Monday, December 11, 2000		Bits & Bytes

ANSI: ANSI stands for American National Standards Institute. ANSI’s primary goal is to enhance the global competitiveness of US businesses and to improve the American quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems.

Degauss: Degauss is a value-added feature of a monitor that reduces the bad impact of earth’s natural magnetic field, which may affect the colour accuracy of the monitor. So, you can restore the original and natural colours and performance of your monitor by Degaussing it.

DHCP: DHCP stands for "domain host control protocol." A network server uses this protocol to dynamically assign IP addresses to networked computers. The DHCP server waits for a computer to connect to it, and then assigns it an IP address from a master list stored on the server. Using DHCP, managing IP addresses isn’t a problem for network administrators. Because of the slick automation involved with DHCP, it is the most commonly used networking protocol.

C++: C++ is the superset of the C language that adds object-oriented concepts. Java, another programming language, is based on C++ but optimised for the Internet.

Mosaic: Mosaic is the first Web browser (developed by NSCA) with the ability to display graphics. The Mosaic browser caused a major breakthrough in the way people could access the resources of the World Wide Web.

SSL: SSL, or secure sockets layer, is a protocol that allows sending encrypted messages across the Internet. SSL uses public key encryption to pass data between your browser and a given server (for example to submit credit card information). A URL that begins with "https" indicates that an SSL connection will be used.