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December 20, 2004 ISSUE 172
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/nl172.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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Job Queue ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/j/jobqueue.htm ) -
When referring to a computer processor job, a job queue is a location where jobs are held before being sent to the CPU.
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: Google turns over new leaf
news.com.au -- GOOGLE wants to save you a trip to the library.
The search engine that revolutionized how people use the Internet has teamed up with some of the world's greatest libraries to put their books in your living room.
12/19/2004 - Army Unveils New, Ultra-Real Simulation
12/19/2004 - Sun adds Linux support to Sun Ray thin clients
12/19/2004 - FTC serves up fully baked spam recipe
12/19/2004 - PayPal provides antifraud, antispam tool to users
12/19/2004 - Patches slapped on serious PHP flaws
12/19/2004 - Spammers ordered to pay $1 billion
12/19/2004 - Half Life 2 dominates game awards
12/19/2004 - Apple sues to stop product leaks
12/19/2004 - Peer-to-peer goes legitimate
12/19/2004 - Online search site clusty.com organizes results in useful clusters
12/17/2004 - Computer Users Sued for Swapping Music
12/17/2004 - Internet Explorer DHTML Edit ActiveX Control Cross-Site Scripting
12/17/2004 - Bipedal robot learns to run
12/17/2004 - Data swarms to speed net streaming
12/17/2004 - With IBM system, Army hopes to crush paperwork
12/17/2004 - Second hacker who entered Lowe's computers gets 26 months
12/17/2004 - EBay Buying Rental Web Site for $415M
12/17/2004 - IBM researchers eye 100TB tape drive
12/17/2004 - Legal questions dog Microsoft antispyware buy
12/17/2004 - Siebel to acquire edocs for $115 million
12/17/2004 - Microsoft fixes 'critical' XP firewall issue
12/17/2004 - NEC develops CD, DVD, HD-DVD drive prototype
12/17/2004 - Symantec in $13bn Veritas merger
12/17/2004 - Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land
12/17/2004 - Cisco to open R&D centre in Japan
12/17/2004 - Adobe Repairs Reader, Acrobat Flaws
12/17/2004 - Zafi computer virus shows up in "Happy Holidays" e-mail
12/17/2004 - Mars water tops science honours
12/17/2004 - Apple iTunes Hits 200 Million Sales
12/16/2004 - Microsoft buys Giant to attack spyware
12/16/2004 - Apple locks out RealNetworks with iPod update
12/16/2004 - Nokia hologram to expose fake, unsafe batteries
12/16/2004 - Yahoo! To Provide Traffic Updates
12/16/2004 - P2P sites shut down, MPAA unleashes lawsuits worldwide
12/16/2004 - Ask Jeeves Launches Desktop Search
12/15/2004 - Honda Robot Asimo Learns to Jog
12/15/2004 - State spam law ruled unconstitutional
12/15/2004 - 'Nano-needle' operates on cell
12/15/2004 - PC ownership to 'double by 2010'
12/15/2004 - Company Claims First True WiMax Chip
12/15/2004 - Firefox ad readied as market share increases
12/15/2004 - Sun Upgrades JSE, NetBeans
12/15/2004 - Linux Looms Larger Than Thought
12/15/2004 - Critical patches highlighted in Microsoft's December Security Bulletin
12/15/2004 - Sony, Samsung To Share Patents
12/15/2004 - Toshiba claims hard drive storage record
12/15/2004 - Polyglot virus is Xmas party pooper
12/15/2004 - Studios launch campaign against BitTorrent
12/15/2004 - Google turns over new leaf
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3472004
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:
Zafi computer virus shows up in "Happy Holidays" e-mail
wistv.com -- The Christmas Grinch on the Internet this season is a new computer virus called "Zafi."
* Security:
Patches slapped on serious PHP flaws
news.zdnet.com -- Two software updates have been released to fix critical flaws that could allow an attacker to compromise servers using PHP, a programming language for Web pages.
Internet Explorer DHTML Edit ActiveX Control Cross-Site Scripting
secunia.com -- Paul has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Adobe Repairs Reader, Acrobat Flaws
nformationweek.com -- Adobe this week updated its Acrobat and Reader software to fix vulnerabilities spotted by security intelligence firm iDefense.
Critical patches highlighted in Microsoft's December Security Bulletin
pcpro.co.uk -- Microsoft has unveiled its security bulletin for December, including a critical patch for Windows XP with SP1, and fixes rated as important for SP2.
* 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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* After receiving more requests to change the order of our weekly news we have changed the date order from most recent to oldest. All future newsletters and weekly news pages from now on will contain this change.
- Updated news and newsletter scripts to have the above changes as well as other minor changes.
- Corrected serious Computer Hope search engine issue that was only enabling Intranet searches for computer news. In other words not enabling any users on the Computer Hope page to search for Computer News.
- Updated Computer Hope search engine news search feature and other minor search issues.
- Updated Customer Service e-mail script to improve the speed at which e-mails are read.
- Trying to resolve issue with incorrect amount of monthly updates being listed on what's new page.
- Made other minor updates throughout site.
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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Missing operating system:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000181.htm
How to restore the system.ini and win.ini:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000211.htm
Basic floppy trouble shooting:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000277.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.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/6ee4/
This week we came across the 'Mini Power Minder', a great and affordable idea for users who find themselves having to turn off or on other peripherals such as printers and monitors each time they turn off or on their computer each day. The small outlet connects to a computer through USB and each time the computer is turned on or off the outlet will turn on or off, which will then turn on or off each of the devices connected to the outlet.
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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