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September 20, 2004 ISSUE 162
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/nl162.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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Display face ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/displayf.htm ) -
Also known as the font face, the display face is font used to distinguish text from other text. This type of modification of a font can help in displaying important topics of a paper such as a title or heading.
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:
09/13/2004 - Step Toward Universal Computing
09/16/2004 - Image flaw exposes Windows PCs
09/16/2004 - Firefox 1.0PR: a first look
09/16/2004 - Adobe Unveils Home Video Editing App
09/16/2004 - Microsoft's anti-spam proposal rejected
09/16/2004 - Mars laser will beam super-fast data
09/16/2004 - Sun-Microsoft deal raises Open Office questions
09/16/2004 - Freegate is not Trojan horse, says Symantec
09/16/2004 - Gnome Debuts 2.8 Desktop
09/16/2004 - Cisco routers get an upgrade
09/16/2004 - Back-to-school, politics spur spam to new heights
09/16/2004 - AOL begins testing new site revamp
09/16/2004 - Worm speaks to Windows users
09/16/2004 - Virus writers add network sniffer to worm
09/16/2004 - Sony begins mass production of OLED screens
09/16/2004 - Domain name registrations hit record
09/16/2004 - Yahoo to buy Musicmatch for $160 million
09/16/2004 - Amazon.com's Search Launch Triggers Second Thoughts
09/16/2004 - Music branding battle hits bum note for Apple
09/16/2004 - Scammers use Gmail invite as phishing hook
09/16/2004 - Man pleads guilty in massive identity theft
09/16/2004 - Blackberry shrinks phone keyboard
09/16/2004 - Government warns of net dangers
09/16/2004 - Infineon to pay $160M fine for DRAM price-fixing
09/16/2004 - AOL Dumps Sender ID
09/16/2004 - German IT agency sets record straight on IE
09/16/2004 - NEC extends quantum cryptography range and speed
09/16/2004 - Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog
09/16/2004 - IBM protects passwords with PC chip
09/16/2004 - They're robots? Those beasts!
09/16/2004 - Mandrakesoft releases version 10.1 of the Mandrakelinux OS
09/16/2004 - Supercomputers race to predict storms
09/16/2004 - Google Entices Job-Searchers with Math Puzzle
09/16/2004 - Instant Messaging Goes Graphical
09/16/2004 - High-Tech Hearing Bypasses Ears
09/16/2004 - Physicists shrink atomic clocks
09/16/2004 - Nose-steered mouse could save aching arms
09/16/2004 - Net Virus Turf War Resumes After Rival's Arrest
09/16/2004 - High-Tech Market Has Lost 400,000 Jobs
09/16/2004 - On Fed Payroll, Hackers Seek to Save America
09/17/2004 - Deaf Kids in Nicaragua Give Birth to New Language
09/17/2004 - Feds Seize $87M in Counterfeit Software Sting
09/17/2004 - Microsoft To Pay $113M To California Lawyers
09/17/2004 - Microsofts next move in the Windows vs. Linux battle
09/17/2004 - ATI develops HyperMemory technology to reduce PC costs
09/17/2004 - Hackers Jump On Reported Windows Flaws
09/17/2004 - 'Sims 2' makes emotional debut
09/17/2004 - Broadband starts to rival dial-up
09/17/2004 - Symantec to acquire security firm @stake
09/17/2004 - EarthLink tests file-sharing program
09/17/2004 - New Acrobat seen this year
09/17/2004 - Arrest made in Cisco source code theft
09/17/2004 - Alcatel buys conferencing software developer eDial
09/17/2004 - Week in review: Firefox on the hunt
09/17/2004 - Farewell to Gravity
09/17/2004 - Twist a Pen, Open a Lock
09/17/2004 - Google Search Reveals Credit-Card Numbers
09/17/2004 - FTC Report Recommends Bounty for Spammers
09/17/2004 - Registration? For What?
09/19/2004 - Cybercrime summit urges international cooperation
09/19/2004 - Microsoft trials piracy lock on Download Centre
09/19/2004 - Microsoft Blogger Tracks 7 Years Of Spam
09/19/2004 - Microsoft issues patch for 'critical' JPEG-handling flaw
09/19/2004 - Reincarnated Napster Goes Public
09/19/2004 - Old computers good as new in Linux labs
09/19/2004 - Yahoo to launch its own music player
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?2562004
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:
Virus writers add network sniffer to worm
theregister.co.uk -- Virus writers have grafted a network sniffer into the latest variant of the SDBot worm series
Worm speaks to Windows users
news.com.com -- A worm that contains an embedded audio message has been bending the ears of Windows users.
* Security:
Microsoft issues patch for 'critical' JPEG-handling flaw
computerworld.com -- Microsoft Corp. today released a patch for its latest "critical" security flaw affecting how Windows, Office and developer tools software process images in the JPEG image format.
Scammers use Gmail invite as phishing hook
news.com.com -- Scammers have caught on to the allure of Gmail and are using the Google e-mail service for a "phishing" scam to harvest e-mail addresses and passwords.
* Privacy:
IBM protects passwords with PC chip
news.com.com -- IBM plans to start shipping its PCs with a new chip designed to thwart hackers by safeguarding passwords and other sensitive identity information.
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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* Been doing _a lot_ of work recently on scripts and programs to help improve our e-mail and other services. Updated news and newsletter scripts with additional fixes. Updated the word converter script with several additional new fixes and getting closer to implementing this into other services. Updated several behind the scene mail scripts to help increase the productivity of how the mail for customer service is handled. This is the first script of many to be updated over the next few weeks.
- Updated, modified, and added several MS-DOS commands and related pages. This update included adding several Windows 2000 and XP recovery console commands
- Updated, modified, and added several questions and answers to our Q&A database.
- Updated dictionary with several new dictionary definitions.
- Performed other minor updates throughout website.
Because of all these updates and changes we were unable to release last weeks newsletter and had to delay this newsletter until all changes were made and updated to server.
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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Unknown PCI device in Windows Device Manager.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000629.htm
Identifying a unknown PCI card.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000632.htm
After adding new hardware computer does not work.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000633.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.radtech.us/
This week we came across the Earlighter by RadTech, the Earlighter is a handless flashlight that attaches to your ear, much like a hands free headphone on a cell phone. This is a great idea for those of you who need to work on something that also requires a flashlight, for example the inside of a computer case in a dark area.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=6732&t=1
Computer Hope is now participating in the spreadfirefox campaign. The public release of Firefox version 1.0 is now available; this means the browser is no longer in beta for users who may have been concerned about this. You can use the below Computer Hope spreadfirefox link to get the latest download.
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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