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G Suite (Formerly: Google Apps for Work, Google Apps for Your Domain) First released August 28, 2006.  Website  Wikipedia       

Gabriel Cramer Swiss mathematician known for Cramer's rule. July 31, 1704 - January 4, 1752.  Wikipedia         

Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone from Samsung. Recalled for its potential exploding battery. Released August 19, 2016.  Website  Wikipedia       

Galaxy S III Smartphone from Samsung. First released May 29, 2012.  Wikipedia         

Galaxy S6 Smartphone from Samsung. Released April 10, 2015.  Wikipedia         

Galaxy S6 Edge+ Smartphone from Samsung. Released August 21, 2015.  Wikipedia         

Galaxy S7 Smartphone from Samsung. Released March 11, 2016.  Wikipedia         

GameCube Video game console made by Nintendo. First released in Japan September 14, 2001.  Wikipedia         

gamescom 2018  August 21-25 at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.  Website  Wikipedia       

Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)    Wikipedia         

gateway The gateway for a network is the router interface to which the network is directly connected.   Wikipedia         

Gateway Computer company based in South Dakota. Founded September 5, 1985. Acquired by Acer October 16, 2007.  Wikipedia         

Gateway Inc. Computer manufacturer.   Wikipedia         

Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP) Cisco proprietary protocol similar to HSRP and VRRP but supports load balancing across a max of 4 routers. Up to 1024 virtual routers. Can use clear text or MD5 authentication between group members.    Wikipedia         

Gateway of Last Resort Also known as the default route.   Wikipedia  Cisco       

Gateway to Gateway Protocol (GGP)             

Gear VR VR headset developed by Samsung and Oculus. Released November 27, 2015.  Wikipedia         

General Electric (GE)  Founded April 15, 1892.  Website  Wikipedia       

Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Tunneling protocol developed by Cisco. Creates a virtual point-to-point link and encapsulates Layer 3 packets. Has no encryption or authentication of data. By itself GRE is stateless and does not have flow-control. At least 24 bytes of additional overhead for tunneled packets. The original form of VPN. Introduced in 1994 as RFC 1701. Proposed as an IETF standard in 2000 as RFC 2784.  Wikipedia  RFC 1701  RFC 2784  Cisco   

Generic Syntax Highlighter (GeSHi) Syntax highlighter that supports most laguages. Uses PHP.   Website         

generic top-level domain Type of top-level domain   Wikipedia         

Genesis Video game console made by Sega. First released in North America August 14, 1989.  Wikipedia         

Georg Ohm German physicist. The Ohm is named after him.   Wikipedia         

GET A clients request for data.            

Get-ADUser PowerShell cmdlet used to get information about one or more Active Directory users.   TechNet         

Get-Date PowerShell command that displays the date and time.   TechNet         

Get-ExecutionPolicy             

Get-History PowerShell cmdlet that shows the history of the shell.            

Get-Host PowerShell command that information about the installed version of PowerShell.   StackOverflow         

Get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts             

Get-Member (gm) PowerShell cmdlet. Displays the properties and methods of an object.            

Get-NetConnectionProfile PowerShell cmdlet that gets a connection profile. Introduced in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.  TechNet         

Get-NetIPAddress PowerShell cmdlet that displays the IP address configuratoin. Introduced in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.  TechNet         

Get-NetIPConfiguration PowerShell cmdlet.            

Get-Process PowerShell command to show the running processes on a computer.    TechNet         

Get-SmbServerConfiguration PowerShell cmdlet used to check the status of SMB. Get-SmbServerConfiguration | Select EnableSMB1Protocol   Microsoft Support         

Get-WindowsDriver PowerShell cmdlet that displays driver information. Example: Get-WindowsDriver -Online -All   TechNet         

Get-WmiObject SoftwareLicensingService PowerShell command that returns the Windows Licence Key.   The Windows Club         

Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem Display system information in PowerShell.            

GFI LanGuard Network security audit tool.   Wikipedia  Website       

GFI Software    Wikipedia         

Ghostery    Wikipedia  Website       

Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) (IEEE 802.3-2008)   Wikipedia         

gigabyte (GB) 1 billion bytes.   Wikipedia         

GIGABYTE GA-AB350-Gaming (rev. 1.0) (AM4 AMD B350 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX) Motherboard from GIGABYTE. Released March 8, 2017.  Website  Newegg       

Gigabyte Technology Computer hardware manufacturer.   Wikipedia  Website       

Gigafactory 1 Lithium-ion battery factory from Tesla. Open July 29, 2016.  Wikipedia  The Verge       

Gil Amelio  Named CEO of Apple Computer February 2, 1996  Wikipedia  This Day in Tech History       

Gilbert Vernam Co-invented the one-time pad cipher.   Wikipedia         

Giovan Battista Bellaso Italian cryptologist. Born in 1505.  Wikipedia         

Git Version control system.   Website  Wikipedia  YouTube (Derek Banas)  YouTube (GitHub Training & Guides)   

git commit             

git config --list             

git init Command in Git to start tracking a project and create the .git directory.   Git Documentation         

git log             

GitHub Social network for programmers.   Website  Wikipedia  YouTube (GitHub Training & Guides)     

Glass Wire Network monitoring and firewall tool.   Website         

Global AppSec San Francisco 2020  October 19-23, 2020  Website         

Global Catalog Server (GCS) (Global Catalog GC) Type of domain controller that stores the objects from all domains in the forest.   TechNet (What Is the Global Catalog?)  TechNet (Domain Controller Roles)       

Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Regulation in the European Union (EU) to strengthen and unify data protection. Adopted April 27, 2016. Enforceable May 25, 2018.  Wikipedia         

Global Positioning System (GPS) Global navigation satellite system managed by the United States with 24 total satellites. 3 satellites are needed to determine location while 4 are required to determine location and elevation. Launched February 1978.  Wikipedia         

global routing prefix Part of an IPv6 global unicast address. Network portion of an address assigned by a provider, currently /48 or 48 bits.            

Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Used by AT&T and T-Mobile.   Wikipedia         

Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)    Wikipedia         

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) (formerly: GNU C Compiler) Compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. Originally only supported the C programming language and later C++. Front ends were later developed for Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go among others. First released May 23, 1987.   Website  Wikipedia       

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) Open source image editor.    Website         

GNU Privacy Guard (GPG)             

GNU zip (gzip) Compresses files but not directories. Initially released October 31, 1992  Wikipedia         

GNU's Not UNIX (GNU)    Wikipedia         

Gnutella Protocol used for P2P file transfer            

GOG.com (Formerly Good Old Games) Founded July 10, 2008.  Website  Wikipedia       

goodput (Throughput - traffic overhead = goodput)            

Google The company that will one day rule the world. Founded September 4, 1998.  Website  Wikipedia       

Google Analytics Tracks view and use statistics for websites and apps.   Website  Wikipedia       

Google Apps Vault Add-on for Google Apps that lets you retain, archive, search, and export your organization's email and chat messages for your eDiscovery and compliance needs.   Website  Google for Wrok Blog       

Google Cardboard VR headset made out of cardboard that uses a smartphone as the display. Released June 25, 2014.  Website  Wikipedia       

Google Cloud    Website  Wikipedia       

Google Cloud Next '18  July 24 - July 26 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  Website         

Google event  October 4, 2017.           

Google I/O Annual developer conference.    Wikipedia         

Google I/O 2017  May 17 - May 19 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.  Website         

Google I/O 2018  May 8 - May 10 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.  Website  Wikipedia       

Google I/O 2019  May 7 - May 9 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.  Website  Wikipedia       

Google Pixel 2 Smartphone from Google. Announced October 4, 2017.  Website  Wikipedia       

Gopher port 70            

GoPro Hero 6  Released September 28, 2017.  Website  Wikipedia  The Verge     

Gordon Moore Known for Moore's law. Founded NM Electronics with Robert Noyce in 1968 which later became Intel Corporation. Born January 3, 1929  Wikipedia          

GOTO Jump between parts of a program.   Wikipedia         

GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) Group of IP-based communications protocols used to carry general packet radio service (GPRS) within GSM, UMTS and LTE networks.   Wikipedia         

gpupdate Command to update group policy.

/force
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Grace Hopper  December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992.  Wikipedia         

GRAFTABL Enables Windows to display an extended character set in graphics.            

Graphical User Interface (GUI) Visual interface allowing user interaction through the use of icons or buttons   Wikipedia         

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)    Wikipedia         

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)    Wikipedia         

greater than (gt) Comparison operator. > or -gt            

greater than or equal to (ge) Comparison operator. >= or -ge            

Greenfield Deployment Installing and configuring a new network.            

grep Utility that searches strings of text using regular expressions. First released November 1974.  Wikipedia         

Groove folder Part of the late Microsoft Office Groove.   Wikipedia         

Groove Music    Website  Player  Wikipedia     

Group Policy Controls what a user can do on a computer. Part of Active Directory.   Wikipedia         

Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)    TechNet         

Group Spécial Mobile (GSM) Original name for GSM.   Wikipedia         

GroupWise Collaboration platform from Novell.   Website  Wikipedia       

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2  Released May 5, 2017.  IMDB  Wikipedia       

GUID Partition Table (GPT)    Wikipedia         

GWX (KB3035583) Uninstall to remove icon from taskbar.            

gyrator  Proposed in 1948 by Bernard D. H. Tellegen.  Wikipedia