PawPrint.net Glossary of Terms

A transmission line with bandwidth sufficient to carry 24 DS0 (64 or 56 Kbps depending on coding) channels. A Full DS0 consumes 1.544Mbps of bandwidth.

It usually consists of a metallic conductor pattern on an epoxy glass composite insulating substrate, more complex circuits have several layers stacked togeather. After assembly where components are added, it is known as a printed wiring assembly (PWA).  

A simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.

Locate the binary, source, and manual page files for specified commands/files. The supplied filenames are first stripped of leading pathname components and any (single) trailing extension of the form .ext (for example, .c). Prefixes of s. resulting from use of source code control are also dealt with. whereis then attempts to locate the desired program in a list of standard Linux directories (e.g., /bin, /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin/, etc.).

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A lens defect that bends light rays of different colors at different angles and therefore focuses them on different planes.

This is common with low-end digital cameras and small consumer point-and-shoot models.

A specification for defining style, including text, graphics, and positioning of elements within a document. CSS version 1 is supported by virtually all web browsers and CSS version 2 by most recent ones.

CSS is a great web design time saver as it centralizes all style information in a document (color of headlines, for example) allowing far-reaching changes to be made by only editing the one associated CSS file. This concept also allows for different looks for the same document to be generate...