Data and Telecommunications, terms, concepts and abbreviations.
(19 terms)
Data Warehouse
An organised collection of data stored in a central location. Information should be structured by subject to allow access by business area. Data Warehouse software often includes sophisticated compression and hashing technique
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Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts.
(6 terms)
Mother Board
1) The main Printed Circuit Board (PCB) of a computer - referred to as a Mother Board because other smaller PCB´s are sometimes attached to it - this are in turn referred to as daughter boards.
2) Any PCB that can accept daughter boards. |
Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing.
(14 terms)
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Linux/Unix Terms and Commands.
(9 terms)
FTP
A protocol developed to enable the transfer of files across a network. It provides a reletively insecure username and password security but has been more recently enhanced to allow for SSL encryption to provide a secure password exchange.
To some extent the use of FTP has been superceeded by SFTP (a component of SSH) or the secure file transfer protocol. |
Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques.
(11 terms)
Chromatic-aberration
A lens defect that bends light rays of different colors at different angles and therefore focuses them on different planes.
This is common with low-end digital cameras and small consumer point-and-shoot models. |
Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations.
(46 terms)
DRM
A technology that allows content (digital media, music, video etc) owners to determine and control who and how users can view access and/or content such as media files.
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