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1. The act of covertly obtaining information broadcast from wireless devices using the Bluetooth standard.






2. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.






3. 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. It also displays in low






4. 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






5. A set of standards for imaging devices - such as scanners and cameras - that is used in drivers and other software for these devices.






6. Pertaining to a DVD drive and disc that can store data in two pitted layers on each data side - with each layer having a different reflectivity index.






7. An online power protection device that isolates a computer or other device plugged into it. During normal operation - the devices run directly off the battery through an inverter - rather than switching to the battery only after a loss of power.






8. A command-line tool installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite that is used for testing communications between two hosts.






9. Aka compact disc.






10. Aka pointing stick.






11. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






12. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to bring up a small volume control panel on the display. Using the up (?) or right (?) arrow key - the volume will increase. To decrease the volume - press the FN key and the SPEAKER VOLUME key along






13. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.






14. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






15. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access 2.






16. A device installed at the end of a SCSI chain to absorb signals so they do not bounce back along the cable.






17. Aka emergency repair disk.






18. A double-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 9.4 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






19. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






20. Aka power supply.






21. A 25-pin D-shell connector.






22. Aka serial ATA.






23. A service on a laptop that configures a card after socket services has recognized it.






24. Aka pin grid array.






25. 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






26. A number that identifies a device on a SCSI chain.






27. Aka zero insertion force (ZIF) socket.






28. The location where a cable attaches to a computer. Alternatively - a connector on a motherboard for memory - CPUs - power - or other circuitry.






29. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the printer's high-voltage power supply (HVPS) conducts electricity to the primary corona wire so it can pass the voltage on to the printer's electro-photosensitive drum.






30. A registry key that exists within another key.






31. A special disk used for recovering an OS failure in Windows 2000. It requires that you create the ERD while the system is healthy - and then use it - along with the Windows Setup CD - to repair Windows.






32. A subprotocol of TCP/IP used for connectionless communications in which each packet is sent without establishing a connection.






33. In the laser printing process - this is the step in which the cover on the printer's toner cartridge is opened and the toner particles are attracted to the relatively less negatively charged areas of the drum.






34. Aka New Low-profile eXtended.






35. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.






36. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the first channel.






37. Aka security auditing.






38. Software created to perform malicious acts. Also called malicious software.






39. A component of a CPU that is responsible for all logical and mathematical operations in the system.






40. A drive used for reading from and writing to removable floppy disks. Also called FDD.






41. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.






42. A more advanced and more expensive alternative to a port replicator. In addition to the ports normally found on a port replicator - a docking station may include full-size expansion slots and drives.






43. Aka Integrated Drive Electronics.






44. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.






45. Aka plain-old telephone service.






46. A modified version of FAT12 and FAT16 used in Windows since Windows 95.






47. A video signaling method in which analog video information is transmitted as two or more discrete signals. Two general types of component video are RGB Video and S-Video.






48. Describes the VGA mode color setting that - although it can produce around 16 million different colors - can only display up to 256 different colors at a time.






49. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an






50. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






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