IT Terms

[David Marc Fischer]

I'm sorry about the tinyurl difficulty.

Try these URLs:

http://government.hp.com/taw_detail.asp?agencyid=1&fid=402&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
http://government.hp.com/taw_detail.asp?agencyid=1&fid=421&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

You can find the material at the hp website by searching "baffling it terms"

Regards,

David

> 1]      The tinyurl is either broken or invalid.
> 2]      In your example list, it's a good thing 'kernel' is defined
>         as "the central component of most computer operating
>         systems" and not "the major... ".  Rank confusion, that.
> 3]      I always thought 'petaflop' was something done to a
>         spaniel's -- or one of my basset's -- ears.
> dh
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> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "David Marc Fischer" <davemarc at PANIX.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Received: 3/23/2009 11:30:57 AM
> Subject: IT Terms
>
>
>>For what it's worth, HP offers a list of "The most baffling IT terms
>>explained."
>
>>http://tinyurl.com/d2bat5
>
>>An excerpt is below.
>
>>Best,
>
>>David
>
>>*
>
>>The Global Language Monitor (GLM) analyzes and catalogues the latest
>>trends in language the world over, and each year the organization
>> compiles
>>a list of the “Top Ten Most Confusing Yet Frequently Cited Tech Words”.
>>We’ve taken some of the terms from their list, added a few of our own,
>> and
>>given them all plain definitions.
>
>
>>    * Petaflop: This is a word you’ll probably see in conjunction with
>>discussions of supercomputing. A petaflop can be expressed as a
>>thousand trillion floating point operations per second; it is a
>>measure of performance for the fastest computers in the world.
>>    * ASP: This one is particularly tricky because it’s an acronym with
>>two meanings. An Active Server Page is an HTML page that includes one
>>or more scripts (small embedded programs) that are processed on a
>>Microsoft® Web server before the page is sent to the user. An
>>Application Service Provider is a business that provides
>>computer-based services to customers over a network.
>>    * Kernel: This is the central component of most computer operating
>>systems, responsible for managing the system's resources and the
>>communication between hardware and software components.
>>
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