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April 20, 2003 ISSUE 105
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/nl105.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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Fetch ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/f/fetch.htm ) -
Term used to describe the process of a software program, script, or hardware device retrieving data and then moving it to an alternate location and/or displaying the data.
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: Sony to Recall 20,000 More Vaio PCs Due to Glitch
* story.news.yahoo.com -- Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp said on Friday it would recall 20,000 Vaio desktop personal computers sold in Japan between September 2002 and January 2003 to replace defective power supply parts.
- Leaner Jeeves, Faster Answers
- Intel Cuts Prices on Fastest Microprocessors
- Roxio sells GoBack
- Hollywood alters movies to foil camcorder pirates
- Building a Bigger Search Engine
- Sony to Recall 20,000 More Vaio PCs Due to Glitch
- Beware That Windows Error Message
- Fake bank site part of Nigerian scam
- Report: 1 in 5 offline and plan to stay that way
- Microsoft Settles Florida Suit for $200 Million
- Corel debuts new WordPerfect
- Wham-bam, outlaw spam
- Americans Embracing E-Gov Despite Privacy Concerns
- RSA Unveils 'Internet Insecurity Index'
- Broadband usage in Singapore up 30 percent
- Apple releases new Safari beta
- Novell Forges a Three-Pronged Plan
- Opera scales up to 7.1, vows Mac update
- AOL Sues Five 'Spam' Companies
- Solar cells less pricey, more efficient
- Intel delays new Pentium 4 chip
- AOL wary of Comcast, Road Runner mail
- Fantasy games 'not for geeks'
- IBM to offer office suite for free
- Brocade announces layoffs
- Report: Apple May Buy Universal for $6B
- Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom plans to slash another 600 jobs
- HP Signs $3 Billion Contract with P&G
- Microsoft ports Windows Media to Linux
- New Yorkers Face Off in Spam Spat
- GM pulling plug on electric cars
- Western Digital offers glowing red 250GB hard drive
- Indian call center expanding to U.S.
- Nokia cuts 1,800 jobs in struggling network division
- News Corp. Seals $6.6B Deal for DirecTV Stake
- FBI: Internet fraud complaints tripled in 2002
- eMac drops below $700
- Dell drops iPod
- Acrobat takes away the net
- Newcomer Procket Takes on Cisco, Juniper
- Samba flaw threatens Linux file servers
- Microsoft Tracing Windows Server Code Leak
- China Search Alliance accelerates expansion to meet Google's penetration into China
- Afghan Women Hope Computer Will Bring New Dawn
- Computers that watch while you work
- Windows key leak threatens mass piracy
- Windows CE to outship PCs in five years - researcher
- U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker
- Sun unveils new IM software combo
- Yahoo Plans Improvements in Effort to Regain Lost Ground
- Your Next PC: Legacy Free?
- Microsoft Changes Windows Start Menu
- Security glitch with SETI@home screensaver
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:
- atnewyork.com -- Microsoft on Thursday warned of a buffer overrun vulnerability in the way the Windows kernel passes error messages to a debugger and issued a security patch to plug the holes on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems.
- theregister.co.uk -- Dutch security researchers have discovered a set of security vulnerabilities with the popular SETI@home program.
* 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 and numerous definitions.
- Updated beta 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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Extended RAM failed at offset 1A.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000394.htm
Main laptop battery does not charge to 100%.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000354.htm
Low audio everywhere.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000202.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.iriver.com/product/info.asp?p_name=iFP-195TC
This week we came across the iFP-195TC from iRiver, a portable MP3 player this device has 512MB of internal storage space, capable of transferring data rates of up to 6.4Mbps, has a built in FM Tuner, has the capability of recording from FM, and is capable of running up to 20 hours on a single AA battery.
http://www.grub.org/
A site mentioned this week in our news section, we also found Grub to be a very interesting idea and program. Grub is a distributed processing program designed to help index the Internet even faster with the help of computers around the world with the intentions of improving search engine results.
http://www.homestarrunner.com
Updated weekly we have become quite fond of Homestar Runner and each of his friends (especially Strong Bad). Done completely in Macromedia Flash the visitor has the ability of visiting various very funny sections that contain cartoon shorts, games, and much more. One of the sections we enjoyed the most is StrongBad's e-mail ( http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html ), which contains a weekly e-mail short answered by Strong Bad.
http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=14063
Finally, we also came across an interesting picture and brief description of Microsoft GWindows, although we were unable to locate much more information then what is on the above link. The idea of being able to navigate a computer using hand gestures is fascinating.
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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