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November 17, 2003 ISSUE 129
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/nl129.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 viruses, worms, 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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PIF ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/pif.htm ) -
Short for Program Information File, PIF is a file used in Microsoft Windows operating system that contains information used to run a DOS application in the Windows environment. PIF files were commonly used in Microsoft Windows 3.x. Today however with the absence of DOS applications PIF files are seldom used.
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: CNET Networks, Inc announced today that it has acquired certain assets of MP3.com, Inc.
11/12/2003 - Cisco to Acquire Latitude Communications
11/12/2003 - Kasparov 'forced' to draw with X3D Fritz
11/12/2003 - Nokia Says Its N-Gage Copy Protection Hacked
11/12/2003 - Microsoft could be sounding death knell for pop-ups
11/12/2003 - Beagle set for festive encounter
11/12/2003 - Microsoft patches three critical security problems
11/12/2003 - Macromedia Updates Flash MX To Silence Critics
11/12/2003 - Motorola buys assets of UWB vendor
11/12/2003 - WorldPay recovers from massive attack
11/12/2003 - 'Grand Theft Auto' Makers Fight Lawsuit
11/12/2003 - Spam spike signals more junk e-mail
11/12/2003 - Devices that read human thought now possible, study says
11/13/2003 - Net 'Outcry' Spurs Review Of Patent
11/13/2003 - Greedy music industry loses more money
11/13/2003 - Share 'True Crime,' do the time
11/13/2003 - Three Arrested in IBM Bribes Bust
11/13/2003 - Zombie Machines Fueling New Cyber-Crime Wave
11/13/2003 - UK govt calls for 100% broadband coverage by 2005
11/14/2003 - Fritz pounces on Kasparov blunder
11/14/2003 - Iomega Announces First RRD Product
11/14/2003 - E-Mail From the Great Beyond
11/14/2003 - MIT Sets Systems To Reject E-Mailed Executables
11/14/2003 - Cracking the hacker underground
11/14/2003 - CDs 'could be history in five years'
11/14/2003 - Windows expert slams Panther
11/14/2003 - Update: Former Gateway execs charged with fraud
11/14/2003 - Linux lab hires lawyers for Torvalds
11/14/2003 - CNET Networks, Inc announced today that it has acquired certain assets of MP3.com, Inc.
11/14/2003 - Customers rage at Google tweak
11/14/2003 - iTunes helper allows MP3 downloads
11/14/2003 - IBM Builds Supercomputer Based on Gaming Chip
11/14/2003 - IBM Claims New Supercomputer As Fastest
11/14/2003 - Chinese broadband subscribers triple to 9.4 million
11/14/2003 - Sun bets on free Java tool
11/14/2003 - Man held in $50M music piracy case
11/14/2003 - Latest Mimail worm has new trick
11/15/2003 - Intel Unveils More Details About Next-Gen Processor
11/15/2003 - iTunes Music Store -- Times Invention of the Year
11/15/2003 - Microsoft ordered to pay $62M in patent suit
11/15/2003 - Internet usage increases among U.S. Hispanics
11/15/2003 - Mail server flaw opens Exchange to spam
11/15/2003 - McAfee fixes eBay glitch
11/15/2003 - High schoolers take on CalTechies in robot race
11/15/2003 - Banking Scam Revealed
11/15/2003 - Epicor Software to buy European rival
11/16/2003 - Brazil Leans Away From Microsoft
11/16/2003 - Encryption Promises Unbreakable Codes
11/16/2003 - Singapore calls for global Internet chatroom crackdown
11/16/2003 - Google puts coders to the test
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3132003
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus: No new virus news this week.
* Security:
computerworld.com -- Microsoft Corp. released the second installment of its now monthly security bulletins, patching three software holes in Windows systems that it said were "critical" security risks and a fourth problem with Microsoft Office that the company rated "important."
news.com.com -- Administrators of e-mail systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk e-mail under their noses, a consultant warned this week
* Privacy:
newscientist.com -- The latest variant of the computer worm Mimail contains a new trick to harvest credit card details - a fake security program that in fact emails the details off to the virus's creators.
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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- Created new automated update script, which allows us to display every page that has been modified or updated and have online updates occur with no down time. This will also allow users to easily view every page that has been updated as well as be able to access an extensive log of every update that has occurred. Finally, this will save a lot of time that we can put elsewhere.
- Posted first installment of our new computer people section after receiving numerous requests for additional information about people who have made significant contributions to a field related to computers. This is only the rough draft; therefore expect numerous major updates within the next few days.
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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How to install Microsoft Windows 2000.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000544.htm
Why do Microsoft Outlook 2000 attachments appear at the bottom?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000552.htm
How to delete Internet Explorers AutoComplete Settings.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000553.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.ai.mit.edu/projects/cardea/
This week we came across the Cardea, the latest robot from MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robotics group. The Cardea currently utilizes a Segway Robotic Mobility Platform like that found in the Segway scooter to help navigate and move and a single robot arm to help move obstacles. The goal of the robot is to be able to navigate though interior spaces using simple active vision and sensors while being able to use the single arm to reach out and interact with objects in compliant and safe ways. Anyone who is interested in new technologies and/or robots should enjoy reading though this web page.
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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