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Browsing 'M'
Found 39 entries under 'M'
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MAC address (Score: 0) Media Access Control address. A 48-byte address, usually separated by colons that represent the unique address of an E... |
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magic number (Score: 0) A number at the beginning of a file used to indicate what type of file it is. |
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Mail Transfer Agent (Score: 0) The collection of programs used to transfer mail from one system to another. Most Linux systems provide the sendmail M... |
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Mail User Agent (Score: 0) MUA. The program that you use to interface into the mail system, including reading and composing mail. |
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maintenance mode (Score: 0) The run-level in which access is only allowed through the system console. Used for maintenance, hence the name. Also cal... |
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major number (Score: 0) A number indicating which device driver should be used to access a particular device. |
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man-page (Score: 0) A reference page containing useful information about a specific topic. |
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mask (Score: 0) A series of bits that covers up' existing settings. For example, the umask masks out file permissions and the netmask m... |
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maskable interrupts (Score: 0) Interrupts that can be ignored (masked out). |
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master boot record (Score: 0) The first block of your hard disk (or floppy) containing information necessary to find the active partition and boot... |
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Maximum Transmission Unit (Score: 0) MUT. Maximum size of a transmitted piece of data. |
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Mb (Score: 0) megabyte. 2^20 bytes |
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MBR (Score: 0) Master Boot Record. The first block of your hard disk (or floppy) that contains information necessary to find the acti... |
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MCA (Score: 0) Micro-Channel Architecture. A computer bus architecture developed by IBM. It provides many advantages over the ISA archi... |
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media (Score: 0) Storage material that stores data, such as floppy disks and tapes. |
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Media Access Control (Score: 0) The unique identifier given to a network interface card. (NIC). |
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megabyte (Score: 0) 2^20 bytes. Often erroneously thought of as one million bytes. |
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memory (Score: 0) Location for storing programs during execution and their related state information, as well as data. |
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metacharacter (Score: 0) A special character that is replaced by character strings by the shell. |
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Micro-Channel Architecture (Score: 0) A computer bus architecture developed by IBM. It provides many advantages over the ISA architecture. |
