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| Gigabyte (or Gig) | Unit of measurement for pieces of information : approximately 1 billion bytes, 1 million kilobytes, or 1000 megabytes. Hard disk sizes are usually measured in gigabytes. Often shortened to [GB], [Gig] or just G. |
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| GPF | (General Protection Fault) An common error message in early versions of Windows, seen when a program tried to do something Windows thought it shouldn\\\'t, often locking up the PC. |
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| Graphics | A catch-all term for anything involving drawing images on a PC screen. A game with great graphics is one that is visually spectacular. |
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| Graphics card (or video card) | An expansion card which the PC uses to control the monitor\\\'s graphics. The better your Graphics card the more likely you can play modern video games on your PC. Modern PCs have a dedicated slot for graphics cards... PCI-Express or AGP, but you can also still get older PCI format cards which use an extra PCI expansion slot. |
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| GUI | (Graphical User Interface; pr. \\\"gooey\\\") means that a program\\\'s controls are represented pictorially, with symbols, buttons and so forth, and mostly controlled by pointing and clicking with a mouse rather than having to type in text commands. Almost all modern software is GUI controlled. |
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| Hacker | Person who uses computers to access (hack) systems they are not supposed to have access to, eg other people\\\'s financial details, personnel files, military secrets etc. Hacking can get you arrested. |
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| Hard disk | A computer\\\'s main (and fastest and most convenient) storage for programs and data. Originally named to distinguish it from floppy disks. All PCs are fitted with hard disks, sometimes more than one. The first (or only) hard disk is usually called C: by the computer. |
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| Hardware | The physical parts of a computer. |
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| HD, HDD | (Hard Disk Drive) The main data storage unit in a computer. See hard disk. |
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| Homepage | A page on the World Wide Web. Confusingly {homepage} is used indiscriminately to describe several slightly different things : an amateur\\\'s hobby site; the front or main page of any website; or the page which your browser first goes to when you start it up. |
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| Hotspot | A location where a computer can connect to a wireless network (see Wi-Fi). |
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| HTML | (HyperText Markup Language) The system used for creating World Wide Web pages, ordinary text with commands for special effects like pictures, colour and links enclosed between symbols. |
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| http | (HyperText Transfer Protocol) The protocol or {language} computers use to send web pages over the internet. Almost every WWW address starts {http://}, though many browsers understand if you omit it. |
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| Hub | A basic device for connecting computers together to form a network. |
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| Hung | If a computer (or sometimes just a program) gets completely stuck and refuses to do anything, it has hung. See also lockup. |
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| Hyperlink | Any kind of link on a webpage. Unless you typed this page\\\'s URL in by hand, you got here by clicking on a hyperlink. |
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| Hypertext | A way of presenting text so that you can click on a link within it, say a cross-reference, and instantly be transported to the relevant text, whether it is elsewhere in the current document or in another document entirely. The most obvious examples are World Wide Web pages and Windows helpfiles. |
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| IANAL | (I Am Not A Lawyer) Internet slang. Amazing how often this one comes up. |
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| IBM | (International Business Machines) The company that designed and built the first PCs, and still a giant of the industry. Standard PCs were originally referred to as {IBM compatible}, although IBM no longer controls the PC standard. |
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| Icon | Small pictogram either representing a file, or providing shortcuts for carrying out common tasks such as saving and printing inside an application. |
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