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| IDE | (Integrated Drive Electronics ) A type of PC hard disk, now obsolete, the foreunner of EIDE. |
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| IE | (Internet Explorer) Microsoft\\\'s web browser, included free in Windows. If followed by a number (IE6, IE5 etc) it refers to a particular version of that browser. |
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| IIRC | (If I Recall Correctly) Internet slang. |
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| IMO, IMHO | (In My (Honest) Opinion) Internet slang. |
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| Inkjet | A very popular color printer technology, which works by squirting tiny jets of ink onto paper with great precision. |
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| Install | To transfer a program or programs from floppy disk or CD ROM onto a PC\\\'s hard disk. Most programs need to be installed before they can be used, though a few older ones can be run directly from the floppy or CD. |
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| Intel | The Intel Corporation is the leading manufacturer of processor chips for PCs, most famously the Pentium. |
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| Internet | A vast worldwide network of computers, accessible to anyone with a computer, a modem, and a phone line. Provides access to e-mail and the World Wide Web. The Internet grew out of the need of academics to swap information with colleagues all over the world, and of the US military\\\'s need for a computer and communications network that couldn\\\'t easily be knocked out. As a result it is very difficult to censor, since anything placed on the World Wide Web from anywhere is instantly available everywhere in the world. |
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| Intranet | A private miniature internet which allows no or only limited access to the internet proper, for example to allow easy sharing of confidential files within a company or corporation. |
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| IP | (Internet Protocol ) A protocol(computer language) which computers use to communicate with and over the internet. |
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| IP address | (Internet Protocol address) A unique number assigned to any computer connected to the internet, including yours, in the format 255.255.255.255. Each of the four blocks of numbers can be any value from 0 to 255. They can either be assigned permanently (static IP) or per session (dynamic IP). Most ISPs assign them dynamically, ie when you connect to the internet. |
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| ISA | (Industry Standard Architecture; pr.[icer]) A once-common type of PC expansion card, now obsolete; see also EISA, PCI. |
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| ISDN | (Integrated Services Digital Network ) An early high speed (for its time) internet connection system mainly aimed at business, now largely obsolete. Requires a special type of modem called a Terminal Adaptor. |
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| IT | (Information Technology) What computers are all about - using technology to manage information. The computer industry is often called the IT industry, and computer departments often refer to themselves as the IT department. |
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| Java | A programming language used to create small programs called applets, often to produce special effects on web pages. |
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| Javascript | A set of program instructions, vaguely similar to Java but not actually related, written straight into the HTML of a webpage instead of as an applet. |
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| JPEG, jpg | (Joint Picture [Experts] Group; pr. [jay-peg]) A standard type of compressed graphics file, widely used on the WWW. Particularly good for photographs. See also compression. |
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| Kbps | (KiloBits Per Second) A measure of speed of information flow, usually over a modem. A Kilobit is a thousand bits. See also bps, Mbps. |
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| Killer app | (Killer application) A program that is so obviously massively useful to someone that they will rush out and buy it immediately, and a computer to run it on. |
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| Kilobyte | Unit of measurement for pieces of information : actually 1024 Bytes (characters), but in practice almost always rounded down to 1000. Often written as just K, eg 250 K is 250 Kilobytes (250,000 bytes/characters - well not exactly, but close enough). See also Megabyte, Gigabyte. |
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