Acronyms and Other Things

Bree said:

The prize for the most confusing multiple acronym goes to PUP/PUA/PUS.

They all mean the same thing (malware) but no one can agree which one to use.

Potentially Unwanted Program / Application / Software

PUM - Potentially Unwanted Modification.

Here's an almost complete list from A-Z:
List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

f14tomcat said:

One we seem to live and breath, especially on Insider, is ISO

ISO, the International Organization for Standardization
ISO - International Organization for Standardization

We tend to use it to refer to the actual object, the ISO for installing Windows, the ISO for doing a repair. etc. But ISOs are available for many, like Linux, etc.

It refers to a standard way of assembling the data for such uses.

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EDIT:

If anyone is wondering why it is ISO and not IOS or something else, here is the explanation from their site in the link above:

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It's all in the name

Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO.

No confusion if you put a dot before ISO, that means same as *.iso and means a file in that format.

topgundcp said:

Here's an almost complete list from A-Z:
List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

GPO is not listed there, so we are already beyond Wikipedia

lx07 said:

Or call it ISO-9660 perhaps?

I used to work for a software house that was ISO-9001 certified which just meant some external auditor/inspector would come around occasionally and see if you had bothered to write a test plan for whatever you were doing (iirc). Nothing to do with DVDs anyway.

Incidentally the format of the CD-ROM ISO (el torito) according to here is named for a restaurant in California. It stuck in my mind because they called it "an esoteric specification named for the Mexican restaurant where it was conceived." which is a nice turn of phrase.

Do they serve Doritos ?
Anyway, I hope everybody remembers what "*" means in file context.

AndreTen said:

GPO is not listed there, so we are already beyond Wikipedia

When I worked at Chevron, there was an official document which had 30,000 (yes 30,000) acronym definitions which is ridiculous as there is only around 60,000 words in relatively common English usage.

GPO could be the General Post Office, but I digress

GPO Group Policy object is just a single entry in the Group Policy - It follows the general naming conventions used in an Active Directory based Server system. The OOP, (Object Oriented Programming), system was "popular" at the time and the "Object" name was added to a lot of unrelated systems

Bree said:

The prize for the most confusing multiple acronym goes to PUP/PUA/PUS.

They all mean the same thing (malware) but no one can agree which one to use.

Potentially Unwanted Program / Application / Software

Urghhhhhhhhhh! Not PUS! That sounds so gross!