- UCE
- Unsolicted Commercial Email, one form of
SPAM.
- UDP
- Acronym for User Datagram Protocal, a simple connectionless
TCP service.
- UNIX
- A popular multi-user operating system, the name is a play on an even
older system, MULTICS.
- URL
- An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, URL's are a standardized format
for giving a pointer to information available from
gopher,WWW,
finger and other servers
A
Primer
explaining the use of URL's is available.
Defined in RFC
1738, they were extended
to include relative (short) URLs in RFC
1808.
- Usenet News
- A network of systems that exchange articles using
NNTP,
UUCP,
and other protocols to establish public message
conferences on some or all of over 10,000 topics or
newsgroups.
There are many
common news readers,
some that can run on your home computer via
SLIP and
the Unix newsreaders,
tin,
trn, and
nn.
- USB
- Universal Serial Bus.
A serial communications standard available on new Macintosh and PC systems,
this is a 12Mbps bus. The USB standard provides for up to 127 devices on a
single bus, there are fewer than a dozen different USB devices on the market.
- UUCP
- An acronym for Unix to Unix CoPy, UUCP is a protocol used for the
store-and-forward exchange of
mail,
Usenet News and other files, usually over a modem.
- UUEncode
- A popular method of exchanging binary files in
Mail and via
Usenet News the uuencode program converts a binary
file into a (larger) file of alphanumeric characters that will not be
corrupted when sent as a text file. UUEncode is available as a
Unix command
as well as MS-DOS and Macintosh versions. To convert the file back to the
original binary form you can use the uudecode program or the popular Unix
extraction program uuconvert.