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It stands for communications i believe - since parallel ports were lpt (or line printer ports) and serial ports were used for communications. Interestingly I haven't found any reference that confirms this so far however - this is the closest i can find to a reference, but it seems to be taken for granted in windows and dos. There's no acronym or acronym ...

My guess is that it's just a carry-over from some UNIX programmer who switched to hacking windows in the early days of System32 windows. /etc in UNIX/Linux holds two (or more) potential meanings: et cetera or Extended Tool Chest (Here's a Slashdot debate arguing the point), and it's just a place to store configuration files and some minor utility scripts ...

Another option is to use the Autocorrect feature found in Word. You would have to edit the word list to add the acronyms and what to replace them with. This is provided she is using Word to comopose her reports. This way, anytime she types the acronym, it is automatically replaced with the spelled out terms.

I don't think the suffixes necessarily stand for anything - if you look, for example, at this Microsoft Security web page listing the various malware packages covered by an update, it looks like the suffix just indicates the sequence number of the fix within some larger bundle of fixes. For example, look at this set of fixes: Exploit:Java/CVE-2008-5353.OX ...

I'm actually the (unhappy) author of CVE-2008-5353. It's a Java sandbox privilege escalation vulnerability. Meaning Java is supposed to not let unsigned applets do anything harmful to your machine, but there was a flaw in the logic that allowed one to bypass security. While it would be possible to create pure-java malware with this vulnerability, AFAIK these ...

Are you after a glossary: alphabetically sorted list of acronyms with respective explanations, or an index: alphabetically sorted list of terms which may be acronyms or not, which also includes the page number where the term is introduced/explained? You can create an index which can be then updated like ToC. To do so you need (assuming Word 2010): ...

The performance metric reported by TPC-C measures the number of orders that can be fully processed per minute and is expressed in tpm-C. … As an OLTP system benchmark, TPC-C simulates a complete environment where a population of terminal operators executes transactions against a database. The benchmark is centered around the principal activities ...