Computer Hope newsletter #155
July 12, 2004 ISSUE 155
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/nl155.htm -
------------------------------------------------------------
IN THIS ISSUE:
------------------------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------------------------
1. Weekly Computer Term.
------------------------------------------------------------
Intensity bit ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/intenbit.htm ) -
Bit of information used to display different intensities of color with computer software and computer monitors. For example the IRGB monitor was capable of displaying 16 different colors because of this bit.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
------------------------------------------------------------
2. What's new in the news last week?
------------------------------------------------------------
Top News Story: World software piracy losses climb to $29 billion
CNN: The global trade in pirated software, from versions of Microsoft Windows XP to Adobe Acrobat, hit nearly $29 billion in 2003, an industry trade body said in its annual survey on Wednesday.
07/06/2004 - The Undiscovered Alien World of Saturn's Moon Titan Rivets Scientists
07/06/2004 - Microsoft, under attack, aims to offer security
07/06/2004 - Australia signs on to global spam fight
07/06/2004 - Bill targets firms that 'induce' copyright violations
07/06/2004 - Professor gives Cisco manual away for free
07/06/2004 - Bagle author releases 'dangerous' assembler code
07/06/2004 - McNealy Rejects Idea Of Open-Source Java
07/06/2004 - 'Magic ink' that makes metal grow
07/06/2004 - BBC review may shut more websites
07/06/2004 - Hackers face longer jail sentences under plans to update the Computer Misuse Act
07/06/2004 - Court Creates Snoopers' Heaven
07/06/2004 - Microsoft pushes OS updates to fight attacks
07/06/2004 - June 2004 Netcraft Survey Highlights
07/06/2004 - Virtually Free for All in Utility Computing
07/06/2004 - iPods pose security risk for enterprises, Gartner says
07/06/2004 - Sellers sue eBay over double-billing
07/06/2004 - Kerry turns to Net in naming Edwards
07/06/2004 - House to Tackle Internet Calls
07/06/2004 - Software Makes a Tiger of Panther
07/06/2004 - Crime Fighters Use Digital Video
07/06/2004 - Singapore's digital music store relaunches with 250,000 songs
07/06/2004 - NEC Takes Aim at Counterfeit Batteries
07/08/2004 - High-tech messages from the grave
07/08/2004 - Cassini Finds Mud in Saturn's Rings
07/08/2004 - Shootings Prompt Crackdowns On Cyber Cafes
07/08/2004 - Dell distances itself from Linux claims
07/08/2004 - Fujitsu technique hides data in images
07/08/2004 - World software piracy losses climb to $29 billion
07/08/2004 - Nano-team spins tomorrow's yarn
07/08/2004 - Google GMail 'CheckAvailability' Script May Disclose User Information to Remote Users
07/08/2004 - Old-school worm loves Windows applications
07/08/2004 - In name dispute, it's Googles vs. Google
07/08/2004 - AOL Adds IM Service for Hearing Impaired
07/08/2004 - Linksys Extends its Wi-Fi Range
07/08/2004 - Microsoft swapped geek for glitz on Thursday, rolling out a new collection of designer mice.
07/08/2004 - Study: Broadband market to triple by 2008
07/08/2004 - Rovers might get further lifeline
07/08/2004 - Virtual project may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption
07/08/2004 - Bloggers Suffer Burnout
07/08/2004 - Single Post Wins Google Contest
07/08/2004 - Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped
07/08/2004 - 'Billboards' that walk, talk, and even flirt a little
07/11/2004 - 6 in 10 S Koreans illegally download movies
07/11/2004 - Prince sounds new nanotech alert
07/11/2004 - CyberGuard offers to buy rival Secure Computing
07/11/2004 - Microsoft Tries To Buddy Up To ISVs
07/11/2004 - Two parts of lake under Antarctic ice may hold different kinds of life
07/11/2004 - Mozilla Gains on IE
07/11/2004 - Mozilla Security Nightmare Begins
07/11/2004 - Canadian sentenced to more than 4 years in jail in international fraud scheme
07/11/2004 - Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight
07/11/2004 - Harmful applet crashing with assertion
07/11/2004 - Microsoft Worker Charged with Taking AltaVista Data
07/11/2004 - Google recruits eggheads with mystery billboard
07/11/2004 - Microsoft Working to Improve Office Search
07/11/2004 - Video, Software Downloads Overtake Music
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1862004
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
------------------------------------------------------------
3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
------------------------------------------------------------
* Virus:
Old-school worm loves Windows applications
news.com.com -- The latest variant of the Lovgate worm scans PCs for executable files and then renames them, a tactic used by viruses from a much older generation, according to antivirus companies.
Bagle author releases 'dangerous' assembler code
news.zdnet.co.uk -- Two new Bagle worm variants and the worm's original assembler source code were spreading around the Internet on Sunday - a dangerous development, according to security experts.
* Security:
Harmful applet crashing with assertion
illegalaccess.org -- Security Advisory: Three months ago I informed Sun Microsystems about an applet alerting with a native assertion (Expression: offset < fFileSize For information on how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts...) . If the users opts for cancel, it is crashing the browser which started the applet. This Applet crashes 1.4.2 Java Plugin Again a java problem in a browser, tested with a broad range of versions of the SUN JDK (1.4.1_07, 1.4.2_03).
Mozilla Security Nightmare Begins
story.news.yahoo.com -- Just when Windows users thought it was safe to move away from Internet Explorer and its litany of security issues, a flaw has been detected in Mozilla, the open-source alternative to Microsoft's widely used browser.
* 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
------------------------------------------------------------
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
------------------------------------------------------------
- * With the new month of July, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "What is your favorite media player?" as well as results from last months poll, Quiz - "How many pins is a IDE/EIDE connector?" and Tip - "Internet and Spyware".
- Posted 3.0 version of the Computer Hope search engine. This updated version of the Computer Hope search engine includes the below new features.
1. The ability to search Computer Hope newsletters as well as get links to any of the news articles we have posted in our news section. This is a great new feature that we hope all users will find useful.
2. Users can now link directly to the search engine using a permalink to get results for either Computer Hope related pages and/or news articles.
For example:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?s=microsoft
Would display search results relating to Microsoft.
Or:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?news=riaa
Would display news search results relating to RIAA
Note: Also working on a method of getting these links to be displayed in the URL field for each search performed on Computer Hope.
3. Created a section that will give users additional recommendations to try if the search engine was unable to find any results.
4. Updated the algorithms used to pull the results for the general Computer Hope search.
5. Updated search index.
6. Updated stop words.
- Updated the Computer Hope word converter with numerous fixes for word matching related issues and an updated look.
- Added new link on the results of the Computer Hope poll results that enables users to add their own comments about this months poll. Depending on the feedback and how much this new feature is used we may also add other similar services to other sections of our site.
- Updated dictionary with new dictionary definitions and updates.
- Exceeded disk quota issue again causing issues once again with the Computer Hope forums and polls. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We are working with our storage provider to hopefully get this issues resolved for good. This down time did cause some minor issues Sunday from 7AM - 5PM.
- Performed numerous other updates throughout web 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
------------------------------------------------------------
5. Hot computer issues.
------------------------------------------------------------
Computer does not turn off.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000310.htm
Creating a HTML back button.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000317.htm
Stuttering sound as Windows 95 / Windows 98 loads.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000259.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
------------------------------------------------------------
6. All Talk
------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/gallery/hardware-mouse.asp
This week Microsoft announced new designer mice that are each unique and different. Each of the new models announced this week were designed by the industry designer Philippe Starck and definitely are like no other mouse. The above link is a page that allows users to see a listing of pictures of each of the new mice as well as other new mice from Microsoft.
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
------------------------------------------------------------
CONTACT AND INFORMATION http://www.computerhope.com
If you need to change your e-mail address please send an e-mail to newsletter@computerhope.com with the e-mail address you wish to change as well as the new e-mail address.
If you wish to unsubscribe from this newsletter please reply to this message with "Remove" in the subject field.
Visit the Computer Hope at: http://www.computerhope.com
AOL users can visit our web version of our newsletter by visiting our newsletter page:
<a href="http://www.computerhope.com/newslet.htm">AOL Users click here</a>
Computer Hope Legal, Privacy and Anti Spam Policy: http://www.computerhope.com/legal.htm
(C) Copyright Computer Hope 2004
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *