Jargon Busting

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Jargon Busting
orA Web List Bores
Sharon Crisp
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1991 A New Language

• The Information Mine? (TIM)
• Infomesh?
• WWW?

Tim Berners-Lee
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ASP (.asp)

• Active Server Page
• Needs Microsoft web server
• Provides dynamic content
• Processed server-side
• Web page returned built on-the fly
• Cross browser

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WiFi

• Wireless Fidelity
• Popular term for WLAN (Wireless Local Area
  Network)
• Internet Network connections without wires
• Uses radio waves
• Needs protection (encryption / firewall)

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Cache

• Stores web pages and parts of web pages
• Speeds up download
• Shift Refresh (Internet Explorer)
• Shift Reload (Netscape)

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Boolean Searches
1.
2.
Poverty
College
University
Crime
College OR University
Poverty AND Crime
3.
Cats
Dogs
Cats NOT Dogs (Cats -Dogs)
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Googles Advanced Search
http//www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
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XML

• Extensible Markup Language
• Language for describing data
• Markup is unlimited and self-defining
• XML Schema designates TAGS

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XML
Gone
With The Wind Victor
Flemming Margaret Mitchell
1939  
Reservoir Dogs tor Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino 1992
 
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XHTML

• Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
• XML HTML
• May replace HTML (eventually)
• Read more http//www.w3schools.com/xml/
  http//www.w3schools.com/xhtml/

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CGI

• Common Gateway Interface
• Go-between program on a web server
• Programs written in Perl, C, C or Java
• Cross platform alternative to ASP

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CGI Form Handling

• An alternative to FrontPage forms

k/cgi-bin/do.replyform.pl"

• http//www2.essex.ac.uk/wag/guides/restricted/cgi
  -scripts.htm

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SSI (.shtm, .shtml)

• Server Side Include
• Instruction to include X in a web page
• Examples
• http//www2.essex.ac.uk/wag/guides/restricted/inc
  lude-content.htm

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FTP

• File Transfer Protocol - Transfer files from
  computer to computer
• ftp//www.essex.ac.uk/www

WS_FTP
http//www2.essex.ac.uk/wag/guides/restricted/remo
te_access.htm
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Broadband

• Faster Internet
• Data transfer motorway
• 56k modem narrowband
• always on connections
• Cable Modem, DSL, ADSL, SDSL

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Broadband Cable Modem

• Internet access via cable TV channels
• Uploading slower than downloading
• Range of packages available128KB/s download
  and 64KB/s upload
• 1024KB/s download and 256KB/s upload

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Broadband DSL

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• DSL Digital Subscriber Line
• Piggy-backs onto your normal BT phone line
• Internet access simultaneous with voice
  connections over same wires.
• ADSL SDSL are types of DSL
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• ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
• Typically 512KB/s download and 256KB/s upload
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• SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
• Both upload and download rates are the same

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Cookie

• Small text file
• Originates from a web site
• Stored on your computer
• Helps site remember your profile / settings
• Can be used for authentication

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Smart Authentication

• http//www2.essex.ac.uk/wag/guides/restricted/res
  tricting_access.htm

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SSL

• Secure Sockets Layer
• High level encryption
• Security certificates
• https//.
• Can be combined with basic authentication
  (username password)
• http//www2.essex.ac.uk/wag/guides/restricted/r
  estricting_access.htm

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