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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk was originally a cultural sub-genre of science fiction
taking place in a not-so-distant, dystopian, over-industrialized
society. The term grew out of the work of William Gibson and Bruce
Sterling and has evolved into a cultural label encompassing many
different kinds of human, machine, and punk attitudes. It includes
clothing and lifestyle choices as well.
Cyberspace
The term originated by author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer.
Cyberspace is currently used to describe the whole experience available
through computer networks.
Contact
Record
In the case of many registries, contact information for technical,
billing and administrative purposes are maintained in their database.
It is important to keep your contact records updated to ensure that
billing and renewal can proceed without problems.
Cable
Modem
A cable modem is used for connecting to the Internet using the cable
TV infrastructure. It offers high speed Internet access.
Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS)
A style-sheet determines how the HTML document is displayed by the
browser. The current version of CSS is version 2 (CSS2).
CCIT
Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique (International
Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee). International telecommunication
standards body.
CERN
(Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) A nuclear
research laboratory where the World Wide Web was invented.
Channel
Definition Format (CDF)
A way of defining the server-push channels for accessing frequently
changing web content.
CHAP
(Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol). An authentication
protocol used in PPP protocol. Uses a username and a password.
Clustering
Connecting
many computers and making them appear as one machine. This is done
to increase reliability and performance.
Command-line
interface
The
opposite of the GUI (Graphical User Interface). A way of interacting
with a computer system using the keyboard and a text-only display.
Usually more powerful, but less user-friendly thatn a GUI.
Crawler
Also
known as spider, an automated software that retrieves webpages and
follows the hyperlinks contained in them. Used to generate indexes
used by search engines.
C/C++
Popular
programming languages (C++ includes objects) that can be used to
create server programs that run after compilation. C and C++ were
not designed specifically for web programming, but they can still
be useful, especially because mature compilers producing very fast
code and large code libraries already exist.
Cobalt
RaQ
Server
appliance made by Cobalt specifically for hosting companies. Newest
RaQs are Linux-based and provide an easy-to-use interface. RaQs
have no features that can't be had in a regular Linux box but they
offer pre-installed programs and Cobalt's support. Here is the discussion
forum for RaQs.
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