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July 20, 2003 ISSUE 116
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/nl116.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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Gbps ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/g/gbps.htm ) -
Short for Gigabits per second, Gbps is method of measuring how much data is being transmitted per second. Gbps is equal to a billion bits transmitted per second.
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: Upload a File, Go to Prison
* wired.com -- A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a peer-to-peer network.
07/14/2003 - Researchers win contract to rein in snoops
07/14/2003 - Commodore 64 Makes a Comeback
07/14/2003 - AMD, Fujitsu merge on flash memory
07/14/2003 - Yahoo to buy Overture
07/14/2003 - Boycott Urged for Epson Ink Jet Printers
07/15/2003 - Adobe teaches PDF documents to speak XML
07/15/2003 - Kazaa Derivatives Offer RIAA-Blocking Features
07/15/2003 - File-Sharing Dips After Threat to Sue
07/15/2003 - Linux Turns 2.6
07/15/2003 - Prank Message Via Google Mocks WMD Search
07/15/2003 - IBM announces sales of Cisco IP storage switch
07/16/2003 - AOL ends ties with Mozilla but helps keep it alive
07/16/2003 - Microsoft Awarded Homeland Security Contract
07/16/2003 - Microsoft targets Java users
07/16/2003 - PeopleSoft Adds AIM To Its Apps
07/16/2003 - Robot balloon escapes
07/16/2003 - MSN Messenger 6.0 Launched
07/16/2003 - MIT Scientists Build Robotic Snail
07/16/2003 - StreamCast Launches New Version of Morpheus
07/16/2003 - AOL members to program TiVo via Web
07/17/2003 - Upload a File, Go to Prison
07/17/2003 - Microsoft warns on trio of new flaws
07/17/2003 - Dell halts PPC 2003 Axim PDA shipments
07/17/2003 - Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Interface Blocked by IPv4 Packet
07/17/2003 - Microsoft loses key patent ruling
07/17/2003 - Record industry sends out subpoenas
07/17/2003 - PC sales surge in second quarter
07/17/2003 - Microsoft Faces Linux Threat In SMB Market
07/17/2003 - New software tells you what you like
07/17/2003 - DirecTV dragnet snares innocent techies
07/17/2003 - Sanmina confirms server start-up buy
07/17/2003 - Japanese Toymaker Goes Meowlingual
07/17/2003 - New Worm Poses as Microsoft Patch
07/17/2003 - Orbitz travel site hit fritz
07/18/2003 - Sanmina-SCI buys Newisys
07/18/2003 - Implantable human tracking chip launched
07/20/2003 - France bans 'e-mail' from vocabulary
07/20/2003 - Linux Ranks No. 2 On Microsoft Risk List
07/20/2003 - Microsoft to Announce Cable Box Deal
07/20/2003 - High-Tech Vehicle Control Not Catching On
07/20/2003 - Japanese scientists invent dancing robot
07/20/2003 - RIAA nails 1,000 music-lovers in 'new Prohibition' jihad
07/20/2003 - Judge OKs $1.1 billion Microsoft deal
07/20/2003 - Please just call me Dell
07/20/2003 - Apache Updates Popular HTTP Server
07/20/2003 - Google, Switchboard Ink Content-Ad Deal
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1942003
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 -- antivirus company TruSecure is warning users about a new e-mail worm that is beginning to spread on the Internet and over the Kazaa peer-to-peer network.
* Security:
cisco.com -- Cisco routers and switches running Cisco IOS software and configured to process Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) packets are vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. A rare sequence of crafted IPv4 packets sent directly to the device may cause the input interface to stop processing traffic once the input queue is full. No authentication is required to process the inbound packet. Processing of IPv4 packets is enabled by default. Devices running only IP version 6 (IPv6) are not affected. A workaround is available.
vnunet.com -- Microsoft has released a patch for a critical flaw in Windows Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP, 2000 and NT 4.
The flaw involves the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol, which deals with inter-computer communications. Microsoft warned that, under certain circumstances, the RPC might not check messages sent to the PC properly.
* 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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Please expect the Computer Hope web page to be experiencing intermittent issues late July 22 and early July 23, 2003. Computer Hope will be refreshing its complete site with new updates and fixes that have been made over the last few months.
The first phase of the site wide update will include the following.
1. Several thousand minor fixes and corrections that have been made over the last few months that have not yet been uploaded to our public server.
2. Corrections in HTML formatting that affect each of our pages from not being properly displayed in all browsers.
3. New advertising system by Google.
4. Correction to each of the pages on Computer Hope to allow them to be more easily viewed by programs used by the disabled. We plan on making further changes in the future that will help this even further.
5. Minor corrections and updates made to each of the pages on Computer Hope load faster.
6. New non-intrusive feedback system to get better feedback from our users.
When additional information and/or changes are made to this update they will be posted on our what's new page.
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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Static resource conflict
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000037.htm
Compression driver cannot be set up correctly
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000405.htm
Windows SUWIN errors
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000293.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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* Computer Hope will not be publishing a Computer Hope Newsletter next week (7/27/2003).
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This week Sony introduced the "UX40 / UX50 CLIE", a great looking new handheld. With a 480x320 high color wide resolution, 310,000 Pixel Camera, built-in wireless LAN, built-in Bluetooth, MP3 Player, and much more the UX40 & UX50 look to be a great solution for anyone who needs a PDA/Handheld.
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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