Technology Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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baked in adj. VMware created the market for x86 virtualization in 2001, but industry experts predict 2006 is the year when the technology will finally take off. For one thing, Intel and AMD are starting to roll out chips with virtualization capabilities baked in. [English Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

bandwidth rape n. Turner also saw his computer server suddenly flooded with Internet data traffic at about 100 times the normal rate—a major concern, because he is billed for all data that flows into and out of the server. In what’s known as “bandwidth rape,” tens of thousands of copies of his Web site and files were being downloaded to the same computers in an apparent bid to saddle him with overwhelming bandwidth fees and force him to shut down, Turner claims. [English Online Technology Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 2, 2007)

Bangalored adj. An online anti-outsourcing website is marketing a T-shirt with the legend “Don’t Get Bangalored,” a term suggesting losing one’s job to outsourcing. [English India United States Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 23, 2004)

Bangalored adj. CPQ UK’s order management stuff (which I *think* covers Europe) *was* in the process of being Bangalored. [English Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

Bangalored adj. I am a software developer who is about to be “Bangalored.” [English Business Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

banyan model n. He proposes that work groups whose members are widely dispersed but need to have high levels of coordination—say, a computer security team protecting a global bank—do not have to assemble everyone in one room to reap the same benefit. Instead, he suggests a “banyan model,” after the Asian tree that puts down roots from its branches. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2007)

Barbie n. Now, the Linux community has long enjoyed the insights of technically minded geeks, many of whom count the command line among their best friends. We would be remiss not to alert our readers, however, to a small—but rapidly growing—minority in the community known to some as “Linux Barbies.” Carla Schroder of Linux Today explains: “One of the strangest mind-benders these days is hearing Linux users going all Barbie and vowing, ‘I will never touch the command line! You’ll pry my GUI from my cold dead hands!’’ [English Technology Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 27, 2009)

barcode n. Several years ago researchers created probes consisting of nanoscale bars of metal actually etched with conventional bar codes. Since then, most molecular tagging devices have been referred to as “barcodes,” even though there are no bars involved. [English Science Technology] [full cite] (Jun. 14, 2005)

bare metal n. Other products, such as Xen and VMware’s ESX Server, run in a hypervisor that sits beneath the guest operating systems and the hardware. Because the software layer sits on the “bare metal,” these are sometimes referred to as hardware VMs. Direct contact with the system hardware allows the VMs to work more efficiently. [English Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 25, 2005)

beachfront property n. It is referred to as the last beachfront property in the wireless world—a prized swath of spectrum that is about to be sold at federal auction. And it has touched off an intense lobbying effort pitting cellular companies against a variety of new players interested in the potential of a next-generation mobile Internet. [English Technology Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 17, 2007)

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