What is AIDS?
AIDS is an acronym for the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. As the name implies, AIDS is a combination of symptoms and failures of the immune system, caused by an infectious agent. The infectious agent usually associated with AIDS is HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, named after the symptoms...
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What is Adware?
What is Adware?
Adware is software that is distributed without charge in exchange for the user's consent to view advertisements. The name "adware" is a portmanteau of the words "advertisement" and "software". As computer users turn to FOSS or pirate software to reduce costs, many commercial software vendors are...
What is ADSL?
What is ADSL?
ADSL is an acronym for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. ADSL is the most common consumer form of DSL, the Digital Subscriber Line that makes high-speed Internet access possible over legacy communication equipment. While traditional modems are capable of a maximum 56 kb/s over copper telephone...
What is ActiveX?
What is ActiveX?
ActiveX is a series of computer program distribution and runtime technologies. Developed by Microsoft, ActiveX technologies have been incorporated into almost all of Microsoft's products released in recent years including Windows, Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer. ActiveX-enabled programs can...
What is 802.11?
What is 802.11?
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802.11 is a series of IEEE specifications describing wireless data transfer. Most commonly implemented in WiFi applications, 802.11 has become the de-facto wireless connection specification for long-term connection and application function. Only Bluetooth currently competes with 802.11 for...
What is the 787 Dreamliner?
What is the 787 Dreamliner?
Dreamliner is the nickname of the Boeing's 787 jet airliner. The 787 Dreamliner made it's public debut on July 8, 2007, or 7/8/7 in American date notation. With orders for well over 600 airplanes at the time of the debut, totaling over $100 billion US dollars, the Dreamliner is the...
What is 404?
What is 404?
An HTTP 404 Error Message is a standard webservers response when it cannot find the file requested by the user agent. 404 Error Messages are typically the result of misspelled URL's and pages being moved or removed. Misspelled URL's can be the result of either the end user incorrectly typing a URL...
What is 3G?
What is 3G?
3g is an acronym signifying third-generation mobile phone technology. Based upon higher network bandwidth than the first 2g digital cellular phones, 3g-capable telephones and networks will support video calls, high speed WWW access, multimedia sharing, and instant messaging applications. Enhanced...
What is 127.0.0.1?
What is 127.0.0.1?
127.0.0.1 is a reserved IP address corresponding to the host computer. Known as the loopback address, 127.0.0.1 is used whenever a program needs to access a network service running on the same computer as itself. Although mainly used as a testing and development address, the loopback address can...
What is a Decibel?
What is a Decibel?
The decibel is the common measure of sound intensity and radio signal strength. Although it has never been ratified by any governing standards body, its suitability to measuring ratios and losses has led to widespread adoption of the decibel in industry and research. Although most commonly...
What is Teleportation?
What is Teleportation?
Teleportation is the transfer of physical objects from one place to another, distant place, without transferring the physical particles that constitute the original object. By most definitions, the object in its original location is either destroyed or rendered otherwise unrecognizable...
What is a Hybrid Vehicle?
What is a Hybrid Vehicle?
A hybrid car is an automobile that has two or more major sources of propulsion power. Most hybrid cars currently marketed to consumers have both conventional gasoline and electric motors, with the ability to power the vehicle by either one independently or in tandem. These vehicles are...
What is Storm?
What is Storm?
The Storm Botnet is a distributed computer network consisting of computers remotely controlled without their owner's knowledge. Computers in the Storm Botnet are home and small office machines running the Microsoft Windows operating system which have been infected by the Storm worm. Storm got...
What is a URL?
What is a URL?
URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. URL is the technical term for what is often called a "web address". It is the address by which computers and documents on the Internet can be located. The URL was invented by Tim Berners-Lee as one of his many contributions to the World Wide...
What is Go-oo?
What is Go-oo?
Go-oo is a community-developed fork of Sun's Open Office office suit. Go-oo contains features and improvements that for technical or legal reasons cannot be included in Sun's version of Open Office. Most Linux distributions today use Go-oo instead of the standard Open Office packages, however,...
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