Shelf - Today we offer you a new section.

 Today we offer you a new section
 (new because the name was invented
 themselves and did not start making a remake of "Spectro-
 background"). In the "Shelf" section we introduce you to
 mum with that considerable supply of reference words
 Variety of literature that has accumulated
 in our archives. And we'll start with this:

 A short dictionary of computer slang.

 Bug, glitch, glitch-error (failure) in the program.
 Bat file with .bat extension
 Pancakes - CDs, hard drives,
 floppy disks.
 Boot - overload the computer (from English.
 boot sector names boot(.
 Butovka, butyavka-boot, system
 floppy disk
 Virus, virium, beast, living creature, beetle-com-
 pewter virus.
 Hangman is an inexperienced systems engineer.



 Exit with three fingers - reboot
 using the key combination Ctrl-Alt-Del.
 Gama, game, Biryulya-game (English game(.
 A flexible program (system) is one that
 often bends.
 Glitch, glitch-fail, work with
 mistakes.
 Glucodrome - faulty hardware
 tion.
 A rotten computer is a bad computer.
 Gog, eggog-error (read
 "in Russian" English.eggog(.
 It crashed, flew off, something broke, or
 the program caused the system to crash.
 Downgrade-SVGA->VGA->CGA->EGA->MDA->
 ->boom...(change video modes from
 better for worse - a kind of metaphor
 complete degradation).
 Deuce-IBM RS AT 286Firewood machine is a parody of a normal com-
 pewter("Search", etc.).
 Doomer is a man who does not think of existence


 without the DOOM game.
 Setup-install system configuration
 themes(program SETUP(.
 Zip file compressed with the Zip archiver.
 A compressed file compressed with the Zoo archiver.
 Disabled person - impossible, impossible, impossible
 clear.
 Disabled user - stupid user
 invalid user(.
 Stone-crystal chips in ceramics
 ical building.
 Cardboard board (from the English card(.
 Click-press the mouse button (from English.
 click(.
 Compatible-compatible.
 Composter-computer or puncher-
 depending on the context.
 The end user is the end user.
 Copying-copying (was in its
 time on the PC "Agat" is a program that
 asked: “Should we start copying?”).
 Oblique flops - a block of two floppy disco-


 5.25 and 3.5 inches.
 Kotsannye microcircuits after
 desoldering using wire cutters and a screwdriver.
 Krakazyabla, masiazabla, dog, ear-
 -symbol ?.
 Rat-manipulator of the Soviet mouse type
 production (about the size of
 iron).
 Rat ring - a mat for a "rat".
 Left - from the outside, alien, without guarantee.
 Line-set of chips in quantity
 8 or 9 pieces.
 Small circuits, microchips, cockroaches, small circuits -
 - microcircuits.
 Interface, interface-interface (rough.
 translated English interface(.
 Muzzle-facial part of the computer, disco-
 water, etc.Mышедром,мышкодром-коврик для мыши.
 Набить,настукать,настучать текст-
 -набрать текстовый файл.
 Напильник-чистящий диск.



















 Оброс-заразился вирусом(о файле).
 Oтштамповать текст-отпечатать текст на
 принтере.
 Oтчепатать,начепатать-отпечатать на
 "чепатаре"(см.ниже).
 Палка-манипулятор "джойстик".
 Папа-"врубная" часть разьема(соответ-
 ственно,MAMA-ответная).
 Пентюх,пень-компьютер на основе проЦес-
 сора Pentium.
 Пижамкер-программа верстки PageMaker.
 Пилить диски-о попытке чтения информа-
 Ции с плохих дисков.
 Питутель-кабель/шина питания.
 Погамер-человек,способный играть в ком-computer games from morning to night (from English.
 game).
 Under the Windows, from under the vents, under the windows -
 kami-about the program running under
 Windows.
 Boletus program for OS/2
 Flew - figurative expression, characterization -


 breaking something.
 Polisher-plotter (plotter).
 Knife-description of mikruhi's legs
 (chip contacts).
 Slugger is a powerful device in a nearby
 organization that creates interference in electrical
 chesk network.
 Send to three buttons - reboot from
 using the key combination Ctrl-
 Alt-Del.
 Fix bugs - fix errors.
 Screw it, make a copy on a photocopier (from
 "Russian-language" reading of Latin X
 in the word Xerox(.
 Saw-cut archived
 file into pieces.
 Specialist plumber from Sun Micro
 Systems Computer Corporation.
 Plumbing-hardware)"iron")firms
 Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation.
 Sisembler - writing a program in a language
 With inserts in assembler.



















 Server-network server.
 Inkjet printer.
 Three-inch, three-ruler floppy disk
 3.5 inches.
 Truble's a problem.
 Tubepascal, trutopascal-language Turbo
 Pascal.
 Mouse pad.
 Turk a file - delete a file.
 Kill, smash, erase something.
 Unicums, unixoid users of the system
 Unix.
 Moon phase (blame) - popular explanation -
 understanding the reasons why the machine started working
 or a program that, after a long time
 pauses suddenly came to life and began to make
 what is required of her (or something
 obscene).
 High densitina floppy disk with high
 recording density (from the English high density-
 high density).
 Hacker-computer maniac.


 Xepox,xepokc-copying equipment of the company
 Xerox.
 Teapot is a man who understands almost nothing -
 knowledgeable in computer technology.
 Chepatar printer.
 Lanyards are unkempt telephone wires.
 Lace, rope - local computer
 network.
 Rustle - look for something on the disks.