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1. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.






2. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.






3. A popular inkjet printer developed by Canon.






4. Aka ATA Packet Interface.






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






6. A metal plate behind the front of a CRT monitor that focuses the electron beams from the gun.






7. On a motherboard - the type and location of components - as well as the size of the board itself.






8. Aka network address translation.






9. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.






10. A type of power supply that converts AC power to voltages needed for a device. AC adapters are generally used for portable PC systems and other devices.






11. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.






12. Personal System/2 - as in PS/2-style mice and keyboards and connectors. Also called mini-DIN connectors.






13. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.






14. In reference to parallel ports - a mode in which the parallel device connected to the parallel port can receive data but cannot send data. CMOS settings (system settings) may refer to this mode as "Transfer only."






15. A single dot on a display screen. A contraction of "Picture Element."






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






17. Aka synchronous dynamic RAM.






18. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR standard. Using far less power than DDR1 - a stick of DDR2 SDRAM has 240 pins.






19. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo






20. A rectangular connector with a locking clip on one side and a number designation that refers to the size rather than the number of wires.






21. 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.






22. A connector used to attach coaxial cables to computers and network equipment. Origin of the term may be "Bayonet-Neill-Concelman" or "British Naval Connector."






23. An Intel standard for starting up a computer over the network - without relying on a disk-based operating system. Used to install a new operating system or run diagnostics software.






24. Aka local area network.






25. A group of features in the system BIOS - the chipset - the operating system - device drivers - and the individual components that enable efficient use of power in a computer.






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






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






28. A type of motherboard and its variants most commonly used in recent PC systems.






29. Aka RAMBUS Inline Memory Module.






30. Aka fast page mode.






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






32. The language of Web pages. Web designers use the HTML language to create Web page code - which your Web browser converts into the pages you view on your screen.






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






34. Aka complementary metal-oxide semiconductor.






35. Erasable programmable read-only memory. A ROM chip that is erasable and reprogrammable through the use of specialized software.






36. Cabling that contains a single copper wire surrounded by several layers of insulating plastic and a woven wire sheath that provides protection.






37. A firewall consisting of software that you can install on any computer - as opposed to the software built into a hardware firewall. Also called personal firewalls because they are designed to be installed on individual desktop computers.






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






39. An Intel specification for the PC 32-bit architecture defining CPUs - motherboards - and other components.






40. A portion of a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and such I/O busses as USB - IDE - PS2 - SATA - and others.






41. A DVD of any type that can store data on both sides of the disc.






42. 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






43. A registry key that exists within another key.






44. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is odd.






45. In reference to a memory module - how much information the processor can access from or write to memory in a single cycle.






46. A paid television subscription service offered by cable television providers.






47. A type of motherboard used in older PC systems; also refers to the 1984 IBM PC AT model.






48. In networks - when data can travel in either direction - but only in one direction at a time.






49. 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






50. A DVI mode that supports digital video signals and is partially compatible with HDMI. Aka also digital video interface and High-Definition Multimedia Interface.







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