UNIX A computer operating system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets). UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet. See Also: TCP/IP, Internet, Server UNIX Shell A text based command line mode which allows users to issue commands and run programs. A login with Telnet uses a shell to allow users to issue commands. See Also: Telnet, Shell via Telnet Upload The transfer of file(s) from a user to a host. See Also: Download, Host URL Uniform Resource Locator, is a string that specifies a "resource" on the World Wide Web (WWW) that can be anywhere and can be anything from a simple address, a CGI script, a picture file, a file to download on an FTP server, or anything else, a Web address looks like something like this: http://web.orbhost.net/index.html or an FTP address to get (download) a file like: ftp://web.orbhost.net/pub/mac/internet/ibm/ignmac13.hqx The most common way to use a URL is to enter into a WWW browser program, such as Netscape, or Lynx. See Also: Browser, WWW, FTP, Telnet, Download, Upload, CGI USENET A world-wide system of discussion groups, with comments passed among hundreds of thousands of machines. Not all USENET machines are on the Internet, maybe half. USENET is completely decentralized, with over 20,000 discussion areas, called newsgroups. See Also: Newsgroup, Internet UUENCODE Unix to Unix Encoding -- A method for converting files from Binary to ASCII (text) so that they can be sent across the Internet via e-mail. See Also: Binhex, MIME, E-mail, Internet, UNIX, ASCII

[ Welcome | Home | Hosting | Design | News | Links | Support | Search | Contact Us | Glossary ]