Computer Terminology

APM (Advanced Power Management) as WIKI answers it...

is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.

The Hard Drive is the main storage unit in a normal, desktop computer. This is the only internal component in a standard computer that has information when the machine is turned off (all your saved files, the operating system (such as Windows), etc).

There are other components (such as RAM, or Random Access Memory) that store data, but this usually serves a special purpose, or is only at run-time.

Parallel processsing ranges from instruction-level parallelism e.g. superscalar and VLIW to message-passing MIMD also called multicomputer, and also includes SIMD e.g. vector and array processing. Multiprocessing is specifically task parallelism, and is by definition shared-memory MIMD with multiple processor cores, sometimes multiple sockets.

115 KB equates to about 0.1123 MB (rounded from 0.112304688).

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A drive, whether a hard disk disk, flash memory drive, or floppy disk drive is a peripheral device that can be used for both input and output. This is in contrast to certain devices that can be used for only for output like monitors (non touch screen) and devices which can only be used for input like keyboards.

Apple's native video file format is the Quicktime File Format (.qt), which is a container for a range of encoded data types. Apple's primary encoding format is MPEG-4 (.mp4), from which a number of other codecs are derived (including 3GP).

DIMM is an open standard. DIMM is also copyrighted open standard.

Transciever works on the Physical Layer(Layer 1) of the OSI because its basically a repeater or a MAU\ Multi Station Access Unit

It means Blank Carbon Copy. It's used to show somebody an email without showing the e-mail addresses.

This is a tough question to answer for a couple of reasons. First off: There are a lot of motherboards to choose from and there isn't really 1 out there that is absolutely the best. Intense graphics design requires some of the best hardware you can get and the motherboard is only 1 of many things to decide on. The Video Card, Processor and RAM are probably the most important things you will need to choose. The higher the frequency of the FSB (Front Side Bus) the less likely it will be a bottleneck for your graphics. If you are willing to pay a lot of money for a really nice system I could suggest some kind of dual processor board, a PNY video card, and a lot of fast RAM. A good recourse for motherboards is www.mbreview.com There you will be able to find some excellent reviews on the latest motherboards. Some of my favorite brands are AOpen, Chaintech and MSI. They seem to be very reliable.

Asus, Gigabyte and Intel are three very good mb makers. If you're looking for extreme high-end, Gigabyte has a new MB with FOUR x16 slots, taking SLI to a new level.

If you are looking at using Vista, it's the video card(s) that need the attention, because available RAM is limited to less than 4MB, so the big factor is to get onboard (unshared) memory on your graphics card -- you don't want shared memory, which is going to subtract from RAM available to the CPU. With Win7, this is less of a problem.

If you like AMD, the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H looks pretty good on the high end. It has 128mb of "side-port" memory that, as I understand it, is dedicated to graphics. I don't think it's a bit deal but it is a plus.

A combination of a manual and mechanical procedure are used.

In technical sense 1 GB equals 1024 MBs, But however the actual formatted capacity of a storage system being lesser than the actually specified we generally round down 1024 MBs to 1000MB(Mega Bytes). You can take the example of a 2GB pendrive in which you get a storage of 1.76 GB instead of the 2GB size mentioned.

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Ernest Rutherford influenced society by discovering the nucleus and protons. He and his student performed a famous gold foil experiment and came to a conclusion of finding nucleus. He also discovered the protons by doing another experiment.

5120MB is equal to 5GB.

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In computer networks based on the Internet Protocol Suite, a subnetwork, or subnet, is a portion of the network's computers and network devices that have a common, designated IP address routing prefix (cf. Classless Inter-Domain Routing, CIDR). A routing prefix is the sequence of leading bits of an IP address that precede the portion of the address used as host identifier (or rest field in early Internet terminology). In IPv4 installations, the routing prefix is often expressed as a "subnet mask", which is a bit mask covering the number of bits used in the prefix. It is frequently expressed in quad-dotted decimal representation, e.g., 255.255.255.0 is the subnet mask for the 192.168.1.0 network with a 24-bit routing prefix (192.168.1.0/24). Subnet masks in IPv4 do not have to have consecutive bits set, e.g., a subnet mask of "11111111001100110000000000000000" (binary) is permissible, albeit of little additional value, as it does not provide for more efficient address space utilization and cannot be represented in CIDR notation. IPv6 does not use subnet masks and such non-standard routing prefixes are not possible. The routing prefix of a subnet is often further divided into the network's network identifier and a subnet identifier. The network identifier is the leading set of address bits that is common to the prefixes of all subnets in the network. This would typically be the CIDR routing prefix of an organization's entire address space allocation. The subnet identifier consists of the remaining bits in a subnet's prefix after the network identifier. In the cited example, 192.168.0.0 is the network identifier (and 255.255.0.0 the network mask) and "1" is the subnet identifier. In a large organization's network, without subnetting, traffic levels can grow enough that excessive rates of Ethernet packet collisions become a bottle neck due to the nature of Ethernet (cf. carrier sense multiple access with collision detection). For this reason, subnetting can be used to break the network into smaller more efficient subnets. Such subnets can be arranged hierarchically, with the organization's network address space (see also Autonomous System) partitioned into a tree-like structure. Routers are used to manage traffic and constitute borders between subnets. Communication is of specific link-local character (Ethernet broadcast) only within the smallest subnet. A typical subnet is a physical network served by one router, for instance an Ethernet network (consisting of one or several Ethernet segments or local area networks, interconnected by network switches and network bridges) or a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN). However, subnetting allows the network to be logically divided regardless of the physical layout of a network, since it is possible to divide a physical network into several subnets by configuring different host computers to use different routers. While improving network performance, subnetting increases routing complexity, since each locally connected subnet is typically represented by one row in the routing tables in each connected router. However, with intelligent design of the network, routes to collections of more distant subnets within the branches of a tree-hierarchy can be aggregated by single routes. Subnetting was originally introduced before the introduction of classful network addresses in IPv4 to allow a single larger network to have a number of smaller networks within it, controlled by several routers. Existing subnetting functionality in routers made the introduction of Classless Inter-Domain Routing seamless.

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The boot sequence allows you to specify which device the computer should attempt to boot from and in which order.

You would normally expect to boot from the hard disk, however if you had trouble, you can get a rescue cd/dvd and tel the computer to boot from that in preference, alowing you to get onto the system and fix the problem.

It is possible to boot from floppy disks, hard disks, cds, dvds, USB sticks, and possible other devises as well.

25! I am 20 and I own a condo and they dont let me buy a freaking time share because of my age!

Image cache has been implemented in quite a few programs. They all follow the same general idea. Caching, in general, is a duplicate of the original data which is stored in another location that is much easier and faster for retrieval than the original data. Most modern web browsers have caching implemented. When you visit a website, every image in the page was downloaded from the web server. All these images are stored in a temporary folder. If you ever visit that website again, the browser will check whether that image has been modified since you last downloaded it. If the image hasn’t been modified since, the browser will display the image from your temporary folder instead of downloading it. This gives the web browser the ability to display a website much faster than if it needed to download the images every time you visit the website. Image caching is also used in a number of other programs as well as games. Since many full screen games redraw everything on the screen all the time, they use image caching. Instead of loading the image from the hard drive every time, the image is saved temporary to the ram (primary storage), which can be accessed much faster.

Information processing is the process of changing or converting information into meaningful form. Information is a processed, organized or classified data which is useful for the receiver. Information is the processed data which may be used “as is” or may be put to use along with more data or information. The receiver of information takes actions and decisions based on the information received. Collected data must be processed to get meaning out of it, and this meaning is obtained in the form of information. Further information is considered useful & meaningful only if has these characteristics

Timely − Information should be available when required, a delay in obtaining information renders it useless.

Accuracy − Accuracy of information has a significant impact on the decision-making. Possibilities of even slightest errors should be minimized

Completeness − Information should be complete. Incomplete information causes incorrect and unintended results.

Comprehensive – Information which is incomprehensible is useless for the receiver. This becomes a case of information failure as the sender sent the information, but it was of no use for the receiver, thus is not considered as “information.”

Understanding “information processing” in daily life and Examples

Information is the processed data which is of some use for humans. Information may further be processed and/or manipulated to form knowledge. Information containing wisdom is known as knowledge. Taking an example of information processing, digits in a report card are considered as information; similarly, stats, when placed in a report or used in some context, provides an understanding. Data collected during surveys is meaningless unless it is processed. Good questionnaires are formed and surveys are conducted to collect data which can be processed to give useful insight. Another example can be a tabular data if merely a table is constructed without with the available data it might not convey the intended message, but when data mapping is done using that data to create graphs & charts, it becomes information. Thus information processing is important.

Understanding Information processing Cycle

Information processing cycle is a sequence of events consisting of input, processing, storage & output. To understand more about what is information processing cycle it is a good idea to study about data processing cycle also. These events are similar as in case of data processing cycle. For a computer to perform useful work, the computer has to receive instructions and data from the outside world. The computer receives data and instructions during the INPUT stage of the information processing cycle. Useful information results when appropriate instructions are applied to data. Applying instructions to data takes place during the PROCESSING stage of the information processing cycle. To avoid having to re-enter data and instructions or reprocess information, computers can save information. Saving information on a computer occurs during the STORAGE phase of the information processing cycle. Saving information on a computer occurs during the Storage phase of the information processing cycle. This is followed by the result in the OUTPUT stage. Computer Processing Cycle is a similar process with similar steps by which data is fed to a computer.

Information processing cycle

Four phases of the of the cycle to process information

1. Input: Computer receives data and instructions

2. Process: Computer applies instructions to data to produce information (organized Data)

3. Storage: Saving the information for a subsequent use or use in future

4. Output: Computer sends information to people in a usable format.

Related: Data Processing, Data Processing Methods, Data Mining

information processing cycle diagram

Input – Entering data into the computer

Feeding the collected raw data in the cycle for processing. This is the raw data which is supplied for processing & obtaining information.

Input can be done by utilizing various devices such as keyboards, mice, flatbed scanners, barcode readers, joysticks, digital data tablets (for graphics drawing), electronic cash registers, etc

Processing – Performing operations on the data

Once the input is provided the raw data is processed by a suitable or selected processing method. This is the most crucial step as it allows for the processed data in the form of output which will be used further.

Processing is usually done by CPU (Central Processing Unit) in a computer. CPU is the crucial component for getting the operations done.

Storage – Saving data in a soft/physical form

This is the outcome, and the raw data provided in the first stage is now “processed,” and the data is useful and provides information and no longer called data.

Storage can be done on external hard disk, inbuilt hard disk, pen drives, micro SD cards, compact disks or even in registers.

Output – Results obtained, i.e., information

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1 megabinary byte (MiB) or mebibyte (MiB) = 1,024 kilobinary bytes (KiB) = 1,048,576 bytes

PC3-16000 is a speed rating, not a size rating. It could be any size that was manufactured for this speed.