technophile
An ardent supporter of technology, who first emerged during the Computer Revolution of the '70s.
TaPI --- Telephony
Applications Programming Interface, or TAPI, provides a method for programs to work with modems, independent of
dealing directly with the modem hardware. All the information you give Windows during the modem configuration is
used for TAPI to set up its interface. Communications programs that are written specifically for Windows 95 will
talk to TAPI, which will then issue appropriate commands to the modem. This is called device independence.
Task bar --- An
area that runs across the bottom of the Windows 95 desktop. The Start button (see Start menu) is
at the left end of the task bar, and the clock can be displayed at the right end of the task bar. Running applications
are represented as buttons on the task bar, the current window is shown as a depressed button, all other applications
are displayed as raised buttons. Clicking the button for an inactive application activates that application and
displays its window as the current window.
Task List ---
A list of currently running applications. You can switch tasks by clicking an item in the task list.
The task list is accessed by pressing Alt+Tab on the keyboard.
TCP/IP --- Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is a set of networking protocols developed in the 1970s. TCP/IP includes Transport
Control Protocol, which is a connection-oriented transport protocol that includes transport, session, and presentation
layer protocol functions, which is equivalent to layers 4, 5, and 6 of the OSI Model and Internet Protocol, and
a widely used routable network protocol that corresponds to layer 3 of the OSI model. User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
can be substituted in cases where connectionless datagram service is desired. TCP/IP is an entire protocol stack
that includes protocols for file transfers (FTP), termination emulation services (telnet), electronic mail (SMTP),
address resolution (ARP and RARP), and error control and notification (ICMP and SNMP). TCP/IP is used extensively
in many computer systems because it is nonproprietary--free from royalties. Its use was mandated by Congress for
use in computer systems for many government agencies and contract situations. TCP/IP is also used in the Internet,
a huge government and research internetwork spanning North America and much of the world. TCP/IP is the most commonly
used set of network protocols.
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Teledildonics ---
Terminal emulation
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Teledildonics --- A type of cybersex.
Telnet --- The command and program used to
login from one Internet site to another. The telnet command/program gets you to the login: prompt
of another host.
Terabyte --- 1000 gigabytes.
See Also: Byte , Kilobyte
Terminal --- A device that allows you to send
commands to a computer somewhere else. At a minimum, this usually means a keyboard and a display screen and some
simple circuitry. Usually you will use terminal software in a personal computer - the software pretends to be (emulates)
a physical terminal and allows you to type commands to a computer somewhere else.
Terminal Adapter --- An electronic device
that interfaces a PC with an Internet host computer via an ISDN phone line. Often
called "ISDN modems." However, because they are digital, TAs are not modems at all. (See modem definition.)
Terminal
emulation --- There are several methods for determining
how your keystrokes and screen interact with a public-access site's operating system. Most communications programs
offer a choice of "emulations" that let you mimic the keyboard that would normally be attached directly
to the host-system computer.
In the "old days" of computing, a "terminal" was an input/output device that was a slave
of a CPU, such as a terminal for minicomputer or mainframe. Generally, terminals, had no computing power of their
own, but simply provided an interface to a remote host computer. "Terminal emulation" refers to a mode
(character-based) in which a PC emulates one of these terminals to communicate with a remote host--typically a
BBS computer or a corporate mainframe that only "knows" how to talk to a terminal.
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Terminal Server --- Thumbnail
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Terminal Server --- A special purpose computer
that has places to plug in many modems on one side, and a connection to a LAN or host machine
on the other side. Thus the terminal server does the work of answering the calls and passes the connections on
to the appropriate node. Most terminal servers can provide PPP or SLIP services if connected
to the Internet.
See Also: LAN , Modem , Host
, Node , PPP , SLIP
Text based --- See character based.
Text box --- A space in the dialog box where
text or numbers can be entered so that a command can be carried out.
Text file --- A file containing only text
characters .
Thinclient --- to a small program or
application, one that doesn't take up alot of room on a user's hard drive and "runs" on a user's machine
(client) as opposed to a server. This program may also interact with a larger (fatter) program which is could be
located on a server somewhere.
Thread --- A
group of related messages. Some usenet reader programs thread messages for you.
Thread (BBS/Communications) --- A set of messages pertaining to one general idea.
Thread (program execution) --- A "thread" is a chunk of a program. In a multi-threading environment such
as Windows 95, multiple threads (multiple portions of a program) can execute at the same time--provided the program
has been programmed to take advantage of this feature.
Thumbnail
--- Describes the size of an image you frequently find on Web pages.
Usually photo or picture archives will present a thumbnail version of it's contents (makes the page load quicker)
and when a user clicks on the small image a larger version will appear. Sometimes these links will be to a new
page containing the larger graphic and other times right to the image directly, as is the case in the examples
below.
TiF
--- Tagged Image File Format --- a graphic file format developed by Aldus and Microsoft. Mosaic supports
the viewing of TIFF images.
Tilde
or ~ --- Prounounced "tilda," this scribbly
horizontal line has come to signify an individual user's Web site when housed on the server of an ISP. In real
terms the tilde stands for a path which leads to that person's Web site on the server it is being kept. For example,
http://www.best.com/~erinj - says that erinj is a best.com user and that her homepage is on best.com's server.
When you look at the server you will notice that erinj's Web site is really located on the path: www.best.com/www/users/erinj
, therefore the tilde is used to bypass the /www/users directories to make the URL or "Web address" a
little shorter and easier to remember. The tilde character is on the top line of your keyboard to the far left.
Tile --- To
reduce and move windows so that they can all be seen at once.
Time slice ---
A brief time period in which a process is given access to the processor. Each second is divided into
18.3 time slices; multiple tasks can be scheduled for processing in these slices, yet outwardly appear to be occurring
simultaneously.
Time-out --- A
time period after which a device or driver might signal the operating system and cease trying to perform its duty.
If a printer is turned off, for example, when you try to print, the driver waits for a predetermined period of
time, then issues an error message. In computer terminology, the driver has timed out.
Title bar ---
The bar at the top of a program or document window that shows you what its title is. The control menu,
maximize, minimize, restore, and task bar buttons can be accessed in the title bar.
TLA
--- Three Letter Acronym.
