*[AAC]: Advanced Audio Coding
*[ACL]: Access Control List
*[ACPI]: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
*[ADC]: Analog-to-Digital Converter
*[ADSL]: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
*[AES]: Advanced Encryption Standard
*[AFP]: Apple Filing Protocol
*[AGP]: Accelerated Graphics Port
*[AHCI]: Advanced Host Controller Interface
*[AIFF]: Audio Interchange File Format
*[AIX]: Advanced Interactive Executive
*[Ajax]: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
*[ALSA]: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
*[alu]: arithmetic logic unit
*[AMD]: Advanced Microchip Devices
*[ANR]: automatic network routing
*[ANSI]: American National Standards Institute
*[API]: Application Program Interface
*[APR]: Apache Portable Runtime
*[APS]: Automatic Protection Switching
*[ARA]: Apple Remote Access
*[ARP]: Address Resolution Protocol
*[ASCII]: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
*[ATA]: Advanced Technology Attachment
*[ATAPI]: AT Attachment Packet Interface
*[atm]: asynchronous transfer mode
*[AUI]: Attachment Unit Interface
*[AUX]: auxiliary device
*[AVI]: Audio/Video Interleaved
*[AWS]: Amazon Web Services
*[Bash]: Bourne-Again SHell
*[Basic]: Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
*[BCB]: Buffer control block
*[bcc]: Blind Carbon Copy
*[BIOS]: Basic Input/Output System
*[BOM]: Byte Order Mark
*[BSD]: Berkeley Software Distribution
*[BSoD]: Blue Screen of Death
*[CAPTCHA]: Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
*[cbr]: constant bit rate
*[CCD]: Charged Coupled Device
*[CD]: Compact Disc
*[CD-R]: Compact Disc Recordable
*[CD-ROM]: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
*[CD-RW]: Compact Disc Re-Writable
*[CDMA]: Code Division Multiple Access
*[CGI]: Common Gateway Interface
*[CIFS]: Common Internet File System
*[CISC]: Complex Instruction Set Computing
*[cli]: command line interface
*[CLUT]: Color LookUp Table
*[CMOS]: Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
*[CMYB]: Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
*[CNAME]: Canonical name
*[CODEC]: coder/decoder
*[CPAN]: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
*[CPU]: Central Processing Unit
*[CRC]: Cyclic Redundancy Check
*[CRLF]: carriage return, line feed
*[CRM]: Customer Relationship Management
*[csv]: comma separated values
*[CRT]: Cathode Ray Tube
*[CUPS]: Common Unix Printing System
*[CSS]: Cascading Style Sheet
*[CVS]: Concurrent Versions System
*[CYMK]: Cyan Yellow Magenta Black
*[DAC]: Digital-to-Analog Converter
*[DAM]: Digital Asset Management
*[dat]: digital audio tape
*[db]: Decibel
*[DBMS]: Database Management System
*[DDBMS]: Distributed database management system
*[DDNS]: Dynamic Domain Name System
*[DDoS]: Distributed Denial of Service
*[DDR]: Double Data Rate
*[DDR2]: Double Data Rate 2
*[DDR3]: Double Data Rate Type 3
*[DDT]: Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape
*[DES]: Data Encryption Standard
*[DHCP]: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
*[DHTML]: Dynamic HyperText Markup Language
*[DHX]: Diffie-Hellman Exchange
*[DICOM]: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
*[DIMM]: Dual In-Line Memory Module
*[DITTO]: Data Interfile Transfer, Testing and Operations
*[DKMS]: Dynamic Kernel Module Support
*[DLL]: Dynamic Link Library
*[DMA]: Direct Memory Access
*[DMI]: Desktop Management Interface
*[DMCA]: Digital Millennium Copyright Act
*[dmz]: demilitarized zone
*[DNS]: Domain Name System
*[DNSSEC]: Domain Name System SECurity extensions
*[DOM]: Document Object Model
*[DOS]: Disk Operating System
*[DoS]: denial of service
*[DPI]: Dots Per Inch
*[DRAM]: Dynamic Random Access Memory
*[DRM]: Digital Rights Management
*[DSA]: Digital Signature Algorithm
*[DSL]: Digital Subscriber Line
*[DSLAM]: Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
*[DSP]: digital signal processor
*[DTD]: Document Type Definition
*[DTM]: Document Table Model
*[DTS]: Digital Theater System
*[DV]: Digital Video
*[DVB-H]: Digital Video Broadcasting - Handhelds
*[DVB-SH]: Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds
*[DVD]: Digital Versatile Disc
*[DVD+R]: Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
*[DVD+RW]: Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
*[DVD-R]: Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
*[DVD-RAM]: Digital Versatile Disc - Random Access Memory
*[DVD-RW]: Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
*[DVI]: Digital Video Interface
*[DVR]: Digital Video Recorder
*[ECC]: Error Correction Code
*[EFI]: Extensible Firmware Interface
*[EIDE]: Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
*[EOF]: end-of-file
*[EOL]: End Of Life
*[EULA]: End-User License Agreement
*[EPS]: Encapsulated PostScript
*[EXIF]: EXchangeable Image File format
*[FAQ]: Frequently Asked Questions
*[FAT32]: File Allocation Table 32 bits
*[FIFO]: First In, First Out
*[FLAC]: Free Lossless Audio Codec
*[FLOPS]: Floating Point Operations Per Second
*[FOSS]: Free ans open source software
*[fps]: frames per second
*[FPU]: Floating Point Unit
*[FQDN]: Fully Qualified Domain Name
*[FreeBSD]: Free Berkeley Software Distribution
*[FSB]: frontside bus
*[FTP]: File Transfer Protocol
*[FTTB]: Fiber to the building
*[FXP]: File eXchange Protocol
*[GDI]: Graphics Device Interface
*[GIF]: Graphics Interchange Format
*[GIMP]: Gnu Image Manipulation Program
*[GNOME]: GNU Network Object Model Environment
*[GNU]: GNU's Not Unix
*[gpio]: general-purpose I/O
*[GPL]: General Public License
*[GPRS]: General packet radio service
*[GPS]: Global Positioning System
*[GPU]: Graphics Processing Unit
*[GUI]: Graphical User Interface
*[GUID]: Globally Unique Identifier
*[HAL]: Hardware Abstraction Layer
*[HCL]: Hardware Compatibility List
*[HDD]: Hard disk drive
*[HDR]: High-dynamic-range imaging
*[HDMI]: High-Definition Multimedia Interface
*[HDSL]: High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
*[HDTV]: High Definition television
*[HE-AAC]: High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
*[HFS+]: Hierarchical File System Plus
*[HID]: Human Interface Device
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[HTML5]: HyperText Markup Language 5
*[HTTP]: HyperText Transfer Protocol
*[HTTPS]: HyperText Transport Protocol Secure
*[I/O]: Input/Output
*[I2C]: Inter-Integrated Circuit
*[IA-32/64]: Intel Architecture - 32/64
*[ICANN]: Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
*[ICMP]: Internet Control Message Protocol
*[ICS]: Internet Connection Sharing
*[IDE]: Integrated Device Electronics
*[IEEE]: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
*[IGP]: Integrated Graphics Processor
*[IMAP]: Internet Message Access Protocol
*[IMEI]: International Mobile Equipment Identifier	
*[IP]: Internet Protocol
*[IP PBX]: Internet Protocol private branch exchange
*[IPSec]: IP Security
*[IPTV]: Internet Protocol Television
*[IPv4]: Internet Protocol, version 4
*[IPv6]: Internet Protocol, version 6
*[IPX]: Internetwork Packet Exchange
*[IRC]: Internet Relay Chat
*[IQ]: Interrupt Request
*[ISA]: Industry Standard Architecture
*[iSCSI]: Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
*[ISO]: International Organization for Standardization
*[ISP]: Internet Service Provider
*[J2EE]: Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
*[JDBC]: Java DataBase Connectivity
*[JFS]: Journaling File System
*[JIT]: Just-in-time
*[JPEG]: Joint Photographic Experts Group
*[JRE]: Java Runtime Environment
*[JSON]: JavaScript Object Notation
*[JSP]: Java Server Page
*[Kbps]: Kilobits Per Second
*[KDE]: K Desktop Environment
*[KISS]: Keep It Simple, Stupid
*[KML]: Keyhole Markup Language
*[ksh]: Korn shell
*[KVM]: K Virtual Machine
*[L2TP]: Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
*[L3TP]: Layer Three Tunneling Protocol
*[LAMP]: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
*[LAN]: Local Area Network
*[LCD]: Liquid Crystal Display
*[LDAP]: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
*[LED]: Light-Emitting Diode
*[LGPL]: Lesser General Public License (GNU)
*[LIFO]: Last In, First Out
*[LUN]: Logical Unit Number
*[Mac Adrress]: Media Access Control Address
*[Mbps]: Megabits Per Second
*[mbr]: master boot record
*[mib]: Management Information Base
*[MIDI]: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
*[MIME]: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
*[MIPS]: Million Instructions Per Second
*[MIT]: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*[MMU]: Memory Management Unit
*[MP3]: MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
*[MPEG]: Moving Picture Experts Group
*[MTA]: Mail Transfer Agent
*[MTU]: Maximum Transmission Unit
*[NaN]: Not a Number
*[NAS]: Network Attached Storage
*[NAT]: Network Address Translation
*[NetBIOS]: Network Basic Input/Output System
*[NFC]: Near-field communication
*[NFS]: Network File System
*[NIC]: Network Interface Card
*[NSLookup]: Name Server Lookup
*[NTFS]: New Technology File System
*[ntp]: network time protocol
*[NTSC]: National Television System Committee
*[OCR]: Optical Character Recognition
*[ODBC]: Open Database Connectivity
*[OEM]: Original Equipment Manufacturer
*[OLED]: organic light-emitting diode
*[OOB]: Out Of Band
*[OOo]: OpenOffice.org
*[OSD]: On Screen Display
*[OSPF]: Open Shortest Path First
*[P2P]: Peer to Peer
*[PABX]: private automatic branch exchange
*[PAL]: Phase Alternate Line
*[PASV]: Passive (command)
*[PAT]: port address translation
*[PC]: Personal computer
*[PCB]: Printed Circuit Board
*[PCI]: Peripheral Component Interconnect
*[PCIe]: PCI Express
*[PCMCIA]: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
*[PCRE]: Perl-compatible regular expressions
*[PDA]: Personal Digital Assistant
*[PDF]: Portable Document Format
*[PGP]: Pretty Good Privacy
*[pgSQL]: PostgreSQL
*[PHP]: PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
*[pin]: personal identification number
*[PING]: Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper
*[PIO]: Programmed Input/Output
*[PKCS]: Public-Key Cryptography Standards
*[PKI]: public-key infrastructure
*[PLA]: Programmable Logic Array
*[PLL]: Phase Lock Loop
*[PMU]: Power Management Unit
*[PNG]: Portable Network Graphic
*[PnP]: Plug and Play
*[PoE]: Power Over Etherne
*[POP3]: Post Office Protocol
*[Posix]: Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX
*[PPI]: Pixels Per Inch
*[PPP]: Point to Point Protocol
*[PPoE]: Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
*[PXE]: Preboot eXecution Environment
*[PPTP]: Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
*[QoS]: Quality of service
*[PROM]: Programmable Read-Only Memory"
*[RAID]: Redundant Array of Independent Disks
*[RAM]: Random Access Memory
*[RAT]: Remote Administration Tool
*[RCS]: Revision Control System
*[RDBMS]: Relational database management system
*[RDF]: Resource Description Framework
*[rDNS]: Reverse DNS
*[RDP]: Remote Desktop Protocol
*[REST]: Representational State Transfer
*[RFC]: Request For Comments
*[RFID]: Radio-Frequency Identification
*[RGB]: Red Green Blue
*[RHEL]: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
*[RISC]: Reduced Instruction Set Computing
*[RoHS]: Restriction of Hazardous Substances
*[ROM]: Read-Only Memory.
*[RPC]: Remote Procedure Call
*[RPM]: Red Hat Package Manager
*[RSA]: Rivest, Shamir and Adleman
*[RSS]: RDF Site Summary
*[RSVP]: Resource Reservation Protocol
*[RTF]: Rich Text Format
*[RTM]: Read The Manual
*[RTP]: Real-Time Transport Protocol
*[SaaS]: software as a service
*[SAN]: Storage Area Network
*[SATA]: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
*[SCP]: Secure Copy
*[SD]: Secure Digital
*[SDK]: Software development kit
*[SEO]: Search Engine Optimization
*[SFTP]: SSH File Transfer Protocol
*[SHA]: Secure Hash Algorithm
*[SMART]: Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology
*[SMB]: Server Message Block
*[SMTP]: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
*[SNMP]: Simple Network Management Protocol
*[SOCKS]: SOCKetS
*[SOH]: Start Of Header
*[S/PDIF]: Sony/Philips Digital Interface
*[SQL]: Structured Query Language
*[SSD]: Solid-State Drive
*[SSDHMB]: Synchronous Data Hierarchy
*[SSHD]: OpenSSH Daemon
*[SSH]: Secure Shell
*[SSI]: Server-Side Includes
*[SSID]: Service Set identifier
*[SSL]: Secure Socket Layer
*[SSMP]: Simple Screen Management Protocol
*[SSO]: Single sign-on
*[SVG]: Scalable Vector Graphics
*[SVGA]: Super Video Graphics Array
*[TCP/IP]: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
*[TFT]: Thin Film Transistor
*[TFTP]: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
*[TIFF]: Tag Image File Format
*[TLD]: Top Level Domain
*[TLS]: Transport Layer Security
*[TPM]: Trusted Platform Module
*[TSV]: Tab Separated Value
*[TTY]: TeleTypewriter
*[TWAIN]: Technology without an interesting name
*[UAC]: User Account Control
*[UART]: Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter
*[UDF]: Universal Disk Format
*[UDMA]: Ultra Direct Memory Access
*[UDP]: User Datagram Protocol
*[UFS]: Unix File System
*[UML]: Unified Modeling Language
*[UPnP]: Universal Plug and Play
*[UPS]: Uninterruptible Power Supply
*[URI]: Uniform Resource Identifier
*[URL]: Uniform Resource Locator
*[USB]: Universal Serial Bus
*[vbr]: Variable bit rate
*[VDI]: Virtual desktop infrastructure
*[VDSL]: Very high-speed digital subscriber line
*[VESA]: Video Electronics Standards Association
*[VFAT]: Virtual File Allocation Table
*[VGA]: Video Graphics Array
*[VLAN]: Virtual local-area network
*[VNC]: Virtual Network Computing
*[VOD]: Video On Demand
*[VOIP]: Voice over Internet Protocol
*[VPN]: Virtual Private Network
*[VPS]: Virtual private server
*[VQF]: Vector Quantization Format
*[VRAM]: Video Random Access Memory
*[VRML]: Virtual Reality Modeling Language
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium
*[WAMP]: Windows, Apache, Mysql, PHP 
*[WAN]: Wide Area Network
*[WAP]: Wireless Application Protocol
*[WebDAV]: Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
*[WEP]: Wired Equivalent Privacy
*[WHQL]: Windows Hardware Quality Lab
*[WIA]: Windows Image Acquisition
*[WINE]: Wine Is Not an Emulator
*[WFS]: Windows Future Storage
*[WINS]: Windows Internet Name Service
*[WLAN]: Wireless LAN
*[WMI]: Windows Management Instrumentation
*[WOL]: Wake On LAN
*[WPA]: Wi-Fi Protected Access
*[WPF]: Windows Presentation Foundation
*[WWW]: World Wide Web
*[WYSIWYG]: what you see is what you get
*[XHR]: XmlHttpRequest
*[XHTML]: Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
*[XML]: Extensible Markup Language
*[XMLRPC]: XML Remote Procedure Call
*[XMP]: eXtensible Metadata Platform
*[XLST]: Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation
*[XPath]: XML Path Language
*[XSS]: Cross-Site Scripting
*[XUL]: eXtensible User-interface Language
*[ZFS]: Zettabyte File System
*[zsh]: Z shell