Show who is logged on and what they are doing. [34]

an alternative "w" command This is a version of the "w" command that might be familiar to old Slackware users. It formats the output differently, in a way some consider clearer and easier to read. [3]

Show who is logged on and what they are doing. [34]

Windows 2000 (Windows, MS) [95]

Web browser for GNU Emacs 20 A full-featured web browser, written entirely in Emacs-Lisp, that supports all the bells and whistles in use on the web today: frames, tables, stylesheets, and much more. Supports asynchronous connections, allowing users to browse numerous sites concurrently, while others continue to download. Tight integration with the standard Emacs mail and news reading packages allows easy sharing of information. Since Emacs is first and foremost the most powerful editor around, the information you uncover on the web can immediately be put to work. Yet another reason to never leave Emacs. [3]

Web browser for GNU Emacs 21 A full-featured web browser, written entirely in Emacs-Lisp, that supports all the bells and whistles in use on the web today: frames, tables, stylesheets, and much more. Supports asynchronous connections, allowing users to browse numerous sites concurrently, while others continue to download. Tight integration with the standard Emacs mail and news reading packages allows easy sharing of information. Since Emacs is first and foremost the most powerful editor around, the information you uncover on the web can immediately be put to work. Yet another reason to never leave Emacs. [3]

Acronym for the World Wide Web Consortium, an independent peak body founded in 1994 to develop common protocols and standards for the evolution of the World Wide Web. It is jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science in the USA, the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique [INRIA] in Europe, and the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Asia. The Consortium is led by Tim Berners-Lee, the primary inventor of the World Wide Web. More information can be found at: http://www.W3C.org/ [2]

World Wide Web Consortium (WWW, org.) [95]

a simple CGI to retrieve images from video4linux device. w3cam is a simple CGI to retrieve images from video4linux device. In other words this program will only run on Linux machines which support a video4linux-device. w3cam supports a plain mode and a gui mode. In the gui mode a html with a form is supplied to change some parameters with the mouse .. [3]

WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support w3m is a text-based World Wide Web browser with IPv6 support. It features excellent support for tables and frames. It can be used as a standalone file pager, too. * You can follow links and/or view images in HTML. * Internet message preview mode, you can browse HTML mail. * You can follow links in plain text if it includes URL forms. * With w3m-img, you can view image inline. For more information, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m [3]

a simple Emacs interface of w3m This package contains a interface program of w3m, which is a pager with WWW capability. It can be used as lightweight WWW browser on emacsen. This is also known as emacs-w3m. http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/ [3]

inline image extension support utilities for w3m w3m-img provides some utilities to support inline images for w3m on terminal emulator in X Window System environments. [3]

WWW browsable pager with SSL support w3m is a text-based World Wide Web browser with IPv6 support. It features excellent support for tables and frames. It can be used as a standalone file pager, too. * You can follow links and/or view images in HTML. * Internet message preview mode, you can browse HTML mail. * You can follow links in plain text if it includes URL forms. * With w3m-img, you can view image inline. This package is built with SSL support. For more information, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m [3]

w3mir is an all purpose HTTP copying and mirroring tool. w3mir can create and maintain a browsable copy of one, or several WWW sites. It can preserve link integrety within the mirrored documents as well as the integrey of links outside the mirror. [3]

WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames, MB extension w3mmee is w3m with multibyte encoding extension. For more information, see http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ and http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/w3mmee/ [3]

inline image extension support utilities for w3mmee w3mmee-img provides some utilities to support inline images for w3mmee on terminal emulator in X Window System environments. [3]

WWW browsable pager with SSL support, MB extension w3mmee is w3m with multibyte encoding extension. This package is built with SSL support. For more information, see http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ and http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/w3mmee/ [3]

Enhanced window manager based on 9wm w9wm is a quick and dirty hack based on 9wm. It provides support for virtual screens as well as for keyboard bindings. [3]

light weight virtual machine similar to Java Waba is a small, efficient and reliable Java Virtual Machine (VM) aimed at portable devices (but also runnable on desktop computers), wribtten by Rick Wild of Wabasoft. The Waba VM is an open source project. [3]

Windows Application Binary Interface (MS, Windows) [95]

Web Accessibility Initiative (WWW, W3C, WAI) [95]

Web Application Interface (WWW, Netscape) [95]

Wide Area Information Servers - A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet . A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked ("scored") according to how relevant the "hits" are, and that subsequent searches can find "more stuff like that last batch" and thus refine the search process. [32]

Wide Area Information Service (Internet) [95]

A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked (scored) accordingto how relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches can find more stuff like that last batch and thus refine the search process. [5]

These servers allow users to conduct full-text keyword searches in documents, databases, and libraries connected to the Internet. [44]

A microprocessor clock cycle in which nothing at all occurs. A wait state is programmed into a computer system to allow other components, such as random-access memory (RAM), to catch up with the central processing unit (CPU). The number of wait states depends on the speed of the processor in relation to the speed of memory. Wait states can be eliminated-resulting in a zero wait states machine by using fast (but expensive) cache memory, interfaced memory, page-mode , or static chips. [39]

Westcoast Alternative to ITS [95]

Simplified Debian package management front end Wajig is a single commandline wrapper around apt, apt-cache, dpkg, /etc/init.d scripts and more, intended to be easy to use and providing extensive documentation for all of its functions. With a suitable sudo(1) configuration, most if not all package installation (as well as creation) tasks can be done from a user shell. [3]

write a message to users [34]

n. (also 'wall clock time') 1. 'Real world' time (what the clock on the wall shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. 2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of ticks required to execute it (on a timesharing system these always differ, as no one program gets all the ticks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor time than real time). [7]

n. A small power-supply brick with integral male plug, designed to plug directly into a wall outlet; called a 'wart' because when installed on a power strip it tends to block up at least one more socket than it uses.. These are frequently associated with modems and other small electronic devices which would become unacceptably bulky or hot if they had power supplies on board (there are other reasons as well having to do with the cost of UL certification). [7]

GTK+ and Imlib based app for periodically updating root of X WallP uses Imlib for its image rendering, so any image format readable by Imlib will work with WallP. The user controls the period between changes, in minutes. GTK+ is used as the toolkit. [3]

n. 1. A file containing a listing (e.g., assembly listing) or a transcript, esp. a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper for such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as evidenced at Stanford, where it was used to cover windows.) Now rare, esp. since other systems have developed other terms for it (e.g., PHOTO on TWENEX). However, the Unix world doesn't have an equivalent term, so perhaps wallpaper will take hold there. The term probably originated on ITS, where the commands to begin and end transcript files were :WALBEG and :WALEND, with default file WALL PAPER (the space was a path delimiter). 2. The background pattern used on graphical workstations (this is techspeak under the 'Windows' graphical user interface to MS-DOS). 3. 'wallpaper file' n. The file that contains the wallpaper information before it is actually printed on paper. (Even if you don't intend ever to produce a real paper copy of the file, it is still called a wallpaper file.) [7]

Warren Abstract Machine (PROLOG) [95]

Web Application Manager (MS, Windows) [95]

Wireless, Adaptive and Mobile Information Systems (ESTO) [95]

Acronym for Wide Area Network, which is generally a network connecting several physically distant locations, as opposed to a LAN. The Internet is an example of a worldwide WAN. [42]

see wide-area network (WAN). [94]

Wide Area Network [95]

Wide Area Network, which is generally a network connecting several physically distant locations, as opposed to a LAN. The Internet is an example of a worldwide WAN. [32]

Any internet or network that covers an area larger than a single building or campus. [5]

Wide Area Network Distribution (WAN) [95]

Configuration utilities for Sangoma S508/S514 WAN cards This package installs configuration tools and firmware modules for the Sangoma S508 and S514 router cards. You may use this software to build a stable and flexible WAN router for frame-relay, PPP, or Cisco HDLC leased-line links based on these cards. This package is compiled against kernel 2.2.13. This upstream version does not have support for X.25. [3]

Wireless Application Protocol (mobile-systems, WLAN) [95]

Wissenschaftliche ArbeitsPlatzrechner [95]

Warewulf is a unique Linux distribution for cluster nodes. It facilitates a central administration model for all nodes and includes tools needed to build configuration files, monitor, and control the nodes. It is totally customizable and can be adapted to just about any type of cluster. The node distributions are built from a virtual node filesystem residing on the master, transfered to the nodes either by Etherboot or CDROM images, and run from RAM. Administration is scalable and easy. It was originally designed for Beowulf, but can be used in other environments as well. The initial version, 0.3, was released March 11, 2002. Version 1.11 was released May 15, 2003. A 'special purpose/mini' distribution. [33]

A system restart performed after the system has been powered and operating. A warm boot is performed by using a special key combination or by pressing a reset button, while a cold boot involves actually turning the big red switch off and on. A warm boot is preferable to a cold start because a warm boot places less strain on your system's electrical and electronic components. See programmer's switch. [39]

n. See boot. [7]

Web stAndardS Project (WWW, W3C) [95]

West Africa Time [-0100] (TZ) [95]

This package contains the Watanabe font in SYOTAI CLUB format. [93]

Japanese Mincho font in Zeit's Syotai Club format. Vector fonts made from labosystem123 32dots font. This package replaces zeitfonts package. [3]

call Tcl procedures before and after each command [34]

execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen [34]

A software watchdog The watchdog program writes to /dev/watchdog every ten seconds. If the device is open but not written to within a minute the machine will reboot -- a feature available when "software watchdog" support is compiled into the kernel. The ability to reboot will depend on the state of the machine and interrupts. To use this software, linux 1.3.52 or later is needed. [3]

Wide Area Telephone Service [95]

Converts wav files into CD-ROM audio file format. This program converts wav sound files into a format suitable for CD-ROMs, and can perform some editing functions like cutting or volume change. It is rather rudimentary, the wav file must have the same sampling parameters as CD audio. Runs on big and little endian machines. [3]

A method, far superior to FM synthesis, of generating and reproducing music in a sound board Wave table synthesis uses a pre-recorded sample of dozens of orchestral instruments to determine how particular notes played on those instruments should sound. [39]

Wireless Device Monitoring Application Wavemon allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It has currently only been tested with the Lucent Orinoco series of cards, although it *should* work (though with varying features) with all devices supported by the wireless kernel extensions by Jean Tourrilhes. [3]

WAV play, record, and compression wavtools is a set of programs to play, record, and manage the compression of sound. [3]

Experimental hand writing/gesture recognition program Enables human computer interaction, especially using gestures inputed via the mouse. [3]

WorkBench (Amiga, Commodore) [95]

Wide Band Channel (FDDI) [95]

Multicast White Board This is a free clone of wb, a multicast white board application. It allows you to share a virtual white board with other people running wbd over the Mbone (multicast backbone of the Internet). You can paint, write and import text and graphics. You will need a multicast router and a connection to the Mbone if you want to share your white board with people outside of your local subnet. [3]

Web Based Enterprise Management [protocol] (DMTF, BMC, Cisco, Compaq, Intel, MS) [95]

Web Browser Intelligence (WWW, IBM) [95]

English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/british-english containing a list of English words with British spellings, extracted from the ispell british dictionary. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1). [3]

WissensBasierte Systeme (KI) [95]

print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files [34]

WildCard multicast route entry (PIM, Multicast) [95]

Word Count (Unix) [95]

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WAI) [95]

The Catalan dictionary words for /usr/share/dict This package contains an alphabetic list of Catalan words as put together by Ignasi Labastida i Juan <nasi@optica.fao.ub.es> from a list of words by Joan Dolg. [3]

Write Combining Buffer (CPU) [95]

World Conference on Computers in Education (IFIP, conference) [95]

World Computer Graphics Association (org.) [95]

Web Content Management Software / System (CMS) [95]

Writable Control Store (VAX, DEC) [95]

Western Digital [corporation] (manufacturer) [95]

Working Draft [95]

The Danish dictionary / wordlist This is a flat list of Danish words and names. This can be used by spellcheckers or any other purpose needing a lot of words. [3]

WDGs' HTML 3.2, HTML 4, and CSS references Attractive, well laid-out guides to the HTML 3.2, HTML 4, and Cascading Style Sheets specifications in HTML format. [3]

WDG HTML Validator This is a CGI script which lets you enter the URL of a web page which will be then checked against a validating SGML parser for conformance to official HTML standards. Pages can also be uploaded and HTML can be directly entered. A command-line version is also included in the package. [3]

The GNU wdiff utility. Compares two files word by word. 'wdiff' is a front-end to GNU 'diff'. It compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to the first in order to create the second. It has many output formats and interacts well with terminals and pagers (notably with 'less'). 'wdiff' is particularly useful when two texts differ only by a few words and paragraphs have been refilled. [3]

Word Developers Kit (MS) [95]

Windows Driver Library (MS, Windows) [95]

World Definition Language [95]

Wavelength Division Multiplexing [protocol] [95]

Windows / Win32 Driver Model (MS, Windows) [95]

WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look This is an xdm replacement based on the WINGs widget set. WINGs is the NeXT-like widget set used by WindowMaker and some other programs. wdm provides a nice and versatile login panel along with xdm functionality. [3]

Windows Driver Model Connection and Streaming Architecture (MS, Windows, WDM) [95]

WatchDog Process [95]

WatchDog Server [95]

Watch Dog Timer [95]

Western [european] Daylight Time [+0100] (TZ, WET) [95]

List of Dutch words in new (August 1996) spelling. This package contains an alphabetic list of 229365 Dutch words. See the idutch package for the same wordlist in a format suitable for the spelling checker ispell. [3]

translate WEB to TeX [34]

In the World Wide Web or any hypertext systems a set of related documents that together make up a hypertext presentation. The documents do not have to be stored on the same computer system, but they are explicitly interlinked, generally by providing internal navigation buttons. A web generally induces a welcome page that serves as the top-level document (home page) of the web. [39]

see World Wide Web (WWW). [94]

A program that runs on an Internet-connected computer and provides access to the riches of the World Wide Web (WWW). Web browsers are of two kinds; text-only browsers and graphical Web browsers such as NCSA Mosaic and Netscape Navigator. Graphical browsers are preferable because you can see in-line images, fonts, and document layouts. [39]

An application that accesses and displays hypertext markup language (HTML) webpages and other resources available on the World Wide Web (WWW). [94]

A document designed for viewing in a web browser. Typically written in HTML. [5]

A Web service is a software application identified by a URI [RFC 2396], whose interfaces and bindings are capable of being defined, described, and discovered as XML artifacts. A Web service supports direct interactions with other software agents using XML based messages exchanged via Internet-based protocols [1]

Web server log analysis program The Webalizer is a web server log analysis program. It is designed to scan web server log files in various formats and produce usage statistics in HTML format for viewing through a browser. The Webalizer produces yearly, monthly, daily and hourly statistics. In the monthly reports, various statistics may be produced to show overall usage, usage by day and hour, usage by visiting sites, URLs, user agents (browsers), referrers and country. The Webalizer is highly configurable by use of either command line options or a configuration file, allowing the program to be tailored to individual needs easily. [3]

A crawler/indexer for the Internet webbase is a crawler for the Internet. It has two main functions : crawl the WEB to get documents and build a full text database with this documents. The crawler part visit the documents and store intersting information about them localy. It visits the document on a regular basis to make sure that it is still there and updates it if it changes. The full text database uses the localy copies of the document to build a searchable index. The full text indexing functions are not included in webbase. [3]

capture and upload images webcam captures images from a video4linux device like bttv, annotates them and and uploads them to a webserver using ftp in a endless loop. [3]

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WWW), "webDAV" [95]

Webfish Linux is a small, stripped down Linux distribution based on GNU source packages. Webfish is built with the more experienced user in mind and is aimed at small, fast, secure server and workstation systems with a minimum of installed packages. The initial release of Webfish Linux, version 0.9b, was released June 20, 2002. Version 1.0pre1 was released on March 25, 2003. The Webfish Linux Firewall-1 branch released its initial verion, 1.1, on July 24, 2002. Fishwall 1.2 was released August 27, 2002. [33]

lightweight http server for static content This is a simple http server for purely static content. You can use it to serve the content of a ftp server via http for example. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a http server in a few seconds, without editing some config file first. [3]

a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML This is perl script which picks fluff off html pages, much in the same way traditional lint picks fluff off C programs. The script is pretty much a a wrapper around the Weblint module. It currently supports HTML 4.0 (and only HTML 4.0). It allows the various syntax and stylistic checks to be enabled or disabled by the user or in a system-wide configuration file. NOTE: This is a beta release of Weblint 2.0 that provides a subset of of the final functionality. There are one or two features from 1.020 that aren't currently available. But this implements just about all the warnings from 1.020 and uses current HTML standards. [3]

create gallery thumbnails for website WebMagick provides a means of easily putting image collections on the Web. It recurses through directory trees, building HTML pages and imagemap (GIF or JPEG) files to allow the user to navigate through collections of thumbnail images (somewhat similar to 'xv') and select the images to view with a mouse click. [3]

A web-based administration interface for Unix systems. Using Webmin youcan configure DNS, Samba, NFS, local/remote filesystems, Apache, Sendmail/Postfix, and more using your web browser. After installation, enter the URL https://localhost:10000/ into your browser and login as root with your root password. Please consider logging in and modify your password for security issue. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS VERSION NOW USES SECURE WEB TRANSACTIONS: YOU HAVE TO LOGIN TO "https://localhost:10000/" AND NOT "http://localhost:10000/". [4]

Web-based administration toolkit Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on. [3]

A page that contains text, images, and multimedia presentations and is viewable in a Web browser. [94]

Simple HTTP Server Toolkit for Ruby WEBrick is a Ruby library program to build HTTP servers. [3]

Web Secretary Web Secretary is a web page monitoring software. However, it goes beyond the normal functionalities offered by such software. Not only does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to you WITH THE NEW CONTENT HIGHLIGHTED! [3]

A collection of webpages, files, and other resources published or aggregated by one source. [94]

Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (org., WLAN, LAN) [95]

Western Europe EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "WE/EB" [95]

A non-interactive FTP client for updating web pages Weex is an utility designed to automate the task of remotely maintaining a web page or other FTP archive. With weex, the maintainer of a web site or archive that must be administered through FTP interaction can largely ignore that process. The archive administrator simply creates a local directory that serves as an exact model for the off-site data. All modifications and direct interaction is done locally to this directory structure. When the administrator wishes to coordinate the data on the remote site with that of the local model directory, simply executing weex accomplishes this in the most bandwidth-efficient fashion by only transferring files that need updating. The program will create or remove (!) files or directories as necessary to accurately establish the local model on the remote server. [3]

Web Embedding Font Tool (MS, WWW) [95]

Linux ANSI boot logo. This is a little program that may run at login time to produce nice ANSI login logo. Welcome2L intends to produce the best looking ANSI screens by making full usage of PC graphic characters. Therefore an architecture able to display those characters (i386, Alpha with TGA adapter,... ) is required to use it. And, even if it will work on larger screens, it will only produce 80 column ANSI screens. [3]

Whole Earth 'Lectronic Net (network) [95]

adj. 1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards. Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics. Oppose ill-behaved. 2. Software that does its job quietly and without counterintuitive effects. Esp. said of software having an interface spec sufficiently simple and well-defined that it can be used as a tool by other software. See cat. 3. Said of an algorithm that doesn't crash or blow up, even when given pathological input. Implies that the stability of the algorithm is intrinsic, which makes this somewhat different from bulletproof. [7]

Branch of SEMI kernel package using widget. WEMI is a branch of the SEMI package using widgets. It is a library adding MIME features to Emacs, based on SEMI, which also available as a Debian package. It is a replacement of SEMI, containing all of SEMI's features. WEMI does not support anything older than Emacs 19.28 or XEmacs 19.14. WEMI also does not support Emacs 19.29 to 19.34, XEmacs 19.15 or XEmacs 20.2 without mule, but WEMI may work with them. ==== SEMI is a library adding MIME features to Emacs. MIME is a proposed internet standard allowing the use of other character sets than (ASCII) plain text in the contents and headers of messages. ==== [3]

English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1). [3]

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WLAN) [95]

WESTern regional NETwork (network, USA), "Westnet" [95]

Western European Time [+0000] (TZ, WDT) [95]

The Faroese dictionary / wordlist This is a flat list of Faroese words and names. This can be used by spellcheckers or any other purpose needing a lot of words. [3]

Wait for Caller (BBS) [95]

Windows Foundation Classes (MS, Java, API) [95]

A small Finnish dictionary for /usr/share/dict. This is a list of Finnish words and names in various inflected forms, containing roughly 0.7 million items, to be used for whatever purpose you may think of. Larger lists (roughly two or over six million items) can be manually generated from the medium-size and large Finnish Ispell dictionaries in packages ifinnish and ifinnish-large. Please find instructions in /usr/share/doc/wfinnish/README.Debian after installing this package. [3]

Wired For Management (Intel), "WfM" [95]

Works For Me (slang, Usenet, IRC) [95]

WorkFlow Management Coalition (org.), "WfMC" [95]

Weighted Fair Queueing (VOIP) [95]

French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/french containing a list of French words. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1). [3]

Windows For Workgroups (MS), "WfW" [95]

Working Group (SC, ISO, IEC, ETSI) [95]

The German dictionary for /usr/share/dict. This is the German dictionary as put together by heinz.knutzen@web.de. This dictionary refers to the old German orthography. For the new orthography see wngerman. [3]

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file time stamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections,support for Proxy servers, and configurability. [93]

retrieves files from the web Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using http and ftp, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as ftp sites -- you can use wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the Web like a WWW robot. Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers (both http and ftp) that support it. Both http and ftp retrievals can be time stamped, so wget can see if the remote file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if it has. Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls. http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ [3]

Concept that is commonly utilized by complex document formatting applications for ease of use and accurate rendering. As a user creates a document, it is rendered on a display as it appears when it is saved, printed, or sent to another party. [94]

display manual page descriptions [34]

White House Communications Agency (DISA) [95]

n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system, such as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts. The term was invented on the TENEX operating system, and carried over to TOPS-20, XEROX-IFS, and others. The state of being in a privileged logon is sometimes called 'wheel mode'. This term entered the Unix culture from TWENEX in the mid-1980s and has been gaining popularity there (esp. at university sites). See also root. [7]

[coined in a paper by T. H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968)] Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again. Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. Also known as 'the Wheel of Life', 'the Wheel of Samsara', and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also blitter, bit bang. [7]

Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system for a new location whereami is a set of useful scripts and a coordinating system for automatically re-locating your computer within the current (network) environment. Typically, you would use whereami to automatically detect and re-configure your laptop when you move between a variety of diverse networks and/or docking environments. Although whereami will work best if all of your networks assign addresses through dhcp, this is not a pre-requisite and the system allows any technique to be used to ascertain the new location with as little ongoing user intervention as possible. Having ascertained the correct location, whereami will run appropriate (user-configured) scripts to adjust the laptop operation to suit the current environment. See http://debiana.net/whereami/ for more information. You may also get useful assistance from the debian-laptop mailing list, which is frequented by several of the contributors. [3]

locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command [34]

The which command shows the full pathname of a specified program, if the specified program is in your PATH. [93]

Fault tolerant search utilities: whichman, ftff, ftwhich. whichman uses a fault tolerant approximate matching algorithm to search for man-pages that match approximately the specified name. The fault tolerant matching is very useful in cases where you remember only roughly the name of a command. Example: whichman netwhat This finds netstat.8: /usr/share/man/man8/netstat.8 ftff searches the directory tree. This is a case in-sensitive and fault tolerant way of 'find . -name xxxx -print'. ftwhich finds files which are in one of the directories in your PATH and uses a fault tolerant search algorithm. [3]

Windows Hardware Instrumentation Implementation Guidelines (MS, Windows) [95]

Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts. whiptail is a "dialog" replacement using newt instead of ncurses. It provides a method of displaying several different types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This allows a developer of a script to interact with the user in a much friendlier manner. [3]

Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts. whiptail is a "dialog" replacement using newt instead of ncurses. It provides a method of displaying several different types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This allows a developer of a script to interact with the user in a much friendlier manner. This version of whiptail is compiled and linked against utf8 version of the libraries. [3]

CGI scanner to audit web servers Whisker is a state-of-the-art CGI scanner that can: - detect the running web server and perform only tests specific to that server and version - apply intrusion detection evasion methods - do brute force on accounts using HTTP-AUTH - use virtual hosts - run in multi-thread mode It can output the information in different formats including HTML and nmap. [3]

n. 1. Syn. K&R. 2. Adobe's fourth book in the PostScript series, describing the previously-secret format of Type 1 fonts; "Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1", (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0). See also Red Book, Green Book, Blue Book. [7]

White Dwarf Linux is named for a White Dwarf Star. White Dwarf Stars are small but extremely dense stars. White Dwarf Linux is small enough to load in 16MB of Flash, but dense enough to contain the features that embedded applications demand. Version 1.2.0 was released July 28, 2002. [33]

So-called "ethical" hackers who work with clients in order to help them secure their systems. White-hats can be: members of tiger teams system hardening specialists researchers looking for vulnerabilities (with the goal of finding them and removing them before the black-hats). Contrast: Whereas a "white-hate" is considered a "good guy", a "black-hat" describes the "bad" hackers. See also: penetration testing [96]

n. The opposite of a blacklist. That is, instead of being an explicit list of people who are banned, it's an explicit list of people who are to be admitted. Hackers use this especially of lists of email addresses that are explicitly enabled to get past strict anti-spam filters. [7]

a WYSIWIG environment for LaTeX WhizzyTeX is an emacs minor mode for incrementally (TeXing and) previewing a LaTeX file that you are editing. It works with ghostview-based and xdvi-based previewers, but best visual effect and more options will be available if you use the advi previewer. [3]

show who is logged on [34]

Shows who is logged on. [32]

print effective userid [34]

A whois client that accepts both traditional and finger-style queries. [93]

client for the whois directory service [34]

The GNU whois client This is a new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch by me. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs. It is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriate whois server for most queries. The package also contains mkpasswd, a simple front end to crypt(3). [3]

World Health Organization Library Information System (org., UNO) [95]

World Health Organization Statistical Information System (org., UNO) [95]

Real-time user logins monitoring tool. whowatch is a ncurses who-like utility that displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real-time. Besides standard information (login name, tty, host, user's process), the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is shown. [3]

Windows Hardware Quality Lab (MS, Windows, PC97) [95]

Windows Image Aquisition (MS, Windows, API, DDI) [95]

Web InformationsDienst Deutschland (WWW, Neuss, Germany) [95]

A network of computers connected to each other over a long distance, for example on the Internet. [94]

A graphical user interface programming object (button, scrollbar, radio button, etc.) for the X Window System. (Also, see X Window System.) [8]

A standardized on-screen representation of a control that may be manipulated by the user. Scroll bars, buttons, and text boxes are all examples of widgets. [94]

a user interface object in X graphical user interfaces. [32]

n. 1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic examples (especially database tutorials). Legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips. "But suppose the parts list for a widget has 52 entries...." 2. [poss. evoking 'window gadget'] A user interface object in X graphical user interfaces. [7]

Web Interface Facility (WWW, MVS, OS/390) [95]

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users. Historical Note. The first ever wiki site was created for the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995. That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages. [91]

A phrase that implies that the technique is currently being used, as opposed to be purely theoretical. For example, while tens of thousands of viruses are known to exist, only a few hundred can be found in the wild. [96]

character, used to search for text, that may represent any character (or any character in a set). A wild-card character is like a wild card in a card game, which may represent any other card in the deck. [32]

A work-alike of the Acme programming environment for Plan 9 Wily's basic functions are to edit and search for text and to run commands. It is intended to eventually be an integrated working environment for all tasks involving text. It uses the mouse heavily. It emphasises speed for experienced users, but is probably simple to learn as it has very few concepts. [3]

WIreless Metropolitan Area Network [95]

Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device [95]

n. [acronym: 'Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment such as X or the Macintosh interface, esp. as described by a hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior flexibility and extensibility. However, it is also used without negative connotations; one must pay attention to voice tone and other signals to interpret correctly. See menuitis, user-obsequious. [7]

WIssenschaftsNetz (network, DFN) [95]

Service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers This package provides the winbindd daemon, which provides a service for the Name Service Switch capability that is present in most modern C libraries (like the GNU C Library - glibc.) The service provided by winbindd is called 'winbind' and can be used to resolve user and group information from a Windows NT server. The service can also provide authentication services via an associated PAM module. [3]

A graphical representation of a program displayed on the screen. Each running program has a separate window displaying the contents of the program. Some programs have more than one window displayed, usually to separate functions logically and facilitate use of the program. [94]

A program that controls the display and positioning of graphical windows on a screen; accounts for such variables as screen resolution and user manipulation (for example, a user repositioning or resizing a window). [94]

The graphical user interface (GUI) that runs on top of X Window to provide the user with windows, icons, taskbars and other desktop objects. (Also, see Desktop.) [8]

the main interface between the X Window system and the user. It rovides such functionality as window borders, menus, icons, virtual desktops, button bars, tool bars, and allows the user to customize it at will, often adding to its functionality in the process. [32]

Window Maker is an X11 window manager which emulates the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP (TM) graphical user interface. It is relatively fast, feature rich and easy to configure and use. Window Maker is part of the official GNU project, which means that Window Maker can interoperate with other GNU projects, such as GNOME. Window Maker allows users to switch themes 'on the fly,' to place favorite applications on either an application dock, similar to AfterStep's Wharf or on a workspace dock, a 'clip' which extends the application dock's usefulness. [4]

Window manager for GNU Emacs You can divide the screen of GNU Emacs as many as you like. Since efficiency of implementation or so depends much on the style of window division, you may have your own style of partitioning. But if you switch the mode to e-mail mode or NetNews mode, they break your favorite style. Windows.el enables you to have multiple favorite window configurations at the same time, and switch them. Furthermore, it can save all window configurations into a file and restore them correctly. [3]

run Windows programs on Unix [34]

Windows Emulator (Binary Emulator). the MS-Windows emulator. This is still a developers release and many applications may still not work. This package consists of the emulator program for running windows executables. Wine is often updated. [3]

Windows Emulator (Configuration and Setup Tool) This is an easy-to-use Wine setup tool provided by CodeWeavers, Inc. [3]

a galaga knock-off, arcade game WING is a galaga knock-off, arcade game. It features high quality prerendered graphics, dynamically generated stars in background, single player game against computer controlled opponents, 6 levels of play, digital sound effects, digital music streams, and a high score list. [3]

WINdows Hardware Engineering Conference (MS, Windows, conference), "WinHEC" [95]

Wireless Information Network LABoratory (org., STC, USA) [95]

WinLinux 2001 was designed and built to be the easiest to use Linux system. Its installation and configuration tasks are performed directly from Windows using graphical tools. WinLinux 2003 is currently available. [33]

Windows Internet Naming Service (MS, Windows NT) [95]

WinSlack is a basic Linux install with KDE and Star Office. It requires no logon, and gives you a desktop environment similar to that other leading PC GUI, it also has supermount compiled into the kernel so that CD-ROM's and floppies are automatically mounted and unmounted. You can also format floppies from the desktop. Upon exiting the X session, the machine will shutdown. It is based primarily on Slackware 7.1 with some modifications. [33]

n. Microsoft Windows plus Intel - the tacit alliance that dominated desktop computing in the 1990s. Now (1999) possibly on the verge of breaking up under pressure from Linux; see Lintel. [7]

Erased data can frequently be retrieved through forensics on the magnetic material of a hard-disk drive or backup tape. So-called "magnetoresistive microscopes" have been developed that painstakingly scour magnetic media, and are able to reconstruct the magnetic image of a disk surface. This will show the faint residue of overwritten data. A common security measure is to "wipe" all traces of the data from a machine. Wiping usually involves: Clearing caches and logfiles. Example include browser caches, cookie files, history logs, and recently used document lists. Note that passwords are often stored in cookies and history URLs. Hard-disks "erase" files by simply removing their entries from the directory. The files still exist on the hard-disk. The first step of wiping is to actually erase them by overwriting that area of the disk. Overwriting erased areas of the hard-disk at least 7-times with different bytes (DoD spec) in order to remove all magnetic traces. Forensics specialists can usually read data from a disk that has been overwritten only once. Wiping the pagefile. Most programs do this by repeated allocating all possible memory in the system then freeing it, multiple times. Contrast: Wiping data from the disk is the electronic equivalent of shredding. It is not as strong as degaussing the disk. Misconception: Many crypto programs also contain a feature for wiping free-space. However, deleted files may be overwritten by some other file between wiping passes. This deleted file won't be wiped, and may be recoverable. Key point: In a court case in 2001, the FBI was able to successful retrieve overwritten files from a defendant's hard-drive. History: Microsoft's Windows XP, shipped in October of 2001, contains an automatic wipe feature for permanently deleting files. This has made some forensics investigators worried that they will no longer be able to successfully retrieve deleted files from dumb-criminal's machines. [96]

Secure file deletion Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access. Homepage: http://gsu.linux.org.tr/wipe/ [3]

World Intellectual Property Organization (org.) [95]

The condition of functioning without a wire or cable attached. For example, a wireless network uses radio frequencies travelling in the air instead of a physical wire to transmit data. [94]

see 802.11 [94]

Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions This package contains the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Linux Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats. The tools in this package only work with kernel versions 2.2.14 and above, and 2.3.24 and above. [3]

Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer [95]

World-wide Information System for r&d Efforts (WWW, IGD) [95]

Simple windowing shell [34]

n. A list of desired features or bug fixes that probably won't get done for a long time, usually because the person responsible for the code is too busy or can't think of a clean way to do it. "OK, I'll add automatic filename completion to the wish list for the new interface." Compare tick-list features. [7]

Simple windowing shell [34]

Wissenschaftliches InformationsSystem fuer den Internationalen Artenschutz (WWW) [95]

The Italian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict/. This package contains an alphabetic list of Italian words. You may wish to use it in conjunction with a program like spell(1) to spell-check an Italian text, or with a program like look(1) for word completion. It may even be used by the sysadmin to look for weak user passwords. [3]

Workstation Interactive Test Tool (IBM) [95]

n. 1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it. 2. The term 'wizard' is also used intransitively of someone who has extremely high-level hacking or problem-solving ability. 3. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system. 4. A Unix expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that 'Unix Wizard' is a recognized job title at some corporations and to most headhunters. See guru, lord high fixer. See also deep magic, heavy wizardry, incantation, magic, mutter, rain dance, voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken. [7]

n. [from rogue] A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges. Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or 'wheel mode' would be used instead). This term is often used with respect to games that have editable state. [7]

WIzard sysOP, "WizOp" [95]

Well Known Services (DNS, Internet) [95]

Yet Another Message Interface On Emacsen. Wanderlust is IMAP4, POP and NNTP client on Emacsen. Wanderlust has many powerful features. - Coding with only Elisp. - MIME support (SEMI or tm) - 3 frames mode(folder, summary, message) - Thread view - Virtual Folder Support - Archived Folder Support - MH local Folder Support - and so on. Wanderlust is needs MULE support with emacsen. [3]

Wireless Local Area Network (LAN, WLAN) [95]

Wireless Local Area Network Alliance (org., WLAN, LAN) [95]

Windows Load Balancing Service (MS, Windows NT) [95]

Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum (org., WLAN, LAN) [95]

Wireless Local Loop [95]

Windows Library Objects [95]

Wafer Level Packaging [95]

White Line Skip (Fax) [95]

Small, unconfigurable window manager wm2 is a window manager for X. It provides an unusual style of window decoration and as little functionality as Chris Cannam feels comfortable with in a window manager. wm2 is not configurable, except by editing the source and recompiling the code, and is really intended for people who don't particularly want their window manager to be too friendly. The "debian menus" functionality has been removed. [3]

Windows Media Audio [CODEC] (MS, Windows, audio, CODEC) [95]

An ACPI battery monitor for WindowMaker (alpha) This is a battery monitor that uses ACPI to query the battery status. As the interface to ACPI changes rather often, this program usually only works with a very specific kernel version. This package is for kernel version 2.4.2 or greater, ACPI subsystem version 20010313 or greater. [3]

NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X Written by Alfredo Kojima (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~kojima) almost from scratch, resembles the NeXTStep look very closely, and it's now an official GNU project. Window Maker is not overloaded with features, and it's easier to configure than most other window managers. Its final goal is to produce a window manager that doesn't require editing of configuration files. Window Maker is fast and doesn't require tons of memory to run. [3]

GTK+ based configuration tool for Window Maker Interactive graphical configuration utility for Window Maker. It offers to configure Window Maker using a mouse driven point and click interface avoiding direct manual editing of its configuration files. There's not much point in installing this program without Window Maker on the system, but I guess there are some circumstances where that's desirable, for example, self-compiled wmaker versions. [3]

Select a window manager at X startup wmanager is a small X11 application for selecting a window manager at X startup. wmanager looks for a file named '.wmmanagerrc' in the user's home directory which contains a list of window managers; you can create such a file with wmanagerrc-update. You can also use wmanager-loop that runs window managers chosen by the user until told to exit. [3]

An APM display program designed for WindowMaker Displays the Advanced Power Management (APM) status of your computer in a small icon. This includes battery or AC operation, battery life remaining (both in percentage and graph), time left until battery-depletion, charging status, and battery status. There's nothing in the program that makes it require WindowMaker, except maybe the look. To use this program you need to enable APM support for your kernel during configuration; the corresponding questions are in the 'Character devices' section. [3]

small NeXTStep-like system load average monitor wmavgload provides CPU load averages integrated over 5 (main window), 30 and 60 seconds. Also, it takes very little space (64x64 square). There's nothing in the program that makes it *require* WindowMaker, i.e. it works great with other window managers. But if you are looking for seamless integration on your desktop, wmavgload may suit your needs. [3]

Display laptop battery info, dockable in WindowMaker Wmbattery displays the status of your laptop's battery in a small icon. This includes if it is plugged in, if the battery is charging, how many minutes of battery life remain, battery life remaining (with both a percentage and a graph), and battery status (high - green, low - yellow, or critical - red). There's nothing in the program that makes it require WindowMaker, except maybe the look. It can be docked in WindowMaker or AfterStep's dock. To use this program you need to enable APM support for your kernel during configuration; the corresponding questions are in the 'Character devices' section. It will only work on laptops with an APM BIOS. [3]

A dockable app that displays information about mailboxes WMBiff is an WindowMaker docking utility, that displays the number of read and unread messages in up to five mailboxes. You can also define actions to execute on new mail arrival (for example, play a sound file), [auto]fetchmail from a remote server or to execute your mail reader with a mouse click. WMBiff also supports notification of incoming Licq messages, so you can put Licq in