- MAE
- Metro Area Ethernet, now a generic term
for any location where numerous providers "peer" (exchange traffic).
- MAC Address
- The low-level address assigned to a device on an ethernet, MAC addresses
are translated to IP addresses via
ARP. Each
NIC is assigned a unique address at the factory.
- MACH
- An
open source operating system, using by
NeXT and others.
See also
HURD.
- Man
- The
Unix command
for viewing the online manual pages on a Unix system.
- Mail
- Electronic Mail is a means of
exchanging private text messages through the Internet and other networks.
The most popular mail readers on Unix are
Elm
and
Pine.
It is also possible to read mail across a
SLIP connection with a client program connected to a
popmail server. The most popular client for
home computers is
Eudora.
- mega
- Prefix conventionally meaning "thousand", in computers sometimes
a megabyte can refer to either to 1,024
kilobytes or exactly one million
bytes. Marketers usually use the 'incorrect' value
of one million bytes because it inflates the total by about 5%.
(molly)
- meta
-
A prefix meaning to provide added meaning, transcending or going beyond,
however meta is nearly as abused a term as
cyber.
A 'meta' key is a key (shift, control, etc) that is used to change the
meaning of other keys when used in combination.
From the Greek, meaning 'with'.
You can basically think of 'meta' as meaning 'this, but something more'.
Transcendental metatation?
- MIB
- Management Information Base.
A set of parameters used to define the information available from an
SNMP-capable device.
- Microsoft
- A major operating system corporation, operated by
Bill Gates.
- MIDI
-
Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
Extensive documentation is provided by the
MMA.
(dana)
- MIME
- An acronym for
- MIPS
- Acronym for Millions of Instructions Per Second,
a measure of the speed of computing devices. Due to the lack of correlation
between this measure and real-life performance, some redefine it as
Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed
(congournet)
- Mkdir
- The
Unix command
to create a new
directory.
- Modem
- Shorthand for MODulator/DEModulator, a modem allows the transmission of
digital information over an analog phone line. A
modem dictionary
is available that defines all the basic terms.
- Mosaic(tm)
- A graphical
browser available for Unix,
MS-Windows(tm) and Macintosh(tm), created by the
NCSA. Often used as a generic
term for any graphical browser.
- Morph
- Meaning 'to change forms', in computer graphics 'morphing' is an
animation transforming a picture from one image to another, as in this
example.
- MPP
- Acronym for massively parallel process(ing|er), a method of
solving a equation or other problem by breaking it down into numerous
smaller equations that can be solved in parallel. Often used in
cryptography.
(wick@mac.mei.co.jp)
- MS/DOS
- Microsoft
DOS, an older non-graphical operating system,
predecessory to Microsoft Windows.
- MUD
- Acronym for Multi-User Dungeon, a type of text based
adventure game accessed with
telnet or a specialized client program.
There are many types of MUD including Diku,
MOO,
and
MUSE.
- mv
- A Unix command, 'mv' can be used to rename a single file, or to move
multiple files to a different directory.
(shinchey)
- MX
- Acronym for Mail eXchange. MX is a DNS
record used to define the host(s) willing to accept mail for a given machine.