Friday, February 25, 2011

IT GLOSSARY

A process of proving the identity of a computer or computer user. For users, it generally involves a user name and password. Computers usually pass a code that identifies that they are part of a network.
An area of your hard drive that the operating system uses for additional memory when main memory is used up. Although slower, it is usually much more abundant.

The time when a program or process is being executed. When it’s running it may need runtime libraries and have runtime variables with runtime values.
An error that happens when a program is executed. When you run/execute a program and get a runtime error, which means that there is an error in the program that was not or could not be detected by the compiler when the program was initially compiled.