If you want to pretend it stands for Directory Virtual Storage Host or anything else you can invent go right ahead. I won't issue a fatwah.

CMB stands for Cosmic Microwave Background. It is also sometimes called the CBR, for Cosmic Background Radiation, although this is really a more general term that includes other cosmological backgrounds, eg infra-red, radio, x-ray, gravity-wave, neutrino. The CMB contains hugely more energy than any other cosmic radiation source, however, so it is the dominant component of the overall CBR spectrum. Other acronyms, such as CMBR, are also sometimes used!

The dirvish home is http://www.dirvish.org . Questions, patches, feedback, etc. can be sent to the mailing list at dirvish@dirvish.org . Look at the most recent FAQ, at ( http://www.dirvish.org/FAQ.html ). Look at the most recent man pages there, too. Search the Wiki ( http://www.dirvish.org/wiki ). Search the mailing list with google ''site:www.dirvish.org key words go here''.

Each image is a complete copy of what existed at the time it was made so all that is needed to restore from an image is to copy the files. It is essential to preserve ownership, permissions and modification time of restored files. Rsync is a very good way but scp or streaming tar or cpio archives from the backup server will work as well. It is also possible to do a read-only export of a dirvish vault using a network file system such as NFS or CIFS/SMB.

NAMI, the Nation's Voice on Mental Illness was founded in 1979 as the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "NAMI" was officially made our corporate name in 1997, after a vote of the membership. This was done after years of discussion that the full name was not person-first language and perpetuated the very stigma we hope to erase.

A reasonable rotation program should need about one and half to three times the space of the original filesystem. This is very dependent on the rate of change for a given directory tree and the number and age-range of images in the rotation. Consideration should be given to the nature and probable change rates of a given backup area and the value of older data.

Dirvish can back up almost any filesystem. Only the vaults on the backup server have any specific requirements. Only regular files will be shared between images. Device nodes, symlinks, directories and other file types will be recreated for each image. This means that there will be a lot more inodes used in a vault than the source filesystem. The best filesystem type for dirvish would be one that doesn't set a fixed number of inodes at build time.

Because dirvish saves space by sharing unchanged files across multiple images changing many files will cause dirvish's disk usage to spike.

Dirvish will output a message to STDERR that it thinks it may have run out of space and will remove the incomplete destination tree. The meta-data including log files will be left to assist with debugging.

Dirvish, dirvish-runall and dirvish-expire will report errors when detected. Running them under cron, even in quiet mode will still cause email notification on error. Dirvish-expire will use the expire options to manage the rotation of images automatically. That mainly just leaves monitoring the disk space to ensure that you don't run out of room and making archives.

You can use any utility that will make an archive from a directory. Feel free to use tar, cpio or dump. It is even reasonable to burn CDs or DVDs if your data will fit. The nice thing is that this won't interact with the production systems so you can do this during working hours. Dirvish supports arbitrary pre and post processing commands on the client and server.

There are many abbreviations, specialized terms and acronyms the Division uses in documents regarding the prevention and cleanup of hazardous materials. Please refer to our Glossary/Acronyms webpage to see definitions for commonly used terms and acronyms.

The military, and the government in general just loves acronyms. HERE is a good place to see what they mean.

Copac started life as an acronym, but it is now simply used as a name. If you wish to refer to Copac, on a website or in a publication you should just use Copac rather trying to deconstruct the acronym.

Please refer to our features pages, common telecommunication terms, and acronyms used within the industry as well as information relating to satellite and sky digiboxes can be found within our reference articles and links. A specific acronym list will be added in due course.

Overall Mustache Rating ? a taqueria's average rating over the course of however many times it's had to endure our terrible onslaught of note-taking scrutiny. In an effort to ensure our ratings don't grow too stale on the shelf, we figure our most recent visit into the burrito shop's OMR twice, while past visits count as one visit each. Require further clarification? Read the detailed explanation in the March 2006 Blargh, or e-mail mathwiz@burritoeater.com.

Nope. Just like JDBC is not officially an acronym, neither is JDOM. This ensures we comply with Sun's trademark policies as explained at http://www.sun.com/policies/trademarks.

Nursing is a profession rich with acronyms. APN stands for advanced practice nurse, an umbrella term given to a registered nurse (RN) who has met advanced educational and clinical practice requirements beyond the 2 to 4 years of basic nursing education required of all RNs. Under this umbrella fall four principal types of APNs Nurse Practitioners work in clinics, nursing homes, hospitals, or their own offices and are qualified to handle a wide range of basic health problems.

SSC or shamanic state of consciousness is a term first used by Michael Harner, author of the Way of the Shaman. SSC is another term for the ecstatic or altered state of consciousness. According to Harner it involves both a trance state and a learned state of shamanic ways and of the Otherworld. During which the shaman must be aware of what is occurring and in control of the situation, much like lucid dreaming (which will be discussed in later chapters).

MARC is the acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. It defines a data format that emerged from a Library of Congress-led initiative that began nearly forty years ago. It provides the mechanism by which computers exchange, use, and interpret bibliographic information, and its data elements make up the foundation of most library catalogs used today. MARC became USMARC in the 1980s and MARC 21 in the late 1990s.

Risus is Latin for "laughter." Since Risus is designed primarily as a "universal comedy system," it seemed to suit, since it's short and simple and easy to remember. Very early versions of the game (circa 1988-89) had working titles like "GUCS" (Generic Universal Comedy System)! Eek. I pronounce "Risus" with an "ee" and a short "u," with emphasis on the first syllable ("REE-sus").

Sometimes it seems the computer has unleashed a severe case of acronymitis on the world. Hardly a day goes by without some new term, usually an acronym, slipping across the radar screen. People entering a new field such as photovoltaics, may experience this to an unsettling Nth degree.

It could translate as the domain naming service or the domain name system. It is the computer action of changing domain names into numeric Internet protocol (IP) numbers which enables computers to locate web sites and e-mail.

Leader is a French acronym, standing for ???Liaison Entre Actions de D??veloppement de l'??conomie Rurale???, meaning ???Links between the rural economy and development actions???. Top