1GL        First-Generation Programming Language
1NF        First Normal Form
286        Intel 80286 processor
2B1Q       2 Binary 1 Quaternary
2GL        Second-Generation Programming Language
2NF        Second Normal Form
386        Intel 80386 processor
3GL        Third-Generation Programming Language
3NF        Third Normal Form
486        Intel 80486 processor
4B5BLF     4 Byte 5 Byte Local Fiber
4GL        Fourth-Generation Programming Language
4NF        Fourth Normal Form
5GL        Fifth-Generation Programming Language
5NF        Fifth Normal Form
6NF        Sixth Normal Form
8B10BLF    8 Byte 10 Byte Local Fiber
AA         Anti-Aliasing
AAA        Authentication Authorization, Accounting
AABB       Axis Aligned Bounding Box
AAC        Advanced Audio Coding
AAL        ATM Adaptation Layer
AALC       ATM Adaptation Layer Connection
AARP       AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
AAT        Average Access Time
ABCL       Actor-Based Concurrent Language
ABI        Application Binary Interface
ABM        Asynchronous Balanced Mode
ABR        Area Border Router
ABR        Auto Baud-Rate detection
ABR        Available Bitrate
ABR        Average Bitrate
AC         Acoustic Coupler
AC         Alternating Current
ACD        Automatic Call Distributor
ACE        Advanced Computing Environment
ACID       Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
ACK        ACKnowledgement
ACK        Amsterdam Compiler Kit
ACL        Access Control List
ACL        Active Current Loop
ACM        Association for Computing Machinery
ACME       Automated Classification of Medical Entities
ACP        Airline Control Program
ACPI       Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACR        Allowed Cell Rate
ACR        Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
AD         Active Directory
AD         Administrative Domain
ADB        Apple Desktop Bus
ADC        Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADC        Apple Display Connector
ADCCP      Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
ADO        ActiveX Data Objects
ADSL       Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADT        Abstract Data Type
AE         Adaptive Equalizer
AES        Advanced Encryption Standard
AF         Anisotropic Filtering
AFAICR     as far as I can recall
AFAICT     as far as I can tell
AFAIK      as far as I know
AFAIR      as far as I recall
AFAIU      As Far As I Understand
AFK        away from keyboard
AFP        Apple Filing Protocol
AGP        Accelerated Graphics Port
AH         Active Hub
AI         Artificial Intelligence
AIUI       as I understand it
AIX        Advanced Interactive eXecutive
AJAX       Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
AKA        also known as
AL         Access List
AL         Active Link
ALAC       Apple Lossless Audio Codec
ALGOL      Algorithmic Language
ALSA       Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
ALU        Arithmetic and Logical Unit
AM         Access Method
AM         Active Matrix
AM         Active Monitor
AM         Allied Mastercomputer
AM         Amplitude Modulation
AMD        Advanced Micro Devices
AMQP       Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
AMR        Audio Modem Riser
ANN        Artificial Neural Network
ANSI       American National Standards Institute
ANT        Another Neat Tool
AoE        ATA over Ethernet
AOP        Aspect-Oriented Programming
APCI       Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
API        Application Programming Interface
APIC       Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APIPA      Automatic Private IP Addressing
APL        A Programming Language
APR        Apache Portable Runtime
ARC        Adaptive Replacement Cache
ARC        Advanced RISC Computing
ARIN       American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARM        Advanced RISC Machines
AROS       AROS Research Operating System
ARP        Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA       Address and Routing Parameter Area
ARPA       Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANET    Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
AS         Access Server
ASAP       as soon as possible
ASCII      American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASG        Abstract Semantic Graph
ASIC       Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASIMO      Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility
ASLR       Address Space Layout Randomization
ASM        Algorithmic State Machine
ASMP       Asymmetric Multiprocessing
ASN.1      Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASP        Active Server Pages
ASP        Application Service Provider
ASR        Asynchronous Signal Routine
ASSP       Application-Specific Standard Product
AST        Abstract Syntax Tree
AT         Access Time
AT         Active Terminator
AT         Advanced Technology
ATA        Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAG       Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
ATAPI      Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
ATM        Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AVC        Advanced Video Coding
AVI        Audio Video Interleaved
AWK        Aho Weinberger Kernighan
AWOL       absent without official leave
AWT        Abstract Window Toolkit
AYBABTU    all your base are belong to us
B2B        Business-to-Business
B2C        Business-to-Consumer
BAL        Basic Assembly Language
BAM        Block Availability Map
BASH       Bourne-again shell
BASIC      Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBL        [I'll] be back later
BBP        Baseband Processor
BBS        be back soon
BBS        Bulletin Board System
BBT        be back tomorrow
BCD        Binary Coded Decimal
BCNF       Boyce   Codd normal form
BEEP       Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
BER        Bit Error Rate
BFD        Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
BFD        big fucking deal
BFD        Binary File Descriptor
BFS        Breadth-First Search
BFT        Byzantine Fault Tolerant
BGP        Border Gateway Protocol
BIAB       back in a bit
BIAF       back in a few
BIALW      back in a little while
BIAS       back in a second
BIAW       back in a while
BIDI       Bi-Directional
BIN        binary
BINAC      Binary Automatic Computer
BIND       Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOS       Basic Input Output System
BIT        binary digit
BJT        Bipolar Junction Transistor
BKI        Backend Interface
BLOB       Binary large object
BLOG       Web Log
BMP        Basic Multilingual Plane
BNC        Bayonet Neill-Concelman
BOFH       bastard operator from hell
BOHICA     bend over here it comes again
BOINC      Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
BOM        Byte Order Mark
BOOTP      Bootstrap Protocol
BPDU       Bridge Protocol Data Unit
BPEL       Business Process Execution Language
BPL        Broadband over Power Lines
BPS        bits per second
BRB        [I'll] be right back
BRR        Business Readiness Rating
BSA        Business Software Alliance
BSB        Backside Bus
BSD        Berkeley Software Distribution
BSON       Binary JSON
BSS        Block Started by Symbol
BT         BitTorrent
BT         Bluetooth
BTAM       Basic Telecommunications Access Method
BTDT       been there, done that
BTTH       butt to the head
BTW        by the way
BW         Bandwidth
BYOD       Bring Your Own Device
CA         Certificate Authority
CAD        Computer-Aided Design
CAE        Computer-Aided Engineering
CAI        Computer-Aided Instruction
CAID       Computer-Aided Industrial Design
CAM        Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CAPTCHA    Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers
CAQ        Computer-Aided Quality Assurance
CASE       Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CAT        (1) - concatenate files and print on the standard output
CAT        Computer-Aided Translation
CC         C Compiler
CD         Compact Disc
CDE        Common Desktop Environment
CDMA       Code Division Multiple Access
CDN        Content Delivery Network
CDP        Continuous Data Protection
CD-R       CD-Recordable
CD-ROM     CD Read-Only Memory
CD-RW      CD-Rewritable
CDSA       Common Data Security Architecture
CERT       Computer Emergency Response Team
CES        Consumer Electronics Show
CF         Compact Flash
CFD        Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFG        Context-Free Grammar
CFG        Control Flow Graph
CG         Computer Graphics
CGA        Color Graphics Array
CGI        Comitê Gestor da Internet
CGI        Common Gateway Interface
CGI        Computer-Generated Imagery
CGT        Computational Graph Theory
CHAP       Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHS        Cylinder-Head-Sector
CIDR       Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIFS       Common Internet Filesystem
CIM        Common Information Model
CISC       Complex Instruction Set Computer
CJK        Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
CJKV       Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
CLI        Command Line Interface
CLR        Common Language Runtime
CM         Configuration Management
CM         Content Management
CMIIW      correct me if I'm wrong
CMMI       Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMOS       Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMS        Content Management System
CN         Canonical Name
CN         Common Name
CNC        Computer Numerical Control
CNP        continued [in my] next post
CNR        Communications and Networking Riser
COBOL      Common Business-Oriented Language
COM        Component Object Model
CORBA      Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS       Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CPA        Cell Processor Architecture
CPA        Converged Packet Access
CPAN       Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPRI       Common Public Radio Interface
CPS        characters per second
CPU        Central Processing Unit
CR         Carriage Return
CRAN       Comprehensive R Archive Network
CRC        Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRL        Certificate Revocation List
CRLF       Carriage Return Line Feed
CRM        Customer Relationship Management
CRS        Computer Reservations System
CRT        Cathode Ray Tube
CRUD       Create, Read, Update and Delete
CS         Cable Select
CS         Computer Science
CSE        Computer Science and Engineering
CSI        Common System Interface
CSP        Communicating Sequential Processes
CSRF       Cross-Site Request Forgery
CSS        Cascading Style Sheets
CSS        Closed Source Software
CSS        Content-Scrambling System
CSS        Cross-Site Scripting
CSV        Comma Separated Values
CSV        Comma-Separated Values
CT         Computerized Tomography
CTAN       Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
CTCP       Client-To-Client Protocol
CTE        Common Table Expression
CTI        Computer Telephony Integration
CTL        Computational Tree Logic
CTM        Close To Metal
CTS        Clear To Send
CTSS       Compatible Time-Sharing System
CUA        Common User Access
CVE        Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CVS        Concurrent Versioning System
CYA        see you around
DAC        Digital-To-Analog Converter
DAC        Discretionary Access Control
DAEMON     Disk And Execution MONitor
DAO        Data Access Objects
DAO        Disk-At-Once
DAP        Directory Access Protocol
DARPA      Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DAT        Digital Audio Tape
DB         Database
DBA        Database Administrator
DBCS       Double Byte Character Set
DBI        Database Interface (Perl)
DBM        Data Base Management
DBMS       Database Management System
DCC        Direct Client-to-Client
DCCA       Debian Common Core Alliance
DCCP       Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
DCL        Data Control Language
DCMI       Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DCOM       Distributed Component Object Model
DD         Double Density
DDE        Dynamic Data Exchange
DDL        Data Definition Language
DDoS       Distributed Denial of Service
DDR        Double Data Rate
DEC        Digital Equipment Corporation
DES        Data Encryption Standard
DEV        development
DFA        Deterministic Finite Automaton
DFD        Data Flow Diagram
DFS        Depth-First Search
DFS        Distributed File System
DGD        Dworkin's Game Driver
DHCP       Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML      Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
DIF        Data Integrity Field
DIMM       Dual Inline Memory Module
DIN        Deutsches Institut für Normung
DIP        Dual In-line Package
DIVX       Digital Video Express
DKIM       Domain Keys Identified Mail
DL         Download
DLL        Dynamic Link Library
DLNA       Digital Living Network Alliance
DLP        Digital Light Processing
DMA        Direct Memory Access
DMCA       Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMI        Direct Media Interface
DML        Data Manipulation Language
DML        Definitive Media Library
DMR        Dennis M. Ritchie
DN         Distinguished Name
DND        Drag-and-Drop
DNDK       don't know, don't care
DNS        Domain Name System
DOCSIS     Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DOM        Document Object Model
DOS        Denial of Service
DP         Dot Pitch
DPC        Deferred Procedure Call
DPI        Deep Packet Inspection
DPI        Dots Per Inch
DPMS       Display Power Management Signaling
DQL        Database Query Language
DQL        Doctrine Query Language
DQL        Document Query Language
DQL        Domain Qualifier List
DRAM       Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRI        Direct Rendering Infrastructure
DRM        Digital Rights Management
DRM        Direct Rendering Manager
DSDL       Document Schema Definition Languages
DSDM       Dynamic Systems Development Method
DSL        Digital Subscriber Line
DSL        Domain-Specific Language
DSLAM      Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSN        Data Set Name
DSN        Database Source Name
DSP        Digital Signal Processor
DSSSL      Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
DST        Daylight Saving Time
DSV        Delimiter-Separated Values
DTD        Document Type Definition
DTE        Data Terminal Equipment
DTP        Desktop Publishing
DTR        Data Terminal Ready
DTRT       do the right thing
DTWT       do the wrong thing
DVD        Digital Versatile Disc
DVD        Digital Video Disc
DVD-R      DVD-Recordable
DVD-ROM    DVD-Read Only Memory
DVD-RW     DVD-Rewritable
DVI        Digital Visual Interface
DVR        Digital Video Recorder
DWIM       do what I mean
EAI        Enterprise Application Integration
EAP        Extensible Authentication Protocol
EBCDIC     Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBML       Extensible Binary Meta Language
ECC        Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECMA       European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECN        Explicit Congestion Notification
ECOS       Embedded Configurable Operating System
ECPG       Embedded C for PostgreSQL
ECRS       Expense and Cost Recovery System
EDA        Electronic Design Automation
EDI        Electronic Data Interchange
EDO        Extended Data Out
EDSAC      Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC      Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EEPROM     Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EFF        Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFI        Extensible Firmware Interface
EFM        Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
EG         evil grin
EGA        Enhanced Graphics Array
EGP        Exterior Gateway Protocol
EID        electronic ID card
EIDE       Enhanced IDE
EIGRP      Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EISA       Extended Industry Standard Architecture
ELF        Executable and Linkable Format
ELF        Extremely Low Frequency
ELM        ELectronic Mail
EMACS      Editor MACroS
EMS        Expanded Memory Specification
EMSG       email message
ENIAC      Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
EOF        End of File
EOL        End of Life
EOL        End of Line
EOM        End Of Message
EPIC       Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
EPROM      Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPUB       Electronic PUBlication
ERP        Enterprise Resource Planning
ESB        Enterprise service bus
ESCON      Enterprise Systems Connection
ESD        Electrostatic Discharge
ESQL       Embedded SQL
ESR        Eric Steven Raymond
ETL        Extract, Transform, Load
ETLA       extended three letter acronym
EUC        Extended Unix Code
EULA       End User License Agreement
EWAG       experienced wild-ass guess
EXT        EXTended file system
FAP        FORTRAN Assembly Program
FAQ        frequently asked question
FASM       Flat ASseMbler
FAT        File Allocation Table
FBDIMM     Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module
FC-AL      Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
FCB        File Control Block
FCS        Frame Check Sequence
FDC        Floppy Disk Controller
FDD        Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI       Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDMA       Frequency-Division Multiple Access
FDS        Fedora Directory Server
FEC        Forward Error Correction
FEMB       Front-End Motherboard
FET        Field Effect Transistor
FHS        Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
FICON      FIber CONnectivity
FIFO       First In First Out
FIIK       fuck[ed] if I know
FIIR       fuck[ed] if I remember
FIPS       Federal Information Processing Standards
FL         Function Level
FLAC       Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLOPS      FLoating-Point Operations Per Second
FLOSS      Free Libre Open Source Software
FMC        Fixed Mobile Convergence
FOAD       fall over and die
FOLDOC     Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
FOSDEM     Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
FOSI       Formatted Output Specification Instance
FOSS       Free and Open Source Software
FP         Function Programming
FPGA       Field Programmable Gate Array
FPS        Floating Point Systems
FPU        Floating Point Unit
FQDN       Fully Qualified Domain Name
FQN        Fully Qualified Name
FRU        Field Replaceable Unit
FS         File System
FSB        Front Side Bus
FSCK       File System Check
FSDO       for some definition of
FSF        Free Software Foundation
FSM        Finite State Machine
FSM        Free Space Map
FSVO       for some value of
FTP        File Transfer Protocol
FTTC       Fiber To The Curb
FTTH       Fiber To The Home
FTTP       Fiber To The Premises
FUBAR      fucked up beyond all recognition
FUD        fear, uncertainty and doubt
FUD        Fear Uncertainty Doubt
FWIW       for what it's worth
FWS        Folding White Space
FXP        File eXchange Protocol
FYI        for your information
G          grin
G11N       Globalization
GAS        GNU Assembler
GB         Gigabit
GB         Gigabyte
GCC        GNU Compiler Collection
GCJ        GNU Compiler for Java
GCR        Group Code Recording
GDB        GNU Debugger
GDI        Graphics Device Interface
GEQO       Genetic Query Optimizer
GFDL       GNU Free Documentation License
GID        Group ID
GIF        Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO       Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIMP       GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMPS      Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
GIN        Generalized Inverted Index
GIS        Geographic Information System
GIST       Generalized Search Tree
GLUT       OpenGL Utility Toolkit
GML        Geography Markup Language
GMT        Greenwich Mean Time
GMTA       great minds think alike
GNOME      GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNU        GNU's Not Unix
GOMS       Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
GPASM      GNU PIC ASseMbler
GPFS       General Parallel File System
GPG        GNU Privacy Guard
GPGPU      General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units
GPIB       General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus
GPL        General Public License
GPL        General-Purpose Language
GPRS       General Packet Radio Service
GPT        GUID Partition Table
GPU        Graphics Processing Unit
GRUB       Grand Unified Boot-Loader
GSM        Global System for Mobile Communications
GSSAPI     Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface
GUC        Grand Unified Configuration
GUI        Graphical User Interface
GUID       Globally Unique IDentifier
GWT        Google Web Toolkit
HAL        Hardware Abstraction Layer
HAND       have a nice day
HBA        Host Bus Adapter
HBA        Host-Based Authentication
HCI        Human Computer Interaction
HCL        Hardware Compatibility List
HD         High Density
HDD        Hard Disk Drive
HDL        Hardware Description Language
HDMI       High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HF         High Frequency
HHD        Hybrid Hard Drive
HHIS       hanging head in shame
HID        Human Interface Device
HIG        Human Interface Guidelines
HIRD       Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth
HLASM      High Level ASseMbler
HMA        High Memory Area
HOT        Heap-Only Tuples
HP         Hewlett-Packard
HPC        High-Performance Computing
HPFS       High Performance File System
HSM        Hierarchical Storage Management
HT         Hyper Threading
HTC        High-Throughput Computing
HTH        hope this helps
HTM        Hierarchical Temporal Memory
HTML       Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP       Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPD      Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon
HTX        HyperTransport eXpansion
HURD       Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
HVD        Holographic Versatile Disc
HZ         Hertz
I18N       Internationalization
IANA       Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IANAL      I am not a lawyer
iBCS       Intel Binary Compatibility Standard
IBM        International Business Machines
IC         Integrated Circuit
I²C        Inter-Integrated Circuit
ICANN      Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICE        In-Circuit Emulator
ICE        Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
ICMP       Internet Control Message Protocol
ICP        Internet Cache Protocol
ICT        Information and Communication Technology
IDE        Integrated Development Environment
IDE        Integrated Drive Electronics
IDF        Intermediate Distribution Frame
IDL        Interface Definition Language
IDS        Intrusion Detection System
IE         Internet Explorer
IEC        International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF       Internet Engineering Task Force
IFL        Integrated Facility for Linux
IGMP       Internet Group Management Protocol
IGRP       Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
IHAFC      I haven't a fucking clue
IHNFC      I have no fucking clue
IHV        Independent Hardware Vendor
IIANM      if I am not mistaken
IIOP       Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
IIRC       if I recall correctly
IIS        Internet Information Services
IIUC       If I Understand Correctly
IL         Intermediate Language
IM         Instant Messaging
IMAP       Internet Message Access Protocol
IMCO       in my considered opinion
IME        Input Method Editor
IMHO       in my humble opinion
IMNSHO     in my not so humble opinion
IMO        in my opinion
INFOSEC    Information Systems Security
IOW        in other words
IP         Intellectual Property
IP         Internet Protocol
IPC        Inter-Process Communication
IPL        Initial Program Load
IPO        Inter Procedural Optimization
IPP        Internet Printing Protocol
IPS        Intrusion Prevention System
IPSEC      Internet Protocol security
IPTV       Internet Protocol Television
IPX        Internetwork Packet Exchange
IR         Intermediate Representation
IRC        Internet Relay Chat
IRDA       Infrared Data Association
IRI        Internationalized Resource Identifier
IRL        in real life
IRP        I/O Request Packet
IRQ        Interrupt Request
IS         Information Systems
ISA        Industry Standard Architecture
ISA        Instruction Set Architecture
ISAM       Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISC        Internet Storm Center
ISCSI      Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISDN       Integrated Services Digital Network
iSNS       Internet Storage Name Service
ISO        International Organization for Standardization
ISP        Internet Service Provider
ISPF       Interactive System Productivity Facility
ISR        Interrupt Service Routine
ISSN       International Standard Serial Number
ISTM       it seems to me
ISTR       I seem to recall
ISV        Independent Software Vendor
IT         Information Technology
ITIL       Information Technology Infrastructure Library
ITL        Interval Temporal Logic
ITU        International Telecommunication Union
ITYM       I think you mean
IVRS       Interactive Voice Response System
J2EE       Java 2 Enterprise Edition
J2ME       Java 2 Micro Edition
J2SE       Java 2 Standard Edition
JAPH       Just Another Perl Hacker
JAXB       Java Architecture for XML Binding
JAXP       Java API for XML Processing
JAX-RPC    Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls
JBOD       Just a Bunch of Disks
JCE        Java Cryptography Extension
JCL        Job Control Language
JCP        Java Community Process
JDBC       Java Database Connectivity
JDK        Java Development Kit
JDS        Java Desktop System
JES        Job Entry Subsystem
JFC        Java Foundation Classes
JFET       Junction Field-Effect Transistor
JFS        IBM Journaling File System
JIC        just in case
JINI       Jini Is Not Initials
JIT        Just-In-Time
JK         just kidding
JMO        just my opinion
JMS        Java Message Service
JMX        Java Management Extensions
JNDI       Java Naming and Directory Interface
JNI        Java Native Interface
JNZ        Jump non-zero
JPEG       Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE        Java Runtime Environment
JS         JavaScript
JSON       JavaScript Object Notation
JSP        Jackson Structured Programming
JSP        JavaServer Pages
JTAG       Joint Test Action Group
JTLYK      just to let you know
JUG        Java Users Group
JVM        Java Virtual Machine
KB         Keyboard
KB         Kilobit
KB         Kilobyte
KB         Knowledge Base
KDD        Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
KDE        K Desktop Environment
KHZ        Kilohertz
KISS       keep it simple, stupid
KITA       kick in the ass
KM         Knowledge Machine
KNF        kernel normal form
K&R        Kernighan and Ritchie
KRL        Knowledge Representation Language
KVM        Keyboard, Video, Mouse
L10N       Localization
L2TP       Layer two Tunneling Protocol
L8R        later
LACNIC     Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry
LAMP       Linux Apache MySQL Perl
LAMP       Linux Apache MySQL PHP
LAMP       Linux Apache MySQL Python
LAN        Local Area Network
LART       luser attitude readjustment tool (ie, hammer)
LBA        Logical Block Addressing
LCD        Liquid Crystal Display
LCOS       Liquid Crystal On Silicon
LCR        Least Cost Routing
LDAP       Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDP        Label Distribution Protocol
LDP        Linux Document Projects
LDP        Loader Debugger Protocol
LE         Logical Extents
LED        Light-Emitting Diode
LF         Line Feed
LF         Low Frequency
LFS        Linux From Scratch
LGPL       Lesser General Public License
LIB        LIBrary
LIF        Low Insertion Force
LIFO       Last In First Out
LILO       Linux Loader
LISP       LISt Processing
LJBF       let's just be friends
LKML       Linux Kernel Mailing List
LM         Lan Manager
LMGTFY     Let Me Google That For You
LMSO       laughing my socks off
LOC        Lines of Code
LOL        laughing out loud
LPC        Lars Pensjö C
LPI        Linux Professional Institute
LPT        Line Print Terminal
LSB        Least Significant Bit
LSB        Linux Standard Base
LSI        Large-Scale Integration
LTL        Linear Temporal Logic
LTNS       long time no see
LTR        Left-to-Right
LUG        Linux User Group
LUN        Logical Unit Number
LV         Logical Volume
LVD        Low Voltage Differential
LVM        Logical Volume Management
LZW        Lempel-Ziv-Welch
MAC        Mandatory Access Control
MAC        Media Access Control
MAN        Metropolitan Area Network
MANET      Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
MAPI       Messaging Application Programming Interface
MB         Megabit
MB         Megabyte
MBCS       Multi Byte Character Set
MBR        Master Boot Record
MCA        Micro Channel Architecture
MDA        Mail Delivery Agent
MDA        Model-Driven Architecture
MDA        Monochrome Display Adapter
MDF        Main Distribution Frame
MDI        Multiple Document Interface
MF         Medium Frequency
MFM        Modified Frequency Modulation
MGCP       Media Gateway Control Protocol
MHZ        Megahertz
MIB        Management Information Base
MICR       Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIDI       Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIMD       Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
MIME       Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIMO       Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
MINIX      MIni-uNIX
MIPS       Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
MIPS       Million Instructions Per Second
MIS        Management Information Systems
MISD       Multiple Instruction, Single Data
MIT        Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMDS       Mortality Medical Data System
MMI        Man Machine Interface.
MMIO       Memory-Mapped I/O
MMORPG     Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
MMU        Memory Management Unit
MMX        Multi-Media Extensions
MNG        Multiple-image Network Graphics
MOBO       Motherboard
MOM        Message-Oriented Middleware
MOO        MUD Object Oriented
MOSFET     Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOTAS      member of the appropriate sex
MOTD       Message Of The Day
MOTOS      member of the opposite sex
MOTSS      member of the same sex
MPAA       Motion Picture Association of America
MPEG       Motion Pictures Experts Group
MPL        Mozilla Public License
MPLS       Multiprotocol Label Switching
MPU        Microprocessor Unit
MS         Memory Stick
MSA        Mail Submission Agent
MSB        Most Significant Bit
MSI        Medium-Scale Integration
MSI        Message Signaled Interrupt
MT         Machine Translation
MTA        Mail Transfer Agent
MTBF       Mean Time Between Failures
MTF        more to follow
MTU        Maximum Transmission Unit
MUA        Mail User Agent
MUD        Multi-User Dungeon
MVC        Model-View-Controller
MVCC       Multi-Version Concurrency Control
MVP        Most Valuable Professional
MVS        Multiple Virtual Storage
MX         Mail exchange
MXF        Material Exchange Format
MYOB       mind your own business
NACK       Negative ACKnowledgement
NAK        Negative AcKnowledge Character
NAN        Not a Number
NAS        Network-Attached Storage
NASM       Netwide ASseMbler
NAT        Network Address Translation
NBD        no big deal
NCP        NetWare Core Protocol
NCQ        Native Command Queuing
NCSA       National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NDPS       Novell Distributed Print Services
NDS        Novell Directory Services
NEP        Network Equipment Provider
NETBIOS    Network Basic Input/Output System
NEXT       Near-End CrossTalk
NFA        Nondeterministic Finite Automaton
NFC        Near field communication
NFC        no fucking clue
NFI        no fucking idea
NFS        Network File System
NFW        no fucking way
NGL        aNGeL
NGSCB      Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
NI         National Instruments
NIC        Network Interface Controller
NIH        not invented here
NIM        No Internal Message
NIO        New I/O
NIST       National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLP        Natural Language Processing
NLS        National Language Support
NLS        Native Language Support
NMI        Non-Maskable Interrupt
NNTP       Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC        Network Operations Center
NOP        No OPeration
NOS        Network Operating System
NP         no problem
NP         Nondeterministic Polynomial time
NPL        Netscape Public License
NPTL       Native POSIX Thread Library
NPU        Network Processing Unit
NRFPT      not ready for prime time
NRN        no reply necessary
NS         Netscape
NSA        National Security Agency
NSPR       Netscape Portable Runtime
NSS        Name Service Switch
NSS        Network Security Services
NSS        Novell Storage Service
NT         New Technology
NTFS       NT Filesystem
NTLM       NT Lan Manager
NTP        Network Time Protocol
NUMA       Non-Uniform Memory Access
NURBS      Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline
NVR        Network Video Recorder
NVRAM      Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
OASIS      Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
OAT        Operational Acceptance Testing
OBSAI      Open Base Station Architecture Initiative
ODBC       Open DataBase Connectivity
OEM        Original Equipment Manufacturer
OES        Open Enterprise Server
OFTC       Open and Free Technology Community
OIC        oh, I see
OID        Object Identifier
OLAP       Online Analytical Processing
OLE        Object Linking and Embedding
OLED       Organic Light Emitting Diode
OLPC       One Laptop per Child
OLTP       Online Transaction Processing
OMF        Object Module Format
OMG        Object Management Group
OMR        Optical Mark Recognition
OO         Object-Oriented
OO         OpenOffice
OOE        Out-of-Order Execution
OOM        Out Of Memory
OOO        OpenOffice.org
OOOE       Out-of-Order Execution
OOP        Object-Oriented Programming
OOTB       Out of the box
OPML       Outline Processor Markup Language
ORB        Object Request Broker
ORDBMS     Object-Relational Database Management System
ORM        Oject-Relational Mapping
OS         Open Source
OS         Operating System
OSCON      O'Reilly Open Source CONvention
OSDN       Open Source Developer Network
OSI        Open Source Initiative
OSI        Open Systems Interconnection
OSPF       Open Shortest Path First
OSS        Open Sound System
OSS        Open-Source Software
OSS        Operations Support System
OSTG       Open Source Technology Group
OTL        out to lunch
OTOH       on the other hand
OTTOMH     off the top of my head
OUI        Organizationally Unique Identifier
P2P        Peer-To-Peer
PAC        Programmable Automation Controller
PAM        Pluggable Authentication Modules
PAN        Personal Area Network
PAP        Password Authentication Protocol
PARC       Palo Alto Research Center
PATA       Parallel ATA
PATRICIA   Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric
PAUSE      Perl Authors Upload Server
PC         Personal Computer
PCB        Printed Circuit Board
PCB        Process Control Block
PCI        Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIE       PCI Express
PCL        Printer Command Language
PCM        Pulse-Code Modulation
PCMCIA     Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCRE       Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
PD         Public Domain
PDA        Personal Digital Assistant
PDF        Portable Document Format
PDH        Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PDL        Perl Data Language
PDP        Programmed Data Processor
PE         Physical Extents
PERL       Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
PERL       Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
PFY        pimply faced youth
PGA        Pin Grid Array
PGO        Profile-Guided Optimization
PGP        Pretty Good Privacy
PGSQL      PostgreSQL
PGXS       PostgreSQL Extension System
PHP        PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PIC        Peripheral Interface Controller
PIC        Programmable Interrupt Controller
PID        Process ID
PID        Process Identifier
PID        Proportional-Integral-Derivative
PIM        Personal Information Manager
PINE       Program for Internet News and Email
PIO        Programmed Input/Output
PITA       pain in the ass
PITR       Point-In-Time Recovery (Continuous Archiving)
PKCS       Public Key Cryptography Standards
PKI        Public Key Infrastructure
PL         Procedural Languages (server-side)
PLC        Power Line Communication
PLC        Programmable Logic Controller
PLD        Programmable Logic Device
PL/I       Programming Language One
PL/M       Programming Language for Microcomputers
PL/P       Programming Language for Prime
PLT        Power Line Telecoms
PMM        POST Memory Manager
PNG        persona non grata
PNG        Portable Network Graphics
PnP        Plug-and-Play
POC        point of contact
POD        Ping Of Death
POD        Plain Old Documentation
PoE        Power over Ethernet
POID       Persistent Object Identifier
POJO       Plain Old Java Object
POLA       principle of least astonishment
POP        Point of Presence
POP3       Post Office Protocol v3
POSIX      Portable Operating System Interface
POST       Power-On Self Test
PPC        PowerPC
PPI        Pixels Per Inch
PPL        pretty please
PPP        Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPOA      PPP over ATM
PPPOE      PPP over Ethernet
PPTP       Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PS         PostScript
PSA        Professional Services Automation
PSGI       Perl Web Server Gateway Interface
PSU        Power Supply Unit
PSVI       Post-Schema-Validation Infoset
PV         Physical Volume
PVG        Physical Volume Group
PVR        Personal Video Recorder
PXE        Preboot Execution Environment
PXI        PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
QA         Quality Assurance
QDR        Quad Data Rate
QED        quod erat demonstrandum
QFP        Quad Flat Package
QOS        Quality of Service
QOTD       Quote of the Day
QT         Quasar Toolkit
QTAM       Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
RACF       Resource Access Control Facility
RAD        Rapid Application Development
RADIUS     Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RAID       Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAID       Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAII       Resource Acquisition Is Initialization
RAIT       Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes
RAM        Random Access Memory
RARP       Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RAS        Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
RAS        Remote Access Service
RC         Region Code
RC         Release Candidate
RC         Run Commands
RCS        Revision Control System
RDBMS      Relational Database Management System
RDC        Remote Desktop Connection
RDF        Resource Description Framework
RDM        Relational Data Model
RDS        Remote Data Services
REFAL      Recursive Functions Algorithmic Language
REGEX      Regular Expression
REGEXP     Regular Expression
REPL       Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop
REST       Representational State Transfer
RF         Radio Frequency
RFC        Request For Comments
RFI        Radio Frequency Interference
RFID       Radio Frequency Identification
RGB        Red, Green, Blue
RGBA       Red, Green, Blue, Alpha
RHEL       Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RHL        Red Hat Linux
RIA        Rich Internet Application
RIAA       Recording Industry Association of America
RIP        Raster Image Processor
RIP        Routing Information Protocol
RIR        Regional Internet registry
RISC       Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RJE        Remote Job Entry
RL         real life
RLC        rod length check
RLE        Run-Length Encoding
RLL        Run-Length Limited
RMI        Remote Method Invocation
RMS        Richard Matthew Stallman
ROM        Read Only Memory
ROMB       Read-Out Motherboard
ROTFL      rolling on the floor laughing
RP         responsible person
RPC        Remote Procedure Call
RPG        Report Program Generator
RPM        RPM Package Manager
RRAS       Routing and Remote Access Service
RSA        Rivest Shamir Adleman
RSI        Repetitive Strain Injury
RSN        real soon now
RSS        Radio Service Software
RSS        Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple
RTAI       Real-Time Application Interface
RTC        Real-Time Clock
RTE        Real-Time Enterprise
RTEMS      Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
RTFB       read the fine/fucking book
RTFM       read the fine/fucking manual
RTFMP      read the fine/fucking man page
RTFS       read the fine/fucking source
RTL        Right-to-Left
RTOS       Real-Time Operating System
RTP        Real-time Transport Protocol
RTS        Ready To Send
RTSP       Real Time Streaming Protocol
RTTI       Run-time Type Information
SAAS       Software as a Service
SAN        Storage Area Network
SAS        Serial attached SCSI
SATA       Serial ATA
SAX        Simple API for XML
SBIN       superuser binary
SBOD       Spinning Beachball of Death
SBP-2      Serial Bus Protocol 2
SBU        Standard Build Unit
SCADA      Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SCID       Source Code in Database
SCM        Software Configuration Management
SCM        Source Code Management
SCNR       sorry, could not resist
SCP        Secure Copy
SCPI       Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation
SCSI       Small Computer System Interface
SCTP       Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SD         Secure Digital
SDDL       Security Descriptor Definition Language
SDH        Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDI        Single Document Interface
SDIO       Secure Digital Input Output
SDK        Software Development Kit
SDL        Simple DirectMedia Layer
SDN        Service Delivery Network
SDP        Session Description Protocol
SDR        Software-Defined Radio
SDRAM      Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDSL       Symmetric DSL
SE         Single Ended
SEAL       Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language
SEI        Software Engineering Institute
SEO        Search Engine Optimization
SEP        someone else's problem
SFA        sweet fuck all
SFTP       Secure FTP
SFTP       Simple File Transfer Protocol
SFTP       SSH File Transfer Protocol
SGI        Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
SGML       Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGR        Select Graphic Rendition
SHA        Secure Hash Algorithm
SHDSL      Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
SHID       slaps head in disgust
SIGCAT     Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology
SIGGRAPH   Special Interest Group on Graphics
SIMD       Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SIMM       Single Inline Memory Module
SIP        Session Initiation Protocol
SIP        Supplementary Ideographic Plane
SISD       Single Instruction, Single Data
SISO       Single-Input and Single-Output
SLED       SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SLES       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLI        Scalable Link Interface
SLIP       Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLM        Service Level Management
SLOC       Source Lines of Code
SMA        SubMiniature version A
SMB        Server Message Block
SMBIOS     System Management BIOS
SMIL       Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMIME      Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SMLSFB     so many losers, so few bullets
SMOP       simple matter of programming
SMP        Supplementary Multilingual Plane
SMP        Symmetric Multi-Processing
SMS        Short Message Service
SMS        System Management Server
SMT        Simultaneous Multithreading
SMTP       Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA        Systems Network Architecture
SNAFU      situation normal, all fucked up
SNERT      snot-nosed egotistical rude teenager
SNMP       Simple Network Management Protocol
SNTP       Simple Network Time Protocol
SO         significant other
SOA        Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP       Simple Object Access Protocol
SOB        son of [a] bitch
SOC        System-on-a-Chip
SO-DIMM    Small Outline DIMM
SOE        Standard Operating Environment
SOHO       Small Office/Home Office
SOI        Silicon On Insulator
SOL        shit out [of] luck
SP         Service Pack
SPA        Single Page Application
SPARC      Scalable Processor Architecture
SPF        Sender Policy Framework
SP-GIST    Space-Partitioned Generalized Search Tree
SPI        Serial Peripheral Interface
SPI        Server Programming Interface
SPI        Stateful Packet Inspection
SPL        Secondary Program Loader
SPM        Software project management
SPMD       Single Program, Multiple Data
SQL        Structured Query Language
SRAM       Static Random Access Memory
SRF        Set-Returning Function
SSA        Static Single Assignment
SSD        Software Specification Document
SSD        Solid State Disk
SSD        Solid-State Drive
SSE        Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSH        Secure Shell
SSI        Server Side Includes
SSI        Single-System Image
SSI        Small-Scale Integration
SSID       Service Set Identifier
SSL        Secure Socket Layer
SSL        Secure Sockets Layer
SSP        Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
SSPI       Security Support Provider Interface
SSSE       Supplementary Streaming SIMD Extensions
STDERR     Standard Error
STDIN      Standard Input
STDIO      Standard I/O
STDOUT     Standard Output
SU         superuser
SUS        Single UNIX Specification
SUS        stupid user syndrome
SUSE       Software und System-Entwicklung
SVC        Scalable Video Coding
SVD        Structured VLSI Design
SVG        Scalable Vector Graphics
SVGA       Super Video Graphics Array
SWAG       silly, wild-assed guess
SWAHBI     silly, wild-assed hare-brained idea
SWF        Shock Wave Flash
SWT        Standard Widget Toolkit
SYSOP      System operator
SYSV       Unix System V
TANSTAAFL  there ain't no such thing as a free lunch
TAO        Track-At-Once
TAP        Test Anywhere Protocol
TASM       Turbo ASseMbler
TB         TeraByte
TBD        to be {decided,determined,done}
TCL        Tool Command Language
TCP        Transmission Control Protocol
TCU        Telecommunication Control Unit
TDMA       Time Division Multiple Access
TFT        Thin Film Transistor
TFTP       Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TI         Texas Instruments
TIA        thanks in advance
TID        Tuple Identifier
TIMTOWDI   There Is More Than One Way To Do It
TLA        three letter acronym
TLA        Three-Letter Acronym
TLD        Top-Level Domain
TLS        Thread-Local Storage
TLS        Transport Layer Security
TLV        Type-length-value
TMA        too many abbreviations
TMI        too much information
TMP        temporary
TNC        Terminal Node Controller
TNC        Threaded Neill-Concelman connector
TOAST      The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique
TOR        The Onion Router
TPC        Transaction Processing Performance Council
TPF        Transaction Processing Facility
TROFF      Trace Off
TRON       The Real-time Operating system Nucleus
TRON       Trace On
TSO        Time Sharing Option
TSP        Traveling Salesman Problem
TSR        Terminate and Stay Resident
TSV        Tab-Separated Values
TTA        True Tap Audio
TTF        TrueType Font
TTFN       ta ta for now
TTL        Time To Live
TTL        Transistor-Transistor Logic
TTS        Text-to-Speech
TTY        Teletype
TTYL       talk to you later
TUCOWS     The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
TUG        TeX Users Group
TWAIN      Technology Without An Interesting Name
TYVM       thank you very much
UAAG       User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
UAC        User Account Control
UART       Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UAT        User Acceptance Testing
UCS        Universal Character Set
UDDI       Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
UDMA       Ultra DMA
UDP        User Datagram Protocol
UEFI       Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UHF        Ultra High Frequency
UI         User Interface
UID        User ID
UL         Upload
ULA        Uncommitted Logic Array
UMA        Upper Memory Area
UMB        Upper Memory Block
UML        Unified Modeling Language
UML        User-Mode Linux
UMPC       Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer
UNC        Universal Naming Convention
UPS        Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI        Uniform Resource Identifier
URL        Uniform Resource Locator
URN        Uniform Resource Name
USB        Universal Serial Bus
USR        U.S. Robotics
USR        user
UTC        Coordinated Universal Time
UTF        Unicode Transformation Format
UTF8       Eight-Bit Unicode Transformation Format
UTP        Unshielded Twisted Pair
UTSL       use the source, Luke
UUCP       Unix to Unix Copy
UUID       Universally Unique Identifier
UUN        Universal User Name
UVC        Universal Virtual Computer
UX         User Experience
VAR        variable
VAX        Virtual Address eXtension
VB         Visual Basic
VBA        Visual Basic for Applications
VBS        Visual Basic Script
VCPI       Virtual Control Program Interface
VCS        Version Control System
VCS        Virtual Console Memory
VDSL       Very High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line
VEG        very evil grin
VESA       Video Electronics Standards Association
VFAT       Virtual FAT
VFS        Virtual File System
VG         Volume Group
VGA        Video Graphics Adapter
VGA        Video Graphics Array
VHF        Very High Frequency
VLAN       Virtual Local Area Network
VLB        Vesa Local Bus
VLF        Very Low Frequency
VLIW       Very Long Instruction Word
VLSI       Very-Large-Scale Integration
VLSM       Variable Length Subnet Mask
VM         Virtual Machine
VM         Virtual Memory
VNC        Virtual Network Computing
VOD        Video On Demand
VOIP       Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN        Virtual Private Network
VPU        Visual Processing Unit
VR         Virtual Reality
VRML       Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VSAM       Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT       Very Small Aperture Terminal
VT         Video Terminal?
VTAM       Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
W3C        World Wide Web Consortium
WAFS       Wide Area File Services
WAG        wild-ass guess
WAI        Web Accessibility Initiative
WAIS       Wide Area Information Server
WAL        Write-Ahead Log
WAN        Wide Area Network
WAP        Wireless Access Point
WAP        Wireless Application Protocol
WASM       Watcom ASseMbler
WBEM       Web-Based Enterprise Management
WCAG       Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WDM        Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WEBDAV     WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
WEP        Wired Equivalent Privacy
WFI        Wait For Interrupt
WIBNI      wouldn't it be nice if
WIMAX      Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WINE       Wine Is Not an Emulator
WLAN       Wireless Local Area Network
WOFTAM     waste of fucking time and money
WOL        Wake-on-LAN
WOM        Wake-on-Modem
WOMBAT     waste of money, brain, and time
WOR        Wake-on-Ring
WORA       Write once, run anywhere
WORE       Write once, run everywhere
WPA        Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPAN       Wireless Personal Area Network
WSDL       Web Services Description Language
WSFL       Web Services Flow Language
WTF        {what,where,who,why} the fuck
WTH        {what,where,who,why} the hell
WUSB       Wireless Universal Serial Bus
WWAN       Wireless Wide Area Network
WWID       World Wide Identifier
WWN        World Wide Name
WWW        World Wide Web
WYSIWYG    What You See Is What You Get
WZC        Wireless Zero Configuration
XAG        XML Accessibility Guidelines
XAML       eXtensible Application Markup Language
XCBL       XML Common Business Library
XDM        X Window Display Manager
XDMCP      X Display Manager Control Protocol
XHTML      eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
XID        Transaction Identifier
XILP       X Interactive ListProc
XML        Extensible Markup Language
XMMS       X Multimedia System
XMPP       eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XMS        Extended Memory Specification
XNS        Xerox Network Systems
XOXO       eXtensible Open XHTML Outlines
XP         Cross-Platform
XP         Extreme Programming
XPCOM      Cross Platform Component Object Model
XPI        XPInstall
XPIDL      Cross-Platform IDL
XPS        XML Paper Specification
XSD        XML Schema Definition
XSL        eXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSL-FO     eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
XSLT       eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
XSS        Cross-Site Scripting
XTF        eXtended Triton Format
XTF        eXtensible Tag Framework
XUL        XML User Interface Language
XVGA       Extended Video Graphics Adapter
Y2K        Year Two Thousand
YAAF       Yet Another Application Framework
YACC       Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAML       YAML Ain't Markup Language
YaST       Yet another Setup Tool
YKWIM      you know what I mean
YMMV       your mileage may vary
ZCAV       Zone Constant Angular Velocity
ZCS        Zero Code Suppression
ZIF        Zero Insertion Force
ZIFS       Zero Insertion Force Socket
ZISC       Zero Instruction Set Computer
ZMA        Zone Multicast Address
ZOI        Zero One Infinity
ZOPE       Z Object Publishing Environment
ZPL        Z-level Programming Language
