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CRC

1. Term that stands for Cyclic Redundancy Check. It's a form of error checking commonly used for Winzip compression and Ultra ATA controllers.
A corrupt zip file will yield a bad CRC when opened.
by Gary Destruction June 23, 2003
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TTL

1. Electronics: Transistor to transistor logic
2. Networking: Time to live; the amount of time a record will remain cached.
1. Logic circuits use TTL
2. You might want to change your default TTL 128 if it's not already.
by Gary Destruction June 11, 2003
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hal

Acronym for Hardware Abstraction Layer. The HAL is used by NT-based Operating Systems to handle hardware. This prevents the OS from having direct access to hardware.
The HAL is one of the main reaons that NT-based OS's are more stable than Win9.x.
by Gary Destruction November 19, 2003
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Windows 2000

A much user-friendlier and hardware supportive version of the Microsoft Windows NT family of Operating Systems. Windows 2000 while not officially declared as NT 5.0 is basically just Windows NT 5.0 with Plug and Play support, EFS, NTFS 5.0 and a host of other features that are not available in Windows NT 4.x.
Windows 2000 is the best microsoft operating system available right now.
by Gary Destruction August 28, 2003
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Schizophrenia

Condition commonly mistaken for MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). Schizophrenia like the name suggests means a split, but not a split in personality. Schizophrenia is a split in perception that causes an individual to become detached, isolated and remote from reality and from the rest of society. A person experiencing schizophrenia might see things in a way that he can only understand. He might also experience hallucinations such as hearing voices and seeing things, paranoia, feelings and thoughts of persecution and feeling like he is in another world.
by Gary Destruction July 19, 2003
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Opteron

A 64-bit processor created by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It is capable of handling 32-bit applications with no compromise in performance.
The AMD(R) Operton(TM) is the latest edition to the growing family of processors from Advanced Micro Devices.
by Gary Destruction September 8, 2003
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