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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>chainik</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="chain.html" title="chain"/><link rel="next" href="channel.html" title="channel"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">chainik</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="chain.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="channel.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="chainik"/><dt xmlns="" id="chainik"><b>chainik</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/chi:´nik/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Russian, literally “<span class="quote">teapot</span>”] Almost synonymous with
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<a href="../M/muggle.html"><i class="glossterm">muggle</i></a>. Implies both ignorance and a certain amount
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of willingness to learn, but does not necessarily imply as little
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experience or short exposure time as <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a> and is
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not as derogatory as <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>. Both a novice user and
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someone using a system for a long time without any understanding of the
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internals can be referred to as chainiks. Very widespread term in Russian
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hackish, often used in an English context by Russian-speaking hackers
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esp. in Israel (e.g. “<span class="quote">Our new colleague is a complete
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chainik</span>”). FidoNet discussion groups often had a
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“<span class="quote">chainik</span>” subsection for newbies and, well, old chainiks (eg.
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su.asm.chainik, ru.linux.chainik, ru.html.chainik). Public projects often
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have a chainik mailing list to keep the chainiks off the developers' and
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experienced users' discussions. Today, the word is slowly slipping into
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mainstream Russian due to the Russian translation of the popular
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yellow-black covered “<span class="quote">foobar for dummies</span>” series, which
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(correctly) uses “<span class="quote">chainik</span>” for “<span class="quote">dummy</span>”, but its
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frequent (though not excessive) use is still characteristic
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hacker-speak.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="chain.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="channel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">chain </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> channel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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