Cheat sheet for the un-geek

You may have seen these code snippets on t-shirts and thought wtf? For those un-1337, like my Mom, I reprint them here w/ translations.

There's no place like 127.0.0.1
All network connections are assigned a numerical address. 127.0.0.1 is the local address of your computer for internal communication. In other words, this reads "There's no place like home."

10 print Home
20 print Sweet
30 goto 10
In BASIC (a programming language), code is written in numbered lines and performed in sequence. This says to print "Home", then "Sweet", then go back and print "Home". "Home Sweet Home".

There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Binary code answers questions in yes (1) or no (0). You probably read that as "10" if you're not geek.

01111001 01101111 01110101 01100001 01110010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01101101 01100010
Obviously binary code, but what's it say? Well, it says "You are dumb".

$> cd /pub
$> more beer
UNIX for "Go to the pub, get more beer".

SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
Information is retrieved from databases via Structured Query Language (SQL) statements like this one that literally reads "Select all users where clue is greater than zero". In other words, "Select all the users that have a clue".

$> man woman
$> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Pretty much self explanatory. UNIX combines man and woman. Sad things happen.

Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
In HTML, colors are expressed in hex codes like these.

RTFM
This is an acronym that most un-geeks don't understand. If they did, they wouldn't have to hire geeks so often. It stands for "Read the fucking manual".

PEBKAC
Variation on RTFM. You may have heard tech support tell you that it is a PEBKAC problem. Sadly, it stands for "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair". Yes, that means you.

Got Root?
In Linux, root privileges gives you complete power over the system. "Got root?" means "Have you hacked it?"

/(bb[^b]{2})/
Regular expressions are used in programming to find strings of characters that match a certain pattern. For example, the expression "g*gol" matches ggol, gogol, googol, gooogol, etc. This expression reads "To be or not to be", one of Shakespeare's famous lines.

01111001 01101111 01110101 01100001 01110010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01101101 01100010
Still means "you are dumb". Just checking if you're paying attention : )

i > u
The ultimate inequation. "I am greater than you."

42
The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Duh.

And for my 01001101 01001111 01001101 who can't read any of this, that means "MOM".