Dau

3 definitions found

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DAU
       Duemmster Anzunehmender User (telecommunication-slang, Usenet, IRC)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:



  DAU /dow/ n. [German FidoNet] German acronym for Du"mmster
     Anzunehmender User (stupidest imaginable user). From the
     engineering-slang GAU for Gro"sster Anzunehmender Unfall, worst
     assumable accident, esp. of a LNG tank farm plant or something with
     similarly disastrous consequences. In popular German, GAU is used only
     to refer to worst-case nuclear accidents such as a core meltdown. See
     {cretin}, {fool}, {loser} and {weasel}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  DAU
       
          /dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User.  A German
          acronym for stupidest imaginable user.  From the
          engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall
          (worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm
          plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences.  In
          popular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case
          nuclear accidents such as a core meltdown.
       
          See {cretin}, {loser} and {weasel}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-12-06)