- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
The network administrative information database and information retrieval system for Mac OS X. Many Mac OS X services consult the NetInfo database for their configuration information.
Industry:Software; Computer
Network File System. The main file-sharing protocol used by UNIX systems. An NFS file server allows users on the network to share files on other hosts as if they were on their own local disks.
Industry:Software; Computer
The runtime representation of a nib file. Nib documents are the primary document type of the Interface Builder application. The on-disk representation of a nib document is a nib file.
Industry:Software; Computer
A special file created by Interface Builder that contains information required to create user interface objects (windows, controls, and menus). Nib files contain binary data representing resources that you load into your application at runtime. See also xib file.
Industry:Software; Computer
Network kernel extension. A type of KEXT that provides a way to extend and modify the networking infrastructure of Mac OS X dynamically without recompiling or relinking the kernel.
Industry:Software; Computer
Nonmaskable interrupt. An interrupt produced by a particular keyboard sequence or button that cannot be blocked in software. It can be used to interrupt a hung system—for example to drop into a debugger.
Industry:Software; Computer
A special user with very little access. To prevent someone running as root or as an administrator on one system from gaining control over another system through a network connection, such users are often mapped to the nobody user on the remote system.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a file that describes the hierarchical structure of the documentation set. It defines the table of contents that users see in the browser view of the Xcode Documentation window and the relationships between entries in the documentation set hierarchy.
Industry:Software; Computer
Features that are applied in the same manner to a glyph regardless of the adjacent glyphs. Compare contextual features.
Industry:Software; Computer
A feature for which you can enable any number of feature selectors at once. Compare exclusive feature type.
Industry:Software; Computer
