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CyberScheduler => <reply> $who, Internet-based calendaring andscheduling solution for workgroups. URL: http://www.crosswind.com
CybOrg => <reply> $who, Web-based backoffice application suite. URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/product/cyborg/
CYCAS => <reply> $who, CAD Software for Linux. URL: http://www.cycas.de/
Cyclone => <reply> $who, Internet Relay Chat Daemon used by SlashNET. URL: ftp://ftp.slashnet.org/pub/cyclone/
Cygnus Java Compiler => <reply> $who, GNU compiler extension that allows compilation of Javasource and byte code. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/gcj.html
Cygwin => <reply> $who, Gcc cross-compiler for win32, with UNIX-like API.. URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
Cyphesis => <reply> $who, Fantasy RPG using A-Life techniques.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/4279/
Cyrus IMAP server => <reply> $who, Full featured IMAP server. URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
Cyrus SASL => <reply> $who, generic client/server library for SASL authentication. URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
d1x => <reply> $who, Cross-platform version of Descent 1 with many bugfixes/enhancements. URL: http://d1x.warpcore.org/
DAC960 drivers => <reply> $who, Mylex DAC960 drivers updated!. URL: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.html
dagrab => <reply> $who, Extracts digital audio from CD and stores it in WAV files (incl CDDB). URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/cdrom/dagrab-0.3.3.tar.gz
DailyUpdate => <reply> $who, Grabs dynamic information from the internet and integrates itinto your webpage. URL: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/DailyUpdate/index.html
Dallas DS-1820 Sensor Monitor => <reply> $who, Basic interface to Dallas Semi 1-wire temperature sensors. URL: http://home.att.net/~rongage/
Dallas DS-1820 Temperature Sensor Monitor => <reply> $who, Application and library for talking to Dallas Semi 1-wire devices. URL: http://home.att.net/~rongage/
Dancer => <reply> $who, IRC defense bot, protects your channel and your users. URL: http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/dancer/
Dante => <reply> $who, Free socks v4/5 implementation. URL: http://www.inet.no/dante/
DAP (Digital Audio Processor) => <reply> $who, Impressive looking sound editor using xforms. URL: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~richardk/
Darkbot => <reply> $who, IRC Help Robot. URL: http://www.superchat.org/darkbot/
DarkFire IRCD [Twilight] => <reply> $who, Advanced IRCD. URL: http://www.darkfire.net/
Darwersi => <reply> $who, Othello game (strong genetic AI). URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Olivier.Arsac/darwersi/

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Kvirus => <reply> $who, A board/puzzle game for the KDE Environment.. URL: http://members.tripod.com/sungsoo/
kvncviewer => <reply> $who, VNCviewer for the KDE Project. URL: http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0197/kde/kvnc/
kvoice => <reply> $who, A graphical frontend for easy handling of voice mails and faxes. URL: ftp://xpc56.mpi-hd.mpg.de/pub/kde/kvoice/
KVoiceControl => <reply> $who, Speech recognition system for the KDE Desktop. URL: http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/kde/index.html
kWall => <reply> $who, A GUI to ipfwadm to help new users to make a firewall.. URL: http://kbyteplace.cjb.net/
kwave => <reply> $who, A simple digital sound signal editor for KDE. URL: http://fs.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~kwave/
KWeather => <reply> $who, A KDE dock applet that can display the current weather outside.. URL: http://www.msoe.edu/~geiseri/projects.phtml?project=kweather
KWebDev => <reply> $who, Web Development Environment. URL: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ebanker/kwebdev/index.html
KWebHeadlines => <reply> $who, Displays Web Headlines in the KDE root menu. URL: http://members.xoom.com/cpiccione/
KWebSearch => <reply> $who, KDE Web Search Engine Frontend. URL: http://www.bawue.de/~rgoetz/kwebsearch.html
KWebWatch => <reply> $who, Utility to monitor web pages, looking for updated content. URL: http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/s/h/shutton/kwebwatch.html
Kwicken => <reply> $who, Loads and converts Quicken99 transaction statements into html.. URL: http://psyndicate.netpedia.net/Kwicken.html
kwintv => <reply> $who, Watch TV in a window on your PC screen. URL: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wenk/kwintv/
kwrl => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~stevensm/kde/kwrl.html
KWvDial => <reply> $who, Graphical Re-Implementation of WvDial PPP Dialer Command Line Interface. URL: http://www.cnss.ca/~ppatters/KWvDial.html
KXicq => <reply> $who, The KDE ICQ clone. URL: http://www.caiw.nl/~herwinjs/
KXMLViewer => <reply> $who, KDE based XML viewer written in Python. URL: http://sharmas.dhs.org/~adsharma/projects/kxmlviewer/kxmlviewer.html
Ky => <reply> $who, yes for KDE. URL: http://www.area.com/ntucker/ky/
kzacman => <reply> $who, Zacman maze game. URL: ftp://ftp.vix.com/guests/ssigala/pub/kde/
K_TAG => <reply> $who, An easy to use KDE based TAG editor for MP3 files.. URL: http://www.et.fh-osnabrueck.de/~std7169/
L-fire CTF mod for Quake2 => <reply> $who, Server-side mod that adds many significant features to Id's official Quake2 CTF.. URL: http://www.planetquake.com/LFire/

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The KSI Scheme Implementation => <reply> $who, An implementation of the Scheme programming language. URL: ftp://ftp.unicon.ru/pub/ksi/ksi-3.1.5.tar.gz
The L.o.s.e.r. Corps => <reply> $who, Multiplayer side-scrolling platform game. URL: http://www.ime.usp.br/~massaro/loser/
The Linux Console Data => <reply> $who, Data files for the Linux Console Tools. URL: http://altern.org/ydirson/en/lct/data.html
The Linux Console Tools => <reply> $who, Allows you to set-up and manipulate theLinux console. URL: http://altern.org/ydirson/en/lct/
The Linux Driver Development Kit (LDDK ) => <reply> $who, LDDK is a Development Kit for Linux Kernel Driver Modules.. URL: http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/
The Linux Image Montage Project => <reply> $who, Linux Image Montage Project Preview Release. URL: http://linux.remotepoint.com/
The Linux Memory Game => <reply> $who, A children's (and adults') game based on the card game. URL: http://www.ispchannel.com/~xgz/linux_game.html
The Linux/IR Project => <reply> $who, Linux IrDA implementation. URL: http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/
The Loci Project => <reply> $who, A network-distributed system of clients and servers for computational biology. URL: http://theopenlab.uml.edu/loci/
The Locomotive => <reply> $who, java based servlet compatible web application server (runs on linux). URL: http://www.locomotive.org
The Log Applet => <reply> $who, GNOME panel applet to monitor a (log) file as it is updated. URL: http://orion.olg.com/~mcraig/log_applet.html
The looser corps => <reply> $who, Great multiplayer game, with pretty good graphics. URL: http://www.ime.usp.br/~massaro/loser/
The Monitor => <reply> $who, Small file monitoring program. URL: http://hem.passagen.se/osk/
The N.U.E. Order => <reply> $who, Highly integrated Order Processing system for Online commerce.. URL: http://nueorder.netpedia.net
The Newsroom => <reply> $who, The Newsroom for the Falken BBS Software.. URL: http://cmweb.bizhosting.com/
the PHP Snurk => <reply> $who, Search-engine friendly URLs for dynamic content in PHP.. URL: http://www.sabren.com/code/php/snurk/
The Phreak Firewall => <reply> $who, Tool to set up your own firewall with IP masquerading. URL: http://bewoner.dma.be/Phreak/
The Poor Man's Renderer => <reply> $who, A simple 3D rendering/editing tool.. URL: http://borneo.gmd.de/AS/janus/new/pmr/pmr.html
the real thud => <reply> $who, A simple WAV mixer most useful as a drum machine.. URL: http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~cscsc/thud/index.html
The Sajber Jukebox => <reply> $who, . URL: http://kewl.campus.luth.se/~wizball/jukebox/index.html
The SCOOBS Context Based Search Engine => <reply> $who, A Java Based XML Search Engine that allows searching with context.. URL: http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/scoobs/

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Wipe => <reply> $who, Secure deletion of files from magnetic media.. URL: http://gsu.linux.org.tr/wipe/
WipeOut => <reply> $who, IDE for C++, Java, Eiffel, and Fortran. URL: http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html
WiredX => <reply> $who, pure Java X Window System server. URL: http://www.jcraft.com/wiredx/
Wireless Tools/Howto => <reply> $who, Generic tools to setup some Wireless LAN drivers + exhaustive web ressources. URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
Wisio => <reply> $who, An experimental project for a graphical windowing system. URL: http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/wisio/
Wizard => <reply> $who, Component to add a Windows 95-like Wizard to an application.. URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~teras/wizard/
wm2 => <reply> $who, Minimal, elegant and unusual window manager. URL: http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/
wmakerconf => <reply> $who, GTK based configuration tool for WindowMaker window manager. URL: http://ulli.linuxbox.com/wmakerconf/
WMAmpMenu => <reply> $who, A simple utility that inserts MP3 playlists in your WM root menu.. URL: http://www.snowman.sgic.fi/ssl/wmampmenu/
wmanager => <reply> $who, X11 window manager selector. URL: http://heuss.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/www/mtessmer/wmanager/
wmapm => <reply> $who, Small dock-app that shows continually-updated APMstatistics. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml
wmappl => <reply> $who, Window Maker Application Launcher. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~charkins/wmappl.html
wmbattery => <reply> $who, APM status dock app. URL: http://kitenet.net/programs/wmbattery/
WMBeats => <reply> $who, InternetTime Clock .. URL: http://shadowmere.student.utwente.nl
wmbiff => <reply> $who, A new mail notifier for WindowMaker.. URL: http://www.elect.ru/wmbiff/
wmbored => <reply> $who, Displays the time between a past date and a future date.. URL: http://www.worldnet.net/~labayle/bored/
wmbp6 => <reply> $who, DockApp monitoring sensors for temperatures and fans speed.. URL: http://goupil.linuxfr.org/downloads/
WmBreakOut => <reply> $who, A breakout clone for the WindowMaker dock. URL: http://vizzini.cs.jhu.edu/~fezzik/wmbreak.html
wmCalClock => <reply> $who, Calendar clock with anti-aliased text. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml
wmcdplay => <reply> $who, A CD player designed for WindowMaker.. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2471/wmcdplay.htm
wmchoose => <reply> $who, Flexible utility for choosing a window manager as X starts. URL: http://linux.umbc.edu/software/wmchoose/wmchoose.html

factpacks/html.fact  view on Meta::CPAN

html <FONT COLOR> => The COLOR attribute allows you to change the colour of the text.
example <FONT COLOR> => <FONT COLOR="#RRGGBB"> & <FONT COLOR="colorname">
html <FONT FACE> => The FACE attribute specifies the face to be used, such as Arial or Courier. If multiple names are specified, the first one listed that is installed on the client machine is used.
example <FONT FACE> => <FONT FACE="facename1, facename2...">
html <FORM> => The form tag introduces a form, which is made up of INPUT elements, described in the sections that follow. See: <FORM> 2
html <FORM> 2 => A form may be inside structural HTML tags & may also contain structural tags. Using tables and other elements a form can take on various shapes and looks.
example <FORM> => <FORM ACTION=action base> form tags </FORM> & <FORM METHOD=method> form tags </FORM> & <FORM ENCTYPE=media type> form tags </FORM>
html <FORM ACTION> => The ACTION attribute defaults to the document's base address.
example <FORM ACTION> => <FORM ACTION=action base> form tags </FORM> & <FORM ACTION=action base TARGET="target window name"> form tags </FORM>
html <FORM METHOD> => The METHOD attribute can be GET or POST. GET specifies a query form, used to get data from a server. See: <FORM METHOD> 2
html <FORM METHOD> 2 => POST specifies a form that gives information to the server and perhaps causes a database to be updated or a message to be sent.
example <FORM METHOD> => <FORM METHOD=method> form tags </FORM>
html <FORM ENCTYPE> => See: example <FORM ENCTYPE>
example <FORM ENCTYPE> => <FORM ENCTYPE=media type> form tags </FORM>
html <FORM SCRIPT> => The SCRIPT attribute points to a script to be run. The browser must be able to run the type of script that is specified.
example <FORM SCRIPT> => <FORM SCRIPT=URL> form tags </FORM>
html <FRAME> => The frame tag appears inside the FRAMESET tag and specifies one frame in the frameset.
example <FRAME> => <FRAME attributes>
html <FRAME attributes> => One or all of these: SRC, NAME, MARGINWIDTH, MARGINHEIGHT, SCROLLING, NORESIZE, FRAMEBORDER, FRAMESPACING & ALIGN
html <FRAME SRC> => (SRC="URL") The URL of the source document to be displayed in this frame. If the frame does not specify a source it will be displayed as blank space.
html <FRAME NAME> => (NAME="window name") Here "window name" is the name associated with this frame. It can be used by the TARGET attribute in the A, BASE, AREA, and FORM tags to target this frame.

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Fast-Wide SCSI 2 => This version of SCSI upped the pin count to 68, effectively doubling the signal speed of Fast-SCSI 2 to 20 Mbps.
Fat Client => Today's fast PCs are fat clients. They've got lots of memory and big hard drives. They store information and run programs locally off of their hard drives. Fat clients usually work in client/server environments, where they leave the ser...
FCC => (Federal Communications Commission) These are the people in the government who decide what's legal and illegal to broadcast, including what frequencies are allowed to be used by whom.
FDDI => (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) This is a fiber optic interface that allows data to travel extreme distances (many miles/kilometers) without signal loss. It is far superior to copper wire for data integrity as well. FDDI is often used to c...
Feature => A feature is something that a piece of hardware or software is designed to do. Many things that appear to be bugs are actually features. Often, a hardware or software developer will have to make a tradeoff in functionality that causes some...
Fiber Optic => A method of transmission alternative to copper. The way it works is by pulsing light down a strand of glass. These pulses represent binary code. So far, that's no better than copper. The advantage is that a single strand of fiber optic...
FIFO Buffer (First In First Out Buffer) => An area of memory that holds information in the order in which it was received until the computer has time to use it.
Firewall => This is a form of Internet security that stands between a private network and the Internet. It is like a wall in that it can prevent unwanted traffic from passing either way. Some firewalls have proxy functions built in. In fact, the dist...
Firewire => An up and coming serial technology that promises to speed data at 200 => 400 Mbps. This standard may eventually replace your serial ports, parallel ports, game ports, USB and maybe even SCSI.
FishNet => This is a type of stocking material that Joel likes to wear under his pants.
Flash BIOS => This BIOS contains a flash ROM chip that can be updated under certain conditions, but is otherwise static.
Flash ROM => A rewriteable ROM that doesn't lose its info when the power turns off.
Flat Screen => A CRT that is made more flat than a standard tube by using more than one electron gun. It is most useful to professionals who rely on the precision of their monitors. It is also better for the standard user because a straight light acr...
Flat Shading => This is the most basic shading technique. The entire triangle is only one color. This causes the image to appear blocky.
FM synthesis => This is a method of creating music using frequencies to represent instruments.
Fortran => This is a high-level programming language, a bit more advanced than BASIC, but not quite as complex as C. This language refuses to die because it is so huge in the scientific research community. It's not a tough language to learn and it's ...
Fractional T1 => This term refers to using a theoretical "piece" of a T1 line, such as 128 Kbps, 256 Kbps or 512 Kbps worth of the 1.5 Mbps T1 line. Many ISPs offer fractional T1 as a lower-cost alternative to a full T1, and a higher-cost alternative...
Frame Relay => A method of communication that can go from the speed of an ISDN to the speed of a T1 in increments. It has a flat rate billing instead of a per time usage. It connects by using the telephone company's network.
Free text search => This type of search allows you to give a fragment of a word and have it found in any part of that word. For example, doing a free text search for "the" could return "Thesis", "Blithe", and "Diphtheria."
FTP => (File Transfer Protocol) This is the method of moving files from system to system using TCP/IP.
Full parity => This refers to the ability to send and receive a signal at the same time. It can effectively double bandwidth, assuming that you can benefit from sending and receiving data at the same time. Most of the time, this doesn't happen, since...

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RAID => (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives) A manipulation of SCSI technology that allows you to combine several hard drives for use as one. The benefits can be either speed increase or failsafe (so that if one drive dies or crashes you don't los...
RAID 0 => Also known as disk striping, this form of RAID combines two or more hard drives into a single logical drive. Any data is written in blocks first to one drive, then the next, and so on. A RAID 0 configuration sacrifices redundancy for raw sp...
RAID 1 => There are two forms of RAID 1: disk duplexing and disk mirroring. Disk mirroring involves two hard drives that are on the same drive controller. The same data is written to both drives, so write operations are slower because you must write ...
RAID 10 => This form of RAID was originally called RAID 1+0 and is now commonly referred to as RAID 10. This is basically a bunch of RAID 1 drives linked together with RAID 0. Hence, you get the speed benefits of RAID 0 with the redundancy benefits o...
RAID 5 => A RAID 5 configuration utilizes three or more hard drives and stripes the data across them, much like RAID 0. The difference is that parity information is striped across the drives as well, so if you lose any one drive, the information can ...
RAM => (Random Access Memory) The place in your computer that programs reside when running.
Raster Graphics => This form of graphics is probably what you are looking at now. Composed of pixels on a bitmap, it allows for solid colored objects and graphics as we know them. See also vector graphics.
RDRAM => (Rambus DRAM) The future successor to SDRAM, RDRAM was originally developed by Rambus, Inc. This RAM architecture is capable of speeds up to 600 MHz, where standard SDRAM tops out at about 200 MHz. Intel picked RDRAM to be the future of RAM ...
Read Only => Usually applied to a file or other kind of document. Means that the object cannot be written to, which means that you can't save any modifications you make to it.
Redundancy => In a redundant system, if you lose part of the system, you can continue to operate. For example, if you have two power supplies and one takes over if the other one dies, then that is a form of redundancy. You can take redundancy to ridi...
Refresh Rate => How often something is rewritten or updated. The refresh rate of your monitor and graphics card can cause your monitor to appear to flicker if set improperly.
Removable Storage => This type of storage allows you to remove the actual storage media from a drive and replace it with other media. CD-ROM, floppy drives, Jaz, Zip, Syquest, and Bernoulli are all removable storage.
Rendering=> Determines how colors are used on each triangle.
Repeater => A device used to repeat a signal to send it further away or to many more devices.
Reseller => Anyone that buys computer equipment or software and sells it. In most states in the US, you need a reseller license to purchase goods without paying taxes, and then you are responsible for collecting and paying taxes on the goods you rese...
Resolution => How fine the pixels are. The higher the resolution, the more pixels that can be squeezed onto a screen, thereby giving the appearance that the pictures on your screen are smaller without losing any detail. Because the pictures are small...
Rewriteable => Meaning that what was written can be erased so that it can be written to again.
Ring topology => A ring topology refers to a network that is connected on both ends to one source, with client machines hanging off of the ring. If you break the ring, all computers in the ring lose connectivity.
RISC => (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) RISC chips use a simpler instruction set than CISC chips to get their work done. This results in more instructions that need to be processed by the processor, but they are easier to process, so the chips ca...
ROB => (Radically Omnipotent Boy) A tall, bearded, long-haired person who is scarily intelligent and often dangerous (they have been known to be photographed with axes and chainsaws). A ROB normally likes to drive really fast cars and eat lots of piz...
ROM => (Read Only Memory) Memory containing a program, data, or information about the device that has been programmed onto the chip at the factory.