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Niš or Nish (both: nēsh), city (1991 pop. 175,391), SE Serbia, on the Nišava River. An important railway and industrial center, it has industries that manufacture textiles, electronics, spirits, and locomotives. The Roman Naissus, it was the site of a victory (A.D. 269) of Claudius II over the Ostrogoths and was the birthplace of Constantine I (Constantine the Great). In 441 it was destroyed by the Huns but was rebuilt (6th cent.) by Emperor Justinian I. In the Middle Ages the city passed back and forth between the Bulgarian and Serbian empires. The Turks captured it c.1386, were defeated there in 1443 by John Hunyadi, and recaptured it again in 1456. It became (until 1878) their most important military stronghold in the Balkans. It passed to Serbia in 1878. The city retains a medieval fortress that dominates the S Morava valley. The Tower of Skulls (Serbian Cele Kula) was built to commemorate the Serbs massacred by the Turks in the uprising of 1809.

NIS

(Network Information Services) A naming service from Sun that allows resources to be easily added, deleted or relocated. Formerly known as Yellow Pages, NIS is a de facto Unix standard. NIS+ is a redesigned NIS for Solaris 2.0 products. The combination of TCP/IP, NFS and NIS comprises the primary networking components of Unix.

Nis, Nish

an industrial town in E Serbia and Montenegro, in SE Serbia: situated on routes between central Europe and the Aegean. Pop.: 203 670 (2002)

NIS - Network Information Service

Niš

a city in Yugoslavia, in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, on the Nišava River near its confluence with the Juina Morava River. Population, 127,700 (1971). The city is an important transportation junction. It has machine-building, textile, and food and condiment industries. The popular balneological health resort of Niška Banja is 10 km southeast of Niš.

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No references found	System administrators also learn about the interfaces available for programming and scripting against a directory, and the integration of OpenLDAP with the Linux operating system and network information services. Deploying OpenLDAP by SciTech Book News Its main tasks are operating and developing the Wroclaw Academic Computer Network (WACN), operating and developing high-performance computing servers, and operating and developing network information services for Wroclaw University of Technology and for all the universities and research institutions in Wroclaw. Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Chooses IPStor to ... by Business Wire Further simplifying administration, Procom filers support network information services (NIS) and NT Domain authentication. Wausau Financial Systems Cashes in on Transaction Processing ... by Business Wire	network control program network coupler network data structure network database Network Definition Language Network Device Interface Specification network diagramming program network drive network driver network driver interface network drop network effect network engineer network extender Network extensible Window System network externality Network File System Network Filing System network filter network flow network hosting network hub Network in a Box Network Information Center Network Information Service Network Information Services Network Information System network input impedance network interface card network interface controller network layer network layer reachability information network management network management console network master relay network medium network meltdown network modem Network Neighborhood Network News Transfer Protocol network node Network Node Interface network number network operating system network operations Network Operations Center network operator network PC network phasing relay network planning Network Planning and Control	Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala Network Independent File Transfer Program Network Independent Transport Service Network Indicate Address Network Indicator Network Industry Network Information and Control Exchange Network Information and Control Exchange Protocol Network Information and Space Security Center Network Information Center Network Information Center Network Information Center of Sweden Network Information Center On-Line Network Information Center On-Line Aid System Network Information Computer Network Information Discovery and Retrieval Network Information Flow Network Information Management System Network Information Operation Network Information Publication Principles Network Information Retrieval Network Information Security & Technology News Network Information Service Network Information Service Network Information Service Daemon Network Information Service Plus Network Information Services Network information system Network information system Network Information System / Yellow Pages Network Information Systems Center Network Information Table Network Informed Time Zone network infrastructure network infrastructure network infrastructure Network Infrastructure Administration Network Infrastructure Management Network Infrastructure Release Testing Network Infrastructure Services Agency Network Infrastructure Services Agency - Pentagon Network Infrastructure Solutions Network Infrastructure Support System Network Initial Assessment Report Network Initialization File Network Initiated Change Network Innovation Laboratories network input impedance Network Input Output Network Input Processor Network Installation Management Network Installation Manager Network Installation Service Engineer Network Installation Wizard

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System administrators also learn about the interfaces available for programming and scripting against a directory, and the integration of OpenLDAP with the Linux operating system and network information services.

Deploying OpenLDAP by SciTech Book News

Its main tasks are operating and developing the Wroclaw Academic Computer Network (WACN), operating and developing high-performance computing servers, and operating and developing network information services for Wroclaw University of Technology and for all the universities and research institutions in Wroclaw.

Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Chooses IPStor to ... by Business Wire

Further simplifying administration, Procom filers support network information services (NIS) and NT Domain authentication.

Wausau Financial Systems Cashes in on Transaction Processing ... by Business Wire

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network coupler

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Network Definition Language

Network Device Interface Specification

network diagramming program

network drive

network driver