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1. Aka point-to-point protocol.






2. A connection point on a device or computer - sometimes called a socket.






3. Aka World Wide Web.






4. A level of service offered by the telephone companies over a T-carrier circuit that provides full-duplex transmissions at 1.544 Mbps - carrying digital voice - data - or video signals.






5. A term used for CPU packaging that indicates that a chip has columns and rows of pins.






6. Aka New Low-profile eXtended.






7. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - but data cannot be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-R. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






8. Used to represent the luminance signal in S-Video.






9. A display device that contains a cathode ray tube and uses an electron gun to activate phosphors behind the screen at the front of the tub.






10. Aka Internet service provider.






11. A network service that handles the requests for Internet services - such as Web pages - files on an FTP server - and mail for a proxy client without exposing that client's IP address to the Internet. There is specific proxy server and client software






12. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






13. Dual inline package. A very tiny slide that indicates two states. Motherboard and other circuit cards often have one or more groupings of DIP switches for configuring options.






14. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






15. Aka communication network riser.






16. Using the same cabling as 10BaseT - Fast Ethernet - or 100Base-T - operates at 100 Mbps and uses different network interface cards.






17. Aka network interface card.






18. An optional toolbar you can add to the taskbar just to the right of the Start button. Shortcuts on this bar launch with a single-click.






19. A file system used by operating systems for organizing - reading - and writing optical discs.






20. A WAN connection that uses existing copper telephone wire for the communication circuit. To accomplish this - a DSL modem splits the existing phone line into two bands; voice transmission uses the frequencies below 4000 Hz - whereas data transmission






21. A technology for ROM that can be reprogrammed using special software.






22. A generic term for a collection of information on known malware (not just viruses).






23. In regard to Windows operating systems - a version of Windows that is designed to work with a certain manufacturer's equipment.






24. A single-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 4.7 GB of data - or over two hours of video.






25. A specialized type of scanner that reads bar codes - which are patterns of bars of varying widths printed on labels or directly on items. The bar pattern is converted into a numeric code that is transmitted to a computer as data.






26. A type of arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that is used to perform specialized functions - such as division and large decimal number operations. Also called a math coprocessor.






27. The cellular network standards used by Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.






28. A Windows folder that contains numerous applets you can use to adjust the configuration of many different aspects of the OS.






29. The practice of forcing a CPU or other computer component to run at a higher clock rate than the manufacturer intended.






30. A standard for hard drives that attach to the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface.






31. Aka surge protector.






32. A specialized type of memory used only with video adapters.






33. An area of the Windows taskbar used by programs and some hardware devices to display status icons. Also called thenotification area or system tray.






34. A standards organization - of which the T10 SCSI committee maintains the SCSI standard.






35. Aka S-Video.






36. A connector commonly used for PC keyboards. It is much smaller than the original DIN connector.






37. Aka optical character recognition.






38. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. Safe Mode also displays






39. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.






40. A device found in laptops that monitors and regulates power usage. The features vary by manufacturer - but typically - they provide short-circuit protection - give "low battery" warnings - and can be configured to shut down the computer automatically






41. Aka expansion bus.






42. A measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.






43. Aka PCIe.






44. A network device that is used to extend the range of a network by taking the signals received on a port from one network and regenerating (repeating) those signals to another port to transmit them on a second network.






45. Local area networking using radio waves - with the most common based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards (802.11a - 802.11b - 802.11g - and 802.11n).






46. Aka Enhanced IDE.






47. In reference to the Windows operating systems - one that can utilize up to 4 GB of address space.






48. Slang for motherboard.






49. In the laser printing process - the step at which the heat-sensitive toner is fused to the paper by heated fusing rollers.






50. A disc designed to store all types of data usable by a computer. This term also refers to the drives that read and write to these discs. There are various types of DVD drives and media.







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