Conventions Used in This Book This book uses the following abbreviations:Hz, kHz, MHz, and GHz Hertz (cycles per second), kilohertz (one thousand hertz), megahertz (one million hertz), and gigahertz (one billion, or 109 hertz) bps, kbps, Mbps Bits per second, kilobits (1,024 bits) per second, and megabits (1,048,576 bits) per second KB/s, MB/s Kilobytes (1,024 bytes) per second and megabytes (1,048,576 bytes) per second MB Megabytes (1,048,576 bytes) of hard disk or RAM storage mW Milliwatts; one thousandth of a watt of power output
This book uses the following typographic conventions:Constant width Used for listing the output of command-line utilities Constant width italic Used to show items that need to be replaced in commands Italic Used for emphasis, for first use of a technical term, and for example URLs ... Indicates text that has been omitted for clarity
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