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AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (producer of computer chips) |
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API |
Application Programming Interface |
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ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol (ATM) |
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ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet) |
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AS |
Autonomous System |
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ASCII |
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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ATA |
Advanced Technology Attachment |
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ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
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B |
Byte |
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BELUG |
Bellevue Linux Users Group |
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BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol (routing protocol) |
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BIOS |
Basic Input Output System |
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BKL |
Big Kernel Lock |
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BNC |
Bayonet Neill-Concelman |
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BSA |
Business Software Alliance |
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BSD |
Berkeley Software Distribution |
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CCITT |
Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique |
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CD |
Change Directory |
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CD |
Compact Disc |
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CDROM |
compact disc read-only memory |
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CJKV |
Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese |
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CLDR |
Common Locale Data Repository |
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CLI |
Command line Interface (Cabletron) |
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CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
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CRC |
Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check) |
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CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV) |
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CSMA/CD |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection |
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CUPS |
Common Unix Printing System |
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CVS |
Concurrent Versions System |
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DAEMON |
Disk And Execution Monitor |
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DEC |
Digital Equipment Corporation |
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DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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DLC |
Data Link Control |
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DLL |
Dynamic Link Library (computer file) |
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DMCA |
Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
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DNS |
Domain Name Service |
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DOS |
Disk Operating System |
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DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing) |
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DVD |
Digital Versatile Disc |
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EDGE |
Enhanced Data GSM Environment |
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EEPROM |
electrically erasable read-only memory |
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EFF |
Electronic Frontier Foundation |
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EGP |
Exterior Gateway Protocol |
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EULA |
End User License Agreement (usually in reference to software) |
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FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak) |
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FDD |
Floppy Disk Drive |
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FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
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FOSS |
Free / Open-Source Software |
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FQDN |
Fully Qualified Domain Name |
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fs |
Filesystem |
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FSF |
Free Software Foundation |
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FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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Gb |
Gigabit |
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GB |
Gigabyte |
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GbE |
Gigabit Ethernet |
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GCC |
GNU Compiler Collection |
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GFDL |
GNU Free Documentation License |
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GID |
group identification number |
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GIGO |
Garbage In Garbage Out (computing) |
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GIMP |
GNU Image Manipulation Program |
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GNOME |
GNU Network Object Model Environment |
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GNU |
GNU's Not UNIX (a Recursive Acronym) |
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GOCC |
Government Open Code Collaborative |
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GPG |
GNU Privacy Guard |
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GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
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GRUB |
GRand Unified Bootloader |
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GUI |
Graphical User Interface (goo-ey) |
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HDD |
Hard Disk Drive |
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HDLC |
High-Level Data Link Control |
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HFS |
Hierarchical File System |
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HP |
Hewlett-Packard Development Company |
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HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
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I/O |
Input/Output |
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IANA |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
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IBM |
International Business Machines Corporation |
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IC |
Integrated Circuit |
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ICANN |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
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ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
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IDE |
Integrated Drive Electronics |
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IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. |
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IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
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IGP |
Interior Gateway Protocol |
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IGRP |
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
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IMAP |
Internet Message Access Protocol |
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IP |
Internet Protocol |
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Ipc |
Interprocess Communication |
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IPX |
Internetwork Packet Exchange |
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IRC |
Internet Relay Chat |
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ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
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ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
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IT |
Information Technology |
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IXP |
Internet exchange points |
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JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group (24-bit image storage format) |
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JVM |
Java Virtual Machine |
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Kb |
Kilobit |
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KB |
Kilobyte: One thousand and twenty-four bytes kbps kilo bit per second |
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kcp |
Kernel Control Path |
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KDE |
K Desktop Environment |
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LAMP |
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP |
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LAN |
Local Area Network |
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LANANA |
Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority |
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LAP |
link access procedure/protocol |
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LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
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LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (pronounced Ell-dap) |
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LED |
law enforcement desk; light emitting diode |
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LFS |
Linux from Scratch |
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LFS |
Log-Structured File System |
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LGPL |
Lesser General Public License |
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LIDS |
Linux Intrusion Detection System |
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LILO |
Linux Loader |
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LINFO |
The Linux Information Project |
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LSB |
Linux Standards Base |
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LSB |
Linux Mark Institute |
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LSI |
Large Scale Integrated Circuits |
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LUG |
Linux users group |
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LVM |
Logical Volume Management |
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LZW |
Lempel-Ziv-Welch |
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MAC |
Media Access Control |
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Mb |
Megabit |
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MB |
Megabyte |
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MBR |
Master Boot Record |
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MD5 |
Message Digest 5 |
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MIT |
Massachussets Institute of Technology (USA) |
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MMU |
Memory Management Unit |
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MS |
The Company Microsoft |
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MS-DOS |
Microsoft Disk Operating System |
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MTU |
Maximum Transmission Unit |
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NFS |
Network File System |
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NIC |
Network Interface Card |
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NILFS |
new implementation log-structured file system |
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NIS |
Network Information System |
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NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol |
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NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
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ODF |
Open Document Format |
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OS |
Operating System |
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OSDL |
Open Source Development Lab |
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OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard) |
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OSPF |
Open Shortest Path First (ATM) |
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PAM |
Pluggable Authentication Modules |
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PCMCIA |
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
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PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
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PDF |
Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat) |
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PGP |
Pretty Good Privacy (encryption) |
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PHP |
Hypertext Preprocessor |
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PID |
process identification number |
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PING |
Packet Internet Groper |
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PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure (cryptography) |
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PNG |
Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension) |
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PnP |
Plug-and-Play |
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POP |
Post Office Protocol |
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POSIX |
Portable Operating System Interface |
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POTS |
Plain Old Telephone Service (FCW) |
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PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol |
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PS |
PostScript |
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PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
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PWD |
Print Working Directory |
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RAID |
redundant arrays of independent disks |
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RAM |
random-access memory |
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RARP |
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
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RDBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
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RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
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RHCE |
Red Hat Certified Engineer |
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RIP |
Routing Information Protocol |
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RJ |
Registered Jack |
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RMON |
Remote Monitoring |
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RMS |
Richard M. Stallman |
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ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
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RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
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RPM |
Red Hat Package Manager |
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RSS |
Really Simple Syndication |
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RTOS |
Real-Time Operating System |
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RTP |
Real-Time Transport Protocol |
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SAN |
Storage Area Network |
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SANE |
Scanner Access Now Easy |
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SCO |
Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. |
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SCSI |
Small Computer Standard Interface |
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SDLC |
Synchronous Data Link Control |
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SDRAM |
Synchronous dynamic random access memory |
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SGID |
Set Group ID |
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SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
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SMB |
Server Message Block |
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SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
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SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM) |
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SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
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SPAM |
superfluous pieces of additional mail* |
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SRAM |
Static Random Access Memory (ess-ram) |
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SRI |
Stanford Research Institute |
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SSH |
Secure Shell (Unix program) |
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SSL |
Secure Socket Layer |
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SU |
Substitute user |
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SUID |
Set User Identity |
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SVID |
System V Interface Definition |
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TAR |
Tape Archive |
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TB |
Terabyte |
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TCL |
Tool Command Language |
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TCO |
transmission control protocol |
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TCO |
Total Cost of Ownership |
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TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
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TCP/IP |
transmission control protocol/internet protocol |
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TLB |
Translation Lookaside Buffer |
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tld |
Top Level Domains |
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TRON |
The Real Time Operating System |
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TSL |
transport layer security |
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ttl |
ToS and Time-to-Live |
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TTL |
Transistor-Transistor Logic |
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TTY |
teletype terminal |
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ucb |
University of California at Berkeley's |
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UCITA |
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act |
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UCLA |
University of California at Los Angeles (U.S.) |
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UCS |
Universal Character Set |
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UDP |
User Datagram Protocol (FDDI related) |
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UID |
User IDentification |
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URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
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URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
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USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
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UTF |
UCS Transformation Format |
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UTMS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
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UUCP |
Unix-to-Unix Copy Program |
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VFAT |
Virtual File Allocation Table |
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VGA |
Video Graphics Array |
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VLSI |
Very Large Scale Integrated circuitry |
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VM |
Virtual Memory |
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VPN |
Virtual Private Network (ATM) |
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W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
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WAN |
Wide Area Network |
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WAP |
Wireless Access Point |
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WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol |
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WEP |
Wired Equivalent Privacy |
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WINE |
Wine Is Not an Emulator |
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WLAN |
Wireless Local Area Network |
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WWW |
World Wide Web |
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WXGA |
Wide Extended Graphics Array |
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X |
X Window System |
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XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
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