| ISP Dictionary - ISP Glossary Definitions for 'k' |
| K Desktop Environment - The KDE project was started in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich as a way to bring a more user-friendly GUI experience to UNIX users. KDE is an Integrated Desktop... |
| Karnaugh Mapping - A means of showing the relationship between logic inputs and desired output. Generally a truth table is mapped to a smaller, more workable grid of output... |
| Katmai New Instructions - This is the original code-name for Intel's SSE instruction set, named after the first Pentium III processor core, code-named "Katmai." |
| Kazaa - a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that was widely reported to include spyware, especially in its earlier incarnations. |
| KBps - kilobytes per second |
| KDE - The KDE project was started in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich as a way to bring a more user-friendly GUI experience to UNIX users. KDE is an Integrated Desktop... |
| Kermit - A common terminal emulation program and file transfer protocol that can be used across dialup and telnet connections. It is much slower than xmodem, ymodem,... |
| Kernel - The guts of any operating system. The kernel is loaded into main memory and stays there, while other pieces of the OS are loaded in and out of memory.... |
| key logger - a small hardware device or a program that records each keystroke typed on a particular keyboard for report back to an interested party, such as a marketer... |
| Keyboard - The main input device on most PCs. It consists of a "board" with a set of buttons on it that represent all the letters in the alphabet, the numbers 0 through... |
| keylogger - a small hardware device or a program that records each keystroke typed on a particular keyboard for report back to an interested party, such as a marketer... |
| keystroke logger - a small hardware device or a program that records each keystroke typed on a particular keyboard for report back to an interested party, such as a marketer... |
| Keyword - A term most often used to describe content on a Web page so that search engines can properly index the page. Keywords are not used any longer by most search... |
| Kilobit - 1024 bits (2^10 bits). |
| Kilobits Per Second - A measure of data transfer. A 56Kbps dial-up modem transfers data at about 7.2 kilobytes (KB) per second, or about 432 KB per minute. |
| Kilobyte - 1024 bytes (2^10 bytes). |
| KNI - This is the original code-name for Intel's SSE instruction set, named after the first Pentium III processor core, code-named "Katmai." |
| KVM switch - A switch that connects two or more computers to the same keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The KVM switch fools each computer into thinking that it is actively... |