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January 3, 2005 ISSUE 173
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/nl173.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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Leaf ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/leaf.htm ) -
Term used to describe an object that is at the bottom of a hierarchical system and cannot contain anything or have anything below it. A leaf commonly connects to the branch or root, in a computer file system a leaf would be known as a file.
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: Oracle takes control of PeopleSoft
computerworld.com -- Oracle Corp. has taken over control of PeopleSoft Inc. by buying 75% of PeopleSoft's outstanding shares from its stockholders, Oracle announced today.
01/01/2004 - Commodore Computer Brand Sold
01/01/2004 - Red Cross Tsunami Website Crashes
01/01/2004 - People of the Year: Bloggers
01/01/2004 - Oracle takes control of PeopleSoft
01/01/2004 - VeriSign: Online shopping up 24% this year
01/01/2004 - Spammers undeterred by Can-Spam Act
01/01/2004 - LokiTorrent fights MPAA legal attack
01/01/2004 - Net-savvy Japan wants 20 percent of work force to telecommute by 2010
01/01/2004 - Janet Jackson: Web's Most Wanted 2004
01/01/2004 - Google worm targets AOL, Yahoo
01/01/2004 - AOL Reports Drop in Spam Messages
01/01/2004 - Apple sues developers to stop release of OS X
01/01/2004 - Cyber crime booms in 2004
01/01/2004 - Amazon trumpets record Christmas
01/01/2004 - Call of honour for UK games maker
01/01/2004 - Web helps collect aid donations
01/01/2004 - California sets fines for spyware
01/01/2004 - Netherlands Issues First Fines to Spammers
01/01/2004 - Whew! Asteroid Won't Hit Earth in 2029, Scientists Now Say
01/01/2004 - New Cabir Variants are Spreading Fast
01/01/2004 - Ask IE For Help, Get a Trojan
01/01/2004 - Netcraft Debuts Anti-Phishing Toolbar For IE
01/01/2004 - Microsoft's Passport fails to travel far as Web strategy
01/01/2004 - A new iMac for under $500?
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3612004
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:
Google worm targets AOL, Yahoo
news.com.com -- Days after Google acted to thwart the Santy worm, security firms warned that variants have begun to spread using both Google and other search engines.
New Cabir Variants are Spreading Fast
Internetnews.com -- Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure has detected two new fast spreading variants of the Cabir virus that infects cell phones using the Symbian operating system.
Ask IE For Help, Get a Trojan
techtree.com -- U.S.-based security firm Symantec has issued an advisory about the Phel Trojan, discovered on Wednesday, which infects PCs running Windows XP.
* Security:
Cyber crime booms in 2004
news.bbc.co.uk -- The last 12 months have seen a dramatic growth in almost every security threat that plague Windows PCs.
* 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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* With the new month of January, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - " What is your display resolution set to?" as well as results from last months poll, Quiz - "Which of the below is not a text editor?" and Tip - "Full screen Internet on Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox".
- With the New Year Computer Hope performed a site-wide update to make sure all pages were up-to-date. Because of this update the Computer Hope site may experience intermediate issues from 7:00 AM (1/1/2005) to 11:00 PM (1/2/2005).
- With the New Year Computer Hope experienced issues with its news updates causing news data to not properly be displayed. This issue caused news errors for late December and January 1st.
- Peformed numerous updates throughout site.
Our 2005-year's goal:
With the increase popularity of Computer Hope we have noticed a decrease in the amount of e-mails and answers we get answered each day. Therefore this year our primary focus is to improve our overall customer service for Computer Hope. With this goal in mind we plan on doing the below this year.
1. Develop new mailing system to enhance the quantity of support e-mail's answered.
2. Revise Computer Hope Q&A section.
3. Enhance the Computer Hope search engine and integrate search engine with other databases.
We appreciate everyone's patient while we continue to make Computer Hope the best free service on the Internet.
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 rm or mv a file that begins with a dash?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000651.htm
Do you have additional information on FDISK /MBR?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000175.htm
Switching between MS-DOS Windows in Windows.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000562.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.everythingusb.com/news/index/6039.htm
This week we came across the 53-Key Alphabetical keyboard, an interesting idea that takes the first 13 alphabet letters from A to M and puts them on the left side and the remainder alphabet N to Z on the right side. The idea of the keyboard is to help make it easier for users by having all the letters in the same order and also helps save space by only measuring 12.5" x 5" x 1".
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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