MSML

MicroSoft Markup Language

Some very, very sloppy HTML or XHMTL that will only display right in MSIE and was probably made in MS Office.

n00b: Check out my awsome website!! I made it with Microsoft Publisher!!

someone that actually knows how to use a computer: Microsoft sucks...

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proprietary software

Software that is not free software or semi-free software (the same thing as free software except that it can only be used for non-profit things).

Windows is an example of proprietary software.

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free software

Free software does NOT mean that you do not have to pay to get it. Free software is a matter of freedom, not price. In order for software to be free, users must be able to run, copy, distribute (with a fee or without a fee), study, change and improve the software.

Do not confuse free software with open source software. Although they are very similar, the philosophy behind them is different. Free software is about ethics and open source software is about being practical.

It's pretty amazing that so many people illegally use proprietary software as if it was free software. Why don't they just use free software and avoid legal issues?

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PC

Personal Computer
That does NOT just mean a computer with windowz on it. People use GNU/Linux for personal use, don't they?

idiot: Teacher, I need a PC, not a Mac!
non-idiot: A Mac is a PC...

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Yum

Yellow Dog Updater, Modified

Yum is a great CLI application, with GUI front ends, similar to Apt for RPMs that makes updating, getting information about, installing and removing RPMs easy. It's used by Yellow Dog, Fedora Core, and RHEL (and possibly more distros I do not know about). When you install something via Yum, Yum automatically downloads and installs all dependencies of the package you want if you don't have the dependencies, putting an end to dependency hell if the package you want is in your Yum repositories.

A great Yum configuration file for the most recent stable Fedora Core that adds great repositories can be found at http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf

I escaped dependency hell for Frozen Bubble by using Yum :)

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CLI

Command Line Interface

What all computers were before GUIs came about. CLI is an interface that only uses text. Some stupid people and groups (like micro$oft, apple and linspire) try to get rid of CLI taking a lot of power away from users. CLI is still used a lot on UNIX and UNIX-like OSs.

If you want to see what's so great about CLI, use GNU Bash on a GNU/Linux system.

GNU Bash is a great CLI.

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jock

A jock is someone who's athletic and is "popular". Jocks usually despise nerds and nerds usually despise jocks.

God those jocks are so stupid.

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