WhatIs

/ad'vent/

n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the PDP-10 by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods. Now better known as Adventure, but the TOPS-10 operating system permitted only 6-letter filenames. 

See also vadding.

/ad-min'/

n. Short for administrator; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include SysAdmin and site admin (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or newsadmin (focusing specifically on news).

Compare postmaster, sysop, system mangler.

/aj'r/

[UCLA]

vt. To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with a slight amount of mental effort.

E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project".

Compare dumbass attack.

/ad-hok'*r-ee/

[Purdue]

n. 

/ak/

1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream Yo!). An appropriate response to ping or ENQ.

2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in "Ack pffft!" Semi-humorous. Generally this sense is not spelled in caps ACK and is distinguished by a following exclamation point.

/əˈkyo͞om(y)əˌlādər/

n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for register is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old. The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in A derive from historical use of the term accumulator (and not, actually, from arithmetic).

/ah'bend/, /*-bend'/

[ABnormal END]

/*-breev'/, /*-brev'/

n. Common abbreviation for 'abbreviation'.

/120 rē-ˈset/

To power off and then power on a device in order to fix a problem.