baud

bits per second; rate of information transfer, hence 'baud-rate'; see Information theory; also kilo-baud (kb)- thousands of baud, mega-baud (Mb) - millions of baud.

A 56 kb modem can send data at 56,000 bits per second down the wire.

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BiCapitalization

Some people would say camel case, but actually camels only have humps in the middle likeThis. People are now calling bi-capitalisation PascalCase, cos in the old days we used to use it for names of things in the computer language called Pascal.

The integer variable NumberOfDogs should be set to zero here.

shebang

lot

The whole shebang = The whole lot

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Kilo

If we're not taling computers, then it's got a small k and means a thousand of whatever follows, eg 1 km = 1000 m, 1 kg = 1000 g etc.

If we are talking about computers or other binary systems, then it refers to 1024 times, and it gets a capital K, e.g 1 Kb = 1024 b, 4KB = 4096 B etc.

Honest, confusing but true.

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How's your father

Slap 'n' tickle; Bit of the other; casual sexual relations; Origin in World War II, English soldiers in France expected that an old French lady with grey hair, whom their father had bonked during the First World War might come up to them and ask this.

"Took her round the bike shed for a bit of how's-your-father";

"I don't want you two getting up to any how's-your-father while we're out!"

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bit

Binary digIT - the least amount of information there is, i.e. yes or no, true or false, on or off. Eight bits make a byte

What is the bit-rate of that modem? How many bits per second does it handle?

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malarky

Bull shit, see Malarkey

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