Terms #5

1. Spam
junk e-mail or irrelevant postings
Violation of netiquette
2. WAN
Huge, not limited to single location
Long distances
3. Buffer
Data that is stored for a short amount of time, in computers memory
4. Driver
Small file that helps computer communicate with hardware device
5. Linux
Linus Torvalds developed Linux because he wasn't happy with the
currently available options in nix and felt he could improve it
6. Queue
List of jobs waiting to be processed (Printer)
7. N!"
for high-level computing
#. W$rm
omputer !irus
"eplicates itself, ta#es up all space on hard drive but doesn$t corrupt files
%& 'ip
compressed !le
"ipping# a !le involves compressing one or more items into a smaller
archive
()& D*S
$isk %perating &ystem
$%& uses a command line' or text-based interface' that allows the user to
type commands