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November 28, 2005 ISSUE 207
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl207.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. Users Q&A
7. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Physical address ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/physaddr.htm ) -
1. When referring to computers in general or computer memory the physical address is the computer memory address of a physical hardware device.
2. When referring to a network address, physical address is sometimes used to describe the MAC address.
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: Xbox Fans Line Up for Launch
Wired.com -- They are the few, the proud, the patient. Most have skipped work and school to be here. Many won't be leaving the house during the next few days. Some will go home disappointed.
11/25/2005 - PHP 5.1.0 Released
11/25/2005 - Nanocarbon "Foam Rubber" Developed
11/25/2005 - Kid-tracking mobile launched
11/25/2005 - Google ignites hiring frenzy
11/25/2005 - PC for free! Yes it's true
11/25/2005 - Google sets up Heathrow boredom killer
11/25/2005 - Microsoft admits that some Xbox 360s are faulty
11/25/2005 - Google testing "Click-To-Call" advertising
11/25/2005 - AOL Launches Next-Generation AIM
11/25/2005 - Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone.
11/25/2005 - Hot tech gifts for the holidays
11/25/2005 - Strong holiday sales expected for tech
11/25/2005 - Search terms on Kazaa to be blocked
11/22/2005 - Xbox 360 Buyers Resell Product on eBay
11/22/2005 - Google Unveils Tool to Map Shopping Trips
11/22/2005 - Ten to Avoid--the Worst Products of 2005
11/22/2005 - Turkey Lovers Gobble Up Tech
11/22/2005 - Parents sign up to 'e-heroin' lawsuit
11/22/2005 - Zero-Day Exploit Targets IE
11/22/2005 - Study: Search Now No. 2 Among Web Tasks
11/22/2005 - Internet TV 'to boom' in Europe
11/22/2005 - iTunes 'outsells' US music stores
11/22/2005 - Google patches more flaws in search app
11/22/2005 - Retail Skype Debuts at RadioShack
11/22/2005 - Search engines fuel progress
11/22/2005 - Google Scans Great Works
11/22/2005 - TiVo introduces new feature for transferring files to PSP
11/22/2005 - Robotic eyes win international award
11/22/2005 - Online ad revenue up 34 percent in Q3
11/22/2005 - Senate committee passes spyware bill
11/22/2005 - Microsoft Beefs Up Windows Live
11/22/2005 - Scotch Tape Stymies Sony Copy Protection
11/22/2005 - Xbox Fans Line Up for Launch
11/22/2005 - Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI
11/22/2005 - Opera issues security patch
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3242005
Top News Story: Digital rights body calls for Sony to recall XCP CDs
Pcpro.co.uk -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published an open letter, urging Sony to consider a product recall of CDs shipped with the controversial XCP copyright protection software which secretly installs a cloaking utility on computers.
11/18/2005 - NBC Universal licenses films to P2P firm
11/18/2005 - EarthLink's pursuit lands spammer in can
11/18/2005 - Anti-Spyware Coalition Formed
11/18/2005 - Microsoft Boosts Phishing Security
11/18/2005 - iTunes Tracks May Increase in Price
11/17/2005 - Java Card goes contactless
11/17/2005 - IBM Acquires Collation
11/17/2005 - Cyber gamers vie for world glory
11/17/2005 - Wal-Mart mulls DVD download booths
11/17/2005 - Schoolgirl wins Google doodle competition
11/17/2005 - Thanks to Web Ads, Some Find New Money in Domain Names
11/17/2005 - Gaming fanatics show hallmarks of drug addiction
11/17/2005 - Interactive billboards you can walk around in
11/17/2005 - U.K. spammer sentenced to 6 years
11/17/2005 - Sony launches free Internet phone service
11/17/2005 - Microsoft rolls out first Office 12 beta
11/17/2005 - IBM lands giant server deal with China
11/17/2005 - Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot
11/17/2005 - UN debut for $100 laptop for poor
11/16/2005 - Yahoo Brings Web 2.0 to E-Commerce
11/16/2005 - External Multimedia Hard Drive Plays Directly on Your TV
11/16/2005 - Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble
11/16/2005 - Shoot a picture first, focus later
11/16/2005 - 'Dungeons & Dragons' goes virtual
11/16/2005 - Google Base service goes live
11/16/2005 - US retains hold of the Internet
11/16/2005 - More Americans get their newspaper at the click of a mouse: report
11/16/2005 - Sober Virus Clones Spreading
11/16/2005 - Google Wins Key Wi-Fi Lease
11/16/2005 - Microsoft launches search for businesses
11/15/2005 - Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free
11/15/2005 - Is Friendster up for sale?
11/15/2005 - Google Earth: the black helicopters have landed
11/15/2005 - As teens embrace blogs, schools sound an alarm
11/15/2005 - Google Analytics: Where's The Data Google?
11/15/2005 - New Linux phone standards effort in the works
11/15/2005 - Microsoft to Block Sony DRM Rootkit
11/15/2005 - Juniper's Funk Buy
11/15/2005 - Enterasys Enters New Phase in Private
11/15/2005 - Google Registers A Few New Domain Names
11/15/2005 - Warner's In2TV
11/15/2005 - Virus creators target their work
11/15/2005 - High-speed college network closes
11/15/2005 - Firms 'ramping up online prices'
11/15/2005 - US heads for Internet showdown
11/15/2005 - Google searches for the future
11/15/2005 - Google Bids To Give Mountain View Wi-Fi
11/15/2005 - EBay Makes Access To Its Web Services Free
11/15/2005 - Apple snubbed over free OS X offer to developing countries
11/15/2005 - VPN flaw threatens Internet traffic
11/15/2005 - Nvidia launches 512MB GeForce 7800 GTX
11/15/2005 - IBM tops supercomputer list again
11/15/2005 - Microsoft backs UK supercomputing move
11/15/2005 - Digital rights body calls for Sony to recall XCP CDs
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3172005
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:
Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI
news.com.com -- There is no Easter Bunny, and that's not a real Paris Hilton video in your e-mail box. Nor is the FBI likely to be e-mailing you to ask you questions about visiting illegal Web sites.
Sober Virus Clones Spreading
techtree.com -- Kaspersky Labs, developer of secure content solutions, has warned that the company's virus analysts have detected three new variants of Email-Worm.Win32.Sober - Sober.u, Sober.v, and Sober.w
* Security:
Zero-Day Exploit Targets IE
news.yahoo.com -- Exploit code for a critical flaw in fully patched versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser has been released on the Internet, putting millions of Web surfers at risk of computer hijack attacks.
Google patches more flaws in search app
techworld.com -- Google has patched several serious security flaws in Google Mini, a hardware search appliance used by medium-sized enterprises and departments within large companies.
Opera issues security patch
news.com.com -- Opera Software issued a security patch on Tuesday to protect users against flaws in Macromedia's Flash Player and in some versions of its open-source browser running on Linux or Unix.
Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble
wired.com -- More than half a million networks, including military and government sites, were likely infected by copy-restriction software distributed by Sony on a handful of its CDs, according to a statistical analysis of domain servers conducted by a well-respected security researcher and confirmed by independent experts Tuesday.
Microsoft to Block Sony DRM Rootkit
Internetnews.com -- Microsoft has joined other security vendors in pursuit of the rootkit component to Sony's now-infamous anti-piracy measure.
VPN flaw threatens Internet traffic
news.com.com -- A flaw in a key Internet security protocol used by major networking products could open systems up to denial-of-service and other kinds of attacks, experts have warned.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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* Added new news feature that enables users to view all previous years computer news on any specified date. This feature will also allow you to see previous news that happened on today's date by visiting the below link.
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/today.cgi
- Added new questions and answers
- Updated Search engine, correcting additional issues and improving its overall functionality.
- Updated news and oldnews scripts.
- Performed hundreds of 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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How do I open my computer case?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000765.htm
How do I copy files?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000766.htm
How do I change my username and/or password?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000767.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. Users Q&A
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How to format a disk in MS-DOS.
http://www.computerhope.com/chid/5486.htm
How can I transfer information between computers?
http://www.computerhope.com/chid/5505.htm
How to get a military base in Simcity 2000.
http://www.computerhope.com/chid/5506.htm
See a complete list of online e-mail questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chid/index.pl
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7. All Talk
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We would like to thank everyone who sent in e-mail messages about Computer Hope newsletter moving from a weekly to bi-weekly newsletter. Because of the amount of requests we received about continuing a weekly newsletter we are trying to find a solution to making the newsletter a weekly newsletter again. Feel free to send any additional comments or suggestions.
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Ever wonder what font someone was using in their image or logo? This is a great site that enables users to upload a picture file and/or point to a picture on the Internet and if simple enough be able to determine the type of font used in the picture. Although in our tests there were many fonts it was unable to determine this is still a great tool.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/dh2go/home.cfm
We get questions all the time about users who want a multiple display on their computer but can't because they're using a laptop or don't want to hassle with installing multiple video cards in their computer. We recently came across the Matrox DualHead2Go, a innovative solution for allowing users to have multiple display's by connecting an external box to their desktop or laptop. If you've ever wanted or needed a multiple display solution you may want to check this solution out.
https://mozy.com/overview.php
Finally, we also recently came across Mozy, a free and secure remote backup service. Definitely worth checking out if you're looking for a backup solution for your data.
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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