Tuesday 28 April 2009

Gullablised

Meaning: To believe multiple comments of a gullible nature.

Author: MB

Shitter

Meaning: Twitter for the toilet
Author: GD

Twatter

Meaning: Team Twitter for issues
Author: Team P under GC

Bivi-wacking

Meaning: T.B.D but sounded good at the time!
Author: GC

Thursday 16 April 2009

"Those who can; Code and those who can't; Manage"

Meaning: PMs (no offence RD !).
Author: FH

Beer Storming

Meaning: Generating genuinely useful ideas the old fashioned way.
Author: GC

Blitter Hokey Cokey

Meaning: What a blitter does best!
Author: GC

Thursday 9 April 2009

Abdul Reference Platform

Meaning: A STB hardware reference platform based on the Abdul chipset (still in Beta)

Featured highlights:
  • Class-leading Alcohol processing capabilities.
  • Ultra smooth operation under heavy (female) load.
  • SIMD extensions (Streaming Independent Multiple Dates) for improved pulling performance.
  • Extra large volatile memory capacity (see ADUL1 below).
  • Integrated LNTN-MMU (Late Night Telephone Number Memory Management Unit).
  • Fabbed using the latest 20:20 CMOS (Cricket MemOry Stats) process lithography.
Known bugs:
  1. Ref# ADUL1
  • Description: Car key lookup table infinit-loop.
  • Status:       Unable to reproduce but known blocker.
  • Fix:            Move to non-volatile memory.
Author: GC, Abdul


"But I don't have a putting green in my living room...any more"

Meaning: My wife doesn't get the whole Golf 'thing'.
Author: IB


Wednesday 8 April 2009

Paralysing Unit Tests

Meaning: To make unit tests lock up on multiple machines at once.
Author: KC