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| INTERNET DICTIONARY - LETTER "G" | |
| gated | Gatedaemon. A program which supports multiple routing protocols and protocol families. It may be used for routing, and makes an effective platform for routing protocol research. The software is freely available by anonymous FTP from "gated.cornell.edu". |
| gateway | The term "router" is now used in place of the original definition of "gateway". Currently, a gateway is a communications device/program which passes data between networks having similar functions but dissimilar implementations. This should not be confused with a protocol converter. By this definition, a router is a layer 3 (network layer) gateway, and a mail gateway is a layer 7 (application layer) gateway. See also: mail gateway, router, protocol converter. |
| GEnie | An online service run by General Electric. If you have an account of GEnie and your mail name (not your username) is "tonynelson", your Internet address is tonynelson@genie.geis.com. |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format - Developed by Compuserve using compression technology from Unisys. On the World Wide Web pictures and graphics you see on Web pages are usually in GIF format because the files are small and download quickly. Another type of graphics format used commonly are JPEG these files download even faster and contain a better resolution but cannot be interlaced so many Web page authors tend to opt for using GIF's instead to get that "melting" onto the screen effect that happens with interlaced images. Transparent GIF - Transparent GIFs are useful because they appear to blend in smoothly with the user's display, even if the user has set a background color that differs from that the developer expected. They do this by assigning one color to be transparent -- if the Web browser supports transparency, that color will be replaced by the browser's background color, whatever it may be. Interlaced GIF - Interlaced GIFs appear first with poor resolution and then improve in resolution until the entire image has arrived, as opposed to arriving linearly from the top row to the bottom row. This is great to get a quick idea of what the entire image will look like while waiting for the rest. This doesn't do much for you if your Web browser doesn't support progressive display as the image is downloaded, but non-progressive-display Web browsers will still display interlaced GIFs once they have arrived in their entirety. You can make transparent and interlaced GIFs through the Web without running any utility software on your own system through the Visioneering image manipulation page, which will access your image through the Web and produce an enhanced version for you to save. |
| GIF89a, GIF animation, or multi block GIF | A type of GIF format which allows a series of images to be displayed one after another or on top of each other. |
| GNU | Gnu's Not Unix - A project of the Free Software Foundation to write a free version of the Unix operating system. |
| Gopher | A distributed information service that makes available hierarchical collections of information across the Internet. Gopher uses a simple protocol that allows a single Gopher client to access information from any accessible Gopher server, providing the user with a single "Gopher space" of information. Gopher includes the capabilities of linking to Telnet Sessions, WAIS searches, FTP transfers, and some access to HTML documents. Public domain versions of the client and server are available. See also: archie, archive site, Prospero, Wide Area Information Servers. |
| GOSIP | See: Government OSI Profile |
| Government OSI Profile | A subset of OSI standards specific to U.S. Government procurements, designed to maximize interoperability in areas where plain OSI standards are ambiguous or allow excessive options. Source: BIG-LAN |
| gross | A dozen dozen (144). |
| GSM | Global Standard for Mobile Communications - This set of standards is widely used in Europe for cellular communications. The audio encoding subset of the GSM standard is best known to computer users because its data compression and decompression techniques are also being used for Web-phone communication and encoding .wav and .aiff files. |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface - this term refers to a software front-end meant to provide an attractive and easy to use interface between a computer user and an application. |
| GZip | A free compression program commonly available as a UNIX command for file compression, GZip, which is also available for MSDos, compresses files and appends either ".z" or ".gz" to the file name. |
