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Radio Button
A form field that presents the user with a selection that can be
chosen by clicking on a button. Radio buttons are presented in a
list, one of which is selected by default. Selecting a new member of
the list deselects the currently selected item.
RAID / Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
A category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in
combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives
are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for
personal computers. There are a number of different RAID levels. The
three most common are 0,3, and 5.
Realaudio
A program for listing to music and other sound across the Internet.
RealAudio / RealVideo
Real Audio/Video is a client-server based streaming media delivery
system for the Internet. Both the browser and the server must have
RealAudio/Video components for it to work. You can create and
deliver audio/video-based streaming multimedia content from your web
site.
Realnames
A commercial system designed to take the pain out of remembering and
using URLS. The RealNames system assigns real, simple words to
complex Web addresses, so that they can be accessed through a direct
navigation system rather than a hit-and-miss Search Engine-based
process.
Real-time
The transmission of data in the real-world present according to our
experience of time. Real-time communications are usually
synchronous, like telephone conversations, video-conferencing, MUDs,
and "live" satellite broadcasts. The Internet can be used for
real-time communications and information delivery, and there are
already successful implementations of real-time video and audio on
the Net.
Recurring Fees
This refers to regular, usually monthly, charges for maintaining a
merchant account. Recurring fees include the discount rate,
transaction fees, statement fee, and monthly minimum.
Redirect
By using particular HTML - code in a Web page, one can redirect the
visitor seamlessly to another Web page.
Re-engineering
The examination and modification of a system to reconstitute it in a
new form and the subsequent implementation of the new form - More
information.
Registered User
A user of a Website with a recorded name and password.
Registration Authority
A company that verifies requests for a digital certificate and
authorizes the relevant certificate authority to issue it.
Relational DBMS
A DBMS based on the relational model developed by Codd. It allows
the definition of data structures, storage and retrieval operations,
and integrity constraints. In such a database, the data and
relations between them are organised in tables. INGRES and Oracle
are well-known examples.
Relative URL
The Internet address of a page or other World Wide Web resource with
respect to the Internet address of the current page. A relative URL
gives the path from the current location of the page to the location
of the destination page or resource. A relative URL can optionally
include a protocol, for example, the relative URL doc/sample.htm
refers to the page sample.htm in the directory doc, below the
current directory.
Remailer
An Internet site that allows people to send anonymous E-mail.
Remote Access
Access to a computer system or network from a distant location,
usually by dialing in with a modem.
Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting is the provision of web hosting services to other
companies. The reseller can buy the services and repackage it, and
act as Web hosts companies for other companies, under its own
company or brand name, usually repackaging it and/or adding
something to it.
RFC / Request For Comments
The documents that contain the standards and other information for
the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet in general. They can be found
at several sites through anonymous FTP.
RISC / Reduced Instruction Set Computer
One whose design is based on the rapid execution of a sequence of
simple instructions rather than on the provision of a large variety
of complex instructions.
Roaming
The ability to access one or several mobile networks from any point
of attachment, either by taking a mobile terminal along (terminal
roaming), or by inserting an User Identification Module (UIM) in
different Terminals (UIM Roaming)
Robot
An autonomous program set to perform a task over a network, like
indexing file contents on servers or checking hypertext links in Web
files. See spider.
ROT13
A simple encryption scheme for text messages, it which each letter
of the alphabet is rotated with the one 13 places behind or ahead of
it.
Router
A device that decides how and where to send Internet traffic. A
router examines the address information carried by each packet as it
arrives at a network and chooses the best route to send it to its
final destination.
RSA
A powerful encryption scheme based on principles of Public Key
Cryptography. It is named after its creator - Rivest, Shamir and
Adleman.
RSAC
A system for rating the content to websites, commonly built into
browsers and other online products.
RSS / Rich Site Summary
RSS is an XML grammar for sharing data.RSS was first developed by
Netscape to drive channels for Netscape Netcentre.
RSVP / Resource Reservation Protocol
RSVP is a new emerging protocol that allows channels on the Internet
to be reserved for the multicast transmission of video and other
high-bandwidth messages.
RTF / Rich Text Format
A method of encoding text formatting and document structure using
the ASCII character set. By convention, RTF files have an RTF
filename extension.
RTFM / Read The F**king Manual
A reply to a query which could have been answered by reading
instructions.
Hosting Tips
Ask your host to pay for your domain name.
If you want to host a NEW domain name, you can request
the hosting company to pay your domain name for you. The
cost of domain registration and renewal is about £6 per
year.Minimize your website expenses
If you are unusual about hosting and if you are still in the
development and testing stage of your website, go for cheap
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