General Expertise Pt. III
There are literally hundreds of books containing survival information that have been produced over the years. (Note: If you locate a list that lists book after book after book, just ignore that list. What you want are truly “recommended” survival books.)
- WHAT IS GUTTATION?
- WHAT IS GNOTOBLOLOGY?
- WHAT IS BUFFERING IN INTERNET?
- WHAT IS A BIOMETRIC SECURITY SYSTEM?
- WHERE ARE FILES AND WEBSITES ON THE INTERNET STORED?
The internet is a collection of a large number of client-server based systems. Servers of websites are termed as web servers.
- WHY IS THERE NO B DRIVE IN A COMPUTER?
It’s not that computers don’t have B drives. Other drives like the CD drive, DVD drive, flash drive and others were labelled D, E, etc. If you have a computer having two floppy drives, then they are called A drive and B drive.
- WHAT IS E-WASTE?
All obsolete electronic devices such as computers, servers, printers, monitors, TVs, cellphones, calculators, CDs, floppies, chips, processors, motherboard, PCB etc. end up as e-waste.
- WHAT ARE EFT MONITORS?
- WHY ARE THE FREQUENCY OF FM CHANNELS GENERALLY BETWEEN 90 AND 110 MHZ?
- WHAT IS AN ENCODER AND DECODER?
- WHAT IS IMEI?
- WHAT IS A SIMPUTER?
- At times, the bands may overlap.
It is a small, inexpensive, handheld computer, intended to bring computing power to developing countries. It includes text-to-speech software and runs the GNU/ Linux operating systems.
- WHAT IS BLUE TOOTH TECHNOLOGY?
Bluetooth is a low cost, low power radio interface standard for wireless communication over short distances.
- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES?
- WHEN WAS WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM CREATED?
- WHAT IS BETA TESTING?
Only users within the organization developing the software often perform the first stage, called alpha testing. The second stage, called beta testing, generally involves a limited number of external users.
- WHAT IS SPYWARE?
- WHAT IS SPYWARE?
- WHAT IS A TFT MONITOR?
- WHAT IS A “FIREWALL” IN COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY?
In computer security, a firewall is a device that blocks unauthorised access to an organisation’s local area network.
- WHY IS SPAM IN EMAIL JARGON CALLED SO?
- WHAT ARE CHICKEN SWITCHES?
- WHAT IS A HANDSHAKE IN COMPUTERS?
Handshake is the process by which two computers initiate communication.
- WHAT IS CDMA TECHNOLOGY?
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum techniques.
- CAN A COMPUTER HAVE MORE THAN ONE HARD DISK?
There are two main hard disk types used today — IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) and SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) hard drives.
- HOW DOES A LASER PRINTER WORK?
- WHICH COMPANY PRODUCED THE FIRST LAPTOP?
- WHAT IS GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE?
It is a open source software.
- WHICH WAS THE FIRST CELLULAR SERVICE PROVIDER?
- WHICH COMPANY PRODUCED THE FIRST LAPTOP?
- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES?
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- WHY DON’T CDMA PHONE HAVE SIM CARDS?
CDMA phones have phone numbers programmed in the handset just as the operator programs numbers in SIM cards.
- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LINUX AND UNIX?
- WHAT IS GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE?
It is a open source software. The New Zealand Digital Library website contains numerous example collections, all created with the Greenstone software.
- WHAT IS CLICK FRAUD WITH REGARD TO SEARCH ENGINES?
- HOW DOES A GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM WORK (GPS) WORK?
The GPS device sends its signal to the four satellites. These satellites have a database that contains information of all the locations on earth.
- WHAT IS FM?
Attaching it to a carrier wave in radio frequency transmits the sound signal. In TV signals, the sound is frequency modulated while the picture signal is amplitude modulated.
- WHAT IS FUZZY LOGIC?
- HOW DO INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES WORK?
Data collected from each web page are then added to the search engine index.
- HOW DOES A GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM WORK?
- WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF TFT IN COMPUTER AND MOBILE SCREENS?
- WHAT IS EDGE TECHNOLOGY IN MOBILE PHONES?
EDGE technology is a modulation technique for GSM networks. An Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) is used to increase network capacity and data rates in mobile networks.
- WHO INVENTED THE QWERTY KEYBOARD?
- WHAT IS A HOLOGRAPHIC VERSATILE DISC?
- WHAT IS A PICONET?
A piconet starts with two connected devices, such as a portable PC and cellular phone, and may grow to eight connected devices.
The qualities of an entity which can be stored as information are called the attributes.
- WHAT IS A DEAD PIXEL?
- WHAT DOES VOXML STAND FOR?
- HOW BIG IS A VIRUS?
- WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD ALGORITHM?
All computer programmes are based on algorithms.
- HOW IS MUSIC STORED IN A CD?
The instantaneous value of the electrical signal is then digitized and stored in the Compact Disk using a computer-controlled device.
- IS IT POSSIBLE TO HACK A STANDALONE COMPUTER?
It is common knowledge that a computer hooked to a network; a network of networks or the Internet is vulnerable to computer hackers. In other words, information stored in these computers is never safe.
- HOW DOES A COMPUTER KEEP RECORD OF THE TIME EVEN WHEN IT IS SHUT DOWN?
Our computers are not run by a single operating system, but also the BIOS (basic input output system) which resides pernianently in the chips of the motherboard to which virtually every computer hardware is connected. The cell remains present on the board and helps the BIOS remember not only the time but other hardware settings as well; the GUI (graphical user interface) syncs with the BIOS time every the computer is booted up and hence shows the computer shows the correct time.
Black box testing, concrete box or functional testing is used in computer programming, software engineering and software testing to check that the outputs of a program, given certain inputs, conform to the functional specification of the program.
- WHAT IS MEANT BY INTERNET SURFING?
- WHAT IS JAVA?
It is a protocol that governs the pages designed in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that allows a user to access information stored in many computers independent of their geographical location. HTTP has revolutionized the field of information technology and is the backbone of the Internet or the information superhighway.WHO COINED THE TERM ‘WORLD WIDE WEB’?
- HOW DOES CYBERSQUATTING WORK?
- WHO INVENTED THE T9 DICTIONARY USED IN MOBILE PHONES?
- WHAT IS A CRYSTAL RADIO?
A crystal radio is the basic form of a radio, which can detect radio signals without a power supply. A crystal radio receives programmes broadcast from radio stations which convert sound into radio waves and send out the signals everywhere.
- WHATS THE WORLD’S FIRST SOFTWARE?
- HOW IS A SATELLITE PHONE DIFFERENT FROM A CELLULAR PHONE?
Satellite and cellular phones are wireless devices. A cellular phone functions on the basis of cells, and hence is called cell phones. Satellite phones use Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites.
- WHAT IS THE 3RD SPACE VEST?
- WHY IS THE SYMBOL @ USED IN E-MAIL ADDRESSES?
A general format for an e-mail address is: username@computer_name.
- WHAT IS INTERPLANETARY INTERET?
If the internet allowed users to get. Information from any corner of the world, then the interplanetary internet will allow users to access information and even control experiments taking place far away from Earth.
- WHAT IS CYBERSLACKING?
also called as cyberloafing.
- WHAT IS CRYOPTOGRAPHY?
The secure exchange of computer data is of great importance to banking, government and commercial communication.
- WHAT IS A ‘VOCAL JOYSTICK’?
- WHAT IS AN ELECTRONIC SPIDER?
- WHAT IS WEB 2.0?
Web 2.0 can be defined as a set of technologies which enable collaboration and sharing between internet users. The tools of Web 2.0 are web pages, web-based communities or hosted services such as social-networking sites, online encylopaedias like Wikipedia, blogs and podcasts, etc.
- WHY IS JUNK MAIL CALLED SPAM?
One possible origin is Monty Python’s famous song Spam-loving Vikings sketch which goes ‘spam spam spam spam spam spam lovely spam, wonderful spam…’
- WHAT IS A ‘NANO-FACTORY’?
- WHAT IS CYBERSQUATTING?
- WHAT IS MYSQL?
- WHAT IS SONET WITH REFERENCE TO AN OPTICAL NETWORK?
It is a successor to other wellknown communication technology implemented on fiber optics network called PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy).
- WHAT IS A SEMAPHORE?
- HOW DOES A LASER MOUSE WORK?
The beam emitted by the laser mouse moves with the user’s hand, triggering an optical sensor system.
- WHO INVENTED THE PEN DRIVE?
Today pen drives are used in a range of devices such as mobile phones, video-game consoles and digital music players.
- WHAT IS THE BEER GOOGLE EFFECT?
- WHICH IS THE EARLIEST SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE?
- WHAT ARE APPLETS?
- WHAT DOES BLOATWARE REFER TO?
Bloatware, also called junkware, adware and demoware, refers to pre-installed software and trial software that come with Windows computers.
- WHAT IS THE TIME PREFERENCE THEORY OF INTEREST?
Irving Fisher improved upon this, stating, “The rate of time preference measures the rate of interest.” The higher the time preference, the higher the impatience to spend, and hence, the higher the rate of interest; the lower the time preference, the lower the rate of interest.
- WHY IS BLU-RAY DISC BLACK ON TOP?
- WHAT IS A GOOGLE BOMB?
- WHAT IS GRID COMPUTING?
- WHAT IS BLUEJACKING?
Bluetooth is a radio wireless technology that allows computers, cell phones, laptops, etc. to talk to each other in a limited range.
- WHAT DOES PHARMING REFER TO?
- HOW MUCH DATA DOES THE INTERNET CONTAIN?
- WHAT IS VIRAL MAIL?
- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COMPUTER SCREEN AND A GAMING CONSOLE?
Technically, a computer game can be thought of as one composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe.