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Base memory
The memory that come with a particular computer. It can Bluetooth
start at 1 MB of Ram but can be upgraded to a much high- A wireless, short wave technology, for short distances
er level. communication and the transfer of data between devices

Basic Input Output System (or BIOS) Boot (or Boot-up)

A small program stored on a chip on the motherboard. To start (or boot) a computer. Common error ‘Boot a Pro-
When you switch on your computer this program checks gram’ correct usage is to ‘Launch a Program’
the hardware configurations on your computer, and loads
the required drivers. If everything’s OK the Bios writes the Broadband
operating systems’ start-up file to memory and hands over With its ADSL high speed connection, broadband is capa-
to the system which starts to load. If the initial check fails ble of carrying several signals at once and can send and
the bios will stop and if possible write the cause of the fail- receives date at very high speeds across the internet.
ure to the screen. The Operating system will not load until With its multi signal capabilities you can browse the net,
the failure is corrected. ( see, UEFI) send fax and make telephone calls all at once.

Batch File Bug
A file with an extension .BAT. BAT files are written in a text A Bug is a mistake in a computer program. Not a virus. A
editor like Windows Notepad and contain a list of ‘Dos' Bug can cause a program to behave erratically, to freeze
commands which are read by your system and executed in or simply not start.
sequence. .Bat file are written in standard ASCII code,
however, if you don’t understand the ‘Dos’ syntax the con- Burn (Burning)
tent will be unintelligible Copping music, videos and other forms of data and ob-
jects from your computer onto a removable CD, or DVD.
BAUD (baud = rate)
(‘Baud rate’ is not a valid reference) The rate per Bus
second a signal traverses, usually, a telephone line A common channel between multiple devices. The com-
puter main bus is known as a local or processor bus. It
Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy). provides access for data transfer from CPU to memory
Used in e-mail messaging. As with the ‘To’ field and the and peripheral buses. The main bus has two channels, 1.
‘Cc’ field you can type one or more e-mail address into the The addresses are sent over the Address bus to memory.
‘Bcc’ field. However, the difference being, any addresses 2. The Data bus sends data to that location.
you put in the ‘Bcc’ field will not be visible to the recipient.
They’ll not know who else received the e-mail. Hence the Byte
‘Blind’ in carbon copy. In the former two fields the receiv- A Byte = 8 Bits. A byte is a computer measurement and is
er knows all the recipients of the e-mail. approximately one character. (See: Binary)

Benchmark Cache (Pronounced ‘kash’)
A measurement used to compare the performance of two A small piece of reserved memory, used for storing re-
or more similar components or systems. cently used data for fast access should it be needed
again. Varying sizes of cache are used by CPU’s. the oper-
Binary ating system, Web Browsers and hard drives.
Consists of two bits, ‘0 & 1’. When you enter information
into a computer it’s converted into ‘Binary’. Press ‘A’ on Cc (Carbon copy.)
the keyboard and the computer sees 01000001 = a Byte Used in e-mail messaging. Putting several e-mail address-

BIOS (pronounced ‘By-oss’) es into the Cc Field and separating them with a semi-
see ‘Basic Input Output System’. colon (;) will send the e-mail to each address and each
recipient will see all the addresses the e-mail was sent to.

Bit CD (Compact Disk.)
A Bit is a ‘binary digit’ either, 0 or 1. It’s the smallest piece
of data a computer can handle. A computer can handle a thin circular disk capable of holding up to 800 MB of
data (there is however dual storage disks capable of
millions of bits in its normal working routine. To make
sense of this, Bits are usually grouped together in a byte, holding 4Gb of data). Compact disks come in several for-
mats. CD-R (recordable) can be written too only once. CD-
kilobyte, megabyte, or gigabyte.
RW (rewritable) can be formatted and written too multi-
BitLocker ple times. CD-ROM (read only) cannot be written too and
Full drive encryption. Manually applied in windows 10. Ap- normally contains (purchased) programs, films and music.
plied by default when installing Windows 11 After writing to a CD-R it becomes a CD-ROM.

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