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What is T1?

Asked by cool in Computers & Technology at 6:41 AM on November 22, 2007

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A dedicated phone connection supporting data rates of 1.544Mbits per second. A T-1 line actually consists of 24 individual channels, each of which supports 64Kbits per second. Each 64Kbit/second channel can be configured to carry voice or data traffic. Most telephone companies allow you to buy just some of these individual channels, known as fractional T-1 access.

Answered at 1:53 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is T3?

Asked by cool in Computers & Technology at 6:41 AM on November 22, 2007

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A dedicated phone connection supporting data rates of about 43 Mbps. A T-3 line actually consists of 672 individual channels, each of which supports 64 Kbps. T-3 lines are used mainly by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) connecting to the Internet backbone and for the backbone itself.

Answered at 1:52 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is TCP IP?

Asked by cool in Computers & Technology at 6:42 AM on November 22, 2007

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Abbreviation of Transmission Control Protocol, and pronounced as separate letters. TCP is one of the main protocols in TCP/IP networks. Whereas the IP protocol deals only with packets, TCP enables two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data. TCP guarantees delivery of data and also guarantees that packets will be delivered in the same order in which they were sent.

Answered at 1:48 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is Task Bar?

Asked by cool in Computers & Technology at 6:41 AM on November 22, 2007

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In GUI interfaces, the taskbar is a desktop toolbar application that lets you perform tasks such as switching between open windows and starting new applications. The taskbar is usually associated with the Microsoft Windows interface.

Answered at 1:49 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is Tape Drive?

Asked by cool in Computers & Technology at 6:41 AM on November 22, 2007

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A device, like a tape recorder, that reads data from and writes it onto a tape. Tape drives have data capacities of anywhere from a few hundred kilobytes to several gigabytes. Their transfer speeds also vary considerably. Fast tape drives can transfer as much as 20MB (megabytes) per second.

Answered at 1:50 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is Tag?

Asked by cool in Computers & Technology at 6:41 AM on November 22, 2007

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A command inserted in a document that specifies how the document, or a portion of the document, should be formatted. Tags are used by all format specifications that store documents as text files. This includes SGML and HTML.

Answered at 1:50 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is FreeBSD?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:35 PM on November 22, 2007

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A popular and free version of the UNIX operating system that runs on x86-compatible, DEC Alpha, PC-98, AMD64, IA64 and SPARC64 architectures. FreeBSD is distributed in executable and source code form. The source code enables ambitious users to actually extend the operating system.

Answered at 1:23 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is Cache miss?

Asked by enviornment in Computers & Technology at 1:09 PM on November 22, 2007

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In computer science, a cache (pronounced "cash" or ) is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive (usually in terms of access time) to fetch or compute relative to reading the cache.

Answered at 1:22 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is Java Applet?

Asked by christine27 in Computers & Technology at 11:16 AM on November 22, 2007

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An applet is a small Internet-based program written in Java, a programming language for the Web, which can be downloaded by any computer. The applet is also able to run in HTML. The applet is usually embedded in an HTML page on a Web site and can be executed from within a browser.

Answered at 1:38 PM on November 22, 2007

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What is slag code?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:26 PM on November 22, 2007

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Also called slag code, programming code added to the software of an application or operating system that lies dormant until a predetermined period of time (i.e., a period of latency) or event occurs, triggering the code into action. Logic bombs typically are malicious in intent, acting in the same ways as a virus or Trojan horse once activated.

Answered at 1:24 PM on November 22, 2007

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