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| The leading commercial grade distribution of the open source Perl Dynamic Programming language. |
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ActiveX controls are small programs deployed on the Internet that enhance the browsing experience, allowing such things as animation and updating to take place.
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| Web searching bots, also known as spiders and crawlers, search the Web and retrieve millions of HTML documents, then record the information and links found on the pages. |
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| While cookies serve many functions, their most common purpose is to store login information for a specific site. |
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| A hyperlink is a word, phrase, or image that you can click on to jump to a new document or a new section within the current document. Hyperlinks are found in nearly all Web pages, allowing users to click their way from page to page. |
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| An insurance that software downloaded from the internet comes from a reputable source. Provides informationabout the software, such as the authors identity, etc. |
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| Data in a program or application that is designed to handle a specific situation. Data that is hard coded into a program makes it dependant on specific values rather than on values a user can input. |
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| Internet portal is a Web site that acts as a starting point for browsing the Web. Portals typically include search engines and large directories of websites. Some popular portals are Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Netscape, AltaVista, MSN, and AOL.com. |
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| They index millions of sites on the Web, so that Web surfers like you and me can easily find Web sites with the information we want. By creating indexes, or large databases of Web sites (based on titles, keywords, and the text in the pages), search engines can locate relevant Web sites when users enter search terms or phrases. |
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| Stands for "Uniform Resource Locator." A URL is the address of a specific Web site or file on the Internet. |
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| On a LAN, a subgroup of users within a larger group of connected networks |
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| The process an OS uses to detect and log security related incidents |
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| A disk that contains basic volumes such as primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. |
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| A programming technique for quickly locating an item in a sequential list. |
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| A region of memory that holds frequently used data volumes. |
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| A group of sectors on a disk; a cluster is a slightly larger unit that is used to organize and identify files on the disk. |
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| The location of a cluster on a hard drive |
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| Used to reduce the size of one or more files. When a file is compressed, it takes up less disk space than an uncompressed version and can be transferred to other systems more quickly. |
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| Restoring the contents of a compressed file to its original state. |
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| The process of writing parts of a file to contigous sectors on a hard drive to speed up access and retrieval |
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| A disk that contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes. Dynamic disks are divided into volumes instead of partitions. |
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| The process of encoding data to prevent unauthorized access. |
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| A file system firt used by DOS, that uses 12-bit sector address |
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| A file system firt used by DOS, that uses 16-bit sector address |
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| A file system firt used by Windows 95, OSR 2, that uses 32-bit sector address |
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| File Allocation Table(FAT) |
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| A data structure that DOS creates on a disk when its formatted. |
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| The overall structure in which files are named, stored, and organized. A file system consists of files, directories(or folders), and the information needed to locate and access these items. |
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| Preparing a file system so that a disk can be used to store programs and data |
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| The scattering of parts of the same file over different parts of a hard drive |
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| A special file that contais the attributes of each file created using NTFS; used to locate a file on a hard drive. |
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| New Technology File System (NTFS) |
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| The default file system for new installations of Win 7; first used by WinNT |
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| A section of a hard disk for storage |
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| A portion of a drive that functions as a physically separate allocation unit. |
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| A restriction on a users ability to exceed limits placed on file system resources. |
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| The smallest unit of space on a disk, typically 512 bytes. |
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| An area on a disk that can be allocated and formatted for a file system |
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| A logical grouping of related in Windows 7 |
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| Part of a UFS file system that contains an identifying number and other numbers that describe the file system's geometry, statistics, and behavioral parameters |
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| A hidden File on a hard drive that is used to hold parts of programs and data files that do not fit in memory |
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| A measurment of high capacity storage - about 1 million bytes |
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| Virtual File Allocation Table (VFAT) |
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| A file system first used by windows 95; the first file system to support long filenames. |
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| A fixed amount of storage on a hard drive. |
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| A path to a file that begins with the drive identifier and root directory or with a network share ends with the complete filename |
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| A form of interface in which the user types commands using a special command language |
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| A program that accepts typed commands fromt the keyboard and performs tasks as directed. |
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| A line area within the command window, usually indicated by a blinking cursor, where commands are typed. |
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| An MS-DOS command used to duplicate files from one disk or directory to another |
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| The Linux command used to copy files, similiar to the COPY command in MS DOS |
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| The disk directory at the end of the active directory path;first searched for a req file. |
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| An MS DOS command used to permanently remove a file |
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| An MS DOS command that displays a list of files and subdirectories in the current directory. |
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| DOS command that permanently removes a file or folder |
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| The conventional starting directory for all regular users in FEDORA 13 |
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| A plain text name assigned to a file that can be 200 characters or more, upper case, lowercase and numbers. |
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| Linux command that displays a list of files and subdirectories in the current directory or dir specified in the command. |
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| Linux command that create a dir or sub dir in the current dir or folder |
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| To make a physical disk accessible to a computers file system |
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| The MS DOS command used to transfer a file or folder to another. |
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| Linux command used to transfer files |
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| The vertical line symbol that appears on a virtual machine keyboard as the shift character on the backslash key. |
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| MS DOS command used to remove a directory |
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| A path that is simplified by the current working directory. |
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| MS DOS command used to rename a file |
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| Linux cmd used to remove a dir |
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| Linux cmd used to organize files in a particular order. |
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| Path or link through which information passes between two devices. |
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| MS DOS command used to produce a graphical view of files in a directory or subdirectory |
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| To remove a disk or device from active use |
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| Blank areas of a page or window that contributes to its balance and visual appeal |
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| Character used to represent one or more unknown characters. |
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| Another term used for current directory. |
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| Powerful version of the MS DOS "COPY" command - with additional features. |
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