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1. Aka Enhanced IDE.






2. The black box that appears around an image - such as a widescreen video when it is displayed on a screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio.






3. Aka SCSI host adapter.






4. Aka Sony/Philips Digital Interface.






5. A special terminating stick that must be inserted into the open RIMM sockets.






6. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.






7. Aka Internet service provider.






8. The read-only DVD discs sold at retail stores - containing video or software and having a maximum capacity of 15.9 GB of data. This term also applies to the drives that can only read DVDs.






9. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - an international nonprofit organization that sets standards as part of its charter.






10. A 9-pin D-shell connector.






11. Unsolicited e-mail.






12. Aka pointing stick.






13. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






14. The order in which the BIOS will search devices for an operating system to start.






15. The original digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for movies sold at retail.






16. Aka customer premises equipment.






17. A DVD of any type that can contain data on only one side.






18. A protocol used by e-mail clients for communicating with e-mail servers. This protocol is replacing the POP protocol. IMAP allows users to connect to e-mail servers and not only retrieve e-mail - which removes the messages from the server - as they c






19. In the laser printing process - a blade that removes residual toner from the drum.






20. A magnetic storage device that stores data on metal platters that have a coating that holds data in the form of changes to small magnetic particles in the coating. Also called HDD.






21. A diagram showing the purpose of each wire in a connector.






22. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.






23. The sudden and uncontrolled movement of electricity from an object with a greater charge to one with a lesser charge. Also called static electricity.






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






25. A raised area on an optical disc that is alternated with depressed areas to be interpreted as data.






26. Aka time to live.






27. A device that records video content to disk.






28. 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






29. A circuit card in a PC that controls the output to the display device(s).






30. Super XGA - a video graphics mode with a maximum resolution of 1280






31. A method used by several software manufacturers to combat software piracy. The formal name for Microsoft's activation is Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).






32. In a Microsoft Windows network - an administrative organization with a centralized security accounts database maintained on one or more special servers called domain controllers. This centralized database contains accounts for users - groups - and co






33. A power management standard that includes all the power states of APM - plus two more. It also supports soft power.






34. A set of rules and practices describing how an organization protects and manages sensitive information. A security policy applies to all employees.






35. A RAID array in which every time data is written to disk - a portion (block) is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across the member disks. RAID 0 uses the total disk space in the array for storage - without protecting the dat






36. A method of memory error-checking that is more sophisticated than parity checking. Like parity checking - it adds an extra bit per byte. In addition - software in the system memory controller uses an algorithm to both detect and correct errors.






37. A chip that retains system settings such as the time - keyboard settings - and boot sequence.






38. At first - a terminal was not much more than a display - a keyboard - and the minimal circuitry for connecting to the mainframe. Now - a terminal can be a computer running Windows or other operating system - plus terminal client emulation software th






39. In an IP configuration - the address of the local router that acts as a gateway from the local network to other IP networks.






40. This attack occurs when someone sends a large number of requests to a server - overwhelming the server so it stops functioning on the network.






41. A power supply that converts between alternating current and direct current.






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






43. In an access control list - a record containing just one user or group account name and the permissions assigned to that account.






44. DRAM that runs at the speed of the system bus (up to 100-133 MHz).






45. The wireless nodes (including the WAP) communicating together in infrastructure mode.






46. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






47. Aka High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






48. A computer's temporary working space - usually in DRAM chips.






49. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - and data can also be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






50. The delivery of electricity (as from a wall outlet) in which the flow of electrons reverses periodically and has alternating positive and negative values.







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