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<glossary id="glossary"
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>&glossary-kdeprinting; <glossdiv id="glossdiv-technologies">
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<title
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>Technologies</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-ioslave">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>IO</acronym
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> Slave</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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><acronym
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>IO</acronym
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> Slaves enable &kde; applications to access remote resources as easily as local resources (making them <quote
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>network transparent</quote
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>). Remote resources (⪚ files) might be stored on <acronym
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>SMB</acronym
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> shares or similar.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-smb"
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><acronym
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>SMB</acronym
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></glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kio">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>KIO</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>The &kde; Input/Output system which makes use of so-called <quote
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><acronym
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>IO</acronym
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> Slaves</quote
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>.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"
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><acronym
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>IO</acronym
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> Slave</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kparts">
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<glossterm
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>KParts</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>KParts is an embedding technology which allows &kde; applications to embed other &kde; applications. For example, the text view used by &konqueror; is a KPart.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror"
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>&konqueror;</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-ksycoca">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>KSycoca</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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><acronym
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>KSycoca</acronym
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> (&kde; <emphasis
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>Sy</emphasis
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>stem <emphasis
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>Co</emphasis
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>nfiguration <emphasis
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>Ca</emphasis
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>che) is a configuration cache which, for example, guarantees fast access to the menu entries.</para>
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<glossseealso
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otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"
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><application
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>KBuildSycoca</application
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></glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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</glossdiv>
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<glossdiv id="glossdiv-xfree86">
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<title
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>XFree86</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-antialiasing">
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<glossterm
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>Antialiasing</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>If mentioned in context with &kde;, antialiasing often means the smoothing of the fonts visible on the screen. &Qt; version 2.3.0 or higher used together with XFree86 4.x makes this possible under &kde; as well.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qt"
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>&Qt;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-xserver">
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<glossterm
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>&X-Server;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>The &X-Server; represents a basic layer upon which the various &GUI;s like &kde; are built. It manages the basic mouse and keyboard input (from the local host as well as from remote hosts) and provides elementary graphic routines to draw rectangles and other primitives.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
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>&GUI;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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</glossdiv>
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<glossdiv id="glossdiv-applications">
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<title
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>Applications</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kbuildsycoca">
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<glossterm
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><application
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>KBuildSycoca</application
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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><application
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>KBuildSycoca</application
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> is a command line program and regenerates the so-called <acronym
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>KSycoca</acronym
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>. This is useful, for example, if some or all modules in &kcontrol; are missing.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ksycoca"
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><acronym
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>KSycoca</acronym
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></glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kcontrol"
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>&kcontrol;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kcontrol">
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<glossterm
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>&kcontrol;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>This is the project and filename of the &kde; control centre. &kcontrol; allows you to customise virtually every configuration option of &kde;.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kicker">
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<glossterm
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>&kicker;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>&kicker; is the nickname as well as project name of the &kde; panel.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-panel"
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>Panel</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-konqueror">
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<glossterm
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>&konqueror;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>&konqueror; is a filemanager, web browser, picture viewer and more, and a core part of the &kde; project. You can find more information about &konqueror; at <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org"
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>www.konqueror.org</ulink
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>.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-ksirc">
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<glossterm
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>&ksirc;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>&ksirc; is the default <acronym
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>IRC</acronym
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> client, which is shipped with &kde;. You can use &ksirc; to chat with anyone on an <acronym
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>IRC</acronym
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> network.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-irc"
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><acronym
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>IRC</acronym
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></glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry
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>
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</glossdiv>
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<glossdiv id="glossdiv-desktop-terminology">
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<title
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>Desktop Terminology</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-draganddrop">
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<glossterm
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>Drag and Drop</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>This concept tries to replace many actions like copying files from one place to another by a certain mouse movement, ⪚ clicking on an icon in a &konqueror; window, moving the mouse to another window while keeping the mouse button pressed, and releasing the mouse button (<quote
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>dropping</quote
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> the object) copies files.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror"
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>&konqueror;</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-gui">
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<glossterm
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>&GUI;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>Abbreviation for <emphasis
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>G</emphasis
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>raphical <emphasis
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>U</emphasis
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>ser <emphasis
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>I</emphasis
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>nterface. Every desktop environment (like &kde;) is a &GUI;. Most &GUI;s feature mouse support and/or windows to manage the programs.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kde">
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<glossterm
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>&kde;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>Abbreviation for <quote
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>K Desktop Environment</quote
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>, a leading &GUI; for &UNIX;-based systems. You can find more detailled information at <ulink url="http://www.kde.org"
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>www.kde.org</ulink
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>.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
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>&GUI;</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-gnome">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>GNOME</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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><emphasis
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>G</emphasis
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>NU <emphasis
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>N</emphasis
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>etwork <emphasis
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>O</emphasis
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>bject <emphasis
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>M</emphasis
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>odel <emphasis
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>E</emphasis
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>nvironment, one of the leading &UNIX; &GUI;s.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
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>&GUI;</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-panel">
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<glossterm
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>Panel</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>Refers to the panel (also known as <quote
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>&kicker;</quote
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>) which often resides at the bottom of the screen.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kicker"
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>&kicker;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-ripping">
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<glossterm
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>ripping</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>The process of reading audio data from a &cdrom; and storing it on the hard disk.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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</glossdiv>
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<glossdiv id="kde-development">
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<title
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>&kde; Development</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-qt">
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<glossterm
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>&Qt;</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>The &GUI; of &kde; is built on top of the &Qt; toolkit, which provides many graphical elements (so-called <quote
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>Widgets</quote
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>) which are used to construct the desktop. You can find more information about &Qt; at <ulink url="http://www.trolltech.com"
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>www.trolltech.com</ulink
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>.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
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>&GUI;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-widget"
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>Widget</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-i18n">
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<glossterm
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>i18n</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>Abbreviation for <quote
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>internationalisation</quote
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>. &kde; supports many different languages, and several i18n techniques make it easy to translate the &GUI; as well as the accompanying documents of &kde; into all these languages. More information about the i18n process is available at <ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org"
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>i18n.kde.org</ulink
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>.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
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>&GUI;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-l10n">
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<glossterm
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>l10n</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>Abbreviation for <quote
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>localisation</quote
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>, the process of adapting a program to the local environment. This includes ⪚ the currency used for monetary values or the time format.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-i18n"
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>i18n</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-widget">
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<glossterm
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>Widget</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>Graphical elements like scrollbars, buttons or input fields which are used by &kde; to construct the &GUI;. </para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
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>&kde;</glossseealso
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> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
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>&GUI;</glossseealso
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> </glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-cvs">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>CVS</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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><emphasis
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>C</emphasis
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>oncurrent <emphasis
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>V</emphasis
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>ersion <emphasis
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>S</emphasis
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>ystem. The <acronym
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>CVS</acronym
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> is a very elegant way of managing file versions that allow more than one developer to easily work on the same project. You can find a description of how to get the latest (developer) version of the &kde; sources via anonymous <acronym
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>CVS</acronym
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> on <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html"
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>http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html</ulink
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>. More about <acronym
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>CVS</acronym
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> is available at <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org"
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>www.cvshome.org</ulink
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>. </para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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</glossdiv>
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<glossdiv id="glossdiv-misc">
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<title
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>Miscellaneous</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-rfc">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>RFC</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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><emphasis
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>R</emphasis
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>equest <emphasis
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>F</emphasis
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>or <emphasis
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>C</emphasis
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>omment. A common way to publish new protocol ideas or procedures for evaluation of the Internet community. Though <acronym
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>RFC</acronym
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>s are not mandatory, many applications try to adhere to them, once they have been approved by the community. More information about <acronym
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>RFC</acronym
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>s can be found at the <ulink url="http://www.rfc-editor.org"
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>RFC Homepage</ulink
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>.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry
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>
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</glossdiv>
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<glossdiv id="glossdiv-protocols">
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<title
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>Various protocols</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-smb">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>SMB</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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><emphasis
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>S</emphasis
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>erver <emphasis
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>M</emphasis
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>essage <emphasis
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>B</emphasis
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>lock. A network protocol used in &Microsoft; &Windows; networks to access the filesystems of other computers.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"
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><acronym
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>IO</acronym
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> Slave</glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-irc">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>IRC</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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><emphasis
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>I</emphasis
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>nternet <emphasis
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>R</emphasis
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>elay <emphasis
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>C</emphasis
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>hat. A protocol defined in <acronym
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>RFC</acronym
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> 1459, which handles the specification to enable real time text chat.</para>
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<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc"
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><acronym
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>RFC</acronym
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></glossseealso>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-host">
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<glossterm
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>host</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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><para
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>This can either be a name from your <filename
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>/etc/hosts</filename
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> file (<systemitem class="systemname"
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>mycomputer</systemitem
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>), an Internet name (<systemitem class="systemname"
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>www.kde.org</systemitem
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>) or an IP-Address (<systemitem
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>192.168.0.10</systemitem
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>). </para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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</glossary>
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