- ob-
/ob/
- abbreviation for "obligatory. An oft-neglected facet of
netiquette in which the author of a
usenet post includes a bit of on-topic material to
justify an otherwise off-topic posting.
See also
Jargon's
definition
- OLE
- Object Linking and Embedding, Microsoft's proprietary mechanism for
allowing documents and applications to access data and subroutines from within
other applications. OLE is itself built on top of COE.
OLE is a major component of ActiveX, and sees
some minimal use in linking data (primarily video and audio clips) across
applications.
- OO
- Object Oriented, any programming language or other
system which is based on the concept of grouping related routines and data
structures together in 'objects'.
- OOB
- Out-Of-Band,
meaning information sent outside of the normal communications stream.
- OS
- Operating System, the basic instruction set used to provide a computer
with the routines necessary to communicate with the user and hardware
devices.
See also
BIOS.
- OSF
- Open Software Foundation,
backers of
MACH and other projects.
See Also:
FSF.
- OSPF
- An internet routing protocol, this stands for
Open Shortest Path First. This is a relatively new protocol with many
enhancements over
RIP and other older systems.
Defined in RFC number
1583.
See also
VLSM,
Router.
- OTOH
- On The Other Hand.
Internet Chat shorthand.