diane aka the bitch's definitions

Keyboard Commander

Person behind the keyboard.

I am the great keyboard commander and my words will haXor your computer n00b.

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005

FloriDUH

SE U.S. state. The capital is Tallahassee. Cubans escape to there and old folks retire there.

Remember FloriDUHs voting fiasco? What a bunch of dumbasses.

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005

Scrunchy face

The process of scrunching all the muscles in your face.

Micah looks so cute with his angry scrunchy face.

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005

IANAMD

I Am Not A Medical Doctor.

IANAMD though for an ear ache try a few drops of sweet oil.

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005

120 reset

To unplug a computer in order to reset or unjam it. The 120 comes from the fact that 120 volts is the wall socket voltage in the United States and CanaDUH.

*** Only do this as a last ditch effort.

My computer is fucked so I have to 120 reset.

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005

ABEND

Absent By Enforced Net Deprivation. Used to explain to fellow netizens (especially on USENET) that one will be losing (or has not had) Internet access for some time for reasons outside one's control.

Because the courts say my h4x0ring of NASA jacked them up ...I will be ABEND for a while.

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005

BDFL

Benevolent Dictator for Life.

The informal, slightly tongue-in-cheek title given to a respected individual in the open source development community who sets general directions and makes final calls in certain situations within the scope of a given project. The BDFL is a tacit acknowledgement that communal, consensus-based decision making within the open source community occasionally runs up against obstacles, in which case a single authoritative voice can be useful. That BDFLs survive and flourish in these otherwise anarchistic contexts is attributed to their personal charisma and their reluctance to wield their power except in rare moments.

Of course, a project coordinator cannot really be anything like a dictator in the sense that he or she ultimately cannot enforce a decision, since a project fork is always possible.

Not all, or even most, open source projects have a BDFL.

Note the difference from the historical meaning of benevolent dictator, which is used in a political context.

List of Benevolent Dictators for Life

Blender
Ton Roosendaal

Drupal content management framework
Dries Buytaert

Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds, explicitly recognising the "benevolent dictator" epithet, e.g. in the interview published August 18, 2004 in Business Week

OpenBSD operating system
Theo de Raadt

Perl programming language
Larry Wall

PHP programming language
Rasmus Lerdorf

Python programming language
Guido van Rossum, known for his conservatism in changing Python. Very little changes between Python versions, and what does change tends to be considered and discussed for months or years in advance.

ReiserFS
Hans Reiser

Samba software
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell

TTDPatch
Josef Drexler

Wikipedia
Jimbo Wales, who however is not convinced he can be qualified as a "benevolent dictator" since wikis require less centralized management than typical software projects.

WINE, the Open source implementation of the Windows API
Alexandre Julliard

Slackware, the most Unix-like Linux distribution, known for stability and speed.
Pat Volkerding

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Our BDFL is so awesome. He is so relaxed and even asks for our input. He is the r0x0r!

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005