Web Glossary

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LAN - Local Area Network
Computer network limited to one single location, usually an office.

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Leased line
Dedicated phone line that provides a full-time (always on) connection from your location to another location. Because you are the only user on this line, you can achieve higher data transfer speeds.

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Link
Marked text (usually underlined) or picture within a hypertext document (Web page). With just one click of your mouse, a link brings you to another Web page (or to another place on the same page). Links are essential in hypertext documents, without links one can hardly speek of "hyper"text.

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Linux
UNIX based operating system for personal computers. This software is available free but there are also some companies that provides a "refined" Linux version at a relatively low price.

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Location
Internet address as displayed on your browser. When you type in the URL of a Web site into the location bar of your browser, your browser will take you to this page.

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Log file
File that contains detailed recorded events of a computer system, for example: server access log files, error log files etc.

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Login
Entering into a computer system. Also the account name (or user ID) that you must enter before you can have access to some computer systems.

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