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Hosting Terms
NASDAQ
Short for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated
Quotation system. Most of the high-tech companies in the United
states trade on NASDAQ, which has consequently become one of the
most powerful engines driving the Silicon Valley economy.
Navigation
The process of finding your way around a web-site. The provision of
a adequate navigation tools is one of the biggest challenges facing
website developers, who must consider not just how to guide visitors
from the Home Page of their site but also how to indicate their
exact location within it.
Navigator
A browser produced by Netscape. Once the undisputed market leader,
Navigator's innovation and technical excellence made it the browser
of choice for millions of neophyte Internet users.
NC / Network Computer
A "trimmed down" version of a PC that has certain restrictions and
is used only on a network or Internet. It generally does not have a
local disk drive, floppy or hard disk. It generally boots from the
server or NIC.
NCSA
The National Center For Supercomputing Applications. Based at
University of Illinois, the NCSA is a research organization
specializing in high-performance computer applications in many
fields.
Nerd
A generally pejorative term for someone of above-average
intelligence but who has poorly developed social skills and is
sartorially challenged.
Nethead
An engineer or other individual with a strong belief in the power of
intelligent, IP-based digital networks over the final networks run
by telephone companies.
Netiquette
The conventions of politeness on USENET. Many relate to the niceties
of posting messages in Newsgroups; for examples, advertising beef
products in alt.food.vegan is a clear breach of netiquette.
Netscape
A company that played a major role in creating worldwide enthusiasm
for the Internet.
Netware
A Network Operating System developed by NOVELL.
Network
A collection of people or things, linked together to share
information or resources.
Network Entity
A Network Entity is a set of Functional Entities which is mapped
onto a single piece of equipment in all possible system
implementations. A Network Entity is the atomic unit of
implementation. There is a one-to-one relationship between Network
Entities and Physical Entities.
Network Externalities
An economic term describing the effect that new members of a network
have on the existing ones.
Network Solutions
A US-based organization which registers new top-level domains.
New Media
Forms of mass communications Powered by the Internet and related
technologies.
Newbie
A newcomer to the Inter, or , more specifically, to USENET and its
Newsgroups. Newbies are widely reviled for their lack of netiquette
and are discouraged from participating in some newsgroups.
Newsgroup
A discussion group on the USENET. Unlike chat rooms, newsgroups are
not live; instead, questions and comments are posted to one of many
Usenet servers and later redistributed around the rest of the
network.
NFS / Network File System
Developed by Sun Microsystems to allow a computer to access files
over a network as if they were on local disks; now public domain, a
de facto Internet standard.
NNTP / Network News Transfer Protocol
For a message to be posted to a newsgroup, it must conform to this
protocol that interacts between news servers and newsreaders. The
NNTP is basically the software foundation of a newsgroup server.
Node
A host computer on a network. A node may be as simple as a
standalone PC connected to the Internet across a dial-up connection
or as complex as a server delivering information to hundreds of
machines.
NOS / Network Operating System
A software that (a)controls a network and its message traffic and
queues. (b)controls access by multiple users to network resource
such as files, and (c)provides for certain administrative functions,
including security. This network operating system is most frequently
used with LAN and WAN, but could also have application to larger
network systems.
Notes
The software that popularized Groupware.
Novell
A software company, best known for its Netware Network Operating
System.
NS / Name Server
Name Server specifies a host that will act as a domain name server
for the specified domain. A computer on the Internet that tracks the
relationship between IP addresses and domain names.
NT
Microsoft operating system first seen in 1993. It is a 32 bit
operating system, well suited to a network environment where users
share services. (see Windows NT)
NT / Windows 2000 Hosting
NT or Windows 2000 Hosting defines the services of housing, serving,
and maintaining files for one or more Web sites on NT or Windows
2000 web server at high speed Internet connection.
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