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Array in a Manger: Do you speak Geek?

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1. What well-known guiding principle, usually seen as an acronym, is based on the theory that an uncomplicated approach is often the best one?

2. What's the name of the leading software company that assembles open source components for the Linux operating system and related programs into a distribution package?

3. What's the term used to describe loading a computer's operating system into memory?

4. What type of technology makes it possible to find out if someone else is or is not online?

5. What's the term for circuitry designed to provide expanded capability to a computer?

6. What term is used to describe aesthetically appealing visual elements of Web sites or displays?

7. What term describes a level of computer responsiveness that is perceived to correspond to the way that events unfold, time-wise, in the external world?

8. What's the name of a protocol used by a proxy server to accept requests from users in a company's network for forwarding across the Internet?

9. What's the term for a small file containing user information that disappears when the user's browser is closed?

10. What's the term used to describe the modification of personal information stored on a computer to illicitly gather information about the user?


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This was last updated in August 2009
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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