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Glossary: Technical Words

802.11

IEEE 802.11 Wikipedia:802.11 See also: Wi-Fi

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Wikipedia:ADSL See also: DSL, SDSL

API

Application Programming Interface Wikipedia:API Google APIs Yahoo! APIs

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange Wikipedia:ASCII

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Wikipedia:ATM See also: PPPoA

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System. Wikipedia:BIOS

Blog

web log. Wikipedia:Blog WordPress Drupal Blogger See also: Vlog

BMP

Windows bitmap Wikipedia:BMP

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Unix Wikipedia:BSD

Camino

A Mac OS X browser with cocoa interface Camino - Mozilla power, Mac style, cocoa

ccTLD

country code top-level domain Wikipedia:ccTLD IANA ccTLD codes

CLI

Command Line Interface. Wikipedia:CLI

CMS

Content management system Wikipedia:CMS Drupal Plone Zope Typo3

Codec

Compressor-Decompressor or Coder-Decoder. Wikipedia:Codec

Corba

Common Object Request Broker Architecture Wikipedia:Corba

Country code

Country code : 2 or 3 letter codes for countries, in the ISO 3166-1 standard. Wikipedia:Country Code

CPAN

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network http://search.cpan.org Wikipedia:CPAN

CPU

Central Processing Unit Wikipedia:CPU

CSS

Content_management_system Wikipedia:CSS W3 CSS 1 spec W3 CSS 2 spec Acid 2 test

CSV

Comma-separated values Wikipedia:CSV

Debian

Debian GNU/Linux distribution http://www.debian.org/, Wikipedia:Debian

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Wikipedia:DHCP

DivX

DivX video codec Wikipedia:DivX

DNS

Domain Name System.
Wikipedia:DNS Consult DNS Resources Directory and a usefull DNS report tool. See also: TLD

DNSBL

DNS-based Blackhole List Wikipedia:DNSBL SpamHaus See also: RBL

DRM

Digital rights management Wikipedia:DRM

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line.
Wikipedia:DSL See also: ADSL, SDSL

DSSSL

Document Style Semantics and Specification Language Wikipedia:DSSSL

DVD

Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc. Wikipedia:DVD

Filename Extension

Wikipedia:File_extension Data Formats and Their File Extensions or filext.com

Firefox

Firefox - Rediscover the Web Firefox for developpers Firefox extensions Portable Firefox Wikipedia:Firefox

Firewire

Firewire (ou IEEE 1394). High speed audio/video serial bus interface. Wikipedia:Firewire

FTP

File Transfer Protocol. Wikipedia:FTP

GFDL

GNU Free Documentation License Wikipedia:GFDL

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format Wikipedia:GIF Burn All Gifs

Giga

1E09 Wikipedia:Giga

Googol

The large number 10^100. Wikipedia:Googol

GPG

GNU Privacy Guard Wikipedia:GPG http://www.gnupg.org

GPL

GNU General Public License Wikipedia:GPL GPL

gTLD

generic top-level domain Wikipedia:gTLD

GUI

Graphical User Interface. Wikipedia:GUI

HTML

HyperText Markup Language.
Wikipedia:HTML

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol. RCF 2616: HTTP/1.1. Wikipedia:HTTP

HTTPS

HTTP over TLS. RFC 2818 Wikipedia:https See also: SSL, TLS

IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority http://www.iana.org/, Wikipedia:IANA

ICANN

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers http://www.icann.org/ Wikipedia:ICANN

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol Wikipedia:ICMP See also: SDSL

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers http://www.ieee.org. Wikipedia:IEEE

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force Wikipedia:IETF http://www.ietf.org

IM

Instant messaging Wikipedia:IM Gaim

IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol. Wikipedia:IMAP

IP

Internet Protocol.
Wikipedia:IP.

IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 Wikipedia:IPv4

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 Wikipedia:IPv6

IRC

Internet Relay Chat
Wikipedia:IRC

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network Wikipedia:ISDN

ISOC

The Internet Society http://www.isoc.org/, Wikipedia:ISOC

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group Wikipedia:JPEG

JS

JavaScript. Wikipedia:Javascript

LAMP

Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl or Python). Wikipedia:LAMP

LAN

Local Area Network Wikipedia:LAN

Language code

Language code : the most well known is ISO 639 (2 or 3 letters country code). There is an official list of ISO 639 codes Wikipedia:ISO 639

Linux

GNU/Linux. Wikipedia:Linux http://www.linux.org/" The Linux Documentation Project DistroWatch Debian

MathML

Mathematical Markup Language
Wikipedia:MathML W3C Math Home See also: W3C, XML

MD5

Message-Digest algorithm 5 Wikipedia:MD5

Mega

Mega (M). Wikipedia:Mega

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
Wikipedia:MIME

Modem

modulator and demodulator Wikipedia:Modem

MP3

MP3 : popular digital audio encoding Wikipedia:MP3 Audio & Multimedia MPEG Audio Layer-3 patent list regarding MP3 format

NNTP

Network News Transfer Protocol Wikipedia:NNTP

NTP

Network Time Protocol Wikipedia:NTP

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect Wikipedia:PCI

PCMCIA

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association Wikipedia:PCMCIA

PDF

Portable Document Format Wikipedia:PDF Acrobat Reader xpdf

Pear

PHP Extension and Application Repository http://pear.php.net Wikipedia:Pear

Perl

Practical Extraction and Report Language, or humorous Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. http://www.perl.org, Search CPAN, Wikipedia:Perl

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy Wikipedia:PGP

PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
http://www.php.net and its PHP manual. Wikipedia:PHP

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure Wikipedia:PKI

PNG

Portable Network Graphics. Wikipedia:PNG

Podcast

Podcasting Wikipedia:Podcasting

POP

Post Office Protocol
Wikipedia:POP

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol Wikipedia:PPP See also: PPPoA, PPPoE

PPPoA

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) over ATM. Wikipedia:PPPoA See also: ATM, PPP, PPPoE

PPPoE

point-to-point protocol over Ethernet. Wikipedia:PPPoE See also: PPP, PPPoA

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network Wikipedia:PSTN

Python

Python programming language. http://www.python.org, Python docs, Wikipedia:Python

RAID

redundant array of independent disks or Redundant array of independent disks. Wikipedia:RAID

RAM

Random-Access Memory Wikipedia:RAM

RBL

Real-time Blackhole List See also: DNSBL

RDF

Resource Description Framework
Wikipedia:RDF See also: W3C, XML

RFC

Request for Comments Wikipedia:RFC RFC Database, IETF RFCs

RNIS

Réseau numérique à intégration de services Wikipedia:RNIS

ROM

Read-only memory Wikipedia:ROM

RPC

Remote Procedure Call. Wikipedia:RPC See also: XML-RPC

RSA

Rivest, Shamir, Adleman Wikipedia:RSA

RSS

Really Simple Syndication.
Wikipedia:RSS See also: W3C, XML

Ruby

Ruby: a reflective, object-oriented programming language Wikipedia:Ruby

SDSL

Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Wikipedia:SDSL. See also: ADSL, DSL, ICMP

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language Wikipedia:SGML

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm Wikipedia:SHA

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Wikipedia:SMTP

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol Wikipedia:SNMP

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol Wikipedia:SOAP

Spam

Spamming Wikipedia:Spam

SQL

Structured Query Language.
Wikipedia:SQL

SSH

Secure Shell. Wikipedia:SSH

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer Wikipedia:SSL See also: HTTPS, TLS

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics.
Wikipedia:SVG. W3C SVG: XML Graphics for the Web Mozilla SVG samples. See also: W3C, XML

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol
Wikipedia:TCP

Tera

1E12 Wikipedia:Tera

Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Thunderbird for developpers Portable Thunderbird Wikipedia:Thunderbird

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format Wikipedia:TIFF

TLD

top-level domain Wikipedia:TLD See also: DNS

TLS

Transport Layer Security Wikipedia:TLS See also: HTTPS, SSL

UDP

User Datagram Protocol Wikipedia:UDP

Unix

Wikipedia:Unix Unix history

UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply. Wikipedia:UPS

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier Wikipedia:URI See also: URN

URL

Uniform Resource Locator Wikipedia:URL See also: URN

URN

Uniform Resource Name Wikipedia:URN See also: URI, URL

USB

Universal Serial Bus (humorous: Unused Serial Bus). USB Home Wikipedia:USB

UTF-8

8-bit Unicode Transformation Format Wikipedia:UTF-8

Vlog

video blog. Wikipedia:Vlog See also: Blog

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol Wikipedia:VoIP. Skype, Google Talk

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium, http://www.w3.org Wikipedia:W3C. See also: MathML, RDF, RSS, SVG, XHTML

WAN

Wide Area Network Wikipedia:WAN

Wi-Fi

Wikipedia:Wifi See also: 802.11

Wiki

The WikiWikiWeb. Wikipedia:Wiki WikiWikiWeb (the first wiki) PHP Wiki

Winmodem

or Softmodem. Wikipedia:Winmodem

WWW

World Wide Web Wikipedia:WWW

XHTML

Extensible HyperText Markup Language.
Wikipedia:XHTML See also: W3C, XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language Wikipedia:XML W3C XML 1.0 spec. Webopedia:XML See also: MathML, RDF, RSS, SVG, XHTML

XML-RPC

RPC using XML and HTTP. Wikipedia:XML-RPC See also: RPC