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LOL (Laugh Out Loud) , LMAO (Laugh My Asss Off),  ROFL (Roll Over and F#%king Laugh), L8R (Later), BRB (Be Real Brief), AFK (Away From Keyboard), 133T (Elite), used a lot in emails, messengers and forums to put emotion into the written language. see emoticons.

 

EMOTICONS: (Emotional Icons) - also used in emails, messengers and forums for added emotion in the written language. For example COOL CRY EMBARRESED LAUGHING etc.

 

COMPUTER { Usually meaning the whole package Tower, Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse }

 

HD: Hard Drive { Little square thing about 3.5 inches in length in a PC and 2.5 inches in length in a notebook. Stores your applications, media, games, data etc in it. n.b. these do not like magnets near them. }

 

FLASH DRIVE, PEN DRIVE, USB STICK: { Small portable device used to store media, data, work files etc on. n.b. These have a high probability of ending up in the wash. }

 

BURNER: DVD R/W { Square thing in top of PC usally about 5 1/4 inchs in size. It has the ability to read / write onto DVD media.

 

LCD: Monitor { Liquid Crystal Display - provides visual information to the user. A monitor is made up of tiny little dots (See Pixels) and (Resolution).

 

GEEK, NERD, ROBOT, MACHINE: People who like PCs  { As Bill Gates said "Be nice to them, because some day they'll probably be your boss. }

 

PIXELS: {The many tiny dots that make up a monitor. The more pixels or dots per square inch (see DPI) the high the resolution the better the visual quality }

 

DPI: Dots per square inch { Stick with Pixels }

 

RESOLUTION: The amount of pixels used to display an image. for instance some common monitor settings are 800X600 pixels, 1024X768 Pixels etc.

 

HACKER, HAXTOR, H4XT0R, SCRIPT KIDDY, UBER PAWN$TER and EVIL GENIUS - { Extremely proficient users who dream in code. There are both good and bad i.e. White Hats, Blacks hats and Grey Hats. } I prefer rainbow coloured hats with little propellers on top.

 

PC: { Usally meaning just the tower (Big Suare Thing with a little light on it. }

 

URL, URI: Uniform Resource Locator now called Uniform Resource Identifier { The website link to your faviroute website http://www.ipfreeley.com is a URL and a URI. }

 

EMAIL ADDRESS: An address pointing to a users a mail box { This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   // The part of the email address after the @ sign indicates a domain. See Domain Names.}

DOMAIN NAMES: { A character based text that point to an Internet Protocol address (See IP). i.e. newagepc.com.au // newagepc is the hostname/ server / computer name where website resides) //com internet backbone //au Australia prefix }

TCP/IP:  Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol { Allows computers to talk to each other } 

HOSTNAME:The name of your computer also referred to as computer name. Used when networking two PC's. If you want to know your hostname press 'ctrl-r' type in 'CMD' and press enter, on the black screen type echo '%computername%' enter.

SERVER: Used to serve up webpages, run databases, resolve domain, run print jobs, control domain, send your mail, names etc

HARDWARE: All things hard, for example printers, keyboards, box, dvd drive etc.

SOFTWARE:All things software or non tangibl, for example operating systems, applications, etc.

OCR: Optical Character Recognitio - Used for converting images of text into text that your word processor can understand. The value of this is you can easily edit the information.

SCANNER: Scans a page into your PC as an image.

IMAGE TYPES:

CPU:

HTTP:

SPAM:

SPOOFING:

PHISHING:

SNIFFING:

TROJANS:

VIRUS:

WEBMAIL:

MOVIE FORMATS: