Operating Systems
A computer program that makes it so people, hardware, and software can interface with each other in a meaningful way.
What is an Operating System?
Software that allows an operating system to communicate with hardware devices, such as printers, video cards, scanners, and cameras.
What are Device Drivers?
The smallest container within a computer's storage system that is used to store information such as data, settings, and commands used in a computer program.
What is a File?
System that uses the Internet to make data resources publicly available
What is the World Wide Web?
This orange-clad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is a party dude.
Who is Michelangelo?
In Windows 10, an application that organizes the settings and customizes how the computer looks and functions.
What is Windows Settings App?
Preinstalled, read-only software on a device that tells it how to work.
What is Firmware?
The methods and structures that an operating system uses to organize files on a storage device like a hard drive.
What is a File System?
A segment of a continuous wave of sound
What is a Sample or Audio Sample?
This news reporter is one of the only female characters on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Who is April O'Neil?
A role of the operating system that determines the hardware that is connected to the system, interprets instructions from the hardware, and sends instructions to it. Includes managing device drivers.
What is Device Management?
A file that acts like a computer but in reality only exists virtually as opposed to physically.
What is a Virtual Machine?
The use of user and file attributes that control which users can read, write, move, or delete each file.
What are File Permissions?
Images that the computer stores by remembering the color of each pixel
What is a Raster (Bitmap) Image?
This duo of dunderheads, a pig and a rhino, are the Shredder's main henchmen in the 1980s version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
A database that stores settings for the operating system and other programs. These settings are stored as keys and values.
What is Windows Registry?
A chip where the BIOS settings are stored.
What is CMOS?
The process of tracking changes to a file so that a file can be repaired or restored in case of file corruption or data loss.
What is Journaling?
Lossless compression algorithm that instead of storing each individual bit of a file, it stores how many of each bit appears in a sentence
What is Run-Length Encoding?
This recurring villain throughout the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series is often transformed into a fly-man hybrid.
Who is Baxter Stockman?
A role of the operating system that runs processes or programs automatically in the background. These programs are services that perform functions like indexing files for better searches, verifying that software is up to date, and backing up files.
What is Service Management?
A graphical boot tool that is utilized to configure the BIOS for the end user, offering several advantages including faster booting, supporting larger hard drives, and providing more security features.
What is UEFI?
A journaling file system that allows you to choose which users or groups can access files and folders.
What is NTFS?
A family of processors manufactured by Intel and AMD that use a common instruction set
What are x86 Processors?
The Shredder's real name on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
What is Oroku Saki?