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Welcome to our Glossary. Here you can find the meaning of words and expressions commonly used by computer-users. Use the query form below to enter a word or part of a word you are looking for. Click the "Search" button to start the search. Search for: You can also take a look at all the words starting with a particular character, select one below: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z We are looking for more words here, so please mail me any words you don't know and I'll try to find out what they mean. Or send me words you do know and their meaning, so we can add them too and get an even better glossary (either in Dutch or English is fine). Words in our glossary starting with "W" ...

W-CDMA
Wideband Code Division Multiplexed Access. A mobile phone technique based on CDMA allowing faster datatransfers.

WAAS
Wide Area Augmentation System, a system to improve accuracy of GPS significantly. The system is not yet fully operational but will be in the next few years. It does not yet appear to be working in Europe though. WAAS is a satellite signal improvement.

WAN
Wide Area Network. A network covering a larger area than a LAN, for example between two office buildings at different locations.

WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
Wireless Application Protocol. A protocol designed for mobile Internet applications (webpages, etc.) over a mobile phone network.

WAP-microbrowser
Software to browse the Internet suing your mobile phone or organizer.

Warez
Expression used to denote cracked and/or pirate versions of commercial software. In other words, illegal pirated software.

Warm Reset
Refers to a so called restart of a computer where basically the memory remains intact. In now-a-days computers this is not very often done. In the old days (Commodore 64, OSI C1P, ZX81, etc) this was common practice to improve restart time. Sometimes Windows does this too, briefly exit Windows only and re-enter Windows quickly, however newer Windows versions do seem to use it less and less.

WAV
Standard digital audio file format used by Microsoft.

Waypoint
Waypoints are named coordinates representing points on the surface of the Earth. Usually used for setting out a route or to indicate a favorite spot. Commonly used with GPS.

wcmdmgr.exe
This file is part of a company called Wild Tangent, which is used to play internet games. It's actually considered spyware and known to cause issues on your PC. Use an anti Spyware application like Adaware to remove it from your PC.

WDM - Windows Driver Model
WDM is short for Windows Driver Model, which is basically a model setup by Microsoft to make it easier on developers to create drivers for te Windows platform. The model is to ensure that a developer does not need to write a driver for each Windows version. Unfortunately; even Microsoft cannot predict the future.

WebHosting
A service that allows you to upload and store a sites HTML documents and related files on a Web server. This makes the files available on the World Wide Web for viewing by the public. Also called site hosting.

WebLog
A weblog is, literally, a 'log' of the web. This can be a log file from a webserver (monitoring browser activities) or somekind of diary-style site, in which the author (a weblogger, or 'blogger') links to other web pages, pictures, pieces of text, etc. which he or she finds interesting.

Website
Amount of information stored on a computer, accessale via a network or the Internet, browseable as seperate pages.

WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy, an encryption technique of use in wireless LAN networks in order to protect your network against unwanted access by others.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
Protocol for wireless LAN security, based on the IEEE 802.11 standard and uses the RC4 encryption algorithm. WEP allows you to increase security by encrypting data being transferred over your wireless network. There are several encryption 'strenghts' available, like 64-bit (=40 bit!) and 128-bit.

WiFi (Wireless Fidelity)
Popular name for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN networks.

Wiki
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://wikipedia.org/) available in several languages. A Wiki or wiki is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website. Wiki (with an upper case 'W') and WikiWikiWeb are both used to refer specifically to the Portland Pattern Repository (http://c2.com/), the first wiki ever created. A lower-case 'w' for 'wiki' is generally used by savvy wiki proponents. The name was based on the Hawaiian term wiki wiki, meaning "quick" or "super-fast."

Win2K, WinXP, Win9X
Refers to Microsoft Windows versions. Where Win2K refers to Windows 2000. WinXP to Windows XP, and Win9X to Windows 9x (95, 98 and ME).

Windows
Most commonly used Operating System available in several flavors. For example Windows NT, 2000, 98, ME, etc.

Windows 98 SE
Second edition of Windows 98 with some improved features.

Windows 9X
Refers to the familie of Windows 95, 98, 98 Second Edition and ME. They are all based on the same "kernel" and intended basically for home use only. This family is often refered to since they bahave similar. For example they use the same drivers. In contrats to Windows 2000, NT4 and XP.

WinRAR
Commercial application to compress or decompress files (ZIP, LHA, ARC, RAR, LZH, UU, TAR, TGZ, etc). See http://www.rarlabs.com

WINS
Short for Windows Internet Naming Service, a system that determines the IP address associated with a particular network computer. This is called name resolution. WINS supports network client and server computers running Windows and can provide name resolution for other computers with special arrangements. Determining the IP address for a computer is a complex process when DHCP servers assign IP addresses dynamically. For example, it is possible for DHCP to assign a different IP address to a client each time the machine logs on to the network. WINS uses a distributed database that is automatically updated with the names of computers currently available and the IP address assigned to each one. DNS is an alternative system for name resolution suitable for network computers with fixed IP addresses.

WinZip
Commercial application to compress or decompress zipped files (.ZIP files). See http://www.winzip.com. Nowadays WinRAR offers more features.

Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
Wireless Distribution System (WDS) allows you to make a completely wireless infrastructure. Normally, the access points must be connected with a wire (LAN). These access points create cells allowing a wireless connection. The WDS feature allows the access points to be wirelessly connected. This feature is normally used in large, open areas where pulling a wire is restricted or not cost effective and in residential circumstances. If the structure utilizing an access point is too large to cover using one AP, a second AP would be used as a wireless repeater. The WDS has forwarding functionality for extending the range of an AP. By setting up an extended service set (ESS) between access points. Stations can intersect with any AP of this ESS and move between the coverage of both APs while the higher layer network connection remains intact. Note: The WDS feature is not completely specified in IEEE or Wifi standards. Therefore interoperability between 802.11 products of different vendors is not guaranteed.

Wizzard
Name for a type of program that guides you through a specified process, to make things a bit easier on you.

WMA
Windows Media Audio, Microsofts proprietary audio codec designed to compete with MP3. Claims competitive sound quality at lower bitrates. Comes with some downside like poor support by software, DVD players etc. It also has a crappy DRM (Figital Rights Management).

WML
(Abveration) Wireless Markup Language. The HTML look-a-like used for WAP.

WML (Wireless Markup Language)
Formerly known as HDML - This is part of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and it allows text portions of Web content to be separated from graphical content for display on wireless devices.

WMP
Short for Windows Media Player.

WWW
World Wide Web.

WXGA
PC screen resolution indicating a Widescreen XGA screen of 1280x800 pizels.

WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get, or: what you see on your computer monitor is what you will get when you print it with your printer. This expression was introduced in the mid 80's when the first Desktop Publishing programs appeared. Now a days you really See What You Get.


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