Term | Definition |
• Two popular mass-marketing technologies used to push advertisements, promotions and emergency broadcasts to customers are: | o Opt-in e-mail marketing
o Opt-in mass texting services |
• List server | – collects and distributes information to and from listserve groups |
o List servers: | LISTSERV (www.lsoft.com)
Majordomo (www.greatcircle.com/majordomo)
Lyris (www.lyris.com) |
o Listserve group | – participants who subscribe to a mailing list through a list server |
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP) | o Used to transfer files between two computers
o Public FTP servers generally allow anonymous logon and allow downloading of files only
o Files are downloaded via the FTP "get" command
o Corporate FTP servers usually require a user name and password |
• Common compression utilities include: | o Zip/unzip
o Bzip2/bunzip2
o Bzip/bunzip
o Gzip/gunzip
o Compress/uncompress
o RAR/WinRAR |
• Remote Desktop Connection is part of Microsoft Terminal Services, which is a suite of tools that enables computers to function as dedicated clients to a server running Windows | o You use Remote Desktop Connection to control a remote computer; similar to VNC |
• In a peer-to-peer network | each computer has both client and server capabilities |
• SETI Institute | – www.seti.org search for extrateresstrial |
• The ipconfig command | – displays your system's IP configurations |
• The ping command | – tests connectivity between a source system and a destination system |
• The tracert command | – determines the path between a source system and a destination system |
• Open source | – a peer-based development process in which the source code is available to anyone and can be developed concurrently |
• Open-source licenses: | o GNU General Public License (GPL)
o BSD License
o Apache License
o Mozilla Public License (MPL)
o Common Public License (CPL) |
• Proprietary software | – software that is owned by an author or entity |
• End-user license agreement (EULA) | – a legal contract between the software's author and the end user who uses the software |
• Proprietary software | – software that is owned by an author or entity |
• A typical EULA: | o Copyrights the code so that it belongs to the author
o Specifies exactly how an end user may use the software |
• Patent | – a set of exclusive rights granted to an inventor for a fixed period of time upon disclosure of the invention |
• Patent jurisdiction: | • Patents do not apply worldwide
• You must apply to a specific patent office belonging to a particular country or group of countries |
• Patent controversy: | • Patents can squelch creativity
• Patents can increase cost
• Patents are difficult to enforce and apply |