My techy side! :P

Hold on to all your thoughts that crawled into your mind when you read the title. Let me explain what exactly made me write it.
     My friend called up one evening and said,"Hey Jenifer, we need an article for the 'Kaleidoscope' magazine. Write whatever you want but make sure it is technical and anything related to FOSS". I was like, "How am I and something technical supposed to go together ever?? :O" Upon persuasion, I agreed to write. After trying to sound as serious as I could, this is all that I could come up with!!
( Please spare me if this doesn't sound techy. I tried hard, really hard! :P)

In one of my first ever chat conversations with a friend of mine, where I keyed down a funny incident that had happened with me in school, I got a 3-letter reply that said ‘LOL’. As we kept exchanging conversations, all of a sudden she came up with another 3-letter reply ‘BRB’. I replied to all these with a ‘???’ and I faced the necessary abashment for it from my friend and rightly so. But how am I, who was a rookie with all these words (which I was later introduced to as ‘acronyms’ and not ‘words’:P) supposed to know what she had meant??!! I kept thinking of those acronyms day and night until I happened to trip across an article in Metro Plus later that week on the slang language that people use and presto! Those two acronyms were explained in detail in that article. I took a note of all the acronyms given there so that they'll come in handy next time i chat with my friend. And it did! Guess what! The next time I spoke with her and she used 'lol', i replied with 'rofl'. :D
Had I been a FOSS user and had I been using linux and had I known the command that could have helped me figure out what those acronyms meant, I needn’t have put myself in that sorry state not knowing what to do when my friend had come up with her ‘lols’ and ‘brbs’!!
Wait! Is there a command that could have helped me? Yup, there is! This command is used to help you translate the acronyms that your friends use frequently in IRC that you have no clue about.
The command: wtf
(I am not joking, this works!)

Here's how it works:
'wtf' is a netbsd command. It is part of the bsdgames.
You can install it using the command:
sudo apt-get install bsdgames


And then go ahead with whatever acronyms you want to decode. For instance,

Cool, isn't it? When it doesn’t know any word, it honestly says that as well. For example,

But I am just hoping that you guys know what ‘sos’ expands to!! ;) Else, what do you do? Just google it! After all, Google is FOSSy as well right??!!
P.S: I am saying that Google is FOSSy because it runs its web servers on linux and has its new Android OS built on top of the linux kernel.
Get FOSSy - Stop getting embarrassed. Try sounding cool. ;)

P.S:After the final draft and getting an approval from my friend for considering it fit to be called a techy-article, I coined the title for the article 'WTF!!'
P.S.S: Kaleidoscope is a magazine published by the Computer Society of my college in relation to a tech-event called 'Carte Blache' to promote Free & OpenSource Software (FOSS)
P.S.S.S: I know there are many of you out there who might have not understood head or tail of what I have tried to say here. (I made my 'Mech' bro read it and he asked me, "What have you written about actually??") To all of you out here who are thinking the same, all I can say is that, hey! can't help it - it had to be a technical one! Your bad!