a-Linux is an x86 floppy-based mini-distribution, where assembly code meets Linux kernel. It contains only programs written in assembly language. It is extremely small, yet functional, and provides HTTP and FTP services out-of-the-box. Initial version 0.17 was released August 17, 2002. A floppy-based distribution. [33]

Awk to Perl translator [34]

GNU a2ps 'Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer a2ps converts files into PostScript for printing or viewing. It uses a nice default format, usually two pages on each physical page, borders surrounding pages, headers with useful information (page number, printing date, file name or supplied header), line numbering, symbol substitution as well as pretty printing for a wide range of programming languages. Historically, a2ps started as a text to PostScript converter, but thanks to powerful delegations it is able to let you use it for any kind of files, i.e. it can also digest manual pages, dvi files, texinfo, .... Among the other most noticeable features of a2ps are: - various encodings (all the Latins and others), - various fonts (automatic font down loading), - various medias, - various printer interfaces, - various output styles, - various programming languages, - various helping applications, - and various spoken languages. [3]

The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript format. A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), and media. [93]

Utilities to extract and decode ATCS A/52 streams Utilities to extract and decode ATCS A/52 streams. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3. [3]

Auto Answer (MODEM) [95]

An ASCII art stereogram generator This program generates the well known and popular random dot stereograms in ASCII art. [3]

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting [95]

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (org., AI, USA) [95]

American Association for the Advancement of Science (org., USA) [95]

Advanced Audio Coding (IIS, MPEG) [95]

Authorization and Access Control (IETF) [95]

Authorized AutoCAD Dealer (AutoCAD, CAD) [95]

American Association of DOMAIN Names (org., USA, Internet) [95]

Allgemeine AnschaltErlaubnis (Telekom) [95]

Advanced Authoring Format (MS) [95]

Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia (org.) [95]

Allied command Europe ACCIS Implementation Strategy (ACCIS, NATO, mil.) [95]

ATM Adaption Layer (ATM) [95]

sample programs using aalib AAlib is a portable ASCII art graphics library. Internally, it works like a graphics display, but the output is rendered into gorgeous platform independent ASCII graphics. This package contains a few sample programs that use aalib. [3]

Automatic Acoustic Management (ATA, HDD) [95]

American Association for Medical Systems Informatics (org., USA) [95]

Address Allocation Protocol (Multicast) [95]

Applications Access Point [95]

Association of American Publishers (org., USA) [95]

Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk) [95]

ASCII Asynchronous Support Package (ASCII) [95]

Average Access Time [95]

Authorized Academic Training Program (MS, MCSD) [95]

A program to watch TV in a text-based console aatv is a program which allows you to watch TV in a text-based console, i.e. In a virtual console or in an xterm. [3]

Apple Attachment Unit Interface (Apple, AppleTalk) [95]

American Bankers Association (org., USA, banking) [95]

Advanced Business Application Programming/4 (SAP, R/3, 4GL), "ABAP/4" [95]

Automatic Bit Access Test System [95]

Apple Bulletin Board System (Apple) [95]

Atanasoff-Berry-Computer [95]

Translates ABC music description files to PostScript This is the Debian port of the abc2ps program by Michael Methfessel. The program translates tunes written in the ABC format to PostScript, which can then be viewed using Ghostview et al. or printed on a PostScript printer or through Ghostscript. It supports various semi-standard extensions to the ABC standard, such as multiple voices and staves. [3]

Altavista Business Card Directory (WWW) [95]

A Better CD Encoder A front-end program to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg or MP3 encoder (defaults to oggenc). Grabs an entire CD and converts each track to Ogg or MP3, then comments or ID3-tags each file, with one command. [3]

A converter from ABC to MIDI format and back This package contains the programs 'abc2midi' and 'midi2abc', which convert from the abc musical notation format to standard MIDI format and vice-versa. They can generate accompaniment from guitar chords in the abc file, as well as insert various MIDI events; the MIDI-to-abc translation tries to figure out bars, triplets and accidentals on its own. The package also contains 'abc2abc' (an abc prettyprinter/transposer) and 'mftext' (a program that will dump a MIDI file as text). The programs in this package are based on the 'midifilelib' distribution available from http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/. [3]

Yet another ABC to PostScript converter This program translates tunes written in the ABC format to PostScript, which can then be viewed on screen or printed. It is essentially a (non-exclusive) alternative to abc2ps, being based on the abc2ps PostScript code together with the ABC parser from the abcmidi package. [3]

Advanced Boolean Expression Language [95]

ABnormal END (Netware) [95]

Application Binary Interface (POE) [95]

Application Binary Interface: details the machine language of the CPU family as well as the calls between the application and the operating system. [32]

binary compatibility checking tool ABIcheck is a tool for checking an application's compliance with a library's defined Application Binary Interface (ABI). It relies on ABI definition information contained in the library. Example definitions are given for GNOME and glibc. [3]

Advanced Basic Input Output System (IBM) [95]

Automatic Built In Self Test (IBM) [95]

WYSIWYG word processor AbiWord is the first application of a complete, open source office suite. The upstream source includes cross-platform support for Win32, BeOS, and QNX as well as GTK+ on Unix. AbiWord is still being developed. It's quite usable but not yet full- featured or polished. For many applications, however, it should prove effective and efficient. This program includes support for reading Microsoft Word files, RTF files, and many other foreign file formats. Natively, it uses a custom XML-based file format. [3]

Asynchronous Balanced Mode [95]

Augmented Backus-Naur Form (BNF) [95]

A text-based ncurses address book application. abook is a text-based ncurses address book application. It provides many different fields of user info. abook is designed for use with mutt, but can be used independently. [3]

Address Book Provider (Internet) [95]

Available Bit Rate (ATM, CBR, VBR, UBR, QOS) [95]

Apple Business Systems (Apple) [95]

Relating to file systems, the location of a directory or file that can be accessed regardless of the current working location of a user or program. For example, to access the Samba configuration file regardless of your current working directory, use the following absolute path: /etc/samba/smb.conf. [94]

A pathname that explicitly identifies all directories from the root directory to an individual file. For example, pathname /home/linus/kernel/test refers to a file named test in directory kernel, which belongs to directory linus, which belongs to directory home, which belongs to the root directory /. [32]

Association of Banyan Users International (org., Banyan, VINES, user group, predecessor, ENA) [95]

AbulEdu is a Mandrake-based distribution for primary schools. It is currently in French but most of the tools can be translated. An AbulEdu server can handle Mac (netatalk), Windows (samba), GNU/Linux and X terminal (with LTSP) clients. The server acts as a central gateway for Web, mail, and printing, and facilitates the management of classes, pupils, and teachers. Everybody can publish Web pages on an Intranet using Apache and all administration tasks are performed using a browser. The result is that a teacher who is not a computer specialist can install and manage a school network. Stable version 1.0.7-II was released May 26, 2003. Development version 1.0.11 beta 4 was released October 7, 2002. [33]

Crack dot Com's Abuse action game. Abuse is a side scrolling shoot-em-up action game from Crack dot Com. This package contains the Abuse game engine, in X and full screen SVGA versions. It requires a mouse. This package is obsolete and will be removed later (if you still need it, contact the maintainer). Please use abuse-sdl instead. [3]

Access Concentrator (PPPoE, ADSL) [95]

Access Control (Token Ring, ...) [95]

Amiga Club (org., user group, Amiga) [95]

Area Code [95]

Automatic Computer [95]

[digital] Audio Compression - 3 (Dolby, DVD, Digital audio), "AC-3" [95]

Audio CODEC 97 (Intel, CODEC) [95]

Asynchronous Communications Adapter [95]

AutoCAD (AutoCAD, CAD) [95]

Application Control Architecture Services (DEC) [95]

Area Communication Controller (MODACOM) [95]

Atari Competence Center [95]

check user's permissions for a file [34]

determine whether a file can be accessed [34]

Access control refers to controlling access by a user to a computer system, or data on that system. In formal terms, a "subject" (e.g. a user) attempts to access the "object" (e.g. system or data). An access control system will evaluate the security levels of the subject and object in order to see if access is permitted. Example: A simple example is the case where you enter a username and password in order to log onto the computer. Contrast: mandatory access control The system gives users "clearance levels", and assigns sensitivity levels to information. Therefore, if you only have "secret" clearance level, you cannot access "top-secret" information, but you can access "secret" or "confidential" information. See: Bell-LaPadula Model for more information. Discretionary access control This system assigns subjects (users) to one or more groups. An object (system or file) contains a DACL (discretionary access control list) enumeration which users and groups may access the object. See: Access Control List for more information. Key point: There are different kinds of access. Read access means that somebody can read information, whereas write access implies that somebody can change the data. For example, you can get a copy of your credit report and read it, but you can't necessarily change the data. [96]

Controlling access not only the system in general, but also resources within the system. For example, firewalls can be configured to allow access to different portions of the network for different users. Likewise, even after you log onto a file server, the server may still block access to certain files. Key point: An Access Control List (ACL) is used to list those accounts that have access to the resource that the list applies to. When talking about firewalls, the ACL implies the list of IP addresses that have access to which ports and systems through the firewall. When talking about WinNT, the ACL implies the list of users that can access a specific file or directory on NTFS. Contrast: Discretionary Access Control is the ability to have fine grained control over who has access to what resources. Misconception: Many people believe that firewall IP address rules or IEEE 802.11 MAC address rules form robust ACLs. However, since neither IP addresses or MAC addresses provide robust authentication, such ACLs provide only a weak form of security. When these so-called ACLs are relied upon for security, they frequently lead to compromises as people spoof their IP or forge their MAC address. [96]

a set of permissions associated with every file and directory that determine who can read it, write to it, or execute it. Only the owner of the file (or the super-user) can change these permissions. [32]

dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format. [34]

Automated Command and Control Information System (mil., USA) [95]

Asynchronous Character Control Map (PPP) [95]

A combination of login and password which is normally created by the system administrator. The creation of an account includes the assignment of a home directory. [32]

Same as Login ID, User ID, or User Name. The name assigned to a user on a UNIX/Linux system. Multiple users can be set up on a system with unique account names, each with varying access (permission) levels. After Linux installation, account names are assigned by the Superuser, or root operator. [8]

Army Command and Control System (mil., USA) [95]

The GNU Accounting utilities. The GNU Accounting utilities 'ac', 'accton', 'last', 'lastcomm', and 'sa' add login and process accounting support to Debian Linux. "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands executed on the system. The 'last' command is provided by the Debian sysvinit package and not included here. [3]

Association of C and C++ Users (org., UK) [95]

Automated Call Distribution (CTI) [95]

Alternating Current/Direct Current, "AC/DC" [95]

Asynchronous Communications Device Interface (IBM, CM/2) [95]

Access Control Entry (AD) [95]

Advanced Computing Environment (manufacturer) [95]

ASCII Compatible Encoding (ASCII, Internet, DOMAIN) [95]

Autonomous Computer Engine (WD) [95]

Solitaire-games with penguin-look. From the author's intro.html: "The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the ones available for Windows™ but with a number of enhancements that make my wife like my versions better :-)" The package consists of the games Pegged, Minesweeper, Solitaire, Taipei (together with a level editor), Golf, Mastermind, Merlin and Freecell. [3]

Access Control Field [95]

Advanced Communications Function (IBM) [95]

Apple Communications Framework (Apple) [95]

Receive faxes using your radio and sound card acfax allows you to receive faxes using your sound card. Typically you might use it to decode faxes sent over HF radio or from satellites. [3]

Address and Control Field Compression (PPP) [95]

Advanced Communication Function / Network Control Program (IBM, ACF), "ACF/NCP" [95]

Advanced Communication Function / Telecommunications Access Method (IBM, ACF), "ACF/TCAM" [95]

Advanced Communication Function / Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (IBM, ACF), "ACF/VTAM" [95]

Association for Computers and the Humanities (org., USA) [95]

An artificial life and evolution simulator Achilles is an artificial life and evolution simulator that uses Hebbian neural networks and OpenGL/SDL to simulate life in a simplified environment. It is based on Larry Yaeger's PolyWorld. [3]

Associacio Catalana d'Intelligencia Artificial (org., Spain, AI) [95]

Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter [95]

Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (IDS, CERT) [95]

Atomicity - Consistency - Isolation - Durability (DB, TP) [95]

Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases The Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) is a PHP-based analysis engine to search and process a database of security events generated by various IDSes, firewalls, and network monitoring tools. The features currently include: o Query-builder and search interface for finding alerts matching on alert meta information (e.g. Signature, detection time) as well as the underlying network evidence (e.g. source/destination address, ports, payload, or flags). o Packet viewer (decoder) will graphically display the layer-3 and layer-4 packet information of logged alerts o Alert management by providing constructs to logically group alerts to create incidents (alert groups), deleting the handled alerts or false positives, exporting to email for collaboration, or archiving of alerts to transfer them between alert databases. o Chart and statistic generation based on time, sensor, signature, protocol, IP address, TCP/UDP ports, or classification ACID has the ability to analyze a wide variety of events which are post-processed into its database. Tools exist for the following formats: o using Snort (www.snort.org) - Snort alerts - tcpdump binary logs o using logsnorter (www.snort.org/downloads/logsnorter-0.2.tar.gz) - Cisco PIX - ipchains - iptables - ipfw [3]

This is a Linux port of the popular dos program Acidwarp. Acidwarp is a program that makes neat looking pictures and rotates the palette. Its only use is for entertainment, but it is neat. I stumbled upon source code for Acidwarp on the net one day, and decided that it was high time someone ported it to Linux. So, here it is. [3]

American Committee for Interoperable Systems (org., USA) [95]

/ak/ interj. 1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream Yo!). An appropriate response to ping or ENQ. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in "Ack pffft!" Semi-humorous. Generally this sense is not spelled in caps (ACK) and is distinguished by a following exclamation point. 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell them you understand their point (see NAK). Thus, for example, you might cut off an overly long explanation with "Ack. Ack. Ack. I get it now". 4. An affirmative. "Think we ought to ditch that damn NT server for a Linux box?" "ACK!" There is also a usage "ACK?" (from sense 1) meaning "Are you there?", often used in email when earlier mail has produced no reply, or during a lull in talk mode to see if the person has gone away (the standard humorous response is of course NAK (sense 1), i.e., "I'm not here"). [7]

Kanji code converter ACK is a highly versatile Kanji code converter. ACK can do reciprocal conversion among Japanese EUC, Shift-JIS and 7bit JIS. JIS Kata-kana(SJIS Han-kaku Kana) is also supported. Kanji code can be automatically detected even if the input stream contains Kata-kana characters. Besides, ACK can be used as a Kanji code checker with very high detection rate. [3]

Access Control List (DCE, DFS, NDS, AD) [95]

Access control list utilities This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists. [3]

Advanced CMOS Logic [95]

Agent Control Language (Agents) [95]

Association for Computational Linguistics (org., USA) [95]

[MS] Access Compatibility Layer (MS, DB) [95]

Access Control List Facility (DCE) [95]

automatically generate aclocal.m4 from configure.in [34]

Address Complete Message (ATM) [95]

Association for Computing Machinery (org., USA) [95]

A multi-player aerial combat simulation. acm is an air combat simulator that runs under the X window system. Up to eight players can engage in simultaneous air combat. [3]

Application Control Management System [95]

AMP Communications Outlet [95]

Automatic CPU Overheating Prevention System (gigabyte), "A-COPS" [95]

Partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines Acorn-fdisk allows you to edit disk partitions on Acorn machines. It understands a variety of the partition tables formats used under RISC OS, including Filecore, ICS-IDE, EESOX and Powertec. [3]

Apple Classrooms Of Tomorrow (Apple) [95]

Active Configuration Profile (MODEM) [95]

Auxiliary Control Process [95]

Audio Capture and Playback Adapter (IBM) [95]

Apple Communications Protocol Card (Apple) [95]

(Advanced configuration and Power Interface) is an open industry specification co-developed by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces for OS-directed configuration and power management on laptops, desktops, and servers. ACPI evolves the existing collection of power management BIOS code, Advanced Power Management (APM) application programming interfaces (APIs, PNPBIOS APIs, Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) tables and so on into a well-defined power management and configuration interface specification. The specification enables new power management technology to evolve independently in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together. [77]

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (Intel, MS, Toshiba, ACPI, OSPM) [95]

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Component Architecture (ACPI, Intel), "ACPI-CA" [95]

Utilities for using ACPI Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and configuration status. This package contains acpid, which is the user-space daemon needed in order to make the Linux ACPI support completely functional. In order to use this package you need a recent Kernel (=>2.4.7). This can be one including the patches on http://acpid.sourceforge.net or a non patched one. [3]

Automated Corporate Planning Tool [95]

Anonymous Call Rejection [95]

Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio (cable) [95]

Automatic Call Recording [95]

an abbreviation. Examples of Linux related acronyms are KDE, ELF and GNU. [32]

Access Control System (DISA) [95]

Advanced Communications System [95]

Al's Circuit Simulator -- dummy package acs, Al's Circuit Simulator, has been renamed GNUCAP. This is a dummy package to force an upgrade to the new package name. [3]

Alternate character set [95]

Architekten, Computer, Systeme (fair) [95]

Asynchronous Communication Server [95]

Australian Computer Science [95]

Australian Computer Society (org., Australia) [95]

Association Control Service Element (OSI, ISO, DIS 8649) [95]

Advanced/Atari Computer System Interface (Atari) [95]

ATM Circuit Steering Management Information Base (ATM, MIB), "ACS-MIB" [95]

Academic Computing Services NETwork [95]

Aural Cascading Style Sheets (CSS, HTML, WWW) [95]

Architecture Characterization Template (DISA) [95]

America's Carriers Telecommunications Association (USA) [95]

ACcess TEchnologies Forum (org.) [95]

read/write flags marking active boot partition [34]

ACTivate Physical Unit (SNA) [95]

Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (Europe, ACTS) [95]

Automatic Calling Unit [95]

Automatic Client Update (Novell, Netware) [95]

Association of College and University Telecommunication Administrators (org., USA) [95]

Active Directory (MS, Windows, AD, DS) [95]

Analog-to-Digital (D/A), "A/D" [95]

Authorized Distributor (DEC) [95]

Autonomous DOMAIN [95]

A wireless networking architecture in which there is no central access point. Nodes act as peers on the network and transmit information directly to recipient nodes. [94]

Automatic Data Acquisitions [95]

n. A Pascal-descended language that was at one time made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon. Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description wss "The PL/I of the 1980s"). Hackers find Ada's exception-handling and inter-process communication features particularly hilarious. Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s) would almost certainly blanch at the use to which her name has latterly been put; the kindest thing that has been said about it is that there is probably a good small language screaming to get out from inside its vast, elephantine bulk. [7]

Ada CGI interface This package lets you build CGI applications in Ada. [3]

Adamantix, formerly known as TrustedDebian, aims to create a highly secure but usable Linux platform. To accomplish this, the project will use currently available security solutions for Linux (like kernel patches, compiler patches, security related programs and techniques) and knit these together to a highly secure Linux platform. The initial release, version 0.9, became available March 18, 2003. Version 1.0.1 was released June 12, 2003. A 'secured' distribution. [33]

Association of Data Processing Service Organization (org., USA) [95]

Architecture Design, Analysis, and Planning Tool [95]

a device that allows one system to connect to and work with another. [32]

a data compression technique that dynamically adjusts the algorithm used based on the content of the data being compressed. [32]

Allied DATa processing Publication (mil., USA) [95]

A DeBugger (Unix) [95]

Apple Desktop Bus (Apple) [95]

ad! BBS. A Perl based BBS or easy menu system. aD! BBS was basically written to provide a nice, easy to use menu / BBS interface, currently it doesn't handle special permissions, group permissions, etc. But they are in the 'todo' list. Supports ANSI Color. [3]

Advanced Data Broadcasting System (DirecPC) [95]

Adaptive Data Compression (MODEM) [95]

Analog to Digital Converter [95]

Apple Display Connector (Apple) [95]

Apple Distribution Center (Apple) [95]

Automatic Data Capture [95]

Advanced Data Communications Control Procedure (ANSI) [95]

Adapter Device Driver (OS/2) [95]

Automatic Data Direction Control (RS-485) [95]

Automatic Direct Distance Dialing System [95]

add a user or group to the system [34]

convert addresses into file names and line numbers. [34]

Tk personal address manager Addressbook is an address manager meant to replace your old paper Rolodex. It stores addresses, phone and fax numbers and can interact with some additional programs (i.e., for dialing) It has a nice user interface written in Tcl/Tk. The additional suggested software will enable additional functionality, such as automatic dialing, faxing, printing, etc. The program is still fully functional without any of the suggested software. Author: Clemens Durka <clemens@dagobah.de> Home page: http://home.pages.de/~addressbook/ [3]

Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. o Adduser can create new users and groups and add existing users to existing groups. o Deluser can remove users and groups and remove users from a given group. Adding users with adduser is much easier than adding them by hand. Adduser will choose appropriate UID and GID values, create a home directory, copy skeletal user configuration, allow you to set an initial password and the GECOS field. Deluser can optionally remove and backup the user's home directory and mail spool or all files on the system owned by him. Optionally a custom script can be executed after each of the commands. [3]

Application Development Environment [95]

Aufforderung zur DatenEingabe (BTX) [95]

Administrative Data Entry for Processing Transmission (mil., USA) [95]

Automatic Digital Encoding System [95]

Andrew Development Environment Workbench (ATK, Unix) [95]

Access control Decision Function (mil., USA) [95]

Automatic Document Feeder [95]

Autocad Device Interface (CAD, AutoCAD) [95]

AUTODIN-to-DISN Interface (AUTODIN, DISN, mil., USA) [95]

Asynchronous Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM, IC, Leadtek) [95]

Utility to display or set the kernel time variables This program gives you raw access to the kernel time variables. For a machine connected to the Internet, or equipped with a precision oscillator or radio clock, the best way to keep the system clock correct is with xntpd. However, for a standalone or intermittently connected machine, you may use adjtimex instead to at least correct for systematic drift. adjtimex can optionally adjust the system clock using the CMOS clock as a reference, and can log times for long-term estimation of drift rates. [3]

Adventure Description Language [95]

[international conference on the] Advances in Digital Libraries (IEEE) [95]

Asynchronous Data Link Control [95]

Add-Drop-Multiplexer [95]

Area Division Multiple Access (mobile-systems) [95]

ADministration Management DOMAIN (X.400) [95]

Processing triangulated solid meshes Currently, ADMesh only reads the STL file format that is used for rapid prototyping applications, although it can write STL, VRML, OFF, and DXF files. Some features of admesh are: Fill holes in the mesh by adding facets. Repair facets by connecting nearby facets. Repair normal directions (i.e. Facets should be CCW) Remove degenerate facets (i.e. Facets with 2 or more vertexes equal) Web site: http://www.varlog.com/products/admesh/ [3]

??? (UMTS) [95]

/ad-min'/ n. Short for 'administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include 'sysadmin' and 'site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or 'newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news). Compare postmaster, sysop, system mangler. [7]

short for administrator, referring to the systems person responsible for the maintenance of a computer. [32]

Access Device Messaging Specification (banking, Visa) [95]

Active Directory Migration Tool (MS, AD) [95]

Manage Squid or Web users using a Web browser This utility allows you to manage Squid or Web users using only a simple Web browser. All the management tasks, including creating, changing, removing, enabling and disabling users can be performed through an easy-to-use Web interface. This package is also know as admuser but it was agreed that admwebuser would be a better package name to be used instead. [3]

Usually refers to a 56Kbps leased-line. [5]

ActiveX Data Objects (ASP, ODBC, MS, IIS) [95]

ADvanced On-Screen Information System, "AdonIS" [95]

Administrative Data Processing [95]

Advanced Data Processing [95]

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) [95]

Adaptive Delta Pulse Code Modulation [95]

Automatic Data Processing Equipment (ADP) [95]

Automated Data Processing Liaison Office (ADP) [95]

Automatic Data Processing System (ADP) [95]

Automated Data Processing/Telecommunications (ADP), "ADP/T" [95]

Advanced Digital Recording (Streamer, Philips, OnStream) [95]

Advanced Digital System [95]

Application Development System [95]

Automatic Distribution System [95]

Automatic Documenting System (LAN) [95]

Auxiliary Data System [95]

Active Directory Service Interface (MS, COM, AD) [95]

Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency (org., NATO, mil.) [95]

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line [technology] (BELLCORE, AT&T, DSL, ADSL) [95]

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop is a high-speed Internet access technology that uses a commonly available telephone copper loop. ADSL provides data speeds from 384 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps, normally using different speeds for the upstream and downstream channel (hence the " Asymmetric" ). ADSL provides a direct, dedicated pipe to an ISP. [32]

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop [modulation] [95]

Advanced Digital Signal Processor (DSP) [95]

Appletalk Data Stream Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk) [95]

Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release [generator] (VCA, audio) [95]

ATM Data Service Unit (ATM) [95]

Abstract Data Type [95]

Access Developer's Toolkit (MS, DB, Windows) [95]

Application Data Type [95]

Application Development Tools (IBM, AS/400) [95]

Atlantic Daylight Time [-0300] (TZ, AST) [95]

Automatic Dialing Unit [95]

Administrative Directory User Agent [95]

Automatisierte DatenVerarbeitung [95]

staatliche Akademie fuer DatenVerarbeitung (org., Uni Boeblingen, Germany) [95]

An industry specification that lets an operating system control power management and configuration to PC and server components. [94]

Hardware interface for the acceleration of graphics to a display such as a monitor. AGP video cards display three-dimensional graphics faster than peripheral component interconnect (PCI) cards. [94]

Legacy power control and configuration specification for hardware in PCs and servers. APM as a standard has been replaced by ACPI. [94]

A system-level component interface used to connect CD-ROMs and tape drives to PCs and servers, as defined by the enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) specification. [94]

/ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the authors of INTERCAL.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but the TOPS-10 operating system permitted only six-letter filenames. See also vadding, Zork, and Infocom. This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different." The 'magic words' xyzzy and plugh also derive from this game. Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually has a 'Colossal Cave' and a 'Bedquilt' as in the game, and the 'Y2' that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance. ADVENT sources are available for FTP at ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z. There is a Colossal Cave Adventure page. [7]

a DVI previewer and presenter written in Objective Caml Active-DVI is a DVI previewer and presenter written in Objective Caml (http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/) with some eye candy effects for presentation, support for interactive demonstrations, and embedding of arbitrary applications within the presentation (hence the Active adjective of the presenter :). Active-DVI does not (yet) support postscript fonts (see the README.Debian for more details). Active-DVI also has the ability to run embedded commands, which may cause security problems when viewing untrusted DVI files. make sure to read the README.Debian for more information [3]

Automatisiertes DatenVerarbeitungsSystem [95]

Automatic Data eXchange [95]

Apple Events (Apple) [95]

Application Entity / Environment / Execution / Engineering (APE) [95]

American Electronics Association (org., USA) [95]

Asynchroner EmulationsAdapter (IBM) [95]

Analog Expansion Bus [95]

Advanced Error Correction (CD) [95]

An easy to use screen-based editor aee (advanced easy editor) is intended to be an easy to use screen-based editor that requires no instruction to use. Its interface is highlighted by simple pop-up menus, which makes it easy for the users to carry out tasks without remembering the commands. [3]

Access control Enforcement Function [95]

Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System [95]

Advanced software management tool. Aegis integrates standard software tools such as gcc and cvs into an easy to use, extensible software management system. Aegis simplifies the problems associated with multiple developers and development trees using a transaction-based approach to version control, along with a web-browsable repository and an integrated testing mechanism. See aegis-doc for documentation, aegis-tk for a TK based user interface, and aegis-web for a web based user interface. [3]

Application Enabling Interface (IBM) [95]

Automatic Equipment Identification [95]

Apple Event Interprocess Messaging Protocol (Apple) [95]

Automatic Emulation Management (Brother) [95]

Apple Events Object Model (Apple) [95]

Asociacion Espanola Para la Inteligencia Artificial (org., Spain, AI) [95]

Web-based e-mail client. AeroMail is a web-based e-mail client noted for its elegant interface. Other highlights include: - attachments - images - cookie-free HTTP authentication. It is written in PHP using PHP's built in IMAP functions. Details at http://cushman.net/projects/aeromail/index.php [3]

Advanced Encryption Standard (cryptography) [95]

Application Environment Service / Specification (OSF) [95]

Automatic Emulation Switching (Lexmark) [95]

The United States encryption standard that replaces the older/weaker DES standard. Contrast: The main impetus behind AES to replace DES is the support for larger key sizes. DES uses 56-bit keys, which can be cracked in just a few minutes (in the year 2001). In contrast, AES supports 128-bit keys (as well as 192-bit and 256-bit). Whereas both DES and AES are fundamentally block-ciphers, AES is also designed to be an efficient stream-cipher and hash algorithm. Whereas DES was designed to be hardware based (software implementations are much slower), AES has been designed to be efficient in both software and hardware. In particular, implementations in ANSI C, Java, and x86 assembly language were important. Another important criteria was the ability for the algorithm to work within smart-cards with slow CPUs and limited memory. Key point: The NIST director in charge of selecting the AES algorithm says: "If Moore's law continues and quantum computing doesn't manifest itself, then I think this system will have a good 30 year run". Misconception: AES does not replace DES. In the 1980s, DES was the most used encryption algorithm. However, due to length of time it took the government to come up with a replacement standard, other encryption algorithms became widely used, such as RC2, RC4, Blowfish, IDEA, and Triple DES. Moreover, crypto has became very "pluggable", with many products supporting numerous simultaneous encryption algorithms. [96]

Auto Engineering Society/European Broadcasting Union (Digital audio), "AES/EBU" [95]

Apple Event Terminology Extension (Apple) [95]

Email and PIM application for KDE Aethera is a PIM application, i.e. It handles all kinds of personal information: email, contacts, notes, tasks, todos, journals. [3]

Apple Event User Terminology (Apple) [95]

a minimalist window manager for X11 aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between windows, etc. [3]

minimal window manager written in C++ aewm++ is a minimal window manager for X11, based on aewm. It keeps aewm's minimalist look and feel but is written in C++, and adds some modern features like virtual desktops and partial GNOME support. Also included with this package: * appbar: a small application launcher * aewm++_fspanel: a very small panel * setrootimage: draws a gradient on the X root window * aewm++_xsession: keeps an X session alive [3]

An Emacs-like mail reader and composer. Af is a standalone mail reader which has an Emacs-like interface by default. It has good facilities for handling folders, and commands for handling groups of messages in a single operation. Af is aimed primarily at Emacs users and people who deal with large amounts of mail daily, but other people have found it useful too. [3]

Auxiliary carry Flag (assembler) [95]

As Far As I'm Concerned (slang, Usenet, IRC) [95]

As Far As I Can Recall (DFUe, Usenet, IRC) [95]

As Far As I Can Tell (DFUe, Usenet, IRC) [95]

As Far As I Know (slang, Usenet, IRC) [95]

As Far As I Recall / Remember (slang, Usenet, IRC) [95]

[u.s.] Air Force Automated Message Processing Exchange (org., USA. mil.) [95]

Client-Server Backup System (Server side) This is a client-server backup system offering several workstations a centralized backup to a special backup server. Backing up only one computer is easily possible, too. Any streaming device can be used for writing the data to it, usually this will be a tape device. Writing backups is normally done sequentially: The next writing to tape goes to the end of the previous write no matter where you have restored from in the meantime. Features: - Authentication of the client is performed before it can take over control - Access restriction for the streamer device -> security - Client-side per-file compression -> reliability - Data stream is written to tape in pieces -> fast finding of files - Tape position logging for each file - Tape capacity is fully used - Full / incremental backups - Raw partitions can be backed up - Client and Server buffering for maximal throughput is done Note: Tk is required if you want to use the graphical configuration tool instead of the text configuration tool. [3]

AntiFerromagnetically Coupled [technology] (IBM, HDD) [95]

Application Foundation Classes (MS, GUI, Java) [95]

Automatic Font Change [95]

Association Francaise pour la Cybernetique Economique et Technique (org., France) [95]

Automatic File Distribution [95]

Apple File Exchange (Apple) [95]

AFrican EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "AF/EB" [95]

application to "stick" little notes on the desktop. Affiche is a little application that allows people to "stick" little notes on their computer desktop. It was made for the GNUstep environment. [3]

Authority and Format Indicator (NSAP, IDP) [95]

Authority Frame Identifier [95]

Association for Font Information Interchange (org., USA) [95]

Air Force Information Network (network, USA, mil.) [95]

Archive file manipulation program. Afio manipulates groups of files, copying them within or between filesystems and an afio archive. Afio archives are portable as they contain only ASCII-formatted header information. Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption. Afio supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. Afio can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an 'archive engine' in a backup script. [3]

AutomatisiertesFingerabdruck-InformationsSystem (INPOL) [95]

Away from Keyboard (slang, Usenet, IRC) [95]

convert Adobe font metrics to TeX font metrics [34]

Air Force Network (network, USA, mil.) [95]

Advanced Function Presentation (IBM) [95]

Appletalk Filing Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk) [95]

Advanced Function Printing Architecture (IBM) [95]

Advanced Function Printing Data Stream (IBM) [95]

Authenticated Firewall Traversal (IETF) [95]

A window manager with the NEXTSTEP look and feel. AfterStep is a window manager based on FVWM which attempts to emulate the NEXTSTEP look and feel, while retaining the configurability of its predecessor. Note that this window manager makes extensive use of the color palette. If you have only an 8-bit color display, it will run as packaged, but you may want to modify the configuration to use fewer colors. AfterStep is a continuation of the BowMan window manager project, but the name was changed to reflect the desire that it do more than simply emulate and become a valuable window manager in its own right. [3]

One of several user interfaces (window managers), AfterStep makes Linux look and feel much like NeXTSTEP, with enhancements. For more on AfterStep, go to www.afterstep.org. (Also, see Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and X Window System.) [8]

Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) [95]

Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix (org., France, Unix) [95]

Advanced Graphics Adapter [95]

The KDE2 front-end to the AudioGalaxy Linux client. AGBrowser is a program to complement the official satellite program for Linux from AudioGalaxy. By using AGBrowser, every dependency on another program to search for, download, share, and manage mp3s has been satisfied. AGBrowser requires the use o