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Browsing 'S'
Found 73 entries under 'S'
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shutdown (Score: 0) The process of stopping all processes on a system, usually in preparation to turn the computer off. |
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signal (Score: 0) A flag sent to a process indicating a certain event has occurred. |
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SIMM (Score: 0) Single In-Line Memory Module. |
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single-quotes (Score: 0) Quotation marks that remove the special significance of all other characters. (?) |
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single-user mode (Score: 0) System maintenance mode. The run-level in which access is only allowed through the system console. Used for maintenance,... |
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SLIP (Score: 0) Serial Line Internet Protocol. A networking protocol used on serial lines. |
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smart host (Score: 0) A computer that has more complete information about the mail network. This includes both information on users and othe... |
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SMB (Score: 0) Session Message Block. A protocol used by LAN Manager (i.e. MS-Windows) networks. |
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SMTP (Score: 0) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. A mail transfer protocol used over TCP/IP and the Internet. |
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SNEAKER-Net (Score: 0) A old method of transferring data between two machines using sneakers. |
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SNMP (Score: 0) Simple network Management protocol. A protocol used to manage information within a network. |
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SOA (Score: 0) Start of Authority. A record with DNS used to determine which machine is the authoritative source of information. |
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soft link (Score: 0) A file that contains the path to another file or directory. Since this is just a path, symbolic links can cross {mou... |
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software flow control (Score: 0) Flow control using the XON and XOFF characters. Compare this to hardware flow control. |
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software interrupts (Score: 0) Interrupts generated by software, not hardware. |
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source code (Score: 0) The text files that are compiled to create a binary executable program. |
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spawn (Score: 0) To create a child process. |
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spooler (Score: 0) Although referring to any process that routes requests to a file or memory for later processing, this term in norm... |
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SRAM (Score: 0) Static RAM. |
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stack (Score: 0) A list of temporary data a process uses when making function calls. |
