TECHIE TERMS - Add & Ask

Godders

Denial Of Service Attack:

Many viruses which hit the headlines are ones which try to carry out Denial Of Service attacks on popular websites. The basic idea is to drive a website off the internet by flooding it with traffic from hundreds (if not thousands) of sources at once.

Rather than go into techie detail about what such an attack is This firsthand account by Steve Gibson makes great reading and explains several of the concepts. (I am not affiliated with this site at all - but I have learned lots from it)

NOTE: You don't have to try and understand everything - theres quite a lot on it.

Squidgy

I'm not very good, with all this techie stuff so just some simple stuff would be good like:

I know HTH is "hope this helps", but what does LOL mean?

How do you go about putting pictures in the threads?

How do you do links?

Sorry, I did say I'm not very good :-[

Toxteth_OGrady

You'll find LaughOutLoud and many other acronyms here.

To post an image use [img][/img]where the url of your image goes between the pair of square brackets. The image must be hosted on a website to do this. Use your own or one like https://www.uploadit.org

To abbreviate urls use [ url= .....][/url] with the word you want to use as the link.

So to type a link using the word 'here' you would put in without the spaces here

Hence, upload images for free here

Squidgy

Thanks for that ;D

Will look in to it all more fully tomorrow when hubby is not trying to get on computer!

Thanks again
Squidgy

LincsLad_3

You will find most of those subjects discussed more fully in the newly-renamed This Site - Questions & Suggestions Forum.

Pete.g

I upgraded the crappy dvd burner that came with my Dell computer a couple of months ago for an all singing all dancing pioneer 108 dual layer burner errr what does dual layer do??? ::)

Cheers,

Pete.

Godders

It's a way of doubling the capacity of a DVD by having two recordable 'Layers' within the disk instead of one.

Click Here for details from Philips

wirm

PURL - Presistent Uniform Resource Locator

Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client. The client can then complete the URL transaction in the normal fashion. In Web parlance, this is a standard HTTP redirect.

Really this is just a way of redirecting one link to another

Pete.g

Thanks for that Godders. So I can now put 2 films on one DVD great.

Pete.

foxhound_2

What is 'Ping'. I know its used in online games as I use them all the time but im not sure what it is. I think it may have somethig to do with lag??
Is it good to have a high or low 'ping'. someone please explain.