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| Term | Explanation | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| 2-track | Two channel or Aux | Used on mixers. The 2-Track RCA input jacks are a unbalanced direct input to the main mix outs. No level control. The 2-track (unbalanced) output carries the same signal as the mixer output |
| AGESA | AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture | |
| API | Application Programming Interface | |
| APM | Advanced Power Management | For hard disk drives. Can be configured with the hdparm command |
| BLOB | Binary Large OBject | Mostly firmware files |
| C-state | CPU power modes. These are used to save energy when the CPU is idle | |
| CCA | Copper Clad Aluminium | Aluminium wires with a copper coating. Higher resistance compared to full copper wires |
| CCA | Cold Cranking Amps | |
| MCA | Marine Cranking Amps | |
| CCMP | The Counter Mode Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol is an encryption protocol for WiFi | |
| CISC | Complex Iinstruction Set Computer | |
| Clobbering | Overwriting | |
| Clutter | (Disorderly) Litter | |
| CSM | Compatibility Support Module | Automatic switching between booting into BIOS or UEFI |
| Cursus | Now ncursus is a program that sources a graphical user interface on terminals | |
| daemon | An application that runs, without a terminal or user interface, as a background process. This can be accomplished for scripts and applications | |
| Dentries | A data structure that represents a directory | |
| Dependency confusion attack | Installing the intended software from a malicious source by a trick | |
| EDC | EveryDay Carry | A collection of useful items that are consistently carried on person every day. Like keys and a smartphone |
| EDC | Electrical Design Current | Related to CCA |
| EHCI | Enhanced Host Controller Interface | This is the USB 2.0 host controller specification |
| Egress | Data egress refers to data leaving a computer, datacenter via a network to an external location | |
| Environment Variables | ||
| FTTH | Fiber to the Home | |
| Glob | Glob patterns specify sets of filenames with wildcard characters | Wildcard characters are * ! and ? |
| Hand-off | USB related | When set to “Enable” the BIOS / UEFI does not handle the hardware. The operating system must have drivers for that hardware |
| Idle Timeout | Inactive time before the user is automatically loged out | |
| IDOR | Insecure Direct Object References | Security issue by which unauthenticated access to a database is possible |
| Inode | A data structure that represents a file | |
| Lock Period | Length of time a user has to wait before being able to attempt again to log in after he has been locked out because he tried more than the number of allowed attempts to log in | |
| MBR1) | Master Boot Record | The size is 466 bytes at the beginning of a hard disk drive |
| mwait | A hint that allows the processor to stop instruction execution2). A series of instructions on contemporary x86 systems that allows the kernel to temporarily block execution (in place of a spinloop, or other solution) until a memory location has been updated3) | |
| Modal | Webdesign. Pop up | |
| npm | Node Package Manager is used for managing NodeJS packages | is as APT to Debian |
| NSS | Name Service Switch | |
| OLT | Optical Line Termination | |
| OTD | On This Date | |
| P-state | CPU performance states. This is called a CPU governor. These are used to save energy when the CPU is executing code | |
| Page cache | Data stored in memory than the speed of accessing the drive itself. This is useful when data is often requested from the drive. Caching data can speed up the computer | |
| pad | add characters. Like in the date command the _ pads spaces | |
| PAM | Pluggable Authentication Modules | |
| PMF | Protected Management Frames. Provides protection for unicast and multicast management action frames | |
| ratchet pawl | An asynchronous WebSocket client in PHP | |
| react/socket | Async, streaming plaintext TCP/IP and secure TLS socket server and client connections for ReactPHP | |
| REPL | Interactive method to communicate to your computer in Python | |
| Reaped child processes4) | refer to child processes that have been terminated, and have entered “zombie” state. To “reap” a child process, the parent process collects the exit status 5) and thereby removes the child from the process table and frees up the resources associated with it. Once this happens, the child process is considered “reaped.” | |
| Retry Times | The number of times consecutive wrong passwords can be entered | |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer | |
| SAS | Serial Attached SCSI | |
| Sass | Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets | |
| Scrape | Attempt to recreate heavily damaged areas of a file on a disk | This can damage the disk further! |
| Sparse | Blocks of zeroes are not allocated on the disk, which saves space | |
| .snb file | Samsung mobile devices note-taking application S Note file | Can be extracted with unzip. Text files are in xml format |
| SSI Server Side Includes | Items in a webpage like #config and #flastmod | |
| Stream Recording | Defect Management on DVD-RAM or formatted Blue Ray disks. If turned on defect management is disabled in order to get full burning speed | Option found in xfburn |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module | |
| Trim | An operating system ATA command that informs a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped | |
| TWA | Time Weighted Average | |
| URI6) | scheme:[//authority]path[?query][#fragment] | authority = [userinfo@]host[:port] |
| URL | scheme:[//authority]path | |
| URN | authority]path[?query][#fragment] | |
| XHCI | Extensible Host Controller Interface | USB 3.x specification |
| WAL | Write-Ahead Logging | Used by sqlite |
| Web storage | Web browser storage used by scripts like javascript | |
| WebUSB | JavaScript API for securely providing access to USB devices from web pages |
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