Novell
A prominentnetwork software company. Its flagship product, Netware, has been a corporate standard for building local-area networks (LANs) for more than a decade. Novell was founded in 1983.
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The expansion bus for versions of the Macintosh computers starting with the Macintosh II and ending with the Performa. Current Macs use the PCI bus.
- Nuker
Now a generic term for several TCP/IP DoS attacks, but originally made infamous by the WinNuke DoS attack, which crashed Windows machines that had not been suitably patched or firewalled. [Source: CA Anti-spam Solutions]
- multicast
To transmit a single message to a select group of recipients. A simple example of multicasting is sending an e-mail message to a mailing list. Teleconferencing and videoconferencing also use multicasting, but require more robust protocols and networks. Standards are being developed to support multicasting over a TCP/IP network such as the Internet. These standards, […]
- Nyquist's Law
Also called Nyquist’s Theorem. Before sound as acoustic energy can be manipulated on a computer, it must first be converted to electrical energy (using a transducer such as a microphone) and then transformed through an analog-to-digital converter into a digital representation. This is all accomplished by sampling the continuous input waveform a certain number of […]
- n00b
Abbreviation for “newbie”. Newbie is commonly used in newsgroups/a>, chat rooms, instant messaging, text messaging, SMS, e-mail and other real time text-based communications.