Internet communication

Internet communication

All the ways used by people to communicate with each other over the Internet, including e-mail, instant messaging (IM), feedback on blogs, contact forms on Web sites, industry forums, chat rooms and social networking sites.

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Half-life

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A measurement for the amount of time a radioactive substance takes to lose half of its atoms. In technology, it refers to the amount of time that it takes for a storage device to loose half of its ...

Hacker

Internet; Internet communication

A technically sophisticated user who spends a lot of time at a computer. It refers to a person who writes computer programs, "hacking" up the digital code.

Peripheral

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Any device connected to the computer that performs a specific function. Printers, keyboards, diskette and tape drives, and monitors are among the most common types of peripheral devices.

Illegal character

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A character, such as a period, that isn't valid or can't be used in certain commands because the character is used for some other reason within the operating system.

Partition

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A reserved portion of drive or memory that functions as a separate unit. A partition acts as a separate space, but physically it is still part of the whole drive. Hard drives partitioned into ...

Hybrid

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A device that is made of two or more technologies. A hybrid computer has both analogue and digital capabilities. It uses both analog-to-digital conversion and digital-to-analog conversion so it can ...