Tech Talk/Geek Speak Made Easy

Reply #5

hypersoniq — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:31:26 GMT

Android - If you have an Android phone like a Samsung, the device works with Google's Android OS. This is based on Linux, but stripped down compared to actual Linux and bolted together with a ton of proprietary Google code.

Reply #4

GiveFive — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:35:33 GMT

Here's a deep dive into some real icky stuff......

Business Continuity and Recovery Services - Aint that a mouthful!!!

IBM and Sunguard Systems (I know you've heard of IBM but you haven't ever heard of Sunguard) have data centers where large corporations can go and practice bringing up all of their hardware if a disaster destroyed them. Think September 11th.

Lots of banks are very interested in Disaster Recovery. How you gonna feel if YOUR bank gets blown up and you cant access you... [ More ]

Reply #3

GiveFive — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:34:26 GMT

Get offa my thread Stats! G5

Reply #2

GiveFive — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:29:43 GMT

Here's another one for ya. Everybody's heard of it but nobody know what it is. And it's a lot bigger part of your personal life than most realize too.

The Cloud It's a remote data center that you never knew existed or even heard of where data is stored. Lots of big corporations are in the cloud biz. Amazon, Goolge, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle are just a few. Ever seen the acronym 'AWS'? A mazon W eb S ervices is Amazon's Cloud line of business, and I'll bet you dollars to donuts that some pers... [ More ]

Reply #1

Stat$talker — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:37:42 GMT

An LPAR is a logical partition inside of a mainframe . You dont even wanna know.... mainframes suck.

Whuuuuuut?...A Mainframe ?... Ole Stat$ mentioned itz xzistence looong ago, and a few on heaa labeled me Lanoisuled , cottoneyedjoe, Texez 2 Stepper, AllenButthead ,just to name a few..

All I KNOW izz , LOz reprogrammed THEIRZ tryin to git outta Dodge when Probability Math izz in town. ..but it ain't gonna hep'em....

-Stat$talker

Tech Talk/Geek Speak Made Easy

GiveFive — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:09:56 GMT

If your like me, you abhor geek speak. You know, - What the Hell did that guy just say?? And because no self respecting Geek would ever bother to explain to you in plain English what the hell he's talking about, I thought I'd do this.

Here's some tech talk demystified for you.

HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Holy Shirt!! It's your PC talking over the internet to a server somewhere far away. Your PC wants to see a website running on a computer (the server) in Kansas City. Your PC is... [ More ]