- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions A list of the most common questions and their responses.
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- FCC - Federal Communications Commission. The government agency responsible for regulating telecommunications in the United States.
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- FDDI - (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
A set of ANSI protocols for sending digital data over fiber optic cable. FDDI networks are token-passing networks, and support data rates of up to 100 Mbps (100 million bits) per second. FDDI networks are typically used as backbones for wide-area networks.
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- FFA - (free for all):
pages (Free for All) are not search engines or directories. They are, for the most part, pages that simply take submissions that usually stay active for a period of time. A submission is placed at the top of their list and then moved down and eventually out as other submissions are made
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- Fiber Optic Cable - Cables which use laser light traveling along a glass fiber to carry the 'on' and 'off' signals of digital information. Almost all cabling on national and international networks is fiber optic.
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- File Manager - A file manager is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. The most common operations on files are create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, attributes, properties, search/find, and permissions.
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- Filename extension - The one to three characters after the period following the base name in a file specification. external buffer.
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- Finger - Software that allows you find out more information about an Internet user, such as their real name and if they are logged in at the present moment.
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- Fire Wall - A combination of hardware and software that separates a LAN into two or more parts for security purposes.
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- Flame - An insulting message exchanged via email or within newsgroups.
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- Flame War - An insulting message exchanged via email or within newsgroups. A series of flames are known as flame wars.
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- Flash - A popular authoring software developed by Macromedia, is used to create vector graphics-based animation programs with full-screen navigation interfaces. More details here
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- Folder - A collection of files. In graphical user interfaces, such as Windows and MACs, folders are the same as DOS directories. Folders can hold files and other folders for organizational purposes.
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- Forwarding - The act of sending on to another destination; "the forwarding of mail to a new address is done automatically"; "the forwarding of resumes to the personnel department".
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- FPU - Floating Point Unit. Also called arithmetic co-processor.
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- FQDN - (Fully Qualified Domain Name):
The FQDN is the full name of a site on the internet, rather than just its hostname. For example, "venera" is a hostname and "venera.isi.edu" is an FQDN.
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- FrontPage Extensions - A series of scripts that can be employed by FrontPage users to add dynamic functions to a Web site.
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- FTP - (File Transfer Protocol):
File Transfer Protocol. This is the language used for file transfer from computer to computer across the WWW. An anonymous FTP is a file transfer between locations that does not require users to identify themselves with a password or log-in. An anonymous FTP is not secure, because it can be accessed by any other user of the WWW.
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- FTP client - A FTP client uses the FTP protocol to connect to an FTP server to transfer files.
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- FYI - abbreviation for: for your information
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