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Short for metropolitan area Ethernet, MAE is an NAP (network access point) created by a company called MFS in Washington DC. It allows ISPs (Internet service providers) and other companies to interconnect with one another. This initial MAE was dubbed MAE East, whereas MAE West refers to the MAE located in the Silicon Valley in California. Computer abbreviations, MAN, Network terms Although the term MAE refers to the network access points created by MFS, the two terms are often used analogously....

Radiation is energy emitted from a device and absorbed by the body. While some radiation can be harmful to an individual, all electrical devices emit a small amount of VLF, which the scientific community feels is safe for humans. Some individuals state that too much exposure from these devices can be harmful or promote cancer. However, this allegation was widely disproved by the scientific community. ELF emission, EMF, Hardware terms, Hazard, VLF, X-ray...

The term relative location describes the location of a person or place in relation to another object or place. Relative location is determined by cost, time, or distance. For example, you could map the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah to the Computer History Museum in California. The relative location would be either 767.7 miles or 11 hours 40 minutes of travel time, as shown in the image below. Absolute location, Address, Computer museums, Measurements...

First discovered by Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius in 1823, silicon (symbol Si, atomic number 14) is a chemical element. It is the fundamental material in making computer chips because of its excellent semi-conducting properties and because of its abundance. The picture shows an example of a Silicon wafer with well over 100 silicon chips. After this wafer is made, each of the chips are cut out of the wafer. Dopant, Electronics terms, Silicon wafer

Texture mapping is a technique that gives a surface to a computer image or a computer 3D model. For example, a graphic artist may give a graphic object a stone texture, making the object look more like a realistic stone object. A user may also scan a surface of a real object, such as a person’s face, and map it onto an object. Texel, Texture filtering, Video terms

Turbolinux is a Japanese Linux variant, first released in the late 1990s. It is targeted at Asian users. Unlike most Linux distributions, it comes packaged with a licensed copy of the Windows Media codec. Linux distribution, Operating System terms Related information Linux help and support.

In January 2009, Palm released a new operating system for smartphones called WebOS. It was first released on the Palm Pre, Pixi, and Veer phones as a replacement for the Palm OS used on Palm’s previous smartphones. WebOS used multi-touch gestures to navigate around the Palm Pre’s touch screen. Hewlett-Packard purchased the Palm company and the rights to WebOS, in April 2010. HP intended to use WebOS on all their devices starting in 2011 with the HP TouchPad tablet computer....

Code-named Vienna and Blackcomb, Windows 7 is an operating system and the successor to Windows Vista. It was officially released by Microsoft to the public on October 22, 2009. Below is an image of the Windows 7 desktop. Windows 7 new features New features introduced in Windows 7 include the following: Windows 7 new features Windows 7 minimum system requirements What Windows came before Windows 7? What version of Windows came after Windows 7?...

You cannot use WhatsApp Web (i.e., the browser-based extension of your WhatsApp account) without first scanning a QR code. This guide will highlight reasons why WhatsApp’s Web QR code fails to load in your browser. You’ll also learn why your phone sometimes fails to scan the QR code on your computer. More importantly, you’ll learn eight possible ways to resolve these WhatsApp Web QR code problems. How to Use WhatsApp Web QR Code If you’re experiencing difficulties accessing WhatsApp Web, it could be because you’re scanning the QR code incorrectly....

The original releases of Windows 95: build 950 and build 950A (Windows 95 with Service Pack 1) do not support AGP functionality. However, an AGP display adapter will function in these versions of Windows 95 in the same manner as a PCI based display adapter. Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2 version 1111 or 950B) can be updated to support AGP display adapter by applying the USB supplement to OSR2; the USB supplement (USBSUPP....

Whether you’ve set up a new Wi-Fi network or you’re visiting a public hotspot, it can be very annoying when your Windows 10 laptop can’t find the Wi-Fi network that you know exists. This is a very common problem, but unfortunately, it can be caused by a number of things. Anything from your antivirus software, Windows firewall, or the network adapter itself, may prevent the active Wi-Fi network from showing up in your list of available networks....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 7 Time Required 8 - 10 minutes Sections 3 Battery 3 steps Outer Case 2 steps Speakers 2 steps Flags 1 Featured Student Guide This guide has been the hard work of our awesome students and is found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. BackNintendo Wii U GamePad Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide...

Instead of normally loading up with a list of Devices and Printers and Faxes, it kept hanging and nothing would load. It was just a blank screen like shown below: Grrrr. It was working fine a few days earlier, so I could not figure out what had changed. Whenever something like this happens, I always think of a few things. Did I install any new Windows updates? Those are notorious for screwing things up all the time!...

Name: Winifred Asprey Born: April 8, 1917, in Sioux City, Iowa USA Death: October 19, 2007 (Age: 90) Computer-related contributions American mathematician and computer scientist. She is one of only around 200 women to earn PhDs in mathematics from American universities during the 1940s. Involved in developing the close contact between Vassar College and IBM that led to the establishment of the first Computer Science lab at Vassar. Taught mathematics and computer science at Vassar for 38 years....

Student-Contributed Wiki An awesome team of students from our education program made this wiki. ZTE does not respond to the touch and displays the “no battery” icon. The ZTE has a 20 hour battery life during normal use and a 300 hour-long battery life in standby mode. The ZTE comes with charging dock and a micro USB battery charger from the factory. Place your ZTE on its charging dock or plug it into the factory charger and it should charge within 2-3 hours....

Facial recognition is the ability of a computer or another electronic device to recognize who a person is by “reading” the person’s face. The device reads a person’s face using a webcam and can recognize features on the face that allows the device to know, or recognize, a person. Facial recognition falls into a category of software called biometric software, which focuses on characteristics of a person, including physical and behavioral....

An I-cursor, also called an I-beam pointer, is a mouse cursor, indicating the mouse is over an area where text can be typed. Its shape resembles the capital letter “I”. When your mouse cursor is an I-beam, you can click to place your text cursor there. Text can then be highlighted, inserted, or changed in that area. The picture is an example of how the I-cursor may appear. Example of an I-beam pointer The animation displayed is an example of a mouse cursor moving around the screen....

The Intellivision is a video game console released in 1979 by American toy manufacturer Mattel which was intended to compete with the Atari 2600. It was extremely successful, selling over 3 million units and supporting a library of 125 games. The Intellivision’s controllers were shaped like remote controls, with a flat-topped joystick and twelve buttons underneath in the style of a telephone keypad. Each game came with a custom controller overlay that slid over the keypad, labeling each button’s specific function for the game....

Short for Internet Protocol version 4, IPv4 is a network protocol defined in RFC 791 that is the primary Internet and Ethernet network transmission. Because IPv4 is only able to support 4,294,967,296 possible IP addresses and technical limitations, new software is slowly making the transition to IPv6; the next version of IP. Computer acronyms, IPv6, Network terms, Protocol Related information Network and network card help and support.

Ls may refer to any of the following: Command used in Linux, Unix, and their respected variants that lists the files and directories in the current directory. In an FTP session, the ls command is used to list the files of the remote directory. Related information See the Linux and Unix ls command page for additional information about this command. The Internet domain suffix .ls is short for Lesotho. How to use FTP from a command line....