IT Terminology / Dictionary

Y for Youtube

abbreviation / acronyms	Term	Definition
Y2K	Year 2000	This term is more often used to refer to the "Millenium Bug." This bug is a little creature that lives inside older computers. When the year 2000 rolls around, the little bug will self-destruct, blowing up the computer it was residing in. The chain of explosions across the world will be catastrophic, causing global panamonia and LA riots.
yacc	yet another compiler compiler	Yacc is the standard parser generator for the Unix operating system. An open source program, yacc generates code for the parser in the C programming language. The acronym is usually rendered in lowercase but is occasionally seen as YACC or Yacc. The original version of yacc was written by Stephen Johnson at AT&T.
YA-	Yet Another	A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is.
YAHU	Yet Another Header Utility	Utilities for peeking into executables headers
YAST	Yet Another Setup Tool	an RPM-based operating system setup and configuration tool that is featured in the openSUSE Linux distribution, as well as Novell's derived commercial distributions.
YB	Yottabyte	A yottabyte is 2 to the 80th power, or 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. 1024 zetabytes
YES	Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions	Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions
YiB	Yobibyte	A yobibyte is a unit of data storage that equals 2 to the 80th power, or 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. While a yottabyte can be estimated as 10^24 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, a yobibyte is exactly 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. This is to avoid the ambiguity associated with the size of yottabytes.
YIM	Yahoo! Instant Messenger	Yahoo! Instant Messenger
YKYBHTLW	you know you've been hacking too long when	In this expression, hacking means "programming," not "attempting computer crime."
YMMV	our mileage may vary	A warning that not everything described in a manual will work exactly the way it promised to.
YP	Yellow Pages	the original name for the NIS system before British Telecom asserted their trademark.
YPN	Yahoo Publishers Network	an advertising program run by Yahoo. Web site owners can enroll in this program to enable text and image advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Yahoo and generate revenue on a per-click basis.
YUB	luminance (Y) chroma (UV)	The method of color encoding for transmitting color video images while maintaining compatibility with black-and-white video. Uses less bandwidth than the three separate video signals in an RGB video transmission. known before as YCrCb
YYYY-MM-DD	Year Year Year Year - Month Month - Day Day	The ISO standard formula for writing dates, which avoids the Century Date Change (Y2K) problem.
	Yellow Book	Published by Philips and Sony, the 'Yellow Book' used the Red Book as its basis for the physical specifications of sectors in a CD-ROM--designed for computer data.
	youngest version	the historical version of a data set that is chronologically closest to the base version in a generation group.
	youtuber	a person who produces video content for the video sharing site Youtube.
	Yukon	Yukon is the code name used for the beta version of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2005 is said to provide enhanced flexibility, scalability, reliability, and security to database applications, and to make them easier to create and deploy, thus reducing the complexity and tedium involved in database management.