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| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension; pr. [mime]) An encoding system used in email, mainly for sending attachments. Email was originally designed to just use plain text, so programs, graphics etc have to be sort of disguised as text for email systems to be able to handle them. MIME is more powerful than its predecessor, UUENCODE (pr. you-you-encode), but not all systems accept it. |
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| MLM | (Multi-Level Marketing) A scam similar to pyramid selling, much in evidence on the internet, particularly in spam. |
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| Modem | (Modulator/DEModulator) A device for allowing computers to communicate over a phone line. May be either an expansion card, or an external device plugged into one of the serial ports. |
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| Monitor | The screen of a PC. |
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| Motherboard | The main circuit board in the computer - all the other bits and pieces are plugged into it. |
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| Mouse | A device used to move a pointer around on the computer screen. Essential to get the most out of Windows, though it is not quite impossible to use Windows without one. |
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| MP3 | (MPeg-1 audio layer 3). A very popular standard for compressing audio and particularly music files down to a reasonable size with little or no perceptible loss of quality, and the files created using it - (an MP3) is an audio file. See MPEG, Compression. |
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| MPEG | (Motion Picture Experts Group; pr. [em-peg]) A set of standards for compressing video and audio files, and the committee that came up with them. Also, often used to mean movie files created to the MPEG standard. |
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| Network | A way of linking several computers together so that their users can share resources such as printers and documents, often via a central computer called a server. See also LAN, WAN, Ethernet. |
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| Network card, Network Interface Card | An Expansion card which lets a PC communicate with a network, required for broadband Internet access. See also Ethernet. |
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| Newbie | (New beginner) Internet slang for someone who hasn\\\'t been using computers or the internet long. |
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| Newsgroup (or just News) | A public area where you can read and post messages on a particular topic or theme, allowing public discussion, either on the Internet or a Bulletin Board. Similar to a forum. Most newsgroups cover a specific topic, and newsgroup users get very annoyed if people post messages which are off-topic, ie not relevant to the topic under discussion. See also Usenet. |
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| NIC | (Network Interface Card) An Expansion card which lets a PC communicate with a network or use a broadband internet connection. Almost all modern NICs are Ethernet cards. |
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| Notebook | A portable PC, with system unit, screen and keyboard crammed into one small package. They can do absolutely anything a desktop PC can do, but are substantially more expensive because of the extra miniaturisation required. Also called a laptop. |
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| OCR | (Optical Character Recognition) A program which attempts to convert a scanned image (ie a picture) of text into text that can be edited in a word processor. The result is rarely 100% accurate and must be carefully proofread, but it can save a lot of retyping. |
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| OEM | (Original Equipment Manufacturer) A company that actually builds computers, as opposed to just retailing them. (OEM software) is ordinary software bought in bulk at a discount by the OEM and pre-installed on a new machines, usually without printed manuals. (OEM software) offered for sale at huge discounts in spam is almost certain to be pirated. |
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| Off-topic | A message which is not relevant to a particular newsgroup or forum on the Internet is said to be (off-topic). Posting off-topic messages in newsgroups annoys people intensely, as they make it harder to follow the discussion properly. |
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| Online | Connected to the internet. |
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| Operating System | Every computer has an operating system, which is a sort of master program that runs automatically when you switch the computer on, and continues running till you switch off. It is responsible for the many routine tasks required to keep a computer running : moving the pointer when you move the mouse, providing icons and menus, running other programs such as a word processor or a game which you may request, controlling the various disk drives, the screen and so on. The most widely used PC operating system is Microsoft Windows. |
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| OS/2 | (Operating System 2) A rival PC operating system to Microsoft Windows, produced by IBM in the 1990s. It still has a small, dedicated core of supporters, but didn\\\'t catch on and for most purposes is obsolete. |
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