From 92cc83cde4e7b4b11643776b0685254bb2832ed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Gohr Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:57:01 +0100 Subject: removed a bunch of outdated and irrelevant networking acronyms --- conf/acronyms.conf | 84 +----------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 83 deletions(-) (limited to 'conf') diff --git a/conf/acronyms.conf b/conf/acronyms.conf index 66f563bd2..072deb324 100644 --- a/conf/acronyms.conf +++ b/conf/acronyms.conf @@ -4,140 +4,58 @@ ACL Access Control List AFAICS As far as I can see AFAIK As far as I know AFAIR As far as I remember -AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML -AIM AOL (America Online) Instant Messenger -AOL America Online API Application Programming Interface ASAP As soon as possible ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange -ASP Active Server Pages BTW By the way -CGI Common Gateway Interface CMS Content Management System CSS Cascading Style Sheets -CVS Concurrent Versions System -DBA Database Administrator -DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol -DHTML Dynamic HyperText Markup Language -DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright Act DNS Domain Name System -DOM Document Object Model -DTD Document Type Definition EOF End of file EOL End of line EOM End of message EOT End of text -ESMTP Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol FAQ Frequently Asked Questions -FDL GNU Free Documentation License FTP File Transfer Protocol FOSS Free & Open-Source Software FLOSS Free/Libre and Open Source Software FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt GB Gigabyte GHz Gigahertz -GIF Graphics Interchange Format GPL GNU General Public License GUI Graphical User Interface HTML HyperText Markup Language -HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol IANAL I am not a lawyer (but) -ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -ICQ I seek you (Instant Messenger) -IE5 Internet Explorer 5 -IE6 Internet Explorer 6 IE Internet Explorer IIRC If I remember correctly -IIS Internet Information Services -IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol IMHO In my humble opinion IMO In my opinion IOW In other words IRC Internet Relay Chat IRL In real life -ISO International Organization for Standardization -ISP Internet Service Provider -JDK Java Development Kit -JPEG Joint Photographics Experts Group -JPG Joint Photographics Experts Group -JS JavaScript KISS Keep it simple stupid LAN Local Area Network -LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License LOL Laughing out loud MathML Mathematical Markup Language MB Megabyte MHz Megahertz -MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension -MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology -MML Mathematical Markup Language -MP3 Moving Picture Experts Group Layer 3 -MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group -MSDN Microsoft Developer Network -MS Microsoft MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer -NIS Network Information Service -NS4.7 Netscape 4.7 -NS4 Netscape 4 -NS6 Netscape 6 -NS7 Netscape 7 OMG Oh my God -OPML Outline Processor Markup Language OS Operating System OSS Open Source Software OTOH On the other hand -P2P Peer to Peer -PDA Personal Digital Assistant -PDF Portable Document Format -PHP Hypertext Preprocessor -PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection -PIN Personal Identification Number PITA Pain in the Ass -PNG Portable Network Graphics -POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 -POP Post Office Protocol -QoS Quality of Service -RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks -RDF Resource Description Framework RFC Request for Comments ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing -RPC Remote Procedure Call -RSS Rich Site Summary RTFM Read The Fine Manual -RTF Rich Text File -SCSI Small Computer System Interface -SDK Software Development Kit -SGML Standard General Markup Language -SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language -SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol -SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol spec specification -SQL Structured Query Language -SSH Secure Shell -SSI Server Side Includes -SSL Secure Sockets Layer -SVG Scalable Vector Graphics TIA Thanks in advance -TIFF Tagged Image File Format -TLD Top Level Domain +TL;DR Too long; din't read TOC Table of Contents URI Uniform Resource Identifier URL Uniform Resource Locator -URN Uniform Resource Name -VBA Visual Basic for Applications -VB Visual Basic W3C World Wide Web Consortium -WAN Wide Area Network -WAP Wireless Access Protocol -WML Wireless Markup Language WTF? What the f*** -WWW World Wide Web WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get -XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language -XML Extensible Markup Language -XSD XML (Extensible Markup Language) Schema Definition -XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language -XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations -XUL XML User Interface Language YMMV Your mileage may vary -- cgit v1.2.3