internet acronyms

What do BTW, FAQ, FYI, IMHO, RTFM, and other acronyms mean?

These are all abbreviations for specific phrases commonly used in informal written computer correspondence, online forums and boards, and online gaming. Following are some common acronyms and their meanings:

AAMOF	As A Matter of Fact
ABT	About
ACK	Acknowledge
AFAIC	As Far As I’m Concerned
AFAICS	As Far As I Can See
AFAICT	As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK	As Far As I Know
AFAIR	As Far As I Remember
AFK	Away From Keyboard
AFN	that’s All For Now
AISB	As I Said before
AISI	As I See it
AIUI	As I Understand it
AKA	Also Known As
AoE	Area Of Effect
AOTA	All Of The Above
AP	Attack Power / All Pick
APM	Actions per minute
ASAP	As Soon as Possible
ASL	Age, Sex, Location?
ASLP	Age, Sex, Location, Picture?
ATM	At The Moment
ATYS	Anything You Say
AWA	As Well As
AYR	As You Requested
AYOR	At Your Own Risk
B	Back
B&	Banned (BAnd)
B/C	Because
B4	Before
B4N	Bye For Now
BAC	Back At Computer
BAK	Back At Keyboard
BAT	Base Attack Time
BBIAM	Be Back In A Minute
BBL	Be Back Later
BBS	Be Back Soon
BCNU	Be Seeing You
BD	Big Deal / Back door
BF	Boyfriend
BFF	best friends forever
BFN	Bye For Now
BG	Battle-Ground
BLP	Bad Luck Partner
BM	Bottom miss
BOT	Back On Topic / Boots Of Travel
BR	Best Regards
BRT	Be Right There
BRB	Be Right Back
BRH	Be Right Here
BS	Backstab
BTDT	Been There, Done That
BTW	By The Way
C/C	Comment and Critique
CFV	Call For Votes
CG	Computer Graphics
CMIIW	Correct Me If I’m wrong
CnC	Comment and Critique
COZ	because
CU	See You
CUL	See You Later.
CUL8R	See You Later
CUOL	See You On Line
CWOT	Complete Waste Of Time
CWYL	Chat With You Later.
CYA	See Ya
CYL8R	see ya later
CYM	Check Your Mail
CYO	See You Online
CYT	See You Tomorrow
DEGT	Don’t Even Go There
DHYB	Don’t Hold Your Breath
DIAF	Die In a Fire
DIKU	Do I Know You?
DIS	Did I Say
DIY	Do It Yourself
DL	Download
DND	Do Not Disturb
DOA	Dead On Arrival
DOT	Damage over time
DPM	Damage Per Mana
DPS	Damage Per Second
DR	Damage Reduction / Divine Rapier
EM	E-Mail
EMA	E-mail Address
EOD	End Of Discussion
EOF	End Of File
EOL	End Of Lecture
EOM	End Of Message
EOS	End Of Show / Eye Of Skadi
EOT	End Of Thread
EZ	Easy
F2F	Face To Face
FA	First Aid
FAAK	Falling Asleep At Keyboard
FAQ	Frequently Asked Question
FC	Fingers Crossed
FCOL	For Crying Out Loud
FFS	For F**** Sake
FISH	First In Still Here
FOC	Free Of Charge
FOCL	Falling Off Chair Laughing
FTASB	Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTFY	Fixed That For You
FTL	Faster Than Light / For The Loss
FTW	For the win / F*** the world
FTS	F*** This S***
FU	F*** You
FUD	Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FWIW	For What It’s Worth
FYA	For Your Amusement
FYE	For Your Entertainment
FYI	For Your Information
G2G	Gotta go / Got to go
GA	Go Ahead
GAFIA	Get Away From It All
GAL	Get A Life
GDI	God Damn It
GF	Girlfriend
GFN	Gone For Now
GG	Good Game
GGN	Gotta Go Now
GGOH	Gotta Get Outta Here
GIGO	Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST	Gee, I Wish I’d Said That.
GJ	Good Job
GL	Good Luck / God Learner
GLHF	Good luck, have fun
GLP	Good luck partner
GM	Good Move / Game Master
GMTA	Great Minds Think Alike
GOSU	Got Owned and needs to Shut Up / GOD of Starcraft Universe / Expert or PRO
GR	Gotta Run
GR8	Great
GTFO	Get The F*** Out
GTG	Got To Go
GTR	Got To Run
GTRM	Going To Read Mail
GUI	Graphical User Interface
GW	Good work
H/O	Hold On
HAGD	Have A Good Day
HAGO	Have A Good One
HAND	Have A Nice Day
HB	Hurry Back
HCIT	How Cool Is That?
HF	Have Fun
HH	Ha-Ha
HH	Holding Hands
HHOJ	Ha Ha, Only Joking
HHOK	Ha Ha, Only Kidding
HHVF	Ha-ha, Very Funny
HIWTH	Hate It When That Happens
HoT	Heal over time / Heart Of Tarrasque
HOAS	Hold On A Second
HPM	Healing Per Mana
HPS	Healing Per Second
HTH	Hope That Helps
IAC	In Any Case
IAE	In Any Event
IANAL	I Am Not A Lawyer
IAS	Increase Attack Speed
IB	I’m Back
IC	I See
ICQ	I Seek You.
IDC	I Dont Care
IDGADv	I Don’t Give A Damn.
IDGI	I Don’t Get It
IDK	I Don’t Know
IDN	I Don’t kNow
IDTS	I Don’t Think So
IGSR	I’m Gonna Solo Roshan
IGTG	I got to go
IHNC	I have no clue
IIRC	If I Remember/Recall Correctly
IK	I Know
IKWUM	I Know What You Mean
ILU	I Love You
ILY	I Love You
IM	Instant Message
IMAO	In My Arrogant Opinion
IMBA	Imbalanced
IMBO	in My Biased Opinion
IMCO	In My Considered Opinion
IME	In My Experience
IMHO	In My Humble/Honest Opinion
IMNSHO	In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO	In My Opinion
INPO	In No Particular Order
INRS	It’s Not Rocket Science
IOH	I’m Outta Here
IOW	In Other Words
IRDK	i really dont know
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
IRL	In Real Life
ISTM	It Seems To Me
ISTR	I Seem To Recall
ITA	I Totally Agree
IYO	In Your Opinion
J	Joking
JAM	Just A Minute.
JAS	Just A Second
JIC	Just In Case
JK	Just Kidding
JMO	Just My Opinion
JW	Just Wondering
JWG	Just a Wild Guess
K	OK
KIR	Keepin’ It Real
KISS	Keep It Simple, Stupid
KIT	Keep In Touch
KS	Kill Steal
KWIM	Know What I Mean?
L	Laugh
L2P	Learn To Play
LF	Looking For
LFG	Looking For Group
LFM	Looking For More
L8R	Later
LMAO	Laughing My @** Off
LMK	Let Me Know
LOL	Laughing Out Loud
LOLLOL	Little Old Lady Laughing Out loud
LOM	Low on mana
LTNS	Long Time No See
M8	Mate
ME2	Me Too
MIA	Moron in action! / Missing In Action
MM	Middle miss / Mirror Match
MMA	Meet Me At…
MMAMP	Meet Me At My Place
MMORPG	Massive, multiplayer, online role-playing game, such as World of Warcraft
MOTAS	Member of the appropriate sex
MOTOS	Member of the opposite sex
MOTSS	Member of the same sex
MT	Main tank
MYOB	Mind Your Own Business
N/C	Not Cool
NAA	not at all
NBD	No Big Deal
NE1	Anyone
NFW	No F****** Way
NG	Newsgroup
NGH	not gonna happen
NM	Nevermind
NO1	No-one
n00b	newbie, a newcomer not yet familiar with the rules
NP	No Problem
NRN	No Reply Necessary
NT	No Thanks
NTL	Never The Less
NVM	Nevermind / Nothing Very Much
NW	No Way / No worries / Nice work
OAO	Over And Out
OBTW	Oh, By The Way.
OFC	Of Course
OIC	Oh, I See
OJ	Only Joking
OK	Only Kidding
OKW/E	ok what-ever
OMG	Oh my God
OMW	On my way
OP	Original Post / Original Poster / Over Powered
OOTB	Out Of The Box
OOM	Out Of Mana
ORLY	O Really
OT	Off Topic
OTE	Over The Edge
OTOH	On The Other Hand
OTT	Over The Top
OTW	On The Way
Pat	Patrol
PLZ	Please
POV	Point Of View
PP	Pull plug
PPL	People
PRO	Professional
PWN	Usage of the term “own”, as in “I PWNed you!”
QFE	Quoted For Excellence
QFT	Quoted For Truth
QQ	Cry more, noob (representation of eyes crying, often found in MMORPGs)
RFC	Request For Comment
RL	Real Life
ROFL	Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLMAO	Rolling On Floor, Laughing My A** Off
ROTF	Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL	Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROSH	Roshan
RPG	Role Playing Game
RSN	Real Soon Now
RTFAQ	Read The FAQ
RTFM	Read The Fine Manual
RU	Are You?
RUOK	Are You OK?
RW	Real World
S/B	Should Be
SFSG	So Far So Good
SH	Same Here
SIF	As If / Secret Internet Fatty
SITD	Still In The Dark
SOS	Same Old Stuff
SPST	Same Place, Same Time
STFU	Shut The F*** Up
STR8	Straight
STW	Search The Web
SY	Sincerely Yours
SYL	See You Later
SYS	See Ya Soon
TAFN	That’s All For Now
TBC	To Be Continued
TBH	To Be Honest
TBFU	Too Bad For You
TC	Take Care
TGIF	Thank God It’s Friday
THX	Thanks
TIA	Thanks In Advance
TLA	Three Letter Acronym
TLDR	Too Long, Didn’t Read
TM	Text Message / Top Miss
TMA	Take My Advice
TMI	Too Much Information
TNT	Till Next Time
TNX	Thanks
TPS	Totally pointless stuff
TTFN	Ta-Ta For Now
TTYL	Talk To You Later
TVM	Thanks Very Much
TWIMC	To Whom It May Concern
TY	Thank You
TYP	Thank you partner
TYT	Take Your Time
TYVM	Thank You Very Much
U2	You Too
W/	With
W/E	Whatever
W/O	Without
w00t	An expression of joy
W2F	Way Too Funny
W8	Wait
W8AM	Wait A Minute
WB	Welcome Back
WC	WelCome / Wrong Channel
WD	Well done
WDMB	Will Do My Best
WDP	Well Done Partner
WFM	Works For Me / Wait for me
WFN	Wrong Forum, noob
WOW	World Of Warcraft
WPP	Well Played Partner
wWPO	Well Played Opponents
WTB	Want To Buy
WT?	What The …? or Who the …?
WTF	What The F***?
WTG	Way To Go
WTH	What The Hell
WUBU2	What you been up to
WW	Wind walk
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get
Y	Why?
YMMH	You Might Mean Here
YMMV	Your Mileage May Vary
YR	Yea, Right.
YRG	You Are Good!
YVW	You’re Very Welcome
YW	You’re Welcome
YWSYLS	You Win Some, You Lose Some
ZZZ	Sleepy, bored or tired
2L8	Too late
2U2	To You Too
4EVER	forever
4GM	Forgive me
4RL?	For Real

For the full internet acryonym, go to Internet Acronyms Dictionary

Command Related to Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control / DBConsole

Create Database Console
emca -config dbcontrol db -repos create

Drop Database Console
emca -deconfig dbcontrol db -repos drop

Recreate Database Console
emca -config dbcontrol db -repos recreate

Undo Retention

To set the minimum undo retention period:

• Set UNDO_RETENTION in the initialization parameter file.
  UNDO_RETENTION = 1800
• Using the ALTER SYSTEM statement to change UNDO_RETENTION immediately.
  ALTER SYSTEM SET UNDO_RETENTION = 1800;

Be careful, once you change UNDO_RETENTION parameter, the effect will be immediately and it effected undo tablespace, so make sure your disk have enough space disk. If disk doesn’t enough, your client / application connection to database server will be unstable.