nader's lexicon

Acquisition

is a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X

Backup

copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

CPU

1. Central processing unit
2. the fundamental operation of most CPUs is to execute a sequence of stored instructions called a program

Distributed Computing

1. processing elements that communicate and cooperate to solve larger problems fast
2. principle that large problems can almost always be divided into smaller ones

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

JPEG

commonly used method of compression for photographic images

KDE

powerful system for an easy-to-use desktop environment

MB

unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity

OEM

Certain OEM programs have limited functionality, but most do not

PNG

computer image format that employs lossless data compression

QWERTY

most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards

RAM

1. Random Access Memory
2. A type of computer data storage.
3. The word "random" refers to the fact that a piece of data can be fetched in the same amount of time as any other.
4. Bill Gates: 640K ought to be enough for anybody