Welding System User Manual

use by field service technicians or the vendor's maintenance
programmers.
Boot sector A sector at the beginning of each disk that identifies the
disk's architecture (sector size, cluster size, and so on). For
startup disks, the boot sector also contains a program that
loads the operating system.
Boot virus A virus that infects the boot sector of a fixed or floppy disk.
An attempt to boot from a diskette infected with a boot
sector virus will cause the virus to become active in memory.
Every time you boot your system from that point on, you
will have the virus active in memory.
Browser Short for Web browser, a software application used to locate
and display Web pages. The two most popular browsers are
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Both of
these are graphical browsers, which means that they can
display graphics as well as text. In addition, most modern
browsers can present multimedia information, including sound
and video, though they require plug-ins for some formats.
Command line In a command line interface, the user types commands in
the space provided directly on the screen using command
language
Cookie Within the Internet industry, cookies are described as small
files containing information about individual computers that
can be analyzed and used by advertisers to track your online
interests and tastes. In this realm, cookie technology is still
being developed and the intention is to target ads directly to
what you've said your interests are. It's a double-edge sword
for many people because on one hand, it's efficient and
pertinent as you only see ads about what you're interested
in. On the other hand, it involves actually "tracking" and
"following" where you go and what you click. Understandably
so, there is a debate over privacy and many people feel of-
fended by the notion that they are viewed as a "SKU number"
(you know, the bar code on the back of packages that gets
scanned at the grocery check-out line). While this viewpoint
may be extreme, in some cases it is accurate.
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