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I2C: Inter Integrated Circuit [bus] From VERA
i2c-source: sources for drivers for the i2c bus The i2c bus is used by many modern motherboards to provide hardware health monitoring data, like temperature and fan speed. The i2c drivers are used by the lm-sensors package to access this data. Note that i2c drivers are available in recent versions of the linux kernel, but the drivers in this package may be more up to date. This package contains the source for the i2c kernel modules. The kernel sources must be installed to compile these modules. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
i2e: English-Spanish translation dictionary. English to Spanish (and viceversa) translation dictionary. It can be used both in X and text mode and has a learning function that can be used to add more information to the provided dictionary. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
I2O: Intelligent Input/Output (Intel) From VERA
I2O: Intelligent Input/Output [bus] From VERA
i386: Most commonly seen as a suffix to binary packages (such as RPM packages) to be installed on a Linux system. It simply means that the package was designed to be installed on 386 based machines, ie. 386 class machines such as the 386 DX-33. A i386 package will run on any x86 class machine. From Binh
I3C: International Imaging Industry Association (org., PIMA, successorr) From VERA
I3DL2: Interactive 3D Audio Level 2 (audio) From VERA
i486: Most commonly seen as a suffix to binary packages (such as RPM packages) to be installed on a Linux system. It simply means that the package was designed to be installed on 486 based machines, ie. 486 class machines such as the 486 DX4-100. Packages for this class of machine will run on later x86 based systems but there is no guarantee that they will run on i386 class machines if there have been too many processor based optimisations implemented by the developer. From Binh
I4DL: Interface, Inheritance, Implementation, Installation Definition Language (DME, OSF) From VERA
I4L: ISDN for Linux (Linux, ISDN) From VERA
i586: Most commonly seen as a suffix to binary packages (such as RPM packages) to be installed on a Linux system. It simply means that the package was designed to be installed on 586 based machines, ie. 586 class machines such as the 586 Pentium-100. Packages for this class of machine will run on later x86 based systems but there is no guarantee that they will run on i386 class machines if there have been too many processor based optimisations implemented by the developer. From Binh
i686: Most commonly seen as a suffix to binary packages (such as RPM packages) to be installed on a Linux system. It simply means that the package was designed to be installed on the 686 based machines, ie. 686 class machines such as the Celeron 766. Packages for this class of machine will run on later x86 based systems but there is no guarantee that they will run on i386 class machines if there have been too many processor based optimisations implemented by the developer. From Binh
i8kutils: Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptop utilities This is a collection of utilities to control Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops. It includes programs to turn the fan on and off, to read fan status, CPU temperature, BIOS version and to handle the volume buttons and Fn-keys. The package includes also a small Tk applet, designed to be swallowed in the gnome panel, which monitors the CPU temperature and comtrols automatically the fans accordingly to user defined thresholds. The programs require the kernel module i8k.o which can be compiled from the package sources or found in Linux kernel 2.4.14 and later versions. The kernel module has been tested only on Inspiron 8000 laptops but it should work on any Inspiron and Latitude laptops. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IA: Identification and Authentication, "I & A" From VERA
IA64: Intel Architecture - 64 BIT (Intel), "IA-64" From VERA
IAA: Initial Address Acknowledgment From VERA
IAA: Intel Application Accelerator From VERA
IAAIL: International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (org., AI) From VERA
IAB: Internet Activities / Architecture Board (RFC 1160/1601, Internet) From VERA
IAC: InterApplication Communication (Apple) From VERA
IAC: International Association for Cybernetics (org.) From VERA
IACT: International Alliance for Compatible Technology (org.) From VERA
IAE: ISDN AnschlussEinheit (ISDN, Telekom) From VERA
IAF: Internet Address Finder (WWW) From VERA
IAHC: Internet Ad Hoc Committee (org., Internet) From VERA
IAI: Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik (org.) From VERA
IAK: Internet explorer Administrator Kit (MS, Internet) From VERA
IAK2: Internet Access Kit / 2 (IBM, OS/2), "IAK/2" From VERA
IAL: Intel Architecture Labs (Intel) From VERA
IAM: Initial Address Message From VERA
iamerican: An American English dictionary for ispell. This is the americanmed+ dictionary, as supplied with the source for ispell. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IANA: Internet Assigned Names (Numbers?) Authority; part of Internet governance. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Internet) From VERA
IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
IANW: International Academic Networkshops (conference) From VERA
IAO: [fraunhofer] Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (org., Stuttgart, Germany) From VERA
IAOG: International ADMD Operators Group (org., ADMD, X.400) From VERA
IAP: Internet Access Provider (Internet) From VERA
IAPC: Intel Architecture Personal Computer (PC, Intel), "IA-PC" From VERA
IAPR: International Association on Pattern Recognition (org.) From VERA
IAR: Initial Address Reject From VERA
IARP: International Advanced Robotic Program (org.) From VERA
IAS: Interactive Application System (DEC) From VERA
IAT: Information Access Technology (Provider) From VERA
IAUG: International AIX User Group (org., Unix, AIX, user group) From VERA
IAW: In Accordance With (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
IB4J: Instant BASIC for Java (Java, BASIC) From VERA
IBASES: Intel Baseline AGP System Evaluation Suite (AGP, Intel) From VERA
IBC: InterBase Components (Borland, Delphi, InterBase) From VERA
IBCN: Integrated Broadband Communication Network From VERA
ibcs: Intel Binary Compatibility Specification Module The iBCS Emulator runs binaries for other Unixes. Emulations provided: * Sparc Solaris * i386 BSD (386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI/386) - very alpha, very old. * SVR4 (Interactive, Unixware, USL, Dell etc.) * SVR3 generic * SCO (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks and long filenames) * SCO OpenServer 5 * Wyse V/386 (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks) * Xenix V/386 (386 small model binaries only) Subsystems emulated: * SYSV IPC * /dev/socksys socket interface as used by the Lachman STREAMS based networking implementation. * BSD and Wyse V/386 system call socket interface. * /dev/spx STREAMS device (limited server support). * XTI/TLI transports for TCP, UDP and related protocols - client only (outgoing connections). Accepting connections untested. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IBEX: International Business EXchange (network) From VERA
IBFI: Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (org., GI) From VERA
IBFN: Integriertes BreitbandFernmeldeNetz From VERA
IBM: /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near-infinite number of even less complimentary expansions, including `International Business Machines'. See TLA. These abbreviations illustrate the considerable antipathy most hackers long felt toward the `industry leader' (see fear and loathing). What galled hackers about most IBM machines above the PC level wasn't so much that they were underpowered and overpriced (though that does count against them), but that the designs are incredibly archaic, crufty, and elephantine ... and you can't fix them -- source code is locked up tight, and programming tools are expensive, hard to find, and bletcherous to use once you've found them. For many years, before Microsoft, IBM was the company hackers loved to hate. But everything changes. In the 1980s IBM had its own troubles with Microsoft. In the late 1990s IBM re-invented itself as a services company, began to release open-source software through its AlphaWorks group, and began shipping Linux systems and building ties to the Linux community. To the astonishment of all parties, IBM emerged as a friend of the hacker community This lexicon includes a number of entries attributed to `IBM'; these derive from some rampantly unofficial jargon lists circulated within IBM's own beleaguered hacker underground. From Jargon Dictionary
IBM: International Business Machines (manufacturer, IBM) From VERA
IBN: Integrated Business Network From VERA
IBO: InterBase Objects (Borland, InterBase) From VERA
ibod: ISDN MPPP bandwidth on demand daemon ibod is a ISDN MPPP bandwidth on demand daemon designed to operate in conjunction with isdn4linux. The program monitors inbound and outbound traffic on the ISDN interface. When the required bandwidth exceeds the capacity for the current number of ISDN B-channels, more (slave) channels are connected according to the MPPP protocol. When the traffic decreases, the slave channel(s) are disconnected. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ibp: Viewer for the International Beacon Project Ibp shows which of the beacons of the International Beacon Project is transmitting now. The user is presented with a list of Beacons with the current beacon highlighted. In a separate graphical window the position and short/long path to the beacon can be seen. The list can be viewed in either single or multiband mode, a Maidenhead locator, when used as an argument, shows distance and azimuth to each beacon. You will need an accurate clock because the beacons transmit at 10 second intervals. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ibrazilian: The Brazilian Portuguese dictionary for ispell. This is the Brazilian Portuguese dictionary for ispell as put together by Ricardo Ueda Karpischek <ueda@ime.usp.br>. Current status is good enough to be used for daily needs. This dictionary is being developed in a structured way. Verbs are treated apart by a specific software, a verb conjugator (conjugue). Names are partitioned into semantic classes to make vocabulary completion and revision easier. See http://www.ime.usp.br/~ueda/br.ispell/ for more information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ibritish: A British English dictionary for ispell. This is the britishmed+ dictionary, as supplied with the source for ispell. Because of the way this dictionary is built it contains many American spellings as well as British spellings (e.g. both "analyze" and "analyse" are considered valid). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IC: Integrated Circuit From VERA
ICA: Independent Computing Architecture (Cytrix, Windows NT, ASP) From VERA
ICA: Information Connection Architecture (SGI) From VERA
ICA: Integrated Chameleon Architecture (SGML) From VERA
ICA: Integrated Communications Architecture From VERA
ICA: Intelligent Communication Adapter (Banyan, VINES) From VERA
ICA: International Communications Association (org.) From VERA
ICADD: International Committee for Accessible Document Design (org.) From VERA
ical2vcal: Synchronise mobile phone address books. From whatis
ICALP: International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (EATCS, conference) From VERA
ICAN: Individual Customer Access Network From VERA
ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (org., Internet, ICANN) From VERA
ICAP: Internet Calendar Access Protocol (TCP/IP, Lotus) From VERA
icat: "cat" a mailbox from an IMAP source From whatis
ICAT: Interactive Code Analysis Tool [debugger] (IBM, Java) From VERA
icatalan: The Catalan dictionary for ispell This is the Catalan dictionary for ispell as put together by Ignasi Labastida i Juan <nasi@optica.fao.ub.es> from a list of words by Joan Dolg. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICC: Intelligent Communications Control From VERA
ICC: Intergrated Circuit Card (ICC) From VERA
ICC: International Color Committee (org.) From VERA
ICC: International Conference on Communications (conference) From VERA
ICC: Internode Communication Channel (SMP, Scalis) From VERA
ICCAD: International Conference on Computer Aided Design (IEEE, conference) From VERA
ICCC: InterClient Communication Convention (X-windows) From VERA
ICCC: International Conference on Computer Communication (conference) From VERA
ICCC: International Council on Computer Communication (org.) From VERA
ICCCM: InterClient Communication Convention Manual (X-Windows) From VERA
ICCD: International Conference on Computer Design (IEEE, conference) From VERA
ICCI: International Conference on Computing and Information (conference) From VERA
ICCIMA: International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (AI, conference) From VERA
ICCS: Integrated Communications Cabling System (SNI) From VERA
ICD: Installable Client Driver (OpenGL) From VERA
ICD: International Code Designator (ATM) From VERA
ICDA: Integrated Cached Disk-Arrays From VERA
ICDB: Integrated Communications DataBase (DB) From VERA
ICDCS: International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (INRIA, IEEE-CS) From VERA
ICE: In-Circuit-Emulation From VERA
ICE: Information and Content Exchange From VERA
iceauth: ICE authority file utility From whatis
icebreaker: Break the iceberg So, uh, there's a bunch of penguins on an iceberg in Antarctica. You have been selected to catch them so they can be shipped to Finland, where they are essential to a secret plot for world domination. In order to trap the penguins, you'll need to break the iceberg into small chunks. (They're afraid of water, for no apparent reason. Ah well. "The Matrix" had more plot holes than this, and it still was a hit.) You do this by melting lines in the ice with Special High-Tech GNU Tools. Once 80% or more of the iceberg is gone, the remaining chunks are small enough for shipping. Of course, if you manage to get rid of more than that, you'll save on postage, thus earning you exponential amounts of Geek Cred (a.k.a. "score"). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
icecast: Icecast is an Internet based broadcasting system based on the Mpeg Layer III streaming technology. It was originally inspired by Nullsoft's Shoutcast and also mp3serv by Scott Manley. The icecast project was started for several reasons: a) all broadcasting systems were pretty much closed source, non-free software implementations, b) Shoutcast doesn't allow you to run your own directory servers, or support them, and c) we thought it would be a lot of fun. Icecast is almost completely Shoutcast compatible as far as we've been able to determine. WinAmp can both send encoded streams as well as stream music from icecast. Icecast can also use the yp.shoutcast.com directory services and adds the ability to use other directory services. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
iceconf: Configuration tool for icewm A nice, graphical configuration tool for the icewm window manager. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IceLinux: IceLinux is trying to build the Linux Gaming Platform of the future using Red Hat 7.1 as a base. A 'special purpose/mini' distribution. From LWN Distribution List
icemc: Editor for IceWM menus IceMC is a Qt-based application that configures your IceWM menus and toolbar. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
iceme: A graphical menu editor for IceWM IceMe is a graphical menu and shortcut editor for the IceWM window manager, written in Python and GTK+. You can edit menu entries with drag and drop as well as cut and paste. Both the default menu and the local menu in the users home directory can be edited. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Icepack Linux: Icepack Linux is a full-featured Linux distribution built from scratch. Version 1.0 released on February 13th 2001. It's optimized for the i586 family of processors and aims to be user-friendly in both installation and configuration. Icepack 2.91 was released April 27, 2003. From LWN Distribution List
icepref: Yet another configuration tool for IceWM Another GUI-based configuration tool for the IceWM window manager, including easy selection of fonts and other config options. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
icewm: A wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager Window Manager for X Window System. Can emulate the look of Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif. Tries to take the best features of the above systems. Features multiple workspaces, opaque move/resize, task bar, window list, mailbox status, digital clock. Fast and small. Extra themes are available from the icewm-themes package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICF: International Cryptographic Framework (HP, cryptography) From VERA
ICH: I/O Controller Hub [aka Southbridge] (Intel, I/O, GMCH) From VERA
ICH: Intelligent Connection Handling (BIG) From VERA
ICI: Industrial Computing Initiative (LLNL, LANL, Cray, ..., HPC, MPP) From VERA
ICIA: International Communications Industries Association (org.) From VERA
ickle: An ICQ2000 client for GTK+ Ickle is an ICQ client which is able to communicate with ICQ servers using the new ICQ2000 protocol. This offers much better reliability than the older ICQ99 protocol. ickle has a constantly improving interface, now supporting history browsing, and much more. Ickle currently supports: * Sending/Receiving normal messages * Sending/Receiving URLs * Sending/Receiving SMS messages * Retrieving away messages This version is compiled without gnome support, for gnome support install the package `ickle-gnome'. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICL: International Computers Limited (manufacturer, UK, USA, Japan, Fujitsu) From VERA
ICM: Image Color Matching (MS, Windows 95, API) From VERA
icmake: Intelligent C-like MAKEr, or the ICce MAKE utility Icmake is a hybrid between a 'make' utility and a 'shell script' language. Originally, it was concocted to provide a useful tool for automatic program maintenance and system administrative tasks on MS-DOS platforms. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICMC: International Computer Music Conference (fair) From VERA
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol [version 4] (TCP/IP, RFC 792, Internet) From VERA
icmpinfo: Interpret ICMP messages. Icmpinfo is a tool for looking at the ICMP messages received on the running host. It can be used to detect and record 'bombs' as well as various network problems. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
icmpush: ICMP packet builder icmpush is a tool that builds ICMP packets fully customized from command line. It supports the following ICMP error types: Redirect, Source Quench, Time Exceeded, Destination Unreach and Parameter Problem. And the following ICMP information types: Address Mask Request, Timestamp, Information Request, Echo Request, Router Solicitation and Router Advertisement. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICMPV6: Internet Control Message Protocol Version 6 (Internet, IPV6, RFC 1885), "ICMPv6" From VERA
ICMX: ??? [transport level interface standard] From VERA
ico: animate an icosahedron or other polyhedron From whatis
icom: Software control for ICOM radios This program allows you to control many types of ICOM radio (transceivers and receivers) from the serial port on your computer. You need a CI-V interface circuit to connect the radio to the computer (to convert between RS-232 and TTL), which can be easily found on the web. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
icombine: Interactive spelling checking From whatis
icomlib-bin: Icom PCR-1000 command line control icomlib is the ghetto.org PCR-1000 control suite. It consists of a library, command line programs, and a QT widget GUI application. This software controls an ICOM PCR-1000 receiver via a serial interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
icomlib1: Icom PCR-1000 control shared libraries icomlib is the ghetto.org PCR-1000 control suite. It consists of a library, command line programs, and a QT widget GUI application. This software controls an ICOM PCR-1000 receiver via a serial interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
icon-ipl: Libraries for Icon, a high-level programming language Ideal for both complex nonnumerical applications and for situations where users need quick solutions with a minimum of programming effort, Icon is a high-level, general purpose programming language with a syntax similar to Pascal and C. Its applications include: rapid prototyping, analyzing natural languages, generating computer programs, and artificial intelligence. (From the back cover of the book "The Icon Programming Language," by Griswold and Griswold.) This package contains the Icon program library, a library of Icon procedures and programs contributed by Icon users. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
iconc: Compiler for Icon, a high-level programming language Ideal for both complex nonnumerical applications and for situations where users need quick solutions with a minimum of programming effort, Icon is a high-level, general purpose programming language with a syntax similar to Pascal and C. Its applications include: rapid prototyping, analyzing natural languages, generating computer programs, and artificial intelligence. (From the back cover of the book "The Icon Programming Language," by Griswold and Griswold.) This package contains the Icon compiler. It generates programs that generally run faster than those of the icont/iconx Icon interpreter. On the other hand, the Icon compiler takes much longer to compile programs and is more memory-hungry than the iconx/icont pair. As such, the compiler is probably only useful to speed up the execution of large Icon programs once they are fully developed and debugged. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
icont: Interpreter for Icon, a high-level programming language Ideal for both complex nonnumerical applications and for situations where users need quick solutions with a minimum of programming effort, Icon is a high-level, general purpose programming language with a syntax similar to Pascal and C. Its applications include: rapid prototyping, analyzing natural languages, generating computer programs, and artificial intelligence. (From the back cover of the book "The Icon Programming Language," by Griswold and Griswold.) This package contains the Icon translator, which converts Icon source code into `ucode` that can then be executed with the help of the iconx program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
iconv: Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another From whatis
iconv: perform character set conversion From whatis
iconx: Executor for Icon, a high-level programming language Ideal for both complex nonnumerical applications and for situations where users need quick solutions with a minimum of programming effort, Icon is a high-level, general purpose programming language with a syntax similar to Pascal and C. Its applications include: rapid prototyping, analyzing natural languages, generating computer programs, and artificial intelligence. (From the back cover of the book "The Icon Programming Language," by Griswold and Griswold.) This package contains the Icon executor, iconx, which is needed to execute interpreted Icon programs. If you are starting from Icon source code (as opposed to precompiled `ucode' files), you will also need the icont package, which converts your Icon source into a program that iconx can execute. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICONZ: Internet Company Of New Zealand (org., Usenet) From VERA
ICOT: Institute for new generation COmputer Technology (org., Japan, FGCS) From VERA
icoutils: Extract MS Windows icons and cursors Icoutils is a set of programs that deal with MS Windows icons and cursors. Resources such as icons and cursors can be extracted from MS Windows executable and library files with ``wrestool''. Conversion of these files to XPM images is done with ``icotool''. ``extresso'' automates these tasks with the help of special resource scripts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICP: Independent Content Provider (MSN) From VERA
ICP: Intelligent Computer Peripherals (manufacturer) From VERA
ICP: Interface Change Proposal From VERA
ICP: Internet Caching Protocol (Internet) From VERA
ICQ: [I seek you] (Internet, ICQ) From VERA
ICR: Intelligent Character Recognition From VERA
ICRA: Internet Content Rating Association (Internet, org., IBM, MS, AOL, ...) From VERA
ICS: IBM Cabling System From VERA
ICS: International Classification for Standards (ISO) From VERA
ICS: Internet Connect Sharing (MS, IE, DHCP) From VERA
ICS: Irish Computer Society (org., Irland) From VERA
ICSC: Intelligent Channel/Storage Control, "IC/SC" From VERA
ICSI: International Computer Science Institute (org., USA) From VERA
ICSS: Internet Connection Secure Server (IBM, WWW) From VERA
ICTF: Internet Content Task Force (org., Internet) From VERA
ICU: Instruction Cache Unit (CPU, POWER) From VERA
ICU: Interactive Chart Utility (IBM, GDDM) From VERA
icu: International Components for Unicode (non locale data) ICU is a C++ and C library that provides robust and full-featured Unicode and locale support. The library provides calendar support, character set conversions, language-sensitive collation, date and time formatting, support for more than 140 locales, message catalogs and resources, message formatting, normalization, number and currency formatting, time zones support, transliteration, word, line and sentence breaking, etc.... This package contains the Unicode data, converters and aliases data, and timezone data. It also contains the tools needed to manipulate these data. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ICU: ISA Configuration Utility (BIOS, PNP, ISA) From VERA
ICURYY: I see you are too wise (slang) From VERA
iczech: The Czech dictionary for ispell. This is the Czech dictionary for ispell. Author: Petr Kolar <Petr.Kolar@vslib.cz> From Debian 3.0r0 APT
id: A UNIX command that identifies the user account under which it is executed, including UID, GID, groups, and associated names. Key point: This is often the first command a hacker will run on the system when the hacker breaks in remotely. The hacker will remotely compromise a service that is running under either root account, a special account setup for that service (e.g. the majordomo service runs under a user account called "majordomo"), or a user's account. The hacker is hoping they have achieved root access immediately. If not, the hacker will have to run a local exploit in order to elevate privileges. The other popular command hackers might execute is id. Example: Running id as root on one of my systems results in: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy) From Hacking-Lexicon
ID: IDentification From VERA
id: print real and effective UIDs and GIDs From whatis
id-utils: Fast, high-capacity, identifier database tool. Actually, the term `identifier' is too limiting--`mkid' stores tokens, be they program identifiers of any form, literal numbers, or words of human-readable text. Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags facility. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
id3: An ID3 Tag Editor A command-line based program that can list, modify, or delete ID3 tags from a file. ID3 tags are a way of identifying streaming music files. You can store Artist, Album, Title, Track, Year, and Genre in a tag, as well as a 28-character comment. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
id3ed: Another id3 tag editor A command-line program that allows you to add/edit/remove id3 tags on mp3 files. This one will, if run with just the name of a file to edit, allow you to change the tags interactively. Like other id3 tag editors, it can still be used in scripts easily. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
id3ren: id3 tagger and renamer Tool used to rename batches of mpeg3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a comment. The secondary function of id3ren is a tagger, which can create, modify, or remove ID3 tags. The id3 fields can be set on the command line, entered interactively, or "guessed" from the path and the filename. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
id3tool: A command line editor for id3 tags. A simple and complete editor for id3 tags. Highly recommened for scripting and bulk operations where you need to edit id3 tags from scripts. Can also be used to read id3 tags. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
id3v2: A command line id3v2 tag editor Adds/Modifies/Removes/Views id3v2 tags, converts/lists id3v1 tags From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IDA: Interchange of Data between Administrations (org., Europe) From VERA
IDAC: Infobus Data Access Component (Lotus, Java) From VERA
idanish: The Danish dictionary for ispell. This is the Danish dictionaries, to be used with ispell to check and correct spelling in Danish texts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IDAPI: Integrated Database API (DB, IBM, Novell, Borland, predecessor, BDE, API) From VERA
IDAS: Interchange DAta Structure From VERA
IDB: Integrated DataBase (DB) From VERA
IDBEF: Integrated DataBase Extract Format (IDB, DB) From VERA
IDBTF: Integrated DataBase Transaction Format (IDB, DB) From VERA
IDC: Inter-Device Communication (IBM, OS/2) From VERA
IDC: International Data Corporation From VERA
IDCT: Inverse Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) From VERA
IDDD: International Direct Distance Dialing From VERA
IDE: Integrated Development Environment From VERA
IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics (HDD) From VERA
IDE: See Integrated Device Electronics (IDE). From Redhat-9-Glossary
ide-smart: S.M.A.R.T. status checking tool for IDE hard disk drives ide-smart performs various non-destructive tests on a SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) capable IDE device. SMART provides near future failure prediction by monitoring different attributes (listed as IDs) of the device. Your BIOS and hardware need to support SMART to use this package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IDEA: International Data Encryption Algorithm (cryptography) From VERA
IDEA: Internet Design, Engineering, and Analysis notes (IETF) From VERA
IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm): IDEA is a symmetric block cipher algorithm. It is popular because it is used in PGP, but due to commercial licensing issues, it is not popular elsewhere. Controversy: IDEA is one of the few (widely-used) ciphers protected by patents; it requires a license for commercial use. PGP is no longer using IDEA as its default cipher because of this. Notes: It was developed by Xuejia Lai and James L. Massey. It uses 128-bit keys. There is no known way to break it other than brute-force. It was published in 1990. Its patents are held by the Swiss company "Ascom-Tech AG". Misconception: The name implies that IDEA is some sort of official standard -- it isn't. However, it is is widely used, and is an option on many standards. Applications: PGP From Hacking-Lexicon
IDEF: Integrated [CAM] DEFinition (CAM) From VERA
ident: identify RCS keyword strings in files From whatis
ident2: An advanced ident daemon ident2 is an advanced, configurable ident daemon. You can set it to lie, not lie, or not return any response at all, and it is per-user configurable (e.g. if user daniel was IRCing, it'd use ~daniel/.ident for its config, if user kim was IRCing, it'd use ~kim/.ident). The admin can specify whether users can configure the type of return they want or not. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
identd: TCP/IP IDENT protocol server From whatis
identd / auth: The identd (also known as auth) service on UNIX can be used to identify the owner of a TCP connection. As the auth name implies, it was originally intended to be used as some sort of authentication mechanism. Nowadays, it is most commonly used simply as a way of logging who does what activity. Example: When you connect to a UNIX-based mail server, it will usually attempt a reverse connection back to you on the identd port 113. Its goal is simply to log which user was attempting access to the server. From Hacking-Lexicon
IDES: International Demonstration and Education System (R/3, SAP) From VERA
IDES: Intrusion Detection Expert System (IBM, IDS, XPS) From VERA
idetool: view properties and settings of IDE drives From whatis
IDF: Intel Developer Forum (Intel, conference) From VERA
IDG: International Data Group (org.) From VERA
IDI: Initial DOMAIN Identifier (NSAP, IDP) From VERA
IDIS: Integrated Dealer and Importer System (MBAG) From VERA
IDL: Interactive Data Language (Research Systems) From VERA
IDL: Interface Definition Language (DCE, CORBA) From VERA
idl-font-lock-el: OMG IDL font-locking for Emacs This module adds font-lock highlighting to the Emacs IDL-mode. This will be useful for people doing CORBA stuff, but it is not related to the Interactive Data Language. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IDLC: ISDN Data Link Control (ISDN) From VERA
idle: An IDE for Python using Tkinter IDLE is an Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is written using Tkinter and therefore quite platform-independent. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IDLE: International Date Line, East [+1200] (TZ) From VERA
idle: make process 0 idle From whatis
IDLW: International Date Line, West [-1200] (TZ) From VERA
IDMR: Inter-DOMAIN Multicast Routing (IETF, WG, Multicast) From VERA
IDMS Linux: IDMS Linux is NOT a home user distribution. It is intended solely as the base for high end server software. No GUI's, No X, No fancy stuff. The initial Freshmeat announcement was for version 2.0.25, dated June 22, 2002. Version 2.2.8 was released January 5, 2003. From LWN Distribution List
IDN: Integrated Digital Network From VERA
IDOC: Intermediate DOCuments (ALE, SAP) From VERA
IDOMENEUS: Information and Data on Open MEdia for NEtworks of USers (WWW, Uni Hamburg, Germany) From VERA
IDP: Initial DOMAIN Part (NSAP) From VERA
IDP: Internet Datagram Protocol (XNS) From VERA
IDRC: ??? Redundancy Check (Datenkompression) From VERA
IDS: Information Delivery System From VERA
IDS: Intelligent Decision Server (IBM) From VERA
IDS: Inter Data Systems [gmbh] (manufacturer) From VERA
IDS: Internal Directory System From VERA
IDS: Intrusion Detection System (IDS) From VERA
IDS (intrusion detection system): An IDS is a security countermeasure. It monitors things looking for signs of intruders. Contrast: A host-based IDS monitor system events, logfiles, and so forth. A network-based IDS monitors network traffic, usually promiscuously. Contrast: A firewall simply blocks openings into your network/system, but cannot distinguish between good/bad activity. Therefore, if you need to allow an opening to a system (like a web-server), then a firewall cannot protect against intrusion attempts against this opening. In contrast, intrusion detection systems can monitor for hostile activity on these openings. More: See http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/network-intrusion-detection.html for more info. From Hacking-Lexicon
IDSA: Interactive Digital Software Association (org., Nintendo, Sony, MS, ...) From VERA
IDSS: Interoperability Decision Support System From VERA
idswakeup: A tool for testing network intrusion detection systems. idswakeup is a Bourne shell script invoking hping2 (required) and iwu (part of this package) to generate false alarms in order to check if a network intrusion detection system works all right. idswakeup requires no configuration and includes many common attack simulations. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IDT: Integrated Device Technology (manufacturer) From VERA
IDT: Interrupt Descriptor Table From VERA
IDTRC: Interrupt Descriptor Table Register Cache (IDT, CPU, Intel) From VERA
IDU: Interface Data Unit From VERA
IDUPGSSAPI: Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service API (GSS, API), "IDUP-GSS-API" From VERA
idutch: The Dutch dictionary for ispell, in new (August 1996) spelling. A Dutch spelling dictionary for the spelling checker ispell. The dictionary contains 119996 roots, which expand to 227480 words. For a simple word list, see the wdutch package instead. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IDV: Individuelle DatenVerarbeitung From VERA
IDVC: Integrated Data/Voice Channel From VERA
IE: Information Element (ATM, ISDN) From VERA
IE: Information Engineering From VERA
IEAAIE: [international conference on] Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert systems (conference, ISAI, ..., AI), "IEA/AIE" From VERA
IEC: Inter-Exchange Carrier (AT&T, MCI, LEC) From VERA
IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission (org., Switzerland) From VERA
IECC: Informix Enterprise Command Center (Informix) From VERA
IEDM: International Electron Device Meeting From VERA
IEE: Institute of Electrical Engineers (org., UK) From VERA
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (org., USA) From VERA
IEEE: see Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE. From Redhat-9-Glossary
IEEECS: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers - Computer Society (org., IEEE), "IEEE-CS" From VERA
IEEJ: ??? (org.) From VERA
IEF: Information Engineering Facility From VERA
IEICE: ??? (org.) From VERA
IEMMC: Internet EMail Marketing Council (Internet, org., spam) From VERA
IEMSI: Interactive Electronic Mail Standard Identification From VERA
IEN: Internet Engineering Notes From VERA
IEN: Internet Experiment Notebook (predecessor, RFC) From VERA
IEPG: Internet Engineering and Planning Group (Internet, RFC 1690) From VERA
IEPRC: International Electronic Publishing Research Centre (org., PIRA) From VERA
IES: Intelligent Emulation Switching (Epson) From VERA
IESE: [fraunhofer] Institut fuer Experimentelles Software Engineering (org.) From VERA
IESG: Internet Engineering Steering Group (IETF) From VERA
iesperanto: The Esperanto dictionary for ispell. This is the the Esperanto dictionary, to be used with the ispell program, version 3.1.04 and following. The dictionary is based on the words from Plena Ilustrita Vortaro, with additional country/language names. It accepts Latin-3, `cx' and `^c' forms. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IETF: Acronym for the Internet Engineering Task Force, The IETF is the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet, the IETF Home Page provides specific information in excruciating detail. From KADOWKEV
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force (org., IAB, Internet, RFC 1603/2418) From VERA
IETF: See Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). From Redhat-9-Glossary
IETFWG: Internet Engineering Task Force - Working Group (RFC 1603, IETF), "IETF-WG" From VERA
IETM: Interactive Electronic Technical Manual From VERA
IETS: Interim European Telecommunications Standards (GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA
IEW: Information Engineering Workbench (IBM) From VERA
IF: Information Flow (IN) From VERA
IFAC: International Federation for Automatic Control (org., Austria) From VERA
IFAD: Institute of Applied Computer Science (org., Denmark) From VERA
ifaroese: The Faroese dictionary for ispell. This is the Faroese dictionaries, to be used with ispell to check and correct spelling in Faroese texts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IFC: InterFace Clear (GPIB) From VERA
IFC: Internet FAQ Consortium (Internet, FAQ, org.) From VERA
IFC: Internet Foundation Classes (ONE, Netscape, Java) From VERA
ifcico: Fidonet Technology transport package Ifcico is a FidoTech mailer for connecting to other nodes via the phone or the Internet. This version includes the "tx" patches and other misc patches. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IFCM: Independent Flow Control Messages (SSP) From VERA
ifconfig: configure a network interface From whatis
IFD: Information Flow Diagram (IRM) From VERA
ifdown: take a network interface down From whatis
IFE: Internet Forum Europe (fair) From VERA
ifenslave: Attach and detach slave interfaces to a bonding device. This is a tool to attach and detach slave network interfaces to a bonding device. A bonding device will act like a normal Ethernet network device to the kernel, but will send out the packets via the slave devices using a simple round-robin scheduler. This allows for simple load-balancing, identical to "channel bonding" or "trunking" techniques used in switches. The kernel must have support for bonding devices for ifenslave to be useful. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ifgate: Internet to Fidonet gateway The program can act as a gateway between email and netmail and Usenet newsgroups and echomail. This version includes the "tx" patches and other misc patches. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ifhp: Printer filter for HP LaserJet printers ifhp is a highly versatile print filter for BSD based print spoolers. It can be configured to handle text, PostScript, PJL, PCL, and raster printers, supports conversion from one format to another, and can be used as a stand-alone print utility. It is the primary supported print filter for the LPRng print spooler. It provides access to printer features like duplex printing, paper tray selection and strong accounting using the printer's internal page counter. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ifinnish: A medium-size Finnish dictionary for Ispell This is a medium-size version of the Finnish dictionary, to be used with ispell to check and correct spelling in Finnish texts. Since Ispell is not really good at spell checking the kind of languages such as Finnish, this dictionary may not be as useful as the dictionaries for other languages. This dictionary recognizes roughly 1.9 million words and word forms. Ispell requires about 10 megabytes of memory when using this dictionary. For most uses, this version of the Finnish dictionary is recommended. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IFIOM: Intelligent FDDI Input Output Module (SMC, ES/1, FDDI) From VERA
IFIP: International Federation of Information Processing societies (org.) From VERA
ifmail: Internet to Fidonet gateway The package contains common files needed by ifcico and ifgate packages. This version includes the "tx" patches and other misc patches. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IFMP: Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol (IP) From VERA
IFNA: International FidoNet Association (org., Fido) From VERA
ifnames: print identifiers that a package uses in C preprocessor conditionals From whatis
IFP: Instruction Fetch Pipeline (Motorola, CPU) From VERA
ifplugd: ifplugd is a Linux daemon which will automatically configure your ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and automatically unconfigure it if the cable is pulled. This is useful on laptops with onboard network adapters, since it will only configure the interface when a cable is really connected. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
IFR: Interleaved Frame Recording (video) From VERA
ifrench: The French dictionary for ispell (Hydro-Quebec version). This is a French dictionary, to be used with the ispell program, version 3.1.04 and following. The dictionary contains roughly 50,000 roots, which expand to about 220,000 words. This is the Martin Boyer and Hydro-Quebec version. You may prefer to use the GUTenberg version installed by the ifrench-gut package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ifrom: one line per message summary of IMAP mailbox From whatis
IFS: ICOT Free Software (ICOT) From VERA
IFS: Installable File System (OS/2, DOS) From VERA
IFS: Intelligent Fax System (Ricoh) From VERA
IFS: Internal Field Separator (Unix, AWK) From VERA
IFS: Internet File System (Oracle, DB, Internet) From VERA
ifup: bring a network interface up From whatis
ifupdown: High level tools to configure network interfaces This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces, based on the file /etc/network/interfaces. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IFX: Interactive Financial eXchange (USA, banking) From VERA
igal: online image gallery generator iGal is a Perl-based program that can generate and publish an entire online picture show (HTML slides, thumbnails and index page included) with just one command line invocation. If you've got a directory (or several) full of image files that are waiting to be put online and shared with friends, then iGal is for you. iGal is well documented, flexible, and configurable through command line options and HTML templates, specific to each gallery. Generated slide shows include a JavaScript trick to preload the next image in the slideshow - ideal for slow links. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IGBT: Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IC) From VERA
IGC: Institute for Global Communications (USA) From VERA
IGD: [fraunhofer] Institut fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung (org., Darmstadt, Germany) From VERA
igerman: The German dictionary for ispell. This is the German dictionary for ispell as put together by heinz.knutzen@web.de This dictionary refers to the old German orthography. For the new orthography see ingerman. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IGES: Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (ANSI, USA, CIM, CAD) From VERA
IGMP: Internet Group Management / Multicast Protocol (RFC 1112/2236, IP, Multicast) From VERA
IGN: IBM Global Network (network) From VERA
IGOSS: Industry/Government Open System Specification From VERA
IGP: Interior Gateway Protocol From VERA
IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol): A protocol for exchanging infromation between gateways (hosts with routers) within an autonomous network (for example, a system of corporate local area networks). The routing information can then be used by the Internet Protocol (IP) or other network protocols to specify how to route transmissions. There are two commonly used IGPSs: the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol. From IGP
IGRP: Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IPX, Novell) From VERA
IGS: IBM Global Services (IBM) From VERA
IHS: Integrated Heat Spreader From VERA
ihungarian: The Hungarian dictionary for ispell. This is the Hungarian dictionary for ispell made by NEMETH Laszlo <nemethl@gyorsposta.hu> home: http://www.szofi.hu/gnu/magyarispell From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IHV: Independent Hardware Vendor From VERA
IIA: Information Industry Association (org.) From VERA
IIASA: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (org., Austria) From VERA
IICM: Institute for Information processing and Computer supported new Media (org., Oestereich) From VERA
IID: Interface IDentifier (COM) From VERA
IIF: Incoming InterFace (PIM, OIF, Multicast) From VERA
iiimecf: Internet/Intranet Input Method Emacs Client Framework IIIMECF conforms IIIM Protocol Specification defined by Sun Microsystems, and consists of a library to create IIIM awarded applications and a simple input method library controlled by IIIM server(s). (This input-method is denoted by "iiimcf-sc" hereafter.) From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IIIR: Integration of Internet Information Ressources (IETF) From VERA
IIIS: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (org., USA) From VERA
IIL: Integrated Injection Logic From VERA
IIN: Integrated Information Network From VERA
IIOP: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (CORBA, Internet, ONE, GIOP, TCP/IP) From VERA
IIP: Interoperability Improvement Panel From VERA
IIR: Infinite Impulse Response (DSP) From VERA
IIRC: If I Remember/Recall Correctly (Usenet, IRC, slang) From VERA
IIS: Intelligence Information System (mil.) From VERA
IIS: Internet Information Server (MS) From VERA
IIS: [fraunhofer] Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen (org.) From VERA
IISP: Interim Inter-Switch Signaling Protocol (P-NNI, ATM) From VERA
IIT: Integrated Information Technology From VERA
iitalian: The italian dictionary for ispell. Questo dizionario, da usarsi con il programma ispell, contiene oltre 185.000 parole italiane. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IITF: Information Infrastructure Task Force (org., USA) From VERA
IIUC: If I Understand Correctly (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
iiwusynth: Real-time software synthesizer based on the Soundfont2 specifications. IIWU Synth is made of two applications: iiwusynth and iiwuplay. iiwusynth reads and handles MIDI events from the MIDI input device, it is the software analogue of a MIDI synthesizer. iiwuplay is a MIDI file player that allows to render a MIDI file using a Soundfont. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IJCAI: International Joint Committee / Conference on Artificial Intelligence (conference, org., AI) From VERA
IJH: Initial Java Heap (Java) From VERA
ijoin: Interactive spelling checking From whatis
IKE: IBM Kiosk for Education (IBM) From VERA
IKP: Internet Keyed Payment [protocols] (IBM, WWW), "iKP" From VERA
IKYABWAI: I know You Are But What Am I? (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
ILEC: Independent Local Exchange Carrier From VERA
ILETS: International Law Enforcment Telecom Seminars (ETSI) From VERA
ILFA: Integrierte Logische Funktionen fuer Anwendungen (IWBS, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany, Uni Duisburg, Germany) From VERA
ILLIGAL: ILLinois Genetic Algorithm Laboratory (org., Uni Illinois, USA), "IlliGAL" From VERA
ILLINET: ILlinois LIbrary NETwork (network, USA) From VERA
illuminator-demo: Illuminator Distributed Visualization Library Demo This little library provides contour surface viewing for PETSc's 3-D distributed array objects using the Geomview viewer. This package contains a demonstration program "chts" (Cahn-Hilliard timestep). With mpich, you can run it in parallel using "mpirun -np X /usr/bin/chts" where X is the number of processes (optimally equal to the number of processors), as long as process 0 has access to your X display. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
illuminator0: Illuminator Distributed Visualization Library This little library provides contour surface viewing for PETSc's 3-D distributed array objects using the Geomview viewer. This package contains the shared libs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ILMI: Interim Link / Local Management Interface (ATM) From VERA
ILPNET: [european] Inductive Logic Programming scientific NETwork From VERA
ILS: Intelligente LernSysteme From VERA
ILT: [Linux] Instructor Led Training (Linux, Caldera) From VERA
IM: Information Management From VERA
IM: Interface Module From VERA
im: Internet Message This package provides a series of user interface commands (im* commands) and backend Perl5 libraries to integrate Email and NetNews user interface. They are designed to be used both from Mew and on command line. The folder style for Mew is exactly the same as that of MH. So, you can replace MH with this package without any migration works. Moreover, you are able to operate your messages both by IM and MH with consistent manner. If you want to use RPOP protocol support, You should install perl-suid package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IMA: Interactive Multimedia Association (org.) From VERA
IMA: International MIDI Association (org.) From VERA
IMAC: Isochronous Media Access Control (FDDI), "I-MAC" From VERA
IMACS: International ??? (org.) From VERA
image: An archive file usually with the extension .iso, .img, or .raw that is used to create a CD-ROM, DVD, or diskette. From Redhat-9-Glossary
imagemagick: Image manipulation programs. Imagemagick is a set of programs to manipulate various image formats (JPEG, TIFF, PhotoCD, PBM, XPM, etc...). All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through a X11 graphical interface (display). Possible effects: colormap manipulation, channel operations, thumbnail creation, image annotation, limited drawing, image distortion, etc... This package suggests a postscript interpreter (gs) to read postscript files. It will however function happily without it (as long as you don't want to read postscript). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ImageMagick: ImageMagick is a powerful image display, conversion and manipulation tool. It runs in an X session. With this tool, you can view, edit and display a varietyof image formats. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
IMAIL: Intelligent MAIL From VERA
imake: C preprocessor interface to the make utility From whatis
IMAL: Integrated Media Architecture Laboratory (Bell, org., USA) From VERA
IMAO: In My Arrogant Opinion (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol (RFC 2060) From VERA
IMAP: see Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). From Redhat-9-Glossary
IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) IMAP4: IMAP is a popular protocol for users to retrieve e-mail from servers. It is likely supported by the mail client that you use, such as Netscape or Outlook. Key point: IMAP is important to hackers because many implementations are vulnerable to buffer overflow exploits. In particular, a popular distribution of Linux shipped with a vulnerable IMAP service that was enabled by default. Therefore, even today, security professionals frequently detect scans directed at port 143 looking for vulnerable IMAP servers. From Hacking-Lexicon
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): IMAP is gradually replacing POP as the main protocol used by email clients in communicating with email servers. Using IMAP an email client program can not only retrieve email but can also manipulate message stored on the server, without having to actually retrieve the messages. So messages can be deleted, have their status changed, multiple mail boxes can be managed, etc. IMAP is defined in RFC 2060 From Matisse
imapcopy: copy or move messages from an IMAP inbox to a local mailbox From whatis
imapd: Internet Message Access Protocol server From whatis
imaptool: A tool for creating client-side image maps A simple (yet useful and free) tool for creating client-side image maps, supporting GIF and JPEG images. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
imapxfer: copy mailboxes between IMAP servers From whatis
IMB: Intel Media Bench From VERA
IMC: ??? (org.), "IM&C" From VERA
IMC: Information Management Concept From VERA
IMCO: In My Considered Opinion (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
imcom: A console jabber client IMcom is a text based jabber client written in python. IMcom has the look and feel of micq and is a good replacement for micq users who want to use a free instant messaging system. See http://www.jabber.org for more information on the jabber instant messaging system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IMDB: Internet Movie DataBase (Internet, WWW, DB) From VERA
IME: Input Method Editor (MS, Windows) From VERA
IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity (MS, GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA
IMG: IMplementation Guide (R/3, SAP) From VERA
imgsizer: Add WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes to IMG tags in HTML files. The imgsizer script automates away the tedious task of creating and updating the extension HEIGHT and WIDTH parameters in HTML IMG tags. These parameters help many browsers (including Netscape) to multi-thread image loading, instead of having to load images in strict sequence in order to have each one's dimensions available so the next can be placed. This generally allows text on the remainder of the page to load much faster. The package needs either the imagemagick package or both the file and libjpeg-progs packages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
imgstamp: A timestamping utility for webcam images imgstamp is a utility that "watermarks" a JPEG image with a line of text. It can stamp the text onto the image with a variety of styles, fonts, and orientations. It can also upload the stamped image to an FTP server, which is useful for webcam scripts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
imgvtopgm: PalmPilot/III Image Conversion utility This program can convert, compress, and decompress 4-bit grayscale images for displaying on the PalmPilot. It can take any pbm, pnm, pgm file generated by the netpbm package and convert it into a suitable image for the Pilot. A suitable viewer for the Pilot or PalmIII that is freeware can be found at http://www.strout.net/pilotsoft/spec/index.html. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
IMIA: International Medical Informatics Association From VERA
IML: Initial Machine Load From VERA
imlib: Imlib is a display depth independent image loading and rendering library. Imlib is designed to simplify and speed up the process of loading images and obtaining X Window System drawables. Imlib provides many simple manipulation routines which can be used for common operations. Install imlib if you need an image loading and rendering library for X11R6, or if you are installing GNOME. You may also want to install the imlib-cfgeditor package, which will help you configure Imlib. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
imlib: Imlib is a display depth independent image loading and rendering library. Imlib is designed to simplify and speed up the process of loading images and obtaining X Window System drawables. Imlib provides many simple manipulation routines which can be used for common operations. Install imlib if you need an image loading and rendering library for X11R6. You may also want to install the imlib-cfgeditor package, which will help you configure Imlib. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
imlib-progs: Configuration program for Imlib and GDK-Imlib This package contains imlib_config, a GTK app that will allow the user to set all of Imlib's properties. It writes to the global imrc or the users. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
imlib1: Imlib is an imaging library for X and X11 Imlib is a low-level Xlib interface for X programmers. It allows easier access to many graphics formats and can write to them as well. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IMMD: Institut fuer Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung (org., Uni Erlangen, Germany) From VERA
Immunix: WireX provides Immunix System 7 a secured Red Hat 7.0 distribution with StackGuard 2.0, FormatGuard 1.0, SubDomain 1.0 and a suite of application-level security tools. A Red Hat 6.2 version is also available. Immunix Secured Linux 7+ was released March 18, 2003. A 'secured' distribution. From LWN Distribution List
IMNSCO: In My Not So Considered Opinion (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
IMNSHO: In My Not So Humble / Honest Opinion (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
IMO: In My Opinion (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA
IMP: Interface Message Processors (ARPANET, MILNET) From VERA
imp: Web Based IMAP Mail Program. A set of PHP3 scripts that implement an IMAP based webmail system. Assuming you have an account on a server that supports IMAP, you can theoretically use an installation of IMP to check your mail from anywhere that you have web access. IMP does not require an IMAP server to be running on the machine you install it on unless you are intending to have it use the current machine for it's IMAP connections. (If you are connecting to a remote server for your mail than you don't need IMAP) IMP requires a database to be running if you want to use the extended features such as the addressbook, and preferences. It currently uses PHPLib for the database interface so as long as PHPLib supports your database of choice your good to go. This package is designed to support PostgreSQL and MySQL directly. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IMPACT: Information Market Policy ACTions (ECHO) From VERA
impress: WYSIWYG Publishing & Presentation for use With/without Web browser ImPress is a WYSIWYG layout program designed especially for Linux. It allows you to create presentations and Postscript documents using fully scalable graphics similar to programs like Macromedia Freehand, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Visio. It is different from raster graphic packages like gimp, Adobe PhotoShop and Jasc's PaintShop Pro in that it deals with graphical objects which can be manipulated on a canvas rather than just layers of paint. For more information: http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/index.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IMR: Information Management Representitive (IM) From VERA
IMR: Internet Monthly Report (Internet) From VERA
IMR: Interrupt Mask Register (IC) From VERA
IMS: Information Management System (IBM) From VERA
IMS: Integrated Management System From VERA
IMS: Integrated Measurement Systems [inc] (manufacturer) From VERA
IMS: Intelligent Manufacturing System (MITI) From VERA
IMS: International Meta Systems (manufacturer) From VERA
IMS: [fraunhofer] Institut fuer Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und systeme (org., Dresden, Germany) From VERA
IMSESA: Information Management System/Enterprise Systems Architecture (IBM), "IMS/ESA" From VERA
IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity (MM, GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA
IMSO: Integrated Micro Systems Operation (Intel) From VERA
IMSP: nternet Message Support Protocol (Internet) From VERA
IMSVS: Information Management System/Virtual Storage, "IMS/VS" From VERA
IMTC: International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (org., MS, Intel, Apple, IBM, SNI, AT&T, ...) From VERA
imwheel: Program to support the "wheel" on some new mice Various new mice, including the Microsoft IntelliMouse, and the Logitech MouseMan+, Wheel Mouse, and others, now have a "wheel" button in the middle of them. This wheel button acts both as a standard button (by pressing it), and a wheel, which under MS Windows may be used for scrolling windows around. This program supports the wheel scrolling operation by one of two means: 1. Some newer X servers support mapping the wheel to buttons 4 and 5, which imwheel then captures and supports, 2. Using a patched version of gpm, the normal mouse events are passed on to the X server through /dev/gpmdata (gpm's standard "repeater" mode), and in addition wheel events are sent to another pipe, /dev/gpmwheel. imwheel picks up these events, and translates them. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IN: Individual Network [e.v.] (org., ISP) From VERA
IN: Intelligent Network (ITU-T, Q.1200) From VERA
in.comsat: biff server From whatis
in.fingerd: remote user information server From whatis
in.ftpd: Internet File Transfer Protocol server From whatis
in.identtestd: a small daemon that can be used to test Ident servers From whatis
in.ntalkd: remote user communication server From whatis
in.qpopper: - POP3 server (v4.0) From whatis
in.talkd: remote user communication server From whatis
in.telnetd: DARPA telnet protocol server From whatis
in.tftpd: DARPA Trivial File Transfer Protocol server From whatis
INA: Intelligent Network Architecture (IN) From VERA
INAP: Intelligent Network Application Protocol (IN) From VERA
incident: A single measured cyber-attack. The problem with "incidents" is that it is often hard to quantify exactly what is going on. Sometimes "incidents" are detected that are actually due to networking anamolies that have nothing to do with hacking. Therefore, an "incident" starts life when something is detected. As time goes on, the incident will be updated with more information, such as grouping together related attacks. From Hacking-Lexicon
incident team: A team within a company who is responsible for responding to cyber-attacks. Key point: The following are useful resources to such a team: CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) The oldest incident organization, established in response to the Morris Worm. CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) Organization similar to CERT setup by the U.S. DoE (Department of Energy). http://www.securityfocus.com/ They have an INCIDENTS mailing list companion to their BUGTRAQ mailing list where people discuss incidents they've seen. From Hacking-Lexicon
INCM: Intelligent Network Conceptual Model (IN) From VERA
INCORE: INternet COntent Rating for Europe (org., Internet) From VERA
INDC: [international conference on] Information Networks and Data Communication (IFIP, conference) From VERA
indent: C language source code formatting program The `indent' program changes the appearance of a C program by inserting or deleting whitespace. `indent' also provides options for controlling the alignment of braces and declarations, program indenting, and other stylistic parameters, including formatting of both C and C++ comments. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
indent: Indent is a GNU program for formatting C code, so that it is easier to read. Indent can also convert from one C writing style to adifferent one. Indent understands correct C syntax and tries to handle incorrect C syntax. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Independence: Independence is a free distribution designed by users for the users and particularly those who are left out by present distributions. From LWN Distribution List
indexhtml: The indexhtml package contains the HTML page and graphics for awelcome page shown by your Web browser, which you will see after you have successfully installed Red Hat Linux. The webpage provided by indexhtml tells you how to register your RedHat software and how to get support. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
INET: International NETworking conference (conference), "iNET" From VERA
inetd: Berkeley daemon program that listens for connection requests or messages for certain ports and starts server programs to perform the services associated with those ports. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
inetd: internet super-server From whatis
inetd: The subsystem in UNIX responsible for starting most of the network services. This program works from the principle that one service can listen for incoming traffic on a socket, and when such traffic appears, it can launch the appropriate service to handle it. This allows a single box to support many services without actually having them all run at the same time. The file /etc/inetd.conf configures this service. Key point: A common backdoor technique is to place a root shell program in inetd.conf. From Hacking-Lexicon
inews: A replacement for the C News inews program. This package contains a feature-enhanced and faster version of inews, written in Perl. It replaces the inews provided by C News. New features include MIME encoding and header syntax checks. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
inewsinn: NNTP client news injector, from InterNetNews (INN). `inews' is the program that newsreaders call when the user wishes to post an article; it does a few elementary checks and passes the article on to the news server for posting. This version is the one from Rich Salz's InterNetNews news transport system (which is also available as a Debian package). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Infection: The presence of a virus within a computer system or on a disk. The infection may not be obvious to the user; many viruses for example, reamin in the background until a specific time and date, when they display prank messages or erase data. See Trojan horse and worm. From QUECID
info: Standalone GNU Info documentation browser The Info file format is an easily-parsable representation for online documents. This program allows you to view Info documents, like the ones stored in /usr/share/info. Much of the software in Debian comes with its online documentation in the form of Info files, so it is most likely you will want to install it. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
info: The GNU project uses the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. The info package provides a standalone TTY-based browser program for viewing texinfo files. You should install info, because GNU's texinfo documentation is a valuable source of information about the software on your system. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
info page: Info pages give detailed information about a command or file (man pages tend to be brief and provide less explanation than info pages). Info pages are interactive with a navigable menu system. Access an info page with the info command. From Redhat-9-Glossary
info2www: Read info files with a WWW browser info2www lets you read info files with a WWW browser. It requires a HTTP server with CGI support. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Infobot (or mailbot): An email address that automatically returns information requested by the user. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
infobrowser: read Info documents From whatis
infocmp: compare or print out terminfo descriptions From whatis
inform-mode: Emacs mode for editing Inform files This is an (X)Emacs mode for editing Inform source code. Inform source is used when writing games for the Z-Code virtual machine (aka Infocom). This package will add an editing mode to your favorite Emacsen for editing these files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
INFOSEC (Information Security): Contrast: The term "information security" distinguishes itself from "physical security". Key point: A common model used to describe security is the OSI/ISO/IEC 10181 standard. It breaks down infosec into the following areas: authentication Where people have to prove who they are. access control Where people are allowed to access computers or files. non-repudiation Making sure that both sides of a transaction cannot later deny the transaction took place. (antonym: repudiation/renounce/reject) confidentiality Prevent unauthorized disclosure of information. (antonym: disclosure) integrity Making sure that things cannot be corrupted. (antonym: corruption, tampering). audits and alarms Track what is happening. availability (antonym: Denial-of-Service) accountability Making sure that people can be held responsible for their actions. (antonym: anonymity). This includes finding out who violated security policies, as well as simple things as charging departments for their use of network resources. Key point: The most common threats are: disclosure Information was leaked to an unauthorized person. integrity violation Data was altered, such as an account balance that was changed. masquerading/forgery Somebody pretends to be somebody else, or generates a message pretending to be from somebody else. denial-of-service insider attacks From people you trust. backdoors/trojans Key point: The fields of infosec and hacking are not necessarily related. This is a little confusing. Infosec is the field of assuring that information is secure. Hacking is the field of breaking rules. For example, following infosec best practices, you can validate that a server is secure, data is encrypted, and that only authenticated users can gain access. However, a hacker executing a buffer overflow exploit gains access bypassing all the security measures. Contrast: The military has a number of terms related to INFOSEC. They include: COMSEC - communications security Describes the procedures designed to secure communications from the enemy. The antonym is COMINT. From Hacking-Lexicon
infotocap: convert a terminfo description into a termcap description From whatis
ingerman: New German orthography dictionary for ispell This is a dictionary for ispell for the new German orthography. It is based on the famous hkgerman dictionary (using the old German orthography) which was put together by Heinz Knutzen and is available as the Debian package igerman. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
INGRES: INteractive Graphic REtrieval System From VERA
INHOPE: INternet HOtline Providers in Europe (org., ISP) From VERA
inimf: Metafont, a language for font and logo design From whatis
inimpost: MetaPost, a system for drawing pictures From whatis
iniomega: extended unicode TeX From whatis
init: 'init' process is the first user level process started by the kernel. init has many important duties, such as starting getty (so that users can log in), implementing run levels, and taking care of orphaned processes. This chapter explains how init is configured and how you can make use of the different run levels. init is one of those programs that are absolutely essential to the operation of a Linux system, but that you still can mostly ignore. Usually, you only need to worry about init if you hook up serial terminals, dial-in (not dial-out) modems, or if you want to change the default run level. When the kernel has started (has been loaded into memory, has started running, and has initialized all device drivers and data structures and such), it finishes its own part of the boot process by starting a user level program, init. Thus, init is always the first process (its process number is always 1). The kernel looks for init in a few locations that have been historically used for it, but the proper location for it is /sbin/init. If the kernel can't find init, it tries to run /bin/sh, and if that also fails, the startup of the system fails. When init starts, it completes the boot process by doing a number of administrative tasks, such as checking filesystems, cleaning up /tmp, starting various services, and starting a getty for each terminal and virtual console where users should be able to log in. After the system is properly up, init restarts getty for each terminal after a user has logged out (so that the next user can log in). init also adopts orphan processes: when a process starts a child process and dies before its child, the child immediately becomes a child of init. This is important for various technical reasons, but it is good to know it, since it makes it easier to understand process lists and process tree graphs. init itself is not allowed to die. You can't kill init even with SIGKILL. There are a few variants of init available. Most Linux distributions use sysvinit (written by Miquel van Smoorenburg), which is based on the System V init design. The BSD versions of Unix have a different init. The primary difference is run levels: System V has them, BSD doesn't. From Linux Administrator's Guide
init: process control initialization From whatis
Init: The first process to run after the system boots and always has a process id of 1. It is responsible for starting the system in single user mode or spawning a shell to read the startup files. It opens ports that are designated as login ports and spawns getty processes for each on. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Init: The first process to run immediately after the operating system loads. It starts the system in single-user mode or spawns a shell to read the startup files, and opens ports designated as login ports. From I-gloss
init script: Shorthand for initialization script, scripts that are typically run at system boot time. Most start services and set initial system parameters. Init scripts can also be controlled by administrators to start at a specified runlevel. From Redhat-9-Glossary
initex: text formatting and typesetting From whatis
Initialise: To prepare hardware or software to perform a task a serial port is initialised using the MODE command to set the baud, parity, data, and stop bit values, for example. In some programs, initialising can be setting a counter or variable to zero before running a procedure. From QUECID
initscripts: The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Mandrake Linux system, change run levels, and shut the system down cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most network interfaces. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
initz: Handles the switching of various initialization files of emacsen. Initz handles the switching of various startup initialization files of emacsen provided for various environment. According to the environment (maybe emacs version, OS type or OS versions) Initz reads appropriate init files provided by the user in several directories, one for one environment. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
inkjet: A type of printer which uses water-based inks that spray through tiny nozzles onto the printing surface. Inkjet printers are popular for their low cost and high image output quality. From Redhat-9-Glossary
INL: Inter Node Link From VERA
INMS: Integrated Network Management System From VERA
INN: Inter Node Network From VERA
inn: News transport system `InterNetNews' by the ISC and Rich Salz This is INN version 1.X, provided for sites which are not ready to upgrade to 2.X yet. New installations of INN should use Debian's inn2 package instead. The news transport is the part of the system that stores the articles and the lists of which groups are available and so on, and provides those articles on request to users. It receives news (either posted locally or from a newsfeed site), files it, and passes it on to any downstream sites. Each article is kept for a period of time and then deleted (this is known as `expiry'). By default Debian's INN will install in a fairly simple `local-only' configuration. In order to make use of the services provided by INN you'll have to use a user-level newsreader program such as trn. The newsreader is the program that fetches articles from the server and shows them to the user, remembering which the user has seen so that they don't get shown again. It also provides the posting interface for the user. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
inn2: News transport system `InterNetNews' by the ISC and Rich Salz This package provides INN 2.X, which is Debian's preferred news transport system for new installations. The 'inn' package still exists for sites running INN 1.X who are not prepared to upgrade yet. The news transport is the part of the system that stores the articles and the lists of which groups are available and so on, and provides those articles on request to users. It receives news (either posted locally or from a newsfeed site), files it, and passes it on to any downstream sites. Each article is kept for a period of time and then deleted (this is known as `expiry'). By default Debian's INN will install in a fairly simple `local-only' configuration. In order to make use of the services provided by INN you'll have to use a user-level newsreader program such as trn. The newsreader is the program that fetches articles from the server and shows them to the user, remembering which the user has seen so that they don't get shown again. It also provides the posting interface for the user. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
INNC: International Neural Network Conference (INNS, conference, NN) From VERA
innfeed: This is the INN feeder program `innfeed.' This is a program that sends a newsfeed to one or more remote hosts through NNTP. It can handle multiple connections to multiple remote hosts. It is an alternative to `nntplink' (of which there is no Debian package) or the inn-provided `send-nntp' (which is slow). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
innominate Bootable Business Card: A bootable rescue disc on a business card sized CD. Web site in German. A CD-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List
innovation3d: Extensible 3d modeler Innovation3D or shorthand I3D is a 3d modeling program. Besides basic polygonal modeling and support for model animation, it also features support for NURBS curves and surfaces. Innovation3D has an extensible design with the help of plugins. These plugins allow for support of a variety of file formats or may even extend the functionality of Innovation3D. A set of plugins is already available in the innovation3d-plugins package. If you would like to develop more plugins yourself, you should install the innovation3d-dev package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
INNS: International Neural Network Society (org., AI, NN) From VERA
INOC: Internet Network Operations Center From VERA
inode: A data structure holding information about files in a Unix file system. There is an inode for each file and a file is uniquely identified by the file system on which it resides and its inode number on that system. Each inode contains the following information: the device where the inode resides, locking information, mode and type of file, the number of links to the file, the owner's user and group ids, the number of bytes in the file, access and modification times, the time the inode itself was last modified and the addresses of the file's blocks on disk. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
inode: An inode is the address of a disk block. When you see the inode information through ls, ls prints the address of the first block in the file. You can use this information to tell if two files are really the same file with different names (links). A file has several components: a name, contents, and administrative information such as permissions and modification times. The administrative information is stored in the inode (over the years, the hyphen fell out of "i-node"), along with essential system data such as how long it is, where on the disc the contents of the file are stored, and so on. There are three times in the inode: the time that the contents of the file were last modified (written); the time that the file was last used (read or executed); and the time that the inode itself was last changed, for example to set the permissions. Altering the contents of the file does not affect its usage time and changing the permissions affects only the inode change time. It is important to understand inodes, not only to appreciate the options on ls, but because in a strong sense the inodes are the files. All the directory hierarchy does is provide convenient names for files. The system's internal name for the file is its i-number: the number of the inode holding the file's information. From UNIX Progamming Environment
inode: Data structure that contain information about files in a UNIX or UNIX-compatible file system. From Redhat-9-Glossary
inode number: a unique number associated with each filename. This number is used to look up an entry in the inode table which gives information on the type, size, and location of the file and the userid of the owner of the file. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
inorwegian: The Norwegian dictionary for ispell This is the Norwegian dictionary, to be used with ispell to check and correct spelling in Norwegian texts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
INPOL: INformationssystem der POLizei From VERA
input: Data entered into a computer system to be processed by a program. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Input/output (I/O) redirection: In DOS and UNIX, the routing of a progam's output to a file or device, or the routing of a progam's input from a file rather than the keyboard. From QUECID
INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (org., France) From VERA
insert mode: In vi, the mode that allows you to type new text in front of existing text in a file; terminate this mode by pressing ESC. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
insight: Graphical debugger based on gdb Insight is a tight graphical user interface to gdb written in Tcl/Tk. It provides a comprehensive interface that enables users to harness most of gdb's power. It's also probably the only up-to-date UI for gdb version 5.0 From Debian 3.0r0 APT
INSITS: INternational Symposium on IT Standardization (conference, IFIP, GI) From VERA
insmod: install loadable kernel module 0 From whatis
INST: INformation Standards and technology Standardization From VERA
install: copy files and set attributes From whatis
INSTALL file: This is a standard document beginning with the line `` These are generic installation instructions.'' Since all GNU packages are installed in the same way, this file should always be the same. From Rute-Users-Guide
install-info: create or update entry in Info directory From whatis
install-keymap: expand a given keymap and install it as boot-time keymap From whatis
install-mbr: install a Master Boot Record manager From whatis
install-menu: Used internally by the Debian menu system. It is a program to facilitate the generate the menu-related startup files for the various window managers etc. From whatis
install-sgmlcatalog: create or update entry in SGML catalog file From whatis
installfest: [Linux community since c.1998] Common portmanteau word for "installation festival"; Linux user groups frequently run these. Computer users are invited to bring their machines to have Linux installed on their machines. The idea is to get them painlessly over the biggest hump in migrating to Linux, which is initially installing and configuring it for the user's machine. From Jargon Dictionary
installkernel: install a new kernel image From whatis
installwatch: Track installation of local software Installwatch is used to track the changes made during the installation of local (i.e. non-deb) software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE: A worldwide professional association for electrical and electronics engineers, which sets standards for telecommunications and computing applications. From Redhat-9-Glossary
INTA: International Trademark Association (org.) From VERA
INTAP: Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing (org.) From VERA
integrated: Two or more commonly separate components, objects, or applications that are developed to work together. For example, a word processing application and a spreadsheet that are designed such that files and objects from one application can be used in the other application are integrated. From Redhat-9-Glossary
Integrated Device Electronics (IDE): Interface for connecting additional multiple storage drives to a computer system. For example, some hard drives and CD-ROM drives that have integrated device controllers attach to IDE connectors. From Redhat-9-Glossary
integrit: A file integrity verification program like tripwire Integrit helps you determine whether an intruder has modified your system. Without the use of integrit, a sysadmin wouldn't know if the programs used for investigating the system are trojan horses or not. Integrit works by creating a database that is a snapshot of the most essential parts of the system. You put the database somewhere safe, and then later you can use it to make sure that noone has made any illicit modifications to your system. Integrit's key features are the small memory footprint, the design with unattended use in mind, intuitive cascading rulesets for the paths listed in the configuration file, the possibility of XML or human-readable output and simultaneous check and update. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
integrity: One of the major areas of infosec, integrity is the area concerned with making sure that messages/information are "correct" and haven't been subtly changed or tampered with by an adversary. Analogy: We write the dollar amount on personal checks both as numbers as well as words. This prevents somebody from altering the value, such as adding an extra digit to the number in order to extract $1000 from you rather than the authorized $100. Key point: We use cryptographic hashes as a way of fingerprinting documents and detecting when they are changed. The two most popular hashes are SHA-1 and MD5. Key point: Typical attacks against integrity include modification, insertion, deletion, and replay of information. Contrast: The terms integrity and authenticity are widely used to mean the same thing. In other situations, they have subtly different meanings (especially law). The term integrity generally describes defenses against malicious alteration of a message once it has been sent, whereas authenticity also implies some validation of the sender of the message to protect against forgeries. Contrast: Another way looking at integrity is system integrity. The concern is maintaining the integrity of the computer itself, rather than a message that goes across the wire. In this context, the goals are to prevent files from being modified or programs from being installed on the system. One of the focuses of system integrity is making sure that legitimate, authorized users do not make unauthorized modifications to the system. Programs like tripwire check the integrity of systems by maintaining a table of hashes for all files, and detecting which files change. See also: Integrity is often mentioned along with other key security concepts such as confidentiality, authentication, and non-repudiation. From Hacking-Lexicon
INTEL: INtegriertes TEileLogistiksystem (MBAG) From VERA
intel-rng-tools: Daemon to use the RNG on i810 motherboards This daemon feeds data from a random number generator to the kernel's random number entropy pool, after first checking the data to ensure that it is properly random. The i810_rng kernel module is required to use this package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
intel2gas: A converter from NASM assembly language to GAS Intel2GAS is a converter that will convert assembler source files written for NASM to files that can be assembled using the GNU Assembler (GAS), on the i386 platform. It provides support for basic MMX instructions as well. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
interactive logon (network logon): Microsoft Windows has two destinctive ways of logging onto a machine. An interactive logon is where you log onto your machine locally (sitting in front of it), whereas a network logon is the process of connecting to the file server remotely across the network. Normally, both logons happen simultaneously after entering the username/password only once, so users typically don't perceive much difference between the two logons. Key point: Network logons can be disabled for administrators. This prevents people from stealing passwords and remotely administering the machine. This makes security easier because the server can be controlled via physical security. Contrast: Unix has similar concepts. A local logon is through the "console". Often, root access will be denied to remote logons. Both Windows and Unix have the concept of remotely logging on via one user account, then using that account to locally upgrade to root/administrator. From Hacking-Lexicon
Interactive Media: Frequency assignment that allows for a two-way interaction or exchange of information. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
interactive processing: Performance of tasks on a computer system that involves continual exchange of information between the computer and a user; the opposite of batch processing. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
intercal: ick - Compiler for the Intercal language This package is an implementation of the language INTERCAL, legendary for its perversity and horribleness, designed by Don Woods and James Lyon, who have since spent more than twenty years trying to live it down. This version adds COME FROM for extra flavor. Comes with language manual and examples including possibly the entire extant body of INTERCAL code. This implementation was created by Eric S. Raymond during a fit of lunacy from which he has since mostly recovered. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
interchange: e-commerce and general HTTP database display system Interchange is a database access and retrieval system focused on e-commerce. It allows customers to select items to buy from catalog pages. The program tracks user information in sessions and interacts with a HTTP server through sockets. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
interchange-cat-foundation: Foundation Store, a sample Interchange catalog The Foundation store is a demo catalog which you can use to build your Interchange applications from. While the Foundation store is designed to be relatively easy to start with, it is still a full-featured demonstration of a number of Interchange capabilities. Once you understand the Foundation store and how it works you are well on your way to understanding the Interchange software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
interchange-ui: Interchange administration interface (UI) With the Interchange administration interface, called UI, you are able to perform several useful operations like page edit, user's administration and view reports on an Interchange catalog. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
International Organization for Standardization (ISO): A voluntary organization responsible for creating international standards for computers, telecommunications, and other technologies. From Redhat-9-Glossary
Internet: A loose confederation of networks around the world, the networks that make up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks. The Internet grew out of the U.S. Government ARPAnet project, and is specifically designed to have no central governing authority or 'root', node. From KADOWKEV
Internet: A worldwide network of networks. It si also the network of networks that connects more than three million computers (called hosts). The Internet is the virtual space in which users send and receive email, login to remote computers (telnet), browse databases of information (gopher, World Wide Web, WAIS), and send and receive programs (ftp) contained on these computers. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
Internet: n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth; in fact, ARPANET was conceived from the start as a way to get most economical use out of then-scarce large-computer resources. As originally imagined, ARPANET's major use would have been to support what is now called remote login and more sophisticated forms of distributed computing, but the infant technology of electronic mail quickly grew to dominate actual usage. Universities, research labs and defense contractors early discovered the Internet's potential as a medium of communication between humans and linked up in steadily increasing numbers, connecting together a quirky mix of academics, techies, hippies, SF fans, hackers, and anarchists. The roots of this lexicon lie in those early years. Over the next quarter-century the Internet evolved in many ways. The typical machine/OS combination moved from DEC PDP-10s and PDP-20s, running TOPS-10 and TOPS-20, to PDP-11s and VAXes and Suns running Unix, and in the 1990s to Unix on Intel microcomputers. The Internet's protocols grew more capable, most notably in the move from NCP/IP to TCP/IP in 1982 and the implementation of Domain Name Service in 1983. It was around this time that people began referring to the collection of interconnected networks with ARPANET at its core as "the Internet". The ARPANET had a fairly strict set of participation guidelines - connected institutions had to be involved with a DOD-related research project. By the mid-80s, many of the organizations clamoring to join didn't fit this profile. In 1986, the National Science Foundation built NSFnet to open up access to its five regional supercomputing centers; NSFnet became the backbone of the Internet, replacing the original ARPANET pipes (which were formally shut down in 1990). Between 1990 and late 1994 the pieces of NSFnet were sold to major telecommunications companies until the Internet backbone had gone completely commercial. That year, 1994, was also the year the mainstream culture discovered the Internet. Once again, the killer app was not the anticipated one - rather, what caught the public imagination was the hypertext and multimedia features of the World Wide Web. Subsequently the Internet has seen off its only serious challenger (the OSI protocol stack favored by European telecom monopolies) and is in the process of absorbing into itself many of the proprietary networks built during the second wave of wide-area networking after 1980. It is now (1996) a commonplace even in mainstream media to predict that a globally-extended Internet will become the key unifying communications technology of the next century. See also the network and Internet address. From Jargon Dictionary
internet (Lower case i): Any time you connect 2 or more networks together, you have an internet - as in inter-national or inter-state. From Matisse
Internet (Upper case I): The vast collection of inter-connected networks that are connected using the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's. The Internet connects tens of thousands of independent networks into a vast global internet and is probably the largest Wide Area Network in the world. From Matisse
Internet account: Purchased through an Internet service provider, the account assigns a password and email address to an individual or group allowing access to the Internet. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): An industry standards body that governs and oversees Internet research and protocols. The organization is open to individuals, government representatives, and private interests. From Redhat-9-Glossary
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP): Industry standard email retrieval and storage protocol. IMAP servers store email messages that users access and read on the server, as opposed to downloading all messages using the post office protocol (POP). From Redhat-9-Glossary
Internet Protocol (IP): The protocol used to route a data packet from its source to its destination via the Internet. From Redhat-9-Glossary
Internet Protocol Security (IPSec): Collection of protocols overseen and approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the secure transmission of data over the Internet. From Redhat-9-Glossary
Internet Relay Chat (IRC): Real-time internet messaging system that links disparate users internationally. IRC users connect to central servers and join channels of various subjects. From Redhat-9-Glossary
Internet server: A computer that stores data that can be accessed via the Internet. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
Internet site: A computer connected to the Internet containing information that can be accessed using an Internet navigation tool such as ftp, telnet, gopher, or a Web browser. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
INTERNIC: Inter Network Information Center (org., Internet), "InterNIC" From VERA
Internic: The Internic provides the primary directory and registration services for the American part of the Internet. From KADOWKEV
Interpreted language: An interpreted language depends on an interpreter program that reads the source code and translates it on the fly into computations and system calls. The source has to be re-interpreted (and the interpreter present) each time the code is executed. Interpreted languages tend to be slower than compiled languages, and often have limited access to the underlying operating system and hardware. On the other hand, they tend to be easier to program. See Compiled language and P-code language. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Interpreted Language: Unlike a compiled program, which is converted from source code to an executable one time, by a compiler, and then run from its binary form, an interpreted program is converted to binary on the fly each time it is run, by an interpreter program. Interpreted languages (and thus their programs) tend to be slower than compiled and p-code languages/programs, and generally have limited authorization to low-level operating system functions or direct hardware access. On the other hand, they do not require compilers (which can be expensive), are often included along with operating systems, and are usually easier to program than compiled languages. Examples of interpreted languages are BASIC, Perl, Python and REXX/Object REXX. From I-gloss
interrupt: 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine. See also trap. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Often explicitly spoken. "Interrupt -- have you seen Joe recently?" See priority interrupt. 3. Under MS-DOS, nearly synonymous with `system call', because the OS and BIOS routines are both called using the INT instruction (see interrupt list) and because programmers so often have to bypass the OS (going directly to a BIOS interrupt) to get reasonable performance. From Jargon Dictionary
Interrupts: Interrupts are signals sent by devices which are received by the operating system and then processed. A device driver is responsible for handling the information that is received. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Intimate (iPAQ): The Intimate project is a Debian based Linux distribution for the Compaq iPAQ. It combines work being done by the Familiar Project with Debian package management. From LWN Distribution List
intltool: This tool automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bon