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February 21, 2005 ISSUE 179
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/nl179.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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ESDI ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/esdi.htm ) -
Short for Enhanced Small Device Interface, ESDI is a early standard interface found on IBM high end PS/2 computers that allowed hard drives, tape drives, and diskette drives to work with a computer. Capable of transferring data at about 1MB to 3MB a second.
Today ESDI has been outdated by storage interfaces such as IDE, EIDE, and SCSI.
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: Intel unveils laser breakthrough
news.bbc.co.uk -- Intel has unveiled research that could mean data is soon being moved around chips at the speed of light.
02/20/2005 - Tech workers got a raise in 2004
02/20/2005 - Students Launch Online Auction for College
02/20/2005 - A Leap To Thumbnail Photo Sharing
02/20/2005 - Couple Build Startup Into Blog Powerhouse
02/20/2005 - A genius explains
02/20/2005 - ChevronTexaco Opens California Hydrogen Fuel Station
02/20/2005 - AOL blocks music-copying feature
02/20/2005 - Crash-test dummy inventor dies at 90
02/20/2005 - Firms seek to reassure e-shoppers over security
02/20/2005 - Storage solutions of the future
02/18/2005 - StarOffice 8 goes beta
02/18/2005 - ChoicePoint data theft widens to 145,000 people
02/18/2005 - Mobile Phone Virus Found in United States
02/18/2005 - Google Online Book Plan Sparks French War of Words
02/18/2005 - World's first cow cloned using new technique
02/18/2005 - Embracing the Artificial Limb
02/18/2005 - State nails smokers who didn't pay taxes
02/18/2005 - RSA: Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid, be very afraid
02/18/2005 - 42nd Mersenne Prime (Probably) Discovered
02/18/2005 - Brain-controlled 'robo-arm' hope
02/18/2005 - Robocopter team snaffles defence grant
02/18/2005 - Huge explosion traced to exotic star
02/18/2005 - New York Times To Buy About.com for $410 Million
02/18/2005 - Java Imaging Code Unleashed
02/18/2005 - Three-year-old passes Mensa test
02/18/2005 - Serial burglar caught on webcam
02/18/2005 - Napster Refutes Flawed Protection Claims
02/18/2005 - Updated MyDoom targets Google--again
02/18/2005 - Researchers: Digital encryption standard flawed
02/18/2005 - File sharing goes before Supreme Court
02/18/2005 - Britain Tops Charts for TV Piracy
02/18/2005 - Archos introduces 100 Gigabyte portable video recorder and player
02/18/2005 - Researchers: Typing Style Can Be Password
02/18/2005 - IBM to Invest $100mn in Linux Workplace Clients
02/18/2005 - Toy-Based Robots Walk More Efficiently -Report
02/17/2005 - Tarantella Gives Away Free Linux Access Software
02/17/2005 - Microsoft to Recall Xbox Cords After Users Burned
02/17/2005 - DEMO Conference Showcases Inventors
02/17/2005 - Firefox breaks the 25 million download milestone
02/17/2005 - Samsung Demonstrates World's First DDR 3 Memory Prototype
02/17/2005 - Researchers find security flaw in SHA-1
02/17/2005 - HP reveals HTTP vulnerabilities
02/17/2005 - Google soups up search toolbar
02/17/2005 - Apple attacked over sources row
02/16/2005 - Mother auctions ad space on bump
02/16/2005 - Losing yourself in online gaming
02/16/2005 - Intel unveils laser breakthrough
02/16/2005 - TCP/IP pioneers win major computing award
02/16/2005 - Microsoft Patches Media Player 10
02/16/2005 - Intel Engineers Use Light Waves to Carry Data
02/15/2005 - AMD slashes processor prices
02/15/2005 - Putting a finger on a person's age
02/15/2005 - Digital Water Marks Thieves
02/15/2005 - Firefox to Disable IDN Support as Phishing Defense
02/15/2005 - E*Trade cuts fees on most accounts
02/15/2005 - Getting rid of the gray in LCDs
02/15/2005 - eBay to give away $200,000 in online treasure hunt
02/15/2005 - Space tether to send satellites soaring
02/15/2005 - Scammers access data on 35,000 Californians
02/15/2005 - Man pleads guilty to hacking WebTV
02/15/2005 - PC shipment growth may slow in 2005
02/15/2005 - MLB Acquires Tickets.com
02/15/2005 - Gates Touts New IE With Better Security
02/15/2005 - Ask Jeeves mulls Firefox-based browser
02/15/2005 - Blind student 'hears in colour'
02/15/2005 - EBay, Microsoft, Visa Join in New Anti-Phishing Effort
02/15/2005 - Users Bypass Copy Protection on Portable Napster
02/15/2005 - Macrovision to stem DVD copy with RipGuard.
02/15/2005 - Cell Phones Ready To Enter Radio's Space
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?442005
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:
Mobile Phone Virus Found in United States
story.news.yahoo.com -- The world's first mobile phone virus "in the wild" has spread to the United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago, a security research firm said on Friday.
Updated MyDoom targets Google--again
news.com.com -- Another variant of the MyDoom worm, which spreads by sending copies of itself using its own mail engine and harvesting potential e-mail targets from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, has started spreading quickly.
* Security:
RSA: Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid, be very afraid
computerworld.com -- Microsoft Corp. security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system-monitoring programs, or "rootkits," that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and could pose a serious risk to corporations and individuals.
Researchers find security flaw in SHA-1
infoworld.com -- Security experts are warning that a security flaw has been found in a powerful data encryption algorithm, dubbed SHA-1, by a team of scientists from Shandong University in China. The three scientists are circulating a paper within the cryptographic research community that describes successful tests of a technique that could greatly reduce the speed with which SHA-1 could be compromised.
HP reveals HTTP vulnerabilities
infoworld.com -- Hewlett-Packard has warned of a serious vulnerability in its Web-Enabled Management Software that leaves an unusually diverse range of software open to remote attack.
Microsoft Patches Media Player 10
betanews.com -- Microsoft on Wednesday issued an updated Windows Media Player 10 to correct a potential security issue that could allow an attacker to mislead users into downloading malware or viruses instead of a license to playback DRM content.
Firefox to Disable IDN Support as Phishing Defense
news.netcraft.com -- The Mozilla development team said today that it will disable a browser feature that allows URL spoofing and could leave users open to scams. Upcoming releases of the Firefox and Mozilla browsers will turn off support for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) by default to protect users from the spoofing, which works in current versions of Firefox, Mozilla, Opera and the Safari browser for Macs. The affected browsers support IDN, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not.
* 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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- Worked on new upcoming scripts and site-wide update this week.
- Performed other minor site updates.
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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NTLDR is missing.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm
Getting into Windows Safe Mode
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm
How to erase my hard disk drive and start over.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000186.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.ntt.co.jp/news/news05e/0502/050218.html
This week we came across a press release about a Human Area Networking technology known as "RedTaction", this is an innovative idea that safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path capable of supporting speeds up to 10 Mbps. Some potential possibilities this technology could be such things as having devices worn on the body such as watches, PDA's, MP3 players, etc. transfer data between each other, have other services such as a desk or a chair connect to a network, which could allow users just to place their computer on a desk and have it connect to the Internet. These are just a few examples the site lists as potential possibilities and for users interested in new ideas and technology we highly recommend reading this press release.
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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