tool to configure video4linux drivers This is a small tool to configure a video4linux device driver. It is required to make the video overlay work in fbtv and xawtv. [3]

Virtual Acoustic [95]

Visual Age C++ (IBM) [95]

email autoresponder Vacation returns a message to the sender of a message telling them that you are currently not reading your mail. This program is derived from the NetBSD version and has most of the features present in the linux, solaris, AIX and *BSD versions. [3]

Visual Access Control System (SNI, CCD) [95]

Value Added Driver [95]

Voice Activity Detection (GSM, mobile-systems) [95]

Value Added Disk Driver [95]

VisualAge Developper Domain (IBM) [95]

VESA Advanced Feature Connector (VESA) [95]

VRML Architecture Group (org., VRML) [95]

VESA Advanced Graphic Interface (VESA) [95]

Video Audio Integrated Operation (Sony) [95]

Verband der Anbieter von Mobilfunkdiensten (org.) [95]

Versailles project on Advanced Materials And Standards (ISO) [95]

Value Added Network [95]

adj. [from the default flavor of ice cream in the U.S.] Ordinary flavor, standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract! For example, 'vanilla wonton soup' means ordinary wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to hardware and software, as in "Vanilla Version 7 Unix can't run on a vanilla 11/34." Also used to orthogonalize chip nomenclature; for instance, a 74V00 means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This word differs from canonical in that the latter means 'default', whereas vanilla simply means 'ordinary'. For example, when hackers go on a great-wall, hot-and-sour soup is the canonical soup to get (because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn't the vanilla (wonton) soup. [7]

Value Added Network Services [95]

Value Added Process (Netware, NLM, predecessor) [95]

Virtual [ISDN] Application Programming Interface (ISDN, CAPI, API) [95]

Voyetra Applications Program Interface (API) [95]

/veir/ or /var/ n. Short for 'variable'. Compare arg, param. [7]

Value-Added Reseller [95]

1. The condition of an object (such as a file, value, or state) that can change at any time, increasing the functionality and flexibility of data. 2. Setting or parameter defined in shell environments when a user logs into a system or a developer compiles a program for a certain computing environments. [94]

Most of the fonts you will use are variable width. See fixed width fonts. [32]

VA RAID monitor A textbased tool to monitor DAC 960 RAID controllers. This includes Mylex RAID cards from the 960 and 1100 series, eXteremeRAID 2000 & 3000, AcceleRAID 352 & 170. [3]

VAriable Refraction Optical System (Canon) [95]

Value Added Services [95]

Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder [95]

Virtual Archive Storage Technology [95]

LBNL audio conferencing tool over the internet. The LBNL audio tool, vat, is a real-time, multi-party, multimedia application for audio conferencing over the Internet. Vat is based on the Draft Internet Standard Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) developed by the IETF Audio/Video Transport working group. RTP is an application-level protocol implemented entirely within vat -- you need no special system enhancements to run RTP. Although vat can be run point-to-point using standard unicast IP addresses, it is primarily intended as a multi-party conferencing application. To make use of the conferencing capabilities, your system must support IP Multicast, and ideally, your network should be connected to the IP Multicast Backbone (MBone). Vat provides only the audio portion of a multimedia conference; video, whiteboard, and session control tools are implemented as separate applications. Our video tool is called vic and our whiteboard tool wb, UCL developed the session directory tool sdr Other related applications include ISI's Multimedia Conference Control, mmcc, the Xerox PARC Network Video tool, nv and the INRIA Video-conferencing System, ivs. [3]

[UDF] Virtual Allocation Table (UDF, CD-R) [95]

Verband der Anbieter von Telekommunikations- und Mehrwertdiensten Org., DFUe, Germany [95]

/vaks/ n. 1. [from Virtual Address eXtension] The most successful minicomputer design in industry history, possibly excepting its immediate ancestor, the PDP-11. Between its release in 1978 and its eclipse by killer micros after about 1986, the VAX was probably the hacker's favorite machine of them all, esp. after the 1982 release of 4.2 BSD Unix (see BSD). Esp. noted for its large, assembler-programmer-friendly instruction set -- an asset that became a liability after the RISC revolution. 2. A major brand of vacuum cleaner in Britain. Cited here because its sales pitch, "Nothing sucks like a VAX!" became a sort of battle-cry of RISC partisans. It is even sometimes claimed that DEC actually entered a cross-licensing deal with the vacuum-Vax people that allowed them to market VAX computers in the U.K. in return for not challenging the vacuum cleaner trademark in the U.S. A rival brand actually pioneered the slogan: its original form was "Nothing sucks like Electrolux". It has apparently become a classic example (used in advertising textbooks) of the perils of not knowing the local idiom. But in 1996, the press manager of Electrolux AB, while confirming that the company used this slogan in the late 1960s, also tells us that their marketing people were fully aware of the possible double entendre and intended it to gain attention. And gain attention it did - the VAX-vacuum-cleaner people thought the slogan a sufficiently good idea to copy it. Several British hackers report that VAX's promotions used it in 1986-1987, and we have one report from a New Zealander that the infamous slogan surfaced there in TV ads for the product in 1992. [7]

Virtual Address eXtension (DEC, VAX) [95]

Virtual Address eXtension ??? (OS) [95]

Visual BASIC (MS, BASIC, VB) [95]

Visual BASIC for Applications (MS, BASIC, VB) [95]

VGA standard BIOS Extensions (VESA, VGA, BIOS) [95]

Visual BASIC Editor (MS, VB) [95]

Visual BASIC Integrated Development Environment (MS, VB) [95]

Vermittelndes Breitband-Netz [95]

Very highspeed Backbone Network Service (NSF, ATM), "vBNS" [95]

A voice response system for isdn4linux [3]

Variable Bit Rate (ATM, CBR, ABR, UBR, QOS) [95]

Variable Bit Rate - Non Real Time (VBR, ATM), "VBR-NRT" [95]

Variable Bit Rate - Real Time (VBR, ATM), "VBR-RT" [95]

Visual Basic Script (MS, BASIC, VB) [95]

Visual Basic eXtensions (MS) [95]

Virtual Channel / Circuit (ATM) [95]

Virtual Console [95]

Voltage Controlled Amplifier (audio) [95]

Virtual Channel Connection (ATM) [95]

Video Compact Disk (CD) [95]

Creates Video CD (VCD) filesystem images This package includes two utilities "mkvcdfs" and "vcdmplex". mkvcdfs creates filesystem images for video CDs, which can then be written to CD with the cdrdao program. vcdmplex is used to multiplex MPG audio and data streams into a format suitable for a video CD. [3]

Voltage Controlled Filters [95]

A Visualization Tool for compiler graphs The VCG tool reads a textual and readable specification of a graph and visualizes the graph. If not all positions of nodes are fixed, the tool layouts the graph using several heuristics as reducing the number of crossings, minimizing the size of edges, centering of nodes. The specification language of the VCG tool is nearly compatible to GRL, the language of the edge tool, but contains many extensions. The VCG tool allows folding of dynamically or statically specified regions of the graph. It uses colors and runs on X11. [3]

Virtual Console Hex Editor Standard hex editor, whose main advantage is the ability to write directly to the virtual terminals and thus display all 0-255 displayable characters on the terminal. Includes support for xterm and curses as well. [3]

Video Cursor Interface (VESA) [95]

Virtual Channel Identifier (ATM) [95]

Virtual Channel Identifier (ATM) [95]

Virtual Connection Identifier (ATM) [95]

Virtual Channel Link (UNI, ATM) [95]

Visual Class Library (StarOffice) [95]

Visual Component Library (Borland, Delphi) [95]

Windows Conflict Manager (MS, Windows) [95]

Voltage Controlled Oscillator [95]

Visible Caching Operating System (DSP) [95]

Vector Control Processor [95]

Virtual Control Program Interface (DOS, Intel) [95]

Vibrant Colour Quality (Matrox) [95]

Virtual Circuit System [95]

Virtual Channel - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, DRAM, IC, NEC), "VC-SDRAM" [95]

Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting LASER [95]

cuts Ogg Vorbis files [34]

Verband Deutscher Automobilhersteller FlaechenSchnittstelle (DIN, CIM) [95]

Verband Deutscher Automobilhersteller / Standardisiertes Einheitliches DatenAustauschSystem (EDI), "VDA/SEDAS" [95]

Virtual Display Driver [95]

Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker [e.v.] (org.) [95]

manages virtual desktops for minimal window managers vdesk takes the task of managing virtual desktops away from the window manager and implements an easy to use interface to those desktops. [3]

Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (org.) [95]

Video Device Interface (Intel) [95]

Virtual Device Interface [95]

VESA Display Information File (VESA) [95]

/vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search. The term 'optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences. Though this method is poor for detecting omissions in the 'rear' file, it can also be used with printouts of graphics, a claim few if any diff programs can make. See diff. An interesting variant of the vdiff technique usable by anyone who has sufficient control over the parallax of their eyeballs (e.g. those who can easily view random-dot stereograms), is to hold up two paper printouts and go cross-eyed to superimpose them. This invokes deep, fast, built-in image comparison wetware (the same machinery responsible for depth perception) and differences stand out almost immediately. This technique is good for finding edits in graphical images, or for comparing an image with a compressed version to spot artifacts.<p> [7]

list directory contents [34]

RAD for VDK VDK Builder is a clone of C++ Builder. Builder's main features are: * Project Manager * GUI designer * Text Editor * Widget Inspector * generates VDK code * plugin extensions This package contains the executable. The plugins bundled with vdkbuilder are in libvdkbuilder and libvdkbuilder-dev packages. [3]

Virtual DOS Machine (OS/2, Windows NT, DOS) [95]

Virtual Direct Memory Access (DMA) [95]

Virtual Direct Memory Access Device (VDMA, DMA) [95]

Video Disk Recorder for DVB-S cards, base package Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB-S technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It is also possible to watch DVDs (hardware accelerated) with some comfort and use a IR remote control. This package contains files shared by different VDR versions and frontends. NOTE: You should install compatible DVB drivers before using these programs. [3]

Server version of Video Disk Recorder for DVB-S cards Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB-S technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It is also possible to watch DVDs with some comfort and hardware acceleration. This package contains a VDR version without any direct control capabilities. Instead, it opens a control port and other programs like kvdr (from the kvdr package) can connect to the vdr-daemon and use it. [3]

Video Disk Recorder for DVB-S cards with keyboard control Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB-S technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It is also possible to watch DVDs with some comfort and hardware acceleration. This package contains the vdr-kbd program which is controlled via the PC keyboard. There are also vdr-rcu and vdr-lirc packages which contain another VDR versions using RCU or infrared remote control. [3]

Video Disk Recorder for DVB-S cards with IR remote control Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB-S technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It is also possible to watch DVDs with some comfort and hardware acceleration. This package contains the vdr-lirc program which is controlled via a IR remote control. There are also vdr-kbd and vdr-rcu packages which contain another VDR versions using keyboard/rcu control. [3]

Video Disk Recorder for DVB-S cards with RCU control Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB-S technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It is also possible to watch DVDs with some comfort and hardware acceleration. This package contains the vdr-kbd program which is controlled via the the "Remote Control Unit". There are also vdr-kbd and vdr-lirc packages which contain another VDR versions using PC keyboard or infrared remote control. [3]

Virtual DMA Services (DMA) [95]

Very high data / bit rate Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) [95]

Video Display Terminal [95]

Visual Display Unit [95]

Vorbestellte DauerwaehlVerbindung (Telekom) [95]

Virtual Environment (VR) [95]

Virtual Embedded Circuitry (IC) [95]

VECTORLINUX is a small, fast, Intel based Linux operating system for PC style computers. The creators of VECTORLINUX had a single credo: keep it simple, keep it small and let the end user decide what their operating system is going to be. Version 2.5 was released April 2, 2002. A beta named SOHO was announced as an iso only, July 29, 2002. SOHO 1.0 was released August 20, 2002. SOHO 3.2 was released March 19, 2003. VectorLinux 3.2 was released February 6, 2003. A small disk distribution. [33]

vector-based rock-shooting "Vectoroids" is a vector-based rock-shooting game similar to the arcade classic "Asteroids." Pilot a spaceship and destroy asteroids by shooting them into smaller and smaller pieces while trying to avoid being smashed or shot by UFOs. "Vectoroids" is an SDL game based on the source for "Agendaroids," an X-Window game written for the Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA written by the same author. [3]

Vedova Linux is currently at version 3.0, and Vedova Software also has Mandrake 8.1 and DemoLinux 3.0 available in boxed sets. Presumably in Italian. [33]

Very Evil Grin (slang, Usenet, IRC) [95]

Just playing around, huh? [95]

List of computer acronyms This is GNU version 1.8 of V.E.R.A., a list dealing with computational acronyms. It comes as one info file. [3]

An optional mode when running a program that will display varying levels of status messages as it is processing. [94]

Icarus verilog compiler The Icarus verilog compiler for the verilog hardware description language. The compiler can target either simulation, or netlist (XNF). [3]

Emacs mode for verilog language This is a major mode for verilog, a hardware description language. This mode provide automatic indentation, keyword completion, interactive editing and more. [3]

Virginia Educational Research NETwork (network, USA), "VERnet" [95]

A computer program that helps Internauts find what they are looking for on gopher servers around the world. Instead of looking through menus, Veronica allows users to enter keywords to locate the gopher site that holds the information they want. Gopher to

A program to track down information from Gopher databases. [42]

Very Easy Rodent-Orientated Netwide Index of Computerized Archives (Internet) [95]

Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica was a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of gopherservers. The Veronica database could be searched from most major gophermenus. Now made obsolete by web-bases search engines. [5]

Variable Envelope Return Path (SMTP) [95]

Daily Devotional Verse from KJV Bible Verse displays a Bible Verse on each login. A verse from the King James Version of the Bible is assigned to each day. [3]

A revision of software or hardware as specified by a name or value assigned by the vendor, such as Red Hat Linux 8.0. [94]

Version information of the package. [40]

/vee' se'vn/ n. The first widely distributed version of Unix, released unsupported by Bell Labs in 1978. The term is used adjectivally to describe Unix features and programs that date from that release, and are thus guaranteed to be present and portable in all Unix versions (this was the standard gauge of portability before the POSIX and IEEE 1003 standards). Note that this usage does not derive from the release being the "seventh version of Unix"; research Unix at Bell Labs has traditionally been numbered according to the edition of the associated documentation. Indeed, only the widely-distributed Sixth and Seventh Editions are widely known as V[67]; the OS that might today be known as 'V10' is instead known in full as "Tenth Edition Research Unix" or just "Tenth Edition" for short. For this reason, "V7" is often read by cognoscenti as "Seventh Edition". See BSD, USG Unix, Unix. Some old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True Unix. [7]

a GTK+OpenGL 3D modeller Vertex is a 3D modeller designed specifically for generating efficient models for (but not limited to) games and applications using OpenGL's style of graphics rendering. [3]

Video Electronics Standards Association (org.) [95]

VAX Environment Software Translator (VAX, DEC) [95]

Vacuum Flourescent [technology] [95]

See virtual file allocation table (VFAT). [94]

Virtual File Allocation Table (MS, Windows 95) [95]

V. Fast Class (MODEM), "V.FC" [95]

Font files for Morisawa Basic-5 type faces for pTeX Contains VF/TFM files for Ryumin-Light, GothicBBB-Medium, FutoMinA101-Bold, FutoGoB101-Bold and Jun101-Light. It will be easy to use morisawa.sty of okumura-clsfiles if you wish to use these fonts in pTeX. For dvips: you should add "p +morisawa.map" in your config.ps or an appropriate config.foo and you could do this with "morisawa-config add" or "morisawa-config add config.foo" at present. [3]

VMEbus Futurebus+ Extended Architecture [95]

Very Fast IRDA (IRDA) [95]

Vector Font Library for Japanese Character Code. VFlib2 is a font library written in C providing several functions to obtain bitmaps of characters. VFlib hides the font format of font files and provides a unified API for all supported font formats. [3]

VFlib is a font library written in C which converts vector fonts to bitmap data. Functions provided in VFlib include rotating, shrinking,and changing the slant of characters. VFlib provides a unified API forall supported font formats; any software using VFlib can use any of the supported font file formats immediately. VFlib is used by localized software for Japanese document processing thatrequires Kanji fonts (for example xdvi, dvi2ps, and Ghostscript). [93]

Miscelanious tools for VFlib2 library. VFlib2 is a font library written in C providing several functions to obtain bitmaps of characters. VFlib hides the font format of font files and provides a unified API for all supported font formats. [3]

Versatile Font Library VFlib3 is a font rasterizer library for multi-lingual information processing. Using VFlib3, you can obtain bitmap data of characters(glyphs) from various fonts in a unified manner. VFlib3 can handle almost all font formats available - it now supports PK, GF, VF, TFM, OFM level 0, OVF, PCF, BDF, HBF, Syotai-Club, JG, eKanji and more. TrueType and Type 1 fonts are also supported via FreeType1 and T1lib respectively. Font search via kpathsea is supported, too. This package contains the shared library and configuration files needed to run programs using VFlib3. [3]

Sample programs using VFlib3 VFlib3 is a font rasterizer library for multi-lingual information processing. Using VFlib3, you can obtain bitmap data of characters(glyphs) from various fonts in a unified manner. VFlib3 can handle almost all font formats available - it now supports PK, GF, VF, TFM, OFM level 0, OVF, PCF, BDF, HBF, Syotai-Club, JG, eKanji and more. TrueType and Type 1 fonts are also supported via FreeType1 and T1lib respectively. Font search via kpathsea is supported, too. This package contains a few sample programs that come with VFlib3. [3]

Virtual File System [layer] (Unix, Linux, OSF/1) [95]

Virtual File System. It's the abstraction layer between the user and real filesystems like ext2, minix and msdos. Amongst other things, its job is to flush the read buffer when it detects a disk change on the floppy disk drive. [32]

a tool to generate VF files for dvi2ps/dvi2dvi You can use PostScript fonts and/or TrueType fonts etc. in your TeX files with the VF files generated by vftool. [3]

convert virtual font (vf) files to virtual property lists (vpl) [34]

A versatile text-based filemanager vfu is a nice filemanager using the ncurses library. It has many nice features: * Fast one-key commands * Filename completition and wildcard expansion * Directory tree with sizes * File-type colorization * Archives support (TAR, TGZ, BZ2, and many more) * FTP support through archive-like interface * Internal text/hex file viewer and hex editor * Automount feature * Extensive user-defined external support/utils! [3]

Video fuer Windows (MS), "VfW" [95]

Volume Group (LVM) [95]

Video Graphics Array (IBM) [95]

VGA BIOS software for the Plex86 and Bochs emulated VGA card The goal of this project is to provide a Video BIOS for Plex86 and Bochs. This VGA BIOS is very specific to the plex86/bochs emulated VGA card. It is NOT meant to drive a physical vga card. You will probably fry it if you try. You have been warned. [3]

Four SVGAlib card games A collection of the card games Oh Hell!, Spider, Klondike and another solitaire game. They use a mouse and svgalib in the VGA mode 640x480x16. [3]

SVGAlib games ConnectN, Othello, and Mines This package includes clones of these popular games that work under SVGAlib. (mouse highly recommended) [3]

Virtual GameBoy [95]

Volume Group Descriptor Area (AIX, LVM, IBM) [95]

100VoiceGrade anylan Forum (manufacturer) [95]

Virtual Graphics Interface [95]

grabs a image from a camera and puts it in jpg/png format vgrabbj is a program that will grab an image from a v4l compatible device (usually a webcam of some sort) and save it in a jpg or png file, with options given on the command line to imprint a label onto the image. It only works on v4l devices that can be set to 24-bit mode. [3]

/vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally (also called an 'optical grep'). See grep; compare vdiff. [7]

Runoff preprocessor for program sources Vgrind formats the program sources which are arguments in a nice style using groff(1). Comments are placed in italics, keywords in bold face, and the name of the current function is listed down the margin of each page as it is encountered. Vgrind runs in two basic modes, filter mode (see the -f option) or regu- lar mode. In filter mode vgrind acts as a filter in a manner similar to tbl(1). [3]

Volks-hypertext browser Designed for use with the Jargon File but useful for lexicons in general (lighter-weight than WWW, fast search). [3]

Very High Density Cable Interconnect (SCSI) [95]

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (ASIC) [95]

Very High Frequency [95]

Very High Resolution Color Display [95]

Very High Speed Integrated Circuit [95]

/V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n. [from 'Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup on older versions provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (years ago, a correspondent reported that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/; there is now a vi clone named 'vile'). Nevertheless vi (and variants such as vim and elvis) is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See holy wars. [7]

On UNIX, the vi program is a small text editor that can be run from the command-line. It can even be run in ed/ex mode that runs in line-mode rather than full-screen mode. Since vi is included on every UNIX system, this is the one program that all hackers learn to use. (More advanced editors like emacs may not be installed on a system that a hacker breaks into, leaving them out of luck if they don't know vi). [96]

VIsual editor (Unix) [95]

VAX Information Architecture (VAX, DEC) [95]

VESA Image Area Definition (VESA) [95]

NCBI libraries for graphic biology applications This is the library for those who just want to run Vibrant applications. It also includes a wrapper (vibrate) that allows many NCBI applications to provide a GUI for selecting options. [3]

V.35 Interface Cable (cable) [95]

Vendor Independent ??? (VIM) [95]

Video Conferencing Tool VIC is a Video Conferencing tool that will let you watch videos using IP multicast. [3]

The Versatile Commodore Emulator VICE emulates well the hardware of the Commodore Business Machines of the pre-Amiga era. Supported are the various Pets, the VIC-20, the Commodore 64 and (incompletely) the Commodore 128. This package does not contain the various ROM images needed to actually use the emulators but includes a script which will attempt to download them from a number of well-known locations. The legal status of the ROM images is currently unknown; VICE itself is unencumbered. [3]

VersatIle Commodore Emulator [95]

Visual Interface ConsortIum (org.) [95]

A simple, Perl-based ICQ client. vICQ is simple ICQ client written in Perl with the look and feel of mICQ, which supports ICQv7 TCP protocol. Its features include: * Sending messages * Receiving messages * Invisible handling * Receiving contacts and contacts request * Receiving URL messages * Receiving offline messages off all types (well, almost all) * Receiving auth requests * Sending authorization * Coloring * koi8-r and koi8-u support * UIN info obtaining * SMS sending * Event external hooks * Sounds * Autocompletion * White Pages search * White Pages basic info editing [3]

Voltage IDentification [95]

IDE for C++ and Java based on the V GUI VIDE is a Integrated Development Environment developed using V. It works with the GNU g++ compiler and Sun's JDK for Java. [3]

A system component that enables a computer to output information to a display such as a monitor. [94]

Create arbitrary-res modelines using hardware parameters Videogen is a small but nice utility to create modelines you can insert into your XF86Config(-4) and fb.modes files. Modeline is created by telling the program the resolution you want and your video hardware parameters (maximum video adapter bandwidth, maximum HCF and VCF of the monitor etc). The tool some_modes.sh is provided which may help you to create some common modes very fast. [3]

n. obs. An electronic service offering people the privilege of paying to read the weather on their television screens instead of having somebody read it to them for free while they brush their teeth. The idea bombed everywhere it wasn't government-subsidized, because by the time videotex was practical the installed base of personal computers could hook up to timesharing services and do the things for which videotex might have been worthwhile better and cheaper. Videotex planners badly overestimated both the appeal of getting information from a computer and the cost of local intelligence at the user's end. Like the gorilla arm effect, this has been a cautionary tale to hackers ever since. See also vannevar. [7]

VIrus Description Language, "ViDL" [95]

query/set image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode [34]

Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor [34]

Simple viewer for 3D Studio files This is simple realtime 3DS file previewer based on the lib3ds library by J.E. Hoffmann. It won't display any 3DS model, but it can properly display 3DS scenes. lib3ds was developed as part of the support libraries for FAMP, the Free Animation and Modeling Project (http://famp.sourceforge.net/) [3]

Viewing CVS Repositories via HTTP The ViewCVS software was inspired by cvsweb (by Henner Zeller). ViewCVS can browse directories, commit-logs, and specific revisions of files. It can display diffs between versions and show selections of files based on tags or branches. [3]

A graphical front end for computational chemistry programs. VIEWMOL is a graphical front end for computational chemistry programs. It is able to graphically aid in the generation of molecular structures for computations and to visualize their results. The program's capabilities include: - Building and editing of molecules - Visualization of the geometry of a molecule - Tracing of a geometry optimization or a MD trajectory - Animation of normal vibrations or to show them as arrows - Drawing of IR, Raman, and inelastic neutron scattering spectra - Drawing of an MO energy level or density of states diagram - Drawing of basis functions, molecular orbitals, and electron densities - Display of forces acting on each atom in a certain configuration - Display of Miller planes in crystals - Calculation of thermodynamic properties for molecules and reactions - Drawings generated by VIEWMOL can be saved as TIFF, HPGL, or - PostScript files - Animations of normal modes can be converted to a video file (MPEG), - e. g. for inclusion into World Wide Web documents (requires - additional programs available on the Internet) - Interface to the freeware ray tracing program RAYSHADE (input - file generation and use of RAYSHADE from within VIEWMOL) - Input and output in a variety of formats, new formats can be - added easily by the user VIEWMOL includes a Python interpreter for automation. At present VIEWMOL includes input filters for DISCOVER, DMOL, GAMESS, GAUSSIAN 9X, GULP, MOPAC, and TURBOMOLE outputs as well as for PDB files (VIEWMOL is therefore suited as a viewer for structural data on the World Wide Web). Structures can be saved as MSI car-files, MDL files, and TURBOMOLE coordinate files. VIEWMOL's file format has been added to BABEL so that BABEL can serve as an input as well as an output filter for coordinates. VIEWMOL supports a space ball as input device. [3]

graphical class browser for Xt [34]

Virtual Interrupt Flag (Intel, CPU) [95]

Victoria Free-Net Association (org., USA) [95]

nvi with the evil paperclip Vigor is a perpetration of the Microsoft Word "Office Assistant" paperclip, based on nvi. It was inspired by Pitr of the "User Friendly" comic strip (http://www.userfriendly.org/). Some people have speculated that Vigor was created under the influence of the evil Crud Puppy. The maintainer of this Debian package would like to stress his firm belief that these foul rumours are entirely without foundation. [3]

edit the password, group, shadow-password, or shadow-group file. [34]

VI Like EMACS (Unix, VI, EMACS) [95]

VI Like Emacs - vi work-alike vile is a text editor which is extremely compatible with vi in terms of 'finger feel''. In addition, it has extended capabilities in many areas, notably multi-file editing and viewing, syntax highlighting, key rebinding, an optional embedded perl interpreter, and real X window system support. This package contains the character-mode binary. Required support files are contained in vile-common. Source code highlighting filters are in vile-filters. An X11 binary is in the xvile package. [3]

Vendor Independent Messaging (Lotus, Borland, IBM, Novell, API) [95]

VI Improved (VI, Unix) [95]

Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, folding, unicode support, etc. [3]

Vim stands for 'Vi Improved'. Vi is one of the most popular and powerful editors in the Unix world. Vi is an abbreviation for "Visual" editor. One of the first editors was a line editor called 'ed' (and 'ex'). The Visual editor like Vi was a vast improvement over line editors like 'ed' (or 'ex'). The editors 'ed' and 'ex' are still available on Linux: see 'man ed' and 'man ex'. A good editor improves programmer productivity. Vim supports color syntax highlighting of program code and also emphasises text using different fonts like normal, bold or italics. A color editor like Vim can improve the productivity of programmers by 2 to 3 times!! Programmers can read the code much more rapidly as the code syntax is colored and highlighted. From VIM-HOWTO

edit two or three versions of a file with Vim and show differences [34]

Vierer [kabel] In MetallFolie (VDE, SQ), "ViMF" [95]

the Vim tutor [34]

Vendor Independent Network Control Entity [95]

"The Supreme Linux Distribution with Integrated Japanese Environment for Your Desktop PCs and Notebooks." Multiple platforms seem to be supported. Vine Linux 2.5 was released April 15, 2002. Japanese distribution [33]

VIrtual NEtwork Software (Banyan, VINES, NOS) [95]

Virtual Input/Output [95]

Visual Information Projection [terminal] (Bull) [95]

VLB - ISA - PCI [board] (VLB, ISA, PCI) [95]

network analyzer for electrical networks ViPEC is a program that allows the user to analyze high frequency, linear, electrical networks. Analysis is performed in the frequency domain, and the results are presented to the user in the form of port parameters (S,Y or Z). It can also be used to compute input and output impedance/admittance and amplifier stability factors (Linvill & Stern). ViPEC supports various lumped elements (capacitors, resistors etc.), as well as distributed elements like transmission lines and coupled transmission lines. [3]

Voice Interactive Paging Network (network, MAN), "VIP-Net" [95]

edit the password, group, shadow-password, or shadow-group file. [34]

VIetnamese Quoted-Readable [specification] (VISCII, RFC 1456) [95]

Visual Information Retrieval (DB, Informix) [95]

From the makers of cLIeNUX, ViraLinux_II is a LILO boot/root floppy image that can run without a hard drive and has over 200k free space on the floppy, ash, eforthl, H3sm and no libc. [33]

adj. Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. "Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again." (Esp. useful after contracting a virus through SEX.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that have not yet been used. [7]

Metafont, a language for font and logo design [34]

MetaPost, a system for drawing pictures [34]

extended unicode TeX [34]

VIRtual memory Operating System (DEC, OS) [95]

text formatting and typesetting [34]

adj. [via the technical term 'virtual memory', prob. from the term 'virtual image' in optics] 1. Common alternative to logical; often used to refer to the artificial objects (like addressable virtual memory larger than physical memory) simulated by a computer system as a convenient way to manage access to shared resources. 2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's doll may be a virtual playmate. Oppose real. [7]

Virtual device that provides interactive access with which a user may log in and run system commands and programs. One screen is displayed on the computer's monitor at any given time; a keystroke sequence is used to switch between virtual consoles. [94]

A method for expanding the user's workspace beyond the boundaries of the computer screen. The desktop may be scrollable left and right, up and down, as if a larger desktop were positioned behind the glass screen and moved around to reveal icons, windows and other objects that were 'off-stage', or out of view. Alternatively, as with the KDE desktop, multiple buttons may be available, each of which displays an area of desktop equal to the size of the glass screen and which can each contain different objects. [8]

A way of reducing clutter on your screen by expanding the available space beyond the actual screen boundaries. [32]

The file system used in older Windows operating systems, such as Windows 95. Linux supports VFAT file access. [94]

Virtualhosting is the use of a single web server to serve the web pages of multiple domains. Although the web server seems to be connecting to a web site that is an isolated entry, that web site may be in fact be hosted alongside many others on the same machine. [40]

Virtual Linux is based on Mandrake 8.1, modified to run from CDROM. Modifications include a new startup script, automatic search and mount of CDROM drive, and cloop compression. The CD contains 1.7 GB of software. Version 1.1 was released May 4, 2002. A CD-based distribution. [33]

Virtual Machines (VMs) are features of central processor chips that isolate an area of memory from the rest of the system. Because operating systems and applications run in a "protected mode" environment, if a program freezes in one Virtual Machine it will not affect the operation of the programs and operating systems running outside of that Virtual Machine. [8]

A memory-management technique that enables programs to appear to utilize more memory than is physically available. [32]

The process of using a portion of disk space as a temporary storage area for memory. Synonymous with Swap. [8]

A network that securely connects disparate computer systems to each other over insecure carrier networks such as the Internet. [94]

n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation. See cyberspace. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and 'true confessions' magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as Usenet's alt.callahans newsgroup or the MUD experiments on Internet), interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel complete with scenery, 'foreground characters' that may be personae utterly unlike the people who write them, and common 'background characters' manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that you may not write irreversible changes to a character without the consent of the person who 'owns' it. Otherwise anything goes. See bamf, cyberspace, teledildonics. [7]

A chunk of computer programming code that makes copies of itself without any concious human intervention. Some viruses do more than simply replicate themselves, they might display messages, install other software or files, delete software of files, etc. A virus requires the presence of some other program to replicate itself. Typically viruses spread by attaching themselves to programs and in some cases files, for example the file formats for Microsoft word processor and spreadsheet programs allow the inclusion of programs called "macros" which can in some cases be a breeding ground for viruses. [5]

A virus is a program (or a fragment of code) that replicates by attaching a copy of itself to other programs. For a virus to be activated, the software it infects must first be run. Analogy: A biological virus is not a "living" thing. Instead, it is simply a strand of DNA. When it enters a living cell, it takes control of the cell forcing it to generate duplicate copies of the original DNA strand. In much the same way, a computer virus hijacks the computer forcing it to generate duplicate copies of the original virus. Computer viruses are so common because humans do not practice sufficient cyber-hygiene when exchanging files. Key point: An "anti-virus" programs scans the disks on your system hunting down those files that have signatures indicative of infected files. Since file-scanning technology is generic, most anti-virus programs also scan for other hostile content, such as trojans. Contrast: The popular use of the word "virus" means any form of malware. For example, in the movie Office Space, the protagonists write what is called a "virus" that runs in the banking mainframe to steal round-off errors. In contrast, the technical definition limits itself to just those forms of contagious malware that spreads by infecting other programs. Key point: Viruses have a life cycle from the point they are originally created, distributed, found by anti-virus programs, then eradicated. They also mutate as script kiddies take viruses, make small alteration that avoids current virus scanners, and redistribute the viruses. Example: boot sector Historically, the most popular kind of virus, though becoming less popular as floppies are used less often. E.g. Form Virus macro virus Data files cannot contain viruses -- except when they also include scripting "macros". Currently the most popular kind of virus. Most macro viruses are written in VisualBasic, a programming language included as part of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel). E.g. Marker Virus file infector The traditional definition of a virus: an executable file contains a virus imbedded within. When run, it attaches the virus to other executables on the system. multi-part Uses more than one of the techniques above. toolkits Increasingly, viruses are created via toolkits designed for the purpose of creating viruses that evade anti-virus programs. polymorphic This type of virus automatically changes its form in order to evade anti-virus programs. A common technique is to XOR its code with changing patterns. Culture: Viruses are rarely written by a single human being. Instead, they are often written by groups. Each virus is usually built upon work done by other virus writers. This means that a virus is usually related to other viruses. Computer viruses mutate and exchange genetic material much like biological systems. What we classify as the "author" of a virus is usually somebody who made one small mutation that made a virus especially virulent. [96]

n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruses, via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and 'infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses. When these programs are executed, the embedded virus is executed too, thus propagating the 'infection'. This normally happens invisibly to the user. Unlike a worm, a virus cannot infect other computers without assistance. It is propagated by vectors such as humans trading programs with their friends (see SEX). The virus may do nothing but propagate itself and then allow the program to run normally. Usually, however, after propagating silently for a while, it starts doing things like writing cute messages on the terminal or playing strange tricks with the display (some viruses include nice display hacks). Many nasty viruses, written by particularly perversely minded crackers, do irreversible damage, like nuking all the user's files. In the 1990s, viruses became a serious problem, especially among Windows users; the lack of security on these machines enables viruses to spread easily, even infecting the operating system (Unix machines, by contrast, are immune to such attacks). The production of special anti-virus software has become an industry, and a number of exaggerated media reports have caused outbreaks of near hysteria among users; many lusers tend to blame everything that doesn't work as they had expected on virus attacks. Accordingly, this sense of 'virus' has passed not only into techspeak but into also popular usage (where it is often incorrectly used to denote a worm or even a Trojan horse). See phage; compare back door; see also Unix conspiracy. [7]

Verlaessliche InformationsSysteme (GI) [95]

Virtual Instruction Set (Sun, CPU) [95]

Visual Interactive Simulation [95]

Visualizes data made by numerical weather models etc. Vis5D is a software system for visualizing data made by numerical weather models and similar sources. Vis5D works on data in the form of a five-dimensional rectangle. The Vis5D system includes the vis5d visualization program, several programs for managing and analyzing five-dimensional data grids, and instructions and utilities for converting your data into its file format. [3]

VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange [95]

Interactively debug regular expressions This TCL script shows the result of running a regular expression, making debugging relatively easy. It also assists in the construction of regular expressions. [3]

Tcl GUI builder Visual Tcl is a freely-available, high-quality application development environment. Written entirely in Tcl and generating pure Tcl should make porting either unnecessary or trivial. Visual Tcl is covered by the GNU General Public License insuring that it will remain in the capable hands of the internet community. Visual Tcl has no relation to SCO Visual Tcl or the FREE Visual Tcl/Tk project. [3]

Visual Simulator of an Operating System VisualOS is a visual representation of the more general concepts in an operating system (CPU scheduling, memory management and IO reordering) [3]

Variables Intelligentes Synchrones Optisches Netz (SNI, SDH) [95]

VHDL Initiative Toward ASIC Libraries (ASIC, VHDL) [95]

Vertical Interval Time Code (video) [95]

The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration options to the standard version of cron. [93]

VideoKonferenz [95]

Virtual Keyboard program This program allows you to use the Linux AWE32 driver, OSS MIDI sequencer, or ALSA MIDI sequencer and provides "virtual" keyboard (the musical type), which can be "played" using the keyboard or mouse under X11. [3]

Verteilte Kuenstliche Intelligenz (KI, DAI) [95]

Volume Licence Agreement (Novell) [95]

LDAP visualisation tool Vlad is an LDAP visualisation tool. It can be used to browse the entries and attributes of an LDAP tree. Basic functionality is in place. You can browse an LDAP tree and view individual entries. Future enhancements will include searches, ability to edit entries, ability to bind as different users, ability to export parts of the tree as an LDIF file. [3]

User mode programs to enable VLANs on your ethernet devices This package contains the user mode programs you need to add and remove VLAN devices from your ethernet devices. A typical application for a VLAN enabled box is a single wire firewall, router or load balancer. You need a VLAN kernel for this. Kernel versions < 2.4.14 need to be patched. Currently the VLAN patch is only supported for 2.4 kernels. [3]

Virtual Local Area Network (LAN, IEEE 802.1q) [95]

A VLAN allows multiple virtual LANs to coexist on the same physical LAN (switched). This means that two machines attached to the same switch cannot send Ethernet frames to each other even though they pass over the same wires. If they need to communicate, then a router must be placed between the two VLANs to forward packets, just as if the two LANs were physically isolated. The only difference is that the router in question may contain only a single Ethernet NIC that is part of both VLANs (a one-armed router). The frames are "tagged" with an 802.1q prefix as they enter the network, which the Ethernet switches will use to separate traffic. Key point: Sometimes people want to put a firewall between VLANs, putting their DMZ on one VLAN on the rest of their company on another. This is an extraordinarily bad thing to do. VLANs are designed primarily to segment broadcast domains and improve performance and manageability. They are not hardened against security breaches. For example, Bay switches will forward packets incorrectly if the MAC address is known by the hacker. Cisco ATM switches have been known to leak frames onto incorrect VLANs when overloaded. Key point: Most cable-modem and DSL connectivity is provided via VLANs over an ATM infrastructure. All the security concerns expressed above for VLANs applies to these technologies as well. [96]

VESA Local Bus (VESA) [95]

a free MPEG and DVD player VideoLAN is a free MPEG, MPEG2 and DVD software solution. This is vlc, the VideoLAN Client. It plays MPEG and MPEG2 files, unencrypted DVDs, or MPEG streams from a network source. [3]

Variable Length Decoder (MPEG) [95]

Very Large DataBase (DB) [95]

Very-Low-Frequency Band [95]

Virtual Lookaside Facility (IBM) [95]

Very Long Instruction Word (CPU, IC) [95]

Virtual Loadable Module (Novell, Netware) [95]

Volume Logical Module (IBM, OS/2) [95]

Virtual Console locking program vlock either locks the current terminal (which may be any kind of terminal, local or remote), or locks the entire virtual console system, completely disabling all console access. vlock gives up these locks when either the password of the user who started vlock or the root password is typed. [3]

Visitor Location Register (LR, GSM, GPRS, mobile-systems) [95]

Very Large Scale Integration [95]

Variable Length Subnet Mask (Internet) [95]

A mail user agent for Emacs VM (View Mail) is an Emacs subsystem that allows UNIX mail to be read and disposed of within Emacs. Commands exist to do the normal things expected of a mail user agent, such as generating replies, saving messages to folders, deleting messages and so on. There are other more advanced commands that do tasks like bursting and creating digests, message forwarding, and organizing message presentation according to various criteria. With smtpmail in modern emacsen, you do not need a MTA locally in order to use VM. VM 6.x versions have problems with the library tm-vm from the Tiny Mime (TM) package, since that version was written for VM 5.X. Indeed, the problems seems to exist with semi as well. This package comes (by default) bundled in with XEmacs. [3]

Virtual Machine (IBM, OS, IBM 370, ESA, IBM 390) [95]

Virtual Memory (OSF) [95]

Virtual Memory Address [95]

Virtual Machine Boot (IBM, OS/2) [95]

VESA Media Channel (VESA) [95]

Virtual Machine Communications Facility (IBM, VM) [95]

Virtual Machine / Conversational Monitoring System (IBM, VM), "VM/CMS" [95]