E

E-mail Address

The unique address within the Internet which allows people to send mail to you. Your e-mail address is made up of your name, the symbol and your domain name, so the address is tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de is the address for the user tripathi working at amadeus machine at the Statistics Faculty of University of Dortmund in Germany. To locate other netusers, please visit at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/finding-addresses From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

E1

European digital transmission format 1 [2.048 Mbps] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e16keyedit

a keybinding editor for the enlightenment window manager e16keyedit is a gtk+ based keybinding editor for the enlightenment window manager From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e16menuedit

enlightenment menu editor e16menuedit is an menu editor for the enlightenment window manager. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

E2

European digital transmission format 2 [8.448 Mbps] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2fsck

check a Linux second extended file system From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2fsck-static

A statically-linked version of the ext2 filesystem checker. This may be of some help to you if your filesystem gets corrupted enough to break the shared libraries used by the dynamically linked checker. This binary takes much more space than its dynamic counterpart located in e2fsprogs, though. You may want to install a statically-linked shell as well, to be able to run this program if something like your C library gets corrupted. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2fsprogs

The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in second extended (ext2) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to modify filesystem parameters) and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities. You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2 filesystem. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2fsprogs

The EXT2 file system utilities and libraries. EXT2 stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the main filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems. This package contains programs for creating, checking, and maintaining EXT2 filesystems, and the generic `fsck' wrapper. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2image

Save critical ext2 filesystem data to a file From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2label

Change the label on an ext2 filesystem From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2pall

convert all EPS files in a LaTeX document to PDF From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e2ps

Convert plain text into PostScript Plain text into PostScript converter with automatically detection of EUC, JIS and SJIS but may be weak with SJIS. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

e3

A very small editor This package contains an editor you can call via the following links: - e3em: Emacs-like key bindings - e3vi: Vi-like key bindings - e3pi: Pico-like key bindings - e3ne: Nedit-like key bindings - e3ws: Wordstar-like key bindings e3 has the following advantages over other editors: - it has no library dependencies - one very small binary (only 10 kB) that gives you 5 editors From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

E3

End-to-End Encryption (cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

E3

European digital transmission format 3 [34.368 Mbps] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

E4

European digital transmission format 4 [139.264 Mbps] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

E5

European digital transmission format 5 [565.148 Mbps] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EA

Eingabe/Ausgabe, "E/A" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EA

Escrowed Authenticator (cryptography, EES) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EA

Extended Attribute (OS/2) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAB

Enterpreise Access Builder (IBM, Java) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EADAS

Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System (EADAS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EADASNM

EADAS/Network Management (EADAS), "EADAS/NM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EADF

Elliptical Aperture with Dynamic Focus From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Eagle Linux

Eagle Linux is a Linux distribution that boots and runs from floppy or CD-ROM, saving you the trouble of having to install Linux on your system - and you build it yourself! There is no longer a need to repartition your hard drive or uninstall your current operating system. Eagle Linux is also a great embedded systems learning tool, and since you build it yourself, it can easily be created to run on any processor family. Version 1.0 was announced November 2, 2002. Debian based Eagle Linux 2.0 was released January 12, 2003. Eagle Linux 2.2 was released May 9, 2003. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAI

Enterprise Application Integration From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAI

External Authoring Interface (VRML) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAM

Evanescent Access Method (BS2000) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAN

European Article Numbering [system] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ean13

Create an EAN-13 or UPC barcode in .xbm format The Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode has been used in the USA for many years, and EAN-13 is a similar barcode used on products both in and outside the USA. ean13 will create an EAN-13 or UPC barcode in .xbm format. The .xbm format is used by most browsers and many graphics programs such as bitmap. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EANTC

European Advanced Networking Test Center (org., Berlin, Germany, ANTC, FDDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAP

Extensible Authentication Protocol From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EARN

European Academic Research Network (network) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAROM

Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory (ROM, IC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EAS

Enterprise Access System (Dynatech) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EASE

Easy Access System Europe (Novell, FTP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EASI

Enhanced Asynchronous SCSI Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

easyfw

Graphical interface to ipchains/ipfwadm Easy firewall is graphical interface to ipchains or ipfwadm, allowing to generate a ipchains/ipfwadm command script. The script can be used to execute the firewall rules on startup, or can be applied instanty. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

easytag

viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of MP3 files EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the ID3 tags of MP3 files, using a GTK+ interface. Currently EasyTAG supports the following features: - Viewing, editing, writing ID3 TAGs of MP3 files, - Process all MP3 files of the selected directory, - Ability to browse subdirectories, - Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving..., - Easy directory selection with a tree browser, - Supports ID3v1, ID3v1.1 tags, - Scan file for automatic tagging (using masks), - Scan tag for automatic renaming file (using masks), - Rename mp3 file, - Can apply a field (artist, title,...) to all other files, - Display MP3 header informations, - Can load a character translation file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EATA

Enhanced AT Bus Attachment From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eb-utils

EB(Electric Book) access library - utilities libeb is a library accessing CD-ROM books. It supports to access EB, EBG, EBXA, and EPWING formats. CD-ROM books are popular in Japan. This package includes runtime support files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBAM

Electronic Beam-Addressable Memory (IC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBAS

Elektronisches teile-BestellAbwicklungsSystem (MBAG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBC

EISA Bus Controller (Wyse) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBCDIC

/eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ n. [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as non-contiguous letter sequences and the absence of several ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages (exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from punched card code in the early 1960s and promulgated it as a customer-control tactic (see connector conspiracy), spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants and how to convert between them is still internally classified top-secret, burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very name of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest evil. See also fear and loathing. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBCDIC

Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code)

A character set coding cheme that represents 256 standard characters. IBM mainframes use EBCDIC coding, while personal computers use ASCII coding. Networks that link personal computers to IBM mainframes must include a translating device to mediate between the two systems. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBCOT

Embedded Block Coding with Optimal Truncation (JPEG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBCS

European Committee for Banking Standards (org., Europe, banking) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eblook

Electric-Dictionary search command using EB library. eblook is search command for CD-ROM (EPWING; a standard of CD-ROM book. This is very popular in Japan.) dictionaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBNF

Extended Backus-Naur-Form From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eboard

A graphical chessboard program (BETA VERSION) eboard is a graphical chess program which can function as an interface to Internet chess servers such as FICS and to chess engines such as Crafty. eboard has a themeable and freely resizable board, a tabbed or multi-window display, and supports multiple simultaneous boards. NOTE: eboard is currently beta software. Although it seems to work well for many people, bugs and misfeatures may remain. Use xboard if you want a perfectly stable program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBR

Enterprise Backup and Restore (ENS, Banyan, VINES) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBR

Extended Boot Record (MBR) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBROM

Electronic Book - Read Only Memory (ROM), "EB-ROM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBU

European Broadcasting Union (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBUS

Elektronisches teile-BUchungsSystem (MBAG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EBV

Elektronische BildVerarbeitung From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EC

Electronic Commerce From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EC

Error Correction (MODEM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECAI

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (conference, AI, ECCAI, Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ecamegapedal

an audio effects pedal application Using ecasound libraries, this program provides a real-time effects pedal simulated in an X screen. It can read from the audio device, and output to an audio device in real time, or can process wave files. It can work very flexibly. For more complex interface, see ecawave, and qtecawave. For command-line addicts, this is not the way to go, go for ecasound. It can apply any ladspa plugin to the audio data. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ecartis

Fast, Flexible Mailing List Manager Ecartis is a powerful mailing list manager in the tradition of listserv but with an open architecture and free source (GPL license). It has some features not found in Majordomo. One of the most interesting things in Ecartis is plugin module system; many functions are implemented as dynamically-loadable modules. You may also want to check out the ecartis-cgi program, which provides a web-based front-end for your Ecartis mailing lists. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ecartis-cgi

CGI front-end for Ecartis This is the experimental web-based front-end for the Ecartis mailing list management program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ecasound

Multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. As most functionality is located in shared libraries, creating alternative user-interfaces is easy. A versatile console mode interface is included in the package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ecawave

graphical audio file editor Ecawave is a simple graphical audio file editor. The user-interface is based on Qt libraries, while almost all audio functionality is taken directly from ecasound libraries. As ecawave is designed for editing large audio files, all processing is done direct-to-disk. Simple waveform caching is used to speed-up file operations. Ecawave supports all audio file formats and effect algorithms provided by ecasound libraries. This includes ALSA and OSS soundcard support and common file formats like wav, cdr, raw, aiff, mp3, etc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECB

Electronic CodeBook [mode] (cryptography, DES) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECB

Event Control Block (IPX) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECC

Electrical Connectivity Checks (CAD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECC

Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (Certicom, cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECC

Error Checking and Correction From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECC

Error Correction Circuit (CPU, POWER) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECC

Error Correction Code (CD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECCAI

European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (org., AI, Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECCO

Execute with Correct Checksum Only From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECCRAM

Error Checking and Correction ??? Random Access Memory (RAM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECD

Energy Conversion Devices (manufacturer, OUM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECDC

Electronic Comerce for Developing Countries (ITU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECDL

European Computer Driving License From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECEDI

Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange (EC, EDI), "EC/EDI" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECF

Enhanced Connectivity Facilities (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

echo

display a line of text From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECHO

European Community Host Organisation (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

echo

To repeat on the screen characters that are entered at the keyboard. You can use the echo command to explicitly display a string of characters. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

echo

[FidoNet] n. A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

echoping

A small test tool for TCP servers. Can test if a server is listening on a remote machine and can measure the round-trip time. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECHT

European Conference on Hypermedia Technology (INRIA, conference) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECI

Efficient Channel Integration (ADC, EDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECL

EClectic Language (Harvard, TOPS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECL

Emitter Coupled Logic From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECM

Entity Coordination Management (FDDI, SMT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECM

Error Correction / Correcting Mode (FAX, HDLC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECMA

European Computer Manufacturers Association (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECN

European Counter Network From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECN

Explicit Congestion Notification (IP, RFC 2481) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECNE

Enterprise Certified Novell Engineer (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECOC

European Conference on Optical Communications (conference) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECOM

Electronic Computer Originated Mail, "E-COM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECOOP

European Conference on Object Orientated Programming (OOP, conference) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECP

Enhanced Capability Port (MS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECP

Enhanced Communication Port / Protocol From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECP

Exessive CrossPosting (Usenet, EMP, spam) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECP

[PPP] Encryption Control Protocol (PPP, RFC 1968) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECPA

Electronic Communications Privacy Act (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECR

Engineering Change Request (PCI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECRC

[cable & wireless] European Computer industry Research Centre [gmbh] (ISP, org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECRM

Electronic Customer Relationship Management (Internet), "eCRM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECS

EComStation (OS/2), "eCS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECS

Elitegroup Computer Systems (manufacturer, Taiwan) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECS

Enhanced Chip Set (Amiga, Commodore) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECSA

Exchange Carriers Standards Association (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECSC

European Customer Support Centre (HP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECSD

Enhanced Circuit Switched Data (8-PSK, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECTS

European Computer Trade Show (fair, London) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ECU

EISA Configuration Utility (EISA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ed

Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (Emacs and vi, for example). Ed was the original UNIX editor and may be used by some programs. However, the more modern text editors are recommended for general use. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ED

End Delimiter (FDDI, Token Ring) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ED

Enhanced Density From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ed

n. "ed is the standard text editor." Line taken from original the Unix manual page on ed, an ancient line-oriented editor that is by now used only by a few Real Programmers, and even then only for batch operations. The original line is sometimes uttered near the beginning of an emacs vs. vi holy war on Usenet, with the (vain) hope to quench the discussion before it really takes off. Often followed by a standard text describing the many virtues of ed (such as the small memory footprint on a Timex Sinclair, and the consistent (because nearly non-existent) user interface). From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ed

The classic unix line editor ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files. red is a restricted ed: it can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDA

Electronic Design Automation (RL, IC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDAC

Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDAC

European Conference on Design Automation (IEEE-CS, conference) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

edb

A database program for GNU Emacs EDB is a database program for GNU Emacs. It permits you to manipulate structured (or not-so-structured) data within Emacs and provides many of the usual database features. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDBS

Einheitliche DatenBank-Schnittstelle (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDC

Error Detection Code (CD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDD

Enterprise Data Distribution (ENS, Banyan, VINES) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDGAR

Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval [system] (DB, Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDGE

Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution (GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange (GOSIP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDID

Extended Display Identification Data [standard] (VESA, DDC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDIF

Electronic Design Interchange Format From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDIFACT

Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

edit

execute programs via entries in the mailcap file From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

editor

A program that is used to make changes to a file. The two programs used most often on Linux systems are the programmable emacs editor and the full-screen vi visual interpreter. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Editor

One of several programs in Unix used to create and modify text files, some common editors include vi, ee and, pico. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

editres

a dynamic resource editor for X Toolkit applications From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDLC

Ethernet Data Link Control (ethernet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDM

Engineering Data Management From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDM

Extended Data Message From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDMCC

European Distributed Memory Computing Conference (GI, ITG, IFIP, conference) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDMS

Engineering Document Management System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDO

Extended Data Out [ram] (RAM, DRAM, IC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDODRAM

Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM), "EDO-DRAM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDORAM

Extended Data Out Random Access Memory (RAM, IC), "EDO-RAM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDOS

Elektronisches DateiOrganisationsSystem (MBAG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDP

Electronic Data Processing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDP

Electronic Data Processing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDP

Enhanced Dot Pitch (Hitachi) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDPS

Electronic Data Processing System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDR

External Developer Release From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDRAM

Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, DRAM, IC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDS

Electronic Data Systems [corporation] (provider, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDSAC

Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDSRA

Earth Data System Reference Application (ISH, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDT

Eastern Daylight Time [-0400] (TZ, EST, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

edusers

edit users list created by package From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDV

Elektronische DatenVerarbeitung From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDVAC

Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EDX

Event-Driven eXecutive (OS, IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ee

An "easy editor" for novices and compuphobics The editor 'ee' (easy editor) is intended to be a simple, easy to use terminal-based screen oriented editor that requires no instruction to use. Its primary use would be for people who are new to computers, or who use computers only for things like e-mail. ee's simplified interface is highlighted by the use of pop-up menus which make it possible for users to carry out tasks without the need to remember commands. An information window at the top of the screen shows the user the operations available with control-keys. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EE

Emotion Engine (Sony, Playstation) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEAG

Elektro- und ElektronikAltGeraete From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEE

[UDB] Enterprise Extended Edition (IBM, DB2, DB, UDB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEI

Equipment to Equipment Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEI

External Environment Interface (mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eel

Eazel Extensions Library From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eel2

Eazel Extensions Library is a collection of widgets and functions for use with GNOME. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EELS

Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden (org., WWW, Sweden) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEM

External Expansion Module (Sun) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEMS

Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEP

Early Experience Program (Borland) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEP

Entry Exit Procedure (R:Base, DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EEPROM

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (ROM, IC, RL, EPROM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EES

Escrowed Encryption Standard (cryptography, NSA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EESC

European EDIF Steering Committee (org., EDIF, Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EET

Eastern European Time [+0200] (TZ) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EET

Edge Enhancement Technology (Seikosha, Itoh) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eeyes

The Electric Eyes graphics viewer/editor Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. ElectricEyes allows you to view and do simple manipulate of several image formats and gives a nice thumbnail selection mechanism. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFAKS

Elektronisches FAKturierungs- und abrechnungsSystem (MBAG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

efax

Efax is a small ANSI C/POSIX program that sends and receives faxes usingany Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem. You need to install efax if you want to send faxes and you have a Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

efax

Programs to send and receive fax messages. efax is a small ANSI C/POSIX program that provides the data transport function for fax applications using any Class 1 or Class 2 fax modem. Another program, efix, converts between fax, text, bit-map and gray-scale formats. fax, a shell script, provides a simple user interface to the efax and efix programs. It allows you to send text or Postscript files as faxes and receive, print or preview received faxes. The ghostscript package is needed to fax Postscript files, and a image viewing program as xloadimage is need to view incoming faxes. Note that you probably have to adapt /etc/efax.rc to your needs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFCI

Explicit Forward Congestion Indication (ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFF

Electronic Frontier Foundation (Internet, org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

effectv

real-time video effect processor effectv is a real-time video effect processor. You can enjoy movies, TV programmes, and any other video stream through several amazing effects, including: - fire effects - afterimages - shagadelia - mosaics - ripples From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Effort Linux

Effort Linux comes from Brazil. The website is in Portuguese. A 'secured' distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFI

Electronics For Imaging (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFI

Extensible Fimware Interface (Intel, MS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

efingerd

Another finger daemon for unix capable of fine-tuning your output. efingerd is a finger daemon, which executes programs and displays their output. This gives you complete control over what to display and to who, and an extreme configurability. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFL

Emitter Follower Logic (IC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFM

Eight-to-Fourteen-Modulation (CD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFS

Encrypting File System (cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFSM

Extended Finite State Machine (TTCN, ...) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFT

Electronic Funds Transfer From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFT

Euro-FileTransfer (ISDN, ETS 300 075) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFTPOS

Electronic Funds Transfer at the Point-Of-Sale (EFT, banking), "EFT-POS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EFTS

Electronic Funds Transfer System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EG

Evil Grin (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adapter (predecessor, VGA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGB

Elektrostatisch gefaehrdete Bauelemente From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGD

Entropy Gathering Daemon (Unix, GNU, GnuPG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGG

Elektronischer Geschaeftsverkehr-Gesetz Germany From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

egg

Tamago V.4 -- EGG Input Method Architecture for Emacs EGG Emacs Input Method Architecture. All is written only with Emacs Lisp. Egg can use FreeWnn (jserver, cserver, tserver) and Wnn6 as server doing character string conversion with the back end. And can convert mixed sentence of Japanese and Chinese into. There is the part which is not implemented yet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eggdrop

Advanced IRC Robot Eggdrop is an IRC bot, written in C. Eggdrop, being a bot, sits on a channel and takes protective measures: to keep the channel from being taken over (in the few ways that anything can), to recognize banished users or sites and reject them, to recognize privileged users and let them gain ops, etc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGID

the effective Group User ID that owns this process. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eglade

Generates Eiffel code from XML produced by glade GUI builder Eglade takes the XML file that is produced by glade and generates Eiffel code, using the eGTK and egnome wrappers for GTK+ and Gnome. The code generated requires the SmallEiffel compiler to turn it into an executable program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

egnome

Eiffel wrapper for the Gnome library An Eiffel wrapper for the Gnome library. It supports the SmallEiffel and the ISE compilers. This package is only marginally useful. It provides Gnome initialisation and access to gnome-help; all the rest remains to be developed. However, it is needed by eglade, which generates code that expects to use egnome. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

egoboo

3D dungeon crawling adventure in the spirit of NetHack. Egoboo is an open source project, using OpenGL and SDL(Simple DirectMedia Layer) libraries. It is a 3d dungeon role playing game in the spirit of NetHack. Nice colorful graphics, and detailed models(using Quake2 modeling tools) make this game stand out int the gaming open-source community. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

egon

The animator program from Siag Office The animator part of the Siag Office suite, which also contains SIAG and PW. Siag Office uses the Offix DND Drag-and-Drop protocol. A WWW browser is needed to read online doc. A postscript viewer is used for document preview. Be warned that this probably is the least stable part of Siag Office. All suggestions are welcomed. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGP

Exterior Gateway Protocol (RFC 904) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol)

is a protocol for exchanging routing information between two neighbour gateway hosts (each with its own router) in a network of autonomous systems. EGP is commonly used between hosts on the Internet to exchange routing table information. The routing table consists a list of known routers, the addresses they can reach, and a cost metric associated with the path to each router so that the best available route is chosen. Each router pols its neighbour at intervals between 120 and 480 seconds and the neighbour responds by sening its complete routing table. EGP-2 is the latest version of EGP. A more recent exterior gateway protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), provides additional capabilites. From EGP http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGPA

Erlangen General Purpose Array (MP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGPRS

Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (8-PSK, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGREP

Extended Global Regular Expression Print (Unix, GREP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

egrep

print lines matching a pattern From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EGS

Enhanced Graphics System (Commodore) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

egtk

Eiffel wrapper for GTK library An Eiffel wrapper for the GTK library. It supports the SmallEiffel and the ISE compilers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EHF

Encoding Header Field (Internet, RFC 1154) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EHKP

Einheitliche Hoehere KommunikationsProtokolle (BTX, ER, Telekom) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EHLLAPI

Emulator High Level Language API (IBM, 3270, API) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EHS

European Home Systems [concept] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EHSA

European Home Systems Association (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EHW

Evolvable HardWare From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIA

Electronics Industry Association (USA, org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIB

European Installation Bus From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIBA

European Installation Bus Association (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EICAVR

European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EICL

European Informatics Continuous Learning (CEPIS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIDE

Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (HDD, IDE), "E-IDE" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eieio

Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects EIEIO is an Emacs lisp program which implements a controlled object-oriented programming methodology following the CLOS standard. EIEIO also has object browsing functions, and custom widget types. It has a fairly complete manual describing how to use it. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIGRP

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EINE

EINE Is Not EMACS (EMACS, LISP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

einitex

extended TeX From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIO

Enhanced Input/Output [architecture] (HP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIP

Extended Internet Protocol (Internet, RFC 1385) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIS

Electronic Information Systems (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIS

European Information System (Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIS

Executive Information System (IM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EISA

Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EISA

European Imaging and Sound Association (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EISB

Electronic Imaging Standards Board (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EISS

Europaeisches Institut fuer SystemSicherheit (org., Karlsruhe, Germany, Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EIT

Encoded Information Type From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EITS

Eesti InfoTehnoloogia Seltsi (org., Estland) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EJB

Enterprise Java Beans (Java, Sun) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EJC

Electronic Journal of Communication From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eject

ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers under Linux This little program will eject CD-ROMs (assuming your drive supports the CDROMEJECT ioctl). It also allows setting the autoeject feature, currently supported by a number of the Linux CD-ROM drivers. See the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation for more information on the autoeject feature. On supported ATAPI/IDE multi-disc CD-ROM changers, it allows changing the active disc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eject

The eject program allows the user to eject removable media (typically CD-ROMs, floppy disks or Iomega Jaz or Zip disks) using software control. Eject can also control some multi-disk CD changers and even some devices' auto-eject features. Install eject if you'd like to eject removable media using software control. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EKMS

Electronic Key Management System (cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EKOS

Elektronisches KOmmunikationsSystem (MBAG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EL

Electro Luminescent [display] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EL/IX

the goal is to be a standards-compliant subset of POSIX and ANSI C. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EL1

Extensible Language one (ECLogic) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELAN

Education LANguage From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELAN

Emulated Local Area Network (ATM, LANE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELAP

Ethernet Link Access Protocol (LAP, ethernet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elatex

extended TeX From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eldav

an interface to the WebDAV servers for Emacs. WebDAV files can be treated just like a normal file in Emacsen. Emacs/w3 is not required. External program is used for WebDAV access. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

electric

electrical CAD system Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including custom IC layout (ASICs), schematic drawing, hardware description language specifications, and electro-mechanical hybrid layout. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

electric-fence

A malloc(3) debugger Use virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory accesses. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

electricsheep

screensaver collective dream of sleeping computers Electric sheep is the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. Less poetically, it is an Internet server and xscreensaver module that displays MPEG video of an animated fractal flame. In the background, it contributes render cycles to the next animation. Periodically, it uploads completed frames to the server, where they are compressed for distribution to all clients. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Elevator seeking

In hard disks, a way to sort data requests to minimize jumping between tracks. In an elevator seeking scheme, the drive handles data requests in track order; that is, it gets needed data from inner tracks first, then from the outer tracks. Elevator seeking minimizes access time. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELF

Executable and Linkable Format (Unix, OS/2) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELF

Executable and Linking Format - a binary format that is much simpler to make shared libraries and dynamic loading. Originally developed by USL (UNIX System Laboratories). From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELH

Entity Life History (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELI

Embedded LISP Interpreter (Andrew mail system) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elib

Library of commonly-used Emacs functions Elib is designed to be for Elisp programs what libg++ is for C++ programs: a collection of useful routines which don't have to be reinvented each time a new program is written. Elib contains code for: - container data structures (queues, stacks, AVL trees, etc) - string handling functions missing in standard emacs - minibuffer handling functions missing in standard emacs - routines for handling lists of so called cookies in a buffer. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELinOS

From German firm SYSGO Real-Time Solutions GMBH, ELinOS is an embedded Linux distribution for Industrial Applications. ELinOS v2.0 includes PowerPC-Support, Real-Time Extension RTAI, Linux Kernel v2.4 and more. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELK

Extension Language Kit (Scheme) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elk

The Extension Language Kit, an Scheme implementation Elk is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, designed specifically as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem for applications written in C or C++. Elk is also useful as a stand-alone Scheme implementation. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELKS

ELKS: The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subsystem. ELKS 0.1.0-pre4 was released March 4, 2002. The Elks Distribution Edition (EDE) 0.0.5 was released December 18, 2002. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elks-libc

16-bit C library and include files This is the C library used to compile with bcc. It includes all the headers and static libraries needed to build 16-bit applications, for Linux/8086, Linux/i386 and DOS .COM executables. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELLIS

EuLisp LInda System (LISP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELM

ELectronic Mailer (Unix) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELO

Elektronischer Leitz Ordner (OA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELOD

Erasable Laser Optical Disk (OD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELP

Equational Logic Programming [language] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elpoint

Yet another presentation tool on Emacsen Elpoint is a presentation tool which runs on Emacs. Features * Easy to create and display a presentation. * Dynamic presentation content can be developed using emacs lisp. * A major mode `ept-mode' is included which supports editing elpoint presentation. * Inline images. Images can be retrieved from Internet. * Create a preseitation from outline-mode text. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELRAD

[magazin fuer] ELektronik und technische RechnerAnwenDungen From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELS

Entry Level System ??? (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

eLSD

The Linux Society Distro, eLSD, was announced September 21, 2002. Derived from Devil-Linux, eLSD is a highly secure CD boot only OS. It's currently available in three versions: 0.1 - Devil-Linux offered as a build and burn kit. 0.2 - This version begins to make changes towards the eLSD goals by creating a bigger divide between the initrd/linuxrc boot and the init/boot in the OS. It also boots w/o the floppy that includes the /etc filesystem. 0.3 - This version actually converts Devil-Linux into an optional hard drive boot OS. The boot process occurs entirely in the initrd phase and then accesses the harddrive. This kit offers a robust kernel, two custom initrds -- one that boots to busybox/tinylogin -- and grub and parted support. A CD-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elserv

HTTP server that runs on Emacsen. Elserv is an HTTP server which runs on Emacs, as a background process. Since Emacs does not support server sockets, Elserv runs dedicated server process (ruby script) as a backend process and communicate with it to provide a server feature on Emacs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elvis

A much improved "vi" editor with syntax highlighting. Elvis is a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Elvis supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and ex mode. Elvis adds support for multiple files, multiple windows, a variety of display modes, on-line help, and other miscellaneous extensions. Because of its html mode, and it ability to do http and ftp, it can now also be used as a poor man's web browser! Elvis provides color syntax highlighting, with syntax modes for c, c++, java, awk, makefiles, perl, postscript, pascal, sh, tcl, vrml, html, diffs, man pages, and fortran. If all this isn't enough for you, it is easy to add new syntax modes (additions are welcome!). Elvis also has a special hex editing mode for directly editing binary data. This version of elvis also includes ctags and ref, for quickly navigating about your source code. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elvis-tiny

Tiny vi compatible editor for the base system. Elvis-tiny is based on a 1991 Minix version of elvis. You should install another vi-editor (such as "elvis", "nvi" or "vim") if you want a full featured vi editor. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elvtune

I/O elevator tuner From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ELX, Everyone's Linux

Elx combines the ease and familiarity of Windows with the indisputable power and robustness of LINUX. Elx does not expect you to change or re-learn the way you've been using your PCs. While features of Elx are far superior to Windows in all ways, they are presented and treated in a similar way (better in some cases) and all this resting unshakably on a rock solid foundation, the LINUX. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

elza

Script language for automating HTTP requests Elza is a set of perl scripts which can be used as an interpreter for automating requests on web pages. It can extract dynamic URLs from a page, handle forms, cookies, HTTP authentication, redirects / refreshes, etc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EM

Extensions Manager (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMA

Electronic Messaging Association (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMA

Enterprise Management Architecture (DEC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMA

Extended Mercury Autocode From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMACS

/ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab; AI Memo 554 described it as "an advanced, self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor". It has since been reimplemented any number of times, by various hackers, and versions exist that run under most major operating systems. Perhaps the most widely used version, also written by Stallman and now called "GNU EMACS" or GNUMACS, runs principally under Unix. (Its close relative XEmacs is the second most popular version.) It includes facilities to run compilation subprocesses and send and receive mail or news; many hackers spend up to 80% of their tube time inside it. Other variants include GOSMACS, CCA EMACS, UniPress EMACS, Montgomery EMACS, jove, epsilon, and MicroEMACS. (Though we use the original all-caps spelling here, it is nowadays very commonly `Emacs'.) Some EMACS versions running under window managers iconify as an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one feature the editor does not (yet) include. Indeed, some hackers find EMACS too heavyweight and baroque for their taste, and expand the name as `Escape Meta Alt Control Shift' to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with bucky bits. Other spoof expansions include `Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping' (from when that was a lot of core), `Eventually malloc()s All Computer Storage', and `EMACS Makes A Computer Slow' (see recursive acronym). See also vi. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Emacs

A UNIX-based text editor that is sometimes configured as the default editor on UNIX systems. Programmed in LISP, emacs is an excellent hacker's tool, but can be a nightmare for users accustomed to user-friendly word processing programs. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMACS

Editing MACroS (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacs

Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news and more without leaving the editor. This package includes the libraries you need to run the Emacs editor, so you need to install this package if you intend to use Emacs. You also need to install the actual Emacs program package (emacs-nox or emacs-X11). Install emacs-nox if you are not going to use the X Window System; install emacs-X11 if you will be using X. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacs

Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Emacs

Emacs is different things to different people. Depending who you ask, you'll could get any of the following responses: Text Editor, Mail Client, News Reader, Word Processor, Religion, Integrated Development Environment, Whatever you want it to be!, But for our purposes, let's just pretend it's a text editor--an amazingly flexible text editor. We'll dig deeper into the question later on. Emacs was written by Richard Stallman (founder of the Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/ and the GNU project http://www.gnu.org/) and he still maintains it today. Emacs is one of the most popular and powerful text editors used on Linux (and Unix). It is second in popularity only to vi. It is known for it huge feature set, ability to be easily customized, and lack of bugs. It's large feature set and ability to be customized actually are the result of how Emacs was designed and implemented. Without going into all the details, I'll simply point out that Emacs isn't ``just an editor''. It is an editor written mostly in the programming language Lisp. At the core of Emacs is a full-featured Lisp interpreter written in C. Only the most basic and low-level pieces of Emacs are written in C. The majority of the editor is actually written in Lisp. So, in a sense, Emacs has an entire programming language ``built in'' which you can use to customize, extend, and change its behavior. Emacs is also one of the oldest editors around. The fact that is has been used by thousands of programmers over the past 20 (?) years means that there are many add-on packages available. These add-ons allow you to make Emacs do things that Stallman had probably never dreamed possible when he first began work on Emacs. More on that in a later section. There are many other web sites and documents which give a better overview of Emacs, its history, and related matters. Rather than attempt to reproduce much of that here, I suggest that you check out some of the places listed in Section Other Resources section of this document. From EMACs-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Emacs

The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Emacs has special code editing modes, a scripting language (elisp), and comes with many packages for doing mail, news. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacs-X11

Emacs-X11 includes the Emacs text editor program for use with the XWindow System (it provides support for the mouse and other GUIelements). Emacs-X11 will also run Emacs outside of X, but it has a larger memory footprint than the 'non-X' Emacs package (emacs-nox).Install emacs-X11 if you're going to use Emacs with the X Window System. You should also install emacs-X11 if you're going to run Emacs both with and without X (it will work fine both ways). You'll also need to install the emacs package in order to run Emacs. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacs20-dl

The GNU Emacs editor. (Dynamic Loading supported) GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This binary supports the Dynamic Loading architecture(dl). If you want to use dynamic loadable modules, you should use this instead of pure emacs20 package. Dynamic Loadable Module examples are Canna/Wnn input method support. (emacs-dl-canna/emacs-dl-wnn package) And some dirty patch applied. Dirty means such as, Rejected by upstream authors (difficult for merge), Code from other emacsen, like XEmacs/Meadow/obsolete Mule2.3, or backported. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacs20-el

GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files. GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains the elisp sources for the convenience of users, saving space in the main package for small systems. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacsclient

tells a running Emacs to visit a file From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacsen-common

Common facilities for all emacsen. This package contains code that is needed by all the (x)emacs packages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacspeak

speech output interface to Emacs Emacspeak is a speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system. Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once you start emacs with emacspeak loaded, you get spoken feedback for everything you do. Your mileage will vary depending on how well you can use Emacs. There is nothing that you cannot do inside Emacs :-). This package includes speech servers written in tcl to support the DECtalk Express and DECtalk MultiVoice speech synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for separate speech server packages such as emacspeak-ss. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emacspeak-ss

Emacspeak speech server for several synthesizers emacspeak-ss is an interface between Emacspeak and any of several speech synthesizers: DoubleTalk PC version 5.20 or later (internal), DoubleTalk LT version 4.20 or later (serial port version), LiteTalk version 4.20 or later, Braille 'n Speak, Type 'n Speak, Braille Lite, Apollo 2 from Dolphin, or Accent SA. If you have a DoubleTalk PC, you also need the dtlk device driver - either the module or compiled into your kernel. (Note that versions 2.2.16 and earlier of the Linux kernel sources have a bug in the dtlk device driver.) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

email

Electronic messages (usually plain text or hypertext) sent from one recipient to another over a network. Email is sent using a mail transfer agent and is read using a mail user agent (or email client). http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Email (Electronic Mail)

Messages, usually text, sent from one person to another via computer. E-mail can also be sent automatically to a large number of addresses. From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMAS

Edinburgh Multi-Access System (OS, ICL 4-75) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMB

Enhanced Master Burst (EISA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Embedded Debian

The Embedded Debian project produced a very useful pre-packaged toolchain, and a tool for configuring filesystems (emdebsys, aka CML2+OS). Many groups and companies around the world are using the embedian toolchain for ARM which has proved robust and effective. Emdebsys has not been widely used as it is not quite mature enough for production use. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Embedded Freedom Linux

Freedom is a bootable Linux CD, to help new users see the power of Linux. It is built with BBLCD, WhiteDwarf, and Slackware packages. It works on PCs and laptops, supports wireless PCMCIA cards and almost any network, video, and sound card, and features software from many open source projects such as fvwm95 ( familiar windows 95 look and feel) gftp, GTK-Gnutella, centerICQ, Dillo, sylpheed, airsnort, SSH, and more. The initial release, version 1, was released December 15, 2002. A CD-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Embedix

A compact, yet robust embedded Linux distribution from Lineo, Inc. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMC

ElectroMagnetic Compatibility From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMEA

[IBM] Europe, Middle East, Africa (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emelfm

file manager for X/gtk emelFM is a file manager that implements the popular two-window design. It features a simple GTK+ interface, a flexible file typing scheme, and a built-in command line for executing commands without opening an xterm. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMERGENCY CD

The LINUX EMERGENCY CD project has a bootable CD-ROM distribution, with Linux kernel 2.4.19-xfs(i586). It's a console-only mini-distribution based on Red Hat 7.3 and includes many console tools and utilities. The initial version, 2.01, was released under the GNU General Public License on January 27, 2003. A CD-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMI

ElectroMagnetic Interference From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMI

External Machine Interface [protocol] (SMS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emil

Conversion Filter for Internet Messages. Emil v2 is a filter for converting Internet Messages. It supports three basic formats: MIME, SUN Mailtool and plain old style RFC822. It can be used with sendmail, as a mailer, or as a prefilter or backend program with a mail client program, or as a plain filter. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMISA

EntwicklungsMethoden fuer InformationsSysteme und deren Anwendung (org., GI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EML

Element Management Layer (TMN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMM

Expanded Memory Manager From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMMA

European MultiMedia Award From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMP

Excessive Multiple Posting (Usenet, ECP, spam) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

empire

the war game of the century Empire is a console game simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you. Naturally, there is only room for one, so the object of the game is to destroy the other. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMR

Electro-Magnetic Radiation From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMS

European Mathematical Society (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMS

Expanded Memory Specification (DOS, Intel) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMSC

Electronic Mail Standards Committee (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emuga

Extended Modelling of Group Access This package can help you to extend the normal limits of unix groups. Right now there are two tools available: * Target handling, allowing you to have one group for read access and one group for write access. * Group file generator that makes it easier to define complex group structures. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Emulation

The duplication within a device of another device's functional capability, or a device designed to work exactly like another. In telecommunications, for example, a personal computer emulates a dumb terminal- a terminal without its own microprocessor - for on-line communication with a distant computer. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emulator

This term can refer to either hardware or software that performs emulation. Popular software emulators for Linux are wine and WABI which are Windows emulators. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMV

ElektroMagnetische Vertraeglichkeit (EN 55022, DIN, VDE 0878) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

emwin

Weather Data processing The emwin package contains utilities for handling the data stream used in the Emergency Managers Weather Information Network. This data stream is carried over satellite and VHF and UHF radio transmitters, and also via multicast IP over the MBone. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EMX

Enterprise Messaging eXchange [switch] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

EN

Europa Norm (Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ENA

Electronic Networking Association (org., Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ENA

Enterprise Networking Association (Banyan, VINES, user group, org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ENA

European Networking Associates (org., Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ENA

Extended Network Addressing (IBM, SNA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

encoding (encode)

Contrast: Encoding is not encryption. A lot of passwords are sent across the wire encoded (such as HTTP's BASE64 encoded passwords). In essence, they are still clear-text passwords; most password sniffers will still read them from the wire. Example: The main issue with encoding is how to get binary data sent within a text message. For full binary data, this results in about 40% "expansion" of the file size (i.e. when you e-mail 1-megabyte of data to a fried, this encoding will result in about a 1.4-megabyte message size). BASE64 aka. RADIX64. Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64 The preferred encoding method these days for MIME e-mail messages and virtually everywhere else. uuencode and uudecode UNIX-to-UNIX While having been largely replaced with BASE64 encoding, uuencoding is the granddady of encoding methods. It increases the file size roughly 42%. It was originally developed for e-mail encoding. Few e-mail programs generate this encoding, but most all of them can decode it. The main reason for its disfavor is that a lot of programs are slightly inconsistent in the way that they encode/decode data using this technique, subtly corrupting files. See also: uucp. quoted printable Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This consists of normal ASCII text, where any binary character (or other problematic character such as a space at the end of the line) is converted to a 3-character code consisting of the equals sign followed by two hex digits representing the binary value. For example, the code =20 indicates a single character with the hex value of 0x20, which is equal to decimal 32. In ASCII, this is a space. E-mail messages are often automatically line-wrapped for long lines. The line is frequently wrapped after a space between two words, resulting in a space at the end of a line. Therefore, you will sometimes see e-mail messages with a lot of lines ending in =20 due to the requirements of this encoding method to encoding trailing spaces. This encoding is most often used for European text (especially French) which has occasional accented characters in what is otherwise largely ASCII text. BinHex. A standard Macintosh encoding method; rarely used elsewhere. Key point: E-mail clients typical support more encoding methods than content scanners (aka. anti-virus scanners). Therefore, by encoding your e-mail correctly, you can often bypass these. Key point: A big problem in the security industry is the presences of redunant encoding methods Microsoft's web servers were hacked because of redundant ways of encoding UNICODE characters. TODO See also: UNICODE From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

encompass

a free web-browser for GNOME Encompass is a free web-browser for GNOME. It relies on gtkhtml for rendering HTML pages and on libneon for HTTP transport. http://encompass.sourceforge.net From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

encryption

The process of encoding data such that users and processes with proper authentication credentials can access it, while unauthorized users cannot. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

encryption (encrypt, encipher)

Encryption is a way of mangling data so that an unauthorized party cannot understand it. Encryption applies mathematical operations to data in order to render it incomprehensible. The only way to read the data is apply the reverse mathematical operations. In technical speak, encryption is applies mathematical algorithms with a key that converts plaintext to ciphertext. Only someone in possession of the key can decrypt the message. Analogy: Some aliens come down to earth and give you a safe, and a key to the lock. For purposes of this discussion, the aliens use some magic technology that is beyond our human understanding, and that we will never be able to break into the safe. You steal something, put it into the safe, and lock it up with the key. You hide the key. The police arrest you and confiscate the safe. The only way the police will ever recover this stolen object is when you give them the key. Encryption is the same way; it creates an unbreakable box that you can put data in that nobody can ever get back out unless they have the appropriate key. Controversy: Encryption has massive philosophical implications when put into widespread use. It means that citizens can hide their data from governments (especially repressive ones) and law enforcement (especially when you are committing a crime). This has the potential of making governments more accountable to the populace. It likewise has the potential of making crime easier. Key point: Encryption tends to be the strongest link in the chain. When encryption is cracked, it is usually through some other weakness like key distribution or weak passwords. Contrast: Asymmetric encryption uses different keys for encryption and decryption. Since the most useful form of this is one you keep one key private and make the other public, this is better known as public key encryption. In contrast, symmetric encryption uses the same key for both encryption and decryption. Notes: Some algorithms popular in cryptography are: DES, rc4 Some pop