Clyde's Corner

Clyde Lindley

Quotable Quotes

"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment"
--Malcom Hein

"Very few people can afford to be poor."
--George Bernard Shaw

"If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease. How can the man at his ease acquire knowledge, and how can the earnest student enjoy ease?"
--Aphorisms The Tree of Wisdom (Tibetan Buddist literature)

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life an you must accept regret."
--Frederic Amiel

"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion".
--Georg Hegel

"A pessimist is a person who takes life=s hard knocks with a grain of sulk."
--Anonymous

Recommended Book

Rewarding and Recognizing Employees: Ideas for Individuals, Teams, and Managers. (1995). Joan P. Klubnik. Irwin Publishing: Chicago.

This is Briefcase Books Series which selects business books that can be read quickly and which give you a few insights or techniques for improving professional skills or helps solve current problems at work.

Test of Hi-Tech Terminology

Here's an opportunity to learn how skilled you are in understanding computer terminology.
Select from Column B the item that best describes the item in Column A.

Answers here

Column A

1. ASCII

2. bandwidth

3. baud rate

4. BBS

5. bit

6. .com

7. download

8. encryption

9. FTP

10. GUI

11. Hacker

12. "http"

13. hyperlink

14. IRC

15. online

16. WorldNet Service

Column B

A. AT&T

B. a code you use to identify yourself

C. address on internet that is commercial (pronounced "dot com")

D. an easy communication channel (noted by the .)

E. bands that have definite width in bytes

F. binary digit (translated into a 0 or 1)

G. Browser with many bits.

H. Bulletin Board Service; usually a small online service.

I. Capacity of a network - the bigger the easier to send/receive graphics, video & sound over the Net.

J. Moving files from a network to your computer.

K. Encoding files and transferring over networks (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

L. Fiscal Total Program

M. File Transfer Protocol

N. Gigobyte Users Index

O. Graphical User Interface

P. Programming wizard.

Q. Heavy Transfer Total Program

R. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

S. Gigabytes of hard drive

T. When browsing click on colored or underlined words to get additional data

U. Internal Revenue Channel

V. Internet Service which provides chatting in real time from all over the world (Internet Relay Chat)

W. number of bits that can be transferred per second; (28 speed modem can transfer 28,800 bits per second)

X. plugged into the internet

Y. using a telephone for faxing a document.

Z. scrambling of text to prevent others from reading your messages.

Clyde is the Director of the Center for Psychological Services, 1608 Sanford Road, Silver Spring, MD 20902. Phone: (301) 754-1070.