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  • 14:16, 15 April 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page File:Safety.jpg
  • 09:17, 11 April 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glosary:Reverse defenestration to Glossary:Reverse defenestration
  • 09:09, 11 April 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Hypervisor (Created page with "A hypervisor is a program which allows you to run one or more virtual machines, each in its own padded cell and hence prevented from interfering with one another or with the hypervisor itself. A hypervisor may run as an application under a host operating system, or may run on the "bare metal" without an operating system, and hence free to utilise the totality of available computing, memory and peripheral resources.")
  • 09:00, 11 April 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Virtual Machine (Created page with "A virtual machine or VM is a complete operating system with applications running in a kind of padded cell as an application under a host operating system. In this way, for example, you can try out different Linux distros under an existing Windows installation, or run a Windows installation under Linux if a Windows application you need is not available under Linux.")
  • 08:08, 11 April 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glosary:Reverse defenestration (Created page with "Reverse defenestration is a term used to describe the process of throwing Windows out of computers. This is generally in order to install Linux or some other non-Microsoft operating system instead. In partial reverse defenestration, a Windows istallation may remain in a dual-boot configuration or as a virtual machine but this is not admitted as true reverse defenesttration by purists, who prefer radical reverse defenestration, leaving behind...")
  • 16:19, 31 March 2024 Philip talk contribs marked Table lamps for translation
  • 16:18, 31 March 2024 Philip talk contribs marked Mixers, blenders and coffee grinders for translation
  • 16:16, 31 March 2024 Philip talk contribs marked Kettles, electric urns and rice boilers for translation
  • 20:54, 30 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Passkey (Created page with "Passkeys are a more secure and more convenient alternative to passwords for logging into a website. Your browser creates and stores a highly secure secret key and gives the website a corresponding public key. Using the public key and clever cryptographic magic, the website can subsequently prove that your bowser knows the secret key without your browser ever revealing what it is. A limitation is that you can only share passkeys between different platforms (Windows/Apple/...")
  • 21:37, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Password manager (content was: "A password manager is an application (often a browser extension) which stores all your passwords under the protection of a strong master password. It will also create highly random passwords and auto-fill them so you never need to even know what they are. Additionally it will protect you against entering your password in a malicious look-alike spoof website.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 21:32, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Password manager (Created page with "A password manager is an application (often a browser extension) which stores all your passwords under the protection of a strong master password. It will also create highly random passwords and auto-fill them so you never need to even know what they are. Additionally it will protect you against entering your password in a malicious look-alike spoof website.")
  • 21:26, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Credential stuffing (Created page with "A credential stuffing attack is where an attacker uses a list of compromised user names and passwords to try to hack into different systems in the hope (often justified) that a user has used the same password on different sites. This is why you should always use different passwords on different sites.")
  • 21:19, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Password spraying (Created page with "A password spraying attack is when an attacker tries a small number of common passwords against many different accounts on a system in the (often justified) hope that one of them, at least, will be using a weak password.")
  • 21:03, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Brute force attack (Created page with "A brute force attack is an attempt to hack into an account by trying all possible passwords. It's easy to defend against simply by using a reasonaly strong password.")
  • 20:53, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:BLE (Created page with "BLE or Bluetooth Low Energy is a variant of Bluetooth offering similar functions to "classic" Bluetooth, but with greatly reduced power requirements. It was originally aimed at applications needing to run for months or years on a single button cell but is now often used in in many regular applications.")
  • 17:42, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glossary:SSD/fr to Glossary:Solid State Disk/fr without leaving a redirect
  • 16:02, 29 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Bipolar Transistor/fr (content was: "Un transistor bipolaire (à jonction) est un type de transistor à 3 couches semi-conductrices. Voir Transistors dans le wiki.", and the only contributor was "Pleriche" (talk))
  • 15:40, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Earth Loop/fr (content was: "Lorsque deux équipements audio sont connectés ensemble, chacun ayant sa propre prise de terre, une partie du courant qui devrait circuler entre l'un des équipements et sa propre prise de terre passe par la prise de terre de l'autre équipement, ce qui provoque un bourdonnement désagréable dans le signal de sortie audio. C'est ce qu'on appelle une boucle de terre.", and the only contributor was "Pleriche" (talk))
  • 15:39, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Carte fille/fr (content was: "Une carte fille est une carte secondaire qui se raccorde à la carte principale, ou carte mère.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:29, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Conducteur électrique/fr (content was: "Un conducteur électrique est un matériau qui conduit l'électricité. Le métal et le carbone sont des conducteurs électriques.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:26, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Schéma électrique/fr (content was: "Un aspirateur, par exemple, peut contenir plusieurs chemins ou "circuits" où le courant peut circuler, et un ordinateur peut en contenir un très grand nombre. Un schéma électrique est une image de tous ces chemins (ou de certains d'entre eux) qui vous permet de voir comment les pièces sont connectées entre elles et, avec un peu de chance, de comprendre le fonctionnement de...", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:23, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Capacité électrique/fr (content was: "La capacité électrique d'un condensateur mesure sa capacité à stocker une charge électrique, capacité mesurée en farads.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:22, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Condensateur/fr (content was: "Un condensateur est un composant électronique capable de stocker une charge électrique. Sa capacité électrique (ou sa capacité de stockage de la charge) est mesurée en farads.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:18, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Régulateur buck/fr (content was: "Un régulateur ou convertisseur buck est un type de régulateur de tension à découpage qui produit une tension de sortie moins élevée que la tension d'entrée.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:17, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Régulateur boost/fr (content was: "Un régulateur ou convertisseur boost est un type de régulateur de tension à découpage qui produit une tension de sortie plus élevée que la tension d'entrée.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:08, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Transistor Bipolaire/fr (content was: "Un transistor bipolaire (à jonction) est un type de transistor à 3 couches semi-conductrices. Voir Transistors dans le wiki.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:04, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Binaire/fr (content was: "Le système binaire est un système numérique utilisant uniquement les chiffres 0 et 1. Il est bien adapté aux ordinateurs, qui peuvent représenter ces chiffres par le statut "on" et "off" d'un commutateur.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 15:02, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:AC/DC motor/fr (content was: "Un moteur universel est un type de moteur électrique qui fonctionne aussi bien en CA qu'en CC.", and the only contributor was "Pleriche" (talk))
  • 15:01, 28 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:2FA/fr (content was: "L'authentification à deux étapes ou 2FA (Two Factor Authentication en anglais) est un système de connexion dans lequel vous devez non seulement fournir un mot de passe ("quelque chose que vous savez"), mais aussi prouver que vous possédez un objet ("quelque chose que vous avez") ou fournir un élément biométrique tel qu'une empreinte digitale ("quelque chose que vous...", and the only contributor was "Pleriche" (talk))
  • 10:27, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:ESD/fr (Created page with "La décharge électrostatique ou DES est l'électricité statique engendrée par le frottement d'une chaussure sur un tapis, par exemple, et particulièrement perceptible dans des conditions de faible hygrométrie. Même si elle n'est pas perceptible, elle peut abîmer les composants électroniques fragiles.")
  • 10:25, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Moteur sans charbon/fr (content was: "Un moteur à commutation électronique ou sans charbon ou "brushless" est un type de moteur à courant continu qui utilise un circuit électronique pour commuter le courant entre plusieurs bobines afin de faire tourner le rotor, au lieu d'utiliser un collecteur et des balais pour remplir cette fonction. Voir Moteur à courant continu et Moteur universel dans le wiki.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 10:22, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glossary:Electronically Commutated Motor/fr to Glossary:Brushless Motor/fr without leaving a redirect
  • 10:18, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Electronically Commutated Motor/fr (Created page with "Un moteur à commutation électronique ou sans charbon ou "brushless" est un type de moteur à courant continu qui utilise un circuit électronique pour commuter le courant entre plusieurs bobines afin de faire tourner le rotor, au lieu d'utiliser un collecteur et des balais pour remplir cette fonction. Voir Moteur à courant continu et Moteur universel dans le wiki.")
  • 10:16, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Electromagnetic Wave/fr (Created page with "Une onde électromagnétique est une sorte d'onde dans l'espace, qui échange continuellement de l'énergie entre les champs électriques et magnétiques, de la même manière qu'une vague sur un étang oscille continuellement entre la gravité et le mouvement. Les ondes radio, la lumière, les rayons X et les rayons gamma sont tous des ondes électromagnétiques de longueurs d'onde différentes.")
  • 10:14, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Electromagnet/fr (Created page with "Un électroaimant est une bobine de fil électrrique enroulée autour d'un noyau de fer. Si le fil est alimenté en courant électrrique, il magnétise le noyau en fer. Il est généralement utilisé dans les appareils électromécaniques tels que les grille-pain, où il maintient le levier enfoncé pendant que vos tartines grillent.")
  • 09:59, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glossary:Earth Loop/fr to Glossary:Ground Loop/fr without leaving a redirect
  • 09:57, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Earth Loop/fr (Created page with "Lorsque deux équipements audio sont connectés ensemble, chacun ayant sa propre prise de terre, une partie du courant qui devrait circuler entre l'un des équipements et sa propre prise de terre passe par la prise de terre de l'autre équipement, ce qui provoque un bourdonnement désagréable dans le signal de sortie audio. C'est ce qu'on appelle une boucle de terre.")
  • 09:53, 21 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:E-Ink/fr (Created page with "L'écran e-ink (ou à encre électronique) est un type d'écran, généralement monochrome, utilisé dans les liseuses électroniques. Il a l'avantage d'utiliser très peu d'énergie et de fonctionner uniquement avec la lumière du jour réfléchie, sans rétroéclairage actif.")
  • 21:50, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:RFID (Created page with "RFID or Radio Frequency Identification is the technology by which a passive identification tag can be interrogated by a reader by energising it at short range with an electromagnetic field, then detecting a response.")
  • 21:33, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:DMM/fr (Created page with "Un multimètre numérique est un multimètre à affichage numérique.")
  • 21:26, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Diode/fr (Created page with "Une diode est un composant électronique à deux bornes permettant au courant de circuler dans un sens mais pas dans l'autre.")
  • 21:23, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Digital/fr (Created page with "Le numérique est une méthode de représentation, de traitement et de transmission d'un signal ou d'une quantité sous la forme d'un nombre ou d'une séquence de nombres, généralement exprimés en binaire par des 1 et des 0.")
  • 21:20, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Desktop Manager/fr (Created page with "L'environnement de bureau est la partie d'un système d'exploitation, qui représente les applications et les outils de l'ordinateur à l'écran comme des éléments posés sur un bureau.")
  • 21:18, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Demodulation/fr (Created page with "La démodulation est le processus de récupération d'un signal audio ou TV (par exemple) à partir du signal RF reçu d'une antenne.")
  • 21:16, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Decimal/fr (Created page with "Le système décimal est le système de numération que nous utilisons couramment dans la vie de tous les jours, basé sur les chiffres de 0 à 9.")
  • 17:29, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Carte fille/fr (Created page with "Une carte fille est une carte secondaire qui se raccorde à la carte principale, ou carte mère.")
  • 17:26, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:CPU/fr (Created page with "Le processeur ou CPU est le "cerveau" d'un ordinateur. Il exécute les logiciel.")
  • 17:23, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Moteur coreless/fr (Created page with "Un moteur coreless est un type de moteur électrique à courant continu dans lequel le rotor est constitué d'un cylindre de bobines autoportantes sans le noyau métallique habituel. Voir Moteur à courant continu et Moteur universel dans le wiki.")
  • 17:22, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Conducteur électrique/fr (Created page with "Un conducteur électrique est un matériau qui conduit l'électricité. Le métal et le carbone sont des conducteurs électriques.")
  • 17:20, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glossary:Commutator/fr to Glossary:Collecteur/fr
  • 17:09, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs deleted page Glossary:Collecteur/fr (content was: "Le collecteur est la pièce du rotor d'un moteur universel qui capte le courant des balais. Voir Moteur à courant continu et Moteur universel dans le wiki.", and the only contributor was "Philip" (talk))
  • 17:05, 20 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Collecteur/fr (Created page with "Le collecteur est la pièce du rotor d'un moteur universel qui capte le courant des balais. Voir Moteur à courant continu et Moteur universel dans le wiki.")
  • 17:56, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:CMOS/fr (Created page with "CMOS (prononcé "si-moss") ou Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor est une classe de composants électroniques à très faible consommation d'énergie. Dans les premiers PC, les paramètres du BIOS étaient conservés dans une mémoire CMOS alimentée par une petite pile de secours. Ce terme est encore parfois utilisé (à tort) pour désigner cette mémoire, bien que la mémoire Flash soit aujourd'hui universellement utilisée. (Aujourd'hui, la pile de secours assure...")
  • 17:53, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Schéma électrique/fr (Created page with "Un aspirateur, par exemple, peut contenir plusieurs chemins ou "circuits" où le courant peut circuler, et un ordinateur peut en contenir un très grand nombre. Un schéma électrique est une image de tous ces chemins (ou de certains d'entre eux) qui vous permet de voir comment les pièces sont connectées entre elles et, avec un peu de chance, de comprendre le fonctionnement de l'appareil.")
  • 17:42, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Capacité électrique/fr (Created page with "La capacité électrique d'un condensateur mesure sa capacité à stocker une charge électrique, capacité mesurée en farads.")
  • 17:41, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Condensateur/fr (Created page with "Un condensateur est un composant électronique capable de stocker une charge électrique. Sa capacité électrique (ou sa capacité de stockage de la charge) est mesurée en farads.")
  • 17:34, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Moteur sans charbon/fr (Created page with "Un moteur à commutation électronique ou sans charbon ou "brushless" est un type de moteur à courant continu qui utilise un circuit électronique pour commuter le courant entre plusieurs bobines afin de faire tourner le rotor, au lieu d'utiliser un collecteur et des balais pour remplir cette fonction. Voir Moteur à courant continu et Moteur universel dans le wiki.")
  • 17:28, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Balai/fr (Created page with "Dans un moteur universel, un balai ou une brosse à charbon, ou tout simplement un charbon est constitué d'un petit bloc de graphite, dont une paire alimente le rotor en courant par l'intermédiaire du collecteur. Voir Moteurs à courant continu et moteurs universels (CA/CC) dans le Wiki.")
  • 17:17, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Régulateur buck/fr (Created page with "Un régulateur ou convertisseur buck est un type de régulateur de tension à découpage qui produit une tension de sortie moins élevée que la tension d'entrée.")
  • 17:16, 14 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Régulateur boost/fr (Created page with "Un régulateur ou convertisseur boost est un type de régulateur de tension à découpage qui produit une tension de sortie plus élevée que la tension d'entrée.")
  • 21:55, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glossary:Transistor Bipolaire to Glossary:Transistor Bipolaire/fr without leaving a redirect
  • 21:49, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Transistor Bipolaire (Created page with "Un transistor bipolaire (à jonction) est un type de transistor à 3 couches semi-conductrices. Voir Transistors dans le wiki.")
  • 21:48, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Binaire/fr (Created page with "Le système binaire est un système numérique utilisant uniquement les chiffres 0 et 1. Il est bien adapté aux ordinateurs, qui peuvent représenter ces chiffres par le statut "on" et "off" d'un commutateur.")
  • 21:42, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Aftermarket/fr (Created page with "Le terme aftermarket désigne les pièces détachées, les consommables ou les accessoires d'un article, qui ne sont pas fabriqués et vendus par le fabricant de l'article, mais par un tiers.")
  • 11:02, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Moteur universel/fr (Created page with "Un moteur universel est un type de moteur électrique qui fonctionne aussi bien en CA qu'en CC.")
  • 11:00, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glossaire:Two Factor Authentication/fr to Glossary:Two Factor Authentication/fr without leaving a redirect
  • 10:59, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page Glossaire:2FA/fr to Glossaire:Two Factor Authentication/fr without leaving a redirect
  • 10:58, 7 March 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossaire:2FA/fr (Created page with "L'authentification à deux étapes ou 2FA (Two Factor Authentication en anglais) est un système de connexion dans lequel vous devez non seulement fournir un mot de passe ("quelque chose que vous savez"), mais aussi prouver que vous possédez un objet ("quelque chose que vous avez") ou fournir un élément biométrique tel qu'une empreinte digitale ("quelque chose que vous êtes"). Cela rend le système beaucoup plus difficile à pirater.")
  • 10:07, 28 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:TRF (Created page with "A TRF or Tuned Radio Frequency radio receiver is one in which the signal from the aerial is tuned and amplified at its incoming frequency before demodulation to recover the audio (or other) transmitted material. If the radio is to be tunable, this means that several tuned circuits have to be tuned in step, a problem overcome in the superhet radio design.")
  • 08:50, 27 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:WAF (Created page with "The WAF or Wife Acceptance Factor is an estimation of the probability that your partner will accept the installation of your latest techie toy in the living room without an irreversible breakdown in your relationship.")
  • 22:27, 25 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Port (Created page with "A TCP or UDP port is simply a number designating a particuar service on a server. For example connecting to a computer with port number 80, the connection will be routed to the computer's web server software, or if you want an encrypted connection you connect to TCP port 443. Many other services for example email, DNS, time services, file and print services are distinguished by well known port numbers.")
  • 15:59, 24 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:X.509 (Created page with "X.509 is a standard defining a format for a digital certificate which creates a strong association between a identity such as a web site and a public key. That public key can then be used to digitally sign a web page coming from the web site. The digital certificate itself is signed by a chain of higher level digital certificates ending in a "root certificate" which everyone trusts.")
  • 15:11, 24 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:E-Series (Created page with "The E series (E3, E6, E12, E24 etc) is a system of standard values for resistors, capacitors, inductors and zener diodes dividing each decade equally on a logarithmic scale. So for example, E12 resistors come in 12 values per decade, each roughly 20% greater than the last. See E Series in Wikipedia for more details.")
  • 09:58, 24 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:DIMM (Created page with "A DIMM, or Dual In-line Memory Module (sometimes known as a "RAM stick") is a small circuit board, one or more of which very commonly serve as main working memory in a computer. It has contacts on both sides of an edge which mates with a socket (hence "Dual In-line") and contains a number of individual memory chips. There are several different standard sizes and each may contain various types and speeds of memory chip. An SODIMM is a...")
  • 09:58, 24 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:SODIMM (Created page with "A SODIMM, or Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module (sometimes known as a "RAM stick") is a small circuit board, one or more of which very commonly serve as main working memory in a laptop. It has contacts on both sides of an edge which mates with a socket (hence "Dual In-line") and contains a number of individual memory chips. There are different types containing various types and speeds of memory chip. A DIMM is a larger variant com...")
  • 22:43, 23 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:SIM swap (Created page with "A SIM-swap attack is when a criminal convinces your mobile provider to give them a new SIM card for your phone. When they activate it your phone will go dead and they will then be able to request SMS-based password resets for your email and other online accounts, all of which will now go to their phone instead of yours. This is going to be a very bad day for you.")
  • 22:27, 23 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:DNS (Created page with "DNS or the Domain Name System is the Internet-wide distributed system for looking up the IP address of a domain, such as restarters.net, required for routing data. Your computer queries a pre-configured DNS server which in turn queries other DNS servers for IP addresses it doesn't already know.")
  • 21:44, 23 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Symmetric cryptography (Created page with "In symmetric cryptography, decryption simply runs the encryption process backwards using the same key, unlike asymmetric or public key cryptography. AES is the commonest example. A problem is that for two parties to communicate securely they first need to securely agree a key. Public key cryptography overcomes this, but is computationally much more expensive.")
  • 15:17, 22 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Public key cryptography (Created page with "Public key or asymmetric cryptography is a form of encryption using separate keys for encryption and decryption, neither of which can be derived from the other. The public key can be used to encrypt messages which only the holder of the corresponding private key can decrypt. Alternatively, the holder of a private key can "digitally sign" a message by encrypting a digest of the message with his private key. By successfully decrypting the digest with the previously publish...")
  • 14:39, 22 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:TLS (Created page with "TLS or Transport Layer Security is a standard for securing data over a TCP data stream. It offers encryption using a shared key derived using a secure key exchange mechanism, and allows one or both ends to identify themselves using digital certificates. It has superceded SSL, but "SSL" is still often used to describe a link actually secured by TLS.")
  • 12:54, 22 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:SSL (Created page with "SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is a deprecated standard for securing data over a TCP data stream. It offers encryption using a shared key derived using a secure key exchange mechanism, and allows one or both ends to identify themselves using digital certificates. SSL went through several major versions, but 3.0 was deprecated in 2015 and has been superseded by TLS. Nevertheless, "SSL" is still often used to describe a link actually secured...")
  • 16:38, 20 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:IMAP (Created page with "If you manage your email using a program or app on your own device (rather than using webmail) then IMAP or Internet Message Access Protocol provides a method by which your program or app can manage your email, optionally organised into different folders, held on a remote email server, and to retrieve emails as required.")
  • 16:11, 20 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:POP3 (Created page with "If you manage your email using a program or app on your own device (rather than using webmail) then POP3 or Post Office Protocol 3 is a method by which your program or app retrieves incoming emails from an email server for storage on your device.")
  • 16:11, 20 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:SMTP (Created page with "If you manage your email using a program or app on your own device (rather than using webmail) then SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is the method by which your program or app submits outgoing email to a mail server.")
  • 16:00, 20 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Http/https (Created page with "http or Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the method by which a web browser requests and receives web pages from a web server. It is now largely superceded by https, which transmits requests and replies in encrypted form.")
  • 21:39, 19 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Entropy (Created page with "Entropy (in information theory) is the amount of information or uncertainty in a piece of data, usually measured in bits. For example a 3 digit PIN or combination lock has 1,000 possible values and so has almost 10 bits of entropy, because 10 bits allows you to count up to 1,024. The entropy of a password or encryption key can be used directly to estimate how long it might take to crack, by trying all possible values.")
  • 21:14, 19 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Signal to Noise Ratio (Created page with "The Signal to Noise (or S/N) ratio is a measure of the strength of a signal compared to any background noise or interference, and is measured in decibels (dB). In an audio system, a high S/N ratio tells you that any background hiss will be imperceptible, and in data communications, the S/N ratio directly affects the rate at which you can transmit data.")
  • 21:14, 19 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Decibel (Created page with "Decibels (dB) are a measure of relative power, for example by what factor does an amplifier increase the power of a signal, or by what factor is a TV signal reduced by losses in the cable between the aerial and the receiver. It's a logarithmic scale, 3dB representing a doubling of power, hence the dB gains or losses in a signal path can simply be added.")
  • 17:52, 19 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Noise (Created page with "Noise, in the context of electronics and communications, is any unwanted interference tending to mask a desired signal. It can never be eliminated entirely as the electronics we're surrounded with all generates a certain amount of interference, and an electric current itself consists of a random flow of electrons.")
  • 17:40, 19 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Metadata (Created page with "Metadata is "data about data". For example, a document or spreadsheet may contain information about the author; a digital camera will normally embed information about the exposure, location, date and time of a photo. Sharing these or other types of file can result in undesirable information leakage and privacy issues if you're not aware of the metadata they may contain.")
  • 17:24, 19 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Decoupling capacitor (Created page with "Variations in the current drawn by one part of a circuit can affect the voltage of the supply, hence affecting another part of the circuit. "Decoupling capacitors" are commonly connected to a supply at various points in order to absorb these variations and minimise any such unwanted and detrimental couplings.")
  • 11:46, 17 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Webmail (Created page with "Webmail is the method of managing your email entirely through a web page offered by your email provider, who stores your email on their own servers. The alternative is to manage your email through an applicationon your own device, which can give you greater flexibility in organising, searching and archiving your email.")
  • 11:10, 17 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Right to Repair (Created page with "R2R or Right to Repair is the movement and campaign to make repair options widely available at reasonable cost, and to outlaw practices which unnecessarily make repair uneconomic, difficult or virtually impossible. Such practices include non-availability or exhorbitant cost of spare parts or service information, manufacturing methods making disassembly difficult, and parts pairing or software locks restricting repair to the manufacturer or their authorised agents. These...")
  • 11:33, 15 February 2024 Philip talk contribs moved page MPP inverter to Glossary:MPP inverter without leaving a redirect
  • 11:30, 15 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page MPP inverter (Created page with "Getting the most power out of a PV (or solar) cell or wind turbine isn't straightforward. The output voltage will be maximum if you draw hardly any current, and if you draw as much current as you can the output voltage will drop almost to zero. In either case the power delivered (voltage × current) will be minimal. An MPP or Maximum Power Point controller or inverter will continuously adjust the current drawn in order to maximise the power, for exam...")
  • 10:03, 14 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:EV (Created page with "An EV or Electric Vehicule is any kind of vehicle more conventionally powered by fossil fuels, but designed instead to be electrically powered.")
  • 09:56, 14 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:ALU (Created page with "An ALU or Arithmetic and Logical Unit is that part of a CPU that actually performs arithmetic and logical operations, as commanded by and on data supplied to it by executive functions within the CPU. The 74181 is an early example of a 4-bit ALU implemented as a single silicon chip.")
  • 09:42, 14 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Unbrick (Created page with "A device is said to be "bricked" if it has been rendered non-functional, perhaps by loading the wrong firmware. "Unbricking" is the (sometimes difficult) process of restoring it to normal operation.")
  • 17:12, 10 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:Ladder logic (Created page with "Ladder logic is a kind of simple graphical programming language with its roots in relay logic, formerly much used for the control of industrial plant and machinery, but still used by PLCs in similar applications. More details are given in the Ladder logic.")
  • 16:59, 10 February 2024 Philip talk contribs created page Glossary:PLC (Created page with "A PLC or Programmable Logic Controller is a device much used in industry for controlling plant and machinery. It has a number of inputs which would be connected to sensors of different kinds, and outputs through which it can control switches, valves, motors, pumps etc in order for the machine or industrial process to operate correctly and safely. Their pre-electonic origins lie in relay logic and they are still normally programmed by similar Wikipedi...")
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