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Data and Telecommunications, terms, concepts and abbreviations.
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Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts.
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RAM
RAM is a type of computer storage whose contents can be accessed in any order. This is in contrast to sequential memory devices such as magnetic tapes, discs and drums, in which the mechanical movement of the storage medium forces the computer to access data in a fixed order. It is usually implied that RAM can be both written to and read from, in contrast to read-only memory or ROM.
Computers use RAM to hold the program code and data during execution. In the first electronic computers, RAM wa... |
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Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing.
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PDL
Abbreviated as PDL, a language for describing the layout and contents of a printed page. The best-known PDLs are Adobe PostScript and Hewlett-Packard PCL (Printer Control Language), both of which are used to control laser printers.
Both PostScript and modern versions of PCL are object-oriented, meaning that they describe a page in terms of geometrical objects such as lines, arcs, and circles. |
Linux/Unix Terms and Commands.
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SMTP
A set of rules used to define how email should be sent and governing communication between mail servers to achieve this end.
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Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques.
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GIF
A compressed graphic format suited for flat color images (illustrations) and drawings. It compresses images by referencing areas of the same colour thus it is less suitable then JPEG for photographic images (where there are colour gradients)
Originally created by CompuServ it was the subject of proposed law suits and patent discussions which have largely been dropped. |
Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations.
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Spider
The name given to automated harevsting program that scans web sites, searching for and feeding back links and information to search engines. This technique is also employed by Press Agencies to discover who is writing about their clients.
The "Spider" anaology comes from the fact that a Spider crawls on a web (the web in this case being the www ) |