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Hacker
A computer user who works to understand the "ins
and outs" of computers, networks, and the Internet in general. Hackers are generally benign, and believe that
information should be free.
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Half Dublex (HDX)
Transmission in either direction but not both
simultaneously.
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Handshaking
Exchange of predetermined signals between two
devices establishing a connection. It's usually part of a communications protocol.
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Harddisk
One of several types of magnetic media used for
storing data. Unlike floppy disks, hard disks are non-flexible and non-removable. They hold much more data than
floppy disks, and are the principle long-term data storage for most personal computers. Non-removable hard disks
are also known as "fixed disks".
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Head
Head is a small electromagnetic device inside
a drive that reads, writes, and erases data on the drive's media.
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Heat sink
Heat Sink is a mass of metal attached to a chip
carrier or socket for the purpose of dissipating heat.
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Hidden field
A form field that is invisible to a user but supplies
data to a form handler. Each hidden field is implemented as a name-value pair. When a form is submitted by a user,
its hidden fields are passed to the form-handler along with name-value pairs for each visible form field.
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History
History is included in the Internet Browser that
stores the internet addresses (URLs) of the web sites which have been visited.
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Home page
The starting point for a Web site. It is the page
that is retrieved and displayed by default when a user visits the Web site. The default home-page name for a server
depends on the server's configuration. On many Web servers it is index.htm or default.htm. Some Web servers support
multiple home pages.
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Host
A computer that is attached to a network or the Internet.
Hosts allow users on client machines to connect and share files or transfer information. Individual users communicate
with hosts by using client application programs.
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Hotspot
A graphically defined area in an image that contains
a hyperlink. An image with hotspots is called an image map. In Web browsers, hotspots are invisible. Users can
tell that a hotspot is present by the changing appearance of the pointer.
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HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
The standard language for describing the contents
and appearance of pages on the World Wide Web. The FrontPage Page Editor and Visual Page reads and writes HTML
files. Knowledge of the HTML language is not required to use FrontPage or Visual Page. HTML is the primary coding
language to create Web pages. A Web page has HTML tags, which instruct the browser to display text in a particular
format. The standard way to mark text documents for publishing on the World Wide Web. HTML is marked-up using "tags"
surrounded by brackets. To see what tagged HTML text looks like, select the View Source feature from the menus
in the program you are using to view this document now, and you'll see a display of the HTML text used to create
this page.
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HTML attribute
A name-value pair used within an HTML tag to assign
additional properties to an object being defined. FrontPage assigns some attributes automatically when you create
an object such as a paragraph or image map. You can assign other attributes by editing the Properties dialog box.
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HTML character encoding
A standard table which associates a numeric index
with each character in a character set. The table is used when you create a Web page for use in a specific language.
Also called code page.
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HTML Markup
A FrontPage component that is replaced with any arbitrary
text you supply. This text is substituted for the FrontPage component when the page is saved to the server as HTML.
Use HTML Markup to insert non-standard HTML commands on a page.
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HTML tag
A symbol used in HTML to identify a page element's
type, format, and appearance. The FrontPage Editor and Visual Page automatically creates HTML tags to represent
each element on a page.
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HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol)
The Internet protocol that allows World Wide Web
browsers to retrieve information from servers. (http://)
The protocol that tells the server what to send to the client, so the client can view Web pages, FTP sites,
or other areas of the net.
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Hub
Hub is a hardware device that contains multiple independent
but connected modules of network and internetwork equipment. Hubs can be active (where they repeat signals sent
through them) or passive (where they do not repeat but merely split signals sent through them).
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Hyperlink
A pointer from text or from an image map to a page
or other type of file on the World Wide Web. On Web pages, hyperlinks are the primary way to navigate between pages
and among Web sites.
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Hypermedia
The combination of hypertext and multimedia in
an online document.
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Hypertext
A type of text that allows embedded "links"
to other documents. Clicking on or selecting a hypertext link displays another document or section of a document.
Most World Wide Web documents contain hypertext.
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