Definitions

    Just a few definitions to upto date you with the lingo. Don't sit in a MIRC room asking dumb questions! find out what they mean and know them this is some basic shit that YOU HAVE TO KNOW!

Altavista - Search engine of my choice. Finds everything I need and always works. So I'd set it as my homepage at www.altavista.com 

CD - Compact Disk (yea some people don't know!)

CD R - A blank CD with no data written to it. Storage capacity of 650MB. Requires a CD writer to have data written to it 2$ for a decent one. When you eject it it's done unless you take certain precautions

CD RW - A blank CD that can have multiple sessions. Can be ejected like a floppy disk. Usually cost around 8$ same capacity of CD R. Secret of it is the multiple levels that can be written on it 598 times or something I think

CPU - Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer

Crack - A program that physically make changes to a program in order to make it the full version. It may remove the evaluation time or register it all together.

Downloading - Downloading is the process of transferring files from a remote computer to your computer over the Internet. This can be done using your web browser or an FTP client. The web browser is the simplest, most used method, yet also has the least available options

DVD - Digital Video Disc, a high quality movie requires a special CD drive to both read and burn it.

Emulator - An Emulator is a program that emulates the operation of a system. E.g.. Playstation emulator like bleem commonly sold in stores.

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

Hacking - Getting restricted access to a computer

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language. The code in which web pages are built from. Common programs that create this code are Microsoft Front Page and Quark Express

ICQ - I seek you (yea! serious)

IP# - Kind of like your computers phone number. Every computer connected to the net has an IP#. If your on a modem your ip changes every time you connect to the internet. It's called a Static IP. Using a program called Dynamic ip you can keep it constant not driving the people who use your ftp up the walls. Want to c your IP#? goto Start / run / winipcfg

IRC - Internet Relay Chat

ISO - A drive image of a CD, an exact copy of the original CD

Leecher - A person who is lucky enough to be on an FTP that does not enforce ratio and may take all they need without giving.

Masked FTP - FTP's that only allow access to a certain IP# per login. For security and privacy reasons an FTP are restricted to certain IP's. So for all u 56k'ers get a dynamic IP# or I think only the last four numbers of the IP change

MP3 - Mpeg Layer 3 (compressed audio format such as MP2)

N/P - short for no problem. Yea I get asked a lot

Overburn - Copy write protection, a CD that holds 650MB may be tricked into thinking it has 655MB so that it can not be copied. There are CD Burning appz such as Nero Burn I think that bypasses this. The only way to know if a CD has overburn is that when u burn it says out of space.

Ratio - An FTP that requires you to upload before you can D/L

RAM - Random Access Memory

RIAA - Recording Association of America

SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface. Umm I guess the easiest way to explain is through an example. A component like a burner.

Serial # - A code used by the copywriters that is required to remove protection from a crippled software.

Shareware - A slightly crippled version of a program. Say you d/l Wolfenstine or some old shit, it's not uncommon that it's a demo usually d/l off the home page. It might have a 20 day evaluation which can be cracked with a serial number. Or it might have only 4 of the available 8 guns or some shit like that

Upload - Sending something too an FTP / server. E.G. You upload web pages to a server. Yea that's right you can't upload to a web page.

WAV - NonCompressed audio format an mp3 needs to be converted to WAV in order for it to be burned to an audio CD to be read on a stereo.