User Account Control
Abbreviated as UAC. In Windows Vista, User Account Control is a feature that was designed to prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. When functions that could potentially affect your computer’s operation are made, UAC will prompt for permission or an administrator’s password before continuing with the task. There are four different alert messages associated with User Account Control:
Windows needs your permission to continue
A program needs your permission to continue
An unidentified program wants access to your computer
This program has been blocked
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- UAS
Short for user-agent server. In VoIP, a server application in an SIP system that accepts the requests from a UAC and generates an accept, reject or redirect response on behalf of the user. The combination of the UAC and the UAS is called the SIP user agent. The SIP user agent allows peer-to-peer calls to […]
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
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- UBB
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- UBE
Short for unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam).