Topic: Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms

[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.

[agua-moose]

cool, thanks

[dcys02647]

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!

[Barra]

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

[David]

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