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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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Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing.
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Linux/Unix Terms and Commands.
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TCP
Used in conjunction with the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit information over the Internet in the form of units.
While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the packets that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet. For example, when a web page is downloaded from a web server, the TCP program layer in that server divides the file into packets, numbers the packets, and then forwards them individually to the ... |
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Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques.
(11 terms)
Barrel-distortion
A lens Aberration or defect that causes straight lines to bow outward, away from the center of the image.
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Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations.
(46 terms)
FTP
A protocol developed to enable the transfer of files across a network. It provides a reletively insecure username and password security but has been more recently enhanced to allow for SSL encryption to provide a secure password exchange.
To some extent the use of FTP has been superceeded by SFTP (a component of SSH) or the secure file transfer protocol. |