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A
- ACROBAT
- A
software program by Adobe that creates and reads .pdf
(portable document format) files.
- ALPHA
- The
first testing stage of a new program. The alpha stage
occurs before a program becomes a beta version.
- ANCHOR
- A
synonym for a hyperlink
- ANONYMOUS
- A
way of logging on to servers as a guest, which gives
you limited access to that server. Many FTP
sites allow you to login anonymously in order to download
files. Directories or files requiring a secure User
ID and Password will not be accessible
- APPLET
- A
small Java- and JavaScript-based Web application. Applets
can display animation, perform database queries, or
make other Web page enhancements.
- ARCHIE
- A
tool used for searching FTP sites for various program
files.
- ARCHIVE
-
There are two Internet-oriented definitions of archive:
A group of files compressed into a single file, which
is then used for storage or transfer. Common archive
types include .zip and .tar.
Internet sites that house files for its users to download.
- ASCII
-
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
This is the basic clear-text Latin characters. There
are 128 standard ASCII codes, each of which can be represented
by a 7 digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111.
- ADSL
- Asymmetric
Digital Subscriber Line. Delivers and receives information
on current telephone lines at higher bandwidth speeds.
ADSL is a new form of Internet connection rapidly growing
in the US.
- ATTRIBUTE
-
Permission set on a file (such as read/write/execute)
to allow certain rights to groups, owners, and public
users of that file, i.e. .cgi, .pl, class files. This
is done through a telnet or FTP
session.
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B
- BAUD
- The
\quot;baud rate\quot; of a modem is how many bits it
can send or receive per second. Your modem uses this
measurement to tell you what speed you are connected
at or transferring.
- BBS
- Bulletin Board System
-
A computer that allowed users to dial-up and connect
from remote computers and acted as a central meeting
place to chat or play games. The Internet has largely
replaced the BBS. BBSes were generally run from someone's
home PC
that had a few phone lines hooked up to it.
- BETA
-
The second stage a software program goes through before
a final is released. Software undergoes rigorous testing
until it is ready to be released.
- BINARY
- A
numeric system that represents all numbers using only
two digits: 1 and 0.
- BIT
- The
basic unit of information in a binary numbering system.
A computer detects the difference between two states
(high current and low current) and represents these
two states as one of two numbers (1 or 0).
- BMP
- Bitmap
- A
proprietary Microsoft Windows image format. This file
format cannot be used on a Web page.
- BANDWIDTH
- The
range of frequencies a channel can carry. The higher
the frequency, the higher the bandwidth and the greater
the capacity of a channel. In Internet terms, higher
bandwidth means a higher ability to transmit and receive
data.
- BPS
- Bits per second
- The
amount of data that can be transmitted over a digital
line.
- BROWSER
- A
program used to view, download, upload, surf or otherwise
access documents (pages) on the World Wide Web. Popular
Web browsers include Netscape and Internet Explorer.
- BYTE
- At
its most simplest form a byte is a series of 8 bits,
which represent a single character. A byte is The basic
building block of all the Digital elements. The files
and programs on your computer are all made up of bytes
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C
- CGI
- Common Gateway Interface
- The
standard for running programs on a server from a Web
page. Cgi files are commonly used for form submission,
guestbooks, Web-based games and more.
- CGI-BIN
- The
directory in your virtual server where all of the executable
files are stored. Examples of executables would be a
hit counter, guestbook, mail form, etc.. Any special
programming in a language such as Perl or C requires
a CGI-BIN to run on your Website.
- CLIENT
- A
remote computer connected to a host or server computer.
Also refers to the software that makes this connection
possible, such as an FTP client.
- CPU
- Central
Processing Unit. Simply put, it's the main processor
of a computer that makes everything work.
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D
- DNS
- Domain Name Server
- Specific
software that runs on a server and resolves domain names
to actual IP addresses. Nodes communicate with each
other using IP addresses rather than domain names, though
users may never see the actual IP addresses being used.
- DOMAIN
NAME
- The
\quot;address\quot; or URL
of a particular Web site. You can register your own
domain name at www.networksolutions.com.
- Domain
extensions
- Domain
extensions vary depending on the site in question:
- COM
- An Internet domain used for business or commercial
ventures.
- EDU
- An Internet domain used for educational facilities.
- GOV
- An Internet domain used by the government.
- MIL
- An Internet domain used by the military.
- NET
- An Internet domain used for network businesses.
- ORG
- An Internet domain used for non-profit organizations.
- DOS
- A
command line operating system that Windows runs on top
of. Bill Gates created DOS while working for IBM.
- DOWNLOAD
- To
copy a file from a remote computer to your computer.
There are a few methods of doing this on the Internet.
HTTP, FTP and e-mail attachments are the most common.
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- E-MAIL
- Electronically
transmitted mail. E-mail sends your correspondence instantaneously
anywhere in the world via the Internet. It is the most
popular use of the Internet because of the capability
to send messages at anytime, to anyone for less money
than it would cost to mail a letter or call someone
on the phone
- ETHERNET
- One
of the most common local area network (LAN) wiring schemes,
Ethernet has a transmission rate of 10 megabits per
second; a newer standard called Fast Ethernet will carry
100 megabits per second.
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F
- FAQ
- Frequently
Asked Questions. A list of questions and answers related
to a newsgroup, software, Web site, etc
- FILTER
- A
way of hiding certain file types by their file names
or extensions.
- FINGER
- Software
that allows you find out more information about an Internet
user, such as their real name and if they are logged
in at the present moment
- FIREWALL
- A
firewall is a safeguard utilized by many Local Area
Networks (LANs) or Wide Area Networks (WANs) to protect
the network from unauthorized access from the outside.
They are basically gates that verify the users before
they leave or enter the network by way of a User ID,
Password or IP address.
- Front
Page
- A
WYSIWYG
(what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor for designing
and maintaining web pages.
- Front
Page Server Extension Support
- In
order to use a site designed with Front Page, the virtual
server you have must support the appropriate server
extensions.
- FTP
- File
Transfer Protocol. A standard protocol for transferring
files between remote computer systems. Until recently,
it was used almost exclusively on UNIX workstations
and mainframes, but after PC
users gained access to the Internet it became a popular
alternative to BBS
systems. The biggest limitation was that FTP-compliant
software usually used a command line interface, which
wasn't easy for beginners to work with. As the Internet
grew in popularity, new standards appeared (Gopher,
WWW), providing
more user-friendly front-end software. FTP, however,
still remains the popular choice among power users and
computer professionals.
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- GATEWAY
- A
computer system for exchanging information across incompatible
networks that use different protocols. For example,
many commercial services have e-mail gateways for sending
messages to Internet addresses.
- GIF
- Graphics
Interchange Format. A graphics format developed by CompuServe
using compression technology from Unisys. GIFs are common
on Web pages due to their small size.
- GIGABYTE
(GB)
-
A Unit of Digital data that is used to represent the
size of a file, program or the amount of space on a
computer or disk.A Gigabyte(GB) is equal to;
- A
thousand megabytes(MB).
- A
Million KiloBytes(kb).
- A
billion bytes(b).
- GOPHER
- An
Internet server document browsing and searching system
that lets you search and retrieve texts on the Internet.
Gopher has since been surpassed by the World Wide Web.
- GUI
- Graphical
User Interface. A software front-end meant to provide
an attractive and easy-to-use interface between a computer
user and an application. CuteFTP is a GUI FTP Client
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H
- HOST
- A
computer that is setup to allow connections from other
machines (known as clients).
- HOST
ADDRESS
- The
Internet IP
Address or hostname of a remote server.
- Hosting
- Hosting
is a generic term used to describe the storage of a
clients' Web pages on our servers. rather than having
to own a server dedicated to your Website, we rent you
a small partition of our server to store your Website.
This Website is still accessed using a domain name such
as yourcompany.com.
- HTML
- Hypertext
Markup Language. The language used to create and design
Web sites. HTML is a standard text file with specific
tags that a browser reads and interprets into a Web
page
- HTTP
- Hypertext
Transfer Protocol. A protocol that your Web browser
uses to connect to and receive data from Web servers.
- HYPERTEXT
- A
system of writing and displaying text that enables the
text to be linked in multiple ways, to be available
at several levels of detail, and to contain links to
related documents.
- HYPERLINK
- The
text you find on a Web site which can be \quot;clicked
on\quot; with a mouse, which in turn will take you to
another Web page or a different area of the same Web
page.
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I
- IMAGE
MAP
- Image
Maps are user-defined areas of an image, also known
as hot spots, which move a user from an image to an
associated URL
or page within a URL when clicked. ../images may have
more than one defined area; each with its own associated
URL. The top of this page features an image map.
- INTERNET
- Originally
designed by the U.S. Defense Department so that a communication
signal could withstand a nuclear war and serve military
institutions worldwide, the Internet was first known
as the ARPAnet. The Internet is system of linked computer
networks, international in scope, that facilitates data
communication services such as remote login, file transfer,
electronic mail and newsgroups. The Internet is a way
of connecting existing computer networks that greatly
extends the reach of each participating system
- INTRANET
- A
private network inside a company or organization that
uses the same types of software that you would find
on the public Internet, but is only for internal use.
- IPP
- Internet
Presence Provider. we at Resources Plus are your IPP
solution and ISP solution, for Website hosting and design.
We do not provide dial up services.
- ISP
- Internet
Service Provider (ISP). A company that provides access
to the Internet. Before you can connect to the Internet
you must first establish an account with an ISP. An
Internet Service Provider can also provide design, hosting,
marketing and other functions for their clients. Some
ISP's such as AOL,
Netcom, and others provide dial-up access to their clients.
We do NOT provide dial-up access.
- IP
Addresses
-
Internet Protocol Address. Each computer connected to
the Internet has an Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned
to it. A numeric address that is given to servers and
users connected to the Internet. Many servers have multiple
addresses. In fact every virtual server on a computer
must have its own dedicated IP address. This address
(a set of four numbers: ex. 151.196.81.88) is used to
locate the correct computer.
- IRC
-
Internet Relay Chat. A live chat area of the Internet
in which real-time conversations among two or more people
take place via special software. Each specific IRC channel
begins with a # and is dedicated to a different area
of interest. IRC is considered another part of the technology
of the Internet the same way FTP, Telnet and the Web
are.
- ISDN
- Integrated
Services Digital Network. Provides a fast, commercially
available link to the Internet. ISDN is a set of communications
standards allowing a single wire or optical fiber to
carry voice, digital network services and video.
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J
- JAVA
- Developed
by Sun Microsystems, Java is a programming language
that is specifically designed for writing programs that
can be safely downloaded to your computer through the
Internet. Using small Java programs (Applets), Web pages
can include functions such as animations, calculators,
and other fancy tricks.
- JAVASCRIPT
- A
scripting language for Web pages. Scripts written with
JavaScript can be embedded into HTML documents. With
JavaScript, you have many possibilities for enhancing
your Web page with interesting elements.
- JPEG/JPG
- Joint
Photographic Experts Group. A compressed graphics format
for ../images. Jpegs can be used on the World Wide Web.
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K
- KILOBYTE
(KB)
- A
Unit of Digital data that is used to represent the size
of a file, program or the amount of space on a computer
or disk.A Kilobyte(kb) is equal to A thousand bytes.
Actually, usually 1024 (2^10) bytes.
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L
- LAN
- Local
Area Network. A network that connects computers in a
small pre-determined area (like a room, a building,
or a set of buildings). LAN's can also be connected
to each other via telephone lines or radio waves. Workstations
and personal computers in an office are commonly connected
to each other with a LAN. This allows them to have send/receive
files and/or have access to the files and data. Each
computer connected to a LAN is called a node.
- LINUX
- A
freeware version of Unix, Linux is becoming popular
as a powerful, low-cost operating system for running
servers.
- LISTSERV
- A
software program for setting up and maintaining e-mail
discussion groups.
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- MEGABYTE
- (MB)A
Unit of Digital data that is used to represent the size
of a file, program or the amount of space on a computer
or disk. 1 Megabyte (1MB) is equal to;
A thousand kilobytes(1000Kb) or
A million bytes(1,000,000B).
- MIME
- Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions. A protocol for Internet e-mail
that enables the transmission of non-text data such
as graphics, audio, video and other binary types of
files.
- MODEM
- MOdulator,
DEModulator. A device that connects your computer to
a phone line in order to communicate with other computers.
- MP3
- MPEG
Layer 3. An new standard for audio compression. It is
capable of 10:1 compression with no noticeable loss
in quality. MP3s have become a popular way to distribute
CD quality music
on the Internet.
- MPEG
- Motion
Picture Experts Group. A type of audio/video (multimedia)
file format, which is popular on the Internet.
- MTU
- Maximum
Transmission Unit. The greatest amount of data or \quot;packet\quot;
size that can be transferred in one physical frame on
a network. This packet also contains the header and
trailer information, which are like addresses for each
packet that are required by the routers on the network.
- MUD
- Multi-User
Dungeon or Dimension. A usually text-based, multi-user
simulation environment. Some are purely for fun and
game playing, while others are used for serious software
development, education purposes, and all that lies in
between. A significant feature of most MUDs is that
users can create things that stay after they leave and
which other users can interact with in their absence,
thus allowing a \quot;world\quot; to be built gradually
and collectively.
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- NETIQUETTE
- The
rules of etiquette that govern online interaction on
the Internet
- NEWSGROUP
- A
discussion forum found on USENET.
- NODE
- A
single machine on a network.
- Notepad:
-
A simple text editor found in Win95/NT and windows 3.1.
Find it under Start/Accessories/ Notepad in Win95/NT
and under Program Manager/Accessories/Notepad in Windows
3.1.
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O
- OS
- Operating
System. The basic software that makes a computer run.
An OS schedules tasks, allocates storage, handles the
interface to peripheral hardware and presents a default
interface to the user when no application program is
running.
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- PACKET
- The
unit of data sent across a network.
- PERL
- A
UNIX-based scripting language that is often used on
the World Wide Web. When you submit a complex form from
your browser window, for example, a Perl script may
handle the processing of the information. Perl scripts
usually end in the extension .pl.
- POP
- Post
Office Protocol. The protocol used by mail clients to
retrieve messages from a mail server. Full email accounts
are standard with all virtual servers. They allow you
to send and receive email sent to your virtual domain.
Other email addresses may also be aliased to this account,
or mail send to this account can be forwarded to another
email account.
- PORT
- A
place where information goes into or out of a computer.
- PPP
- Point-to-Point
Protocol. Communication protocol used over serial lines
to support Internet connectivity.
- PROTOCOL
- A
specification that describes how computers will talk
to each other on a network.
- PROXY
SERVER
- A
technique used to cache information on a Web server
and acts as an intermediary between a Web client and
that Web server. This is common for an ISP especially
if they have a slow link to the Internet. Proxy servers
are also constructs that allow direct Internet access
from behind a firewall. They open a socket on the server,
and allow communication via that socket to the Internet.
For example, if your computer is inside a protected
network, and you want to browse the Web using Netscape,
you would set up a proxy server on a firewall.
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Q
- QUEUE
- A
waiting area for files, print jobs, messages, or anything
else being sent from one computer or device to another.
In CuteFTP, for instance, you can put files in the queue,
and transfer them all at once at another time.
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R
- Real
Audio/Video:
- Software
that allows you to show streaming audio and video files
on your Website.
- RFC
- (Request
for Comments). The name of the result and the process
for creating a standard on the Internet. A new standard
is proposed and published as a \quot;Request For Comments.\quot;
If the standard is established, the reference number/name
for the standard retains the acronym \quot;RFC.\quot;
For example, the official standard for FTP is RFC 959.
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S
- Search
Engines:
-
Internet programs used for finding information on the
internet. Some examples of popular search engines are
Yahho!, Lycos, Excite, and Alta-Vista.
- SERVER
- A
computer on a network that answers requests for information,
such as Web servers, FTP servers and secure servers.
The term server is also used to refer to the software
that makes serving information possible.
- SHTML
- The
file extension for Web pages that contain server side
includes (SSIs).
- SMTP
- (Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol). The standard Internet protocol
for transferring electronic mail messages.
- Soft-Hosted
Servers:
- A
soft-hosted server would not have its own domain name.
It would appear under the URL http://www.resourcesplus/com/yourcompany.
This option is a lot cheaper than a virtual server,
however you may not get the name recognition you are
looking for. People tend to remember catchy domain names
more than soft-hosted names.
- SPIDER
- Also
called wanderers or robots (bots), spiders are programs
that search the Internet for new, publicly accessible
resources such as Web pages and files in public FTP
archives. Spiders contribute their discoveries to a
database, which Internet users can search by using search
engines such as Lycos or WebCrawler.
- SQL
- (Structured
Query Language). The standardized query language for
requesting information from a database.
- SSH
- A
packet-based binary protocol that provides encrypted
connections to remote hosts or servers.
- SSI
- (Server
side includes). A type of HTML comment that directs
the Web server to dynamically generate data for the
Web page upon request.
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- TAG
- A
tag is a type of instruction used in HTML that browsers
interpret when viewing a Web page. A pair of brackets
generally surrounds tags (\lt;\gt;).
- TAR
- A
file compression format generally found on UNIX platforms.
- TCP/IP
- (Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). A set of protocols
that make TELNET, FTP, e-mail, and other services possible
among computers that aren't on the same network.
- TELNET
- A
text-based Internet program used for connecting to a
remote host or server.
- Throughput:
- The
amount of information that is pulled from a persons
Website each month. Sometimes called Bandwidth. Throughput
is measured in bytes. The average ISP allows 100MB of
bandwidth per month. So, if you had a 25MB site, only
4 people would be allowed to fully download your site.
- TILDE
(or ~)
- The
tilde (~) signifies an individual user's Web site when
housed on a server. For example, http://www.cuteftp.com/~user
- says that user is a cuteftp.com user and that his
homepage is on cuteftp.com's server. The tilde character
is on the top line of your keyboard to the far left.
- Traffic
Analyzers:
- Analyzers
allow you to see who visited your Website, when you
have the most traffic, what your most popular pages
are and much, much more. We install traffic analyzers
on every virtual server.
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- UNIX
- An
operating system invented in 1969 at AT\amp;T Bell Laboratories
that was made available to researchers and students
in 1973. It was used to develop the Internet's communication
software protocols.
- UPDATES
- This
represents a small change to a program. Denoted as a
change in the right-side digit of a version number (ex:
version 3.0 to 3.1).
- UPGRADES
- This
represents a large change to a program. Denoted as a
change in the left-side digit of a version number (ex:
version 3.0 to 4.0.).
- UPLOAD
- To
copy a file from your computer to a remote server, the
reverse process of download.
- USENET
- An
Internet-based bulletin board that allows reading and
posting of \quot;news\quot; in various \quot;newsgroups.\quot;
There are thousands of newsgroups covering a myriad
of topics.
- UUENCODING
- A
method for converting binary information into ASCII
text. It can be used for posting to Usenet and or e-mailing
with non-MIME compliant mail readers.
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- VIRUS
- A
program which replicates itself on computer systems
by incorporating itself into other programs that are
shared among computer systems. Viruses vary, and can
be harmless or completely debilitating to a computer
system.
- Virtual
Server:
-
A virtual server is actually a small section of hard
drive of a real server. It is set up in such a way as
to allow the user of the virtual server to manage it
like a real server without having to purchase a server.
A person browsing the web has no way of knowing the
site is running from a virtual server, so the server
appears to be a dedicated server.
- VRML
- Virtual
Reality Modeling Language. An open, extensible, industry-standard
scene description language for 3-D scenes, or worlds,
on the Internet. With VRML and certain software tools,
you can create and view distributed, interactive 3-D
worlds that are rich with text, ../images, animation,
sound, music and video.
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- WAIS
- Wide
Area Information Server. A client-server information
system that let's users search through databases with
a single user interface.
- WAN
- Wide
Area Network. A network that connects computers over
a large geographic area.
- WAREZ
- Widely
used to denote cracked or pirate versions of commercial
software. In other words, illegal pirated software.
- WHOIS
- A
means of looking up names in a remote database. Used
initially as an aid for finding e-mail addresses for
people at large institutions or companies.
- WILDCARD
- A
character string that is used in text searches to make
finding a match easier. An asterisk (*) usually means
find any character or set of characters.
- WINDOWS
- The
Microsoft Windows Operating system, which runs on DOS-based
PCs.
- WINSOCK
- Windows
Sockets. A technical specification that defines a standard
interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application
(such as an FTP client or a Gopher client) and the underlying
TCP/IP protocol stack. The nomenclature is based on
the Sockets applications programming interface model
used in Berkeley UNIX for communications between programs.
- WORLD
WIDE WEB (WWW)
- Created
in 1989 at a research institute in Switzerland, the
Web relies upon the hypertext transport protocol (http),
an Internet standard that specifies how an application
can locate and acquire resources stored on another computer
on the Internet. Most Web documents are created using
hypertext markup language (html), an easy to learn coding
system for WWW documents.
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- XML
- Extensible
Markup Language. A programming language/specification
developed by the W3C.
XML is a pared-down version of SGML,
designed especially for Web documents. It enables Web
authors and designers to create their own customized
tags to provide functionality not available with HTML.
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Z
- ZIP
- A
Microsoft Windows based compressed (archive) file. Can
contain one or many files as well as a directory structure.
On the Internet, large graphics and programs are usually
compressed into ZIP files and then made available for
download. After you download this file you need to use
a decompression software program to \quot;unzip\quot;
the file.
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