| Name |
Description |
| Bad Sector |
a part of a disk storage that cannot be read or written because something is wrong with it. |
| Band Printer |
A printer that uses a metal band to type characters. |
| Bandwidth |
A measure of total amount of data transferred over a period of time, often used to measure how busy a website is. A webhost will usually base its charges on the bandwidth a website uses. |
| Base Memory |
The amount of memory that a computer comes with. |
| Base64 |
an encoding method, which converts binary data into ASCII text. |
| BIOS |
(Basic Input/Output System; pr. "by-oss") A program built into every PC for setting up very basic things, like how many hard and floppy disks you have and what type they are; the first thing that loads when you start your PC. You usually only need to access the BIOS if you are upgrading your hardware, eg adding more RAM or an extra disk drive, or setting a power-on password. BIOS settings are stored in a special type of memory called CMOS. |
| BIOS |
Basic Input Output System -stored on a computer chip and used to communicate between the Operating System and the hardware. It also provides other uses such as a clock. |
| Bit |
The smallest unit of information in a computer, can either equal 0 or 1. Eight bits equal one byte. |
| Bluetooth |
A high-speed wireless communication system for PCs and other computing devices. The industry is very excited about it, but the few Bluetooth devices that have made it to market so far won't always communicate with each other reliably, so it has yet to really take off. |
| Boot |
Usually used to mean "start up the computer". Literally, the process of loading up the operating system and getting the computer ready for use. |
| Broadband |
Internet access over a connection faster than an ordinary modem, such as ADSL or cable. |
| Byte |
basic unit of measurement for pieces of information; the space required to store one character. See also Bit,Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte. |
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