Computer Advice
After much thought and consideration, I've decided that this page will hold a dictionary of computer terms. As I don't know them all, nor could I possible enter them all overnight, I've decided to enter them little by little. If you need to know a term that isn't here, please contact me. At this time, I have not set up a search on this page. I will within the next month. I will, also, answer your computer questions here. Just send them to me and I guarantee that you will have an answer within 24 hours.
For now, enjoy the dictionary:
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Active Content: Programs that are embedded transparently in web pages that cause action to occur.
ActiveX: An object, or control, that contains programs and properties that are put in web pages to perform particular tasks.
Applet: A program that executes within another program; it cannot execute directly on a computer.
Banner Exchange Site (BES): A website that helps electronic merchants promote their stores with advertising on other members' websites.
Buffer: An area of a computer's memory that is set aside to hold data read from a file or database.
Catalog: On electronic commerce sites, a listing of goods or services that may include photographs and descriptions, often stored in a database.
Cookies: Bits of information about web site visitors created by web sites and stored on the visitors' machines
Data Encryption Standard (DES): An encryption standard adopted by the U.S. government for encrypting sensitive information.
Digital Certificate: An attachment to an email message of data embedded in a web page that verifies the identity of a sender or website.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Business software that integrates all facets of a business, including planning, manufacturing, sales and marketing.
Eavesdropper: A person or device who is able to listen in on and copy Internet transmissions.
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Intellectual Property: The ownership of ideas and control over the tangible or virtual representation of those ideas.
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Logical Security: The protection of assets using nonphysical means.
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