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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
June 18, 2001 - ISSUE 20
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I N T H I S I S S U E
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1. New Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus, 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. New Computer Term.
ASCII ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/ascii.htm ) -
Short for American Standard Code for Information
Interexchange, ASCII is an industry standard, which
assigns letters, numbers, and other characters within the
256 slots available in the 8-bit code...
See a complete dictionary of computer terms at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
* NATIONAL POST: Repetitive stress injury -- the condition
once so widespread it spawned a generation of batwing
keyboards, ergonomic footstools and steel-and-black-nylon
braces -- is going the way of the typewriter, experts say.
"The whole RSI thing has sort of evaporated in a cloud of
smoke," says Edward Shorter, history of medicine chairman
at the University of Toronto.
"The fact is that most of these people didn't have carpal
tunnel syndrome. They had hysteria.
* Register: MP3 ripping is gone for good from the Windows
XP beta, and will not return in the shipping product.
WinXP will include instructions on how to install third
party MP3 encoders, which will then allow Windows Media
Player to rip MP3, but quite clearly development is
proceeding according to a tried and tested blueprint, and
MP3's air supply now stands in some peril.
- Does anyone read online privacy policies?
- Epson cuts prices, offer rebates
- Philips Semiconductors cutting jobs
- Nortel to cut 10,000 more jobs
- Microsoft settles with company to use Xbox name
- Quantum cancels Snap server spinoff
- New high-quality MP3 format debuts
- Internet pop-up ads are unavoidable
- Integrated Device to cut 900 jobs
- Iomega laying off 110 employees
- Airlines to offer net connections
- Netscape set to unleash 6.1 beta
- SONICblue cuts staff by 30 percent
- Dell cuts 275 jobs in U.K., Ireland
- Avaya to cut nearly 3,000 jobs
- Microsoft is ready to supply a phone in every computer
- AMD sees 30 percent world market share by end 2001
- Repetitive stress pain was just 'hysteria'
- Xuma: service provider cuts staff, explores options
- Ameritrade sees rise in account closures
- Ebay launches new online store service
- Colombia web code '.CO' poised to challenge '.COM'
- Earthlink suffers e-mail outage
- Affinity Internet buys Breath.com
- RealNetworks, Cisco team to offer streaming media
Find all of the above articles and latest news at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
* Virus: No new major virus threats.
* Security:
- Microsoft plugs seven Telnet holes in Windows 2000 (MS01-031)
- Security hole in Microsoft SQL server (MS01-032)
* Privacy: No new Privacy this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
- Corrected various bad links and errors on web site.
- Updated search engine database.
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.
- Hard drive is not being detected when using a boot diskette:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000047.htm
- Microsoft Windows does not shut down:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000285.htm
- Invalid Media Type reading drive C:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000231.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
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6. All Talk
http://www.anarchy-online.com/
This week we thought it would be fun to talk about the much
anticipated MMPORG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing
game) called Anarchy Online. The game takes place 30,000
years in the future on the planet Rubi-Ka currently being
leased by the company known as Omni-Tek. The player will
have the capability of playing on the side of Omni-Tek or
Clans the game revolves around the struggle between the two
sides. While playing the game the player will have the
ability of fighting numerous creatures, solving an unlimited
amount of quests, talking and interacting with thousands of
other players throughout the real-world and much more. While
not the first MMPORG, Anarchy Online looks to be a
promising competitor to other MMPORG's such as Ultima Online,
EverQuest or Ashron's Call
The above items as well as other new and innovative
services and technologies can be found on our What's Hip
section on our News page at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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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