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April 4, 2005 ISSUE 184
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/nl184.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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Time-slice ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/t/timeslic.htm ) -
1. With a multi-user system a time-slice is the set amount of processing time each user gets.
2. With a single-user system a time-slice is the set amount of processing time each program gets.
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 Gmail now at 2GB
thebosh.com -- Google, Inc. has announced that it's Gmail service celebrating its first year today, will now offer 2GB of email storage (not a joke). The upgrade comes one year after Mountain View-based Google introduced the service, prompting rivals Yahoo and Microsoft to boost the capacity of their own free Web mail services. Internet Giant Yahoo recently announced plans to match Google's 1GB email box. Not to be outdone Google has raised the bar yet again leaving Yahoo in the dust. "Our goal is to make sure storage is no longer an issue for Web mail users," said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products.
04/03/2005 - Coming soon: a PC combat game that shoots back
04/03/2005 - NVIDIA nForce4 Intel Edition to be launched April 6
04/03/2005 - Brain implant gives paralysed man thought control
04/03/2005 - The Spamming Of Web Search
04/03/2005 - Microsoft launches portable TV service
04/02/2005 - Smithsonian Institution Plans MP3 Music Store
04/02/2005 - College Students Download in Dorm Rooms
04/02/2005 - Scales tip with tiniest mass yet
04/02/2005 - Software glitches lead to Swift delays
04/02/2005 - Artificial retina gets diamond coating
04/02/2005 - Internet study arrives seven years overdue
04/02/2005 - PHP Team Patches DoS Bugs
04/02/2005 - German bloke earns $2,500 with Firefox bugs
04/02/2005 - World's largest known prime number found
04/02/2005 - DNS 'pharming' attacks target .com domain
04/02/2005 - No Comdex this year? No problem, say users
04/02/2005 - 'Brad Pitt' virus targets Microsoft
04/02/2005 - Yahoo Japan sued in class action over Internet auction scams
04/02/2005 - Sony wants an 'iTunes for movies'
04/02/2005 - Anti-spam laws bite spammer hard
04/02/2005 - FBI demonstrates 3 minute Wi-Fi hack
04/01/2005 - Microsoft learns to speak Vietnamese
04/01/2005 - Shortage of LCD materials likely in 2005
04/01/2005 - Critical flaws in IE and Outlook discovered
04/01/2005 - Top Five Vintage Computers Turn Dust into Dollars
04/01/2005 - Microsoft releases SP1 for Windows Server 2003
04/01/2005 - Microsoft wants to catch Phishers
04/01/2005 - Google Gmail now at 2GB
03/29/2005 - Slackware ditches GNOME service
03/29/2005 - DataPower Breaks 1TB Barrier for XML Processing
03/29/2005 - PC Drive Reaches 500GB
03/29/2005 - Sony Ordered to Halt PlayStation Sales
03/29/2005 - 'Matrix Online' a New Virtual Reality
03/29/2005 - Google initiative to promote research in Indian universities.
03/29/2005 - La Vida Robot
03/29/2005 - Amazon's A9 Pushes 'Open Search' Approach
03/29/2005 - Introducing the glooper computer
03/29/2005 - AOL unveils blogging service for teens
03/29/2005 - Juniper acquires IP telephony gear start-up
03/29/2005 - Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at risk
03/29/2005 - Gentoo 2005.0 All About Security
03/29/2005 - Google to Buy Web Analytics Company
03/29/2005 - DNA Key to Decoding Human Factor
03/29/2005 - Can IRiver Become an IPod Killer?
03/29/2005 - ViewSonic To Roll Out IP-Based Monitors
03/29/2005 - TiVo tests pop-up-style ads
03/29/2005 - Toshiba preps minute-charge 'miracle' battery
03/29/2005 - Legal threat stops flaw info release
03/29/2005 - Company backs off bounty for Mac OS X virus
03/29/2005 - Oracle buys security developer Oblix
03/29/2005 - IRS May Consider EBay Sales Taxable Income
03/29/2005 - Net fingerprints combat attacks
03/29/2005 - Phishing attacks rose in February, says group
03/29/2005 - Mytob e-mail worm proliferating quickly
03/29/2005 - Microsoft working on new ID system for Windows
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?862005
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:
'Brad Pitt' virus targets Microsoft
news.com.com -- Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears are the subjects of a virus scam that is attempting to recruit computers for a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft.
Company backs off bounty for Mac OS X virus
computerworld.com -- A company that offered $25,000 for the first virus that automatically spreads among Apple Computer Inc. computers running the Mac OS X operating system canceled the virus-writing contest and retracted the offer of cash, citing concerns about legal liability.
Mytob e-mail worm proliferating quickly
news.zdnet.com -- With eight new variants surfacing in the last week alone, and over a dozen reported since the beginning of March, the Mytob mass-mailing worm appears to be evolving rapidly.
* Security:
PHP Team Patches DoS Bugs
Internetnews.com -- The PHP Development Team released updates to the PHP 4 and 5 code base, fixing two security vulnerabilities that open the door to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks Wednesday.
Critical flaws in IE and Outlook discovered
news.zdnet.com -- A new set of highly critical flaws has been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook programs, according to research company eEye Digital Security.
Microsoft releases SP1 for Windows Server 2003
computerworld.com.sg -- Nearly two years after launching its Windows Server 2003, Microsoft is finally releasing its first service pack (SP1) for the server software and security is the focus for SP1.
* 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 March, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - " Do you have a wireless network?" as well as results from last months poll, Quiz - "Which of the below is not a type of network?" and Tip - "Mozilla Firefox".
- Located and corrected issue with mail script improperly generating an error if user was coming in from a direct link.
- Added new questions and answers.
- Corrected dozens of bad links and performed numerous other minor 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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How do I create a bulleted and numbered list in Microsoft Word?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000686.htm
How can I connect more than two USB devices to my computer?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000685.htm
The disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000684.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.air2water.net/
This week we came across the Air2Water an interesting product that extracts pure drinking water from the air. The Air2Water claims of being able to produce 12 and 24 Liters of pure drinking water every 24 hours depending on the humidity in the air and the size of the unit. Definitely an interesting product and idea and could potentially be something we use in the future.
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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