All visitors are logged and counted. Click on this icon to view the visitor-statistics. The grand encyclopedia of computer terminology This encyclopedia is compiled by produkties.uithuizen.net This explains the most common computerterms which you can encounter. This list was compiled from several sources. It does not explain HTML commands in detail because for this purpose another encyclopedia is available.The most recent update of this document can be found at: http://www.uithuizen.net/encyclopedia/terms.php Choose a list of terms you want to see .A-.Z   0-9   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L    M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z Type a term you want to search for: and You want more information? Well click on these links: Random House Personal Computer Dictionary m      M-JPEG   MZ 150 items available in this category M-JPEG Moving-Joint Photografic Experts Group. machine readable In a form that a computer can accept. Machine-readable data includes files stored on disk or tape, or data that comes from a device connected to a computer. Even typewritten pages can be considered machine-readable if you have an optical character recognition (OCR) system. macro a series of memory resident actions or commands that can be recognized as a group and that can be executed together usually this is achieved by linking it to a hotkey This makes macros a target for virues spreading via E-mail: because when you open the email and unknowingly hit the hotkey, your computer gets infected by the virus. Macro virus Code written to take advantage of hotkey programming in email clients to let the virus deliver its payload or to perform replication. Madfind Known spyware or adware. MAFEG Known spyware or adware. MagicAds Known spyware or adware. MAGICCALL Known spyware or adware. MagicControl Known spyware or adware. MagicControl variant Known spyware or adware. MAGISTR.A Known spyware or adware. mail bombing The act of flooding a person´s e-mail mail box with huge, lengthy files that have nothing to do with each other. It is a form of electronic harassment and against netiquette. maillist/mailing List A (usually automated) system that allows people to send e-mail to one address, where their message is copied and sent to all of the other subscribers to the maillist. In this way, people who have many different kinds of e-mail access can participate in discussions together. mailreader A program for handling E-mail, which is used with a POP- or IMAP server. mainframe A large computer system. MAKECALL Known spyware or adware. male The output side of a cable connector. See also female malware See adware. MAN Metropolitan Area Network. The MAN, an evolutionary step beyond the LAN, promises high-speed communications at distances greater than any LAN can handle. Manan Known spyware or adware. MANIFEST Known spyware or adware. MANTAS Known spyware or adware. MAPI MHS Application Program Interface. MAPSON.C Known spyware or adware. MAPSON.D Known spyware or adware. MAPSY Known spyware or adware. MarketDart / TopMoxie Known spyware or adware. MarketScore Known spyware or adware. MASTAK Known spyware or adware. MasterDialer Known spyware or adware. MASTERLOCK Known spyware or adware. MatrixDialer Known spyware or adware. MB Mega Byte = 1024 KB = 1048576 bytes. MBM Acronym of Magnetic Bubble Memory. A memory technology in which the bits are stored in a film of magnetic material as magnetic bubbles. MBR Memory Buffer Register. A programmer-invisible buffer in which the computer holds data for a store operation and into which it receives data during a load operation; not part of the register set. A popular target for viruses. MBS Megabytes Per Second. A standard unit for reporting transfer rates. MCA Micro Channel Architecture. IBM´s expanded-local-bus architecture introduced in its PS/2 family of personal computers. MCB Memory Control Block. The data structure containing the length and owner (among other things) of a portion of the memory managed by DOS. MCI Media Control Interface; a specification for the control of multimedia devices (ie MIDI-devices) and -files (ie .WAVfiles). MDA Monochrome Display Adapter. The standard video display for the first IBM PC model, with one foreground color and one background color (e.g. green on black). MDI Multiple Document Interface; a series of specifications defining how an application should handle multiple subframes within the visual working range of an application. MDR Memory Data Register. See MBR. MDRAM Multibank Dynamic Random Access Memory. MediaLoads Known spyware or adware. MediaLoads Enhanced Known spyware or adware. MediaUpdate Known spyware or adware. MemoryMeter Known spyware or adware. MENACE.A Known spyware or adware. MENACE.B Known spyware or adware. menu A number of choices presented in table-form. Meridian Known spyware or adware. MERKUR Known spyware or adware. MERTIAN Known spyware or adware. meta image format A non raster image format that can contain vector-as well as bitmap as text information. metafile A metafile is a collection of GDI commands that creates desired text and/or images. A metafile picture usually contains vector picture information. A metafile picture can contain any kind of picture data, such as a raster picture. MFLOPS Megaflops. A measurement of the speed of the computer, usually applied to scientific computers rather than general- purpose computers, that focuses on floating-point operations, rather than instruction executions. MFM Modified Frequency Modulation. A method of encoding data as a series of magnetic flux reversals on disk or tape, commonly known as double-density recording. In contrast to FM, modified frequency modulation omits all clock pulses except those between pairs of zero bits. See also FM, RLL. MHS Message Handling System. MHS refers to the Action Technologies and Novell implementation of a store-and-forward electronic mail system. Within the LAN industry, MHS has become a de facto standard for linking applications with internetwork transport systems. Also known as X.400. MICROLOG.A Known spyware or adware. MidAddle adware Known spyware or adware. midframe see minicomputer. MIDI Musical Instruments Digital Interface; a standard communications protocol for exchanging information between computers and musical synthesizers. It allows interaction between computers and music instruments. midrange see minicomputer. MiMail Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.A Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.C Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.D Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.E Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.L Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.M Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.P Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.S Known spyware or adware. MIMAIL.T Known spyware or adware. MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. The standard for attaching non-text files to standard Internet mail messages. Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word-processor documents, sound files, etc. The MIME standard is used by E-mail software and Web clients. minicomputer A mid-scale computer, with processing power between that of a mainframe and a PC. Also midframe or midrange. MiniKeylogger Known spyware or adware. MiniPlayer Known spyware or adware. mips 1) Acronym of millions of instructions per second; a measure to compare speed of processors. 2) According to some people it means Meaningless Instructions Per Second. After you install certain operating systems like windows you can see that this is what your processor is doing most of the time. MIRAB Known spyware or adware. MIROOT Known spyware or adware. mirror An exact duplicate of another object. For example, a popular web site may mirror its complete site or a popular file to multiple locations, allowing the site or file to be accessed faster in different parts of the world or help relieve stress on a server or making a copy of the FAT of a hard disk to be able to restore accidently deleted files or a formatted disk. MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A well-known university and research laboratory in Boston (USA), specialised in artificial intelligence. MMORPG Acronym of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. Examples are Everquest and World of Warcraft. Fantasy games wherein thousands of people can play against each other simultaneously. MMS Acronym of Multimedia Messaging a more advanced form of SMS, capable of using graphic and/or sound content. MMS.A Known spyware or adware. MMX MultiMedia eXtension: A technology invented by Intel in order to improve the processors performance on multimedia tasks. modem modulator-demodulator. a device that transmits digital data via a telephone line in the form of sounds (it modulates and demodulates signals). ModemSpy Known spyware or adware. moderator Manager and reviewer of a newsgroup. MOEGA Known spyware or adware. MOEGA.D Known spyware or adware. MOFEI.B Known spyware or adware. MOKS Known spyware or adware. MoneyTree Known spyware or adware. MOPS Millions of Operations Per Second. MORB Known spyware or adware. MoreResults Known spyware or adware. Morfit ADjectPager Known spyware or adware. Morpheus Known spyware or adware. MoSearch Known spyware or adware. Mostrar Dialer Known spyware or adware. mouse A device, shaped to the hand and moved by the hand, that moves the cursor around the screen, based on the movement of the mouse itself. MovieNetworks Known spyware or adware. MoviePlace Known spyware or adware. Mozilla Firefox Open source internetbrowser, developed by Mozilla. MP Multi Processing. The possibility for an operating system to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. MP3SearchSite Known spyware or adware. MPC Multimedia Personal Computer; a computer system with necessary hardware (ie. cd-rom, MIDI-player or scanner) and software (drivers) for multimedia applications. MPGcom Known spyware or adware. MPR A standard set by the Swedish government that sets the amount of electromagnetic fields that computerscreens are allowed to produce. MR Mask Register. A register whose bits mask an operation (e.g. in an associative store the bits mask the fields that will not participate in a match; in an interrupt controller the bits mask interrupts and in a DMA controller the bits mask incoming requests for services). MS7531 Known spyware or adware. MSConnect dialer Known spyware or adware. Mscvrt32 Known spyware or adware. MSInfoSys Known spyware or adware. MSN SmartTags Known spyware or adware. MSNCORRUPT Known spyware or adware. MSNGina Known spyware or adware. MSRegSvc Known spyware or adware. MSS Known spyware or adware. Msview Known spyware or adware. MsWspl Known spyware or adware. MTBF Mean Time Between Failure. A measure for the reliability of a critical device like a harddisk. MTU The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of a network is the greatest amount of data that can be transferred in one physical frame on that network. Fragmentation will occur if a packet is sent across a network that has an MTU smaller than the packet´s frame length. This will lead to lower performance as fragments need to be reassembled. For Ethernet, 1500 is the maximum, and is recommended. The unofficial MTU for SLIP servers is 1006. MTX Known spyware or adware. MUD Multi-User Dungeon or Dimension. A (usually text-based) multi-user simulation environment. Some are purely for fun and flirting, others are used for serious software development, or education purposes and all that lies in between. A significant feature of most MUDs is that users can create things that stay after they leave and which other users can interact with in their absence, thus allowing a world to be built gradually and collectively. MULDROP.352 Known spyware or adware. Multi-mode fiber A type of fiber optic cable that transmits its signal over multiple light pulses at different angles. Because the signal dissipates over long distances, multi-mode fiber cables are used only in short distances. When a longer fiber optic cabling is needed, single-mode fiber is used. multimedia application An application that combines sounds, graphics or video together with text. Muma-B Known spyware or adware. MUMU.B Known spyware or adware. Musqkito Marketing Known spyware or adware. MUX Multiplexer. A circuit with several inputs and a single output that gates a selected input to the output. MUZK Known spyware or adware. MX Mail eXchanger. MyBar Known spyware or adware. MyDoom Known spyware or adware. MyFreeInternetUpdate Known spyware or adware. MYLIFE.N Known spyware or adware. MyLittleSpy Known spyware or adware. MyPageFinder Known spyware or adware. MyPointsPointAlertrun Known spyware or adware. MYPOWER Known spyware or adware. MySearch Known spyware or adware. MySpeedBar Known spyware or adware. MYSS.B Known spyware or adware. MyWay toolbar Known spyware or adware. MyWay.MyBar Known spyware or adware. MyWebSearch Known spyware or adware. MZ The letters M and Z appear in numerous places in DOS (memory control blocks, .EXE header, etc.); the conventional explanation is that these are the initials of Mark Zbikowski, one of the principal architects of MSDOS 2.0. 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.