Linux Unwired [Electronic resources]

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

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Indicates text that has been omitted for clarity