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Bit Rate vs Baud Rate Both bit rate and baud rate are parameters of measuring the speed of data transfer. Although bit rate and baud rate can be of the same value, in some cases, these two terms have different meanings. Bit rate is the amount of bits being transferred within a unit time, where baud rate is the amount... 

Firefox 5 vs Firefox 6 | Firefox 5.0.1 vs 6.0 Mozilla has released Firefox 5 during June 2011, which was very soon followed by Firefox 6 beta release in July 2011. Mozilla released Firefox 6.0 beta version for beta channel users on 8th July 2011. The official release of Firefox 6.0 is on 16th August 2011. Following... 

Load Balancing vs Round-robin DNS | Load Balancer vs Round Robin DNS Load Balancing and Round-robin DNS are used to distribute loads to different hosts or networks to achieve load distribution, high availability, and geographical distribution for fast delivery. Mostly, it is being used in web based internet applications... 

Hibernate vs Sleep Hibernate and sleep are words that are today being frequently used to describe about power saving modes in a computer and should not be confused with hibernation of some of reptiles and mammals that is a process of conserving energy during harsh weather. In animals, hibernation is similar to,... 

Flash Drive vs Thumb Drive This is the age of computers and internet, and even if you do not have any truck with computers and related technology, you need to be aware of accessories connected with computers. How do you take files from the computer in your office back to your home? Did you say pen drive? Of course... 

Landscape vs Portrait Landscape and portrait are concepts that are of vital importance in photography, and confuse amateur photographers when they are taking photos from their cameras. Those who are professionals or are seasoned in this field know when to take a landscape or when to go for a portrait to capture... 

Email vs Website In this age of electronic communication it is possible for a person to have multiple email ID’s, whether on the same mailing client or several clients. Have you ever paid attention to the address of an email? It is always so and so@gmail.com, or so and so@yahoo.com. But, so is the address of... 

xls vs xlsx in Microsoft Excel If you have been managing your data in a spreadsheet called Excel, developed by Microsoft, you are probably aware of the file extensions xls and xlsx. Excel is one worksheet that allows one to arrange and organize huge amount of data systematically. Sorting, filtering, using formula,... 

ppt vs pptx in Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful presentation tool that is given along with Office suit. It allows use of slide shows to make interesting presentations. You can open the software, but presentation does not start on its own because unless you save your presentation in ppt... 

doc vs docx in Microsoft Word For those who need to create text files, knowing differences between doc and docx is essential as it can create a lot of headaches if they work in doc when docx is the format that is increasingly being used by everyone around. It is a fact that you cannot open docx files if you have... 

Browsing vs Surfing The terms browsing and surfing have become so popular that they are household names today as a result of internet pervading our daily lives and reaching a wide cross section of our population. There was a time in the late eighties when internet connection used to be a status symbol, and only... 

JPA vs Hibernate Almost all of enterprise applications are required to access relational databases regularly. But a problem faced with earlier technologies (such as JDBC) was the impedance mismatch (difference between object-oriented and relational technologies). A solution for this problem was introduced through... 

Installable vs Portable Softwares Developers of software applications deploy their products mostly through media such as CD/DVD or through internet. Depending on the type of software, the user has to perform one or more tasks before being able to run the software application. Sometimes, the users can run an application... 

Content Delivery Network (CDN) vs Web Hosting Servers | CDN vs Dedicated Hosting | CDN vs Cloud Hosting | Google Page Speed Services CDN and Web Hosting seem to be similar, but they are totally two different concepts. Web Hosting is hosting your content of your website in a server. There are different hosting plans... 

VirtualBox vs VMware vs Parallels Platform Virtual Machines (VM) are being used very heavily because they provide the ability to emulate a complete physical computer machine on top of another. Most of such software allows having multiple machines on top of one physical platform. VirtualBox, VMware and Parallels... 

Octet vs Byte In computing, bit is the basic unit of information. Simply, a bit can be seen as a variable that can take only one of the two possible values. These two possible values are ‘0’ and ‘1’ and interpreted as binary digits. The two possible values could also be interpreted as logical (Boolean)...