'Food'

Cookie - a sweet biscuit

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A small text file sent to your computer via your web browser. Cookies store information about you so that a website can remember you; almost like your own identification card. Typical uses include allowing you to log into a website, use a shopping basket and remember your user preferences. Cookies make the interactions between users and websites faster and easier.

Cookies are also used by companies to monitor users' surfing habits and profile them for marketing purposes. It is possible to disable and delete cookies if you are worried about privacy and security, but it is worth noting that without cookies, some websites or functionality (e.g. shopping baskets) will not be accessible.

Cracker - a thin dry biscuit of a kind eaten with cheese

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A serious hacker who manipulates firewall software so that they can pass through it whenever it suits them. Software can then be modified to remove protection methods such as copy prevention, serial numbers, trial/demo versions and hardware keys.

The most visible and controversial effect of software cracking is the releasing of fully operable propriety software (e.g. Microsoft Windows, iTunes or Adobe Photoshop) without any copy protection. Proprietary software developers are constantly developing techniques to prevent crackers from modifying an application's binary that causes or prevents a specific key branch in the program's execution. The use of cracked software is illegal in almost every developed country.

Breadcrumbs - a small fragment of bread

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Named after the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the fairytale, breadcrumbs are a navigation technique used in user interfaces, most typically websites.

Breadcrumbs provide you with a path to return back through the website pages/sections viewed to your original point of entry. They usually appear horizontally below any title bars or headers. They can also show the location of a particular page in the hierarchy of a website.

Also useful for SEO purposes, breadcrumbs (as anchor text) can be read by search engines such as Google and help improve the rankings of a website.

Gnutella - A thick smooth paste made from chocolate and hazelnuts

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The most popular file sharing network on the internet, Gnutella is not a piece of software, but an open protocol that allows networked users to share files on each other's computers. This protocol is used by clients, such as LimeWire and Gnucleus, to provide free and open source software. In 2005 Gnutella had a computer population of over 1.8 million.

The originators supposedly ate a lot of Nutella while working on the original project and chose to combine this with GNU, a computer operating system composed entirely of free software, to create the name Gnutella.

Spam - a canned meat product made mainly from ham

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The unsolicited distribution of bulk messages via electronic messaging systems. Spam can be applied to many media including email, search engines, internet forums, fax, mobile phones and wikis.

Email spam is probably the most common form of spam and due to the cheap and mass nature of the medium, the volume of unsolicited mail is very high. This means that even with extremely low response rate, spamming can still be profitable.

It is believed that the term spam originated from a Monty Python sketch.


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