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Sandra:
In case anyone has missed it in another thread,here are loads of computer abbreviations and acronyms :doggie:

http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html#A

One from Lona, test driven by Joudi  

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html

Sandra:
More sites for abbreviations etc,courtesy of DJ  :)

http://www.articulates.net/abbrev.html

http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Dictionaries/Acronyms/


http://www.sgi.ethz.ch/abbrev_and_explan_en.html


http://www.stands4.com

Sandra:
A couple more from Joudi  :)

 http://www.lemarsu.net/abrev/a-b.html


 http://www.sgi.ethz.ch/abbrev_and_explan_en.html

agua-moose:
so any of them tell you what they actually do? like, i wanna know what SMART is and why i should have it enabled/disabled? i currently have it disabled but i don't know if that's good or bad?

Dack:
Self
Monitoring
Analysis and
Reporting
Technology

Built into the hard drive it measures such things as:
Spin up time, head hight above the platter, data throughput etc.

It then uses these bits of data to predict when a drive is on its way out and if so puts a message on your screen warning the disc is a bit dodgy. You should then have enough time to get the data off before complete failure.

I usually leave SMART on, can affect data throughput slightly but what the heck - I'd rather know when I'm likely to be needing a new disc. :)

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