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G l o s s a r y
I/O Port
The connector and associated control circuits for data entering and leaving your notebook in electronic form.
IDE
Intelligent Drive Electronics. A type of control interface for a hard drive which is inside the hard drive unit.
Infrastructure
A name of a wireless LAN configuration. This type of communication uses an access point.
Another type of communication is called AdHoc.
IP Address
An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination. The format of an IP address is a
Within an isolated network, you can assign IP addresses at random as long as each one is unique. However, connecting a private network to the Internet requires using registered IP addresses (called Internet addresses) to avoid duplicates.
The four numbers in an IP address are used in different ways to identify a particular network and a host on that network. Three regional Internet registries
Class A - supports 16 million hosts on each of 126 networks
Class B - supports 65,000 hosts on each of 16,000 networks
Class C - supports 254 hosts on each of 2 million networks
The number of unassigned Internet addresses is running out, so a new classless scheme called CIDR is gradually replacing the system based on classes A, B, and C and is tied to adoption of IPv6. (credit: webopedia.com)
IR
An abbreviation for infrared.
IRQ
Interrupt Request. An acronym for the hardware signal to the CPU that an external event has occurred which needs to be processed.
KB
Kilobyte.
LAN
Local Area Network. An interconnection of computers and peripherals within a single limited geographic location which can pass programs and data amongst themselves.
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display. A type of display which makes images by controlling the orientation of crystals in a crystalline liquid.
Lithium ion Battery
A type of rechargeable battery which has a high power- time life for its size and is not subject to the memory effect as Nickel Cadmium batteries.
MAC Address
Media Access Control Address
A unique physical address of a network card. For Ethernet, the first three bytes are used as the vendor code, controlled and assigned by IEEE. The remaining three bytes are controlled by each vendor (preventing overlap), therefore, every Ethernet card is given a unique physical address in the world, being assigned with a different address from other cards. For Ethernet, frames are sent and received based on this address.
MB
Megabyte.
Megahertz
1,000,000 cycles per second.
Memory
A repository for data and applications which is readily accessible to your LifeBook notebook’s CPU.
MHz
Megahertz.
Modem
A contraction for
Monaural
A system using one channel to process sound from all sources.
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
The maximum data size that can be transferred at a time through the Internet or other networks. You can set a smaller MTU size to obtain successful communication,
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