Newbie  Someone who is not knowledgeable in the use of the Internet.

noise  Computer Terminology  additional electrical energy on the phone line that slows down your data. Noise can come from so many sources--nearby electrical appliances, transformers, thunderstorms, even solar phenomena--that you're always bound to have some.

on-line  Internet Terminology  To be connected to the Internet via a modem.

QA  Computer Terminology  quality assurance, and it refers to the testing process a hardware or software manufacturer puts its products through to make sure they do what they're supposed to without problems.

Queue  Computer Terminology  refers to a "line-up" of DATA waiting to be processed, such as a printing queue -- data waiting to be printed.

RAID  Computer Terminology;  Redundant Array of Independent Disks. A RAID is a machine containing several hard drives, each of which can "take over" for any of the others in the event of a failure. A RAID enables a server to continue working, usually without interruption, even if one or more of the server's disks crashes.

RGB  Computer Terminology RGB stands for red, green, and blue, the three colors that your computer's monitor uses to generate all the other colors you see on screen. (Actually, there is a fourth color--black--but in this case, it truly represents the absence of color because your screen creates black by turning off pixels.) Depending on the graphics card you have, your monitor can combine and dither (arrange colors you have to create the illusion of colors you don't) these three shades to create anywhere from 256 to more than 16 million colors.

SKTDH  Chat Room Acronym  Stop Kicking That Dead Horse.

SLK  Computer Slang   The SLK file suffix stands for symbolic link, or SYLK, a format used with spreadsheets. A spreadsheet file saved in SLK format retains the links between cells--even when that file is transferred from one spreadsheet application to another.

SWAK  Chat Room, E-mail Acronym  Sealed With A Kiss.

SWIM  Chat Room Acronym  See What I Mean.

TTFN  Chat Acronym  Ta Ta For Now

TTYL  Chat Acronymnbsp; Talk To You Later

TW  Chat Room Acronym   Typo Wizard, or Spelling Mistake. Usually used in front of a spelling correction.