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| cps | (Characters Per Second) A measure of how quickly information, particularly text, is being transferred over a modem link or network. See also bps. |
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| CPU | (Central Processing Unit) The nerve centre of the computer : everything flows through it. Often just called (the processor). The best known PC processors are Intel\\\'s Pentium and AMD\\\'s Athlon |
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| Crack, cracked | A crack is a small program intended to defeat software\\\'s copy protection, thus allowing unlicensed copies to be made - stealing it, in effect. Software that is distributed with its copy protection disabled or bypassed has been (cracked). |
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| Crash | When a computer program or operating system stops working completely or almost completely it (or the computer) is said to have (crashed). When a computer crashes it usually needs to be rebooted before it can be used again. See also lockup. |
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| Crawler | A program that analyzes or indexes pages on the World Wide Web for search engines. also known as a spider. |
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| CRT | (Cathode Ray Tube) The imaging technology used in most desktop monitors. Provides an excellent colour display, but is extremely bulky and is now being gradually supplanted by TFT. |
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| CSS | (Cascading Style Sheets) A set of HTML commands used to control the style of web pages, much more complex than the tag-set it is intended to replace, but also more powerful and particularly useful for retaining a uniform style across a large website. Generally only used by professional web designers. |
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