| Your Understanding |
Their Understanding |
| Backup: data being backed up to storage device. |
Backup: The opposite of go forward. |
| Cursor: Flashing pointer positioning. |
Cursor: An expert in 4-letter words |
| Dump: Server Blue Screen |
Dump: A Network Administrators work area |
| Defrag: Defragmentation collects streams of data and
stores it together on the hard disk. |
Defrag: What some religious groups claim they can accomplish with
counseling. |
| Dongle: A device that prevents the unauthorized use
of hardware or software. |
Dongle: Something that if whipped out in front of an
end-user may cause a sexual harassment lawsuit. |
| DSL: Digital subscriber lines up to 1.5 mbps |
DSL: Cable Modem |
| Modem: A modem is device that converts computer data
into sound that can be transmitted over phone lines. |
Modem: Computer case, hard drive, monitor,
motherboard, mouse, keyboard, a sound that cats make while in heat. |
| Email: Electronic mail |
Email: A medium used to send cat pictures to friends
that can have children |
| Emoticon: :-) |
Emoticon: Men that can't
express feelings |
| Encryption: Encryption is the process of
changing data into a form that can be read only by the intended receiver. |
Encryption: The explanation of why your
cat pictures are still in your outbound mail box. |
| FAT: file allocation table |
FAT: The billing departments of every company in the
world. And a lot of programmers as well. |
| Fat binary: Large files that Macintosh and
Power Mac can send.. |
Fat binary: A very large single digit that
is typically used while driving behind the elderly. |
| Flash ROM: Reprogramming a new BIOS |
Flash ROM: What I'm going to do if I get fired. |
| Ghosting: Copying a hard drive sector by
sector |
Ghosting: What I'm going to do if I
get fired. |
| Gigabyte: 1,073,741,824 bytes |
Gigabyte: What Herb Albert went to court
for. |
| Gopher: Helpdesk Engineer. |
Gopher: Helpdesk Engineer. |
| Phong shading: In 3D graphics, the
polygons that make up the graphics need to be shaded. |
Phong shading: When you want to wear a
thong, but only have a black magic marker. |
| Ping: packet Internet groper |
Ping: The sound that the monitor makes
with they bump your head against it. |
| POP: Post Office Protocol |
POP: The sound that is make the second time their
head hits to monitor. |
| PPP: point-to-point protocol |
PPP: What happens if they drink too much coffee |
| Public domain: Food in the lunch room refrigerator
after 12:30 PM |
Public domain: Food in the lunch room refrigerator
after 12:30 PM |
| RAID: redundant array of independent (or
inexpensive) disks |
RAID: Going through your desk after we fix your
computer. |
| RAM: random access memory |
RAM: Male sheep |
| Resolution: Resolution is a measure
of graphics that's used to describe what a printer can print. |
Resolution: To quit smoking and lose weight after the
holidays. |
| Twisted pair: Telephone
companies commonly run twisted pairs of copper wires to each customer
household |
Twisted pair: When a
computer geek marries the graphic artist in marketing. |
| TWAIN: Scanner driver |
TWAIN: Another word for locomotive. |
| Zipped: Compressed file |
Zipped: What computer people are never when they come
dragging in late in the morning. |
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