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home
networking
Allows users to connect HPNA-certified peripheral equipment to an HPNA-certified
PC through home telephone lines. See also Home Phoneline Network Alliance
(HPNA).
Home Phoneline
Network
Alliance (HPNA)
The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance is an association of industry-leading
companies working together to ensure adoption of a single, unified phoneline
networking standard and rapidly bring to market a range of interoperable home
networking solutions.
hibernation
Applies to notebook computers only. A state of decreased power consumption. When
the notebook computer enters this state, the contents of the memory are automatically
written to the hard disk for safe storage. Your notebook computer automatically
enters hibernation if any of the following events occur:
❖ The notebook computer has been in the Sleep mode for more than one hour
(while connected to battery power only).
❖ The battery reaches the low charge state.
❖ The power button is pressed briefly while the computer is on.
hotplug
To connect or disconnect equipment, such as a PC card or USB device, without
restarting the computer.
hover help
The information that may be displayed when the mouse pointer is placed on an icon,
button, or toolbar item, such as the name of the button or an explanation of the button
function.
HTML
See Hypertext Markup Language.
HTTP
See Hypertext Transport Protocol.
hub
A switching device used to connect computers to a network.
hyperlink
Colored and underlined hypertext that when clicked provides immediate access to a
file, a specific location within a file, or a Web page. See hypertext, link.
hypertext
Specially formatted words in a document or on a Web page that serves as a link to
another location. See hyperlink, link.
Hypertext
Markup
Language
(HTML)
A standard language used for creating and publishing documents on the World Wide
Web.