| Term |
Description |
Spam |
Unwanted
or junk e-mail. Internet advertisers and marketers sometimes
send unrequested e-mail to a large number of recipients. Spamming
is becoming a huge problem on the internet and has always
been considered poor form. Spammers have sometimes even lost
their ISP privileges. |
Swap
File |
A
section of the hard drive that is reserved to temporarily
store parts of running programs or information that is swapped
out of memory to make room for other running programs. A Swap
File is sometimes called Virtual Memory. |
Software
Interrupt |
A
request sent to the CPU by a program asking for access to
a specific device. |
Serial
Port |
A
computer input/output port that transmits data sequentially,
one bit at a time. The serial ports on the back of your computer
are the DB-9 and DB-25 Male connections. (DB connectors are
the 'D-shaped' ports). |
SDRAM |
Synchronous
Dynamic RAM. A type of RAM that is stored on DIMMS and synchronized
with the system clock. SDRAM runs at the same speed as the
system bus. |
Safe
Mode |
A
diagnostic mode that Windows95 or 98 can start in, with minimal
configuration and generic drivers so that system errors can
possibly be corrected. You can access this mode by pressing
F5 or F8 when you see the words "Starting Windows"
on the screen at startup. |
