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1. Aka external cache.






2. 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.






3. Any type of computer that you can easily transport and that contains an all-in-one component layout.






4. A standard for interconnecting electronic musical instruments to communicate with computers and among themselves.






5. A set of skills - behaviors - and attitudes to use when listening to another person.






6. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.






7. 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






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






9. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the second channel.






10. Aka Secure Digital (SD) Card.






11. A Windows program that launches Internet Explorer and connects to the Windows Update Website.






12. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






13. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






14. The use of two or more video adapters (hence the term "GPU") to drive a single display for the purpose of increasing performance.






15. An external bus that connects into the PC's PCI bus. With USB - you can theoretically connect up to 127 devices to your computer.






16. Aka Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.






17. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.






18. Software installed on a computer without permission that collects information about a user in order to display targeted advertisements - in the form of either inline banners or pop-ups. Inline banners are advertisements that run within the context of






19. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.






20. Aka Gigabit Ethernet.






21. 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.






22. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.






23. Aka microcode.






24. A chip that keeps track of the date and time on a PC. Set the date and time through your operating system or in the BIOS Setup program.






25. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.






26. A value assigned to a process that controls the order in which the program code is executed in relation to other code.






27. In the Windows registry - a folder that may contain one or more sets of settings as well as other keys.






28. Aka motherboard.






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






30. Audio connectors that use a 1/8" single pin plug.






31. 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.






32. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 5.0 millimeters thick.






33. Aka floating-point unit.






34. Aka customer premises equipment.






35. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.






36. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






37. A device used to scan smart cards.






38. A RAM module designed for subcompact and laptop computers. It is half the size of a SoDIMM module.






39. Aka power-on self-test.






40. One of several groups that no user can create or modify. The membership of a special group is predefined - and it is available to you only when you assign permissions or rights. A few important special groups are Creator Owner - System - and Everyone






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






42. A set of behaviors for the workplace that includes how you interact with people and how you treat property.






43. Aka radio frequency.






44. A fiber-optic connector that resembles an RJ-45 network connector and is less expensive and easier to work with than ST or SC connectors.






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






46. In a laser printer - a metal drum with an electro-photosensitive coating to which a charge can be applied by a laser beam.






47. Aka Integrated Drive Electronics.






48. In an operating system GUI - a tiny graphic representing an application - folder - disk - menu item - or other entity.






49. A command-line utility installed on a Windows computer with the TCP/IP protocol suite; it's used to view the IP configuration of a network connection and to perform certain administrative tasks.






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







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