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y
A commonly used online chatting abbreviation for "why?".
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Y!
Abbreviation for Yahoo! Messenger, an web based messenger program used by members of the Yahoo! community.
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Y2K
Abbreviation for Year 2000. The turn of the century posed problems for organizations that use computers and the Internet because many older computers and programs are designed to store informartion
about dates using only two characters for the year. As a result, some computer systems were not capable of telling the difference between the year 1900 and the year 2000. This caused some serious problems
that disrupted some functioning of computer systems and computer networks, mostly in out-of-date accounting software
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Y2K Compliant
A term used by companies to assure people their product was capable of funtioning normally when the year changed from 1999 to 2000.
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Yahoo!
See : search engine
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y-axis
In a graph, the values axis, which normally is vertical.
See also : bar graph, column graph
Compare to : x-axis, z-axis
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Y/C Video
See : S-Video
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Yellow Book
An International Standards Organization (ISO) standard that describes the way data is encoded on CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book originally defined the Phillips / Sony standard for recording data which included CD-XA specifications.
See also : ISO
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YKYBHTLW
An abbreviation for "You know you've been hacking too long when..."
See also : hacker
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YMMV
Abbreviation for "Your mileage may vary", meaning your results my be different then those presented.
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YMODEM
A file transfer protocol that is an improved version of XMODEM-1K. YMODEM transfers data in 1,024byte blocks and performs a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) on each frame. YMODEM also supports sending more than one file in
sequence.
See also : CRC, FTP, YMODEM-g
Compare to : XMODEM, ZMODEM
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YMODEM-g
A file transfer protocol (ftp) that leaves error-checking to protocols encoded on modem hardware, such as V.42 and MNP-4, and that is best used with high-speed modems in low line noise conditions. ZMODEM is usually a better choice than
YMODEM-g.
See also : V.42, MNP-4
Compare to : XMODEM, ZMODEM
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yoke
The collection of electromagnets precisely arayed around the outside of a cathode ray tube (CRT). The toke, which is controlled by the monitor circuitry and video adapter, steers electrons from the electron guns to the propor pixels on
the display. If the yoke gets out of alignment, the monitor is useless. Make sure the monitor you buy has a 30-day guarantee, especially if you purchase by mail.
See also : CRT
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yotta-
Metric prefix meaning x1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1024).
See also : metric prefixes
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"You've Got Mail"
The way too familiar audio sound to alert America Online users that they have recieved an e-mail. It was derived from the message "you have mail", a message that often displays
to users logging into UNIX.
See also : America Online
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