Linux Definitions

beta test, v:
        To voluntarily entrust one's data, one's livelihood and one's
        sanity to hardware or software intended to destroy all three.
        In earlier days, virgins were often selected to beta test volcanos.

Bierman's Laws of Contracts:
        (1) In any given document, you can't cover all the "what if's".
        (2) Lawyers stay in business resolving all the unresolved "what if's".
        (3) Every resolved "what if" creates two unresolved "what if's".

Bilbo's First Law:
        You cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels.

Binary, adj.:
        Possessing the ability to have friends of both sexes.

Bing's Rule:
        Don't try to stem the tide -- move the beach.

Bipolar, adj.:
        Refers to someone who has homes in Nome, Alaska, and Buffalo, New York.

birth, n:
        The first and direst of all disasters.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

bit, n:
        A unit of measure applied to color.  Twenty-four-bit color
        refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25
        cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.

Bizoos, n.:
        The millions of tiny individual bumps that make up a basketball.
                -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

blithwapping:
        Using anything BUT a hammer to hammer a nail into the
        wall, such as shoes, lamp bases, doorstops, etc.
                -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends