=Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work.
Celsius=A temperature scale named after the swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-44). 0 Celsius is at the freezing point of water, and 100 Celsius is at the boiling point of water. [also 'degree']
Fahrenheit=A temperature scale named after the german physics Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736). Some weird scale which the Americans insists on using ;) [also 'degree']
Kelvin=The SI unit for temperature. Defined as "the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water." 0 Kelvin is absolute zero. Named after the british scientist William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907). [also 'degree']
meter=The SI unit for length. Defined as "1.650.763,73 wavelengths of the redorange ligth emitted by the krypton-86 isotope", or "the distance traveled by light in vacuum over a period of 1/299.792.458th of a second".
second=SI unit for time. Defined as "the time needed for 9.192.631.770 vibrations of cesium atoms"
CET=Central European Time. The timezone which Denmark lies in. CET = GMT + 1 hour.
GMT=Greenwich Mean Time. The reference point for the timezones in the world. Originates from the Greenwich Observatory in England. There are 24 timezones all around the world.
EST=Eastern Standard Time. EST = GMT - 5 hours.
#Pacific = GMT - 8
#jargonfile,JF="a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor." See http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html
heisenbug="Heisenbug: A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it." - JF
mandelbug="Mandelbug: A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic." - JF
#schroedinbug="Schroedinbug: A design or implementation bug in a program which doesn't manifest until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked," ...(2)
#schroedingbug2="at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed. Though this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harbored latent schroedinbugs for years." - JF
IBM=Institute of Black Magic. Inferior But Marketable. It's Been Malfunctioning. Incontinent Bowel Movement.
life=42
tobe="To be is to do" - Kant. "To do is to be" - Sartre. "To be doo, to be doo" - Sinatra.
Marillion=Best band ever (objective opinion :)
lemming=A person who thoughtlessly follows the mainstream, unaware of (often much better) alternatives.
Language=Both english and danish is being spoken here. Norwegian and swedish are acceptable too.
Letters=Often the three extra danish letters are being used (use "/set translation latin_1" to view them, and "/set eight_bit_characters on" to write them.)
