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