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Glossary of Internet terms. Underlined orange links point to terms within this Glossary.
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User Guide
- Kernel
- Kernel Panic
- Keyword
- Kill
- Kilobyte
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Kernel
The core of the operating system, which manages the fundamental tasks of a machine such as the organiziation of memory management for all the running processes on a system and handling hardware related directives issued by other parts of an operating system ofr software. Antonynm : Shell
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Kernel Panic
I can't be certain about this, but my research finds that a Kernel Panic is caused by faulty, defective or broken down hardware. My Linux server for example, which runs Fedore Core 1 as the OS, returned "Bad EIP Value" when the CD ROM died (same applies to Fedore Core 2). It may be a peripheral card or another piece of hardware. You'd have to check by trial and error. Disable one piece at a time, reboot, check. The error is very similar to Resource Conflicts on a Windows OS, so moving cards around may also solve it.
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Keyword
1) A word with a special meaning in programming languages reserved for built in functions. Keywords often can not be used as variable or function names as they confuse the language.
2) Words declared in meta tags that describe the specific content of a web page. These words are then indexed by spiders and aid web surfers in their search for products or information.
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Kill
Unix command for terminating running or zombie processes. The Kill command immediately stops and expunges the given process ID.
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Kilobyte
A chunk of data equal to 1024 bytes. See also Bit, Byte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte
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