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Title: Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: Sandra on September 01, 2003, 21:59

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

Title: Re:Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: Sandra on September 01, 2003, 22:24

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

Title: Re:Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: Sandra on September 02, 2003, 00:06

A couple more from Joudi  :)

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


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

Title: Re:Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: agua-moose on January 30, 2004, 16:55

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?

Title: Re:Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: Dack on January 30, 2004, 20:19

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. :)

Title: Re:Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: agua-moose on January 30, 2004, 20:34

cool, thanks :)

Title: Re:Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: dcys02647 on February 04, 2004, 02:51

Quote from: Dack on January 30, 2004, 20:19

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. :)

I allways wondered what that was all about, Thanks!

Title: Re:Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: Barra on July 31, 2004, 13:58

So where do we find this 'SMART' at?
If there was one called 'STUPID' I could probably find that :D

Title: Re: Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms
Post by: David on July 06, 2008, 17:53

Thanks for the link Sandra really helps and its quicker than keep going to the back of a book