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| INTERNET DICTIONARY - LETTER "S" | |
| SceneGraph | The hierarchy of nodes within a VRML file. |
| script | In the context of the World Wide Web, a (gateway) script is a program that runs on a server and processes requests based on input from the browser. |
| scroll | The act of moving a browser's scroll bar. This allows a user to see what else is on a Web page other than what appears in the initial screen. Anything on the initial screen is called "above the fold" and the content you see when you scroll down is called "below the fold". |
| SDK | A technology developed by Western Digital that significantly improves the performance of removable media storage peripherals such as CD-ROM drives. Instead of connecting directly to the PC via an EIDE interface, these peripherals connect directly to the hard drive through the new SDX interface. |
| search engine | A program which acts like a library card catalog for the Internet. Search engines attempt to help a user isolate desired information or resources by searching for keywords that the user specifies. The method for finding this information is usually done by maintaining an index of Web resources that can be queried for the keywords or concepts entered by the user. The index can be built from specific resource lists or created by Web wanderers, robots, spiders, crawlers, and worms. From the Net surfer point of view search engines can be quite tiresome and not very fruitful if you don't know how to use them correctly. Different engines are good for different kinds of searches. It's a good idea before using a search engine to read the help section of the engine's Web site to see what the best way is to optimize your results. |
| secure channel | A technology that provides privacy, integrity, and authentication in point-to-point communications such as a connection on the Internet between a Web browser and a Web server. SEE ALSO Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and Internet Security. |
| Script, Scripting Language | A programming shortcut that gives nontechnical users a way to create richer content on their computers and gives programmers a quick way to create simple applications. |
| search engine | An on-line entity with capability to index the web for a desired item, and bring up the results with link to the sources. If you input "Bible" for example, the search engine brings you all the web sites associated with the Bible. |
| Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) | A protocol used to run IP over serial lines, such as telephone circuits or RS-232 cables, interconnecting two systems. SLIP is defined in RFC 1055. See also: Point-to-Point Protocol.To connect to the Internet via Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) or Point to Point Protocol (PPP), you need to have TCP/IP software on your computer. When connected by SLIP/PPP, your computer actually becomes another node on the Internet. You can then run popular client software directly. This has an advantage over a shell account where you will have to double download in order to transfer a file by FTP because the data first goes to network and then to a local machine. |
| server | The business end of a client/server setup, a server is usually a computer that provides the information, files, Web pages, and other services to the client that logs on to it. (The word server is also used to describe the software and operating system designed to run server hardware.) The client/server setup is analogous to a restaurant with waiters and customers. Some Internet servers take this analogy to extremes and become inattentive, or even refuse to serve you. See also: client, Domain Name System, Network File System. |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language - SGML is an international standard for the publication and delivery of electronic information. |
| shareware | Software available for downloading on the Internet that you can try before you buy. Users who want to continue to use the program are expected to pay a registration fee (rarely more than U.S. $100). In return they get documentation, technical support, and any updated versions. |
| shell account | A UNIX-based account that allows an indirect, command-line connection to the Internet. |
| Shockwave | A Web browser plugin which provides for Macromedia Director movies to be viewed on World Wide Web pages. Shockwave is a key component of Macromedia's solution for interactive professionals who develop digital media for the World Wide Web. If you have created an interactive movie using Macromedia Director, you will need to compress the movie through a program called "Afterburner" before you can use it as Shockwave on a Web site. |
| shouting | Chatters and Usenet posters will often tell other chatters and users to "stop shouting." It's another way of saying, "TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK!" In general, chatting and posting in uppercase is considered rude. |
| SIG | Special Interest Group - People with a common interest who meet or exchange e-mail messages on a particular topic in an organized way. Not to be confused with a signature file or .sigfile. |
| signature file | A file automatically attached to outgoing e-mail messages and postings to newsgroups. |
| .sig file | .signature file - A file that, when placed in your home directory on your public-access site, will automatically be appended to every Usenet posting you write. |
| .sig quote | A profound/witty/quizzical/whatever quote that you include in your `.sig' file. |
| signal-to-noise ratio | The amount of useful information to be found in a given Usenet newsgroup. Often used derogatorily, for example: "the signal-to-noise ratio in this newsgroup is pretty low." |
| signature | The three or four line message at the bottom of a piece of email or a Usenet article which identifies the sender. Large signatures (over five lines) are generally frowned upon. See also: Electronic Mail, Usenet. |
| Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) | A protocol, defined in STD 10, RFC 821, used to transfer electronic mail between computers. It is a server to server protocol, so other protocols are used to access the messages. See also: Electronic Mail, Post Office Protocol, RFC 822. |
| Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) | The Internet standard protocol, defined in STD 15, RFC 1157, developed to manage nodes on an IP network. It is currently possible to manage wiring hubs, toasters, jukeboxes, etc. See also: Management Information Base. |
| site or Web site | A place on the Internet or World Wide Web. The term Web site refers to the all encompassing body of information as a whole, for a particular domain name. A place made up of Web pages. Site can also refer to an FTP site or archive site which is a directory on a computer somewhere which has been set up to allow users to log in and retrieve or upload files to it. |
| SLIP | See: Serial Line IP |
| SMDS | Switched Multimegabit Data Service - A new standard for very high-speed data transfer. |
| snail mail | Regular mail as in "through rain, snow, sleet, or hail ..." |
| smileys :-) | or emoticons - When speaking face to face, the person's facial expressions help you understand the meaning of what he or she is saying. Smileys or emoticons are an attempt to bring that extra nuance to online communications, by composing a face out of ASCII characters. This is also reffered to as ASCII art. |
| SMDS | See: Switched Multimegabit Data Service |
| SMI | See: Structure of Management Information |
| SMTP | See: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNA | See: Systems Network Architecture |
| snail mail | A pejorative term referring to the normal 'paper' postal service. |
| SNMP | See: Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SorG | Straight or gay - see "MorF" |
| sort | To arrange a collection of items into a specific order. The items could be records or files, directories, data structures etc. To impose an order such as ascending or descending, numerical, alphabetical, and date. |
| sound card | An optional computer circuit card for IBM PC's. It provides high-quality stereo sound output under program control. A "multimedia" PC usually includes a sound card. One of the best known is the SoundBlaster. SEE ALSO: duplex |
| sound player | A browser helper application for playing sound files. |
| source code | The form in which a computer program is written. On the Internet among others the source code for a Web page could contain any of the following languages: HTML, Javascript, Java, and SGML. These codes in turn may call upon other scripts or documents which are written in the same code or pehaps an entirely different code such as Perl, C++ (CGI), or Lingo (Shockwave). SEE ALSO: document source. |
| Spacing the Cells | Adding spacing, increases the distance between the individual cells of a table. |
| spam | To send identical and irrelevent postings to many different newsgroups or mailing lists. Usually this posting is something that has nothing to do with the particular topic of a newsgroup or of no real interest to the person on the mailing list. The name comes from a Monty Python song and is considered to be a serious violation of netiquette. SEE ALSO: spew. |
| spew | While spam refers to the mass sending of an e-mail or newsgroup posting to a large number of people who would otherwise not be interested in seeing the letter or post, spew is when you're on a newsgroup or in a chat room and one of the participants goes on and on about something and/or types the same thing repeatedly. |
| spider | A program that prowls the Internet, attempting to locate new, publically accessible resources such as WWW documents, files available in public FTP archives, and Gopher documents. Also called wanderers or robots (bots), spiders contribute their discoveries to a database, which Internet users can search by using an Internet-accessible search engine such as Lycos or WebCrawler. Spiders are necessary because the rate at which people are creating new Internet documents greatly exceeds manual indexing capacity. |
| splash page | An extra "first" or "front" page of a Web site, usually containing a "click-through" logo or message, announcing that you have arrived. The real information and navigation for the site lies behind this page on the homepage or welcome page. SEE ALSO: buffer page. |
| SSI | server side include - A technology or process by which HTML authors can "include" content (text, graphics, etc.) on Web pages, without actually coding the properties (name, size, color, etc.) of this content in the HTML document itself. This allows greater flexibilty in changing/adding in complex portions of information that change often on a Web page (also known as: making it dynamic) without actually having to edit the syntax of a specific HTML document that contains the simple SSI statement. Taking information from another Web page and "including" it on another. It's called "server side" because the execution of this program takes place on a server. Which needs to be properly configured to handle SSI in advance. |
| SSL | secured sockets layer - A protocol that delivers server authentication, data encryption, and message integrity. SSL is layered beneath application protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, and NNTP, and layered above the connection protocol TCP/IP. This strategy allows SSL to operate independently of the Internet application protocols. With SSL implemented on both the client and server, your Internet communications are transmitted in encrypted form. Information you send can be trusted to arrive privately and unaltered to the server you specify (and no other). |
| static IP | An IP address which is the same everytime you "log on" to the Internet. See IP address for more information. |
| STD | A subseries of RFCs that specify Internet standards. The official list of Internet standards is in STD 1. See also: For Your Information, Request For Comments. |
| stream-oriented | A type of transport service that allows its client to send data in a continuous stream. The transport service will guarantee that all data will be delivered to the other end in the same order as sent and without duplicates. See also: Transmission Control Protocol. [Source: MALAMUD] |
| StreamWorks | The StreamWorks Player brings the power of networked audio and video to the desktop. You can play "live" and "on-demand" audio and video from StreamWorks Servers across the globe. The StreamWorks Transmitter allows for LIVE network encoding of digital audio and video over today's networks. Taking inputs from analog audio and video connections, like the ones on the back of a VCR, StreamWorks Transmitter is capable of enabling live, real-time MPEG audio and video over industry standard TCP/IP networks. |
| Structure of Management Information (SMI) | The rules used to define the objects that can be accessed via a network management protocol. This protocol is defined in STD 16, RFC 1155. See also: Management Information Base. [Source: RFC1208] |
| stub network | A stub network only carries packets to and from local hosts. Even if it has paths to more than one other network, it does not carry traffic for other networks. See also: backbone, transit network. |
| Stuffit Expander | A shareware program that decompresses virtually any compressed file you will encounter on the Internet. It is available for Macintosh and Windows. MACINTOSH - Installer for StuffIt Expander 4.0.1, Use it, as is, to expand StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex & MacBinary files. Add the Expander Enhancer from "DropStuff with Expander Enhancer" and StuffIt Expander is PowerPC accelerated, expands more formats (including .tar!), and joins StuffIt segments. Expander now handles segmented and multipart encoded files (ie: BinHex and UUencoded files). WINDOWS - StuffIt Expander for Windows expands files from the most popular archiving and compression formats found online, including StuffItª (.sit) and ZIP (.zip). StuffIt Expander will also expand files in uuencoded (.uue), BinHex (.hqx), and MacBinary (.bin) formats, such as those commonly found on the Internet. Other archive formats supported include ARC (.arc), Arj (.arj), and gzip (.gz). StuffIt Expander will also expand self-extracting archives created by StuffIt, ZIP, and Arj. |
| style guide | A set of guidelines written for the purpose of keeping consistent and standardizing the further development of a particular Web site. Style guides include everything from HTML do's and don'ts to colors and fonts that must be used to CGI and Javascript programming and grammatical specifics. |
| style sheets | In word processing and desktop publishing, a style sheet is a file or form that defines the layout of a document. When you fill in a style sheet, you specify such parameters as the page size, margins, and fonts. Style sheets are useful because you can use the same style sheet for many documents. For example, you could define one style sheet for personal letters, another for official letters, and a third for reports. Stylesheets are also called templates. On the World Wide Web a style sheet refers to cascading style sheets. SEE also CSS. |
| subnet | A portion of a network, which may be a physically independent network segment, which shares a network address with other portions of the network and is distinguished by a subnet number. A subnet is to a network what a network is to an internet. See also: internet, network. |
| subnet address | The subnet portion of an IP address. In a subnetted network, the host portion of an IP address is split into a subnet portion and a host portion using an address (subnet) mask. See also: address mask, IP address, network address, host address. |
| subnet mask | See: address mask |
| subnet number | See: subnet address |
| subscribe | To add your name and e-mail address to a mailing list, LISTSERV, or discussion group. |
| surf | To browse or "look at" information on the World Wide Web by pointing and clicking and navigating in a nonlinear way (meaning anywhere you want to go at anytime). |
| Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) | An emerging high-speed datagram-based public data network service developed by Bellcore and expected to be widely used by telephone companies as the basis for their data networks. See also: Metropolitan Area Network. [Source: RFC1208] |
| SYSOP | Systems Operator - The person who does day-to-day maintenance of a BBS. |
| Systems Network Architecture (SNA) | A proprietary networking architecture used by IBM and IBM- compatible mainframe computers. [Source: NNSC] |
