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June 22, 2003 ISSUE 112
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/nl112.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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RLE ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/rle.htm ) -
Short for Run-length Limited Encoding, RLE is a type of file format used with computer graphics files to help reduce the overall size of a file. Although a graphics file may end with an extension of .RLE, there are graphic files such as some BMP files and TIFF files that may utilize RLE, but end with their appropriate file extension.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term 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: Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading
* story.news.yahoo.com -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet.
06/17/2003 - Judge: Millions of CD buyers owed money
06/17/2003 - Self-destruct files to secure DVDs, CDs
06/17/2003 - SCO revokes IBM software license, dispute deepens
06/17/2003 - Italian piracy ring smashed
06/17/2003 - CERT Bulletin Leaked Early--Again
06/17/2003 - PeopleSoft Sweetens J.D. Edwards Offer
06/17/2003 - Iomega Unveils Multiformat DVD Burner
06/17/2003 - Microsoft Launches Legal Blitz Vs. Spammers
06/17/2003 - Linux Creator to Work Full-Time on Development
06/17/2003 - Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading
06/17/2003 - Apple responds to Microsoft dropping Internet Explorer
06/18/2003 - Top video games may soon cost more
06/18/2003 - Search providers agree to merge
06/18/2003 - MSN delivers Messenger beta to public
06/19/2003 - Forum changes name from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 _ and gets away with it
06/19/2003 - Financial IM records must be stored for three years
06/19/2003 - MSN search bot a glimpse of ambitions
06/19/2003 - Oracle Bid for PeopleSoft Hits $6.3B
06/19/2003 - Google Expands Content-Based Internet Ad Services
06/19/2003 - Best Buy or Biggest Scam?
06/19/2003 - USA Interactive to Change Name to InterActiveCorp
06/19/2003 - EDS to Cut 2 Percent of Its Work Force
06/20/2003 - Mysterious Net traffic spurs code hunt
06/20/2003 - Apple Leaks Power Mac G5 Details
06/20/2003 - Microsoft Releases Office 2003 Beta 2 Refresh
06/20/2003 - US Senator pauses on PC destruct button
06/20/2003 - Tiny computers will bend to browse
06/22/2003 - Bill would let FBI probe file-sharing
06/22/2003 - RIAA warns individual swappers
06/22/2003 - Apple Expected to Preview Next OS X on Monday
06/22/2003 - Man Accused of Hacking Into University
06/22/2003 - How labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar.
06/22/2003 - Amazon's Software Emerges As a Product
06/22/2003 - Graphics format wins freedom
06/22/2003 - Potter Shipments Set Web Commerce Record
06/22/2003 - Google calls in the 'language police'
06/22/2003 - AOL And IMlogic Strike a Deal
06/22/2003 - Happy Birthday, Dear DNS
06/22/2003 - eBay Bids $4.5M for FairMarket
06/22/2003 - Stalker aims to creep up on Exchange
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1662003
Find all of the latest news and article headlines 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: No new security news this week.
* 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 search engine to version 1.5b. Updates included various fixes with how results are displayed and improvements with search engine index.
- Added additional Questions and Answers. Currently working on CH000486, which will contain ten new questions and answers, we hope to have this completed within the next 48 hours.
- Updated dictionary.
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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Additional information and help with the boot.ini.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000492.htm
Enabling / disabling Windows desktop cleanup.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000493.htm
How to setup Windows XP to look like previous versions of Windows.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000466.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://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/3772
Recently we came across a press release from Sony that introduced the new "Puppy fingerprint identity device", this device enables Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X users to quickly and easily enable secure access with the touch of the finger. This is definitely worth checking out if you are interested in securing your computer and/or hate remembering passwords.
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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