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1. A type of switched network used by phone companies.






2. A measurement of the pressure of electrons - the electromotive force. It is calculated by the formula volts = watts / amps.






3. A user interface that takes advantage of the video system's graphics capabilities for manipulated graphic elements that represent objects and tasks.






4. When a mount point exists between a partition or volume to a folder on another volume - the drive path is the path (including a drive letter) to that partition or volume.






5. The use of deceit and trickery to persuade someone to hand over money or valuables.






6. Aka digitizing tablet.






7. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






8. Aka Automatic Private IP Address.






9. A video mode with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






10. A power supply standard that has both the 20-pin connector for the motherboard and a 4-pin 12 V connector.






11. An early PC hard drive interface.






12. A program downloaded to a computer without the user's consent. The user unwittingly initiates the download by some simple act - such as browsing to a Website or opening an e-mail message written in HTML. Or a user may initiate a drive-by download by






13. A wireless mode requiring a wireless access point (WAP).






14. The moving of data from one storage device to another.






15. An internal bus in a CPU that connects it to memory and video.






16. Both the connectors on the RDRAM memory modules and the motherboard sockets (or slots) that match them.






17. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






18. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.






19. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.






20. Aka low-voltage differential.






21. A digital display interface standard developed by the Video Electronics Standards Association that supports both video and audio signals - contains HDCP copy protection - and is unique because it is royalty-free to manufacturers.






22. A connection over a wide area network.






23. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






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






25. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the second channel.






26. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






27. Aka network interface card.






28. Aka Advanced Power Management.






29. Memory that can only be read and that contains program code. ROM is also called firmware.






30. Aka central processing unit.






31. A sleep mode that is available on any computer that supports ACPI power management. It conserves power while saving the desktop in RAM memory in a work state. To resume - you simply press the power button - and the desktop is quickly displayed.






32. In Windows XP - this replaces the Emergency Repair process of Windows NT and Windows 2000. ASR is available from the Windows Backup program (NTBACKUP.EXE).






33. Laser discs sold at retail stores that contain music (audio CDs) or software (data CDs).






34. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.






35. The protocol used to allow client computers to pick up e-mail from mail servers. The current version is POP3.






36. A security feature introduced in Windows Vista to prevent unauthorized changes to Windows.






37. The former name of the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface standard.






38. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






39. A virtual tunnel created between two endpoints over an untrusted network. The tunnel is created by encapsulating the packets within special packets for the tunnel. Other security methods are also usually applied to a VPN - such as encrypting the data






40. Aka automated system recovery.






41. In a laptop - a compartment that holds a single media device that is switchable with another.






42. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






43. Aka access control entry.






44. A cell phone with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions built in.






45. The smallest laptop type - weighing less than 3 pounds. Aka also netbook and mini-notebook.






46. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the first channel.






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






48. Aka front side bus.






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






50. A server that manages DNS names.







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