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Glossary Of Terms

T-1
A leased-line connection capable of carrying data at 1,544,000 bits-per-second. At maximum theoretical capacity, a T-1 line could move a megabyte in less than 10 seconds. That is still not fast enough for full-screen, full-motion video, for which you need at least 10,000,000 bits-per-second. T-1 is the fastest speed commonly used to connect networks to the Internet.In North America, a digital carrier for a DS1 digital signal.

T-3
A leased-line connection capable of carrying data at 44,736,000 bits-per-second. In North America, a digital carrier for a DS3 digital signal.

TA
See terminal adapter.

Tags
The HTML commands. ASCII text that designate formatting instructions in the form of letter combinations or words surrounded by angle brackets (< >). They tell a browser how to display a Web page. See A Bare Bones Guide to HTML Tags

Target
See anchor.

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a set of rules that establish the method with which data is transmitted over the Internet between two computers.
2)
The suite of networking protocols that lets disparate types of computers communicate. TCP/IP is the standard protocol upon which the Internet is based.

TCP/IP stack
The software that allows a computer to communicate using TCP/IP.

Telecommuting
Work at home using a computer and modem to communicate with the office.

Telnet
The command and program used to log in from one Internet site to another. The Telnet command/program gets you to the log in: prompt of another host. The most common use for the Telnet is to use software (such as an e-mail program ) on another computer.
2)
A terminal emulation protocol that allows Internet users to remotely log onto a host computer using a Telnet program.

Terabyte
1000 gigabytes.

Terminal
A device that allows you to send commands to a computer somewhere else. At a minimum, this usually means a keyboard and a display screen and some simple circuitry. Usually you will use terminal software in a personal computer - the software pretends to be (emulates) a physical terminal and allows you to type commands to a computer somewhere else.

Ternimal adapter
An electronic device that interfaces a PC with an Internet host computer via an ISDN phone line. Often called ISDN modems. However, because they are digital, TAs are not modems at all.

Terminal emulation
There are several methods for determining how your keystrokes and monitor interact with a public access site's operating system. Most communications programs offer a choice of emulation's that let you mimic the keyboard that would normally be attached directly to the host system computer.

Terminal Server
A special purpose computer that has places to plug in many modems on one side, and a connection to a LAN or host machine on the other side. Thus the terminal server does the work of answering the calls and passes the connections on to the appropriate node. Most terminal servers can provide PPP services if connected to the Internet.
Text box
A box in which you type information needed to carry out a command. The text may be blank or may contain text when the dialog box opens.

Text editor
An application used to create, view, and modify text files. ie. notepad.

Text file
A file containing only letters, digits, and symbols. A text file usually consists of characters coded form the ASCII character set.

Text mode
The mode that enables applications to display text but not graphics.

Text transfer
A method for transferring text files from your computer to a remote computer.

Thrash
When you run out of physical memory, an advanced operating system will free up memory space by moving the contents of some of your memory to disk. When that information is needed again, it is read from disk back into memory. When your computer is thrashing, memory is being swapped back and fourth at such a rate that your hard drive is constantly spinning and not much else is happening with your computer.

Thread
In a USEnet newsgroup, a chain of news postings on a single subject. almost all newsreaders include a command that lets you follow the thread, that is, jump to the next message on the topic rather than each message in sequence.

Throughput
A measure of a network's or computer's overall performance that is a function of all the configuration components of a system.

Thumbnail
The size of an image you find on Web pages. Image archives will present a thumbnail version of it's contents. Thumbnails save downloadtime and allow the user the option of downloading the full version.

Tier 1 ISP
A first tier Internet service provider. An ISP who has a direct connection to the Internet. ISPs can also be tier 2, 3, or more which usually means that they lease their connection and possibility other services from a tier 1 provider such as CAIS.

TIFF
Tag Image File Format, a file format used storing image files.

Tile
To automatically arrange windows in a tile like configuration either vertically or horizontally.

Time out
If a device is not performing a task, the amount of time a computer should wait before detecting it as an error.

Time slice
The amount of processor time allocated to an application. usually measured in milliseconds. Each application is given control.

Title
A short description of a Web page that appears at the top of the screen.

Title bar
The bar at the top of a window that displays the string of information about the item, usually a file name.

Toolbar
The row of buttons right below the menu that perform special functions.

Traffic
The load of Packets carried by a network. Heavy traffic slows down the response time of the individual packets.

Transparent GIF
The GIF 89a specification file format lets you specify an index colour from the image's palette to be masked out. Specifying a transparent index colour makes the image appear to float on the page.TOOLS.And With GIFs.

Triple dub
A shortcut pronunciation of WWW. See also hot potato.

Trojan horse
A computer virus hidden inside a program. For example AOL4FREE.COM.

Troll
A person who posts only to inflame opinion. Most are so obvious that only the most clueless reply.

True-colour images
True-colour images are also called 24-bit colour images because each pixel is represented by 24 bits of data, allowing for 16.7 million colours. The number of colours posible is based on the number of bits used to represent the colour. If 8 bits are used, there are 256 possible colour values (2 to the 8th power). To obtain 16.7 million colours, each of the primary colours (red, green, and blue) is represented by 8-bits per pixel, which allows for 256 possible shades for each of the primary red, green, and blue colours or 256x256x256=16.7 million total colours.

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