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Vcache
--- Windows 95 uses a new 32-bit VCACHE which replaces the older SmartDrive
that ran under DOS and previous versions of Windows. VCACHE uses more intelligent caching algorithms to improve
the apparent speed of your hard-drive as well as your CD-ROM and 32-bit network redirectors. Unlike SmartDrive,
VCACHE dynamically allocates itself. Based on the amount of free system memory VCACHE allocates or de-allocates
memory used by the cache.
VDOLive ---
A technology that enables Internet video broadcasting and desktop video conferencing on the Internet
and over regular telephone lines and private networks. VDOPhone which provides the abilty to have private point
to point audio/video contact is currently only available for Windows95 and requires a Pentium proccessor. The VDOLive
player however is available for Windows and Power Macs and provides the abilty as a Netscape plugin for viewing
and hearing LIVE Internet Broadcasts.
ke Eudora - handle the vCard as an ordinary attachment.
Veronica
--- (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives)
-- Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every
menu item on thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major gopher
menus.
See Also: Gopher
Vector
fonts --- A set of lines that connect points to form characters.
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Virtual machine
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Video conferencing --- Conducting a conference between two or more participants at different
sites by using computer networks or the Internet to transmit audio and video data. For example, a point-to-point
(two-person) video conferencing system works much like a video telephone. Each participant has a video camera,
microphone, and speakers mounted on his or her computer. As the two participants speak to one another, their voices
are carried over the network and delivered to the other's speakers, and whatever images appear in front of the
video camera appear in a window on the other participant's monitor.
Multipoint videoconferencing allows three or more participants to sit in a virtual conference room and communicate
as if they were sitting right next to each other. Software programs such as CUSeeMe
have brought video conferencing to the Internet and are easily available and easy to use. SEE ALSO: desktop video.
Visual
Interface --- A screen editor crufted together
by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. Became the de facto standard UNIX editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite
outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither
take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which
mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced
/vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 USENET poll preferred it),
and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up
faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS).
Video for windows --- A set of utilities and protocols
for implementing full-motion video in Windows 95.
Virtual
machine --- A "logical" computer that exists inside a
PC. Multiple virtual machines can be running in a PC. Applications that run on one virtual machine are unlikely
to affect the applications running on a different virtual machine. 16-bit applications (for example, Windows 3.1
applications) all run on the same virtual machine in Windows 95, thus, if one crashes, it is likely to make the
rest of the 16-bit applications unusable as well. However, such an occurrence will likely NOT affect 32-bit applications
that are running simultaneously.
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Virtual
memory --- The use of permanent media (for example, hard drive)
to simulate additional RAM (see swap file). This allows large applications to run in less physical RAM than
they normally would require. When RAM runs low, the operating system uses a virtual memory manager program to temporarily
store data on the hard disk like it was in RAM, which makes RAM free for data manipulation. When needed, the data
is read back from the disk and reloaded into RAM.
Virus
--- A virus is a computer program written to interrupt or destroy your
work. A virus may do something as innocuous as display a message, or something as destructive as reformatting your
hard drive--or almost anything in between. Your computer can "catch" a virus from a floppy disk, or even
from a file downloaded from a remote source, such as a BBS. Once your computer has become "infected",
the virus may spread via connections on a network or floppy disks you share with others. A variety of virus-detecting
software exists, (including one packaged with Windows 95).
ViSCA
--- A protocol for daisy chaining up to seven video devices together and
connecting them to a single serial port.
Virtual ---
Simulation of the real thing. Means the same as "almost". You will see this term appear
before various computer terms to indicate simulation technology that enables you to cross boundaries and experience
something without needing it's physical presence, as in virtual sex, and virtual theme parks.
Virtual circuit --- A reliable link between a user and an Internet site, even though the
two are not communicating over a dedicated phone line.
Virus
--- Your computer can get a virus just like your body can be invaded with
a virus making you (or your computer) sick. A virus can wipe out information on your computer and create major
havoc. Viruses usually originate from malicious people. You can unintentionally download virus from a web site
or get it from a disk that someone has lent you. There are virus-checking programs, but there are new viruses popping
up every day. So the best defense against a virus is to be very careful not to download programs or data from a
site you're not familiar with.
VMS
--- A main-frame OS, designed for multiple users. While a similar concept
to UNIX, the commands, applications, etc. are all very different.
Volume
--- Disk partition(s) formatted and available for use by the operating
system.
Volume
label --- The identifier for a volume (see volume) or diskette.
This is specified when formatting the volume or diskette.
VRML
--- Virtual Reality Modeling Language -- which is thought to be the coming
addition to the WWW, adding 3-d interactive models to web-sites. If you think your graphic browser (esp. enhanced
netscape) eats up RAM, wait until you see VRML! Right now, it can be added to
netscape 1.2 (windows) & 2.0 (windows 95).
VRWeb ---
VRWeb is a browser for 3D worlds and objects modeled in the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML).
VRWeb is the only VRML browser which is freely available in complete source code (under the GNU General Public
License), does not require commercial packages such as Inventor or Motif, and which is capable of running on virtually
all platforms.
VT100
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