Web Vocabulary #6

ActiveMovie – A multimedia streaming technology developed by Microsoft. ActiveMovie is already built into the Internet Explorer browser will be part of future versions of the Windows operating system. Supporting most multimedia formats, including MPEG, ActiveMovie enables users to view multimedia content distributed over the Internet, an intranet, or CD-ROM.  Click here for source

DB2– Short for Database 2, a family of relational database products offered by IBM. DB2 provides an open database environment that runs on a wide variety of computing platforms. A DB2 database can grow from a small single-user application to a large multi-user system. UsingSQL, users can obtain data simultaneously from DB2 and other databases. DB2 includes a range of application development and management tools.   Click here for source

Archie – A program that enables you to search for files anywhere on the Internet by filename. Click here for source

ColdFusion – A product created by Allaire Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. (in 2001, Allaire merged with Macromedia) that includes a server and a development toolset designed to integrate databases and Web pages. With Cold Fusion, a user could enter a zip code on a Web page, and the server would query a database for information on the nearest movie theaters and present the results in HTML form. Cold Fusion Web pages include tags written in Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) that simplify integration with databases and avoid the use of more complex languages like C++ to create translating programs. See application server.   Click here for source

JSP – Short for Java Server Page. A server-side technology, Java Server Pages are an extension to the Java servlet technology that was developed by Sun. JSPs have dynamic scripting capability that works in tandem with HTML code, separating the page logic from the static elements -- the actual design and display of the page -- to help make the HTML more functional (i.e. dynamic database queries).   Click here for source

"Computer experts brace for "Conficker" worm"

Again the topic of stealing information through the Internet comes out. This time the thing is about malicious software called “conficker” worm. “Conficker, believed to reside on 2 milion to 12 milion computers worldwide, is deigned to turn an infected PC into slave that responds to commands sent from a remote server that controls an army of slave computers known as a botnet.”So it goes with steling identities, log sensitive corporate information, credit card numbers, online banking passwords and other. In other words, people are under threat. Even FBI is trying to solve the problem. This is a really bad situation called no more a cyber crime but “criminal attack” (according to Microsoft).

I remember once I got that mail from my bank that my personal data is under threat of being stolen. I wonder what they exactly had in mind? Maybe they were talking about “Conficker” computer virus…hmmm…I just hope it is not as serious as it seems.

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Web Vocabulary #5

Spider – A program that automatically fetches Web pages. Spiders are used to feed pages to search engines. It's called a spider because it crawls over the Web. Another term for these programs is webcrawler. Because most Web pages contain links to other pages, a spider can start almost anywhere. As soon as it sees a link to another page, it goes off and fetches it. Large search engines, like Alta Vista, have many spiders working in parallel.  Click here for source

Bandwidth – The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. For digital devices, the bandwidth is usually expressed in bits per second(bps) or bytes per second. For analog devices, the bandwidth is expressed in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz).  Click here for source

Baseband – A type of data transmission in which digital or analog data is sent over a single unmultiplexed channel, such as an Ethernet LAN. Baseband transmission use TDM to send simultaneous bits of data along the full bandwidth of the transmission channel.  Click here for source

Metaverse – The Metaverse is a virtual world, described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in athree-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world. The word metaverse is a portmanteau of the words "meta" and "universe."  Click here for source

Shareware –  Software distributed on the basis of an honor system. Most shareware is delivered free of charge, but the author usually requests that you pay a small fee if you like the program and use it regularly. By sending the small fee, you become registered with the producer so that you can receive service assistance and updates. You can copy shareware and pass it along to friends and colleagues, but they too are expected to pay a fee if they use the product.  Click here for source

"Unafraid" China apparently fears YouTube"

The article is about blocking You Tube by the Chinese government.

China is definitely a country with a government which is controlling every aspect of its people’s lives. And then there is the Web that is being controlled too. I think It’s sad that some people in the world are unable to access a particular website, like YouTube, just because someone said that you can’t. Well, the Communist Party in China has everything in their hands and they determine the rules. Even though Foreign Minister spokesman Qin Gandg said that “Many people have a false impression that the Chinese government fears the Internet. In fact it is just the opposite,” from my point of view this statement may be untrue. This is not the first time when blocking a site happened; moreover, sites were being closed due to “inappropriate” content, meaning that someone expressed his opinion (probably negative about the government). Finally I truly believe that the Web is a means of opening people’s eyes to the problems around and that is why the Chinese government is so afraid of (because he may loose absolute control over its people.)

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Web Vocabulary #4

ANSI – Acronym for the American National Standards Institute. Founded in 1918, ANSI is a voluntary organization composed of over 1,300 members (including all the large computer companies) that creates standards for the computer industry. For example, ANSI C is a version of the C language that has been approved by the ANSI committee. To a large degree, all ANSI C compliers, regardless of which company produces them, should behave similarly. Click here for source

Amaya – An open source Web browser editor that authors can use to create and update documents on the Web. Amaya offers integration between browsing and editing features in a single environment. Amaya started at W3C in 1996 as HTML plus CSS style sheets editor. Currently, it supports XML and a number of XML applications, such as MathML. Amaya also includes a collaborative annotation application based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer. Amaya is hosted by W3C and is available for Windows, Unix and MacOS X platforms. Click here for source

DBA – Short for database administrator is is the title given to the person responsible for managing many aspects of a database including archiving, performance, security, testing, and other tasks. Click here for source

Cookie – A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Click here for source

IRC – Short for Internet Relay Chat, a chat system developed by Jarkko Oikarinen in Finland in the late 1980s. IRC has become very popular as more people get connected to the Internet because it enables people connected anywhere on the Internet to join in live discussions. Unlike older chat systems, IRC is not limited to just two participants. Click here for source