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Well click on these links: Random House Personal Computer Dictionary f      FairyTale   FUNC 91 items available in this category FairyTale Known spyware or adware. fallback Reducing the speed of datatransmission due to interference on the datalines. fan takes care of the cooling of the chips. Fapi Known spyware or adware. FAQ Frequently Asked Question(s). A document with answers to, you guessed it, frequently asked questions. FAQs are widely available online and cover a broad spectrum of topics ranging from gourmet cooking to the inner workings of TCP/IP. Farsighter Known spyware or adware. Fast Ethernet Fast Ethernet is also referred to as 100BASE-T or 802.3u and is a communications protocol that enables computers on a local area network to share information with one another at rates of 100 million bits per second instead of the standard 10 million BPS of Ethernet. Fast Ethernet works over Category 5 twisted-pair wiring. FastFind Known spyware or adware. Fastseeker Known spyware or adware. Fastwebfinder Known spyware or adware. FAT file Allocation Table; A data structure on disk that records which clusters are free, which are unusable, and which have been allocated. The clusters occupied by a file are linked into a list in the file allocation table, allowing DOS or Windows to find the contents of the file. FavoriteMan Known spyware or adware. fax facsimile a device that transmits written down information via the telephone line. Currently the fax is usually integrated with the modem. The socalled faxmodem. FCBS file Controlling Block Structure; A data record in the calling program´s address space which is used by DOS 1.x functions to record the state of an open file. FCC Acronym of Federal Communications Commission. FCONSOLE virtual file server CONSOLE. The FCONSOLE is an advanced NetWare utility designed to allow remote execution of file-server console commands from any workstation on the network. FDD Floppy-Disk Drive; drive A: and/or B: of your PC. FDX Acronym of Full Duplex. Fear and Hope Known spyware or adware. feature complete A synonym of feature frozen. feature frozen Means that no new features will be added to the software. So when a beta version is feature frozen then you may assume that the final product has the same features and number of features as the beta version. feedback page A webpage wherein users can express comments or remarks via E-mail. You can also express your comments on this page via my feedback page. FEFO First-Ended, First-Out. See alsoFILO, FIFO, LIFO, queue. female The input side of a cable connector. See also male. FEMOT.D Known spyware or adware. FF 1) Form Feed. 2) Flip-Flop. FFT Fast Fourier Transform. FHSS Acronym of Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. Fidonet An international network of BBSes for the exchange of echomail. FIF Fractal Image Format. See also .fif. FIFO First In First Out Storage Policy. A policy for certain memory-accessing operations that retrieves the item stored for the longest time; the storage policy of a queue. See also FEFO, FILO, LIFO, queue. file collection of data with a certain name. file transfer Transport of files via data communication. File Transfer protocol The standard protocol for copying files from one machine to another on a TCP/IP (Internet) network. Also the program of the same name with which a user may transfer files. file_id file identification. Usually a short textfile in an archive with a short description of an application. See also .diz. filename Name of a file complete with extension. fill color A color used to fill a large area, as opposed to drawing individual lines; if you see a drawn circle and the inside area of the circle is yellow, yellow is the fill color. FILO First-In, Last-Out. See also FEFO, FIFO, LIFO, queue. filter Program that accepts data as input, it modifies these data somehow and passes them through into another form. FINERO Known spyware or adware. firewall A combination of hardware and software that separates a LAN into two or more parts for security purposes. FIZZER Known spyware or adware. flame An E-mail quarrel between users in a newsgroup. flash memory Small printed circuit board (card) that holds a certain amount of data in memory without using any power. FlashTrack Known spyware or adware. Flingstone Known spyware or adware. FLOOD.BA Known spyware or adware. FLOOD.E Known spyware or adware. FLOODNET Known spyware or adware. floppy Replaceable magnetic disc in a plastic cover. Two sizes are available 5.25 inch, and 3.5 inch; the capacity varies between 360 KB, 720 KB, 1.44 or 2.88 MB depending on the type. FLOPS Acronym of FLoating Point Operations Per Second. Flyswat Known spyware or adware. FM Acronym of Frequency Modulation. FMT ForMaT. FNT FoNT. font A graphical style which is used consequently for all of the characters in one type face. Within a font family there can be several variations of the same typeface. footer A text that is repeated on the bottom of all pages in a document. See also header. Forbot Known spyware or adware. forward The process of sending a received E-mail message to someone else. FPC Acronym of Floating Point Calculation. FPP Acronym of Floating Point Processor. FPS Acronym of Frames Per Second. FPU Acronym of Floating Point Unit. See also ALU, CPU. FRAG 1) FRAGment. 2) FRAGmentation. FRAMAR Known spyware or adware. frame 1) one image in a series of subsequent images 2) on the WWW it can also mean a certain part of the screen. FRANCETTE Known spyware or adware. FRANGO Known spyware or adware. FRANRIV.A Known spyware or adware. Free Popup Killer Known spyware or adware. Free screensaver Known spyware or adware. FREEFORS Known spyware or adware. FREEMEGA Known spyware or adware. FreeScratchAndWin Known spyware or adware. FreeScratchCards Known spyware or adware. freeware Software that is released into the public domain. It is free and may be distributed freely. Compare to shareware. Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum A technology used in Bluetooth and 802.11 Frequency Modulation A method of encoding data as a series of magnetic flux reversals on disk or tape, commonly known as single-density recording. In frequency modulation, a series of clock pulses are written at regular intervals, with one data bit for each clock pulse. See also MFM, RLL, AM. FreshGirls Known spyware or adware. FRETHEM.J Known spyware or adware. FriendGreetings Known spyware or adware. Friends.fr toolbar Known spyware or adware. Front end Front end and back end are terms used to characterize program interfaces and services relative to the initial user of these interfaces and services. A "front-end" application is one that application users interact with directly. See also back end. FROZEN BOT Known spyware or adware. Frsk Known spyware or adware. Fsg.4104 Known spyware or adware. FST Acronym of Flat Square Tube monitor. FTP Acronym of File Transfer protocol. FTP_BMAIL Known spyware or adware. Full duplex The possibility to perform 2-way traffic in a device like a modem. See semi duplex or half duplex. FUNC Acronym of FUNCtion. This encyclopedia is for informational purposes only. All (registered) trademarks mentioned are property of their respective owners. No infringement of third party rights intended. The author cannot garantuee that the information presented is complete or that it contains no errors.