ASCII - American Standard Coded Information Interchange - this is what most of your RS232 serial data is coded in. it uses 7 bit words that each encode a single character of text.
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop DSL where the incoming and out going data speeds are different What everyone wants
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode A transfer mode in which data is transmitted in the form of 53 byte units called cells. Each cell consists of a 5 byte header and a 48 byte payload. The term "asynchronous" in this context refers to the fact that cells from any one particular source need not be periodically spaced within the overall cell stream. In other words, users are not assigned a set position in a recurring frame as is common in circuit switching where voice circuits requires a streaming quality. This allows better use of telephone equipment bandwidth for data purposes.
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Used to automatically configure network settings
DNS - Domain Name Server
the DNS function changes
the Domain name joeswebsite.com into an IP address such as
209.34.1.23 When you click on a link, your browser goes to your ISP's DNS, which
'looks up' the domain name and returns the IP address number. (Your browser then
asks your ISP's GBR (Gateway Border Router) to route the request packet to the
server you are trying to look at - but that is a bit off topic.)
This is
a round-trip communication transaction to get the IP address introduces the
latency delays of what ever interfaces are between you and the server (often
more - as the DNS server will ask other servers for the number if it isn't in
its current table and your ISP's DNS can also be quite busy which will also add
even more to the delay.).
DOS - Disk Operating System
DoS - Denial of Service
DSL - Digital Subscriber Loop
ECP - Enhanced Capability Port See IEEE 1284 for full details
ECT - Electro Convulsive Therapy
EOF - End Of File
EPP - Enhanced Parallel Port
ESD - Electro Static Discharge The discharging of electro static fields usually resulting in a small spark.
ETX - End Of Text ASCII control character $03
FQDN – Fully Qualified Domain name i.e. secure1.grapevine.net. (note: the last period is the root domain and is actually required!)
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
IDSL - ISDN DSL or better said DSL over ISDN
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Clearing house for many standards
IEEE 1284 The standard for the parallel printer port of the common PC
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol A more advanced method of remotely accessing your mail that works better than pop if you work from more than one computer.
IP - Internet protocol
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network (or as I affectionately
call it: It Still Does Nothing).
ISDN was
supposed to be a way to share digital and voice over the same line. It has
always been too expensive and didn't anticipate broadband data rates. It is two
64Kbit channels that can pass 128K bits of data. Not much compared to DSL, but the data
rates are symmetric and ISDN is available in some areas where you just can't get
DSL.
ISP - Internet Service Provider
LAN - Local Area Network
LF - Line Feed ASCII control character $0A Frequently referred to as 'newline' in the unixworld
LF - Low frequency
LRP - LINUX Router Project a very small version of Linux that does big things. LRP is a stripped down LINUX that works as a Firewall/ Router/ DNS server. LRP offers Security, connection sharing AND speed; what more can you ask for totally free software?
MAC - Media Access Control IEEE specifications for the lower half of the data link layer (layer 2) that defines topology dependent access control protocols for IEEE LAN specifications. This is usually used as in "MAC address" of a network card a ___ byte number that uniquely defines a Ethernet cards address
MMU - Memory Management Unit a hardware structure in the processor that keeps track of what task has accesses to what memory. Unix, windows NT, and 2000 use the MMU it but Windows 95, 98,98SE and ME don't. I my experience the only program kicking up errors is M$ office!! Now you know why it crashes so often!@#$%
NAP - Network Access Point
NIC - Network Interface Card
Most often your
Ethernet or LAN card that your computer uses to connect you to 10/100-base-T. A
NIC could also be a token ring adapter or some other dinosaur.
NNTP - Network News Transport Protocol Often know as Usenet - new groups that replace list servers. RFC 977 provides all the gory details.
POP - Post Office Protocol AS in POP3 he most popular POP protocol. The most common method of remotely retrieving your mail from your mail server
RR - Resource Record the record in a DNS server that
links a domain name with an IP address
SSRI - Selective Seritonin
Reuptake Inhibitor
SSL - Secure Socket Layer The protocol you use when you get a lock icon on your browser when accessing HTTPS:// sites for secure transactions.
SDSL - Symmetric DSL
DSL where the incoming and out going data
speeds are the same
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol This is the standard used to send mail across the internet
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
Used to remotely
monitor/configure network hardware, typically switches, routers and the like,
but this protocol can be used to monitor full blown workstations and servers as
well.
SPP - Standard Parallel Port
a setting that disables EPP and ECP settings See IEEE 1284 for
full details M$ has called this the Scalable Printer Port ???
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
TLD - Top Level Domains Actually it is kind on a misnomer; a . all by itself is the very top of the domain tree - and there is only one top - but all the domains under . such as .com. and .net. are referred to as TLDs.
TTL- Transistor to Transistor Logic
TTL - Time To Live - the length a time a RR is valid in a DNS cache
UPS - United Parcel Service The folks with the brown trucks
UPS - Uninterruptible Power supply Powers your computer in case of a power outage - the VA specification is maximum power output while the Watt rating is the battery capacity. There are switched systems that transfer he load to the UPS on power fail while on line systems Always generate AC. Computers really don't need on line systems.
URL - Uniform Resource Locater That http:// thingy in the address spot of your browser.
UTC - Coordinated Universal Time Same as Zulu or GMT .
VNC - Virtual Network Computing A remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
YAECL - Yet Another Esoteric Computer Language
WWW - World Wide Web
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer
Protocol
HTML - Hyper Text Mark-up Language
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
DNS - Domain Name Server