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June 29, 2003 ISSUE 113
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/nl113.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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RPG ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/rpg.htm ) -
1. Short for Role Playing Game where players act out of a different reality.
2. Short for Report Program Generator, RPG programming is a programming language developed by IBM in the 1960s to simplify programming for business applications.
3. Short for Raster Pattern Generator is the set of electronic circuits that converts raster patterns into bit patterns.
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: Microsoft Cuts Off Windows NT Workstation Help
* story.news.yahoo.com -- Part of the put-out-to-pasture plan that Microsoft calls Support Lifecycle -- where aging products go through a several-step process of increasingly-diminished support options -- the move means NT 4.0 Workstation users can turn only to the self-help online support for problem solving as of July 1
06/23/2003 - Intel brings the Pentium 4 to 3.2GHz
06/23/2003 - Dell adds new printers, monitors
06/23/2003 - MapQuest finds place for Google
06/23/2003 - eBay adds UPS shipping tools
06/23/2003 - Jobs unveils new Power Macs
06/24/2003 - Fujitsu wins large Verizon telecoms order
06/24/2003 - Microsoft Employees Arrested for Stealing Software
06/24/2003 - PlanetLab 'Slices' Into Alternate Internet Universe
06/24/2003 - Apple's benchmarks put to the test
06/25/2003 - VIA said to be quitting P4 motherboard business
06/25/2003 - Athlon64 exposed
06/25/2003 - Web privacy policies confuse Net surfers
06/25/2003 - Niue becomes wireless Net nation
06/25/2003 - Maxtor Ships 300GB ATA Drives To Retailers Nationwide
06/25/2003 - Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 3 Ships
06/25/2003 - Army enlists Microsoft for software deal
06/25/2003 - How Far Can Zend Take PHP?
06/25/2003 - Recording Industry to Sue Internet Song Swappers
06/25/2003 - IBM Envisions 'Butler in the Dashboard'
06/25/2003 - Stamps.com Sues PayPal, eBay
06/25/2003 - OpenOffice 1.0 Launched
06/26/2003 - BigPond to introduce new anti-spam measures
06/26/2003 - Virus turns PCs into spam machines
06/26/2003 - Microsoft warns of Windows Media flaws
06/26/2003 - NEC-Mitsubishi launch foldable LCDs
06/26/2003 - Dell announces new 64-bit server
06/26/2003 - Popup-blocking Google toolbar released
06/26/2003 - Star Wars enters the persistent world gaming space but will it make a difference?
06/26/2003 - W3C finalizes SOAP 1.2 standard
06/26/2003 - 611 years of computing done in 132 days in Japanese 'grid computing' test
06/26/2003 - HP lowers price pole with $349 PC
06/26/2003 - Microsoft cuts consulting jobs
06/26/2003 - Windows 2000 fixes released
06/26/2003 - Sun buys mobile content distribution software
06/27/2003 - Time running out for Windows NT
06/27/2003 - Consumers can sign up to block telemarketers
06/27/2003 - Spreading Internet Virus Spoofs E-Mail Addresses
06/27/2003 - Music swappers plan protests
06/27/2003 - Unmetered Internet hits Ireland
06/29/2003 - Video Game Industry to Change Ratings System
06/29/2003 - Microsoft Cuts Off Windows NT Workstation Help
06/29/2003 - Internet Advertisers Find Better Ways To Find Out About You (Column)
06/29/2003 - Overland Acquires Okapi, Moves Into Disk Backup Software
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1732003
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:
- story.news.yahoo.com -- A new variant of a computer virus spreading around the Internet on spoofs the e-mail address of the sender, making it difficult to determine the source of infection, antivirus experts said.
* Security:
- infoworld.com -- Vulnerabilities exist in two Windows Media products that can allow an attacker to take over a media server or view a user's media library, Microsoft warned Wednesday.
- msnbc.com -- Another version of the SoBig virus, the fifth in recent weeks, hit Internet users Wednesday. antivirus firms quickly raised the risk to medium as the worm started spreading rapidly during U.S. business hours. The latest SoBig outbreak, plus another malicious effort also unleashed Wednesday, show the line between viruses and spam continues to blur. Whats worse, virus writers are refining techniques to hijack innocent victims computers, turning them into an army of spam machines.
* Privacy:
- story.news.yahoo.com -- Web site operators are getting better at figuring out where you live and what your interests are, all in the process of better targeting their advertising and content. And while on the surface that sounds like a welcome development, like anything else on the Internet it has a dark side as well. The trick will be how the good and the bad balance out in the coming months ahead. See the complete story here.
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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- Posted new questions and answers.
- Updated dictionary.
- Posted numerous updates throughout website.
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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Determining type of hardware within computer.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000494.htm
How do I download a file from the Internet?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000505.htm
How do I extract or uncompress a compressed file?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000506.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://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php
This week Google introduced a beta version of their toolbar. For users unfamiliar with the Google toolbar, this feature enables Microsoft Windows users running Internet Explorer 5 or later the ability to implement the Google search and other features into their browser. The Google toolbar 2.0 has all the previous versions as the original Google toolbar however also includes an "AutoFill" feature that allows you to automatically fill out forms, "BlogThis" feature enables you to create a weblog about the page, and finally also includes a free "Popup Blocker" enabling you to easily block Internet advertising.
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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