Experienced folders use a lot of abbreviations. Here are a few:

fah = Folding at Home
wu = workunit
ppd = points per day

Ask about others and I will update this thread

Help! What does all this chat jargon mean?

Chat room users often type in abbreviations, slang and emoticons to save time and express themselves better.

It's critical to know what they mean or you could end up getting very confused.

For example, if you didn't know 'BRB' meant 'be right back' you might think everyone had stopped talking to you mid-chat!

Some of the most common ones used on the BBCi chat rooms include:

Abbreviation - (What it means)

A/S/L (age?/sex?/location?)
B4 (before)
BRB (be right back)
CYA L8R (see you later)
IMO (in my opinion)
IMHO (in my humble opinion)
LOL (laughing out loud)
ROTFL (rolling on the floor laughing)
tFCf (the Folding Community forum)
TY (thank you)
U (You)
WB (welcome back)

HTH (Hope this helps)
-casw1000

TR: Tandem_Riders

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THREAD RESURRECTION

I wanted to refresh this, I might well add more later. However whilst I was researching some SR-2 overclocking information I came across something which I didn't know. Here goes.

NAT (Network Address Translation) is the translation of an Internet Protocol address (IP address) used within one network to a different IP address known within another network. One network is designated the inside network and the other is the outside. Typically, a company maps its local inside network addresses to one or more global outside IP addresses and unmaps the global IP addresses on incoming packets back into local IP addresses. This helps ensure security since each outgoing or incoming request must go through a translation process that also offers the opportunity to qualify or authenticate the request or match it to a previous request. NAT also conserves on the number of global IP addresses that a company needs and it lets the company use a single IP address in its communication with the world.

A simple way to understand this is your home broadband router (NOT MODEM) will most likely have a few RJ45 network or Wireless connections. So you can have a few wireless and / or wired connections into your router and these are hidden behind your external connection as provided by your internet company.

Hope this helps and we can offer more information should you desire. Please just ask.