dau

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dau - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

dau - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  DAU
   /dow/, n.
  
     [German FidoNet] German acronym for Dummster Anzunehmender User
     (stupidest imaginable user). From the engineering-slang GAU for
     Grosster 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.
  

dau - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  DAU
         Duemmster Anzunehmender User (slang, Usenet, IRC)