'On the road'

(Universal Serial) Bus - a road vehicle designed to carry passengers

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Also known as a flash drive or memory stick, a USB is a plug-and-play portable storage device that uses flash memory and can be used in place of a floppy disk, Zip drive disk, or CD.

When plugged into the USB port, a computer's operating system recognises the device as a removable drive and assigns it a drive letter. Unlike most removable drives, a USB drive does not require rebooting after it's attached, batteries or an external power supply.

Crash - an impact between two moving objects

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The sudden failure of a software application or operating system to perform its expected function and respond to other parts of the system. Often the offending program will appear to freeze. If this program is a critical part of the operating system kernel the entire computer may crash.

Shortcut - a shorter route or smaller effort

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A small file containing a target URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) or the name of a target program file that the shortcut represents, making it easier to access from a different location. Shortcuts are commonly placed on a desktop, in an application launcher panel, or in the main menu of a desktop environment.

In Windows 95 and later operating systems, a shortcut is a computer desktop icon that enables a user to easily see and select a particular program or data object. The operating system comes with some shortcuts (usually indicated by an icon with an arrow in one corner) already visible on the desktop which can be removed or new ones added. Deleting a shortcut does not delete the item it points to.

(Bit)map - a visual representation of an area

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A common graphic format used by computers where the graphic/picture is made up of a number of individual dots (bits) to form an image.

The term bitmap comes from computer programming terminology and means just a map of bits or a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to the similar concept of a spatially mapped array of pixels. In some contexts, the term bitmap implies one bit per pixel, while pixmap is used for images with multiple bits per pixel.

The file extension for these types of files is .bmp, these can get very large in size and if storage space is a factor then images are usually transferred into a more compressed format such as JPEG.

Route(r) - a series of directions leading to a destination

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A networking device where software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information.

In packet-switched networks such as the Internet, a router is a device, or even software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet (unit of data) should be forwarded toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and decides which way to send each information packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to. It does this by interrogating a routing table which is either static or dynamically generated.

A router is located at any gateway (where one network meets another) and most can be set up to block certain types of data packets which can be useful for security reasons.


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