Take the misery out of trying to comprehend the latest onslaught of technobabble delivered from the local IT nerd across the street. Here you’ll find some of the most common IT nerd-words reduced to familiar language complimented by big pictures where words don’t seem to cut it.

Configuration

Hardware ^TB Configuration: The way in which one piece of equipment is connected to another. For Example:
a) If you disconnect your printer from your PC and connect it to your laptop you have changed the ‘Hardware Configuration’ of both pieces of equipment.
b) If you were to replace a motherboard ^TB within a PC again you would be altering its original hardware configuration.

Software ^TB Configuration: The way in which your computer or application ^TB acts when you use it and the alterations you make to change it

Content Control

Monitoring and preventing computer users (especially the vulnerable, the young and company employees) from viewing ,downloading or saving of internet media of a socially unacceptable, or, illegal nature; for example pornography, copyright content, racial/social abuse and terrorism or the glorifying of.

Content Misuse

Attempted or actual viewing ,downloading of, saving of internet media of a socially unacceptable, or, illegal nature; for example pornography, copyright content, racial/social abuse and terrorism or the glorifying of.