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misc ACK Acknowledge{d|ment} ACME A Company that Manufactures Everything AI Artificial Intelligence (see KI) AKA Also Known As APAC Asia and PACific APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ARD Arbeitsgemeinschaft öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands ASAP As Soon As Possible AT&T American Telephohne & Telegraph ATM At The Moment B2B Business to Business B2C Business to Customer BAM Business Activity Monitoring BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BND BundesNachrichtenDienst BPM Business Process Management BTC Build To Customer CEO Chief Executive Officer CFM Cubic Feet per Minute (1,699 m³/h / 0,02832 m³/min) CI/CD Corporate Identity / Corporate Design CI/CD Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery/Deployment CIA Central Intelligence Agency CNN Cable Network News CRM Customer Relationship Management CSS Central Security Service CTO Chief Technical Officer DACH Deutschland, Austria, Confederatio Helvetica (Switzerland) DENIC DEutsches Network Information Center DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung DoD Department of Defense DPA Deutsche Presse-Agentur EAN European Article Number ECU European Currency Unit (nowadays EUR) EDV Elektronische DatenVerarbeitung EMEA Europe, Middle-East, Africa EOL End Of Life EOL End Of Line ERP Enterprise Resource Planning ESA European Space Agency ETA Estimated Time of Arrival EUR EURo, European Currency Unit (former ECU) F&E Forschung & Entwicklung (see RnD) FAQ Frequently Asked Questions FeM Forschungsgemeinschaft elektronische Medien e.V. HQ HeadQuarter HR Human Ressources INTELSAT International Telecommunication Satellite Organisation ISBN International Standard Book Number ISO International Organization for Standardization IT Information Technology KI Künstliche Intelligenz (see AI) KMU Klein- und Mittelständische Unternehmen MDF Marketing Development Fund MFS Ministerium für Staatssicherheit N/A Not Applicable N/A Not Available NASA National Aeronautic and Space Organisation NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement NFR Not For Resale NSA National Security Agency OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OGH Oberster GerichtsHof OLG OberLandesGericht PLU Price Look-Up code POS Point Of Sale RnD Research aNd Development (see F&E) RMA Return Material Authorization RoHS Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment ROI Return On Investment SKU Stock-Keeping Unit SMB Small-to-Medium Business SOHO Small Office, Home Office TBD To Be Defined TCO Total Cost of Ownership TM Trade Mark TTM Time to Market TUI TU Ilmenau USD United States Dollar VC Venture Capital VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik e.V. VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure 0123456789 1984 is it just a year? 23 is it just a number? 3DES Triple-DES 404 Page not found :) A AAA Authentification, Authorisation, Accounting AAAA IPv6-A-record (DNS) AACS Advanced Access Content System AASP Adaptive and Array Signal Processing ABC American Broadcasting Corporation AC Alternating Current AC'97 Audio Codec '97 ACAP Application Configuration Access Protocol AceS Asian Cellular Satellite System ACID Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable ACL Access Control List ACPI Advanced Configuration & Power Interface ADC Analog-Digital Converter ADR Astra Digital Radio ADS Active Directory Service(s) ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AEKE Augmented EKE AES Advanced Encryption Standard AFC Automatic Frequency Control AGC Automatic Gain Control AGP Accelerated/Advanced Graphics Port aGPS Assisted Global Positioning System AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript And XML AKZ AmtsKennZiffer ALM Application Lifecycle Management ALOM Advanced Lights Out Manager ALSA Advanced Linux Sound Architecture AM Amplitude Modulation AMR Audio Modem Riser ANRS Automatic Noise Reduction System ANSI American National Standards Institute AP Access Point (WLAN) API Application Programming Interface APIC Advanced Programmable Input Controller APM Advanced Power Management ARC Advanced RISC Computing ARGB Alpha/Red/Green/Blue ARM Advanced RISC Machines (originally "Acorn RISC Machine") ARM ARM Reference Manual ARM Azure Resource Manager ARMD ATAPI Removable Media Device ARP Address Resolution Protocol ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency ARQ Automatic Repeat Request ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASIC Application Specific IC ASM Assembler ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1 ASP Active Server Pages (Microsoft) ASP Application Service Provider AT Advanced Technology AT Attention ATA Analogue Telephone Adapter ATA AT Attachment ATAPI AT Attachment Peripheral Interface ATIM Announcement Traffic Indication Map ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATP Active Turtle Pages (easyleading.org) ATX Advancec Technology Extended AUI Attachment Unit Interface AV Anti-Virus AV Audio/Video AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System AWG American Wire Gauge B BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code BEN BEstätigungs-Nummer (online-banking) BER Basic Encoding Rules BGA Ball Grid Array BGP Border Gateway Protocol BIOS Basic Input Output System Bit Binary Digit BLOB Binary Large OBject BMC Baseboard Management Controller BNC Bayonet Navy Connectory BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell BOOTP BOOTstrap Protocol BRD Blu(e) Ray Disc BRI Basic Rate Interface BSD Berkeley Standard/Software Distribution BSOD Blue Screen Of Death BT BlueTooth BTX ATX-successor BTX BildschirmTeXt C C... Common ... C64 Commodore 64 CA Certification Authority CAD Computer Aided Design CAD Control + Alt + Delete CAL Client Access License CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing CAM Conditional Access Modul CAN Controller Area Network CAPI Common ISDN API (http://www.capi.org) CAST Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares (symmetrische Blockchiffre) CAV Constant Angular Velocity (LDs: 1500 rpm, HDDs: 4200, 5400, 7200, 10000, ... rpm) CBR Constant Bit Rate CC Cisco Certfied ... CCC Chaos Computer Club CCD Charged Coupled Devices CCITT Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony / Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique CCNA Cisco Certfied Network Administrator CCM Client Connection Manager CD Carrier Detected/Detection CD Compact Disc (790 nm) CD+G Compact Disc Graphics CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory CDI Compact Disc Interactive CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CDN Content Delivery/Distribution Network CDP Continuous Data Protection CDV Compact Disc Video CDR Common Data Representation CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction CERN Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research) CF Compact Flash CF Content Filter CF Contention Free CFL Content Filter License CGI Common Gateway Interface CGI Computer Generated Image(s) CGI Computer Graphics Interface CGI die Firma [tm] (Company of Godin & Imbeau ?) CH Channel CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol CI Common Interface CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing CIFS Common Internet File System CIM Common Information Model CISC Complex Instruction Set Code/Computing CLI Command Line Interface ("Shell") CLI Common Language Infrastructure CLIP Calling Line Identification Presentation CLIR Calling Line Identification Restriction CLK CLocK CLP Command Line Protocol CLR Common Language Runtime CLV Constant Linear Velocity (CDs, LDs: 1500 rpm ... 600 rpm) CMF Content Management Framework CMF Content, Monitoring and Filtering CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMS Content Management System CNAME Canonical Name (DNS) CoDec Coder/Decoder COM Common Object Model COPP Certified Output Protection Protocol CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture CoS Class Of Service CP/M Control-Program for Microcomputer CPGA Ceramic Pin Grid Array CPRM Content Protection for Recordable Media CPU Central Processing Unit CR Carriage Return CRAM Challenge-Respone Authentification Mechanism CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CRIMM Continuity RIMM CRT Cathode Ray Tube CSGM Certified SonicWALL Global Manager CSM Content Security Manager CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collission Avoidance CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collission Detection CSSA Certified SonicWALL Security Administrator CTI Computer-Telephone Integration CTS Clear To Send D D... Digital ... or Distributed ... DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting DAC Digital-Analog Converter DARPA US Defense Advanced Research Project Administration DAT Digital Audio Tape DATEX-P DATa EXchange Packed switched DAV Distributed Authoring and Versioning DB DataBase DBMS DataBase Management System DC Direct Current DCE Distributed Computing Environment DCF Distributed Coordination Function DCO Device Configuration Overlay DCOM Distributed Common Object Model DCS Dynamic Channel Selection DDC Display Data Channel DDI Direkt Dial-In ("ISDN-Anlagenanschluss") DDM Dynamic Disk Management DDoS Distributed DoS DDR Double Data Rate (RAM) DDS Digital Data Storage DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (ehem.: ... European ... Telephony) DEE DatenEndEinrichtung DeMUX De-Multiplexer DEN Directory Enabled Networks DES Data Encryption Standard (1977) DF Don't Fragment DFN Deutsches ForschungsNetz DFS Distributed File System DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection DFÜ DatenFernÜbertragung DH Diffi-Hellman DHA Directory Harvest Attack dHCI disaggregated Hyper Converged Infrastructure DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DIL Dual In-Line DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module DIP Dual Inline Package DiSEqC Digital Satellite Equipment Control DIT Directory Information Tree DIVO DIgitale OrtsVermittlungsstelle DLL Dynamic Link Library DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance DLT Digital Linear Tape DLT Distributed Link Tracking DMA Direct Memory Access DMB Digital Media Broadcast (Bosch/Blaupunkt) DMI Desktop Management Interface DMS Document Management System DMZ DeMilitarized Zone DNS Domain Name System DOM Document Object Model DoS Denial of Service DOS Disk Operating System DPI Data/Deep Packet Inspection DPI Dots Per Inch DRM Digital Rights Management DS Directory Services DSA Digital Signature Algorithm DSL Digital Subscriber Line DSL Domain Specific Language DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Anschluss-Modul DSP Digital Signal Processing/Processor DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum DSTN Double Super Twisted Nematic DTAG Deutsche Telekom AG DTD Document Type Definition DTMF DoppelTon-MehrFrequenz-Verfahren DTS Digital Theatre System DVB Digital Video Broadcasting DVB-C Digital Video Broadcasting via Cable (ETS 300 429, EN 300 429) DVB-CBMS Digital Video Broadcasting - Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Services DVB-CI Digital Video Broadcasting - Common Interface (EN 50221) DVB-CS Digital Video Broadcasting ... (ETS 300 473, EN 300 473) DVB-H Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld DVB-IPI Digital Video Broadcasting - Internet Protocol Infrastructure DVB-MS Digital Video Broadcasting - Multipoint Subscription (ETS 300 748, EN 300 748) DVB-NIP Digital Video Broadcasting - ... Interactive ... (ETS 300 802) DVB-RCC Digital Video Broadcasting - ... interactive services ... (ETS 300 800) DVB-RCT Digital Video Broadcasting - ... interactive services ... ISDN (ETS 300 801) DVB-S Digital Video Broadcasting via Satellite (ETS 300 421, EN 300 421) DVB-SI Digital Video Broadcasting - SetTopBox Interface (ETS 300 468, EN 300 468) DVB-SIM Digital Video Broadcasting - SIMulcrypt (TS101 197-1) DVB-SUB Digital Video Broadcasting - SUBtitles (ETS 300 743) DVB-T Digital Video Broadcasting via Terrestrial (ETS 300 744, EN 300 744) DVB-TXT Digital Video Broadcasting - TeleteXT (ETS 300 472, EN 300 472) DVB-WIN Digital Video Broadcasting - Wireless In-home Networks DVD Digital Versatile Disc (658 nm) DVI Digital Visual Interface DVI-A Digital Visual Interface - Analog DVI-D Digital Visual Interface - Digital DVI-I Digital Visual Interface - Integrated E e... Electronic ... EAI Enterprise Application Integration EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol (RFC 2284) EAP-LEAP EAP Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol EAP-SIM Subscriber Identity Module (GSM) EAP-SRP EAP Secure Remote Password EAP-TLS EAP Transport Layer Security EAP-TTLS Tunneled Transport Layer Security EAPoL EAP over LAN EAPoW EAP over Wireless ECC Error Correction Code ECMA European Computer Manufacturer's Association EDID Extended Display Identification Data EDO Extended Data Out EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution EEDID Enhanced Extended Display Identification Data EEPROM Electrical Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory EFI Extended/Extensible Firmware Interface EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics EIRP Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power EISA Enhanced ISA EKE Enhanced Key Exchange EM Electro-Magnetic EMH Emergency Medical Hologram EMP EM-Pulse EMV EM-Verträglichkeit ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer EOF End Of File EOM End Of Message EON Enhanced Other Networks EOT End Of Tape EOT End Of Text EOT End Of Topic EOT End Of Transmission EPP Enhanced Parallel Port ERD Entity Relationship Diagram ESC ESCape ESCD Extended System Configuration Data ESD Electrostatic Discharge ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface ESP EFI-Systempartition ESP Encapsulated Security Payload (IP protocol #50) ESSID Extended Service Set IDentifier ETSI European Telecommunication Standards Institute EULA End-User License Agreement EVA Eingabe-Verarbeitung-Ausgabe EVN EinzelVerbindungsNachweis EWF Enhanced Write Filter F FAT File Allocation Table FBDIMM Fully Buffered Dual In-line Memory Module FC Fibre Channel FC Flip Chip FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCC Federal Communications Commission FCPGA Flip Chip Pin Grid Array FDC Floppy Disk Controller FDD Floppy Disk Drive FDD Frequency Division Duplex FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDF Forms Data Format (see also: PDF) FDM Frequency Division Multiplex FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access FDX Full Duplex FEC Forward Error Correction FHS File Hierarchy Standard FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum FIFO First In, First Out FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard FM Frequency Modulation FPM Fast Page Module FPU Floating Point Unit FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name FRB Fault Resilient Booting FRU Field Replaceable Unit FS FileSystem FSB Front Side Bus FSF Free Software Foundation FSK Frequency Shift Keying FTA Free-to-Air FTP File Transfer Protocol FTZ FernmeldeTechnisches Zentralamt FUBK Farb-UniversalBild mit Kreis ("TV-Testbild") G g... General/Generic/Global ... or GNU ... GAP Generic Access Profile/Protocol GAV Gateway Anti-Virus GBIC GigaBit ethernet Interface Carrier GDI Graphics Device Interface GECOS General Electric Comprehensive Operating System GEO Geostationary Orbit (ca. 36.000 km) GID Group ID GIF Graphic Interchange Format GINA Graphical Identification and Authentication Module GMS Global Management System GMT Greenwich Mean Time GND GrouND GNOME GNU Object Model Environment GNU GNU is Not Unix GPG GNU Privacy Guard GPL GNU Public License GPMC Group Policy Management Console GPO Group Policy Objects GPRS General Packet Radio Service GPS Global Positioning System GPT GUID Partition Table (up to 128 partitions per disk and volumes up to 18 exabytes) GPU Graphics Processing Unit GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation GSM Global System for Mobile communication GTC Generic Token Card GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol GUI Graphical User Interface GUID Global Unique ID GVC Global VPN Client H HA High Availability HAL HAL++ == IBM ? HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer HAM Hold And Modify HBA Host Bus Adapter HbbTV Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV HBCI Home-Banking Computer Interface (TCP:3000) HC Home Computer HCI Host Controller Interface HCI Hyper Converged Infrastructure HDCP High bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDD Hard Disk Drive HDLC High-level Data Link Control HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface HDTV High Definition TeleVision (720p: 1280x720, 1080i: 1920x1080) HE HöhenEinheit (bei 19"-Geräten - 44,45mm) HID Human Interface Device HiFi High Fidelity HIPERLAN High Performance European Radio LAN HIRD Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth HLR Home Location Register HORM Hibernate Once, Resume Many HPA Host-Protected Area HPC Handheld-PC HPC High-Performance Computing HSCSD High-Speed Circuit Switched Data HSDPA High-Speed Data/Downlink Packet Access HSPA High-Speed Packet Access HSUPA High-Speed Uplink Packet Access HT HyperThreading HTML HyperText Markup Language HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTPS HTTP over SSL HURD Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons I i... Intelligent ... I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit bus IaaS Infrastructure as a Service IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IAS Internet Authentication Service IBSS Independent Basic Service Set IC Integrated Circuit ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICH I/O Controller Hub ICMB Intelligent Chassis Management Bus ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol ICSA International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA.net & ICSAlabs.com) ICSTIS Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services ICQ "I seek you" - Internet-IM ICU ISA Configuration Utility ID IDentification IDE Integrated Development Environment IDE Integrated/Intelligent Device/Drive Electronics IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm IDS Intrusion Detection System IE Internet Explorer (Microsoft) IEEE Institute of Electr(otechn)ical and Electronic{al|s} Engineers IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group IETF Internet Engineering Task Force: http://www.ietf.org I/F InterFace IF Intermediate Frequency IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol IIC (I²C) Inter Integrated Circuit IIS Identity Integration Server IIS Internet Information Services/Server IKE Internet Key Exchange (UDP port 500) iLO Integrated Lights-Out IM Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter (StaSi) IM Instant Mess{a|e}(n)ger IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity IMSP Internet Message Support Protocol INT INTerrupt I/O Input/Output IP Internet Protocol IPv4 Internet Protocol v4 (32 bit addresses) IPv6 Internet Protocol v6 (128 bit addresses) IPM Intelligent Platform Management IPMB Intelligent Platform Management Bus IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPP Internet Printing Protocol IPS Intrusion Prevention System IPsec IP-security IPTV TeleVision over Internet Protocol IPX Internet Package eXchange (Novell NetWare) IRC Internet Relay Chat IrDA InfraRed Data Association IRQ Interrupt ReQuest ISA Industry Standard Architecture ISA Internet Security and Acceleration (Microsoft) ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol ISAM Index-Sequential Access Method ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISI Inter-Symbol Interference ISIS Image and Scanner Interface Specification ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical band ISP Internet Service Provider iTAN indexed TAN ITIL IT Infrastructure Library ITsec IT-security ITSM IT-Service-Management ITU International Telecommunication Union IV Initialisierungsvektor IWV Impuls-Wahl-Verfahren IXFR Incremental Zone Transfers J JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JRE Java Runtime Environment K K... KDE ... or Kernel ... KDE K Desktop Environment KISS Keep It Small & Simple / Keep It Simple, Stupid! KK Konnektivitäts-Koordination (obsolete; nowadays use 'chprov' instead) KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM Keyboard/Video/Mouse KVMR Keyboard/Video/Mouse Redirection L L... Local ... or Logical ... L2TP Layer-2 Tunneling-Protocol LAN Local Area Network LBA Large/Logical Block Address(ing) LBS Location Based Services LCD Liquid Crystal Display LCR Least Cost Routing LD Laser Disc LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ("X.500 lite") LDIF Lightweight Data Interchange Format LDM Logical Disk Manager LEAP Ligthweight EAP (Cisco) LED Light Emitting Diode LEO Low Earth Orbit (500 - 1.000 km) LFE Low-Frequency Effects LGPL Ligthweight GPL LLC Logical Link Control LNB Low-Noise Block converter LNC Low-Noise block Converter LO LOop-back-interface LOS Line of Sight LPC Local Procedure Call LSA Local Security Authority LSA löt-, schraub- und abisolierfrei LSB Linux Standard Base LUN Logical Unit Number (SCSI) LVD Low-Voltage Differential LVM Logical Volume Manager LWL LichtWellenLeiter M m... Mobile ... MAC (Apple) MacIntosh MAC Macro Assembler (CP/M) MAC Managed Address Configuration (IPv6) MAC Mandatory Access Control MAC Media Access Control(ler) MAC Message Authentication Code MAC Modified, Accessed, Changed MAC Multiplexed Analogue Components MAN Metropolitan Area Network MAZ Magnetische AufZeichnung MBR Master Boot Record (as partition scheme: up to 4 primary partitions as well as (chained) extended partitions; max size is 2TB) MBSA Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer MCA MicroChannel Architecture MCID Malicious Call IDentification MCP Microsoft Certified Professional MCSA Microsoft Certified System(s) Administrator MCSE Microsoft Certified System(s) Engineer MD Message Digest MDA Mail Delivery Agent MDA Mobile Digital Assistant MDI Multi-Document Interface MEO Medium Earth Orbit (5.000 - 12.000 km) MFM Modified Frequency Modulation MHS Message Handling System MIB Management Information Base MIDI Music Instrument Digital Interface MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension MIMO Multiple Input, Multiple Output MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MitM Man-in-the-Middle (between Alice & Bob) MMC Microsoft Management Console MMS Multimedia Messaging Service MMU Memory Management Unit MMX MultiMedia eXtension MoCo Mobile Communications MoDem Modulator/Demodulator MOM Microsoft Operations Manager MPC Multimedia-PC-Specification (seems obsolete ... :) MPEG Motion/Moving Picture(s) Expert Group MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching MRU Most Recently Used MS Microsoft MSCDEX Microsoft CD Extension MSDE Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Edition MSDN Microsoft Developer Network MSDNAA Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance MSKB Microsoft Knowledge Base MSM Microsoft Systems Manager MSM MegaRAID Storage Manager (LSI/Avago/Broadcom) MSN Microsoft Network (obsolete) MSN Multiple Subscriber Numbers MSR Messen, Steuern, Regeln MSS Managed Security Services MSS Maximum Segment Size MSSP Managed Security Services Provider MTA Mail Transfer Agent MTBF Mean Time Between Failure MTU Maximum Transmission/Transfer Unit MUA Mail User Agent MUX Multiplexer MVC Model-View-Controller MX Mail eXchange(r) N NACK Negative/Not Acknowledgement/~d NAPT Network Address Port Translation NAS Network Access Server NAS Network Attached Storage NAT Network Address Translation NCQ Native Command Queuing (S-ATA) NCSI Network Connectivity Status Indicator NCSI Network Controller Sideband Interface NDIS Network Device Interface Specification NDS Novell Directory Services NES Nintendo Entertainment System NETBEUI NetBIOS/Network Basic Extended User Interface NetBIOS Network Basic Input Output System NFS Network File System NIC Network Information Center NIC Network Interface Card NIL Not In List NIS Network Information System NLA Next-Level Aggregation NLM Netware Loadable Module NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol NNW Novell NetWare NOC Network Operations Center NOP No OPeration NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command NT Network Termination/Terminator NT New/Next Technology (Microsoft Windows) NTBA Network Termination (for ISDN) Basic (rate) Access NTDS NT Directory Services NTF No Trouble Found NTFS New/Next Technolgy FileSystem NTP Network Time Protocol NTSC National Television Standards/System Committee (720[853]x480[525]) NTT Nippon Telephone and Telegraph NUL Null NULL nada :) NUMA Nun-Uniform Memory Architecture O O... Open ... OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards OBEX Object Exchange Protocol OC OverClocking (jargon) ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity OE Outlook Express (Microsoft) OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex OH Off Hook OID Object ID OMG Open Management Group OOA Object-Oriented Analysis OOBE Out-Of-Box Experience OOP Object-Oriented Paradigma / Programming OPAL Optische Anschluss-Leitung (OPtical Access Line) OPGA Organic Pin Grid Array ORB Object Request Broker OS Open Source OS Operating System OSD On-Screen Display OSDN Open Source Development Network: Entwickler- und Entwicklungsnetzwerk der openSource-Gemeinde OSF Open Software Foundation OSI Open Systems Interconnection OSPF Open Shortest Path First OSS Open Sound System OSS OpenSource Software OSS Operation SubSystem OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflector OTP One-Time Password (see also RFC 1938) OVM OrtsVerMittlung OWA Outlook Web Access P P-ATA Parallel ATA (also often referenced as IDE) P2P Peer to Peer PAL Phase Alternating Line (720[768]x576[625], PAL plus: 1024x576)) PAM Pluggable Authentication Module PAN Personal Area Network PAP Password Authentication Protocol PBR Policy-Based Rule PBX Primary Branch Exchange PC Personal Computer PCB PolyChlorierte Biphenyle ("Leiterplatten"/Platinen) PCF Point Coordination Function PCI Peripheral Components Interconnect PCI Protocol Control Information PCIe Peripheral Components Interconnect express PCL Page Code Language PCM Pulse Code Modulation PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PCT PolyChlorierte Terphenyle ("Leiterplatten"/Platinen) PDA Private Digital Assistant PDC Primary Domain Controller PDF Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat) PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy PDN Public Data Network PDNS Passive DNS PDU Power Distribution Unit PDU Protocol Data Unit PE Preinstallation Environment PEAP Protected EAP PECI Platform Environment Control Interface PEG PCI-Express-Graphics PERL Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister *g* (Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language) PFC Power Fan Control (power supply unit) PFC Power-Factor Correction (power supply unit, reactive power compensation / "Blindleistungskompensation") PFC Pre-Flight Check (in IT: QA before commissioning / going live) PFC Priority Flow Control PGA Pin Grid Array PGP Pretty Good Privacy PHP PHP Hyptertext Preprocessor / legacy: Private HomePage (Tools) PHY PHYsical Layer PID Process ID PIM Personal Information Manager PiMF Paarig In MetallFolie PIN Personal Identification Number PK Public Key PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards PKI Public Key Infrastructure PKS Public Key Server/Service/System PLL Phase Lock(ed) Loop PLMN Public Land Mobile Network PM Phase Modulation PMPO Peak Music Power Out PMR Personal Mobile Radio PMX Primär-MultipleX-Anschluss POC Proof Of Concept PoP Point of Presence POP Post Office Protocol POS Power On Sleep (ACPI S1) POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments (POSIX.1 == IEEE 1003.1-1990) POST Power-On Self Test POTS Plain Old Telephone System PPC PocketPC PPC PowerPC PPP Point-to-Point Protocol PPPoE PPP over Ethernet (z.B. T-DSL) PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol PRI Primary Rate Interface PRN Pseudo-Random Noise PRNG Pseudo-Random Number Generator PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory PS PostScript PSK Phase-Shift Keying PSK Pre-Shared Key PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network PTR Pointer PUK Personal Unblocking Key PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit PVN Property Version Number PWR PoWeR PXE Preboot eXecution Environment Q QoS Quality of Service QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying R r... Remote ... RADAR RAdio Detecting / Detection And Ranging RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RFC 2865) RAID Redundant Array of Independant/Inexpensive Disks RAM Random Access Memory RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital Analog Converter RAND RANDom RARP Reverse ARP RAS Remote Access Service RCA Radio Corporation of America RDBS Relational DataBase System RDC Remote Desktop Connection RDP Remote Desktop Protocol RDRAM Rambus Dynamic RAM RDS Radio Data System RegExp Regular Expression (POSIX 1003.2) RegTP Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post REM REMark REQ REQuest RF Radio Frequency RFC Request for comments: http://www.ietf.org/rfc - Diskussionsgrundlage der IETF, offen für Vorschläge und Diskussionen; diese Papiere stellen keine Standards im eigentlichen Sinne, sondern nur Quasi-Standards dar; dienen jedoch durch ihre offene Struktur einem Großteil der Hard- und Software, die das Internet ausmacht, als Grundlage. RFID Radio Frequency ID RGB Red/Green/Blue RHEL RedHat Enterprise Linux RID Relative ID RIMM Rambus In-line Memory Module RIP Rest In Peace RIP Routing Information Protocol RIPE Réseaux IP Européens RIS Remote Installation Service RISC Reduced Instruction Set Code/Computing RLL Run-Length Limited RMA Radio Manufacturers Association RMCP Remote Mail Checking Protocol RMI Remote Method Invocation RND RaNDom RO Read-Only ROM Read-Only Memory RPC Remote Procedure Call RPL Remote Program Load RPM Redhat Package Manager RR Resource Record RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adleman RSS Really Simple Syndication RST ReSeT RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1w) RTC Real Time Clock RTFM Read The Fine :) Manual RTP Realtime Transport Protocol RTS Ready To Send RTT Round Trip Time RX Receive RZ RechenZentrum S SaaS Software-as-a-Service S-ATA Serial ATA SAM Security Accounts Manager SAN Storage Array Network SANE Scanner Access Now Easy SAS Serial Attached SCSI SB SoundBlaster SBC Server Based Computing SC SmartCard SCA Single Connector Attachment SCM Software Configuration Management SCP Secure CoPy SCR Sat-Channel-Router (EN 50494, Unicable) SCSI Small Computer System Interface SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol SD Secure Digital SD Software Defined ... SDDC Software Defined Data Center SDN Software Defined Network(ing) SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy SDI Single-Document Interface SDK Software Development Kit SDMA Space Division Multiple Access SDP Service Discovery Protocol SDR Sensor Data Record SDR Software Defined Radio SDRAM Synchronous Data/Dynamic RAM SDS Software Defined Storage SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line SDU Service Data Unit SE Single Ended SECAM Sequence Couleur a Memoire SES SCSI Enclosure Services SETI Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence SFT System Fault Tolerance SFTP SSH File Transfer Protocol SGML Standardized General Markup Language SGMS SonicWall Global Management System SGRAM Synchronous Graphic RAM SHA Secure Hash Algorithm SID Security ID SID Sound Interface Device (C64) SIM Subscriber Identity Module SIMM Single In-line Memory Module SIP Session Initiation Protocol SKEME versatile Secure Key Exchange MEchanism for internet SLA Service Level Agreement SLA Site-Level Aggregation SLES Suse Linux Enterprise Server SLI Scalable Link Interface SLIP Serial Line IP SMART Self-Monitoring And Reporting Tool SMASH System Management Architecture for Server Hardware SMB Server Message Block SMI Structure of Management Information SMI System Management Instrumentation SMI System Message Interception SMS Short Message Service SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMbus System Management Bus SMI System Management Interrupt SMP Symmetric Multi-Processing SNES Super-Nintendo Entertainment System (or Suse-Novell Enterprise-Server? :) SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SNTP Simple Network Time Protocol SNWL SonicWALL SOA Service-Oriented Architecture SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol SoC System on Chip SoL Serial over LAN SONAR SOund Navigation And Ranging SONET Synchronous Optical Network SP ServicePack: kumulative Sammlung von Microsoft-(Sicherheits-)updates SPD Serial Presence Detect SPDIF Sony-Panasonic Digital InterFace SPEKE Simple Password authenticated Exponential Key Exchange SPI SCSI Parallel Interface SPI Security Parameters Index (IPsec) SPI Security Protocol Identifier (IPsec) SPOF Single Point Of Failure SPX Secure Package eXchange (Novell NetWare) SQL Structured Query Language SRAM Static Random Access Memory SRV SeRVice SSD Solid State Disk SSH Secure SHell SSID Service Set IDentifier SSL Secure Socket Layer STD Suspend To Disk (ACPI S4) STONITH Shoot The Other Node In The Head STP Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1d) STR Suspend To RAM (ACPI S3) STUN Simple Traversal of UDP trough NAT SUS Software Update Service SVC Switched Virtual Circuit SVGA Super Video Graphic Adapter SVR SerVeR SYN SYNchronize T T-DSL Telekom DSL (germany) TAE Telefon-Anschluss-Einheit TAN TransAction Number TAPI Telephone API TC Trust-Center TC Trusted Computing TCG Trusted Computing Group TCP Transmission Control Protocol TCPA Trusted Computing Platform Alliance TDM Time Division Multiplex TDMA Time Division Multiple Access TE Terminal Equipment TEMPEST Telecommunications Electronics Material Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions TEMPEST Transient ElectroMagnetic Pulse Emanation STandard (against van-Eck) TFT Thin Film Transistor TFTP Trivial FTP TIM Traffic Indication Map TK Telekommunikation TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol TLA Top-Level Aggregation TLB Translation Lookaside Buffer TLD Top-Level Domain TLS Terminal License Server TLS Transmission Layer Security TM Turing Machine TMC Traffic Message Channel (in D seit 1997, www.ddg.de) TMDS Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity TOC Table Of Contents TOS Tramiel's Operating System TOS Type Of Service TP Test Point TP Transport Protocol TP Turbo Pascal TPC Transmit Power Control TPM Trusted Platform Module TSAC Terminal Services Advanced Client TSIG Transaction SIGnature TSR Technical Support Report TSR Terminate and Stay Resident TTF True-Type Font TTL Time to live TTL Transistor-Transistor-Logic TV TeleVisor/TeleVision TWAIN Technology Without An(y) Interesting Name (no, not really ...) TX Transmit U U... Unified ... or Universal ... UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter UBR Unspecified Bit Rate UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration UDI Unified Display Interface UDP User Datagram Protocol UEFI Unified EFI UHF Ultra-High Frequency UI User Interface UID User ID UKW Ultra-KurzWelle ULA User-Level Authentication UMD Universal Media Disc (Sony, z.B. PSP) UML Unified Modelling Language UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System: digitaler Standard für Mobiltelefonie UNII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure UPnP Universal Plug and Play UPS Uninterruptable Power Source (see also: USV) URI Universal Resource Identifiers URL Uniform Resource Locator USB Universal Serial Bus USN Update Sequence Number (MS-AD, NTFS v5.0) USV Unterbrechungsfreie StromVersorgung (see also: UPS) UTC Universal Time Coordinated UTM Unified Thread Management V v... virtual ... VB Visual Basic VBA Visual Basic for Applications VBR Variable Bit Rate VC Virtual Circuit VC VolksComputer (Commodore VIC 20) VCI Virtual Circuit Identifier (bei T-DSL: VCI=32) VDM Virtual DOS Machine VDSL Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line VESA Video Electronic Standard Association VGA Video Graphic Adapter VHDL Very High Description Language VHF Very High Frequency VLAN Virtual LAN VLR Visitor Location Register VLSI Very Large Scale Integrated VM Virtual Machine VM Virtual Memory VoIP Voice-over-IP VPI Virtual Path Identifier (bei T-DSL: VPI=1) VPN Virtual Private Network VR Virtual Reality VRML Virtual Reality Modelling Language VT VideoText VT Virtual Terminal VTL Virtual Tape Library W w... Wireless ... W3C World Wide Web Consortium WAN Wide Area Network WAP Wireless Application Protocol WDDX Web Distributed Data eXchange WDM Windows Driver Model WDMA Wavelength Division Multiplex WebDAV WWW/Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning WECA Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP64: 40 Bit, WEP128: 104 Bit) WGA Windows Genuine Advantage WGS Wireless Guest Service WIA Windows Image Acquisition WiFi Wireless Fidelity Wimax Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Win Windows WINS Windows Internet Naming Service WLAN Wireless Local Area Network: drahtloses Netzwerk mit beschränkter Reichweite (z.B. Campus) WLL Wireless Local Loop WMI Windows Management Instrumentation WML Wireless Markup Language WoL Wake-On-LAN WORM Write Once, Read Many WoW Windows-on-Windows (e.g. Win16 on Win32, Win32 on Win64) WPA WiFi Protected Access WPAN Wireless PAN WPF Windows Presentation Foundation WPF/E Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere WSN Wireless Sensor Network WSN Web Services Notifications WSRF Web Services Resource Framework WTS Windows Terminal Services WUS Windows Update Service WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get WWW World Wide Web X X... eXtended/eXtensible... XDR eXternal Data Representation XML eXtensible Markup Language XNU X is not Unix (Apple Kernel) XPe Microsoft Windows XP embedded XT eXtended Technology Y YAFFS Yet another Flash File System YaST Yet another Setup Tool YP Yellow Pages (NIS) Z ZBR Zone Bit Recording ZIF Zero Insertion Force ZOPE Z Object Publishing Environment total number: 1104