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apcupsd => <reply> $who, UPS power management under Linux for APCC Products.. URL: http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/
APE => <reply> $who, APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc.. URL: http://www.voxilla.org/projects/projape.html
aperts => <reply> $who, The APE class framework for Real Time Streaming. URL: ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/arts/aperts-0.1.1.tar.gz
APIsingularity => <reply> $who, Portable OpenGL C++ API based on GLUT. URL: http://www.enteract.com/~pas/
apmd => <reply> $who, Set of tools for managing notebook power consumption. URL: http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/
Apollo => <reply> $who, Svgalib Multiplayer Gravity Game. URL: http://members.xoom.com/jopman/
App => <reply> $who, Algebraic Typing and Pattern Matching Preprocessor for C++. URL: http://www.primenet.com/~georgen/app.html
Appindex browser => <reply> $who, Simple ncurses-based Freshmeat appindex.txt browser. URL: http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/appindex/
Appletalk Configurator => <reply> $who, GTK+ GUI for Netatalk package. URL: http://members.yourlink.net/aaron/atalkconf.html
Applix SHELF => <reply> $who, An embedable fully featured programming language for Linux. URL: http://www.applixware.org
Applixware => <reply> $who, Integrated suite of desktop productivity tools.. URL: http://linux.applixware.com/
APRIL => <reply> $who, Agent Process Interaction Language. URL: http://www.nar.fla.com/Activities/Programming/APRIL/april.html
aproxy => <reply> $who, Forwarding TCP-Proxy. URL: http://www.dilledabb.de/projects/aproxy.html
APSEND => <reply> $who, TCP/IP packet sender. URL: http://elxsi.axxs.de/
apsfilter => <reply> $who, Intelligent line printer input filter. URL: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/apsfilter/
apt-find => <reply> $who, AptFind is an ncurses interface for finding and installing packages using APT.. URL: ftp://ftp.circlefx.com/apt-find/
aptilis => <reply> $who, Free CGI space with a new easier language. URL: http://www.glaine.net/
arc => <reply> $who, arc produces Java classes from ASN.1 source code. URL: http://www.forge.com.au/
arcem => <reply> $who, An Acorn Archimedes emulator for Un*x. URL: http://eh.org/~penguin42/
ARCH => <reply> $who, Object-oriented library of tools for MP machine and networkprogramming. URL: http://lagaffe.cpe.fr/~arch/
ard => <reply> $who, auto renice daemon. URL: http://www.estec.net/ard
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ascpu => <reply> $who, A CPU load monitor.. URL: http://bewoner.dma.be/Albert/afterstep/
asDrinks => <reply> $who, News headlines from nerd/UNIX type sites in your AfterStep startmenu. URL: http://diablonet.net/~ishamael/
asexec => <reply> $who, AfterStep state machine. URL: ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/apps/asexec/
asfatm => <reply> $who, Hardware monitoring wharf/dock app. URL: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~turnet1/
asGin => <reply> $who, Linux Today headlines in your AfterStep root menu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1
asmail => <reply> $who, Asmail is a. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/mn/asmail
asmem => <reply> $who, Memory utilization monitor for X.. URL: http://bewoner.dma.be/Albert/afterstep/
asmon => <reply> $who, Afterstep or Window Maker CPU/Load/Mem/etc Meter. URL: http://rio.dhs.org/asmon/
asmounter => <reply> $who, An all-purpose mounter designed for the AfterStep window manager.. URL: http://www.cit.nepean.uws.edu.au/~dtaylor/linux/asmounter.html
asmutils => <reply> $who, A set of different utilities for Linux/i386 written in assembly language. URL: http://lightning.voshod.com/asm/
asNews => <reply> $who, Simple news retrieving software which shows the news on your desktop. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2075/new/asNews.html
asp2php => <reply> $who, Converts Active Server Pages (ASP) to PHP3 scripts. URL: http://home.i1.net/~naken/asp2php/
aspbm => <reply> $who, AfterStep Phone bill monitor. URL: http://ip.pt/~ip241956/aspbm/aspbm.html
Aspell => <reply> $who, Intelligent Spell Checker. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/
asRum => <reply> $who, segfault.org headlines in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/asr.html
asScotch => <reply> $who, The days UserFriendly comic strip in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/
asTequila => <reply> $who, The AfterStep Resource Page (TARP) headlines in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/
astime => <reply> $who, Analogue clock for X windows. URL: http://bewoner.dma.be/Albert/afterstep/
Astuner-Aztech => <reply> $who, Afterstep Wharf tuner for Aztech radio cards. URL: http://aztech.exploits.org/
ASV Bible Viewer => <reply> $who, Text of ASV Bible and viewer program.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/1376/
asVodka => <reply> $who, Puts the latest Slashdot headlines in your AfterStep rootmenu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/ishamae1/asv.html
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cgic => <reply> $who, An ANSI C-language library for the creation of CGI-based World Wide Web. URL: http://www.boutell.com/cgic/
CGICQ => <reply> $who, A CGI Application that sends CGI input to a configurable UIN.. URL: http://aurore.net/source/cgicq.html
cgiexec => <reply> $who, CGI program to execute an Unix command line from the web. URL: http://www.phystech.com/download/cgiexec.html
CGIGEN => <reply> $who, CGI program generator that produces C programs. URL: http://cgigen.sentuny.com.au/
cgilib => <reply> $who, A simple programming interface to CGI and Cookies.. URL: http://www.infodrom.north.de/cgilib/
CGILua => <reply> $who, CGILua is a tool for developing dynamic Web pages.. URL: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/cgilua/
CGIProxy => <reply> $who, Anonymizing, filter-bypassing HTTP proxy in a CGI script (in Perl). URL: http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/
CGIWrap => <reply> $who, Wrapper for securely allowing all users to use CGI scripts. URL: http://www.unixtools.org/cgiwrap/
CGM Viewer Applet => <reply> $who, Scriptable vector graphics viewer written in Java.. URL: http://www.online.de/home/bdaum/howto.htm
cgvg => <reply> $who, Tools for command-line source browsing.. URL: http://linux.ucla.edu/~uzi/cgvg.html
Chameleon => <reply> $who, X utility to customize desktop colors. URL: ftp://ftp.lagged.net/pub/software/
Chaperon memory access checker => <reply> $who, Checks memory accesses for bad behavior. URL: http://www.BitWagon.com/chaperon.html
chbg => <reply> $who, Desktop background changer and manager. URL: http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/chbg/
CHC => <reply> $who, Columbia House Play Club Catalog Browser. URL: http://www.dnc.net/users/collver/chc.tar.gz
Chebyshev => <reply> $who, Engine for forwarding email service (w/spam filtering). URL: http://www.jab.org/cheb
check-ps => <reply> $who, Reports or kills processes 'hidden' from the system administrator. URL: http://checkps.alcom.co.uk/
Check.pl => <reply> $who, Filesystem permission auditing tool. URL: http://opop.nols.com/
Checker => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/checker/checker.html
checkhosts.pl => <reply> $who, Tool for verifying your /etc/hosts file to an arbitrary nameserver.. URL: http://www.cs.dal.ca/~stern/
Checklinks => <reply> $who, HTML link checker that supports SSI, many Apache options, and more (in Perl 5). URL: http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cl/
Checkmail => <reply> $who, A POP3 email checking tcl script.. URL: http://www.icehouse.net/kevinl
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CoCo Linux Utilities => <reply> $who, Utility collection to handle Tandy Color Computer files. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~brihall/
Coconut Webmail Pro => <reply> $who, Fully featured web based email system. URL: http://www.coconutsoftware.com/
Cocoon => <reply> $who, XML to HTML converter. URL: http://java.apache.org/
coda => <reply> $who, Full featured network filesystem. URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
codd => <reply> $who, Code contribution analysis tool.. URL: http://www.vipul.net/perl/
Code Breaker => <reply> $who, MasterMind clone.. URL: http://www.cs.nmt.edu/~mberg/programming/codebreaker/
Code Crusader => <reply> $who, complete code development environment, inspired by MetroWerks CodeWarrior. URL: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/
Code Medic => <reply> $who, UNIX Debugging Environment. URL: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~glenn/medic/
code2html => <reply> $who, Converts a program's source code to syntax highlighted HTML. URL: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/code2html/
CodeBase => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.sequiter.com/
CodeWarrior => <reply> $who, Professional, industrial-strength IDE that integrates with EGCS/GNU coding tools. URL: http://www.metrowerks.com/desktop/linux/gnu/
Codewizard/Java => <reply> $who, Improves and standardizes your Java[tm] code-automatically.. URL: http://www.parasoft.com/products/wizard/java/
CoffeeCup HTML Editor for Linux => <reply> $who, Powerful GTK HTML Editor. URL: http://www.coffeecup.com/linux/
Cohesion => <reply> $who, Java-based Plugable Application Framework, including Modelling Plugin and others. URL: http://europa.it.swin.edu.au/teamb/
Coin => <reply> $who, 3D graphics library with Open Inventor API. URL: http://www.sim.no/coin.html
coldread => <reply> $who, A test-scoring and fortune-telling application.. URL: http://coldread.siteless.com/
ColdStore => <reply> $who, gigabyte-scale persistent object store. URL: http://coldstore.linuxbox.com/
ColdSync => <reply> $who, PalmPilot synchronization tool. URL: http://www.ooblick.com/software/coldsync/
cole => <reply> $who, A free C OLE library. URL: http://arturo.directmail.org/filtersweb/
Collaborative Virtual Workspace => <reply> $who, CVW takes virtual meetings one step further. URL: http://cvw.mitre.org/
colorgcc => <reply> $who, Cutomizable Perl wrapper to colorize gcc/g++ messages.. URL: http://home.i1.net/~jamoyers/software/
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Dejafilter => <reply> $who, Content-filtering CGI-based proxy script for Deja.com queries. URL: http://industrialsoftworks.com/dejafilter.php3
DejaSearch => <reply> $who, DejaSearch is a frontend to DejaNews, the leading Usenet archive. URL: http://homemade.hypermart.net/dejasearch/
Delay => <reply> $who, Delay is like sleep, but with a count of time left.. URL: http://onegeek.org/~tom/software/delay/
DeleGate => <reply> $who, Multi-purpose application level gateway (proxy). URL: http://wall.etl.go.jp/delegate/
Deliver => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.pobox.com/~chip/
demcd => <reply> $who, CDPlayer for Linux. URL: http://demcd.virtualave.net/
dennis => <reply> $who, Automated DNS builder. URL: http://www.carumba.com/code/dennis/
Dents => <reply> $who, Well-designed nameserver which aims to be completely standards comformant. URL: http://www.dents.org/
dep.pl => <reply> $who, Check dependencies of multiple files.. URL: http://home.lonyay.edu.hu/~mhp/dep/
Deskmate! => <reply> $who, A new and improved Desktop friend to keep you company. URL: http://kijo.net/linux.shtml
desktop_stream.pl => <reply> $who, A Perl script for making screenshots available on the Web.. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/desktopstream/
DeuTex => <reply> $who, Doom wad composer/decomposer. URL: http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/deutex/
devfs patch => <reply> $who, Device FileSystem for Linux kernel. URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html
devo => <reply> $who, Perl script to convert MS Windows themes to KDE themes. URL: http://www.circle-path.org/garrett/tech/devo.html
dfcolor => <reply> $who, Colourized df with graph and monitoring option. URL: http://www.macroshaft.org/iggie/scripts/ugh/site/
dfm => <reply> $who, Filemanager like OS/2 WPS. URL: http://dfm.linuxbox.com/
DForum => <reply> $who, a simple website discussion forum written in Perl. URL: http://www.dansteinman.com/dforum/
DGen/SDL => <reply> $who, DGen Sega Genesis emulator, ported to SDL. URL: http://www.humboldt1.com/~ognir/dgen-sdl.html
DGPS => <reply> $who, Real time and post processed DGPS software. URL: http://www.wombat.ie/gps/
Dharma ODBC SDK => <reply> $who, Linux based ODBC software development kit (SDK). URL: http://www.dharma.com/
DHARMI => <reply> $who, Tinker-toy like modelling language featuring living data. URL: http://www.erols.com/panda
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Executor => <reply> $who, Allows you to run your Macintosh applications on PCs. URL: http://www.ardi.com/
exepak => <reply> $who, Linux ELF executable packer.. URL: http://zurk.netpedia.net/zfile.html
ExeterXML Server => <reply> $who, Web Server that applies server-side style sheets to XML. URL: http://www.xmls.com/products/xmlserver.html
Exim => <reply> $who, Message Transfer Agent for Unix systems. URL: http://www.exim.org
Exmh => <reply> $who, An X user interface for MH mail. URL: http://www.beedub.com/exmh/
expat => <reply> $who, XML Parser Toolkit. URL: http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html
Expect => <reply> $who, . URL: http://expect.nist.gov/
exphack => <reply> $who, Wrapper script for nethack to find a. URL: ftp://lathi.myip.org/pub/exphack/
Explore2fs => <reply> $who, A win32 explorer for Linux ext2 partitions.. URL: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
exportsql => <reply> $who, Export all tables in a MS-Access database file to SQL command files. URL: http://www.cynergi.net/exportsql/
Express => <reply> $who, Open source web browser being part of the GNOME desktop project. URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/express/
exscan => <reply> $who, An enhanced network/Internet port scan utility. URL: http://exscan.netpedia.net/exscan.html
ext2-os2 => <reply> $who, Ext2 filesystem support for OS/2. URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2/
ext2resize => <reply> $who, Resizes ext2 filesystems. URL: http://www.dsv.nl/~buytenh/ext2resize/
eXtace => <reply> $who, ESD FFT visual plugin, eye-candy. URL: http://techdev.buffalostate.edu/~dave/extace/
Extern_Link => <reply> $who, Adds informational window to links of an HTML page. URL: http://perso.easynet.fr/~jguellec/program/perl/extern_link/extern_link_english.htm
Extreme Wave => <reply> $who, A libre 3d modeler being developed for Linux.. URL: http://agnews.tamu.edu/~jpalmer/ewave/
Exult => <reply> $who, Ultima 7 world viewer. URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/5080/
Eye of Gnome => <reply> $who, The GNOME image viewing and cataloging program. URL: http://www.gnome.org/
ez-ip-update.pl => <reply> $who, Update script for ez-ip.net accounts. URL: ftp://ftp.ez-ip.net/clients/unix/perl/ez-ip-update-v1.4.tar.gz
ez-ipupdate => <reply> $who, utility for updating the dynamic DNS service offered at http://www.ez-ip.net. URL: http://www.gusnet.cx/proj/ez-ipupdate/
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Firewall Manager => <reply> $who, Graphical interface for Firewalls. URL: http://www.tectrip.net/arg/
fix-rhcd => <reply> $who, Tool for creating your own Red Hat Linux CDR from the ftp site.. URL: http://www.ajusd.org/~edward/fix-rhcd/
flarE => <reply> $who, epplet that calls bottlerocket to control X10 devices. URL: http://athena.student.umd.edu/
Flash => <reply> $who, Secure menuing shell for restricting local unix users. URL: http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/flash/
Flash 4 Plugin for Netscape => <reply> $who, Flash 4 plugin for Netscape. URL: http://www.macromedia.com/
Flash Mount Menu => <reply> $who, Automounter/umounter. URL: http://lonestar.bizland.com/
Flash Web Server => <reply> $who, A fast, portable web server that performs aggressive caching. URL: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vivek/flash/
Flashback => <reply> $who, Flashback is an mp3 visualization program.. URL: http://deadzone.student.umd.edu/flashback/news.pl
fletch => <reply> $who, Non interactive, multiplexing FTP/HTTP client.. URL: http://vipul.net/perl/
flexbackup => <reply> $who, Flexible backup script. URL: http://members.home.com/flexbackup/
FlexButtonZ => <reply> $who, Make desktop buttons in X from shellscripts.. URL: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~buttonz/
Flight Gear => <reply> $who, Flight simulator. URL: http://www.flightgear.org/
flip => <reply> $who, Page-flipper for previewing TIFF sequence animations.. URL: http://www.reptilelabour.com/
flmake => <reply> $who, Graphical user interface for make , compiler output and nedit. URL: http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/fltk/
Flog => <reply> $who, ftpd log analyzer. URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ajoshi/
flow => <reply> $who, Particle animation software with GL preview and Renderman output.. URL: http://www.reptilelabour.com/
Flowersol => <reply> $who, Oonsoo and other flower card games for PySol. URL: http://www.inetarena.com/~grania/
FLS => <reply> $who, Library catalog/circulation system. URL: http://www.dorm4.org/~fuzz/fls/
flshutdown => <reply> $who, graphical shutdown application. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~aiel/flshutdown/
fltags => <reply> $who, GUI frontend for Exhuberant Ctags. URL: http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/fltk/fltags.html
FLTK => <reply> $who, C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL. URL: http://www.fltk.org/
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gbe => <reply> $who, gbe is a gameboy emulator for X and SVGAlib. URL: http://emu.simplenet.com/gb/gbe/
gbeta => <reply> $who, Advanced OO language. URL: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~eernst/gbeta/
GBlippie => <reply> $who, User interface functionality extension to Gtk/GNOME.. URL: http://GBlippie.mini.dhs.org/
gbox_applet => <reply> $who, mbox watcher. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~crunchy/linux/gbox_applet.html
GBuffy => <reply> $who, A GTK+ multiple mailbox monitor program. URL: http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/
gbuild => <reply> $who, build tool to automate cvs update, compilation, and packaging. URL: http://www.cryon.com/gbuild/
GCache => <reply> $who, Generic cache class for Python. URL: ftp://minkirri.apana.org.au/pub/python/GCache-0.1.tar.bz2
gcc => <reply> $who, . URL: http://egcs.cygnus.com/
GCD => <reply> $who, A cd-player with a gtk+ interface. URL: http://www.nostatic.org/grip/
Gcdplay => <reply> $who, GPL'ed CD player with local and server-based cddb support.. URL: http://www.korax.net/~mglisic/gcdplay/index.html
gchbkgrd => <reply> $who, Program to constantly change the desktop's background. URL: http://www.bitdaddy.com/~mono/gchbkgrd/
GChip8 => <reply> $who, An interpreter/emulator for the CHIP8 virtual machine.. URL: http://cerealbox.angel.nu/gchip8.html
GClipper => <reply> $who, A multiple buffer clipboard that automatically fetches new selections.. URL: http://thunderstorms.org/gclipper/gclipper-1.1.tar.gz
GCO => <reply> $who, A database for keeping track of your comic collection.. URL: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~maxx/html/maxximum-linux.html
gcombust => <reply> $who, gtk+ frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord. URL: http://www.iki.fi/jmunsin/gcombust
GCompte => <reply> $who, A program to keep track of your finances. URL: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/gcompte/
GConf => <reply> $who, Configuration storage library, like libproplist or the Windows Registry. URL: ftp://ftp.gnome.org:/pub/GNOME/sources/GConf/GConf-0.1.tar.gz
Gconfig => <reply> $who, A router configuration tool. URL: http://www.employees.org/~stannous/gconfig.html
gd => <reply> $who, A library used to create PNG images. URL: http://www.boutell.com/gd/
GDB => <reply> $who, GDB, The GNU Debugger. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/
gdbm => <reply> $who, GNU database library for C. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html
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GECCO => <reply> $who, A graphical application base for system configuration. URL: http://members.tripod.com/veeev/index.html
gEDA => <reply> $who, gEDA is an collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design,. URL: http://www.geda.seul.org
gEdit => <reply> $who, GTK+ based text editor. URL: http://gedit.pn.org/
Geek Code Generator => <reply> $who, Generates a Geek Code using a series of qeustions. URL: http://seymour.napalm.net/geekcode.html
Geeknews.Org Headline Grabber => <reply> $who, A Perl script to grab headlines from Geeknews.Org.. URL: http://www.srijith.net/perl/
geektalkd => <reply> $who, Simple, yet extendable chat server. URL: http://www.geektalk.org/
gefax => <reply> $who, Frontend for efax. URL: http://www.konqui.de/
geg => <reply> $who, Simple GTK+ 2D-function plotting program. URL: http://www.infolaunch.com/~daveb/
Geheimnis => <reply> $who, A KDE shell for GPG/PGP2/PGP5. URL: http://members.home.com/cdwiegand/geheimnis/
Gem Drop X => <reply> $who, A fast-paced puzzle game. URL: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/gemdropx/
GEM/3 => <reply> $who, GUI desktop environment produced by Digital Research. URL: http://www.devili.iki.fi/cpm/gemworld.html
GEMTA => <reply> $who, Convenience library for mutithreaded apps using glib. URL: http://surazal.nerp.net/fractals/eoti/
GemVT => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.SoftHome.net/pub/users/timj/gemvt/index.htm
Generic Colouriser => <reply> $who, Colourises any files or outputs of commands.. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/grc.html
Generic Graphical Server Daemon => <reply> $who, Generic Graphical Server Daemon. URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/files.html
Generic Information Server Toolkit => <reply> $who, GIST is a free tool kit for the development of interactive web sites. URL: http://gist.jrc.it/
Generic Multithreaded Server Class => <reply> $who, C++ c;lass implementing a generic multithreaded server. URL: http://www.concentric.net/~myers1/MTServer/
Generic NQS => <reply> $who, The Leading OpenSource Batch Processing System For UNIX. URL: http://www.gnqs.org/
Genes => <reply> $who, Personal genealogy database. URL: http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~slambo/genes/
GeneWeb => <reply> $who, A combo web interface and genealogy program combined on steroids. URL: http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/
gengetopt => <reply> $who, Easy generate a C `main' function that uses `getopt_long' to parse given options. URL: http://arturo.directmail.org/code/gengetopt/
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GnomePM => <reply> $who, GNOME equivilent of the Yahoo! (C) Java Portfolio Manager. URL: http://tigris.sonicom.net/projects/gnome-pm.html
GnomeSensors => <reply> $who, GNOME Panel hardware sensors display applet. URL: http://www.brendy.addr.com/linux/gnomesensors
gnometool => <reply> $who, Tiny perl program to manage Gnome CVS modules. URL: http://gnometool.cgabriel.communitech.net/
GnomeTREK => <reply> $who, Search tool for the 1998 Star Trek Encyclopedia.. URL: http://atlas.cs.york.ac.uk/~lrpm100/projects/
gnommind => <reply> $who, A GNOME version of the Master Mind game.. URL: http://webdat.com/seb/gtkmmind.html
Gnomoku => <reply> $who, Gomoku game for X and GTK. URL: http://cactus.rulez.org/debs/gnomoku_0.19990128.orig.tar.gz
GnOpenGL3ds => <reply> $who, GNOME 3DS file viewer. URL: http://www.ifrance.coom/yburgevin/
GnoRPM => <reply> $who, A graphical front end to the Redhat package managementsystem. URL: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/
GnoSamba => <reply> $who, Gtk front end to configuring Samba. URL: http://www.open-systems.com/gnosamba.html
gnotepad+ => <reply> $who, An easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple text editor. URL: http://ack.netpedia.net/gnp/
GNotes => <reply> $who, Allows you to place cool little yellow sticky notes all over your desktop. URL: http://www.angelfire.com/sk/gnomestuff/
GNotes! => <reply> $who, A nifty GNOME Panel applet that allows you to create notes on your desktop.. URL: http://www.netcom.com/~spoon/gnotes.html
Gnotline => <reply> $who, GTK+ hotline client. URL: http://www.rpi.edu/~thompe2/gnotline/gnotline.html
gntedit => <reply> $who, GTK+ NES Tile Editor. URL: http://emu.simplenet.com/misc/gntedit/
GNU Ada => <reply> $who, Ada95 Compiler frontend based on gcc and Tools.. URL: http://www.gnuada.org/
GNU Animation Multimedia Entertainment System (GAMES) => <reply> $who, collection of libraries for game and graphics development under Unix. URL: http://members.xoom.com/bitwize
GNU awk => <reply> $who, a pattern scanning and processing language. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/gawk.html
GNU C library => <reply> $who, The GNU C library is used as the C library in the GNU system. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
GNU cfengine => <reply> $who, A tool for administering Networks of Diverse Machines. URL: http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/
GNU Chess => <reply> $who, A computer program which plays the Game of Chess.. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html
GNU Classpath => <reply> $who, Free implementation of the Java core class libraries. URL: http://www.classpath.org/
GNU Ghostscript => <reply> $who, Provides an interpreter for the PostScript language, and a set of C procedures. URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gnu/
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gtaskman => <reply> $who, A process manager for X using GTK+. URL: http://darkchild.home.dhs.org/gtaskman/
gTaskMgr => <reply> $who, Task Manager for X11 written in GTK. URL: http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/OpenSoft/gtaskmgr.shtml
GTC => <reply> $who, Game Programming Library. URL: http://gtc.seul.org/
gTempConv => <reply> $who, Small utility for conversion between misc. URL: http://sites.inka.de/~W1752/gtc/
GTerm => <reply> $who, Abstract terminal emulator core (VT102/VT52). URL: ftp://www.techsource.com/gtermv09.tar
GTetrinet => <reply> $who, A clone of the game Tetrinet.. URL: http://gtetrinet.netpedia.net/
GTExplorer => <reply> $who, A game theory visualization tool. URL: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliphant/gte
gTick => <reply> $who, GTK+ based metronome. URL: http://bsenet.cjb.net/gtick
GTimer => <reply> $who, Scheduler for your personal activities. URL: http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/gtimer/
GTK File Browser => <reply> $who, Small, fast, lightweight, GTK File Browser. URL: http://members.tripod.com/Yarick/FileBrowser.html
GTK H3O.net Headline Viewer => <reply> $who, Headline grabber for your Linux desktop.. URL: http://www.h3o.net/h3o4/bin/gtk.h3opoll.tgz
GTK MikMod => <reply> $who, An advanced multi-threaded module player.. URL: http://www.gnugeneration.com/
Gtk See => <reply> $who, An image viewer based on the X-Window system and GTK+. URL: http://hotaru.clinuxworld.com/gtksee/
Gtk Undo Library => <reply> $who, A multilevel undo/redo facility for GTK.. URL: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/software/undo.html
GTK xset => <reply> $who, GTK xset is a graphical frontend to xset(1), based on GTK+. URL: http://www.seindal.dk/rene/software/gxset/
GTK+ => <reply> $who, Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces. URL: http://www.gtk.org/
GTK+ MAGIC => <reply> $who, Realtime Configuration Environment for GTK+. URL: http://209.201.55.167/gtkmagic/
GTK+ Metal Theme => <reply> $who, Java Metal look-and-feel theme engine for GTK+ 1.1.2.. URL: http://www.integrand.com
GTK+XFce => <reply> $who, Easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11. URL: http://www.xfce.org/
Gtk-- => <reply> $who, C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.. URL: http://lazy.ton.tut.fi/gtk--/gtk--.html
Gtk--Draw => <reply> $who, Gtk-- add-on library for drawing and plotting. URL: http://www.gnome.org/guppi/
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gViewConfig => <reply> $who, GTK system information program. URL: http://www.goupil.linuxfr.org/downloads/
GVM => <reply> $who, Generic Virtual Machine for Perl. URL: http://www.sabren.com/code/gvm/
gvnd => <reply> $who, Graphical Unix information/network environment. URL: http://www.purerave.com/~visualnet/gvn.html
GVoice => <reply> $who, Voice control for Gtk/GNOME applications. URL: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/gnome/gvoice/
Gwget => <reply> $who, gwget is a Gtk+ front-end for the wget program.. URL: http://usuarios.meridian.es/frimost1/gwget/gwget.htm
gwsearch => <reply> $who, Gnome web search engine front-end. URL: http://gwsearch.netpedia.net/
Gwydion Dylan => <reply> $who, Compiler for Dylan, an dynamic, efficient, object-oriented language. URL: http://www.gwydiondylan.org/
Gwydion Dylan MySQL interface => <reply> $who, An interface to the mySQL RDMBS for Gwydion Dylan. URL: ftp://berlin.ccc.de/pub/gd/contributions/gd-mysql-0.1.tar.gz
gx10 => <reply> $who, X10 controller. URL: http://www.thestuff.net/bob/projects/gx10/
GXAnim => <reply> $who, GTK+ front end for Xanim movie player. URL: http://www.iag.net/~aleris/gxanim.html
GXdesktop => <reply> $who, . URL: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/gxdesktop.html
GXedit => <reply> $who, Simple GPL'ed graphical editor using GTK. URL: http://users.linuxbox.com/~drow/GXedit/
GXF86vidmode => <reply> $who, Change your video mode when using a XFree86 X server. URL: http://itactics.com/~rgwood/GXF86vidmode/doc/
gxsnmp => <reply> $who, snmp managment frontend. URL: http://www.gxsnmp.org
gxTar => <reply> $who, Gnome/GTK+ front-end to tar/gzip/zip. URL: http://gxtar.netpedia.net/
Gyahtzee => <reply> $who, gnomified version of yahtzee. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7731/gyahtzee.html
GyrosCoPe => <reply> $who, GTK colour picker for HTML documents. URL: http://www.millar.u-net.com/gyroscope.html
GYVE => <reply> $who, A vector-based drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw. URL: http://www.maru.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp/~sanchan/gyve/
Gzilla => <reply> $who, Free web browser written in the GTK+ framework. URL: http://www.gzilla.com/
gzip => <reply> $who, GNU compression utility (replacement for compress). URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
H3O.net for Web Developers => <reply> $who, Perl frontend to the H3O.net backend.. URL: http://www.h3o.net/h3o4/bin/h3grab.tgz
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joe => <reply> $who, A Free ASCII-Text Screen Editor for UNIX. URL: ftp://ftp.std.com/src/editors/
John the Ripper => <reply> $who, Password cracker to detect weak UNIX passwords. URL: http://www.openwall.com/john/
Johnson Keyboard => <reply> $who, Hacker's keyboard layout for X-Windows. URL: http://www.boswa.com/johnson.html
jonama => <reply> $who, SSL proxy. URL: http://www.multimania.com/jonama/
Jons Simple Server => <reply> $who, A TCL interpreter for creating simple server applications. URL: http://uv.net/~jon/
Jooky => <reply> $who, MP3 controller with a foreground curses client, or background client/server.. URL: http://soomka.com/
Journal => <reply> $who, A text-based journal/diary.. URL: http://soapbox.fissure.org/journal/journal.html
journyx Timesheet => <reply> $who, Timesheet software via the web. URL: http://www.journyx.com/
Joy2Key => <reply> $who, Translate joystick movements into keyboard events (X and console). URL: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/joy2key/
Joydesk => <reply> $who, Web-based Groupware. URL: http://joydesk.com/
jpilot => <reply> $who, Palm pilot desktop software for Linux. URL: http://jpilot.linuxbox.com/
jPOS => <reply> $who, 100% java ISO-8583/ANSI X9.2 implementation. URL: http://www.cs.com.uy/jPOS/
jProc => <reply> $who, CGI and a Java applet that present some of /proc data in an HTML interface.. URL: http://www.tansodesign.com/sasha/jProc/
jpub => <reply> $who, Integrated platform for intranets with OS like features. URL: http://www.jpub.de
JPython => <reply> $who, Java reimplementation of the Python programming language. URL: http://www.jpython.org/
JRun => <reply> $who, JSP Engine. URL: http://www.allaire.com/products/jrun/
JSBeautifier => <reply> $who, Free, small and fast automatic indention for Java source files. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~davidsont/jstyle/jsbeautifier.html
jsd => <reply> $who, Joystick daemon/mp3 player/image viewer. URL: http://linux.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/jsd.html
JSetiTracker => <reply> $who, Java Add-On Client for SETI@home. URL: http://zap.to/jsetitracker/
JSF => <reply> $who, GUI Front end to SpeakFreely audio conferencing tool.. URL: http://www.germane-software.com/SpeakFreely/jsf/index.html
JSFormatter => <reply> $who, Free style-formatter for Java source files. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~davidsont/jstyle/jsformatter.html
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k12admin-client => <reply> $who, A web-based server administration tool for K-12 school systems (client package).. URL: http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca/
k12admin-server => <reply> $who, A web-based server administration tool for K-12 school systems (server package).. URL: http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca/
k3de => <reply> $who, 3Deditor for the KDE which generates sources for POVray. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/graphics/
K4DE => <reply> $who, 3d-Editor for KDE with poor animation and sound posibilities.. URL: http://www.k4de.de/
kaffe => <reply> $who, Complete, PersonalJava 1.1 compliant Java environment. URL: http://www.kaffe.org/
KAGENT => <reply> $who, A simple and extensible mail filter. URL: http://patriot.net/~kurt/kagent/
Kalendar => <reply> $who, Simple, easy to use calendar and to-do list manager. URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~kalendar/index.html
Kalinux => <reply> $who, Online gaming system to find other gamers online.. URL: http://www.kali.net/
Kam => <reply> $who, . URL: http://wetap8.physik.uni-mainz.de/kam/
KanjiPad => <reply> $who, Look up Japanese characters through handwriting. URL: http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/kanjipad/
Kapm => <reply> $who, An APM-BIOS monitor for the KDE desktop.. URL: http://bodnar42.dhs.org/kapm
Karchiveur => <reply> $who, A little archiver for KDE, like ark but more powerful. URL: http://www-mips.unice.fr/~biederd/eric/karchiveur_en.shtml
karma => <reply> $who, Oracle Database Monitor. URL: http://www.panix.com/~shull/karma/index.html
karpski => <reply> $who, Network sniffer/scanner with a GTK interface. URL: http://mojo.calyx.net/~btx/karpski.html
katchit => <reply> $who, KDE Game (strategy). URL: http://perso.club-internet.fr/p_george/katchit.html
Katy => <reply> $who, Text editor inspired by UltraEdit. URL: http://members.xoom.com/doxxx/katy.html
kautorun => <reply> $who, a KDE panel-docking CDROM automounter. URL: http://parzelle.de/Linux/Applications/kautorun
Kazlib => <reply> $who, Robust ANSI C data structure library.. URL: http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/kazlib.html
KBackup => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/KBackup/
kBag => <reply> $who, Synchronizes your documents between one computer and another.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/Kir_Smirnov/kBag/index.html
kbd => <reply> $who, Keytable files and keyboard utilities. URL: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/utils/kbd/
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kcmlaptop => <reply> $who, Puts battery control in the KDE panel, starts command when low battery.. URL: http://www.taniwha.com/laptop
KCommander => <reply> $who, Windows Commander Clone for KDE. URL: http://www.linuxcoding.de/projektKcom_en.htm
KCron => <reply> $who, KDE Task Scheduler. URL: http://gary.meyer.net/
kcrontab => <reply> $who, Crontab editor for KDE. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/admin/
kcyradm => <reply> $who, . URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/utils/kcyradm-0.1.tar.gz
KDat => <reply> $who, Tar based tape archiver. URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/qweb/kdat/
kdb => <reply> $who, Built-in Kernel Debugger. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/slurn_engr/
kdbg => <reply> $who, A graphical KDE front end to the GDB debugger. URL: http://members.telecom.at/~johsixt/kdbg.html
kdc2tiff => <reply> $who, Convert from Kodak .kdc file to .tiff or .jpg. URL: http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/cstudhol/unix/software/kdc2tiff/kdc2tiff.tar.gz
kdcpi => <reply> $who, Program to download pictures from a Kodak DC200/DC210 Digital Camera. URL: http://www.berkhirt.com/HomerProductions/products/kdcpi/
KDE => <reply> $who, Powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations.. URL: http://www.kde.org/
kde2wm => <reply> $who, Translate the KDE-style links into links in wmconfig-style. URL: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/kde2wm/index-en.html
kdem => <reply> $who, OpenGL Digital Elevation Model (DEM) viewer for the KDE.. URL: http://home.i1.net/~jamoyers/kdem/
kdepopup => <reply> $who, Send and receive messages via Samba. URL: http://www.franken.de/users/duffy1/rjakob/
KDEStudio => <reply> $who, IDE for Linux. URL: http://www.chat.ru/~kdestudio/index.html
kdesu => <reply> $who, A KDE front end to the UNIX su(1) command.. URL: http://www.stack.nl/~geertj/kde/kdesu.html
KDevelop => <reply> $who, KDevelop is a new C++ development environment for Unix/X11.. URL: http://www.kdevelop.org/
kdf => <reply> $who, KDE frontend to df (status of disks), gives you quick access to all drives.. URL: http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mkropfbe/
kdiald => <reply> $who, KDE interface to diald and pppd. URL: http://www.dinkytoy.nis.za/
Kdict => <reply> $who, KDE client program for the DICT server (dict.org).. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~gebauerc/kdict/
kdiff => <reply> $who, A KDE frontend to diff, a utility to make patches.. URL: http://home.braunschweig.netsurf.de/~matthias.hipp/html/kdiff.htm
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KIllustrator => <reply> $who, Vector drawing program for KDE. URL: http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sattler/killustrator.html
Kim => <reply> $who, The Kim is interactive process manager for OS Linux.. URL: http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/kim/
Kimon => <reply> $who, An ISDN-monitor for the K Desktop Environment. URL: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~dahlweid/kimon.html
KInetEd => <reply> $who, Configure inetd (network daemon) using a KDE GUI.. URL: http://krutov.sax.hks.se/source/kineted-0.8.tar.gz
King of the Hill => <reply> $who, Full client/server multiplayer artillery game in the scorched earth tradition. URL: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/koth/
Kingfig => <reply> $who, Config file configuration utility. URL: http://kingfig.netpedia.net/
Kingpin => <reply> $who, Kingpin Full Linux Client Port. URL: http://www.xatrix.com
kinst => <reply> $who, Application Installer for KDE. URL: http://members.xoom.com/stevedany/steffen/kinst_1_en.htm
Kinstall => <reply> $who, Program installator from source. URL: http://home.retribution.net/products/kinstall/index.php3
Kiosk => <reply> $who, A WWW Based MySQL database manager. URL: http://www.icaap.org/software/kiosk/
kIRC => <reply> $who, IRC client for Unix running X Windows and the KDE desktop environment. URL: http://x.unicom.net/kirc/
kISDN => <reply> $who, ISDN configuration and monitoring GUI. URL: http://www.millenniumx.de
KISDNLoad => <reply> $who, . URL: http://wetap8.physik.uni-mainz.de/sas/kisdnload/index.html
KIshido => <reply> $who, A KDE board game based on Ishido from an Atari LYNX. URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~tabbycat/
KisoCD => <reply> $who, KDE frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord. URL: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~um12/
KiT => <reply> $who, . URL: http://kit.tpu.org/
Kit Client => <reply> $who, KDE-based client for the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service.. URL: http://h.jettero.tripod.com/kit.html
Kitcat => <reply> $who, Cirque cat touchpad mouse driver for X. URL: http://nebby.dhs.org/kitcat/
KJukeBox => <reply> $who, KJukeBox is an MP3 Player which can handle big MP3 archives. URL: http://third.informatik.uni-kl.de/~rainer/KJukeBox/index.html
Kkb => <reply> $who, Xkb layout and group changer and indicator. URL: http://www.logic.ru/peter/
KKinit => <reply> $who, Kerberos ticket manager for KDE. URL: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/ace43/neil.html
KLab => <reply> $who, User-friendly plotter/GUI for Rlab. URL: http://www.chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet/KDE/KLab/
KLACK => <reply> $who, A small game with spheres. URL: http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~kloss/klack/klack.html
KLandscape => <reply> $who, 3D rendered landscape generator. URL: http://members.xoom.com/nbasili/
klavg => <reply> $who, Small KDE applet showing load average graph on the panel.. URL: http://www.crocodile.org/software.html
kldap => <reply> $who, kldap is a LDAP client (browser) for the KDE. URL: http://www.mountpoint.ch/oliver/kldap/
kless => <reply> $who, Simple text viewer for the KDE Desktop. URL: http://snoopy.et-inf.fho-emden.de/~norbert/kless/
KLicq => <reply> $who, A patched version of Licq with support for the KDE desktop.. URL: http://www.cs.nmt.edu/~dquist/klicq/
KLILO => <reply> $who, GUI to configure the lilo bootmanager. URL: http://mitglied.tripod.de/AndreasHeck/klilo/
Klipper => <reply> $who, KDE Clipboard history. URL: ftp://ftp.ksirc.org/pub/klipper/
klm => <reply> $who, KDE frontend for the LM SENSORS linux kernel. URL: http://synergy.linuxbox.com/klm_home.html
klogic => <reply> $who, Digital circuit simulation in KDE GUI. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/scientific/
kludge => <reply> $who, Document generator using a user-defined markup language.. URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/john.sutton/programming/kludge/
KLyX => <reply> $who, A modern approach of writing documents with a computer. URL: http://www.devel.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html
Kmap => <reply> $who, Nmap port-scanner frontend for QT/KDE. URL: http://www.islc.net/~icszepp/index.html
kmc_remote => <reply> $who, Gnome interface for controlling a Kodak Motion Corder fast digital camera. URL: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu/~muet/linux/kmc/kmc_utils.html
kmc_utils => <reply> $who, Control and grab images from a Kodak Motion Corder high speed camera.. URL: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu/~muet/linux/kmc/kmc_utils.html
kmemmon => <reply> $who, A KDE panel memory monitor. URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smf/
KMid => <reply> $who, Midi/Karaoke player with many features. URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html
kmikmod => <reply> $who, Multithreaded module player for KDE. URL: http://myy.helia.fi/~anttiner/kmikmod.html
KMLOFax => <reply> $who, Facsimile utility for the ELSA MicroLink(tm) Office. URL: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0000441/kmlofax_e.html
kmodbox => <reply> $who, Module player for KDE based on MikMod. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/3864/
KModem => <reply> $who, Displays the status of a modem over aninternet connection using ppp. URL: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network/
KMol => <reply> $who, Chemical calculator for the KDE. URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tomi/kmol.html
KMonop => <reply> $who, The Monopoly(tm) boardgame for KDE.. URL: http://capsi.com/kmonop/
Kmp3 => <reply> $who, A KDE MP3 Player. URL: http://area51.mfh-iserlohn.de/kmp3/
Kmp3te => <reply> $who, MP3 tag editor. URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smf/
kmpg => <reply> $who, A mp3 player for the K Desktop Environment.. URL: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~mvogt/linux/kmpg/index.html
kmplot => <reply> $who, Mathematical function plotter for the kde-desktop. URL: http://members.tripod.de/~kdm/
kmp_msql => <reply> $who, KMySql plugin to connect to mSQL databases. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
kmp_mysql => <reply> $who, MySql plugin for KMySql. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
kmp_psql => <reply> $who, KMySQL plugin providing access to PostGres databases. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
kmp_sybase => <reply> $who, KMySql plugin for Sybase.. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql
KMsgModem => <reply> $who, A tool to read the memory of an USR Message Modem. URL: http://www.tuhlmann.purespace.de/projects/kmsgmodem/
Kmud => <reply> $who, KDE mud client. URL: http://fara.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~uhlmann/kmud/
kmuser => <reply> $who, User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop. URL: http://kdm.linuxbox.com/
KMySQL => <reply> $who, A MySql client for KDE.. URL: http://www.xnot.com/kmysql/
knc => <reply> $who, A KDE based filemanger. URL: http://software.freepage.de/stormer/
Knetdump => <reply> $who, Network sniffing/analyzing tool. URL: http://knetdump.mti.uni-duisburg.de/
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Randsig => <reply> $who, Small random signature generator using taglines.. URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/sromero/prog/randsig.html
randtype => <reply> $who, Displays text at random intervals.. URL: http://cutlet.linuxbox.com/utilities/
RAPID => <reply> $who, Commodity and stock graphing for technical analysis trading decisions. URL: http://www.daveware.com
RAR For Linux => <reply> $who, A general purpose archiving and compression program. URL: http://www.softwareblast.com/entries/00001673.sml
rarpd => <reply> $who, Portable user-mode RARP daemon. URL: ftp://ftp.dementia.org/pub/net-tools/
Rasca => <reply> $who, Extended MP3 Player.. URL: http://www.penultima.org/~rasca/
Raven SSL Module => <reply> $who, RSA licensed 128-bit strong cryptography SSL module for the Apache web server.. URL: http://www.covalent.net/
raw2s => <reply> $who, This changes a binary file into GNU ASM. URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0309raw2s.htm
RawSnif => <reply> $who, Easily configurable Perl based network sniffer written using Net::RawIP modules.. URL: http://www.nfsg.org/downloads/rawsnif.html
Ray++ => <reply> $who, easily extensible C++ library for ray tracing. URL: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~martin/ray++
Raychase => <reply> $who, Random Recursive Raytracer, automagically creates cool images on desktop. URL: http://members.linuxstart.com/~flux/
rbison => <reply> $who, parser generator for ruby. URL: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~aseltine/rbison.html
rblcheck => <reply> $who, A lightweight anti-spam program. URL: http://www.xnet.com/~emarshal/rblcheck/
rblfilter => <reply> $who, Checks E-mail against RBL lists. URL: http://pobox.com/~b.candler/software/rblfilter/
RBoot => <reply> $who, A remote boot facility for PC operating systems.. URL: http://www.bs.ni.schule.de/support/rboot/
rc => <reply> $who, The shell from Plan 9 and 10th Edition Unix. URL: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/
RC EJB => <reply> $who, Free implementation of the Enterprise Java Beans specification. URL: http://www.roesch-ag.ch/ejb/
rc-pppd => <reply> $who, rc scripts for starting/ending pppd sessions.. URL: http://www.greenhell.com/rc.pppd/
rc.laptopnet => <reply> $who, Ethernet Device configurer for laptops that move around.. URL: http://www.linuxscripts.com/
rc.virt => <reply> $who, perl script to automate adding ips for ip aliasing. URL: ftp://209.146.23.42/pub/rc.virt/
RC5 Auto Launch => <reply> $who, RC5 Client auto launcher script.. URL: http://homepages.tig.com.au/~moonlite/
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rz/sz => <reply> $who, ZMODEM, YMODEM or XMODEM error correcting protocol send and receive. URL: http://www.rdrop.com/users/caf/rzsz3.html
rzMail => <reply> $who, A wxPython-based e-mail client.. URL: http://rozzin.homepage.com/
s-news => <reply> $who, Small news server using suck for news transport.. URL: http://www.sylph.u-net.com/snews.html
S/key => <reply> $who, One time password system. URL: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nmh/
S1000 => <reply> $who, Device driver for Ocean Optics's spectrometer S1000 with A/D card ADC500.. URL: http://dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk/~rybar/programming/programming.html
S3 Trio64 frame buffer driver for Linux/x86 => <reply> $who, Linux framebuffer driver for S3 Trio64-based cards on Intel. URL: http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/linux/s3.html
Sabre Flight Plane Simulator => <reply> $who, Fligh simulator. URL: http://sabre.cobite.com/
SAC => <reply> $who, System Accounting Tool. URL: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/sac/
safecat => <reply> $who, Copies stdin to a qmail-style maildir. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat.html
SafeGossip => <reply> $who, SSL support for FTP, IMAP, POP, SMTP and telnet. URL: http://www.skygate.co.uk/safegossip/
Sailor Mars => <reply> $who, Anime desktopmate. URL: http://home.rmci.net/fiachra/
Saint => <reply> $who, Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool. URL: http://www.wwdsi.com/saint/
sam => <reply> $who, Rob Pike's sam editor for Unix, using 9libs for Plan 9 support.. URL: ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/research/9libs/sam-9libs.tar.gz
Samba => <reply> $who, Allows clients to access to a server's filespace and printers via SMB. URL: http://www.samba.org/
Sambaconfig => <reply> $who, Edit your smb.conf file with you web browser. URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Zone/5267/sambaconfig/
SambaLink/Q => <reply> $who, Qt version of smb.conf file editor. URL: http://www.spanware.com/linkq/sambalinkq.html
samhain => <reply> $who, File integrity verifier.. URL: http://samhain.netpedia.net/
SampLin => <reply> $who, Scientific Data Acquisition, Visualization and Process Controlsoftware. URL: http://www.iaee.tuwien.ac.at/sensor/samplin/
Sandmail => <reply> $who, GTK+ based mime-compliant user mail agent. URL: http://user.tninet.se/~wlj948f/sandmail/
SANE => <reply> $who, Provides standardized access to anyraster image scanner hardware. URL: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
sansa:AIFF => <reply> $who, sansa:AIFF is a Java package for reading and writing AIF files. URL: http://www.identics.de/sansa/
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vtwm => <reply> $who, Virtual Tab Window Manager. URL: http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/vtwm.html
vux => <reply> $who, Highly configurable logging system. URL: http://home.lonyay.edu.hu/~mhp/vux/
w-agora => <reply> $who, Web-based forum and publishing software. URL: http://w-agora.araxe.fr/
w3cam => <reply> $who, Web camera CGI for video4linux. URL: http://home.pages.de/~rasca/w3cam/
w3m => <reply> $who, pager/text-based WWW browser. URL: http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/
w3mir => <reply> $who, HTTP copying and mirroring program. URL: http://www.math.uio.no/~janl/w3mir/
Wacom Driver for XFree86 => <reply> $who, Wacom driver for XFree86. URL: http://www.lepied.com/xfree86/
WAILI.xl: Wavelets with Integer Lifting (XL) => <reply> $who, C++ wavelet transform library targeted at large scale image processing. URL: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~wavelets/
WAILI: Wavelets with Integer Lifting => <reply> $who, C++ wavelet transform library targeted at image processing. URL: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~wavelets/
Wall => <reply> $who, Wallpaper Changer. URL: http://homepages.udayton.edu/~balserbl/wall.html
WallP => <reply> $who, Random desktop wallpaper changer. URL: http://mcss.mcmaster.ca/~rafal/
waspchat => <reply> $who, Human to computer chat prog. URL: http://www.pansydivision.free-online.co.uk/
watchdog => <reply> $who, A software watchdog. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/
Watcher => <reply> $who, A unique Biff. URL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jared/watcher/
wavamplify => <reply> $who, Filter to alter the volume of WAVE (.wav) files.. URL: http://www.drmach.demon.co.uk/vashti/software/
WaveForge => <reply> $who, A Sound Forge Wave Editor Clone for Linux.. URL: http://tfm.profm.ro/
WaveLAN/IEEE driver => <reply> $who, Kernel network device driver for WaveLAN/IEEE wireless network card. URL: http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/
WaveTools => <reply> $who, Commandline tools for manipulating mono wavefiles. URL: http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/index.html#wt
wavnorm => <reply> $who, Maximize the volume of 16 bit stereo wav files. URL: http://www.zog.net.au/computers/wavnorm/
wb0 => <reply> $who, A quick SVGAlib-based Web browser. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/wb0/
WBI (Web Intermediaries) Developer Kit for Java => <reply> $who, A programmable proxy for developing and running intermediary web apps.. URL: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/wbi/
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wmdctrl => <reply> $who, diald control application for windowmaker dock. URL: http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~trwcolem/wmdctrl/index.html
wmdl => <reply> $who, Load/cpu/anything-meter using ID's Doom face or Tux.. URL: http://www.linuxbox.com/~bac/
wmessage => <reply> $who, WINGs based message viewer. URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~crn/wmessage/
WMFinder => <reply> $who, Easy to use file manager for WindowMaker. URL: http://www.imago.ro/wmfinder/
wmfire => <reply> $who, fire in a window maker dock applet. URL: http://www.zebra.net/~dm/wmfire/wmfire-0.0.3.9pre4.tar.gz
wmfirew => <reply> $who, wmfirew is a windowmaker dock applet that draws fireworks. URL: http://www.reed.edu/~turnerd/programs/wmfirew-0.20.tar.gz
wmflame => <reply> $who, A windowmaker dock applet that draws flames.. URL: http://www.reed.edu/~turnerd/programs/wmflame-0.60.tar.gz
WMFmixer => <reply> $who, A mixer dock-app for WindowMaker/AfterStep/etc. URL: http://www.finik.net/software.html
wmfsm => <reply> $who, Monitors your filesystem usage.. URL: http://wmfsm.netpedia.net/
wmG => <reply> $who, A small, lightweight, GNOME-compliant window manager for X.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
WMGlobe => <reply> $who, The whole Earth spinning on your desktop. URL: http://perso.linuxfr.org/jdumont/wmg/
wmgpager => <reply> $who, Simple desktop pager for the WindowMaker dock.. URL: http://www.fortyoz.org/software.html
wmGrabImage => <reply> $who, Displays a thumbnail version of an image from the www.. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml
wmGrav => <reply> $who, Simulates several objects acting under gravity.. URL: http://www.gnu.demon.co.uk/wmgrav.html
wmH3O Headlines => <reply> $who, Pull news headlines to your Window Maker menu. URL: http://www.h3o.net/h3o4/back.php
WMHeadlines => <reply> $who, Put web-news headlines in your Window Maker root menu.. URL: http://rive.boxybutgood.com/WMHeadlines/
WMiFS => <reply> $who, . URL: http://windowmaker.mezaway.org/dockapps/wmifs.html
WMiNET => <reply> $who, A dockable applet for monitoring all your inet daemon activity. URL: http://www.neotokyo.org/illusion/
WMint => <reply> $who, Dockable interrupt monitor for x86 Linux boxes. URL: http://real1.cie.fr/gcu/
WMitime => <reply> $who, A clock for the Windowmaker/Afterstep dock. URL: http://www.neotokyo.org/illusion/
WMixer => <reply> $who, Neat ALSA Mixer for Window Maker with a digital on-screen display. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/
wmjulia => <reply> $who, Window Maker dock applet that draws animated julia sets.. URL: http://www.reed.edu/~turnerd/programs/wmjulia-0.40.tar.gz
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WMMixer => <reply> $who, A WindowMaker mixer.. URL: http://www.hta.nl/php/Arnoud.van.Riessen/
wmmixer-alsa => <reply> $who, A hack of wmmixer to make it use ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture). URL: http://iznogood.bohemians.org/
wmmmnn => <reply> $who, wm-mail-mon-net-netselect combined in one compact app.. URL: http://www.utanet.fi/~sniff/
WMmnt => <reply> $who, a mount.app-like dockapp, that uses LEDs and big icons. URL: http://wmaker.strlen.net/stuff.shtml
WMMon => <reply> $who, . URL: http://windowmaker.mezaway.org/dockapps/wmmon.html
WMMon+SMP => <reply> $who, WMMon modified to work on Dual-Processor systems. URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/
wmMoonClock => <reply> $who, Displays the current phase and ephemeris of the Moon.. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml
wmmp3 => <reply> $who, mpg123 front end for Window Maker. URL: http://www.dotfiles.com/software/wmmp3/
WMmpg123 => <reply> $who, Menu generator for WindowMaker and mpg123. URL: http://hub.org/~jeff/
wmMuezzin => <reply> $who, Computes time and direction for a prayer to Mecca. URL: http://www.worldnet.net/~labayle/
wmnet => <reply> $who, Provides network statistics for the Window Maker desktop. URL: http://www.digitalkaos.net/linux/wmnet/
WMNetMon => <reply> $who, A WindowMaker dockable network host monitoring tool using ICMP pings.. URL: http://neubula.utad.pt/~alvieboy/new/wmaker.html
wmphoto => <reply> $who, Put your favorites pictures on your desktop. URL: http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~amartoq/wmphoto
wmpinboard => <reply> $who, Window Maker pinboard dock-app. URL: http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~gomar/stuff/wmpinboard/
WMpop => <reply> $who, WidowMaker DockApp for monitoring a POP3 mailbox. URL: http://www.multimania.com/zubro/wmpop.html
WMPop3 => <reply> $who, Window Maker Dockable App. URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~scotth/
WMPPP => <reply> $who, WindowMaker frontend to PPPD. URL: http://windowmaker.mezaway.org/dockapps/wmppp.html
WMProxyPer => <reply> $who, Dockapp that displays RC5 Personal Proxy logfiles. URL: http://home.student.utwente.nl/w.k.havinga/wmproxyper/
WMRack => <reply> $who, WindowMaker CD-player and mixer dock applet. URL: http://www.fga.de/~ograf/WMRack.shtml
wmRecord => <reply> $who, wmRecord is a general purpose audio recording utility. URL: http://www.bruhaha.demon.co.uk
wmscope => <reply> $who, Audio waveform display applet.. URL: http://synergy.foo.net/~john/computer/windowmaker/
wmsensors => <reply> $who, wmsensors draws graphs of data from your sensor chips. URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kebl0850/wmlm78/
wmseti => <reply> $who, Windowmaker dockapp for your SETI@home statistics. URL: http://www.minervaplaats.cx/~paul/wmseti/
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xfreecell => <reply> $who, Another implementation of famous solitaire game. URL: http://www2.giganet.net/~nakayama
XFrisk => <reply> $who, Networked X11 version of Parker Brothers' classic game, with computer players.. URL: http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Info/People/mfeingol/elan/frisk.html
xfs => <reply> $who, XFS: A high-performance journaling filesystem. URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
xfsft => <reply> $who, X11 font server with TrueType support and Internationalization. URL: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/
Xfstt => <reply> $who, X11 Font Server for TT fonts. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/
XGalaga => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.rumsey.org/xgal.html
xgate => <reply> $who, Client-initiated X11 relay, for displaying X11 through firewalls.. URL: http://verdict.uthscsa.edu/gram/xgate/index.html
Xgfe => <reply> $who, X11 GUI front end to Gnuplot. URL: http://www.bl.physik.uni-muenchen.de/rechner/grafik/xgfe/xgfe.html
XGGI => <reply> $who, X server which uses LibGGI to do hardware independent graphics and input. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan/ggi/xggi/
XgIRC => <reply> $who, Internet Relay Chat client for Linux / X Windows. URL: http://www.inforoute.capway.com/pieraut/
XGlobe => <reply> $who, A toy that displays a globe on your X desktop. URL: http://wwwrzstud.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uddn/xglobe/
xgrk => <reply> $who, Support for GREEK keyboard in XWindows. URL: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/
Xhack => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.chronozon.demon.co.uk
xhangglider => <reply> $who, X-based program that makes hanggliders fly in the background of your screen.. URL: http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~redstar/xhang-en.html
xhdbench => <reply> $who, Qt-based X-program for testing the output speed of severaldevices. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/benchmark/
XHourGas => <reply> $who, An alarm clock that exhibits what can happen with an improper diet. URL: http://qu.dhs.org/xhourgas/xhourgas.html
XHpcd => <reply> $who, A GIMP plugin to read Kodak PhotoCD images. URL: http://studenti.csr.unibo.it/~abaldoni/hpcd.html
XIAS => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk-based front-end to IAS (N64 backup device transfer tool). URL: http://www.dextrose.com/info/0719xias-1_1_tar.htm
Xicq / KXicq => <reply> $who, An ICQ client for use in both console and X11.. URL: http://www.xtrophy.dk/xicq/
xinetd => <reply> $who, Powerful inetd replacement. URL: http://www.synack.net/xinetd/
Xing MP3 Encoder => <reply> $who, MP3 encoder. URL: http://www.xingtech.com/mp3/encoder/
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xlHtml => <reply> $who, XLS to HTML converter. URL: http://www.gate.net/~ddata/xlHtml/index.htm
xlnotice => <reply> $who, Login time public notice board for X. URL: http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~guazzibe/XLN/
Xlockmore => <reply> $who, screen saver / locker for the X Window System. URL: http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlockmore.html
Xlogmaster => <reply> $who, Tool to monitor logfiles and hardware status. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/xlogmaster/xlogmaster.html
XLogMonitor => <reply> $who, Tool for monitoring linux log's. URL: http://members.xoom.com/chaosmaker/linux/
xls2xml => <reply> $who, A free converter from Microsoft Excel to XML, and a free C library. URL: http://arturo.directmail.org/filtersweb/
Xmahjongg => <reply> $who, Colorful X solitaire Mah Jongg game. URL: http://www.lcdf.org/xmahjongg/
XMangle => <reply> $who, X frontend for Mangle. URL: http://neptune.spaceports.com/~rvb/xmangle/
Xmap => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.mayko.com/xmap/
Xmcd => <reply> $who, Full-featured CD Player utility package. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/tkan/xmcd/
xmemo => <reply> $who, X Windows desktop memo.. URL: http://www.bea.hi-ho.ne.jp/abetakao/
Xmerge => <reply> $who, Xmerge merges two windows, creating a new window, with two. URL: http://xmerge.mini.dhs.org/
xmixer => <reply> $who, Soundcard mixer program for Linux. URL: http://home.pages.de/~rasca/xmixer/
XML Parser for Java => <reply> $who, XML Parser & Generator for Java. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/
XML Security Suite => <reply> $who, The XML Security Suite provides security features such as digital signatures.. URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/
XML-RPC => <reply> $who, A remote protocol that uses XML and HTTP to connect various scripting platforms.. URL: http://www.xmlrpc.com/
XML-Template => <reply> $who, A flexible templating system using XML markup. URL: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/XML/XML-Template-1.0.tar.gz
XML::Edifact => <reply> $who, An approach towards XML/EDI as a prototype in perl. URL: http://www.xml-edifact.org/
XML::Node => <reply> $who, Simplified interface to XML::Parser. URL: http://belmont-shores.ics.uci.edu/XML::Node/
XML::Parser => <reply> $who, XML Parser module for perl based on James Clark's expat lib. URL: http://www.netheaven.com/~coopercc/xmlparser/intro.html
XML::RSS => <reply> $who, Perl module for maintaining RSS files. URL: http://www.perlxml.com/
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XScreenSaver => <reply> $who, Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem. URL: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
XSet => <reply> $who, Fast in memory XML search engine in Java. URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ravenben/xset/
xsheep => <reply> $who, X toy, clone of Windows Esheep.. URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/xsheep.html
XSheridan => <reply> $who, Advanced XTeddy version with an image of John Sheridan from Babylon-5. URL: http://darkstar.tabu.uni-bonn.de/~neo/xjohndel.html
XShipWars => <reply> $who, Space oriented highly graphical network game system.. URL: http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/
XSIDPLAY => <reply> $who, C64 music player and SID sound chip emulator. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/
Xskat => <reply> $who, Skatordnung card game, playable against humans or the computer. URL: http://www.gulu.net/xskat/
xskijump => <reply> $who, Skijumping game for X. URL: http://www.vtoy.fi/~smkl/
xSMBrowser => <reply> $who, Tcl/Tk Samba GUI that emulates Network Neighborhood. URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chadspen/
XSnake => <reply> $who, An small Snake clone for X11. URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/sromero/prog/xsnake.html
xsnow => <reply> $who, This toy makes snow fall on your windows and desktop.. URL: http://www.euronet.nl/~rja/Xsnow/
Xsoundtrack => <reply> $who, A soundtracker that deals with XM modules (runs under X11, requires only Xlib). URL: http://sed.free.fr/xsound/index.html
xspeakfree => <reply> $who, TCL/TK frontend for Speak Freely. URL: http://www.spearce.org/projects/xspeakfree/
xstep => <reply> $who, Application toolkit providing the look-and-feel of NeXTSTEP applications. URL: http://www.bsi.com.br/~marcelos/
xstepfiles => <reply> $who, Simple file manager for X. URL: http://www.xando.com.br/cassio/
XSwallow => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/Xswallow.html
xt2fbt => <reply> $who, The program makes fbset timings from XFree86 modelines. URL: http://www.tuts.net/~klausman/english/linux.html
Xtacy => <reply> $who, Graphics hack for X11. URL: http://www.gweep.net/~jer/xtacy.html
XTC => <reply> $who, An XTree Clone for Linux and other UNIXes. URL: http://freeshell.org/~pmk/xtc
xtell => <reply> $who, Simple messaging client and server, kind of networked write. URL: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/xtell.html
Xtend => <reply> $who, X-10 daemon, homeautomation at your fingertips. URL: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/xtend/
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X-RAR => <reply> $who, X-RAR is a front-end to the archiving utility 'rar'. URL: http://twakar.fdns.net/xrar-0.2beta.tar.gz
miffmixr => <reply> $who, miffmixr is a Web-based MP3 jukebox. URL: http://9mm.com/philez/miffmixr.tar.gz
MIT Scheme => <reply> $who, MIT Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large runtime library. URL: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/ftpd...
ClanMecha => <reply> $who, ClanMecha is a 2D multiplayer platform game of the mecha genre. URL: http://sourceforge.net/download.php?fileid=1042
gecco => <reply> $who, gecco (GNOME Extensible Configuration COnsole) attempts to provide a common location for system, network and application configuration functions. URL: http://members.tripod.com/veeev/download.html
dupmerge => <reply> $who, Dupmerge reads a list of files from standard input (eg., as produced by "find . URL: http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/code/dupmerge/dupmerge.c
efx => <reply> $who, EFX is a standalone program which will load XMMS effect plugins for use with Esound. URL: http://code.linuxcore.com/download.php3?id=efx&type=tgz
MP3 Player Upload and Download utilities => <reply> $who, The MP3 Player Upload and Download utilities is a collection of programs which provide support for portable MP3 players such the Diamond Rio and the Saehan MpMan under operating systems other ...
cpp1 => <reply> $who, Cpp1 is an experimental chess program written in C++. URL: http://www.keetweej.demon.nl/cpp1.tgz
rdial => <reply> $who, rdial is an extremely simple RPC server for Linux. URL: http://colorfullife.com/~manfreds/rdial/rdial.tar.gz
dclock => <reply> $who, dclock is an X11 desktop clock with a realistic LED-style display of the current time. URL: http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/archive/dclock.tar.gz
gatO => <reply> $who, gatO is an interface to the UNIX command 'at'.. URL: http://www.arquired.es/users/aldelgado/proy/gato/gato-0.6.2.tgz
g3DSE => <reply> $who, g3DSE is a little tool to set the 3D Stereo Enhancement of your SoundBlaster card (if supported).. URL: http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~fcorneli/g3dse/download/g3dse-0.1.tar.gz
CAFire => <reply> $who, CAFire is a small toy that displays a burning trace after the mouse pointer in X. URL: http://home.zcu.cz/~cimrman3/cafire-latest.tgz
GPPP-Dialer => <reply> $who, GPPP-Dialer runs a connection script and shows the contents of a PPP log, and can run other programs after connecting. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~epg/software/gppp-dialer-0.1.0.tar.gz
Perlmclient => <reply> $who, Perlmclient is a Masqdialler client written in Perl. URL: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~jeremyl/perlmclient/perlmclient-0.2.tar.gz
Address Book => <reply> $who, Address Book is an extremely simple address database with search, edit, insert, drop, etc.. URL: http://ps-ax.com/address/
GTool => <reply> $who, GTool is a program to draw and analyze graphs (as in Graph Theory, not data analysis).. URL: http://erwin.math.lakeheadu.ca/gtool/index.php3?topic=download
gbgrand => <reply> $who, gbgrand is a small shell script that uses a list of directories to select a random background for the GNOME desktop. URL: http://www.chameleon.net/daf/gbgrand.tgz
The Bookexchange => <reply> $who, Bookexchange is a book exchange for the Web, allowing users to search, add, and edit books. URL: http://cs.uiowa.edu/~bdeitte/bookexchange.zip
WMFstatus => <reply> $who, WMFstatus is a general purpose 8x5 LCD screen dockapp for WindowMaker and other managers. URL: http://www.finik.net/files/wmfstatus-0.1.tar.gz
Metapixel => <reply> $who, Metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics. URL: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/metapixel-0.1.tar.gz
oracledump => <reply> $who, oracledump is a command-line tool that dumps Oracle data and table setup information as SQL. URL: http://www.bennyvision.com/~ddkilzer/projects/oracledump/
GNU Standard C++ Library v3 => <reply> $who, The Standard C++ Library v3, or libstc++-2.90.x, is an ongoing project to implement the ISO 14882 Standard C++ library as described in chapters 17 through 27 and annex D, as a drop-in replacement for the c...
GOOPS => <reply> $who, GOOPS is the object-oriented extension to Guile. URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-oops-0.1.6.tar.gz
PHP*Star => <reply> $who, PHP*Star makes CGI mailto forms and creates PHP scripts.. URL: http://www.xtremegroup.com/phpstar.html
Relayer => <reply> $who, Relayer allows for dynamic sendmail relay authentication.. URL: http://ps-ax.com/Relay/
rlwrap => <reply> $who, rlwrap is a readline wrapper, a small utility that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. URL: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/rlwrap-0.01.tgz
PlottGUI => <reply> $who, PlottGUI is a program to create worksheets with an HP/GL plotter. URL: http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa/plottgui/files/dynamic-bin.tar.gz
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Mac Error -1276 => ( errAttention ) Attention message too long **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1277 => ( errOpening ) Attempt to open connection failed **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1278 => ( errState ) Bad connection state for this operation **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1279 => ( errAborted ) Request aborted by dspRemove or dspClose function **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1280 => ( errRefNum ) Bad connection reference number **Data Stream Protocol - DSP driver Errors**
Mac Error -1300 => ( fidNotFound ) File ID not found [No file thread exists] **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1301 => ( fidExists ) File id already exists **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1302 => ( notAFileErr ) Specified file is a directory **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1303 => ( diffVolErr ) Files on different volumes **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1304 => ( catChangedErr ) Catalog has changed and CatPosition may be invalid **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1305 => ( desktopDamagedErr ) The desktop database has become corrupted - the Finder will fix this, but if your application is not running with the Finder, use DTReset or DTDelete **HFS Errors**
Mac Error -1700 => ( errAECoercionFail ) Data could not be coerced to the requested descriptor type **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1701 => ( errAEDescNotFound ) Descriptor record was not found **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1702 => ( errAECorruptData ) Data in an Apple event could not be read **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1703 => ( errAEWrongDataType ) Wrong descriptor type **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1704 => ( errAENotAEDesc ) Not a valid descriptor record **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1705 => ( errAEBadListItem ) Operation involving a list item failed **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1706 => ( errAENewerVersion ) Need a newer version of the Apple Event Manager **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1707 => ( errAENotAppleEvent ) Event is not an Apple event **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1708 => ( errAEEventNotHandled ) Event wasn't handled by an Apple event handler **AppleEvent Errors**
Mac Error -1709 => ( errAEReplyNotValid ) AEResetTimer was passed an invalid reply **AppleEvent Errors**
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ping2 is a phone greeting. See {ACK}, also {ENQ}. 2. vt. To verify the presence of. 3. vt. To get the attention of. From the UNIX command `ping(1)' that sends an ICMP ECHO packet to another host. 4. vt. To send a message to all members ...
ping3 is order to verify that everybody's addresses are reachable). "We haven't heard much of anything from Geoff, but he did respond with an ACK both times I pinged jargon-friends." The funniest use of `ping' to date was described in Janua...
ping4 is comp.sys.next. He was trying to isolate a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT machine, and got tired of having to run back to his console after each cabling tweak to see if the ping packets were getting th...
ping5 is on the NeXT, then wrote a script that repeatedly invoked `ping(8)', listened for an echo, and played back the recording on each returned packet. Result? A program that caused the machine to repeat, over and over, "Ping ... ping ......
ping6 is turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no time.
Pink-Shirt Book is `The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC'. The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has...
Pink-Shirt Book2 is pink shirt. See also {{book titles}}.
PIP is /pip/ [Peripheral Interchange Program] vt.,obs. To copy; from the program PIP on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file ...
PIP2 is that when the program was originated, during the development of the PDP-6 in 1963, it was called ATLATL (`Anything, Lord, to Anything, Lord').
pistol is [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. "UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!"
pizza box is [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two meg single-platter removable disk packs ...
pizza box2 is they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
ANSI standard pizza is /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor. See also {rotary debugger}; comp...
plain-ASCII is /playn-as'kee/ Syn. {flat-ASCII}.
plan file is [UNIX] n. On systems that support {finger}, the `.plan' file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's locatio...
plan file2 is almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a {sig block}). See {Hacking X for Y}.
platinum-iridium is adj. Standard, against which all others of the same category are measured. Usage silly. The notion is that one of whatever it is has actually been cast in platinum-iridium alloy and placed in the vault beside the Standard...
platinum-iridium2 is Weights and Measures near Paris. (From 1889 to 1960, the meter was defined to be the distance between two scratches in a platinum-iridium bar kept in that vault --- this replaced an earlier definition as 10^7 times the di...
platinum-iridium3 is along a meridian through Paris; unfortunately, this had been based on an inexact value of the circumference of the Earth. From 1960 to 1984 it was defined to be 1650763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red line of krypton-86 ...
platinum-iridium4 is as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in the time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. The kilogram is now the only unit of measure officially defined in terms of a unique artifact.) "This garbage-c...
platinum-iridium5 is platinum-iridium cons cell in Paris." Compare {golden}.
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ravs2 is which among hackers always means the Chinese kind rather than the Italian kind. Both consist of a filling in a pasta shell, but the Chinese kind includes no cheese, uses a thinner pasta, has a pork-vegetable filling (good ones incl...
ravs3 is either by steaming or frying. A rav or dumpling can be cooked any way, but a potsticker is always the fried kind (so called because it sticks to the frying pot and has to be scraped off). "Let's get hot-and-sour soup and three ord...
raw mode is n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Compare {rare}. This is techspeak under UNIX, jargon elsewhere.
rc file is /R-C fil/ [UNIX from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n. Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire ope...
rc file2 is commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also {dot file}.
RE is /R-E/ n. Common spoken and written shorthand for {regexp}.
read-only user is n. Describes a {luser} who uses computers almost exclusively for reading USENET, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See {twink}, {terminal junkie}, {lurker}.
README file is n. By convention, the top-level directory of a UNIX source distribution always contains a file named `README' (or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or some other variant), which is a hacker's-eye introduction containing a pointer to mor...
README file2 is miscellaneous revision history notes, etc. When asked, hackers invariably relate this to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's `Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink...
real estate is n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area. Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also {nanoacre}). May also be used of fl...
real estate2 is on a crowded desktop (whether physical or electronic).
real hack is n. A {crock}. This is sometimes used affectionately; see {hack}.
real operating system is n. The sort the speaker is used to. People from the academic community are likely to issue comments like "System V? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?", people from the commercial/industrial UNIX sector are...
real operating system2 is a *real* operating system?", and people from IBM object "UNIX? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?" See {holy wars}, {religious issues}, {proprietary}, {Get a real computer!}
real programmer is [indirectly, from the book `Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'] n. A particular sub-variety of hacker one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal `real p...
real programmer2 is metal} and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Pro...
real programmer3 is been {bum}med into a state of {tense}ness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Pr...
real programmer4 is were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on junk food a...
real programmer5 is walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers --- because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a {Good Thing} that there are...
real programmer6 is For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "The Story of Mel" in appendix A.
Real Soon Now is [orig. from SF's fanzine community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's column in `BYTE'] adv. 1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical....
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thud is n. 1. Yet another meta-syntactic variable (see {foo}). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo, `bar, `thud, `blat. 2. Rare term for the hash character, `# (ASCII 0100011). See {ASCII} for...
thunk is /thuhnk/ n. 1. "A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in Algol-60 procedure calls. If a procedure is c...
thunk2 is formal parameter, the compiler generates a {thunk} to compute the expression and leave the address of the result in some standard location. 2. Later generalized into an expression, frozen together with its environment, for later e...
thunk3 is in techspeak is called a `closure). The process of unfreezing these thunks is called `forcing. 3. A {stubroutine}, in an overlay programming environment, that loads and jumps to the correct overlay. Compare {trampoline}. 4. Peop...
thunk4 is manner. "It occurred to me the other day that I am rather accurately modeled by a thunk --- I frequently need to be forced to completion." --- paraphrased from a {plan file}. Historical note There are a couple of onomatopoeic myth...
thunk5 is The most common is that it is the sound made by data hitting the stack; another holds that the sound is that of the data hitting an accumulator. Yet another holds that it is the sound of the expression being unfrozen at argument-e...
thunk6 is inventors, it was coined after they realized (in the wee hours after hours of discussion) that the type of an argument in Algol-60 could be figured out in advance with a little compile-time thought, simplifying the evaluation machi...
thunk7 is thought of; thus it was christened a `thunk, which is "the past tense of `think at two in the morning".
tick is n. 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of inter...
tick2 is AI simulation is often pejoratively referred to as `tick-tick-tick simulation, especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long, independent chains of causes is {handwave}d. 3. In the FORTH language, a single quote char...
tick-list features is [Acorn Computers] n. Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing). The American equivalent would be `checklist features, but this jargon sen...
tickle a bug is vt. To cause a normally hidden bug to manifest through some known series of inputs or operations. "You can tickle the bug in the Paradise VGA cards highlight handling by trying to set bright yellow reverse video."
tiger team is [U.S. military jargon] n. A team whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures. These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e.g., leave cardboard signs saying "bomb" in critical defen...
tiger team2 is "Your codebooks have been stolen" (they usually havent been) inside safes, etc. After a successful penetration, some high-ranking security type shows up the next morning for a `security review and finds the sign, note, etc., ...
tiger team3 is of tiger teams sometimes lead to early retirement for base commanders and security officers (see the {patch} entry for an example). A subset of tiger teams are professional {cracker}s, testing the security of military computer...
tiger team4 is via networks or supposedly `secure comm channels. Some of their escapades, if declassified, would probably rank among the greatest hacks of all times. The term has been adopted in commercial computer-security circles in this m...
time sink is [poss. by analogy with `heat sink or `current sink] n. A project that consumes unbounded amounts of time.
time T is /tim T/ n. 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood time, often used in conjunction with a later time T+1. "Well meet on campus at time T or at Louies at time T+1" means, in the context of going out for dinner "We can meet on ...
time T2 is Louies itself a bit later." (Louies is a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto that is a favorite with hackers.) Had the number 30 been used instead of the number 1, it would have implied that the travel time from campus to Louies is ...
time T3 is hasnt been decided on yet), you can meet half an hour later at Louies than you could on campus and end up eating at the same time. See also {since time T equals minus infinity}.
times-or-divided-by is [by analogy with `plus-or-minus] quant. Term occasionally used when describing the uncertainty associated with a scheduling estimate, for either humorous or brutally honest effect. For a software project, the factor is u...
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phase of the moon5 => bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter `corrected' it. This has sin...
phreaking => [from `phone phreak'] n. 1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on communicat...
pico- => [SI a quantifier meaning * 10^-12] pref. Smaller than nano-; used in the same rather loose connotative way as nano- and micro-. This usage is not yet common in the way nano- and micro- are, but should be instantly recognizable to any hacker....
run like a pig => v. To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
pilot error => [Sun from aviation] n. A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare UBD). "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, ...
ping => [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob. originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1. n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alivenes...
Pink-Shirt Book => `The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC'. The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a differ...
Pink-Shirt Book2 => pink shirt. See also {{book titles}}.
PIP => /pip/ [Peripheral Interchange Program] vt.,obs. To copy; from the program PIP on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operati...
pistol => [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. "UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!"
pizza box => [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two meg single-platter removable disk packs used to...
pizza box2 => they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
ANSI standard pizza => /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor. See also {rotary debugger}; compare {tea,...
plain-ASCII => /playn-as'kee/ Syn. flat-ASCII.
plan file => [UNIX] n. On systems that support finger, the `.plan' file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near...
plan file2 => almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a {sig block}). See {Hacking X for Y}.
platinum-iridium => adj. Standard, against which all others of the same category are measured. Usage silly. The notion is that one of whatever it is has actually been cast in platinum-iridium alloy and placed in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram...
playpen => [IBM] n. A room where programmers work. Compare {salt mines}.
playte => /playt/ 16 bits, by analogy with nybble and {byte}. Usage rare and extremely silly. See also dynner and crumb.
plingnet => /pling'net/ n. Syn. UUCPNET. Also see {{Commonwealth Hackish}}, which uses `pling' for bang (as in {bang path}).
plokta => /plok't*/ [Acronym for `Press Lots Of Keys To Abort'] v. To press random keys in an attempt to get some response from the system. One might plokta when the abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if the syst...
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rave on! => imp. Sarcastic invitation to continue a rave, often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realizes this is unlikely.
ravs => /ravz/, also `Chinese ravs' n. Jiao-zi (steamed or boiled) or Guo-tie (pan-fried). A Chinese appetizer, known variously in the plural as dumplings, pot stickers (the literal translation of guo-tie), and (around Boston) `Peking Ravioli'. The t...
raw mode => n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Compare rare. This is techspeak under UNIX, jargon elsewhere.
rc file => /R-C fil/ [UNIX from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n. Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating sy...
rc file2 => commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also {dot file}.
RE => /R-E/ n. Common spoken and written shorthand for regexp.
read-only user => n. Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading USENET, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, {terminal junkie}, lurker.
README file => n. By convention, the top-level directory of a UNIX source distribution always contains a file named `README' (or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or some other variant), which is a hacker's-eye introduction containing a pointer to more detai...
README file2 => miscellaneous revision history notes, etc. When asked, hackers invariably relate this to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's `Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
real estate => n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area. Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also nanoacre). May also be used of floor space i...
real estate2 => on a crowded desktop (whether physical or electronic).
real hack => n. A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
real operating system => n. The sort the speaker is used to. People from the academic community are likely to issue comments like "System V? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?", people from the commercial/industrial UNIX sector are known to...
real operating system2 => a *real* operating system?", and people from IBM object "UNIX? Why don't you use a *real* operating system?" See {holy wars}, {religious issues}, proprietary, {Get a real computer!}
real programmer => [indirectly, from the book `Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'] n. A particular sub-variety of hacker one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal `real programme...
real programmer2 => metal} and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers a...
real programmer3 => been bummed into a state of tenseness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Programmers can m...
real programmer4 => were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee...
real programmer5 => walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers --- because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a {Good Thing} that there aren't many...
real programmer6 => For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "The Story of Mel" in appendix A.
Real Soon Now => [orig. from SF's fanzine community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's column in `BYTE'] adv. 1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical. 2. Whe...
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theory => n. The consensus, idea, plan, story, or set of rules that is currently being used to inform a behavior. This is a generalization and abuse of the technical meaning. "Whats the theory on fixing this TECO loss?" "Whats the theory on dinner to...
thinko => /thingkoh/ [by analogy with `typo] n. A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. braino. Compare mouso.
This time, for sure! => excl. Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g., attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity imitat...
This time, for sure!2 => heard "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" The canonical response is, of course, "But that trick *never* works!" See {{Humor, Hacker}}.
thrash => vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore s...
thread => n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
three-finger salute => n. Syn. {Vulcan nerve pinch}.
thud => n. 1. Yet another meta-syntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo, `bar, `thud, `blat. 2. Rare term for the hash character, `# (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synony...
thunk => /thuhnk/ n. 1. "A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in Algol-60 procedure calls. If a procedure is called wi...
tick => n. 1. A jiffy (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ...
tick-list features => [Acorn Computers] n. Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing). The American equivalent would be `checklist features, but this jargon sense of th...
tickle a bug => vt. To cause a normally hidden bug to manifest through some known series of inputs or operations. "You can tickle the bug in the Paradise VGA cards highlight handling by trying to set bright yellow reverse video."
tiger team => [U.S. military jargon] n. A team whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures. These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e.g., leave cardboard signs saying "bomb" in critical defense insta...
tiger team2 => "Your codebooks have been stolen" (they usually havent been) inside safes, etc. After a successful penetration, some high-ranking security type shows up the next morning for a `security review and finds the sign, note, etc., and all he...
tiger team3 => of tiger teams sometimes lead to early retirement for base commanders and security officers (see the patch entry for an example). A subset of tiger teams are professional crackers, testing the security of military computer installation...
tiger team4 => via networks or supposedly `secure comm channels. Some of their escapades, if declassified, would probably rank among the greatest hacks of all times. The term has been adopted in commercial computer-security circles in this more speci...
time sink => [poss. by analogy with `heat sink or `current sink] n. A project that consumes unbounded amounts of time.
time T => /tim T/ n. 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood time, often used in conjunction with a later time T+1. "Well meet on campus at time T or at Louies at time T+1" means, in the context of going out for dinner "We can meet on campus an...
time T2 => Louies itself a bit later." (Louies is a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto that is a favorite with hackers.) Had the number 30 been used instead of the number 1, it would have implied that the travel time from campus to Louies is 30 minutes;...
time T3 => hasnt been decided on yet), you can meet half an hour later at Louies than you could on campus and end up eating at the same time. See also {since time T equals minus infinity}.
times-or-divided-by => [by analogy with `plus-or-minus] quant. Term occasionally used when describing the uncertainty associated with a scheduling estimate, for either humorous or brutally honest effect. For a software project, the factor is usually ...
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CRT => (Cathode Ray Tube) This is one of the main components of monitors and TVs. A beam of electrons is shot towards the CRT and as they collide with phosphors on the inside surface, they produce light. Today, other technologies are performing bette...
CTI => (Computer Telephony Integration) Simply put, this represents the integration of your computer and telephone. Its serious uses include dial-up registration, fax-back systems, and other systems that record your information by telephone access. A...
Cyberspace => This term was coined to refer to the vast expanses of the Internet. Just as space is infinite, the Internet is, well, pretty darn big. It just sounded cooler than "Internet" to the news media.
Daisy Wheel printer => A printer that uses a wheel with all the characters on it to produce output. These printers generally aren't used much any more due to the decreased cost of other printers that can produce graphics as well as text. The one good...
DAT => (Digital Audio Tape) This type of magnetic tape at one point threatened to supplant the normal audio cassette with a better quality alternative. Unfortunately, it never really took off due to idiotic licensing issues that kept its price high. ...
Data => Information. Any series of bits, characters or objects that has meaning. Data is stored and transmitted by computers.
Data type => This refers to the type of data that is being used in a computer program. Different types of data take up different amounts of space. Some common data types are integer, float (for floating point numbers), or string (for a text string). ...
Database => An ordered set of data.
DB-25 => This is the name for the connector used for parallel ports on PCs.
DCOM => (Distributed COM (Component Object Model)) This is yet another Microsoft technology. It is a version of the COM that is designed to work across networks and, specifically, the Internet.
Desktop Case => A computer case designed to sit on your desktop. It's wider than it is tall.
Device Bay Interface Specification => This is a new specification designed to provide a simple and generic way of interfacing computers and their components. Device Bay devices will be about the size of a VCR tape and will interface via the USB or Fi...
Diamondtron => This is Mitsubishi's answer to Sony's Trinitron. Instead of rectangular pixels, Diamondtron used diamond-shaped ones which supposedly offer crisper text.
DIB => (Dual Independent Bus) This is the bus architecture between Intel's Pentium II processor, memory, and L2 cache. One bus connects the processor to L2 cache and a second connects the processor to main memory. Having two buses instead of one incr...
Die size => Simply put, this is the two dimensional (length by width) measurement of a microprocessor. The thickness of the processor is not considered. For example, a die size may be 384 square millimeters.
Digital => Digital implies a value represented by a group of discrete steps. Some claim that digital representations of images and sound are more accurate; others that the translation of analog sounds and pictures into digital representations causes ...
Digital Control => This is a control that doesn't directly cause a physical change in something, but rather sends a signal that a processor interprets. The processor then makes the change. An example of a digital control would be a television set wit...
DIMM => (Dual In-Line Memory Module) Very much like a SIMM except that they are larger and you need only one in place of two SIMMs. DIMMs are 64-bit memory devices, so you just need a single DIMM for a processer with a 64-bit memory path to work prop...
DirectDraw => A set of APIs for Windows 95 and NT that allow programmers to directly access the video controller, allowing for faster graphics response.
DirectPC => TCP/IP over satellite. This is a system for going on the Internet by satellite at about 800 Kbps. Unfortunately, you also need a modem to be able to send anything to the Internet because the satellite is one way only.
DirectX => A Microsoft technology that works under Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.x. Basically, it's a set of APIs that allow programmers to access more directly sound and graphics capabilities of the computer allowing for, among other things, great gam...
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M2020 riser => This board holds a Pentium Pro processor and fits into a Slot 1 slot on a motherboard. This provides a sort of backwards compatibility of Pentium Pro chips with the newer Pentium II motherboards.
Mainframe => Basically, a large and powerful computer designed to be very fault tolerant. Historically, mainframes with lots of memory and disk space are hooked to a bunch of dumb terminals that can be used to access data on the mainframe, but can do...
MB => see Megabyte; also an abbreviation for Motherboard.
Mbps => (Mega-bits per second) This is a measure of throughput in millions of bits per second.
MDRAM => (Multibank DRAM) This is a form of graphics RAM created by MoSys that allows transfers of up to 1 GB/second. Tseng Labs' popular ET6000 2D graphics chipset uses this form of graphics RAM to help achieve its high performance.
Mechanical Control => A mechanical control is a dial or knob whose physical setting directly affects some measurement. For example, the power button on your PC is a mechanical control. By pushing the button you are physically making an electrical con...
Megabit => (One million bits) 1,048,576 bits (that's 2^20 bits).
Megabyte => (One million bytes) This is 1,048,576 bytes (that's 1024 x 1024, or 2^20).
Memory => Chips in a computer that remember data. Also commonly referred to as RAM.
MHz => (Megahertz) One million hertz.
Microcontroller => This is like a scaled-down computer designed for a very specific task, unlike a desktop computer, which has many uses. An example of an application for a microcontroller would be a traffic light, or the chip that controls the suspe...
Micron Process => This refers to the size of lines capable of being etched onto a chip. A fabrication plant with a .25 micron process can create smaller chips that consume less power, and can run faster than a fab with a .35 micron process.
Microprocessor => (MPU) This is a chip containing a large amount of gates. It contains the CPU.
Mid Tower case => A metal box about 2 feet high that has special fittings to hold computer components like drives, motherboards and such.
MIDI => (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) This is the way to connect musical instruments (traditionally a piano keyboard) to your computer. To connect them to your computer, you need a MIDI cable and a MIDI port. The MIDI port usually doubles as...
Millisecond => (One thousandth of a second) Usually used to measure the access speed of hard drives .
MIME => see Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
MIP Mapping => (Multum in Parvam--"many in few") This stores a copy of the bitmap used as a texture in different sizes to minimize the distortion caused by shrinking or enlarging the textures during perspective correction.
MIPS => (Million Instructions Per Second) This is a rating of how quickly a processor can process instructions. A processor rated at 100 MIPS can process 100,000,000 instructions per second.
Mirror => This can refer to many things in the land of technology. Most often, it is used to describe a method of redundancy where data is mirrored across two devices, whether they are physically separate devices or not. Basically, the same data is w...
MIS => (Management Information Systems/Services) This is the department at most companies that everyone loves to hate. These are the people that work with Information Technology.
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Multicast IP => This is a form of TCP/IP being proposed that will allow for high-bandwidth transmissions (like television channels) to be broadcast over the Internet to all the routers in the world (possibly) that are connected to someone watching th...
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions => (MIME) This refers to functions used for the attachment of binary files to an e-mail message. MIME is the most common group of functions used to make this translation, and allows us to tack on graphics, sound,...
n-tuple => ((pronounced en-too-pull)) This is a mathematical term for a finite sequence of n terms. For example, the set {1, 2, 3, 4} is a 4-tuple. The set {Frank, Jane, Ed} is a 3-tuple. Any time there is a list of n things in a certain order, you c...
Nanosecond => (One billionth of a second) Used most often to measure the speed of memory.
NC => (Network Computer) This is a concept that came from the old days of dumb terminals. They are supposed to reduce the cost of standardized computers in the office environment.
NDIS => (Network Driver Interface Specification) This spec was designed by Microsoft to allow multiple protocols to easily communicate with Network Interface Cards (NICs) without knowing anything about those cards. In theory, you just have to install...
Network => This refers to a group of interconnected computers. The computers must be capable of transferring data to form a true network--you can't just weld a bunch of computers together.
Newsgroups => See Usenet newsgroups
Nibble => Four bits or half a byte.
NIC => (Network Interface Card) The NIC is an add-in board that enables a computer to connect to some form of computer network.
NLX => This is a form factor similar to ATX. The difference is that NLX machines contain a riser card that the other expansion cards are plugged into. This allows for a shorter desktop case.
Non-parity Memory => DRAM that has no error correction or tracking, called parity.
Normal SCSI => This term is commonly used to refer to non-wide versions of SCSI that interface with 50-pin connectors.
NOS => (Network Operating System) This is an operating system designed to run across a network. It refers to the operating system that runs on a server, not the client.
Notebook computer => A computer the size of a notebook. Usually smaller and lighter than a laptop.
Null modem => There really is no "null modem" per se, but usually a null modem cable. This is a cable that connects two computers together via serial port and allows them to communicate. Some hardware manufacturers of network hardware, such as hubs a...
NVRAM => (Non-Volatile RAM) A small amount of RAM that stores information even after you turn off your computer. Used in modems (for storing your settings) and in hardware keys for protecting software.
Object => Objects can refer to the objects in object-oriented programming or the objects in OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). In OLE, an object is a piece of a document, a graphic, or some multimedia. In object-oriented programming, an object can b...
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) => Object Linking and Embedding => aka OLE. This is a standard for sharing data between applications. It has been around since Windows 3.1 and continues to get better. For example, if you cut a picture out of Paint ...
Object-oriented Programming => This term usually refers to programming languages that allow you to work with objects. These objects can contain not only data type and data structure information, but also information about how the object can be used b...
Object-oriented technology => This refers to technology, usually programming languages, designed to work with objects.
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Parallel Port => The parallel port is found on just about all PCs. It's a 25-pin interface cable (DB-25) that is designed for connection to a printer. Normally, it will take up IRQ 7. In addition to printers, you can connect many other devices such a...
Parity => Meaning that there is an equality. Usually for the purpose of safety, so that if one goes bad there is still the other.
Parity Memory => Not quite memory that has a twin, but instead, more like a summary. The parity does not exactly have a copy of the original, but rather enough information to verify the integrity of the original.
Partition => You can partition your hard drive by breaking it up into one or more pieces, or "partitions." Partition
Pascal => This is a programming language that was designed to teach computer science students the concepts of programming. It's almost like C for dummies. In fact, the two languages are very similar, but the stoic brackets of C are changed to happy a...
Passive Matrix => LCD panels that are passive matrix have a duller, dimmer image than those with active matrix screens. Visibility and clarity decrease at greater angles off of central viewing.
Patch cable => This is the common name for any 10BaseT network cable that is used to connect, or "patch," any two network ports.
Patch panel => This is a group of network ports stuck together for easy accessibility. Usually, this panel resides in a wiring closet or server room. Connections are made between this panel and ports on a hub to enable a network connection at a remot...
PC Card => This is a newer synonym for PCMCIA Card.
PCI => (Peripheral Connect Interface) This interface was designed to supplant the VL-Bus architecture and provide a standard slot with a reduced size for high-speed peripherals. It normally runs at 33 MHz on a PC, but can run faster. PCI slots are 32...
PCMCIA => (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) Aside from winning the award for being the longest and most-annoying-to-pronounce technology acronym, PCMCIA is a credit card-sized interface card standard. PCMCIA cards are most com...
PDA => (Personal Digital Assistant) PDAs are basically beefed-up organizers. They have small LCD screens, some form of pen or keyboard input, and software for organization, OCR, and contact management. Some have even more features, such as Web browsi...
Peripherals => Any device that is not part of the motherboard, aside from memory and the CPU. For example, video card, sound card, modem, hard drive.
Perspective Correction => This correctly alters the textures in a scene to give a sense that all the images on the screen converge on one central point way out in the distance. It's why things far away look smaller.
Petabyte => One thousand terabytes / one million gigabytes / one billion megabytes / one trillion kilobytes / one quadrillion bytes (approximately)
PGA => (Pin Grid Array) This is a form of chip with a group of pins in concentric rectangles, designed to fit into a PGA slot. Most x86 compatible chips are designed in this format.
PGA slot => This slot accepts a PGA chip. See PGA.
Pincushioning => This is one form of image distortion on a monitor. Good monitors have controls to deal with this problem. Basically, the top and bottom of the screen are wider than the middle (convex), or vice versa (concave). When corrected properl...
PING => see Packet InterNet Gopher.
PIO => See Programmed Input/Output.
Pipeburst Cache => See Pipeline Burst Cache. This is an abbreviation, or contraction, for it, just like "ain't" is an abbreviation for "am not."
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Texture Mapping => Pastes saved images, to be used as textures, onto triangle surfaces to improve realism. (Take a picture of a grassy field and code the program to use this picture to fill in your triangles on the floor--you get what looks like gras...
TFT => (Thin Film Transistor) This is a synonym for the Active Matrix display. You'll often see screens referred to as "TFT-Active Matrix," or just "TFT" if they're low on space.
ThickNet => See AUI.
Thin Client => A thin client is similar to a dumb terminal in that it gets all of its information from the network. Some thin clients have their own memory, but lack a hard drive. They're basically stripped down computers that are supposed to lower t...
ThinNet => See 10Base2
Thrash => - To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Also: => Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are ther...
Throughput => Any measure of speed for data transmission.
Toner => Basically, it's ink in dust form. It is specially formulated to be sticky and to melt at a couple hundred degrees.
Toner Cartridge => When referring to laser printers, this is a cartridge that contains toner and the electrostatic drum.
Topology => This refers to the general structure of a network.
Tower Case => An improvement to the standard desktop case, it is flipped 90 degrees to accommodate more inside and to make it more convenient by allowing the case to be placed on the floor instead of the desk.
Trackball => Basically a mouse turned upside down. Instead of moving the whole pointing device, you simply move the ball on top. First seen in arcade games such as Centipede, but now used to replace mice where space is limited.
Transceiver => A device that translates between different network cables but maintains the same network topology. Thus, a transceiver could allow an AUI (Thick => Ethernet) NIC to work with a 10Base-T Ethernet network cable.
Transfer rate => This is the rate at which data is transferred in some amount of bits per second.
Transistor => An electronic device that acts like an electrically activated switch but has no moving parts so it can switch millions of times per second.
Trapezoidal Control => Control on better monitors that allows you to adjust the angles of the borders of the screen.
Trinitron => A technology developed by Sony to enhance the clarity of graphics on their monitors. The way this is done is by making the pixels more square.
True Color => The name given to 16.7 million color representation.
True Parity => This term has come about with the advent of logical parity. It simply means the original parity memory.
Truth table => This is a Boolean table that describes the way that a circuit reacts to input values by showing a complete set of possible input values with corresponding outputs.
Tuple => See n-tuple.
Turbo-Pascal => This is Borland's version of the Pascal programming language.
TWAIN => (Toolkit Without An Interesting Name) This is a standard set for scanners to allow them to have a standard interface to software. This allows the use of your favorite graphics package with your favorite scanner without worrying if one will s...
UART => (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) This is a chip that standardized serial communications. Its function is to change a byte into a standard sequence of electrical impulses.
Ultra SCSI => SCSI that communicates twice as fast as standard SCSI-2. Normal Ultra-SCSI transfers data at 20 Mbps, and Wide Ultra-SCSI transfers data at 40 Mbps. Similar to Ultra-IDE, Ultra-SCSI works its magic by transferring data on the up AND the...
UNC => (Universal Naming Convention) This is the name given for the naming used when one specifies: \\the sever\the volume\the path\then the file name of a file. So, a UNC will look like this: \\Myserver\Docdrive\Magazine\glossary.doc
UNIX => A lot like DOS, but a MUCH more powerful operating system. It was developed at Bell Labs and is now being developed by many other corporations. It is mainly used as a multi-user server for mainframes, although companies like Novell offer it f...
UPS => (Uninterruptible Power Supply) This is a device that contains a battery and some circuitry to supply your computer with power for a limited time (depending on the battery) if there is any sort of interruption in the outlet power.
URL => (Universal Resource Locator) This is what is used to give Web addresses for HTML, VRML, WAV and other files. It simply contains the Internet name of the machine containing the data and the path to the file. Much like the UNC, except specifical...
USB => (Universal Serial Bus) A technology in the works that will replace the current way that some peripheral devices connect to your computer. It is much faster than serial and parallel communications. It is also much more flexible: it will be able...
Usenet Newsgroups => Also referred to just as "newsgroups," Usenet newsgroups are a huge bunch of Internet discussion groups that replicate across the Internet every so often. If you get a bunch of people together and request a group for yourself, yo...
V.32 => A standard naming convention used in determining modem communications, all starting with "V." This one is for specifying the Hayes standard of bi-directional 9600 baud transmission.
V.32bis => This is the standard that came after V.32 which increased the speed from 9600 baud to 14.4 KB baud.
V.34 => This is the most recent dramatic improvement of modem communications. It has doubled the speed of the V.32bis standard to 28.8 KB.
V.34+ => This standard was made by US Robotics to indicate that their modems are superior to a standard V.34 modem in that they run at 33.6 KB baud instead of the slower 28.8 KB baud.
V.42 => This is the name given to the standard for transmitting at 2400 baud.
V.42Bis => This is not a speed standard like V.32 and V.34. It is an error correction and compression method that is hardware-based. Its major improvement comes from knowing when compression will be beneficial and when it will not be.
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Virus => A program that makes unbidden copies of itself in order to proliferate. Usually plays a role either as graffiti or for malicious intent.
Visitor => When a user arrives on a website, he or she is considered one visitor regardless of how many pages he or she looks at.
Visual C++ => This is a Microsoft product that is basically VB on steroids. It features a similar visual interface with drag-and-drop functionality, but the code is C++, which is more robust than BASIC. It's also much faster when compiled.
VL-bus => (VESA Local bus) This is a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit ISA slot. This architecture predated PCI and allowed users to break the bottleneck that occurred when the ISA bus slowed down graphics speed. It allowed speeds of up to 40 MHz, compare...
VLAN => (virtual LAN) A VLAN is created when a bunch of physically connected ports are grouped together by network hardware that supports VLANs. These VLANs are each treated as completely separate entities and can only be joined together by a router....
VPN => see Virtual Private Network.
VRAM => (Video Random Access Memory) Memory made specifically for video applications (such as a video card). Much faster and more expensive than DRAM.
VRML => (Virtual Reality Markup Language) Virtual Reality Markup Language An enhancement to the HTML format used to make virtual worlds out of Web pages.
WAN => (Wide Area Network) Any network that spans more than one office, although some say it must span more than one building.
WaveTable => A bit of ROM on newer sound cards that stores standard sounds (as wave files) for instruments instead of generating them from FM sounds. This gives a much more realistic sound to music in games and MIDI files.
WFM => (Wired For Management Baseline) This is an Intel hardware specification that is designed to allow for compliance with easier management of desktop PCs in a networked environment. The specification calls for computers to be compatible with a pr...
White Paper => This is a complete description of a particular technology, from overview to the nitty-gritty details. It is produced by the company that created that technology, as opposed to a FAQ, which can be created by anyone.
Wide SCSI => An improvement to normal SCSI that allows for faster throughput by increasing the number of pins used to connect the drive to the controller from 50 to 68. Wide SCSI doubles the throughput of normal versions of SCSI, but is generally mor...
Windows Sockets => This is an API designed to help inconsistent TCP/IP stacks talk together and be accessed properly by Windows programs.
Wireless-Infrared/Radio Control => Meaning that the device you are using is not connected by cables to the main computer. If you have a radio mouse you don't have a wire connecting the mouse to the computer. Usually , you have a device that connects ...
Wizard => An enhancement to programs that makes them easier to operate by guiding you through, step by step, what is required to achieve your purpose.
WMI => (Windows Management Instrumentation) This is Microsoft's answer to DMI. Apparently, they felt that DMI didn't fully exploit Windows and was therefore incomplete.
WORM => (Write Once Read Many) This is a type of drive/media that allows you to write to it permanently. However, you cannot erase what you've written. CD-R is a form of WORM drive.
X2 => This is US Robotics 56 Kbps modem standard. It uses the fact that most ISPs are digitally terminated, and this eliminates one analog loop. Due to this fact, digital transmissions can remain more intact than previously, theoretically allowing fo...
X86 => This is the last two digits of the PC CPU type. It originated with the Intel spec of the 8088, which then went to the 8086. Since then, increments have come by changing the first number to 80286 and 80386. The reason that the newer chips are a...
XGA => This started out as IBM's term for a computer monitor resolution standard of 1024 x 768 pixels and 16-bit color. IBM released XGA monitors and graphics cards for their PS/2 computers, but unfortunately, the standard was interlaced and ran on 1...
Xmodem => This is a protocol for transferring files during direct dial-up communications. Developed by Ward Christensen in 1977, Xmodem has basic error checking to ensure that information isn't lost or corrupted during transfer. It sends data in 128-...
Ymodem => This is also a protocol for transferring files during direct dial-up communications. So named because it builds on the earlier Xmodem protocol, Ymodem sends data in 1,024-byte blocks and is consequently faster than Xmodem. However, it doesn...
Z-Buffering => (or Hidden Surface Removal) Tracks the depth of each triangle from the perspective of the viewer to ensure that objects behind others in a scene don't appear until the viewer has them in his/her line of sight. This is why you can't see...
ZAK => (Zero Administration Kit) This is a software kit from Microsoft for Windows NT that can prevent various user actions such as installing software or changing desktop configurations.
ZAW => (Zero Administration Windows) This version of the Windows operating system from Microsoft allows for various easy administration and management options such as storing user software and settings on the network so that people can log into any m...
ZIF socket => (Zero Insertion Force socket) This is a socket designed to accept a PGA chip, such as most common CPUs produced today (e.g., Intel's Pentium, AMD's K6, etc.). The ZIF socket allows you to plug in a PGA chip with no pressure required. Th...
Zmodem => This protocol has many error-correcting properties. It can detect if a bad block (of 1,024 bytes) has come through and ask to have it re-sent. If the transfer gets interrupted for any reason, it can resume from where it left off. It is slig...
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