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April 06, 2003 ISSUE 104
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
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl104.htm -
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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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Line speed ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/linespee.htm ) -
The amount of data that is capable of being sent across a communication line. The line speed is commonly measured in bits per second.
Enjoy weekly computer terms? Try our new daily computer term page at the below link.
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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: eBay's PayPal accused of violating Patriot Act
* A federal prosecutor has alleged eBay Inc. unit PayPal violated a 2001 anti-terror law aimed at fighting money laundering when it provided payment services to online gambling companies, the Web auctioneer said in its annual report filed Monday.
- Canadians lead world in job hunting on-line
- Study: PC prices rocking to the bottom
- Bill Gates hoax hits Korean market
- Humanoid robots wow Japanese
- Web goes down the toilet
- AOL asks FCC to lift IM restriction
- 50 million historical documents posted on Web
- InfoSpace Lays Off 115, Announces Revamp
- Network Associates Targets New Market, Buys Entercept
- Internet radio sides agree on royalty rates
- ISO Certifies Microsoft's C# Language
- Apache Patches Security Flaw
- 64-Bit Windows Nears Reality
- Music Industry Group Sues College File Swappers
- Landmark Theatres and Microsoft Create the Largest Digital Cinema Circuit In the United States
- Pizza Box or IMac? No, an IBox
- NetZero launches high-speed dial-up access
- Microsoft says to take aim at Google
- Who's Making Money from Linux?
- EarthLink to Buy Own Shares From Sprint
- IBM To Help Build Massive Data Grid To Recreate 'Big Bang'
- Security Holes in RealPlayer, QuickTime
- Juno offers Mac OS X users dial-up Internet
- Linux to power biotech centre
- Computer Associates to Eliminate 450 Jobs
- eBay ends ad-selling deal with AOL
- Free software gives hackers taste of own medicine
- EBay's PayPal accused of violating Patriot Act
- Salon Gets a Lifeline
- Nvidia updates Linux software
- Sendmail 8.12.9 released
- Is the End of the Call Center Near?
- Encryption backers brace for new threats
- Cisco Upgrades Switch Line
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 -- Researchers are warning of serious security holes in two popular digital media players -- RealNetworks' RealOne and Apple's QuickTime -- that have put millions of systems at risk.
theregister.co.uk -- IT security specialist Backfire Security today announced the availability of a software download as a discrete desk-top client application which wreaks revenge on those hackers and culprits attacking your network or infecting users with worms and/or viruses.
sendmail.org -- Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.12.9. It contains a fix for a critical security problem discovered by Michal Zalewski whom we thank for bringing this problem to our attention. Sendmail urges all users to either upgrade to sendmail 8.12.9 or apply a patch for your sendmail version. Remember to check the PGP signatures of patches or releases obtained via FTP or HTTP (to check the correctness of the patches in this announcement please verify the PGP signature of it). For those not running the open source version, check with your vendor for a patch.
* 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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* With the new month of April, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "Which Internet Browser do you prefer?" Quiz - "Which of the following is not related to programming?" and tip - "All Computer users".
- In addition to adding additional definitions and revising several other definitions, we have also added a new feature to our dictionary page that allows you to get a "Computer word of the day", this page can be found at the below link.
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/wotd.cgi
- Updated search engine script.
- Continued our work on our other new scripts and programs.
- Updated numerous miscellaneous pages.
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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Monitor clicks, pops, or makes other noises.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000489.htm
How to disable / enable screen savers
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000339.htm
Creating flashing background when opening a web page.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000058.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://gallery.euroweb.hu/
This week we came across "Web Gallery of Art", an excellent website with an extensive amount of art information and pictures. What we liked most about this site is that it contains over 11,000 digital reproductions of all types of famous art from the years 1150 and 1800. For individuals who enjoy art, this is a great site to not only view some of the greatest paintings, sculptures, drawings, and other type of art, but also find great information about the majority of the work. Those of you who may not enjoy art as much as others are still likely to enjoy viewing many of the paintings and may even find it fun to use some of these pictures as wallpapers for their desktops.
We would also like to thank Sean H., a Computer Hope newsletter subscriber for his great feedback and recommendations on our "Command Language" definition. With his help we have updated this dictionary definition to be much clearer and informative, an updated version of this definition can now be found at the below link.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/commandl.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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