CEO of Microsoft, one of the richest men in the world, captain of the world's computer fate.
See gigabyte.
A former term of contempt, now a badge of pride among the computer literate. Geeks are not known to bite the heads off animals, as the original usage implies, but they have been known to eat bugs. Be kind to the geeks of this world -- they are the only people standing between your data and disaster.
A classification of program or equipment sophistication. A new generation of equipment is produced each time the technology moves forward -- and vice versa.
The most commonly used media rotation schedule is "Grandfather-Father-Son." This scheme uses daily (Son), weekly (Father), and monthly (Grandfather) backup sets; a "grandfather" backup is performed on the first Monday of each month, a "father" backup is performed on every other Monday and a "son" backup is performed on every other day of the week. Grandfather tapes are kept for a year, father tapes for a month and son tapes for a week. The exact schedule (and thus the number of tapes required) may vary, as may the choice of full backup or incremental backup, but the idea is that it should be possible to restore versions of any file of different ages: e.g. yesterday's, last week's or last year's version.
Roughly a billion bytes or characters, equal to about 1,000 novels.
Any computer malfunction caused by hardware rather than software (see bug). Colloquially, "glitch" is often used to describe a loss of power, usually momentary. The term "power glitch" removes any uncertainty in the nit-picky world of computers.
Google is a search engine owned by Google Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The largest search engine on the web, Google receives over 200 million queries each day through its various services;
var. a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search;
var. search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day"
An interface with pictures and graphics rather than just words, through which the user interacts with the computer. The icon-driven operating system was invented by Xerox in the early '70s, popularized by Apple with the Macintosh family of computers and adopted by Microsoft for its Windows products, which quickly outsold all the previous forms combined.
Pictorial representation of data is called graphics. The term is broadly used in the world of digital arts, image processing, illustrations, designing, animation and so on. Web graphics evolved with the introduction of colorful, pleasant websites, which includes buttons, textures, backgrounds, icons, images, gif animations, navigation bars etc. All the leading image-processing packages are now enhanced with the optimizing techniques, useful to create graphics suitable for web; In HTML documents, graphics are files that belong to one of a restricted family of types (usually .GIF or .JPEG) that are referenced via URLs for inline display on Web pages.
A graphics format developed by CompuServe and used widely on the World Wide Web. The GIF format employs losslesscompression to shrink the size of an image file. The JPEG format, which employs lossy compression, is a more efficient format for compressing and transmitting photo-quality images, while GIF is considered better for line art. Pronounce it like "gift" without the "t."
A continuum of shades of gray between black and white in computer graphics.
Graphical user interface.
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