definition tooltips

Thanks. That helps me too (as I didn't know the meanings of a few of these as well). I've added those and some additional acronyms to the system.

However, it is nicer and more encouraged to talk *english*. Adding of these acronym tooltips doesn't mean encouraging you to talk in acronyms all the time.

Cheers

I know, I know. Especially HTH is completely unnecessary. Please make a sticky thread for reporting unknown tech jargon (newbie: Samba? I'm supposed to dance on my computer???) and acronyms, it will be very useful.

VPN - Virtual Private Network
PM - Private Message

Stickified!

Tango is another computing term associated with dancing.

IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol
CGI - Common Gateway Interface or Computer Generated Imagery

Thanks Taco. Done.

BTW - By the way
FYI - For your information

maybe a few architectures ?
x86 - very common 32-bit PC architecture
ia32 - very common 32-bit PC architecture
x86_64 - 64-bit version of x86; used by newer Athlon (AMD64), Pentium and Xeon (EM64T) chips
ia64 - 64-bit architecture used by the Intel Itantum; NOT x86_64
ppc - PowerPC: architecture used by IBM POWER and Apple G* processors
sparc - architecture used by SUN processors

I'll be adding those.. but I think we shouldn't have too much acronyms undelined like this not to overdo it and come up annoying.

So some that are known to 90% of all computer users should be ok without a tooltip. I think most users of GNU/Linux and operating systems we support here know terms like x86 for example.

but you're *** if you don't

Hehe, I've just added those suggested acronyms.

Thanks