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January 25, 2004 ISSUE 136
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/nl136.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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TTY ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/t/tty.htm ) -
1. Short for TeleTYpewriter, TTY is a communications setup that has a keyboard and a printer. Each time a key is pressed it is automatically printed.
2. Today TTY is also used to describe a terminal session and/or line.
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: Queen to give knighthood to Bill Gates - but you can blame it on Gordon Brown
telegraph.co.uk -- Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for "services to global enterprise".
01/19/2004 - Software giant threatens mikerowesoft
01/19/2004 - Microsoft issues free Unix migration tools
01/19/2004 - Japan invents the gadget of your dreams
01/19/2004 - Pretec1GB MMC World's Largest Capacity and Fastest
01/19/2004 - Digital Secrets: How Spirit Makes Great Photos
01/19/2004 - Bagle virus hides as calculator
01/19/2004 - ISPs Ignore RIAA's New P2P Ploy
01/19/2004 - Dell Delving Deeper Into Networking
01/19/2004 - Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad
01/19/2004 - Internet use grows to 69 percent of US adults: poll
01/20/2004 - Macromedia upgrades eHelp
01/20/2004 - Concern over Internet mass mailer virus
01/20/2004 - Web to see full-screen video ads
01/20/2004 - Web lifeline for Iraqi academics
01/20/2004 - Intel reschedules P4 price cuts to 1 February
01/20/2004 - 'Code that can't be cracked'
01/20/2004 - Yahoo! Lab to Cook Up New Search Tech
01/20/2004 - Cyberspace, The Next Battlefield
01/21/2004 - Spirit Fingerprints the Nature of Mars
01/21/2004 - RIAA embarks on new round of piracy suits
01/21/2004 - Sun to acquire Nauticus for content switching
01/21/2004 - CD settlement forces prices up
01/21/2004 - SCO sues Novell over copyright claims
01/21/2004 - Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously
01/21/2004 - Microsoft settles music download suit
01/21/2004 - Why digital cameras = better photographers
01/21/2004 - AOL to offer movie downloads
01/21/2004 - Start-up launches social search engine
01/21/2004 - Danish spammer hit with record fine
01/21/2004 - Help for Hubble: Officials Mull Donations, Russian Service Mission
01/21/2004 - Disabled to get greater access to Linux
01/23/2004 - Speak, rover, speak!
01/23/2004 - Google spawns social networking service
01/23/2004 - WinZip, PKWare Call Truce in Format War
01/23/2004 - AOL testing new antispam technology
01/23/2004 - PC games console takes on rivals
01/23/2004 - FBI joins hunt for Half-Life code
01/23/2004 - Cisco Warns of Voice Product Security Flaws
01/23/2004 - Novell Ditches UnitedLinux, Joins Eclipse
01/23/2004 - Security pros question flaw find
01/25/2004 - Opportunity lands in Meridiani Planum
01/25/2004 - Linux marks slow progress in taking over desktops
01/25/2004 - UnitedLinux, RIP
01/25/2004 - Pepsi Stars RIAA-Sued Teens In Super Bowl Ad
01/25/2004 - Call centre job outflow not so alarming - report
01/25/2004 - Judge OKs file-sharing software maker's bid to sue entertainment companies
01/25/2004 - Network Associates Targets Spyware
01/25/2004 - Queen to give knighthood to Bill Gates - but you can blame it on Gordon Brown
01/25/2004 - Microsoft tweaks protocol licensing program
01/25/2004 - Microsoft readies first Office System service pack
01/25/2004 - That gibberish in your inbox may be good news
01/25/2004 - The Apple Mac is 20
01/25/2004 - For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule
01/25/2004 - Vaporware: Nuke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em
01/25/2004 - What Are Your Friends Searching For?
01/25/2004 - Monster Plans Fee-Based Job Networking Site
01/25/2004 - Ariba to buy FreeMarkets for $493 million
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?182004
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:
Concern over Internet mass mailer virus
english.aljazeera.net -- A new e-mail virus that spread rapidly over the weekend has computer experts seriously concerned.
Bagle virus hides as calculator
news.bbc.co.uk -- Warnings are being issued about the rapidly spreading Bagle Windows worm.
* Security:
Cisco Warns of Voice Product Security Flaws
infoworld.com -- Deluged by unsolicited commercial, or spam, e-mail messages, Internet service provider (ISP) America Online Inc. (AOL) is trying a new technology for cracking down on one common spammer tool: forged sender addresses, which spammers and virus writers use to bypass blacklists and trick unsuspecting recipients.
* 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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- Working on several new scripts and features to help with the overwhelming amount of e-mail received each day.
- Posted new questions and answers.
- Working with bandwidth provider on all of the requirements that are going to be need to implement new forum system.
- Posted a public version of our 2004 goals as shown below. We plan on creating several other new sections and features that will be announced at a later time.
1. Post a minimum of 1,000 updates monthly.
2. Develop new mailing system to enhance the quantity of support e-mail's answered.
3. Develop and/or post Computer Hope online forum.
4. Revise Computer Hope Q&A section.
5. Enhance the Computer Hope search engine.
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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Adding / removing icons in Windows Control Panel.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000136.htm
How to install Microsoft Windows 98.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000569.htm
Determining the PCI Version.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000307.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://usa.asus.com/products/communication/wireless/wl-330/overview.hTm
This week we came across the ASUS WL-330, a great little wireless device that is about the size of a deck of cards. The WL-330 acts as a wireless access point, wireless bridge/repeater, and wireless adapter. This looks like a great wireless product for anyones wireless needs.
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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