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Browsing 'H'
Found 21 entries under 'H'
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hang (Score: 0) To lock up or 'freeze', briefly or permanently, without terminating. |
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hard disk (Score: 0) Peripheral device consisting of (usually) metal platters or disks, used to store data. |
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hard link (Score: 0) A file with a different full path name but the same inode number. |
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hardware (Score: 0) Physical components of a computer. |
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hardware flow control (Score: -4) Controlling the flow of data across a serial cable by using line signals rather than control characters. |
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hardware-mediated bus (Score: 0) A bus to which the access is determined by special hardware, not software. |
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Hayes command set (Score: 0) Standard set of modem commands. Also AT command set |
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head (Score: 0) The part of a hard disk that does the read and writing of data to the physical medium. |
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header (Score: 0) Information included at the beginning (head) of transmitted data. A header will identify the information being sent and ... |
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hexadecimal (Score: 0) The numerical system of counting with sixteen digits-023456789ABCDEF. Also called base 16. |
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hit ratio (Score: 0) The ratio of times that information was available to the number of times it was requested. For example, if data is reque... |
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home directory (Score: 0) The directory defined by your $HOME environment variable. This is normally the same directory you end up in after yo... |
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hops (Score: 0) The number of connections that need to be made to reach a destination. For example, if you want to go from machine A to ... |
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host (Score: 0) Any computer. Normally used when the computer is on a network. |
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host adapter (Score: 0) An expansion card that serves as the interface between the systems expansion bus and a SCSI bus. This is often erroneous... |
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host equivalence (Score: 0) State whereby two machines are considered equal in terms of user access rights. This is normally accomplished through th... |
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hostname (Score: 0) The system name or machine name. |
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HOWTO (Score: 0) Linux documentation describing a specific procedure or details of a specific aspect of the system. |
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HTML (Score: 0) Hypertext Markup Language. text formatting language used in WWW documents |
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HTTP (Score: 0) Hypertext Transfer Protocol. protocol used to transfer WWW documents. |









