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1. A variety of persuasion techniques used for many purposes






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






3. A TCP/IP protocol developed as a solution to the dwindling number of IP addresses on the Internet and that also serves to hide IP addresses on a private network from the Internet.






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






5. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






6. A laptop in which the display is an integrated digitizer.






7. Aka External Serial ATA.






8. A measurement of the volume of electrons - also called current. It is calculated with the formula amps = watts / volts.






9. A service of the operating system on a laptop that detects when a card has been inserted.






10. In the laser printer - the heated rollers that fuse the toner to the paper.






11. Aka demilitarized zone.






12. A service implemented on Windows Servers that hides the complexity of the network from end users in that it makes files that are distributed across multiple servers appear as if they are in one place.






13. One or more chips designed to work closely with the CPU. Two parts of this chipset are the Northbridge and the Southbridge.






14. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.






15. A printer that includes one or more other functions - such as a scanner and fax machine.






16. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the first parallel port.






17. In the domain name system - a name that is registered under a top-level domain - such as mcgraw-hill.com or microsoft.com.






18. In reference to a memory module - the number of memory modules required to match the data bus width of the processor.






19. A registry key that exists within another key.






20. 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






21. 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






22. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.






23. Aka internal cache memory.






24. A hardware device or a program that monitors and records a user's every keystroke - usually without the user's knowledge.






25. A standardized document that contains general information - ingredients - and fire and explosion warnings as well as health - disposal - and safe transportation information about a particular product. Any manufacturer that sells a potentially hazardo






26. 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 3.3 millimeters thick.






27. Also called striping with distributed parity or striping with interleave parity - this RAID method involves a set of disks in which every time data is written to disk - a portion is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across th






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






29. A device required at both ends of a T-carrier system connection.






30. 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.






31. Slang for motherboard.






32. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






33. A protocol for computer-to-computer (host-to-host) transfer of files over a TCP/IP network - regardless of the operating system in use.






34. On a cable network - the device used at the customer site for the analog/digital conversion.






35. 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.






36. In fiber-optics - a single light wave passing down a cable.






37. A database of all configuration settings in Windows.






38. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.






39. A file or folder name that breaks the 8.3 file-naming convention used in the FAT file system. This term continues to be used on newer file systems.






40. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






41. A technology used by hard drives to speed up data transfers by using DMA channels.






42. Aka Ethernet.






43. In regard to Windows operating systems - a version of Windows that is designed to work with a certain manufacturer's equipment.






44. 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.






45. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the image is removed from the photosensitive drum so it can accept the next image.






46. The practice of forcing a CPU or other computer component to run at a higher clock rate than the manufacturer intended.






47. An operating system recovery tool introduced in Windows Me and improved in later versions of Windows. System Restore creates restore points - which are snapshots of Windows - its configuration - and all installed programs. If your computer has nonfat






48. 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.






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






50. A primary partition that is marked for use by the system during startup. Windows operating systems can only be booted from an active partition.






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