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June 06, 2004 ISSUE 152
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/nl152.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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IDE ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/ide.htm ) -
1. Short for Integrated Drive Electronics (IBM Disc Electronics), IDE is more commonly known as ATA and is a standard interface for IBM compatible hard drives. IDE is different from the Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) and Enhanced Small Device Interface (ESDI) because its controllers are on each drive, meaning the drive can connect directly to the motherboard or controller. IDE and its updated successor, Enhanced IDE (EIDE), are the most common drive interfaces found in IBM compatible computers today.
2. Short for Integrated Development Environment, IDE also sometimes referred to as IDLE is visual tools that allow programmers to develop programs better. Commonly an IDE may have a compiler, debugger, text editor, and other integrated tools. Smalltalk was the first programming language to have a first true IDE.
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: Sun warms to open source for Solaris
news.com.com -- The company's president and chief operating officer, Jonathan Schwartz, said here Wednesday that Sun plans to give its proprietary Solaris server operating system an open-source flavor, but he declined to give a timetable for the shift.
06/01/2004 - Sun Rolls Out New Hardware, Software, Services
06/01/2004 - HP Said to Support Two Open-Source Software Vendors
06/01/2004 - Linux Process Change Raises Questions
06/01/2004 - AMD launches 4 new processors
06/01/2004 - China says games must get approval
06/01/2004 - Mother curbs chat room access
06/01/2004 - ATI Launches New Line of High-Speed Graphics Chips
06/01/2004 - Cinemas seek out Potter pirates
06/01/2004 - Return of Colossus to mark D-Day
06/01/2004 - Undercover agents fight net piracy
06/01/2004 - Fedora bug prevents Windows from booting
06/01/2004 - Mozilla, Opera Join Forces For New W3C Proposal
06/01/2004 - Dressman - the ironing robot
06/01/2004 - Drivers Want Code to Their Cars
06/01/2004 - HP, Iomega unveil low-end storage systems
06/01/2004 - Microsoft, Yahoo send search signals
06/01/2004 - Sun, Fujitsu To Merge Some Server Lines
06/01/2004 - NASA Seeks Robots to Fix Hubble Telescope
06/02/2004 - Nokia unveils mid-air messaging
06/02/2004 - Web checks for student cheating
06/02/2004 - Sun warms to open source for Solaris
06/02/2004 - Date set for first private spaceflight
06/02/2004 - Wrinkle Face Dinosaur Unveiled
06/02/2004 - Clearwire to unveil wireless broadband service
06/02/2004 - Japanese entrepreneur spreads blogging gospel
06/02/2004 - Comcast's Cable Game
06/02/2004 - Intel to Open BIOS Code Project
06/02/2004 - Zimbabwe launches Internet crackdown
06/02/2004 - AMD, others unveil new wares at Computex
06/02/2004 - Microsoft offers peek at new Media Player
06/02/2004 - Google updates enterprise search appliance
06/02/2004 - Simple passwords no longer suffice
06/02/2004 - Security Bug in Linksys Wireless-G Router
06/02/2004 - Microsoft ordered to pay Lindows' court fees
06/02/2004 - Labels to dampen CD burning?
06/02/2004 - Network Associates is granted broad anti-spam patent
06/02/2004 - Digital watermarks protect images
06/02/2004 - Best of 2004
06/02/2004 - Coming Soon: 60GB IPods?
06/02/2004 - SCO buyout settles BayStar investment spat
06/03/2004 - Potter-mania fuels pesky virus
06/03/2004 - Broadband hits four million mark
06/03/2004 - New Viruses Hit 30-Month High
06/03/2004 - True Fantasy Live Online Cancelled
06/03/2004 - Hackers invade eBay to steal bank details
06/03/2004 - Seagate to reduce workforce in cost-cutting move
06/03/2004 - The Witty worm: A new chapter in malware
06/03/2004 - Amazon.com Goes Plogging
06/03/2004 - Opera Patches URL-Spoofing Flaw
06/03/2004 - Is the dust on your computer toxic?
06/03/2004 - You, Too, Can Be a Comics Whiz
06/03/2004 - The Changing Face of E-Mail
06/03/2004 - Can an Apple a day keep security issues at bay?
06/03/2004 - Wearable Tech Helps in a Crisis
06/03/2004 - New virus targeting bank accounts, credit cards on Internet: Germany
06/03/2004 - Linux Still Needs Drivers
06/03/2004 - Swedish Researchers Build Cardboard Piano
06/03/2004 - REVIEW: Google's E-Mail Service Flexible
06/03/2004 - Plug Into Easy, Cheap Broadband
06/03/2004 - DVD's Next Big Leaps
06/03/2004 - What's Next for PC Designs?
06/05/2004 - Modern gadgets raise work stress
06/05/2004 - Microsoft bars Windows pirates
06/05/2004 - Can't stop the pop-ups
06/05/2004 - Hotmail incinerates customer files
06/05/2004 - Study: CD prices sing the blues
06/05/2004 - Microsoft Double-click Patent Sows FUD
06/05/2004 - Apple readying new Power Macs?
06/05/2004 - Linux gets trial 'NX' security support
06/05/2004 - Taiwan firms make cool millions dealing with PC heat
06/05/2004 - AOL settles class action lawsuits
06/06/2004 - Microsoft Offers Free Licenses for Backup Servers
06/06/2004 - Web-Linked Cameras Let Parents Play Big Brother
06/06/2004 - Free Software Use in Brazil Spreads Beyond Gov't
06/06/2004 - New Worm Targets Old Windows Flaws
06/06/2004 - The World Wide Web at 15
06/06/2004 - Intel plans processor party for June
06/06/2004 - Passwords can sit on hard disks for years
06/06/2004 - Forbidden Photos, Anyone?
06/06/2004 - Windows XP Bedevils Wi-Fi Users
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1512004
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 Worm Targets Old Windows Flaws
story.news.yahoo.com -- antivirus software companies are warning customers about a new e-mail worm that targets unpatched Microsoft Windows machines with either of two recently disclosed software vulnerabilities.
Potter-mania fuels pesky virus
news.bbc.co.uk -- A pesky computer virus is taking advantage of the excitement surrounding the latest Harry Potter film.
New virus targeting bank accounts, credit cards on Internet: Germany
story.news.yahoo.com -- German authorities alerted computer users to a new Internet virus targeting bank accounts and credit cards and bearing a striking resemblance to the Sasser worm that disabled millions of systems worldwide last month.
* Security:
Passwords can sit on hard disks for years
newscientist.com -- Typing your password or credit card number into a computer is a moment's work. But if you think your personal details disappear as soon as you hit the Return key, think again: they can sit on the computer's hard disk for years waiting for a hacker to rip them off.
Linux gets trial 'NX' security support
news.com.com -- Linux seller Red Hat and chipmaker Intel released prototype Linux software this week to support a security technology designed to curtail the spread of viruses.
Can an Apple a day keep security issues at bay?
searchsecurity.techtarget.com -- Is the Apple Macintosh and its OS X operating system an enterprise security contender -- or should it be?
Security Bug in Linksys Wireless-G Router
Internetnews.com -- A security bypass flaw in a popular wireless broadband router shipped by Cisco's Linksys unit could give malicious hackers administrative access to vulnerable devices, researchers warned on Wednesday.
Opera Patches URL-Spoofing Flaw
Internetnews.com -- Alternative Web browser firm Opera Software has rushed out a fix for a security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to fool the Opera browser into showing a fake address in its address bar.
* Privacy:
Hackers invade eBay to steal bank details
thisislondon.com -- Internet scams designed to con people into handing over confidential bank details are growing more common, security experts warned today.
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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* Updated dictionary with updates as well as the first portion of our image updates. When complete users will be able to view pictures of numerous computer related components. Below is a link for a definition with one of these new images; we should have additional details and information about this new feature next week.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/expacard.htm
- Continued work on updating each of the Computer Hope documents
- Performed other minor updates see our below link for a complete listing.
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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After Windows NT 4.0 installation video only runs at 16 colors.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000170.htm
Emm386 error #00
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000013.htm
Copying floppy to floppy
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000019.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.ppg.com/gls_residential/gls_sunclean/
This week we came across the PPG SunClean self-cleaning glass a innovative solution to cleaning glass. The glass is a coated glass product with photocatalytic and hydrophilic properties that combine to result in windows that are easier to clean. The durable, transparent coating on SunClean self-cleaning glass is applied to hot glass during the formation process making it an integral part of the outer glass surface.
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