glossary.html

And this page contains important computing-related terms, definitions, information, but also short explanations (and only the short ones). Again, same as in other similar pages on my site (especially articles, hints, rules etc.), the page contains and will contain the "personal" ones (terms, definitions, info that I've wrote), as well as others that I've found browsing the web and reading articles written by others. But note, for the non-personal ones, they will at least contain modified text, i.e. the text that I wrote in my own words (and not just copied and pasted the text written by someone else), while usually the general point remains the same as in the original article. So here at the beginning, there are only few of the most commonly used computing-related terms and abbreviations, i.e. only those are listed, that I collected from various help-files, articles, MS knowledge-bases etc. Then there is a basic explanation of different "parts" that URL is built of. After that, there are only listed links to the most crucial explanations of computing terms on the same Explanation Guide Info homesite as that document above. So for the "real" list, rather see or download my old "glossary.html" page: http://users.volja.net/tayiper/script/Unsorted-glossary.html with various other additional terms listed. And finally at the bottom there are other a bit longer explanations of various computing-related terms. These were also collected from various help-files, articles, knowledge-bases etc., and note that there is a note on information-source above each of them. Further, also check out the IT-Abbreviations.doc file: http://users.volja.net/tayiper/script/IT-Abbreviations.doc, which contains the "official" list of computing and IT abbreviations that I got on Wikipedia and Explanation Guide sites. Oh, and as an interesting discovery; I found out today (12.2.2006) on the NationMaster site: http://www.nationmaster.com that they link to my "glossary.html" page here: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-computing-and-IT-abbreviations, which finally links to page on the Factbites site: http://www.factbites.com, particularly to this page here: http://www.factbites.com/topics/List-of-computing-and-IT-abbreviations.

LINKS TO SYSTEM-RELATED TERMS

en.wikipedia.org: World Wide Web.html, Internet.html, IP address.html, Website.html, Webpage.html, MAC address.html, Hostname.html, Name server.html

explanation-guide.info: Computer.html, Computing.html, Personal-computer.html, Hardware.html, Computer-hardware.html, Processor.html, Central-processing-unit.html, Graphics-card.html, BIOS.html, Firmware.html, Device-driver.html

explanation-guide.info: Input.html, Output.html, Data.html, Cache.html, System.html, Object.html, Pointer.html, Buffer.html, Sequence.html, Subroutine.html, Instruction.html, Information.html, Variable.html, Context-switch.html, Program.html, Software.html, Computer-software.html, Computer-program.html, System-software.html, Application-software.html, Application.html

explanation-guide.info: Task.html, Thread.html, Process.html, Computer-process.html, Window.html, Icon.html, Application-Programming-Interface.html, Process-management.html, Memory-management.html, Program-loader.html, Debugger.html, Library.html, Computer-multitasking.html, Graphical-user-interface.html, Command-line-interpreter.html

explanation-guide.info: OS.html, operating system.html, Server.html, Workstation.html, MS-DOS.html, Microsoft-Windows.html, Linux.html, Unix.html, Mac-OS.html, Microsoft.html, Windows-API.html, Microsoft-Windows.html, Microsoft-Windows-NT.html, Microsoft-Windows-2000.html, Windows-XP.html, Windows-Server-2003.html

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SHORT COMPUTING-RELATED TERMS

PIF = Program Information File ASP = Application Service Provider DDR = Double Data Rate FAT = File Allocation Table CGI = Common Gateway Interface AGP = Accelerated Graphics Port FPS = Frames Per Second VPU = Visual Proccesing Unit DTR = Data Terminal Ready DND = Drag And Drop CCP = Cut, Copy and Paste CLI = Command Line Interface OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer OSD = On-Screen Display MFC = Microsoft Foundation Classes ATL = Advanced Template Library OSF = Open Software Foundation DCE = Distributed Computing Environment DOS = Disk Operating System MSN = MicroSoft Network WMI = Windows Management Instrumentation MDAC = Microsoft Data Access Components EULA = End User License Agreement

URL = Uniform Resource Locator MAC = Media Access Control SVG = Scalable Vector Graphics PDF = Portable Document Format DNS = Domain Name System UDP = User Datagram Protocol DTD = Document Type Definition XIF = XML Interchange Format DOM = Document Object Model RDF = Resource Description Framework XML = Extensible Markup Language ARP = Address Resolution Protocol ISP = Internet Service Provider NSP = Name Service Providers LSP = Layered Service Providers RAS = Remote Access Service VPN = Virtual Private Network RVA = Relative Virtual Address IRC = Internet Relay Chat BAM = Born Again Modularization IMAP = Internet Message Access Protocol XPCOM = Cross Platform Component Object Model NGLayout = Next Generation Layout Engine

TIS = Tool Interface Standard PMC = Project Management Committee DDE = Dynamic Data Exchange (Server) PDE = Plug-in Development Environment JDT = Java Development Tools JRE = Java Runtime Environment DDK = Driver Development Kit SDK = Software Developer Kit IRQ = Interrupt Requests HAL = Hardware Abstraction Layer PCI = Peripheral Component Interconnect IDE = Integrated Development Environment IPC = Interprocess Communications OCR = Optical Character Recognition OLE = Object Linking and Embedding CGA = Color Graphics Array GUI = Graphical User Interface GDI = Graphics Device Interface CSE = Computer Science Engineering BSOD = Blue Screen of Death CD-R = Compact Disc-Recordable CD-RW = Compact Disc-Rewritable

API = Application Programming Interface HID = Human Interface Devices CRC = Cyclic Redundancy Check CMS = Contement Management System COM = Component Object Model ROT = Running Object Table DDL = Dynamic Lynk Library IAT = Import Address Table CSV = Comma Separated Value CVS = Concurrent Versioning System RCM = Resource Configuration Management ADO = ActiveX Data Object FIFO = First In First Out COFF = Common Object File Format ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface IDCT = Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform SENS = System Event Notification Service CMOS = Complementary Metal-oxide Semiconductor IMAPI = Image Mastering Applications Programming Interface SMART = Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology RadASM = Rapid Application Development for Assembly NetBIOS = Network Basic Input Output System

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UNIFORM-RESOURCE-LOCATOR PARTS

A typical URL looks like this (the example is link to Yahoo Help for the so-called AddressBook): http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ab/index.html, and because you might want to block some parts of a domain (while allowing other parts of the same domain), you should understand what comprises an URL. Also note that the fully quallified domain name" (abbreviated FQDN) is: "subdomain.domainname.highleveldomain".

http://

The application protocol used to make the connection. The most common protocol for browsing the Web is http. Your browser assumes this is the application protocol if you don't enter one. Other commonly used protocols include ftp, and gopher.

.com

The root domain or top-level domain. There are several familiar root domains, including .com, .net, .edu, .org, .mil, and .gov. There are also two-letter root domains for most countries, such as .ca for Canada and .uk for United Kingdom.

www

www is generally known to be a so-called "subdomain".

yahoo

Yahoo in this particular example is known to be a "second-level domain".

yahoo.com

The Yahoo's domain name or so-called "root domain". This is the domain with which the browser establishes a connection. A domain frequently refers to a single company or organization that might have multiple websites on the Internet.

help.yahoo.com

One of Yahoo's hosts/servers, similar to my.yahoo.com, geocities.yahoo.com or simply www.yahoo.com. This is the particular Web site with which the browser communicates. It is also the name for which DNS provides an IP address.

help/us/ab

The folder or directory tree. It contains the file that is to be accessed; similar to the "/tayiper/script/" sub-folder on a host hosting my site's pages or to normal folder/directory on a local hard-disk.

index.html

The file. This is the file-name of the file that is to be accessed. It is also used as the "opening", i.e. default site's page.

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