Local Area Network
Liquid Crystal Display
Light Emitting Diode
Computer systems used by businesses that are almost impossible to replace. These can be PC based systems
An electronic device that gives off light when an electric current is passed through it. Most indicator lights, such as the one that comes on when you switch on your PC use an
LED.
A user-selectable
hypertext or
hypermedia jump point, that, when selected, will "jump" to another text or
multimedia object. See also:
Hyperlink and Hypertext
A variant of
Unix developed by a gentleman named Linus Torvalds.
A low power display - frequently used in Laptops
Stands for
List Server
A
program that allows you to subscribe to a
mailing list which distributes E-mails to the members on a particular subject. No human intervention is needed.
Is a group of PC's, Other Computers & Peripheral Devices that are linked together where each device is located in close proximity to all the other devices.
LANs typically consist of a number of PC's, shared printers & Shared Directories &
Files.
The address of a
Web page. If the value is a full
URL, the
server returns a "redirect" to the client to retrieve the specified object directly. Location:
http://WWW.Stars.com/ If you want to reference another
file on your own server, you should output a partial URL.
This is the term for the
process of actually gaining access to the resources on a particular computer - normally this is done by entering a
userid & a
password.
The
process of actually ending your access to a particular computer.
When connecting to a service provider, typing your user id and
password
The
process of actually ending your access to a particular computer.
File that contains detailed recorded events of a computer system, for example:
server access log files, error log files etc.