|
| |
May 04, 2003 ISSUE 107
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/nl107.htm -
____________________________________________________________
IN THIS ISSUE:
____________________________________________________________
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
____________________________________________________________
1. Weekly Computer Term.
____________________________________________________________
Housekeeping ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/housekee.htm ) -
When referring to computers, housekeeping is a term used to describe the optimization of a hard disk drive. Housekeeping commonly involves removing old or unused files, removing programs no longer being used, backing up data, and/or running disk utilities such as a scandisk, defrag, or a virus scan. Housekeeping is meant as a way to help keep the computer organized and running properly and should be performed at least once a year.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
____________________________________________________________
2. What's new in the news last week?
____________________________________________________________
Top News Story: Sanyo doubles up on CD capacity
* zdnet.com.com -- Japanese electronics maker Sanyo has unveiled a new technology that doubles the amount of data that can be stored on conventional CD-recordable discs.
04/29/2003 - New Computer Hope News Section
04/29/2003 - Wi-Fi Comes To The Office Phone
04/29/2003 - PC sales continue decline in quarter
04/29/2003 - Attacking Spam On Multiple Fronts
04/29/2003 - Largest e-mail groups unite against 'spam'
04/29/2003 - Apple Launching New Music Store Service
04/29/2003 - Bill Gates Touts Digital Newspapers
04/29/2003 - Ericsson to slash nearly 14,000 jobs by Q3 2004
04/29/2003 - Microsoft publishes security guides for admins
04/29/2003 - Dell tries to beat Cisco with a switch
04/29/2003 - Many NT apps won't run on Server 2003
04/29/2003 - 'New' rating confirms Google's crown
04/29/2003 - IBM portal takes dictation
04/29/2003 - XM Satellite Radio comes to the PC
04/29/2003 - Dell's new PC to appeal to gamers
04/30/2003 - AOL Unveils Fee-Based Virus Protection Service
04/30/2003 - Music Industry Sends Warning to Song Swappers
04/30/2003 - Unicast Introduces Screen-filling Online Ad
05/01/2003 - Verbatim extends Digital Vinyl LP-lookalike CD-R line
05/01/2003 - Microsoft To Expose Passport As XML-Enabled .NET Web Service This Summer
05/01/2003 - New Apple Service Off To Quick Start
05/01/2003 - Sanyo doubles up on CD capacity
05/01/2003 - Code red for open source?
05/01/2003 - Campus mini-Napster suits settled
05/02/2003 - Chuck out your handsets, here come the wristphones
05/02/2003 - IBM Makes Breakthrough in Ever-Shrinking Computing
05/02/2003 - Dell Confirms Commitment to Networking Business
05/02/2003 - Microsoft To Unveil 'Advanced' Communication PC
05/02/2003 - Microsoft to get technical on Longhorn, 'Palladium'
05/03/2003 - Net attack crushes SCO Web site
05/03/2003 - Microsoft Shell Light-Weight Utility Library Denial of Service
05/03/2003 - Sony Buys Sonic Foundry Products
05/03/2003 - Labels reportedly back antipiracy software
05/03/2003 - Online job seeker duped to help con
05/03/2003 - Verizon Drops DSL Price
05/04/2003 - Digital Technology Enhances da Vinci
05/04/2003 - Terminal PC Software May Curb Need to Upgrade PCs
05/04/2003 - Sun rises on acquisition speculation
05/04/2003 - Dotcom survivors come roaring back
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1172003
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
____________________________________________________________
3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
____________________________________________________________
* Virus:
story.news.yahoo.com -- America Online launched a new virus protection service for its members on Wednesday, marking the latest paid service from the Internet division of AOL Time Warner Inc. as it tries to turn itself around.
* Security:
secunia.com -- A vulnerability identified in a library included in Windows XP and Internet Explorer version 4.0 and newer can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on certain applications.
computerworld.com -- Microsoft Corp. released a guide on April 25 to help systems administrators run Windows Server 2003 securely and reannounced a similar guide for Windows 2000 yesterday.
* 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
____________________________________________________________
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
____________________________________________________________
* With the new month of May, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "How often do you use floppies?" Quiz - "Which Linux command sets a files permission?" and tip - "Internet Users".
- As you may or may have not noticed Computer Hope also changed it's news section this week. This change involved adding a new section called Old Headlines, which allows Computer Hope users to easily review this weeks and previous weeks news head lines. With this change we also are now using the same format in our newsletter, and providing newsletter readers with a direct link to all the headlines in the news section of the newsletter. If you like or dislike this new addition or wish to provide additional feedback or recommendations please feel free by e-mailing the newsletter team at newsletter@computerhope.com.
- Updated dictionary section.
- Updated network section.
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
____________________________________________________________
5. Hot computer issues.
____________________________________________________________
How do I stop pop-up or pop-under Internet ads?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000491.htm
How to prevent Windows 98 DVD player from loading.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000334.htm
How to determine the APM version.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000289.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
____________________________________________________________
6. All Talk
____________________________________________________________
http://www.actuality-systems.com/volumetric3d.php3
This week we came across the "Volumetric 3-D Display", a very interesting device that resembles a very large glass ball. The device weighs 60 lbs, and is 24" diameter x 9" high base with a 20" diameter dome and enables a user to visually see three-dimensional objects in the object without the aid of goggles or glasses.
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
____________________________________________________________
CONTACT AND INFORMATION http://www.computerhope.com
____________________________________________________________
If you need to change your e-mail address please send an e-mail to newsletter@computerhope.com with the e-mail address you wish to change as well as the new e-mail address.
If you wish to unsubscribe from this newsletter please reply to this message with "Remove" in the subject field.
Visit the Computer Hope at: http://www.computerhope.com
AOL users can visit our web version of our newsletter by visiting our newsletter page:
<a href="http://www.computerhope.com/newslet.htm">AOL Users click here</a>
Computer Hope Legal, Privacy and Anti Spam Policy: http://www.computerhope.com/legal.htm
(C) Copyright Computer Hope 2003
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
|
Home - Computer help - Contact - Dictionary - Links
Link to Computer Hope - Bookmark Computer Hope
