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Accurate information can be the difference between life and death during a hurricane. So FEMA has launched a new webpage in an effort to debunk rumors that people. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Cold and inclement weather can ruin your day if youre caught unprepared. No one likes dealing with sporadic showers without an umbrella, or cold weather without a. Now that you know what lucid dreaming is, and you know the benefits and risks, its time to give it a solid try. Get ready, oneironautswere about to take off. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. See also bps, CDMA, Network, Protocol. Back to Index. ADN Advanced Digital NetworkUsually refers to a 5. How To Install Pc Linux Os Full Monty Download' title='How To Install Pc Linux Os Full Monty Download' />Linux has made some serious headway over the past decade, elevating itself from that open source operating system to wow, this thing is actually usable. Kbpsleased line. See also bps, Leased Line. ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber LineA DSL line where the upload speed is different from the download speed. Usually the download speed is much greater. See also Download, DSL, SDSL, Upload. Ajax Asynchronous Java. Script and XMLA way of including content in a web page in which javascript code in the web page fetches some data from a server and displays it without re fetching the entire surrounding page at the same time hence the Asynchronous. Often but not always the data fetched by the javascript code is in XML format. It is common for Ajax applications to update the Ajax content multiple times without the surrounding page needing to be updated even once. A simple example of Ajax would be a weather forecast box in the middle of a web page. Ajax could be used to populate the box every 5 minutes without needing to refresh the surrounding page. See also Java. Script, Web page, XMLAnonymous FTPSee also FTPApache. The most common web server or HTTP server software on the Internet. Apache is an open source application originally created from a series of changes patches made to a web server written at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the same place the Mosaic web browser was created. Apache is designed as a set of modules, enabling administrators to choose which features they wish to use and making it easy to add features to meet specific needs including handling protocols other than the web standard HTTP. See also HTTP, modperl, Mosaic, Server. Applet. A small Java program that can be embedded in an HTML page. Applets differ from full fledged Java applications in that they are not allowed to access certain resources on the local computer, such as files and serial devices modems, printers, etc., and are prohibited from communicating with most other computers across a network. The common rule is that an applet can only make an Internet connection to the computer from which the applet was sent. See also HTML, Java. Application Server. Server software that manages one or more other pieces of software in a way that makes the managed software available over a network, usually to a Web server. By having a piece of software manage other software packages it is possible to use resources like memory and database access more efficiently than if each of the managed packages responded directly to requests. See also ASP, Server. Archie. A tool software for finding files stored on anonymous FTP sites. You need to know the exact file name or a substring of it. By 1. 99. 9 Archie. Back when FTP was the main way people moved files over the Internet archie was quite popular. See also FTPARPANet Advanced Research Projects Agency NetworkThe precursor to the Internet. Developed in the late 6. US Department of Defense as an experiment in wide area networking to connect together computers that were each running different system so that people at one location could use computing resources from another location. See also Internet Upper case I, Network, WANASCII American Standard Code for Information InterchangeThis is the de facto world wide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. There are 1. 28 standard ASCII codes each of which can be represented by a 7 digit binary number 0. ASP Application Service ProviderA organization usually a business that runs one or more applications on their own servers and provides usually for a fee access to others. Common examples of services provided this way include web based software such as Calendar systems, Human Resources tools timesheets, benefits, etc., and various applications to help groups collaborate on projects. See also Application Server, Server. Atom. An evolving protocol for syndication and sharing of content. Atom was being developed as a successor to and improvement over RSS and is more complex than RSS while offering support for additional features such digital signatures, geographic location of author, possibly securityencryption, licensing, etc. Like RSS, Atom is an XML based specification. See also RSS, XMLBack to Index. Backbone. A high speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term is relative as a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non backbone lines in a large network. See also Network. Bandwidth. In common usage the term bandwidth is used to describe how much stuff you can send through a network connection, in other words bandwidth is used as a synonym for the speed or throughput of the connection. See also Throughput. Baud. In common usage the baud of a modem is how many bits it can send or receive per second. Technically, baud is the number of times per second that the carrier signal shifts value for example a 1. See also Bit, Modem. BBS Bulletin Board SystemA computerized meeting and announcement system that allows people to carry on discussions, upload and download files, and make announcements without the people being connected to the computer at the same time. In the early 1. 99. BBSs around the world, most were very small, running on a single IBM clone PC with 1 or 2 phone lines. Some were very large and the line between a BBS and a system like AOL gets crossed at some point, but it is not clearly drawn. Binary. Information consisting entirely of ones and zeros. Also, commonly used to refer to files that are not simply text files, e. See also MIME, UUENCODEBinhex BINary HEXadecimalA method for converting non text files non ASCII into ASCII. This is needed because Internet e mail can only handle ASCII. See also ASCII, MIME, UUENCODEBit Binary Dig. ITA single digit number in base 2, in other words, either a 1 or a zero. The smallest unit of computerized data. Bandwidthis usually measured in bits per second. See also Bandwidth, Bit, bps, Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte. BITNET Because Its Time NETwork or Because Its There NETworkA network of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e mail is freely exchanged between BITNET and the Internet. Listservs, a popular form of e mail discussion groups, originated on BITNET. At its peak the late 1. BITNET machines were usually mainframes, often running IBMs MVS operating system. BITNET is probably the only international network that is shrinking. See also Internet Upper case I, Listserv, Network. Blog we. B LOGA blog is basically a journal that is available on the. The activity of updating a blog is blogging and someone who keeps a blog is a blogger. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently. It is common for blogs to be available as RSS feeds. See also Blogosphere or Blogsphere, RSSBlogosphere or Blogsphere. The current state of all information available on blogs andor the sub culture of those who create and use blogs. Rocket From The Crypt Scream Dracula Scream Rare. See also Blogbps Bits Per SecondA measurement of how fast data is moved from one place to another. A 5. 6K modem can move about 5. See also Bandwidth, Bit. Broadband. Generally refers to connections to the Internet with much greater bandwidth than you can get with a modem. The LWN. net Linux Distribution List. You have found the LWN. Linux Distributions List. LWN. has been tracking Linux distributions since 1. Early versions of the. Distribution. page. By 2. 00. 1 the list had grown to fill both sidebars of the weekly. So the list. was moved to a flat file and released on October 1. The next major release was on February 7, 2. Additional information. Minor. revisions have been made almost every week since then. A table of. contents was added on May 9, 2. There have been no major releases. Someday this list will hopefully move to a searchable database, making it. In the meantime, we. Linux diversity, with over 5.