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March 31, 2003 ISSUE 103
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Debugging ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/debuggin.htm ) -
Debugging is a process of ridding a computer program of the logical or syntactical errors. This is commonly achieved by manually examining the programs source code.
See a complete dictionary of computer terms at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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Top News Story: Domain names set to go multilingual
* msnbc.com -- Internet domain names in languages other than English should be available within the next few weeks or months, the chairman of the Internets key oversight body said Wednesday. Vincent G. Cerf said the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, would likely approve technical standards Thursday. The standards allow the worlds computers built around English to recognize Chinese, Arabic and other languages.
- Five TV makers preparing Internet TV specs
- IBM unveils hefty storage controller
- More Headaches for Sendmail
- Macromedia Flash Player 6 Now Available for Pocket PC 2002
- Enterasys Trims Loss, Move HQ
- Google Teams With Ad Networks
- Copyproof CDs moving to market?
- Opera hits the small screen
- Flash Moves Beyond the Browser
- Fujitsu preps Linux-based robot
- Sun's Linux distro is dead
- Sunscreen for your computer?
- Microsoft not patching NT raises eyebrows
- New build of WinXP SP2 leaks out
- Microsoft Acknowledges Glitch in XP SP1
- Bill Would Allow Check Transfer Electronically
- Windows Server 2003 goes gold
- California spam bill passes Senate
- LaCie releases FireWire 800 hard drives
- Domain names set to go multilingual
- Network builds itself from scratch
- Windows 2000 Flaw More Serious Than Initially Thought
- Senator calls for copy-protection tags
- Scam casts doubt on eBay's anti-fraud software
- Mass e-mailer ordered to pay 6.5 mil. yen compensation
- Apple responds to Adobe's 'PC Preferred' site
- Windows Server: Microsoft's mod OS
- IBM to manufacture Nvidia's graphics chips
- 2Mbps broadband on the way from Telewest
- Microsoft's Exit from W3C Group Stirs Dissent
- New IIS flaw could be one of many
- Adam Osborne, Portable Computer Pioneer, Dead at 64
- Computer-Equipped Fish Part of Effort to Aid Tuna
- Red Hat Linux 9 to Launch Next Week
- Hotmail restricts outgoing messages
- Jupiter: Paid Content Market to Soar
- Unisys, Microsoft Tackle the Data Center
- Dog translation device coming to U.S.
- Web sites defaced as Iraq war rages
- Dell, IBM Ship Competing Laser Printers
- Gateway to Move Into Digital Projector Market
- 'War' takes over as top web search
Find all of the above articles and latest news at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
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* Virus: No new virus news this week.
* Security:
- Internetnews.com -- The Sendmail Consortium, which manages deployment of the world's most popular message transfer agent (MTA) to handle email, was left scrambling over the weekend to fix a remotely exploitable vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain control of a unpatched sendmail server.
- infoworld.com -- Microsoft's statement on Wednesday that it would not offer a version of a security patch for NT 4.0 has called into question an earlier promise to continue supporting the operating system through the end of 2004 and raised concern among its customers.
- story.news.yahoo.com -- A Microsoft security flaw revealed last week is much more serious than initially thought, several security companies have said. It's important that businesses apply a new patch to all Windows 2000 systems, advisories state--not just those running Microsoft's IIS Web server software.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
Computer Security Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/secureqa.htm
Computer Privacy Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/privacyq.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Updated dictionary.
- Updated numerous miscellaneous pages.
- Updated questions and answers.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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* With the recent major security vulnerabilities that have been announced over the last few weeks we highly recommend that any users running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP make sure their computers have the latest updates. Users can find the latest Microsoft operating system updates at the below link.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Older modem and network cards do not work in Windows XP.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000488.htm
How to create file extensions longer than three characters.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000043.htm
How to make files not go to the recycle bin in Windows.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000134.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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http://www.wristomo.com/
This week NTT DoCoMo introduced Wristomo, a mobile phone capable of being worn on the wrist. This is a great concept and likely be very useful for those of us who consistently using their mobile phones. The Wristomo website is only available in Japanese and because the site is in Flash cannot be translated into other languages. A news article by C|NET that contains additional information about the Wristomo is available at the below link.
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39122720,00.htm
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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