Computer Hope newsletter #143
March 15, 2004 ISSUE 143
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
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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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Workaround ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/workarou.htm ) -
Term used to describe either a temporary or permanent method of resolving an issue occurring with software or hardware. While this is not always the correct method to resolving issues because it may cause other issues, may not fully resolve the issue, or may not be fully effective. Workarounds are good solutions to an issue when a correct resolution to the issue has not been located, or the issue deals with something that cannot be resolved through the software or code.
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: U.S. Internet providers sue hundreds of people over 'spam' e-mails
canada.com -- In an unusual joint effort, some of the largest Internet providers in the United States said Wednesday that they've filed six lawsuits against hundreds of people who were accused of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new U.S. law against "spam."
03/08/2004 - Microsoft loosening contracts for PC makers
03/08/2004 - New Sober Worm Poses As Microsoft Patch
03/08/2004 - Digital maps help track criminals
03/09/2004 - Nielsen Recognizes New Ad Reality
03/09/2004 - Adobe adds bar codes to PDF forms
03/09/2004 - Microsoft Wins Patent for Scroll Mouse
03/09/2004 - iTunes song swap helper vanishes from Net
03/09/2004 - One File Swapper, One Lawsuit
03/09/2004 - Ditch Ma Bell
03/09/2004 - Will PHP 5 Live Up to Its Billing?
03/10/2004 - Office XP Bulletin Critical After All
03/10/2004 - Robotic Humvee First to Qualify for Race
03/10/2004 - Napster, IBM promise cache savings
03/10/2004 - Netsky Hacker Threatens New Attack
03/10/2004 - Hitachi Unveils 400-Gbyte Drive For Nearline Storage, DVRs
03/10/2004 - U.S. Internet providers sue hundreds of people over 'spam' e-mails
03/10/2004 - Anti-piracy directive could expose consumers
03/10/2004 - Log your life via your phone
03/10/2004 - PARC founder George Pake dies
03/10/2004 - French Group Seeks Royalties on IPod
03/10/2004 - Hubble Offers Glimpse of Creation
03/10/2004 - With This Rig, I Do Thee Wed
03/10/2004 - Robot builder could 'print' houses
03/10/2004 - Yahoo Launches New Local Search Tool
03/11/2004 - US govt buys world's biggest RAM disk
03/11/2004 - Robotic legs could lead to super troopers
03/11/2004 - Nokia, Microsoft Want Mobile Domain Names
03/11/2004 - China's search engines to take on Google
03/11/2004 - Locally-built robot set to become Hong Kong's latest cop
03/11/2004 - Cable Guy Whupping Phone Guy
03/11/2004 - British Robot Unveiled to Help Disabled
03/11/2004 - Toyota joins Japan's robot technology race with trumpet-playing humanoid
03/11/2004 - Researchers Split on Nanotechnology Future
03/11/2004 - Microsoft: Yukon won't come till 2005
03/11/2004 - Invasion of the robots
03/12/2004 - 15 teams qualify for Mojave robot race
03/12/2004 - MSN Messenger, Hotmail hit with outage
03/12/2004 - Office XP Patch Gives Anti-Spam Software Fits
03/12/2004 - Lindows.com Exits Benelux in Face of Fine
03/12/2004 - FBI adds to wiretap wish list
03/12/2004 - 100-metre nanotube thread pulled from furnace
03/12/2004 - EU plans safer net for children
03/12/2004 - Web name wait lists 'will hurt the little guy'
03/12/2004 - Gateway completes eMachines buy, gets new CEO
03/12/2004 - US Army tells Gates 'Keep your software'
03/12/2004 - 50,000 new homes to get free PCs
03/12/2004 - Cisco pays $5 million for Twingo
03/12/2004 - DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows
03/12/2004 - Robot Designers Get in the Swim
03/13/2004 - Desert foils robot race
03/13/2004 - MySQL addresses open-source license problem
03/13/2004 - HP Acquires TruLogica To Build Up Infrastructure Strategy
03/13/2004 - CA Buys Miramar Systems
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?672004
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:
New Sober Worm Poses As Microsoft Patch
informationweek.securitypipeline.com -- A new virus discovered Monday plays off fears generated by last week's wave of worms by masquerading as a patch from Microsoft that purportedly keeps MyDoom at bay
Netsky Hacker Threatens New Attack
informationweek.securitypipeline.com -- A message embedded within one of the most recent Netsky worm variants may spell trouble on Thursday, according to analysis done by an antivirus firm.
* Security:
Office XP Bulletin Critical After All
entmag.com -- Microsoft alerted users on Wednesday that the security bulletin it released the day before for Office XP is more severe than the software company's security experts originally thought.
* 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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* This week we finished and posted our new online forums. For those not familiar with forums, this feature enables users to easily post their questions or comments on the Internet to get a quicker response from Computer Hope or other Computer Hope users and broadening the Computer Hope community at the same time. With our new online chat, our forums, and the ability to still e-mail Computer Hope we hope this helps broaden our community and helps people get their questions answered faster. Our new online forums can be found at the below link.
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
- Added new questions and answers.
- Updated numerous other updates throughout Computer Hope.
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 do I restore Windows XP back to an earlier copy?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000589.htm
Can you modify or change a document once it has been scanned?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000590.htm
How can I insert a movie into a HTML document?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000591.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.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
This week we thought we thought we would be a little selfish and mention again our new online forums. We strongly believe that this will be a great addition to Computer Hope and strongly encourage that all our newsletters readers try to participate in this new service.
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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